True, that. I'm glad I'm not working at JPL these days...
Oh I wouldn't be crying *too* much for JPL. They're still in a much better position than Glenn here in Cleveland. 300 civil servants have fled to other centers and hundreds of contractors have already been laid off with 500 more layoffs slated for next year, tons of programs have been cut, and GRC only controls a tiny part of its own budget (the rest is funneled through other centers first). GRC is on the edge of extinction and our representatives couldn't care less. Cleveland sucks.
Who knows? They could replace the drive with a 1GB compactflash card (the board has a compactflash slot built in) and not have any moving parts and use a lot less power. Plus I sincerely doubt they're even using 1% of a 40GB drive (400 MB??) unless they did Red Hat's "minimal" installation which is around that size. A decent minimal Linux install for an embedded system is less than 32MB, if even that. The custom software probably isn't more than 20 MB. Seems like someone just didn't want to put in the effort to building a stripped-down Linux image.
With online gaming if you're pinging higher than 50ms you are a dead man these days... or they'll just kick you from the server for being a god damn lagger.
When it comes to real users, bubbly GUIs like those shown in most Windows Vista screenshots do not appeal. Most serious users will mock such sassery.
The first thing I do with a new Windows XP box is to set everything back to the plain Windows 2000 "classic" look. It's simple, efficient, and doesn't look like I'm running an OS designed by Fisher Price.
It kind of helps that Debian did 99% of the work to make Ubuntu possible though. I installed Debian Sarge and the latest UbuntuLinux on two separate machines and I really can't tell the difference. The installer is basically the same (Debian's new installer) and the desktop is the same GNOME on both of them, just different backgrounds. What exactly is so great about Ubuntu that is different than Debian at this point? Now, if I were to have done this experiment 12 months from now I'd notice that Debian stable is horribly outdated compared to Ubuntu's latest "stable" release, but if I wanted the same level of packages I'd just run Debian testing.
I think the executives at RSA Security just all simultaneously ejaculated upon hearing this news. They'll no doubt be pushing their SecurID solution very heavily.
Hell no! My bet is that you have this the wrong way round, tell me any mac head who would not sell his mother to get his hands on a G5^4@2.5!! That a few 100,s worth of sales at least!
I was very excited to get a Dual 2GHz G5 Powermac at work.. until I powered it on and played around with it for a few minutes. Then I started wondering WTF it was making these weird chirping noises whenever there was a lot of video on screen or the processor was working extra hard (Virtual PC, etc.). Turns out quite a bit of people had this same problem with strange noises emanating from their "Pro" equipment. Don't get me wrong, I love it to death, but I could certainly do without these strange high frequency noises it makes when the screen savers come on or I'm moving windows around.
NAT has absolutely zero benefit to providing you with anonymity unless you're stealing someone else's wireless connection and piggybacking on their service.
I'm referring to Red Hat Enterprise Linux not Fedora. As I said, Red Hat seems to imply that ReiserFS/JFS/XFS isn't "Enterprise" quality enough for their RHEL product line. Not trolling, just stating the facts. Why would I lie about something so easy to check? Just go install RHEL and you'll see there are no options for advanced journaling filesystems beyond ext3.
Even if it is a partial list, XFS and JFS are two of the major Linux filesystems. It'd be like leaving out FAT32 support out of a list of filesystems that Windows supports. They're just too major to be left out.
Apparently Red Hat doesn't think so. If you talk to them then the only journaling filesystem for Linux is the awful ext3... unless you want to recompile your own kernel and void your support of course.
I don't know about that. If you discount the virus, spyware, and exploit threat, Windows XP Pro is a pretty nice workstation operating system. I've never had it BSOD on me like Windows98 used to and it's pretty much rock solid. The main problem are third party applications introducing incompatible DLLs, spyware, viruses, etc.
Where do you live that your POTS is only $8/month? Is that unmetered? Do you have caller-ID service? My bill is $35/month before taxes here in SBC Ohio land and all I have is a POTS line with caller-ID with name service.
I use an Epson Picturemate and I can print 4x6 photos for about 29 cents a piece. Basically a pack of 100 count 4x6 photo paper and a new ink catridge sells for $29 (or less online).
They seem far too limited to me. 32MB of RAM barely gives you any room to do anything extra. You'd be better off just buying a used PC and putting a bunch of disks in it. If it dies, big deal, buy another one. eBay is a virtual cornucopia of old PCs that would run circles around the NSLU2.
I personally prefer to split up the backend and frontend system. Dual PVR250 tuners, a 3Ware 8500-4LP with a RAID-5 array of 4x200GB drives. The frontend uses a diskless Via EPIA M10000 motherboard in a book-sized case running the MiniMyth distribution that boots from a PXE server running on the backend. That way I have a nice small quiet system hooked up in the living room and the backend machine can be in a nice big bulky loud case with lots of drives, fans, and a big power supply. 100Mbit ethernet is more than sufficient for feeding up a very good 720x480 MPEG-2 stream.
Maybe they'll try like many people before them have tried.. form an alternative DNS root system. It would be chaos of course and would never transition smoothly, but it's probably the only way to do it. To do this you'd need to get every single major DNS server in the world to point to your DNS root system instead of the current one.
On the other hand, saying the US controls the Internet because we control the root DNS system is like saying the US controls the telephone system because an American company publishes the Yellow Pages. That's silly. Mutlinational corporations control the telephone system AND the Internet communications networks. The US is simply the most stable country on earth to control the root DNS system, but the servers themselves are distributed throughout the world.
Use RIAA Radar [magnetbox.com] to find out if an album is published by an RIAA label. If that's the case, and you want it anyway, don't buy it new, but used (for instance at ebay, amazon marketplace or even a used records store).
Buying used albums is akin to stealing (in the RIAA's mind) and it will be only a matter of time before resale rights are abolished. Why should you be able to buy a copy of the album without the RIAA getting their cut? In their mind this is no different than downloading the songs.
Well, you ARE stuck with iTunes, but not necessarily iTunes Music Store. It would've been nice if you didn't even need iTunes to put music on an iPod. Why not do what most other mp3 players do and just have a directory structure on it that you can drop music into? If you put music on an iPod it mangles up the filenames and requires specialized software to read the database to sort it all out. With other mp3 players they act more like portable hard drives that also happen to be able to play the music files stored on them. Personally I will not buy another iPod when this one dies.. I wasn't aware of how they stored the music before I bought it (and yes, that's my own damn fault for not investigating it more thoroughly). Sure, it plays music fine and sounds fine, but frankly I would've liked to be able to keep my music in sync between my work computer and my home computer, and with an iPod it's a PITA.
The fact that someone hasn't used a feature up until the filing of the suit was irrelevant. It was THE major selling point of the upgrade. Remember, a lot of people were still stuck with 40 meg hds back then. If you had 80 megs, you were cool. If you had over 100 megs, you were among the elite. That's MEGS, not GIGS.
I think you're mistaken. I bought a brand new computer in 1990 and it came with a 130 meg hard drive... that was considered a low-end machine then. MS-DOS 6.0 wasn't released until 1993 when the average drive was more like 245 to 545 megabytes. Considering "huge" DOS programs took up about 5-10 megabytes this is sort of a non-issue. Just a few years after DOS 6.0 hard drive sizes started ballooning anyway as the hardware industry began to fellate Microsoft's bloated Windows 95 specs.
Hooray! One day we'll pay for "advanced" devices that let us do novel things such as "Duplicate" and "Read" (more than 5 times, and over my 30 day limit, and without a $14.95 a month license until the end of time aggreement.)
What's next in your silly little worker's paradise... buildings full of books, DVDs, and CDs you can borrow for free? A system like the one you describe would cause our entire economy to collapse.
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Oh I wouldn't be crying *too* much for JPL. They're still in a much better position than Glenn here in Cleveland. 300 civil servants have fled to other centers and hundreds of contractors have already been laid off with 500 more layoffs slated for next year, tons of programs have been cut, and GRC only controls a tiny part of its own budget (the rest is funneled through other centers first). GRC is on the edge of extinction and our representatives couldn't care less. Cleveland sucks.
Who knows? They could replace the drive with a 1GB compactflash card (the board has a compactflash slot built in) and not have any moving parts and use a lot less power. Plus I sincerely doubt they're even using 1% of a 40GB drive (400 MB??) unless they did Red Hat's "minimal" installation which is around that size. A decent minimal Linux install for an embedded system is less than 32MB, if even that. The custom software probably isn't more than 20 MB. Seems like someone just didn't want to put in the effort to building a stripped-down Linux image.
With online gaming if you're pinging higher than 50ms you are a dead man these days... or they'll just kick you from the server for being a god damn lagger.
I guess they decided not to go out of business today afterall. Imagine that.
The first thing I do with a new Windows XP box is to set everything back to the plain Windows 2000 "classic" look. It's simple, efficient, and doesn't look like I'm running an OS designed by Fisher Price.
It kind of helps that Debian did 99% of the work to make Ubuntu possible though. I installed Debian Sarge and the latest UbuntuLinux on two separate machines and I really can't tell the difference. The installer is basically the same (Debian's new installer) and the desktop is the same GNOME on both of them, just different backgrounds. What exactly is so great about Ubuntu that is different than Debian at this point? Now, if I were to have done this experiment 12 months from now I'd notice that Debian stable is horribly outdated compared to Ubuntu's latest "stable" release, but if I wanted the same level of packages I'd just run Debian testing.
I think the executives at RSA Security just all simultaneously ejaculated upon hearing this news. They'll no doubt be pushing their SecurID solution very heavily.
I was very excited to get a Dual 2GHz G5 Powermac at work.. until I powered it on and played around with it for a few minutes. Then I started wondering WTF it was making these weird chirping noises whenever there was a lot of video on screen or the processor was working extra hard (Virtual PC, etc.). Turns out quite a bit of people had this same problem with strange noises emanating from their "Pro" equipment. Don't get me wrong, I love it to death, but I could certainly do without these strange high frequency noises it makes when the screen savers come on or I'm moving windows around.
Sometimes, people mistakenly refer to OpenDocument (short for the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) as OpenDoc.
NAT has absolutely zero benefit to providing you with anonymity unless you're stealing someone else's wireless connection and piggybacking on their service.
I'm referring to Red Hat Enterprise Linux not Fedora. As I said, Red Hat seems to imply that ReiserFS/JFS/XFS isn't "Enterprise" quality enough for their RHEL product line. Not trolling, just stating the facts. Why would I lie about something so easy to check? Just go install RHEL and you'll see there are no options for advanced journaling filesystems beyond ext3.
Apparently Red Hat doesn't think so. If you talk to them then the only journaling filesystem for Linux is the awful ext3... unless you want to recompile your own kernel and void your support of course.
I don't know about that. If you discount the virus, spyware, and exploit threat, Windows XP Pro is a pretty nice workstation operating system. I've never had it BSOD on me like Windows98 used to and it's pretty much rock solid. The main problem are third party applications introducing incompatible DLLs, spyware, viruses, etc.
All I could make out of that was something about surrendering.
Where do you live that your POTS is only $8/month? Is that unmetered? Do you have caller-ID service? My bill is $35/month before taxes here in SBC Ohio land and all I have is a POTS line with caller-ID with name service.
Or I could just put it in my Netflix queue and get it a few days after it is released and then rip it if I really want to keep a copy.
I use an Epson Picturemate and I can print 4x6 photos for about 29 cents a piece. Basically a pack of 100 count 4x6 photo paper and a new ink catridge sells for $29 (or less online).
They seem far too limited to me. 32MB of RAM barely gives you any room to do anything extra. You'd be better off just buying a used PC and putting a bunch of disks in it. If it dies, big deal, buy another one. eBay is a virtual cornucopia of old PCs that would run circles around the NSLU2.
I personally prefer to split up the backend and frontend system. Dual PVR250 tuners, a 3Ware 8500-4LP with a RAID-5 array of 4x200GB drives. The frontend uses a diskless Via EPIA M10000 motherboard in a book-sized case running the MiniMyth distribution that boots from a PXE server running on the backend. That way I have a nice small quiet system hooked up in the living room and the backend machine can be in a nice big bulky loud case with lots of drives, fans, and a big power supply. 100Mbit ethernet is more than sufficient for feeding up a very good 720x480 MPEG-2 stream.
On the other hand, saying the US controls the Internet because we control the root DNS system is like saying the US controls the telephone system because an American company publishes the Yellow Pages. That's silly. Mutlinational corporations control the telephone system AND the Internet communications networks. The US is simply the most stable country on earth to control the root DNS system, but the servers themselves are distributed throughout the world.
Use RIAA Radar [magnetbox.com] to find out if an album is published by an RIAA label. If that's the case, and you want it anyway, don't buy it new, but used (for instance at ebay, amazon marketplace or even a used records store).
Buying used albums is akin to stealing (in the RIAA's mind) and it will be only a matter of time before resale rights are abolished. Why should you be able to buy a copy of the album without the RIAA getting their cut? In their mind this is no different than downloading the songs.
Well, you ARE stuck with iTunes, but not necessarily iTunes Music Store. It would've been nice if you didn't even need iTunes to put music on an iPod. Why not do what most other mp3 players do and just have a directory structure on it that you can drop music into? If you put music on an iPod it mangles up the filenames and requires specialized software to read the database to sort it all out. With other mp3 players they act more like portable hard drives that also happen to be able to play the music files stored on them. Personally I will not buy another iPod when this one dies.. I wasn't aware of how they stored the music before I bought it (and yes, that's my own damn fault for not investigating it more thoroughly). Sure, it plays music fine and sounds fine, but frankly I would've liked to be able to keep my music in sync between my work computer and my home computer, and with an iPod it's a PITA.
I think you're mistaken. I bought a brand new computer in 1990 and it came with a 130 meg hard drive... that was considered a low-end machine then. MS-DOS 6.0 wasn't released until 1993 when the average drive was more like 245 to 545 megabytes. Considering "huge" DOS programs took up about 5-10 megabytes this is sort of a non-issue. Just a few years after DOS 6.0 hard drive sizes started ballooning anyway as the hardware industry began to fellate Microsoft's bloated Windows 95 specs.
What's next in your silly little worker's paradise... buildings full of books, DVDs, and CDs you can borrow for free? A system like the one you describe would cause our entire economy to collapse.