I wonder, how much will this save them cost-wise? That's 9,000 less licences they'll need to have, but I recall Microsoft usually gives discounts on bulk licences, and further discounts if they hint someone is considering an alternative. Also, along with what you'd pay for in licence fees, you get support from them. How much will it cost now to get support (and on demand support) for the Linux OSs (including training, re-training, hiring, etc..)
""According to Prof Kubiatowicz from Berkeley, each time an additional book is downloaded to an e-reader, the mass of the e-reader increases. The effect doesn't really make the devices more difficult to carry: the professor calculates that 4GB of books would increase its weight by a billionth of a billionth of a gram— about the mass of a single virus or DNA molecule."
Why is he boasting? The more commits needed or happening means the shittier and shittier his code is (or lacking) where it requires more and more patches/fixes to get it right...
Oh please... seriously.. enough with this "taking away people's choice" crap.. It's old, it's obsolete, it's more irritating than useful... the large floppies went.. the smaller floppies went.. the CD is going away.. Infra red is also fading out... it's part of life.. Deal with it.
Why is everyone here whining as if they or anyone else can do anything about it.. Freedom was long bought and sold.. there's nothing you can do about this and it will be mandatory very soon, pending the next yet more infringing search method(s)... Deal with it, or stop flying.
It's going to happen, they're going to stay, we're going to live with it, no matter what we feel or how intrusive it is.... you really think us bitching about it will change anything?
Not flying for one day won't change shit.. Not flying until they change the rules won't change shit. You think it'll bankrupt the airlines into removing these? They'll just get bailed out by the government with non-existent tax money, find another excuse for the shortage of profit, or - guess what? - wait a few months and return to normal as if nothing happened because - with all due respect - UK people are such gullible hypocrites that just can't change or voice shit...
Seriously, you really think we can change anything in the UK if the government or some higher power has its mind set ? Get real... or get some pipe bombs, AK47's, and make your point the same way the French do..
They're mistaking... I for one (and I'm sure many others) don't use Opera, not because it doesn't/didn't have extensions, but because it took them this bloody long to figure it out. How much longer will it take them to figure out other important things that we'll need too??
I'm not surprised at all to be honest... Since (no offence) any idiot can get an IT certificate nowadays in universities in UK. I got 2 degrees, and was surprised at how easy it was..
BSc in Networking, and we did more non-networking shite than actual networking subjects that we can use, build up on, and that reflect the real world. (Honest, who cares about switching on a light bulb or opening a ticket gate with 200 lines of assembly in a networking course?)
And MSc in Network Security was also a sham.. you'd expect one learns about networks, security, database security, hacking/securing, *nix networking, etc... instead, we learnt more about marketting, that guy who has a fetish about his mother (Sigmund Freud - sp?), and stories - yes, stories - about companies that got hacked..
In both universities, seeing everyone in the final exams, some still didn't even know what a 3-way handshake was and yet they passed and got their degree..
I asked a few lecturers and they say education in the UK is absolutely ridiculous nowadays.. It's all about the ratings.. If they fail too many, then they lose in funding, reputation, etc.. And it's as if everyone's finding an easy way to grab a certificate through IT.. They're not teaching what they should, the students aren't learning anything useful, and certificates/degrees are becoming more and more worthless.
Even nowadays when I see fresh grads applying to join our teams at work (multi billion $ company) as network operators/admins or IT ops/admins, many seriously lack in networking, *nix, scripting, et al. up to the point where many don't even know how to list files in linux or windows command line shell..
As for this piece of news, I'm quite surprised IT fresh grads (or anyone else in this matter) are having problems finding work, as I thought we're out of recession and restaurants, fast food joints, and other shops are still looking for employees to hire..
But if it's referring to IT specific jobs (and they should clarify btw), then I wouldn't be surprised as if it were my company, I'd keep looking and picking the smart ones that actually know how to switch on a PC and do something with it, than all the others that are just graduating for the University Statistics sake of it.
So you're admitting to the whole world you're doing something illegal? You're not making it any harder for the RIAA:)
Anyway, in addition to full towers, what you could also do is expand with 8 port SATA controller cards.. as many as you can fit in there. They're cheap, I got mine for about 60 pounds each from ebay last year.
For holding the extra hard drives, get a small HD internal caddie that transforms your front 5'' area, so you can fit say 5 or 6 instead of 4 in the same area. Something like this
Any more HDs, maybe external SATA caddies can also work, and you just get a long SATA cable
Finally, contrary to the above, What I also did (for my really important files, or ones so large/rare), is get a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ (there are 4/6/8 bays). It's worth every penny.. Similar to the Drobo, but I like it because It's one of very few (if not the only) that has full compatibility with Mac (OSX).. including AFP, NFS, SMB, Time Machine backups, etc..
So you're admitting to the whole world you're doing something illegal? You're not making it any harder for the RIAA:)
Anyway, in addition to the above, what you could also do is expand with 8 port SATA controller cards.. as many as you can fit in there. They're cheap, I got mine for about 60 pounds each from ebay last year.
For holding the extra hard drives, get a small HD internal caddie that transforms your front 5'' area, so you can fit say 5 or 6 instead of 4 in the same area. Something like this
Any more HDs, maybe external SATA caddies can also work, and you just get a long SATA cable
Finally, contrary to the above, What I also did (for my really important files, or ones so large/rare), is get a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ (there are 4/6/8 bays). It's worth every penny.. Similar to the Drobo, but I like it because It's one of very few (if not the only) that has full compatibility with Mac (OSX).. including AFP, NFS, SMB, Time Machine backups, etc..
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Anyone else fancy a game of Red Alert II in memory? :)
Interesting move,
I wonder, how much will this save them cost-wise? That's 9,000 less licences they'll need to have, but I recall Microsoft usually gives discounts on bulk licences, and further discounts if they hint someone is considering an alternative. Also, along with what you'd pay for in licence fees, you get support from them. How much will it cost now to get support (and on demand support) for the Linux OSs (including training, re-training, hiring, etc..)
Interesting... is such racism allowed in Slashdot ?!
These people are artists ?!
""According to Prof Kubiatowicz from Berkeley, each time an additional book is downloaded to an e-reader, the mass of the e-reader increases. The effect doesn't really make the devices more difficult to carry: the professor calculates that 4GB of books would increase its weight by a billionth of a billionth of a gram— about the mass of a single virus or DNA molecule."
WHO CARES???
Failures.
FAIL!
Why is he boasting? The more commits needed or happening means the shittier and shittier his code is (or lacking) where it requires more and more patches/fixes to get it right...
Seriously... wtf does this have to do with /. or news for nerds... if i wanted such news i'd go to BBC news or other news sites..
What's next? A post on David Cameron increasing pension funds ?
There's no such thing as "absolute confidentiality".
Oh please... seriously.. enough with this "taking away people's choice" crap.. It's old, it's obsolete, it's more irritating than useful... the large floppies went.. the smaller floppies went.. the CD is going away.. Infra red is also fading out... it's part of life.. Deal with it.
Why is everyone here whining as if they or anyone else can do anything about it.. Freedom was long bought and sold.. there's nothing you can do about this and it will be mandatory very soon, pending the next yet more infringing search method(s)... Deal with it, or stop flying.
It's going to happen, they're going to stay, we're going to live with it, no matter what we feel or how intrusive it is.... you really think us bitching about it will change anything?
Don't they mean approx 50 million and 30 years old?
Not flying for one day won't change shit.. Not flying until they change the rules won't change shit. You think it'll bankrupt the airlines into removing these? They'll just get bailed out by the government with non-existent tax money, find another excuse for the shortage of profit, or - guess what? - wait a few months and return to normal as if nothing happened because - with all due respect - UK people are such gullible hypocrites that just can't change or voice shit...
Seriously, you really think we can change anything in the UK if the government or some higher power has its mind set ? Get real... or get some pipe bombs, AK47's, and make your point the same way the French do..
They're mistaking... I for one (and I'm sure many others) don't use Opera, not because it doesn't/didn't have extensions, but because it took them this bloody long to figure it out. How much longer will it take them to figure out other important things that we'll need too??
It's all about the Oil...
No it isn't.. they're just using that as an excuse.
I'm not surprised at all to be honest... Since (no offence) any idiot can get an IT certificate nowadays in universities in UK. I got 2 degrees, and was surprised at how easy it was..
BSc in Networking, and we did more non-networking shite than actual networking subjects that we can use, build up on, and that reflect the real world. (Honest, who cares about switching on a light bulb or opening a ticket gate with 200 lines of assembly in a networking course?)
And MSc in Network Security was also a sham.. you'd expect one learns about networks, security, database security, hacking/securing, *nix networking, etc... instead, we learnt more about marketting, that guy who has a fetish about his mother (Sigmund Freud - sp?), and stories - yes, stories - about companies that got hacked..
In both universities, seeing everyone in the final exams, some still didn't even know what a 3-way handshake was and yet they passed and got their degree..
I asked a few lecturers and they say education in the UK is absolutely ridiculous nowadays.. It's all about the ratings.. If they fail too many, then they lose in funding, reputation, etc.. And it's as if everyone's finding an easy way to grab a certificate through IT.. They're not teaching what they should, the students aren't learning anything useful, and certificates/degrees are becoming more and more worthless.
Even nowadays when I see fresh grads applying to join our teams at work (multi billion $ company) as network operators/admins or IT ops/admins, many seriously lack in networking, *nix, scripting, et al. up to the point where many don't even know how to list files in linux or windows command line shell..
As for this piece of news, I'm quite surprised IT fresh grads (or anyone else in this matter) are having problems finding work, as I thought we're out of recession and restaurants, fast food joints, and other shops are still looking for employees to hire..
But if it's referring to IT specific jobs (and they should clarify btw), then I wouldn't be surprised as if it were my company, I'd keep looking and picking the smart ones that actually know how to switch on a PC and do something with it, than all the others that are just graduating for the University Statistics sake of it.
really fed up of this.. What's next, hour::second::minute ?
Sadly that's besides the point, has no real value, and will not change anything....
lol... well said
So you're admitting to the whole world you're doing something illegal? You're not making it any harder for the RIAA :)
Anyway, in addition to full towers, what you could also do is expand with 8 port SATA controller cards.. as many as you can fit in there. They're cheap, I got mine for about 60 pounds each from ebay last year.
For holding the extra hard drives, get a small HD internal caddie that transforms your front 5'' area, so you can fit say 5 or 6 instead of 4 in the same area. Something like this
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Jou-Jye-ST-3051SS-525-(3-Bay)-Backplane-for-5x-35-SAS-SATA-HDD
Any more HDs, maybe external SATA caddies can also work, and you just get a long SATA cable
Finally, contrary to the above, What I also did (for my really important files, or ones so large/rare), is get a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ (there are 4/6/8 bays). It's worth every penny.. Similar to the Drobo, but I like it because It's one of very few (if not the only) that has full compatibility with Mac (OSX).. including AFP, NFS, SMB, Time Machine backups, etc..
So you're admitting to the whole world you're doing something illegal? You're not making it any harder for the RIAA :)
Anyway, in addition to the above, what you could also do is expand with 8 port SATA controller cards.. as many as you can fit in there. They're cheap, I got mine for about 60 pounds each from ebay last year.
For holding the extra hard drives, get a small HD internal caddie that transforms your front 5'' area, so you can fit say 5 or 6 instead of 4 in the same area. Something like this
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Jou-Jye-ST-3051SS-525-(3-Bay)-Backplane-for-5x-35-SAS-SATA-HDD
Any more HDs, maybe external SATA caddies can also work, and you just get a long SATA cable
Finally, contrary to the above, What I also did (for my really important files, or ones so large/rare), is get a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ (there are 4/6/8 bays). It's worth every penny.. Similar to the Drobo, but I like it because It's one of very few (if not the only) that has full compatibility with Mac (OSX).. including AFP, NFS, SMB, Time Machine backups, etc..
What's the bloody point of having anything over 512k/sec with those ridiculous monthly caps in downloads.....
And what's with this redicu
well fsck you too... let me see you do a better job..