It is a little to go from 4GB, that you're already paying for, up to 8GB, but nobody is holding a gun to your head. You're still better off buying it third party, and selling the sticks that come with it, but then you don't have the same level of support than if you purchased with it. Any manufacturer will be quick to assume the memory is the problem and refuse warranty until the original sticks are put back in place.
They do what Gmail does. Ensure the ads are relevant to what you're browsing (to some degree obviously) and make sure they aren't intrusive to viewing. I use the (free) service, and I actually expect to view some type of ad to help pay for the hardware. I refuse to use services that shoot themselves in the feet by using 'flash'y ads which look 'cool' to 8 year olds. *ahem* Yahoo/Microsoft
If you really don't like the ads, pay the cost and get an account for a nominal subscription fee that would suppress the ads. Heck, I'm really surprise Wikipedia has gone this far already without advertising...
Of course all of the above is only relevant IF the advertising has zero affect on the quality of articles, which I doubt it would since the user base is large enough to sustain unbiased activity (usually). Do not let a big monopoly in place (like Google's payments with Mozilla) and ensure standards are enforced.
VMWare and Parallels have drag+drop support from host to VM (unsure about the others). If others don't have that, they at least have a shared folder support. This is what drag+drop is essentially, except it moves the copied files to the location at which you dragged the file into.
But back to the OP... Some people DO migrate data from one OS to another. People DO move from Windows to Mac, Mac to Linux, Linux to Mac, etc. Using your philosophy, we should all just stick to ONE OS, with ONE filesystem, essentially eliminating any innovation. Wait, I think that's already been tried before...
Not to cause a flame war, but I wouldn't mind knowing how OSX doesn't have ANY security advantage over Windows. The Darwin kernel is open sourced, and has active development teams both inside and outside of Apple. If Apple finds a bug, it gets posted and same goes for the community. It's forked off proven BSD code (FreeBSD 5), and comes with plenty of Open Sourced softwares (Cups, Apache, OpenSSH, bash, etc). While the market share for these is generally smaller, except Apache, they do have huge developers constantly adding features, squashing bugs, and finding exploits. The same CANNOT be said for Microsoft software.
I'm by no means saying OSX is flawless (saying that about ANY OS is foolish), but rather saying the base it's founded on has been proven to be stable and 'generally' safer than Windows alternatives. Yes, you can argue that it only supports THEIR hardware, but that's their strength. This allows them to keep their programming team smaller and much more inline with each other - Microsoft generally (contracts?) out chunks of coding. This can sometimes be efficient, but can be seen as a huge liability in terms of bugs, since many of these teams don't speak to one another.
While I don't agree with all of Apple's practices (Suing Psystar, reducing 40% performance on new Macbook(Pros), choosing a mini Display Port), I do like some of their innovative practices, which can sometimes be rare to find nowadays.
That's one way of looking at it. Another way is hearing news that the East is infected with a certain illness that can't 'currently' affect Westerners. However, like with any viruses, they mutate constantly and can eventually cross over. So, in that sense, it can make sense to protect yourself with a vaccine.
But, being properly aware is still much much better than what virus scanners can provide. Hell sometimes virus scanners cause more harm than good. System slow downs and wrongly detecting files as viruses when in fact they aren't are among reasons (just look what happened with AVG recently). I still don't run virus scanners on MY XP (Bootcamp) install, nor my main OSX install. I run an OpenBSD firewall, and am 'smart' when on the net. I, personally, don't ever really plan on running a virus scanner. If I'm opening a suspicious file, I'll simply create a snapshot of a Windows install, open the file and see if it does any damage. If I see ANY suspicious activity, I could simply revert to an old snapshot... Obviously this isn't (currently) a viable option for the general public, but I don't see it being too far off as pretty well all new computers come with Intel or AMD visualization technologies to allow speedy virtual machines.
The site was clearly labeled with electrical warning signs, yet the idiot still went ahead with attempting to steal the wiring. Long story short, he probably will pay a little more attention to signs...
Because if it's running 24/7, you'll be degrading the lives of your drives considerably, slowing performance when you use the drives, and wasting buckloads power. If your data is THAT important to you, you should be making solid backups of it anyways...
You would theoretically breaking DHCP, DNS, NTP, VOIP/skype/MSN video&voice. Heck, why don't we block icmp while we're at it. Who really needs to ping and traceroute on the internet anyways? Sounds they're use for (D)DoS'ing anyways.
That's the goal of ZFS. Each block is checked with a 256-bit CRC checksum on every access. It incorporates a volume and partition manager in '1 tool', and knows where data is written to. On rebuilds it only repairs data that is actually there, which saves significant time. You should also setup weekly or bi-weekly scrubs (once a month for enterprise grade drives), which reads EVERY block written to and verifies it. This ensures that each block is still good, none is suffering from flipped bits, and that your disk isn't slowly failing on you.
I can see it from both sides and I'm not entirely sure where I stand.
Take these into consideration however: 1) They need money in order to buy patents out. This isn't an ad driven service... 2) They do have to buy out a LOT of patents (only if the squatter is in fact willing to give it up) to make this worthwhile. 3) The patents were already held in hand, so it could have ended up in a multimillion dollar lawsuit OR the companies wanting to use them would not have been able to make a product with that particular patent, resulting in unattainable revenue. 4) If the price is reasonable, it's basically a (cheap?) insurance policy. It's practically a guaranteed way to use any patent this company has. 5) Companies don't need to request, or pay large amounts per patent, but rather pay into the pool and can use them ALL.
These are just some of the facts that came to my head. What I want to know is what happens if a company decides not to buy in, or doesn't realize they are violating a patent, if they'll get slammed hard.
Also, if these guys are just squatting on these patents and not producing ANYTHING with them, how will they hold up in court? IANAL, but I thought a company needs to show some effort in actually USING the technology for it to be considered VALID.
Zen is locked down the same, if not more than the iPod. You HAVE to use Windows(R) and good luck using any other operating system. Sure, it lets you do a bit more with the device, but definitely aren't comparable trade offs.
I had a Sandisk Sansa with Rockbox on it. However, I lightly tossed it into my duffel bag (yes it WAS a light toss into my duffel bag), and the screen cracked. If it had been an iPod, you could order a new screen of eBlahy and swap it out easily (they are replaceable). This is not the case on the Sansa. The screen is SOLDERED with about 20-40 of the tiniest pin points imaginable. I went to a 8gb Gen3 Refurb'd Nano. I am locked to iTunes (however, I've never spent a penny on their music), but I can use it on my OSx system OR a Windows system if I choose. The iPod Dock is also really the only connection that's stayed around for (8?) years. I have a dock connector on the back of my car's deck as well, which lets me control my iPod from my deck.
And yes, I'm in Canada as well, so sharing music isn't illegal. However, if bill C-61 gets introduced and passed with the Conservatives (and I did vote Conservative - better than seeing a huge increase in taxes with EVERY other party), we're all screwed with copying/sharing - and not just music.. ALL DRM/electronic 'locking' mechanism schemes.
I even tried to 'slim' down my VISTA install (I figured I'd dual boot it with my OSX install). I disabled every service I could, leaving on the necessities (network shares, wireless, etc). I dropped from 700-800MB memory usage down to 400-500MB. I couldn't get it any lower. 400-500MB FOR A FREAKING OPERATING SYSTEM. Last I checked, XP could be slimmed down to run 85MB ram at idle...
It proves how efficient a BSD kernel can really be, even with all the latest and greatest features. Sure, Apple disables a LOT of stuff on their iPhone(Touch)/AppleTV compared to OSX (even copy and paste), but stripping down Vista from its 10GB/800MB footprint? Please!
Agreed. A similar thing happened to me with GoDaddy. I had purchased a domain for a friend with some type of premium advertising add-on which would flaunt the domain name over the internet. After my friend decided he no longer wanted the domain name, I canceled the auto-renew on it thinking I stopped everything. This was NOT the case. The domain name itself was canceled, however, it still dinged $30 off my credit card for the advertising bit. Why would I want to advertise a domain I'm not getting?? Long story short, I emailed GoDaddy about it, and they refused to refund me because I didn't stop the auto-renewal (even though I clearly did - on the domain). So I called Visa, and said I wouldn't have to pay the charge while they were investigating it. In the end, I was refunded that charge.
I still go through them for my domain name, since they do have very good pricing, but that experience is going to stick with me for a very, very long time.
It provides a CRC check for EVERY sector written to on the disk, and confirms it is identical to the original copy. If it detects an inconsistency on write (or read), it will redirect the sector somewhere else.
It also allows you to 'scrub' the disk so that every sector is read and the CRC is verified. If there is an inconsistency, and the drive isn't RAIDed, it will show unrecoverable errors and which files will need to be restored from backup. If, however, you have RAIDed drives and it can self-repair, it will do so but still warn you that one (or more) of the disks showed Read errors.
As per: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/RAID-5-Doomed-2009,6525.html , as hard drives increase in size, they get less and less appealing for high reliable storage. One sector in every 100,000,000,000,000 bits read will show an unrecoverable read error. If you're not going back and verifying every sector (I set mine up weekly), then expect errors to show.
Are they seriously trying to encourage obesity or trying to get away from anorexia?? It sounds like this law could really get people slamming down the Baconator or Double Big Mac.. Maybe it's time to buy McDonalds stock?
The word 'plays' can be interpreted in a few ways here. 'It plays' can be considered that it simply runs the games, and the game (eventually) loads and runs. But if it causes the DVD to read @ 1x or 2x, causing 4-5x longer loading screens, would you call that playing? I've even tried Mario Kart online, and keep getting disconnected because it simply takes too long to load.
They're working on version 0.2, which apparently brings up the read speed to 3x which should help considerably. However, it's still not near flawless and may be downgraded from 'plays' to 'semi-works'. It's still a huge milestone for the homebrew community since you're now able to run patched discs without hardware mods.
Umm.. So what Nintendo is basically saying is "Well, if you don't upgrade you can keep pirating but we REFUSE to let you pay for us for anything" Whoever thought that up should be fired. By doing this update, I'm sure that they're actually losing revenue from people that will not update. Of course, only until the patch gets a workaround again.
Any time you want to look at or touch this piece of gold that's sitting on your mantle, it's mandatory that you have to call a certain telephone number for authentication. It usually only takes about 10-20 seconds, but sometimes it's busy with others all doing the same. What if routing gets messed up and your call doesn't get through? What happens when/if they go under... How do you then get permission?
Slashdot Mirror
Now Anonymous Coward is going to run around the internet shouting "Will it BEND??"
Every feature under the Sun
Oh like how Solaris and OpenSolaris comes with every program imaginable, installed by default?
You're usually always paying a slight premium from a retailer. It's DDR3 SODIMM memory, so expect to pay a HUGE premium (especially at that size).
http://shop.crucial.com/1/1/302292-ct2kit51264bc1067-8gb-kit-4gbx2-204-pin-sodimm-ddr3-pc3-8500-memory-module.html
The 8GB kit (4GBx2) = US$1179.99
It is a little to go from 4GB, that you're already paying for, up to 8GB, but nobody is holding a gun to your head. You're still better off buying it third party, and selling the sticks that come with it, but then you don't have the same level of support than if you purchased with it. Any manufacturer will be quick to assume the memory is the problem and refuse warranty until the original sticks are put back in place.
C:\>rm -rf /
'rm' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Everything's still running here...
Actually it's an icecream cone.
They do what Gmail does. Ensure the ads are relevant to what you're browsing (to some degree obviously) and make sure they aren't intrusive to viewing. I use the (free) service, and I actually expect to view some type of ad to help pay for the hardware. I refuse to use services that shoot themselves in the feet by using 'flash'y ads which look 'cool' to 8 year olds. *ahem* Yahoo/Microsoft
If you really don't like the ads, pay the cost and get an account for a nominal subscription fee that would suppress the ads. Heck, I'm really surprise Wikipedia has gone this far already without advertising...
Of course all of the above is only relevant IF the advertising has zero affect on the quality of articles, which I doubt it would since the user base is large enough to sustain unbiased activity (usually). Do not let a big monopoly in place (like Google's payments with Mozilla) and ensure standards are enforced.
That's how I see it anyways...
VMWare and Parallels have drag+drop support from host to VM (unsure about the others). If others don't have that, they at least have a shared folder support. This is what drag+drop is essentially, except it moves the copied files to the location at which you dragged the file into.
But back to the OP... Some people DO migrate data from one OS to another. People DO move from Windows to Mac, Mac to Linux, Linux to Mac, etc. Using your philosophy, we should all just stick to ONE OS, with ONE filesystem, essentially eliminating any innovation. Wait, I think that's already been tried before ...
Not to cause a flame war, but I wouldn't mind knowing how OSX doesn't have ANY security advantage over Windows. The Darwin kernel is open sourced, and has active development teams both inside and outside of Apple. If Apple finds a bug, it gets posted and same goes for the community. It's forked off proven BSD code (FreeBSD 5), and comes with plenty of Open Sourced softwares (Cups, Apache, OpenSSH, bash, etc). While the market share for these is generally smaller, except Apache, they do have huge developers constantly adding features, squashing bugs, and finding exploits. The same CANNOT be said for Microsoft software.
I'm by no means saying OSX is flawless (saying that about ANY OS is foolish), but rather saying the base it's founded on has been proven to be stable and 'generally' safer than Windows alternatives. Yes, you can argue that it only supports THEIR hardware, but that's their strength. This allows them to keep their programming team smaller and much more inline with each other - Microsoft generally (contracts?) out chunks of coding. This can sometimes be efficient, but can be seen as a huge liability in terms of bugs, since many of these teams don't speak to one another.
While I don't agree with all of Apple's practices (Suing Psystar, reducing 40% performance on new Macbook(Pros), choosing a mini Display Port), I do like some of their innovative practices, which can sometimes be rare to find nowadays.
That's one way of looking at it. Another way is hearing news that the East is infected with a certain illness that can't 'currently' affect Westerners. However, like with any viruses, they mutate constantly and can eventually cross over. So, in that sense, it can make sense to protect yourself with a vaccine.
But, being properly aware is still much much better than what virus scanners can provide. Hell sometimes virus scanners cause more harm than good. System slow downs and wrongly detecting files as viruses when in fact they aren't are among reasons (just look what happened with AVG recently). I still don't run virus scanners on MY XP (Bootcamp) install, nor my main OSX install. I run an OpenBSD firewall, and am 'smart' when on the net. I, personally, don't ever really plan on running a virus scanner. If I'm opening a suspicious file, I'll simply create a snapshot of a Windows install, open the file and see if it does any damage. If I see ANY suspicious activity, I could simply revert to an old snapshot... Obviously this isn't (currently) a viable option for the general public, but I don't see it being too far off as pretty well all new computers come with Intel or AMD visualization technologies to allow speedy virtual machines.
We need more incidents like these.
The site was clearly labeled with electrical warning signs, yet the idiot still went ahead with attempting to steal the wiring. Long story short, he probably will pay a little more attention to signs...
Because if it's running 24/7, you'll be degrading the lives of your drives considerably, slowing performance when you use the drives, and wasting buckloads power. If your data is THAT important to you, you should be making solid backups of it anyways...
You would theoretically breaking DHCP, DNS, NTP, VOIP/skype/MSN video&voice. Heck, why don't we block icmp while we're at it. Who really needs to ping and traceroute on the internet anyways? Sounds they're use for (D)DoS'ing anyways.
That's the goal of ZFS. Each block is checked with a 256-bit CRC checksum on every access. It incorporates a volume and partition manager in '1 tool', and knows where data is written to. On rebuilds it only repairs data that is actually there, which saves significant time. You should also setup weekly or bi-weekly scrubs (once a month for enterprise grade drives), which reads EVERY block written to and verifies it. This ensures that each block is still good, none is suffering from flipped bits, and that your disk isn't slowly failing on you.
No, you say they're nothing but a bunch of masturbating monkeys
I can see it from both sides and I'm not entirely sure where I stand.
Take these into consideration however:
1) They need money in order to buy patents out. This isn't an ad driven service...
2) They do have to buy out a LOT of patents (only if the squatter is in fact willing to give it up) to make this worthwhile.
3) The patents were already held in hand, so it could have ended up in a multimillion dollar lawsuit OR the companies wanting to use them would not have been able to make a product with that particular patent, resulting in unattainable revenue.
4) If the price is reasonable, it's basically a (cheap?) insurance policy. It's practically a guaranteed way to use any patent this company has.
5) Companies don't need to request, or pay large amounts per patent, but rather pay into the pool and can use them ALL.
These are just some of the facts that came to my head. What I want to know is what happens if a company decides not to buy in, or doesn't realize they are violating a patent, if they'll get slammed hard.
Also, if these guys are just squatting on these patents and not producing ANYTHING with them, how will they hold up in court? IANAL, but I thought a company needs to show some effort in actually USING the technology for it to be considered VALID.
Zen is locked down the same, if not more than the iPod. You HAVE to use Windows(R) and good luck using any other operating system. Sure, it lets you do a bit more with the device, but definitely aren't comparable trade offs.
I had a Sandisk Sansa with Rockbox on it. However, I lightly tossed it into my duffel bag (yes it WAS a light toss into my duffel bag), and the screen cracked. If it had been an iPod, you could order a new screen of eBlahy and swap it out easily (they are replaceable). This is not the case on the Sansa. The screen is SOLDERED with about 20-40 of the tiniest pin points imaginable. I went to a 8gb Gen3 Refurb'd Nano. I am locked to iTunes (however, I've never spent a penny on their music), but I can use it on my OSx system OR a Windows system if I choose. The iPod Dock is also really the only connection that's stayed around for (8?) years. I have a dock connector on the back of my car's deck as well, which lets me control my iPod from my deck.
And yes, I'm in Canada as well, so sharing music isn't illegal. However, if bill C-61 gets introduced and passed with the Conservatives (and I did vote Conservative - better than seeing a huge increase in taxes with EVERY other party), we're all screwed with copying/sharing - and not just music.. ALL DRM/electronic 'locking' mechanism schemes.
I even tried to 'slim' down my VISTA install (I figured I'd dual boot it with my OSX install). I disabled every service I could, leaving on the necessities (network shares, wireless, etc). I dropped from 700-800MB memory usage down to 400-500MB. I couldn't get it any lower. 400-500MB FOR A FREAKING OPERATING SYSTEM. Last I checked, XP could be slimmed down to run 85MB ram at idle...
It proves how efficient a BSD kernel can really be, even with all the latest and greatest features. Sure, Apple disables a LOT of stuff on their iPhone(Touch)/AppleTV compared to OSX (even copy and paste), but stripping down Vista from its 10GB/800MB footprint? Please!
Agreed. A similar thing happened to me with GoDaddy. I had purchased a domain for a friend with some type of premium advertising add-on which would flaunt the domain name over the internet. After my friend decided he no longer wanted the domain name, I canceled the auto-renew on it thinking I stopped everything. This was NOT the case. The domain name itself was canceled, however, it still dinged $30 off my credit card for the advertising bit. Why would I want to advertise a domain I'm not getting?? Long story short, I emailed GoDaddy about it, and they refused to refund me because I didn't stop the auto-renewal (even though I clearly did - on the domain). So I called Visa, and said I wouldn't have to pay the charge while they were investigating it. In the end, I was refunded that charge.
I still go through them for my domain name, since they do have very good pricing, but that experience is going to stick with me for a very, very long time.
With stem cell research anything is 're issuable'!
That's the aim of ZFS.
It provides a CRC check for EVERY sector written to on the disk, and confirms it is identical to the original copy. If it detects an inconsistency on write (or read), it will redirect the sector somewhere else.
It also allows you to 'scrub' the disk so that every sector is read and the CRC is verified. If there is an inconsistency, and the drive isn't RAIDed, it will show unrecoverable errors and which files will need to be restored from backup. If, however, you have RAIDed drives and it can self-repair, it will do so but still warn you that one (or more) of the disks showed Read errors.
As per: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/RAID-5-Doomed-2009,6525.html , as hard drives increase in size, they get less and less appealing for high reliable storage. One sector in every 100,000,000,000,000 bits read will show an unrecoverable read error. If you're not going back and verifying every sector (I set mine up weekly), then expect errors to show.
.. a little more annoying than the Jim Carrey screeching noise from Dumb and Dumber..
cat /dev/urandom > /dev/audio
Are they seriously trying to encourage obesity or trying to get away from anorexia?? It sounds like this law could really get people slamming down the Baconator or Double Big Mac.. Maybe it's time to buy McDonalds stock?
The word 'plays' can be interpreted in a few ways here. 'It plays' can be considered that it simply runs the games, and the game (eventually) loads and runs. But if it causes the DVD to read @ 1x or 2x, causing 4-5x longer loading screens, would you call that playing? I've even tried Mario Kart online, and keep getting disconnected because it simply takes too long to load.
They're working on version 0.2, which apparently brings up the read speed to 3x which should help considerably. However, it's still not near flawless and may be downgraded from 'plays' to 'semi-works'. It's still a huge milestone for the homebrew community since you're now able to run patched discs without hardware mods.
You currently need this update to access the Wii Shop Channel. from http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_System_Updates
Umm.. So what Nintendo is basically saying is "Well, if you don't upgrade you can keep pirating but we REFUSE to let you pay for us for anything" Whoever thought that up should be fired. By doing this update, I'm sure that they're actually losing revenue from people that will not update. Of course, only until the patch gets a workaround again.
Oh, and to add to my point..
Any time you want to look at or touch this piece of gold that's sitting on your mantle, it's mandatory that you have to call a certain telephone number for authentication. It usually only takes about 10-20 seconds, but sometimes it's busy with others all doing the same. What if routing gets messed up and your call doesn't get through? What happens when/if they go under... How do you then get permission?