Finally Redhat is too expensive and CentOS community support people are liable to try to run the life of one of my customers who accidentally asks them for help.
You're clearly talking about the "Tuttle" incident. I don't think that threatening to call the FBI on someone is quite the same as asking them for help.
Of course I'm not a whiney little bitch, so maybe our definitions are different.
You seem to have a problem with the English language. Are you an illegal alien by any chance? Anyone monitoring your communications would probably assume that you are.
Personally I suspect that you are an Al Quaeda operative encoding secret messages in your spelling & grammar errors.
I think you should be shot just to be on the safe side. Actually I think you should be shot for the entertainment value.
And it never occured to him to systematically unplug each device to see if it was the one causing the problem and then spend $99 on a new router? Something seems mighty fishy to me.
Parent is retarded or unable to read. Please mod him down before someone wastes 2 minutes of their valuable time putting him right.
I know I oversimplify what you stated, but the bottom line is: He is talking business here. Rule #1 will be that the solution will have to meet the requirements.
There probably is no solution which exactly matches his requirements in this case. Bearing that in mind, which of the following answers do you think is most helpful?
A) Tough shit, there's nothing that meets your exact requirements so you're screwed.
B) Have you considered Product X? It doesn't quite meet your requirements, but with a bit of work on your part it may be a viable solution.
You seem to be arguing for A, probably because you see the world in black and white. Have you considered moving to a management role?
Considering that when many people say that they need a Windows machine to do "work" on, they actually mean they need it for playing games
Yeah, and when people say that they need a Mac to do "graphic design" on, they actually mean that they work in advertising, producing the kind of irritating punch-the-monkey marketing shit that makes people want to rip their own eyes out.
In all seriousness, the fact that you can't think of any work task for which people could conceivably need a Windows machine doesn't mean that they don't exist. It is much more likely that you hold that view because you are a blinkered little MacTard that has never had a proper job.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Are gamers switching to Intel based Macs? No. No matter how much you all want it to be true. And why do you want it to be true? I think that if you engaged in some serious self-analysis to try and discern the deep seated reasons why you want that sort of thing to be true so badly, you would come across some seriously fucked up shit lurking in your subconscious.
The only thing that interests me about the PS3 is the better hardware and greater game base, but I don't think that is going to be worth shelling out over 1/2 a grand.
How the fuck do you know how good the hardware and game base are going to be? Do you have some clairvoyant shit going on there, huh?
Do you work on the psychic hotline? Is that why you call yourself "Nightspirit"? I assumed you were just a dick, but maybe there's a spiritual reason?
Imagine, all that power. The possibilities. And what will the open source community do?
Run gentoo on it? Build a beowulf cluster?
No, posse up a few grand to get someone with too much time on their hands to get windows fucking xp and or vista to run on it.
Hi Tod, I realise that this is a personal question, but are you fucking schizophrenic or something?
I mean was that supposed to make any fucking sense at all?
The Open Source community is going to try and get Vista running on the PS3 are they? I suppose that made sense to you when the voices in your head were saying it, did it Tod? Or was it the version of Jesus that lives in your icebox that told you to say those words?
What the World needs is an anti-psychotic drug that has the side effect of preventing people from typing.
This network issue is a software issue which was fixed by the update. Heat? Only at the top of the keyboard at the display hinge where the fan outflow is. Hello McFly? Anybody home? No display or whine issues other than from other users whining in various forums.
Why is your comment so long? All you've just said is, "Mine works, therefore everybody else's works too".
With a little bit of thought, you could be an arrogant prick whilst using much less bandwidth. Try harder in future.
No - just for once, please, please, please let us forget the Mac community.
You pop up in every other Slashdot story, let's have a break. I mean this is about Enterprise class business products - it's so obviously not for you, fruit fans.
Don't worry - there's bound to be another tenuous iPod Slashvertisement soon. You can all wank yourselves raw to that instead. Just shut up for a few minutes, the rest might do you all good.
Unfortunatley since they awoken the great Ancient one with their pleas for mercy, the heart patients and their family (and next of kin and family pets) will be eaten first and slowly.
I thought that when Cthulhu comes, the best thing to do is get eaten first? Then you avoid the worst of the insanity which will slowly devour the minds of the weak (of course we are all weak compared to his many tentacled highness).
A similar study was done in the UK a while back. They also wanted to test if being prayed for could extend life. However, they had a flash of inspiration that allowed them to eliminate all the messing around finding experimental subjects, setting up control groups etc..
The idea was simple but brilliant. They realised that as Britain was a monarchy, the Royal Family must be the subject of an awful lot of prayers. So they just looked at the average age that members of the Royal Family lived to and compared it against the national average.
It turned out that members of the Royal Family did indeed live longer than average, thereby proving the power of prayer!
They offered $10,000 reward and all-expenses paid round-trip to moscow to their headquarters, if you could replicate situation where starforce actually did some damage to optical drives.
No, the deal was that you flew out to Moscow at your own expense to demonstrate it. And then they decide whether to award you the prize based on their rules. Also note that the vast majority of people aren't complaining that it physically damages their CD drives. They are complaining about system instability, poor performance and the gaping fucking security hole that Starforce opens on your PC*.
I'm sure that you totally misrepresented the "competition" rules by accident. Everyone knows Starforce are above planting paid shills on forums.
* The Starforce driver can elevate user processes to Ring 0**. ** That's what we call a rootkit.
The funny thing about it is that nobody would get fooled. "Hole in OpenSSH? Obviously an April Fools joke."
Oh yeah, because there's never been a serious, pre-authentication remote root in OpenSSH. And thousands of people didn't get hacked by it.
It's in the Matrix movie for fucks sake. And what do you think was the cause of that "One remote hole in the default install in 8 years" on the OpenBSD site? Yes, well done - OpenSSH.
Well, those people are not really funny...They sure as heck don't need a tv show.
Thanks for the info - I've cancelled my downloads, as I believe that random people on the Internet must share my sense of humour.
Some people might complain that your post contained nothing but a few words of opinion and entirely lacked any context or explanation. I however am happy to take the word of complete strangers.
And all their neighbours within a half-mile radius. Still at least when you find that your router doesn't handle IPSEC NAT-Traversal properly, you can just try somebody elses.
what's the situation in Linux? Is this the same thing as the 'hardware sensors' modules in the kernel?
Pretty much, but this is the OpenBSD version so it will be better for a number of vague and poorly defined reasons.
Also it will be more secure. You wouldn't want someone to hack in and find out the temperature of your server would you? That's what will happen if you don't use OpenBSD.
Does this fix OSX's bad Apache & Database performance under load?
No, there was no need. Shortly after those benchmarks came out, the Mac community rallied round and decided that the results were invalid for a variety of obscure and unlikely reasons. So there's nothing to fix.
No harm, no foul. I just seeth when some punk snatches a previously posted story on Digg and submits it to/.
This is just a wild guess, but I'm thinking that maybe, just maybe, there's not a whole lot else going on in your life.
Personally, things like poverty, injustice and corruption make me seeth. People submitting the same story to two different tech websites is pretty low down the list. In fact I would go so far as to say that if it ever made my list at all, I would seriously consider suicide.
This is due to modern PC video card architecture containing a large quantity of PURE EVIL. To get around this evil the X developers have done some rather expedient things, such as directly accessing the cards via IO registers, directly from userland.
It's worse than that - even if you dispense with a graphics card, your OS still has to directly access some of your hardware at some point. This creates the opportunity for all kinds of strange interactions and unforseen security holes.
Ever at the forefront of proactive security, the OpenBSD team have announced their solution to this problem. OpenBSD 4.0 will be the first OS to not run on any hardware at all. It will exist only as a mass of finely crafted and provably secure pseudo code. Although critics have pointed out that the finished product may lack something in the functionality stakes, supporters have pointed out that the OS has been moving in this direction for a while.
Project leader Theo offered the following comment, "Retards! You weren't supposed to install it anyway! Have you read the chapter on partitioning in the install guide? Do you really think we wrote it like that because we wanted people to try and install it? Jesus, you make me sick."
Unless I misunderstand you, nv isn't any better, their unified drivers are only for desktop and a few highend laptop gpus
No - it is only ATI that pull this shit. Don't let anyone convince you that it is normal. You can always workaround the issue by making sure you don't buy a laptop with an ATI chipset. Then you wouldn't have to use hacked drivers just to get it working.
Watercooling doesn't require you to wait for anything to cool down.
Yes, your post is very embarassing indeed. The parent was obviously talking about the systems with built-in phase change cooling (e.g. Prometia) which do take several minutes to get down to the right temperature.
But because you've never heard of those, you assumed he was talking about water cooling and made a tit of yourself flaming him.
It's pretty hard to think of anything more embarassing than that.
So there'll probably be pretty good piracy / 'backup' mod-chips available soon, but no homebrew yet.
Oh, I don't know about that. Do you think it would even be worth anyone making one if it only allowed you to play pirated games? It's hard to see how they could hope to turn a profit if they couldn't sell it to all those people that just want to run Linux and Gameboy emulators on their 360. It's just economies of scale.
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Finally Redhat is too expensive and CentOS community support people are liable to try to run the life of one of my customers who accidentally asks them for help.
You're clearly talking about the "Tuttle" incident. I don't think that threatening to call the FBI on someone is quite the same as asking them for help.
Of course I'm not a whiney little bitch, so maybe our definitions are different.
Glad their monitoring terrorists
You seem to have a problem with the English language. Are you an illegal alien by any chance? Anyone monitoring your communications would probably assume that you are.
Personally I suspect that you are an Al Quaeda operative encoding secret messages in your spelling & grammar errors.
I think you should be shot just to be on the safe side. Actually I think you should be shot for the entertainment value.
And it never occured to him to systematically unplug each device to see if it was the one causing the problem and then spend $99 on a new router? Something seems mighty fishy to me.
Parent is retarded or unable to read. Please mod him down before someone wastes 2 minutes of their valuable time putting him right.
I know I oversimplify what you stated, but the bottom line is: He is talking business here. Rule #1 will be that the solution will have to meet the requirements.
There probably is no solution which exactly matches his requirements in this case. Bearing that in mind, which of the following answers do you think is most helpful?
A) Tough shit, there's nothing that meets your exact requirements so you're screwed.
B) Have you considered Product X? It doesn't quite meet your requirements, but with a bit of work on your part it may be a viable solution.
You seem to be arguing for A, probably because you see the world in black and white. Have you considered moving to a management role?
Considering that when many people say that they need a Windows machine to do "work" on, they actually mean they need it for playing games
Yeah, and when people say that they need a Mac to do "graphic design" on, they actually mean that they work in advertising, producing the kind of irritating punch-the-monkey marketing shit that makes people want to rip their own eyes out.
In all seriousness, the fact that you can't think of any work task for which people could conceivably need a Windows machine doesn't mean that they don't exist. It is much more likely that you hold that view because you are a blinkered little MacTard that has never had a proper job.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Are gamers switching to Intel based Macs? No. No matter how much you all want it to be true. And why do you want it to be true? I think that if you engaged in some serious self-analysis to try and discern the deep seated reasons why you want that sort of thing to be true so badly, you would come across some seriously fucked up shit lurking in your subconscious.
The only thing that interests me about the PS3 is the better hardware and greater game base, but I don't think that is going to be worth shelling out over 1/2 a grand.
How the fuck do you know how good the hardware and game base are going to be? Do you have some clairvoyant shit going on there, huh?
Do you work on the psychic hotline? Is that why you call yourself "Nightspirit"? I assumed you were just a dick, but maybe there's a spiritual reason?
Imagine, all that power. The possibilities. And what will the open source community do?
Run gentoo on it? Build a beowulf cluster?
No, posse up a few grand to get someone with too much time on their hands to get windows fucking xp and or vista to run on it.
Hi Tod, I realise that this is a personal question, but are you fucking schizophrenic or something?
I mean was that supposed to make any fucking sense at all?
The Open Source community is going to try and get Vista running on the PS3 are they? I suppose that made sense to you when the voices in your head were saying it, did it Tod? Or was it the version of Jesus that lives in your icebox that told you to say those words?
What the World needs is an anti-psychotic drug that has the side effect of preventing people from typing.
To be fair, the laptops only caught fire because they got too close to the light that shines out of Steve Jobs' asshole.
I hereby nominate this as the best Slashdot comment ever. Seconds?
This network issue is a software issue which was fixed by the update. Heat? Only at the top of the keyboard at the display hinge where the fan outflow is. Hello McFly? Anybody home? No display or whine issues other than from other users whining in various forums.
Why is your comment so long? All you've just said is, "Mine works, therefore everybody else's works too".
With a little bit of thought, you could be an arrogant prick whilst using much less bandwidth. Try harder in future.
No - just for once, please, please, please let us forget the Mac community.
You pop up in every other Slashdot story, let's have a break. I mean this is about Enterprise class business products - it's so obviously not for you, fruit fans.
Don't worry - there's bound to be another tenuous iPod Slashvertisement soon. You can all wank yourselves raw to that instead. Just shut up for a few minutes, the rest might do you all good.
Unfortunatley since they awoken the great Ancient one with their pleas for mercy, the heart patients and their family (and next of kin and family pets) will be eaten first and slowly.
I thought that when Cthulhu comes, the best thing to do is get eaten first? Then you avoid the worst of the insanity which will slowly devour the minds of the weak (of course we are all weak compared to his many tentacled highness).
Perhaps we need to do some experiments?
A similar study was done in the UK a while back. They also wanted to test if being prayed for could extend life. However, they had a flash of inspiration that allowed them to eliminate all the messing around finding experimental subjects, setting up control groups etc..
The idea was simple but brilliant. They realised that as Britain was a monarchy, the Royal Family must be the subject of an awful lot of prayers. So they just looked at the average age that members of the Royal Family lived to and compared it against the national average.
It turned out that members of the Royal Family did indeed live longer than average, thereby proving the power of prayer!
They offered $10,000 reward and all-expenses paid round-trip to moscow to their headquarters, if you could replicate situation where starforce actually did some damage to optical drives.
No, the deal was that you flew out to Moscow at your own expense to demonstrate it. And then they decide whether to award you the prize based on their rules. Also note that the vast majority of people aren't complaining that it physically damages their CD drives. They are complaining about system instability, poor performance and the gaping fucking security hole that Starforce opens on your PC*.
I'm sure that you totally misrepresented the "competition" rules by accident. Everyone knows Starforce are above planting paid shills on forums.
* The Starforce driver can elevate user processes to Ring 0**.
** That's what we call a rootkit.
The funny thing about it is that nobody would get fooled. "Hole in OpenSSH? Obviously an April Fools joke."
Oh yeah, because there's never been a serious, pre-authentication remote root in OpenSSH. And thousands of people didn't get hacked by it.
It's in the Matrix movie for fucks sake. And what do you think was the cause of that "One remote hole in the default install in 8 years" on the OpenBSD site? Yes, well done - OpenSSH.
As anyone can tell you, most of the "compatible" games are barely so and some listed as compatible just aren't.
Ah, we have the answer at last! MS are clearly using Cedega for the compatibility layer.
Err, make that 88 megs!
You do realise that 88MB of SRAM would require at least half a billion transistors don't you?
Of course you don't. So there's probably not much point bringing up the ludicrous amount of power required by 88MB of 1T SRAM either.
Well, those people are not really funny...They sure as heck don't need a tv show.
Thanks for the info - I've cancelled my downloads, as I believe that random people on the Internet must share my sense of humour.
Some people might complain that your post contained nothing but a few words of opinion and entirely lacked any context or explanation. I however am happy to take the word of complete strangers.
VPN - It made remote access more feasible
And in the case of IPSEC, unfeasibly complicated.
NAT - It made IP networking affordable
And IPSEC even more unfeasibly complex.
Wi-fi - It gave greater freedom to network users
And all their neighbours within a half-mile radius. Still at least when you find that your router doesn't handle IPSEC NAT-Traversal properly, you can just try somebody elses.
what's the situation in Linux? Is this the same thing as the 'hardware sensors' modules in the kernel?
Pretty much, but this is the OpenBSD version so it will be better for a number of vague and poorly defined reasons.
Also it will be more secure. You wouldn't want someone to hack in and find out the temperature of your server would you? That's what will happen if you don't use OpenBSD.
Does this fix OSX's bad Apache & Database performance under load?
No, there was no need. Shortly after those benchmarks came out, the Mac community rallied round and decided that the results were invalid for a variety of obscure and unlikely reasons. So there's nothing to fix.
No harm, no foul. I just seeth when some punk snatches a previously posted story on Digg and submits it to /.
This is just a wild guess, but I'm thinking that maybe, just maybe, there's not a whole lot else going on in your life.
Personally, things like poverty, injustice and corruption make me seeth. People submitting the same story to two different tech websites is pretty low down the list. In fact I would go so far as to say that if it ever made my list at all, I would seriously consider suicide.
This is due to modern PC video card architecture containing a large quantity of PURE EVIL. To get around this evil the X developers have done some rather expedient things, such as directly accessing the cards via IO registers, directly from userland.
It's worse than that - even if you dispense with a graphics card, your OS still has to directly access some of your hardware at some point. This creates the opportunity for all kinds of strange interactions and unforseen security holes.
Ever at the forefront of proactive security, the OpenBSD team have announced their solution to this problem. OpenBSD 4.0 will be the first OS to not run on any hardware at all. It will exist only as a mass of finely crafted and provably secure pseudo code. Although critics have pointed out that the finished product may lack something in the functionality stakes, supporters have pointed out that the OS has been moving in this direction for a while.
Project leader Theo offered the following comment, "Retards! You weren't supposed to install it anyway! Have you read the chapter on partitioning in the install guide? Do you really think we wrote it like that because we wanted people to try and install it? Jesus, you make me sick."
Unless I misunderstand you, nv isn't any better, their unified drivers are only for desktop and a few highend laptop gpus
No - it is only ATI that pull this shit. Don't let anyone convince you that it is normal. You can always workaround the issue by making sure you don't buy a laptop with an ATI chipset. Then you wouldn't have to use hacked drivers just to get it working.
Watercooling doesn't require you to wait for anything to cool down.
Yes, your post is very embarassing indeed. The parent was obviously talking about the systems with built-in phase change cooling (e.g. Prometia) which do take several minutes to get down to the right temperature.
But because you've never heard of those, you assumed he was talking about water cooling and made a tit of yourself flaming him.
It's pretty hard to think of anything more embarassing than that.
So there'll probably be pretty good piracy / 'backup' mod-chips available soon, but no homebrew yet.
Oh, I don't know about that. Do you think it would even be worth anyone making one if it only allowed you to play pirated games? It's hard to see how they could hope to turn a profit if they couldn't sell it to all those people that just want to run Linux and Gameboy emulators on their 360. It's just economies of scale.