VGA Cable? Did you miss the part where it said "wireless monitor"?? Power cable, sure, but there are ways around that just as easily...besides, one white power cable dropping straight down wouldn't deter from the appearance too much.
/jhoffoss
FYI: "Ossama Ben Laden should be condemmed to have a sex change and sent back to the talibans"
His name is "Osama Bin Laden"; it's spelled "condemned"; it's "Taliban"; and I agree with you in part. However, I feel that every supporter and official of the Taliban should be "given" a sex-change operation and deported back to Afghanistan as females.
I too lean to the hw/networking/admin side of things at time; the only thing wrong with a computer science degree in that situation is it is technically over-education. Unless you're architecting huge systems (and you won't be until you have experience elsewhere previous...) a BSCS is overeducation. You or I can go to a tech school for two years, get a MCSE (or similar Linux certification) stating "we've read the book, now let us learn to do it in the real world" and get a job making $35,000 doing piddly ass stuff for awhile. There's not much theory there that comes in that handy, at first, at least. I do help desk while going to school. Sucks. You get to explain what a start menu is quite often, and you get to say "lets begin by restarting your computer" a *lot* BUT it pays the bills. And in all reality, I can begin to connect a theory or two to my CS education. Unfortunately, my intro programming class in SCHEME does not help me diagnose bad RAM or misconfigured Novell printers.
Regardless of whether I love coding or help desk at the moment though, I'm doing both to land a better job doing something that will utilize the knowledge of both. If I just wanted to be a net admin (ie. reset passwords) I would save my cash, drop 2G's on a tech certification and go from there. I don't mean this in an inflammatory way, and I suspect you feel rather like I do, just trying to clarify a bit.
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Okay, well, I can't be perfect all of the time...
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Something like this will be crucial if AMD ever hopes to break into the server and workstation market in a big way...If a company is going to run a db server, they're not going to use AMD for reasons like the heat protection that will be back-patched on new mobos. A company needs the data to be there whether the cpu is gonna fry or not. Granted, frying the cpu is worse than losing a db, but not by much (either way, you may have to go to the tapes...)
On the other hand, if this company chooses an intel system, they know (as illustrated by Tom's video) that the system will survive, though performance will die. But the integrity of the data remains.
This, as far as I can see, is one of the main things keeping AMD processors out of higher end systems. Even though the piii/p4 performs better in some areas, a person can put a dual athlon board on the desk for around the same cost, which would more than make up for it.
No one said I bought copies...ME was illegal, but the thing never installed, just destroyed my entire partition table. 98 came with the box, 2k was free (for beta versions) and a purchased copy once it was released.
I understand what you mean, but no, I've never benchmarked anything. I am going purely by perception, but I do know wolfenstein ran like crap under 2k, quake ran like crap under 2k, chess master 6000 didn't even run under 2k. Granted, with the first two I got decent performance with lower graphic settings and 800x600, but with XP I've been running with medium graphic settings across the board at 1024x768. Bear in mind, XP was installed along with the latest version of DirectX and the DetonatorXP's. As far as stability goes, I saw one BSOD in over a year of using 2k beta3 and on, and have not seen one in XP [yet].
Don't get me wrong, XP is not the eighth wonder of the world, but I am happy with it. A coworker dropped it on his laptop at work the other day, was up and running an hour after putting the CD in, with access to the novell network and everything. So as far as I can tell, it's glitzier 2k with gaming support =) but not much wrong with that.
Unfortunately all the hard-core/Linux geeks spaz when they see something like this, with a Fisher-Price® GUI and "useless" fading menu effects, etc, but this is the garbage Linux will need to become a wide-spread home operating system.
Heh, my employer still runs a host of Win95 boxes. They were considering migrating to 2k in January, but they may retool that to move over to XP. The remote desktop feature, remote assistance and the ability for a WinCE device to VPN to the desktop without setting up Terminal Server or anything are big selling points for them.
Shit, forgot to add that nearly every one of these run faster, smoother and look MUCH better under XP on my TNT than they did under 98, 98SE, ME (God was that ever a mistake) or 2000.
along with that, the genearl windows display, interface, fonts, graphics, etc. are much cleaner, better looking (even without the toy GUI).
Actually, it was 9x/2000 combined. And I have not had a problem with any of the games I've tried yet. The ONLY issue any of my friends have had were between nVidia's newest Detonator XP drivers and WinXP in Dark Ages of Camelot, and they had that same problem under Win9X. Quake3, Wolfenstein, Black & White, Sims, Everquest, Unreal Tourney, Diablo2 all have worked, and the list goes on.
I've not yet had any problems with XP Pro (been running it for two weeks or so) other than explorer crashing once or twice on my pIII-450, but that has subsided since I went to a normal interface, rather than the Fisher-Price® default. You will definitely need a machine with a bit of oomph to run comfortably, but there are a lot of graphical things you can disable to increase performance on a box.
The WMP integration thing kinda blows, but I've never used it to begin with, no reason to start now. The first CD I popped in, I was prompted for what action to take (i.e. open in WMP, open in Winamp (already installed), open in Windows CD Player, do nothing), so you are not locked in and it appears to be easy enough to use another program. The CD burning seems to be overhyped though; WinXP only does DirectCD-style burning (ie. mount CD-R/W as read/write, and drag 'n drop files) so I had to pull Nero down again, but it works great. Nero with the built-in DirectCD style stuff should complement the other quite nicely. Be warned, I was not able to read a CD burned with DirectCD in XP, and roxio does not have an updated UDF/DirectCD reader for XP.
My DVD drive was another story altogether. I had WinDVD 2.x installed as a trial version; when I installed XP, it notified me that those drivers were not compatible (didn't yet mention I did an upgrade from 2k pro) so it downloaded new DVD drivers and the newest version of WinDVD, registered and all. Nice accidental addition. Overall, I like XP after the gooey gui is gone.
I looked at this article for two seconds, went to the w3c page, and spent the next five hours fixing my html so it was html 4.01 transitional compliant.
I thought the idea to merge the desktop and network environment back together began almost immediately after they released Win 3.11 for networks? Or maybe it was just after Win95/NT 3.5 were released.
Re-writing a chunk of your codebase sucks, but if you're undertaking that kind of task, the outcome will usually be worth the extra pain, correct? And if you know what you're doing already, have an idea of where you want to take it, and some skilled programmers, then you're set.
I think if it were possible to have open source programmers in the same geographical location, you could start from scratch open-source much more effectively; as much as meetings suck, you can cover more ground face to face in a few hours (with some pre-planning, of course) than you can in a week's worth of message-board exchanges.
How many people out there actually use the provided e-mail accounts from their ISP for their regular e-mail? I know I did while I was on dial-up (ah, how I miss the handshake of the 14.4...) but that was the last ISP-based e-mail account I ever used, because my ISP has changed so much since then. I can see a normal mom/pop home user using nothing but that ISP email account, but they won't be using anything but a mac or windows anyway.
GODDAMMIT! I downloaded the isos for 8.0 last night and installed it this morning. At the end of this install, the pc boots, I login, test the network connection by trying to go to slashdot. Set the gateway, get to/. and see THIS as the first story. Just wonder-fucking-ful. Oh well.
You forget: you and I are not buying Xeons. Large companies that need the extra performance in a server are buying them. Two grand is a drop in a bucket in a corporate budget, and corporate folk would rather stick with the most reliable company (Intel) than some "Mom 'n Pop Shop" like AMD. There are certain advantages to those high-end processors aside from the speed, as well. If you saw Tom's Hardware's experiment with Two Intel chips and two Athlons, you know what I mean.
In a mission-critical system (say a large database for orders) you can not, under any circumstances have that system go down unexpectedly. And if it does, it needs to be brought up again immediately.
A corporate customer would rather spring for the Xeons and not have to worry about the system, rather than fill a server with cheaper Athlons and have to keep a few on hand in the slight chance that one of them ups and melts.
You've gotta remember, you get what you pay for. OTOH, you or I are just fine with Athlons, Durons, Celerons, etc. They're cheaper, they're reliable enough for a home user, and they're more widely available.
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Video editing is a good suspect, but while the cost of a computer has come down significantly, the cost of a digital cam-corder with which you can transfer and edit video is still high; let's not forget that, for the home user, there really isn't a ton of video editing to be had that I can imagine...
No, what he SHOULD do, is release the original trilogy on DVD soon, one at a time, then a boxed set with maybe a fourth disc of extra crap, then episode 2 on vhs, then on dvd, then epsisode 3 on vhs, then dvd, then a boxed set of all three 'episodes' with an extra feature disc, then all six with a ton of crap. Only then will Lucas have "Used the Force" (of marketing).
I wish he'd just hurry up and release the original trilogy like everyone else though....
True, a wireless access point on the network would suffice, but if you're visiting another office? Using the printer in a coffee shop/library/other public place? Some folks wouldn't know how to walk into a different place and set up a network printer. Then you can throw in oddities like pc-on-mac or mac-on-pc networks, or groupwise, etc.
With a wireless LAN card in the printer itself, you just have to be able to add the drivers for the one printer (which for some, is still just as difficult as a network printer...but still relatively easier) and then whenever you encouter this type of printer (which would be often, since this is the only offered as such ATM) it'll connect and you can print.
Granted, anyone on this site could manage to connect to a strange network, but not everyone with a laptop is a computer whiz.
A. I rarely get sent word documents, and when I do they're at work in GroupWise.
B. I don't regularly use webmail.
C. I don't have a C, but those other two reasons are reason enough, I think. =)
"We don't use IE" (read, latest version, 5.5 when I went to 6) and Office 97. I've never had a document open in IE like this before, so I dunno. It's possible our standard install package doesn't install features like that with office.
Slashdot Mirror
That's because most DSL/Cable providers didn't shut port 80 until CodeRed reared it's ugly ass.
VGA Cable? Did you miss the part where it said "wireless monitor"?? Power cable, sure, but there are ways around that just as easily...besides, one white power cable dropping straight down wouldn't deter from the appearance too much.
/jhoffoss
FYI: "Ossama Ben Laden should be condemmed to have a sex change and sent back to the talibans"
His name is "Osama Bin Laden"; it's spelled "condemned"; it's "Taliban"; and I agree with you in part. However, I feel that every supporter and official of the Taliban should be "given" a sex-change operation and deported back to Afghanistan as females.
Regardless of whether I love coding or help desk at the moment though, I'm doing both to land a better job doing something that will utilize the knowledge of both. If I just wanted to be a net admin (ie. reset passwords) I would save my cash, drop 2G's on a tech certification and go from there. I don't mean this in an inflammatory way, and I suspect you feel rather like I do, just trying to clarify a bit.
Okay, well, I can't be perfect all of the time...
On the other hand, if this company chooses an intel system, they know (as illustrated by Tom's video) that the system will survive, though performance will die. But the integrity of the data remains.
This, as far as I can see, is one of the main things keeping AMD processors out of higher end systems. Even though the piii/p4 performs better in some areas, a person can put a dual athlon board on the desk for around the same cost, which would more than make up for it.
No one said I bought copies...ME was illegal, but the thing never installed, just destroyed my entire partition table. 98 came with the box, 2k was free (for beta versions) and a purchased copy once it was released.
I understand what you mean, but no, I've never benchmarked anything. I am going purely by perception, but I do know wolfenstein ran like crap under 2k, quake ran like crap under 2k, chess master 6000 didn't even run under 2k. Granted, with the first two I got decent performance with lower graphic settings and 800x600, but with XP I've been running with medium graphic settings across the board at 1024x768. Bear in mind, XP was installed along with the latest version of DirectX and the DetonatorXP's. As far as stability goes, I saw one BSOD in over a year of using 2k beta3 and on, and have not seen one in XP [yet].
Don't get me wrong, XP is not the eighth wonder of the world, but I am happy with it. A coworker dropped it on his laptop at work the other day, was up and running an hour after putting the CD in, with access to the novell network and everything. So as far as I can tell, it's glitzier 2k with gaming support =) but not much wrong with that.
Unfortunately all the hard-core/Linux geeks spaz when they see something like this, with a Fisher-Price® GUI and "useless" fading menu effects, etc, but this is the garbage Linux will need to become a wide-spread home operating system.
Heh, my employer still runs a host of Win95 boxes. They were considering migrating to 2k in January, but they may retool that to move over to XP. The remote desktop feature, remote assistance and the ability for a WinCE device to VPN to the desktop without setting up Terminal Server or anything are big selling points for them.
Shit, forgot to add that nearly every one of these run faster, smoother and look MUCH better under XP on my TNT than they did under 98, 98SE, ME (God was that ever a mistake) or 2000.
along with that, the genearl windows display, interface, fonts, graphics, etc. are much cleaner, better looking (even without the toy GUI).
Actually, it was 9x/2000 combined. And I have not had a problem with any of the games I've tried yet. The ONLY issue any of my friends have had were between nVidia's newest Detonator XP drivers and WinXP in Dark Ages of Camelot, and they had that same problem under Win9X. Quake3, Wolfenstein, Black & White, Sims, Everquest, Unreal Tourney, Diablo2 all have worked, and the list goes on.
I've not yet had any problems with XP Pro (been running it for two weeks or so) other than explorer crashing once or twice on my pIII-450, but that has subsided since I went to a normal interface, rather than the Fisher-Price® default. You will definitely need a machine with a bit of oomph to run comfortably, but there are a lot of graphical things you can disable to increase performance on a box.
The WMP integration thing kinda blows, but I've never used it to begin with, no reason to start now. The first CD I popped in, I was prompted for what action to take (i.e. open in WMP, open in Winamp (already installed), open in Windows CD Player, do nothing), so you are not locked in and it appears to be easy enough to use another program. The CD burning seems to be overhyped though; WinXP only does DirectCD-style burning (ie. mount CD-R/W as read/write, and drag 'n drop files) so I had to pull Nero down again, but it works great. Nero with the built-in DirectCD style stuff should complement the other quite nicely. Be warned, I was not able to read a CD burned with DirectCD in XP, and roxio does not have an updated UDF/DirectCD reader for XP.
My DVD drive was another story altogether. I had WinDVD 2.x installed as a trial version; when I installed XP, it notified me that those drivers were not compatible (didn't yet mention I did an upgrade from 2k pro) so it downloaded new DVD drivers and the newest version of WinDVD, registered and all. Nice accidental addition. Overall, I like XP after the gooey gui is gone.
I looked at this article for two seconds, went to the w3c page, and spent the next five hours fixing my html so it was html 4.01 transitional compliant.
Re-writing a chunk of your codebase sucks, but if you're undertaking that kind of task, the outcome will usually be worth the extra pain, correct? And if you know what you're doing already, have an idea of where you want to take it, and some skilled programmers, then you're set.
I think if it were possible to have open source programmers in the same geographical location, you could start from scratch open-source much more effectively; as much as meetings suck, you can cover more ground face to face in a few hours (with some pre-planning, of course) than you can in a week's worth of message-board exchanges.
How many people out there actually use the provided e-mail accounts from their ISP for their regular e-mail? I know I did while I was on dial-up (ah, how I miss the handshake of the 14.4...) but that was the last ISP-based e-mail account I ever used, because my ISP has changed so much since then. I can see a normal mom/pop home user using nothing but that ISP email account, but they won't be using anything but a mac or windows anyway.
Emacs is ported to Win32 too, if I'm not mistaken...
Move to Sweden after college.
GODDAMMIT! I downloaded the isos for 8.0 last night and installed it this morning. At the end of this install, the pc boots, I login, test the network connection by trying to go to slashdot. Set the gateway, get to /. and see THIS as the first story. Just wonder-fucking-ful. Oh well.
You forget: you and I are not buying Xeons. Large companies that need the extra performance in a server are buying them. Two grand is a drop in a bucket in a corporate budget, and corporate folk would rather stick with the most reliable company (Intel) than some "Mom 'n Pop Shop" like AMD. There are certain advantages to those high-end processors aside from the speed, as well. If you saw Tom's Hardware's experiment with Two Intel chips and two Athlons, you know what I mean.
In a mission-critical system (say a large database for orders) you can not, under any circumstances have that system go down unexpectedly. And if it does, it needs to be brought up again immediately.
A corporate customer would rather spring for the Xeons and not have to worry about the system, rather than fill a server with cheaper Athlons and have to keep a few on hand in the slight chance that one of them ups and melts.
You've gotta remember, you get what you pay for. OTOH, you or I are just fine with Athlons, Durons, Celerons, etc. They're cheaper, they're reliable enough for a home user, and they're more widely available.
Video editing is a good suspect, but while the cost of a computer has come down significantly, the cost of a digital cam-corder with which you can transfer and edit video is still high; let's not forget that, for the home user, there really isn't a ton of video editing to be had that I can imagine...
I'm wondering how long it took this reviewer to pull his/her lips off of the proverbial ass of LucasFilm...
No, what he SHOULD do, is release the original trilogy on DVD soon, one at a time, then a boxed set with maybe a fourth disc of extra crap, then episode 2 on vhs, then on dvd, then epsisode 3 on vhs, then dvd, then a boxed set of all three 'episodes' with an extra feature disc, then all six with a ton of crap. Only then will Lucas have "Used the Force" (of marketing).
I wish he'd just hurry up and release the original trilogy like everyone else though....
True, a wireless access point on the network would suffice, but if you're visiting another office? Using the printer in a coffee shop/library/other public place? Some folks wouldn't know how to walk into a different place and set up a network printer. Then you can throw in oddities like pc-on-mac or mac-on-pc networks, or groupwise, etc.
With a wireless LAN card in the printer itself, you just have to be able to add the drivers for the one printer (which for some, is still just as difficult as a network printer...but still relatively easier) and then whenever you encouter this type of printer (which would be often, since this is the only offered as such ATM) it'll connect and you can print.
Granted, anyone on this site could manage to connect to a strange network, but not everyone with a laptop is a computer whiz.
A. I rarely get sent word documents, and when I do they're at work in GroupWise.
B. I don't regularly use webmail.
C. I don't have a C, but those other two reasons are reason enough, I think. =)
"We don't use IE" (read, latest version, 5.5 when I went to 6) and Office 97. I've never had a document open in IE like this before, so I dunno. It's possible our standard install package doesn't install features like that with office.