CD's aren't worth more than US$6 each. I will rarely pay more than that. that's why I don't buy.
Oh, and because of the RIAA's tactics I have blacklisted pretty much the entire music industry. They're definately not getting any of my money and alot of people I know feel the same way. these are people who I know for a fact used to share music but always bought as well. So you dont have the entire demographic correct. Not all music sharers are non buyers.
Furthermore, assuming that your story wasn't a BS troll, which is what it sounded like (and if it is congrats you got me), alot of people lost jobs. No one owes you a living. Sell something else besides music.
Hey, if the store fails you can always get a JOB. Your wife too. 2 incomes go a long way.
You sound like one of those happy go lucky fake smiles Born Again Idiots, BTW. "Dumb dumb dumb" not "smart smart smart" - I guess you don't watch South Park.
I can't tell you how many idiotic Yahoo talkbacks I read in response to the Taikonaut story - "Go China!" they said.... "beat the USA"... drivel like that.
If any of them had to live under that regime they would change their tune and kiss the ground that GWB walks on.
Try living in the NYC metro area (USA) and then tell me that $50k/yr isn't a pittance.
I make more than that and feel like a pauper. I live paycheck to paycheck and barely make ends meet. There is a big difference in what constitutes an acceptable salary depending on where you live.
I'm a UNIX admin and REALLY wouldn't mind getting these mainframe skills, but I can't take a paycut b/c I have a family and a pending mortgage.
Where is the US Govt? The US Govt uses Linux and UNIX in its operations and in some areas is actively looking at alternatives to MS. This is against US Govt. interests and should be stopped by the US Govt. If this isn't a blatant ANTITRUST move then I don't know what is. MS, if they get such close access to the UNIX IP, will use it not in a benign manner, but in an attempt to get Linux out of the market by making it so expensive with penalties that they will essentially be the cheaper alternative. Even if they are just licensing the IP, that will be the first step to a purchase of it since that is what the SCO jerks want, to be acquired (aka paid off).
I hope that the Linux kernel developers are scanning the code to ensure that no UNIX code is in there so as to rob MS of it's plan. I for one can't see how they can make such an issue (for how long now?) without showing WHICH code is affected??
You watch, unless IBM or someone quickly acquires SCO, then MS will be the one to acquire them and then you watch what happens, unless the US Govt gets off it's keester and DOES SOMETHING!! This is a blatant attempt at antitrust and a slap in the face to the whole antitrust process, and they are so brazen.
If anything good were to come out of this it would be that the Linux developers purge the Linux code of anything non Linux, if it was ever in there , and that the Govt takes another look at antitrust with rgards to MS. It is quite obvious that they will never learn and they will never play nice unless and until the Great Satan of Software (C. The Register) is broken up into tiny litle parts that can do no harm to the larger market.
Microsoft anti innovation canot allow to go unchecked anymore.
They don't allow us to assemble systems from parts here. If it isn't a complete system price then forget it. Also, those V100's were bought about a year ago, FWIW.
I still like Sun hardware. It's always treated us pretty well, and Solaris is an awesome OS. I don't care what the guys who call it "slowlaris" say.
SO where did you price out that stuff? Where did you price the rackmount cases? They are rackmount cases, right?
I like Sun hardware. We don't have any of the big stuff. The largest we have is a V880 rackmount and 2 E250's. I do love the low end V100 rackmounts though. We got 2 for NIS servers and these things are nice. Cheap too. One's nic is wired for failover and the other services two VLAN segments as an NIS slave. Nice little boxes.
With our discount they cost us under $1k each I think. 500Mhz, 512mb RAM, 40gb disk, built in laptop style cdrom, 2 10/100 nics each.
For this task, I hardly think Megahertz really matters. We don't have a humungous unix environment. I think it would have cost us more for a linux solution. No matter, I mentioned Linux and my boss preferred to go with Sun. Didn't bother me, I love Linux but I love Sun/Solaris too. Those puppies have been running Solaris 9 and they stay quietely in the wiring closet.
A funny thing is that they are under 4 Windows Dell rackmounts that are within our convoluted Windows A.D. structure. The Dells need this monitor and a keyboard/mouse there (with Term Svcs not sure why) and in the odd event I need the console of the Suns I just hook up an old crappy 486 Winbook via serial cable and "Bob's your uncle!" I'm in. Haven't needed console access though since replacing the default Solaris 8 with 9. Anyway, I digress.
I had some bad memory in an E250, but Sun sent us new RAM straight away. They even sent some guy to replace it. Guess that was part of the warranty service. I like Solaris Volume Manager on the A1000 that is connected to this E250. SVM is much nicer interface than Disksuite, but still I prefer to use the commandline b/c it's quicker. So far no problems with the A1000.
Safari is faster, but Mozilla 1.4a allows you to tailor popup blocking per domain .
This is important for me b/c my employer's Outlook Web Access doesn't work when popups are blocked globally - and who wants to go in and keep selecting/deselecting it?
Camino is easy to check and uncheck it b/c it isn't buried as deep, but it's still better implemented in Mozilla 1.4a that I am running.
Now, if I could just get used to using this tiny Macally micro mouse. Wow, 3 buttons and a scroll wheel in OSX, whoda thunk it?
Well that's the whole thing, isn't it? You guys probably have G4's - my 600Mhz iMac is only a G3. That velocity engine must make all the difference....
A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip "had shocked me back to reality." Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera "told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head."
As a hetero (as in many platforms) UNIX admin, I applaud Sun for coming to their senses. One of the things that got me into Solaris in a big way, which also helped me with my job, was the availability of an Intel version.
Its called MINDSHARE.
Now I ended up getting 2 Ultras off Ebay, so I use the Sparc version at home, but I always contended that Sun was being dumb in throwing out the mindshare that they can scrape up just by having a version that runs on cheap Intel hardware. The x86 version of Solaris got me used to it, comfortable with it, and led to Sun hardware sales when I got to a position to recommend some Unix purchases at work. So you see, mindshare can add to the bottom line.
I love Linux, but I also LOVE Solaris. I love Solaris on sparc hardware better, but having a free non commercial x86 version rounds out their offerings.
I wonder who in the company was for it and who was against it, and who actually decided the final direction?
BLACKBOX. I don't think my measly Ultra 5 (333 Mhz 256MB RAM) can handle Gnome 2.
Blackbox is fast, minimal, attractive, easy to configure, and runs very fast on the Ultra 5. Oh, and it doesn't have any crazy library dependencies so it compiles pretty much anywhere.
it won't work. Haven't they learned from the movie ratings that this is pretty much unenforceable?
It really is the parents' job to prevent the younger kids from seeing violent games, and I guess if more parents were doing their job then govt wouldn't be lobbied to try to do it for them.
I have hazy memories of looking up from my crib as an infant. I can still sort of picture the mobile that was above me and my father's face staring down at me.
I also have a pretty vivid memory of learning to walk, and I was too scared to let go of the wall and my mother with her outstretched arms beckoning me to let go and walk to her.
I have no idea why I remember these things, but it's pretty cool to have them.
I'm 34 1/2 now, with a 2 1/2 yr old child of my own now.
.....so that Al Quaeda has a legion of third world crackers to call on? No way. We should instead send food, medicine, and set up pro western schools and instill a set of western (i.e. non Wahabist muslim) values.
You must be kidding me. First Contact was the best TNG movie. Generations sucked, if not for anything but how they killed off Kirk. That was a travesty.
I am employed, but I look at online job ads every now and then. I'm a UNIX admin who runs a pretty heterogenous environment. It's all behind a firewall and the internet DNS, infrastructure stuff here all runs on windows and the windows guys handle that (scary, I know).
Anyway, I learned everything I know on the job from experimentation, reading, from various people I've worked with. I am versatile. I can learn things. That's not good enough as I see what others have been saying, that the job ads want someone who knows A, B, and C in that order and that's that. So much for related experience or the ability to learn and figure things out.
I just don't get it. It makes no sense. I tell my wife that I fear what would happen if I was out of work and really needed a job. My present company just cut our health benefits because they can. How ya like them apples?
It's not fair. You work and play by the rules and what do you get for it, a 15 incher up the butt.
If I ever get laid off I'm going into consulting for myself and targetting small businesses who can't afford large consulting firms or IT dept's of their own. A buddy did that and has more work then he can handle, but it was rough in the beginning and he has no wife or kid to support like I do. If I ever get laid off I'm going for it since at that point I have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Tell me this, if that were the case and I had to hit the pavement to sell my services, would I have to cut my long hair and shave my goatee?
I considered getting one of these Linksys babies since they must use less power than the old P150 that I have serving this purpose by running Freesco off a floppy, but Freesco works SO well that I couldn't bring myself to shell out the cash on a specialized router.
Also keep in mind that any popular device, OS, what have you, WILL become the target of malicious people sooner or later. I guess I'll keep the Freesco box up, and feel somewhat vindicated in doing do.
I love my iMac with OSX, but I can't get Jaguar's built in PPTP client to connect to my employer's MS PPTP server. It gets this error loading some kext file - I'm not up on the encryption module or whatever it is lingo, so forgive me.
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CD's aren't worth more than US$6 each. I will rarely pay more than that. that's why I don't buy.
Oh, and because of the RIAA's tactics I have blacklisted pretty much the entire music industry. They're definately not getting any of my money and alot of people I know feel the same way. these are people who I know for a fact used to share music but always bought as well. So you dont have the entire demographic correct. Not all music sharers are non buyers.
Furthermore, assuming that your story wasn't a BS troll, which is what it sounded like (and if it is congrats you got me), alot of people lost jobs. No one owes you a living. Sell something else besides music.
Hey, if the store fails you can always get a JOB. Your wife too. 2 incomes go a long way.
You sound like one of those happy go lucky fake smiles Born Again Idiots, BTW. "Dumb dumb dumb" not "smart smart smart" - I guess you don't watch South Park.
No offense.
I can't tell you how many idiotic Yahoo talkbacks I read in response to the Taikonaut story - "Go China!" they said.... "beat the USA"... drivel like that.
If any of them had to live under that regime they would change their tune and kiss the ground that GWB walks on.
Fer sure.
Try living in the NYC metro area (USA) and then tell me that $50k/yr isn't a pittance.
I make more than that and feel like a pauper. I live paycheck to paycheck and barely make ends meet. There is a big difference in what constitutes an acceptable salary depending on where you live.
I'm a UNIX admin and REALLY wouldn't mind getting these mainframe skills, but I can't take a paycut b/c I have a family and a pending mortgage.
Livin' ain't cheap around here buddy.
I meant MS aquiring SCO, or IBM acquiring SCO, not them acquiring each other. I guess I wasn't too clear. Sorry.
Of course I knew about all of those things, silly. that was my point. I am angry at the Govt for allowing this garbage to continue.
Silly geek.
Where is the US Govt? The US Govt uses Linux and UNIX in its operations and in some areas is actively looking at alternatives to MS. This is against US Govt. interests and should be stopped by the US Govt. If this isn't a blatant ANTITRUST move then I don't know what is. MS, if they get such close access to the UNIX IP, will use it not in a benign manner, but in an attempt to get Linux out of the market by making it so expensive with penalties that they will essentially be the cheaper alternative. Even if they are just licensing the IP, that will be the first step to a purchase of it since that is what the SCO jerks want, to be acquired (aka paid off).
I hope that the Linux kernel developers are scanning the code to ensure that no UNIX code is in there so as to rob MS of it's plan. I for one can't see how they can make such an issue (for how long now?) without showing WHICH code is affected??
You watch, unless IBM or someone quickly acquires SCO, then MS will be the one to acquire them and then you watch what happens, unless the US Govt gets off it's keester and DOES SOMETHING!! This is a blatant attempt at antitrust and a slap in the face to the whole antitrust process, and they are so brazen.
If anything good were to come out of this it would be that the Linux developers purge the Linux code of anything non Linux, if it was ever in there , and that the Govt takes another look at antitrust with rgards to MS. It is quite obvious that they will never learn and they will never play nice unless and until the Great Satan of Software (C. The Register) is broken up into tiny litle parts that can do no harm to the larger market.
Microsoft anti innovation canot allow to go unchecked anymore.
They don't allow us to assemble systems from parts here. If it isn't a complete system price then forget it. Also, those V100's were bought about a year ago, FWIW.
I still like Sun hardware. It's always treated us pretty well, and Solaris is an awesome OS. I don't care what the guys who call it "slowlaris" say.
SO where did you price out that stuff? Where did you price the rackmount cases? They are rackmount cases, right?
I like Sun hardware. We don't have any of the big stuff. The largest we have is a V880 rackmount and 2 E250's. I do love the low end V100 rackmounts though. We got 2 for NIS servers and these things are nice. Cheap too. One's nic is wired for failover and the other services two VLAN segments as an NIS slave. Nice little boxes.
With our discount they cost us under $1k each I think. 500Mhz, 512mb RAM, 40gb disk, built in laptop style cdrom, 2 10/100 nics each.
For this task, I hardly think Megahertz really matters. We don't have a humungous unix environment. I think it would have cost us more for a linux solution. No matter, I mentioned Linux and my boss preferred to go with Sun. Didn't bother me, I love Linux but I love Sun/Solaris too. Those puppies have been running Solaris 9 and they stay quietely in the wiring closet.
A funny thing is that they are under 4 Windows Dell rackmounts that are within our convoluted Windows A.D. structure. The Dells need this monitor and a keyboard/mouse there (with Term Svcs not sure why) and in the odd event I need the console of the Suns I just hook up an old crappy 486 Winbook via serial cable and "Bob's your uncle!" I'm in. Haven't needed console access though since replacing the default Solaris 8 with 9. Anyway, I digress.
I had some bad memory in an E250, but Sun sent us new RAM straight away. They even sent some guy to replace it. Guess that was part of the warranty service. I like Solaris Volume Manager on the A1000 that is connected to this E250. SVM is much nicer interface than Disksuite, but still I prefer to use the commandline b/c it's quicker. So far no problems with the A1000.
I guess I'd better wrap up this ramble....
>>I would love to brag to my friends that I have a 64-bit processor
Ok, you can pick up a Sun Ultra on Ebay pretty cheap. 64 bit Ultrasparc II.
Safari is faster, but Mozilla 1.4a allows you to tailor popup blocking per domain .
This is important for me b/c my employer's Outlook Web Access doesn't work when popups are blocked globally - and who wants to go in and keep selecting/deselecting it?
Camino is easy to check and uncheck it b/c it isn't buried as deep, but it's still better implemented in Mozilla 1.4a that I am running.
Now, if I could just get used to using this tiny Macally micro mouse. Wow, 3 buttons and a scroll wheel in OSX, whoda thunk it?
Well that's the whole thing, isn't it? You guys probably have G4's - my 600Mhz iMac is only a G3. That velocity engine must make all the difference....
that's funny. My 600Mhz iMac was frame skipping like a motherfucker on it. DL'ing the medium one now.
From: http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030321-02362 7-5923r
A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the border today with 14 hours of uncensored video, all shot without Iraqi government minders present. Kenneth Joseph, a young American pastor with the Assyrian Church of the East, told UPI the trip "had shocked me back to reality." Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera "told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They convinced me that Saddam was a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head."
I hope they take out over 3000 of your civilians next, commie.
Ricin discovered in London and Paris? It won't be long.
As a hetero (as in many platforms) UNIX admin, I applaud Sun for coming to their senses. One of the things that got me into Solaris in a big way, which also helped me with my job, was the availability of an Intel version.
Its called MINDSHARE.
Now I ended up getting 2 Ultras off Ebay, so I use the Sparc version at home, but I always contended that Sun was being dumb in throwing out the mindshare that they can scrape up just by having a version that runs on cheap Intel hardware. The x86 version of Solaris got me used to it, comfortable with it, and led to Sun hardware sales when I got to a position to recommend some Unix purchases at work. So you see, mindshare can add to the bottom line.
I love Linux, but I also LOVE Solaris. I love Solaris on sparc hardware better, but having a free non commercial x86 version rounds out their offerings.
I wonder who in the company was for it and who was against it, and who actually decided the final direction?
BLACKBOX. I don't think my measly Ultra 5 (333 Mhz 256MB RAM) can handle Gnome 2.
Blackbox is fast, minimal, attractive, easy to configure, and runs very fast on the Ultra 5. Oh, and it doesn't have any crazy library dependencies so it compiles pretty much anywhere.
I LIKE it!
Easy to defend the animal when you don't have to live under his regime, eh?
This is the way the stupid and politically naive see the world these days. A shame, really.
it won't work. Haven't they learned from the movie ratings that this is pretty much unenforceable?
It really is the parents' job to prevent the younger kids from seeing violent games, and I guess if more parents were doing their job then govt wouldn't be lobbied to try to do it for them.
We ARE DOOMed.
I have hazy memories of looking up from my crib as an infant. I can still sort of picture the mobile that was above me and my father's face staring down at me.
I also have a pretty vivid memory of learning to walk, and I was too scared to let go of the wall and my mother with her outstretched arms beckoning me to let go and walk to her.
I have no idea why I remember these things, but it's pretty cool to have them.
I'm 34 1/2 now, with a 2 1/2 yr old child of my own now.
.....so that Al Quaeda has a legion of third world crackers to call on? No way. We should instead send food, medicine, and set up pro western schools and instill a set of western (i.e. non Wahabist muslim) values.
Shit, send them porn too.....
That's alot of horsepower to type that message. I'm typing this on a Sun Ultra 5 333 running Solaris 9.
Gigahertz smigahertz.
You must be kidding me. First Contact was the best TNG movie. Generations sucked, if not for anything but how they killed off Kirk. That was a travesty.
I am employed, but I look at online job ads every now and then. I'm a UNIX admin who runs a pretty heterogenous environment. It's all behind a firewall and the internet DNS, infrastructure stuff here all runs on windows and the windows guys handle that (scary, I know).
Anyway, I learned everything I know on the job from experimentation, reading, from various people I've worked with. I am versatile. I can learn things. That's not good enough as I see what others have been saying, that the job ads want someone who knows A, B, and C in that order and that's that. So much for related experience or the ability to learn and figure things out.
I just don't get it. It makes no sense. I tell my wife that I fear what would happen if I was out of work and really needed a job. My present company just cut our health benefits because they can. How ya like them apples?
It's not fair. You work and play by the rules and what do you get for it, a 15 incher up the butt.
If I ever get laid off I'm going into consulting for myself and targetting small businesses who can't afford large consulting firms or IT dept's of their own. A buddy did that and has more work then he can handle, but it was rough in the beginning and he has no wife or kid to support like I do. If I ever get laid off I'm going for it since at that point I have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Tell me this, if that were the case and I had to hit the pavement to sell my services, would I have to cut my long hair and shave my goatee?
I considered getting one of these Linksys babies since they must use less power than the old P150 that I have serving this purpose by running Freesco off a floppy, but Freesco works SO well that I couldn't bring myself to shell out the cash on a specialized router.
Also keep in mind that any popular device, OS, what have you, WILL become the target of malicious people sooner or later. I guess I'll keep the Freesco box up, and feel somewhat vindicated in doing do.
I love my iMac with OSX, but I can't get Jaguar's built in PPTP client to connect to my employer's MS PPTP server. It gets this error loading some kext file - I'm not up on the encryption module or whatever it is lingo, so forgive me.