Er.. I hate Windows as much as the next guy, but really, when was the last time you saw Windows bluescreen?
Yesterday morning at approximately 9:30 am. Rebooted, and it did not blue screen again. Weird one time hardware issue or improperly intialized kernel buffer? Who knows. I see blue screens on various computers about once every three months. This is FAR superior to the six times a week the 9x versions had, but certainly less than ideal... and far more than the number of linux kernel panics/lockups that I have seen.
Because Mac users will treat any Windows apps running on OS X like second class citizens. They'll stomach it, but not for long.
People credit Apple for how apps are consistently Mac-like and interoperate with each other, but the users are the ultimate enforcers. Any developer who steps out of line is crucified.
I bought a Powerbook around this time last year. While I do appreciate consistency, I have not noticed any consistecy above and beyond anything in the win32 world. Sure, there are some REALLY bad win32 apps out there (Nero!), but for the most part, they are consistent.
I may not be your typical Mac user, but I am not likely to reject useful win32 apps just because they do not look like MacOSX apps.
I just bought another laptop this year... but it wasn't a Mac. (It might have been a Mac had they released bootcamp a month earlier though!). The reason? I wanted useful apps and fun games on "powerful" hardware. Maybe I will buy a Mac (64 bit cpu please) next year since bootcamp is available. I will definitely buy one if there is native win32 support regardless of how "artsy" the apps look.
And there is no secondary effect such as loss of hearing or even a minor "shell shock" effect like in COD.
I am not sure what game you are playing, but in Counter Strike Source, if you have a flashbang or HE grenade go off near you, there is a definite loss of hearing. All sounds become muted instantly. There is no loss of hearing only in the original Counter Strike.
Battery life: I would want it to last at least 24 hours without requiring a recharge.
Durability: The device should be able to be dropped, kicked, be able to withstand the day to day bashings the real world gives out.
Form Factor: Just make it about the size of a normal hardback book that is open and it should be fine.
Readbility: It needs to look like a printed page. Jagged fonts at 80DPI will NOT cut it at all. My eyes are already sore from reading these crappy computer screens all day.
Price: I am not too picky about the initial costs for the hardware but I will be damned if I will pay more for an electronic version of a book than for the hardcopy. The electronic copy had better be significantly cheaper.
DRM: I won't really care about this as long as I can make a dump of the filesystem of the device. Make it all one large encrypted file, I don't care. There is no excuse for not allowing me to protect against loss. Creating a method where I can loan my copy to another person with an electronic reader is rather necessary too. Have it delete from my filesystem when it goes over to my friends filesystem is cool.
Ummm what were the reasons you were thinking might be holding me back? They were unmemorable.
We surely could use your help over here. It is a shame that you could not come. Thank you very much for your kind words and your support. I am proud to serve our country again (I am prior Navy).
I never said that I was in the Marines. I am a civilian contractor. General Casey is in charge of theater-wide operations, therefore, all theater communications are under his control.
I sincerely hope you will pardon me for not being terribly specific (being in a warzone and all)... but we serve all of Afghanistan and Iraq through satellite here in Baghdad.
I am in Baghdad right now and I am a network admin here. I am aware of no blatant censorship (but we do have filtering software). I was able to read the linked article. Here is one of the comments posted on that page:
Curious if www.pattillmanfoundation.org is blocked.
The article, nor the page referenced are blocked. This article is bullshit.
I tried this on a largish (~200 clients) irc channel on EFNet. Nobody dropped off the network. Are they all patched or have all of them removed Norton from their system?
I am astounded! This is completely absurd. The "technology" behind Snort is NOT rocket science. They can get the source for Snort (earlier versions at least!) even if they were clueless enough to not be able write it themselves. What could possibly be gained by blocking this sale? It would provide no extra security since the sale offers no threat that does not already exist! Sheesh. I am almost embarassed to call myself an American at this point.
Why would a sysadmin need a sysadmin? This seems like a redundancy. Furthermore, your position as a sysadmin of sysadmins seems like it is only going to generate friction. Why would I, as a skilled sysadmin, want you to fix/adminster a machine that I use when I am perfectly capable of doing so myself; furthermore, I can fix it quicker, not only because I am there, but because I am probably better at troubleshooting than you are.
I guess what I am getting at is that in order for your position to have meaning, you have to limit the sysadmins artificially... and I do not really understand why this would be a good idea. If I were to be thrust into your position, I would be concerned only with the personnel aspect of it all... as a manager or supervisor, not as a syadmin to a bunch of sysadmins.
I have Halo 2 on my XBox. I played it for about 20 minutes and I failed to notice anything special about it. It did not seem to be a horrible game or anything; the graphics were pretty good considering that they were being displayed on a TV and the "world" seemed to inspire a sense of wonder... but really, it is a First Person Shooter crippled by not using a mouse and there was nothing available that any other decent FPS doesn't already have. I honestly do not get why it has such a cult following. Maybe it is just a lack of experience from the fan base...
It's not the us where they can just rag on their leaders and thumb their nose without cosequence
You are incorrect. You do not hear about such things because it is done within the color of law. Tax audits, no-fly lists, lawsuits, bogus criminal investigations, etc are all there to punish people who break with the official party line. Since you are "guilty" there is no outcry. I mean, how could it be those in power punishing you, right?
as much as i'd love it to be otherwise.
Did you really mean this? You wish that those in power could silence the rest of us for "thumbing our nose at them"? You would be the first to be added to my foes list if true.
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Er.. I hate Windows as much as the next guy, but really, when was the last time you saw Windows bluescreen?
Yesterday morning at approximately 9:30 am. Rebooted, and it did not blue screen again. Weird one time hardware issue or improperly intialized kernel buffer? Who knows. I see blue screens on various computers about once every three months. This is FAR superior to the six times a week the 9x versions had, but certainly less than ideal... and far more than the number of linux kernel panics/lockups that I have seen.
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The ash may not have made it to Seattle, but there was about an inch of it on our cars in Denver Colorado.
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Because Mac users will treat any Windows apps running on OS X like second class citizens. They'll stomach it, but not for long.
People credit Apple for how apps are consistently Mac-like and interoperate with each other, but the users are the ultimate enforcers. Any developer who steps out of line is crucified.
I bought a Powerbook around this time last year. While I do appreciate consistency, I have not noticed any consistecy above and beyond anything in the win32 world. Sure, there are some REALLY bad win32 apps out there (Nero!), but for the most part, they are consistent.
I may not be your typical Mac user, but I am not likely to reject useful win32 apps just because they do not look like MacOSX apps.
I just bought another laptop this year... but it wasn't a Mac. (It might have been a Mac had they released bootcamp a month earlier though!). The reason? I wanted useful apps and fun games on "powerful" hardware. Maybe I will buy a Mac (64 bit cpu please) next year since bootcamp is available. I will definitely buy one if there is native win32 support regardless of how "artsy" the apps look.
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What is the gain for these scheming, evil leaders and their P/R man?
Power. Power is a means to an end... and it is the end itself. *shrug*
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hm. no rebuttals. why am i not suprised?
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And there is no secondary effect such as loss of hearing or even a minor "shell shock" effect like in COD.
I am not sure what game you are playing, but in Counter Strike Source, if you have a flashbang or HE grenade go off near you, there is a definite loss of hearing. All sounds become muted instantly. There is no loss of hearing only in the original Counter Strike.
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That is "cheating". I broke it using pattern analysis.
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When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl
When cryptography is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy
correct?
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Battery life: I would want it to last at least 24 hours without requiring a recharge.
Durability: The device should be able to be dropped, kicked, be able to withstand the day to day bashings the real world gives out.
Form Factor: Just make it about the size of a normal hardback book that is open and it should be fine.
Readbility: It needs to look like a printed page. Jagged fonts at 80DPI will NOT cut it at all. My eyes are already sore from reading these crappy computer screens all day.
Price: I am not too picky about the initial costs for the hardware but I will be damned if I will pay more for an electronic version of a book than for the hardcopy. The electronic copy had better be significantly cheaper.
DRM: I won't really care about this as long as I can make a dump of the filesystem of the device. Make it all one large encrypted file, I don't care. There is no excuse for not allowing me to protect against loss. Creating a method where I can loan my copy to another person with an electronic reader is rather necessary too. Have it delete from my filesystem when it goes over to my friends filesystem is cool.
Ummm what were the reasons you were thinking might be holding me back? They were unmemorable.
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We surely could use your help over here. It is a shame that you could not come. Thank you very much for your kind words and your support. I am proud to serve our country again (I am prior Navy).
Respect,
strike (Dave)
They are blocked by the Air Force with the same reasons listed. I just tested them all.
You are not in Iraq. None of those sites are blocked here.
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I never said that I was in the Marines. I am a civilian contractor. General Casey is in charge of theater-wide operations, therefore, all theater communications are under his control.
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And if via sattelite - why bother routing through baghdad at all?
control.
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I work for the 72nd signal brigade (Army). All network access, for all services, goes through me.
(I can post no more replies.
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I am not a jarhead. I am a civilian contractor. I provide network access for everyone in theater.
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I sincerely hope you will pardon me for not being terribly specific (being in a warzone and all)... but we serve all of Afghanistan and Iraq through satellite here in Baghdad.
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I am in Baghdad right now and I am a network admin here. I am aware of no blatant censorship (but we do have filtering software). I was able to read the linked article. Here is one of the comments posted on that page:
Curious if www.pattillmanfoundation.org is blocked.
The article, nor the page referenced are blocked. This article is bullshit.
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your comment is massively overrated. you are lucky i have no mod points today.
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I tried this on a largish (~200 clients) irc channel on EFNet. Nobody dropped off the network. Are they all patched or have all of them removed Norton from their system?
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I am astounded! This is completely absurd. The "technology" behind Snort is NOT rocket science. They can get the source for Snort (earlier versions at least!) even if they were clueless enough to not be able write it themselves. What could possibly be gained by blocking this sale? It would provide no extra security since the sale offers no threat that does not already exist! Sheesh. I am almost embarassed to call myself an American at this point.
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Why can't someone invent a chip for math geeks?
um, because math geeks are dangerous...
Why would a sysadmin need a sysadmin? This seems like a redundancy. Furthermore, your position as a sysadmin of sysadmins seems like it is only going to generate friction. Why would I, as a skilled sysadmin, want you to fix/adminster a machine that I use when I am perfectly capable of doing so myself; furthermore, I can fix it quicker, not only because I am there, but because I am probably better at troubleshooting than you are.
I guess what I am getting at is that in order for your position to have meaning, you have to limit the sysadmins artificially... and I do not really understand why this would be a good idea. If I were to be thrust into your position, I would be concerned only with the personnel aspect of it all... as a manager or supervisor, not as a syadmin to a bunch of sysadmins.
I have Halo 2 on my XBox. I played it for about 20 minutes and I failed to notice anything special about it. It did not seem to be a horrible game or anything; the graphics were pretty good considering that they were being displayed on a TV and the "world" seemed to inspire a sense of wonder... but really, it is a First Person Shooter crippled by not using a mouse and there was nothing available that any other decent FPS doesn't already have. I honestly do not get why it has such a cult following. Maybe it is just a lack of experience from the fan base...
It's not the us where they can just rag on their leaders and thumb their nose without cosequence
You are incorrect. You do not hear about such things because it is done within the color of law. Tax audits, no-fly lists, lawsuits, bogus criminal investigations, etc are all there to punish people who break with the official party line. Since you are "guilty" there is no outcry. I mean, how could it be those in power punishing you, right?
as much as i'd love it to be otherwise.
Did you really mean this? You wish that those in power could silence the rest of us for "thumbing our nose at them"? You would be the first to be added to my foes list if true.
Sweet! My son was asking about this, but he wrote the title wrong and my searches yielded nothing. Thank you for the pointer to the correct info.