You can roll your own with a VIA ITX form factor mobo and get a small case too. It is a little larger than the Mac Mini but smaller than the ShuttleX. You get an option for installing your own CPU or you can use VIA's CPU in a fanless solution plus external wall power supply.
http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/spearhead/m in i-itx/
Good point. That legacy support has got to be a thorn in Microsoft's foot. Supporting legacy code that was never designed with security in mind must drive the programmers a Microsoft nuts.
But like another post said, other design decisions in Microsoft's architecture appear not to be good ones when mixed with legacy code and the hostile environment of the WWW.
I think there is some harm to FOSS. Case in point: At work (a large corporation) we have, of course, MS all over the office space but IBM AIX workstations too (among others). All applications used on clients must be approved.
Some FOSS has made its way into the company and can be used; however, now a warning is displayed that there may be risk of legal litigation if the user builds with these tools with a link to information from the legal department that no one will bother to read. It doesn't stop me one bit of course. But I could see a PHB heeding that warning and selecting MS tools instead.
No, not so easy...
On a ppc platform, I did:
# emerge -C xfree
# emerge xorg-x11
90 minutes later...
Error: Xcursor -- segmentation fault.
What gives? I'll hope there is a binary version out there.
"... You're worried about atomic vs. astronomical time definitions and sub-second accuracy?..."
No, not really. I take issue with it because GMT is really an obsolete time scale. We no longer (and haven't for 30 years) measured time by its definition. So why not give the correct "units" to your time. That is, we measure time by an atomic time scale... so report your time in an atomic time scale (UTC is an atomic time scale).
It is kind of like measuring something in inches and reporting that same number as centimeters with the magnitude of error being the biggest difference. In this example both are measurements of length just like GMT/UTC are measurements of a time scale. Yeah, it is being picky because that doesn't mean squat in our everyday lives.
Have you noticed that today GMT is often used in the context of a time zone in lieu of a time scale? It is an abused time scale indeed. But old public habbits die hard. Just like the public likes to call a measurement of force (ie weight) kilograms ( a unit of mass != force) without the qualifying kilograms-force ( another bastardized thing).
Again, am I just being picky? Well, yeah, if you know the difference. But for those who don't, they go through life "knowing" weight is kilograms and our time is GMT because that is what they hear. And then one day it becomes a source of confusion when actual difference matters or when someone tries to be technically correct but can't because it will confuses the public.
Let's be picky... if you look up the definition of the second in the GMT time scale, you will see that it is astronomical based. But the definition of the SI second is derived off an atomic time scale and has been for, what, 30 some years. So report the time on the prime meridian as UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) because it is the basis for civil time world-wide. And last I looked, London is on the planet Earth.
Yeah, I know... GMT is used interchangably to mean UTC by the layman. But when the rubber meets the road, it is UTC we are talking about especially in sub-second accuracy.
The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer. Visit our help area for more information.
The site is slash-dotted. Any verbal discriptions of the pic?
"...the patents they went for covering.NET are so broad they would never hold up in court...."
Do these patents have to hold up in court? I mean, how many Open Source projects (companies or countries for that matter) have the finacial resources to fight Microsoft. IBM could, I guess. But if the Mono project received a cease and desist letter from Microsoft, could they afford the infinite number of appeals Microsoft would litigate?
"... Oh great, here we go... Microsoft getting on the open source bandwagon...."
I think MS is looking at some long-term corporate image improvements. They are going to throw a few token apps into the Open Source world in order to improve their image with future geeks and thus reduce the bad-mounting they receive from this crowd.
Today, we view this activity with a skeptical eye and check if they have their fingers crossed behind their back. But a new generation growing up will assimilate naturally MS with Open Source activity and not view them as the show me the money company they are.
Wow! you had 8 colors! When I was a kid, after walking 8 miles - in the snow-- to get to scholl, we only had two colors: black and white. And we liked it too. Tell that to the kids of today... and they'll never believe you.
The article at: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?News ID=2275 has a headline: Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up And next to it you'll see a Microsoft advertisement ad that says: Make a name for yourself with Windows server systems
I donno about it being the "new socially acceptable term" but in the late 70's while taking some programming classes, we [students] referred to hackers as someone who didn't write elegant algorithms or code but got the job done with brut-force.
These less than elegant sections of code were referred to as a hack; hence, you were a hacker if you programmed that way all the time. In fact, if I recall, the programming text book made mention of it back then. I think it was the media who associated the word hacker with the popular connotations you make mention of.
"...I will go on a limb and say that at least 50% of the viruses that are being written for Windows are being done so by Linux supporters...."
I'd say a very long limb. Now I'll go out on a limb. I'd say 100% of all Microsoft's efforts are to destroy Linux and remove it as a threat to its ca$h cow.
Thanx for that wonderful insight into human generalization. If I known I was worse than a "communist hippy", I wouldn't have been so quick to judge the behavior of wonder companies like Enron.
If the past is representative of the present, you have to take the system requirements and double-it to get the game-play you really want. And when third-party add-ons arrive, you need to triple-it!
"... After you do a update of your kernel and your nvidia-driver fails to work or something else like that...."
In this scenario, it is still easy in SuSE to get your nVidia driver going again. Just use YaST update and tell it to reinstall the driver again and you're going in no time. I do agree, though, Gentoo updates are nice and easy once you're setup. I use Gentoo on my PowerBook and am satisfied with it.
"...a good example is a cd burner. in windows XP, i's as simple as dragging files to the CD drive, and clicking "write these files to CD"..."
I think that is a bad example. The CD utility k3b in KDE is just as easy. It is virtually a two-click operation to burn an ISO image, for example.
..."These things can scratch or simply get lost."...i>
I see Mr Bill doesn't offer us what a substitute medium would be for viewing our movie content. Maybe his words: "simply get lost" are a clue that there will be no medium. That is, it will all be on line and under DRM control. And he is just the man to deliverer it to you for a nominal fee, of course.
Let's not forget to mention the other benefit of using a HTTP client other than IE. You get to vote! That is, when web administrators review their logs, they will see more wide-spread use of other browsers and this will hopefully prompt them to produced web sites that are not IE centric. And this will benefit everyone
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You can roll your own with a VIA ITX form factor mobo and get a small case too. It is a little larger than the Mac Mini but smaller than the ShuttleX. You get an option for installing your own CPU or you can use VIA's CPU in a fanless solution plus external wall power supply.
m in i-itx/
http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/spearhead/
Do a search and you will find more info.
"...This exact scenario is the case where I work right now...."
I think we work at the same company.
Good point. That legacy support has got to be a thorn in Microsoft's foot. Supporting legacy code that was never designed with security in mind must drive the programmers a Microsoft nuts.
But like another post said, other design decisions in Microsoft's architecture appear not to be good ones when mixed with legacy code and the hostile environment of the WWW.
"...He seems to believe he'd sleep better at night if we were a 100% IIS shop. Ugh...."
;-)
Of course he will sleep better with IIS because you will be working all night long patching the system all the time.
"...So this doesn't really harm Linux at all...."
I think there is some harm to FOSS. Case in point: At work (a large corporation) we have, of course, MS all over the office space but IBM AIX workstations too (among others). All applications used on clients must be approved.
Some FOSS has made its way into the company and can be used; however, now a warning is displayed that there may be risk of legal litigation if the user builds with these tools with a link to information from the legal department that no one will bother to read. It doesn't stop me one bit of course. But I could see a PHB heeding that warning and selecting MS tools instead.
"... I've been pretty happy with my DeWalt DW625 plunge router - 3 horsepower, electronic..."
How do you get 3 HP from a 110V, 20 amp electrical outlet? Maybe if the efficiency is 100% and you ignore the startup. Or is this model a 220V router?
No, not so easy... On a ppc platform, I did: # emerge -C xfree # emerge xorg-x11 90 minutes later... Error: Xcursor -- segmentation fault. What gives? I'll hope there is a binary version out there.
"... You're worried about atomic vs. astronomical time definitions and sub-second accuracy? ..."
No, not really. I take issue with it because GMT is really an obsolete time scale. We no longer (and haven't for 30 years) measured time by its definition. So why not give the correct "units" to your time. That is, we measure time by an atomic time scale... so report your time in an atomic time scale (UTC is an atomic time scale).
It is kind of like measuring something in inches and reporting that same number as centimeters with the magnitude of error being the biggest difference. In this example both are measurements of length just like GMT/UTC are measurements of a time scale. Yeah, it is being picky because that doesn't mean squat in our everyday lives.
Have you noticed that today GMT is often used in the context of a time zone in lieu of a time scale? It is an abused time scale indeed. But old public habbits die hard. Just like the public likes to call a measurement of force (ie weight) kilograms ( a unit of mass != force) without the qualifying kilograms-force ( another bastardized thing).
Again, am I just being picky? Well, yeah, if you know the difference. But for those who don't, they go through life "knowing" weight is kilograms and our time is GMT because that is what they hear. And then one day it becomes a source of confusion when actual difference matters or when someone tries to be technically correct but can't because it will confuses the public.
"... London will be online at 5pm GMT..."
Let's be picky... if you look up the definition of the second in the GMT time scale, you will see that it is astronomical based. But the definition of the SI second is derived off an atomic time scale and has been for, what, 30 some years. So report the time on the prime meridian as UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) because it is the basis for civil time world-wide. And last I looked, London is on the planet Earth.
Yeah, I know... GMT is used interchangably to mean UTC by the layman. But when the rubber meets the road, it is UTC we are talking about especially in sub-second accuracy.
The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer. Visit our help area for more information. The site is slash-dotted. Any verbal discriptions of the pic?
"...the patents they went for covering .NET are so broad they would never hold up in court...."
Do these patents have to hold up in court? I mean, how many Open Source projects (companies or countries for that matter) have the finacial resources to fight Microsoft. IBM could, I guess. But if the Mono project received a cease and desist letter from Microsoft, could they afford the infinite number of appeals Microsoft would litigate?
"... Oh great, here we go... Microsoft getting on the open source bandwagon...."
I think MS is looking at some long-term corporate image improvements. They are going to throw a few token apps into the Open Source world in order to improve their image with future geeks and thus reduce the bad-mounting they receive from this crowd.
Today, we view this activity with a skeptical eye and check if they have their fingers crossed behind their back. But a new generation growing up will assimilate naturally MS with Open Source activity and not view them as the show me the money company they are.
That's my (tinfoil hat) theory anyway.
Wow! you had 8 colors! When I was a kid, after walking 8 miles - in the snow-- to get to scholl, we only had two colors: black and white. And we liked it too. Tell that to the kids of today... and they'll never believe you.
I'm afraid you are right. My Playboy reading habbits-- I read the pictures and look at the articles.
The article at: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?News ID=2275
has a headline: Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up And next to it you'll see a Microsoft advertisement ad that says: Make a name for yourself with Windows server systems
And I guess the FAA did just that too.
Those kite pic and grey sky are at the Gasworks Park on Lake Union in Seattle.
I donno about it being the "new socially acceptable term" but in the late 70's while taking some programming classes, we [students] referred to hackers as someone who didn't write elegant algorithms or code but got the job done with brut-force.
These less than elegant sections of code were referred to as a hack; hence, you were a hacker if you programmed that way all the time. In fact, if I recall, the programming text book made mention of it back then. I think it was the media who associated the word hacker with the popular connotations you make mention of.
"...I will go on a limb and say that at least 50% of the viruses that are being written for Windows are being done so by Linux supporters...."
I'd say a very long limb. Now I'll go out on a limb. I'd say 100% of all Microsoft's efforts are to destroy Linux and remove it as a threat to its ca$h cow.
I think their Clippy() routine is more like this:
/* Clippy script routines */
<snip>
int Clippy(int *clippy_active) {
static int auto_activate_clippy_count = 0;
if !clippy_active {
*clippy_active = true;
auto_activate_clippy_count++;
}
switch (auto_activate_clippy_count) {
case 0:
ClippyBeCute();
ClippyActCute();
ClippyFlirtWithUser();
ClippyHelpUser();
break;
case 1:
ClippyRemindUser();
ClippyStillBeNice();
ClippyActCute();
ClippyHelpUser();
break;
case 2:
ClippyTakeControl();
ClippyActTuff();
ClippyBeAnnoying()
ClippyOfferNoHelp();
break;
default:
ClippyBePissedOff();
ClippyBugTheHellOutOfUser();
ClippyInterfereWithWork();
break;
}
}
Thanx for that wonderful insight into human generalization. If I known I was worse than a "communist hippy", I wouldn't have been so quick to judge the behavior of wonder companies like Enron.
If the past is representative of the present, you have to take the system requirements and double-it to get the game-play you really want. And when third-party add-ons arrive, you need to triple-it!
"... After you do a update of your kernel and your nvidia-driver fails to work or something else like that...."
In this scenario, it is still easy in SuSE to get your nVidia driver going again. Just use YaST update and tell it to reinstall the driver again and you're going in no time. I do agree, though, Gentoo updates are nice and easy once you're setup. I use Gentoo on my PowerBook and am satisfied with it.
"...a good example is a cd burner. in windows XP, i's as simple as dragging files to the CD drive, and clicking "write these files to CD"..." I think that is a bad example. The CD utility k3b in KDE is just as easy. It is virtually a two-click operation to burn an ISO image, for example.
..."These things can scratch or simply get lost."...i>
I see Mr Bill doesn't offer us what a substitute medium would be for viewing our movie content. Maybe his words: "simply get lost" are a clue that there will be no medium. That is, it will all be on line and under DRM control. And he is just the man to deliverer it to you for a nominal fee, of course.
Let's not forget to mention the other benefit of using a HTTP client other than IE. You get to vote! That is, when web administrators review their logs, they will see more wide-spread use of other browsers and this will hopefully prompt them to produced web sites that are not IE centric. And this will benefit everyone