Umm, the MAC is a bog standard computer, it's not just the same bog standard. Mac is not going to use OEM boards, you're not going to see a Tyan motherboard in there.
They don't throw shit on the motherboard that they don't need just to rice it out, Everything on your motherboard has a reasom for being there, and all of it is designed similar. Windows has to install on a lot of different flavours of hardware, so there's no big shocker when it installs on this one.
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Well, that just means Jeb Bush doesn't get voted as president. The fact that there's still a middle east in 2056 proves that.
Yep, the new friction pad that HP sent out to avoid the class action lawsuit solved the problem if you're going to use it as a low-volume printer. The fact that it's a gravity feed paper system is a lot harder to rectify, without buying the 1200. As an aside, the 1100 and 1200 printers printed a page count on the test page. That was removed when the EOL'ed the 1200 and its replacement, the 1300 does not have that feature, uses a different cartridge (with a small microchip on it which I do not know what it does), and put a power switch on it, rather than the always-on system that they've used forever. Now I can't get accurate page counts per toner cartridge, I have to supply multiple toner cartridges, when the 1200 and 1300 are structurally the same. I swiched out to a real printer, and now spend 3 times the cost of an HP toner and get 10 times the pages, or better.
If HP is fucking me on the printers, I'm not about to even try their computers, especially when a server is one of the biggest investments that a SMB can make.
Because a level one character sucks to do anything. You can perish under the attack of a garden slug. You have to build up your character to at least level 8 before you can venture outside of your little safety bubble.
If you could just hop in and have fun, then you might not come back. MMORPG's are like work, you have to show up every day and punch in, clock your hours, and punch out. Your innate ability means nothing. For instance, I fire up Enemy Territory, hop on a server, and proceed to wipe out the guys with 1000+ experience. Why? I'm good (The fact that I can afford a decent rig doesn't hurt either, but we won't coun t that right now). Now I fire up EQ, hop on as a level 1 ranger or something, and proceed to get my ass handed to me because I haven't put the necessary hours into levelling my character up. I can't just walk up to a level 50 fighter or whatever and try to duel him, no matter how good I am. I am limited by the game, and the rules of said game. That's why rpg's can put 60+hours of gameplay on the box, because there's no way in hell you can beat the game using a level 8 character. You have to get up to level 75 or some crazy shit.
And that's why there are few (if any) MMORPGs that you can just hop on and have fun. You can try the non-graphical versions that you can go and just talk to people without fear of garden slugs. It's called IRC.
Yeah, but I still have to wait to watch it. Although I'm two weeks behind already. And with renos going on here, I'm not going to catch up on it anytime soon.
I know, but the chemistry that they have generated between the Doctor and Rose is somewhat hampered by adding a third persistent character in the mix. I prefer the current set-up rather than the Doctor and his rag-tag bunch of time-misfits trapsing about the continuum. I'd hate to see Rose dissappear and the series turn into the Voyagers
And if the power architecture became as ubiquitous as the intel architecture?
Lower prices on motherboards, the ability to go four-way processors, etc. would bring more life into the chip, so they don't have to constantly pump out more clock speeds, etc. Moore's law need not apply. The platform could last the home user ten years, plenty of time to introduce new chips, etc. Things get too slow, throw a couple more processors in. Then more RAM, then faster processors, then max out the RAM. Much easier than chucking out the mobo and processor and RAM each upgrade cycle.
I don't think that I could honestly tell you that I'd be hampered by a 4-way G5 anytime soon, especially as until recently I was working on a Duron 900.
It was established in The Deadly Assassin that a Time Lord can regenerate twelve times before permanently dying, though as with most such "rules" there were occasionally exceptions. For more on this see: Time Lord.
Is Jack a permanent member of the Tardis crew? I was hoping he'd just be a recurring character, showing up every other/third episode. Putting too many people in the Tardis, no matter how big it is on the inside, cramps the whole style.
That's going to be a huge-ass pipe. The infrastructure alone for providing on-demand HD to a neighbourhood is going to be huge. Caching servers, fibre, and upgraded switches, etc. are going to push the small ISP's out of business, and even the large ISPs will have to partner up with the media conglomerates. I'll have to check my geek bible, but I think that's one of the seven signs.
I just so happen to have a Sony cd burner, and have some Sony cd-r's somewhere around here. So, how much are they really losing to piracy? The companies brought this upon themselves.
Although it's a matter of preference, I prefer to have all configuration files located in/etc/appdir/, or at the very worst/etc. It's easier for me to back up configurations that way. I take a snapshot of/etc/ and I know how the system was set up. I can take that snapshot and copy it to another machine and telinit 1, telinit 5 and have the thing back to where I want it. I can copy the entire/etc directory from mirrored machines and not worry about what I have forgotten.
/usr/local is an accepted place to install software, and many packages set that as the default. Personally, I prefer to install some things into/opt, rather than/usr/local, such as OpenOffice and KDE. Slackware used to install gnome into/opt as well, but it became too difficult for Pat to do it (iirc). My reasoning is that I can build a server, put what I want into/opt, and export the whole directory to clients. As long as they had a working X server, they could run KDE how I choose, and not customize the shit out of it. They could run openoffice how I choose, etc.
I think that it would be foolish to not push the 64 bit processor. Going back to 32 bit for the G6 would be worse than admitting failure. I think that IBM should try its damnedest to put out a dual processor Power5 system for $1000, you supply the disks. Saturate the market, and offer two-tier service, ie. No service or IBM service. IBM has competed in the clone market, and still came out ahead. It competed in the laptop market and still came out ahead. It can compete in this market and, even if they lose the clone market, they've created a new market for their processors.
They already have software that runs on it, a fanboi-ish glee club to prostletize for them, and a metric assload of db admins that want an upgrade path other than having to buy all new hardware. Plus, IBM builds their shit rock solid. How many white box servers do you have that have drive, controller, PCI bus, power supply and temperature monitors built in? How many have redundant power supplies? My netfinity server from IBM would keep running short of a fireman's axe method of partitioning it. Let the Dells and Gateways sell the commodity grade hardware, and when they're ready to go to the big iron, IBM builds the best.
They could even hire a couple of cheezy actors and put together an infomercial. Normally you can expect to pay $10,995 for other high end unix servers, but act now and you can get this IBM POWER 5 server for only three equal payments of $1999.95, and we'll also throw in a copy of Red Hat Linux for Dummies, part of the popular 'For Dummies' series that you most certainly have on your shelves at home already! Use priority code 'POWER5' and get an additional 64 meg USB Dongle ABSOLUTELY FREE!
If you've ever worked on an IBM server, then you know why they are popular. The things are built rock solid, redundant everything, monitoring out the whazoo. In short, if it wasn't for the ever increasing processor speeds, then it would be a server that you plan to use for ten years.
We have an IBM netfinity server, dual p3, and all we've ever had to do to it was replace one drive in our 1/2 TB array. It's an absolute beauty to use, and worth every penny we paid for it.
This is why I only download my tv shows from respectable pirates. And for the most part, I don't run into too many archives, they're usually just a single avi file. The ones that do come as rars or similar are generally cams or crap.
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Umm, the MAC is a bog standard computer, it's not just the same bog standard. Mac is not going to use OEM boards, you're not going to see a Tyan motherboard in there.
They don't throw shit on the motherboard that they don't need just to rice it out, Everything on your motherboard has a reasom for being there, and all of it is designed similar. Windows has to install on a lot of different flavours of hardware, so there's no big shocker when it installs on this one.
Well, that just means Jeb Bush doesn't get voted as president. The fact that there's still a middle east in 2056 proves that.
Or the people who want to buy one before they switch to the intel chip?
Or the people that keep their Mac's for five years?
Yep, the new friction pad that HP sent out to avoid the class action lawsuit solved the problem if you're going to use it as a low-volume printer. The fact that it's a gravity feed paper system is a lot harder to rectify, without buying the 1200.
As an aside, the 1100 and 1200 printers printed a page count on the test page. That was removed when the EOL'ed the 1200 and its replacement, the 1300 does not have that feature, uses a different cartridge (with a small microchip on it which I do not know what it does), and put a power switch on it, rather than the always-on system that they've used forever. Now I can't get accurate page counts per toner cartridge, I have to supply multiple toner cartridges, when the 1200 and 1300 are structurally the same. I swiched out to a real printer, and now spend 3 times the cost of an HP toner and get 10 times the pages, or better.
If HP is fucking me on the printers, I'm not about to even try their computers, especially when a server is one of the biggest investments that a SMB can make.
Everyone remembers the Corvair. And if you had experience with it, you'll remember the HP 6L and the HP 1100. Utter crap!
Because a level one character sucks to do anything. You can perish under the attack of a garden slug. You have to build up your character to at least level 8 before you can venture outside of your little safety bubble.
If you could just hop in and have fun, then you might not come back. MMORPG's are like work, you have to show up every day and punch in, clock your hours, and punch out. Your innate ability means nothing. For instance, I fire up Enemy Territory, hop on a server, and proceed to wipe out the guys with 1000+ experience. Why? I'm good (The fact that I can afford a decent rig doesn't hurt either, but we won't coun t that right now). Now I fire up EQ, hop on as a level 1 ranger or something, and proceed to get my ass handed to me because I haven't put the necessary hours into levelling my character up. I can't just walk up to a level 50 fighter or whatever and try to duel him, no matter how good I am. I am limited by the game, and the rules of said game. That's why rpg's can put 60+hours of gameplay on the box, because there's no way in hell you can beat the game using a level 8 character. You have to get up to level 75 or some crazy shit.
And that's why there are few (if any) MMORPGs that you can just hop on and have fun. You can try the non-graphical versions that you can go and just talk to people without fear of garden slugs. It's called IRC.
Yeah, but I still have to wait to watch it. Although I'm two weeks behind already. And with renos going on here, I'm not going to catch up on it anytime soon.
I know, but the chemistry that they have generated between the Doctor and Rose is somewhat hampered by adding a third persistent character in the mix. I prefer the current set-up rather than the Doctor and his rag-tag bunch of time-misfits trapsing about the continuum. I'd hate to see Rose dissappear and the series turn into the Voyagers
They were old pictures.
And if the power architecture became as ubiquitous as the intel architecture?
Lower prices on motherboards, the ability to go four-way processors, etc. would bring more life into the chip, so they don't have to constantly pump out more clock speeds, etc. Moore's law need not apply. The platform could last the home user ten years, plenty of time to introduce new chips, etc. Things get too slow, throw a couple more processors in. Then more RAM, then faster processors, then max out the RAM. Much easier than chucking out the mobo and processor and RAM each upgrade cycle.
I don't think that I could honestly tell you that I'd be hampered by a 4-way G5 anytime soon, especially as until recently I was working on a Duron 900.
Wikipedia states twelve:
It was established in The Deadly Assassin that a Time Lord can regenerate twelve times before permanently dying, though as with most such "rules" there were occasionally exceptions. For more on this see: Time Lord.
Is Jack a permanent member of the Tardis crew? I was hoping he'd just be a recurring character, showing up every other/third episode. Putting too many people in the Tardis, no matter how big it is on the inside, cramps the whole style.
Here in Canada, I have to wait until Sunday for this.
That's all I need to know to keep watching.
Although, I thought Chris Eccleston was brilliant and this new guy has some big shoes to fill.
That's going to be a huge-ass pipe. The infrastructure alone for providing on-demand HD to a neighbourhood is going to be huge. Caching servers, fibre, and upgraded switches, etc. are going to push the small ISP's out of business, and even the large ISPs will have to partner up with the media conglomerates.
I'll have to check my geek bible, but I think that's one of the seven signs.
Not necessarily, but the bathrooms are still icky.
I just so happen to have a Sony cd burner, and have some Sony cd-r's somewhere around here. So, how much are they really losing to piracy?
The companies brought this upon themselves.
Although it's a matter of preference, I prefer to have all configuration files located in /etc/appdir/, or at the very worst /etc. It's easier for me to back up configurations that way. I take a snapshot of /etc/ and I know how the system was set up. I can take that snapshot and copy it to another machine and telinit 1, telinit 5 and have the thing back to where I want it. I can copy the entire /etc directory from mirrored machines and not worry about what I have forgotten.
/usr/local is an accepted place to install software, and many packages set that as the default. Personally, I prefer to install some things into /opt, rather than /usr/local, such as OpenOffice and KDE. Slackware used to install gnome into /opt as well, but it became too difficult for Pat to do it (iirc). My reasoning is that I can build a server, put what I want into /opt, and export the whole directory to clients. As long as they had a working X server, they could run KDE how I choose, and not customize the shit out of it. They could run openoffice how I choose, etc.
But that is a silly reason to not use BSD.
I think that it would be foolish to not push the 64 bit processor. Going back to 32 bit for the G6 would be worse than admitting failure.
I think that IBM should try its damnedest to put out a dual processor Power5 system for $1000, you supply the disks. Saturate the market, and offer two-tier service, ie. No service or IBM service. IBM has competed in the clone market, and still came out ahead. It competed in the laptop market and still came out ahead. It can compete in this market and, even if they lose the clone market, they've created a new market for their processors.
They already have software that runs on it, a fanboi-ish glee club to prostletize for them, and a metric assload of db admins that want an upgrade path other than having to buy all new hardware. Plus, IBM builds their shit rock solid. How many white box servers do you have that have drive, controller, PCI bus, power supply and temperature monitors built in? How many have redundant power supplies? My netfinity server from IBM would keep running short of a fireman's axe method of partitioning it. Let the Dells and Gateways sell the commodity grade hardware, and when they're ready to go to the big iron, IBM builds the best.
success through spam-jacking, comes the hit U.K. blockbuster 'Concerted Distributed National Espionage'. Let's get Nick Cage to play Tony Blair.
They could even hire a couple of cheezy actors and put together an infomercial.
Normally you can expect to pay $10,995 for other high end unix servers, but act now and you can get this IBM POWER 5 server for only three equal payments of $1999.95, and we'll also throw in a copy of Red Hat Linux for Dummies, part of the popular 'For Dummies' series that you most certainly have on your shelves at home already! Use priority code 'POWER5' and get an additional 64 meg USB Dongle ABSOLUTELY FREE!
If you've ever worked on an IBM server, then you know why they are popular. The things are built rock solid, redundant everything, monitoring out the whazoo. In short, if it wasn't for the ever increasing processor speeds, then it would be a server that you plan to use for ten years.
We have an IBM netfinity server, dual p3, and all we've ever had to do to it was replace one drive in our 1/2 TB array. It's an absolute beauty to use, and worth every penny we paid for it.
Maybe they should give away a few hundred or so low-end servers. I wouldn't mind getting one. I'll even pay for the shipping.
This is why I only download my tv shows from respectable pirates. And for the most part, I don't run into too many archives, they're usually just a single avi file. The ones that do come as rars or similar are generally cams or crap.