Bah, for nearly 2000 years Christianity has been like a salad bar, with churches and groups just picking and choosing what they want to follow and ignoring the rest. that's probably why the fanatical Muslims hate us, because if the Christians actually followed the entire book they'd be a hell of a lot more like Muslims.
After all when was the last time you heard THIS in a Christian church? "And after Sister Brenda leads us in a rousing rendition of 'Onward Christian Soldiers' I want everyone to pick up some nice fist sized stones for the adulterer stoning, followed by our annual potluck supper"? Because i can't seem to remember hearing of ANY church having a good stoning, even though it says quite clearly you should, along with selling thieves as slaves if they don't have the funds to pay back for their transgression.
Lets face it: Ain't nobody followed that damned book in centuries, they just choose the parts that appeal to whatever group they want to control and toss the rest. See the current attacks on gays and compare it to the many "fine upstanding churches" that were using the bible as justification for keeping blacks as a lower race (the curse of Ham) and you'll see its just the same shit, different target.
Huh, must be different where I'm at because its nearly always "hubby/wifey got a new one" which I know is true because when i tell them what I do I ALWAYS get "Hey, can you tell me how to (insert transfer files, settings, etc) to the new one?". I've even had them bring their new one with them and have sat in the outdoor area of Mickey d's with my crossover cable letting them drag stuff off before they hand it over.
as for the chip swap? *&^%*&^%*&^%*&%! I finally got tired of cursing the evil thing and hit the Newegg, i got me a new Asrock board on the way that says it giant neon letters SUPPORTS SIX CORE CPU so surely to all that is good THAT one will work. And since its a SB710 SB and my old one was a SB700 SB I'm hoping I may not even lose Windows with this one. And on the plus side it supports crossfire and takes my DDR 2 RAM so I might actually end up with a nicer box. damned thing better be nice, my $120 chip upgrade is now up to like $240 counting the board and the new HSF. I learnt my lesson though, no more upgrades! If I want a new chip i build a new box!
You ever see a bronto buddy? That's one big assed cow right there. you don't think having plant eaters the size of buildings didn't create some major stinkies? I bet that whole era smelt worse than the bean eating scene in Blazing Saddles!
As for TFA? Burn it, either capture and burn or just light it, since either method would be a net win on greenhouse effect and we are already developing plenty of ways to deal with carbon. you can store it, bury it, even feed it to algae and make fuel out of it, but methane is worse than carbon. The best method of course would be to burn it for electricity, if done right we could feed the carbon output to algae and then use it again to power vehicles but being in the arctic it may not be cost effective. better to get rid of it one way or another than let it go.
I notice you didn't have the balls to back up your opinion with an account, kinda sad that. As for says who? Show me a SINGLE THING that we have bought in the past 30 damned years that has come in ON TIME and UNDER BUDGET. Hell our last truly decent plane was the F/a-18 Hornet and that came from the same 70s cook off that gave us the also excellent F-16. The F-22 is a fricking money sink, with a flyaway cost of something like 370 odd million and has already had to be grounded once already, the F35 you are bragging about has more problems than a Kardashian marriage and looks to cost us another assload of cash before the thing will even fly.
Meanwhile the SU 27 has something like a 30 million flyaway cost, the MiG31 for $60 million, which means our enemies are gonna be able to put up TEN planes for every ONE of ours. That ain't good, as we saw in WWII when Germany could put up frankly better aircraft like the BF109 G and the BF 262 but simply was overwhelmed by our cheap as dirt Thunderbolts and Mustangs the guy that can throw more planes into the air usually wins. Add in the fact that china has snatched most of our best tricks thanks to both the F-117 they dug up in Kosovo along with the stealth chopper and now the drone in TFA which I have NO doubt they'll be making deals with Iran for full access, means the current clusterfuck isn't doing anyone but MIC CxOs any good.
I think you misunderstand dude, when I say "minibike" I mean with actual gasoline motors, goes about 50MPH. I actually didn't learn to ride a pedal bike until I was 11 because i always had a motorbike. my first bike was a Honda 50 minitrail at 5 years old! Everyone called it the mad bee for the sound that thing made, a high pitched 'meeeeeer' as i whiped through our little town (pop 350 on a good day). Lucky for mom we had a collie or she'd have never been able to get me home! She'd just stick her head out and tell the dog "Go fetch him for supper" and Ruffles would go flying after the sound and when he caught me he'd bark at me and head towards the house. Man I miss that dog, nothing like a really smart dog.
I agree though that parents go too damned far the other way. I had a little girl bump into me and the grocery store and when I said "excuse me little miss" I actually heard her momma say "stranger danger". Well needless to say I went off like an atom bomb on that mom and told her that if she and the other parents would be more worried about teaching their kids good manners instead of being afraid of invisible bogeymen the world would be a better place, all the people in the store cheered. Its sad things have gotten so stupid that when one of the children downstairs held the door open for me when I was loaded down and said "here you go sir" i actually went and knocked on his mom's door just to tell her what a polite and well mannered child she had.
Its just nuts, no wonder so many kids are fat and diabetic, their damned parents won't even let them go play anymore! We rode motorbikes, ran like wild injuns, did we get hurt? Hell yes, but what don't get you makes you stronger and gives you some killer stories to go with the scars, like the time I am sitting in an ER with a nice little puddle of blood in front of me where I did a faceplant at 60MPH thanks to a damned dog trying to bite my front wheel, and I'm sitting next to a kid that is holding the holes in his throat together where he popped over a field into a barb wire fence on a 3 wheeler, and we are both just laughing our asses off higher than kites because the ER doc took one look at the two of us and said "Look I know that has GOT to hurt but we had some kids flip a convertible and couple of them are missing limbs, so if I give you two a shot of morphine will you be alright?" We just looked at each other and stuck out our arms and were laughing like loons inside of 10 minutes, good stuff that morphine.
Kids today in their sterile little living spaces just don't know what fun is. My boys rode bikes (sadly their mother wouldn't let me get them the motor kind after my little face plant, I told her losing a few inches of skin builds character) and went swimming with the fishes in actual creeks, they had FUN dammit! It did them good too, as age may have finally got up with me and given me the family beer belly both boys are lean and trim and the oldest is constantly being asked out by the little campus cuties.
Oh don't forget lawn darts, the "Hey lets throw sharp stakes at each other!" toy for the whole family, hell they even had a "Mr Atomic" chem set, I wonder if those kids glow in the dark now?
This reminds me of the old SNL bit, anybody remember Akroyd getting grief over his company's toys like "Johnny switchblade" or the "human torch" costume which was just some gas soaked rags and some matches?
But compared to the stuff we had when I was a kid the stuff on the list is a fricking joke! heck when I was a kid we all had minibikes starting as young as 5! Nobody wore helmets, everybody had ramps, the answer to every injury was "put a bandaid on it" and we all drove like maniacs! I can still remember buzzing around my small town at 8 with a giant 8 track duct taped to the handlebars so I could blast Kiss Alive II as I scared the neighbors dogs. We all had lawn darts and played with fireworks and yet we all managed to survive just fine!
I have to wonder if this isn't just "the march of the morons" at play here, as we at least had enough common sense not to do things REALLY stupid. Nowadays it seems like we are trying to babyproof the planet, are kids really THAT much stupider than when we were kids?
Frankly while I liked some of the features when Firefox went bloaty so did Songbird naturally so I switched to Kantaris and since its based on VLC it is NOT bloaty. Its also FOSS so if anybody wants to code a Linux or Mac version feel free! Its really nice BTW, great UI and makes handling large media libraries quite friendly. I give it to all my customers still on XP (those on 7 like me are happy with the new WMP) and they are quite pleased.
TFA does show one of the nice things about FOSS though, if somebody cares about a piece of software and has the skills it can continue, even if the devs quit giving a shit. KDE 3, GNOME 2, still alive thanks to those that liked them over the new bling bling heavy versions. I'll probably get hate for asking this but WTF, what is it with Linux DEs lately? I thought Linux was supposed to be the LIGHT OS, now with KDE 4, Gnome Shell, and Unity it looks like you guys are trying to give MSFT a run in the "pointless bling bling bullshit" dept, what gives? At the rate things are going by gnome 4/KDE 5 you'll need a quad and GPU with 1Gb of RAM just to run the desktop. Geez if you want to rip something off of MSFT rip the jumplists or breadcrumbs, not the bloat.
Oh please, if you could excuse "Die Harder: Die Hard II" with its opening of nekkid terrorist butt then you can excuse ANYTHING! Hey at least in Die Hard 4 all you had to put up with was the stoner kid and technobabble, not an Iran-Contra style plot so full of holes and lucky coincidences that it made Judge Dredd look like high art by comparison!
As for TFA? "America pays out the ass for weapons tech easily hacked by your average geek stoner, news at 11. Here is Cindy with the weather: Water is wet, back to you Bill". Is anybody surprised? Our tech has been absolute shite for what? 25 years or so now? It costs out the ass and rarely does what its supposed to, but the overruns pad enough CxOs pockets they can afford a mountain of coke and a hundred beautiful hookers tits to snort it off of. Ever since the cold war ended our MIC has been a clusterfuck, hell probably even before. We just don't get a good deal for our dollar anymore, too many kickbacks and payoffs and not enough cracking heads.
Not really as superfetch is based on usage patterns. lets say that every weekday i launch Chrome, and on every weekend I launch WMP, what superfetch will do is load Chrome during the week, replacing that with WMP on weekends. basically the longer you use the PC the "smarter" it gets about your usage patterns and the better it will be at predicting what you are gonna launch. For example my PC knows I launch Paragon to make a backup on the day after patch Tuesday so it'll be loaded into RAM the second Wednesday of every month like clockwork waiting for me.
I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to cook up something similar in Linux, I've just never heard of anyone doing it. When superfetch came out with Vista there were several projects started but IIRC they are all dead code on sourceforge now. Shame as it is a nice feature.
Honestly? I haven't quite figured out the HOW of it, only that it starts with an invisible iFrame, and that it only seems to work on Yahoo+FF. BTW you do NOT have to be logged into the account for it to work, it'll get your pword from FF and load it up in the iFrame.
I know this because after getting complaints from users (and getting a few of their spams even though I had checked and their machines were clean) so I set up a dummy Yahoo mail account, made sure that was the ONLY account in a clean FF install, and then loaded a few of my spam dump email accounts into the mail account and watching the accounts on another box with a KVM switch. I found that it didn't matter whether you were logged in, didn't matter if you had ABP but NoScript did seem to stop them but only when it was set to most aggressive which makes web pages into static pages.
If you are a web coder or white hat please figure this out because i know if I better understood the machanism they are using I could better design defense. But I'm not a coder or a security guy, just a humble fixit guy, so all I can do is report on what I've found. In my little informal test I used Chromium, Dragon, Opera, QTWeb, and IE 8 and ONLY FF had spam coming to my spam dump, only one. So obviously they have figured out how to do XSS on FF without triggering the alarm, its the how i have no clue about.
But if you want to see how bad it is load up FF in a sandbox or VM so you don't have to worry about malware and put a password lock on the password account and start surfing the porn sites like Youtube and Redporn and see how often the password lock pops up wanting your password. i found that on some pages as many as NINE password lock dialog boxes would come up!
For those that like QT, or just want a really cool browser that runs on a thumbstick, runs on Win98-Win 7, as well as Linux and Mac might I suggest QTWeb which is what you get when you combine QT and Webkit? I keep it on my thumbstick as my "go to" browser and its damned nice, QT makes excellent GUIs and of course Webkit is a damned fast engine.
As for TFA even though I'm primarily a Windows guy let me be the first to say thanks QT developers, your framework is one of the nicer ones out there and every program I've used based on QT has been a pleasant experience. You guys do top notch work and I for one am appreciative.
Craigslist Barb, you'd be surprised how cheap you can buy a lappy off of CL and you'll often get a nicer one that what you had. in my local CL they are several core2duo lappys selling for less than $150. Personally though, if it were me? Wait until after the silly season and score yourself one of these EEE E-350 netbooks. Man it is sweeeeeet! It has ExpressGate built in which is an uberlightweight Linux that gets 8 hours on the battery, it gets 6 hours running full HD videos under Win 7, 320Gb HDD gives you tons of space, oh and it supports VT so you can even run VMS on it and it only cost $34 to max this puppy out with 8Gb of RAM! How sweet is that? She only weisghs 2.8 pounds too so its easy peasy to lug. After having a Zacate netbook I wouldn't go back to a full size again, no way. Oh and I heard the support for ATI under Linux is getting WAAAAAY better, and if they have a fully running ExpressGate I don't see why running a vanilla distro would be ANY harder. They also have the OD pre partitioned as a 100Gb Win 7 and 200Gb data partition, so slapping on other OSes should be easy peasy.
BTW flashed the BIOS and *&$*&*&%$*&$%!!!!!! It STILL won't take the damned thuban! I had to call a customer and borrow a PCI to SATA card in the probably vain hope that I can boot Windows off it (Protip: NEVER EVER switch between ATI and Nvidia boards, that way leads to badness!) and if not I'll probably be looking at a couple of WEEKS to get everything back like I like it...&%(*%%*&%!!!!
I did learn a valuable lesson though: If a chip was not released BEFORE the board? NEVER buy it, I don't care what the website says! Damn you lying board manufacturers! Now I don't have time to send this chip back and get a quad because MY quad is going in my dad's PC and HIS quad is going in my GF's and I sure as hell ain't running no damned Sempron while I wait so now its down to a $15 PCI to SATA card. C'mon cheapo Chinese crap, save my behind!
IF you were on XP that explains it as XP doesn't really HAVE a low rights mode which kinda hamstrings most AV. But with Comodo PLUS Avast PLUS ABP and Win 7 I haven't found a single site that I could get past the filters. Do you have the link? It'll be a few hours until I can run it because &^(*%&^%*(&% Windows 7 is gonna end up needing reinstalled thank to my having to yank my damned board to put this new Thuban chip in and all I had lying around was an Nvidia board.
Protip: Nvidia boards FUCKING SUCK and don't even support AHCI and Windows 7 DOES NOT LIKE switching between ATI and Nvidia boards apparently. My XP partition will boot, although its hopelessly crippled because the change has somehow killed its ability to make temp folders so I can't install the drivers for the new board, and Win 7 gets about 3/4ths of the way before BSOD 0x00007b which is AHCI. Hell the bitch won't even load in safe mode....FUCK!
Here is a valuable lesson Billy I learned the hard way...if a chip isn't released BEFORE the board? Don't fucking bother, it doesn't matter if their damned website says its supported or not, they are full of shit. If I can't get her to boot off this PCI to SATA card I'm about to pop in 3 years worth of work is gonna go down the shitter. Sure I have all my data on a different drive but do you have ANY idea how many programs a 3 year old Windows 7 install has? Man if I would have known this I would have just stayed with the quad. But it'll cost more to send back and I don't have time to wait on a replacement quad so I must soldier on.
BTW MSE ONLY catches by scan on dload it does NOT do scan before display which means that any drivebys work just fine under MSE, i've seen it with my own eyes. Its NOT an AV BTW, its just Giant Antispy bought and rebranded by MSFT.
While I agree that the larger registers are worth having, I personally have been running X64 since XP X64 beta, the poster I was responding to said there wasn't any point for general users to go x64, that it was basically for Linux (hinting that it was programmers that needed it) and those really slamming the machine. When I first went to X64 I only had 2Gb of RAM but it STILL made a difference, especially in video transcoding.
But now even grandma gets major advantages for running X64, with superfetch and the new Windows memory management every drop of that RAM will be put to good use speeding up the OS and preloading programs that are often used.
You'd think though that someone would write a superfetch for Linux, it shouldn't be hard, just keep a list of what programs are run and when and if RAM is left empty to cache those programs. If the user launches them it'll call them from RAM, and if the user launches a program that needs the RAM dump the cache. I'm sure it would be a little more complex than that to implement but that's the basics of it.
I have a nephew on XP X64 and I myself used it until Win 7 Beta and its a great OS. Of course its not really a consumer OS, its just WinServer 2K3 X64 with an XP skin which may explain why its built like a tank but I agree it was a good one. Protip: if you find something without a driver look for server 2K3 drivers, you'd be surprised how many things had server 2K3 drivers.
I don't think that XP X64 is faster than Win 7, it just does less. its like the difference between a stripped down model a VS a fully loaded Camaro 2012, sure the Model A is gonna be faster, and freeze your balls off with not having a heater, or top, or a windshield that is made of safety glass. the new ride has all that and GPS, kicking stereo, you just get more stuff. Win 7 has jumplists, breadcrumbs, better memory management, readyboost and superfetch, its just doing a HELL of a lot more than XP X64.
I could strip XP X64 down to something like 6 processes and a good 90% of the features remained functional simply because there wasn't much to it. The lowest I seem to be able to strip Win 7 is about 20 without losing features I like. If you want to see how low you can strip Win 7 if you don't care about features grab yourself a copy of "Win 7 Tiny Edition" and load it on something. They have managed to strip it so small it runs nicely on 256Mb of RAM and a 1GHz CPU, but you lose a lot in the translation, no superfetch or readyboost, no Aero beyond the see through taskbar, no WMC or sharing, you really have to gut it to get it THAT small.
I'm sure I'll get modded down for saying this but wtf, truth is truth > What you are calling the TP hasn't actually existed since early 09, what we saw all through most of 4th quarter 09 and all through 2010 was "Tea Party Express" which is simply Koch Bros astroturf. Sure they were peaceful, they were getting paid! you don't act like a douche at YOUR job, do you?
Please don't believe me, i truly believe an informed public is a better public. Please, go look up tea party express and the Koch bros and follow the money. since late 09 the TP Express has been running the show and its made sure that word for word their talking points are the Koch bros. While the TP idea I thought was a nice one soon the big money came in and the message was replaced by astroturf. All you are gonna get out of any TP now is ultra right wing talking points, ala "Go Patriot act! Yay big military spending!" which was the complete opposite of what TP was originally supporting.
Well they may have figured out how to do that trick with certain versions of IE as well, but when i tried it with IE8 along with Opera, QTWeb, Dragon, and Firefox all hitting the same sites and watching a throwaway yahoo email account i populated with a few of my spam addresses ONLY Firefox was consistently hit. IIRC I didn't get a single one on the others, only FF.
You'd think they would have someone issuing a workaround because it HAS to be driving folks nuts. I found out about from complaints from FF using customers that were getting yelled at by family for spamming when all my scans showed ZERO bugs. BTW you do NOT have to be logged into yahoo for this to work, ONLY have a yahoo account with the password saved by FF. Somehow they are getting FF to load an iFrame that logs into FF and then spams the email addresses.
If you want to see how bad it is without risking any spam here is an easy test: Just put a password on your FF password access, then go to some of the mainstream porn sites like Redtube and Youporn and see how often FF pops up the box wanting your password. You'll find that page after page will pop that box up in your face, which means ads on that page is calling for the password. BTW I found it also works DESPITE having ABP, as apparently the code is loading before ABP kicks in, but it is stopped by NoScript but only if you have NoScript at its most aggressive which is a PITA.
But the others were fine so if I was you I'd just send them a link to Comodo Dragon and talk up how fast it is. I've found switching users works easier with a carrot than a stick and Dragon is faster than FF and IE when it comes to page load.
There is no advantage to running 64bit LINUX....FTFY. Not trying to insult, its just the differences in the arches. With Windows you have what is called "superfetch" which will learn what programs you use and load them into RAM at the appropriate times that you usually use them which of course makes programs faster to load. AFAIK there is no equivalent to superfetch in Linux so i doubt having extra RAM would help there.
Besides why not max the board/laptop out when the price is cheap? I loaded 8Gb in my netbook, will it run fine on less? Sure but the difference between 4gb and 8Gb was a whole $6 so it simply made no sense to go smaller. this new box I'm building for my sweetie will have 8Gb for it simply because at less than $20 a stick there really isn't a point on skimping anymore. So as long as the board will take it why not load it up while the prices are cheap?
I learned that lesson the hard way when I didn't load up my last box with DDRs when it was cheap, now to max out the board would be more expensive than simply tossing the board and CPU and replacing them. It won't be long before DDR 4 comes out and then DDR 3 will go the way of DDR, so might as well load up friend.
The reason nothing like that exists for Windows is simple: drivers. Sorry i don't have the link ATM (waiting on the damned cableco, damned box runs and dies, runs and dies, will have to wait on the nxt run cycle to post this) but it was posted on several MSFT blogs when XP X64 came out that the reason that Win2K3 could run over 4Gb and XP couldn't was because the consumer drivers crapped themselves under PAE when over 4Gb of RAM was used. Since server vendors are a LOT smaller demographic and burning the customer there could kill a business servers got updated drivers quite quickly whereas most Windows consumer level crap was lucky if it got anything more than the driver on the disc. So in that case you can blame the OEMs. that was why to get hardware certified for Windows now you have to provide both 32bit AND 64bit, because otherwise it would be a mess.
As for TFA? Firefox sucks sadly, and this is coming from someone who was a diehard FF fan and before that the Mozilla suite. I don't know what they did past 3.0.x but it really took a big old crap on the code. I'm typing this on a 1.8GHz Sempron i use as a nettop and with Comodo Dragon (or Opera, or QTWeb) it runs great. I can have multiple tabs, watch SD video, it runs nice. Since FF 4 FF has been completely unusable on this machine, it slams the CPU to redline on launch, slams it to red on launching a new tab, and give up watching ANY video as it'll be a slideshow. And may the Gods help you if you forget and leave FF open overnight as it'll suck up RAM like a wino at a free bar.
I really hope they fix FF, as I miss NoScript, even though I think on my Win 7 machine its probably not needed thanks to Dragon being in low rights mode (which FF STILL doesn't support after 5 years already!) but as it is now I simply can't hand it out or recommend it to customers. Its too slow, bloated, power hogging, even on my brand new E-350 netbook I've found that FF shaves a good 40 minutes off the battery thanks to the CPU spiking. That is simply unacceptable and I'm frankly not surprised to see FF's userbase going down as they really have let the quality slip as of late IMHO.
If you are talking about chipsets my friend i'm afraid you are mistaken as nvidia got out of that business nearly two years ago, all they sell now is crappy old designs that they had finished before they got out of the business. i know because i'm having a fricking devil of a time with a new board thanks to the fact the Nvidia chips are so old they don't support AHCI and the last board did so Windows doesn't want to boot off the Nvidia. Learned a valuable lesson though, two actually. Nvidia boards are shit number one, and number two just because a board manufacturer says a chips is supported don't mean shit until she you the damned thing fire. This board has clearly marked on their website under CPU Thuban but won't fire on anything bigger than a quad, ARGH!
As for the "farmville" crowd? if the chip doesn't support hardware acelerated flash then its shit. I should know because i have plenty of customers addicted to FB games and if you want them to be happy give them a machine with hardware accelerated flash, otherwise they are bitching about the game being jerky or slow. And as far the the consoles being "integrated"? not even close friend, as the RAM they use on the GPU (IIRC XDR RAM) has a bigger pipe and thus can run more data through than plain old DDR whatever. Its been a few years since i looked at the consoles so I might not have the terminology down, but I remember it wasn't just COTS RAM they used on the GPUs which is why it doesn't have nearly as much as your average $50 discrete card.
"180, you stupid, spaghetti-slurping cretin - *180*! If I did a 720, I'd go completely around and end up back where I started! "/whips out obscenely large handgun and shoots CheShACat /
Well i've seen companies do what you are suggesting with Linux as well, Xandros comes to mind which has their excellent Xandros File manager (which if you've ever used WinServer feels a lot like GPO snap ins when running in admin mode) but sadly their OS costs as much as Windows and from what I've seen it hasn't been updated since 09 so its probably toast. That is the catch 22 here, MSFT has been selling Windows for $100 or less since Win 1.0 and can afford to keep it that price thanks to economies of scale. its like how the only way you can build a new car company is go luxury because otherwise you are trying to fight with companies that can make profit on sub 20K cars. Apple can pull it off because they are a hardware company, but i honestly doubt we'll be seeing any mainstream OSes, either based on BSD OR Linux, simply because hiring developers that know their shit is REALLY expensive which means they have to sell for more than a boxed copy of Windows just to break even, much less make a profit, and what consumer is gonna pick the more expensive OS?
Now i'm either about to be really fucking happy or going walking down the street cursing like a sailor. it took me the better part of the morning just to flash the damned BIOS on my old board and as soon as i yank that 74 vega cooler off the new board i'll be swapping chips and seeing if it fires. if it don't I'm gonna end up having to completely wipe Windows and start over, which is gonna be a fricking nightmare! Hell I can't remember what my password is for my steam account, I have dozens of games and programs installed, man it'll take me weeks to get everything back like it was, at this point I'm seriously debating whether just to give my GF the Thuband and accept it wasn't meant to be, but dammit I want 6 cores, ARGH!
BTW a word of warning, there is NO ACHI on Nvidia boards PERIOD. I even went to their forums and point blank asked and was told "Nvidia doesn't make new chips anymore so new features like AHCI simply isn't there. the only chip that has it is the Intel SLI boards with Nvidia chipset" which really does me a lot of good trying to fire up an AMD 6 core. ARGH!
Yes, please help proprietary hardware vendors by making sure nobody will support you, that's the ticket!
I mean what do you think other hardware vendors are gonna do? they are gonna look at what happened with AMD. AMD releases all the specs they can (there are some bits that are part of HDCP they don't have the right to release) and even go so far as to hire developers out of their own pocket to support the free drivers, and what does the community do? What do you see on every forum, including here? "LOL use nvidia".
Any company with a brain after seeing that would tell you and the rest of your little ungrateful "community" to fuck right off. So thanks, you are helping to ensure that FOSS stays the choice of hobbyist nerds and never gains any share, making sure guys like me have plenty of work, appreciate it pal.
Hear hear! I'd just add that I think a lot of the "bad boy" females are into the drama and WANT there to be lots of bullshit going on. For an example I was helping a friend work on a car when he sliced his hand wide open, we're talking damned near to the bone. meanwhile his GF has been harping all God damned day and comes out to start again. He says "I'm gonna go around the corner, I'm gonna smoke a little of this joint while Kev tries to tie off this hand enough that I won't bleed all over his truck when he takes me to the hospital, because I am gonna need probably 20 stitches or more. Now if you do not leave me alone I'm am gonna knock you on your ass, so just quit now" and as he walked around the corner sure enough there she went! I grabbed her and said "Dawn that is a fucking stupid idea! Leave his ass alone already for the love of God! Can't you see his hand? I can see tendons and bone showing!" Did she listen? nope and when he hit her for the first time in my life I was like "Well stupid bitch got what she deserved'. Next day i go over to help finish on the car and she is just blabbing away all about "what he did" on her cell, and I swear she was practically bouncy because she had new drama!
I too learned that its better to care about the personality than the specific looks you find attractive. Normally i like VERY pale women, Irish redheads being my favorite, yet the woman i'm with now is more than half Creek Indian and dark enough that she is often looked on as a Mexican, so why am I with her? Because she is kind, intelligent, sweet,fun, dropped everything and used up all her vacation time when she found out my sister was about to pass so the boys would have another shoulder to cry on, just a truly great gal. Plus you have to love any woman that when people try to speak Spanish at her goes "Me no Mexican, me Indian, me kind scalp your ass!".
As for TFA, maybe its just me, but as someone who was practically raised by a grandfather that helped to liberate one of the camps in Poland i take free speech VERY seriously and don't think a judge should have a right to put a muzzle on this guy. We already have laws on the books for stalking, harassment, and libel, so it isn't like there aren't legal remedies if what the guy is saying isn't true. And if it IS true? Well maybe she shouldn't be doing things and blabbing about them to BFs if she doesn't want them to be public.
Well you've given me some food for thought, I guess communist utopias don't work for software and OSes anymore than they do IRL. I do have a question though: Why FreeBSD instead of PC-BSD? I'd always heard FreeBSD was more your router/server setup and PC-BSD was more desktop. Maybe I heard wrong, but that was how I always thought.
I'll be giving one a spin either way, that is if I don't go stark raving mad this week. You ever have one of THOSE days, What we in the south call "If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all" days? My Thuban prezzie to myself is quickly turning into a fricking nightmare! The stupid board, which says VERY plainly it'll take a Thuban, don't want to take the chip, possibly i'm gonna have to update the fricking BIOS which is gonna be a royal PITA since the cooler I bought is like the radiator off a 74 vega and has to be completely disassembled to get the damned thing off and if THAT wasn't bad enough the board I was gonna put in a new build for my GF WILL take the Thuban but guess what? Nvidia fricking boards don't support AHCI so Windows won't boot off the damned thing, arrrrrgh! So now I get to slap the old CPU in the old board, rip out my HDD and fire the thing up just sitting on a table so I can update the BIOS and hopefully get the bitch to take the BIOS update and give me my damned chip already!
I learned a valuable lesson though: If the chip wasn't released at the exact same time or before the board was? don't even bother, its more trouble than its worth.
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Bah, for nearly 2000 years Christianity has been like a salad bar, with churches and groups just picking and choosing what they want to follow and ignoring the rest. that's probably why the fanatical Muslims hate us, because if the Christians actually followed the entire book they'd be a hell of a lot more like Muslims.
After all when was the last time you heard THIS in a Christian church? "And after Sister Brenda leads us in a rousing rendition of 'Onward Christian Soldiers' I want everyone to pick up some nice fist sized stones for the adulterer stoning, followed by our annual potluck supper"? Because i can't seem to remember hearing of ANY church having a good stoning, even though it says quite clearly you should, along with selling thieves as slaves if they don't have the funds to pay back for their transgression.
Lets face it: Ain't nobody followed that damned book in centuries, they just choose the parts that appeal to whatever group they want to control and toss the rest. See the current attacks on gays and compare it to the many "fine upstanding churches" that were using the bible as justification for keeping blacks as a lower race (the curse of Ham) and you'll see its just the same shit, different target.
Huh, must be different where I'm at because its nearly always "hubby/wifey got a new one" which I know is true because when i tell them what I do I ALWAYS get "Hey, can you tell me how to (insert transfer files, settings, etc) to the new one?". I've even had them bring their new one with them and have sat in the outdoor area of Mickey d's with my crossover cable letting them drag stuff off before they hand it over.
as for the chip swap? *&^%*&^%*&^%*&%! I finally got tired of cursing the evil thing and hit the Newegg, i got me a new Asrock board on the way that says it giant neon letters SUPPORTS SIX CORE CPU so surely to all that is good THAT one will work. And since its a SB710 SB and my old one was a SB700 SB I'm hoping I may not even lose Windows with this one. And on the plus side it supports crossfire and takes my DDR 2 RAM so I might actually end up with a nicer box. damned thing better be nice, my $120 chip upgrade is now up to like $240 counting the board and the new HSF. I learnt my lesson though, no more upgrades! If I want a new chip i build a new box!
You ever see a bronto buddy? That's one big assed cow right there. you don't think having plant eaters the size of buildings didn't create some major stinkies? I bet that whole era smelt worse than the bean eating scene in Blazing Saddles!
As for TFA? Burn it, either capture and burn or just light it, since either method would be a net win on greenhouse effect and we are already developing plenty of ways to deal with carbon. you can store it, bury it, even feed it to algae and make fuel out of it, but methane is worse than carbon. The best method of course would be to burn it for electricity, if done right we could feed the carbon output to algae and then use it again to power vehicles but being in the arctic it may not be cost effective. better to get rid of it one way or another than let it go.
I notice you didn't have the balls to back up your opinion with an account, kinda sad that. As for says who? Show me a SINGLE THING that we have bought in the past 30 damned years that has come in ON TIME and UNDER BUDGET. Hell our last truly decent plane was the F/a-18 Hornet and that came from the same 70s cook off that gave us the also excellent F-16. The F-22 is a fricking money sink, with a flyaway cost of something like 370 odd million and has already had to be grounded once already, the F35 you are bragging about has more problems than a Kardashian marriage and looks to cost us another assload of cash before the thing will even fly.
Meanwhile the SU 27 has something like a 30 million flyaway cost, the MiG31 for $60 million, which means our enemies are gonna be able to put up TEN planes for every ONE of ours. That ain't good, as we saw in WWII when Germany could put up frankly better aircraft like the BF109 G and the BF 262 but simply was overwhelmed by our cheap as dirt Thunderbolts and Mustangs the guy that can throw more planes into the air usually wins. Add in the fact that china has snatched most of our best tricks thanks to both the F-117 they dug up in Kosovo along with the stealth chopper and now the drone in TFA which I have NO doubt they'll be making deals with Iran for full access, means the current clusterfuck isn't doing anyone but MIC CxOs any good.
I think you misunderstand dude, when I say "minibike" I mean with actual gasoline motors, goes about 50MPH. I actually didn't learn to ride a pedal bike until I was 11 because i always had a motorbike. my first bike was a Honda 50 minitrail at 5 years old! Everyone called it the mad bee for the sound that thing made, a high pitched 'meeeeeer' as i whiped through our little town (pop 350 on a good day). Lucky for mom we had a collie or she'd have never been able to get me home! She'd just stick her head out and tell the dog "Go fetch him for supper" and Ruffles would go flying after the sound and when he caught me he'd bark at me and head towards the house. Man I miss that dog, nothing like a really smart dog.
I agree though that parents go too damned far the other way. I had a little girl bump into me and the grocery store and when I said "excuse me little miss" I actually heard her momma say "stranger danger". Well needless to say I went off like an atom bomb on that mom and told her that if she and the other parents would be more worried about teaching their kids good manners instead of being afraid of invisible bogeymen the world would be a better place, all the people in the store cheered. Its sad things have gotten so stupid that when one of the children downstairs held the door open for me when I was loaded down and said "here you go sir" i actually went and knocked on his mom's door just to tell her what a polite and well mannered child she had.
Its just nuts, no wonder so many kids are fat and diabetic, their damned parents won't even let them go play anymore! We rode motorbikes, ran like wild injuns, did we get hurt? Hell yes, but what don't get you makes you stronger and gives you some killer stories to go with the scars, like the time I am sitting in an ER with a nice little puddle of blood in front of me where I did a faceplant at 60MPH thanks to a damned dog trying to bite my front wheel, and I'm sitting next to a kid that is holding the holes in his throat together where he popped over a field into a barb wire fence on a 3 wheeler, and we are both just laughing our asses off higher than kites because the ER doc took one look at the two of us and said "Look I know that has GOT to hurt but we had some kids flip a convertible and couple of them are missing limbs, so if I give you two a shot of morphine will you be alright?" We just looked at each other and stuck out our arms and were laughing like loons inside of 10 minutes, good stuff that morphine.
Kids today in their sterile little living spaces just don't know what fun is. My boys rode bikes (sadly their mother wouldn't let me get them the motor kind after my little face plant, I told her losing a few inches of skin builds character) and went swimming with the fishes in actual creeks, they had FUN dammit! It did them good too, as age may have finally got up with me and given me the family beer belly both boys are lean and trim and the oldest is constantly being asked out by the little campus cuties.
Oh don't forget lawn darts, the "Hey lets throw sharp stakes at each other!" toy for the whole family, hell they even had a "Mr Atomic" chem set, I wonder if those kids glow in the dark now?
This reminds me of the old SNL bit, anybody remember Akroyd getting grief over his company's toys like "Johnny switchblade" or the "human torch" costume which was just some gas soaked rags and some matches?
But compared to the stuff we had when I was a kid the stuff on the list is a fricking joke! heck when I was a kid we all had minibikes starting as young as 5! Nobody wore helmets, everybody had ramps, the answer to every injury was "put a bandaid on it" and we all drove like maniacs! I can still remember buzzing around my small town at 8 with a giant 8 track duct taped to the handlebars so I could blast Kiss Alive II as I scared the neighbors dogs. We all had lawn darts and played with fireworks and yet we all managed to survive just fine!
I have to wonder if this isn't just "the march of the morons" at play here, as we at least had enough common sense not to do things REALLY stupid. Nowadays it seems like we are trying to babyproof the planet, are kids really THAT much stupider than when we were kids?
Frankly while I liked some of the features when Firefox went bloaty so did Songbird naturally so I switched to Kantaris and since its based on VLC it is NOT bloaty. Its also FOSS so if anybody wants to code a Linux or Mac version feel free! Its really nice BTW, great UI and makes handling large media libraries quite friendly. I give it to all my customers still on XP (those on 7 like me are happy with the new WMP) and they are quite pleased.
TFA does show one of the nice things about FOSS though, if somebody cares about a piece of software and has the skills it can continue, even if the devs quit giving a shit. KDE 3, GNOME 2, still alive thanks to those that liked them over the new bling bling heavy versions. I'll probably get hate for asking this but WTF, what is it with Linux DEs lately? I thought Linux was supposed to be the LIGHT OS, now with KDE 4, Gnome Shell, and Unity it looks like you guys are trying to give MSFT a run in the "pointless bling bling bullshit" dept, what gives? At the rate things are going by gnome 4/KDE 5 you'll need a quad and GPU with 1Gb of RAM just to run the desktop. Geez if you want to rip something off of MSFT rip the jumplists or breadcrumbs, not the bloat.
Oh please, if you could excuse "Die Harder: Die Hard II" with its opening of nekkid terrorist butt then you can excuse ANYTHING! Hey at least in Die Hard 4 all you had to put up with was the stoner kid and technobabble, not an Iran-Contra style plot so full of holes and lucky coincidences that it made Judge Dredd look like high art by comparison!
As for TFA? "America pays out the ass for weapons tech easily hacked by your average geek stoner, news at 11. Here is Cindy with the weather: Water is wet, back to you Bill". Is anybody surprised? Our tech has been absolute shite for what? 25 years or so now? It costs out the ass and rarely does what its supposed to, but the overruns pad enough CxOs pockets they can afford a mountain of coke and a hundred beautiful hookers tits to snort it off of. Ever since the cold war ended our MIC has been a clusterfuck, hell probably even before. We just don't get a good deal for our dollar anymore, too many kickbacks and payoffs and not enough cracking heads.
Not really as superfetch is based on usage patterns. lets say that every weekday i launch Chrome, and on every weekend I launch WMP, what superfetch will do is load Chrome during the week, replacing that with WMP on weekends. basically the longer you use the PC the "smarter" it gets about your usage patterns and the better it will be at predicting what you are gonna launch. For example my PC knows I launch Paragon to make a backup on the day after patch Tuesday so it'll be loaded into RAM the second Wednesday of every month like clockwork waiting for me.
I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to cook up something similar in Linux, I've just never heard of anyone doing it. When superfetch came out with Vista there were several projects started but IIRC they are all dead code on sourceforge now. Shame as it is a nice feature.
Honestly? I haven't quite figured out the HOW of it, only that it starts with an invisible iFrame, and that it only seems to work on Yahoo+FF. BTW you do NOT have to be logged into the account for it to work, it'll get your pword from FF and load it up in the iFrame.
I know this because after getting complaints from users (and getting a few of their spams even though I had checked and their machines were clean) so I set up a dummy Yahoo mail account, made sure that was the ONLY account in a clean FF install, and then loaded a few of my spam dump email accounts into the mail account and watching the accounts on another box with a KVM switch. I found that it didn't matter whether you were logged in, didn't matter if you had ABP but NoScript did seem to stop them but only when it was set to most aggressive which makes web pages into static pages.
If you are a web coder or white hat please figure this out because i know if I better understood the machanism they are using I could better design defense. But I'm not a coder or a security guy, just a humble fixit guy, so all I can do is report on what I've found. In my little informal test I used Chromium, Dragon, Opera, QTWeb, and IE 8 and ONLY FF had spam coming to my spam dump, only one. So obviously they have figured out how to do XSS on FF without triggering the alarm, its the how i have no clue about.
But if you want to see how bad it is load up FF in a sandbox or VM so you don't have to worry about malware and put a password lock on the password account and start surfing the porn sites like Youtube and Redporn and see how often the password lock pops up wanting your password. i found that on some pages as many as NINE password lock dialog boxes would come up!
For those that like QT, or just want a really cool browser that runs on a thumbstick, runs on Win98-Win 7, as well as Linux and Mac might I suggest QTWeb which is what you get when you combine QT and Webkit? I keep it on my thumbstick as my "go to" browser and its damned nice, QT makes excellent GUIs and of course Webkit is a damned fast engine.
As for TFA even though I'm primarily a Windows guy let me be the first to say thanks QT developers, your framework is one of the nicer ones out there and every program I've used based on QT has been a pleasant experience. You guys do top notch work and I for one am appreciative.
Craigslist Barb, you'd be surprised how cheap you can buy a lappy off of CL and you'll often get a nicer one that what you had. in my local CL they are several core2duo lappys selling for less than $150. Personally though, if it were me? Wait until after the silly season and score yourself one of these EEE E-350 netbooks. Man it is sweeeeeet! It has ExpressGate built in which is an uberlightweight Linux that gets 8 hours on the battery, it gets 6 hours running full HD videos under Win 7, 320Gb HDD gives you tons of space, oh and it supports VT so you can even run VMS on it and it only cost $34 to max this puppy out with 8Gb of RAM! How sweet is that? She only weisghs 2.8 pounds too so its easy peasy to lug. After having a Zacate netbook I wouldn't go back to a full size again, no way. Oh and I heard the support for ATI under Linux is getting WAAAAAY better, and if they have a fully running ExpressGate I don't see why running a vanilla distro would be ANY harder. They also have the OD pre partitioned as a 100Gb Win 7 and 200Gb data partition, so slapping on other OSes should be easy peasy.
BTW flashed the BIOS and *&$*&*&%$*&$%!!!!!! It STILL won't take the damned thuban! I had to call a customer and borrow a PCI to SATA card in the probably vain hope that I can boot Windows off it (Protip: NEVER EVER switch between ATI and Nvidia boards, that way leads to badness!) and if not I'll probably be looking at a couple of WEEKS to get everything back like I like it...&%(*%%*&%!!!!
I did learn a valuable lesson though: If a chip was not released BEFORE the board? NEVER buy it, I don't care what the website says! Damn you lying board manufacturers! Now I don't have time to send this chip back and get a quad because MY quad is going in my dad's PC and HIS quad is going in my GF's and I sure as hell ain't running no damned Sempron while I wait so now its down to a $15 PCI to SATA card. C'mon cheapo Chinese crap, save my behind!
IF you were on XP that explains it as XP doesn't really HAVE a low rights mode which kinda hamstrings most AV. But with Comodo PLUS Avast PLUS ABP and Win 7 I haven't found a single site that I could get past the filters. Do you have the link? It'll be a few hours until I can run it because &^(*%&^%*(&% Windows 7 is gonna end up needing reinstalled thank to my having to yank my damned board to put this new Thuban chip in and all I had lying around was an Nvidia board.
Protip: Nvidia boards FUCKING SUCK and don't even support AHCI and Windows 7 DOES NOT LIKE switching between ATI and Nvidia boards apparently. My XP partition will boot, although its hopelessly crippled because the change has somehow killed its ability to make temp folders so I can't install the drivers for the new board, and Win 7 gets about 3/4ths of the way before BSOD 0x00007b which is AHCI. Hell the bitch won't even load in safe mode....FUCK!
Here is a valuable lesson Billy I learned the hard way...if a chip isn't released BEFORE the board? Don't fucking bother, it doesn't matter if their damned website says its supported or not, they are full of shit. If I can't get her to boot off this PCI to SATA card I'm about to pop in 3 years worth of work is gonna go down the shitter. Sure I have all my data on a different drive but do you have ANY idea how many programs a 3 year old Windows 7 install has? Man if I would have known this I would have just stayed with the quad. But it'll cost more to send back and I don't have time to wait on a replacement quad so I must soldier on.
BTW MSE ONLY catches by scan on dload it does NOT do scan before display which means that any drivebys work just fine under MSE, i've seen it with my own eyes. Its NOT an AV BTW, its just Giant Antispy bought and rebranded by MSFT.
While I agree that the larger registers are worth having, I personally have been running X64 since XP X64 beta, the poster I was responding to said there wasn't any point for general users to go x64, that it was basically for Linux (hinting that it was programmers that needed it) and those really slamming the machine. When I first went to X64 I only had 2Gb of RAM but it STILL made a difference, especially in video transcoding.
But now even grandma gets major advantages for running X64, with superfetch and the new Windows memory management every drop of that RAM will be put to good use speeding up the OS and preloading programs that are often used.
You'd think though that someone would write a superfetch for Linux, it shouldn't be hard, just keep a list of what programs are run and when and if RAM is left empty to cache those programs. If the user launches them it'll call them from RAM, and if the user launches a program that needs the RAM dump the cache. I'm sure it would be a little more complex than that to implement but that's the basics of it.
I have a nephew on XP X64 and I myself used it until Win 7 Beta and its a great OS. Of course its not really a consumer OS, its just WinServer 2K3 X64 with an XP skin which may explain why its built like a tank but I agree it was a good one. Protip: if you find something without a driver look for server 2K3 drivers, you'd be surprised how many things had server 2K3 drivers.
I don't think that XP X64 is faster than Win 7, it just does less. its like the difference between a stripped down model a VS a fully loaded Camaro 2012, sure the Model A is gonna be faster, and freeze your balls off with not having a heater, or top, or a windshield that is made of safety glass. the new ride has all that and GPS, kicking stereo, you just get more stuff. Win 7 has jumplists, breadcrumbs, better memory management, readyboost and superfetch, its just doing a HELL of a lot more than XP X64.
I could strip XP X64 down to something like 6 processes and a good 90% of the features remained functional simply because there wasn't much to it. The lowest I seem to be able to strip Win 7 is about 20 without losing features I like. If you want to see how low you can strip Win 7 if you don't care about features grab yourself a copy of "Win 7 Tiny Edition" and load it on something. They have managed to strip it so small it runs nicely on 256Mb of RAM and a 1GHz CPU, but you lose a lot in the translation, no superfetch or readyboost, no Aero beyond the see through taskbar, no WMC or sharing, you really have to gut it to get it THAT small.
I'm sure I'll get modded down for saying this but wtf, truth is truth > What you are calling the TP hasn't actually existed since early 09, what we saw all through most of 4th quarter 09 and all through 2010 was "Tea Party Express" which is simply Koch Bros astroturf. Sure they were peaceful, they were getting paid! you don't act like a douche at YOUR job, do you?
Please don't believe me, i truly believe an informed public is a better public. Please, go look up tea party express and the Koch bros and follow the money. since late 09 the TP Express has been running the show and its made sure that word for word their talking points are the Koch bros. While the TP idea I thought was a nice one soon the big money came in and the message was replaced by astroturf. All you are gonna get out of any TP now is ultra right wing talking points, ala "Go Patriot act! Yay big military spending!" which was the complete opposite of what TP was originally supporting.
Well they may have figured out how to do that trick with certain versions of IE as well, but when i tried it with IE8 along with Opera, QTWeb, Dragon, and Firefox all hitting the same sites and watching a throwaway yahoo email account i populated with a few of my spam addresses ONLY Firefox was consistently hit. IIRC I didn't get a single one on the others, only FF.
You'd think they would have someone issuing a workaround because it HAS to be driving folks nuts. I found out about from complaints from FF using customers that were getting yelled at by family for spamming when all my scans showed ZERO bugs. BTW you do NOT have to be logged into yahoo for this to work, ONLY have a yahoo account with the password saved by FF. Somehow they are getting FF to load an iFrame that logs into FF and then spams the email addresses.
If you want to see how bad it is without risking any spam here is an easy test: Just put a password on your FF password access, then go to some of the mainstream porn sites like Redtube and Youporn and see how often FF pops up the box wanting your password. You'll find that page after page will pop that box up in your face, which means ads on that page is calling for the password. BTW I found it also works DESPITE having ABP, as apparently the code is loading before ABP kicks in, but it is stopped by NoScript but only if you have NoScript at its most aggressive which is a PITA.
But the others were fine so if I was you I'd just send them a link to Comodo Dragon and talk up how fast it is. I've found switching users works easier with a carrot than a stick and Dragon is faster than FF and IE when it comes to page load.
There is no advantage to running 64bit LINUX....FTFY. Not trying to insult, its just the differences in the arches. With Windows you have what is called "superfetch" which will learn what programs you use and load them into RAM at the appropriate times that you usually use them which of course makes programs faster to load. AFAIK there is no equivalent to superfetch in Linux so i doubt having extra RAM would help there.
Besides why not max the board/laptop out when the price is cheap? I loaded 8Gb in my netbook, will it run fine on less? Sure but the difference between 4gb and 8Gb was a whole $6 so it simply made no sense to go smaller. this new box I'm building for my sweetie will have 8Gb for it simply because at less than $20 a stick there really isn't a point on skimping anymore. So as long as the board will take it why not load it up while the prices are cheap?
I learned that lesson the hard way when I didn't load up my last box with DDRs when it was cheap, now to max out the board would be more expensive than simply tossing the board and CPU and replacing them. It won't be long before DDR 4 comes out and then DDR 3 will go the way of DDR, so might as well load up friend.
The reason nothing like that exists for Windows is simple: drivers. Sorry i don't have the link ATM (waiting on the damned cableco, damned box runs and dies, runs and dies, will have to wait on the nxt run cycle to post this) but it was posted on several MSFT blogs when XP X64 came out that the reason that Win2K3 could run over 4Gb and XP couldn't was because the consumer drivers crapped themselves under PAE when over 4Gb of RAM was used. Since server vendors are a LOT smaller demographic and burning the customer there could kill a business servers got updated drivers quite quickly whereas most Windows consumer level crap was lucky if it got anything more than the driver on the disc. So in that case you can blame the OEMs. that was why to get hardware certified for Windows now you have to provide both 32bit AND 64bit, because otherwise it would be a mess.
As for TFA? Firefox sucks sadly, and this is coming from someone who was a diehard FF fan and before that the Mozilla suite. I don't know what they did past 3.0.x but it really took a big old crap on the code. I'm typing this on a 1.8GHz Sempron i use as a nettop and with Comodo Dragon (or Opera, or QTWeb) it runs great. I can have multiple tabs, watch SD video, it runs nice. Since FF 4 FF has been completely unusable on this machine, it slams the CPU to redline on launch, slams it to red on launching a new tab, and give up watching ANY video as it'll be a slideshow. And may the Gods help you if you forget and leave FF open overnight as it'll suck up RAM like a wino at a free bar.
I really hope they fix FF, as I miss NoScript, even though I think on my Win 7 machine its probably not needed thanks to Dragon being in low rights mode (which FF STILL doesn't support after 5 years already!) but as it is now I simply can't hand it out or recommend it to customers. Its too slow, bloated, power hogging, even on my brand new E-350 netbook I've found that FF shaves a good 40 minutes off the battery thanks to the CPU spiking. That is simply unacceptable and I'm frankly not surprised to see FF's userbase going down as they really have let the quality slip as of late IMHO.
If you are talking about chipsets my friend i'm afraid you are mistaken as nvidia got out of that business nearly two years ago, all they sell now is crappy old designs that they had finished before they got out of the business. i know because i'm having a fricking devil of a time with a new board thanks to the fact the Nvidia chips are so old they don't support AHCI and the last board did so Windows doesn't want to boot off the Nvidia. Learned a valuable lesson though, two actually. Nvidia boards are shit number one, and number two just because a board manufacturer says a chips is supported don't mean shit until she you the damned thing fire. This board has clearly marked on their website under CPU Thuban but won't fire on anything bigger than a quad, ARGH!
As for the "farmville" crowd? if the chip doesn't support hardware acelerated flash then its shit. I should know because i have plenty of customers addicted to FB games and if you want them to be happy give them a machine with hardware accelerated flash, otherwise they are bitching about the game being jerky or slow. And as far the the consoles being "integrated"? not even close friend, as the RAM they use on the GPU (IIRC XDR RAM) has a bigger pipe and thus can run more data through than plain old DDR whatever. Its been a few years since i looked at the consoles so I might not have the terminology down, but I remember it wasn't just COTS RAM they used on the GPUs which is why it doesn't have nearly as much as your average $50 discrete card.
"180, you stupid, spaghetti-slurping cretin - *180*! If I did a 720, I'd go completely around and end up back where I started! " /whips out obscenely large handgun and shoots CheShACat /
Well i've seen companies do what you are suggesting with Linux as well, Xandros comes to mind which has their excellent Xandros File manager (which if you've ever used WinServer feels a lot like GPO snap ins when running in admin mode) but sadly their OS costs as much as Windows and from what I've seen it hasn't been updated since 09 so its probably toast. That is the catch 22 here, MSFT has been selling Windows for $100 or less since Win 1.0 and can afford to keep it that price thanks to economies of scale. its like how the only way you can build a new car company is go luxury because otherwise you are trying to fight with companies that can make profit on sub 20K cars. Apple can pull it off because they are a hardware company, but i honestly doubt we'll be seeing any mainstream OSes, either based on BSD OR Linux, simply because hiring developers that know their shit is REALLY expensive which means they have to sell for more than a boxed copy of Windows just to break even, much less make a profit, and what consumer is gonna pick the more expensive OS?
Now i'm either about to be really fucking happy or going walking down the street cursing like a sailor. it took me the better part of the morning just to flash the damned BIOS on my old board and as soon as i yank that 74 vega cooler off the new board i'll be swapping chips and seeing if it fires. if it don't I'm gonna end up having to completely wipe Windows and start over, which is gonna be a fricking nightmare! Hell I can't remember what my password is for my steam account, I have dozens of games and programs installed, man it'll take me weeks to get everything back like it was, at this point I'm seriously debating whether just to give my GF the Thuband and accept it wasn't meant to be, but dammit I want 6 cores, ARGH!
BTW a word of warning, there is NO ACHI on Nvidia boards PERIOD. I even went to their forums and point blank asked and was told "Nvidia doesn't make new chips anymore so new features like AHCI simply isn't there. the only chip that has it is the Intel SLI boards with Nvidia chipset" which really does me a lot of good trying to fire up an AMD 6 core. ARGH!
Yes, please help proprietary hardware vendors by making sure nobody will support you, that's the ticket!
I mean what do you think other hardware vendors are gonna do? they are gonna look at what happened with AMD. AMD releases all the specs they can (there are some bits that are part of HDCP they don't have the right to release) and even go so far as to hire developers out of their own pocket to support the free drivers, and what does the community do? What do you see on every forum, including here? "LOL use nvidia".
Any company with a brain after seeing that would tell you and the rest of your little ungrateful "community" to fuck right off. So thanks, you are helping to ensure that FOSS stays the choice of hobbyist nerds and never gains any share, making sure guys like me have plenty of work, appreciate it pal.
Hear hear! I'd just add that I think a lot of the "bad boy" females are into the drama and WANT there to be lots of bullshit going on. For an example I was helping a friend work on a car when he sliced his hand wide open, we're talking damned near to the bone. meanwhile his GF has been harping all God damned day and comes out to start again. He says "I'm gonna go around the corner, I'm gonna smoke a little of this joint while Kev tries to tie off this hand enough that I won't bleed all over his truck when he takes me to the hospital, because I am gonna need probably 20 stitches or more. Now if you do not leave me alone I'm am gonna knock you on your ass, so just quit now" and as he walked around the corner sure enough there she went! I grabbed her and said "Dawn that is a fucking stupid idea! Leave his ass alone already for the love of God! Can't you see his hand? I can see tendons and bone showing!" Did she listen? nope and when he hit her for the first time in my life I was like "Well stupid bitch got what she deserved'. Next day i go over to help finish on the car and she is just blabbing away all about "what he did" on her cell, and I swear she was practically bouncy because she had new drama!
I too learned that its better to care about the personality than the specific looks you find attractive. Normally i like VERY pale women, Irish redheads being my favorite, yet the woman i'm with now is more than half Creek Indian and dark enough that she is often looked on as a Mexican, so why am I with her? Because she is kind, intelligent, sweet,fun, dropped everything and used up all her vacation time when she found out my sister was about to pass so the boys would have another shoulder to cry on, just a truly great gal. Plus you have to love any woman that when people try to speak Spanish at her goes "Me no Mexican, me Indian, me kind scalp your ass!".
As for TFA, maybe its just me, but as someone who was practically raised by a grandfather that helped to liberate one of the camps in Poland i take free speech VERY seriously and don't think a judge should have a right to put a muzzle on this guy. We already have laws on the books for stalking, harassment, and libel, so it isn't like there aren't legal remedies if what the guy is saying isn't true. And if it IS true? Well maybe she shouldn't be doing things and blabbing about them to BFs if she doesn't want them to be public.
Well you've given me some food for thought, I guess communist utopias don't work for software and OSes anymore than they do IRL. I do have a question though: Why FreeBSD instead of PC-BSD? I'd always heard FreeBSD was more your router/server setup and PC-BSD was more desktop. Maybe I heard wrong, but that was how I always thought.
I'll be giving one a spin either way, that is if I don't go stark raving mad this week. You ever have one of THOSE days, What we in the south call "If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all" days? My Thuban prezzie to myself is quickly turning into a fricking nightmare! The stupid board, which says VERY plainly it'll take a Thuban, don't want to take the chip, possibly i'm gonna have to update the fricking BIOS which is gonna be a royal PITA since the cooler I bought is like the radiator off a 74 vega and has to be completely disassembled to get the damned thing off and if THAT wasn't bad enough the board I was gonna put in a new build for my GF WILL take the Thuban but guess what? Nvidia fricking boards don't support AHCI so Windows won't boot off the damned thing, arrrrrgh! So now I get to slap the old CPU in the old board, rip out my HDD and fire the thing up just sitting on a table so I can update the BIOS and hopefully get the bitch to take the BIOS update and give me my damned chip already!
I learned a valuable lesson though: If the chip wasn't released at the exact same time or before the board was? don't even bother, its more trouble than its worth.