Hmmm... RedHat is modifying their product that you are most likely getting FOR FREE, and you call it a loss of "Constitutional rights".... riiight. Cuz I mean, it's not like you have a choice of another Linux distro or anything.
Look at the screenshots. The icons, the property boxes, even the fonts all look like they came straight from Win9x. Explain to me why this is good.
Now, I understand the point of this distro is to bring Linux to the desktop, and if the UI is familiar, average peeps will be less scared of it. But where's the innovation? If it looks and feels just like Windows, why switch from Windows?
I'd rather see a desktop that has its own unique look and feel, yet is still user friendly. Why is this so difficult? I've just started playing with OS X, and it seems to be really sweet so far. If you're going to rip off another product's UI (And yes, this is a blatant copy of Win9x), why does it have to be Windows? I would LOVE to see an Aqua clone on X86 that's marketed to the average user.
"The first thing to do is to prepare the thermal cooling solution. I used a little Arctic Silver that I had around and put about half a pea sized amount on the top of the CPU."
So yeah, it is Arctic Silver. And those metal heatsinks only come in contact with the CPU core.
...DO NOT follow this guy's instructions! He ended up making a total mess, and risked frying his CPU.
While it's improbable, it is possible that spreading thermal paste on anything other than the CPU core could cause the system to short circuit. The author at macopz got the adhesive all over the freaking CPU, which could lead to problems down the road. Please read Arctic Silver's instructions if you've never applied thermal paste before. This guy DOES NOT know what he's doing, at least when it comes to installing processors.
Agreed. I do consulting 'rescue work' on occasion, and 90% of the places I visit have blank passwords. the remaining 9% have the default, and maybe 1% of them have decent passwords.
Although, these are all smallish companies with no IT department. I would assume that NBC has its own IT department, right?
It's sad that, when I saw that the patch was released, the first thing I thought was, "I hope the EULA won't force me to accept automatic installs from now on."
I think I'd rather have an insecure system than one that gives MS carte blanche to install what it wants. There's something wrong with that.
Look at the amount of links posted on Fark per day, compared to a day of slashdot. Fark probably has close to a 10-to-1 ratio.
Also, look at the nature of Fark postings. They're one-liners, littls more than a link and a description. Now look at the articles on slashdot. They consist of small synopses of the linked articles, often offering more than just a one-lined description.
I'm not putting down Fark in any way. Fark and slashdot are the 2 sites I hit most often while surfing. It's just that they are two different types of sites, and should be regarded as such.
My grandmother used to have a red swingline stapler at her house. Ironically, I believe it was lost when the house caught fire. This was a good 15 years ago.
If I had known then what I know now, I would have hunted through the rubble for that damn thing!
I recently renewed my drivers license, and was asked if I wanted to register to vote. My first instinct was to decline, because I don't feel like I'm informed enough to make a good enough decision regarding my elected officials.
I changed my mind, however, and registered. I'm glad I did. The whole mess with DRM has really opened my eyes to how much big business controls politics nowadays. Representative Boucher is a breath of fresh air in this soap opera, and I applaud his efforts.
Everywhere I turn, I hear about a different trailer being attached to Men In Black 2. First it was The Two Towers, then Terminator 3, and now this? Whatever happened to going to the movies to see the movie??
Whoops. All I saw was that the scientist was from South Yorkshire, and being an arrogant American, I assumed that that was in Australia, cuz I don't know any better.
You're just jealous cuz I got an article posted and you didn't;-p
But 4.5 gigs of content? Does that mean that this will be distributed on DVD only?
4.5 gigs translates to roughly 6 and a half CDs, and that's not counting the installer files that likely will only live on the install media. If this holds true, are we looking at a game made up of at least 7 CDs?
The software company I used to work for acquired a company out in Seattle. We were heading out there in a week to do the network cutover (I was in the IT dept.), and we shipped everything out there ahead of time. One of the pieces of equipment we shipped was a Nortel Networks Accelar switch.
For those of you not familiar with the accelar line of switches, it's an enterprise-level network switch, intended to be the backbone of a corporate LAN. It's about 24 inches high by 24 inches wide by however deep your average switch is. I'm no network guru, so I can't give all the details, but from what I do know, the Accelars can co everything short of make your coffee in the morning, depending on how they are configured. The cost of this switch? $70 grand.
We handled this switch the way we handled all the other major Seattle hardware: Have it shipped to our Boston HQ, where the IT dept. would configure the hardware ahead of time, box it back up in its original packaging, and FedEx it to Seattle. We did this with a few PowerEdge servers, laptops, and other lesser switches. They all got there without incident. I wish the same could be said for the Accelar.
Here's the interesting (and informative) part of the story that everyone involved in shipping should take note of: When the Accelar arrived, nobody from the Boston office was in Seattle yet. The folks in Seattle, while technically competent, didn't realize the value of what they were receiving.
When the Accelar arrived, the box was obviously very beat up. All of the styrofoam was crumbled into little pieces, and was sitting at the bottom of the box. The Accelar was actually sitting on top of the styrofoam! The box was very shoddily taped together. We later guessed that the Accelar fell out of the box, and was thrown back in in a hurry.
The FedEx driver was in a serious hurry (for obvious reasons), and assured the receivers that if there was any damage, that FedEx would take care of it. The folks in Seattle signed for the package without really inspecting it, and the driver was on his way.
This is the big mistake. When you sign that little piece of paper, you acknowledge that the product arrived, and was, to the best of your knowledge, in good working order.
After we arrived in Seattle and saw the damage, we immediately put in a claim with FedEx. After about 2 months of arguing back and forth, FedEx refused to honor the claim, and we were stuck holding a beat up Accelar.
Luckily, even though the switch looked like absolute hell, it worked without any problems. But if there were any problems, we would have been screwed. Most hardware warranties don't cover physical damage, so we would have been stuck with a 70 thousand dollar paperweight in Seattle.
So, here's today's lesson: Never sign if there is a problem. Screw the driver - his other deliveries can wait. If there appears to be some kind of damage, contact the shipper before you accept it. Don't trust yout package insurance to cover the cost of the item, either, because the shipper almost always contests the insurance claim, and if you've signed the harwdware away, there's little you can do about it.
Good point about Galvatron and his voice. I think that his character was by far the best in the movie. It's a real shame that the TV show used his other, more whiny voice instead.
TF: The Movie could have been so much better, had it been written for an older audience (or perhaps been released 10 years later). There are hints of a much darker, more serious plotline with characters like Unicron and Galvatron, but characters like wheelie and Spike made the movie as a whole too bubble-gum.
I'm guessing the powers that be are all non-IT types. You know, the kind of people that don't fix anything till it breaks. I can't count the number of executives I used to work with who never backed stuff up because "I've never had a problem before." Of course, it's always the IT grunt's fault when their hard drive crashes and their data is irretrievable.
"What do you mean, 'it's gone'? I NEED that data for this meeting!"
Bungie is still developing Halo for the Mac and PC platforms. When Halo is released for those platforms, they will hopefully release some kind of level editor as well. I think that right now, their hands are tied by Microsoft because the Xbox isn't officially online yet.
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Hmmm... RedHat is modifying their product that you are most likely getting FOR FREE, and you call it a loss of "Constitutional rights".... riiight. Cuz I mean, it's not like you have a choice of another Linux distro or anything.
Explain to me how you're going to share files with all your ports blocked?
Look at the screenshots. The icons, the property boxes, even the fonts all look like they came straight from Win9x. Explain to me why this is good.
Now, I understand the point of this distro is to bring Linux to the desktop, and if the UI is familiar, average peeps will be less scared of it. But where's the innovation? If it looks and feels just like Windows, why switch from Windows?
I'd rather see a desktop that has its own unique look and feel, yet is still user friendly. Why is this so difficult? I've just started playing with OS X, and it seems to be really sweet so far. If you're going to rip off another product's UI (And yes, this is a blatant copy of Win9x), why does it have to be Windows? I would LOVE to see an Aqua clone on X86 that's marketed to the average user.
Directly from the article:
"The first thing to do is to prepare the thermal cooling solution. I used a little Arctic Silver that I had around and put about half a pea sized amount on the top of the CPU."
So yeah, it is Arctic Silver. And those metal heatsinks only come in contact with the CPU core.
...DO NOT follow this guy's instructions! He ended up making a total mess, and risked frying his CPU.
While it's improbable, it is possible that spreading thermal paste on anything other than the CPU core could cause the system to short circuit. The author at macopz got the adhesive all over the freaking CPU, which could lead to problems down the road. Please read Arctic Silver's instructions if you've never applied thermal paste before. This guy DOES NOT know what he's doing, at least when it comes to installing processors.
Agreed. I do consulting 'rescue work' on occasion, and 90% of the places I visit have blank passwords. the remaining 9% have the default, and maybe 1% of them have decent passwords.
Although, these are all smallish companies with no IT department. I would assume that NBC has its own IT department, right?
It's sad that, when I saw that the patch was released, the first thing I thought was, "I hope the EULA won't force me to accept automatic installs from now on."
I think I'd rather have an insecure system than one that gives MS carte blanche to install what it wants. There's something wrong with that.
Look at the amount of links posted on Fark per day, compared to a day of slashdot. Fark probably has close to a 10-to-1 ratio.
Also, look at the nature of Fark postings. They're one-liners, littls more than a link and a description. Now look at the articles on slashdot. They consist of small synopses of the linked articles, often offering more than just a one-lined description.
I'm not putting down Fark in any way. Fark and slashdot are the 2 sites I hit most often while surfing. It's just that they are two different types of sites, and should be regarded as such.
The word 'noticed' sends me to an admin page, and the phrase ATI sends me back to the home page. Please fix.
The phrase "pop-up advertising" could take on an all-new meaning...
Now I'll have enough room for all of my porn!! (If I get 2 discs)
Yes they did, cuz I remember the thing, putz.
My grandmother used to have a red swingline stapler at her house. Ironically, I believe it was lost when the house caught fire. This was a good 15 years ago.
If I had known then what I know now, I would have hunted through the rubble for that damn thing!
I recently renewed my drivers license, and was asked if I wanted to register to vote. My first instinct was to decline, because I don't feel like I'm informed enough to make a good enough decision regarding my elected officials.
I changed my mind, however, and registered. I'm glad I did. The whole mess with DRM has really opened my eyes to how much big business controls politics nowadays. Representative Boucher is a breath of fresh air in this soap opera, and I applaud his efforts.
Ok, I just watched the video. It was pretty interesting, although the Euro-trash music kinda gave me a headache...
Anyhoo, I noticed that some of the tubes were connected to the nipples with plastic zip-ties. Zip-ties!!! Are you guys INSANE?
Let's see: I spent ~$800 for the parts, hours of planning, and hours of time assembling the parts, but I'm gonna use 10-cent plastic zip-ties??!
What's wrong with these people??
2 words: HOSE CLAMPS. They're metal, and they are a hell of a lot more reliable than those little pieces of plastic you're using.
Sigh...
Everywhere I turn, I hear about a different trailer being attached to Men In Black 2. First it was The Two Towers, then Terminator 3, and now this? Whatever happened to going to the movies to see the movie??
Whoops. All I saw was that the scientist was from South Yorkshire, and being an arrogant American, I assumed that that was in Australia, cuz I don't know any better.
;-p
You're just jealous cuz I got an article posted and you didn't
But 4.5 gigs of content? Does that mean that this will be distributed on DVD only?
4.5 gigs translates to roughly 6 and a half CDs, and that's not counting the installer files that likely will only live on the install media. If this holds true, are we looking at a game made up of at least 7 CDs?
...It's not ZDnet.com. Look at the web address - the domain is zdnet.com.com
zdnet.com - 128.11.45.117
zdnet.com.com - 64.124.237.140
I don't have time to investigate further, but could it be that the article itself is a hack? Or does zdnet own the com.com domain?
There was an executive Mac... it was called the G4 cube, and nobody bought it.
The software company I used to work for acquired a company out in Seattle. We were heading out there in a week to do the network cutover (I was in the IT dept.), and we shipped everything out there ahead of time. One of the pieces of equipment we shipped was a Nortel Networks Accelar switch.
For those of you not familiar with the accelar line of switches, it's an enterprise-level network switch, intended to be the backbone of a corporate LAN. It's about 24 inches high by 24 inches wide by however deep your average switch is. I'm no network guru, so I can't give all the details, but from what I do know, the Accelars can co everything short of make your coffee in the morning, depending on how they are configured. The cost of this switch? $70 grand.
We handled this switch the way we handled all the other major Seattle hardware: Have it shipped to our Boston HQ, where the IT dept. would configure the hardware ahead of time, box it back up in its original packaging, and FedEx it to Seattle. We did this with a few PowerEdge servers, laptops, and other lesser switches. They all got there without incident. I wish the same could be said for the Accelar.
Here's the interesting (and informative) part of the story that everyone involved in shipping should take note of: When the Accelar arrived, nobody from the Boston office was in Seattle yet. The folks in Seattle, while technically competent, didn't realize the value of what they were receiving.
When the Accelar arrived, the box was obviously very beat up. All of the styrofoam was crumbled into little pieces, and was sitting at the bottom of the box. The Accelar was actually sitting on top of the styrofoam! The box was very shoddily taped together. We later guessed that the Accelar fell out of the box, and was thrown back in in a hurry.
The FedEx driver was in a serious hurry (for obvious reasons), and assured the receivers that if there was any damage, that FedEx would take care of it. The folks in Seattle signed for the package without really inspecting it, and the driver was on his way.
This is the big mistake. When you sign that little piece of paper, you acknowledge that the product arrived, and was, to the best of your knowledge, in good working order.
After we arrived in Seattle and saw the damage, we immediately put in a claim with FedEx. After about 2 months of arguing back and forth, FedEx refused to honor the claim, and we were stuck holding a beat up Accelar.
Luckily, even though the switch looked like absolute hell, it worked without any problems. But if there were any problems, we would have been screwed. Most hardware warranties don't cover physical damage, so we would have been stuck with a 70 thousand dollar paperweight in Seattle.
So, here's today's lesson: Never sign if there is a problem. Screw the driver - his other deliveries can wait. If there appears to be some kind of damage, contact the shipper before you accept it. Don't trust yout package insurance to cover the cost of the item, either, because the shipper almost always contests the insurance claim, and if you've signed the harwdware away, there's little you can do about it.
That reminded me of one thing... DELETED!!
Yup, it's off-topic, and probably hard to follow if you've never been to the site, but it's a riot.
Good point about Galvatron and his voice. I think that his character was by far the best in the movie. It's a real shame that the TV show used his other, more whiny voice instead.
TF: The Movie could have been so much better, had it been written for an older audience (or perhaps been released 10 years later). There are hints of a much darker, more serious plotline with characters like Unicron and Galvatron, but characters like wheelie and Spike made the movie as a whole too bubble-gum.
I'm guessing the powers that be are all non-IT types. You know, the kind of people that don't fix anything till it breaks. I can't count the number of executives I used to work with who never backed stuff up because "I've never had a problem before." Of course, it's always the IT grunt's fault when their hard drive crashes and their data is irretrievable.
"What do you mean, 'it's gone'? I NEED that data for this meeting!"
Bungie is still developing Halo for the Mac and PC platforms. When Halo is released for those platforms, they will hopefully release some kind of level editor as well. I think that right now, their hands are tied by Microsoft because the Xbox isn't officially online yet.