You've dropped below my Stupdity Tolerance Barrier in only two lines of response - if one wants to call this braindead heap of wordtrash a "response" at all.
I gather you seem a fitting recipient for penis enlargement spam - let me know if I can redirect it to you, otherwise please never ever talk to me again before you are at least 16.
I yell. Currently I'm unemployed since IT in my parts is a snowball in hell. However, I'd really like to have two more boxes for a file server and an app server plus a set of disks in the 10 or 20GB range to experiment with raid arrays.
Why I need all this? For myself? Entertainment? No, to keep up with the IT pace and evade becoming an obsolete dinosaur.
I'd *gladly* take two PII boxen and a couple of disks.
Back to the average Joe and your false assumptions: -if somebody doesn't have work, it doesn't mean he doesn't want to work. Arrogance check. -you can be very productive on a computer with a dial-up or even *without* the frigging internet. A decent book about coding, databases or whatever is interesting to you and a low end machine running xfce4 or so will do just fine. No money spent on the OS, the puter, the internet and still one can be a magnitude higher in productivity, creativity, learning than any dork with his broadband hooked 2GB-4GHz-SLI-500GB Gaming Powerhouse Of Ego Boost +3.
Thing is I don't want a device that runs as hot as 105C in my case *at all*. If said monster heat sink sticking outside was all that got that hot it would be ok. Right now I have a beQuiet PSU which has around 45-50C under load, and I consider that a blow to the overall cooling performance. CPU is water cooled, so there's no air stram over the regulators and their caps which makes me consider putting another fan at the rear. (Uh, why again did I get me a PSU labeled be*Quiet*?)
But - since you're pretty much familiar with these things, what components in a PC PSU need active cooling anyway? The mosfets which generate the switching frequency, alright. What else?
Re:Big Brother and the iTunes Company
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Well, I wouldn't have gone there in the first place. Even if I did, the passage you are obviously talking about is marketing chatter. I wouldn't have read it more than a half line if I weren't looking for the particular sentence - and I guess, hardly anyone else did. Why bother, iTunes worls without reading this, right?
It's no black/white-situation, alright, still I think it could be clearer. If my privacy is concerned, I'd like to be informed by the application itself, not some obnoxious ad page.
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RAID != Backup I thought we were talking about backups here... RAID is online file storage. It's prone to PEBKAC, it doesn't provide fs fuckup protection. If Reiser goes haywire, you're screwed. If you accidentally dd/dev/random over one disk in your array, the fs will be jeopardized, possibly beyond repair. Not to speak of controller, CPU or RAM failure. You need your stuff safe, backup to tape and refresh once in a while. About BD/HD-DVD: do they have defect management like DVD-RAM? In that case if you need every single byte the rule would be: as soon as def.man. has to step up, copy all data to a fresh disc and feed the old one to the microwave.
All we have to do to make software unhackable is write unhackable software! Oh my GOD! The *simplicity*! The JOY!
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I've *been* to #kopete couple of times. Rarely ever got any replies, and can't remember any useful.
I rrather stick to bugzilla/mailing lists for that matter.
I *did* check out the SVN since the kopete which came with kde 3.4.1 had some issues that made it unusable to me. I don't even remember what it was, sorry.
Rethink my opinion about Kopete: done. no change. it has bugs that have been known for ages (like the font size in text box which is smaller than dialog when X runs below a certain dpi. known for.. ? since kde 3.2 or so..? don't know. only an annoyance, but it's alike with serious bugs. kde-3.4.0-kopete still had the icq5-crash-bug here for example)
Video support? How about little steps first? Like file transfers?
Ok, I know, not your fault icq protocol changes any moment and breaks file transfer, but if you can hack up Yahoo and MSN video support...
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"We kicked that bug infested moronic kopete from kdenetwork because it doesn't even match the most simple quality standards and so the developers can release new versions from time to time instead bugging users by letting them wait for another kde release or fumble some SVN compiles into their package management."
"We looked up 'consistency' and tried to get the spirit: KDE now after the upgrade will look the same, use the same fonts that you set in kcontrol, use the same bloody arrangement of your taskbar instead of randomly loosing launchers, meddle with their spacing or switch window/taskbar positions at random, oh, and the ~/.kde/*/*rc files are only altered as much as absoultely possible instead of warping them to something that'll never allow you to downgrade unless you want to start over arranging settings for every frickin' application or where clever enough to make backups."
(Yeah admitted that backup thing was my fault in the past)
"KMail now actually is usable by keyboard."
The point is "port multiplier". Similar to USB sATA can run like a hub, hence you need only one cable to a, let's say, raid backplane - which easily delivers 200MB/s.
Apart from that - making interfaces tailored to the disk's transfer speed towards a minimum gap - where would the point be *there*?
What debian lacks is somebody who is paid for getting called by your PHB or similar and get yelled at. Then eventually fixes something.
Imagine going to freenode/#debian and inquiring about IBM DB2 issues you can't handle yourself. When the asbestos cools down your boss wants to know what the support droids said. Your answer?
By *fat* people dressed as imperial stormtroopers, *fat* chicks dressed as amidala, and *fat* guys in Sith robes.
Obviously any fat person on planet earth who doesn't have a life and lives sufficiently close to the hollywood merchandise moloch is uncapable of resisting the urge to not unstupefy and slip 200 pounds of meat in a cheap costume any other person on said planet is aware of it *just don't fit*.
*I* don't have the slightest idea where the much needed volume knob is to turn your yelling down. I got my info from an IBM LPI trainer. Trustworthy to me.
Obviously you didn't take any LPI exams or you would have come across some questions where the answers only work on SuSE like place of certain files only SuSE places there.
Well, take the RH cert for example. You get a fscked up system and 60 minutes and after that the machine's gotta be running.
There's *lots* of possibilities to make this interesting other than "you marked the right answer" / "you marked the wrong answer (and we won't even tell you what we think is right (which it sometimes even isn't because the exhausted troglodyte who created the test oopsed))"
Just FYI, LPI is rather SuSE orientated, as seen in the 2-years-due Level 3 for which you have to know Yast inside out.
Apart from that - the real problem with LPI is no their hardware but acceptance. Usually the answers to the current set of questions start filing into to the net after a while and the test comes down to "find and learn answers by heart" - and companies know that, at least those aware of LPI. Those who are not don't care anyway.
Quite something different whether you get a donor kidney and need to medicate a not-quite-100%-match or whether you need to get something into you your immune system will attack at a probability of P=1.
From my diabetes specialist. Somebody I rather consider to be at the ball.
So - you take those for what? Got an islet cell transplant or something different?
Which hospital did the surgery/figured the drug mixture?
First of all: the cell transplant genie has been out of the bottle for about 5 years. Last mentioned success at King Hill hospital. This is no way new.
2.: more important: the knock out here is the anti-immune-drugs. being treated with this means: live in a sterile environment, no carpet, no plants in your room etc, having any tooth fillings removed/teeth replaced with ceramics (drilled into the jaw. yes drilled) or a denture. And so on. Plus, a simple cold hits you like a hammer. So you pay your so called "health" with sacrifying a much larger portion of quality of life than the diabetes had an impact on.
Yeah, like you can just fork a spinoff and expect everybody to use it like they are supposed to care.
The "it's open, change it if you don't like it" attitude certain folks like to cling to when somebody pointed out "xy is crap and needs improvement" doesn't work that way. In the end it's the developers who decide which way to go and I've seen projects receiving fine patches but the devs rejected them because god knows what reason. No time, didn't understand the code etc.
So - make a fork with your patches? Ok. The next moment you'll find yourself trying to catch up with the original single handed when they release new versions.
Did you have the time to gather a developer team around you in no time? Probably not.
Do you have the resource to adapt the software for all distributions out there like debian, SuSE, SLES, RH, FC, Slackware if you're cool, etc etc.? While maintaining the software? And making progress?
Nope. Only works if the project you forked from is doomed like XFree86 was when the XOrg genie popped outta the bottle.
So it's sink or swim.
And even if someone has the time to do all this - who's coder enough to form a project like Gnome? 1 out of how many users?
Only my 0.02 about "it's open, change it"
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"Some Dude(TM) blah.. believes.. blah.. believes, too, blah... and *believes* Blah. BLAH."
You've dropped below my Stupdity Tolerance Barrier in only two lines of response - if one wants to call this braindead heap of wordtrash a "response" at all.
I gather you seem a fitting recipient for penis enlargement spam - let me know if I can redirect it to you, otherwise please never ever talk to me again before you are at least 16.
I yell.
Currently I'm unemployed since IT in my parts is a snowball in hell.
However, I'd really like to have two more boxes for a file server and an app server plus a set of disks in the 10 or 20GB range to experiment with raid arrays.
Why I need all this? For myself? Entertainment? No, to keep up with the IT pace and evade becoming an obsolete dinosaur.
I'd *gladly* take two PII boxen and a couple of disks.
Back to the average Joe and your false assumptions:
-if somebody doesn't have work, it doesn't mean he doesn't want to work. Arrogance check.
-you can be very productive on a computer with a dial-up or even *without* the frigging internet. A decent book about coding, databases or whatever is interesting to you and a low end machine running xfce4 or so will do just fine.
No money spent on the OS, the puter, the internet and still one can be a magnitude higher in productivity, creativity, learning than any dork with his broadband hooked 2GB-4GHz-SLI-500GB Gaming Powerhouse Of Ego Boost +3.
I installed Slackware about 4 or 5 years ago - I am *still* configuring it ;)
:)
On 3 machines so far
Thing is I don't want a device that runs as hot as 105C in my case *at all*.
If said monster heat sink sticking outside was all that got that hot it would be ok.
Right now I have a beQuiet PSU which has around 45-50C under load, and I consider that a blow to the overall cooling performance.
CPU is water cooled, so there's no air stram over the regulators and their caps which makes me consider putting another fan at the rear.
(Uh, why again did I get me a PSU labeled be*Quiet*?)
But - since you're pretty much familiar with these things, what components in a PC PSU need active cooling anyway? The mosfets which generate the switching frequency, alright. What else?
Well, I wouldn't have gone there in the first place. Even if I did, the passage you are obviously talking about is marketing chatter. I wouldn't have read it more than a half line if I weren't looking for the particular sentence - and I guess, hardly anyone else did. Why bother, iTunes worls without reading this, right?
It's no black/white-situation, alright, still I think it could be clearer.
If my privacy is concerned, I'd like to be informed by the application itself, not some obnoxious ad page.
If you mean http://www.apple.com/itunes/, I don't see where.
1. Where does it say that? EULA? Some "About" option nobody ever calls?
That would be deceptive -> spyware.
2. I'd prefer such a function to be disabled by default and *asked* if I want it during install.
Too bad decency don't sell.
RAID != Backup /dev/random over one disk in your array, the fs will be jeopardized, possibly beyond repair.
I thought we were talking about backups here... RAID is online file storage. It's prone to PEBKAC, it doesn't provide fs fuckup protection. If Reiser goes haywire, you're screwed. If you accidentally dd
Not to speak of controller, CPU or RAM failure.
You need your stuff safe, backup to tape and refresh once in a while.
About BD/HD-DVD: do they have defect management like DVD-RAM?
In that case if you need every single byte the rule would be: as soon as def.man. has to step up, copy all data to a fresh disc and feed the old one to the microwave.
"Data"? That's a tad euphemistic, isn't it.
All we have to do to make software unhackable is write unhackable software!
Oh my GOD! The *simplicity*! The JOY!
I've *been* to #kopete couple of times. Rarely ever got any replies, and can't remember any useful. I rrather stick to bugzilla/mailing lists for that matter. I *did* check out the SVN since the kopete which came with kde 3.4.1 had some issues that made it unusable to me. I don't even remember what it was, sorry. Rethink my opinion about Kopete: done. no change. it has bugs that have been known for ages (like the font size in text box which is smaller than dialog when X runs below a certain dpi. known for.. ? since kde 3.2 or so..? don't know. only an annoyance, but it's alike with serious bugs. kde-3.4.0-kopete still had the icq5-crash-bug here for example) Video support? How about little steps first? Like file transfers? Ok, I know, not your fault icq protocol changes any moment and breaks file transfer, but if you can hack up Yahoo and MSN video support...
"We kicked that bug infested moronic kopete from kdenetwork because it doesn't even match the most simple quality standards and so the developers can release new versions from time to time instead bugging users by letting them wait for another kde release or fumble some SVN compiles into their package management." "We looked up 'consistency' and tried to get the spirit: KDE now after the upgrade will look the same, use the same fonts that you set in kcontrol, use the same bloody arrangement of your taskbar instead of randomly loosing launchers, meddle with their spacing or switch window/taskbar positions at random, oh, and the ~/.kde/*/*rc files are only altered as much as absoultely possible instead of warping them to something that'll never allow you to downgrade unless you want to start over arranging settings for every frickin' application or where clever enough to make backups." (Yeah admitted that backup thing was my fault in the past) "KMail now actually is usable by keyboard."
The point is "port multiplier". Similar to USB sATA can run like a hub, hence you need only one cable to a, let's say, raid backplane - which easily delivers 200MB/s. Apart from that - making interfaces tailored to the disk's transfer speed towards a minimum gap - where would the point be *there*?
What debian lacks is somebody who is paid for getting called by your PHB or similar and get yelled at. Then eventually fixes something. Imagine going to freenode/#debian and inquiring about IBM DB2 issues you can't handle yourself. When the asbestos cools down your boss wants to know what the support droids said. Your answer?
By *fat* people dressed as imperial stormtroopers, *fat* chicks dressed as amidala, and *fat* guys in Sith robes. Obviously any fat person on planet earth who doesn't have a life and lives sufficiently close to the hollywood merchandise moloch is uncapable of resisting the urge to not unstupefy and slip 200 pounds of meat in a cheap costume any other person on said planet is aware of it *just don't fit*.
*I* don't have the slightest idea where the much needed volume knob is to turn your yelling down. I got my info from an IBM LPI trainer. Trustworthy to me. Obviously you didn't take any LPI exams or you would have come across some questions where the answers only work on SuSE like place of certain files only SuSE places there.
Well, take the RH cert for example. You get a fscked up system and 60 minutes and after that the machine's gotta be running. There's *lots* of possibilities to make this interesting other than "you marked the right answer" / "you marked the wrong answer (and we won't even tell you what we think is right (which it sometimes even isn't because the exhausted troglodyte who created the test oopsed))"
Just FYI, LPI is rather SuSE orientated, as seen in the 2-years-due Level 3 for which you have to know Yast inside out. Apart from that - the real problem with LPI is no their hardware but acceptance. Usually the answers to the current set of questions start filing into to the net after a while and the test comes down to "find and learn answers by heart" - and companies know that, at least those aware of LPI. Those who are not don't care anyway.
Quite something different whether you get a donor kidney and need to medicate a not-quite-100%-match or whether you need to get something into you your immune system will attack at a probability of P=1.
From my diabetes specialist. Somebody I rather consider to be at the ball. So - you take those for what? Got an islet cell transplant or something different? Which hospital did the surgery/figured the drug mixture?
First of all: the cell transplant genie has been out of the bottle for about 5 years. Last mentioned success at King Hill hospital.
This is no way new.
2.: more important: the knock out here is the anti-immune-drugs. being treated with this means: live in a sterile environment, no carpet, no plants in your room etc, having any tooth fillings removed/teeth replaced with ceramics (drilled into the jaw. yes drilled) or a denture. And so on.
Plus, a simple cold hits you like a hammer.
So you pay your so called "health" with sacrifying a much larger portion of quality of life than the diabetes had an impact on.
Yeah, like you can just fork a spinoff and expect everybody to use it like they are supposed to care. The "it's open, change it if you don't like it" attitude certain folks like to cling to when somebody pointed out "xy is crap and needs improvement" doesn't work that way. In the end it's the developers who decide which way to go and I've seen projects receiving fine patches but the devs rejected them because god knows what reason. No time, didn't understand the code etc. So - make a fork with your patches? Ok. The next moment you'll find yourself trying to catch up with the original single handed when they release new versions. Did you have the time to gather a developer team around you in no time? Probably not. Do you have the resource to adapt the software for all distributions out there like debian, SuSE, SLES, RH, FC, Slackware if you're cool, etc etc.? While maintaining the software? And making progress? Nope. Only works if the project you forked from is doomed like XFree86 was when the XOrg genie popped outta the bottle. So it's sink or swim. And even if someone has the time to do all this - who's coder enough to form a project like Gnome? 1 out of how many users? Only my 0.02 about "it's open, change it"