It's about time they put a Memory Stick slot on those things. Sony put them on everything else they make.
I hope they move to using Memory Sticks for saved game storage, instead of having to buy another special card for the next console. It never made sense to me that on one hand, they're pushing these things as your personal magic solution to portable storage, then not use them on one of their biggest products.
Perfectly understandable if you assume the Australian newspaper is reporting the figure in Australian dollars, and news.com.com.net.com.org.com is reporting in US dollars.
I recently upgraded an old faithful server from RedHat 6.1 to 7.3. I allowed an entire day for the process, and was very worried as the machine held almost the entire working life of about 100 people.
Flawless victory. Back up and running perfectly inside two hours. I was quite impressed for such a large version jump.
> (Heck - who decided to put the destination BEFORE the > source in i86 ASM?)
It always made sense to me. The first item after the instruction is always "what you're working on". This is always a necessary parameter when you're trying to affect something. The second parameter (not always required) is "what you're working with".
Damn, it's hard to write what's in my brain right now...
It's quite a clever syntax, really. You've got a system where you can extend the scope of what you're doing, just by adding extra items to the end of your "sentence" - you never change the positional meanings. You can proceed right though:
Erm - you use Slashdot to get all your info about holes/bugs etc?
No, not at all. See - I'd left work today after spending the last couple of days just doing the "must happen this year" stuff. I got home, loaded up Slashdot looking for a bit of a diversion, and what do I see? Work! Just when I thought I'd left it behind. If Slashdot hadn't run this, I'd still be under the impression everything was OK, and that's what really matters, right?:)
For the record, I use apt with RPM to maintain a bunch of RedHat boxes. I have my own internal repository that contains some internally maintained packages, plus a nightly updated RedHat mirror. It won't take me a lot of work to roll out the fixes - I have a script to execute commands on all the remote machines via SSH - but it wouldn't really have served the humour of the message to include that, would it? It would have helped even less than this over-analysis.
I still call for the various security groups to impose a ban on vulnerability announcements between December 14 and January 14, just to give us all a bit of peace, though!
Couldn't I have seen this just TWO HOURS AGO while I was still at work, and not now when my holidays have officially started? Well, it's not like I didn't expect to be working occasionally during my holiday anyway. A sysadmin's work is never done...
I say again - damn. It a little blissful ignorance over the festive season too much to ask these days?
Is this course supposed to be about "Alternative Operating Systems" or "Free Software Evangelism"?
I'm not suggesting you ignore Free Software at all, but give a little time at least to the non-free alternatives. OS/2, or whatever it's called now, would be a good example of something technically well-designed, but which failed in the marketpalce. Pre-OS X MacOS has a very long and interesting history. There are buckets of sites out there that'll give you enough material for a few hours on each one.
It might also be worth spending a little time on the differences between the various Windows incarnations, at least from 3.1 to 95 to NT.
You've got a great concept here - don't go turning it into a sermon. The merits of the Free stuff will be obvious, so there's no need to avoid mentioning the competition.
Or the best alternative of all: "This is my Grandmother's engagement ring. My grandparents were married 58 years and were deeply in love every minute of it. I would be honored for you to have this."
The only downside I see here is the possibility that you may have to kill your Grandmother if she doesn't have the decency to die before you wish to propose.
Of course, if you can't bring yourself to do that then you could always settle for breaking them up. Once the divorce is through, just point out to Grandma that she won't be needing that ring any more and she can give it to you.
Their "usability experts" decided it was too complicated to have both viewports and workspaces so they ripped viewports out, stating tht "we can do the same thing with workspaces".
I must be close to being the target audience for this change. Could someone actually offer me an explanation of why I would want "viewports" and "workspaces"? I've been really confused by this for ages. All I've ever tried to do was have four virtual desktops and each time I've tried to configure GNOME in the past, I've always ended up at some point with 8 or 16 desktops or something like that.
With enough fiddling, I get what I want, but I have no idea if I have "viewports", "workspaces", "desktops" or "smurfs". I think the issue might be that someone needs to come up with a decent way of presenting the configuration dialogs, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's all that the feature needs to be put back in. I'd guess the functionality is all still there, it's just the configuration application that's been simplified.
I have to say that if dropping viewports makes it easier for me to just give myself four or however many desktops, I'm all for it. I have no problem with advanced functionality in software I use, but if including it makes it harder to do something basic, then a re-think is needed at some point.
(For example, getting a complete album is next to impossible. The unreliability of the service ensures that.)
Funny - just the other day I managed to collect a large chunk of the early Pink Floyd albums off Gnutella after I was hit by a wave of nostalgia and had nothing to play my old records on.
It took me about 3 hours to locate and download the following albums:
Piper at the Gates of Dawn
A Saucerful of Secrets
More
Atom Heart Mother
Obscured by Clouds
None of these could be said to be particularly current. The only track I had trouble finding was one of the ones on Obscured by Clouds. Trying my search again 10 minutes later got it for me.
I've never had trouble at all getting complete albums using Gnutella.
I agree with the misattribution problem though - but that's because a lot of people are morons. It's hardly the fault of the network. "Classic" Napster had exactly the same issues. It's hardly specific to Gnutella.
Over the last two days, I've set up a couple of new Macs at work, and used Fink to throw all the extra goodies that I needed on. Ever since I started playing with it around 0.20 time, I've found the whole distribution to be wonderful.
I really meant to post a "thank you" note at some point. I wish I had. I can't possibly account for how much time the Fink people have saved me.
OK - from reading the background material, I think that Christoph has made some dubious assumptions about people at times, and attacked people a little too eagerly - but these are really just symptoms of someone working way too hard for too little reward. I get like that at work sometimes.
How about we all take a little bit of time today to send out a simple "thanks" email to one person involved with one piece of free software that you use regularly. It'll only take a minute or so, and may just keep that person feeling good enough about doing what they're doing that they'll keep on doing it.
Just go and do it now. Slashdot will still be here when you get back.
This place is going to hell. I don't think I'll read it any more if they're going to check facts and spell correctly. The amount of discussion will plummet.
The highest score went to a Ranger, and second pace to a Healer. The top Valkyrie was in 15th place overall.
Of course, you're right that they're easy(est) to ascend - lowest scoring ascension was a Valkyrie. But ascending isn't everything in this tournament.
I still think it's not quite AMD's fault
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OK, I suppose I want to see AMD as the good guys here, since I love their products. Even so - I can see how things could spin a little more in their favour if you're inclined to be generous.
Firstly, let me say that I belive that thermal protection integrated into the CPU, like to P4 has, would have been the best way to go - but then we'd all be complaining about how expensive the new Athlons are, wouldn't we? AMD give us lots of grunt for our dollars, and we can't expect them to pack every little feature into the CPU for the great prices they give us, any more than we can expect Apple to sell us an iPod for 50 bucks.
Now, the original article at Tom's has the following interesting quote...
We rushed to the telephone to confer with Siemens. The engineers assured us that what we had seen was for real. The thermal diode of Palomino is unable to react quickly enough. Only 1 degree/s is what the thermal diode is able to handle.
I pointed this out the other day, too. A Siemens Engineer was consulted. Excuse me? An AMD CPU just fried itself on a Siemens-made board, and they don't ask the CPU manufacturer why it happened - they ask the board manufacturer. That's not where I'd be directing my enquiries if I was doing the test.
Now AMD prove that with a simple external board, everything shuts down and saves the CPU - just like we'd want to happen. To me, this suggests that the thermal diode has no problems reacting in time, and that maybe the board manufacturers screwed up or cut some corners when they were developing support for it.
It's understandable, for the same reason AMD didn't pack the chip full of power management goodies. Keeping costs down on goods that are bought by very price-conscious buyers looking for maximum performance at the best price. They implemented support that was adequate for a fan failure, which is the most likely thing that'll happen in real life. They could well have decided that a simpler circuit was all that was necessary, since a heatsink isn't likely to fall off.
Most likely we'll never know the full sotry. Everyone will blame everyone else, and in a year or so we'll forget all about it because the hardware will be obsolete. We'll have new problems. In the meantime, everyone has the message that they should be careful that they install their CPU cooling devices properly. AMD will recover from any negative press. Hell, Intel put out a bunch of CPUs that couldn't do Math at one point, and they survived.:)
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It's about time they put a Memory Stick slot on those things. Sony put them on everything else they make.
I hope they move to using Memory Sticks for saved game storage, instead of having to buy another special card for the next console. It never made sense to me that on one hand, they're pushing these things as your personal magic solution to portable storage, then not use them on one of their biggest products.
It's all very well for you mainstream people with your well-supported Linux machines, but where's the version for us Mac users, huh? :)
Perfectly understandable if you assume the Australian newspaper is reporting the figure in Australian dollars, and news.com.com.net.com.org.com is reporting in US dollars.
Er - that should have been "Faith in Upgrade Process", obviously. I need caffeine.
I recently upgraded an old faithful server from RedHat 6.1 to 7.3. I allowed an entire day for the process, and was very worried as the machine held almost the entire working life of about 100 people.
Flawless victory. Back up and running perfectly inside two hours. I was quite impressed for such a large version jump.
> (Heck - who decided to put the destination BEFORE the
...
:)
> source in i86 ASM?)
It always made sense to me. The first item after the instruction is always "what you're working on". This is always a necessary parameter when you're trying to affect something. The second parameter (not always required) is "what you're working with".
Damn, it's hard to write what's in my brain right now
It's quite a clever syntax, really. You've got a system where you can extend the scope of what you're doing, just by adding extra items to the end of your "sentence" - you never change the positional meanings. You can proceed right though:
"Do This"
"Do This" "To This"
"Do This" "To This" "With This"
OK, the English translation doesn't hold up well when you're talking about jumps or some other stuff, but it's still roughly right.
Anyway, enough rambling. I think about this crap too much.
There are some other options.
I'm not associated, just a satisfied customer.
Erm - you use Slashdot to get all your info about holes/bugs etc?
No, not at all. See - I'd left work today after spending the last couple of days just doing the "must happen this year" stuff. I got home, loaded up Slashdot looking for a bit of a diversion, and what do I see? Work! Just when I thought I'd left it behind. If Slashdot hadn't run this, I'd still be under the impression everything was OK, and that's what really matters, right? :)
For the record, I use apt with RPM to maintain a bunch of RedHat boxes. I have my own internal repository that contains some internally maintained packages, plus a nightly updated RedHat mirror. It won't take me a lot of work to roll out the fixes - I have a script to execute commands on all the remote machines via SSH - but it wouldn't really have served the humour of the message to include that, would it? It would have helped even less than this over-analysis.
I still call for the various security groups to impose a ban on vulnerability announcements between December 14 and January 14, just to give us all a bit of peace, though!
Couldn't I have seen this just TWO HOURS AGO while I was still at work, and not now when my holidays have officially started? Well, it's not like I didn't expect to be working occasionally during my holiday anyway. A sysadmin's work is never done ...
I say again - damn. It a little blissful ignorance over the festive season too much to ask these days?
Is this course supposed to be about "Alternative Operating Systems" or "Free Software Evangelism"?
I'm not suggesting you ignore Free Software at all, but give a little time at least to the non-free alternatives. OS/2, or whatever it's called now, would be a good example of something technically well-designed, but which failed in the marketpalce. Pre-OS X MacOS has a very long and interesting history. There are buckets of sites out there that'll give you enough material for a few hours on each one.
It might also be worth spending a little time on the differences between the various Windows incarnations, at least from 3.1 to 95 to NT.
You've got a great concept here - don't go turning it into a sermon. The merits of the Free stuff will be obvious, so there's no need to avoid mentioning the competition.
Go back to FYAD, will ya? :)
You can not stop us
We have this Unix
You reboot now
Are you afraid?
Death to Microsoft
Death to Sun
Steve is great
Give me my hanky back.
Or the best alternative of all: "This is my Grandmother's engagement ring. My grandparents were married 58 years and were deeply in love every minute of it. I would be honored for you to have this."
The only downside I see here is the possibility that you may have to kill your Grandmother if she doesn't have the decency to die before you wish to propose.
Of course, if you can't bring yourself to do that then you could always settle for breaking them up. Once the divorce is through, just point out to Grandma that she won't be needing that ring any more and she can give it to you.
Wow man, you must have big balls to admit in a public forum that you've been neutered.
Actually, this is the safest place to make that announcement I can think of. Almost everyone here is really into eunuchs.
I'm a bit freaked out by the eunuchs "hackers" that hang out here, though. Haven't the poor bastards been hacked enough?
Just keep piling up those wrongs. We'll get a right sooner or later ...
I must be close to being the target audience for this change. Could someone actually offer me an explanation of why I would want "viewports" and "workspaces"? I've been really confused by this for ages. All I've ever tried to do was have four virtual desktops and each time I've tried to configure GNOME in the past, I've always ended up at some point with 8 or 16 desktops or something like that.
With enough fiddling, I get what I want, but I have no idea if I have "viewports", "workspaces", "desktops" or "smurfs". I think the issue might be that someone needs to come up with a decent way of presenting the configuration dialogs, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's all that the feature needs to be put back in. I'd guess the functionality is all still there, it's just the configuration application that's been simplified.
I have to say that if dropping viewports makes it easier for me to just give myself four or however many desktops, I'm all for it. I have no problem with advanced functionality in software I use, but if including it makes it harder to do something basic, then a re-think is needed at some point.
I don't know about the poster of the parent, but I'm sure as hell protected.
... :)
I've often wondered how much crossover exists between SA and Slashdot
man is okay though....
Oh yeah? :)
I'm Spartacus!
(For example, getting a complete album is next to impossible. The unreliability of the service ensures that.)
Funny - just the other day I managed to collect a large chunk of the early Pink Floyd albums off Gnutella after I was hit by a wave of nostalgia and had nothing to play my old records on.
It took me about 3 hours to locate and download the following albums:
None of these could be said to be particularly current. The only track I had trouble finding was one of the ones on Obscured by Clouds. Trying my search again 10 minutes later got it for me.
I've never had trouble at all getting complete albums using Gnutella.
I agree with the misattribution problem though - but that's because a lot of people are morons. It's hardly the fault of the network. "Classic" Napster had exactly the same issues. It's hardly specific to Gnutella.
Over the last two days, I've set up a couple of new Macs at work, and used Fink to throw all the extra goodies that I needed on. Ever since I started playing with it around 0.20 time, I've found the whole distribution to be wonderful.
I really meant to post a "thank you" note at some point. I wish I had. I can't possibly account for how much time the Fink people have saved me.
OK - from reading the background material, I think that Christoph has made some dubious assumptions about people at times, and attacked people a little too eagerly - but these are really just symptoms of someone working way too hard for too little reward. I get like that at work sometimes.
How about we all take a little bit of time today to send out a simple "thanks" email to one person involved with one piece of free software that you use regularly. It'll only take a minute or so, and may just keep that person feeling good enough about doing what they're doing that they'll keep on doing it.
Just go and do it now. Slashdot will still be here when you get back.
Yeah, and recently another editor criticised a submission's spelling. Incorrectly, of course - but still, it's the thought that counts.
This place is going to hell. I don't think I'll read it any more if they're going to check facts and spell correctly. The amount of discussion will plummet.
Not at all. Take a look a last year's scores.
The highest score went to a Ranger, and second pace to a Healer. The top Valkyrie was in 15th place overall.
Of course, you're right that they're easy(est) to ascend - lowest scoring ascension was a Valkyrie. But ascending isn't everything in this tournament.
OK, I suppose I want to see AMD as the good guys here, since I love their products. Even so - I can see how things could spin a little more in their favour if you're inclined to be generous.
Firstly, let me say that I belive that thermal protection integrated into the CPU, like to P4 has, would have been the best way to go - but then we'd all be complaining about how expensive the new Athlons are, wouldn't we? AMD give us lots of grunt for our dollars, and we can't expect them to pack every little feature into the CPU for the great prices they give us, any more than we can expect Apple to sell us an iPod for 50 bucks.
Now, the original article at Tom's has the following interesting quote ...
We rushed to the telephone to confer with Siemens. The engineers assured us that what we had seen was for real. The thermal diode of Palomino is unable to react quickly enough. Only 1 degree/s is what the thermal diode is able to handle.
I pointed this out the other day, too. A Siemens Engineer was consulted. Excuse me? An AMD CPU just fried itself on a Siemens-made board, and they don't ask the CPU manufacturer why it happened - they ask the board manufacturer. That's not where I'd be directing my enquiries if I was doing the test.
Now AMD prove that with a simple external board, everything shuts down and saves the CPU - just like we'd want to happen. To me, this suggests that the thermal diode has no problems reacting in time, and that maybe the board manufacturers screwed up or cut some corners when they were developing support for it.
It's understandable, for the same reason AMD didn't pack the chip full of power management goodies. Keeping costs down on goods that are bought by very price-conscious buyers looking for maximum performance at the best price. They implemented support that was adequate for a fan failure, which is the most likely thing that'll happen in real life. They could well have decided that a simpler circuit was all that was necessary, since a heatsink isn't likely to fall off.
Most likely we'll never know the full sotry. Everyone will blame everyone else, and in a year or so we'll forget all about it because the hardware will be obsolete. We'll have new problems. In the meantime, everyone has the message that they should be careful that they install their CPU cooling devices properly. AMD will recover from any negative press. Hell, Intel put out a bunch of CPUs that couldn't do Math at one point, and they survived. :)