Well, Thunderbirds don't overheat. Seriously, someone once made a little tray out of tin foil and fried an egg over his T-Bird. I think the mainboard would catch fire before the T-Bird takes damage.
On AMD64s, however, overheatung is unusual. I have a watercooled PC (mainly for volume reasons) and with my old Athlon XP 1500+@1800+ accidentally leaving the pump unplugged was a surefire way to crash the computer within five minutes (and melt the tubes connected to the CPU water block until I finally got decent ones). With my new Athlon 64 3000 it's a surefire way to get the temperature to rise to fifty degrees and stay there (as opposed to the ~40 it reaches during normal operation). The Athlon64 is probably the coolest processor I've owned sinde the Intel 80486, in more than one way.
Yep, Mr. "We're responsible for the take up of 64-bit processors" doesn't offer a single 64-bit OS to use them with. No Linux, no XP 64-bit Edition. What is the point of that, exactly?
Customer satisfaction? From what I've heard XP64 still suffers from driver scarceness and similar bittage-related problems. Besides, some people might actually want to run 16-bit apps (being Windows users, after all), which XP64 doesn't do anymore.
Dell sold more wireless stuff than Apple, therefore they invented wireless.
Dell sold more EM64T processors to end users than Intel, therefore they invented EM64T.
Dell used to sell a lot of CRT monitors, so I guess they invented the cathode-ray tube as well.
Hey, I like this kind of reasoning.
Germany has instigated the two biggest wars so far, therefore Germany invented war. If the USA attack Iran we're going to sue them for copyright infringement.
That's why I use a custom keymap on my iBook. It emulates all important keys on a German Windows keyboard so I don't have to relearn where |, @ or \ are.
Hmm. I'm thinking about remapping my Insert key to something else so that I can still use it (for example in games). Dou you know any button that does nothing when pressed on it's own but still is normal enough to be recognized by most programs? F19 would fill the first requirement but not the second... (I have an Apple keyboard with 16 function keys and due to KMilo sucking I had to remap my XF86AudioLowerVolume and XF86AudioRaiseVolume to F17 and F18. However, I'm pretty sure that most non-KDE programs would have trouble noticing them.)
One thing I've never understood is how someone can become a Mac "hater". What's there to hate about it? In fact, I also don't see how someone can be a Windows "hater" (since hating something is different from simply disliking it). Maybe someone could elaborate?
As for Macs: Their users generate hate for the same reaon that Gentoo users tend to be met with slight derision: Some have this quite obnoxious "my $THING is better than yours" attitude even when having it requires some serious reality postprocessing. Unfortunately they are loud enough to create the illusion that they are everyone. Your stereotypical Gentoo user is "liek so bleeding edge omg" and always gloats over how his distro is 1.5% faster than yours. All real Gentoo users I know just prefer the package management, the configurability and the fact that there are no version updates, which tend to break RPM- and DEB-based distros in home use scenarios.
Your streotypical Apple user is too cool for this world, at least according to his definition. His MP3 player alone makes him a better person than you and his Mac is faster than your IBM, even if the hardware is identical. Real Mac users just like OS X (although I have to admit the only Mac users I know are recent switchers with above-average computer literacy. You know, people who can appreciate the fact that it's a BSD).
As for Windows: Yes, I did hate it for a while; now I meet it with slight disgust.
It's not the feeling of flakiness that it hasn't quite gotten rid of since the days of 95 (although objectively speaking it did improve a lot). It's not the bazillions of worms that permeate the internet. It's not the clunky, poorly-integrated, extremely power user-unfriendly interface that keeps you from working by trying to be "helpful". It's not the fact that it coms with bucketloads of useless shit integrated and configured to run by default. It's not the reregistration after N new hardware components. It's not the fact that you really have to go out of your way to not buy a copy if it when you buy a new PC that's not going to run it later. It's not the fact that about half a decade has passed since the last major release. It's not the utterly soulless corporation behind it that couldn't even play fair in a game without any rules. It's all of the above combined that makes people hate Windows.
Windows has kept picking up annoyances during its history and it has barely dropped any. It has gathered shit to the point where people are starting to be fed up. One needle prick won't kill you. One hundred thousand might. Microsoft's (and especially Windows') reputation has taken a lot of pricks.
Why not just ship an older version of Windows with the new release? Vista is big as it is, few people are going to cry about an optionally-installable VPCed XP that you use to run applications that aren't compatible with the new APIs.
It was a Netgear, but not wireless. The current one is a Siemens - their products usually aren't bad, but this router is. (Note: Don't confuse Siemens with Fujitsu-Siemens. Fujitsu-Siemens products tend to be on the crappy side.)
Is there a list of affordable routers that don't suck? So far every router we have owned (home, not office) has developed strange ailments. The last one we had stopped responding after some time up (probably due to some buffer overflowing). The current one starts dropping packets after a while, which happens faster when BitTorrent is running.
The router sits next to our telecommunications equipment in the storage room; the area is constantly at 16C (less in winter but not below 4ish) with medium humidity (estimated 30-40%). I know that those are not exactly ideal conditions but I think that a router should be able to withstand them. So does anyone know of a router that doesn't start to develop random problems after about half a year?
Then again, we're talking about the internet, which is mostly made up of porn and copyright infringement (which is also largely made up of porn). If this is what the internet will derive it's knowledge about humans and our world from...
I, for one, very much welcome our new digital overlords!
I'm just imagining this. Bill Gates is in his office, next to a brand new designer desk, thinking: "What a nice new desk." Then Steve Ballmer comes in, screams and repeatedly smashes his fists into the table until it's completely destroyed. Then he moves on to vent his anger with someone else's furniture and Gates decides that he wants his office in another building.
We're talking about Bill Gates. His throne probably consists of...
...paper-mâché. The paper has pictures of dead presidents printed on it. ...a big statue of Gary Kildall at the moment where he noticed how much he had been screwed during the IBM/MS-DOS thing. ...the biggest artificial diamond ever. ...the biggest real diamond ever. ...all those chairs Steve Ballmer has fucking killed. It's more of an art project than a throne. ...printouts of the Copland source code, with the line "Joke Of The Day" at the top of each page. ...a huge chunk of pure Itanium. ...Unobtainium. It also doubles as a world-saving device in case a space radiation laser melts the Golden Gate Bridge. ...grue bones. ...a carved-out XBox.
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Well, Thunderbirds don't overheat. Seriously, someone once made a little tray out of tin foil and fried an egg over his T-Bird. I think the mainboard would catch fire before the T-Bird takes damage.
On AMD64s, however, overheatung is unusual. I have a watercooled PC (mainly for volume reasons) and with my old Athlon XP 1500+@1800+ accidentally leaving the pump unplugged was a surefire way to crash the computer within five minutes (and melt the tubes connected to the CPU water block until I finally got decent ones). With my new Athlon 64 3000 it's a surefire way to get the temperature to rise to fifty degrees and stay there (as opposed to the ~40 it reaches during normal operation). The Athlon64 is probably the coolest processor I've owned sinde the Intel 80486, in more than one way.
Yep, Mr. "We're responsible for the take up of 64-bit processors" doesn't offer a single 64-bit OS to use them with. No Linux, no XP 64-bit Edition. What is the point of that, exactly?
Customer satisfaction? From what I've heard XP64 still suffers from driver scarceness and similar bittage-related problems. Besides, some people might actually want to run 16-bit apps (being Windows users, after all), which XP64 doesn't do anymore.
Didn't AMD get SSE2 (among other things) for sharing AMD64 with Intel? I'm pretty sure this agreement is why my Athlon64 supports SSE2.
Dell sold more wireless stuff than Apple, therefore they invented wireless.
Dell sold more EM64T processors to end users than Intel, therefore they invented EM64T.
Dell used to sell a lot of CRT monitors, so I guess they invented the cathode-ray tube as well.
Hey, I like this kind of reasoning.
Germany has instigated the two biggest wars so far, therefore Germany invented war. If the USA attack Iran we're going to sue them for copyright infringement.
(What the hell does one find in a "Scene" or "Lifestyle" section anyway?)
The "Scene" section obviously belongs on scene.org or Pouët. I didn't expect newspapers to be that interested in the scene, though.
H T T P colon slash slash dot-slash dot org? People are never going to visit a site with such an awkward name.
What's the accepted name of Uranus in other languages anyway?
German: Uranus
Danish: Uranus
Finnish: Uranus
French: Uranus
Bahasa Indonesian: Uranus
Hollandese: Uranus
Norwegian: Uranus
Romanian: Uranus
Swedish: Uranus
Home that helps.
With the Mini, you don't have to worry about where to put it.
You have obviously never seen my desk.
That's why I use a custom keymap on my iBook. It emulates all important keys on a German Windows keyboard so I don't have to relearn where |, @ or \ are.
Hmm. I'm thinking about remapping my Insert key to something else so that I can still use it (for example in games). Dou you know any button that does nothing when pressed on it's own but still is normal enough to be recognized by most programs? F19 would fill the first requirement but not the second... (I have an Apple keyboard with 16 function keys and due to KMilo sucking I had to remap my XF86AudioLowerVolume and XF86AudioRaiseVolume to F17 and F18. However, I'm pretty sure that most non-KDE programs would have trouble noticing them.)
One thing I've never understood is how someone can become a Mac "hater". What's there to hate about it? In fact, I also don't see how someone can be a Windows "hater" (since hating something is different from simply disliking it). Maybe someone could elaborate?
As for Macs: Their users generate hate for the same reaon that Gentoo users tend to be met with slight derision: Some have this quite obnoxious "my $THING is better than yours" attitude even when having it requires some serious reality postprocessing. Unfortunately they are loud enough to create the illusion that they are everyone. Your stereotypical Gentoo user is "liek so bleeding edge omg" and always gloats over how his distro is 1.5% faster than yours. All real Gentoo users I know just prefer the package management, the configurability and the fact that there are no version updates, which tend to break RPM- and DEB-based distros in home use scenarios.
Your streotypical Apple user is too cool for this world, at least according to his definition. His MP3 player alone makes him a better person than you and his Mac is faster than your IBM, even if the hardware is identical. Real Mac users just like OS X (although I have to admit the only Mac users I know are recent switchers with above-average computer literacy. You know, people who can appreciate the fact that it's a BSD).
As for Windows: Yes, I did hate it for a while; now I meet it with slight disgust.
It's not the feeling of flakiness that it hasn't quite gotten rid of since the days of 95 (although objectively speaking it did improve a lot). It's not the bazillions of worms that permeate the internet. It's not the clunky, poorly-integrated, extremely power user-unfriendly interface that keeps you from working by trying to be "helpful". It's not the fact that it coms with bucketloads of useless shit integrated and configured to run by default. It's not the reregistration after N new hardware components. It's not the fact that you really have to go out of your way to not buy a copy if it when you buy a new PC that's not going to run it later. It's not the fact that about half a decade has passed since the last major release. It's not the utterly soulless corporation behind it that couldn't even play fair in a game without any rules. It's all of the above combined that makes people hate Windows.
Windows has kept picking up annoyances during its history and it has barely dropped any. It has gathered shit to the point where people are starting to be fed up. One needle prick won't kill you. One hundred thousand might. Microsoft's (and especially Windows') reputation has taken a lot of pricks.
I think there is a site like that. It's called "Dig" or something.
Great idea! Just like NeXT bought Apple OpenBSD should buy Microsoft for a negative sum. Theo DeRaadt can't possibly be worse than Steve Ballmer.
Why not just ship an older version of Windows with the new release? Vista is big as it is, few people are going to cry about an optionally-installable VPCed XP that you use to run applications that aren't compatible with the new APIs.
It was a Netgear, but not wireless. The current one is a Siemens - their products usually aren't bad, but this router is. (Note: Don't confuse Siemens with Fujitsu-Siemens. Fujitsu-Siemens products tend to be on the crappy side.)
I ended up writing a simple perl script to handle the updates instead.
Here's a ready-made Perl-scripted daemon for this kind of stuff: http://ddclient.sourceforge.net/
Is there a list of affordable routers that don't suck? So far every router we have owned (home, not office) has developed strange ailments. The last one we had stopped responding after some time up (probably due to some buffer overflowing). The current one starts dropping packets after a while, which happens faster when BitTorrent is running.
The router sits next to our telecommunications equipment in the storage room; the area is constantly at 16C (less in winter but not below 4ish) with medium humidity (estimated 30-40%). I know that those are not exactly ideal conditions but I think that a router should be able to withstand them. So does anyone know of a router that doesn't start to develop random problems after about half a year?
Then again, we're talking about the internet, which is mostly made up of porn and copyright infringement (which is also largely made up of porn). If this is what the internet will derive it's knowledge about humans and our world from...
I, for one, very much welcome our new digital overlords!
What could go wrong?
The batteries could start sending themselves off as mail attachments or use your post office to send out spam.
Six billionths of a meter? Wow, that's one small manometer. How far up does it go, 0.01 bar?
First Apple lets people install Windows then Microsoft lets its own people install Linux. Whats next ?
Gentoo for NT.
$YOUR_DISTRO sucks and no one should use it. $MY_DISTRO is much superior in every regard.
Pre-Menstrual Dysphoria, obviously.
I'm just imagining this. Bill Gates is in his office, next to a brand new designer desk, thinking: "What a nice new desk." Then Steve Ballmer comes in, screams and repeatedly smashes his fists into the table until it's completely destroyed. Then he moves on to vent his anger with someone else's furniture and Gates decides that he wants his office in another building.
Hilarious.
STEVE SMASH!!
We're talking about Bill Gates. His throne probably consists of...
...paper-mâché. The paper has pictures of dead presidents printed on it.
...a big statue of Gary Kildall at the moment where he noticed how much he had been screwed during the IBM/MS-DOS thing.
...the biggest artificial diamond ever.
...the biggest real diamond ever.
...all those chairs Steve Ballmer has fucking killed. It's more of an art project than a throne.
...printouts of the Copland source code, with the line "Joke Of The Day" at the top of each page.
...a huge chunk of pure Itanium.
...Unobtainium. It also doubles as a world-saving device in case a space radiation laser melts the Golden Gate Bridge.
...grue bones.
...a carved-out XBox.