Funny thing: I've only ever had 1 RAM chip failure and it was within the manufacturer's warranty. I've never seen a video card fail except once due to a dead GPU fan. I've only ever seen 1 NIC failure, and I'm not even entirely sure it wasn't just a problem with the jack on the back of the card.
And I've seen thousands of all of the above.
OTOH, I've seen probably a couple hundred hard drive failures.
Microsoft bought Asus from Warren Buffet, integrated it with Windows and called it WindowsMeNoGeekie. Nobody could take it any longer and so, collectively, the entire world all threw their chairs at Steve Ballmer.
You mean "balanced" like how Fox News is "fair and balanced"?
The religious right isn't running the Republican party
Riiiiight. That's why back in the early primaries, the Republican candidates were all stumbling over themselves trying prove who was more "Christian."
Republicans want the government to have the rich stay rich so it can enable the poor to become rich.
Try: Republicans want the government to have the rich get richer, while the poor gets poorer. That's why when Republicans say they are going to 'cut taxes', it's always on the rich, while actually increasing taxes on the middle class.
or does this article leave everyone else a little hungry in the "details" department?
Details schmetails! Who needs details? This is a breakthrough! We should all be investing serious money in this "scratch photonics" switching technology! We'll be billionaires! Who cares how it works, all you need is hype!
Anyone else noticed that almost all Web 2.0 applications are strongly centralised and cannot survive a central server outage?
With Google, the current epitome of Web 2.0-ness, there's no such thing as a 'central server outage'. Google has no 'central servers'. Such is the benefits of distributed computing.
Microsoft instead of proposing a more competitive deal has been busy trying to subvert the Yahoo Google deal by raising antitrust concerns, and even seems to have succeeded at getting the US Department of Justice to [investigate the deal].
I've been wondering why the Microsoft shills on this site have been the ones protesting the Yahoo/Google deal the most. Now it makes sense.
eyword: "patch". It'll probably never be part of the mainstream code that everyone gets by default
*shrug*. So? Many things that are now major features of the Linux kernel started as patches. And how many people *really* need IPv6 support at this point? Wake me up when IPv4 goes away.
Nope. How would it even know?
I dunno. Just a problem I heard from a fellow sysadmin. Maybe it's no longer at this point?
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We don't care about fair process because it's our game anyway.>
Exactly. Microsoft stacked the deck, and now the people they stacked the deck with are saying, "Oh, shut up. We did a great job approving OOXML!"
Funny thing: I've only ever had 1 RAM chip failure and it was within the manufacturer's warranty. I've never seen a video card fail except once due to a dead GPU fan. I've only ever seen 1 NIC failure, and I'm not even entirely sure it wasn't just a problem with the jack on the back of the card.
And I've seen thousands of all of the above.
OTOH, I've seen probably a couple hundred hard drive failures.
All hard disks, no matter how well-made they are, will fuck up one day.
I put it this way: all things mechanical are doomed to fail...eventually.
I have two words for you: RAID and BACKUPS.
I hope you make backups. A corrputed 1.5 TB HDD with ReiserFS would be a bloody mess!
Yeah. Bill Gates once said 500 GB of porn ought to be enough for anybody! Or something like that...
Microsoft bought Asus from Warren Buffet, integrated it with Windows and called it WindowsMeNoGeekie. Nobody could take it any longer and so, collectively, the entire world all threw their chairs at Steve Ballmer.
Now that's vision.
It gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's how I likes it.
I run 1.4 on a 3 GHZ Quad Core machine with 16 GB of memory.
Man! It's FAST!
[quote]kGNOME [/quote]
KGNOME -- A version of GNOME built on the Qt toolkit and compatible with KDE and KParts and such. ;)
Good answer.
Okay, let's balance this out a little bit.
You mean "balanced" like how Fox News is "fair and balanced"?
The religious right isn't running the Republican party
Riiiiight. That's why back in the early primaries, the Republican candidates were all stumbling over themselves trying prove who was more "Christian."
Republicans want the government to have the rich stay rich so it can enable the poor to become rich.
Try: Republicans want the government to have the rich get richer, while the poor gets poorer. That's why when Republicans say they are going to 'cut taxes', it's always on the rich, while actually increasing taxes on the middle class.
Today's Republicans are not conservative, plain and simple. They're as "big government" as the Dems
Take your pick.
Source code to Windows ME revealed:
Details schmetails! Who needs details? This is a breakthrough! We should all be investing serious money in this "scratch photonics" switching technology! We'll be billionaires! Who cares how it works, all you need is hype!
McCain abstained.
Obama voted yea.
Biden voted nay
Kerry voted nay
Hillary voted nay
Now you know for real who stands for freedom and change and who doesn't.
No. With things like Silverlight and Adobe AIR, I contrarily predict an explosion of desktop-like n-tier solutions will become available.
With Google, the current epitome of Web 2.0-ness, there's no such thing as a 'central server outage'. Google has no 'central servers'. Such is the benefits of distributed computing.
Actually, it makes perfect sense.
I've been wondering why the Microsoft shills on this site have been the ones protesting the Yahoo/Google deal the most. Now it makes sense.
As in "You should never pludge an Ubuntu pre-release version."
or
"Why did so many clueless Microsoft-genuflecting fanbois pludge Vista?"
And finally,
P1: "Slashdot was down all day yesterday".
P2: "Yeah, what happened?"
P3: "I heard pudge pludged the latest Fedora."
Oh, yeah, and *I* read the Foundation Trilogy when I was like 12 or 13. Loved it. Still do.
Agreed. I read some of these as a preteen. Also, Ray Bradbury. The Star Trek and most of the Star Wars novels are all suitable for preteens.
Yes. When I say DJBDNS, I mean dnscache, too.
Nope. Postfix.
eyword: "patch". It'll probably never be part of the mainstream code that everyone gets by default
*shrug*. So? Many things that are now major features of the Linux kernel started as patches. And how many people *really* need IPv6 support at this point? Wake me up when IPv4 goes away.
Nope. How would it even know?
I dunno. Just a problem I heard from a fellow sysadmin. Maybe it's no longer at this point?
Nope. It's a cashing nameserver. That's why I'm rich and you're not. :-P