Cool! I just had to do a WinXP reinstall for my parents, and I didn't want to set them up with Outlook again. And Mozilla proper is so, well, 1999;)
Anyway, they've been bugging me for weeks to get them off our ISP's slow webmail (well, mostly its slow because of my torrenting, but don't tell them that....) So if Thunderbird is stable, I will set it up for them as their email client.
But personally I'll just stick with Mutt, thankyou-very-much.
I just realized after posting this that you were probably refering to the Athlon64... Duh.
Well yes I do hope it has a nice price. I plan on waiting till about Q2 2004 to buy mine though, so I am not so worried about the initial premium being too high.
I don't think the 2500 Barton for $90 can be beat by anything Intel offers, especially with a little OC knowledge (I have two 2500 based systems overclocked to 2312mhz, which is faster than a 3000).
But even w/o OC, you'd have to spend about $160 to get a comparable 2.4ghz from Intel.
If you are spending more than $200, however, it is clearly a different story and Intel's 800fsb chips are the better deal.
You make good points, but I have thought of all that before and am still interested in SETI.
I guess its either natural human curiosity, or just too much Star Trek...
Windows people love their.zip's for casual file exchange.
RAR's best use is distributing windows program warez, or for transfering particularly large amounts of personal files through an IM program, especially on a 256k or less connection.
BTW, anyone know of a good OSS/freeware RAR archiver for *nix ?
To be completely honest I have never used PGP. But encrypting a single file with it seems logical to me for greater ease of use.
Now if you are compressing 1 gig worth of data, I suppose you may have a point as far as time spent, but how often do people PGP that much information?
It has allways been my impression that the biggest use of PGP is exchanging short messages and documents.
Yeah, I was thinking (even before I read the article) that we could start up IMLA (the Internet Music Library of America) and everyone would donate all their CDs.
Then we could have some sort of automatic checkout system that keeps track of how many people are playing a song at any given time, and make sure the library has enough donated CDs to back it up.
There would be a bit of a wait on new releases, just like a brick and mortar library.
So once Snapster begins to get profitable with music it starts buying copies of all ebooks, movies, and software...
But then there is the problem of license agreements. The RIAA could just take a page from M$ and start issuing CD licenses on a per-stereo basis. Hell, they even have a sort of "Product Activation" system with DRM. I guess that would pretty much seal their fate though.
The US Govt - by the way, has a monopoly on awarding patents.
Yes, I am sure things would be sooo much better if there were two or three major competitors who were mass issueing conflicting patents left and right in order to outsell each other.
The economic implications of legal bills alone would be astounding!
Asside from a consulting company that only gets called in every six months for a major server update/upgrade, I am the only sysadmin. I interact physically FAR too often with users and systems on a day to day basis for them to even consider "Remote Administration".
Maybe it is an option for large divisions, or larger companies, but this too small of a business for that (about 60 employees total, and the three owners are the only level of management.)
How many people buy houses as soon as they graduate HS?
FFS, I'll make more money as I go.
I live in Wisconsin. $15/hour at 18 is great pay here, cuz the cost of living isn't so high... My friends are green with envy, especially since I get to spend half the day on IRC and reading/.
Well I hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of companies don't care whether you have five mortgages and 20 dependents. Bottom line for them is how much they need to pay someone to do the job at an acceptable level of quality. And at least at around here, I'm a better deal than any MC$E Indian.
Not hard to replace, no. But why would they want someone else? Where are they going to find an Indian MCSE willing to work for less than $15/hr.?
More importantly, why would they want an Indian working in this shop? Everyone here is American, through and through.
I mean, if I was one of my three 40-60yr old PHBs I think I can safely say I would prefer an "American" 18 year old white male who has spent a 9 month internship in the company at $7.50/hr and has been getting $15/hr for the summer....... to some Indian MCSE who has no idea how this company does business (its an independant major pharmacy, BTW, sort of like Omnicare but local.)
So no, I'm not worried about job security. In fact they are very interested in having me continue working after I start my compsci major in August, but they suggested I should see how my classes go first =)
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...anyone know if they come in AA or AAA size, w/chargers of course?
Might be useful for some "allways on" devices.
Use Potatoe/Lemon batteries!
Cool! I just had to do a WinXP reinstall for my parents, and I didn't want to set them up with Outlook again. And Mozilla proper is so, well, 1999 ;)
Anyway, they've been bugging me for weeks to get them off our ISP's slow webmail (well, mostly its slow because of my torrenting, but don't tell them that....)
So if Thunderbird is stable, I will set it up for them as their email client.
But personally I'll just stick with Mutt, thankyou-very-much.
Oh, for a moment there I thought you were gonna say "humans should prepare to be replaced by machines"
Thank God that is not the case...
probably
Alright, I'm sueing. All this talk about a Sun offends me, you insensitive clod!
If you plan on distributing comercially any changes you make to the code, then perhaps *BSD would be a better option for some. But not many.
I just realized after posting this that you were probably refering to the Athlon64... Duh.
Well yes I do hope it has a nice price. I plan on waiting till about Q2 2004 to buy mine though, so I am not so worried about the initial premium being too high.
Duh..Linux is Free, Open, and thus easily customizeable. It is the perfect OS for supercomputers.
I don't think the 2500 Barton for $90 can be beat by anything Intel offers, especially with a little OC knowledge (I have two 2500 based systems overclocked to 2312mhz, which is faster than a 3000).
But even w/o OC, you'd have to spend about $160 to get a comparable 2.4ghz from Intel.
If you are spending more than $200, however, it is clearly a different story and Intel's 800fsb chips are the better deal.
You make good points, but I have thought of all that before and am still interested in SETI. I guess its either natural human curiosity, or just too much Star Trek...
If you prefer binaries then so be it. There's no need for childish insults.
Well you wouldn't be compiling FreeBSD in 1 hour or less, would you? Gentoo is for people who like compiling and want it done automatically.
If thats not your cup of tea, don't use Gentoo!
Windows people love their .zip's for casual file exchange.
RAR's best use is distributing windows program warez, or for transfering particularly large amounts of personal files through an IM program, especially on a 256k or less connection.
BTW, anyone know of a good OSS/freeware RAR archiver for *nix ?
To be completely honest I have never used PGP. But encrypting a single file with it seems logical to me for greater ease of use.
Now if you are compressing 1 gig worth of data, I suppose you may have a point as far as time spent, but how often do people PGP that much information?
It has allways been my impression that the biggest use of PGP is exchanging short messages and documents.
A more logical order is tar--> gzip --> pgp. Its more straightforward and takes less effort.
That'd be like saying "China is the most popular place to live in the world, because it has the most people".
Yeah, I was thinking (even before I read the article) that we could start up IMLA (the Internet Music Library of America) and everyone would donate all their CDs.
Then we could have some sort of automatic checkout system that keeps track of how many people are playing a song at any given time, and make sure the library has enough donated CDs to back it up.
There would be a bit of a wait on new releases, just like a brick and mortar library.
So once Snapster begins to get profitable with music it starts buying copies of all ebooks, movies, and software...
But then there is the problem of license agreements. The RIAA could just take a page from M$ and start issuing CD licenses on a per-stereo basis. Hell, they even have a sort of "Product Activation" system with DRM. I guess that would pretty much seal their fate though.
Protected under the DMCA. She proved in court that her suit was an "effective method" for avoiding public scrutiny of her privates.
Well no, its actualy more of a contest between English and Spanish.
Chinese has the most speakers total, all packed into one country, but it is not "the most popular language in the world" by any reasonable standard.
The US Govt - by the way, has a monopoly on awarding patents.
Yes, I am sure things would be sooo much better if there were two or three major competitors who were mass issueing conflicting patents left and right in order to outsell each other.
The economic implications of legal bills alone would be astounding!
Asside from a consulting company that only gets called in every six months for a major server update/upgrade, I am the only sysadmin. I interact physically FAR too often with users and systems on a day to day basis for them to even consider "Remote Administration".
Maybe it is an option for large divisions, or larger companies, but this too small of a business for that (about 60 employees total, and the three owners are the only level of management.)
How many people buy houses as soon as they graduate HS?
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FFS, I'll make more money as I go.
I live in Wisconsin. $15/hour at 18 is great pay here, cuz the cost of living isn't so high... My friends are green with envy, especially since I get to spend half the day on IRC and reading
Well I hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of companies don't care whether you have five mortgages and 20 dependents. Bottom line for them is how much they need to pay someone to do the job at an acceptable level of quality. And at least at around here, I'm a better deal than any MC$E Indian.
Not hard to replace, no. But why would they want someone else? Where are they going to find an Indian MCSE willing to work for less than $15/hr.?
More importantly, why would they want an Indian working in this shop? Everyone here is American, through and through.
I mean, if I was one of my three 40-60yr old PHBs I think I can safely say I would prefer an "American" 18 year old white male who has spent a 9 month internship in the company at $7.50/hr and has been getting $15/hr for the summer....... to some Indian MCSE who has no idea how this company does business (its an independant major pharmacy, BTW, sort of like Omnicare but local.)
So no, I'm not worried about job security. In fact they are very interested in having me continue working after I start my compsci major in August, but they suggested I should see how my classes go first =)