The grandparent has a point. A64/3000s for file storage is a little overkill isn't it? I have a three Pentium 3 / Tualatin's which are very effective in regards to power/watt running both software and hardware RAID-5. The bottleneck is STILL the ethernet (gigabit, switched). Even with 90%+ of the bandwidth to each server maxed out, the CPU loads barely hit 50% (a little higher with NFS instead of smb).
Shouldn't building file servers focus on actual data thoroughput and not processing speed? Granted you need a certain amount for overhead, but even at work, NFS servers are easily the LOWEST spec'd machines.
Film fanatics do. The kind of people that get excited about Hal Hartley releases, or freak out when something like the Gene Siskel Theater (here in Chicago) is doing a run of a fully restored print of Ran and The Seven Samurai. See some people go because they love movies - when the projection is set up immaculately, you have an audience of appreciators, and an excellent film, even your home theater will have problems matching the experience. Going alone is mostly a necessity because, well, let's face it - film freaks aren't the most abundant group and among my friends, I can count maybe TWO that would be able to sit through a restored version Rashomon. Also, the audience will be made up of mostly people like me and film students - and these are not really film students who want to make films, these are the hardcore film students that for the most part just want to teach film studies! Heh.
Now granted most people are not like that. Most people also don't bat an eye at paying $10 to see a Ben Affleck vehicle. But going to movies alone is one of my favorite things - no one bothers you, no one tries to talk to you, and once the lights go down, you might as well be completely alone in the theater.
You're kidding about the CPU usage right? Creative is NOTORIOUS for grabbing more and more CPU with driver releases. And do you even know what's on an nForce4 chipset? Look very carefully - it has certain features that Creative will NEVER add *cough* Dolby Digital *cough*. And an Audigy2? Please. An Audigy is practically the same thing and dirt cheap (if you're going to the heinous Creative route). And finally, S/N ratio?!? Hahaha, it's a COMPUTER built for GAMES. The S/N ratio becomes so pointless at the levels you'll be playing at on your headphones or speakers that it's just a marketing tool. If you're doing serious audio work, you'd be concerned, but then you wouldn't buy a Creative card at all! I could continue but the point's been made. Looks like you're the one who needs to "not be rude".
I find personal blogs that just constantly run on with someone's personal life to be the dullest reading
While that may be true for many blogs, you obviously haven't found the interesting personal ones. Let me tell you something - most fiction out there is just the same thing done in a different and interesting way. Hence, it it is the same with blogs; they may all talk about the same overall themes in their lives, but the good ones make it either more poignant, meaningful, or somehow universally applicable to the reader (and therefore create a connection). Some can do this through language, others through their particular point of view, but trust me, there are good personal blogs out there. One that I read is so entertaining on so many levels (literary, humorous, emotional) that it's almost overwhelming (and I also have a feeling that the person is actually a well established writer - it's been hinted at in his entries). The thing is, this blog is just an account of his day to day activities, none of which are significantly more interesting than your typical individual, yet it's written to be completely enthralling.
Most creative writing classes always say "know your audience". What I think makes this blog so interesting is that while he knows their is a potential audience out there, it's not pandered to. There are no silly quizzes, "memes" are avoided, and the usual personal blog garbage is not to be found. Or to put it another way, he knows his audience is him, and *maybe* some other readers. It makes for some interesting reading.
You're kidding right? The stuff on the radio is completely homogenized. While outside the dial there is always a lame band as well, there is a much better chance of finding a good, original one. If you're saying that most of the stuff sounds the same, you are obviously not listening to anything good.
No, people don't use it because it's on *extremely* shakey legal grounds that are only mitigated by the fact that Russia's legal system with regards to copyright is all over the map. In addition, lossless files (up until recently) were transcoded out of 320 kbps MP3 files. Not very honest of them.
That's why Apple released the iPod Shuffle (and now the Nano) because stupid people were buying a device with a harddrive in it and going jogging.
Uh, no. They wanted to cover all price points and go after the markets the original iPod didn't touch. You can always go jogging with your iPod. Apple tells you it's alright. The specs of the drive handle over 200g's of operating force (and that's for the older ones in the 2g ipod!). i've been doing it for two years and it has yet to develop a problem (and I even run surface scan checks on it).
BTW - did you know that the hard drive isn't spinning all the time, and in fact if you leave it on a playlist, it RARELY spins up more than a few times per hour? What a miracle!
...try to give people a little more bang for their buck
This is what you posted. You mentioned storage throughout your post. I'm pointing out that 'bang for your buck' means more than just storage to most people, and in fact greater storage with crappy interface is MUCH WORSE.
Are you daft? The value in the iPod is the simplicity. You have MP3s (or whatever other file format it supports) plus your playlists in iTunes. You plug in an iPod. It instantly works EXACTLY THE SAME WAY.
That's why people love the iPod. It's simple to use. It's tiny. It works exceedingly well with existing software (and that's putting it mildly). When you buy an iPod, you're paying for the interface, the ease of use, and the design. That is worth plenty of "bang for the buck" because most people don't have to fight with it to work with it.
Note that plenty of players out there offer more, but their interfaces suck, the software is a bear to use (Creative, I'm looking at you), or the whole package is just annoying to use. This is a huge reason why the iPod rules all at this point in time.
I've never understood people like you. So the game is fun and has spot on control, but you can't enjoy the game because you're hanging on to some weird voice telling you that because it's got "kiddy' graphics it's for kids? WHO CARES as ong as IT'S FUN? Do the graphics insult you in some way? Do people come over while you are playing a single player game in the privacy of your own home and point and laugh at you calling you a wimpy two year old girl when you pop the disc in?
What a frickin' karma whore. ANYTIME there is a post about a phone, someone will pipe up and say, "But all **I** want is a phone that does one thing and does it right!"
WE GET IT ALREADY. FROM NOW ON, JUST SAY, "Standard/. feature-creep phone post." We'll understand what you mean.
Not many people care about iPod being 'cool'. People buy it because of Apple's marketing. It has mindshare. When you go to the store for an MP3 player, the first thing most people look at is an iPod, then compare everything to them. iPods look a million times better than most players out there and they're simple to use. THAT's why people use them. Get over yourself.
Well, not really. In addition to everything Lagged2death said, here's a simple example:
explorer.exe controls bith Windows Explorer and the start menu + desktop. Why? Because they're the same thing. Back in Win 3.1, if one crashed, the other didn't necessarily die with it (though most of the time everything did anyway). This was because they were two separate programs.
Let me correct that - it seems that the google servers don't (yet?) allow server to server communication, making the whole thing still a closed service. It sounds like that isn't a permanent situation, but now it falls into the 'mostly useless' territory for previous jabber users.
It may not help your usage of YOUR client, but it sure as hell allows a lot more people to be added to your buddy list *without using gateways*.
For example, I use jabber all the time. One of my servers on the left coast runs a jabber server. 10 of my friends that have shell accounts on it use the jabber server. We can easily IM each other, and our other IM friends through the jabber gateways to AIM, MSN, and Y!. But wouldn't it be nice to have a non-gateway set of friends instead?
For you, nothing changes except that now anyone with a gmail account can be added to your native jabber list.
Seriously, I live in Chicago and go to NYC all the time. I ride the bus to work every day (#66 Chicago coincidentally) and all sorts of them in NYC. I *CAN* use my laptop (a 15" PowerBook) but at rush hour or anytime it's even slightly busy, there's NO way. If you can use it all the time, I would say you live in an area where public transport is not as densely used.
MIGHT count? Hello, that's exactly what BT was designed for - low power consumption for wireless, low bandwidth devices. If you need a BT mouse, it doesn't get much better than a MX900 (which you can use WITHOUT the BT hub they give you). Otherwise,there are a ton of BT mice out there in varying sizes depending on your needs.
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The grandparent has a point. A64/3000s for file storage is a little overkill isn't it? I have a three Pentium 3 / Tualatin's which are very effective in regards to power/watt running both software and hardware RAID-5. The bottleneck is STILL the ethernet (gigabit, switched). Even with 90%+ of the bandwidth to each server maxed out, the CPU loads barely hit 50% (a little higher with NFS instead of smb). Shouldn't building file servers focus on actual data thoroughput and not processing speed? Granted you need a certain amount for overhead, but even at work, NFS servers are easily the LOWEST spec'd machines.
Who goes to the movies by themselves?
Film fanatics do. The kind of people that get excited about Hal Hartley releases, or freak out when something like the Gene Siskel Theater (here in Chicago) is doing a run of a fully restored print of Ran and The Seven Samurai. See some people go because they love movies - when the projection is set up immaculately, you have an audience of appreciators, and an excellent film, even your home theater will have problems matching the experience. Going alone is mostly a necessity because, well, let's face it - film freaks aren't the most abundant group and among my friends, I can count maybe TWO that would be able to sit through a restored version Rashomon. Also, the audience will be made up of mostly people like me and film students - and these are not really film students who want to make films, these are the hardcore film students that for the most part just want to teach film studies! Heh.
Now granted most people are not like that. Most people also don't bat an eye at paying $10 to see a Ben Affleck vehicle. But going to movies alone is one of my favorite things - no one bothers you, no one tries to talk to you, and once the lights go down, you might as well be completely alone in the theater.
He actually specifically lists a number of places you cannot link to his blog from, and among that list is slashdot. Yes, I'm serious.
You're kidding about the CPU usage right? Creative is NOTORIOUS for grabbing more and more CPU with driver releases. And do you even know what's on an nForce4 chipset? Look very carefully - it has certain features that Creative will NEVER add *cough* Dolby Digital *cough*. And an Audigy2? Please. An Audigy is practically the same thing and dirt cheap (if you're going to the heinous Creative route). And finally, S/N ratio?!? Hahaha, it's a COMPUTER built for GAMES. The S/N ratio becomes so pointless at the levels you'll be playing at on your headphones or speakers that it's just a marketing tool. If you're doing serious audio work, you'd be concerned, but then you wouldn't buy a Creative card at all! I could continue but the point's been made. Looks like you're the one who needs to "not be rude".
I find personal blogs that just constantly run on with someone's personal life to be the dullest reading
While that may be true for many blogs, you obviously haven't found the interesting personal ones. Let me tell you something - most fiction out there is just the same thing done in a different and interesting way. Hence, it it is the same with blogs; they may all talk about the same overall themes in their lives, but the good ones make it either more poignant, meaningful, or somehow universally applicable to the reader (and therefore create a connection). Some can do this through language, others through their particular point of view, but trust me, there are good personal blogs out there. One that I read is so entertaining on so many levels (literary, humorous, emotional) that it's almost overwhelming (and I also have a feeling that the person is actually a well established writer - it's been hinted at in his entries). The thing is, this blog is just an account of his day to day activities, none of which are significantly more interesting than your typical individual, yet it's written to be completely enthralling.
Most creative writing classes always say "know your audience". What I think makes this blog so interesting is that while he knows their is a potential audience out there, it's not pandered to. There are no silly quizzes, "memes" are avoided, and the usual personal blog garbage is not to be found. Or to put it another way, he knows his audience is him, and *maybe* some other readers. It makes for some interesting reading.
You're kidding right? The stuff on the radio is completely homogenized. While outside the dial there is always a lame band as well, there is a much better chance of finding a good, original one. If you're saying that most of the stuff sounds the same, you are obviously not listening to anything good.
No, people don't use it because it's on *extremely* shakey legal grounds that are only mitigated by the fact that Russia's legal system with regards to copyright is all over the map. In addition, lossless files (up until recently) were transcoded out of 320 kbps MP3 files. Not very honest of them.
That's why Apple released the iPod Shuffle (and now the Nano) because stupid people were buying a device with a harddrive in it and going jogging.
Uh, no. They wanted to cover all price points and go after the markets the original iPod didn't touch. You can always go jogging with your iPod. Apple tells you it's alright. The specs of the drive handle over 200g's of operating force (and that's for the older ones in the 2g ipod!). i've been doing it for two years and it has yet to develop a problem (and I even run surface scan checks on it).
BTW - did you know that the hard drive isn't spinning all the time, and in fact if you leave it on a playlist, it RARELY spins up more than a few times per hour? What a miracle!
vi ifcfg-eth0 works the same in any distro...
What a horrible example, as that file doesn't exist on debian based distros, which THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT!
...try to give people a little more bang for their buck This is what you posted. You mentioned storage throughout your post. I'm pointing out that 'bang for your buck' means more than just storage to most people, and in fact greater storage with crappy interface is MUCH WORSE.
Are you daft? The value in the iPod is the simplicity. You have MP3s (or whatever other file format it supports) plus your playlists in iTunes. You plug in an iPod. It instantly works EXACTLY THE SAME WAY.
That's why people love the iPod. It's simple to use. It's tiny. It works exceedingly well with existing software (and that's putting it mildly). When you buy an iPod, you're paying for the interface, the ease of use, and the design. That is worth plenty of "bang for the buck" because most people don't have to fight with it to work with it.
Note that plenty of players out there offer more, but their interfaces suck, the software is a bear to use (Creative, I'm looking at you), or the whole package is just annoying to use. This is a huge reason why the iPod rules all at this point in time.
You hear that? That's the sound of humor buzzing around your head, just out of reach.
I've never understood people like you. So the game is fun and has spot on control, but you can't enjoy the game because you're hanging on to some weird voice telling you that because it's got "kiddy' graphics it's for kids? WHO CARES as ong as IT'S FUN? Do the graphics insult you in some way? Do people come over while you are playing a single player game in the privacy of your own home and point and laugh at you calling you a wimpy two year old girl when you pop the disc in?
Ludicrous.
What a frickin' karma whore. ANYTIME there is a post about a phone, someone will pipe up and say, "But all **I** want is a phone that does one thing and does it right!"
/. feature-creep phone post." We'll understand what you mean.
WE GET IT ALREADY. FROM NOW ON, JUST SAY, "Standard
Do you mean this? Because it's clearly listed in the lilo mini how-to...
A) Jamba Juice is everywhere.
B) it's "iPod".
Not many people care about iPod being 'cool'. People buy it because of Apple's marketing. It has mindshare. When you go to the store for an MP3 player, the first thing most people look at is an iPod, then compare everything to them. iPods look a million times better than most players out there and they're simple to use. THAT's why people use them. Get over yourself.
Well, not really. In addition to everything Lagged2death said, here's a simple example: explorer.exe controls bith Windows Explorer and the start menu + desktop. Why? Because they're the same thing. Back in Win 3.1, if one crashed, the other didn't necessarily die with it (though most of the time everything did anyway). This was because they were two separate programs.
Let me correct that - it seems that the google servers don't (yet?) allow server to server communication, making the whole thing still a closed service. It sounds like that isn't a permanent situation, but now it falls into the 'mostly useless' territory for previous jabber users.
It may not help your usage of YOUR client, but it sure as hell allows a lot more people to be added to your buddy list *without using gateways*.
For example, I use jabber all the time. One of my servers on the left coast runs a jabber server. 10 of my friends that have shell accounts on it use the jabber server. We can easily IM each other, and our other IM friends through the jabber gateways to AIM, MSN, and Y!. But wouldn't it be nice to have a non-gateway set of friends instead?
For you, nothing changes except that now anyone with a gmail account can be added to your native jabber list.
You must be riding that short bus.
Relax, I'm kidding.
Seriously, I live in Chicago and go to NYC all the time. I ride the bus to work every day (#66 Chicago coincidentally) and all sorts of them in NYC. I *CAN* use my laptop (a 15" PowerBook) but at rush hour or anytime it's even slightly busy, there's NO way. If you can use it all the time, I would say you live in an area where public transport is not as densely used.
There is something amazing about being in a room holding 1,000 Star Wars fans who whoop and yell as the Lucasfilm logo appears. Gives you chills.
Wow. I hate people like that.
OK, so Bluetooth might count...
MIGHT count? Hello, that's exactly what BT was designed for - low power consumption for wireless, low bandwidth devices. If you need a BT mouse, it doesn't get much better than a MX900 (which you can use WITHOUT the BT hub they give you). Otherwise,there are a ton of BT mice out there in varying sizes depending on your needs.
It's a wonder that sheep can spell 'definitely' correctly, yet a godly owner cannot.
go buy a fingerworks keyboard. you rae now 90% of the way to the (overly hyped) minority report interface.
Bose is all about the quality of sound (as opposed to Bang and Olufsen who are all about style and exclusivity).
As soon as I read that, I knew these people know nothing but marketing hype.