You don't have to buy your music through iTunes...I still buy and then rip my cds to mp3s. I only use iTunes to buy singles where I only want one song, and not an entire album...and since my car is geared to connect a iPod to the stereo, I am not all that worried about not being able to play it elsewhere. Same with the Xbox 360 and my home stereo.
So you do what my friend did (and I am about to do) and take an old controller cable, splice it into a regular usb cable and attach your xxxmb thumbdrive to it and there you go. The controller ports on the Xbox are standard USB with proprietary connectors.
The Xbox memory cards are nothing but a USB device with a funky connector that plugs into your controller's USB hub.
I want to have a kick ass stable OS that is supported by all of the software I need but I am too goddamn cheap to actually pay money for this. Can the Slashdot audience please do all of the testing and evaluation for me, let me know which is the best, and them spoon feed me the updates so it stays current?
Holy shit, I can understand bitching about paying Windows Server licensing fees (pay for the OS, each connection to the OS, each mail user on the OS...) but for RHEL you pay a ONE time support fee per year to use their automated updates system.
If you need more than one box and really want to be cheap (and violate your license agreement, but IANAL), buy one copy of RHEL, install it somewhere, update it, pull the RPM's from the cache and setup a LAN update server and install as many copies as you wish. We actually do this where I work except we do it for convenience. We actually have more RHEL licenses than we use.
In the heat of the moment I forgot to mention that the configuration I described was something I used over 2 years ago. Now I would definitely go with the v40Z, although off of the top of my head I don't remember if the Sunray Server could run on Solaris x86.
The "looks like only linux can support this many displays" comment on the frontpage got me irked, since Solaris (for example) has been doing a number of things long before linux was mature enough to do so
How the hell is this any different/better than using SunFire servers and Sunray thin-clients? A Sunfire V480, 4 900mhz UltraSParc III processors, 16 GB RAM, mirror 73gb disks. This system ran 100+ Sunray thin clients all running continuously updating graphical simulation displays with 3 or 4 other semi-rigourous processes, on a 100mb LAN. All data and programs were NFS mounted. The V480 was ~$40-50K + $300/sunray (already owned monitor and file server).
The system was spec'd by Sun to handle those 100 sessions. The head engineer bought two and set them up to load-balance and provide redundancy.
I'm a sysad for a DOD simulation center, and unless the application requires Windows (ie, Active Directory domain, certain simulations, etc...), by choice we (sysadmins and network engineers) run Linux (RHEL) as the first choice, Solaris as the second. Approximately 95% of what I work on day-to-day is Linux, a few of our core servers for various reasons are Solaris. We're talking hundreds of clients and dozens of servers, and that is only for my contract, we're not talking about building infrastructre where the core stuff (Oracle, DNS, Web, File Server, etc...) is Solaris or Linux.
Here is a small list of military systems that I have worked with that are linux based:
JCATS (Joint Confilct and Tactical Simulation) JTLS (Joint Theatre Level Simulation) CBS (Corps Battle Simulation) AWSIM (Air Warfare SIMulation) GIAC (Graphical Input and Aggregate Control) ADSI (Air Defense Systems Integrator) MTWS (Marine Tactical Warfare Simulation) JSAF (Joint Semi-Automated Forces)
Unfortunately, the PC's on our desks are admin'd by a different section so we can't run linux on them.
I remember reading somewhere, sometime ago (so take with a grain of salt) that the "windows classic" theme was not going to be included with Longhorn, only the XP theme for a "unified look & feel"
Why the fsck should it matter whether or not it is open source? Why can't the community merely be happy that yet another major piece of software is available for the unices?* Just because the kernel and a huge amount of other apps are some sort of open-source licensed DOES NOT MEAN that every frickin piece of software needs to be as well. As has been stated already, if you are that much of a free-license bible thumper, there are plenty of open-source apps that let you do the same basic thing: read a PDF file. Just don't use Adobe's...it's all about choice, right?
* yes I know Adobe has made readers available before for unix/linux, I have been using it on Solaris since Acrobat Reader 4.x.
You missed the point he was trying to make. I am sure a corporation or such would also have said records/backups/whatever and would ultimately also have copyright law on its side.
I think the point he was trying to make was to shut-up all of the "coporations are evil" people by trying to put the same problem in another light. While I agree that corps are generally only out for the bottom line, working on a project on company time with company assets and being paid for it means they own the work and the results of it (at least my employment contract says so). So walking out the door with a USB stick full of company code IS theft no matter what the "all corporations are evil" people say about it.
"and there's two parts to that claim -- majority and everything. Perhaps the majority of people here have pirated something (be it software, music, movies, TV (broadcast, cable, satellite) or a ship at sea) but I seriously doubt that the majority pirates *everything*."
My Discrete Structures professor would have needed some private time after your logical breakdown of that sentence.
Tidewater Community College offers a Comp Sci A.S. at one of its 4 campuses. I got mine there and transferred to a State University and am about to graduate. The only problem was that they had ONE instructor who wasn't that great, but he did cover the topics more or less equivalently to the 4-year school. The CS A.S. degree was more or less a GE transfer degree except instead of 5 electives, you had required CS courses and also were required to take Calc I & II. Those of us who were smart enough took the extra year of science the 4 year program required at a cheaper cost while @ the community college.
My tuition for a whole year at TCC was less than one of my full-time semesters at the 4 year. Since I am paying my own way, that was a definite plus.
There's very little "competition" in the land of FOSS, and the various maintainers and developers have every right to bitch about stuff like this if they want.
And the various developers have every right to develop their software as they see fit...if you don't like the new release, get a copy of the previous version's codebase and implement the new features yourself. That's the beauty of open source right? If the developer screws you over, you can fix it yourself or implement whatever features you want as long as you follow the license terms.
If you want the "freedom" of open-source software, quit your bitching when it doesn't go your way. I am sick of all of these open-source users who do nothing but complain when it doesn't go their way.
Don't kid yourself, the only reason it was changed to exlude the private IM'ing was because of the bad publicity and outcry all over the internet and news channels...they are trying to spin it off as a 'mistake' to save public face.
"Justin Uberti, chief architect for AIM, also joined the discussion, admitting the controversial section of the terms of service was "vague" and needed to be reworded"
If he thought it was so vague, why the hell was the wordage ever approved in the 1st place? Probably because the guy never looked at them before they became (almost) frontpage news.
I loaded a RH Enterprise 3.0 Update 4 fully patched system about 2 weeks ago, and samba was only on 3.0.9 patch something. Red Hat usually applies security fixes to older release code bases and just updates the patch number on their RPMs so as not to break their distributions with newer versions not thoroughly tested. Nothing is stopping you, however, from installing your own newer version of software is you so choose.
As another example, a few years ago Red Hat's OpenSSH version was at 3.1p1 when OpenSSH was releasing 3.5p1, but every security/bug fix between the 2 versions had been backported by Red Hat into 3.1p1.
RH's method is great for the sites that rely on straight vendor support for all patches and bug-fixes, but not for those sites who need new functionality only found in the current bleeding edge software versions.
Of course, in one of the eye-witness employee complaints I read on the internet, one employee was doing everything on his assigned task list each day and leaving when he completed them. His managers kept dropping hints like "you should be helping out your fellow employees" or "you should stick around in case someone else finds a problem with your code" and other types of BS. How can you "professionally manage" your own hours if you are blacklisted as a non-team player for getting your shit done in a reasonable amount of time and leaving when you are done?
I grew up in California, and moved here to Virginia after leaving the military...we don't have stupid laws trying to regain lost gas taxes, we have stupid laws about showing your underwear in public:
It is very important (in the state government's opinion) to do this. As more and more people are downloading music, videos, etc online, they are buying less physical products and therefore losing their state revenues from sales tax on those lost purchases.
One state (California I believe) is proposing a tax based on mileage you drive to make up for all of the lost income from gas taxes due to all of the high efficiency hybrids using less gas.
Good point, I mistakenly assumed the sarcasm would drip from my words...next time I'll make sure to use those tags I keep hearing about to prevent such mistakes...
At this point in the technological world, broadband should be a utility just like water, electricity (gas), sewer, etc...I'm not saying it should be a right, but holy crap, we are in the 21st century and my only choices at broadband are cox@net and a $1000/month T1? Why can't a city/county provide broadband access in the same manner as city utilities? Oh, I know, because it would cause a multi-billion dollar business to go under, which would reduce a politician's campaign funds.
Robert Cringley's article from a few months ago was about exactly this piece of technology...the amazing part that this guy does is he only requires 384k bandwidth. This article (the NYT one) did not go into the real technical specifics, but whatever special hardware/encoding software he is using in incredibly optimized/efficient, and that is why his units cost so much right now. He also stated in Cringley's piece that he had no intention of giving out his little secret, but if he is now looking at selling his invention to a corporation, he obviously has changed his mind.
The game itself might not have SMP support, but the fact that you have 2 CPUs will let the OS and other stuff run on one, and leave the other CPU for your game to peg out. I am not sure how much better/faster your game might be on a dual 3.0 XEON system vs a single 3.4ghz P4, but you game having it's own high-end CPU to peg out can't hurt.
A friend from my last job and I have already planned to take 2-3 days off when Halo2 comes out for the X-box...his girlfriend and my wife just don't realize it yet...
{ring} {ring} ME: {checks caller ID} @#!&, hit the mute button. it's my wife... Wife: What time will you be home from work dear? Me: Honey, we're swamped, I'll have to work late tonight... Wife: Ok dear, see you when you get home. Bye. {hangs up} Me: Ok, un-mute. WTF!!!! You team-killing-fucktard!!!!!!
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You don't have to buy your music through iTunes...I still buy and then rip my cds to mp3s. I only use iTunes to buy singles where I only want one song, and not an entire album...and since my car is geared to connect a iPod to the stereo, I am not all that worried about not being able to play it elsewhere. Same with the Xbox 360 and my home stereo.
So you do what my friend did (and I am about to do) and take an old controller cable, splice it into a regular usb cable and attach your xxxmb thumbdrive to it and there you go. The controller ports on the Xbox are standard USB with proprietary connectors.
The Xbox memory cards are nothing but a USB device with a funky connector that plugs into your controller's USB hub.
I want to have a kick ass stable OS that is supported by all of the software I need but I am too goddamn cheap to actually pay money for this. Can the Slashdot audience please do all of the testing and evaluation for me, let me know which is the best, and them spoon feed me the updates so it stays current?
Holy shit, I can understand bitching about paying Windows Server licensing fees (pay for the OS, each connection to the OS, each mail user on the OS...) but for RHEL you pay a ONE time support fee per year to use their automated updates system.
If you need more than one box and really want to be cheap (and violate your license agreement, but IANAL), buy one copy of RHEL, install it somewhere, update it, pull the RPM's from the cache and setup a LAN update server and install as many copies as you wish. We actually do this where I work except we do it for convenience. We actually have more RHEL licenses than we use.
In the heat of the moment I forgot to mention that the configuration I described was something I used over 2 years ago. Now I would definitely go with the v40Z, although off of the top of my head I don't remember if the Sunray Server could run on Solaris x86. The "looks like only linux can support this many displays" comment on the frontpage got me irked, since Solaris (for example) has been doing a number of things long before linux was mature enough to do so
How the hell is this any different/better than using SunFire servers and Sunray thin-clients? A Sunfire V480, 4 900mhz UltraSParc III processors, 16 GB RAM, mirror 73gb disks. This system ran 100+ Sunray thin clients all running continuously updating graphical simulation displays with 3 or 4 other semi-rigourous processes, on a 100mb LAN. All data and programs were NFS mounted. The V480 was ~$40-50K + $300/sunray (already owned monitor and file server).
The system was spec'd by Sun to handle those 100 sessions. The head engineer bought two and set them up to load-balance and provide redundancy.
This isn't anything new...move along.
I'm a sysad for a DOD simulation center, and unless the application requires Windows (ie, Active Directory domain, certain simulations, etc...), by choice we (sysadmins and network engineers) run Linux (RHEL) as the first choice, Solaris as the second. Approximately 95% of what I work on day-to-day is Linux, a few of our core servers for various reasons are Solaris. We're talking hundreds of clients and dozens of servers, and that is only for my contract, we're not talking about building infrastructre where the core stuff (Oracle, DNS, Web, File Server, etc...) is Solaris or Linux.
Here is a small list of military systems that I have worked with that are linux based:
JCATS (Joint Confilct and Tactical Simulation)
JTLS (Joint Theatre Level Simulation)
CBS (Corps Battle Simulation)
AWSIM (Air Warfare SIMulation)
GIAC (Graphical Input and Aggregate Control)
ADSI (Air Defense Systems Integrator)
MTWS (Marine Tactical Warfare Simulation)
JSAF (Joint Semi-Automated Forces)
Unfortunately, the PC's on our desks are admin'd by a different section so we can't run linux on them.
I remember reading somewhere, sometime ago (so take with a grain of salt) that the "windows classic" theme was not going to be included with Longhorn, only the XP theme for a "unified look & feel"
Why the fsck should it matter whether or not it is open source? Why can't the community merely be happy that yet another major piece of software is available for the unices?* Just because the kernel and a huge amount of other apps are some sort of open-source licensed DOES NOT MEAN that every frickin piece of software needs to be as well. As has been stated already, if you are that much of a free-license bible thumper, there are plenty of open-source apps that let you do the same basic thing: read a PDF file. Just don't use Adobe's...it's all about choice, right? * yes I know Adobe has made readers available before for unix/linux, I have been using it on Solaris since Acrobat Reader 4.x.
You missed the point he was trying to make. I am sure a corporation or such would also have said records/backups/whatever and would ultimately also have copyright law on its side.
I think the point he was trying to make was to shut-up all of the "coporations are evil" people by trying to put the same problem in another light. While I agree that corps are generally only out for the bottom line, working on a project on company time with company assets and being paid for it means they own the work and the results of it (at least my employment contract says so). So walking out the door with a USB stick full of company code IS theft no matter what the "all corporations are evil" people say about it.
My Discrete Structures professor would have needed some private time after your logical breakdown of that sentence.
Exactly...in my group we often joke that the janitors in the building get more respect than we do.
:-)
They definitely have more swipe card access to the various labs than we do
Tidewater Community College offers a Comp Sci A.S. at one of its 4 campuses. I got mine there and transferred to a State University and am about to graduate. The only problem was that they had ONE instructor who wasn't that great, but he did cover the topics more or less equivalently to the 4-year school. The CS A.S. degree was more or less a GE transfer degree except instead of 5 electives, you had required CS courses and also were required to take Calc I & II. Those of us who were smart enough took the extra year of science the 4 year program required at a cheaper cost while @ the community college.
My tuition for a whole year at TCC was less than one of my full-time semesters at the 4 year. Since I am paying my own way, that was a definite plus.
There's very little "competition" in the land of FOSS, and the various maintainers and developers have every right to bitch about stuff like this if they want.
And the various developers have every right to develop their software as they see fit...if you don't like the new release, get a copy of the previous version's codebase and implement the new features yourself. That's the beauty of open source right? If the developer screws you over, you can fix it yourself or implement whatever features you want as long as you follow the license terms.
If you want the "freedom" of open-source software, quit your bitching when it doesn't go your way. I am sick of all of these open-source users who do nothing but complain when it doesn't go their way.
Don't kid yourself, the only reason it was changed to exlude the private IM'ing was because of the bad publicity and outcry all over the internet and news channels...they are trying to spin it off as a 'mistake' to save public face.
"Justin Uberti, chief architect for AIM, also joined the discussion, admitting the controversial section of the terms of service was "vague" and needed to be reworded"
If he thought it was so vague, why the hell was the wordage ever approved in the 1st place? Probably because the guy never looked at them before they became (almost) frontpage news.
I loaded a RH Enterprise 3.0 Update 4 fully patched system about 2 weeks ago, and samba was only on 3.0.9 patch something. Red Hat usually applies security fixes to older release code bases and just updates the patch number on their RPMs so as not to break their distributions with newer versions not thoroughly tested. Nothing is stopping you, however, from installing your own newer version of software is you so choose.
As another example, a few years ago Red Hat's OpenSSH version was at 3.1p1 when OpenSSH was releasing 3.5p1, but every security/bug fix between the 2 versions had been backported by Red Hat into 3.1p1.
RH's method is great for the sites that rely on straight vendor support for all patches and bug-fixes, but not for those sites who need new functionality only found in the current bleeding edge software versions.
Of course, in one of the eye-witness employee complaints I read on the internet, one employee was doing everything on his assigned task list each day and leaving when he completed them. His managers kept dropping hints like "you should be helping out your fellow employees" or "you should stick around in case someone else finds a problem with your code" and other types of BS. How can you "professionally manage" your own hours if you are blacklisted as a non-team player for getting your shit done in a reasonable amount of time and leaving when you are done?
I grew up in California, and moved here to Virginia after leaving the military...we don't have stupid laws trying to regain lost gas taxes, we have stupid laws about showing your underwear in public:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/02/09/low.pants.ap/
Note this law was shot down in the state Senate after national humiliation...
It is very important (in the state government's opinion) to do this. As more and more people are downloading music, videos, etc online, they are buying less physical products and therefore losing their state revenues from sales tax on those lost purchases.
One state (California I believe) is proposing a tax based on mileage you drive to make up for all of the lost income from gas taxes due to all of the high efficiency hybrids using less gas.
Good point, I mistakenly assumed the sarcasm would drip from my words...next time I'll make sure to use those tags I keep hearing about to prevent such mistakes...
Oh my God!!!!! This must mean linux is dying!!!! Let's all switch to *BSD and be just like the holy prophet!!!!
At this point in the technological world, broadband should be a utility just like water, electricity (gas), sewer, etc...I'm not saying it should be a right, but holy crap, we are in the 21st century and my only choices at broadband are cox@net and a $1000/month T1? Why can't a city/county provide broadband access in the same manner as city utilities? Oh, I know, because it would cause a multi-billion dollar business to go under, which would reduce a politician's campaign funds.
Robert Cringley's article from a few months ago was about exactly this piece of technology...the amazing part that this guy does is he only requires 384k bandwidth. This article (the NYT one) did not go into the real technical specifics, but whatever special hardware/encoding software he is using in incredibly optimized/efficient, and that is why his units cost so much right now. He also stated in Cringley's piece that he had no intention of giving out his little secret, but if he is now looking at selling his invention to a corporation, he obviously has changed his mind.
Bloodshed.org did not resolve for me, but bloodshed.net is a site for a GUI IDE for the mingw gcc compiler suite.
The game itself might not have SMP support, but the fact that you have 2 CPUs will let the OS and other stuff run on one, and leave the other CPU for your game to peg out. I am not sure how much better/faster your game might be on a dual 3.0 XEON system vs a single 3.4ghz P4, but you game having it's own high-end CPU to peg out can't hurt.
A friend from my last job and I have already planned to take 2-3 days off when Halo2 comes out for the X-box...his girlfriend and my wife just don't realize it yet...
{ring} {ring}
ME: {checks caller ID} @#!&, hit the mute button. it's my wife...
Wife: What time will you be home from work dear?
Me: Honey, we're swamped, I'll have to work late tonight...
Wife: Ok dear, see you when you get home. Bye. {hangs up}
Me: Ok, un-mute. WTF!!!! You team-killing-fucktard!!!!!!