Like Apple test MacOS on Apple hardware, or Sun test Solaris on Sun hardware, or IBM test AIX on IBM hardware.
Wait a minute... there is no Microsoft hardware. Sounds like a perfect excuse to blame the hardware aswell... Problem is Netware/Linux/BSD doesn't crash on the SAME HARDWARE... so it must be the applications... like Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Media Player, Excel, Word, etc.
Did you read past the words Enermax units below 400W
Even 250W Enermax powersupplies MIGHT work without a hiccup. The reason that brand was mentioned is because it's on par with Antec in quality and performance.
If you don't make it to 2 years, check the 5V rail. All the best!
I disagree. Most modders care about how the PC looks. They would rather spent $100 extra on an aluminium case with a window and save $50 on the power supply which is not seen.
When I built my PC, the power supply was the first thing I considered.
I was looking at building a Dual Athlon system on a Tyan motherboard with a few hard drives.
Essentially to cut a long story short, this combination requires a VERY HIGH power rating on the 5 volt rail. Some 550W power supply don't cut it, Enermax units below 400W were uncertain, while Antec's 350W or better are fine.
I went for an Antec 430W and their server case. 8 fans all attached to the "special" fan rail which adjusts their speed according to conditions keeps the computer humming.
Corsair ECC memory, HD's with 3 year warranty help with stability aswell.
Bottom line: Win2k - never had a BSOD (Blue Screen).Linux is obviously rock steady aswell.
I would have considered an Asus or Gigabyte motherboard. Kingston, Micron or Infineon RAM. Chieftec or Thermaltake case. BUT the power supply had to a very good one... i.e. ANTEC!
Law of the jungle, battle field or corporate world is the same.
We do not want to see Linux die.
Linux may only be a small part of Richard Stallman's bigger plan, but if it was to go down, then SCO might try and attack other GNU "partners" providing a kernel [NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Darwin, HURD, etc.] which would stall, but not stop, free Operating Systems as we know them.
Infact Australia is pretty much allowing anything by inventors without an attorney, trusting the inventor to be honest. This has been covered by slashdot I believe.
But at the end of the day, the courts should seperate the wheat from the chaff!
So stop blaming the USPTO for everything. Approval is only the FIRST step, NOT the last!
Email over wireless sounds WAY too broad to me. I hope RIM finds markets outside of the US where approval of patents on the grounds of "non-obvious" and "inventiveness" is much stricter.
While I consider RIM a competitor to what I'm doing, I wish them all the best, as they have some very fine products.
Sun might not have the edge in single processor performance, but compared to IBM, Microsoft and even Apple, the company is VERY APPROACHABLE.
Essentially "Sun wants to sell hardware and make a profit in the process". Their home grown products are very good and scalable, but very expensive.
When "life or death" is thrown in though, speed is not everything (or in some cases it the problem). Sun are releasing previews of Solaris 10, so nothing has changed in that department.
What Sun should be doing with Linux is providing the VERY BEST hardware and software platform solutions at a lover price than Sparc/Solaris. This is exactly what IBM and HP are trying to do.
Sun can provide the very best 64bit Linux products using the Opteron platforms if they try. But IBM is making the CPU's for AMD, so there might be problems there.
Fortunately it is very early as no one has a lead. Let the race begin... Go Sun!
I actually think in terms of the business, it will be nearly 99% IE users
Only till the a major exploit in IE is used to destroy the contents of millions of hard disks that haven't been backed up!
Don't ever trust a browser which is integrated into an OS, this is a totally insane thing to do, but then Microsoft only started thinking about security recently.
If the general public ever gets a grasp of how serious a security threat using a browser integrated into the OS they are using [don't hold your breath on this one], the tide will quickly turn away from Internet Explorer.
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Like Apple test MacOS on Apple hardware, or Sun test Solaris on Sun hardware, or IBM test AIX on IBM hardware.
... there is no Microsoft hardware. Sounds like a perfect excuse to blame the hardware aswell ... Problem is Netware/Linux/BSD doesn't crash on the SAME HARDWARE ... so it must be the applications ... like Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Media Player, Excel, Word, etc.
Wait a minute
Enermax units below 400W were uncertain
NO I mean they are UNCERTAIN!
Did you read past the words Enermax units below 400W
Even 250W Enermax powersupplies MIGHT work without a hiccup. The reason that brand was mentioned is because it's on par with Antec in quality and performance. If you don't make it to 2 years, check the 5V rail. All the best!
I disagree. Most modders care about how the PC looks. They would rather spent $100 extra on an aluminium case with a window and save $50 on the power supply which is not seen.
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Let's not even start on the memory
Why publish only an average from the 3 [or more] supplies.
Publish each supplies results, averages and deviations.
My computer (Dual Athlon on Tyan mobo) hammers the 5 V rail, so test on a few motherbords with quirks would help aswell.
People usually get a 550W supply to power multiple hard disks, usually in a raid configuration. They should have done this aswell.
Lastly, there is a variety in case designs. They should have tried a few cases and test for temperature and noise levels.
When I built my PC, the power supply was the first thing I considered.
... i.e. ANTEC!
I was looking at building a Dual Athlon system on a Tyan motherboard with a few hard drives.
Essentially to cut a long story short, this combination requires a VERY HIGH power rating on the 5 volt rail. Some 550W power supply don't cut it, Enermax units below 400W were uncertain, while Antec's 350W or better are fine.
I went for an Antec 430W and their server case. 8 fans all attached to the "special" fan rail which adjusts their speed according to conditions keeps the computer humming.
Corsair ECC memory, HD's with 3 year warranty help with stability aswell.
Bottom line: Win2k - never had a BSOD (Blue Screen).Linux is obviously rock steady aswell.
I would have considered an Asus or Gigabyte motherboard. Kingston, Micron or Infineon RAM. Chieftec or Thermaltake case. BUT the power supply had to a very good one
Law of the jungle, battle field or corporate world is the same.
We do not want to see Linux die.
Linux may only be a small part of Richard Stallman's bigger plan, but if it was to go down, then SCO might try and attack other GNU "partners" providing a kernel [NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Darwin, HURD, etc.] which would stall, but not stop, free Operating Systems as we know them.
That will be much worse than Orwell every imagined.
At least in 1984 a person was free to roam under the radar.
This technology certainly brings that to a halt. Orwell will be turning in his grave!
I think this sort of technology is INHERENTLY BAD because NOTHING can be secured from EVERYONE. Simple.
Then there are hackers who may, or may not, break the security.
What I would like to see is the ability to TURN THIS OFF, so I can use it only for CERTAIN NUMBERS only, e.g. 911
If something has been displayed, even by the inventor himself, publicly anywhere in the world, it is called PRIOR ART.
Any Prior Art even 1 second before the patent was filed (or claimed in the US) invalidates a patent.
Patents can EASILY be overturned by a court.
Infact Australia is pretty much allowing anything by inventors without an attorney, trusting the inventor to be honest. This has been covered by slashdot I believe.
But at the end of the day, the courts should seperate the wheat from the chaff!
So stop blaming the USPTO for everything. Approval is only the FIRST step, NOT the last!
Copyright is different.
But my patent actually does something.
Email over wireless sounds WAY too broad to me. I hope RIM finds markets outside of the US where approval of patents on the grounds of "non-obvious" and "inventiveness" is much stricter.
While I consider RIM a competitor to what I'm doing, I wish them all the best, as they have some very fine products.
You forgot to mention the thousands of users who will upgrade their hardware for existing applications they have been using for years.
... there's geek and then there is annoying geek.
My experience with applications on Sun/Sparc has consistently shown that the hardware/OS has always been by far the cheapest part of the equation.
Some companies have $40k per year support contracts just to maintain a single application. Suddenly $100k for the hardware starts to look very cheap!
No one is unhappy with the performance of Sun boxes, only these benchmark jockeys
I certainly wouldn't want to support Debian.
Support ALWAYS means something is not understood or has gone wrong.
Debian is no pleasure cruise when everything is going right, I'd hate to try and fix something broken over the phone with a newbie.
Considering the cost of some of the Sun boxes, sounds like Sun is doing better profit wise!
Linux is not a U.S. product.
Linux was not started in the U.S.
The majority of the work on Linux was done in Europe.
Left to Americans, we'd all be stuck with Windows and other proprietory OS's at any price the companies choose.
Just like Sun's purchase of StarOffice which SUN released for FREE ... (version 5.2 then later OpenOffice)
.NET support for Linux.
Remember that? How about Java support for Linux?
Don't hold you breath for
Sun might not have the edge in single processor performance, but compared to IBM, Microsoft and even Apple, the company is VERY APPROACHABLE.
... Go Sun!
Essentially "Sun wants to sell hardware and make a profit in the process". Their home grown products are very good and scalable, but very expensive.
When "life or death" is thrown in though, speed is not everything (or in some cases it the problem). Sun are releasing previews of Solaris 10, so nothing has changed in that department.
What Sun should be doing with Linux is providing the VERY BEST hardware and software platform solutions at a lover price than Sparc/Solaris. This is exactly what IBM and HP are trying to do.
Sun can provide the very best 64bit Linux products using the Opteron platforms if they try. But IBM is making the CPU's for AMD, so there might be problems there.
Fortunately it is very early as no one has a lead. Let the race begin
More of everything on the net ...
The good, the bad and the ugly (sorry Clint) it's all there!
Well said ...
... so where's the sexium!
Apple have shot themselves in the foot with the naming of their new OS. Using X to represent 10 from Roman numerals was a tragic mistake.
Once Apple move to 11.0, will they call it OS XI?
Same goes for Pentium with Intel
But Safari is already a port of an existing open source browser.
Opera has less than 1% of the international market.
Thankfully they have made a few contracts to supply browsers for handheld devices.
As it stands Opera is doing OK, but not well. I think they will survive, providing they don't do anything stupid in the next few years.
It'll take just one great innovative feature to set Opera's boat sailing! Let's hope it comes sooner than later.
My wife stopped using Netscape 4.76 when Opera 7.11 came out (Opera 7.10 didn't render a favourite site properly) about 2 months ago.
I still have Netscape 4.08 on my computer.
Anyone on older computers won't even look at Netscape 6, Netscape 7 is even worse. BLOAT!
and how will Apple recover the hundreds of thousands of dollars this will take?
Only till the a major exploit in IE is used to destroy the contents of millions of hard disks that haven't been backed up!
Don't ever trust a browser which is integrated into an OS, this is a totally insane thing to do, but then Microsoft only started thinking about security recently.
If the general public ever gets a grasp of how serious a security threat using a browser integrated into the OS they are using [don't hold your breath on this one], the tide will quickly turn away from Internet Explorer.