Make new hardware work without three kernel recompiles and a prayer to ye gods.
Yeah, because there are *so* many different hardware configurations in the Mac world vs. the PC world.
I mean, c'mon - you expect the same results from an obscure company (which RH very much was prior to the whole IPO thing) that you expect from Apple when a) they don't have NEARLY the resources of Apples and b) the job is AT LEAST three orders of magnatude more difficult. How long did Apple work on OS X?? How many years? How many OS and hardware upgrades did they pump out while they were working on it to help with things like...*gasp*...cash flow?
I own an iBook (not the fugly clam shell) and run OS X exclusively on it. It's *very* nice, but I'd still call it pretty far from perfect. I mean, there was a big "ooh-ahh" from my mac friends when 10.1 came out and you could move the dock around - and get it to stay there between logins! Yeah....wow....real customizeable interface...Red Hat ships with how many different desktop environments and window managers?
A Consumer Recall? For what? Something that can be fixed by the end user? That's like recalling tires because they're low on air.
ok, well I've had several recalls on my cars that I could have fixed myself. A leaky transfer case (which would lock up - usually at highways speeds - when it failed) was fixed by an hour of work and some RTV. The only reason that I would take the car to the dealer was a) it took less of my time and b) if there was an accident because of the recalled part, I could be held responsible by neglecting the recall. Incidentally, I had to fix the transfer case myself because of the dealer's reluctance to issue a safety recall.
What I would like to see is a national agency setup to handle safety recalls - and yes, "computer safety" is an issue. Every product you buy would contain 2 registration cards. One for the manufacturer and one for the national safety association. I could then register my product *solely* to be informed of safety updates. Of course, there would have to be laws in place to prevent the sale or use of this information for *any* purpose other than safety recalls / notifications.
I've been using VMware for about 3 years professionally, but I think that you're missing the point. VMware is *great* for compatibility testing and such, but it doesn't support any type of hardware acceleration.
Running windows in Linux is a very cool thing. It allows people to use linux on their desktop while connecting to the full blown exchange server. VMware simply provides an abstraction layer to the hardware. If it's not supported in the abstraction layer - it doesn't exsist.
You *have* to see the movie! Ian McKellen as Gandalf is nothing short of perfect. His performance delivered *way* beyond anything I could hope for! He was playful when he could get away with it and *very* serious when it was demanded.
The balrog scene had me in tears and I knew what was coming....in fact...sniff....I'm getting a bit misty just thinking about it....sniff....
I direct you to the plethora of *very* creative, quality indie films. Just off the top of my head, I'd throw out Pi, How to Kill Your Neighbors Dog, Dark City, City of Lost Children, Swimming with Sharks and The Big Kahuna. Every on of those had some *very* creative elements (set design, story, dialog, etc) and weren't very big at the box office (some of them never made it to the theaters).
I'll give you that some people just *aren't* creative - even if they were in the past. A lot of times it's just that some things are just too far outside the mainstream to pull in any real money.
I'd have to agree with you there. We got a GC w/ rogue leader at the office to review. Wow. I ran right out to the local Target and picked up a GC and SWRL 15 minutes after seeing it.
SWRL has lived up to every expectation I had. Buy a copy if you can - but by all means, play it
Luigi's Mansion is a fun game with neat game play, too. Although I don't think it will have much replay value.
just remember that whild both the Xbox and PS2 will play DVD and have a $299 price tag - the Xbox requires an aftermarket add-on raising the price higher for the same feature
Why do the bosses hire creative people and then expect them to be well, dull?
You may have heard of this thing called "business".
There are two ways to run a business:
1) Be creative. Hope your ideas are too far out to be useful or interesting and actually strike a chord or hit some sweet niche. In short - gamble
2) Play it safe. You know what works - you see everybody else doing it. Take their stuff, add sugar and milk it for all it's worth.
Now, everybody likes to hire "creative" people so that they can make a run for "the big time", but the reality is, most of the people in middle and upper management want a guaranteed return. Thus, out with the gambling and "Gimme some sugar":-)
The entertainment business is *usually* just that - business. Just enough creativity to give you an edge.
You have obviously never driven through Manhattan, Jersey City or Hoboken in a Miata.;-)
I used to rollerblade for at least 2 hours a day and I was never jostled like I have been on those roads. My Kenwood MP3 car CD player has *never* skipped. Highly recommended for those that can deal with CDR/CDRW media devices
Thus spoke fm6: VMWare is expensive, requires a sophisticated user, and has a big footprint. Makes sense for developers (having a complete VM is handy even if you're not working cross-platform!) and for some server apps. Can't see it for a basic desktop environment.
I've been using VMWare daily for somewhere around 3 years now. While the commercial license is somewhat expensive, it does NOT require a sophisticated user. It has a very user friendly wizard to set up the VM.
Just to pick nits, the large memory footprint doesn't come from VMWare - it comse from the guest OS. VMWare is actually a very small app. V2.0 weighed in at a 5MB download (I think it was between 1MB and 2MB)
Even engines cannot directly be compared on the basis of horsepower - you also have to take into account torque. I see what your saying in that the hp is a direct measure of performance while MHz is a measure of how many cycles per second the thing runs at. However, hp is *by no means* a true measure of what the engine can accomplish
Regardless, you can't use an engine without giving it something to drive (the rest of the platform).
So, the engines can't be directly compared unless you take into account the torque and horsepower characteristics, and as a result where the power band for a particular engine is, etc the same way that CPUs can't be directly compared. All you can do is look at the total platform and compare specific test results: 1/4 mile times / 1/4 speeds / towing capacity, etc vs Int, FPU, I/O, etc
Think of hp as an FPU benchmark. It's one aspect of the performance package.
No, it really is the same as horsepower in cars. The engine (CPU) may put out 225bhp, but if the car weighs 6000lbs, the overall performance is slugish.
The car's bhp is not the thing to look at for overall performance; it's power/weight. That's why a 600cc bike will 0wn a 5L mustang.
It's the same thing with CPUs. It doesn't matter how many cycles (bhp) they pump through if they're spending all their energy redoing a poorly guessed branch prediction in a deep pipeline (pushing around dead weight)
I believe that he's poking fun at Bruce Perens' old.sig, which read something like "The real Bruce Perens has slashdot ID 17563, anyone else is an imposter" (or whatever his ID really is).
It seems to me that a GOOD ADMIN would have any important data backed up prior to installing/upgrading any mission critical servers. Just because you're a negligent moron doesn't mean that Windows sucks.
You're correct that a "Good Admin" would back their data up before performing a system upgrade / patch.
However, in this case, Windows DOES suck, regardless of the (moron|genius) at the keyboard.
Any system that *requires* OS updates to be bundled and installed along with the application (IIS) updates is broken. It matters not if you have an intern "administering" the box or a 10-year-vet.
If, for some reason, the latest bugfix from Apache broke compatibility with a current or previous Linux kernel, I can always pop a new kernel in there. On my own time. Checking to make sure that none of my other apps will break. Even if I'm not paying attention and blindly upgrade Apache without checking its deps, I'm left with an unusable Apache - my data is still there. I can just backpeddle to my previous Apache and I'm up again.
Not so with (2K|NT)/IIS. Install SP, hose machine...reinstall...
One of these situations takes a little more time than the other...
Actually, the *theoretical* best of a 56K modem isn't 5.6KB/s. 56 means 56Kbits. In theory, it can do 7KB/sec (KiloBYTES).
However, the FCC won't let it go faster then 53Kbs. Even then, you'll be lucky to connect at 48Kbs (6Kb/sec) on older phone lines.
Incidentally, I've *never* seen my cable modem (Optimum Online, south west CT) drop below 160Kbs. For sites with decent bandwidth, I generally get upwards of 3.2Mb/s
OMG, I love that stuff! Dave's salsa is pretty damn tastey, too.
There's also the Jamaican Hot Sauce: Batch #114 - to quote the label "Pain is Good".:-)
At the consulting firm I used to work for, I had quite a bit of exchange exposure. IMNSHO, any mail server that crashes the OS when a poorly formatted message arrives is crap.
This was not a one time incident. It happened at multiple clients of ours and was repeatable (by sending the suspect message again).
Microsoft's response was "That's weird. We have no idea why that's happening. We'll take a look at it"
We never heard back from them or noticed the problem in their KB.
Repeat after me: it is *NOT* the job of businesses to interpret *OR* enforce the law.
That is way we have our judicial system. Even if a police officer tags me with radar, lidar or whatever for exceeding the speed limit, I still have my oportunity to go to court and defend myself. That data is merely evidence which may or may not prove the crime.
Last I checked, the cops didn't take cash, debit or charge cards the second the infraction occured.
The most that they should be allowed to do is report you to the authorities and offer their GPS data as evidence (whether or not it is valid is for the *courts* to decide).
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Make new hardware work without three kernel recompiles and a prayer to ye gods.
Yeah, because there are *so* many different hardware configurations in the Mac world vs. the PC world.
I mean, c'mon - you expect the same results from an obscure company (which RH very much was prior to the whole IPO thing) that you expect from Apple when a) they don't have NEARLY the resources of Apples and b) the job is AT LEAST three orders of magnatude more difficult. How long did Apple work on OS X?? How many years? How many OS and hardware upgrades did they pump out while they were working on it to help with things like...*gasp*...cash flow?
I own an iBook (not the fugly clam shell) and run OS X exclusively on it. It's *very* nice, but I'd still call it pretty far from perfect. I mean, there was a big "ooh-ahh" from my mac friends when 10.1 came out and you could move the dock around - and get it to stay there between logins! Yeah....wow....real customizeable interface...Red Hat ships with how many different desktop environments and window managers?
A Consumer Recall? For what? Something that can be fixed by the end user? That's like recalling tires because they're low on air.
ok, well I've had several recalls on my cars that I could have fixed myself. A leaky transfer case (which would lock up - usually at highways speeds - when it failed) was fixed by an hour of work and some RTV. The only reason that I would take the car to the dealer was a) it took less of my time and b) if there was an accident because of the recalled part, I could be held responsible by neglecting the recall. Incidentally, I had to fix the transfer case myself because of the dealer's reluctance to issue a safety recall.
What I would like to see is a national agency setup to handle safety recalls - and yes, "computer safety" is an issue. Every product you buy would contain 2 registration cards. One for the manufacturer and one for the national safety association. I could then register my product *solely* to be informed of safety updates. Of course, there would have to be laws in place to prevent the sale or use of this information for *any* purpose other than safety recalls / notifications.
I've been using VMware for about 3 years professionally, but I think that you're missing the point. VMware is *great* for compatibility testing and such, but it doesn't support any type of hardware acceleration.
Running windows in Linux is a very cool thing. It allows people to use linux on their desktop while connecting to the full blown exchange server. VMware simply provides an abstraction layer to the hardware. If it's not supported in the abstraction layer - it doesn't exsist.
You *have* to see the movie! Ian McKellen as Gandalf is nothing short of perfect. His performance delivered *way* beyond anything I could hope for! He was playful when he could get away with it and *very* serious when it was demanded.
The balrog scene had me in tears and I knew what was coming....in fact...sniff....I'm getting a bit misty just thinking about it....sniff....
Brain fart - Dark City was actually put out by New Line. Not exactly an indie studio...great flick...but it tanked anyway. :-)
I direct you to the plethora of *very* creative, quality indie films. Just off the top of my head, I'd throw out Pi, How to Kill Your Neighbors Dog, Dark City, City of Lost Children, Swimming with Sharks and The Big Kahuna. Every on of those had some *very* creative elements (set design, story, dialog, etc) and weren't very big at the box office (some of them never made it to the theaters).
I'll give you that some people just *aren't* creative - even if they were in the past. A lot of times it's just that some things are just too far outside the mainstream to pull in any real money.
I'd have to agree with you there. We got a GC w/ rogue leader at the office to review. Wow. I ran right out to the local Target and picked up a GC and SWRL 15 minutes after seeing it.
SWRL has lived up to every expectation I had. Buy a copy if you can - but by all means, play it
Luigi's Mansion is a fun game with neat game play, too. Although I don't think it will have much replay value.
just remember that whild both the Xbox and PS2 will play DVD and have a $299 price tag - the Xbox requires an aftermarket add-on raising the price higher for the same feature
Why do the bosses hire creative people and then expect them to be well, dull?
:-)
You may have heard of this thing called "business".
There are two ways to run a business:
1) Be creative. Hope your ideas are too far out to be useful or interesting and actually strike a chord or hit some sweet niche. In short - gamble
2) Play it safe. You know what works - you see everybody else doing it. Take their stuff, add sugar and milk it for all it's worth.
Now, everybody likes to hire "creative" people so that they can make a run for "the big time", but the reality is, most of the people in middle and upper management want a guaranteed return. Thus, out with the gambling and "Gimme some sugar"
The entertainment business is *usually* just that - business. Just enough creativity to give you an edge.
You have obviously never driven through Manhattan, Jersey City or Hoboken in a Miata. ;-)
I used to rollerblade for at least 2 hours a day and I was never jostled like I have been on those roads. My Kenwood MP3 car CD player has *never* skipped. Highly recommended for those that can deal with CDR/CDRW media devices
I'm running Mozilla on Linux and it wouldn't let me in...
Thus spoke fm6:
VMWare is expensive, requires a sophisticated user, and has a big footprint. Makes sense for developers (having a complete VM is handy even if you're not working cross-platform!) and for some server apps. Can't see it for a basic desktop environment.
I've been using VMWare daily for somewhere around 3 years now. While the commercial license is somewhat expensive, it does NOT require a sophisticated user. It has a very user friendly wizard to set up the VM.
Just to pick nits, the large memory footprint doesn't come from VMWare - it comse from the guest OS. VMWare is actually a very small app. V2.0 weighed in at a 5MB download (I think it was between 1MB and 2MB)
Even engines cannot directly be compared on the basis of horsepower - you also have to take into account torque. I see what your saying in that the hp is a direct measure of performance while MHz is a measure of how many cycles per second the thing runs at. However, hp is *by no means* a true measure of what the engine can accomplish
Regardless, you can't use an engine without giving it something to drive (the rest of the platform).
So, the engines can't be directly compared unless you take into account the torque and horsepower characteristics, and as a result where the power band for a particular engine is, etc the same way that CPUs can't be directly compared. All you can do is look at the total platform and compare specific test results: 1/4 mile times / 1/4 speeds / towing capacity, etc vs Int, FPU, I/O, etc
Think of hp as an FPU benchmark. It's one aspect of the performance package.
No, it really is the same as horsepower in cars. The engine (CPU) may put out 225bhp, but if the car weighs 6000lbs, the overall performance is slugish.
The car's bhp is not the thing to look at for overall performance; it's power/weight. That's why a 600cc bike will 0wn a 5L mustang.
It's the same thing with CPUs. It doesn't matter how many cycles (bhp) they pump through if they're spending all their energy redoing a poorly guessed branch prediction in a deep pipeline (pushing around dead weight)
erg - my bad, I browse at +1, so I didn't see the AC you were actually replying to.
No, because WINE is an emulation layer that translates the Win32 calls to X calls.
What Dillon and the parent poster are saying is that many of the programs that run on Linux can be compiled on the BSDs just as easily as on Linux.
The Linux emulation layer isn't needed at all for those programs.
I believe that he's poking fun at Bruce Perens' old .sig, which read something like "The real Bruce Perens has slashdot ID 17563, anyone else is an imposter" (or whatever his ID really is).
Detective Sykes' (Sikes?) name sounded like two words from the newcomer language, "sy ikes". Translated: "Excrement" and "Cranium" - or shithead
It seems to me that a GOOD ADMIN would have any important data backed up prior to installing/upgrading any mission critical servers. Just because you're a negligent moron doesn't mean that Windows sucks. You're correct that a "Good Admin" would back their data up before performing a system upgrade / patch.
However, in this case, Windows DOES suck, regardless of the (moron|genius) at the keyboard.
Any system that *requires* OS updates to be bundled and installed along with the application (IIS) updates is broken. It matters not if you have an intern "administering" the box or a 10-year-vet.
If, for some reason, the latest bugfix from Apache broke compatibility with a current or previous Linux kernel, I can always pop a new kernel in there. On my own time. Checking to make sure that none of my other apps will break. Even if I'm not paying attention and blindly upgrade Apache without checking its deps, I'm left with an unusable Apache - my data is still there. I can just backpeddle to my previous Apache and I'm up again.
Not so with (2K|NT)/IIS. Install SP, hose machine...reinstall...
One of these situations takes a little more time than the other...
I play all those games *now* on my PC with my old SNES / PSX controllers.
:-)
Check out the Linux Parallel Port Joystick driver. Compile the module and set your options. A quick converter box later, you're all set
Actually, the *theoretical* best of a 56K modem isn't 5.6KB/s. 56 means 56Kbits. In theory, it can do 7KB/sec (KiloBYTES).
However, the FCC won't let it go faster then 53Kbs. Even then, you'll be lucky to connect at 48Kbs (6Kb/sec) on older phone lines.
Incidentally, I've *never* seen my cable modem (Optimum Online, south west CT) drop below 160Kbs. For sites with decent bandwidth, I generally get upwards of 3.2Mb/s
OMG, I love that stuff! Dave's salsa is pretty damn tastey, too. There's also the Jamaican Hot Sauce: Batch #114 - to quote the label "Pain is Good". :-)
Mazda actually has a car called the (strangely enough) Mazda MP3 that comes with an in dash MP3 player.
I'd post a direct link, but www.mazdausa.com doesn't seem to like Mozilla right now...
Exchange is *NOT* a good product.
At the consulting firm I used to work for, I had quite a bit of exchange exposure. IMNSHO, any mail server that crashes the OS when a poorly formatted message arrives is crap.
This was not a one time incident. It happened at multiple clients of ours and was repeatable (by sending the suspect message again).
Microsoft's response was "That's weird. We have no idea why that's happening. We'll take a look at it"
We never heard back from them or noticed the problem in their KB.
Repeat after me: it is *NOT* the job of businesses to interpret *OR* enforce the law.
That is way we have our judicial system. Even if a police officer tags me with radar, lidar or whatever for exceeding the speed limit, I still have my oportunity to go to court and defend myself. That data is merely evidence which may or may not prove the crime.
Last I checked, the cops didn't take cash, debit or charge cards the second the infraction occured.
The most that they should be allowed to do is report you to the authorities and offer their GPS data as evidence (whether or not it is valid is for the *courts* to decide).