Thank Zeus that there will be an end to all those "free" blogs that everybody and their mother, brother and hampster have been putting up - wasting my time. I have a blog, but its more of a personal diary of what I think and what I am doing. Not commenting on the latest articles, trying to get other people to view it and basically just a huge heaping load of crap...
</wishes the end of crappy blogs>
Most likely, these blogs will be the last "free" thing left on the internet, so my dreams are mis founded anyway...
<on topic> If a site cannot handle free traffic anymore and have to start charging for access, I personally believe that *IF* people actually subscribe - it *MIGHT* actually be worth it... </on topic>
I do believe that the Intel Macs have the possibility of being extremely powerful with Intel's roadmap for future processors. Intel ran into the GHz barrier with their NetBurst technology (Current P4 Design) and have backpeddled towards their Pentium M (III) technology (who has a better notebook chip than the Pentium M right now?).
Steve Jobs would have seen all the new stuff going on at Intel to help persuade him to change his architecture to x86, he probably signed a stack of NDA's 4 inches thick to see where Intel was headed. I think that Intel has the capability to produce a really good chip that will definitely outperform their P4's by huge margins. The only thing we see on the outside are the P4's, the Pentium M's. Apple has seen the development processors and such to help them make their decision.
Apple isn't a stupid company, they have an elegant design for their OS AND Hardware, I don't think this is going to change. They will make x86 (with BIOS or whatever is new in terms of BIOS - probably not OpenFirmware =( ) look so sleek and beautiful that all us here on/. will be like "Ooohh, Aawww" and the next sentance being like "It suxors, its x86"... But to dethrone M$, we need a player like Apple in the picture. Apple is going to be more friendly to being interoperable with Linux/BSD than M$ ever will... think about that...
I know that if I "stumbled" upon OSx86, it might "end up" on my computer...
Its because OSX actually works (and I'm sure Apple will make sure it works perfectly on their hardware - consequently on most of the other x86 stuff too)...
And what about the BSDs??? That is the main reason why I do not use Java. It seems as if Sun has given OpenBSD (which I use) and the others the finger.
I do have to write some code for a college application though...
BitTorrent would not be required, as you probably don't want to be distributing your custom OS images to the outside world.
With BitTorrent you could set up your server as the tracker and multicaster for your images. BitTorrent doesn't HAVE to make it out onto the internet, you just keep the BT traffic inside your corporate network. The BT would be extremely helpful to distribute the load across multiple computers instead of just hitting one machine.
Another thing, I was thinking (usually a bad thing), shouldn't one pick between BT or Multicasting? The multicast server is just spitting out the same bits to everybody on the network (every other machine has to be on the same page at the same time), this should cause the server to not be bottlenecked. However if one were to choose BT, the bottleneck would be the network (not the server) because the file download would be distributed, but not syncronized. It would be interesting to see how the network would respond running Multicasted BitTorrent.
Don't mind me, just talking out my a$$. Its not like I'm a network guru or anything (even though my job title is Network Applications Developer, it just means that I write windoze software that people will use on their networked computer)
>> How many of you are running Linux, therefore you NEED an mp3 player that supports mp3s
> I personally ENJOY my mp3 player, but I wouldn't say that NEED comes into it at all.
I was referring to the fact that your mp3 player (the one that you WANT, ENJOY, CANT LIVE WITHOUT...) NEEDS to support mp3 if your are on Linux. Because I don't see Sony writing the music upload client for Linux.
I'll tell you why, its because I don't think Sony is creating a Linux version (definitely not GPL if they did) of the software. How in God's green earth are you going to get your blessed music from Linux to the Sony device without it supporting something as basic as MP3?????
Do you see iTunes for Linux/BSD? No, but you can use Rhythmbox to play with your iPod. Apple isn't whining and crying over that, now are they? I do see the possibility that Sony would be all over anybody who figured out how to put MP3's on their device (convert while upload or something).
How many of you are running Linux, therefore you NEED an mp3 player that supports mp3s for the simple fact that you don't need to hack the device to upload music...
Then there are the others, who enjoy the hacking of the DRM but still whine about it, when it bring about a few days of actual fun to them?
But sensoring the internet isn't always the solution. They sensor us here at work (I'm a developer), whereas most of the blocked sites probably should be blocked for normal users, but for our job it is getting harder and harder to get help or find examples and such when programming on a project. Google groups are blocked, all msdn blogs are blocked, most sites with the word "forum" are blocked. And it isn't like they are going to unblock these sites for us because they are useful for us.
For those of you sitting behind the proxy - don't forget that some people probably legitimately need access to the site you just blocked.
And then the LORD Almighty sends a plauge upon his stupid people for tampering with his stuff.
Yeah, what happens when we get a corporation like Ubrella? There needs to be a balance between what is allowed to happen and what is disallowed. If we don't put down enough rules for this kind of research, then we get Umbrella, if we put too many rules - then we fall behind the rest of the world. I won't vote for an entirely Liberal OR Conservative solution. It needs to be a good median...
I am wondering if that was a Macintosh prototype because I know that Apple was trying to get Microsoft to write some software for use on Mac before they even were officially released. Check out this site that has a whole lot of stories from the startup of the Mac. And the first mac was released in 1984.
But are you forgetting where the Macintosh came from? If you were to look into the start of the Macintosh you would realize that what you seem to enjoy as a beautiful work of art that "just works"(tm) came from those nerdy people. The whole Macintosh came from a small group of techie type people, who weren't up on the latest fashion, who would rather visit the arcade across the street in the pizza joint rather than visit the latest coffee shop. Coffee was a fuel for innovation, not a status symbol. Apple is the reason (IMHO) that we see cheap knockoffs of widgets and almost sexy peripherals, they merged the two ideas of computing with style. You also have to remember that if it wasn't for Microsoft, Apple would probably have ceased to exist about a decade ago. The Mac was first designed to get a sleek looking beautiful computer on everyone's desks. They were designed to be affordable. Finally a Mac that I might be able to afford, to be able to rid myself of the mediocrity of Windows. In fact I'm stuck on OS 9.2 on my Performa 6400 with a G3 upgrade until I can afford to buy a G4/5. Apple knows how to do software, as a software developer I admire that and want to be a part of that.
Sorry if I don't spend the time to properly format this post, to bring a sense of eloquence to my writing style. I'm a computer programmer, I have not time for such things. I cannot even believe I spent my time responding to an elitist bastards comment...
Yeah, but if you find the exploit - YOU can fix it if you choose to. You find a bug in an OSS piece of software, YOU have the option to fix it. Even if the app maintainer doesn't want to work on it anymore, YOU can fix it. Even though they have gone on to bigger and better things. You don't get that with closed source. With OSS YOU have the power.
Case in point: We have Outlook 2000 at work and there is a nice little bug
that exports a calendar to HTML, but for the year 2005 all the days are off by one. Both Dec 31, 2004 and Jan 1, 2005 are listed as a Friday. Of course Microsoft doesn't support Office 2000 anymore, they aren't going to release a patch. Now if it were OSS, somebody would have already made a patch because they have the source code right in front of them. If it hasn't been fixed by now I would be sitting in front of the code right now fixing the problem. OSS is better because you are free to make changes to the software that you see fit. I for some reason think that the dates in 2005 should fall on the correct days of the week. Am I just in the minority??
OSS is better for more than one reason. And I WILL crawl all up over closed source projects that refuse to fix their problems in a timely fashion.
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And in the world where RAID-1 is cheap thanks to SATA we don't have to worry about bad drives! For the true enthusiast we have RAID-5 and soon RAID-6. You don't even need hardware, we have LVM in the Linux world and dynamic disks under windows. It is so very cheap to keep a kerplunked disk from destroying all our data. But in my case, I'm fubar if one of my drives crashes, for now...
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And for the love of Zod, please stop your lego jokes too!
Don't forget that you can mount other ntuser.dat registry "hives" by clicking Registry\"Load Hive..." (I believe) in regedit (WinXP), and regedt32 (Win 2K). Then go to the user's folder and load the NTUSER.DAT file (it's hidden and hidden system file - check your folder options). Then you can edit all the Run\ RunOnce\ RunServices\....... without logging onto each user... Then those keys never get run!
But when you have idiot, stupid, crazy city officials that set the timing to 5MPH *OVER* the speed limit - what is that encouraging. As shown in Fort Collins, CO on their two one-way streets...
But in windows you can disable this "feature" by disabling write caching in the preferences. That way it will always write everything when you tell it to. That way you dont need to "eject" the media.
In WinDoze XP SP2 you can access the device properties from the device manager, under "Disk Drives" - Find your device and right click to choose "Properties", then you can click on the "Policies" tab and tell it to optimize for fast removal...
I know its in a different place for Windoze 2k, but you will have to find it. You need to disable "Write Caching" then Presto! it will work like previously...
Well, that is what a computer is SUPPOSED to do. It is SUPPOSED to be logical and follow mathematic algorithms and such. But when was the last time you used a computer and had it not do what it is SUPPOSED to do?
Think about this, as an IT person we wouldn't have much of a job if it weren't for Windows and all of it's erratic behavior. We have to guess what the problem is and try and fix it. The code is doing exactly what it was written to do, however the "brain" behind the code is a human brain. The same brain that is behind a few cards. When using your computer, you do not always recieve the desired (and logical) result. Who in their right mind would logically expect that their computer is supposed to crash when you are loading Outlook, click on Mozilla, and hold down Ctrl-Esc, while playing your favorite MP3. (Ok, bad example, but anyway....)
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Thank Zeus that there will be an end to all those "free" blogs that everybody and their mother, brother and hampster have been putting up - wasting my time. I have a blog, but its more of a personal diary of what I think and what I am doing. Not commenting on the latest articles, trying to get other people to view it and basically just a huge heaping load of crap...
</wishes the end of crappy blogs>
Most likely, these blogs will be the last "free" thing left on the internet, so my dreams are mis founded anyway...
<on topic>
If a site cannot handle free traffic anymore and have to start charging for access, I personally believe that *IF* people actually subscribe - it *MIGHT* actually be worth it...
</on topic>
I do believe that the Intel Macs have the possibility of being extremely powerful with Intel's roadmap for future processors. Intel ran into the GHz barrier with their NetBurst technology (Current P4 Design) and have backpeddled towards their Pentium M (III) technology (who has a better notebook chip than the Pentium M right now?).
/. will be like "Ooohh, Aawww" and the next sentance being like "It suxors, its x86"... But to dethrone M$, we need a player like Apple in the picture. Apple is going to be more friendly to being interoperable with Linux/BSD than M$ ever will... think about that...
Steve Jobs would have seen all the new stuff going on at Intel to help persuade him to change his architecture to x86, he probably signed a stack of NDA's 4 inches thick to see where Intel was headed. I think that Intel has the capability to produce a really good chip that will definitely outperform their P4's by huge margins. The only thing we see on the outside are the P4's, the Pentium M's. Apple has seen the development processors and such to help them make their decision.
Apple isn't a stupid company, they have an elegant design for their OS AND Hardware, I don't think this is going to change. They will make x86 (with BIOS or whatever is new in terms of BIOS - probably not OpenFirmware =( ) look so sleek and beautiful that all us here on
I know that if I "stumbled" upon OSx86, it might "end up" on my computer...
Its because OSX actually works (and I'm sure Apple will make sure it works perfectly on their hardware - consequently on most of the other x86 stuff too)...
Bring on the free advertising...
And what about the BSDs??? That is the main reason why I do not use Java. It seems as if Sun has given OpenBSD (which I use) and the others the finger.
I do have to write some code for a college application though...
With BitTorrent you could set up your server as the tracker and multicaster for your images. BitTorrent doesn't HAVE to make it out onto the internet, you just keep the BT traffic inside your corporate network. The BT would be extremely helpful to distribute the load across multiple computers instead of just hitting one machine.
Another thing, I was thinking (usually a bad thing), shouldn't one pick between BT or Multicasting? The multicast server is just spitting out the same bits to everybody on the network (every other machine has to be on the same page at the same time), this should cause the server to not be bottlenecked. However if one were to choose BT, the bottleneck would be the network (not the server) because the file download would be distributed, but not syncronized. It would be interesting to see how the network would respond running Multicasted BitTorrent.
Don't mind me, just talking out my a$$. Its not like I'm a network guru or anything (even though my job title is Network Applications Developer, it just means that I write windoze software that people will use on their networked computer)
>> How many of you are running Linux, therefore you NEED an mp3 player that supports mp3s
...) NEEDS to support mp3 if your are on Linux. Because I don't see Sony writing the music upload client for Linux.
> I personally ENJOY my mp3 player, but I wouldn't say that NEED comes into it at all.
I was referring to the fact that your mp3 player (the one that you WANT, ENJOY, CANT LIVE WITHOUT
Why care how it is stored on the device?
I'll tell you why, its because I don't think Sony is creating a Linux version (definitely not GPL if they did) of the software. How in God's green earth are you going to get your blessed music from Linux to the Sony device without it supporting something as basic as MP3?????
Do you see iTunes for Linux/BSD? No, but you can use Rhythmbox to play with your iPod. Apple isn't whining and crying over that, now are they? I do see the possibility that Sony would be all over anybody who figured out how to put MP3's on their device (convert while upload or something).
How many of you are running Linux, therefore you NEED an mp3 player that supports mp3s for the simple fact that you don't need to hack the device to upload music...
Then there are the others, who enjoy the hacking of the DRM but still whine about it, when it bring about a few days of actual fun to them?
</soapbox>
But sensoring the internet isn't always the solution. They sensor us here at work (I'm a developer), whereas most of the blocked sites probably should be blocked for normal users, but for our job it is getting harder and harder to get help or find examples and such when programming on a project. Google groups are blocked, all msdn blogs are blocked, most sites with the word "forum" are blocked. And it isn't like they are going to unblock these sites for us because they are useful for us.
For those of you sitting behind the proxy - don't forget that some people probably legitimately need access to the site you just blocked.
I would have to say that this is the first time that *I* have seen a flamewar that didn't involve Microsoft vs. Linux...
And the croud goes WILD!!! Much wooting and chanting from the crowd...
And then the LORD Almighty sends a plauge upon his stupid people for tampering with his stuff.
Yeah, what happens when we get a corporation like Ubrella? There needs to be a balance between what is allowed to happen and what is disallowed. If we don't put down enough rules for this kind of research, then we get Umbrella, if we put too many rules - then we fall behind the rest of the world. I won't vote for an entirely Liberal OR Conservative solution. It needs to be a good median...
BTW: I got the humor...
I am wondering if that was a Macintosh prototype because I know that Apple was trying to get Microsoft to write some software for use on Mac before they even were officially released. Check out this site that has a whole lot of stories from the startup of the Mac. And the first mac was released in 1984.
Sorry if I don't spend the time to properly format this post, to bring a sense of eloquence to my writing style. I'm a computer programmer, I have not time for such things. I cannot even believe I spent my time responding to an elitist bastards comment...
Yeah, but if you find the exploit - YOU can fix it if you choose to. You find a bug in an OSS piece of software, YOU have the option to fix it. Even if the app maintainer doesn't want to work on it anymore, YOU can fix it. Even though they have gone on to bigger and better things. You don't get that with closed source. With OSS YOU have the power.
Case in point: We have Outlook 2000 at work and there is a nice little bug that exports a calendar to HTML, but for the year 2005 all the days are off by one. Both Dec 31, 2004 and Jan 1, 2005 are listed as a Friday. Of course Microsoft doesn't support Office 2000 anymore, they aren't going to release a patch. Now if it were OSS, somebody would have already made a patch because they have the source code right in front of them. If it hasn't been fixed by now I would be sitting in front of the code right now fixing the problem. OSS is better because you are free to make changes to the software that you see fit. I for some reason think that the dates in 2005 should fall on the correct days of the week. Am I just in the minority??
OSS is better for more than one reason. And I WILL crawl all up over closed source projects that refuse to fix their problems in a timely fashion.
And in the world where RAID-1 is cheap thanks to SATA we don't have to worry about bad drives! For the true enthusiast we have RAID-5 and soon RAID-6. You don't even need hardware, we have LVM in the Linux world and dynamic disks under windows. It is so very cheap to keep a kerplunked disk from destroying all our data. But in my case, I'm fubar if one of my drives crashes, for now...
And for the love of Zod, please stop your lego jokes too!
Don't forget that you can mount other ntuser.dat registry "hives" by clicking Registry\"Load Hive..." (I believe) in regedit (WinXP), and regedt32 (Win 2K). Then go to the user's folder and load the NTUSER.DAT file (it's hidden and hidden system file - check your folder options). Then you can edit all the Run\ RunOnce\ RunServices\....... without logging onto each user... Then those keys never get run!
But when you have idiot, stupid, crazy city officials that set the timing to 5MPH *OVER* the speed limit - what is that encouraging. As shown in Fort Collins, CO on their two one-way streets...
But in windows you can disable this "feature" by disabling write caching in the preferences. That way it will always write everything when you tell it to. That way you dont need to "eject" the media.
In WinDoze XP SP2 you can access the device properties from the device manager, under "Disk Drives" - Find your device and right click to choose "Properties", then you can click on the "Policies" tab and tell it to optimize for fast removal...
I know its in a different place for Windoze 2k, but you will have to find it. You need to disable "Write Caching" then Presto! it will work like previously...
Well, that is what a computer is SUPPOSED to do. It is SUPPOSED to be logical and follow mathematic algorithms and such. But when was the last time you used a computer and had it not do what it is SUPPOSED to do?
Think about this, as an IT person we wouldn't have much of a job if it weren't for Windows and all of it's erratic behavior. We have to guess what the problem is and try and fix it. The code is doing exactly what it was written to do, however the "brain" behind the code is a human brain. The same brain that is behind a few cards. When using your computer, you do not always recieve the desired (and logical) result. Who in their right mind would logically expect that their computer is supposed to crash when you are loading Outlook, click on Mozilla, and hold down Ctrl-Esc, while playing your favorite MP3. (Ok, bad example, but anyway....)