> Interestingly, recently I've seen a slight shift away from Linux towards Mac OS X. Apple is doing some good outreach to unix developers, academics, etc.
Well, here's one guy who's about to switch *from* OS X to Linux. I really don't like the GUI (apart from it's appearance) - probably because I'm used to SGI workstations (I guess that's ironic, eh?) which have focus-follows-mouse and no-auto-pop-up, which you can't do on Aqua - and I hate them forcing the menu to the top of the screen (sucks when you use multiple monitors). I mean, it looks nice, and the hardware is nice, but I can't retrain myself to use a different GUI - I've been trying for a few years, but whenever I go back to Linux (which I can make behave the same way as 4Dwm), I feel so *free* (I love to be able to type into a window that isn't in the foreground, for example).
My OS X apps are getting long in the tooth now, and the Linux apps are much better than they used to be, so it won't be long before I reformat my OS X hard drives (Powerbook, Mini, eMac) and put something like Ubuntu on it....I tried the live CD on my Powerbook, and it is almost there (wifi being the most notable exception) - the GUI (gnome) looks really clean too (though, I suppose, it won't take me long to mess it up).
> Besides, the customer tracking is completely unacceptable.
Actually, I wouldn't be so against it if they made my information available to me too. I would very much value the record of what I buy when, and to have it categorized nicely and in a format I can use in some financial s/w would be awesome for making future budgets.
If one store did this, it would pretty much guarantee I bought as much from that store as possible. It's in their interest too as far as I can tell.
Indeed. I've not had any trouble with power using firewire on a Mac. The comment was mainly aimed at if the user intended it to work on a non-Mac laptop - such laptops often come with firewire w/o power (similar port to some DV cameras and stuff, I guess).
I have had to deal with many execs buying large capacity USB drives for their laptops, only to find out that their USB buses won't supply enough power. They end up buying an extra PCMCIA (or whatever) card and a weird cable pigtail to supplement the power from two USB interfaces (note that multiple USB ports might be powered from the same source and so the second one won't supply more power than the first). The other thing is to simply tell them they have to plug them into the wall using a a transformer (they don't like that idea, obviously).
Also, watch out for firewire ports that don't supply any power at all (don't buy a firewire drive thinking it will be powered from such a bus).
I have several products from Wiebetech and they're all pretty solid. (I still can't get to their main web site from China though, so no links below, sorry).
I have several drive docks which are quite useful for reading raw drives from other computers.
I also have a 3.5" fw400 drive. It has two fw400 ports too, so you can daisy chain from it. It also has a power supply socket (uses bus power normally), in case you want to put a big drive in that takes too much power (I haven't had that problem yet with fw, but I have with USB).
Here in Beijing, our local hot fish restaurant (it's quite big) has a wireless system too. It's more for the ordering than the paying though. All the waiters and waitresses have wifi pdas (Dell, iirc). Quite neat.
It use to be that you just had to be good at your job in order to be employed.
Then they made it so you had to be an egotistical, self-confident, and extroverted. If you were in the least bit shy, realistic about your own abilities, etc, then you were out of luck.
well, on an individual level, yes - not sure as a whole...USians can be very, er, 'wide', and Chinese are typically very skinny...but there are a *lot* more Chinese.
"Sets"? That's like a collective noun or something, right? Is that the correct one for 'alarm bells'? I think not - Google tells me it should be a 'peal of alarm bells'.
and what makes RAID and clusters 'opposite' to off-site.
Even thought of a 3-way RAID1, with one of them being removable, exchanging it each night for a 'blank' one and keeping the good copy off site? This way, it doesn't take any time to create the backup copy and it's always a complete copy too.
Why is that any worse than what people do with tape? More expensive, perhaps....
I wonder if more CPU power might be useful on the occasion that a drive needs to be rebuilt - ie when a drive has failed and it switches to a spare. This period of time is one in which the whole array is vulnerable and can't survive another disk failure, so the faster the spare is reconstructed, the better....with s/w raid, CPU performance is not insignificant, I'd bet.
Some have argued that this could provide useful data for advertising agencies - so they can move accurately target adds. True enough.
Equally true, IMO, is that they could tell just how many of us leave the room (toilet/coffee/etc) during the ads. This ability could have all sorts of implications. Do they then refuse to pay so much to the carriers since most people don't view the ads, thereby raising the price of cable TV? Do they make ads even more annoying, by making them shorter, but more frequent (maybe enough time to pee, but not poo)? Could they then sue you for not watching the ads, just like they do when you (automatically) skip them?
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> Interestingly, recently I've seen a slight shift away from Linux towards Mac OS X. Apple is doing some good outreach to unix developers, academics, etc.
Well, here's one guy who's about to switch *from* OS X to Linux. I really don't like the GUI (apart from it's appearance) - probably because I'm used to SGI workstations (I guess that's ironic, eh?) which have focus-follows-mouse and no-auto-pop-up, which you can't do on Aqua - and I hate them forcing the menu to the top of the screen (sucks when you use multiple monitors). I mean, it looks nice, and the hardware is nice, but I can't retrain myself to use a different GUI - I've been trying for a few years, but whenever I go back to Linux (which I can make behave the same way as 4Dwm), I feel so *free* (I love to be able to type into a window that isn't in the foreground, for example).
My OS X apps are getting long in the tooth now, and the Linux apps are much better than they used to be, so it won't be long before I reformat my OS X hard drives (Powerbook, Mini, eMac) and put something like Ubuntu on it....I tried the live CD on my Powerbook, and it is almost there (wifi being the most notable exception) - the GUI (gnome) looks really clean too (though, I suppose, it won't take me long to mess it up).
> The larva grows inside the roach, devouring the organs of its host, for about eight days.
The wasp then dies, painfully, of food poisoning.
Grammar nazi's strike again. Oh, wait...
> Besides, the customer tracking is completely unacceptable.
Actually, I wouldn't be so against it if they made my information available to me too. I would very much value the record of what I buy when, and to have it categorized nicely and in a format I can use in some financial s/w would be awesome for making future budgets.
If one store did this, it would pretty much guarantee I bought as much from that store as possible. It's in their interest too as far as I can tell.
Indeed. I've not had any trouble with power using firewire on a Mac. The comment was mainly aimed at if the user intended it to work on a non-Mac laptop - such laptops often come with firewire w/o power (similar port to some DV cameras and stuff, I guess).
I have had to deal with many execs buying large capacity USB drives for their laptops, only to find out that their USB buses won't supply enough power. They end up buying an extra PCMCIA (or whatever) card and a weird cable pigtail to supplement the power from two USB interfaces (note that multiple USB ports might be powered from the same source and so the second one won't supply more power than the first). The other thing is to simply tell them they have to plug them into the wall using a a transformer (they don't like that idea, obviously).
Also, watch out for firewire ports that don't supply any power at all (don't buy a firewire drive thinking it will be powered from such a bus).
I have several products from Wiebetech and they're all pretty solid. (I still can't get to their main web site from China though, so no links below, sorry).
I have several drive docks which are quite useful for reading raw drives from other computers.
I also have a 3.5" fw400 drive. It has two fw400 ports too, so you can daisy chain from it. It also has a power supply socket (uses bus power normally), in case you want to put a big drive in that takes too much power (I haven't had that problem yet with fw, but I have with USB).
> This particular recruiter insisted that his years experience has led him to this conclusion
Perhaps you should ask a recruiter with more than just a year's experience.
> However, my work schedule is too complex for most programmable thermostats
"Most"?
Why restrict yourself to the ones that don't work? Why not buy one of the other ones for which your schedule is NOT too comples???
Sigh...
Yeah. I see this (assuming we use Microsoft s/w) as trend, and a one I don't expect at /..
I find it somewhat insulting, actually.
> a large portion of of the Australian citizenry
"of of" - that's Australian for "of"
Here in Beijing, our local hot fish restaurant (it's quite big) has a wireless system too. It's more for the ordering than the paying though. All the waiters and waitresses have wifi pdas (Dell, iirc). Quite neat.
It use to be that you just had to be good at your job in order to be employed.
Then they made it so you had to be an egotistical, self-confident, and extroverted. If you were in the least bit shy, realistic about your own abilities, etc, then you were out of luck.
Now you have to have a sense of humour too!
Bah humbug!
With only 34,458 sq km difference, I wonder if those numbers include Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Tibet (etc)...
well, on an individual level, yes - not sure as a whole...USians can be very, er, 'wide', and Chinese are typically very skinny...but there are a *lot* more Chinese.
> sets of alarm bells
"Sets"? That's like a collective noun or something, right? Is that the correct one for 'alarm bells'? I think not - Google tells me it should be a 'peal of alarm bells'.
or did you mean 'off'?
yeah, sure, anally retentive; so what?
The population of China is also smaller, on average ... vertically, that is.
> You're legally entitled to leave without ANY notice. ... ...most work in the U.S. today is done
>
>
"Most"..."U.S."...
I'm not sure what you mean by "You're".
Depends, doesn't it?
This seems to me like it could be the most important reason for them to to rebates. I'd not considered it before...
and what makes RAID and clusters 'opposite' to off-site.
Even thought of a 3-way RAID1, with one of them being removable, exchanging it each night for a 'blank' one and keeping the good copy off site? This way, it doesn't take any time to create the backup copy and it's always a complete copy too.
Why is that any worse than what people do with tape? More expensive, perhaps....
Max.
> This offer is available only from DELL and only in the US.
They are available in China too.
I wonder if more CPU power might be useful on the occasion that a drive needs to be rebuilt - ie when a drive has failed and it switches to a spare. This period of time is one in which the whole array is vulnerable and can't survive another disk failure, so the faster the spare is reconstructed, the better....with s/w raid, CPU performance is not insignificant, I'd bet.
Some have argued that this could provide useful data for advertising agencies - so they can move accurately target adds. True enough.
Equally true, IMO, is that they could tell just how many of us leave the room (toilet/coffee/etc) during the ads. This ability could have all sorts of implications. Do they then refuse to pay so much to the carriers since most people don't view the ads, thereby raising the price of cable TV? Do they make ads even more annoying, by making them shorter, but more frequent (maybe enough time to pee, but not poo)? Could they then sue you for not watching the ads, just like they do when you (automatically) skip them?
BeiJing has had this service for years. My girlfriend can't remember how long ago they put it in, but at least 3 years ago...
perhaps, but that would be a grammatical error, not making crap up (or up crap, if you prefer).