This is simply another institution bitching because they've been made less important to their customers because of the Internet. I offer for example:
RIAA and mp3's. MPAA and VCD's/DeCSS DVD rips/movie trading online Intel and Via
It's amazing what how a free exchange of information can get so many corporate panties in a knot. To the RIAA, MPAA, Intel, The Saint Louis Galleria, and everyone else threatened by competition: It's inevitible, so deal with it. You don't expect your customers to search you out specifically if they don't have a good reason for it when they can get a better deal somewhere else, do you?
Hopefully other companies will see Red Hat as a success not only as a software house, but one who exclusively does open-source work. Let others follow their lead and find there is indeed profitibility and praise in a commercial GPL'ed effort.
This type of utility is nothing new...there's a much better one that's been out for a while, and it doesn't limit you to Intel's Pentium III to get this info. In fact, it works with AMD, Winchip, Cyrix chips, and more. It's probably the most useful piece of software I've used.
From 1986-1989 my family was stationed in Harrogate, England - my Dad worked (and still does work) for the Department of Defense. I went to school, and spent most of my time, on the American base there, Menwith Hill Station. I remember the radomes there, they were huge and we always joked that they looked like huge futuristic golf balls.
The radomes look exactly like the pictures show, and they're huge. You can see them from very far distances.
The radomes and office buildings were closed off from the rest of the base (with the school, AAFES market, Officers' Club, housing, etc.) but I remember seeing them every day.
It's been ten years since I was last there and I remember so many things about Menwith Hill...it was a great place to live.
I just installed the client (Win32 version) and gave it an hour or so running with virtually nothing else running on my system. I'm getting about 660,000 keys per second on my PIII 450 @ 600MHz. This is with the default client options, mainly processor priority at "0" (at idle). What kind of speed are your systems cracking at? What system configurations? I think it's interesting comparing rates...
PC Whores around the world have done it again. This is getting to be insane.
What's next? I get a legal notice from these people saying my personal business is in violation because my website doesn't comply with their specifications?
I'm going to do whatever I want, regardless of what they tell me, online or off. Screw this.
A simple enough question...x86 chips, SPARCs, or Alphas? Also what's the scalability from one hardware platform to another for each OS you've considered in terms of web serving applications?
I read this this past Summer - it's a pretty good account of what's happened, plenty of pictures, anecdotes, and even some humor - it isn't too technical either, so most people should be able to understand it.
We're not talking about 2000, are we? The article is a comparison between NT and Linux - from my experience with the beta 2000 builds it seems to be a severly dumbed-down version of NT.
You have a better chance of getting USB on Linux than on NT 4.0.
I really want an opposite of Jesux I can run as a hack-this-box challenge; invite only religious types to try it. chmod 666 * That FreeBSD demon/daemon would have nothing on Satanix:)
In my opinion Netscape has been going downhill fast since 4.03+. I just switched to IE this week after getting sick and tired of the literally dozens of illegal operations and hangs Netscape was giving me.
The thing that got to me the most was the hanging - I'd close the browser and later start it again, only to find that a ghost had remained resident and prevented my new window to open! Then it would give me that not responding BS...
I surf with usually more than one browser window open - I'd hit one of my favorite pages and go to visit another window, only to click on the window later and see only a screen with the other window's contents, and the browser hanging on "contacting host." Or how about when you surf to a page and none of the links would be clickable - you try to shut down but it hangs!
One of my favorite sites, Thresh's Firingsquad, would freeze Netscape for about ten seconds while loading! This is on a dual Pentium III system folks, 256mb RAM, NT 4.0 with Service Pack 5, connected to a LAN. I don't think stability and dependability are too much to ask for considering these resources - apparently Netscape does because their software has gone in the crapper once version 4 came out.
Those damn illegal operations: surf with more than one window and close a window? Maybe it doesn't like that, illegal operation. Add a bookmark? Maybe it doesn't like that, illegal operation. Hell, when I'd finally restart again it would destroy the changes I made to my bookmark file - these past few months I've found myself arbitrarily copying my current URL with CTRL-C just in case Netscape crashes and it would destroy my history, no lie.
I'm tired of the crap, Netscape. Fix it: make it stable, light on its feet, and get rid of the crap nobody but braindead AOLers want - fix what's wrong with your software or I'll stay away forever.
I feel like a Nazi using IE5, but it is stable, light, dependable. I'll continue to use it until someone gives me what I want: a clean, sturdy, and stable version of Netscape, whether Netscape is the one to bring it to me or not.
Remember those from a few months ago, when they showed an iMac being taken out of the box, plugged in to a phone jack, and instantly have an Internet connection, "1-2-3, the Internet has never been so simple!"?
Somebody ought to make a Slashdot version, where we see a geek hook up the iMac, tear up the hardware and upgrade it, kill the MacOS, and install Linux:)
"1-2-3, a real operating system has never been so easy!"
Those ads they showed always pissed me off though, is someone forgetting there's a little thing such as an ISP?
Perhaps NSI and MS are working together on this one, and the "dot com mail" or whatever the hell it's called is based on the (cough) ultra-secure Hotmail code.
This really sucks and I'm not renewing my domains with NSI ever again - when they expire I'll register with someone else and I'll lobby to have them put on the MAPS RBL if they spam me again.
These f*ckers have screwed up before but this really takes the cake. I swear to God they've got to be working with MS on this!
I feel so dirty selling my stuff on eBay, just because so many people are addicted to it. Also I have a bad stigma associated with it because eBay's servers seem to be down so often. Whatever you're selling, just make sure like you're not selling your soul. I feel like such a freak doing it...
This reminds me of that gag from that one Simpsons episode, where the new girl in town gets on Lisa's nerves - she forms an anagram of "Alec Guinness" into "Genuine Class."
All those Star Wars freaks are probably crying right now. TPM was the number one reason I quit my job at a movie theater before this Summer and got into programming...the pay increase is twentyfold:)
Slashdot Mirror
RIAA and mp3's.
MPAA and VCD's/DeCSS DVD rips/movie trading online
Intel and Via
It's amazing what how a free exchange of information can get so many corporate panties in a knot. To the RIAA, MPAA, Intel, The Saint Louis Galleria, and everyone else threatened by competition: It's inevitible, so deal with it. You don't expect your customers to search you out specifically if they don't have a good reason for it when they can get a better deal somewhere else, do you?
Congratulations, Red Hat!
Let's buy 1000 P3125 Alpha Coolers and overclock this thing to Kingdom Come!
H. Oda!'s WCPUID
The Intel ID program is old news. WCPUID provides more information than just about the CPU and is not proprietary.
The radomes look exactly like the pictures show, and they're huge. You can see them from very far distances.
The radomes and office buildings were closed off from the rest of the base (with the school, AAFES market, Officers' Club, housing, etc.) but I remember seeing them every day.
It's been ten years since I was last there and I remember so many things about Menwith Hill...it was a great place to live.
I just installed the client (Win32 version) and gave it an hour or so running with virtually nothing else running on my system. I'm getting about 660,000 keys per second on my PIII 450 @ 600MHz. This is with the default client options, mainly processor priority at "0" (at idle). What kind of speed are your systems cracking at? What system configurations? I think it's interesting comparing rates...
http://www.3dshack.com/shack_stu ff/wacklinks.shtml
Finally, a journalist breaks the story first :)
What's next? I get a legal notice from these people saying my personal business is in violation because my website doesn't comply with their specifications?
I'm going to do whatever I want, regardless of what they tell me, online or off. Screw this.
A simple enough question...x86 chips, SPARCs, or Alphas? Also what's the scalability from one hardware platform to another for each OS you've considered in terms of web serving applications?
8.5/10
You have a better chance of getting USB on Linux than on NT 4.0.
static kernel...weekly, or daily, reboots!
A jillion IIS hacks...FrontPage frontrage) extensions...ASPs...need I say more?
As if NT does PnP or USB?
I really want an opposite of Jesux I can run as a hack-this-box challenge; invite only religious types to try it. chmod 666 * That FreeBSD demon/daemon would have nothing on Satanix :)
The thing that got to me the most was the hanging - I'd close the browser and later start it again, only to find that a ghost had remained resident and prevented my new window to open! Then it would give me that not responding BS...
I surf with usually more than one browser window open - I'd hit one of my favorite pages and go to visit another window, only to click on the window later and see only a screen with the other window's contents, and the browser hanging on "contacting host." Or how about when you surf to a page and none of the links would be clickable - you try to shut down but it hangs!
One of my favorite sites, Thresh's Firingsquad, would freeze Netscape for about ten seconds while loading! This is on a dual Pentium III system folks, 256mb RAM, NT 4.0 with Service Pack 5, connected to a LAN. I don't think stability and dependability are too much to ask for considering these resources - apparently Netscape does because their software has gone in the crapper once version 4 came out.
Those damn illegal operations: surf with more than one window and close a window? Maybe it doesn't like that, illegal operation. Add a bookmark? Maybe it doesn't like that, illegal operation. Hell, when I'd finally restart again it would destroy the changes I made to my bookmark file - these past few months I've found myself arbitrarily copying my current URL with CTRL-C just in case Netscape crashes and it would destroy my history, no lie.
I'm tired of the crap, Netscape. Fix it: make it stable, light on its feet, and get rid of the crap nobody but braindead AOLers want - fix what's wrong with your software or I'll stay away forever.
I feel like a Nazi using IE5, but it is stable, light, dependable. I'll continue to use it until someone gives me what I want: a clean, sturdy, and stable version of Netscape, whether Netscape is the one to bring it to me or not.
- ...history will show that he was one of the great orators and statesmen of this century.
I suppose he is a great...uh...orator...cough, cough, have a cigar! Billy is certainly good with all things oral...Somebody ought to make a Slashdot version, where we see a geek hook up the iMac, tear up the hardware and upgrade it, kill the MacOS, and install Linux :)
"1-2-3, a real operating system has never been so easy!"
Those ads they showed always pissed me off though, is someone forgetting there's a little thing such as an ISP?
Think different, think proprietary, think Microsoft. Shudder.
It seems like hackpcweek.com is already down :) Slashdotted or hacked? I dunno...
Now, only if Netscape put out a new 128-bit version of their browser...I'm using the 4.08 Navigator standalone and I swear it's buggy as hell.
This really sucks and I'm not renewing my domains with NSI ever again - when they expire I'll register with someone else and I'll lobby to have them put on the MAPS RBL if they spam me again.
These f*ckers have screwed up before but this really takes the cake. I swear to God they've got to be working with MS on this!
I have to forget about looking for girls here on campus and find one in a Linux users' group instead :) Any female Linux fans here?
I feel so dirty selling my stuff on eBay, just because so many people are addicted to it. Also I have a bad stigma associated with it because eBay's servers seem to be down so often. Whatever you're selling, just make sure like you're not selling your soul. I feel like such a freak doing it...
All those Star Wars freaks are probably crying right now. TPM was the number one reason I quit my job at a movie theater before this Summer and got into programming...the pay increase is twentyfold :)
Way to go Alec, stick it to the man!
This past week the old server has been awful from where I am...this one is a great improvement!
No more adfu serving the banner ads? I was hoping the source code would be released soon...
After months of getting worse and worse, it's finally hit rock-bottom. Adding Microsoft to a situation seems to do that for a lot of things...