Dell pulls this stunt every now and then to scare Intel into sweetening their deal a little better. Intel will offer Dell a slightly lower price (or something appealing) if Dell stops yammering about AMD, and Dell will put it's AMD plans back on the shelf for a year or two.
They'll probably also say something along the lines of "we've decided we'll wait a little longer for AMDs technology to mature." I think we all have seen this happen several times before.
Computers have been getting cheaper and cheaper. I'm mainly citing PCs, since Macs have always one-upped PCs in price and advertising. Sure, cute little machines are nice.
My point: two years ago I put together a 1.8ghz machine with 512 megs of RAM, decent video card, decent hard-drive, for 300 dollars. No OS included. Toss in some FreeBSD and I'm up and runnning for 300 bucks. So, again, someone please tell me how a 500 dollar computer is news these days? Just because it's a Mac? Just because Joe-sixpack can pick one up and doesn't need to know how to assemble parts? If so, why assume he would give a hoot about NetBSD or Linux?
This one is good: Installation is probably the hardest thing to cover in a Linux review. I mean, what can you really say about it? It either did the trick or it didn't.
First the guy says it's hard to cover. Then he goes on to compare it to one of two simple choices. Make up your mind, partner. Anyway, I'd rather not clutter up my rant with anything else on-topic.
Let me disclose that Suse is the only Linux distro that I really can't stand. I gave it a fair shot (~5 months). My installation was from the 9.1 pro CDs I bought for __90__ USD. Wow. What a freaking rip off. Slow as Christmas. Hands down, the absolute slowest Linux distro I've ever used. It took 2 fucking minutes to start YOU.
My favorite Suse bug was that every now and then, on my laptop, when I'd boot up, X would segfault. No decent reason why. strace didn't reveal fishy behavior. I upgraded to the latest Suse X package. No luck. Reboot a few times and it would suddenly work again. Never had any such problem outside of Suse.
My second favorite problem was that the Suse guys apparently modified something in the i810 RNG driver such that it would occasionally cause an Oops in an IRQ. Very stable, indeed.
I had other problems over the months, too. I always filed well written bugs with good information. Nothing ever came of it. I've put this machine through numerous versions of Slackware, Fedora, and Debian. Never, ever,ever have I experienced any problems whatsoever outside of the 90 dollar copy of Suse. Fuck Suse. I hope Novell sells them and they go out of business.
Two good things: other than the fact that you had to watch a movie while waiting for them to load, Suse's configuration tools are the most complete and full-featured of any Linux distro I've ever used.
The two books that come with the Suse distro are pretty simplistic for an large-scale user, but they are very good for simple users. I referred to them a few times. Getting good printed docs with your OS always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Agreed. Though I lean a little more toward cooler machines. Buying a cooler and more efficient machine is a one time investment. Cooling an entire room is ongoing and definitely more expensive in the long run.
It's always nice to see complete fucking crackpots on slashdot. "Let them believe" ??? What, is this some type of fairytale? It's all spelled out clearly
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If they'd bother to have read any of the documentation that came with their package, (e.g. the shit with big letters that says "READ THIS TO SETUP 911 DIALING SERVICE"), then they wouldn't have faced this problem. If they would've tested the 911 service as vonage indicates is okay to do (and encourgaged in minnesota), then this problem might have been avoided. Jesus, the first time you login to your account online it screams in big red letters about setting up 911 until you have.
Nobody forced them to get vonage. They were given explicit instructions to setup their service for 911. What? They didn't read it and didn't bother to do this simple 3 minute task? They ignorantly assumed it was identical to their old land line? Tough titty. Life's a bitch.
I have mod points, but I'd rather respond to your dumb ass. Actually, I guess I'll just say you're a fucking retard anonymous, then mod you down. Sounds good to me.
I'm a weather nut and find this site to be an excellent national and international source. It incorporates major weather stations with personal weather stations to get some good unique results. The site is no relation to the 60s extremist group of the same name....
My Dell 400SC has a single 120mm fan in the back. Most of the time, I can't even tell the machine is powered on. It get a little louder when it's doing something CPU intensive. It's the quietest PC I've ever owned
I apologize for being somewhat offtopic and hope I don't get modded into oblivion. At work my desktop is a Dimension 4600c. This is the absolute loudest machine I've ever heard. I know judging this is subjective, but when I do something CPU intensive the fan goes through five phases starting at silent and ending up roaring. It sounds like a 747 throttling up for takeoff. My Inspirion 8200 laptop is quite loud. You can hear it across the room when it's warm. When it's hot, it's scary.
Just my $.02 about Dell's and volume. They're quite loud, but I guess I'm not pretentious enough to buy a Mac;)
It's quite different from the GPL. Public domain works are free for any use and not bound by restrictions (typically). You can do things with Public Domain software that you can't with GPL. It typically means there is no license attached other than a disclaimer saying "Public domain".
if that was the case, wouldn't you expect the OIL prices to go DOWN?
Are you serious? This is about money and lots of it.
Oil is the channel through which the money is made. How do you make more money, but lowering prices or raising them? We all know how generous the oil companies are...
there was a majority support for the US to invade Iraq. Dems and Reps.
Sure, if you A) Trust what the media reports, and B) dis-regard what the rest of the world thinks. But I guess we can disregard what the rest of the world thinks, because Iraq was dead-set to attack the US. If that was the case, then maybe we should ask why.
Hey, look at that, you're right. But, did you notice how, under the _Linux_ page, the title of the article is prefixed with "BSD:"? My point grows stronger. Thanks for giving me something with which to fire back.
In the typical tradition of slashdot, either the article isn't read at all, or it's misinterpreted. I mean, we can't expect nerds to pick up on details, now can we?
From TFA:
Video gaming reached official academic status...
I take this to mean what was obviously intended: A university has dedicated resources to a video game development course. This is in no way saying "Until now, video game development was a black art, taught by no one."
When your field is being taught in a university instead of a special techinical school, I believe you might claim your field has reached official adademic status.
Now, I might not have said it this way if I'd have written the article, but I don't see how a simple lack of insight into what the author is trying to express is newsworthy. Oh well, I guess I'm not the slashdot majority...
Doesn't this belong under Linux, or a new section called Apps or something... I remember this happening a few months ago with a GNOME release. I subscribe to the BSD stuff because I care about BSD.
Good work, but...
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You could be treading in some dangerous territory. Let's say, for instance, as a sysadmin, you know one of your users has been accessing some machine they should not access for whatever reason (immoral, illegal, etc...). Well, you run this tool and uncover evidence to support that theory, then discuss with JaneUser and, out of the goodness of your heart, decide to remove the logs in question. All is well.
Two months later, "they" subpoena your logs to find no trace of evidence. Suspecting log-alteration, they subpoena the upstream providers logs and find correlating evidence that is mysteriously missing from your logs. So, JaneUser ends up getting in trouble, and the kind-hearted sysadmin gets slapped with evidence tampering.
I think, if you're going to carry out any activity that needs covering up, then you need to be more in tune with the circumstances rather than dealing with these sort of things after the fact. Or you could just avoid illegal activity all together...
I agree that unsolicited text messages are annoying as hell. That's why I disabled text messages from all users except those I specified. This is using verizon. Sure, it'd be great if companies/advertisers/evil spammers stopped sending that crap all together, but in the mean time, you might as well just disable it if you can.
It's not like that 11,000 a pop is going for a good cause, anyhow...
Lighthouses have been obsolete since radar came to be. GPS is hardly the starting point for this. At any rate, I'm a fan of lighthouse preservation efforts as I think they're a very interesting part of our evolution of navagational technology, and, in some cases, quite beautiful. Lighthouses have been pretty well obsolete for 40 years.
I can tell you that using cheap Power supplies will come back to bite you.
You do know the definition of anecdote, correct? Well, in that case, how about providing some numbers, rather than a personal anecdote, since that seems to be what this is about.
I've used crappy power supplies in all of my computers I've ever built (20). Never have I had one die from the PS. Period. In fact, I've only had about six of them die.
Fan failures, 2 lightning strikes (with a decent surge protector, I might add), PCI card came loose and shorted against a capacitor on mobo (replaced capacitor, all was fine).
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Dell pulls this stunt every now and then to scare Intel into sweetening their deal a little better. Intel will offer Dell a slightly lower price (or something appealing) if Dell stops yammering about AMD, and Dell will put it's AMD plans back on the shelf for a year or two.
They'll probably also say something along the lines of "we've decided we'll wait a little longer for AMDs technology to mature." I think we all have seen this happen several times before.
Computers have been getting cheaper and cheaper. I'm mainly citing PCs, since Macs have always one-upped PCs in price and advertising. Sure, cute little machines are nice.
My point: two years ago I put together a 1.8ghz machine with 512 megs of RAM, decent video card, decent hard-drive, for 300 dollars. No OS included. Toss in some FreeBSD and I'm up and runnning for 300 bucks. So, again, someone please tell me how a 500 dollar computer is news these days? Just because it's a Mac? Just because Joe-sixpack can pick one up and doesn't need to know how to assemble parts? If so, why assume he would give a hoot about NetBSD or Linux?
but the article sure sucks the big one.
,ever have I experienced any problems whatsoever outside of the 90 dollar copy of Suse. Fuck Suse. I hope Novell sells them and they go out of business.
This one is good: Installation is probably the hardest thing to cover in a Linux review. I mean, what can you really say about it? It either did the trick or it didn't.
First the guy says it's hard to cover. Then he goes on to compare it to one of two simple choices. Make up your mind, partner. Anyway, I'd rather not clutter up my rant with anything else on-topic.
Let me disclose that Suse is the only Linux distro that I really can't stand. I gave it a fair shot (~5 months). My installation was from the 9.1 pro CDs I bought for __90__ USD. Wow. What a freaking rip off. Slow as Christmas. Hands down, the absolute slowest Linux distro I've ever used. It took 2 fucking minutes to start YOU.
My favorite Suse bug was that every now and then, on my laptop, when I'd boot up, X would segfault. No decent reason why. strace didn't reveal fishy behavior. I upgraded to the latest Suse X package. No luck. Reboot a few times and it would suddenly work again. Never had any such problem outside of Suse.
My second favorite problem was that the Suse guys apparently modified something in the i810 RNG driver such that it would occasionally cause an Oops in an IRQ. Very stable, indeed.
I had other problems over the months, too. I always filed well written bugs with good information. Nothing ever came of it. I've put this machine through numerous versions of Slackware, Fedora, and Debian. Never, ever
Two good things: other than the fact that you had to watch a movie while waiting for them to load, Suse's configuration tools are the most complete and full-featured of any Linux distro I've ever used.
The two books that come with the Suse distro are pretty simplistic for an large-scale user, but they are very good for simple users. I referred to them a few times. Getting good printed docs with your OS always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Agreed. Though I lean a little more toward cooler machines. Buying a cooler and more efficient machine is a one time investment. Cooling an entire room is ongoing and definitely more expensive in the long run.
... my head's about to fucking explode after reading the front page.
It's always nice to see complete fucking crackpots on slashdot. "Let them believe" ??? What, is this some type of fairytale? It's all spelled out clearly here
If they'd bother to have read any of the documentation that came with their package, (e.g. the shit with big letters that says "READ THIS TO SETUP 911 DIALING SERVICE"), then they wouldn't have faced this problem. If they would've tested the 911 service as vonage indicates is okay to do (and encourgaged in minnesota), then this problem might have been avoided. Jesus, the first time you login to your account online it screams in big red letters about setting up 911 until you have.
Nobody forced them to get vonage. They were given explicit instructions to setup their service for 911. What? They didn't read it and didn't bother to do this simple 3 minute task? They ignorantly assumed it was identical to their old land line? Tough titty. Life's a bitch.
I have mod points, but I'd rather respond to your dumb ass. Actually, I guess I'll just say you're a fucking retard anonymous, then mod you down. Sounds good to me.
I'm a weather nut and find this site to be an excellent national and international source. It incorporates major weather stations with personal weather stations to get some good unique results. The site is no relation to the 60s extremist group of the same name....
Oh yeah? It's brand-fucking-new. Nice try. Next?
Hydrogen fueling _and_ one of the nation's higest crime rates? Well done! I'll move there at once. :)
My Dell 400SC has a single 120mm fan in the back. Most of the time, I can't even tell the machine is powered on. It get a little louder when it's doing something CPU intensive. It's the quietest PC I've ever owned
;)
I apologize for being somewhat offtopic and hope I don't get modded into oblivion. At work my desktop is a Dimension 4600c. This is the absolute loudest machine I've ever heard. I know judging this is subjective, but when I do something CPU intensive the fan goes through five phases starting at silent and ending up roaring. It sounds like a 747 throttling up for takeoff. My Inspirion 8200 laptop is quite loud. You can hear it across the room when it's warm. When it's hot, it's scary.
Just my $.02 about Dell's and volume. They're quite loud, but I guess I'm not pretentious enough to buy a Mac
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It's no different than the GPL
It's quite different from the GPL. Public domain works are free for any use and not bound by restrictions (typically). You can do things with Public Domain software that you can't with GPL. It typically means there is no license attached other than a disclaimer saying "Public domain".
Windows is definitely more secure. I patch whenever necessary and have never had a problem! I love Microso
if that was the case, wouldn't you expect the OIL prices to go DOWN?
Are you serious? This is about money and lots of it. Oil is the channel through which the money is made. How do you make more money, but lowering prices or raising them? We all know how generous the oil companies are...
there was a majority support for the US to invade Iraq. Dems and Reps.
Sure, if you A) Trust what the media reports, and B) dis-regard what the rest of the world thinks. But I guess we can disregard what the rest of the world thinks, because Iraq was dead-set to attack the US. If that was the case, then maybe we should ask why.
Hey, look at that, you're right. But, did you notice how, under the _Linux_ page, the title of the article is prefixed with "BSD:"? My point grows stronger. Thanks for giving me something with which to fire back.
In the typical tradition of slashdot, either the article isn't read at all, or it's misinterpreted. I mean, we can't expect nerds to pick up on details, now can we?
From TFA:
Video gaming reached official academic status...
I take this to mean what was obviously intended: A university has dedicated resources to a video game development course. This is in no way saying "Until now, video game development was a black art, taught by no one."
When your field is being taught in a university instead of a special techinical school, I believe you might claim your field has reached official adademic status.
Now, I might not have said it this way if I'd have written the article, but I don't see how a simple lack of insight into what the author is trying to express is newsworthy. Oh well, I guess I'm not the slashdot majority...
PS- Don't mod this post.
Doesn't this belong under Linux, or a new section called Apps or something... I remember this happening a few months ago with a GNOME release. I subscribe to the BSD stuff because I care about BSD.
Duck!!!
You could be treading in some dangerous territory. Let's say, for instance, as a sysadmin, you know one of your users has been accessing some machine they should not access for whatever reason (immoral, illegal, etc...). Well, you run this tool and uncover evidence to support that theory, then discuss with JaneUser and, out of the goodness of your heart, decide to remove the logs in question. All is well.
Two months later, "they" subpoena your logs to find no trace of evidence. Suspecting log-alteration, they subpoena the upstream providers logs and find correlating evidence that is mysteriously missing from your logs. So, JaneUser ends up getting in trouble, and the kind-hearted sysadmin gets slapped with evidence tampering.
I think, if you're going to carry out any activity that needs covering up, then you need to be more in tune with the circumstances rather than dealing with these sort of things after the fact. Or you could just avoid illegal activity all together...
I agree that unsolicited text messages are annoying as hell. That's why I disabled text messages from all users except those I specified. This is using verizon. Sure, it'd be great if companies/advertisers/evil spammers stopped sending that crap all together, but in the mean time, you might as well just disable it if you can.
It's not like that 11,000 a pop is going for a good cause, anyhow...
Lighthouses have been obsolete since radar came to be. GPS is hardly the starting point for this. At any rate, I'm a fan of lighthouse preservation efforts as I think they're a very interesting part of our evolution of navagational technology, and, in some cases, quite beautiful. Lighthouses have been pretty well obsolete for 40 years.
I can tell you that using cheap Power supplies will come back to bite you.
You do know the definition of anecdote, correct? Well, in that case, how about providing some numbers, rather than a personal anecdote, since that seems to be what this is about.
I've used crappy power supplies in all of my computers I've ever built (20). Never have I had one die from the PS. Period. In fact, I've only had about six of them die.
Fan failures, 2 lightning strikes (with a decent surge protector, I might add), PCI card came loose and shorted against a capacitor on mobo (replaced capacitor, all was fine).
I charge one million USD per hour. Needless to say, business is mighty slow, but you asked..