Overblown just a bit? There's a bug here. Sadly, one that is not likely to be fixed, since it was in the last planned release of Tiger, but consider:
This has only affected a few users - it is NOT widespread (10.4.11 has been out for nearly two weeks, and this is the first we hear of it).
This only affects users with Boot Camp, which like it or not is beta software on Tiger, and always has been. Standard disclaimers apply.
All data is intact; otherwise you couldn't access it by Firewire Target Disk mode, or by booting from a CD. Something is simply screwing with the initial boot process.
Nothing here indicates that it cannot be fixed by an Archive and Install process to lay down a fresh copy of the OS. On OS X, this keeps your home directory and settings completely intact, and almost every third-party application. You might have to manually move a couple files from the "Previous System" folder to your fresh OS.
So, no real data loss, only a couple unfortunate users reporting it, and it's relatively easily fixable. I'm sorry, but stuff like this happens to someone with any OS patch, on any platform. Not news.
I wouldn't call any of the webmail crap out there "full blown". Closest I ever saw was Apple's recent dot-Mac upgrade (too bad it's tied to such an overpriced and unreliable service). Give me a real client any day.
In fact, that goes for any web application, as far as I'm concerned. Pull all the data you want from the network, but get the hell out of my web browser and all the compromises that entails.
UI and security are pretty similar, but OS X has actually gotten significantly faster from version to version. There was a LOT of room for optimization.
There is nothing to gain by converting Divx to H.264
Except for device support. iPods, AppleTV, and anything that supports this in the future as it gets more popular. Nevermind that most of our Divx content is in a craptastic container format (AVI).
I'm no expert and I know this thing is tiny, but aren't laptop motherboards already pretty small? The motherboards in some of those tiny Sony Vaios must not be much bigger than this thing, and thinner too - and they've been around for a few years now.
They're also not a standard form-factor usable for generic PC building. While this might be somewhat overdue, standards are a good thing.
Offtopic, but we had the exact opposite problem where I went (Northwestern). The CS curriculum was completely theory-based, with no "real-world" aspects.
Now, I'll be the first to argue that any Computer Science department without a strong basis in theory and fundamentals doesn't deserve the name, but eventually you do really need to do some higher level work. Whether that means a "technology of the day", GUI design, Win32, what-have-you, you really need to apply that theoretical knowledge a bit more concretely and expansively than individual courses would. Something to tie it all together and prepare you for "real world" challenges, as it were.
While I was there, Microsoft certainly made a play for us - we all got free copies of Visual Studio, BackOffice, NT 4, and Windows 2000 beta copies. And that was for a little not-for-credit seminar some grad students were running. Sure enough, after a single quarter it was shut down as "not applicable to computer science".
(Of course, this is the same department that drove out one of its only female professors by claiming that distributed computing wasn't worth researching and supporting.)
The biggest factor in keeping them down to acceptable levels is just mounting them on soft rubber grommits.
You also need fans to keep them cool. After the CPU and GPU, the hard drive is the hottest thing in your computer. Especially in drive arrays or servers, they can heat up extremely quickly with sustained usage.
If this works like it sounds, then it will not only quiet the drive, but cool it more efficiency and allow less external cooling (fans), which should quiet things down even more.
No, it most certainly is not there. Anecdote time! Due to a hardware limitation (and don't pretend most systems don't have one goofy one or another), my new gigabit NIC would only function in slots 1-4 of my system, but not in slots 5 or 6 (something to do with the different PCI controller for each set of slots). So, I moved my video card down there (yes, it's a PCI-only server, no AGP). Next boot, my uber-friendly Ubuntu couldn't locate the video card and X11 wouldn't start.
Not only that, but it made no attempt to locate the card, autodetect stuff, etc - it just hung at a bizarre character-based "window" telling me to edit my xorg.conf. Mind you, I can do it - if I have a shell prompt, which it did not give me. Furthermore, I can edit some things, but coming up with the new PCI address of the card - why the HELL am I having to do this?
Is this a "common" activity? No. But when you add up all of the little things a user might do (upgrade the video card, move things about - essentially "touch" anything) that can completely BREAK the system, well, it's horseshit that you can convert normal people to Linux without you there as permanent on-call support.
1GB/sec is 3.6TB/hour, or 86.4TB/day, or 2.5PB in a month. That's really not all that huge for enterprise or scientific storage. I see that all the time in hosted environments.
Solution: Pirate Windows 2000 (assuming there aren't any driver problems). After all, if you're not running games why even bother with XP?
Yeah, yeah. They could run Linux, but any recent version (i.e. that has a decently refined interface) will bog this down as well. I hate to say it, but Win2K runs circles around any Linux from the last 5 years or so. XP and Vista are a decidedly different matter, but 2K was a lean, mean OS.
Agreed with others - mod parent down. I use all Macs and Linux, and have NEVER run any silly program to setup service. Their tech just makes a phone call, activates the MAC on the router, and it's done.
To me, cable is superior to DSL because it's transparent. No PPPoE, no authentication, just an ethernet jack which supplies a DHCP IP address. Simple as could be.
Almost all the CDs sold in the last 20 years had no form of DRM. And they weren't scared then. What all of a sudden makes them want to sell everything.
Simple - ease of distribution. Until the last ten years or so, just because a CD could be read didn't mean you could do much with that data. It my seem quaint, but 600MB used to be a HUGE amount of data - larger than most hard drives until the early/mid 90's. CD burners were rare, and there wasn't any universal compression algorithm to turn those huge AIFF or WAV files into something remotely portable. Suddenly, MP3 compression and the internet changed all of that. MP3's made it easy to upload songs, Napster showed people how easy it was to get them, and everything followed a vicious (or virtuous, depending on your perspective) cycle from there.
The music industry has been amazingly, frighteningly slow to adapt to this. DRM is just as doomed as copy protection in the late 80's. Even when presented with a solution (iTunes et al), they've fought it.
I don't know - if I told my business they could implement something two different ways, only one would alienate 10% of the user base - there's no way in hell they'd do it. The web has very different economics than desktop software. A bank is not going to alienate 10% of its customers. Amazon, eBay, NewEgg, Discover, etc are not going to let 10% of their potential customers walk away.
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Not to mention those wireless LANs (yes, they're still a LAN!) have to connect back to wired at some point.
And once you get into a large corporation or datacenter, LANs, VLANs, and subnets multiply, they don't shrink.
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No matter what, people will scam for money because even if its not worth real money, its still worth something to someone.
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Calm down. It's all just ones and zeros.
So, no real data loss, only a couple unfortunate users reporting it, and it's relatively easily fixable. I'm sorry, but stuff like this happens to someone with any OS patch, on any platform. Not news.
Apparently I was totally incorrect. Thanks, Wikipedia. :)
In a nutshell, it's the day retailers finally turn a profit for the year - they move "into the black". Little scary that it takes that long, isn't it?
But can it run on Linux?
No. But Linux can run on it...
I wouldn't call any of the webmail crap out there "full blown". Closest I ever saw was Apple's recent dot-Mac upgrade (too bad it's tied to such an overpriced and unreliable service). Give me a real client any day.
In fact, that goes for any web application, as far as I'm concerned. Pull all the data you want from the network, but get the hell out of my web browser and all the compromises that entails.
Come on. We, and Apple, just are not that stupid.
Apparently you are.
UI and security are pretty similar, but OS X has actually gotten significantly faster from version to version. There was a LOT of room for optimization.
There is nothing to gain by converting Divx to H.264
Except for device support. iPods, AppleTV, and anything that supports this in the future as it gets more popular. Nevermind that most of our Divx content is in a craptastic container format (AVI).
I'm no expert and I know this thing is tiny, but aren't laptop motherboards already pretty small? The motherboards in some of those tiny Sony Vaios must not be much bigger than this thing, and thinner too - and they've been around for a few years now.
They're also not a standard form-factor usable for generic PC building. While this might be somewhat overdue, standards are a good thing.
Unless you're putting eSATA on there, add Firewire to the mix. USB 2.0 does not cut it.
Offtopic, but we had the exact opposite problem where I went (Northwestern). The CS curriculum was completely theory-based, with no "real-world" aspects.
Now, I'll be the first to argue that any Computer Science department without a strong basis in theory and fundamentals doesn't deserve the name, but eventually you do really need to do some higher level work. Whether that means a "technology of the day", GUI design, Win32, what-have-you, you really need to apply that theoretical knowledge a bit more concretely and expansively than individual courses would. Something to tie it all together and prepare you for "real world" challenges, as it were.
While I was there, Microsoft certainly made a play for us - we all got free copies of Visual Studio, BackOffice, NT 4, and Windows 2000 beta copies. And that was for a little not-for-credit seminar some grad students were running. Sure enough, after a single quarter it was shut down as "not applicable to computer science".
(Of course, this is the same department that drove out one of its only female professors by claiming that distributed computing wasn't worth researching and supporting.)
The biggest factor in keeping them down to acceptable levels is just mounting them on soft rubber grommits.
You also need fans to keep them cool. After the CPU and GPU, the hard drive is the hottest thing in your computer. Especially in drive arrays or servers, they can heat up extremely quickly with sustained usage.
If this works like it sounds, then it will not only quiet the drive, but cool it more efficiency and allow less external cooling (fans), which should quiet things down even more.
"25 decibels, 5 decibels quieter than a whisper."
That's a ******* loud whisper!!
No, it's not.
No, it most certainly is not there. Anecdote time! Due to a hardware limitation (and don't pretend most systems don't have one goofy one or another), my new gigabit NIC would only function in slots 1-4 of my system, but not in slots 5 or 6 (something to do with the different PCI controller for each set of slots). So, I moved my video card down there (yes, it's a PCI-only server, no AGP). Next boot, my uber-friendly Ubuntu couldn't locate the video card and X11 wouldn't start.
Not only that, but it made no attempt to locate the card, autodetect stuff, etc - it just hung at a bizarre character-based "window" telling me to edit my xorg.conf. Mind you, I can do it - if I have a shell prompt, which it did not give me. Furthermore, I can edit some things, but coming up with the new PCI address of the card - why the HELL am I having to do this?
Is this a "common" activity? No. But when you add up all of the little things a user might do (upgrade the video card, move things about - essentially "touch" anything) that can completely BREAK the system, well, it's horseshit that you can convert normal people to Linux without you there as permanent on-call support.
similar to capabilities-based UNIX security...Evidently (and, I suppose, not surprisingly), an OS X-based phone lacks these safeguard.
Damn, mod parent down. Mac OS X is a UNIX-based system, and has exactly those capabilities.
1GB/sec is 3.6TB/hour, or 86.4TB/day, or 2.5PB in a month. That's really not all that huge for enterprise or scientific storage. I see that all the time in hosted environments.
Solution: Pirate Windows 2000 (assuming there aren't any driver problems). After all, if you're not running games why even bother with XP?
Yeah, yeah. They could run Linux, but any recent version (i.e. that has a decently refined interface) will bog this down as well. I hate to say it, but Win2K runs circles around any Linux from the last 5 years or so. XP and Vista are a decidedly different matter, but 2K was a lean, mean OS.
Agreed with others - mod parent down. I use all Macs and Linux, and have NEVER run any silly program to setup service. Their tech just makes a phone call, activates the MAC on the router, and it's done.
To me, cable is superior to DSL because it's transparent. No PPPoE, no authentication, just an ethernet jack which supplies a DHCP IP address. Simple as could be.
Spanning Tree Protocol is the root bridge of all evil.
Almost all the CDs sold in the last 20 years had no form of DRM. And they weren't scared then. What all of a sudden makes them want to sell everything.
Simple - ease of distribution. Until the last ten years or so, just because a CD could be read didn't mean you could do much with that data. It my seem quaint, but 600MB used to be a HUGE amount of data - larger than most hard drives until the early/mid 90's. CD burners were rare, and there wasn't any universal compression algorithm to turn those huge AIFF or WAV files into something remotely portable. Suddenly, MP3 compression and the internet changed all of that. MP3's made it easy to upload songs, Napster showed people how easy it was to get them, and everything followed a vicious (or virtuous, depending on your perspective) cycle from there.
The music industry has been amazingly, frighteningly slow to adapt to this. DRM is just as doomed as copy protection in the late 80's. Even when presented with a solution (iTunes et al), they've fought it.
It'd be http based. Not for efficiency or any technical reason, but because it's the best camouflage.
Welcome to layer 5-7 packet inspection on modern firewalls. You're screwed.
I don't know - if I told my business they could implement something two different ways, only one would alienate 10% of the user base - there's no way in hell they'd do it. The web has very different economics than desktop software. A bank is not going to alienate 10% of its customers. Amazon, eBay, NewEgg, Discover, etc are not going to let 10% of their potential customers walk away.
Do you REALLY want us to bring in all of the server variants of Windows? Do you? Really?