Than and you can also do traffic hiding a la bittorrent along with that and you are set. Then just send your encrypted traffic everywhere along with the packets of whatever it is that you are downloading or uploading on bittorent - of course, there has to be a method that ensures the actual recipient receives all the packets of the conversation. Look at the concept, I know its very vague, but it would use something that is already out there and its hard to "filter" or "block".
I know, I know, sounds a bit to crazy to use for real time voice communications, but it could at least work for voicemail... right?
And, why not use something like SSH to mask conversations between two (privacy concious) points? People that care enough for privacy to use encryption would go to the trouble of setting up such a thing anyways (or buy it - from somewhere). Let's hope ISPs dont; start banning encrypted traffic or certain ports all at once (more than some already do).
Trivial stuff on your conversations? Somthing private? That you did what!!!?? What's for dinner? They listen to that anyways on your cellphone or landline, so who cares? Right? The average John Doe who looks for the "any Key" "key"? Huh? Didn't think so.
Still, fsck them for being metiches!!!
Metiches - errr... well, those who don't have any business listening to private stuff. Yeah... something like that.
Is it for all, and I mean ALL, copyrighted music? Even music that is released under Creative Commons, on a non restrictive type (public domain kind of thing)??
So is not enought having to pay licensing fees for freaking MP3s, for the music being distributed, but now this??? WTF???
No, I did not bother reading TFA, this is slashdot, remember?
Besides, if moving to WMA with DRM, didn't support of Windows Media Player for the Mac die a while a go?
And if you are a student (see SketchUp's licensing page) you can get a one year license (which can be turned to full one year license at no extra charge) and after renewing it for 4 years you get the full thing. The nice thing about that is that you don't have to pay extra for the upgrades because your one year payment is for whatever version is out (if I remeber correctly).
Also, for those looking to just jump to buy SketchUp, it is not a solids modeler, is a facet modeler. If you need ACIS modelers, well, look at CAD programs like AutoCAD, TurboCAD, and others.
With SkethCUp you can render JPEGS, PNGs, and AVIs (supports DivX), too. Pretty cool for presentations and stuff.
I strongly recommend you visit their forums (slash dot em!).
I think http://www.objectivenetworks.net/ WAS the website with free models for SketchUp which included furniture, electronics, outdoors, buildings, plants, people, etc, etc, etc, etc...
If vista's explorer is not hosting the runtime it does not mean that it won't support the.NET platform. It only means that it is now less risky to have a.NET app running and that if it crashes, when it does, it will not take down the OS along with it.
It would seem that this is more like the JVM that takes care of eating it own dogfood.
And like many people have said here already,.NET is easy on development it was not advertised that it would be the fastest thing in the world.
Have a good one.
P.S. Don't bother to reply to this 'cause I rarely ever check my posts.
As I have worked in the IT department in my college, it has been my experience that Wi-Fi in the classroom is of great benefit. You might wonder why, and the answer is as follows:
You don't just put Wi-Fi in a classroom and forget about it. You deploy it along with the right infrastructure and give the teacher the power to TURN IT OFF whenever he needs absolute attention to his/her class.
It is necessary to point out that the short quote mentions the "classrooms" only. And no I did not read TFA cause I don't need to and I don't want to. The thing is that as long as there is a tool to be used for good it is important to use it the right way to get where you want to go; or deploy it and implement it the right way so that the end users can get where they are "supposed to" in the time "when they are SUPPOSED TO". Damin it!!!
I thought it was you screaming as I was riding that train when its wheels made a mess outa your bones...
But seriously, a memory leak is what it seemed to me. I am not used to see RAM being used in such a manner in the system or memory monitors. Call it whatever you want, even stupidity if that is what better suits your own little world.
I really don't know what's with people these days calling every people stupid just because of a lack of communication skills. I would think that intelligent people with good communication skills would have understood that in my first post I had two paragraps, one about SUSE 10 and a reason why it sucks, and then another one about Ubuntu stating that it was great COMPARED to SUSE 10.
People, at least tell me that you know about parallelism and compararing things. I guess some of you, the ones who replyed to my post in a very offensive manner, don't really understand English. And I thought my Enlgish was bad, I guess it is not THAT bad after all.
http://www.lefthandnetworks.com/ supports all that of what the person is talking about in the article. As you add more of these units, the volumes are spread over the units you add. This means that you can add storage as you go and still have redundancy. You can configure each individual unit to use RAID 0, 1, or 5, and still get to have a volume, or many, across multiple storage units that in turn have parts of a whole voule or set of volumes. Its like haveing double mirroring, once within each individual storage unit level (which has many IDE drives in RAID 1, or 5) and then twice at the storage unit level. Of course this assumes that you have at least two storage units. And, yes, this means that to have redundancy you ahve to add them in pairs (I think) and have some storage units in one physical location and the pairs of each of those in another location for disaster recovery (fire, earthquackes, you know things can happen.)
I have worked with this units and they kick ass. You can do snapshots of entire servers quickly, given that you have the right infrastructure, set thresholds for voulmes that can be increased or reduced on the fly, brick level restoration of files!!!, etc. And of course, my respect goes to their engineers. I saw them working on one unit cause we had a really bad power failure that killed one HD. Man those guys know their stuff up and down, and I've never seen anybody type commands so complex and so freaking long at that speed! They fixed the damn thing and got 99.99999% back from limbo!
I guess their storage boxes follow the model of LVM which is pretty cool and the storage boxes run Linux!!!
Don't take my word for it, go to their website and take a look 'cause I tend to confuse people with my posts rather than pass info efficiently.
Your post emphasized RAM. Take some responsibility for your own limitations and don't try to blame other people for not being mind readers.
Emphasis does not mean that that's the only thing I talked about. And if you seem to be so proficient in English, why didn't you pick that up? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your pointint that out to me, but I did say that Ubuntu's performace was great:
I am now a Ubuntu user and the performace out of the box is great. And even better after installling the fgrlx drivers for my ATI.
Yes, I should have said that SUSE 10 was slow in overall performace. Thank you.
Dude, you're a prick. Instead of saying "OMG, SUSE is slow, SLOW" then when proven wrong falling back on "ZOMGZ!! I DOTN SPREAK ENGRISH", why not actually (shock, horror) point out exactly what you mean by slow? Is it overall feel? Application loading times? Start-up times?
I'll say it again, Out of the box!! I compared SUSE 10 out of the box and Ubuntu 5.10, also out of the box. Meaning that I simply did a clean install.
AI also ran almost every freaking program the distros came with, played games, did a couple of hours of web browsing, used the GIMP, and even installed extra apps.
I have been using inux since RedHat 7.X, going through Mandrake's early versions to the newest Mandriva, k12OS, Knoppix, TurboLinux, DSL, etc, etc, etc. I have installed them on laptops as well as on desktops and servers with SCSI drives, RAID, etc, etc., firewalls, IDS, and what not. So I guess I have a pretty good idea of what to expect from a distro in terms of speed and performace.
Having run all major Linux distros available, and using SUSE as default boot (hooked by 9.2), I can safely say that SUSE is one of, if not the fastest available distribution (disregarding, obviously, a gentoo stage-1).
It is not that you have ran all the distros in the world and that you say that SUSE is the fastest one, cause you just tripped right there even disregarding gentoo, which takes a while to compile and tune up to a user's "taste." Take for example, a slow Pentium II with 256RAM and a 10GB HD, install SUSE 10 and have it run, with a clean install and no extra configuration, run as fast as Ubuntu 5.10 would. Then tell me, 'cause I did my homework and did make a comparison between them. I tested them, I used them both like I would use any other distro I had used before and came to a conclusion. Now where is yours?
So the problem must be yours twofold: firstly, that you haven't tried any more than one other distribution; and secondly, that you do not know how to configure your software for maximum speed (or, if no problem there, your hardware has issues). I'm confidently posting this logged-in.
Now, if my hardware had issues
Configure? ha! Why waste my time having to figure out what went wrong with one distro when many others have had no problems with my hardware? Huh?
I'm confidently posting this logged-in.
Ha!
This guy just mentions servers, mail problems, and the like, but still all in the server side of things. My guess is that he simply tried to stabilize the whole thing by making the servers, which handle the whole show, stable. A good start, and I mean that it is only that. While people have posted here about the company migrating completely to open source on the side of their TAX applications, well, that might be a little to extreme as of now. This Uemura guy did say that it was a Windows shop, but he didn't say if he was referring to the datacenter as the whole shop or to the entire company.
Of course, if you can get enough of the big companies to switch to OpenSource there will be, eventually, a growth in the development of application for open platforms as well as applications that once were single platform switching to a multiplatform model.
Is just a matter of how much you can sell to companies that have OpenSource "shops." If there is a market, then, of course, you get to sell something.
I forgot to mention that in I used Gnome for both distros. And I, too, find it strange that even though the kernels are in the 2.6 range, developers might have included or exculded certain features when compiling.
I don;t know if it is the slashdot effect, the social part, but whenever posts are made, people start throwing chairs, coursing and stuff. I like the content of your post, I just hope that while replying to your post, and those of others, I did not put a rude tone when replying to your reply, swillden.
Again, what I said is that I don;t care if all my RAM is used to 100%, what I want is a system that runs fast. SUSE 10 does not run as fast as other distros. That is what I said on my first reply, and that is what I repeated. Now, I don't want to sound rude, but can't rou understand plain English?
And I a Linux, Mac OS X, Darwin, BSD, BeOS, DOS, FREE-DOS, kind of guy. I recognize good performance when I see it. I compared SUSE 10 to Ubuntu 5.10. Even though Ubuntu uses a different configuration for disk caching, memory allocation, etc, etc, etc, that does not use up all the RAM, it is still FASTER!!
I know that what you say is the RIGHT concept. What I said is that SUSE sucks cause even though it follows such concept, it is SLOW! damn it, the word is SLOW!! I said S L O W
See, that's the problem of posting things on slashdot, people jump to the technically correct answer before thinking about what actually is that people right. I know how RAM is supposed to work, and please excuse my bad enlish as I am an ESL student (English as a Second Language).
Now, having put that aside. What I meant to say was that even thought my 768MB of RAM were being used to about 98%, SUSE would not release memory even after closing most every freaking program I had open, then when trying to open, say FireFox again, it would load EXTREMELY SLOW. Now tell me if that is how ANY distro is supposed to run, would ya?
To put it simply, even though you know all that stuff about RAM you did not pay attention to what I said. I said that SUSE 10 IS SLOW! I know that the intention of the developers was to optimize performace, but the darn thing (SUSE 10) was freaking slow and was consuming too much RAM when it was not supposed to. How do I know this? 'cause I have installed many Linux distros, and used them a lot, that have a better performance even when not using up all the RAM. I know that it is good to have things loaded in the oh so fast RAM, but what about new applications being loaded and trying to get a piece of RAM to run fast, too, huh?
Besides, if SUSE 10 had run as fast out of the box as Ubuntu did, or as Mandriva or Fedora, i'd still be using it. Period.
Now, I dare you to install SUSE 10, runs applications and then install Ubunto on the same machine and compare readings from the system monitor. See what you get.
I disagree on the polished side. Perhaps it IS the most polished distro you have ever used, but it has been my experience that while it is good it is not that good. Just as an exmaple, I installed SUSE 10 on my Athlon 3000+ with 768 DDR RAM with 120GB HD with 8MB buffer. SUSE's configuration for performace simply sucks, it kept leaking memory and using all the RAM all the time. Just opening and closing programs would increase the RAM usage, damn it even just moving a window would use up more RAM. That is just half of it, the system monitor would also indicate that disk cache was using half the RAM all the time. That was on a clean install. After installing the ATI drivers the RAM usage wnet down just a little, but still SUSE would eat RAM little by little until a reboot was necesary.
I am now a Ubuntu user and the performace out of the box is great. And even better after installling the fgrlx drivers for my ATI.
I do agree in cutting the plug for Windows, but until I get my money back from all the software and games I bought that only run on Windows or all my Windows games and programs run on Linux, I cannot get rid of my windows partition.
I mean, come on... does the word "again" mean that this time they will use the latest and greatest technology to make fake photos? Perhaps a video with no coke bottle showing up?
I know, I know!!
Now somebody on the set will be drinking PESI!!!
And the crosshairs in the pictures will now match the... well.. the sunlight will be going in only one direction... no wait!! the flag will not be extended thanks to the air on the moon, right?...
So why do people use Windows anyways if it isn't free? Huh?
The thing is to move away from Windows, nobody said it could be 100% free... It will cost either time or money o both. Period
It's like implementing a new system when people don't want to let go of the old one because they are used to something the already know so why switch in the first place anyways?
Damn company also has people in India answering phones and damn it they make you call lots and lots and lots of times cause they just don't understand freaking ENGLISH!!!!! And then, "ohh, errmm... sir, we cannot fix you computer. Have a good day." Fuck 'em!!!!
Your tech-jobs are belong to India... get it?
I hope the U.S. does not turn out like south american countries where a lot of people don't have jobs or people are not paid enough and companies still expect people to buy their shit. Stupit, isn't it?
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Could this be so that the goverment is allowed to sniff users traffic without being liable for anything? I mean, a user would get a webpage saying:
By using this free service you agree to bla, blah, blah, etc, etc and agree to have your traffic inspected...
Right?
Have a good one.
Than and you can also do traffic hiding a la bittorrent along with that and you are set. Then just send your encrypted traffic everywhere along with the packets of whatever it is that you are downloading or uploading on bittorent - of course, there has to be a method that ensures the actual recipient receives all the packets of the conversation. Look at the concept, I know its very vague, but it would use something that is already out there and its hard to "filter" or "block".
I know, I know, sounds a bit to crazy to use for real time voice communications, but it could at least work for voicemail... right?
And, why not use something like SSH to mask conversations between two (privacy concious) points? People that care enough for privacy to use encryption would go to the trouble of setting up such a thing anyways (or buy it - from somewhere). Let's hope ISPs dont; start banning encrypted traffic or certain ports all at once (more than some already do).
Trivial stuff on your conversations? Somthing private? That you did what!!!?? What's for dinner? They listen to that anyways on your cellphone or landline, so who cares? Right? The average John Doe who looks for the "any Key" "key"? Huh? Didn't think so.
Still, fsck them for being metiches!!!
Metiches - errr... well, those who don't have any business listening to private stuff. Yeah... something like that.
Have a good one.
Is it for all, and I mean ALL, copyrighted music? Even music that is released under Creative Commons, on a non restrictive type (public domain kind of thing)??
So is not enought having to pay licensing fees for freaking MP3s, for the music being distributed, but now this??? WTF???
No, I did not bother reading TFA, this is slashdot, remember?
Besides, if moving to WMA with DRM, didn't support of Windows Media Player for the Mac die a while a go?
Errrrr... shit, have to get to work...
Have a good one.
And if you are a student (see SketchUp's licensing page) you can get a one year license (which can be turned to full one year license at no extra charge) and after renewing it for 4 years you get the full thing. The nice thing about that is that you don't have to pay extra for the upgrades because your one year payment is for whatever version is out (if I remeber correctly).
Also, for those looking to just jump to buy SketchUp, it is not a solids modeler, is a facet modeler. If you need ACIS modelers, well, look at CAD programs like AutoCAD, TurboCAD, and others.
With SkethCUp you can render JPEGS, PNGs, and AVIs (supports DivX), too. Pretty cool for presentations and stuff.
I strongly recommend you visit their forums (slash dot em!).
I think http://www.objectivenetworks.net/ WAS the website with free models for SketchUp which included furniture, electronics, outdoors, buildings, plants, people, etc, etc, etc, etc...
Have a good one.
6800XT (an XFX 6800 Xtreme) at newegg.com for $135.
2 E16814150130
I just got it last week. Kicks ass with all my games at 1440x900 all settings maxed out and 4X anti-aliasing.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N8
Have a good one.
If vista's explorer is not hosting the runtime it does not mean that it won't support the .NET platform. It only means that it is now less risky to have a .NET app running and that if it crashes, when it does, it will not take down the OS along with it.
.NET is easy on development it was not advertised that it would be the fastest thing in the world.
Have a good one.
P.S. Don't bother to reply to this 'cause I rarely ever check my posts.
It would seem that this is more like the JVM that takes care of eating it own dogfood.
And like many people have said here already,
...free of charge, free as in beer, gratis, free gift now!!
.99 cents is everywhere!!!
Did I say it was free? Did I say gift? all in the same sentence?
What tha f!!!!! heck!!!
I can see open source as being used the same way in the near future. Just like the never-gets-old "buy it for $9.99". Stupid
Have a good one.
As I have worked in the IT department in my college, it has been my experience that Wi-Fi in the classroom is of great benefit. You might wonder why, and the answer is as follows:
You don't just put Wi-Fi in a classroom and forget about it. You deploy it along with the right infrastructure and give the teacher the power to TURN IT OFF whenever he needs absolute attention to his/her class.
It is necessary to point out that the short quote mentions the "classrooms" only. And no I did not read TFA cause I don't need to and I don't want to. The thing is that as long as there is a tool to be used for good it is important to use it the right way to get where you want to go; or deploy it and implement it the right way so that the end users can get where they are "supposed to" in the time "when they are SUPPOSED TO". Damin it!!!
Double plus good on this one please...
Ohh.. wait!!!....
No, no!!! I mean Insightful....
Have a good one.
I thought it was you screaming as I was riding that train when its wheels made a mess outa your bones...
But seriously, a memory leak is what it seemed to me. I am not used to see RAM being used in such a manner in the system or memory monitors. Call it whatever you want, even stupidity if that is what better suits your own little world.
I really don't know what's with people these days calling every people stupid just because of a lack of communication skills. I would think that intelligent people with good communication skills would have understood that in my first post I had two paragraps, one about SUSE 10 and a reason why it sucks, and then another one about Ubuntu stating that it was great COMPARED to SUSE 10.
People, at least tell me that you know about parallelism and compararing things. I guess some of you, the ones who replyed to my post in a very offensive manner, don't really understand English. And I thought my Enlgish was bad, I guess it is not THAT bad after all.
http://www.lefthandnetworks.com/ supports all that of what the person is talking about in the article. As you add more of these units, the volumes are spread over the units you add. This means that you can add storage as you go and still have redundancy. You can configure each individual unit to use RAID 0, 1, or 5, and still get to have a volume, or many, across multiple storage units that in turn have parts of a whole voule or set of volumes. Its like haveing double mirroring, once within each individual storage unit level (which has many IDE drives in RAID 1, or 5) and then twice at the storage unit level. Of course this assumes that you have at least two storage units. And, yes, this means that to have redundancy you ahve to add them in pairs (I think) and have some storage units in one physical location and the pairs of each of those in another location for disaster recovery (fire, earthquackes, you know things can happen.)
I have worked with this units and they kick ass. You can do snapshots of entire servers quickly, given that you have the right infrastructure, set thresholds for voulmes that can be increased or reduced on the fly, brick level restoration of files!!!, etc. And of course, my respect goes to their engineers. I saw them working on one unit cause we had a really bad power failure that killed one HD. Man those guys know their stuff up and down, and I've never seen anybody type commands so complex and so freaking long at that speed! They fixed the damn thing and got 99.99999% back from limbo!
I guess their storage boxes follow the model of LVM which is pretty cool and the storage boxes run Linux!!!
Don't take my word for it, go to their website and take a look 'cause I tend to confuse people with my posts rather than pass info efficiently.
Have a good one.
Your post emphasized RAM. Take some responsibility for your own limitations and don't try to blame other people for not being mind readers. Emphasis does not mean that that's the only thing I talked about. And if you seem to be so proficient in English, why didn't you pick that up? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your pointint that out to me, but I did say that Ubuntu's performace was great:
I am now a Ubuntu user and the performace out of the box is great. And even better after installling the fgrlx drivers for my ATI.
Yes, I should have said that SUSE 10 was slow in overall performace. Thank you.
Dude, you're a prick. Instead of saying "OMG, SUSE is slow, SLOW" then when proven wrong falling back on "ZOMGZ!! I DOTN SPREAK ENGRISH", why not actually (shock, horror) point out exactly what you mean by slow? Is it overall feel? Application loading times? Start-up times? I'll say it again, Out of the box!! I compared SUSE 10 out of the box and Ubuntu 5.10, also out of the box. Meaning that I simply did a clean install.
AI also ran almost every freaking program the distros came with, played games, did a couple of hours of web browsing, used the GIMP, and even installed extra apps.
I have been using inux since RedHat 7.X, going through Mandrake's early versions to the newest Mandriva, k12OS, Knoppix, TurboLinux, DSL, etc, etc, etc. I have installed them on laptops as well as on desktops and servers with SCSI drives, RAID, etc, etc., firewalls, IDS, and what not. So I guess I have a pretty good idea of what to expect from a distro in terms of speed and performace.
Having run all major Linux distros available, and using SUSE as default boot (hooked by 9.2), I can safely say that SUSE is one of, if not the fastest available distribution (disregarding, obviously, a gentoo stage-1). It is not that you have ran all the distros in the world and that you say that SUSE is the fastest one, cause you just tripped right there even disregarding gentoo, which takes a while to compile and tune up to a user's "taste." Take for example, a slow Pentium II with 256RAM and a 10GB HD, install SUSE 10 and have it run, with a clean install and no extra configuration, run as fast as Ubuntu 5.10 would. Then tell me, 'cause I did my homework and did make a comparison between them. I tested them, I used them both like I would use any other distro I had used before and came to a conclusion. Now where is yours? So the problem must be yours twofold: firstly, that you haven't tried any more than one other distribution; and secondly, that you do not know how to configure your software for maximum speed (or, if no problem there, your hardware has issues). I'm confidently posting this logged-in. Now, if my hardware had issues Configure? ha! Why waste my time having to figure out what went wrong with one distro when many others have had no problems with my hardware? Huh? I'm confidently posting this logged-in. Ha!
...or bad.
This guy just mentions servers, mail problems, and the like, but still all in the server side of things. My guess is that he simply tried to stabilize the whole thing by making the servers, which handle the whole show, stable. A good start, and I mean that it is only that. While people have posted here about the company migrating completely to open source on the side of their TAX applications, well, that might be a little to extreme as of now. This Uemura guy did say that it was a Windows shop, but he didn't say if he was referring to the datacenter as the whole shop or to the entire company.
Of course, if you can get enough of the big companies to switch to OpenSource there will be, eventually, a growth in the development of application for open platforms as well as applications that once were single platform switching to a multiplatform model.
Is just a matter of how much you can sell to companies that have OpenSource "shops." If there is a market, then, of course, you get to sell something.
Have a good one.
I forgot to mention that in I used Gnome for both distros. And I, too, find it strange that even though the kernels are in the 2.6 range, developers might have included or exculded certain features when compiling.
I don;t know if it is the slashdot effect, the social part, but whenever posts are made, people start throwing chairs, coursing and stuff. I like the content of your post, I just hope that while replying to your post, and those of others, I did not put a rude tone when replying to your reply, swillden.
Have a good one.
I hate it when I make spelling errors.
>_
Well, at least I have the excuse that my native language is not english.
Again, what I said is that I don;t care if all my RAM is used to 100%, what I want is a system that runs fast. SUSE 10 does not run as fast as other distros. That is what I said on my first reply, and that is what I repeated. Now, I don't want to sound rude, but can't rou understand plain English?
And I a Linux, Mac OS X, Darwin, BSD, BeOS, DOS, FREE-DOS, kind of guy. I recognize good performance when I see it. I compared SUSE 10 to Ubuntu 5.10. Even though Ubuntu uses a different configuration for disk caching, memory allocation, etc, etc, etc, that does not use up all the RAM, it is still FASTER!!
Have a good one. Please do. Really.
P.S. But, please, tell me how you really feel.
I know that what you say is the RIGHT concept. What I said is that SUSE sucks cause even though it follows such concept, it is SLOW! damn it, the word is SLOW!! I said S L O W
See, that's the problem of posting things on slashdot, people jump to the technically correct answer before thinking about what actually is that people right. I know how RAM is supposed to work, and please excuse my bad enlish as I am an ESL student (English as a Second Language).
Now, having put that aside. What I meant to say was that even thought my 768MB of RAM were being used to about 98%, SUSE would not release memory even after closing most every freaking program I had open, then when trying to open, say FireFox again, it would load EXTREMELY SLOW. Now tell me if that is how ANY distro is supposed to run, would ya?
Anyways, thanks for the informative reply.
To put it simply, even though you know all that stuff about RAM you did not pay attention to what I said. I said that SUSE 10 IS SLOW! I know that the intention of the developers was to optimize performace, but the darn thing (SUSE 10) was freaking slow and was consuming too much RAM when it was not supposed to. How do I know this? 'cause I have installed many Linux distros, and used them a lot, that have a better performance even when not using up all the RAM. I know that it is good to have things loaded in the oh so fast RAM, but what about new applications being loaded and trying to get a piece of RAM to run fast, too, huh?
Besides, if SUSE 10 had run as fast out of the box as Ubuntu did, or as Mandriva or Fedora, i'd still be using it. Period.
Now, I dare you to install SUSE 10, runs applications and then install Ubunto on the same machine and compare readings from the system monitor. See what you get.
I disagree on the polished side. Perhaps it IS the most polished distro you have ever used, but it has been my experience that while it is good it is not that good. Just as an exmaple, I installed SUSE 10 on my Athlon 3000+ with 768 DDR RAM with 120GB HD with 8MB buffer. SUSE's configuration for performace simply sucks, it kept leaking memory and using all the RAM all the time. Just opening and closing programs would increase the RAM usage, damn it even just moving a window would use up more RAM. That is just half of it, the system monitor would also indicate that disk cache was using half the RAM all the time. That was on a clean install. After installing the ATI drivers the RAM usage wnet down just a little, but still SUSE would eat RAM little by little until a reboot was necesary.
I am now a Ubuntu user and the performace out of the box is great. And even better after installling the fgrlx drivers for my ATI.
I do agree in cutting the plug for Windows, but until I get my money back from all the software and games I bought that only run on Windows or all my Windows games and programs run on Linux, I cannot get rid of my windows partition.
Have a good one.
It was supposed to read "...drinking PEPSI"
AHHHH!!!!!!
I mean, come on... does the word "again" mean that this time they will use the latest and greatest technology to make fake photos? Perhaps a video with no coke bottle showing up?
... good one?
I know, I know!!
Now somebody on the set will be drinking PESI!!!
And the crosshairs in the pictures will now match the... well.. the sunlight will be going in only one direction... no wait!! the flag will not be extended thanks to the air on the moon, right?...
I mean... right?
Have a
...the shift of the magnetic poles on Earth?
Are they trying to mask the shift so people won't panic as much?
I know this might be a bit off topic (like people cares these days) but I will sure look like a penguin wearing a tinfoil hat anyways...
Have a good one.
I guess I should not have left that sandwitch behind the couch...
Now they found it after this last heat wave and they found new life growing on it...
I wonder what they will go with next? grass in the ass? That would be a start from the scratch...es!
Have a good one.
So Windows is free?
So why do people use Windows anyways if it isn't free? Huh?
The thing is to move away from Windows, nobody said it could be 100% free... It will cost either time or money o both. Period
It's like implementing a new system when people don't want to let go of the old one because they are used to something the already know so why switch in the first place anyways?
Have a good one.
Nobody mentioned DELL...
Why?
Damn company also has people in India answering phones and damn it they make you call lots and lots and lots of times cause they just don't understand freaking ENGLISH!!!!! And then, "ohh, errmm... sir, we cannot fix you computer. Have a good day." Fuck 'em!!!!
Your tech-jobs are belong to India... get it?
I hope the U.S. does not turn out like south american countries where a lot of people don't have jobs or people are not paid enough and companies still expect people to buy their shit. Stupit, isn't it?
Have a good one.