No matter how good or useful it will be, it's a Sony.
pI hate their memory policy (only use proprietary expensive undersized crap) and they have not yet apologized properly for the rootkit fiasco. I want to see heads roll.
It makes absolutely no sense to ruin perfectly good hardware by installing XP in dual boot configuration. Half the machine would be borked 90% of the time. I doubt anyone buys these as gaming machines.
Just wait for VMware/OSX to come out, then you can have snapshots and whatnot and even Winblows becomes somewhat manageable. Plus, any serious fuckup or new Windoze virus will not ruin the whole machine, just the sandbox, that can be repaired by selecting "VM-Snapshot-Revert."
Data that is concidered important gets copied to new media faster than the old media deteriorates. Data that is useless disappears. Natural selection.
I used to use DLT, but it does not have enough capacity any more. Now I use two extra hard drives for images and sources. One for backups, then every now and then I connect the second backup drive, copy the backups there, disconnect it and keep it offsite. I'm considering using encryption too for home pr0n and other sensitive material.
My subject line is off-topic. We have deployed Linux on some very non-standard hardened laptops - so WLAN support and good ACPI support were on top of the list. Surprisingly, Linux won XP.
The real killer was that the tiny wireless laptops were used solely for telnetting to a legacy system. The WLAN network was comprehensive, but every now and then the network WILL go down momentarily, and the Windows telnet client (legacy app from 1994 or so, with custom scripts to make function keys to do all sorts of weird things) just did not handle even a brief disconnect. Worse, the server side kept the accounts in a state that prevented login for some 40 mins.
I tried to hunt for a solution, but being no Windoze expert and having no root access to the server it was easier to install Ubuntu (for testing) then SUSE (because boss told me so) and run an autossh tunnel via a Linux server. Added bonus: strong encryption without some commercial VPN bs. I used plain old xterm because it's easily reconfigurable via xresources, and THOSE are not going to change ever:-) Konsole and gnome-terminal seem to be in a constant flux.
Now the system works, one can fire a shotgun at every WLAN AP, drive to nearest store, buy new APs, set them up, and if you do that within 40 mins the telnet connections never break.
Oh, the powersave part.. battery lasts over 5 hours under Linux, under 4 under XP because of all the extra bullshit that was installed by default. It could be tuned to 5+h no doubt under XP, it just was too much of a hassle.
I have tried Evolution 3 times: a month ago, a year ago, and two years ago.
Evolution sucks. It has 2GB mailbox size limit under any file system. It routinely breaks its index files. These two bugs are reason enough to stay away from Evolution. If you start using it now from blank table, it SEEMS to work fine - if you import all your mail from 1994 onwards in Evolution, it just breaks.
Mutt and Thunderbird for me, thank you. Thunderbird has bugs of its own, but I have yet to experience data loss.
Finland has ~5M ppl and uses paper ballots that are counted by hand in a matter of days. Why can't US cities and counties of similar size use this old system? Just scale up the number of people doing the counting.
Americans take what is brilliant, run it through a lamifying filter and end up with Fitz US style, Nikita US style. End result: lame, politically correct bullshit.
Installed Ubuntu on HP dc7600CMT with Promise "RAID" SATA card. No problems whatsoever.
Installed XP on identical machine. Had to open the box, attach a floppy drive, find a working floppy, create a driver disk and use that to install the drivers during installation.
Ubu install: 20mins with basic software, with working net share mounts, printers, stuff.
XP install: half the day with basic software, same mounts, same printer.
I mean the beauty of OSX Macs is the tie between beautifully designed, robust, classy hardware and a Unixoid OS with eyecandy UI.
If one runs illegal OSX in some crappy consumer PC, there is no support, no quarantee, nothing. The experience is kaput.
I'd rather run Linux in a mainstream PC than a warexxored no-support hacked OSX.
Finland is a single-party system. There are three major parties, but the politics of them are identical - only the rhetoric differs.
I have voted for the most nationalistic party (Perussuomalaiset) in the last 2 elections, and for a reason. Finland is no longer a democracy, it's a socialdemocracy.
F-Secure has shifted to spreading FUD about mobile viruses and backdoors.
Conveniently they have antivirus/antibackdoor software for sale.
Seriously, read their weblog, it's full of stuff avout mobile virus threats, none of which are real threats that would justify purchase of mobile decelerator software.
You run the bi-monthly Windows repair and MBR gets fuxxored - bye bye multiboot, welcome manual repair hassle.
It's a known fact that dual- or tripleboot machines spend 99% of their time in ONE environment, since booting is painful. The Windoze installation will get outdated and unpatched fast.
Partitioning is pain. The only writable FS supported by all Linux and OSX and W2K/XP is FAT32, which is fault-prone and does not support large files. Using native FS is better, but you always have space on the "wrong" partitions and disks.
It would be better if VMWare released OS X version of their workstation software. None of the hassle above since data sharing could be done using NFS/SMB and Windows repairs/reinstalls become a non-issue.
Slashdot Mirror
Bug in Windoze driver -> possible problem for Mactels. What next? "New Winblows worm possible threat to OS X?"
Trust the Corps.
Waiting for slasdot recovery program.
Google already censors tons of stuff. Talking of their search engine only.
The only interactive, multiple-point-of-view DVD's I've seen were all pron. Almost like those sucky adult games the japanese make.
The game sales are worse than UMD format movie sales, and every pron torrent site has PSP format stuff. Or so the guys told, I know none of it.
No matter how good or useful it will be, it's a Sony. pI hate their memory policy (only use proprietary expensive undersized crap) and they have not yet apologized properly for the rootkit fiasco. I want to see heads roll.
Just wait for VMware/OSX to come out, then you can have snapshots and whatnot and even Winblows becomes somewhat manageable. Plus, any serious fuckup or new Windoze virus will not ruin the whole machine, just the sandbox, that can be repaired by selecting "VM-Snapshot-Revert."
The GPS as we know it is US military controlled. GPS is needed now, everywhere. US is not what is used to be. Hence, need for European GPS clone.
I used to use DLT, but it does not have enough capacity any more. Now I use two extra hard drives for images and sources. One for backups, then every now and then I connect the second backup drive, copy the backups there, disconnect it and keep it offsite. I'm considering using encryption too for home pr0n and other sensitive material.
To say that the post was lacking substance would be an understatement.
The real killer was that the tiny wireless laptops were used solely for telnetting to a legacy system. The WLAN network was comprehensive, but every now and then the network WILL go down momentarily, and the Windows telnet client (legacy app from 1994 or so, with custom scripts to make function keys to do all sorts of weird things) just did not handle even a brief disconnect. Worse, the server side kept the accounts in a state that prevented login for some 40 mins.
I tried to hunt for a solution, but being no Windoze expert and having no root access to the server it was easier to install Ubuntu (for testing) then SUSE (because boss told me so) and run an autossh tunnel via a Linux server. Added bonus: strong encryption without some commercial VPN bs. I used plain old xterm because it's easily reconfigurable via xresources, and THOSE are not going to change ever :-) Konsole and gnome-terminal seem to be in a constant flux.
Now the system works, one can fire a shotgun at every WLAN AP, drive to nearest store, buy new APs, set them up, and if you do that within 40 mins the telnet connections never break.
Oh, the powersave part.. battery lasts over 5 hours under Linux, under 4 under XP because of all the extra bullshit that was installed by default. It could be tuned to 5+h no doubt under XP, it just was too much of a hassle.
I have tried Evolution 3 times: a month ago, a year ago, and two years ago. Evolution sucks. It has 2GB mailbox size limit under any file system. It routinely breaks its index files. These two bugs are reason enough to stay away from Evolution. If you start using it now from blank table, it SEEMS to work fine - if you import all your mail from 1994 onwards in Evolution, it just breaks. Mutt and Thunderbird for me, thank you. Thunderbird has bugs of its own, but I have yet to experience data loss.
What you want is what you get, a la LyX.
Finland has ~5M ppl and uses paper ballots that are counted by hand in a matter of days. Why can't US cities and counties of similar size use this old system? Just scale up the number of people doing the counting.
Americans take what is brilliant, run it through a lamifying filter and end up with Fitz US style, Nikita US style. End result: lame, politically correct bullshit.
Installed XP on identical machine. Had to open the box, attach a floppy drive, find a working floppy, create a driver disk and use that to install the drivers during installation.
Ubu install: 20mins with basic software, with working net share mounts, printers, stuff. XP install: half the day with basic software, same mounts, same printer.
It's like CD's in 1994... the sheer amount of data works as a copy protection...
I mean the beauty of OSX Macs is the tie between beautifully designed, robust, classy hardware and a Unixoid OS with eyecandy UI. If one runs illegal OSX in some crappy consumer PC, there is no support, no quarantee, nothing. The experience is kaput. I'd rather run Linux in a mainstream PC than a warexxored no-support hacked OSX.
Fuck this law.
Finland is a single-party system.
There are three major parties, but the politics of them are identical - only the rhetoric differs.
I have voted for the most nationalistic party (Perussuomalaiset) in the last 2 elections, and for a reason. Finland is no longer a democracy, it's a socialdemocracy.
Conveniently they have antivirus/antibackdoor software for sale.
Seriously, read their weblog, it's full of stuff avout mobile virus threats, none of which are real threats that would justify purchase of mobile decelerator software.
Spoofing user agent was lame to begin with. There's no standard called MSIE.
You run the bi-monthly Windows repair and MBR gets fuxxored - bye bye multiboot, welcome manual repair hassle.
It's a known fact that dual- or tripleboot machines spend 99% of their time in ONE environment, since booting is painful. The Windoze installation will get outdated and unpatched fast.
Partitioning is pain. The only writable FS supported by all Linux and OSX and W2K/XP is FAT32, which is fault-prone and does not support large files. Using native FS is better, but you always have space on the "wrong" partitions and disks.
It would be better if VMWare released OS X version of their workstation software. None of the hassle above since data sharing could be done using NFS/SMB and Windows repairs/reinstalls become a non-issue.
There is no "fire in every episode." The first 10 or so episodes are painful on the effects department, but then the effects improve dramatically.
They do reuse old footage in every battle. Hell: during the credits they show the same explosion twice! But it gets a lot better mid-season.