Find your local reprographics/graphic arts service bureau. They'll do this no problems -- there is no better instrument for the job than a drum scanner.
Jef Raskin, creator of Macintosh and Canon Cat (the latter embodied his instant-on ideal), also complained about the time it takes a computer to start up.
Startup times have not changed in several decades. Here are some data points I collected a while ago:
AST boasts that "on a 4.77 MHz 8088 [MINIX] booted in maybe 5 seconds".
Data point. AMD K6-2/500 (bogomips : 989.18), 256MB, Gentoo 2004.1, kernel 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 boots in 39 seconds[1] (/etc/runlevels/default/ =
apache domainname local mysql named net.eth0 netmount squid sshd syslog-ng vixie-cron)
Data point. G4/dual 1.25GHz, 768MB, MacOS 10.2.6: 33 seconds[2]
Data point. G4/350, 576MB, MacOS 10.3.3: 32.5 seconds[2]
Data point. P4 Celeron 2.4GHz (bogomips : 4734.97), 512MB, Gentoo 2004.1, kernel 2.6.5: 27.5 seconds[1] (/etc/runlevels/default/ =
domainname local mysql named net.eth0 netmount sshd syslog-ng vixie-cron).
Data point. NeXTstation Turbo 68040 33MHz: 55.5 seconds[3]
1. from confirming Grub screen to login
2. from Apple logo to login
3. from NEXTSTEP boot to login
Gah. No way to do footnote references in mod_virgule? entities don't work, <sup> doesn't work...
Yes, "heating engineer." Actually I screwed up with those suggestions, especially with Seymour, because of course they weren't computer hackers, but just geeks (for some reason I thought that page was about 20 Movie Geeks; D'oh!).
But there were "computer hackers" in Brazil; the real hacker was Sam Lowry, who used quite a number of techniques including social engineering: "ERE I AM JH." The funnier candidate would be Harvey Lime, who had the memorable lines, "Computers... are my forte" and "I'm a bit of a whiz on that thing," but was, in the end, revealed to be computer-incompetent.
It's so handy to be able to DeActivate your XP license at will...
A.k.a. "subscription" model, or as Al Capone might be paraphrased, "you get a lot further with a new product and a dead license for the old one, than just a new product."
the sales people went to various board manufacturers, and said "Do you want to buy our chip". The board manufacturers said Gosh. That's perfect for our mid-range market. We'd love to. Our sales people went home happy. nVidia's sales people said "Do you want us to keep selling you our chips?" The board manufacturers sid "Yes, of course we do". nVidia said "well, don't buy chips from that other upstart company".
Plenty of examples like this were heard in the antitrust case against MS. You can bet they're doing it today especially now they have more real competition than ever. Anyone want to talk about kickbacks?
A friend in Moscow tells me that the Russian media - such as every "investigative" programme - are carefully putting forward the sychronised line that Putin has nothing to do with the killing. I speculate that the proposition to media outlets could have been:
"Of course Putin had nothing to do with Litvinenko's murder! Publish this, or you'll end up like Litvinenko."
(One counter-theory put about very quickly was that Litvinenko committed suicide in order to "raise awkward questions" as Putin attended the EU summit. This of course echoes the line put forward immediately after Anna Politkovskaya's murder, that she arranged it herself to discredit Putin. Yes, this was seriously suggested! I was in Moscow at the time.)
Apple's business model doesn't depend on tricking people into superfluous upgrades, interfering with the market or taking technical measures - wait for your XP to DeActivate in favour of Vista! - to force people to upgrade. If you weren't paying attention for the past 25 years, Apple is a hardware company (like Sun) that just happens to bundle a kick-ass O/S.
If this was carried out by a state department, Putin will announce it's to be privatised
Published: 29 November 2006
They must be bemused in Chechnya. Because they had about 50,000 people blown up by Putin and no one gave a toss. They probably made countless attempts to interest politicians and reporters from the West, who said: "Hmm, you've had your hospital destroyed by a tank, have you? Well it's a bit 1940s I'm afraid. Have they killed any of you with rocket-propelled bird flu or a remote-controlled piranha - something a bit sexy?"
While Putin's army was destroying Chechnya, Tony Blair welcomed him to Britain, and described him as a "great moderniser". And that certainly applies to whoever killed Mr Litvinenko. Because there can hardly be a more modern way of murdering someone than with radioactive sushi. In many ways the two men are so similar that when Putin makes a statement on the incident, he might say: "This is not a betrayal of KGB values. It represents traditional assassination in a modern setting."
And if this was carried out by a state-run department, Putin will announce it's to be privatised so it can bid for outside contracts. By now they've probably already made a showreel to publicise their work called "Ready Steady Poison", in which a Russian version of Ainsley Harriott chortles: "Now you only need to add a pinch of this stuff. Too much is a waste. Not only that but it's a bit heavy on the palate, and just because you're killing someone, you don't want to drown out the subtle flavours of the salmon."
Most commentators have suggested the killing couldn't be linked to the hierarchy of the Russian government because it's too clumsy and risky. But this is to underestimate government agents. The CIA's attempts to assassinate Castro included placing a bomb inside an attractive sea-shell, in an area of the beach that he strolled on, in the hope it would catch his eye and he'd pick it up. So by comparison this effort was dry and straightforward. Maybe the world's older secret service agents meet up in gloomy pubs to drink bitter and complain: "Youngsters today have it easy. In the old days, if you wanted to murder someone with sea-food you were up all night making an exploding whelk."
But this case represents more than one murder, because it's forced much of the British establishment to acknowledge that Russia has gone wrong. This leaves them in some turmoil, because when the Soviet Union collapsed this wasn't just seen as the demise of a tyranny, but the ultimate triumph for capitalism. Big business had won so freedom and prosperity would surely follow. Businessmen scrambled for their piece of this private wealth, and this was celebrated as an example of the new liberty. George Soros, the West's most quoted financier of the time, wrote: "It's robber capitalism, it's lawless, but it's very vital and viable."
One flaw in this logic was that most of the newly rich Russian businessmen had previously held senior posts in the Communist Party, which is how they got access to this new treasure. Which means the attitude of the country's new owners was: "Under the old system I believed it was my right to be pampered in luxury, while most people were poor under communism. But now I realise it's actually my right to be pampered in luxury, while most people are poor under capitalism. Truly we should be grateful for this historic change."
If you pointed this out at the time, you were scowled at like someone who suggests the week before a World Cup that England aren't going to win. Now, 15 years later the place is in chaos, to the extent that life expectancy for men has fallen from 65 to 59. Which must be another sign of the new freedom, because in the old days people were forced to endure six extra years of turgid communism, but in the f
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Australia commits to F-35 strike fighter.
Draw your own conclusions... (Hint: What a bunch of fucking morons.)
And I wasn't suggesting BUYING one! If you re-read my comment, I suggested using a service bureau.
Find your local reprographics/graphic arts service bureau. They'll do this no problems -- there is no better instrument for the job than a drum scanner.
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they will likely migrate their existing SuSE and Red Hat installations to Unbreakable Linux.
Perhaps Oracle customers faced with this sour ultimatum might find it attractive to keep their current platform and try MySQL (more flexible, faster, lower costs) or Greenplum (100x as fast as Oracle) instead...
Things don't always pan out for the faltering Emperor.
Jef Raskin, creator of Macintosh and Canon Cat (the latter embodied his instant-on ideal), also complained about the time it takes a computer to start up.
Startup times have not changed in several decades. Here are some data points I collected a while ago:
Yes, "heating engineer." Actually I screwed up with those suggestions, especially with Seymour, because of course they weren't computer hackers, but just geeks (for some reason I thought that page was about 20 Movie Geeks; D'oh!).
But there were "computer hackers" in Brazil; the real hacker was Sam Lowry, who used quite a number of techniques including social engineering: "ERE I AM JH." The funnier candidate would be Harvey Lime, who had the memorable lines, "Computers... are my forte" and "I'm a bit of a whiz on that thing," but was, in the end, revealed to be computer-incompetent.
1. Buscemi's Seymour (Ghost World).
2. De Niro's Harry Tuttle (in keeping with the Brazil theme posts this week).
...Why anyone would run their business (or hobby) on a system that is subject to DeActivation.
Defective by Design, indeed.
Thankyou for pointing that out.
:-/
It's amazing that a tech journalist would be unaware of this. Isn't it?
And it's a "Brazil" reference, of course, which is nicely appropriate in this context...
Where's Vista versus e.g. OS X 10.4 or 10.5?
It's so handy to be able to DeActivate your XP license at will...
A.k.a. "subscription" model, or as Al Capone might be paraphrased, "you get a lot further with a new product and a dead license for the old one, than just a new product."
Plenty of examples like this were heard in the antitrust case against MS. You can bet they're doing it today especially now they have more real competition than ever. Anyone want to talk about kickbacks?
A friend in Moscow tells me that the Russian media - such as every "investigative" programme - are carefully putting forward the sychronised line that Putin has nothing to do with the killing. I speculate that the proposition to media outlets could have been:
"Of course Putin had nothing to do with Litvinenko's murder! Publish this, or you'll end up like Litvinenko."
(One counter-theory put about very quickly was that Litvinenko committed suicide in order to "raise awkward questions" as Putin attended the EU summit. This of course echoes the line put forward immediately after Anna Politkovskaya's murder, that she arranged it herself to discredit Putin. Yes, this was seriously suggested! I was in Moscow at the time.)
Why would you want a liar and thief without a conscience running the country?
Uh wait...
Apple's business model doesn't depend on tricking people into superfluous upgrades, interfering with the market or taking technical measures - wait for your XP to DeActivate in favour of Vista! - to force people to upgrade. If you weren't paying attention for the past 25 years, Apple is a hardware company (like Sun) that just happens to bundle a kick-ass O/S.
And Linux's business model... uh wait.
Yawn.
And don't let your kids swallow beryllium coated capsules of Polonium 210 either!
But that ruins the pretty picture I was painting of IBM as good guys and Novell as bad guys!
Sigh. I guess I "overreacted"... But the rant was hilarious and expressed the exasperation some of us feel.
And IBM is pouring millions upon tens of millions into Linux's side of said vacuous case. While Novell crows about their 30 pieces of silver.
Does Slashdot have an option for submitting a rant and getting comments?
You're already using it. Go right ahead...