I encouraged my father to install this on his Win XP laptop. Found out a few hours later that it managed to completely hang his system on boot, trying to set up his "drivers and devices" after he restarted after installing iTunes.
He had to hit F8 during boot, choose last-known-good configuration- and then he was able to get back into his system. iTunes launched, but complained it couldn't access his burner and such. It uninstalled cleanly and completely, near as he can tell, but he's flat-out refused to try again until "version 1.1" is out and "they've done a little better job at QA".
I agree- poor effort on Apple's part to do QA, as usual(just look at the 10.2.8 update that broke half a dozen things). It's a 3-month-old Sony VAIO, not some Joe Shmoe special with some no-name burner etc.
VAG is Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft (think Inc. or Ltd.), not Volkswagen Audi Group.
Oh -really-? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q =%22Volkswagen+Audi+Group%22&btnG=Google+Searc h
Sorry bud, I've been an Audi enthusiast for 10+ years and I've never heard anyone call the parent company anything but "Volkswagen Audi Group". I suppose it's possible after the recent buying spree they changed it, but most people still call it the 'old' name.
Volkswagon Audi Group (VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Rolls Royce) switched systems(to SAP, I think?) for parts inventory+distribution a few years ago.
It was so bad, for weeks European customers were getting parts with entirely hand-written paperwork(if any parts at all) because the system was so horribly broken.
Reportedly VAG had 24x7 shifts of teams working to get things fixed as absolutely fast as possible...
A US Northern Command general thinks that with US and international military dependence on space assets (such as GPS, eyes in the sky, communications), the next major conflict will occur in the heavens. He acknowledged that the US wants to keep space peaceful, but that can't last forever, and potential threats might not care, anyway.
Sounds like someone(possibly the one person who watched Moonraker) just trying to find new ways to justify their existence and even greater military spending.
An October 8 article states that CBS, under orders from Viacom CEO Mel Karmazin, has threatened to stop all HDTV broadcasts unless the broadcast flag is approved.
Who gives a crap? Oh, that's right, the 10 people with HDTV sets. What a shame, they won't be able to watch The King of Queens in HDTV. Watch as those 10 HDTV owners switch to the remaining HDTV programming.
While the comment period on the proposal (Docket 02-230) is over, the FCC web site will still let you submit comments
Yeah, because, after all, the FCC really paid attention to the hundreds of thousands of people who wrote them about media consolidation. And of course the FCC listened when we complained about the changes to rules for 3rd-party access to cable internet networks, and about the attempts by internet providers to reclassify internet services as "information" services so they can weasel out of a shitload of regulations.
Let's face it- Powell and his cronies do whatever the fuck they want to. Correction- whatever the media companies want them to do.
Beware your RAID-0 arrays. Screwing carelessly with these setups can cause you many problems, data interleaving and all that.
The "interleaving" has nothing to do with it. While it is more complex, the major factor is that each drive you add to a stripe increases the chance one in the set will fail. Basically, take the MTBF and divide by the number of drives in the array, and that's your MTBF for the array; an array of 3 drives will fail in one third of the time of a single drive, on average. That's why you NEVER do RAID 0 for anything even remotely critical- alone it is for speed ONLY. Never do less than RAID 5 on critical data- preferably RAID 1 or 0+1.
Will it fix the massive bugs introduced into Bluetooth that have yet to be fixed?
How about the problems with remote filesystems? Put your powerbook to sleep with any volume mounted, even read-only with no files open, and you'll basically have to restart(not even a umount -f will unmount the volume) because almost every app will show a spinning pizza of death.
How about the bug that exists in most G4 powerbooks, where changing the volume level too quickly under "heavy load" causes the balance to shift?
Every OS X release has been rather half-baked, although Apple is certainly doing better now than with 10.0 and 10.1...but it's still irritating that several bugs which affect me on a day to day basis will require dishing out another $100+, when I just bought a $3,000 laptop 2-3 months ago(my fourth powerbook, eighth mac, btw.)
Microsoft has perfectly valid reasons for not giving a crap about Mac users
Actually, considering the amount of cash MS earns off MS Office for the Macintosh, they actually have a lot of 'reasons' to 'give a crap' about Mac users. The Macintosh division is one of the most profitable.
I suppose you think apple was 'saved' by MS with that $150M stock purchase, too, don't you?(even though Apple had billions in the bank at the time.)
Apple Computer is supporting Bluetooth in all current Powerbooks, which represent 50%+ of their sales, and many new laptops have Bluetooth as an option
Apple, Microsoft, Kensington, etc either have keyboards+mice out already or are releasing them soon
Siemens, Sony/Ericcson, and Nokia all support Bluetooth on several models each. Bluetooth adoption in the mobile market in Europe has been going strong for quite some time now.
Palm, Compaq/HP, etc all have PDA models with Bluetooth
Half a dozen peripheral companies offer inexpensive Bluetooth adapters
Bluetooth headsets are available
Cars(Saab, at the moment) are now coming with Bluetooth
MacOS, Linux, and Windows all support Bluetooth- including address+appointment syncing, internet connectivity, etc...even remote control(screen locking when you step away, iTunes/presentation software control, etc)
For a 'dead' technology, Bluetooth certainly has a lot going for it. Everything I've read says it's hit/hitting critical mass, not dying...and this seems more like hysterical "the world's ending tomorrow!" bull to me than anything else. Maybe the author has an interest in one of the other competing technologies, none of which I can even name, because they're not even a tenth as popular as Bluetooth?
For those of you wondering why the mozilla servers are swamped all of a sudden, it's because they just recently moved all the servers off of the AOL backbone onto a different host (one of the effects of AOL nixing Netscape), so we're no longer able to get oodles of bandwidth like we used to.
Perhaps another reason is that none of your US mirrors have the current releases, and several US mirrors don't even work period- one or two are broken URLs. Several of the mirrors don't even have the release candidates for 1.5,which shows them to be MONTHS out of date. Why didn't someone check this before the release?
Also, would it have killed you to do a BitTorrent, or make md5 sums available so that if someone else puts up a BT, we can check our downloads? I would have left open the torrent for a considerable amount of time to support the project.
"Dynamics were impressive, imaging was nuanced and detailed, and the frequency extremes sounded extended and natural."
Actually heard in a high-end(really high end) audio store:
"Yeah, these cables do a great job of keep the high end in phase."
Another high-end store I saw selling markers to black out the edge of your CDs to prevent light loss. The same store had a CD player sitting on an isolation table(unless you've got elephants running through the neighborhood, completely unnecessary).
It is absolutely amazing to sit in one of these stores with any kind of electronics/physics background(father was an EE, it's rubbed off somewhat) and listen to all the bullshit spewing forth...watching the rich idiots sucking it all up...and trying desperately to keep from bursting out laughing.
"Warmth", "Depth", "Presence"...these guys have an adjective list a mile long- and not a single one actually has real-world meaning you can conclusively explain, measure, or demonstrate. They are essentially all snake oil salesmen.
Ok guys, we gotta determine what name we'll actually call these users/the service. With AOL, it was easy- AOHell etc.
So what can we come up with for stupid AOL Netscape users/the service? Netscrape? Net-escape? Come on people, I'm graspin' at straws here, help me out. Must...insult....aol...users...
Things have been going in this direction for quite awhile. The Corvette in 97 went to a serial communications protocol, talking to 14 different control units.
Meanwhile, the same technology was in German and Japanese cars at least 2-3 years before, depending upon the manufacturer. Who do you think GM got the idea from?
Basically, what will stop someone from using this for illegal/dishonest purposes under the guise of academic research?
What, dishonest? You mean like running out of data to process, but lying to all your users and feeding them the same data over and over, while their systems burn energy by the megawatts, running useless calculations?
Microsoft has already promised to patch IE to remove the offending patent work--isn't that enough?
Isn't it enough for the bank robber to put the money back?
A: No, he still stole something. He needs to pay for the crime by doing the time. In this case, MS has been found guilty of infringing, and now Eolas is saying "ok, now stop distributing entirely or start paying royalties". Sounds 100%, completely, totally fair to me.
The only problem I find with the support is that the Wallstreet line PowerBooks, especially after adding a 500Mhz G4 upgrade was one of the best lines Apple ever made.
Please. This is just my-record-player-is-better-than-your-CD-player BS. I had a Lombard, and it was a piece of shit. In your hands it looked, felt, and sounded like a plastic toy. The CD drive door broke. The rubber feet fell off within a month. The case scratched -incredibly- easily and the letters on the keyboard wore off within 2 years. One screen clutch broke, the hard drive died inside of 3 years, the battery within 3 went to half-capacity, and Apple stopped selling new Lombard batteries shortly thereafter. The screen was horrible- in any kind of sunlight, for example, all you saw was green plastic w/ a hint of something in the way of a screen. Half the keyboard doesn't work anymore, the screen has a white line down one side- and to top it all off, the video cable to the screen is toasted; the display went from occasionally flipping out to requiring 2 minutes of adjusting the screen angle, to just not working period.
I now have a revision-1 17" powerbook. It's awesome. Fit+finish is excellent, and everything in the design screams attention-to-detail. The case appears to be very durable(I do have a few small scratches on the bottom however). The screen is terrific in strong light, even direct sunlight hitting it. Gigabit ethernet is fast as hell, airport reception is fantastic, better than my Orinocco Gold card, which was widely considered the standard. In almost every way, my 17" PB kicks the living shit out of your Wallstreet, including battery life...the one exception being weight(so get a 12 or 15"). So do yourself an enormous favor and start using a computer built this decade.
My problem is that Apple broke Bluetooth in a MAJOR way with 10.2.8, and with Panther right around the corner, it looks like it'll never get fixed. That's practically illegal- "we broke it, so just buy the update." Um, no- and as a result, I think I'll be downloading Panther, not buying it.
What's A 'Scroll Lock' And Why Is It On My Keyboard?
Um...for stopping things from scrolling by on the screen, like the name says? Like, say, the linux boot messages before your box kernel panics because, oops, you forgot the SCSI driver when you recompiled the kernel. Of course Windows users don't need that key, because all they get pretty 16-color clouds slowly swishing by occasionally having seizures, and if the system's busted, well, you're not cool enough to be told why...
Could this get rid of the speed problems of XFree86 while still retaining Xlib compatibility?
Could it be that the poster hasn't read more than 1 page into the comments on the last dozen times this X-is-slow BS has come up? I thought we all agreed on this one, but apparently not.
This is very frustrating to see, because this makes for system #3, and things were already bad enough with 5 billion different window managers. Choice is great and all, but there's a reason some things are standardized, and "xlib compatibility" is not the same as "X"; I guarantee this new system will break all sorts of things in new and exciting ways.
Perfect example of how open-source has failed us; EVERYBODY's gotta invent their own wheel instead of helping to make the existing wheel(s) better.
We use request tracker. http://www.gnu.org/directory/rtracker.html
So do I, across three companies now that I've worked for. It's eccentric, to say the least.
"Killed" tickets aren't "killed", they're only -marked- killed. Ie- no way to delete tickets. No magic button for the admins to click to delete 'killed' tickets- you've got to delete them by hand in SQL, something management is uneasy about doing on a production system.
No way for anonymous users to check on the status of their ticket- you've got to grant them rights, or give guest rights to -everyone- to see -everyone's- tickets(and that leads to why-is-my-request/why-is-their-request crap)
Horrible support- on several occasions I've asked in-depth questions and not recieved so much as a peep from anyone; sometimes I've posted 2-3x. The authors are clearly busy consulting- not supporting.
Users can bring down the entire system to a halt if you're using MySQL, the default/best supported DB. Because tickets never get removed, and the default search parameters are -all- tickets and -all- queues, a single search can take MINUTES to complete on a SMALL db(20-30,000 tickets).
Clunky/confusing interface. Things that should require one click require several. Functions have non-intuitive names. Etc.
It's not nearly as bad as Big Brother, but it's close, at least in terms of eccentricity. If I had to recommend a system, after almost a half decade of using RT, I'd flat out tell them to try something else first, and leave RT to last to evaluate. Bugzilla certainly does sound interesting, though I have no experience with it.
It's one possible way to deal with one particular aspect of the problem: forging From addresses will become harder.
...something that can already be done with Postfix and other mailers. It's very simple. Postfix can check to see if the hostname you claim to be from matches your IP. It can also check to see if the IP reverses to the hostname you claimed(this one is not as wise, as there are perfectly valid reasons for not having a reverse entry, although you -should- have one). Further, Postfix can return not-authorized if you try and give a MAIL FROM address which doesn't match your domain; ie, if you're coming from a01.nastyspammer.com, you're not going to be able to say "MAIL FROM: niceguy@yahoo.com". It is -incredibly- effective against blocking spam, but the problem is that many ISPs and company just don't have properly configured mail servers, or hostnames set up for their mail servers(an even more common mistake is for the hostname to not match the name reported by the connecting server in the HELO command- most often Exchange servers). This would change quickly if more people configured their mail servers to block such shenanigans.
Right now that RFC seems a)unnecessary and b)like a very thinly veiled attempt by ISPs to prevent their customers from running mailing lists and the like. I help run a VERY low budget mailing list that has about 3,000 subscribers in total, and we may end up using DSL again for connectivity. Said DSL provider could easily screw us over with this.
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I encouraged my father to install this on his Win XP laptop. Found out a few hours later that it managed to completely hang his system on boot, trying to set up his "drivers and devices" after he restarted after installing iTunes.
He had to hit F8 during boot, choose last-known-good configuration- and then he was able to get back into his system. iTunes launched, but complained it couldn't access his burner and such. It uninstalled cleanly and completely, near as he can tell, but he's flat-out refused to try again until "version 1.1" is out and "they've done a little better job at QA".
I agree- poor effort on Apple's part to do QA, as usual(just look at the 10.2.8 update that broke half a dozen things). It's a 3-month-old Sony VAIO, not some Joe Shmoe special with some no-name burner etc.
Oh -really-? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q =%22Volkswagen+Audi+Group%22&btnG=Google+Searc h
Sorry bud, I've been an Audi enthusiast for 10+ years and I've never heard anyone call the parent company anything but "Volkswagen Audi Group". I suppose it's possible after the recent buying spree they changed it, but most people still call it the 'old' name.
Volkswagon Audi Group (VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Rolls Royce) switched systems(to SAP, I think?) for parts inventory+distribution a few years ago.
It was so bad, for weeks European customers were getting parts with entirely hand-written paperwork(if any parts at all) because the system was so horribly broken.
Reportedly VAG had 24x7 shifts of teams working to get things fixed as absolutely fast as possible...
Sounds like someone(possibly the one person who watched Moonraker) just trying to find new ways to justify their existence and even greater military spending.
Who gives a crap? Oh, that's right, the 10 people with HDTV sets. What a shame, they won't be able to watch The King of Queens in HDTV. Watch as those 10 HDTV owners switch to the remaining HDTV programming.
While the comment period on the proposal (Docket 02-230) is over, the FCC web site will still let you submit comments
Yeah, because, after all, the FCC really paid attention to the hundreds of thousands of people who wrote them about media consolidation. And of course the FCC listened when we complained about the changes to rules for 3rd-party access to cable internet networks, and about the attempts by internet providers to reclassify internet services as "information" services so they can weasel out of a shitload of regulations.
Let's face it- Powell and his cronies do whatever the fuck they want to. Correction- whatever the media companies want them to do.
The "interleaving" has nothing to do with it. While it is more complex, the major factor is that each drive you add to a stripe increases the chance one in the set will fail. Basically, take the MTBF and divide by the number of drives in the array, and that's your MTBF for the array; an array of 3 drives will fail in one third of the time of a single drive, on average. That's why you NEVER do RAID 0 for anything even remotely critical- alone it is for speed ONLY. Never do less than RAID 5 on critical data- preferably RAID 1 or 0+1.
Ohmygosh, I'm famous! Now I have something to brag about to the ladies. I'll have to beat them off with a stick!
[scurries off to add "driving force behind rules change for programming contest" and "subject of slashback" to resume]
Will it fix the massive bugs introduced into Bluetooth that have yet to be fixed?
How about the problems with remote filesystems? Put your powerbook to sleep with any volume mounted, even read-only with no files open, and you'll basically have to restart(not even a umount -f will unmount the volume) because almost every app will show a spinning pizza of death.
How about the bug that exists in most G4 powerbooks, where changing the volume level too quickly under "heavy load" causes the balance to shift?
Every OS X release has been rather half-baked, although Apple is certainly doing better now than with 10.0 and 10.1...but it's still irritating that several bugs which affect me on a day to day basis will require dishing out another $100+, when I just bought a $3,000 laptop 2-3 months ago(my fourth powerbook, eighth mac, btw.)
Actually, considering the amount of cash MS earns off MS Office for the Macintosh, they actually have a lot of 'reasons' to 'give a crap' about Mac users. The Macintosh division is one of the most profitable.
I suppose you think apple was 'saved' by MS with that $150M stock purchase, too, don't you?(even though Apple had billions in the bank at the time.)
Please explain how Bluetooth is dead when:
For a 'dead' technology, Bluetooth certainly has a lot going for it. Everything I've read says it's hit/hitting critical mass, not dying...and this seems more like hysterical "the world's ending tomorrow!" bull to me than anything else. Maybe the author has an interest in one of the other competing technologies, none of which I can even name, because they're not even a tenth as popular as Bluetooth?
Perhaps another reason is that none of your US mirrors have the current releases, and several US mirrors don't even work period- one or two are broken URLs. Several of the mirrors don't even have the release candidates for 1.5,which shows them to be MONTHS out of date. Why didn't someone check this before the release?
Also, would it have killed you to do a BitTorrent, or make md5 sums available so that if someone else puts up a BT, we can check our downloads? I would have left open the torrent for a considerable amount of time to support the project.
Actually heard in a high-end(really high end) audio store:
"Yeah, these cables do a great job of keep the high end in phase."
Another high-end store I saw selling markers to black out the edge of your CDs to prevent light loss. The same store had a CD player sitting on an isolation table(unless you've got elephants running through the neighborhood, completely unnecessary).
It is absolutely amazing to sit in one of these stores with any kind of electronics/physics background(father was an EE, it's rubbed off somewhat) and listen to all the bullshit spewing forth...watching the rich idiots sucking it all up...and trying desperately to keep from bursting out laughing.
"Warmth", "Depth", "Presence"...these guys have an adjective list a mile long- and not a single one actually has real-world meaning you can conclusively explain, measure, or demonstrate. They are essentially all snake oil salesmen.
Ok guys, we gotta determine what name we'll actually call these users/the service. With AOL, it was easy- AOHell etc.
So what can we come up with for stupid AOL Netscape users/the service? Netscrape? Net-escape? Come on people, I'm graspin' at straws here, help me out. Must...insult....aol...users...
The 'linux counter' guys did. Until this evening. I wonder WHO could POSSIBLY be responsible for THAT.
Insert obligatory sla... oh, nevermind, already did that.
--Dateline, October 14th-- GNOME project team announces they will be adopting SVG in a very, VERY real way.
Seriously, people. Thesauruses are your friend, ok? :-)
Meanwhile, the same technology was in German and Japanese cars at least 2-3 years before, depending upon the manufacturer. Who do you think GM got the idea from?
What, dishonest? You mean like running out of data to process, but lying to all your users and feeding them the same data over and over, while their systems burn energy by the megawatts, running useless calculations?
Isn't it enough for the bank robber to put the money back?
A: No, he still stole something. He needs to pay for the crime by doing the time. In this case, MS has been found guilty of infringing, and now Eolas is saying "ok, now stop distributing entirely or start paying royalties". Sounds 100%, completely, totally fair to me.
Please. This is just my-record-player-is-better-than-your-CD-player BS. I had a Lombard, and it was a piece of shit. In your hands it looked, felt, and sounded like a plastic toy. The CD drive door broke. The rubber feet fell off within a month. The case scratched -incredibly- easily and the letters on the keyboard wore off within 2 years. One screen clutch broke, the hard drive died inside of 3 years, the battery within 3 went to half-capacity, and Apple stopped selling new Lombard batteries shortly thereafter. The screen was horrible- in any kind of sunlight, for example, all you saw was green plastic w/ a hint of something in the way of a screen. Half the keyboard doesn't work anymore, the screen has a white line down one side- and to top it all off, the video cable to the screen is toasted; the display went from occasionally flipping out to requiring 2 minutes of adjusting the screen angle, to just not working period.
I now have a revision-1 17" powerbook. It's awesome. Fit+finish is excellent, and everything in the design screams attention-to-detail. The case appears to be very durable(I do have a few small scratches on the bottom however). The screen is terrific in strong light, even direct sunlight hitting it. Gigabit ethernet is fast as hell, airport reception is fantastic, better than my Orinocco Gold card, which was widely considered the standard. In almost every way, my 17" PB kicks the living shit out of your Wallstreet, including battery life...the one exception being weight(so get a 12 or 15"). So do yourself an enormous favor and start using a computer built this decade.
My problem is that Apple broke Bluetooth in a MAJOR way with 10.2.8, and with Panther right around the corner, it looks like it'll never get fixed. That's practically illegal- "we broke it, so just buy the update." Um, no- and as a result, I think I'll be downloading Panther, not buying it.
Um...for stopping things from scrolling by on the screen, like the name says? Like, say, the linux boot messages before your box kernel panics because, oops, you forgot the SCSI driver when you recompiled the kernel. Of course Windows users don't need that key, because all they get pretty 16-color clouds slowly swishing by occasionally having seizures, and if the system's busted, well, you're not cool enough to be told why...
Could it be that the poster hasn't read more than 1 page into the comments on the last dozen times this X-is-slow BS has come up? I thought we all agreed on this one, but apparently not.
This is very frustrating to see, because this makes for system #3, and things were already bad enough with 5 billion different window managers. Choice is great and all, but there's a reason some things are standardized, and "xlib compatibility" is not the same as "X"; I guarantee this new system will break all sorts of things in new and exciting ways.
Perfect example of how open-source has failed us; EVERYBODY's gotta invent their own wheel instead of helping to make the existing wheel(s) better.
So do I, across three companies now that I've worked for. It's eccentric, to say the least.
It's not nearly as bad as Big Brother, but it's close, at least in terms of eccentricity. If I had to recommend a system, after almost a half decade of using RT, I'd flat out tell them to try something else first, and leave RT to last to evaluate. Bugzilla certainly does sound interesting, though I have no experience with it.
Indeed. I suggest a new catch phrase: "Journalistic Integrity - put to the test".
Er, wait, how about: "Journalistic Integrity - thrown out the window"
Reminds me of the Far Side with the two doctors poking the patient's brain during surgery to watch his leg jump. "ooo, now you try. Poke right here."
...something that can already be done with Postfix and other mailers. It's very simple. Postfix can check to see if the hostname you claim to be from matches your IP. It can also check to see if the IP reverses to the hostname you claimed(this one is not as wise, as there are perfectly valid reasons for not having a reverse entry, although you -should- have one). Further, Postfix can return not-authorized if you try and give a MAIL FROM address which doesn't match your domain; ie, if you're coming from a01.nastyspammer.com, you're not going to be able to say "MAIL FROM: niceguy@yahoo.com". It is -incredibly- effective against blocking spam, but the problem is that many ISPs and company just don't have properly configured mail servers, or hostnames set up for their mail servers(an even more common mistake is for the hostname to not match the name reported by the connecting server in the HELO command- most often Exchange servers). This would change quickly if more people configured their mail servers to block such shenanigans.
Right now that RFC seems a)unnecessary and b)like a very thinly veiled attempt by ISPs to prevent their customers from running mailing lists and the like. I help run a VERY low budget mailing list that has about 3,000 subscribers in total, and we may end up using DSL again for connectivity. Said DSL provider could easily screw us over with this.