Well I'd be worried about Firefox as well, because the malware guys have figured out how to get around their XSS by using a hidden iFrame, which is why if you have any porn watching friends or relatives that use Yahoo Mail + FF you may have been getting spam from them lately. Don't know if it works on FF 9 and since I'm officially on vacation until the middle of next week I'm not gonna be loading a spare box with it and surfing porn vid sites to find out as I got a ton of games and a 6 core and intend to enjoy them! Just to be safe though be sure anybody you know with FF upgrades to the latest.
Since we are on security allow me to say why I wouldn't consider either Safari OR Firefox a suitable browser for Widows 7: Lack of low rights mode. I bet the reason you aren't seeing this on IE nor on the Chromium based (Chrome, Chromium, Dragon, SWIron) is that they support the browser running in low rights mode and that is in fact their default behavior. Now considering that low rights mode has been around for nearly 5 years now there really is no excuse for a modern browser not to support it, especially when as we all know running with least permissions is just good security practice.
So I would say if you are on Safari or Firefox or any other browser other than the Chromium based above look to see if your browser is running in low rights mode. If it is not switch browsers and be sure to drop the developers a line and tell them WHY you are switching away from their browser. It seems like doing the switch for the right reasons (increasing the user's security) will never happen so maybe if enough folks tell them "we won't use your browser because" then they will get off their asses and support this common sense feature.
Wow what a pissy little FOSSie you are! U mad bro? me I'm just having the time of my fucking life! Life is wonderful, got all my Xmas shopping done, all my family is good, all my computers are maxed out, got an assload of games on steam to throw at my new 6 core, and as soon as she is done with her family shindig my GF is gonna come and rock my world so hard i'll be lucky if i can walk straight and there will be a shit eating grin stuck on my face for a month!
So let me leave you with my new happy song! We Wish You A Merry Thuban, We Wish You A Merry Thuban, We Wish You A Merry Thuban, and a happy six coooorrrres! Merry Xmas FOSSie!
For what? We already have to limit the turns on the F15, F16, F18, etc simply because the planes will turn faster than the meatbag can survive, logic says if that is the case the way to make a faster better plane is simply remove the meatbag.
For a few things the old tech was better, for example we really need to build a modern battleship because lobby truck sized shells is cheaper than lobbying multimillion dollar missiles, but the drone is faster, cheaper, can out turn and doesn't get tired. Hell you can have it fly itself using GPS to the battle area and then have a pilot fly it for the mission followed by having the plane fly itself home. And finally the most expensive part of the plane is a pilot and you don't risk those with the drone.
Lets face it, the only reason we are putting meatbags in the things anymore is 1.-Top gun making USAF and USN pilots a great propaganda tool for recruitment, and 2.- The MIC hasn't figured out how to charge "holy fucking shit!" levels of money for the drones like they do the planes. but is dead as disco and the new Russian fighter drone will probably come out too badass for our fighter jocks to keep up with.
First of all don't be pissy when someone is trying to help, I haven't messed with a 701 series in something like 3 years, so sue me if I forgot that was a last gen Celeron instead of a first gen Atom. Either way the chipset is still the same older Intel set which should work just fine under Linux.
As for Windows? Here's your XP drivers, you're welcome. the key to getting around the BS is simply find another unit with the same chipset that DOES have XP drivers and use those. you can also get one of the older versions of Driverpacks or simply go to TPB and download "Windows XP ultimate Driver DVD" which has ALL the major chipsets from EVERY OEM, which means they'll have either the Gateway or Compaq driver and frankly XP don't give a shit, finally another link here that gives a link and description for getting that chip going under XP. Merry Xmas.
Hell why didn't you bring up toasters while you were at it? See its THIS kind of total flag waving horseshit you ALWAYS get from FOSSies. I said it QUITE clearly we were talking about DESKTOPS, not what your cell phone or TV for that matter runs. Newsflash: Nobody gives a shit, hell unless its Apple nobody even knows what the fuck is on their damned cell phone! Its a screen with buttons and THAT IS ALL. Linux is used there because its FREE and with a locked down cell phone nobody gives a flying wet fart what is behind the buttons, just that the buttons work. Supercomputers? Are nothing BUT CLI, that's it. They are trying to squeeze every little drip drop of horsepower they can so no shit they are using a CLI OS. It also again is the fact its FREE and MSFT frankly has always charged assraping prices on their server products.
I'll tell you why, its because its too fiddly, too unintuitive, the kernel on up is as solid and stable as the shifting sands, its a geek programmer's toy and NOTHING more ATM. Funny how all the things you mentioned are controlled by......drumroll....geek programmers! who programs cell phone OSes and writes drivers for them? Who sets up Webservers and supercomputers? Why that would be geeky ass nerd programmers! Meanwhile you can't even give the damned thing away for free to normal folks NOR to retailers NOR to OEMs. Doesn't that slap you with the cluebat? or are you too gonna give me a treaty on how "CLI is leet" like this guy?
See i'm the community's worst nightmare, i'm a retailer. i have better things to do than play 'find the fix' on weekends and i don't think staring at your beloved bash prompt is a solution for ANY problem much less EVERY problem. Frankly Windows 98 and System 9 were more polished than the current Linux distros are, and when i have people on this very forum tell me "Well just don't update it" like Linux magically is immune to ALL software exploits? Well i have to think the whole damned bunch has gone stark raving loonie.
Now you be sure to call me a "nigger faggot cocksucker" aka shill troll astroturfer because I dared to point out that after TWENTY YEARS Linux is STILL lower than JavaME. Oh BTW every single lame excuse you used? There is a whole website dedicated to those excuses such as your excuse about supercomputers? Its been there since Dec 2009 so at least try to come up with some new BS, mmmkay?
But will the games work without updating? Don't know as I haven't owned a console since the PS 1 but I frankly wouldn't be surprised if games want to go online to update as everything else does these days. Also many people buy games for the MP such as COD:MW and I'm sure you can't actually play MP on the Sony without PSN can you?
Personally i'm glad i'm out of the whole mess, no more Xboxes, no more PSes, now I have the boys using Steam and GOG and everything is simple and easy. The only trouble I've ever had from either service is when I installed a new CPU and motherboard on my machine steam was having trouble connecting but to their credit I shot off a support email and even with it being the holidays i had someone asking for more details and helping me do a full reset on Steam so it would re-update for the new board in less than 30 minutes.
As far as EULAs they should have to show you it at purchase if you have to agree with it to use the product PERIOD. Because if they don't you've pretty much left the consumer with a catch 22 as many places don't want to give you your money back on a return and even if they do they'll usually zing you for a 15% restock fee so either way you're out money. That is another nice thing about sticking with the PC for gaming as both Steam and GOG gave me their EULAs BEFORE I had spent a single cent in either store. I would much rather be given the EULA up front, where I can read it and decide if it is something i can live with or not, than the shrink wrap bullshit the courts have been letting slide.
Ya see THIS, this right here, is what pisses me off. We had a couple of bicyclists turned into hood ornaments so being nice sensible folks someone put it on the ballot "We should have a nice bike trail that goes from one side of town to the other so they won't have to be in the street" because most of our roads have been laid out over a century ago and even widening them enough for a bike lane would mean destroying protected buildings and landmarks. So we agreed, paid an extra cent in sales tax (which ended right after the money was raised, we are pretty good about that) and we built them a nice bike trail, easily accessible from the church nearby that said those that want to park their cars there and use the trail are welcome, so what do they do?
Promptly continue to drive on the damned street! With the two bike trails there is not a single place in town a bicycle would have to go more than a mile off the trail to get to, not a single one. that was the whole damned point after all, but other than the weekend moms with their kiddies you don't see squat for bikes on the trail, all the adults are on the damned street! Personally I give a thumbs up to every cop i pass that I see writing one of them up, because fair is fair and enough is enough.
It would be different if it was like when i was a kid and there was nothing but two lanes everywhere but when the city bends over backwards and the people pay an extra cent on every purchase for over a year just to build you a nice way to get across town and you ignore it? Well you ought to get a free steak dinner if you knock one of the little arrogant pricks over.
Wouldn't happen to have a link? all I found under mingW search was links to the compiler. i've tried Pale Moon (which is an SSE optimized FF) but frankly it really didn't seem to help much. You'd think that being a FOSS browser they would use a FOSS toolchain like GCC or Open64 but if they are using the Intel compiler that would explain why FF runs like shit on AMD.
All I know is it seems to do a lot less spiking on this old 1.6GHz P4 I'm working on for a customer than my brand new E-350 or even my 6 core Thuban so I have to wonder if its not something they are doing which makes it favor Intel CPUs. Since I no longer sell Intel CPUs since it came out they were bribing OEMs that makes the current FF a non starter for me, but both Chromium and Dragon seem to be CPU agnostic. If this Mingw build you are talking about allows FF or Seamonkey either one to run well on AMD chips i'll be happy to add it to my freeware CD I give to every customer as well as try it myself, as I do try to spread free software where i can.
Actually MMOs have been around since Nevercrack and Evercrack dude, its just Warcrack is the most famous but now here comes Starcrack!
Personally i never did get the whole MMO thing, let me loose in Just Cause II or HL 2 and hand me a large weapon and i'm a happy camper but frankly my oldest says the new Star Wars is a blast. he's been playing it for like a month now, first as a beta player and then we got him the full shebang for Xmas so he could get in early and he's just having a ball. His main character is a bounty hunter so he isn't aligned to one side or another, whatever the hell that means, but as long as he is having fun that's what matters.
Still to me nothing can measure up to getting into my Monster truck in just Cause II and running over villagers, "up on the sidewalk bonk bonk bonk" as the bodies go flying, or using my jetpack to pop out the sky like batman and whiz some old lady that smarted off to me off the side of a mountain. its the little things you see, you just got to take the time and enjoy the senseless death.
But if going on "quests" and fulfilling "objectives" instead of slaughtering entire towns is what makes you happy? Well it does look nice and seems to play well even on wifi, and the sounds do sound like the movies. Personally I don't see how he can want to go 'pew pew" at bad guys with a blaster when he could be in JCII strapping remote charges onto passersby and watching them scream as they run down the street while you decide when to set them off, but hey, its Xmas and if it makes the little guy happy who am i to argue?
I have, kinda sad really. They pretty much HAD to keep the guy since he was the only one that knew the old machines and the old code running on said old machines but when I was changing out his gear during the upgrade cycle I could hear him muttering "Is that VB, no that's C, now why did i put Java in there?" and you could see he was starting to struggle to keep the stuff straight in his head.
I'm just glad i was only doing the work to help out an overworked friend and didn't have to be there when they finally let him go, because he really was a sweet old guy, just as nice as nice could be, but you could tell he was spending more time trying to figure out what language went where than he was actually coding. You just hate to see something like that, you really do. Its almost like watching a prize fighter that was good back in the day trying to keep going and you just want to tell him "stay down man, c'mon, just let it go already" because you know when they finally have to let the guy go its just gonna be sad and bitter and ugly.
Ya know, I think that is what actually killed space exploration right there. To rip off a line from Right Stuff "Folks want Buck Rogers" and we started sending school teachers and math nerds. Glenn, Lovell, these guys had big fucking brass balls. I mean have you ever listened to the actual "Houston we've had a problem" recordings? I mean the guy is pretty damned calm when you consider half his damned ship just blew away. Hell I bet they could get a good 100 test pilot volunteers for a trip to Mars even if they were told it was a one way trip and they were gonna have to build their own house when they got there!
So I agree, we're gonna have to let private enterprise do it simply because Americans don't have the stomach for killing astronauts and astronauts WILL die, its a hellishly dangerous profession and shit WILL go wrong. That is why it frankly wouldn't surprise me if that station in Italy was right and the USSR didn't leave dead cosmonauts floating out in space somewhere because the USSR was like "Next!" and didn't seem to have a problem taking a shot with some risky gear if that was what it took. That doesn't mean we should just strap guys to a Minuteman and light the fuse, but anytime you strap yourself to a giant bomb shit CAN go wrong and sooner or later WILL go wrong. Having to shut down a program for several years if there is a mistake simply throws everything back too far so the Dragon team would probably be a better choice now that a country that is so afraid of losing even a single guy.
Thanks for the advice, just a couple of questions: Does it support ABP? And NoScript? I have ABP in Dragon but I do miss NoScript, frankly NoScript on my XP machine was the reason i tried to keep FF for so long.
And notice how quickly the fangirls squicked and modded me down? Is there a SINGLE thing I posted that hasn't been known since the dawn of time? Is there ANYBODY here that didn't know that FF runs like shit on AMD, that it spikes the CPU on single cores and netbooks and that it goes through memory like crap through a goose? Its not like I just made this stuff up off the top of my head folks, I can sit here and watch my mem and CPU load in AnVir Task Manager and literally typing this text in FF causes the CPU to jump with each keystroke!
Seriously when typing in a fricking text box causes CPUs to bounce like a hooptie on air shocks to quote the old K's Choice song "Something's Wrong". But I didn't try to push Dragon which is my main browser now, I sincerely hope one day FF devs will get their shit together and bring back the FF of yore. Frankly I could deal with memory leaks, its the CPU spikes I simply can't tolerate anymore. When I lose a good 40 minutes on the battery because it keeps slamming my E-350? "Something's Wrong".
Bullshit, if it weren't for competition we'd be on Windows 1.0 and System 2 running on $5k a piece machines that were slow as shit with tiny drives that cost crazy money.
The ONLY reason I have a 6 core CPU with 8Gb of RAM and 3Tb of HDD space along with a 20Mbps connection to type this on is because somebody said "Holy shit! If I don't come out with something better I'm fucking toast!" and ya know what? IT WORKS. We've seen in the past what happens with no competition, see old Ma Bell aka stagnation. Without competition you get either fixing or monopolies, either one sucks ass for the consumer.
Hell I'd argue that's why Linux is stuck dead last and going nowhere, its because there is ZERO competition! All it is is itch scratching and everybody and their dog just repacking the same shit into a different box, that's all. They ALL suffer from the same fiddliness, the same lack of features (WTF is it nearly 2012 and STILL there isn't a "find drivers" or "rollback drivers" button?) the same everything. I could load a dozen different distros and say "Quick, name them" and I doubt VERY seriously anybody would be able to name squat as long as I didn't pick the Ubuntu with Unity.
So I'd say you are about as opposite as opposite can get. Competition is what lights a fire under developers asses, competition is what lowers prices, competition is why I have an insanely overpower computer for less than $800 and competition is why we all aren't sitting in front of 8086 machine looking at DOS prompts. I'd say a little, hell no, a LOT of competition is EXACTLY what Linux needs to whip itself into shape to score big on the 2014 changeover but sadly I'm betting most will do as you say and it'll just be the same shit and bugs on a different day and the 'differences' will amount to Coke VS Pepsi.
But doesn't the Linux community always say you should buy a machine based around Linux? That is why I always say Linux is more like Mac than Windows, as Windows will run on anything and Linux like Mac is picky as hell about hardware. Pretty much the only thing I've had luck with linux on has been older Intel chipsets so maybe one of the first gen Atom netbooks would be more your style, for example the EEE 701 actually came with Linux so therefor have drivers.
As for suspend/resume, you talking hybrid sleep? probably be better off using plain old hibernate. That's what i use with my win 7 netbook and with 8Gb of RAM shutdown takes a minute but startup is pretty fast and most importantly doesn't use the hard drive nearly as much as a cold boot so I get more battery life. But if the Vista driver exists it'll work in 7 as well as long as it matches the bit, I myself am using the Vista drivers for my cap card simply because they support hybrid sleep better than the Win 7 driver does.
But if it is more than a couple of years old I don't recommend Win 7 anyway, its more for new units than older hardware. If you do want Win 7 you didn't get this idea from me but I'd suggest "Win 7 Tiny Edition" as frankly that guy puts out versions of Windows that put Windows Embedded to shame. His version of Win 7 is snappy as hell on a 1Ghz with less than 512Mb of RAM and on 1Gb or better it flies even faster than XP thanks to the better memory management. You lose WMC and some of the more useless crap like language packs but the tradeoff is you get a version of Windows that runs like a scalded dog. Hell his version of XP and 2K3 frankly flies on a 500Mhz with 256Mb of RAM and on anything more its a speed demon.
Maybe you ought to look up "Windows Ultimate DVD" off of TPB which gives you 4 versions of 2K/XP/2K3 all on a single DVD with driverpacks. Just pick the version you want, launch the.bat and tada! Instant ISO with the features you chose, really neat. With that and Tiny 7 you can run Windows on pretty much any machine still able to boot and run it quite well. I've used the license swap trick to load tiny XP on several laptops and even on 5 year old single cores it is beyond snappy and frankly great for battery life. Kinda sad when the hacked version is better than the legit, but MSFT has never been known for making light anything.
Oh man I'm right there with you because I HATE bicyclists with a passion! Here once you get off the main drags many of the roads are two lane and do the bikes pull over when they start backing up traffic? Or maybe push their bikes up steep hills where they are lucky to get 5MPH? Not a chance in hell pal, they act like they own the road. I personally thought I was gonna die laughing when i saw one weaving through stopped traffic at a light and miss seeing a pebble in the road and just face planted right in front of me, I thought "Ha! Karma is a bitch ain't it?"
It would be different if they obeyed traffic laws as i have NO problem with SHARING the road, but the bicyclists don't share shit, they act like the entire road system is their personal playtoy and the rest of the world has nothing better to do than stare at their ass for a good half hour. I'm just glad to see that after we put in that designated bike trail that goes from one end of town to the other the cops have started pulling the bikes over and handing them tickets for impeding traffic. There really is no excuse when we agreed to and paid for a beautiful smooth as glass bike trail to be wasting everyone's time and increasing traffic risks.
Too far, the best place to set one up, so we could learn from the building and apply that knowledge to future projects, would be to build one on the dark side of the moon and use a sat in orbit of the moon to relay the data to earth. While we were there we could do some small scale mining of H3 and see how feasible it would be to set up a mining operation.
Remember for anything in space you really need to start with baby steps and work your way up. After all we didn't just shoot some guys to the moon, we had several earth orbits and shot probes to check out landing sites long before we sent actual people out there. As we learned from the shuttle disasters the American public simply doesn't have the stomach for killing astronauts which is why i wouldn't be surprised if China or India are the next ones out there and will just lie their asses off if it turns out to be a failure. "Nope didn't send nobody, it was a sat that malfunctioned!". Hell according to that amateur monitoring station in Italy that's what the USSR did in the 60s.
Well I just installed it on my download box to give it a test run and I can say its an improvement....if you call slamming the CPU to 80% on page load instead of 100% an improvement. Frankly its still a piggie on single cores and it still looks like it don't like AMD.
Frankly I don't get it, I was a die hard FF user all the way up to FF 4 and it wasn't THAT bad on CPU spiking, now I scroll through my bookmarks and watch the CPU meter jump, pick a page and watch the CPU meter jump, new tab? you get the idea. Meanwhile I've been using Comodo Dragon (based on chromium) and frankly the WORST it slams the CPU is 60% when loading SD vids and even then it quickly drops down to less than 50%. Hell not having anything but the FF static search page loaded has me using 10% in FF and I just attempted to watch an SD video and FF jumped to 89% and hovered there. I will give them credit that 89% IS better than 100% and in their favor the video wasn't skipping like it did under version 8, but I tried the same video under Dragon and it maxes at 45% even with 4 other tabs open (FF just had the one).
While I'm glad they are making progress at this rate they'll be back to 100% usable by FF 14 and by then will they have any users left? By FF 6 I had most of my customers switch over to Dragon simply so I wouldn't need to hear their gripes about lack of speed and it was/is safer due to supporting low rights mode in 7. Does FF support low rights mode yet? Its been 5 years already!
C'mon FF devs, you guys used to kick butt, now you seem determined to run off all your users. if I didn't know better I'd swear that the head of Mozilla was a plant from the Chrome or IE teams, but no, I'm sure its just classic "we know better than our users" arrogance we've seen sadly far too often on FOSS projects. Personally as a long time FF user I wish them all the best and will download and install each new version hoping for a return to their original mission statement, which was for FF to be a lean light browser while the suite was the heavy one, but sadly the way their numbers are declining I wouldn't be surprised if FF was a dead project in 5 years. They don't listen to their customers, they blow through too much resources, and they lack security features like low rights mode (not to mention the malware guys seem to have figured out away around FF's XSS protection as evidenced by the porn bug that loads Yahoo Mail from FF and spams a person's address book) while their competition seems to be getting tighter all the time. I wish them all the luck but it may be too little too late.
Exactly. Also a good place to get info? your local mom&pop shop. We have to keep our ears to the ground because if we build crap systems it ruins our reps and rep is everything so we are constantly trawling looking for info.
That is how I know the one bad 1Tb from Seagate i got wasn't a fluke (just glad it was for a spare box I was building for later sale and gave it my usual stress test before selling it) as you can go to any of the forums where builders hang out (like Tom's hardware) or hell even newegg and check the reviews and you'll see a TON of "This &^*&^ Seagate died before i could even get an OS on it!" and the word going around is they are using crappy ARM supplies from maxtor along with lousy firmware and that is causing all their above 640Gb drives (below 640Gb are using better ARM chips and firmware) to crap out so easily and THAT is why even with a shortage you are seeing deals like Tiger had last week where you could get a 1Tb Seagate for like $60.
so while you are right that backups rule, it don't really help to go RAID if all your drives are shit. that is why i recommend on every new drive you use spinrite (best $$ I ever spent) on lvl 2, all this does is a standard read/write cycle and reports the results and if it finds several bad sectors? its shit. The nice thing about spinrite is it simply goes sector by sector and ignores the firmware, i've found that certain drives (like Seagate) will frankly put up with some crazy fail numbers and simply release cache from the reserve without saying squat. but it only takes around 1 hour for a 1Tb drive with nothing on it for spinrite to do a read/write report on it and it makes ALL the difference when it comes to finding OOTB duds.
And that would make it different than today when i nearly got ran over by a moron playing with his cell....how exactly? when I was a kid we were taught "This is a 2000 pound weapon, you treat it like a weapon and respect it or someone could die, maybe you, maybe someone else" and even then we still liked to drive fast but today? Jesus tap dancing christ I've not seen a bigger bunch of dipshits in my entire life than what I see on the road every damned day! Dipshit men playing with their phones, dipshit women putting on makeup AND playing with their phones, its like moron bumper cars out there pal!
That is why the other day when I saw my oldest a couple of car lengths ahead of me (and I knew he couldn't see me from where i was at) and saw him pull over into a lot and get out i just had to pull in behind him. I just knew why he had pulled in but when I asked him and he said "Somebody called me so i was pulling over so I could return the call" i immediately pulled out a twenty and handed it to him, saying "Having a brain is a damned rare thing in this world, smarts should be rewarded".
Frankly i'm all for Google car because at its worst it can't be as dangerous as the braintrusts on our roads. With my oldest taking 18 hours next semester its not HIS driving I worry about every day, its the dipshits with too many toys and not enough functional brain cells. If the Google car takes the keys away from even 20% of these numbnuts frankly the accidents will plummet, and that can only be of the good.
Now ya see THAT is what I don't get. Now wasn't the whole point of breaking up AT&T to get rid of the " giant money sucking lousy service lucky if we get around to it 3 weeks from Tuesday wallet raping nickle and diming royal PITA with customer service that hell wouldn't have" one size fits nobody phone service? so WTF?
I have watched AT&T reform like the damned T-1000 and as someone who has to deal with their sorry asses on behalf of customers frankly I've seen third tier Bangalore cue card readers with better service and you could probably get better coverage from a CB radio than their damned overloaded towers. Its bad enough i had to get dad one of those mini cell towers that plugs into his DSL (which thankfully comes from someone else) just so he could use his damned cell phone without walking down to the corner in the cold just to get reception!
Frankly I don't know whose bright idea it was to let AT&T get back together but I think I'd rather see the return of Enron or Worldcom than lousy ass AT&T. so let me say congrats T-mobile users,lucky bastards.As someone stuck in an AT&T only area let me say i wouldn't wish AT&T on my worst enemy, be thankful and consider this reprieve a most glorious Xmas prezzie, because you could have been in for a world of suck!
Uhhh...that is where i got mine for my E-350 as well as the legacy Radeon (damn I can't think of the number, X200 maybe?) which was in the legacy section. And it also says right here on the AMD page graphics-notebook. But if you are truly having a hard time finding a driver feel free to list the make and model and i'll be happy to find them for you, or you can just go to Driverpacks and download the one that says "mobile' which has AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. i think it may have SiS as well, not sure.
Hell I use yahoo mail so my password might as well be "email" for all the good it would probably do.
Seriously though, who fricking cares? if you are in a business that is actually passing important messages then your IT dept better damned well have that covered and as for everybody else? i doubt seriously the feds are gonna give a rat's ass about the tiger and Newegg sales email, nor my back and forth with Steam support when Steam didn't like my new board, and i know they surely don't care about the family pics I've stored a copy of in my email, unless there is some national secret involving my late sister and a kitten i don't know about.
If anything I'd think encryption would throw up a big red flag whereas everything else is just one big old giant pile of noise. Hell if you wanted to hide anything just put it in the spam folder, not like anybody will find shit in the bazillion "you want teh big penis?' ads and fake pharmacy crapola everybody gets dumped in there. Hey that would make some kick ass stenography wouldn't it? Just hide everything in "you want teh big wiener?" ads!
What amazes me is how many here think wonderfully of the shuttle when it was a massive failure by every conceivable metric. Watch the videos of Nixon talking about it, the plan was for a heavy lifter "space truck" that could take care of ALL the military's needs AND the civilian sector AND have a fast enough turn around that it would lower the cost per pound into space.
Did it fulfill the military's needs? Nope it couldn't carry enough and cost too much so they stuck with the Delta. Did it fulfill the civilian need? Not really as the Soyuz could do it much cheaper. what about lowering the cost per pound? BWA HA HA HA HA HA not even close on that one.
And that is of course before looking at the clusterfuck that was building the thing as every senator Porkus and congressman Kickbackus had to get a little chunk of the work to 'bring home teh bacon!" so it was spread all over hell and MUCH more expensive than it needed to be.
At this point frankly i think we should toss not only the shuttle but the money pit that is the F35 and just ask the Russians how much they will sell us some SU27s along with MiG31s and have them throw in some Soyuz rockets while they are at it. i bet the total would be less for the whole smash than just the shuttle by itself cost.
Well as a little system builder I can say I've been bit in the ass by several of the bad batches, the Seagate 1Tb, The Maxtor diamondmax 200gb of a few years ago, the worst being the Maxtors they put in the optiplex of 2000, boy that was a POS.
Sadly the best two drive manufacturers are getting out of the biz, and that's Samsung and Hitachi. Hitachi made some damned solid server drives and Samsung drives I've frankly put in places i'd never have the guts to put a Seagate or WD, places like construction sites and warehouse PCs, and damned if those babies don't keep right on humming through the grit and the vibration. I'm just glad i loaded all my machines with Samsung EcoDrives before the big flood screwed the prices, in Aug I was getting them at $35 for 1Tb and $65 for 2Tb.
My advice is if you can find them score some Samsung or Hitachi drives before they are all gone, especially the Samsung EcoDrives. they were so good on cache management that I found their 1Tb EcoDrive beat the 400gb Seagate even though the Seagate was 7200RPM and the EcoDrive was only 5400RPM. They just made damned solid drives and the Eco series runs a good 20 degrees cooler than the Seagates in my own personal tests. after that I'd take WD and Seagate dead last, simply because after they bought out Maxtor their QA went to shit, especially on their drives over 640Gb. The rumor is its the cheap ass Maxtor ARM controllers and firmware that is causing them to go tits up, but a dead duck is a dead duck and I've had too many problems from those drives to mess with 'em anymore. If its Seagate it'll be sub 500gb or not at all for me.
4. Size and Price. Most people frankly aren't gonna give a second thought to anything but size and price, you can trumpet your warranty to the high heavens but if the other guys offers a 2Tb for $50 even if it has a 30% failure rate after 1 years the average users are gonna run right over you to get to the cheap fatty.
You are right though that in a commodity market frankly nobody really gives a shit. all the OEMs care about is the majority survive past the OEM warranty and honestly with the exception of the occasional bad batches most drives easily make 5 years whereas most folks are upgrading or replacing after 3 so again warranty doesn't really matter.
I tell my customers to either have me get or pick up on their own a USB drive and backup often, and data they consider "must never lose" like family pictures have backed up in multiple locations including the cloud. I personally keep a 1Tb USB for OS images and keep my pics backed up there and in the cloud, the rest? meh its replaceable. All my games come from steam or GOG so no problems there, my tunes are on multiple drives AND DVDs, so frankly if a drive died tomorrow it really wouldn't affect me.
I can see though why they've stopped having long warranties, i mean what was the size 5 years ago? something like 160gb? How many of the OEMs want to keep a pallet of those things in a warehouse for replacements? And dealing with customers i can tell you its NEVER the drive they care about, its all the data that went tits up that they aren't getting back and nothing the drive manufacturers are gonna do is gonna change that.
So I don't really see a problem here. I again haven't seen any other than the occasional bad batch (like the current Seagate 1Tb Plus 7200RPMs which are shit) that won't make 5 years and most will be looking at a new machine or new drive before that. Once they get the flood mess cleaned up we'll be seeing $35 1Tb drives and $65 2Tb drives again and frankly nobody will give a shit about warranty again.
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Well I'd be worried about Firefox as well, because the malware guys have figured out how to get around their XSS by using a hidden iFrame, which is why if you have any porn watching friends or relatives that use Yahoo Mail + FF you may have been getting spam from them lately. Don't know if it works on FF 9 and since I'm officially on vacation until the middle of next week I'm not gonna be loading a spare box with it and surfing porn vid sites to find out as I got a ton of games and a 6 core and intend to enjoy them! Just to be safe though be sure anybody you know with FF upgrades to the latest.
Since we are on security allow me to say why I wouldn't consider either Safari OR Firefox a suitable browser for Widows 7: Lack of low rights mode. I bet the reason you aren't seeing this on IE nor on the Chromium based (Chrome, Chromium, Dragon, SWIron) is that they support the browser running in low rights mode and that is in fact their default behavior. Now considering that low rights mode has been around for nearly 5 years now there really is no excuse for a modern browser not to support it, especially when as we all know running with least permissions is just good security practice.
So I would say if you are on Safari or Firefox or any other browser other than the Chromium based above look to see if your browser is running in low rights mode. If it is not switch browsers and be sure to drop the developers a line and tell them WHY you are switching away from their browser. It seems like doing the switch for the right reasons (increasing the user's security) will never happen so maybe if enough folks tell them "we won't use your browser because" then they will get off their asses and support this common sense feature.
Wow what a pissy little FOSSie you are! U mad bro? me I'm just having the time of my fucking life! Life is wonderful, got all my Xmas shopping done, all my family is good, all my computers are maxed out, got an assload of games on steam to throw at my new 6 core, and as soon as she is done with her family shindig my GF is gonna come and rock my world so hard i'll be lucky if i can walk straight and there will be a shit eating grin stuck on my face for a month!
So let me leave you with my new happy song! We Wish You A Merry Thuban, We Wish You A Merry Thuban, We Wish You A Merry Thuban, and a happy six coooorrrres! Merry Xmas FOSSie!
For what? We already have to limit the turns on the F15, F16, F18, etc simply because the planes will turn faster than the meatbag can survive, logic says if that is the case the way to make a faster better plane is simply remove the meatbag.
For a few things the old tech was better, for example we really need to build a modern battleship because lobby truck sized shells is cheaper than lobbying multimillion dollar missiles, but the drone is faster, cheaper, can out turn and doesn't get tired. Hell you can have it fly itself using GPS to the battle area and then have a pilot fly it for the mission followed by having the plane fly itself home. And finally the most expensive part of the plane is a pilot and you don't risk those with the drone.
Lets face it, the only reason we are putting meatbags in the things anymore is 1.-Top gun making USAF and USN pilots a great propaganda tool for recruitment, and 2.- The MIC hasn't figured out how to charge "holy fucking shit!" levels of money for the drones like they do the planes. but is dead as disco and the new Russian fighter drone will probably come out too badass for our fighter jocks to keep up with.
First of all don't be pissy when someone is trying to help, I haven't messed with a 701 series in something like 3 years, so sue me if I forgot that was a last gen Celeron instead of a first gen Atom. Either way the chipset is still the same older Intel set which should work just fine under Linux.
As for Windows? Here's your XP drivers, you're welcome. the key to getting around the BS is simply find another unit with the same chipset that DOES have XP drivers and use those. you can also get one of the older versions of Driverpacks or simply go to TPB and download "Windows XP ultimate Driver DVD" which has ALL the major chipsets from EVERY OEM, which means they'll have either the Gateway or Compaq driver and frankly XP don't give a shit, finally another link here that gives a link and description for getting that chip going under XP. Merry Xmas.
Hell why didn't you bring up toasters while you were at it? See its THIS kind of total flag waving horseshit you ALWAYS get from FOSSies. I said it QUITE clearly we were talking about DESKTOPS, not what your cell phone or TV for that matter runs. Newsflash: Nobody gives a shit, hell unless its Apple nobody even knows what the fuck is on their damned cell phone! Its a screen with buttons and THAT IS ALL. Linux is used there because its FREE and with a locked down cell phone nobody gives a flying wet fart what is behind the buttons, just that the buttons work. Supercomputers? Are nothing BUT CLI, that's it. They are trying to squeeze every little drip drop of horsepower they can so no shit they are using a CLI OS. It also again is the fact its FREE and MSFT frankly has always charged assraping prices on their server products.
Now back to the subject at hand, desktops. if your driver model isn't shit then why does Dell have to run their own repos? If it is sooo good then why does a decade old Windows beat the shit out of Linux on netbooks or why has ASUS has given up on your bullshit or why did Walmart run away from linux as fast as it can?
I'll tell you why, its because its too fiddly, too unintuitive, the kernel on up is as solid and stable as the shifting sands, its a geek programmer's toy and NOTHING more ATM. Funny how all the things you mentioned are controlled by......drumroll....geek programmers! who programs cell phone OSes and writes drivers for them? Who sets up Webservers and supercomputers? Why that would be geeky ass nerd programmers! Meanwhile you can't even give the damned thing away for free to normal folks NOR to retailers NOR to OEMs. Doesn't that slap you with the cluebat? or are you too gonna give me a treaty on how "CLI is leet" like this guy?
See i'm the community's worst nightmare, i'm a retailer. i have better things to do than play 'find the fix' on weekends and i don't think staring at your beloved bash prompt is a solution for ANY problem much less EVERY problem. Frankly Windows 98 and System 9 were more polished than the current Linux distros are, and when i have people on this very forum tell me "Well just don't update it" like Linux magically is immune to ALL software exploits? Well i have to think the whole damned bunch has gone stark raving loonie.
Now you be sure to call me a "nigger faggot cocksucker" aka shill troll astroturfer because I dared to point out that after TWENTY YEARS Linux is STILL lower than JavaME. Oh BTW every single lame excuse you used? There is a whole website dedicated to those excuses such as your excuse about supercomputers? Its been there since Dec 2009 so at least try to come up with some new BS, mmmkay?
But will the games work without updating? Don't know as I haven't owned a console since the PS 1 but I frankly wouldn't be surprised if games want to go online to update as everything else does these days. Also many people buy games for the MP such as COD:MW and I'm sure you can't actually play MP on the Sony without PSN can you?
Personally i'm glad i'm out of the whole mess, no more Xboxes, no more PSes, now I have the boys using Steam and GOG and everything is simple and easy. The only trouble I've ever had from either service is when I installed a new CPU and motherboard on my machine steam was having trouble connecting but to their credit I shot off a support email and even with it being the holidays i had someone asking for more details and helping me do a full reset on Steam so it would re-update for the new board in less than 30 minutes.
As far as EULAs they should have to show you it at purchase if you have to agree with it to use the product PERIOD. Because if they don't you've pretty much left the consumer with a catch 22 as many places don't want to give you your money back on a return and even if they do they'll usually zing you for a 15% restock fee so either way you're out money. That is another nice thing about sticking with the PC for gaming as both Steam and GOG gave me their EULAs BEFORE I had spent a single cent in either store. I would much rather be given the EULA up front, where I can read it and decide if it is something i can live with or not, than the shrink wrap bullshit the courts have been letting slide.
Ya see THIS, this right here, is what pisses me off. We had a couple of bicyclists turned into hood ornaments so being nice sensible folks someone put it on the ballot "We should have a nice bike trail that goes from one side of town to the other so they won't have to be in the street" because most of our roads have been laid out over a century ago and even widening them enough for a bike lane would mean destroying protected buildings and landmarks. So we agreed, paid an extra cent in sales tax (which ended right after the money was raised, we are pretty good about that) and we built them a nice bike trail, easily accessible from the church nearby that said those that want to park their cars there and use the trail are welcome, so what do they do?
Promptly continue to drive on the damned street! With the two bike trails there is not a single place in town a bicycle would have to go more than a mile off the trail to get to, not a single one. that was the whole damned point after all, but other than the weekend moms with their kiddies you don't see squat for bikes on the trail, all the adults are on the damned street! Personally I give a thumbs up to every cop i pass that I see writing one of them up, because fair is fair and enough is enough.
It would be different if it was like when i was a kid and there was nothing but two lanes everywhere but when the city bends over backwards and the people pay an extra cent on every purchase for over a year just to build you a nice way to get across town and you ignore it? Well you ought to get a free steak dinner if you knock one of the little arrogant pricks over.
Wouldn't happen to have a link? all I found under mingW search was links to the compiler. i've tried Pale Moon (which is an SSE optimized FF) but frankly it really didn't seem to help much. You'd think that being a FOSS browser they would use a FOSS toolchain like GCC or Open64 but if they are using the Intel compiler that would explain why FF runs like shit on AMD.
All I know is it seems to do a lot less spiking on this old 1.6GHz P4 I'm working on for a customer than my brand new E-350 or even my 6 core Thuban so I have to wonder if its not something they are doing which makes it favor Intel CPUs. Since I no longer sell Intel CPUs since it came out they were bribing OEMs that makes the current FF a non starter for me, but both Chromium and Dragon seem to be CPU agnostic. If this Mingw build you are talking about allows FF or Seamonkey either one to run well on AMD chips i'll be happy to add it to my freeware CD I give to every customer as well as try it myself, as I do try to spread free software where i can.
Actually MMOs have been around since Nevercrack and Evercrack dude, its just Warcrack is the most famous but now here comes Starcrack!
Personally i never did get the whole MMO thing, let me loose in Just Cause II or HL 2 and hand me a large weapon and i'm a happy camper but frankly my oldest says the new Star Wars is a blast. he's been playing it for like a month now, first as a beta player and then we got him the full shebang for Xmas so he could get in early and he's just having a ball. His main character is a bounty hunter so he isn't aligned to one side or another, whatever the hell that means, but as long as he is having fun that's what matters.
Still to me nothing can measure up to getting into my Monster truck in just Cause II and running over villagers, "up on the sidewalk bonk bonk bonk" as the bodies go flying, or using my jetpack to pop out the sky like batman and whiz some old lady that smarted off to me off the side of a mountain. its the little things you see, you just got to take the time and enjoy the senseless death.
But if going on "quests" and fulfilling "objectives" instead of slaughtering entire towns is what makes you happy? Well it does look nice and seems to play well even on wifi, and the sounds do sound like the movies. Personally I don't see how he can want to go 'pew pew" at bad guys with a blaster when he could be in JCII strapping remote charges onto passersby and watching them scream as they run down the street while you decide when to set them off, but hey, its Xmas and if it makes the little guy happy who am i to argue?
I have, kinda sad really. They pretty much HAD to keep the guy since he was the only one that knew the old machines and the old code running on said old machines but when I was changing out his gear during the upgrade cycle I could hear him muttering "Is that VB, no that's C, now why did i put Java in there?" and you could see he was starting to struggle to keep the stuff straight in his head.
I'm just glad i was only doing the work to help out an overworked friend and didn't have to be there when they finally let him go, because he really was a sweet old guy, just as nice as nice could be, but you could tell he was spending more time trying to figure out what language went where than he was actually coding. You just hate to see something like that, you really do. Its almost like watching a prize fighter that was good back in the day trying to keep going and you just want to tell him "stay down man, c'mon, just let it go already" because you know when they finally have to let the guy go its just gonna be sad and bitter and ugly.
Ya know, I think that is what actually killed space exploration right there. To rip off a line from Right Stuff "Folks want Buck Rogers" and we started sending school teachers and math nerds. Glenn, Lovell, these guys had big fucking brass balls. I mean have you ever listened to the actual "Houston we've had a problem" recordings? I mean the guy is pretty damned calm when you consider half his damned ship just blew away. Hell I bet they could get a good 100 test pilot volunteers for a trip to Mars even if they were told it was a one way trip and they were gonna have to build their own house when they got there!
So I agree, we're gonna have to let private enterprise do it simply because Americans don't have the stomach for killing astronauts and astronauts WILL die, its a hellishly dangerous profession and shit WILL go wrong. That is why it frankly wouldn't surprise me if that station in Italy was right and the USSR didn't leave dead cosmonauts floating out in space somewhere because the USSR was like "Next!" and didn't seem to have a problem taking a shot with some risky gear if that was what it took. That doesn't mean we should just strap guys to a Minuteman and light the fuse, but anytime you strap yourself to a giant bomb shit CAN go wrong and sooner or later WILL go wrong. Having to shut down a program for several years if there is a mistake simply throws everything back too far so the Dragon team would probably be a better choice now that a country that is so afraid of losing even a single guy.
Thanks for the advice, just a couple of questions: Does it support ABP? And NoScript? I have ABP in Dragon but I do miss NoScript, frankly NoScript on my XP machine was the reason i tried to keep FF for so long.
And notice how quickly the fangirls squicked and modded me down? Is there a SINGLE thing I posted that hasn't been known since the dawn of time? Is there ANYBODY here that didn't know that FF runs like shit on AMD, that it spikes the CPU on single cores and netbooks and that it goes through memory like crap through a goose? Its not like I just made this stuff up off the top of my head folks, I can sit here and watch my mem and CPU load in AnVir Task Manager and literally typing this text in FF causes the CPU to jump with each keystroke!
Seriously when typing in a fricking text box causes CPUs to bounce like a hooptie on air shocks to quote the old K's Choice song "Something's Wrong". But I didn't try to push Dragon which is my main browser now, I sincerely hope one day FF devs will get their shit together and bring back the FF of yore. Frankly I could deal with memory leaks, its the CPU spikes I simply can't tolerate anymore. When I lose a good 40 minutes on the battery because it keeps slamming my E-350? "Something's Wrong".
Bullshit, if it weren't for competition we'd be on Windows 1.0 and System 2 running on $5k a piece machines that were slow as shit with tiny drives that cost crazy money.
The ONLY reason I have a 6 core CPU with 8Gb of RAM and 3Tb of HDD space along with a 20Mbps connection to type this on is because somebody said "Holy shit! If I don't come out with something better I'm fucking toast!" and ya know what? IT WORKS. We've seen in the past what happens with no competition, see old Ma Bell aka stagnation. Without competition you get either fixing or monopolies, either one sucks ass for the consumer.
Hell I'd argue that's why Linux is stuck dead last and going nowhere, its because there is ZERO competition! All it is is itch scratching and everybody and their dog just repacking the same shit into a different box, that's all. They ALL suffer from the same fiddliness, the same lack of features (WTF is it nearly 2012 and STILL there isn't a "find drivers" or "rollback drivers" button?) the same everything. I could load a dozen different distros and say "Quick, name them" and I doubt VERY seriously anybody would be able to name squat as long as I didn't pick the Ubuntu with Unity.
So I'd say you are about as opposite as opposite can get. Competition is what lights a fire under developers asses, competition is what lowers prices, competition is why I have an insanely overpower computer for less than $800 and competition is why we all aren't sitting in front of 8086 machine looking at DOS prompts. I'd say a little, hell no, a LOT of competition is EXACTLY what Linux needs to whip itself into shape to score big on the 2014 changeover but sadly I'm betting most will do as you say and it'll just be the same shit and bugs on a different day and the 'differences' will amount to Coke VS Pepsi.
But doesn't the Linux community always say you should buy a machine based around Linux? That is why I always say Linux is more like Mac than Windows, as Windows will run on anything and Linux like Mac is picky as hell about hardware. Pretty much the only thing I've had luck with linux on has been older Intel chipsets so maybe one of the first gen Atom netbooks would be more your style, for example the EEE 701 actually came with Linux so therefor have drivers.
As for suspend/resume, you talking hybrid sleep? probably be better off using plain old hibernate. That's what i use with my win 7 netbook and with 8Gb of RAM shutdown takes a minute but startup is pretty fast and most importantly doesn't use the hard drive nearly as much as a cold boot so I get more battery life. But if the Vista driver exists it'll work in 7 as well as long as it matches the bit, I myself am using the Vista drivers for my cap card simply because they support hybrid sleep better than the Win 7 driver does.
But if it is more than a couple of years old I don't recommend Win 7 anyway, its more for new units than older hardware. If you do want Win 7 you didn't get this idea from me but I'd suggest "Win 7 Tiny Edition" as frankly that guy puts out versions of Windows that put Windows Embedded to shame. His version of Win 7 is snappy as hell on a 1Ghz with less than 512Mb of RAM and on 1Gb or better it flies even faster than XP thanks to the better memory management. You lose WMC and some of the more useless crap like language packs but the tradeoff is you get a version of Windows that runs like a scalded dog. Hell his version of XP and 2K3 frankly flies on a 500Mhz with 256Mb of RAM and on anything more its a speed demon.
Maybe you ought to look up "Windows Ultimate DVD" off of TPB which gives you 4 versions of 2K/XP/2K3 all on a single DVD with driverpacks. Just pick the version you want, launch the .bat and tada! Instant ISO with the features you chose, really neat. With that and Tiny 7 you can run Windows on pretty much any machine still able to boot and run it quite well. I've used the license swap trick to load tiny XP on several laptops and even on 5 year old single cores it is beyond snappy and frankly great for battery life. Kinda sad when the hacked version is better than the legit, but MSFT has never been known for making light anything.
Oh man I'm right there with you because I HATE bicyclists with a passion! Here once you get off the main drags many of the roads are two lane and do the bikes pull over when they start backing up traffic? Or maybe push their bikes up steep hills where they are lucky to get 5MPH? Not a chance in hell pal, they act like they own the road. I personally thought I was gonna die laughing when i saw one weaving through stopped traffic at a light and miss seeing a pebble in the road and just face planted right in front of me, I thought "Ha! Karma is a bitch ain't it?"
It would be different if they obeyed traffic laws as i have NO problem with SHARING the road, but the bicyclists don't share shit, they act like the entire road system is their personal playtoy and the rest of the world has nothing better to do than stare at their ass for a good half hour. I'm just glad to see that after we put in that designated bike trail that goes from one end of town to the other the cops have started pulling the bikes over and handing them tickets for impeding traffic. There really is no excuse when we agreed to and paid for a beautiful smooth as glass bike trail to be wasting everyone's time and increasing traffic risks.
Too far, the best place to set one up, so we could learn from the building and apply that knowledge to future projects, would be to build one on the dark side of the moon and use a sat in orbit of the moon to relay the data to earth. While we were there we could do some small scale mining of H3 and see how feasible it would be to set up a mining operation.
Remember for anything in space you really need to start with baby steps and work your way up. After all we didn't just shoot some guys to the moon, we had several earth orbits and shot probes to check out landing sites long before we sent actual people out there. As we learned from the shuttle disasters the American public simply doesn't have the stomach for killing astronauts which is why i wouldn't be surprised if China or India are the next ones out there and will just lie their asses off if it turns out to be a failure. "Nope didn't send nobody, it was a sat that malfunctioned!". Hell according to that amateur monitoring station in Italy that's what the USSR did in the 60s.
Well I just installed it on my download box to give it a test run and I can say its an improvement....if you call slamming the CPU to 80% on page load instead of 100% an improvement. Frankly its still a piggie on single cores and it still looks like it don't like AMD.
Frankly I don't get it, I was a die hard FF user all the way up to FF 4 and it wasn't THAT bad on CPU spiking, now I scroll through my bookmarks and watch the CPU meter jump, pick a page and watch the CPU meter jump, new tab? you get the idea. Meanwhile I've been using Comodo Dragon (based on chromium) and frankly the WORST it slams the CPU is 60% when loading SD vids and even then it quickly drops down to less than 50%. Hell not having anything but the FF static search page loaded has me using 10% in FF and I just attempted to watch an SD video and FF jumped to 89% and hovered there. I will give them credit that 89% IS better than 100% and in their favor the video wasn't skipping like it did under version 8, but I tried the same video under Dragon and it maxes at 45% even with 4 other tabs open (FF just had the one).
While I'm glad they are making progress at this rate they'll be back to 100% usable by FF 14 and by then will they have any users left? By FF 6 I had most of my customers switch over to Dragon simply so I wouldn't need to hear their gripes about lack of speed and it was/is safer due to supporting low rights mode in 7. Does FF support low rights mode yet? Its been 5 years already!
C'mon FF devs, you guys used to kick butt, now you seem determined to run off all your users. if I didn't know better I'd swear that the head of Mozilla was a plant from the Chrome or IE teams, but no, I'm sure its just classic "we know better than our users" arrogance we've seen sadly far too often on FOSS projects. Personally as a long time FF user I wish them all the best and will download and install each new version hoping for a return to their original mission statement, which was for FF to be a lean light browser while the suite was the heavy one, but sadly the way their numbers are declining I wouldn't be surprised if FF was a dead project in 5 years. They don't listen to their customers, they blow through too much resources, and they lack security features like low rights mode (not to mention the malware guys seem to have figured out away around FF's XSS protection as evidenced by the porn bug that loads Yahoo Mail from FF and spams a person's address book) while their competition seems to be getting tighter all the time. I wish them all the luck but it may be too little too late.
Exactly. Also a good place to get info? your local mom&pop shop. We have to keep our ears to the ground because if we build crap systems it ruins our reps and rep is everything so we are constantly trawling looking for info.
That is how I know the one bad 1Tb from Seagate i got wasn't a fluke (just glad it was for a spare box I was building for later sale and gave it my usual stress test before selling it) as you can go to any of the forums where builders hang out (like Tom's hardware) or hell even newegg and check the reviews and you'll see a TON of "This &^*&^ Seagate died before i could even get an OS on it!" and the word going around is they are using crappy ARM supplies from maxtor along with lousy firmware and that is causing all their above 640Gb drives (below 640Gb are using better ARM chips and firmware) to crap out so easily and THAT is why even with a shortage you are seeing deals like Tiger had last week where you could get a 1Tb Seagate for like $60.
so while you are right that backups rule, it don't really help to go RAID if all your drives are shit. that is why i recommend on every new drive you use spinrite (best $$ I ever spent) on lvl 2, all this does is a standard read/write cycle and reports the results and if it finds several bad sectors? its shit. The nice thing about spinrite is it simply goes sector by sector and ignores the firmware, i've found that certain drives (like Seagate) will frankly put up with some crazy fail numbers and simply release cache from the reserve without saying squat. but it only takes around 1 hour for a 1Tb drive with nothing on it for spinrite to do a read/write report on it and it makes ALL the difference when it comes to finding OOTB duds.
And that would make it different than today when i nearly got ran over by a moron playing with his cell....how exactly? when I was a kid we were taught "This is a 2000 pound weapon, you treat it like a weapon and respect it or someone could die, maybe you, maybe someone else" and even then we still liked to drive fast but today? Jesus tap dancing christ I've not seen a bigger bunch of dipshits in my entire life than what I see on the road every damned day! Dipshit men playing with their phones, dipshit women putting on makeup AND playing with their phones, its like moron bumper cars out there pal!
That is why the other day when I saw my oldest a couple of car lengths ahead of me (and I knew he couldn't see me from where i was at) and saw him pull over into a lot and get out i just had to pull in behind him. I just knew why he had pulled in but when I asked him and he said "Somebody called me so i was pulling over so I could return the call" i immediately pulled out a twenty and handed it to him, saying "Having a brain is a damned rare thing in this world, smarts should be rewarded".
Frankly i'm all for Google car because at its worst it can't be as dangerous as the braintrusts on our roads. With my oldest taking 18 hours next semester its not HIS driving I worry about every day, its the dipshits with too many toys and not enough functional brain cells. If the Google car takes the keys away from even 20% of these numbnuts frankly the accidents will plummet, and that can only be of the good.
Now ya see THAT is what I don't get. Now wasn't the whole point of breaking up AT&T to get rid of the " giant money sucking lousy service lucky if we get around to it 3 weeks from Tuesday wallet raping nickle and diming royal PITA with customer service that hell wouldn't have" one size fits nobody phone service? so WTF?
I have watched AT&T reform like the damned T-1000 and as someone who has to deal with their sorry asses on behalf of customers frankly I've seen third tier Bangalore cue card readers with better service and you could probably get better coverage from a CB radio than their damned overloaded towers. Its bad enough i had to get dad one of those mini cell towers that plugs into his DSL (which thankfully comes from someone else) just so he could use his damned cell phone without walking down to the corner in the cold just to get reception!
Frankly I don't know whose bright idea it was to let AT&T get back together but I think I'd rather see the return of Enron or Worldcom than lousy ass AT&T. so let me say congrats T-mobile users,lucky bastards .As someone stuck in an AT&T only area let me say i wouldn't wish AT&T on my worst enemy, be thankful and consider this reprieve a most glorious Xmas prezzie, because you could have been in for a world of suck!
Uhhh...that is where i got mine for my E-350 as well as the legacy Radeon (damn I can't think of the number, X200 maybe?) which was in the legacy section. And it also says right here on the AMD page graphics-notebook. But if you are truly having a hard time finding a driver feel free to list the make and model and i'll be happy to find them for you, or you can just go to Driverpacks and download the one that says "mobile' which has AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. i think it may have SiS as well, not sure.
Hell I use yahoo mail so my password might as well be "email" for all the good it would probably do.
Seriously though, who fricking cares? if you are in a business that is actually passing important messages then your IT dept better damned well have that covered and as for everybody else? i doubt seriously the feds are gonna give a rat's ass about the tiger and Newegg sales email, nor my back and forth with Steam support when Steam didn't like my new board, and i know they surely don't care about the family pics I've stored a copy of in my email, unless there is some national secret involving my late sister and a kitten i don't know about.
If anything I'd think encryption would throw up a big red flag whereas everything else is just one big old giant pile of noise. Hell if you wanted to hide anything just put it in the spam folder, not like anybody will find shit in the bazillion "you want teh big penis?' ads and fake pharmacy crapola everybody gets dumped in there. Hey that would make some kick ass stenography wouldn't it? Just hide everything in "you want teh big wiener?" ads!
What amazes me is how many here think wonderfully of the shuttle when it was a massive failure by every conceivable metric. Watch the videos of Nixon talking about it, the plan was for a heavy lifter "space truck" that could take care of ALL the military's needs AND the civilian sector AND have a fast enough turn around that it would lower the cost per pound into space.
Did it fulfill the military's needs? Nope it couldn't carry enough and cost too much so they stuck with the Delta. Did it fulfill the civilian need? Not really as the Soyuz could do it much cheaper. what about lowering the cost per pound? BWA HA HA HA HA HA not even close on that one.
And that is of course before looking at the clusterfuck that was building the thing as every senator Porkus and congressman Kickbackus had to get a little chunk of the work to 'bring home teh bacon!" so it was spread all over hell and MUCH more expensive than it needed to be.
At this point frankly i think we should toss not only the shuttle but the money pit that is the F35 and just ask the Russians how much they will sell us some SU27s along with MiG31s and have them throw in some Soyuz rockets while they are at it. i bet the total would be less for the whole smash than just the shuttle by itself cost.
Well as a little system builder I can say I've been bit in the ass by several of the bad batches, the Seagate 1Tb, The Maxtor diamondmax 200gb of a few years ago, the worst being the Maxtors they put in the optiplex of 2000, boy that was a POS.
Sadly the best two drive manufacturers are getting out of the biz, and that's Samsung and Hitachi. Hitachi made some damned solid server drives and Samsung drives I've frankly put in places i'd never have the guts to put a Seagate or WD, places like construction sites and warehouse PCs, and damned if those babies don't keep right on humming through the grit and the vibration. I'm just glad i loaded all my machines with Samsung EcoDrives before the big flood screwed the prices, in Aug I was getting them at $35 for 1Tb and $65 for 2Tb.
My advice is if you can find them score some Samsung or Hitachi drives before they are all gone, especially the Samsung EcoDrives. they were so good on cache management that I found their 1Tb EcoDrive beat the 400gb Seagate even though the Seagate was 7200RPM and the EcoDrive was only 5400RPM. They just made damned solid drives and the Eco series runs a good 20 degrees cooler than the Seagates in my own personal tests. after that I'd take WD and Seagate dead last, simply because after they bought out Maxtor their QA went to shit, especially on their drives over 640Gb. The rumor is its the cheap ass Maxtor ARM controllers and firmware that is causing them to go tits up, but a dead duck is a dead duck and I've had too many problems from those drives to mess with 'em anymore. If its Seagate it'll be sub 500gb or not at all for me.
You are forgetting one friend:
4. Size and Price. Most people frankly aren't gonna give a second thought to anything but size and price, you can trumpet your warranty to the high heavens but if the other guys offers a 2Tb for $50 even if it has a 30% failure rate after 1 years the average users are gonna run right over you to get to the cheap fatty.
You are right though that in a commodity market frankly nobody really gives a shit. all the OEMs care about is the majority survive past the OEM warranty and honestly with the exception of the occasional bad batches most drives easily make 5 years whereas most folks are upgrading or replacing after 3 so again warranty doesn't really matter.
I tell my customers to either have me get or pick up on their own a USB drive and backup often, and data they consider "must never lose" like family pictures have backed up in multiple locations including the cloud. I personally keep a 1Tb USB for OS images and keep my pics backed up there and in the cloud, the rest? meh its replaceable. All my games come from steam or GOG so no problems there, my tunes are on multiple drives AND DVDs, so frankly if a drive died tomorrow it really wouldn't affect me.
I can see though why they've stopped having long warranties, i mean what was the size 5 years ago? something like 160gb? How many of the OEMs want to keep a pallet of those things in a warehouse for replacements? And dealing with customers i can tell you its NEVER the drive they care about, its all the data that went tits up that they aren't getting back and nothing the drive manufacturers are gonna do is gonna change that.
So I don't really see a problem here. I again haven't seen any other than the occasional bad batch (like the current Seagate 1Tb Plus 7200RPMs which are shit) that won't make 5 years and most will be looking at a new machine or new drive before that. Once they get the flood mess cleaned up we'll be seeing $35 1Tb drives and $65 2Tb drives again and frankly nobody will give a shit about warranty again.