If anybody had ANY doubts the info in the Wikileaks dump should have ended it, there was shit in there that made Nixon look like a choirboy, such as the US government shielding a PMC that was selling kids as sex toys to get better arms deals...and neither side said a word. in fact they instead sent their MSM puppets into overdrive labeling Assange as a monster while the US government was committing war crimes. Look at how they have Assange locked in a box, they'll never let him escape because he's to be made an "example" no different than what the mob would do.
I urge you to watch that video I linked to because he says it better than I ever could but if you think you can change a corrupt cabal by voting you are delusional, the puppets change but the puppet masters stay for life and pass it on to their chosen replacement, no different than the mob or any other criminal org.
Uhhh...what does the Internet have to do with anything? The average voter in the USA is 64 years old, they wouldn't know the Internet from a series of tubes, and thanks to the ever rising price of the Internet thanks to ISP gouging I bet if you looked at the numbers the majority of the poor don't even have Internet access, which of course makes the MSM overlords VERY happy as they are the only source of info and entertainment. Hell I live in a 95 unit apt building, know how many other here have the net? ONE, one guy, far end of the hall, has DSL, that's it. I'm rocking this cable line because there isn't another person on this block that has cable net and at $119 a month I know why.
so the net will NOT save us, in fact access is more restricted now than in the days of dialup. In the days of dialup if you could find an old 286 cheap you could at least afford to get on, now the ever rising ISP gouging has made it too high for the poor and the older folks simply don't see a use for it. last numbers I saw had the majority on the net between 25-45 and we cynical bastards don't vote because we know its a sham, so what good is the Internet gonna do, besides give you porn and memes?
Except it doesn't work that way because FREE TRADE IS A LIE...Want to get into India or China? Thanks to their tariffs you'll have to hire them and build a factory there because they are what is nicely called "nationalists" aka having a fucking brain. Meanwhile because our country is run by PHBs that only see the short term profits we have been the training ground for the world while our own education and higher learning? ROT. Look at how you have record numbers of defaults on student loans, why? Because they can't compete with someone who paid $10k for their degree, duh! Look at IT, its a wasteland, in fact my local college is shutting down their IT education dept which had been one of the biggest programs for over 20 years, why? because students wised up and saw you simply can't survive in IT anymore so they won't take the classes, now those classes are practically empty.
So I'm sorry but globalist free trade theory has already proven to be a MASSIVE failure, because nobody plays by the rules. They can export all they want but YOUR products aren't allowed in, this is why everyone builds in China dn India while the USA has business districts that are looking like something from "Escape From New York".
Well I hope I gave you enough info to figure out whether WSUS is right for you.
As far as the "Hairyfeet challenge"? I'll admit its a little dramatic but frankly it illustrates perfectly that the Linux followers suffer from the "is ought" problem, they look at their OS as how it OUGHT to be and NOT what it IS, which is fiddly as hell, and with a ton of developers that treat critical system components as their own personal playtoys.
As I've pointed out with the challenge even what would be considered a VERY under-average user, just using what comes with the system, no new hardware,no new software, just what comes with the OS, you will STILL end up with a fundamentally broken system. At least with Windows you can FIRE THEM by simply refusing to buy, as was done with Vista and I'm betting will be done with Win 8, but how do you fire the Pulse guys? X11? Torvalds? You can't so you are just screwed.
Oh and I hate to reply to myself but...does anybody remember what episode from what series it was that I was talking about earlier, where the mom brings the kid back from the dead? I've been looking for that thing for ages, I'd love to watch it on Halloween, but damned if I know who was in it, just that kick ass scary ending where the power is out and the demon in the kid's body is heading towards her and the lightning lets you see its true face...damned scary and I'd love to watch it along with some classic night gallery and creepshow for a good Halloween scare fest.
Welllll...yes and no. Would I want my kids playing at age 9 the game equivalent of "I spit on your grave"? Nooo, not because I didn't educate my kids and explain the difference between reality and gaming, its that when you are younger your brain simply doesn't have the emotional level of maturity to handle things you can later.
Using an example from my own childhood there are three scenes from shows that fricking gave me nightmares that today would actually be considered kind of tame. From Night Gallery the story where Roddy McDowell kills his uncle and the painting changes, one that was either Night Gallery or Outer Limits where a woman calls her dead son back from the grave only to find what she calls back was NOT her son (the scene where the demon in the kid's body explains "Timmy killed himself to GET AWAY FROM YOU while every time the lightning flashed the kid's face became the demon? truly scary shit) and the final one an old Hammer horror that appeared to be in B&W...until they stabbed the first vamp nearly 20 minutes in and the screen erupts in arterial spray.
Now once you are an adult if you want to tie little old ladies to passing buses in Just Cause II (always fun) or play something like Rapelay? Knock yourself out, have a ball. But a parent simply can't keep up with every damned new release on the planet so having set guidelines we can use along with a more detailed explanation following it? I honestly have no problem with that, because it gives the parent the choice and control.
Well I agree the whole FB thing is just too damned creepy, but we are talking about appstores which frankly shouldn't be any different than Amazon or Tiger.
You take the raw data, see that people who bought...oh lets say a mapping app, also bought an app that tells you about food and inns along the way, along with one that points out attractions along the trip many wouldn't know about. so when someone gets ready to buy the mapping app you say "Hey people that buy this also usually buy these other two...would you like to save some money by having us bundle those together? its cheaper that way?" and I bet most would go "Sure, that sounds nice, I'd like that" and everyone is happy, the appstore gets more sales, the customers get better deals, it works out for everyone.
When that whole "targeted ads" stink came up I decided to let one browser in the shop through with ZERO blocking, just to see if with ALL the data they could do better...know what I found? they had a BAD case of "oops too late" as they would only show me ads for things I already bought and were no longer interested in, such as to this day I get ads for netbooks when I bought my netbook 6 months before the flood and frankly I'm happy with it, no need for another. Now compare this to the Tiger and Amazon emails, where they simply go "Hey you bought X, people who buy X usually buy Y-Z, did you know we have Y-Z on sale right now?" and frankly they've gotten a TON of sales from my family that way, they send emails with cute baby clothes to my GF so she can get stuff for the grandbaby, my mom gets told when any of the authors she likes puts out another book, like Patrica Briggs whom she loves to read, and I get told when there are sales on stuff like blank DVDs, flash sticks, and parts that will fit my desktop.
It just seems like a no brainer to me, and its not like they don't already know who you are if you've bought products from them so why not just take the raw data, again no reason why they need to ID who bought what, and just make the connections? They get more sales, I don't have to pay full retail (in fact I've not paid full retail in years) and everybody is happy.
One more thing, if you were doing it the way I was and constantly slipstreaming a new disc DON'T, because it don't matter how damned diligent you are you'll ALWAYS miss some, or have ones that were superseded by later patches, so you just end up wasting discs.
That is why I searched all over the damned net because I KNEW there had to be a better damned way than cranking out disc after disc after disc. I used Autopatcher for awhile but it quickly started falling behind and not supporting the non popular builds like Vista and XP X64 which I still come across here at the shop, so finally I just went to the places the network geeks and shop guys hang online, all the little nooks like OSNews and NetworkInsider and the like and said "How can I do this easier?" and they turned me on to WSUS.
I can tell you I've been using it for nearly 4 years now APK and I threw all those damned slipstreamed discs away, now the ONLY time I make a slipstream is when a new SP is out so WSUS only has to update from that SP. A word of advice though, have WSUS download the SPs anyway, you never know when you'll come across a machine that hasn't been updated in forever and having those SPs already integrated sure saves a HELL of a lot of time.
So give WSUS a spin, I have no doubt when you see how clean and easy it is to use, and how it uses sensible human readable tools like.BAT and WGET scripts you can customize, you'll end up having it just download all the damned Windows Updates and let it be your "go to" WU system. BTW the MOST updates I've had to apply from WU after running WSUS? 8, and that was because they had some of the older Visual C++ runtimes that needed updating. But 8 patches is a HELL of a lot better than the 100 or so since SP1 came out, that's for damned sure! Enjoy.
Well when you are running a little shop like mine having to constantly redownload the damned patches ends up hurting my bottom line and with WSUS I can just keep ALL the patches and ALL the SPs and ALL the Office and.NET patches on a share drive on this little Sempron 1.8GHz a customer traded in years ago (makes a GREAT nettop, only uses around 35w under load) and like I said, run it once a month, I usually wait until the Friday after Patch Tuesday for the WSUS Offline guys to have time to update their scripts, and its ALL done. And since its just using a WGET straight from the MSFT servers (It'll even pop up a CMD window so you can watch if you like, its all pretty standard WGET scripts calling the standard MSFT update servers) there is no risk of a MITM or getting a piece of malware stuck in there, you even get the choice of whether you want to include WGA or not in the builds.
But between WSUS Offline and Ninite for the third party stuff I've been able to cut a new build down to less than an hour and a half and even better I am needed less than 10 minutes of that hour and a half since its all unattended. I don't have to deal with slipstreaming and making new discs, don't have to deal with constantly checking to make sure I've got the latest software, frankly ALL the bullshit and hassle is done FOR me with nothing harder than "clicky clicky, go make a sammich" on my end. Its nice. Oh and if you have an older machine you need to check the third party software on just run Update Checker after you've updated the system with WSUS and it'll tell you if ANY of the third party stuff is out of date, and give you handy little links with direct downloads of the software that's out.
So like I said any questions just let me know in a later post or you can shoot me an email at the address in my UID, I usually check it once a day. And I have a feeling you'll be like me and damned glad you have WSUS in your toolbox, really takes the bullshit and pain out of dealing with Windows Updates. Kinda sad you need a third party tool to do this, but let's face it APK, MSFT first party tools have always sucked ass. if you want anything done right you pretty much HAVE to go third party, as MSFT either tries to force you to a higher SKU or simply half asses the design, they really suck at building decent tools for their OSes.
What does it have to do with privacy? People buy from your store, people who buy X often buy Y-Z, so offer them Y-Z, seems simple enough to me. You don't actually have to know the WHO bought Y-Z, only that people who buy X usually buy Y-Z, this can be done without invading user privacy easily enough by simply processing the raw data.
Bimbo Newton Crosby, you have hardware that will be playing X360 games from last year along with a SERIOUSLY confusing lineup...Bayonetta 2 an exclusive? WTF? I thought Nintendo was the family friendly one, some chick wearing her hair for clothes and doing everything as fetish fuel is a launch title?
But here is the UGLY truth Nintendo and the rest don't want to admit...in a dead economy its gonna be hard enough to sell, but the simple fact is we've gone just about as far as we can go with regards to graphics. Could you get better graphics? Sure you can, but it'll cost 100 million plus per title and one failure will torpedo the company, this is why EA is for sale and Activision is on the market. Frankly the only one that I think has a real shot is the Steambox, as it will have Valve's excellent relationship with the indies and that looks like its gonna be the future, more specialized games appealing to specific niches instead of spending 100 million to make a generic sludge that has "broad appeal" for fear of not recouping costs.
Lets face it, the ONLY thing Nintendo has really going for it is its stable of beloved characters but even there? they are just running out of ideas. Funky controllers and other gimmicks will only go so far and i have a feeling that with so many Wii units gathering dust in closets because after they played the handful of "must play" first party titles nothing else was worth playing? People are not gonna want to jump on board until they see the third parties can add something besides 3 year old X360 games and shovelware...well all except the fanbois, but they'll buy anything with the big N across the top.
And how many DO use those features? 5%? 8%? 10%? If you managed to get double digits I'd frankly be surprised be surprised unless you bring in headless SERVERS which just shows MSFT did get it right that desktops and servers should be two different OSes because they have different needs.
Whether you like it or not Linux will never become more than a hobbyist OS on the desktop if the creaky old shit that causes people so much grief isn't replaced. Do you want me to post the rant from the owner of OSNews on how he was watching a video and brought up a chat window and X11 completely crashed with such a basic operation? Let's face it, X11 was designed to do a VERY different job than what its being used for now, it was designed to allow headless servers to send a very primitive GUI across the networks for remote administration and THAT IS ALL. But instead of accepting that is all its had years and years worth of shit bolted on top and its just not good, its more creaky, more crashy, more unstable, there is a time to accept it and cut your losses and now is the time.
Of course we all know that isn't gonna happen as long as Torvalds and friends are in charge, which is why with Win 8 being a disaster Mac and Win 7 will gain, Linux will be flatline. Nobody listens, everyone expects the world to change to X11 instead of making something the world wants, so they avoid you, simple as that.
Classic games for run? Try to get say Redneck Rampage (available at GOG, great game, highly recommend) to run at a native 1600x900 when 4x3 was the rule of the day and the REALLY expensive monitors were 800x600?
But none of this matters, what matter is we are talking about a tech that Steve Jobs avoided when at NeXT because it was frankly too limited THEN, yet here we are in 2012 and the creaky old X11 is still there, still crashing, still causing major problems when running multimedia.
Look nobody is saying X11 should be banned, just that it should be in the legacy bin so those that NEED the network centric functionality of X11 can have it and the vast majority that frankly are NOT using client/server video rendering on their system? Can have something built for today's systems.
I mean can you imagine how badly we'd be laughing if MSFT had tried to hang onto GDI as the MAIN renderer for this damn long? We'd all be laughing our asses off, yet here is a piece that is older, creakier, and frankly just never built to handle what modern systems are doing, yet you have a bunch of old guys defending this? I'm sorry but old shite be old, it needs to be in legacy, not as a centerpiece that everyone depends on.
Sorry about not seeing your question APK, but when I get into a heated back and forth my earlier comments get buried pretty quickly. Feel free to just point it out if I miss a question on a later post and I'll come back and answer.
As for how it works? Quite simple actually, its uses a WGET to call the MSFT update servers, get a list of any updates, excluding ones that are blacklisted because a later update has overridden it or replaced it, then it downloads them into its folder structure and builds the patches into any way you want, DVD, USB drive, I personally have a series of folders on a share drive, XP, Vista, Win 7, and it simply drops the updates for Windows, office, and.NET as I need them into those folders.
Now if you use it the way I do, to have ALL the Windows updates and patches? then the first time you run it naturally its gonna take awhile, but the nice thing is you'll only ever have to do that once, after that it'll simply download the latest patches and add them to the WSUS folder tree. Checking mine, which has ALL OSes between WinXP- Win 7 X64 and all the patches for MS Office 2K7 (don't see much of any other version around here) and all the.NET patches I'm looking at 11.1Gb but it only takes me around 30 minutes each month to update and of course I don't have to actually sit there, I just tell it to run on the nettop and go do something else.
As for the installer itself you tell it where you want 'em and it makes a folder with the patches contained in a tree therein and drops in a simple.exe that will let you choose all the install options, reboot or no reboot, whether to include WMP, things like that. What you will probably appreciate is it also drops a simply laid out.BAT file so if you want to tweak it further you can no problem.
But as for the installs themselves you can tell it whether you want it to reboot or not and it will usually do a good 85% WITHOUT a reboot. Since I don't want to deal with turning off UAC (which I tend to forget to turn back on...ooops) I simply re-run it after its done rebooting, from a clean no SP1 version of Win 7 it'll be fully patched, complete with SP1, in just 2 reboots. First run installs all the pre SP1 patches along with SP1, second installs the post SP1, done.
So give it a try APK, I bet you'll like it. if you aren't sure just pick a single OS you intend to test it with, say XP or Win 7, and have it get all the patches for you and stick them on a network share or thumbstick and then give it a go. Word of advice though, if you use a thumbstick I'd advise dragging the folder off onto the target machine rather than use the stick itself, USB tends to get draggy during patching and can slow the whole thing down, but its well worth having in your toolbox, you can fully patch Windows AND Office AND.NET and not have to use a single drop of bandwidth more than once...enjoy
Yes and its this short term thinking that will leave the USA a "services economy" aka McJobs. BTW notice you didn't have the guts to take 3 minutes to make an account or use the one you have if you already have one, nice.
Let me break it down, let's say we don't have enough...ohhh...let's say network engineers. What SHOULD happen? Well the price for network engineers should go up, people see there is a demand for network engineers, they go to school, the price levels out, classic supply and demand economics.
Now let us see what ACTUALLY happens...they lobby for more H1-Bs, more scabs brought in, no American dares learn how to be a network engineer because they can't compete when their education costs $75K+ and the Indian is paying less than $10K, but then The Indian goes home and raises the quality of their workforce and the USA becomes the training ground for other countries while our own systems? ROT.
We can see this all over the place. How many would recommend to a friend's child a future in IT? Shiiit, most of the old guard are bailing because the H1s are making that into a McJob and between that and outsourcing its becoming worthless. But what if there is an economic shift as is already happening, and they no longer want to come here and work for peanuts? Then you have NO IT and nobody to hire as they can get paid better in Asia which is looking to be the next area of growth thanks to the USA being run by retards that can only see the next quarter while THEIR leaders are building infrastructure and looking at the next quarter of a century.
The H1-B is the perfect example of Lenin's old saying "The capitalist will gladly sell you the rope you intend to hang him with" because it insures we have highly educated Americans in fewer and fewer roles while the nations like India and China use the USA as a learning ground before they come home and then make better products and services and kick our asses.
Hey! There is not a damned thing wrong with Ashampoo burning software! I give the free version to my customers because frankly its the ONLY software that comes close to the classic Nero "What do you want to do?" layout, instead of a complex list of operations the average user wouldn't have a damned clue about.
If you want to know why nobody uses the FOSS stuff i'll be happy to tell you why...its because software developers couldn't design a GUI if you put a gun to their heads, that's why! I'll give VLC credit, it does better than most, but frankly it still has too damned many options with little to no explanation of what the hell they do or when you should use them.
Frankly FOSS developers could learn a thing or two from Ashampoo as their "What do you want to do?" style layout is frankly one of the most easy to follow and intuitive I've ever seen, even tops classic Nero in that regard.
Its NOT that "different is unelectable" its "different gets banned from the MSM by the corporate overlords" so that John and Jane Public never hear of it, simple as that.
If you don't believe me look up "John Stewart Ron Paul" and you'll find a video where he just strung together clips of the entire MSM treating Paul as "he who shall not be named" even going so far as to name one two and FOUR on a list but being DAMNED careful to avoid even saying the name who who came in third. The clip ends with a clip of a reporter actually saying to an anchor "We are here talking more about Christie and Palin who aren't even running than in Paul who is climbing up in the polls and appearing here tonight" and the anchor gets a douchebag smirk and says "Well if you get footage of Palin or Christie let us know, you can keep the Paul stuff"
So its actually very simple, its no different than "free speech zones" a mile away from the nearest camera. Since the entire MSM is owned by a handful of billionaires THEY, not you, get to decide who runs, because they control the airwaves, they decide what clips to broadcast of any debate, they can make anyone who doesn't suck the corporate cock come off like a nut or even just make them magically disappear by not even acknowledging their existence.
You do have to admit though its ironic as hell that everyone here complains about "Windows cruft" and yet here we are talking about an obviously creaky backwards ass design going back all the way to the days of NeXT and you have people defending it or coming up with sucky workarounds rather than just admit its broken and probably needs replacing after all these years.
I mean c'mon guys, X11 has had a good run but it should probably be in the same group as Gopher and Telnet, things you can install when you need legacy support, not something everyone is depending on.
Nice to see I'm not the only one drunk on the koolaid. and you notice how NONE of them will step up and accept the challenge? Wanna know why? because they are scared because they KNOW what will happen!
Lets take the one they just looove to take about "Being for newbies" Ubuntu. in just the 5 years since Vista came out they 1.-Ripped out ALSA for Pulse, 2.-Did MAJOR changes to the Network manager including a LOT of futzing with Wireless (now more unstable than ever), 3.- Replace Gnome 2 with Unity, 4.- As you noted several programs have been radically changed or depreciated and replaced with something "new" with new bugs and breakage.
So frankly its no wonder nobody will step up because if they did they'd have to face the truth, that the ONLY way to keep Linux running for any length of time is to trawl forums for "fixes", deal with tons of CLI gobbledygook, and deal with almost constant breakages. And again I'm giving them multiple BIG advantages in my little challenge as they aren't having to come up with 10 years of support like Windows, only 5, not having to deal with the hardware roulette or me picking a couple of random items off the shelf and plugging them in, only what comes with the system, they aren't even having to deal with me installing ANY new software, just what comes in the distro by default!
Yet even with ALL those advantages I don't care which distro you pick, Debian, PCLOS, Ubuntu, any distro that is supposedly "ready for the desktop" I will guarantee you it will not pass the Hairyfeet challenge with 100% working software or drivers, and this challenge only simulates a user having a system 5 years which with todays multicores is frankly a VERY low simulation. Its sad and pathetic is what it is, yet the zealots will just go "La la la, ready for the desktop, la la la" when the proof its a failure is right under their very noses. That is what is nice about the Hairyfeet challenge, it can be replicated by anybody with practically no money, just a spare box, a net connection, and one disc each of Linux and Vista, yet the results are ALWAYS the same, breakage on Linux, functional on Vista. I rest my case.;
Why not just do it the way the eTailers like Amazon and Tigerdirect do it? Frankly I've bought more from those 2 than by any targeted ads because they follow a VERY simple formula, which is "Hey you bought X, people who bought X often bought Y-Z, BTW did you know we have Y-Z and have them on sale?" and what do you know I actually LIKE Y-Z and want them!
This is why I've never understood why some sites just can't seem to get the customers as its soooo simple and frankly works well. For me I'll see parts that go with the parts I have bought, like a nice heatpipe cooler for my CPU, RAM that will fit my board, etc, my GF sees movies in the same vein as those she has bought, they show my mom cheesy horror serials which she just loves and buys constantly, its really not that hard!
"I believe the puppet on the right has MY interests at heart...well I believe the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs!...Hey wait a minute, there's one guy controlling both puppets!"...Bill Hicks.
The man has been dead over 20 years and if anything his words are more true now than they were then, if you think EITHER puppet will give a shit about what you think or want you are delusional, its like walking up to Ronald McDonald to complain about the bad service you got at the Mickey D's in Dallas. They are just puppets, they smile, they wave, they kiss the babies and sell you bullshit, no different than Ronald.
You can join the tea party, grass roots your ass off, it just doesn't matter because you can't change a corrupt system by working within that system...why? Well because the system is corrupt so they'll just change the rules so you can't win, duh! Look up John Stewart on Ron Paul where he has clip after clip of the MSM treating Paul as "he who should not be named" and when one of the reporters finally says to the news anchor "Hey we are talking more about Christie and Palin who aren't even running than Paul who is and gaining in the polls" the news anchor says "Well if you get footage of Palin or Christie send it in, you can keep the Paul stuff" complete with a douchebag smirk on his face.
I would urge everyone to watch this video about voting before Nov 6th because frankly he says it better than I ever could. people have been voting for fricking DECADES against the corporate masters, all for naught. You simply can't change a corrupt system from within that system, anymore than playing 3 card monty for a hundred years will let you finally find the lady. Its a scam, a hoax, its a game those at the top play to make the peasants be docile and think they have a say. Its nothing but pro wrestling kayfabe, where they act like they hate each other then get taken to the same resort by a lobbyist after the cameras quit rolling and find out what they are REALLY gonna do.
IIRC you can contact Coolermaster and pay a couple of bucks and they'll send you a collection of bases, but most of these things are pretty standard so unless they REALLY change the layout you can usually fit say an Intel base onto a new Intel socket or a new AMD to an AMD, for example i had a friend that couldn't wait to use his new 1045T AM3+ but they screwed up and forgot to send his heatpipe cooler so he used a socket 939 on it no problem, and according to Wikipedia the LGA 1155 socket plate WILL fit the new chip, citation here.
But when you think about how long these sockets last I'd say the heatpipe is a good investment, as its doubtful you are gonna need to do more than 1 or 2 max full socket changes over say a decade and by the time you can no longer find something your heatpipe will fit on frankly the cooling tech will have progressed far enough you'll probably want a new more efficient cooler anyway. And I can tell you that after switching a few years back I will NEVER go back to stock coolers, I've tried the best both Intel and AMD have to offer and frankly they don't hold a candle to even the lower cost heatpipes like the TX. The heatpipes are quieter, move more air (because you are pulling air through the heatsink instead of simply blowing down upon the base) and frankly the heatpipes simply pull more heat away from the chip than a standard stock plate and that translates to longer life and/or higher OCing if you are into that.
So even with you paying the higher import cost if you were my customer I'd say go for it, you can use it this very day with what you have and then later on use it on your next chip, and in both cases it'll give you a much cooler and quieter system. Remember its not just the CPU and your ears that will benefit, a cooler chip equals cooler caps and phases which will help extend the life of the board. So just think of it like a GPU or CPU, its a long term investment that will last quite awhile and give you a better running system overall.
Uhhh...Ubuntu 11 along with the last release of Mint and PCLOS "new" enough for you?
I'll tell ya what, I'll tell you just as I tell everyone else that says "poo poo, that doesn't happen poo poo" to STEP RIGHT UP and take the Hairyfeet challenge! And with this challenge I actually GIVE YOU A HEAD START Because we won't even go near the "hardware roulette" and lame ass rarely updated hardware lists so you have NO idea what PC peripherals being sold in your average B&M work and what don't, so that's a BIG advantage right there! Of course if Torvalds didn't make drivers such a fucking PITA to where drivers that work in Foo would work in Foo+1 maybe the OEMs would actually include drivers and penguins on the label, but that's a different story.
Here is the challenge...We'll take a system, make it a dual boot, and just to give you another advantage I'll take what is considered the "Worst MSFT OS this decade" Windows Vista and you can choose ANY normal release that came out the same quarter. I can already hear you now...wait a minute, why shouldn't we be using the latest Fudbuntu Whacking Walrus or whatever? Simple because people DO NOT replace their computers every 6 months, nor are they gonna pay someone like me to deal with it every 6 months, so this gives us a typical lifetime of a PC, again giving you yet ANOTHER advantage as you are getting less than half the MSFT 10 year support cycle. Once we make sure all the drivers and software is working, you can use CLI all you want at this point since you are the system builder and NOT the customer, we will then update BOTH to current using ONLY the GUI..
Wanna guess what'll happen? I don't have to guess, because I've done this SEVERAL times, with several distros, from Ubuntu to PCLOS to even Fedora and I'll tell you what happens...Vista? ALL the drivers and the software will "just work" no matter what the chips, Linux? BROKEN. The sound will be toast Wireless MIGHT "work" if you define work as having ZERO security and having to reconnect many times, the GUI will be glitchy (remember we switched from KDE 3 and Gnome 2 to KDE 4 and GnomeShell in that period) and you'll be lucky if you can play a video and open a chat at the same time without X-Server crapping out.
Too late, that is already what is happening. They are trying to cash in while they can, because after their first stunt with clamping down the mine in the western USA (AZ or UT, can't remember which) is being opened back up and the Japanese have found a large cache on the ocean floor they intend to mine so they have only a limited time before they have competition again.
So no need to panic,this is one of those areas where supply and demand will sort things out.
Nope, tried all of the above, even switched to the various forks like IceDragon and Pale Moon and nope...its Gecko. I can open the same page in both Dragon and ANY browser based on gecko, clean install, no extensions, and gecko will use 2 to 3 times more CPU resources than Dragon or any Chrome variant.
Believe me, at the shop i usualy have 3 or 4 older machines to test these things on so I can see if my system is the culprit but it wasn't, its gecko.
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If anybody had ANY doubts the info in the Wikileaks dump should have ended it, there was shit in there that made Nixon look like a choirboy, such as the US government shielding a PMC that was selling kids as sex toys to get better arms deals...and neither side said a word. in fact they instead sent their MSM puppets into overdrive labeling Assange as a monster while the US government was committing war crimes. Look at how they have Assange locked in a box, they'll never let him escape because he's to be made an "example" no different than what the mob would do.
I urge you to watch that video I linked to because he says it better than I ever could but if you think you can change a corrupt cabal by voting you are delusional, the puppets change but the puppet masters stay for life and pass it on to their chosen replacement, no different than the mob or any other criminal org.
Uhhh...what does the Internet have to do with anything? The average voter in the USA is 64 years old, they wouldn't know the Internet from a series of tubes, and thanks to the ever rising price of the Internet thanks to ISP gouging I bet if you looked at the numbers the majority of the poor don't even have Internet access, which of course makes the MSM overlords VERY happy as they are the only source of info and entertainment. Hell I live in a 95 unit apt building, know how many other here have the net? ONE, one guy, far end of the hall, has DSL, that's it. I'm rocking this cable line because there isn't another person on this block that has cable net and at $119 a month I know why.
so the net will NOT save us, in fact access is more restricted now than in the days of dialup. In the days of dialup if you could find an old 286 cheap you could at least afford to get on, now the ever rising ISP gouging has made it too high for the poor and the older folks simply don't see a use for it. last numbers I saw had the majority on the net between 25-45 and we cynical bastards don't vote because we know its a sham, so what good is the Internet gonna do, besides give you porn and memes?
Except it doesn't work that way because FREE TRADE IS A LIE...Want to get into India or China? Thanks to their tariffs you'll have to hire them and build a factory there because they are what is nicely called "nationalists" aka having a fucking brain. Meanwhile because our country is run by PHBs that only see the short term profits we have been the training ground for the world while our own education and higher learning? ROT. Look at how you have record numbers of defaults on student loans, why? Because they can't compete with someone who paid $10k for their degree, duh! Look at IT, its a wasteland, in fact my local college is shutting down their IT education dept which had been one of the biggest programs for over 20 years, why? because students wised up and saw you simply can't survive in IT anymore so they won't take the classes, now those classes are practically empty.
So I'm sorry but globalist free trade theory has already proven to be a MASSIVE failure, because nobody plays by the rules. They can export all they want but YOUR products aren't allowed in, this is why everyone builds in China dn India while the USA has business districts that are looking like something from "Escape From New York".
Well I hope I gave you enough info to figure out whether WSUS is right for you.
As far as the "Hairyfeet challenge"? I'll admit its a little dramatic but frankly it illustrates perfectly that the Linux followers suffer from the "is ought" problem, they look at their OS as how it OUGHT to be and NOT what it IS, which is fiddly as hell, and with a ton of developers that treat critical system components as their own personal playtoys.
As I've pointed out with the challenge even what would be considered a VERY under-average user, just using what comes with the system, no new hardware,no new software, just what comes with the OS, you will STILL end up with a fundamentally broken system. At least with Windows you can FIRE THEM by simply refusing to buy, as was done with Vista and I'm betting will be done with Win 8, but how do you fire the Pulse guys? X11? Torvalds? You can't so you are just screwed.
Oh and I hate to reply to myself but...does anybody remember what episode from what series it was that I was talking about earlier, where the mom brings the kid back from the dead? I've been looking for that thing for ages, I'd love to watch it on Halloween, but damned if I know who was in it, just that kick ass scary ending where the power is out and the demon in the kid's body is heading towards her and the lightning lets you see its true face...damned scary and I'd love to watch it along with some classic night gallery and creepshow for a good Halloween scare fest.
Welllll...yes and no. Would I want my kids playing at age 9 the game equivalent of "I spit on your grave"? Nooo, not because I didn't educate my kids and explain the difference between reality and gaming, its that when you are younger your brain simply doesn't have the emotional level of maturity to handle things you can later.
Using an example from my own childhood there are three scenes from shows that fricking gave me nightmares that today would actually be considered kind of tame. From Night Gallery the story where Roddy McDowell kills his uncle and the painting changes, one that was either Night Gallery or Outer Limits where a woman calls her dead son back from the grave only to find what she calls back was NOT her son (the scene where the demon in the kid's body explains "Timmy killed himself to GET AWAY FROM YOU while every time the lightning flashed the kid's face became the demon? truly scary shit) and the final one an old Hammer horror that appeared to be in B&W...until they stabbed the first vamp nearly 20 minutes in and the screen erupts in arterial spray.
Now once you are an adult if you want to tie little old ladies to passing buses in Just Cause II (always fun) or play something like Rapelay? Knock yourself out, have a ball. But a parent simply can't keep up with every damned new release on the planet so having set guidelines we can use along with a more detailed explanation following it? I honestly have no problem with that, because it gives the parent the choice and control.
Well I agree the whole FB thing is just too damned creepy, but we are talking about appstores which frankly shouldn't be any different than Amazon or Tiger.
You take the raw data, see that people who bought...oh lets say a mapping app, also bought an app that tells you about food and inns along the way, along with one that points out attractions along the trip many wouldn't know about. so when someone gets ready to buy the mapping app you say "Hey people that buy this also usually buy these other two...would you like to save some money by having us bundle those together? its cheaper that way?" and I bet most would go "Sure, that sounds nice, I'd like that" and everyone is happy, the appstore gets more sales, the customers get better deals, it works out for everyone.
When that whole "targeted ads" stink came up I decided to let one browser in the shop through with ZERO blocking, just to see if with ALL the data they could do better...know what I found? they had a BAD case of "oops too late" as they would only show me ads for things I already bought and were no longer interested in, such as to this day I get ads for netbooks when I bought my netbook 6 months before the flood and frankly I'm happy with it, no need for another. Now compare this to the Tiger and Amazon emails, where they simply go "Hey you bought X, people who buy X usually buy Y-Z, did you know we have Y-Z on sale right now?" and frankly they've gotten a TON of sales from my family that way, they send emails with cute baby clothes to my GF so she can get stuff for the grandbaby, my mom gets told when any of the authors she likes puts out another book, like Patrica Briggs whom she loves to read, and I get told when there are sales on stuff like blank DVDs, flash sticks, and parts that will fit my desktop.
It just seems like a no brainer to me, and its not like they don't already know who you are if you've bought products from them so why not just take the raw data, again no reason why they need to ID who bought what, and just make the connections? They get more sales, I don't have to pay full retail (in fact I've not paid full retail in years) and everybody is happy.
One more thing, if you were doing it the way I was and constantly slipstreaming a new disc DON'T, because it don't matter how damned diligent you are you'll ALWAYS miss some, or have ones that were superseded by later patches, so you just end up wasting discs.
That is why I searched all over the damned net because I KNEW there had to be a better damned way than cranking out disc after disc after disc. I used Autopatcher for awhile but it quickly started falling behind and not supporting the non popular builds like Vista and XP X64 which I still come across here at the shop, so finally I just went to the places the network geeks and shop guys hang online, all the little nooks like OSNews and NetworkInsider and the like and said "How can I do this easier?" and they turned me on to WSUS.
I can tell you I've been using it for nearly 4 years now APK and I threw all those damned slipstreamed discs away, now the ONLY time I make a slipstream is when a new SP is out so WSUS only has to update from that SP. A word of advice though, have WSUS download the SPs anyway, you never know when you'll come across a machine that hasn't been updated in forever and having those SPs already integrated sure saves a HELL of a lot of time.
So give WSUS a spin, I have no doubt when you see how clean and easy it is to use, and how it uses sensible human readable tools like .BAT and WGET scripts you can customize, you'll end up having it just download all the damned Windows Updates and let it be your "go to" WU system. BTW the MOST updates I've had to apply from WU after running WSUS? 8, and that was because they had some of the older Visual C++ runtimes that needed updating. But 8 patches is a HELL of a lot better than the 100 or so since SP1 came out, that's for damned sure! Enjoy.
Well when you are running a little shop like mine having to constantly redownload the damned patches ends up hurting my bottom line and with WSUS I can just keep ALL the patches and ALL the SPs and ALL the Office and .NET patches on a share drive on this little Sempron 1.8GHz a customer traded in years ago (makes a GREAT nettop, only uses around 35w under load) and like I said, run it once a month, I usually wait until the Friday after Patch Tuesday for the WSUS Offline guys to have time to update their scripts, and its ALL done. And since its just using a WGET straight from the MSFT servers (It'll even pop up a CMD window so you can watch if you like, its all pretty standard WGET scripts calling the standard MSFT update servers) there is no risk of a MITM or getting a piece of malware stuck in there, you even get the choice of whether you want to include WGA or not in the builds.
But between WSUS Offline and Ninite for the third party stuff I've been able to cut a new build down to less than an hour and a half and even better I am needed less than 10 minutes of that hour and a half since its all unattended. I don't have to deal with slipstreaming and making new discs, don't have to deal with constantly checking to make sure I've got the latest software, frankly ALL the bullshit and hassle is done FOR me with nothing harder than "clicky clicky, go make a sammich" on my end. Its nice. Oh and if you have an older machine you need to check the third party software on just run Update Checker after you've updated the system with WSUS and it'll tell you if ANY of the third party stuff is out of date, and give you handy little links with direct downloads of the software that's out.
So like I said any questions just let me know in a later post or you can shoot me an email at the address in my UID, I usually check it once a day. And I have a feeling you'll be like me and damned glad you have WSUS in your toolbox, really takes the bullshit and pain out of dealing with Windows Updates. Kinda sad you need a third party tool to do this, but let's face it APK, MSFT first party tools have always sucked ass. if you want anything done right you pretty much HAVE to go third party, as MSFT either tries to force you to a higher SKU or simply half asses the design, they really suck at building decent tools for their OSes.
What does it have to do with privacy? People buy from your store, people who buy X often buy Y-Z, so offer them Y-Z, seems simple enough to me. You don't actually have to know the WHO bought Y-Z, only that people who buy X usually buy Y-Z, this can be done without invading user privacy easily enough by simply processing the raw data.
Bimbo Newton Crosby, you have hardware that will be playing X360 games from last year along with a SERIOUSLY confusing lineup...Bayonetta 2 an exclusive? WTF? I thought Nintendo was the family friendly one, some chick wearing her hair for clothes and doing everything as fetish fuel is a launch title?
But here is the UGLY truth Nintendo and the rest don't want to admit...in a dead economy its gonna be hard enough to sell, but the simple fact is we've gone just about as far as we can go with regards to graphics. Could you get better graphics? Sure you can, but it'll cost 100 million plus per title and one failure will torpedo the company, this is why EA is for sale and Activision is on the market. Frankly the only one that I think has a real shot is the Steambox, as it will have Valve's excellent relationship with the indies and that looks like its gonna be the future, more specialized games appealing to specific niches instead of spending 100 million to make a generic sludge that has "broad appeal" for fear of not recouping costs.
Lets face it, the ONLY thing Nintendo has really going for it is its stable of beloved characters but even there? they are just running out of ideas. Funky controllers and other gimmicks will only go so far and i have a feeling that with so many Wii units gathering dust in closets because after they played the handful of "must play" first party titles nothing else was worth playing? People are not gonna want to jump on board until they see the third parties can add something besides 3 year old X360 games and shovelware...well all except the fanbois, but they'll buy anything with the big N across the top.
And how many DO use those features? 5%? 8%? 10%? If you managed to get double digits I'd frankly be surprised be surprised unless you bring in headless SERVERS which just shows MSFT did get it right that desktops and servers should be two different OSes because they have different needs.
Whether you like it or not Linux will never become more than a hobbyist OS on the desktop if the creaky old shit that causes people so much grief isn't replaced. Do you want me to post the rant from the owner of OSNews on how he was watching a video and brought up a chat window and X11 completely crashed with such a basic operation? Let's face it, X11 was designed to do a VERY different job than what its being used for now, it was designed to allow headless servers to send a very primitive GUI across the networks for remote administration and THAT IS ALL. But instead of accepting that is all its had years and years worth of shit bolted on top and its just not good, its more creaky, more crashy, more unstable, there is a time to accept it and cut your losses and now is the time.
Of course we all know that isn't gonna happen as long as Torvalds and friends are in charge, which is why with Win 8 being a disaster Mac and Win 7 will gain, Linux will be flatline. Nobody listens, everyone expects the world to change to X11 instead of making something the world wants, so they avoid you, simple as that.
Classic games for run? Try to get say Redneck Rampage (available at GOG, great game, highly recommend) to run at a native 1600x900 when 4x3 was the rule of the day and the REALLY expensive monitors were 800x600?
But none of this matters, what matter is we are talking about a tech that Steve Jobs avoided when at NeXT because it was frankly too limited THEN, yet here we are in 2012 and the creaky old X11 is still there, still crashing, still causing major problems when running multimedia.
Look nobody is saying X11 should be banned, just that it should be in the legacy bin so those that NEED the network centric functionality of X11 can have it and the vast majority that frankly are NOT using client/server video rendering on their system? Can have something built for today's systems.
I mean can you imagine how badly we'd be laughing if MSFT had tried to hang onto GDI as the MAIN renderer for this damn long? We'd all be laughing our asses off, yet here is a piece that is older, creakier, and frankly just never built to handle what modern systems are doing, yet you have a bunch of old guys defending this? I'm sorry but old shite be old, it needs to be in legacy, not as a centerpiece that everyone depends on.
Sorry about not seeing your question APK, but when I get into a heated back and forth my earlier comments get buried pretty quickly. Feel free to just point it out if I miss a question on a later post and I'll come back and answer.
As for how it works? Quite simple actually, its uses a WGET to call the MSFT update servers, get a list of any updates, excluding ones that are blacklisted because a later update has overridden it or replaced it, then it downloads them into its folder structure and builds the patches into any way you want, DVD, USB drive, I personally have a series of folders on a share drive, XP, Vista, Win 7, and it simply drops the updates for Windows, office, and .NET as I need them into those folders.
Now if you use it the way I do, to have ALL the Windows updates and patches? then the first time you run it naturally its gonna take awhile, but the nice thing is you'll only ever have to do that once, after that it'll simply download the latest patches and add them to the WSUS folder tree. Checking mine, which has ALL OSes between WinXP- Win 7 X64 and all the patches for MS Office 2K7 (don't see much of any other version around here) and all the .NET patches I'm looking at 11.1Gb but it only takes me around 30 minutes each month to update and of course I don't have to actually sit there, I just tell it to run on the nettop and go do something else.
As for the installer itself you tell it where you want 'em and it makes a folder with the patches contained in a tree therein and drops in a simple .exe that will let you choose all the install options, reboot or no reboot, whether to include WMP, things like that. What you will probably appreciate is it also drops a simply laid out .BAT file so if you want to tweak it further you can no problem.
But as for the installs themselves you can tell it whether you want it to reboot or not and it will usually do a good 85% WITHOUT a reboot. Since I don't want to deal with turning off UAC (which I tend to forget to turn back on...ooops) I simply re-run it after its done rebooting, from a clean no SP1 version of Win 7 it'll be fully patched, complete with SP1, in just 2 reboots. First run installs all the pre SP1 patches along with SP1, second installs the post SP1, done.
So give it a try APK, I bet you'll like it. if you aren't sure just pick a single OS you intend to test it with, say XP or Win 7, and have it get all the patches for you and stick them on a network share or thumbstick and then give it a go. Word of advice though, if you use a thumbstick I'd advise dragging the folder off onto the target machine rather than use the stick itself, USB tends to get draggy during patching and can slow the whole thing down, but its well worth having in your toolbox, you can fully patch Windows AND Office AND .NET and not have to use a single drop of bandwidth more than once...enjoy
Yes and its this short term thinking that will leave the USA a "services economy" aka McJobs. BTW notice you didn't have the guts to take 3 minutes to make an account or use the one you have if you already have one, nice.
Let me break it down, let's say we don't have enough...ohhh...let's say network engineers. What SHOULD happen? Well the price for network engineers should go up, people see there is a demand for network engineers, they go to school, the price levels out, classic supply and demand economics.
Now let us see what ACTUALLY happens...they lobby for more H1-Bs, more scabs brought in, no American dares learn how to be a network engineer because they can't compete when their education costs $75K+ and the Indian is paying less than $10K, but then The Indian goes home and raises the quality of their workforce and the USA becomes the training ground for other countries while our own systems? ROT.
We can see this all over the place. How many would recommend to a friend's child a future in IT? Shiiit, most of the old guard are bailing because the H1s are making that into a McJob and between that and outsourcing its becoming worthless. But what if there is an economic shift as is already happening, and they no longer want to come here and work for peanuts? Then you have NO IT and nobody to hire as they can get paid better in Asia which is looking to be the next area of growth thanks to the USA being run by retards that can only see the next quarter while THEIR leaders are building infrastructure and looking at the next quarter of a century.
The H1-B is the perfect example of Lenin's old saying "The capitalist will gladly sell you the rope you intend to hang him with" because it insures we have highly educated Americans in fewer and fewer roles while the nations like India and China use the USA as a learning ground before they come home and then make better products and services and kick our asses.
Hey! There is not a damned thing wrong with Ashampoo burning software! I give the free version to my customers because frankly its the ONLY software that comes close to the classic Nero "What do you want to do?" layout, instead of a complex list of operations the average user wouldn't have a damned clue about.
If you want to know why nobody uses the FOSS stuff i'll be happy to tell you why...its because software developers couldn't design a GUI if you put a gun to their heads, that's why! I'll give VLC credit, it does better than most, but frankly it still has too damned many options with little to no explanation of what the hell they do or when you should use them.
Frankly FOSS developers could learn a thing or two from Ashampoo as their "What do you want to do?" style layout is frankly one of the most easy to follow and intuitive I've ever seen, even tops classic Nero in that regard.
Its NOT that "different is unelectable" its "different gets banned from the MSM by the corporate overlords" so that John and Jane Public never hear of it, simple as that.
If you don't believe me look up "John Stewart Ron Paul" and you'll find a video where he just strung together clips of the entire MSM treating Paul as "he who shall not be named" even going so far as to name one two and FOUR on a list but being DAMNED careful to avoid even saying the name who who came in third. The clip ends with a clip of a reporter actually saying to an anchor "We are here talking more about Christie and Palin who aren't even running than in Paul who is climbing up in the polls and appearing here tonight" and the anchor gets a douchebag smirk and says "Well if you get footage of Palin or Christie let us know, you can keep the Paul stuff"
So its actually very simple, its no different than "free speech zones" a mile away from the nearest camera. Since the entire MSM is owned by a handful of billionaires THEY, not you, get to decide who runs, because they control the airwaves, they decide what clips to broadcast of any debate, they can make anyone who doesn't suck the corporate cock come off like a nut or even just make them magically disappear by not even acknowledging their existence.
You do have to admit though its ironic as hell that everyone here complains about "Windows cruft" and yet here we are talking about an obviously creaky backwards ass design going back all the way to the days of NeXT and you have people defending it or coming up with sucky workarounds rather than just admit its broken and probably needs replacing after all these years.
I mean c'mon guys, X11 has had a good run but it should probably be in the same group as Gopher and Telnet, things you can install when you need legacy support, not something everyone is depending on.
Nice to see I'm not the only one drunk on the koolaid. and you notice how NONE of them will step up and accept the challenge? Wanna know why? because they are scared because they KNOW what will happen!
Lets take the one they just looove to take about "Being for newbies" Ubuntu. in just the 5 years since Vista came out they 1.-Ripped out ALSA for Pulse, 2.-Did MAJOR changes to the Network manager including a LOT of futzing with Wireless (now more unstable than ever), 3.- Replace Gnome 2 with Unity, 4.- As you noted several programs have been radically changed or depreciated and replaced with something "new" with new bugs and breakage.
So frankly its no wonder nobody will step up because if they did they'd have to face the truth, that the ONLY way to keep Linux running for any length of time is to trawl forums for "fixes", deal with tons of CLI gobbledygook, and deal with almost constant breakages. And again I'm giving them multiple BIG advantages in my little challenge as they aren't having to come up with 10 years of support like Windows, only 5, not having to deal with the hardware roulette or me picking a couple of random items off the shelf and plugging them in, only what comes with the system, they aren't even having to deal with me installing ANY new software, just what comes in the distro by default!
Yet even with ALL those advantages I don't care which distro you pick, Debian, PCLOS, Ubuntu, any distro that is supposedly "ready for the desktop" I will guarantee you it will not pass the Hairyfeet challenge with 100% working software or drivers, and this challenge only simulates a user having a system 5 years which with todays multicores is frankly a VERY low simulation. Its sad and pathetic is what it is, yet the zealots will just go "La la la, ready for the desktop, la la la" when the proof its a failure is right under their very noses. That is what is nice about the Hairyfeet challenge, it can be replicated by anybody with practically no money, just a spare box, a net connection, and one disc each of Linux and Vista, yet the results are ALWAYS the same, breakage on Linux, functional on Vista. I rest my case.;
Why not just do it the way the eTailers like Amazon and Tigerdirect do it? Frankly I've bought more from those 2 than by any targeted ads because they follow a VERY simple formula, which is "Hey you bought X, people who bought X often bought Y-Z, BTW did you know we have Y-Z and have them on sale?" and what do you know I actually LIKE Y-Z and want them!
This is why I've never understood why some sites just can't seem to get the customers as its soooo simple and frankly works well. For me I'll see parts that go with the parts I have bought, like a nice heatpipe cooler for my CPU, RAM that will fit my board, etc, my GF sees movies in the same vein as those she has bought, they show my mom cheesy horror serials which she just loves and buys constantly, its really not that hard!
"I believe the puppet on the right has MY interests at heart...well I believe the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs!...Hey wait a minute, there's one guy controlling both puppets!"...Bill Hicks.
The man has been dead over 20 years and if anything his words are more true now than they were then, if you think EITHER puppet will give a shit about what you think or want you are delusional, its like walking up to Ronald McDonald to complain about the bad service you got at the Mickey D's in Dallas. They are just puppets, they smile, they wave, they kiss the babies and sell you bullshit, no different than Ronald.
You can join the tea party, grass roots your ass off, it just doesn't matter because you can't change a corrupt system by working within that system...why? Well because the system is corrupt so they'll just change the rules so you can't win, duh! Look up John Stewart on Ron Paul where he has clip after clip of the MSM treating Paul as "he who should not be named" and when one of the reporters finally says to the news anchor "Hey we are talking more about Christie and Palin who aren't even running than Paul who is and gaining in the polls" the news anchor says "Well if you get footage of Palin or Christie send it in, you can keep the Paul stuff" complete with a douchebag smirk on his face.
I would urge everyone to watch this video about voting before Nov 6th because frankly he says it better than I ever could. people have been voting for fricking DECADES against the corporate masters, all for naught. You simply can't change a corrupt system from within that system, anymore than playing 3 card monty for a hundred years will let you finally find the lady. Its a scam, a hoax, its a game those at the top play to make the peasants be docile and think they have a say. Its nothing but pro wrestling kayfabe, where they act like they hate each other then get taken to the same resort by a lobbyist after the cameras quit rolling and find out what they are REALLY gonna do.
IIRC you can contact Coolermaster and pay a couple of bucks and they'll send you a collection of bases, but most of these things are pretty standard so unless they REALLY change the layout you can usually fit say an Intel base onto a new Intel socket or a new AMD to an AMD, for example i had a friend that couldn't wait to use his new 1045T AM3+ but they screwed up and forgot to send his heatpipe cooler so he used a socket 939 on it no problem, and according to Wikipedia the LGA 1155 socket plate WILL fit the new chip, citation here.
But when you think about how long these sockets last I'd say the heatpipe is a good investment, as its doubtful you are gonna need to do more than 1 or 2 max full socket changes over say a decade and by the time you can no longer find something your heatpipe will fit on frankly the cooling tech will have progressed far enough you'll probably want a new more efficient cooler anyway. And I can tell you that after switching a few years back I will NEVER go back to stock coolers, I've tried the best both Intel and AMD have to offer and frankly they don't hold a candle to even the lower cost heatpipes like the TX. The heatpipes are quieter, move more air (because you are pulling air through the heatsink instead of simply blowing down upon the base) and frankly the heatpipes simply pull more heat away from the chip than a standard stock plate and that translates to longer life and/or higher OCing if you are into that.
So even with you paying the higher import cost if you were my customer I'd say go for it, you can use it this very day with what you have and then later on use it on your next chip, and in both cases it'll give you a much cooler and quieter system. Remember its not just the CPU and your ears that will benefit, a cooler chip equals cooler caps and phases which will help extend the life of the board. So just think of it like a GPU or CPU, its a long term investment that will last quite awhile and give you a better running system overall.
Uhhh...Ubuntu 11 along with the last release of Mint and PCLOS "new" enough for you?
I'll tell ya what, I'll tell you just as I tell everyone else that says "poo poo, that doesn't happen poo poo" to STEP RIGHT UP and take the Hairyfeet challenge! And with this challenge I actually GIVE YOU A HEAD START Because we won't even go near the "hardware roulette" and lame ass rarely updated hardware lists so you have NO idea what PC peripherals being sold in your average B&M work and what don't, so that's a BIG advantage right there! Of course if Torvalds didn't make drivers such a fucking PITA to where drivers that work in Foo would work in Foo+1 maybe the OEMs would actually include drivers and penguins on the label, but that's a different story.
Here is the challenge...We'll take a system, make it a dual boot, and just to give you another advantage I'll take what is considered the "Worst MSFT OS this decade" Windows Vista and you can choose ANY normal release that came out the same quarter. I can already hear you now...wait a minute, why shouldn't we be using the latest Fudbuntu Whacking Walrus or whatever? Simple because people DO NOT replace their computers every 6 months, nor are they gonna pay someone like me to deal with it every 6 months, so this gives us a typical lifetime of a PC, again giving you yet ANOTHER advantage as you are getting less than half the MSFT 10 year support cycle. Once we make sure all the drivers and software is working, you can use CLI all you want at this point since you are the system builder and NOT the customer, we will then update BOTH to current using ONLY the GUI..
Wanna guess what'll happen? I don't have to guess, because I've done this SEVERAL times, with several distros, from Ubuntu to PCLOS to even Fedora and I'll tell you what happens...Vista? ALL the drivers and the software will "just work" no matter what the chips, Linux? BROKEN. The sound will be toast Wireless MIGHT "work" if you define work as having ZERO security and having to reconnect many times, the GUI will be glitchy (remember we switched from KDE 3 and Gnome 2 to KDE 4 and GnomeShell in that period) and you'll be lucky if you can play a video and open a chat at the same time without X-Server crapping out.
Too late, that is already what is happening. They are trying to cash in while they can, because after their first stunt with clamping down the mine in the western USA (AZ or UT, can't remember which) is being opened back up and the Japanese have found a large cache on the ocean floor they intend to mine so they have only a limited time before they have competition again.
So no need to panic,this is one of those areas where supply and demand will sort things out.
Nope, tried all of the above, even switched to the various forks like IceDragon and Pale Moon and nope...its Gecko. I can open the same page in both Dragon and ANY browser based on gecko, clean install, no extensions, and gecko will use 2 to 3 times more CPU resources than Dragon or any Chrome variant.
Believe me, at the shop i usualy have 3 or 4 older machines to test these things on so I can see if my system is the culprit but it wasn't, its gecko.