Can't see what this is really about? People freak out at MS about any little thing - remember the whole Webdings thing? The letters NYC produced some symbols that seemed to suggest some wierd "disturbing" things. I mean, sure it was co-incidence, but they took a literal beating about it for a few weeks way back.
Read your own words again.
Can you honestly not even hazard a guess as to why people reacte so strongly when msoft does something? They control without any intervention the operating system that powers 89% of the worlds computers. What other major system do you know in the world that is controlled by a single corporate entity... one that has no real controls placed on it by a goverment? If msoft decides a word doesn't exist, then it doesn't exist on every installation of Word. When Word becomes completely integrated into the OS then it won't exist on 89% of the world's computers. People get in such a hissy over msoft's practices because the people that should be (the goverment) isn't doing anything about it.
The goverment in the US regulates everything else that has such a strong impact on our economy, yet the sole super power in the computing world is basically untouchable.
I sincerely hope this gets through and happens. No I am not joking. This isn't sarcasm. This should go through, in fact we shouldn't resist it at all.
Because as others have pointed out this is *too damn* far. This is what we need to get the general populace involved. You try telling finicky Americans that they no longer have any choices. Hell it doesn't matter if that is already true, but once you tell them that to their face things will change. Sometimes things have to go way too far before enough people will stand up to it. The general populace of any nation is much like a spring. You can push it in for a long time but only to a certain point... and after you get tired of pushing they are going to push back hard.
Let this pass.
Then I will have no problems convincing friends or family why Microsoft/RIAA and their ilk are bad news in the long run. And then? Then I will be standing there with open arms to all those who want choice and won't take it anymore.
Toshiba makes many drives that fit in the 505s... all the MK 8.5mm series of toshiba drives intended for portable devices will fit.
However I don't think the sony is compatible with them due to heat concerns. I put a 20gig in my 505VE and the drive died shortly. Perhaps the drive was defective? I don't know but I have gone back to a 6 gig drive in it.
Are you kidding? Rental prices other than inside SF have started to plummit. There are tons of new condos/apartments that just got finished where the prices are damn good for the area. Even downtown prices on smaller units are only slightly more than they were 3 years ago and if the drops continue they will reach the rates they were in 97.
Seriously look in the north bay, east bay and to some extent at the south bay. You will notice tons of completely new properties offering discounts as extreme as 2.5 months off your yearly rate. They are hurting... and this is good for us.
Home prices on the other hand are still absurb. 350k for a small 2 bedroom in an ok neighborhood is just fricken robbery.
I use 802.11 in one of the worst environments possible and it works well throughout my entire apartment.
I have concrete walls with a metal mesh in them. There are also metal meshes between the floors and the ceiling. I also live in downtown SF which has much interference. In addition I have a Panasonic 2.4ghz phone. Everything plays well together and I have WLAN connectivity throughout my apartment and up 40 feet outside of it. The only tricky part was placement of the WAP and making sure the Gigahertz phone and the WLAN were set to channels far apart.
WAP placement is extremely important. Make sure to get it high and take into account the walls throughout.
I use many 2.4Ghz devices at the same time. Have you actually tried to use WLAN stuff and it didn't work or are you going on the idea that they will conflict? Any of the current WAPs will let you set and lock a channel in the 2.4Ghz range to talk on.
Getting rid of cables all over the place is one of the best things to happen in a long time to computers.
You know I am sick of this belief that slashdot is "Taco's Bookmarks". Yes this may have been the case years ago but once Slashdot grew into a commerical entity it lost the right to be judged so lightly.
Slashdot grew into something more than was intended. Once of the assets of slashdot listed in the "value" of owning it was the loyal readership. A loyal readership which views lots of ADs and contributes all of the content to make the site work. But what do we get in return?
Complaints ever answered? No.
Stable environment? No.
Fact checking? No.
Any level of real effort put forth? Nope.
So who is the sucker here? Those of us that continue to come back despite these problems? Or those that think this is the best we can get? Just once I would like to see one of the editors (besides Hemos) actually comment and contribute back to the discussions. And hey how about apologizing for only putting forth 15 minutes of effort a day into a site which pays them pretty well?
This is easy to fix. Simply change the channel that your wireless HUB is on and the devices will find it. I find that that channels 2, 6 and 10 tend to be the ones most free of trouble from 2.4Ghz phones. The default channel (11) on many wireless hubs is just an awful choice.
While I disagree with much of what you say, because it is too targetted towards those who do lots of basic text work, and that is no longer the bulk of people who use computers anymore there is one point on which I do agree.
When you need to get lots of text work done, there is *no* better window manager than Ion. I tend to split my screen into 3 quadrants in it, with 3-6 panes in each of the windows. Absolutely fabulous.
I have seen one of Msoft's server buildouts at an Exodus building. It is for the most part what you would expect. Many rows of 19" racks fully populated (or getting that way) of 2u and sometimes 4u rack mount boxes. It is all well placed and well cabled... as it should be with the huge number of contractors they hire. The only thing I get a chuckle out of is watching the rolling carts in there moving around with monitors, keyboard and mice on them. So much for serial console management!
Do you really think MSoft pays lots of tax?
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MSoft is a big company with very smart accountants. Like most big companies they heist our country's tax system for a big ride every single year, so it is we the people who pay the bulk of the taxes even though we have less rights these days than do companies.
The UI perfect in terms of usability? You can only say this if you believe that the current way GUIs are done is the right way.
Does anyone here honestly think we will use GUIs in the same way 10 years from now?
I believe current GUIs (everyone of them) are horrible. They have poor interaction principles. They lack the fundamentals of task based interactions. They are overly complex when they don't need to be. They do not communicate well in abstract terms to the end user what they are really doing. Current GUIs are also heavily based on US culture.
No I don't have any grand ideas to fix it all other than I believe the GUI should be based on basic geometric shapes for actions. Much like most embedded devices have. And that if needed, somewhere easily accessible is a further level of complexity for those that demand it.
You are right on. I have interviewed a lot of people for sysadmin jobs and myself interviewed in the past for jobs. In the past when I interviewed I made the mistake of asking people too specific questions... while you may get the answers you are looking for that is definitely not a fair gauge of how good the person will be.
Situations are the best thing to ask about and not really things related to sysadmin. Ask them questions about cars, planes, boats, trees. Get them to show you they have a real base of problem solving skills. Most admins don't and can only parrot back things they have already learned. While they are useful for doing their jobs, it is these people that crack under the high pressure situations.
Also when I interview people I am overly candid about my views on the company, the people and my opinions on text editors and OSs. You need to see how people will reacte to opinions that don't mirror their own. Because a great deal of sysadmin work is dealing with problems created by people higher up who don't/won't understand the underlying technology.
Everyone knows the reason unix has a year 2037 problem is because that is the year that Richard Stallman will personally lead the jihad of the trees against the dirty upright walking apes.
In other words the world will end slightly before computers become powerful enough.
I find that different emulators work better/worse at different games so play around.
Most important, running Jimmie's Overclock and bump it up to 125%... as far as the keys issue. I use a targus keyboard. Its good enough for RPGs which is all I ever tried to play.
Your cable is great because you have a low concentration of people per cell. Digital Cable scales well to suburbs and cities with large land areas because of the relatively low number of boxes in each cell.
Cities with concentrations of people in small areas have much poorer quality because the bandwith to the boxes its split in many more pieces in each cell.
If you live in an area with a high congestion of people (aka a cell with tons of people) digital cable has *much* worse quality than normal analog cable. Luckily for those of us in at&t cable land we no longer have a choice! The nice cable monopoly has decided we no longer no need analog cable and will only give us the hook up with their inferior digital product.
I really love horrible mpeg stutters, bad picture quality and spikes in sound. Thank you digital cable for showing me the error of my ways! Now I can get pissed at tv quality on four times as many channels!
There are various flavours of WinCE tuned to specific tasks. The PocketPCs run a version of CE trimmed, changed, and compiled specifically for each hardware platform.
Palm is a great organizer.
PocketPCs are pretty good portable computers.
I feel that most people who rag on CE so much haven't used a device lately. Yes WinCE 1/2 sucked ass. However the new stuff shows that msoft really learned a lot of lessons by continuing to get beat up by Palm. The next stuff coming out of Redmond shows even more promise.
Keep your m105 if its a good organizer for you. I'll continue to use my IPAQ to do frivilious fancy things because not only can I use it as an organizer (and sync everything in the universe to it) but I can also play SNES, Sega, listen to mp3s, mount network shares, watch movies, stream video, etc... etc...
Well any company that can afford that kind of storage and the software associated (11TBs plus the mirroring software would be 6mil easy) should also have someone smart enough in the architecture department who would understand do fiber multiplexing off to yet another box of disks for your hotbackup. Obviously they wanted a hotbackup if they needed disk backups and the mirroring wasn't enough.
DLT would of course choke a horrid death on this. Although I have seen some pretty interesting DLT setups. The best was using another 4 port 100baseT card off a sun with each port doing a specific set of mount points to a DLT with 4 drives. That thing could backup a ton of data in one evening.
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Can't see what this is really about? People freak out at MS about any little thing - remember the whole Webdings thing? The letters NYC produced some symbols that seemed to suggest some wierd "disturbing" things. I mean, sure it was co-incidence, but they took a literal beating about it for a few weeks way back.
Read your own words again.
Can you honestly not even hazard a guess as to why people reacte so strongly when msoft does something? They control without any intervention the operating system that powers 89% of the worlds computers. What other major system do you know in the world that is controlled by a single corporate entity... one that has no real controls placed on it by a goverment? If msoft decides a word doesn't exist, then it doesn't exist on every installation of Word. When Word becomes completely integrated into the OS then it won't exist on 89% of the world's computers. People get in such a hissy over msoft's practices because the people that should be (the goverment) isn't doing anything about it.
The goverment in the US regulates everything else that has such a strong impact on our economy, yet the sole super power in the computing world is basically untouchable.
I sincerely hope this gets through and happens. No I am not joking. This isn't sarcasm. This should go through, in fact we shouldn't resist it at all.
Because as others have pointed out this is *too damn* far. This is what we need to get the general populace involved. You try telling finicky Americans that they no longer have any choices. Hell it doesn't matter if that is already true, but once you tell them that to their face things will change. Sometimes things have to go way too far before enough people will stand up to it. The general populace of any nation is much like a spring. You can push it in for a long time but only to a certain point... and after you get tired of pushing they are going to push back hard.
Let this pass.
Then I will have no problems convincing friends or family why Microsoft/RIAA and their ilk are bad news in the long run. And then? Then I will be standing there with open arms to all those who want choice and won't take it anymore.
How exactly did you splice power in?
I have a couple of LCDs I would love to modify.
Toshiba makes many drives that fit in the 505s... all the MK 8.5mm series of toshiba drives intended for portable devices will fit.
However I don't think the sony is compatible with them due to heat concerns. I put a 20gig in my 505VE and the drive died shortly. Perhaps the drive was defective? I don't know but I have gone back to a 6 gig drive in it.
* SF is now on a stage 2 alert.
* Pacific stock exchange closed.
* Hiway 4 closed to tanker accident.
* No traffic near Oakland airport.
* CalTrans ordered all employees off bridges.
* Extra police security on all bridges and security on public transit.
* One plane on the way to SF is down near Pittsburg (Flight 193)
* TransAmerica building closed.
* Public buildings closed.
* Schools closed.
* Police in a high state of alert.
* Bridges ARE open.
* Public Transit IS open.
* All airports are of course closed.
Are you kidding? Rental prices other than inside SF have started to plummit. There are tons of new condos/apartments that just got finished where the prices are damn good for the area. Even downtown prices on smaller units are only slightly more than they were 3 years ago and if the drops continue they will reach the rates they were in 97.
Seriously look in the north bay, east bay and to some extent at the south bay. You will notice tons of completely new properties offering discounts as extreme as 2.5 months off your yearly rate. They are hurting... and this is good for us.
Home prices on the other hand are still absurb. 350k for a small 2 bedroom in an ok neighborhood is just fricken robbery.
Yeah and you forgot to mention...
... your Vaio has a maximum of 800x600 resolution.
I use 802.11 in one of the worst environments possible and it works well throughout my entire apartment.
I have concrete walls with a metal mesh in them. There are also metal meshes between the floors and the ceiling. I also live in downtown SF which has much interference. In addition I have a Panasonic 2.4ghz phone. Everything plays well together and I have WLAN connectivity throughout my apartment and up 40 feet outside of it. The only tricky part was placement of the WAP and making sure the Gigahertz phone and the WLAN were set to channels far apart.
WAP placement is extremely important. Make sure to get it high and take into account the walls throughout.
I use many 2.4Ghz devices at the same time. Have you actually tried to use WLAN stuff and it didn't work or are you going on the idea that they will conflict? Any of the current WAPs will let you set and lock a channel in the 2.4Ghz range to talk on.
Getting rid of cables all over the place is one of the best things to happen in a long time to computers.
You know I am sick of this belief that slashdot is "Taco's Bookmarks". Yes this may have been the case years ago but once Slashdot grew into a commerical entity it lost the right to be judged so lightly.
Slashdot grew into something more than was intended. Once of the assets of slashdot listed in the "value" of owning it was the loyal readership. A loyal readership which views lots of ADs and contributes all of the content to make the site work. But what do we get in return?
Complaints ever answered? No.
Stable environment? No.
Fact checking? No.
Any level of real effort put forth? Nope.
So who is the sucker here? Those of us that continue to come back despite these problems? Or those that think this is the best we can get? Just once I would like to see one of the editors (besides Hemos) actually comment and contribute back to the discussions. And hey how about apologizing for only putting forth 15 minutes of effort a day into a site which pays them pretty well?
This is easy to fix. Simply change the channel that your wireless HUB is on and the devices will find it. I find that that channels 2, 6 and 10 tend to be the ones most free of trouble from 2.4Ghz phones. The default channel (11) on many wireless hubs is just an awful choice.
While I disagree with much of what you say, because it is too targetted towards those who do lots of basic text work, and that is no longer the bulk of people who use computers anymore there is one point on which I do agree.
When you need to get lots of text work done, there is *no* better window manager than Ion. I tend to split my screen into 3 quadrants in it, with 3-6 panes in each of the windows. Absolutely fabulous.
I have seen one of Msoft's server buildouts at an Exodus building. It is for the most part what you would expect. Many rows of 19" racks fully populated (or getting that way) of 2u and sometimes 4u rack mount boxes. It is all well placed and well cabled... as it should be with the huge number of contractors they hire. The only thing I get a chuckle out of is watching the rolling carts in there moving around with monitors, keyboard and mice on them. So much for serial console management!
MSoft is a big company with very smart accountants. Like most big companies they heist our country's tax system for a big ride every single year, so it is we the people who pay the bulk of the taxes even though we have less rights these days than do companies.
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The UI perfect in terms of usability? You can only say this if you believe that the current way GUIs are done is the right way.
Does anyone here honestly think we will use GUIs in the same way 10 years from now?
I believe current GUIs (everyone of them) are horrible. They have poor interaction principles. They lack the fundamentals of task based interactions. They are overly complex when they don't need to be. They do not communicate well in abstract terms to the end user what they are really doing. Current GUIs are also heavily based on US culture.
No I don't have any grand ideas to fix it all other than I believe the GUI should be based on basic geometric shapes for actions. Much like most embedded devices have. And that if needed, somewhere easily accessible is a further level of complexity for those that demand it.
You are right on. I have interviewed a lot of people for sysadmin jobs and myself interviewed in the past for jobs. In the past when I interviewed I made the mistake of asking people too specific questions... while you may get the answers you are looking for that is definitely not a fair gauge of how good the person will be.
Situations are the best thing to ask about and not really things related to sysadmin. Ask them questions about cars, planes, boats, trees. Get them to show you they have a real base of problem solving skills. Most admins don't and can only parrot back things they have already learned. While they are useful for doing their jobs, it is these people that crack under the high pressure situations.
Also when I interview people I am overly candid about my views on the company, the people and my opinions on text editors and OSs. You need to see how people will reacte to opinions that don't mirror their own. Because a great deal of sysadmin work is dealing with problems created by people higher up who don't/won't understand the underlying technology.
Incorrect.
Everyone knows the reason unix has a year 2037 problem is because that is the year that Richard Stallman will personally lead the jihad of the trees against the dirty upright walking apes.
In other words the world will end slightly before computers become powerful enough.
Really?
Here you go:
http://www.api.faa.gov/sth/sth9-10.htm
It is white noise that is being used in this case.
I find that different emulators work better/worse at different games so play around.
Most important, running Jimmie's Overclock and bump it up to 125%... as far as the keys issue. I use a targus keyboard. Its good enough for RPGs which is all I ever tried to play.
Your cable is great because you have a low concentration of people per cell. Digital Cable scales well to suburbs and cities with large land areas because of the relatively low number of boxes in each cell.
Cities with concentrations of people in small areas have much poorer quality because the bandwith to the boxes its split in many more pieces in each cell.
... no really.
If you live in an area with a high congestion of people (aka a cell with tons of people) digital cable has *much* worse quality than normal analog cable. Luckily for those of us in at&t cable land we no longer have a choice! The nice cable monopoly has decided we no longer no need analog cable and will only give us the hook up with their inferior digital product.
I really love horrible mpeg stutters, bad picture quality and spikes in sound. Thank you digital cable for showing me the error of my ways! Now I can get pissed at tv quality on four times as many channels!
There are various flavours of WinCE tuned to specific tasks. The PocketPCs run a version of CE trimmed, changed, and compiled specifically for each hardware platform.
Palm is a great organizer.
PocketPCs are pretty good portable computers.
I feel that most people who rag on CE so much haven't used a device lately. Yes WinCE 1/2 sucked ass. However the new stuff shows that msoft really learned a lot of lessons by continuing to get beat up by Palm. The next stuff coming out of Redmond shows even more promise.
Keep your m105 if its a good organizer for you. I'll continue to use my IPAQ to do frivilious fancy things because not only can I use it as an organizer (and sync everything in the universe to it) but I can also play SNES, Sega, listen to mp3s, mount network shares, watch movies, stream video, etc... etc...
Well any company that can afford that kind of storage and the software associated (11TBs plus the mirroring software would be 6mil easy) should also have someone smart enough in the architecture department who would understand do fiber multiplexing off to yet another box of disks for your hotbackup. Obviously they wanted a hotbackup if they needed disk backups and the mirroring wasn't enough.
DLT would of course choke a horrid death on this. Although I have seen some pretty interesting DLT setups. The best was using another 4 port 100baseT card off a sun with each port doing a specific set of mount points to a DLT with 4 drives. That thing could backup a ton of data in one evening.