Yeah, it's a shame. I'd love to see official versions for both Mac and Linux as soon as possible.
This really reminds me of Skype. The Skype version for Windows is ages ahead of the ones on Mac and Linux. I had to use Skype on a Windows computer, and I was blown away by the interface changes and features. Let's hope that Chrome doesn't become that.
Granted, at least Google is working a Mac version. There are even development builds that can be downloaded. I don't think it's anywhere near beta quality, though. Hopefully this doesn't mean that by version 6 of Chrome for Windows, Mac users will be rewarded with Chrome 1 for Mac:-P
Yup, 10W is closer to the truth. If the drives are working hard and seeking, I think most drives actually approach 15W.
You can cure this by using WD's "green" series drives. They use around 5W when idle and less than 10W when seeking. Their performance is almost at par with their normal drives, and it's perfect for a NAS or storage device.
Why is the parent modded funny? I think it's an honest comment. I've been using Gmail for 5 years now (precisely since September 2004) and this is only the second outage that I've experience which prevented me from logging in.
The only thing that bugs me is the Gmail user interface. Sometimes it doesn't record my actions (such as reading messages) and has an indefinite "Loading..." message which forces me to reload the whole page. But, this could also be something related to Safari.
ZFS has de-dupe and it's free and open source. There are some companies making (some even open source and free) storage appliances using ZFS with all it's amazing capabilities. Then, you can connect to it via iSCSI for virtualization or FTP, SMB, etc for the rest.
They changed some escalators in the Montreal (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) metro too and it seemed like it took forever.
I recall the escalator change at the Guy Concordia station taking at least 12 months, more like 14 I believe.
Now they also have their new Opus system, which looks very similar to the Oystercard system. It's ridiculous. It's slow, their refill terminals are running Windows XP and I've seen them crash, and all the seniors using the subway are utterly confused.
The Atom processor doesn't take only 4W, that would be great if it did, but it's chipset is the killer. Intel Atom's chipset takes a whopping 20W of juice!
Compare that to VIA's X86 processor, which takes up about 15W of power, but doesn't require a monster chipset like the Intel CPU does.
I absolutely agree with you, a powerful ARM chip would be amazing. It wouldn't be the fastest thing out there, but very reasonable, and the battery would last nearly forever.
A regular broadband package here is around $50 a month, and 56K is around $30 a month (most ISPs are trying to get people to move off of 56K).
Okay, so you're not saving that much if you were only using AOL for two houses, but must I remind you that they travel a lot. They'd be spending tons of money if they had to find an Internet provider for 3 weeks in all these countries.
For one, it gives you free and unlimited dialup Internet access in the world. Many places have wifi in this day and age, but the places where my family travels to most do not.
The family members using AOL have the broadband service at home, and then they use the 56K at their cottage. Without this, they would normally be required to buy two Internet packages.
Obviously, AOL's software is terrible and causes tons of issues whenever I need to fix their computer. Fortunately, the Mac version is better and doesn't take over the system as much as the Windows version does.
I personally simply hate the fact how router vendors don't put enough emphasis on how important wireless security is! The only thing that most router manuals say about encryption is that it will slow down the speed of the wireless network. Without further ado, let me bash a bit about this book:
Many homes are now using wireless access points. Unfortunately, poor configurations open them up for eavesdroppers and bandwidth hijackers You got that right!
The simple precautions of changing and hiding the network name (SSID) and changing the password will do a lot No it will not! Changing your SSID doesn't do anything in terms of security. All of the data transferred via the network is in the clear. Changing the admin password of the router helps a bit, but there exploits out there which can crack some of these passwords. The goal here is to prevent the bad guys from getting onto your network in the first place. Hiding? In Kismet, you press one button to reveal the hidden APs in the area. Hiding it pointless.
but encryption using WEP, WPA, or WPA2 will help a lot more. WEP is useless. It can be cracked in less than 60 seconds these days. In fact, it's easier to crack a WEP key than to write it in! WEP is BROKE, and let's make sure that people get the message. WPA and WPA2 are, if you're using a nice and long non-dictionary password, uncrackable. The only attack that can be done on WPA or WPA2 is a dictionary attack. In addition, make sure that you're using AES with WPA, and not TKIP. TKIP is an implementation which uses less CPU, but is very similar to the way how WEP works. It's weak.
They also go into the security issues of public hotspots, including the prospect of "Evil Twins" (user computers that offer a look-alike access point just to steal your personal information). Very true, but let's be honest here for a second... Am I the only one who's paranoid of entering my PayPal or CC info on an unencrypted public access point? I don't care if it's an AP ran by some mega-trusted corporation, the signal is still out there and anyone can get it.
The parent's parent is right! Although, only to a certain degree (meaning that it doesn't explain the fact why Vista uses so much damn memory).
I'm currently running a Windows Vista VM with 1GB of RAM. When SuperFetch was on, it was using 574MB of RAM. I turned off the service and the usage dropped to 343MB.
Although, I still think that 343MB of RAM is stupid for an operating system. I'll better stay with XP for my Windows stuff and with Linux and OS X for day to day desktop work.
Oh, this is so great. I _just_ wanted to rant about Windows Vista. Alright, let me explain this to everyone from the beginning:
Since the release of Windows Vista, I've always been hating it. I told my customers to not upgrade to Vista and to stick with XP. Whenever I heard anyone in stores talking about Vista, I immediately explained why Vista is not superior to XP. I have installed Windows Vista numerous times inside of virtual computers to try it out.
This week, I decided to do the extreme test. Install Windows Vista as a bootcamp partition on my Mac. What a disaster it was! Let me explain you the primary reasons why I hate Vista:
1) Performance! The darn thing gobs up 600MB of RAM when it has nothing open, and even more when you open up applications. The bootup time is slow and the whole system feels very slow. This is unacceptable. This is bloated code to hell.
2) Lock-Ins Want to disable the stupid Windows indexing search thing? You can't! Want to uninstall all the stupid apps that are bundled in with Windows? You can't do that either.
3) The look I don't understand how Aero is supposed to be revolutionary. The interface is unbelievably distracting. The semi-transparent and blurry window borders look like a joke. Aswell, most programs will use that old-school rectangular look. It feels like I'd be running Wine.
4) Lack of innovation What does it offer more than than XP? XP is perfectly stable, it's fast and it WORKS. The features that Microsoft is touting are simply pathetic. An integrated Anti-Virus (I have a brain and AVG for that) and some other applications in the system.
In addition to this, I have experienced many bugs since my installation of Vista. I know that drivers are to blame, but I would assume that the Bootcamp drivers are well made. Here's what I had so far:
1) Windows can't find it's partition on bootup. It complaints for two minutes and then continues on to booting properly. 2) Whenever it turns off the screen it can't turn the screen back on. 3) Random freezes. Nuff' said. I've had Vista freeze 3 times since the install. Just freeze dead. No CTRL+ALT+DELETE, just a restart will fix it. 4) The new Windows+TAB switching is buggy, it twitches and it isn't smooth.
But, I think that the slowdowns and performance problems are making this a very undesirable operating system for gamers. I know that I'll be re-installing XP. Anyone want to buy a slightly used Vista CD?:-P
It's a pathetic operating system while Leopard is kicking everyone's asses. XP will be good enough for gaming for years to come.
I wish I went to the Montreal party. At first, I believe it was to be held at a bar. I'm not 18 years old and unlike many of my fellow peers, I don't have a fake ID nor plan to get one. Good to know that you all had a great time.
For me, I always thought that Mozilla was a small and nice open source company. These days, it feels to me as if Mozilla is starting to blend into the corporation scene just like any other evil corporation. The whole Firefox naming debacle on Debian, and now this. Now that they're controlling a big market of the web browsers space, should we continue trusting them? Would it be time to look at Konqueror or other browsers?
If a few large datacenters declared their fees as a small $$$ value for each unit of space, and additionally a few dollars, per watt of power consumption, you'd see the problem naturally fix itself, through normal economic forces. As soon as watts are the defining factor, companies won't pay more for a cramped 1U server rather than an (inexpensive) 2U or 3U server. You will also see companies happy to pay more for lower-powered server hardware, as having them directly bear the energy cost will make buying efficient servers a significant savings to them. Yes, that would be a great solution. Unfortunately, real estate space is getting higher day by day. Building an extension to a datacenter isn't always feasible, and any physical space extension requires quite some investment (such as for cooling, you'd need more coolers to cover more space).
Which is exactly why I use Sympatico at home. I'm supposed to get 5mbit down and unlimited bandwidth. Unfortunately, I live too far away from the switch and I get 1.5mbit down maxium.
I've considered Videotron, but I needed to take their highest plan (10mbit) to get unlimited bandwidth. The price was about $90 a month. Really not worth it for residential use.
I'm going to tell you guys, I really love this idea.
I thought that in this crazy world where almost every computer component is manufactured in China, that I could never find something reliable, fast and at good value. This motherboard has just made my day and I hope that more manufacturers will take a similar approach.
This also looks like it would be a great server motherboard. And the Core 2 Duo is an extremely fast chip aswell. I think that we're seeing a nice marriage of great technologies.
I've always respected Gigabyte, and I hope that I'll respect them more in the future.
I've dealt with very bad cancellation experiences in the past, myself. And this article surely proves that I'm not the only one having these problems. It's as if these companies and corporations don't have proper protocols or procedures for cancellation. Not being able to find information on cancelling a service on the provider's own website is totally pathetic. Or, having to call to cancel a service is also very sad in this age of computer technology.
Sadly, I think that it will remain like this for a very long time. These corporations know that if they retain their customers, they'll have more customers in the end. These companies don't care about bad reputations; they rely on their overly cheap and "amazing" deals to attract new customers. The Slashdot crowd is an intelligent and computer-savvy group of people. But the average consumer which signs up for these services might not be, and he might not care about the cancellation process, and he might be influenced by these exit interviews to stay.
Remember, corporations have access to great analytical data. If they continue to make hard cancellation processes, it means that there is profit to be made. That there are people who will stay because of the amount of labor required to cancel.
It's sad. I would really like these business practices to change. I, for once, will never make my hosting services hard to cancel because I believe in having a good reputation and I'm satisfied by the warm emails that I get from happy customers. I'm sure that other Slashdot users who provide some kind of service do the same.
I really am amazed by the bootup time of my new iMac. I finally upgraded my underpowered 1.25GHz G4 Mac mini to a whopping 20" Core 2 Duo iMac.
Bootup time to the login screen is exactly 15 seconds from a cold start. When I enter my password, it only takes 5 seconds until I get a usable desktop where I can launch Safari and Adium.
I love my Mac. I love Apple. It's really a wonderful operating system to go with wonderful hardware.
In corporate and enterprise environments, many people have the mentality of "if it ain't broken, don't fix it".
I know a few companies (although really small) which have the same mentality. One is a photographer who uses a laptop without a firewall, IE6, without antivirus and without any updates. They say that they don't need any updates or nothing because he only uses the laptop to check emails and go on eBay. Sigh.
I consider myself a computer-saavy Linux and Windows systems administrator.
But, I must ask, how on earth do you guys perform these kinds of clean-ups? Most spyware that I have seen in the last months are rootkits. They hide underneath the kernel, are impossible to delete and "reinject" themselves upon reboot. I've even seen spyware which injects malicious code and/or replaces the main Windows binaries (explorer.exe, taskmgr.exe, cmd.exe, notepad.exe, etc.) How would you deal with these buggers?
When I come to a spywared computer, I start by running Spybot, AdAware and then AVG AntiVirus (to check for viruses/trojans). I would say that this technique is successful about 50% of the time. If it's not, I consider the situation disastrous and ask the person to do backups and go for a reformat.
I've even touched computer which froze upon startup (Windows boots up and everything freezes up). What would you do in these cases? I boot a livecd to do backups of a drive before the reformat.
So once again, Slashdotters, how do you guys get rid of these nasty rootkit and evolved spywares which can hide very well without reformatting?
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Yeah, it's a shame. I'd love to see official versions for both Mac and Linux as soon as possible.
This really reminds me of Skype. The Skype version for Windows is ages ahead of the ones on Mac and Linux. I had to use Skype on a Windows computer, and I was blown away by the interface changes and features. Let's hope that Chrome doesn't become that.
Granted, at least Google is working a Mac version. There are even development builds that can be downloaded. I don't think it's anywhere near beta quality, though. Hopefully this doesn't mean that by version 6 of Chrome for Windows, Mac users will be rewarded with Chrome 1 for Mac :-P
Yup, 10W is closer to the truth. If the drives are working hard and seeking, I think most drives actually approach 15W.
You can cure this by using WD's "green" series drives. They use around 5W when idle and less than 10W when seeking. Their performance is almost at par with their normal drives, and it's perfect for a NAS or storage device.
Why is the parent modded funny? I think it's an honest comment. I've been using Gmail for 5 years now (precisely since September 2004) and this is only the second outage that I've experience which prevented me from logging in.
The only thing that bugs me is the Gmail user interface. Sometimes it doesn't record my actions (such as reading messages) and has an indefinite "Loading..." message which forces me to reload the whole page. But, this could also be something related to Safari.
ZFS has de-dupe and it's free and open source. There are some companies making (some even open source and free) storage appliances using ZFS with all it's amazing capabilities. Then, you can connect to it via iSCSI for virtualization or FTP, SMB, etc for the rest.
They changed some escalators in the Montreal (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) metro too and it seemed like it took forever.
I recall the escalator change at the Guy Concordia station taking at least 12 months, more like 14 I believe.
Now they also have their new Opus system, which looks very similar to the Oystercard system. It's ridiculous. It's slow, their refill terminals are running Windows XP and I've seen them crash, and all the seniors using the subway are utterly confused.
The Atom processor doesn't take only 4W, that would be great if it did, but it's chipset is the killer. Intel Atom's chipset takes a whopping 20W of juice!
Compare that to VIA's X86 processor, which takes up about 15W of power, but doesn't require a monster chipset like the Intel CPU does.
I absolutely agree with you, a powerful ARM chip would be amazing. It wouldn't be the fastest thing out there, but very reasonable, and the battery would last nearly forever.
Both their house and country house are in Canada.
AOL's price is around $70 a month.
A regular broadband package here is around $50 a month, and 56K is around $30 a month (most ISPs are trying to get people to move off of 56K).
Okay, so you're not saving that much if you were only using AOL for two houses, but must I remind you that they travel a lot. They'd be spending tons of money if they had to find an Internet provider for 3 weeks in all these countries.
AOL actually has some benefits.
For one, it gives you free and unlimited dialup Internet access in the world. Many places have wifi in this day and age, but the places where my family travels to most do not.
The family members using AOL have the broadband service at home, and then they use the 56K at their cottage. Without this, they would normally be required to buy two Internet packages.
Obviously, AOL's software is terrible and causes tons of issues whenever I need to fix their computer. Fortunately, the Mac version is better and doesn't take over the system as much as the Windows version does.
There. My 2 cents are deposited.
The parent's parent is right! Although, only to a certain degree (meaning that it doesn't explain the fact why Vista uses so much damn memory).
I'm currently running a Windows Vista VM with 1GB of RAM. When SuperFetch was on, it was using 574MB of RAM. I turned off the service and the usage dropped to 343MB.
Although, I still think that 343MB of RAM is stupid for an operating system. I'll better stay with XP for my Windows stuff and with Linux and OS X for day to day desktop work.
Oh, this is so great. I _just_ wanted to rant about Windows Vista. Alright, let me explain this to everyone from the beginning:
:-P
Since the release of Windows Vista, I've always been hating it. I told my customers to not upgrade to Vista and to stick with XP. Whenever I heard anyone in stores talking about Vista, I immediately explained why Vista is not superior to XP. I have installed Windows Vista numerous times inside of virtual computers to try it out.
This week, I decided to do the extreme test. Install Windows Vista as a bootcamp partition on my Mac. What a disaster it was! Let me explain you the primary reasons why I hate Vista:
1) Performance!
The darn thing gobs up 600MB of RAM when it has nothing open, and even more when you open up applications. The bootup time is slow and the whole system feels very slow. This is unacceptable. This is bloated code to hell.
2) Lock-Ins
Want to disable the stupid Windows indexing search thing? You can't! Want to uninstall all the stupid apps that are bundled in with Windows? You can't do that either.
3) The look
I don't understand how Aero is supposed to be revolutionary. The interface is unbelievably distracting. The semi-transparent and blurry window borders look like a joke. Aswell, most programs will use that old-school rectangular look. It feels like I'd be running Wine.
4) Lack of innovation
What does it offer more than than XP? XP is perfectly stable, it's fast and it WORKS. The features that Microsoft is touting are simply pathetic. An integrated Anti-Virus (I have a brain and AVG for that) and some other applications in the system.
In addition to this, I have experienced many bugs since my installation of Vista. I know that drivers are to blame, but I would assume that the Bootcamp drivers are well made. Here's what I had so far:
1) Windows can't find it's partition on bootup. It complaints for two minutes and then continues on to booting properly.
2) Whenever it turns off the screen it can't turn the screen back on.
3) Random freezes. Nuff' said. I've had Vista freeze 3 times since the install. Just freeze dead. No CTRL+ALT+DELETE, just a restart will fix it.
4) The new Windows+TAB switching is buggy, it twitches and it isn't smooth.
But, I think that the slowdowns and performance problems are making this a very undesirable operating system for gamers. I know that I'll be re-installing XP. Anyone want to buy a slightly used Vista CD?
It's a pathetic operating system while Leopard is kicking everyone's asses. XP will be good enough for gaming for years to come.
I wish I went to the Montreal party. At first, I believe it was to be held at a bar. I'm not 18 years old and unlike many of my fellow peers, I don't have a fake ID nor plan to get one. Good to know that you all had a great time.
For me, I always thought that Mozilla was a small and nice open source company. These days, it feels to me as if Mozilla is starting to blend into the corporation scene just like any other evil corporation. The whole Firefox naming debacle on Debian, and now this. Now that they're controlling a big market of the web browsers space, should we continue trusting them? Would it be time to look at Konqueror or other browsers?
Back in my days, we had to get Google through the mail:. jpg
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You probably meant UPLOADED to Iran. Or, downloaded FROM Iran.
Which is exactly why I use Sympatico at home. I'm supposed to get 5mbit down and unlimited bandwidth. Unfortunately, I live too far away from the switch and I get 1.5mbit down maxium.
I've considered Videotron, but I needed to take their highest plan (10mbit) to get unlimited bandwidth. The price was about $90 a month. Really not worth it for residential use.
I'm going to tell you guys, I really love this idea.
I thought that in this crazy world where almost every computer component is manufactured in China, that I could never find something reliable, fast and at good value. This motherboard has just made my day and I hope that more manufacturers will take a similar approach.
This also looks like it would be a great server motherboard. And the Core 2 Duo is an extremely fast chip aswell. I think that we're seeing a nice marriage of great technologies.
I've always respected Gigabyte, and I hope that I'll respect them more in the future.
I've dealt with very bad cancellation experiences in the past, myself. And this article surely proves that I'm not the only one having these problems. It's as if these companies and corporations don't have proper protocols or procedures for cancellation. Not being able to find information on cancelling a service on the provider's own website is totally pathetic. Or, having to call to cancel a service is also very sad in this age of computer technology.
Sadly, I think that it will remain like this for a very long time. These corporations know that if they retain their customers, they'll have more customers in the end. These companies don't care about bad reputations; they rely on their overly cheap and "amazing" deals to attract new customers. The Slashdot crowd is an intelligent and computer-savvy group of people. But the average consumer which signs up for these services might not be, and he might not care about the cancellation process, and he might be influenced by these exit interviews to stay.
Remember, corporations have access to great analytical data. If they continue to make hard cancellation processes, it means that there is profit to be made. That there are people who will stay because of the amount of labor required to cancel.
It's sad. I would really like these business practices to change. I, for once, will never make my hosting services hard to cancel because I believe in having a good reputation and I'm satisfied by the warm emails that I get from happy customers. I'm sure that other Slashdot users who provide some kind of service do the same.
I really am amazed by the bootup time of my new iMac.
I finally upgraded my underpowered 1.25GHz G4 Mac mini to a whopping 20" Core 2 Duo iMac.
Bootup time to the login screen is exactly 15 seconds from a cold start. When I enter my password, it only takes 5 seconds until I get a usable desktop where I can launch Safari and Adium.
I love my Mac. I love Apple. It's really a wonderful operating system to go with wonderful hardware.
In corporate and enterprise environments, many people have the mentality of "if it ain't broken, don't fix it".
I know a few companies (although really small) which have the same mentality. One is a photographer who uses a laptop without a firewall, IE6, without antivirus and without any updates. They say that they don't need any updates or nothing because he only uses the laptop to check emails and go on eBay. Sigh.
I consider myself a computer-saavy Linux and Windows systems administrator.
But, I must ask, how on earth do you guys perform these kinds of clean-ups?
Most spyware that I have seen in the last months are rootkits. They hide underneath the kernel, are impossible to delete and "reinject" themselves upon reboot. I've even seen spyware which injects malicious code and/or replaces the main Windows binaries (explorer.exe, taskmgr.exe, cmd.exe, notepad.exe, etc.) How would you deal with these buggers?
When I come to a spywared computer, I start by running Spybot, AdAware and then AVG AntiVirus (to check for viruses/trojans). I would say that this technique is successful about 50% of the time. If it's not, I consider the situation disastrous and ask the person to do backups and go for a reformat.
I've even touched computer which froze upon startup (Windows boots up and everything freezes up). What would you do in these cases? I boot a livecd to do backups of a drive before the reformat.
So once again, Slashdotters, how do you guys get rid of these nasty rootkit and evolved spywares which can hide very well without reformatting?
Kid 1: Hey little Johny, let's play "Super Golf 2008" on my new console.
Kid 2: Alright
*WHACK*
Kid 2: OWWW! MY EYE
Yeah, and then we all wait for the lawsuits.
Wrong. The iMac uses the Core 2 Duo. Core 2 IS Conroe. The newest revision of the iMac is no more using laptop hardware.
At least I won't need a quad-core 4 terahertz computer with 8 terabytes of RAM and with quad-SLI graphic cards to render the mouse cursor!