And (I know this is/. but) if you read further you'd have found he had a pdp he was restoring, hoping a museum would be interested in it. That's the kind of "stuff" he's probably referring to...
It's the memory. You've got enough processor (particularly if you've got a DirectX9 or 10 GPU in the box). Vista is, by all reports, a memory hog. You wouldn't notice having 2GB already (fwiw, I have 3GB). I've seen it on 512MB; and, it's totally IN-tolerable. It took >5 minutes for that machine to boot because of all the disk swapping it had to do.
No, he's talking about Windows setting the processor to the lowest speed and then intentionally limiting CPU usage to less than 100%. That way it should use less power.
Damn. It only took 4 mouse clicks to enable this on my Ubuntu on Compaq laptop. I didn't even have to edit the.conf files except I wanted it to always run in a low power mode while on battery (locked it to 1 Ghz).
Assembled is correct. My Dell Dimension came from an assembly plant in North Carolina. The Dell parts, however, are almost all stamped or labelled Foxconn -- a Chinese manufacturer. The drive is a WD (I think); I don't know where that's made. The processor is an Intel, the silicon is processed in a Fab in the US, but is packaged in asia somewhere (Malaysia?)....
told us that installing XP on these computers was impossible.
clearly they didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground; but, I find that's typical of most in-store help. Ask a real technical question and watch their eyes glaze over. Ask for a network cable and get handed a USB cable. Crap like that.
The only use for multiple cores and 4 gigs of RAM is if 80% of your CPU cycles are given over to DRM and Norton 360.
or maybe watching a movie in one window while waiting for your massive fourier transform to crunch in another. Data is best when folded, spindled, mutilated and then bent to your will:P
Phew, I feel better now. I'm not THAT old:P
The oldest machines I ever worked with were DEC PDP-10/11 or an IBM System 370 at university. Never saw a 4004 irl.
But to settle is to give in; and, it is a tacit admission of guilt. (If you did it, then you should settle). While it's statistically unlikely, next time they come after you, they will have the settlement to point to. They can go "look, he admitted guilt once before in this settlement..." In addition, if you settle, you send the message "This Works!" While it's more expensive to litigate, it's the only way to send the message that going after consumers is a bad idea. That is short of convincing Congress to pass laws blocking their action, which by the way isn't going to happen.
They said they would like to sell 10 million in the first year and a half. I don't think they were actually "banking" on it. They've hit 1 million in less than 3 months and they are pretty happy with that.
Let's not forget that they are only just now starting to release the product in Europe. They haven't released it in Asia yet.
I don't think they dropped the price because they weren't moving fast enough. I think the truth is closer to what Apple said, they have an opportunity to push a larger number during the Christmas season if they set the price point lower. They're probably getting some improvements in pricing if they ramp up production. They might still hit the 10 million mark... in North America alone.
I wonder how this affects Real. I use an ipod with Realplayer 10.5, I've been purchasing music from Real's music store. The article talks about how it affects the linux clients. Anyone know how does it affect Real?
Well, let's see, I was answering the parent poster's question "why would you not want automatic update turned on..." I explained why I don't allow automatic updates on my test systems. I lose money if my tests don't run.
So why don't you do something simple like disconnect the cable(s) from the network adapter(s) Because I need access to the sql server and the file server. We're not big enough to justify a separate LAN with separate servers just for testing applications. There have been cases where I have disconnected from the corporate LAN and used a local instance of sql server to write data to the local disk. I don't like doing this because it means I lose the data if the machine dies -- the corporate servers are backed up, snapshots of the disk to NAS and from NAS to tape.
configure your network to not allow the machine(s) to access anything outside of your LAN It is, in part. I'm a manufacturing engineer. I don't control the firewall and LAN configuration. The IT department does. If the machine can see the servers then it can see the firewall. We have set up an in-house windows update server. All the machines are supposed to be pointing at this. IF I find this update has occured on my machines, then that means the Windows Update is pointing directly at the Microsoft servers. It's been suspected for some time that they embed IP addresses into the windows update mechanism so that you can hit the update servers even if you have no DNS.
I think you should reconsider how you have your test boxes setup before bitching about MS causing a problem I will bitch if Microsoft is doing something unethical. I shouldn't have to protect my machines from Microsoft, now should I?
I patch the boxes myself. I do it regularly. I CAN NOT have Microsoft patch them automatically because I run long duration tests that CAN NOT be interrupted by an update or a reboot.
Because I want to patch the box myself -- I'm running long duration tests which I can not afford to be interrupted. If Microsoft patches the box, and breaks my test; or, reboots the computer, I'm screwed.
Actually, my knee jerk response was something along the lines of WTF?!
Then I realized they were just trying to make it possible for customers to run instances of Windows Server in a virtual machine, so they can run that one or two must have Windows apps. This gives Sun control of the hardware, the software, and makes them the service/support provider, all in one package. It also allows Sun the opportunity to migrate Microsoft customers, once they already have Sun hardware and Solaris in-house.
What exactly does the warranty document state. If there's no clause about installing a different operating system, then the haven't got a leg to stand on.
why people on slashdot, who surely must earn at least $50/hour grouse that Apple is more expensive amaze me. 20 hours of aggravation is $1000 bucks of your time lunkheads.) I hope your being sarcastic. I make 1/2 that and have to pay a considerable portion of what I do make for my health insurance.
I suppose it comes off that way, but what I meant was: if ANY country can see them then so can ANY other country. If ANY one country HAS seen them then it's likely the military of any country of consequence has already seen them too.
I think you miss the point of my extremely short and to the point post... If they want to publish "We have found satellites in orbits x, y, and z..." then, so what. It's not affecting our tactics (much). We can continue to deny they exist, if that's our plan. They can continue to expend money and effort trying to identify them.
I'm not concerned about amateur efforts to identify the satellites, they're irrelevant.
Any country of consequence, who would be capable of affecting our satellites in orbit, is likely to be doing mapping of their sky; and, as a result will have some statistics on what's there. The French publishing the additional data doesn't matter in that it remains true that no one knows to whom the satellites belong and what their capabilities are. Granted, the extra data points might be useful to another country; but, as I've said, I'm certain they are already mapping what's in their sky anyway.
An amateur will have a difficult time. It's hard enough to track the ISS, which is a pretty damn big and well known target. However, we're not talking about amateur's here... We're talking about military resources of larger governments which, for the most part, already have space launch capability, or are allied with someone for access to space launch capability. They'll already have hardware to track their own equipment. They'll already have radar to monitor their own airspace. It's not a stretch.
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Because I'm sick (in the head) I say we go with the Fortran option!
'twas my second language; after BASIC. Ahhh, the fond memories...
And (I know this is /. but) if you read further you'd have found he had a pdp he was restoring, hoping a museum would be interested in it. That's the kind of "stuff" he's probably referring to...
It's the memory. You've got enough processor (particularly if you've got a DirectX9 or 10 GPU in the box). Vista is, by all reports, a memory hog. You wouldn't notice having 2GB already (fwiw, I have 3GB). I've seen it on 512MB; and, it's totally IN-tolerable. It took >5 minutes for that machine to boot because of all the disk swapping it had to do.
No, he's talking about Windows setting the processor to the lowest speed and then intentionally limiting CPU usage to less than 100%. That way it should use less power.
Damn. It only took 4 mouse clicks to enable this on my Ubuntu on Compaq laptop. I didn't even have to edit the .conf files except I wanted it to always run in a low power mode while on battery (locked it to 1 Ghz).
Assembled is correct. My Dell Dimension came from an assembly plant in North Carolina. The Dell parts, however, are almost all stamped or labelled Foxconn -- a Chinese manufacturer. The drive is a WD (I think); I don't know where that's made. The processor is an Intel, the silicon is processed in a Fab in the US, but is packaged in asia somewhere (Malaysia?) ....
When I've been sitting there for 48 hours straight babysitting a run, damn right I took a nap. A short one... and not during "normal" working hours...
I think I'll just take one now and wake up in an hour to check how things are going.
clearly they didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground; but, I find that's typical of most in-store help. Ask a real technical question and watch their eyes glaze over. Ask for a network cable and get handed a USB cable. Crap like that.
The only use for multiple cores and 4 gigs of RAM is if 80% of your CPU cycles are given over to DRM and Norton 360.or maybe watching a movie in one window while waiting for your massive fourier transform to crunch in another. Data is best when folded, spindled, mutilated and then bent to your will :P
Phew, I feel better now. I'm not THAT old :P
The oldest machines I ever worked with were DEC PDP-10/11 or an IBM System 370 at university. Never saw a 4004 irl.
80486DX2? Youth? Wow, I must be getting old. Z80, 6502, 6809... These are are the uP's of my youth.
But to settle is to give in; and, it is a tacit admission of guilt. (If you did it, then you should settle). While it's statistically unlikely, next time they come after you, they will have the settlement to point to. They can go "look, he admitted guilt once before in this settlement..." In addition, if you settle, you send the message "This Works!" While it's more expensive to litigate, it's the only way to send the message that going after consumers is a bad idea. That is short of convincing Congress to pass laws blocking their action, which by the way isn't going to happen.
They said they would like to sell 10 million in the first year and a half. I don't think they were actually "banking" on it. They've hit 1 million in less than 3 months and they are pretty happy with that.
Let's not forget that they are only just now starting to release the product in Europe. They haven't released it in Asia yet.
I don't think they dropped the price because they weren't moving fast enough. I think the truth is closer to what Apple said, they have an opportunity to push a larger number during the Christmas season if they set the price point lower. They're probably getting some improvements in pricing if they ramp up production. They might still hit the 10 million mark... in North America alone.
My sentiments exactly. When I read the headline, I snickered to myself as I thought, "But they used to be Caldera..."
Netcraft says 34%. But that doesn't count all the back office file servers, exchange servers, ms sql, citrix, etc.
I wonder how this affects Real. I use an ipod with Realplayer 10.5, I've been purchasing music from Real's music store. The article talks about how it affects the linux clients. Anyone know how does it affect Real?
That's fine while it's IN Earth's orbit. What if I want to go to Jupiter? Or Saturn?
Well, let's see, I was answering the parent poster's question "why would you not want automatic update turned on..." I explained why I don't allow automatic updates on my test systems. I lose money if my tests don't run.
So why don't you do something simple like disconnect the cable(s) from the network adapter(s) Because I need access to the sql server and the file server. We're not big enough to justify a separate LAN with separate servers just for testing applications. There have been cases where I have disconnected from the corporate LAN and used a local instance of sql server to write data to the local disk. I don't like doing this because it means I lose the data if the machine dies -- the corporate servers are backed up, snapshots of the disk to NAS and from NAS to tape. configure your network to not allow the machine(s) to access anything outside of your LAN It is, in part. I'm a manufacturing engineer. I don't control the firewall and LAN configuration. The IT department does. If the machine can see the servers then it can see the firewall. We have set up an in-house windows update server. All the machines are supposed to be pointing at this. IF I find this update has occured on my machines, then that means the Windows Update is pointing directly at the Microsoft servers. It's been suspected for some time that they embed IP addresses into the windows update mechanism so that you can hit the update servers even if you have no DNS. I think you should reconsider how you have your test boxes setup before bitching about MS causing a problem I will bitch if Microsoft is doing something unethical. I shouldn't have to protect my machines from Microsoft, now should I?I patch the boxes myself. I do it regularly. I CAN NOT have Microsoft patch them automatically because I run long duration tests that CAN NOT be interrupted by an update or a reboot.
Because I want to patch the box myself -- I'm running long duration tests which I can not afford to be interrupted. If Microsoft patches the box, and breaks my test; or, reboots the computer, I'm screwed.
I've been burned by this before.
Actually, my knee jerk response was something along the lines of WTF?!
Then I realized they were just trying to make it possible for customers to run instances of Windows Server in a virtual machine, so they can run that one or two must have Windows apps. This gives Sun control of the hardware, the software, and makes them the service/support provider, all in one package. It also allows Sun the opportunity to migrate Microsoft customers, once they already have Sun hardware and Solaris in-house.
What exactly does the warranty document state. If there's no clause about installing a different operating system, then the haven't got a leg to stand on.
I suppose it comes off that way, but what I meant was: if ANY country can see them then so can ANY other country. If ANY one country HAS seen them then it's likely the military of any country of consequence has already seen them too.
I think you miss the point of my extremely short and to the point post... If they want to publish "We have found satellites in orbits x, y, and z..." then, so what. It's not affecting our tactics (much). We can continue to deny they exist, if that's our plan. They can continue to expend money and effort trying to identify them.
I'm not concerned about amateur efforts to identify the satellites, they're irrelevant.
Any country of consequence, who would be capable of affecting our satellites in orbit, is likely to be doing mapping of their sky; and, as a result will have some statistics on what's there. The French publishing the additional data doesn't matter in that it remains true that no one knows to whom the satellites belong and what their capabilities are. Granted, the extra data points might be useful to another country; but, as I've said, I'm certain they are already mapping what's in their sky anyway.
An amateur will have a difficult time. It's hard enough to track the ISS, which is a pretty damn big and well known target. However, we're not talking about amateur's here... We're talking about military resources of larger governments which, for the most part, already have space launch capability, or are allied with someone for access to space launch capability. They'll already have hardware to track their own equipment. They'll already have radar to monitor their own airspace. It's not a stretch.