I would rather say that nothing will change as long as people keep replying to spam messages. Not replying to those is technically easier than changing mail protocols. OTOH what will my spamfilter accuracy calculating scripts do if there is no spam...;-)
I wouldn't agree to that. I remember very well the flood of MS-DOS (PC-DOS) based PC crap long before Windows started to be there. The "computing we know" started around early '80ies of the past century while computers were around much longer of course.
It probably is not what Windows DOES, but rather the way Windows does it, is the way "just users" are used to and (as most people) they hopelessly resist even trying to learn any, even equally or more (in)efficient ways of thinking and doing stuff.
Yes. They started with MIPS and did well. Later on they did less well and even later on they desperately made the "Strategic Alliance with Microsoft" and tried to sell Windows PCs with SGI label. Until that time they were (AFAIR) pure MIPS ("single arch") and to this fact (I guess) the original post referred. To clear also out - I very much liked SGI products and still have some: Indigo, Indigo^2, Indy, Challenge...
It's just pretty much the same like with regular (snail) mail. Isn't it? I can send anything in the name of someone else, so? Now as to the sender identification - there IS a solution for that. And it is known for a good time already. Digital signature is the magical word. This is significantly harder to fake than regular (ink) signature used for regular mail. No need for anything really special. No need for ditching SMTP. Just making good use of the well-known techniques is good enough. But this wouldn't give any extra gain/control/power/money to e.g. Microsoft. That's why they keep foaming about a true need for a new/revolutionary (patentable?) "technology", which would allow to identify the sender...
Yup. You are right. It is possible. That's why I wrote the attention to the details is required. For long-term, heavy-duty operation it is even more important. Still - for the current, average pc lifespan choosing passive piping, well isolated pump and a well-made, single-metal cooling block with the same metal used for connecting rods should be enough for the cooling system to live longer than the pc itself:-) As additional precaution one can use the redistilled water and replace it - say - once in a year as some people (including/me) do.
Water-cooling has a few kinks like electricity near water
So what? What kind of kink is in that? We are talking about water. Not salted water nor mineral water - just pure water (H2O). As pure as possible.
and corrosion
What corrosion? We are talking about water. Not salted water nor mineral water - just pure water (H2O). As pure as possible. This one is non-corrosive, non-electrolythic and as cheap as coke. If you chose tap water (which is far from being a pure H2O) as your coolant - it's your own choice, risk and kink.
[...]but you still are at the mercy of the ambient room temperature.
So what? What is the "mercy"? Isn't the same "mercy" valid when air-dust-noise cooling?
It's finicky enough that you couldn't build a machine with water cooling and leave it in a room for 3 years so
I wouldn't leave a fan-cooled machine for three years without attention either. Your fans can get stuck, worn out etc., can't they? What's so finicky here?
that leaves a hole in reliability as I couldn't leave my machines on while going away for two weeks on vacation unless I didn't mind rolling the dice to seeing fire trucks at my home.
Huh... at least water is a well-known fire extiguishing medium. Your pc can have it's own, automatic extinguishing system when it starts to burn. The same can't be said about broken fans...:-)
No. There is no hole unless you choose the wrong coolant and/or cooling block. Choose wisely (the same as with CPU fans), install with proper care and attention to detiails and there is no higher risk at all. I keep my machines running all the time, doing intensive computing and server activities. That's why I chose water-cooling: to cut the noise. All I do is add a little water (you know, which one) every couple of months...
I couldn't stand that and (at least) I wrote asking the australian gov at their site www.gov.au for comments:
** Hello,
I have just read a rumour that Australian Goverment agreed to extradite the Australian citizen to the US because he virtually "committed a crime" in the US, while never being there! Is this true?!! Are Australian citizens no longer protected by its own country and its own law??
Is that true?!!
The rumour I read is available under:
**
May MANY such question to the "Aussies" still save the case? Don't know. But I just couldn't stand...
... in the PSION Revo-size casing with builtin GSM phone and headset jack socket, which along with BlueTooth connectivity and Unicode support in the OS make my perfect palmtop dream machine. It doesn't even have to play DVDs...:-)
Hate is unproductive. Thus you need not to hate it but it would be good if you were aware of all the consequences of using Word or similarly licenced products. It is basically YOUR goods (data) closed in SOMEONE ELSE's lockbox (data format). To open the lockbox you have to pay SOMEONE ELSE only to get YOUR goods back. This may or may not be bad, depending on the point of view. You may also have a look for example here for some other explanations. If then, being fully aware of all the aspects you consciously choose that Word is your product of choice - YOUR (not SOMEONE ELSE's) will and choice.
"Scramjets will enable three categories of hypersonic craft: weapons, such as cruise missiles; aircraft, such as those designed for global strike and" [... possibly other unimportant bullshit applications... ]
So isn't it just great that soon people will be able to kill other people with hypersonic Mach12 speed?!
I don't share my wife and clothes, I rarely share my car or money. But I don't see anything wrong with occasional sharing of my nice broadband connection, which I use maybe one or two hours per day late in the evening or even less than that. The same way I wouldn't see anything bad in sharing the light of my entryway lamps or the shadow of my fence trees. For all of them I pay regardless of the level of usage. Therefore I keep my lan secured while I allow routing of the possible guest accesses to the internet. If they use too much bandwidth during the times I want to use it - I can always cut them off in no time.
Slashdot Mirror
So the legendary capital of the Iceland, the nest of the Elves has eventually resurfaced?!!
"they've just made themselves look petty and bad"
;-)
Who cares if they get the $s, they would possibly never get out of sales
"Perhaps every administrator should have a Knoppix CD on reserve."
Yeah... just in case she runs out of cup pads...
Did I mention that none of the Knoppix CDs i tried in the last two years ever booted on my Debian box?
I would rather say that nothing will change as long as people keep replying to spam messages. Not replying to those is technically easier than changing mail protocols. OTOH what will my spamfilter accuracy calculating scripts do if there is no spam... ;-)
I wouldn't agree to that. I remember very well the flood of MS-DOS (PC-DOS) based PC crap long before Windows started to be there. The "computing we know" started around early '80ies of the past century while computers were around much longer of course.
It probably is not what Windows DOES, but rather the way Windows does it, is the way "just users" are used to and (as most people) they hopelessly resist even trying to learn any, even equally or more (in)efficient ways of thinking and doing stuff.
Yes. They started with MIPS and did well. Later on they did less well and even later on they desperately made the "Strategic Alliance with Microsoft" and tried to sell Windows PCs with SGI label. Until that time they were (AFAIR) pure MIPS ("single arch") and to this fact (I guess) the original post referred. To clear also out - I very much liked SGI products and still have some: Indigo, Indigo^2, Indy, Challenge...
... really started when they turned off from single proc arch and started selling Windows machines, didn't it?
It's just pretty much the same like with regular (snail) mail. Isn't it? I can send anything in the name of someone else, so? Now as to the sender identification - there IS a solution for that. And it is known for a good time already. Digital signature is the magical word. This is significantly harder to fake than regular (ink) signature used for regular mail. No need for anything really special. No need for ditching SMTP. Just making good use of the well-known techniques is good enough. But this wouldn't give any extra gain/control/power/money to e.g. Microsoft. That's why they keep foaming about a true need for a new/revolutionary (patentable?) "technology", which would allow to identify the sender...
Yup. You are right. It is possible. That's why I wrote the attention to the details is required. For long-term, heavy-duty operation it is even more important. Still - for the current, average pc lifespan choosing passive piping, well isolated pump and a well-made, single-metal cooling block with the same metal used for connecting rods should be enough for the cooling system to live longer than the pc itself :-) As additional precaution one can use the redistilled water and replace it - say - once in a year as some people (including /me) do.
... for a good time and not even thinking about going back.
So what? What kind of kink is in that? We are talking about water. Not salted water nor mineral water - just pure water (H2O). As pure as possible.
and corrosion
What corrosion? We are talking about water. Not salted water nor mineral water - just pure water (H2O). As pure as possible. This one is non-corrosive, non-electrolythic and as cheap as coke. If you chose tap water (which is far from being a pure H2O) as your coolant - it's your own choice, risk and kink.
[...]but you still are at the mercy of the ambient room temperature.
So what? What is the "mercy"? Isn't the same "mercy" valid when air-dust-noise cooling?
It's finicky enough that you couldn't build a machine with water cooling and leave it in a room for 3 years so
I wouldn't leave a fan-cooled machine for three years without attention either. Your fans can get stuck, worn out etc., can't they? What's so finicky here?
that leaves a hole in reliability as I couldn't leave my machines on while going away for two weeks on vacation unless I didn't mind rolling the dice to seeing fire trucks at my home.
Huh... at least water is a well-known fire extiguishing medium. Your pc can have it's own, automatic extinguishing system when it starts to burn. The same can't be said about broken fans... :-)
No. There is no hole unless you choose the wrong coolant and/or cooling block. Choose wisely (the same as with CPU fans), install with proper care and attention to detiails and there is no higher risk at all. I keep my machines running all the time, doing intensive computing and server activities. That's why I chose water-cooling: to cut the noise. All I do is add a little water (you know, which one) every couple of months...
I got redirected (via e-mail) to the Attorney-General department at: http://www.ag.gov.au/ ...
I couldn't stand that and (at least) I wrote asking the australian gov at their site www.gov.au for comments:
**
Hello,
I have just read a rumour that Australian Goverment agreed to extradite the Australian citizen to the US because he virtually "committed a crime" in the US, while never being there! Is this true?!! Are Australian citizens no longer protected by its own country and its own law??
Is that true?!!
The rumour I read is available under:
**
May MANY such question to the "Aussies" still save the case? Don't know. But I just couldn't stand...
... in the PSION Revo-size casing with builtin GSM phone and headset jack socket, which along with BlueTooth connectivity and Unicode support in the OS make my perfect palmtop dream machine. It doesn't even have to play DVDs... :-)
Hate is unproductive. Thus you need not to hate it but it would be good if you were aware of all the consequences of using Word or similarly licenced products. It is basically YOUR goods (data) closed in SOMEONE ELSE's lockbox (data format). To open the lockbox you have to pay SOMEONE ELSE only to get YOUR goods back. This may or may not be bad, depending on the point of view. You may also have a look for example here for some other explanations. If then, being fully aware of all the aspects you consciously choose that Word is your product of choice - YOUR (not SOMEONE ELSE's) will and choice.
"Scramjets will enable three categories of hypersonic craft: weapons, such as cruise missiles; aircraft, such as those designed for global strike and" [... possibly other unimportant bullshit applications... ] So isn't it just great that soon people will be able to kill other people with hypersonic Mach12 speed?!
I don't share my wife and clothes, I rarely share my car or money. But I don't see anything wrong with occasional sharing of my nice broadband connection, which I use maybe one or two hours per day late in the evening or even less than that. The same way I wouldn't see anything bad in sharing the light of my entryway lamps or the shadow of my fence trees. For all of them I pay regardless of the level of usage. Therefore I keep my lan secured while I allow routing of the possible guest accesses to the internet. If they use too much bandwidth during the times I want to use it - I can always cut them off in no time.