Linux? Are you Loonies kidding? Please tell me why a Windows user that is using state of the art software and hardware to it's limit, would be interested in downgrading his system just to run Linux?
Why?
The computing world is headed toward multimedia in a big way and Linux is so far behind the curve it's pathetic. Sure Pixar generates it's wire frame models using Linux, but it's pretty said when Linux users can't even view the trailers to Pixar movies because they are Windows/Mac only formats.
What about iTunes?
Any mp3 programs like Cooledit out there for Linux? DVD copy for Linux?
Nope. Linux is a fucking joke.
Linux is difficult, if not impossible to install on common hardware and even when it IS installed, it just sucks because nothing works.
View common web pages? Linux falls flat on it's face. In fact many Linux tutorial websites actually use Windows media player format files and Linux can't view them. Now that is real smart:(
Waste time with Linux?
Risk being put out of business when SCO wins the suit? Not me.
I deep sixed Linux a long time ago because it sucks.
The Linux community likes to hide behind the mantra of free and open software for all and as such has the twisted mindset that all software should be free for everyone. This should come as no surprise seeing that the Linux community seems to take pride in stealing anything they can get their hands on and breaking laws designed to protect IP at the same time.
Linux users have been advocating downloading Microsoft True Type Fonts for years mostly because their own fonts and font system in general has been so horrific that Linux screen fonts in most stock installs are almost unreadable. Of course they will claim that Linux fonts are great but if that were really the case why is the internet clogged with Linux Font DeUglification documents written by Linux users?
They even have documents that give a step by step procedure for stealing the Microsoft fonts and installing them on Linux systems! Notice in particular the instructions for the Tahoma font.
Next we have Linux users violating the EULA for the X-Box and tinkering with it so that it can run Linux. Why on earth any sane person would want to take a bitching game machine like X-box and ruin it by installing Linux is a mystery to me.
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/faq.php
Pay particular attention to the question about it being illegal and how they avoid answering the question.
They are also doing the same thing with Sony Play station as well.
http://playstation2-linux.com/faq.php
None of this is going to hold up in a court of law and the Linux people who are leading these projects are looking for some serious trouble should Microsoft and Sony decide to pursue this matter.
Finally we have the suit filed by SCO which claims that the Linux community at large has incorporated stolen code into it's open source programs.
This should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the Linux movement from the day Linux wrote the kernel.
The Linux community has proven themselves to be a fight to the end, steal whatever can be stolen from big business because it is big business that is killing Linux.
The Linux community has absolutely no respect for the property of others and will resort to any type of clandestine tactics to steal whatever isn't cemented down all in the good name of Linux.
So if you are thinking of betting your business on Linux software, you had better think it over carefully, because if SCO should win, Linux will be out of business. And if SCO should lose, do you really think it is wise to bet your entire business on software that is supported by a community that promotes stealing and in fact is full of thieves?
Food for thought.
How RedHat's Linux Can Defeat Micr$oft's Windoze
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Hi,
I've always used Windowz and I consider myself an exceptional Visual Basic programmer, so I know computers pretty good. In fact I got an A- in my programming class last term. But I'm a little wary of how much power Microsoft has in the computer field. Many of my friends use RedHat and I've recently installed it on my machine at home. Although I haven't had as much chance to play with it as I'd like, I've been greatly impressed.
This weekend I gave some thoughts to the things that are wrong with Linux. I hope no one minds having some flaws pointed out. I'd like to help make RedHat stronger so it can conquer MS. Hopefully RedHat will hear this (crossing fingers) and address these. I think with a little effort, RedHat's Linux can defeat Microsoft's Windows!:)
To begin with, there are too many different flavors of RedHat. Browsing a list on Amazon, I saw they made varients under the codenames of Mandrake, Debian and Slackware, just to name a few. I know that I'm very new to RedHat so maybe this is obvious but it seems like RedHat should just sell a few different flavors of its operating system. Perhaps one for the desktop and one for a server? Could someone explain why RedHat produces dozens of different versions of Linux?
Secondly did you know that anyone can view the source code to Linux! I think that RedHat shouldn't make its code available. After all, what keeps Microsoft from stealing RedHat's ideas and putting it into Windows? My friend says that FreeBSD stole the TCP/IP stack from DOS a long time ago and Microsoft is always looking for revenge for that. Plus it seems to me like RedHat is just giving away its ideas for free. And what keeps hackers or terrorists from tampering with the code and putting a virus in every computer?
On a related note, why doesn't RedHat write Linux in assembly? My friend says that's what Microsoft does for Windows, and that's why Windows is faster and more stable than Linux.
Next RedHat definitely should kill -9 (ha, ha!) the command line. Microsoft finally gave up DOS when Windows 2000 came out. I'm suprised that RedHat hasn't migrated away from...whatever its version of DOS is called (Bash, I think?) But maybe this is planned for a futurerelease? Finally Linux needs games! RedHat will never be successful in the home without games. They should also tell M$ to release a version of Office for Linux too. And Internet Explorer!
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The following are actual quotes I've read from audiophiles on the net. Enjoy.
"Pulling harmonics together from a jumbled auditory stream to form a coherent harmonic envelope."
"Image outlines were sharply focused in space with believable palpability."
"There was plenty of bass detail to behold."
"The music flows with gusto and verve. It squeezes instrumental images into incredibly palpable outlines."
"...more muscle and definition, and a heart that is pure gold."
"Most preamps when pushed hard change their sonic signature."
"Harmonic colors were somewhat on the dark side."
"By using the $450 gold plated RCA stereo jumper cables for all line-level connections, and the newly available $1200 gold plated XYZ speaker wires, we were able to achieve a distinct improvement in highs and the deepest rich bass lows I have ever heard. A massive improvement over ordinary old copper."
"These cables deliver big time! The sound is surprsingly smooth and spacious, with particularly sweet upper octaves."
"If you connect a ground to the chassis of your power amplifer and use 4 gauge wire connected to a bucket of salt water with a copper coil in it, your mids and highs will be the sweetest you have ever heard. Works with car audio systems too. Place the bucket in the trunk and reduce speed on corners and when braking, to avoid spillage."
"Special wooden resonator disks made in Asia from a special tree, only found in one area. Placing these under EACH of your components, at strategic locations will remove 'unwanted resonances', and DRAMATIC improval tonal quality. The difference is astounding. These disks of wood sell for around $100 to $400 EACH (depending on size)." (See the top of this web page!)
"somewhat fuzzy portrayal of image outlines."
"Harmonic textures ebbed and flowed with startling dynamic nuances and the sort of liquidity and purity one only comes to associate with world-class audio products."
"Harmonic textures are painted slightly gray in color."
"Spatial detail was painted with a fine brush that readily resolved massed voices and the air around individual instruments."
"Image outlines, however, are more precisely focused within the soundstage and in general the Accordance is capable of sketching out a convincing 3-D acoustic impression."
"It felt like I had crawled into a warm and inviting sonic womb."
"Not content with straight S.E.X. (the single-ended experimenter's kit), the Doctor introduces the "69" tapered pipe loudspeaker. Sounds like a recipe for a mind-blowing sonic orgasm."
"The impression of speed and control was strong."
"Bass lines were fleshed out with excellent definition."
"It is less lush sounding than..."
"...force feeding the listener an earful of detail; more accurately, a barrage of in-your-face zingers that becomes almost an instant irritant."
"Each tube brand seems to have a unique flavor of its own."
"Certain busy passages of music get congested."
"... sounds either euphonic or bright."
"The Equilibre ($8,475) - nominally a 60-watt stereo amp."
"It could well explain the sweet sounds that come from using passive preamps straight into the power amplifiers."
"...with an easy-to-drive impedance magnitude."
"Rendition of harmonic colors was suave and smooth, with a believable sugar coating."
"Exposure of low-level detail, even in complex passages, without leaving anything to the imagination."
"The mids are vivid in spades with wave after wave of honey-coated harmonic bliss."
"The midbass region is "fun"
"the upper mids are a bit more laid back than I would like."
I've been looking over the tech specs for all the TI calculators, and I can't argue that these calculators are spectacular. They are the most ingenious pieces of equipment for school use and such. However, they're hardware is very inferior. The hard disk so to speak only is about 30K. The processor runs at 6MHz? It only has an assembly language, not something better? My gosh, on today's technology, hd space is 6 *cents* a meg? And hard drives are the size of a TI calc. If u shrink down the hd to that of a mini cassette, and put it in the TI, u could get about 1/3 a gig. And you could probably do better, because I've seen a mini cassette for the computer that holds a gig, and the drive it goes in to is only 1 cm bigger on each side. And the chip? The 486 chips are like $30 bucks nowadays, and they run at 66MHz. AMD chips are $75 for a 133MHz version. And the display screen. I've seen sony watchman that were smaller and they have a color screen at 320x200.
Basically, what I'm saying is with today's current technology and its cheapness, TI could probably come out with a calculator that could outperform my computer (mine is a 486 DX2-50) for the same price as their 92, and I don't know why they aren't trying.
You are a whiney little backstabbing JERK! You ABUSE your position as a slashdot editor for your own personal gain. How could you sell your friends at the CensorWare Project Out?
You will justify this to yourself by assuming I am the only person who thinks your a jerk. That is not true - Most slashdot readers wish you would shut up with your rants. How else could this account ('Michael's a Jerk') get excellant karma? The fact is we are sick of your moderation abuse.
Take This comment. You broke the rules and had more then question per comment. You then modded yourself up to make it into the question list.
Michael: GROW UP OR LEAVE SLASHDOT.
IF YOU THINK MICHAEL HAS ABUSED HIS POWERS AS A SLASHDOT EDITOR, PLEASE MOD THIS COMMENT UP!
I'm concerned about the narrowm view of the world IT people and engineers have these days. I think the problem starts at college - There's a culture that somehow science is more rational and usefull then the humanitities. Lecturers encourage students to joke about arts students, and humilaite them whenever possible. This encourages eliteism, and I for one am sick of it.
Let's tell it like it is. 'science' is just as much about opinion as the humanities. Research simply follows the fad of the day. Take dieticians for example. These men and woman believe that just because they have degree in medical science that they are all knowing. Why, what they recommend one day may kill you the next! (see the DDT story for more information.) Science is 95% opinion then facts, lets face it. What about astrology, the most rediculious of the sciences! But I degress...
Another example is music. We know what sounds good. Everyone aggreed that Valves for instance sound great. But knowitall engineers use trensastors with inferious sound quality just to save a few bucks. They argue with numbers. Hey, I don't want to do maths just to listen to music. I know what I like. You cannot apply objective reasoning to a subject which is intristically subjective. But try telling those recent grads with their useless piece of paper that and they go all mightier--then-thou.
The problem with you technical guys are that you are all so eliteist. Whilst you want to trun collage into a trade school with yore narrow minded views that collage should be a job training centre, humanities are focused on making you a well rounded person who is auctually interesting to be with, not a boring focuesed geek. Really, it makes me so mad when people say "oh, he's doing a humanities degree, that's easy". I have to read *3* *books* *a* *week* on average. Not picture books either I assue you. It is a lot of work, but the upshot is improved grammer and spelling skills that are lacking in the technical. As for those that say "you will be working at mcdonalds", I'm going on to so a PhD in socialolgy where I'll be line for tenure where I have a much more rewarding job then beeing a science freak or an engineer. Anyways, all I have to do to be a engineer wold be to get my MSCE and how hard couyld that be? techincal stuff is simply whatever fad the market thinks is hot at the moment, but all great things were done by humanities.
You technical types are far to narrow minded and cynsical. You should learn to enjoy life.
Perhaps you need to make an effort to understand the reasons people refer to the GPL as viral.
If I spend years writing a program using no code other than my own, I can release it under any license I want. If I incorporate BSD licensed code into my program, I can still use any license I want, so long as I preserve copyright notices. If, however, I want to include GPLed code in my program, the GPL forces me to release my program under the GPL. It has *infected* my program. This is where the term `viral' originates with regard to the GPL.
The BSD license does not affect code and cannot affect code since it can always be placed under another license. If someone makes proprietary enhancements to my BSD licensed code on his own time with his own money, the only code that has been infected with a non-free virus is his. My code is still perfectly free. I can give it to whoever I want and it is still as free as ever. The only thing I can't do is give away the other person's proprietary enhancements made with his own time and his own money and which could possibly completely overshadow the features provided by my small amount of code.
Although the BSD license encourages the reuse of code for *any* purpose, including in projects released under non-free licenses like the GPL or one of the dozens of proprietary software licenses, doing it to piss people off will not get you very far, and it will make you look foolhardy, especially in the eyes of the people who wrote the free software (free for *any* purpose) that you would be making non-free. I guess you think no one understands the BSD license.
All in all, a fine spirit to take in the name of free software....
This viral stuff is backwards. I think the BSD license is actually more viral than the GPL. Here's why:
If I decide to write a program and contribute it to free software, the GPL assures me that it will stay free software forever. I'd be bothered if somebody made it non-free, effectively stealing my work for their own remuneration. The GPL is effectively a vaccine against that.
The BSD license lets people apply almost any license to my software, including most non-free licenses. If I wrote work under the BSD license, someone could modify it and sell the result with no source code, and I'd have no recourse at all. Anyone who wants can infect my BSD software with the non-free license virus.
So, which license is more viral? It sounds to me as if the GPL is getting a bum rap here.
By the way, the BSD license allows you to apply the GPL to a modified BSD work. I've thought about organizing a GPL-ed thread derived from the body of existing BSD-licensed work, just to illustrate a lesson about the BSD license. That would really piss people off, but it would be legal.
While IPv6 fixes many problems in IPv4, the developed world will not embrace IPv6 until many shortcomings in the protocol are addressed.
1. Cisco routers suck at IPv6. Many of cisco's routers use the router's CPU to process IPv6 packets instead of the fast-path. The reasons for this are explained in the next few points. While Juniper's routers are substantially better at IPv6 than cisco's, IT managers are often restrained by insane corporate policy that dictactes the use of cisco.
2. There are too many addresses. There are 16.7 million addresses per square metre of the earth's surface, including the oceans. This is overkill. The world does not need more than the 4 billion addresses available with IPv4, and I challenge you to come up with an application that requires that many. Assuming that you can actually come up with one, it could easily be solved with Network Address Translation, or NAT as it is commonly known.
3. IPv6 addresses are too large. An IPv6 address is 128 bits in size - 64 bits of which are reserved for addressing hosts, and 64 bits of which are reserved for routing. One thing that is cool with IPv6 is address autoconfiguration. Take your 56-bit MAC address on your ethernet card, ask for 64-bits of network prefix, bang it together with EUI-64 and you are set. The problem with a 64-bit network prefix is that routing tables become massive. Just do the math and you'll see that extreme amounts of memory are required to hold routing tables.
4. The IPv6 header is too large. An IPv4 header compact at 20 bytes in length, while the IPv6 is bloated at 40 bytes. That's right people, each one of your IP packets has twice as much overhead as before. While this may not sound much, IP networks have a requirement that the minimum MTU supported must be 576 bytes. That means that where you might have got 556 bytes of data in your IP packets, you now get 536 bytes. This means that downloading stuff will take 3.4% longer.
Sure, IPv6 allows for nice hacks like those described in this article, but is it really ready for prime time?
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Linux fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac running Linux (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Mac running Linux, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac running Linux that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Linux addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use linux over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
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Telstra have a history of standover tactics (see Here, for instance).
I really hope they get busted under our new privacy laws. I have a telstra email address that I've never used that gets spammed constantly. If telstra didn't sell my details, then something very fishy is going on.
I'm with testra, and have had nothing but problems. Their Privacy policy allows selling your email address to advertisers. They've also got this insane capping system, that's stopped the rollout of broadband in AU.
As a consultant for several large companies, I'd always done my work on Windows. Recently however, a top online investment firm asked us to do some work using Linux. The concept of having access to source code was very appealing to us, as we'd be able to modify the kernel to meet our exacting standards which we're unable to do with Microsoft's products.
Although we met several technical challenges along the way (specifically, Linux's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we were unable to defrag its ext2 file system), all in all the process went smoothly. Everyone was very pleased with Linux, and we were considering using it for a great deal of future internal projects.
So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a lawyer that we would be required to publish our source code for others to use. It was brought to our attention that Linux is copyrighted under something called the GPL, or the Gnu Protective License. Part of this license states that any changes to the kernel are to be made freely available. Unfortunately for us, this meant that the great deal of time and money we spent "touching up" Linux to work for this investment firm would now be available at no cost to our competitors.
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released. This was simply unacceptable.
Although we had planned for no one outside of this company to ever use, let alone see the source code, we were now put in a difficult position. We could either give away our hard work, or come up with another solution. Although it was tought to do, there really was no option: We had to rewrite the code, from scratch, for Windows 2000.
I think the biggest thing keeping Linux from being truly competitive with Microsoft is this GPL. Its draconian requirements virtually guarentee that no business will ever be able to use it. After my experience with Linux, I won't be recommending it to any of my associates. I may reconsider if Linux switches its license to something a little more fair, such as Microsoft's "Shared Source". Until then its attempts to socialize the software market will insure it remains only a bit player.
Basically, his hear exchanger was the annode in an unintentional battery:-)
The copper corrodes a little, as copper in water or air always will. This is not normally a big deal, because a thin copper oxide layer forms and protects the rest of the metal. But in the process, some copper ions go into solution and make their way around, thanks to the pump, to the aluminium water block. They precipitate onto the water block surface as teeny little metallic copper particles.
And then plain old galvanic corrosion can happen, as the copper and aluminium are in physical, and thus electrical, contact, and both immersed in the electrolyte. The dreck you end up with is mainly aluminium oxide, with its greenish colour donated by a light lacing of copper oxide. Tah-dah.
When I flame-tested some of the precipitate, by the way, this was borne out; green flame from the copper, bright sparks from the aluminium. Case closed.
Incidentally, when I was trying to track down information on this subject, I discovered that if you start searching for "galvanic corrosion" in the company of some other computer-cooling-relevant words, you're likely to find a large number of pages belonging to homebrew enthusiasts, and a smaller number of pages belonging to nuclear reactor technicians.
Neither of these groups of people want galvanic corrosion to happen in their equipment, but judging by the degree of unhappiness expressed by those who have had equipment destroyed by it, it would appear to be much more irritating when it ruins a batch of beer than when it results in radioactive liquid sodium spraying all over a control room.
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This increase is tiny - it's not statistically sound. It's smaller then the sampling error.
That said, I've just bought a Dev Kit from Transmeta, and I love it.
Linux?
:(
Are you Loonies kidding?
Please tell me why a Windows user that is using state of the art
software and hardware to it's limit, would be interested in
downgrading his system just to run Linux?
Why?
The computing world is headed toward multimedia in a big way and Linux
is so far behind the curve it's pathetic.
Sure Pixar generates it's wire frame models using Linux, but it's
pretty said when Linux users can't even view the trailers to Pixar
movies because they are Windows/Mac only formats.
What about iTunes?
Any mp3 programs like Cooledit out there for Linux?
DVD copy for Linux?
Nope.
Linux is a fucking joke.
Linux is difficult, if not impossible to install on common hardware
and even when it IS installed, it just sucks because nothing works.
View common web pages?
Linux falls flat on it's face.
In fact many Linux tutorial websites actually use Windows media player
format files and Linux can't view them.
Now that is real smart
Waste time with Linux?
Risk being put out of business when SCO wins the suit?
Not me.
I deep sixed Linux a long time ago because it sucks.
The Linux community likes to hide behind the mantra of free and open
l
a sp
software for all and as such has the twisted mindset that all software
should be free for everyone. This should come as no surprise seeing
that the Linux community seems to take pride in stealing anything they
can get their hands on and breaking laws designed to protect IP at the
same time.
Linux users have been advocating downloading Microsoft True Type Fonts
for years mostly because their own fonts and font system in general
has been so horrific that Linux screen fonts in most stock installs
are almost unreadable. Of course they will claim that Linux fonts are
great but if that were really the case why is the internet clogged
with Linux Font DeUglification documents written by Linux users?
They even have documents that give a step by step procedure for
stealing the Microsoft fonts and installing them on Linux systems!
Notice in particular the instructions for the Tahoma font.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/truetype.htm
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
Next we have Linux users violating the EULA for the X-Box and
tinkering with it so that it can run Linux.
Why on earth any sane person would want to take a bitching game
machine like X-box and ruin it by installing Linux is a mystery to me.
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/index.php
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/faq.php
Pay particular attention to the question about it being illegal and
how they avoid answering the question.
They are also doing the same thing with Sony Play station as well.
http://playstation2-linux.com/faq.php
None of this is going to hold up in a court of law and the Linux
people who are leading these projects are looking for some serious
trouble should Microsoft and Sony decide to pursue this matter.
Finally we have the suit filed by SCO which claims that the Linux
community at large has incorporated stolen code into it's open source
programs.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,936269,00.
This should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the Linux
movement from the day Linux wrote the kernel.
The Linux community has proven themselves to be a fight to the end,
steal whatever can be stolen from big business because it is big
business that is killing Linux.
The Linux community has absolutely no respect for the property of
others and will resort to any type of clandestine tactics to steal
whatever isn't cemented down all in the good name of Linux.
So if you are thinking of betting your business on Linux software, you
had better think it over carefully, because if SCO should win, Linux
will be out of business.
And if SCO should lose, do you really think it is wise to bet your
entire business on software that is supported by a community that
promotes stealing and in fact is full of thieves?
Food for thought.
Hi,
:)
I've always used Windowz and I consider myself an exceptional Visual
Basic programmer, so I know computers pretty good. In fact I got an A-
in my programming class last term. But I'm a little wary of how much
power Microsoft has in the computer field. Many of my friends use
RedHat and I've recently installed it on my machine at home. Although
I haven't had as much chance to play with it as I'd like, I've been
greatly impressed.
This weekend I gave some thoughts to the things that are wrong with
Linux. I hope no one minds having some flaws pointed out. I'd like to
help make RedHat stronger so it can conquer MS. Hopefully RedHat will
hear this (crossing fingers) and address these. I think with a little
effort, RedHat's Linux can defeat Microsoft's Windows!
To begin with, there are too many different flavors of RedHat.
Browsing a list on Amazon, I saw they made varients under the
codenames of Mandrake, Debian and Slackware, just to name a few. I
know that I'm very new to RedHat so maybe this is obvious but it seems
like RedHat should just sell a few different flavors of its operating
system. Perhaps one for the desktop and one for a server? Could
someone explain why RedHat produces dozens of different versions of Linux?
Secondly did you know that anyone can view the source code to Linux! I
think that RedHat shouldn't make its code available. After all, what
keeps Microsoft from stealing RedHat's ideas and putting it into
Windows? My friend says that FreeBSD stole the TCP/IP stack from DOS a
long time ago and Microsoft is always looking for revenge for that.
Plus it seems to me like RedHat is just giving away its ideas for
free. And what keeps hackers or terrorists from tampering with the
code and putting a virus in every computer?
On a related note, why doesn't RedHat write Linux in assembly? My
friend says that's what Microsoft does for Windows, and that's why
Windows is faster and more stable than Linux.
Next RedHat definitely should kill -9 (ha, ha!) the command line.
Microsoft finally gave up DOS when Windows 2000 came out. I'm suprised
that RedHat hasn't migrated away from...whatever its version of DOS is
called (Bash, I think?) But maybe this is planned for a futurerelease?
Finally Linux needs games! RedHat will never be successful in the home
without games. They should also tell M$ to release a version of Office
for Linux too. And Internet Explorer!
Have a nice day! Go Linux!!
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The following are actual quotes I've read from audiophiles on the net. Enjoy.
"Pulling harmonics together from a jumbled auditory stream to form a coherent harmonic envelope."
"Image outlines were sharply focused in space with believable palpability."
"There was plenty of bass detail to behold."
"The music flows with gusto and verve. It squeezes instrumental images into incredibly palpable outlines."
"...more muscle and definition, and a heart that is pure gold."
"Most preamps when pushed hard change their sonic signature."
"Harmonic colors were somewhat on the dark side."
"By using the $450 gold plated RCA stereo jumper cables for all line-level connections, and the newly available $1200 gold plated XYZ speaker wires, we were able to achieve a distinct improvement in highs and the deepest rich bass lows I have ever heard. A massive improvement over ordinary old copper."
"These cables deliver big time! The sound is surprsingly smooth and spacious, with particularly sweet upper octaves."
"If you connect a ground to the chassis of your power amplifer and use 4 gauge wire connected to a bucket of salt water with a copper coil in it, your mids and highs will be the sweetest you have ever heard. Works with car audio systems too. Place the bucket in the trunk and reduce speed on corners and when braking, to avoid spillage."
"Special wooden resonator disks made in Asia from a special tree, only found in one area. Placing these under EACH of your components, at strategic locations will remove 'unwanted resonances', and DRAMATIC improval tonal quality. The difference is astounding. These disks of wood sell for around $100 to $400 EACH (depending on size)." (See the top of this web page!)
"somewhat fuzzy portrayal of image outlines."
"Harmonic textures ebbed and flowed with startling dynamic nuances and the sort of liquidity and purity one only comes to associate with world-class audio products."
"Harmonic textures are painted slightly gray in color."
"Spatial detail was painted with a fine brush that readily resolved massed voices and the air around individual instruments."
"Image outlines, however, are more precisely focused within the soundstage and in general the Accordance is capable of sketching out a convincing 3-D acoustic impression."
"It felt like I had crawled into a warm and inviting sonic womb."
"Not content with straight S.E.X. (the single-ended experimenter's kit), the Doctor introduces the "69" tapered pipe loudspeaker. Sounds like a recipe for a mind-blowing sonic orgasm."
"The impression of speed and control was strong."
"Bass lines were fleshed out with excellent definition."
"It is less lush sounding than..."
"...force feeding the listener an earful of detail; more accurately, a barrage of in-your-face zingers that becomes almost an instant irritant."
"Each tube brand seems to have a unique flavor of its own."
"Certain busy passages of music get congested."
"... sounds either euphonic or bright."
"The Equilibre ($8,475) - nominally a 60-watt stereo amp."
"It could well explain the sweet sounds that come from using passive preamps straight into the power amplifiers."
"...with an easy-to-drive impedance magnitude."
"Rendition of harmonic colors was suave and smooth, with a believable sugar coating."
"Exposure of low-level detail, even in complex passages, without leaving anything to the imagination."
"The mids are vivid in spades with wave after wave of honey-coated harmonic bliss."
"The midbass region is "fun"
"the upper mids are a bit more laid back than I would like."
"the low bottom end is not there..."
I have the Ultimate Guide
I've been looking over the tech specs for all the TI calculators, and
I can't argue that these calculators are spectacular. They are the
most ingenious pieces of equipment for school use and such. However,
they're hardware is very inferior. The hard disk so to speak only is
about 30K. The processor runs at 6MHz? It only has an assembly
language, not something better? My gosh, on today's technology, hd
space is 6 *cents* a meg? And hard drives are the size of a TI calc.
If u shrink down the hd to that of a mini cassette, and put it in the
TI, u could get about 1/3 a gig. And you could probably do better,
because I've seen a mini cassette for the computer that holds a gig,
and the drive it goes in to is only 1 cm bigger on each side. And the
chip? The 486 chips are like $30 bucks nowadays, and they run at
66MHz. AMD chips are $75 for a 133MHz version. And the display screen.
I've seen sony watchman that were smaller and they have a color screen
at 320x200.
Basically, what I'm saying is with today's current technology and its
cheapness, TI could probably come out with a calculator that could
outperform my computer (mine is a 486 DX2-50) for the same price as
their 92, and I don't know why they aren't trying.
You are a whiney little backstabbing JERK! You ABUSE your position as a slashdot editor for your own personal gain. How could you sell your friends at the CensorWare Project Out?
You will justify this to yourself by assuming I am the only person who thinks your a jerk. That is not true - Most slashdot readers wish you would shut up with your rants. How else could this account ('Michael's a Jerk') get excellant karma? The fact is we are sick of your moderation abuse.
Take This comment. You broke the rules and had more then question per comment. You then modded yourself up to make it into the question list.
Michael: GROW UP OR LEAVE SLASHDOT.
IF YOU THINK MICHAEL HAS ABUSED HIS POWERS AS A SLASHDOT EDITOR, PLEASE MOD THIS COMMENT UP!
I'm concerned about the narrowm view of the world IT people and engineers
,
have these days. I think the problem starts at college -
There's a culture that somehow science is more rational and usefull
then the humanitities. Lecturers encourage students to joke about arts
students, and humilaite them whenever possible. This encourages
eliteism, and I for one am sick of it.
Let's tell it like it is. 'science' is just as much about opinion as
the humanities. Research simply follows the fad of the day. Take
dieticians for example. These men and woman believe that just because
they have degree in medical science that they are all knowing. Why,
what they recommend one day may kill you the next! (see the DDT story
for more information.) Science is 95% opinion then facts, lets face
it. What about astrology, the most rediculious of the sciences! But I
degress...
Another example is music. We know what sounds good. Everyone aggreed
that Valves for instance sound great. But knowitall engineers use
trensastors with inferious sound quality just to save a few bucks.
They argue with numbers. Hey, I don't want to do maths just to listen
to music. I know what I like. You cannot apply objective reasoning to
a subject which is intristically subjective. But try telling those
recent grads with their useless piece of paper that and they go all
mightier--then-thou.
The problem with you technical guys are that you are all so eliteist.
Whilst you want to trun collage into a trade school with yore narrow
minded views that collage should be a job training centre, humanities
are focused on making you a well rounded person who is auctually
interesting to be with, not a boring focuesed geek. Really, it makes
me so mad when people say "oh, he's doing a humanities degree, that's
easy". I have to read *3* *books* *a* *week* on average. Not picture
books either I assue you. It is a lot of work, but the upshot is
improved grammer and spelling skills that are lacking in the
technical. As for those that say "you will be working at mcdonalds"
I'm going on to so a PhD in socialolgy where I'll be line for tenure
where I have a much more rewarding job then beeing a science freak or
an engineer. Anyways, all I have to do to be a engineer wold be to get
my MSCE and how hard couyld that be? techincal stuff is simply
whatever fad the market thinks is hot at the moment, but all great
things were done by humanities.
You technical types are far to narrow minded and cynsical. You should
learn to enjoy life.
Peace be to god, he transcends all.
Perhaps you need to make an effort to understand the reasons people
refer to the GPL as viral.
If I spend years writing a program using no code other than my own, I
can release it under any license I want. If I incorporate BSD licensed
code into my program, I can still use any license I want, so long as I
preserve copyright notices. If, however, I want to include GPLed code in
my program, the GPL forces me to release my program under the GPL. It
has *infected* my program. This is where the term `viral' originates
with regard to the GPL.
The BSD license does not affect code and cannot affect code since it
can always be placed under another license. If someone makes proprietary
enhancements to my BSD licensed code on his own time with his own money,
the only code that has been infected with a non-free virus is his. My
code is still perfectly free. I can give it to whoever I want and it
is still as free as ever. The only thing I can't do is give away the
other person's proprietary enhancements made with his own time and his
own money and which could possibly completely overshadow the features
provided by my small amount of code.
Although the BSD license encourages the reuse of code for *any* purpose,
including in projects released under non-free licenses like the GPL or one
of the dozens of proprietary software licenses, doing it to piss people
off will not get you very far, and it will make you look foolhardy,
especially in the eyes of the people who wrote the free software (free
for *any* purpose) that you would be making non-free. I guess you think
no one understands the BSD license.
All in all, a fine spirit to take in the name of free software....
This viral stuff is backwards. I think the BSD license is actually more
viral than the GPL. Here's why:
If I decide to write a program and contribute it to free software, the
GPL assures me that it will stay free software forever. I'd be bothered
if somebody made it non-free, effectively stealing my work for their
own remuneration. The GPL is effectively a vaccine against that.
The BSD license lets people apply almost any license to my software,
including most non-free licenses. If I wrote work under the BSD license,
someone could modify it and sell the result with no source code, and
I'd have no recourse at all. Anyone who wants can infect my BSD software
with the non-free license virus.
So, which license is more viral? It sounds to me as if the GPL is getting
a bum rap here.
By the way, the BSD license allows you to apply the GPL to a modified
BSD work. I've thought about organizing a GPL-ed thread derived from the
body of existing BSD-licensed work, just to illustrate a lesson about
the BSD license. That would really piss people off, but it would be legal.
While IPv6 fixes many problems in IPv4, the developed world will not
embrace IPv6 until many shortcomings in the protocol are addressed.
1. Cisco routers suck at IPv6. Many of cisco's routers use the
router's CPU to process IPv6 packets instead of the fast-path. The
reasons for this are explained in the next few points. While Juniper's
routers are substantially better at IPv6 than cisco's, IT managers are
often restrained by insane corporate policy that dictactes the use of
cisco.
2. There are too many addresses. There are 16.7 million addresses per
square metre of the earth's surface, including the oceans. This is
overkill. The world does not need more than the 4 billion addresses
available with IPv4, and I challenge you to come up with an
application that requires that many. Assuming that you can actually
come up with one, it could easily be solved with Network Address
Translation, or NAT as it is commonly known.
3. IPv6 addresses are too large. An IPv6 address is 128 bits in size -
64 bits of which are reserved for addressing hosts, and 64 bits of
which are reserved for routing. One thing that is cool with IPv6 is
address autoconfiguration. Take your 56-bit MAC address on your
ethernet card, ask for 64-bits of network prefix, bang it together
with EUI-64 and you are set. The problem with a 64-bit network prefix
is that routing tables become massive. Just do the math and you'll see
that extreme amounts of memory are required to hold routing tables.
4. The IPv6 header is too large. An IPv4 header compact at 20 bytes in
length, while the IPv6 is bloated at 40 bytes. That's right people,
each one of your IP packets has twice as much overhead as before.
While this may not sound much, IP networks have a requirement that the
minimum MTU supported must be 576 bytes. That means that where you
might have got 556 bytes of data in your IP packets, you now get 536
bytes. This means that downloading stuff will take 3.4% longer.
Sure, IPv6 allows for nice hacks like those described in this article,
but is it really ready for prime time?
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Linux fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac running Linux (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Mac running Linux, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac running Linux that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Linux addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use linux over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
CowboyNeal is very Fat
Red HAt won. NAturally :-)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 9
RATING
4.13
Company: Red Hat Price: $2,499 (includes 24-7 support); cost can be reduced to $1,499 for abbreviated support hours. Pros: High hardware compatibility, strong security integration, feature-rich. Cons: Expensive high-level support; occasionally weaker management.
UnitedLinux/SuSE Enterprise Linux Server 8
RATING
4
Company: SuSE, Price: $749 includes one-year maintenance contract ($699 each additional year). Premium support costs $2,250/year. Pros: Uniform, strong management. Cons: Minor availability issues; tougher to secure.
Bitching about poor service doesn't hit a company nearly as hard as taking your business elsewhere.
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Agreed. However, did you read the Whirlpool link I posted?
Telstra makes it *very* difficult to change to a different service. This is a typical case. It's happened to people I know
Even if that doesn't happen, there's a delay of 2 or 3 weeks without net access while you change. It's annoying, but I will change.
Telstra have a history of standover tactics (see Here, for instance).
I really hope they get busted under our new privacy laws. I have a telstra email address that I've never used that gets spammed constantly. If telstra didn't sell my details, then something very fishy is going on.
I'm with testra, and have had nothing but problems. Their Privacy policy allows selling your email address to advertisers. They've also got this insane capping system, that's stopped the rollout of broadband in AU.
Read more in Whirlpool. They've got the facts.
As a consultant for several large companies, I'd always done my work on
Windows. Recently however, a top online investment firm asked us to do
some work using Linux. The concept of having access to source code was
very appealing to us, as we'd be able to modify the kernel to meet our
exacting standards which we're unable to do with Microsoft's products.
Although we met several technical challenges along the way
(specifically, Linux's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we
were unable to defrag its ext2 file system), all in all the process
went smoothly. Everyone was very pleased with Linux, and we were
considering using it for a great deal of future internal projects.
So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a lawyer that
we would be required to publish our source code for others to use. It
was brought to our attention that Linux is copyrighted under something
called the GPL, or the Gnu Protective License. Part of this license
states that any changes to the kernel are to be made freely available.
Unfortunately for us, this meant that the great deal of time and money
we spent "touching up" Linux to work for this investment firm would
now be available at no cost to our competitors.
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any
products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to
its source code released. This was simply unacceptable.
Although we had planned for no one outside of this company to ever
use, let alone see the source code, we were now put in a difficult
position. We could either give away our hard work, or come up with
another solution. Although it was tought to do, there really was no
option: We had to rewrite the code, from scratch, for Windows 2000.
I think the biggest thing keeping Linux from being truly competitive
with Microsoft is this GPL. Its draconian requirements virtually
guarentee that no business will ever be able to use it. After my
experience with Linux, I won't be recommending it to any of my
associates. I may reconsider if Linux switches its license to
something a little more fair, such as Microsoft's "Shared Source".
Until then its attempts to socialize the software market will insure
it remains only a bit player.
Thank you for your time.
Ah, did you read the referenced article?
:-)
Basically, his hear exchanger was the annode in an unintentional battery
The copper corrodes a little, as copper in water or air always will. This is not normally a big deal, because a thin copper oxide layer forms and protects the rest of the metal. But in the process, some copper ions go into solution and make their way around, thanks to the pump, to the aluminium water block. They precipitate onto the water block surface as teeny little metallic copper particles.
And then plain old galvanic corrosion can happen, as the copper and aluminium are in physical, and thus electrical, contact, and both immersed in the electrolyte. The dreck you end up with is mainly aluminium oxide, with its greenish colour donated by a light lacing of copper oxide. Tah-dah.
When I flame-tested some of the precipitate, by the way, this was borne out; green flame from the copper, bright sparks from the aluminium. Case closed.
Incidentally, when I was trying to track down information on this subject, I discovered that if you start searching for "galvanic corrosion" in the company of some other computer-cooling-relevant words, you're likely to find a large number of pages belonging to homebrew enthusiasts, and a smaller number of pages belonging to nuclear reactor technicians.
Neither of these groups of people want galvanic corrosion to happen in their equipment, but judging by the degree of unhappiness expressed by those who have had equipment destroyed by it, it would appear to be much more irritating when it ruins a batch of beer than when it results in radioactive liquid sodium spraying all over a control room.
I've been thinking of mking a rig like this, but there are reliability problems. Check out What Happened to Dan of Dan's Data.
:-(
Corrosion is a big problem for the uninitiated
FYI, I'm using Mozilla 1.2.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Hope this helps...
Is Here
Please fix the front page Michael
The Fink link is missing the http://.
Thankyou.