you're right, i only need 8gb of ram. Really, try encoding 1080P h264 for a ps3 sometime and then let me know how fast that atom feels. Or compile software or edit movies. Yep that nettop would work just fine for getting to facebook and IRC.
bah, i don't trust their unbuntu battery life. They installed a Desktop version of unbuntu, and made no attempt to conserve battery, they switched the profile on windows to "auto". They would at least have run powertop and pressed the keys, and then tested. Thats not even including things like screen brightness, or a properly working wifi driver. So I call shananigins, although i guess ubuntu could ship with some sort of "power" profiles, but that would confuse the unbuntu users.
user1: "why is my desktop slower in linux?"
guru1: "did you set the power profile on install to 'low power'?"
user1: "yea, what should that matter?!! it should know that when i try to watch a movie and it drops frames it needs to turn the power back up!!!"
guru1: "/facepalm, you need to change it if you want it to not conserve power. Also why don't you set it to 'mildly conservative' as the help text suggests?"
user1: "I'M BEING GREEN! AND STUFF, DOES UBUNTU CONTAIN ANY ANIMAL PRODUCTS OR CFCs?"
guru1: "..."
and thats how it would go down with most of the ubuntu users i know. Now don't get me wrong, ubuntu is a great gateway Distro, but it would be a good idea to look outside of it for a change. maybe the netbook remix even.
and yes, for the lurking/. hivemind pedantic self proclaimed clerisy types, i know i didnt us any proper capitalization and hardly any correct punctuation.
is there an option to forgo the right to meet my accuser? for example, anon "hate" speech? "my client John Doe1, forgos his/her right to meet his/her accuser to remain anonymous. If he should be found guilty, he/she shall appear before the court for sentencing." AFAIK there is nothing like that in the US legal system. The problem is when the hate speech isn't at all, but something true about a "starlet" and the lawyer just want to unmask the individual, or if they are a whistle blower. anyways, I like free speech, and think anonymous speech is also a good thing.
meet an older looking 17 year old with a halfway decent fake ID doing shots in a 21+ bar, why bother asking? but at the end of the day, you get to put your name on a list and tell your neighbors about it for the rest of your life.
have any data on how much CPU you need to run raid 5 or 6 using software on linux? can i use a low end via? how about an ARM7? say 6 disks, on sata2 getting as much performance as the drives can handle? how about reading from a RAID6 array while transcoding a video for a device? I know if i use a hardware raid card the CPU is fairly unimportant as far as disk access goes.
bought a 1TB sata baracuda drive, "Model=ST31000528AS, FwRev=CC34" from hdparm -i.
#hdparm -Tt/dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 2442 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1221.80 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 364 MB in 3.00 seconds = 121.30 MB/sec
# dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1000000 of=./testfiledeletemelater
1000000+0 records in
1000000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 13.6103 s, 75.2 MB/s
Now i know the above isn't a good test, and i wrote the file to a EXT4 formated LVM "partition". As for that the uptime on this machine is >95% over the last year. The drive is a year old, and serves a lot of video(~3Mb/sec total) to my PS3. I did not buy one of the drives with the firmware issues. Although i may consider a WD black drive next time. If you run RAID consider changing the TLER value to something useful for that, or buy a RE drive.
Reading: Backlit screen is harder on the eyes than paper, or eink(i hear) Web content: no flash, lack of multimedia codec support (mpeg, wma, ogg/vorbis) Music: a regular ipod fits in more places, and when at home my stereo is better. using the ipad as an input would work, but then i can't do anything on it. Games: PS3, XBox360, Wii, flash, PC/Mac gaming, enough said. E-Mail: crackberries, and any number of web mail services, outlook(full app not the crappy non ie web interface). Office apps/Documents: You can't print, and you need a bluetooth keyboard just to type decently for a long document. Powerpoint compatability? Does the spreadsheep app support VBA macros like 90% of business spreadsheets use? any MS project type app(project planing)? Camera: if it has one, is it better than a $200 point and shoot? how about a $600 DSLR(D3000, EoS)
VoIP: no microphone built in, no front facing camera. I hear you can pair a bluetooth headset to it, but is it really supported.
I can't find anything that the iPad would replace without it running stuff i want it to run. Namely lighter tasks that i use my desktop for that i would like to do on my couch/bed, watch things, read/., etc.
Ohh i bet the Volt will do 100, not much over that, but i bet you can make it hit 100, and if it is electric drive, i bet the 0-60 times are 4's, or low 5's.
because we'd like to use the device how we want? if we want to view porn, good, we can. And you can view porn via safari anyways (so blocking it from the app store doesn't really do much). if it had real accounts on it you could set which parts of the store each account could get to, and then only the master account could view the porn apps. problem of kids viewing it on the store solved. As for the lack of flash, meh, but some things i'd like to do on a iPad won't be doable, hulu, netflix, thedailyshow.com, foamy the squirrel, funky truck 4wd. Not only those but, IM while running pandora, while reading an iBook, while downloading a video i bought to watch later. Let me choose how fast i use up the battery. Give me a simple interface to see whats running, and whats using the most battery(add cpu cycles + wireless traffic in bits/sec or something like that, it needs a weight scale) and allow me to kill/stop a hungry thing if i want to. Part of me would like to be an apple customer, but when they sell something i'd actully use i'll join. The only thing I can think of at the moment, is a mac mini to use as a HTPC. The only reaso to use one is the form factor, i can do the same or better hardware with windows(tpb.org) for close to the same cost and in a nicer(more like A/V gear) case for around the same.
do i get to keep my car/microwave/dishwasher/ATM/central heating and cooling thermostat/etc? or do all of those need to be replaced by an ipad? does a timing belt on a car count as a physical computer? just asking.
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Porn doesn't have an S in it.
Phishing is the longest.
and think of the money that could be brought in taxes if it was legal! and tickets for driving under the influence.
you're right, i only need 8gb of ram. Really, try encoding 1080P h264 for a ps3 sometime and then let me know how fast that atom feels. Or compile software or edit movies. Yep that nettop would work just fine for getting to facebook and IRC.
bah, i don't trust their unbuntu battery life. They installed a Desktop version of unbuntu, and made no attempt to conserve battery, they switched the profile on windows to "auto". They would at least have run powertop and pressed the keys, and then tested. Thats not even including things like screen brightness, or a properly working wifi driver. So I call shananigins, although i guess ubuntu could ship with some sort of "power" profiles, but that would confuse the unbuntu users.
user1: "why is my desktop slower in linux?"
guru1: "did you set the power profile on install to 'low power'?"
user1: "yea, what should that matter?!! it should know that when i try to watch a movie and it drops frames it needs to turn the power back up!!!"
guru1: "/facepalm, you need to change it if you want it to not conserve power. Also why don't you set it to 'mildly conservative' as the help text suggests?"
user1: "I'M BEING GREEN! AND STUFF, DOES UBUNTU CONTAIN ANY ANIMAL PRODUCTS OR CFCs?"
guru1: "..."
and thats how it would go down with most of the ubuntu users i know. Now don't get me wrong, ubuntu is a great gateway Distro, but it would be a good idea to look outside of it for a change. maybe the netbook remix even.
With only one ram slot this is almost 100% a cost issue, 4GB dimms are a lot more than 2GB ones.
all that will do is add a "After 18 months your case will be up for review again, at which time we will decide what your fate will be" loop forever.
and yes, for the lurking /. hivemind pedantic self proclaimed clerisy types, i know i didnt us any proper capitalization and hardly any correct punctuation.
you also misspelled 'use'~
is there an option to forgo the right to meet my accuser? for example, anon "hate" speech? "my client John Doe1, forgos his/her right to meet his/her accuser to remain anonymous. If he should be found guilty, he/she shall appear before the court for sentencing." AFAIK there is nothing like that in the US legal system. The problem is when the hate speech isn't at all, but something true about a "starlet" and the lawyer just want to unmask the individual, or if they are a whistle blower. anyways, I like free speech, and think anonymous speech is also a good thing.
Also, just because someone is 18 does not mean they know better... and lots of 16 year olds know better.
meet an older looking 17 year old with a halfway decent fake ID doing shots in a 21+ bar, why bother asking? but at the end of the day, you get to put your name on a list and tell your neighbors about it for the rest of your life.
lol, like the price would go down by 30% when most airlines in the country are loosing money.
have any data on how much CPU you need to run raid 5 or 6 using software on linux? can i use a low end via? how about an ARM7? say 6 disks, on sata2 getting as much performance as the drives can handle? how about reading from a RAID6 array while transcoding a video for a device? I know if i use a hardware raid card the CPU is fairly unimportant as far as disk access goes.
depends, it's hard to do a root LVM without a initramfs.
bought a 1TB sata baracuda drive, "Model=ST31000528AS, FwRev=CC34" from hdparm -i.
#hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 2442 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1221.80 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 364 MB in 3.00 seconds = 121.30 MB/sec
# dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1000000 of=./testfiledeletemelater
1000000+0 records in
1000000+0 records out
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 13.6103 s, 75.2 MB/s
Now i know the above isn't a good test, and i wrote the file to a EXT4 formated LVM "partition". As for that the uptime on this machine is >95% over the last year. The drive is a year old, and serves a lot of video(~3Mb/sec total) to my PS3. I did not buy one of the drives with the firmware issues. Although i may consider a WD black drive next time. If you run RAID consider changing the TLER value to something useful for that, or buy a RE drive.
explain to me the tasks the iPad does well?
Reading: Backlit screen is harder on the eyes than paper, or eink(i hear)
Web content: no flash, lack of multimedia codec support (mpeg, wma, ogg/vorbis)
Music: a regular ipod fits in more places, and when at home my stereo is better. using the ipad as an input would work, but then i can't do anything on it.
Games: PS3, XBox360, Wii, flash, PC/Mac gaming, enough said.
E-Mail: crackberries, and any number of web mail services, outlook(full app not the crappy non ie web interface).
Office apps/Documents: You can't print, and you need a bluetooth keyboard just to type decently for a long document. Powerpoint compatability? Does the spreadsheep app support VBA macros like 90% of business spreadsheets use? any MS project type app(project planing)?
Camera: if it has one, is it better than a $200 point and shoot? how about a $600 DSLR(D3000, EoS) VoIP: no microphone built in, no front facing camera. I hear you can pair a bluetooth headset to it, but is it really supported.
I can't find anything that the iPad would replace without it running stuff i want it to run. Namely lighter tasks that i use my desktop for that i would like to do on my couch/bed, watch things, read /., etc.
Ohh i bet the Volt will do 100, not much over that, but i bet you can make it hit 100, and if it is electric drive, i bet the 0-60 times are 4's, or low 5's.
because we'd like to use the device how we want? if we want to view porn, good, we can. And you can view porn via safari anyways (so blocking it from the app store doesn't really do much). if it had real accounts on it you could set which parts of the store each account could get to, and then only the master account could view the porn apps. problem of kids viewing it on the store solved. As for the lack of flash, meh, but some things i'd like to do on a iPad won't be doable, hulu, netflix, thedailyshow.com, foamy the squirrel, funky truck 4wd. Not only those but, IM while running pandora, while reading an iBook, while downloading a video i bought to watch later. Let me choose how fast i use up the battery. Give me a simple interface to see whats running, and whats using the most battery(add cpu cycles + wireless traffic in bits/sec or something like that, it needs a weight scale) and allow me to kill/stop a hungry thing if i want to. Part of me would like to be an apple customer, but when they sell something i'd actully use i'll join. The only thing I can think of at the moment, is a mac mini to use as a HTPC. The only reaso to use one is the form factor, i can do the same or better hardware with windows(tpb.org) for close to the same cost and in a nicer(more like A/V gear) case for around the same.
Also, almost every mobile device is ARM based.
how many nokia phones are connected to the internet?
i know, mine uses USB, and i wish it used a parallel port, they were faster. The problem still is there though, no printing to a usb printer either.
do i get to keep my car/microwave/dishwasher/ATM/central heating and cooling thermostat/etc? or do all of those need to be replaced by an ipad? does a timing belt on a car count as a physical computer? just asking.
hehe, i'm not sure either of my cars have an ODBII interface, a '94 saturn SL2, and '95 ford escort ex or lx which ever is the cheeper trim option.
brakes are easy to test safely at low speeds. Something like ABS or your AWD diff settings is not so much.
but that risks Indoor air quality problems !!!! OMG!!!
wet clutch? ohh you mean that "exotic" DSG style automatics. Not what is in most ford/chevys/GMs, a hydrolic automatic.