My university recently replaced our "aging" mail system with Lotus Notes. Now two servers are doing the work of one with 50% more downtime. Through 5 semesters with the old system, I can count on one hand the number of times the server was down. With Notes it crashes daily.
On both my Linux machine and my windows machine I have virtual desktops and I can never remember what I put where. I try to make up some kind of system that where I put code windows on one, terminal windows on the other, etc. but it always breaks down.
If this idea was combined with the ability to bring certain windows to view with some gesture as parent suggested, this could be a really powerful way to navigate lots of open windows.
The way video hardware is going, this seems like a good direction to be heading.
My junior year I was taking a perl class and was working on a pretty involved script. Everytime I got a compile error, I took a drink. The drunker I got, the better I programmed.
I know these things are designed to take a beating, but it's definately the toughest piece of hardware I've ever had.
I used one of these things while out in the field for a utility company doing GPS mapping. I threw the thing on the floor of my truck, accidentally dropped it a few times, and accidentally left it on top of my truck in the rain.
Everytime I pushed the power button the thing ran perfectly, regardless of the fact it was running 98SE. I wish I could buy one of those things on the open market, I love the damn things.
I go to a small technological university in Northern, New York. We're almost really in Canada. Needless to say 75% of the school is dorks, we have few women, so one of the few things we do have is a very shaky internet connection. Downtime is usually a daily thing, and can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.
There exists a non-school supported forum for members of the campus community. It's part of a network of sites, called the Daily Jolt. (What geeks do when they're bored) It's really nothing more than a place for all us geeks to hide behind our monitors and bitch anonymously.
When the network gets fritzy, we all try to get to the forum and bitch about how much we hate our Office of Information Technology (OIT) here. If we can't get to the forum, we bitch to someone in person, usually a roommate, until we can vent on the forum. After an outage, the first page of posts is usually all OIT-related.
Wow, in just typing this I realized how sad my life really is.
Last time checked, to get ACPI support in Fedora, all you have to do is add
acpi=on
in grub.conf. As soon as I did that and booted, KLaptop popped up in my panel and the brightness keys worked.
Running Fedora on my laptop (HP Compaq NX9010) has been a dream. This thing is supposed to be a nitemare to run linux on, but it runs beautifully. I'm not a complete noob, I've also got a RH9 box that serves as a file server and test server for webpage development.
I put up with 98SE crashing daily for about 6 months on my desktop before I went out and bought the academic version of 2000 in the spring of 2001. I was absolutely floored by the fact I could leave my computer on for a week at a time it wouldn't crash.
Now that ancient (3 year old) machine runs Red Hat 9 and only gets restarted when I trip over the power cord.
That existed... until today.
Emusic offered pretty much all of that, minus the top 40, and it just announced today that it was suspending unlimited downloads and moving to a horribly limited pricing scheme.
If I was to guess the average age of all of the listed users, I'd have to guess around 16 or 17. They're going after people who do not have the disposable income to purchase music on the RIAA's terms. (Read: give them arm and/or leg). What they fail to see is that by suing these kids, and probably settling out of court for their life savings, (read about 500 bucks) they are going to alienate the next generation of music buyers. These kids are going to turn to indie labels who aren't going to sue them at the drop of a hat.
Slashdot Mirror
All this so we could have webmail.
I can barely get around when windows are 2D!
On both my Linux machine and my windows machine I have virtual desktops and I can never remember what I put where. I try to make up some kind of system that where I put code windows on one, terminal windows on the other, etc. but it always breaks down.
If this idea was combined with the ability to bring certain windows to view with some gesture as parent suggested, this could be a really powerful way to navigate lots of open windows.
The way video hardware is going, this seems like a good direction to be heading.
I write my best perl when I'm drunk.
My junior year I was taking a perl class and was working on a pretty involved script. Everytime I got a compile error, I took a drink. The drunker I got, the better I programmed.
My dad is still using the original keyboard from his 1991 Gateway 2000. The thing is a brick.
I used one of these things while out in the field for a utility company doing GPS mapping. I threw the thing on the floor of my truck, accidentally dropped it a few times, and accidentally left it on top of my truck in the rain.
Everytime I pushed the power button the thing ran perfectly, regardless of the fact it was running 98SE. I wish I could buy one of those things on the open market, I love the damn things.
You forgot the one about covering your homepage in animated gifs.
Microsoft is dragging its feet on settlement claims?
In other news...
Water is wet!
The Sky is blue!
Ice is cold!
and so on ad nauseum.
Would they do that via 'man mount'?
I've heard of some dumb criminals, but this takes the cake.
I've had about 5 fish, only one of them lived longer than a week.
There exists a non-school supported forum for members of the campus community. It's part of a network of sites, called the Daily Jolt. (What geeks do when they're bored) It's really nothing more than a place for all us geeks to hide behind our monitors and bitch anonymously.
When the network gets fritzy, we all try to get to the forum and bitch about how much we hate our Office of Information Technology (OIT) here. If we can't get to the forum, we bitch to someone in person, usually a roommate, until we can vent on the forum. After an outage, the first page of posts is usually all OIT-related.
Wow, in just typing this I realized how sad my life really is.
Where's that AOL CD?
I for one welcome South Korea's new high speed network overlords.
Running Fedora on my laptop (HP Compaq NX9010) has been a dream. This thing is supposed to be a nitemare to run linux on, but it runs beautifully. I'm not a complete noob, I've also got a RH9 box that serves as a file server and test server for webpage development.
98 SE was stable!?
I put up with 98SE crashing daily for about 6 months on my desktop before I went out and bought the academic version of 2000 in the spring of 2001. I was absolutely floored by the fact I could leave my computer on for a week at a time it wouldn't crash.
Now that ancient (3 year old) machine runs Red Hat 9 and only gets restarted when I trip over the power cord.
So which company are we going to hate more this week?
I think it's tied at the moment.
I'd be very interested to see how many people/companies have actually bought into the SCO FUD and bought a Linux license.
300GB is a lot of pr0n
That existed... until today. Emusic offered pretty much all of that, minus the top 40, and it just announced today that it was suspending unlimited downloads and moving to a horribly limited pricing scheme.
Imagine a beow... aw dammit.
You could always offer a class in how to find a great lawyer for when the parents of kids using Kazaa get sued.
.. MoIP?
Has a ring to it.
If I was to guess the average age of all of the listed users, I'd have to guess around 16 or 17. They're going after people who do not have the disposable income to purchase music on the RIAA's terms. (Read: give them arm and/or leg). What they fail to see is that by suing these kids, and probably settling out of court for their life savings, (read about 500 bucks) they are going to alienate the next generation of music buyers. These kids are going to turn to indie labels who aren't going to sue them at the drop of a hat.