you can recover stuff froma journalled file system? Who knew?
I lost a simulation of a black hole - globular cluster collision that I'd spent weeks on because my FS was reiser. It got deleted because I was jet lagged and typed in the wrong rm command, then I couldn't find anything to undelete on reiserfs. I haven't used it since.
Now I use ext2, with fat32 for long term storage, because there are readily available undelete tools for those file systems.
possibly true, but since I am neither a corporation nor a console owner, and no no-one who is especially keen on console gaming other then my kid, I can't speak for those demographics. Plus my kid is more keen on counterstrike then his console anyhow.
I don't know about that majority though. I hear this bandied about, but I see no figures to prove it.
excellent, this will amount to a microsoft tutorial for hackers on how to deploy their stuff whilst simultaniously removing those from competing groups....
My SETA drive works perfectly in any linux, but XP needs a driver disk for it. However, my gForce card has only the experimental drivers in gentoo, not the bleeding edge ones I can get in windows.
Not a generalisation from my point of view. I know a lot of people who use linux, and they *all* keep windows as a gaming platform, just like me.
Which sector of computer users is it that drives the creation of higher spec graphics cards? was it aol users? corporate desktop users? email/browsing only users? Nope, gamers.....
Large companies don't like cost free software. No cost means no accountability, no support.
Oo would only be chosen if a service package could be purchased. Then all MS need to do is big up the relative costs, and they can swing back undecided people, or those using it as a cost reduction strategy. For that you need salesmen/persons.
Vista cannot be the last major OS of its type from microsoft. While it is likely that they might want to produce something significantly different, a major shift would take years to produce. A company that needs such a large team just to work on the shutdown menu isn't ready to innovate in the way they claim. Innovation is nothing more then a word they use to sound cool, they haven't managed it for years, all they do is patent minutiae
Sure, microsoft *say* it would take les time to make the next windows iteration, the plain fact is that they are no longer working from the position of having no competition. Therefore they have to do a whole lot better then just improve security, they've got to move a long way forward beyond the competition, improving everything and introducing things people can't get elsewhere. Right now Gnome is catching up with the XP interface, I think it's better in fact, and that's free. KDE I don't know about, I barely use it.
GNU/Linux, good though it is, is nowhere near ready to take on microsoft for home users. The simple reason being that in spite of its wealth of applications, it has shitbar games when compared to windows. Game producers aren't building their products in linux for a first iteration. That will be the big problem for linux for a fair few years.
Once games creators switch, or rather, produce for linux too, hardware manufacturers will start working in linux more, and mmicrosoft will see a real challenge.
Then there's Office. OpenOffice is good, but not as good as MsOffice. Well it does compare in many ways, but OpenOffice doesn't have salesmen ready to cajole existing customers and offer vast discounts. We're still at the stage were companies will mention thinking about switching just to get those discounts.
Games are the only thing that keeps windows installed on my machine, I use linux for all serious stuff, but I won't give up my games, and I'm not alone. I gave up Office a long time ago. For simple docs I use Vim, and for complex docs I use Tex.
in fact they're using much the same tactics that the Boars used against the british, and the americans used against the british in the war of independance...
If America didn't worry about world opinion then they could have won in Iraq in a very short time by simply pummeling opposition into the ground with overwhelming force. That wasn't the plan though, and that's not America's MO since Japan, which it seems a fair few Americans think was a stupid thing to do.
Also in Japan they didn't disband the military....
it's just a short sighted attempt to get a foothold in what they see as dangerous competitor. However youtube would never have got started if people were happy with video piped at the whim of corporations. People like choice and proactive involvement, not buzzworded crap spouting adverts and effectivelly censored output.
The people trying to do this are the same kind of people who canned Firefly, an act for which I may never forgive them....
ah yes, my US history is rusty. The idea was that the civilians be able to form a militia, but no group be powerful enough to pose a threat. I've been meaning to study US history more, I must get on with that.
It's probably our fault anyway, if us pesky europeans didn't keep starting wars you guys wouldn't have needed one anyhow.
Vietnam was, so far as I'm aware, almost entirely the fault of the french for not wanting to let go of Vietnam, and getting the US involved (among other nations). also, had the european superpowers not insisted that the middle east be parcelled up after WW1 (post the arab revolt, which had at it's heart some pretty sound ideas) and filled with western sanctioned puppet governments in the first place (to prevent the rightful owners of the oil from getting too much power over the west), I doubt any of this would be happening today. Alas that chance was lost a very long time ago. Boy were we ever dumb....
The US does share some of the blame for that, but they definatelly didn't start it, and possibly wouldn't have initiated it on their own. The only time america has fought a war which europeans didn't start, being that against Japan, it did a pretty good cleanup job after the event.
what I find amusing about all this is that when the US first came up with the internet concept (at the arpanet stage I beleive) they gave it, lock stock and barrel, to the USSR. The reasoning being that the last thing they wanted was a world war starting because of crappy communications.
Now the US (or powerful parts of it, not all of it) wants to regain control and stipulate what can and cannot occur, and charge for bits that were previously free. What an interesting turnaround.
by that I assume you mean us? (UK) or the ability to stop a government of your own that went bad. Trust me, we won't be trying again...
The US has a standing volunteer army now though, which kind of does that job. It's also the only standing army never to try and take over its own country is it not? Or one of the few. We can't say that, on account of Cromwell, though his wasn't a permenant army in the modern sense that I'm aware of
wasn't it mainly concerned with defence of the individual when america was scarcely populated and frankly, dangerous anywhere if you weren't defended?
Back then there was no organized national/state police provision, or at least none of sufficient size to be able to say that people need not defend themselves.
Good luck changing it though, it's also a multi billion pound industry...
I've given up on buying more and more dvd's to store stuff and switched to external Hard Drives, which are getting cheaper by the month. Blue-ray/HDdvd may have large capacities, but like all exposed disk storage methods they're too prone to damage.
Agreed, The trouble with reality in computing is that it would make pretty poor viewing to the paying masses.
If I saw a truly realistic computer portrayal of a computer being used in an action film I'd not be impressed. I want to see the stuff like Johny Mnemonic used, or the fancy interface in Minority report. Not people cussing because they've yet again put:wq into an email.
what tickles me is that utorrents website advertises usenext, openly:
'Access to MP3s, Movies & much more. Fast, Anonymous, and Easy!'
One wonders if they got a tap on the shoulder 'get bought or you're screwed, we have new powerful friends'. It's a good codebase perhaps, but they've not exactly shown themselves to be trying to be legit.
I agree. The measures in place to stop terrorists travelling presume that they will travel with valid papers and real names. The end result being everyone else gets inconvenienced and it doesn't work on the people it's meant to hit. Just the same as with drm.
This is for one reason only, to give them plausible deniability if someone gets attacked and initial contact is traced to their service.
We have a problem in england at the moment of sex offenders who are being traced/monitored dissapearing from view because they don't play nice. By problems I mean murders and assaults.
was that not a response to Borlands visual toolset?
I know they ripped the guts of the development team from Borland, taking the guy who designed it in the first place, but I don't know who started the visual dev thing.
not the leading bunch, have you not watched long distance runners? Or the tour de france leading group? (they have a word for it, buggered if I can recall it though).
This is, and always has been, microsofts MO, it's nothing new.
They never move into a market unless someone is already there.
It's the same mentality as long distance runners not taking the lead/avoiding it until the race is almost over. let the other runners have all the problems keeping ahead, then move in at the end.
It doesn't seem to be working against google though, interesting that.
And we'll see a 'Microsoft officially aproved' Linux real soon, called SUSE SP1.
As an outside observer I'd say your main problem is that an increasing number of your younger people are turning to religious explanations for the universe. This excludes by definition any ability to create new science, or expand existing science.
Much the same was happening when sputnik appeared. Post that event science was made a priority, evolution was reinstated, and america started to recover. The momentum from that event has kept you going for a fair while, but it looks like the scientists created from that era are diminishing in number, and creationists/religious leaders are gaining ground once more.
The essence of what I'm saying is that unless America manages to refocus itself soon, it's going to be in big trouble.
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you can recover stuff froma journalled file system? Who knew?
I lost a simulation of a black hole - globular cluster collision that I'd spent weeks on because my FS was reiser. It got deleted because I was jet lagged and typed in the wrong rm command, then I couldn't find anything to undelete on reiserfs. I haven't used it since.
Now I use ext2, with fat32 for long term storage, because there are readily available undelete tools for those file systems.
possibly true, but since I am neither a corporation nor a console owner, and no no-one who is especially keen on console gaming other then my kid, I can't speak for those demographics.
Plus my kid is more keen on counterstrike then his console anyhow.
I don't know about that majority though. I hear this bandied about, but I see no figures to prove it.
excellent, this will amount to a microsoft tutorial for hackers on how to deploy their stuff whilst simultaniously removing those from competing groups....
My SETA drive works perfectly in any linux, but XP needs a driver disk for it. However, my gForce card has only the experimental drivers in gentoo, not the bleeding edge ones I can get in windows.
Not a generalisation from my point of view. I know a lot of people who use linux, and they *all* keep windows as a gaming platform, just like me.
Which sector of computer users is it that drives the creation of higher spec graphics cards? was it aol users? corporate desktop users? email/browsing only users? Nope, gamers.....
Large companies don't like cost free software. No cost means no accountability, no support.
Oo would only be chosen if a service package could be purchased. Then all MS need to do is big up the relative costs, and they can swing back undecided people, or those using it as a cost reduction strategy. For that you need salesmen/persons.
Vista cannot be the last major OS of its type from microsoft. While it is likely that they might want to produce something significantly different, a major shift would take years to produce. A company that needs such a large team just to work on the shutdown menu isn't ready to innovate in the way they claim. Innovation is nothing more then a word they use to sound cool, they haven't managed it for years, all they do is patent minutiae
Sure, microsoft *say* it would take les time to make the next windows iteration, the plain fact is that they are no longer working from the position of having no competition. Therefore they have to do a whole lot better then just improve security, they've got to move a long way forward beyond the competition, improving everything and introducing things people can't get elsewhere. Right now Gnome is catching up with the XP interface, I think it's better in fact, and that's free. KDE I don't know about, I barely use it.
GNU/Linux, good though it is, is nowhere near ready to take on microsoft for home users. The simple reason being that in spite of its wealth of applications, it has shitbar games when compared to windows. Game producers aren't building their products in linux for a first iteration. That will be the big problem for linux for a fair few years.
Once games creators switch, or rather, produce for linux too, hardware manufacturers will start working in linux more, and mmicrosoft will see a real challenge.
Then there's Office. OpenOffice is good, but not as good as MsOffice. Well it does compare in many ways, but OpenOffice doesn't have salesmen ready to cajole existing customers and offer vast discounts. We're still at the stage were companies will mention thinking about switching just to get those discounts.
Games are the only thing that keeps windows installed on my machine, I use linux for all serious stuff, but I won't give up my games, and I'm not alone. I gave up Office a long time ago. For simple docs I use Vim, and for complex docs I use Tex.
in fact they're using much the same tactics that the Boars used against the british, and the americans used against the british in the war of independance...
If America didn't worry about world opinion then they could have won in Iraq in a very short time by simply pummeling opposition into the ground with overwhelming force. That wasn't the plan though, and that's not America's MO since Japan, which it seems a fair few Americans think was a stupid thing to do.
Also in Japan they didn't disband the military....
it's just a short sighted attempt to get a foothold in what they see as dangerous competitor. However youtube would never have got started if people were happy with video piped at the whim of corporations. People like choice and proactive involvement, not buzzworded crap spouting adverts and effectivelly censored output.
The people trying to do this are the same kind of people who canned Firefly, an act for which I may never forgive them....
ah yes, my US history is rusty. The idea was that the civilians be able to form a militia, but no group be powerful enough to pose a threat. I've been meaning to study US history more, I must get on with that.
It's probably our fault anyway, if us pesky europeans didn't keep starting wars you guys wouldn't have needed one anyhow.
Vietnam was, so far as I'm aware, almost entirely the fault of the french for not wanting to let go of Vietnam, and getting the US involved (among other nations). also, had the european superpowers not insisted that the middle east be parcelled up after WW1 (post the arab revolt, which had at it's heart some pretty sound ideas) and filled with western sanctioned puppet governments in the first place (to prevent the rightful owners of the oil from getting too much power over the west), I doubt any of this would be happening today. Alas that chance was lost a very long time ago. Boy were we ever dumb....
The US does share some of the blame for that, but they definatelly didn't start it, and possibly wouldn't have initiated it on their own. The only time america has fought a war which europeans didn't start, being that against Japan, it did a pretty good cleanup job after the event.
what I find amusing about all this is that when the US first came up with the internet concept (at the arpanet stage I beleive) they gave it, lock stock and barrel, to the USSR. The reasoning being that the last thing they wanted was a world war starting because of crappy communications.
Now the US (or powerful parts of it, not all of it) wants to regain control and stipulate what can and cannot occur, and charge for bits that were previously free. What an interesting turnaround.
by that I assume you mean us? (UK) or the ability to stop a government of your own that went bad. Trust me, we won't be trying again...
The US has a standing volunteer army now though, which kind of does that job. It's also the only standing army never to try and take over its own country is it not? Or one of the few. We can't say that, on account of Cromwell, though his wasn't a permenant army in the modern sense that I'm aware of
wasn't it mainly concerned with defence of the individual when america was scarcely populated and frankly, dangerous anywhere if you weren't defended?
Back then there was no organized national/state police provision, or at least none of sufficient size to be able to say that people need not defend themselves.
Good luck changing it though, it's also a multi billion pound industry...
I've given up on buying more and more dvd's to store stuff and switched to external Hard Drives, which are getting cheaper by the month. Blue-ray/HDdvd may have large capacities, but like all exposed disk storage methods they're too prone to damage.
oh I don't know, if we pay him enough for his old music, perhaps he won't make any more.
Seriously, it's worth a try...
Agreed, The trouble with reality in computing is that it would make pretty poor viewing to the paying masses.
:wq into an email.
If I saw a truly realistic computer portrayal of a computer being used in an action film I'd not be impressed. I want to see the stuff like Johny Mnemonic used, or the fancy interface in Minority report. Not people cussing because they've yet again put
what tickles me is that utorrents website advertises usenext, openly:
'Access to MP3s, Movies & much more. Fast, Anonymous, and Easy!'
One wonders if they got a tap on the shoulder 'get bought or you're screwed, we have new powerful friends'. It's a good codebase perhaps, but they've not exactly shown themselves to be trying to be legit.
I agree. The measures in place to stop terrorists travelling presume that they will travel with valid papers and real names. The end result being everyone else gets inconvenienced and it doesn't work on the people it's meant to hit. Just the same as with drm.
This is for one reason only, to give them plausible deniability if someone gets attacked and initial contact is traced to their service.
We have a problem in england at the moment of sex offenders who are being traced/monitored dissapearing from view because they don't play nice. By problems I mean murders and assaults.
was that not a response to Borlands visual toolset?
I know they ripped the guts of the development team from Borland, taking the guy who designed it in the first place, but I don't know who started the visual dev thing.
It's a shame about Delphi, I really liked that.
of course, silly me
not the leading bunch, have you not watched long distance runners? Or the tour de france leading group? (they have a word for it, buggered if I can recall it though).
I thought the main problem with allofmp3 was that they didn't have permission to sell what they were selling, not that it was drm free.
This is, and always has been, microsofts MO, it's nothing new.
They never move into a market unless someone is already there.
It's the same mentality as long distance runners not taking the lead/avoiding it until the race is almost over. let the other runners have all the problems keeping ahead, then move in at the end.
It doesn't seem to be working against google though, interesting that.
And we'll see a 'Microsoft officially aproved' Linux real soon, called SUSE SP1.
As an outside observer I'd say your main problem is that an increasing number of your younger people are turning to religious explanations for the universe. This excludes by definition any ability to create new science, or expand existing science.
Much the same was happening when sputnik appeared. Post that event science was made a priority, evolution was reinstated, and america started to recover. The momentum from that event has kept you going for a fair while, but it looks like the scientists created from that era are diminishing in number, and creationists/religious leaders are gaining ground once more.
The essence of what I'm saying is that unless America manages to refocus itself soon, it's going to be in big trouble.