If you don't know what you're doing thend on't play with it.
Did you take lessons before replacing your first ever failed HDD? If so I demand a repremand of your geek license! People play with stuff... they learn... they get jobs in IT/Engineering... ok - it's still not really news.
I think it was in about '98 or '99 when Scott McNealy was discussing a vision Sun has had for a long time. The vision being that in the future won't by pc's, they'll buy applications/services. You'll pay a monthly sum and receive a basic bit of hardware, this is where the SunRays are important, and depending on what package you're paying for you'll get access to different applications.
For the basic home user this would be a great benefit - no more problems with broken hardware - if it breaks they'll send you a new one, plug it in and your back up and running. No more problems with installing software - it's all on the servers at the ISP, decide you want to use OOo? Just upgrade your package with the ISP. And of course no more hassle with adware etc as the ISP will be taking care of that side aswell. Not to mention data loss - as the date would be stored at the ISP it'll always be there... I doubt if most of us/. readers even have off site backups.
For the power users like us (well most of us!) it wouldn't be too good - no choice in OS, hardware yadda yadda yadda... and I'm sure storing all your illegal downloads at your ISP would worry most of you! (I don't have anything illegal on my comp - honest guv).
So, back to the article, this could be another step closer to this vision - with broadband speeds increasing all the time we're approaching the possiblity of using SunRays over the net. Having a solid security system in place that people can trust, especially in an age where we receive security alerts every few minutes for certain big software giants, added the ease of the system as mentioned above are we seeing this vision becoming reality?
I am appalled by this statement. It is absurd and racist.
I'm not racist - one of my best friends is Indian. He recently moved over to the UK looking for work just to find out all the jobs have moved over there. =P
You know there's something wrong when you see a homeless guy in India pull out a mobile better than yours and say in a perfect british accent "Hello, BT help desk"!
A lot of Sun workstations already have 8 mb of L2 cache, for instance SunBlade 1000s. However, they like pretty much every other commercial chip in wide use(P4, Athlon, G4, G5 etc) all have 64k l1(32k data 32k instruction).
They also make chips with 96K L1 cache (32K instruction & 64k data) with 16MB L2 cache for use in some of their servers, and remember they're RISC not CISC. For example, check out the data sheet for the E25K which can contain up to 72 of those beasties and 576G of RAM:
hmmm... 500 visits in a few hours - not a particularly high load but for a web site that gets on average 50 visits per day it makes the usage graphs a tad skewed =P
"If that doesn't make sense to you, check out the research page..."
errr I read the research page and it still doesn't make sense... any photographers on/. care to elaborate?? Or perhaps anybody that managed to download the video before 'the effect' kicked in?
Haydn.
...and doesn't have annoying clips, dogs and cats either.
Actually OOo does have a little lightbulb that pops up in the bottom right - haven't seen it actually tell me anything yet though!
Anyway, my take on it is that MS Office is still the better product, but only because it's been around longer. Some features of OOo are still poorly done and need work to get them to MS standards. Having said that, when OOo is finally 'finished' I'm sure it will be far better than Ms Office - the main reason being the lack of bloat!
Haydn.
...for instance, if you have a fault with a line, their engineers will only come out between 9am-5pm Mon-Fri. Absolutely useless for 99% of the working population!:/
True, but a lot of the time BT don't actually require your presence to resolve a technical fault, we recently had a fault and BT happily came out and fixed it the next working day while we were at work, apparently a squirrel had chewed through our telephone cable - remind me to put nuts out for them in future!
Haydn
p.s: If you're looking for a great ISP, Zen are very good although they are a little pricey - but their services aren't capped which is nice!
There's no subscription fee.
You get 2 games a month free.
The console itself is undersold.
But the wireless controllers run on proprietary Microsoft batteries which run out of power after 10h of use and you can obtain a new set for $30 from your local Microsoft Golden Partner dealer.
You forgot to mention that it wouldn't communicate properly with your television set until M$ figure out a way of making a profit from television sales.
Oh come off it - just because someone said it looks a bit like a mac doesn't mean it's as sexy as a mac! Even if it had the same designer it probably wouldn't of been as sexy - take the Fiat Coupe (http://www.fiat-coupe.fsnet.co.uk/) as an example: It was designed by Pininfarina, you can't tell me that it looks even slightly as sexy as the Ferraris he designed??
- One of those guys who is SUPER nice, but a TOTAL fuck-up (they are very hard to fire)
You've found your man... and I'm looking for work! Actually I'm not a complete F-up... I'm just lazy - perhaps it's due to being in a really wank job and it's motivational... or perhaps I just love/. so much that I never have time to work... nah I'm just lazy!
Tell me about it, I love WMaker and really can't get used to the bulkiness of Gnome or KDE. However it really gets on my tits when I wan't to try an app, for example KPilot, which requires the KDE or Gnome devel libraries... Why on earth would I want to install ~200MB of libraries to install a
Haydn.
Re:Bandwidth and Slashdot Effect on kernel.org
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· Score: 2, Interesting
"The normal bandwidth used by kernel.org is between 150 to 200 megabits per second"...
"When asked about viewing the actual access logs, Peter explained that although they do occasionally get requests from various sorts of researchers, they generally don't make them available for privacy reasons."... "There has been discussion about making the logs available in an anonymized form, but it's not the top priority."
Perhaps the anonymous logs should be sold to pay for some of this juicy bandwidth they're consuming?
I'm currently working on an Excel/Access contract - not by choice, but I can't exactly install a PHP/PostgreSQL system as they have nobody that has ever heard of PHP let alone would know how to make a change to it.
Access would cost a load to install on all the machines where as they already have Excel. Due to this we're creating the questionnaires in Excel which each member of staff can access and make changes to. The Access database then grabs the data from each completed questionnaire where statistical reports are generated.
I hate Excel but it does have it's uses. I especially wish there were less bugs in it, for example: Try inserting an Active-X combo box in to an Excel 2000 worksheet and assign its ListFillRange to assign its options - then save the file, reopen and try to close it again and you always get prompted "do you wish to save?" even if you make no changes - even setting.saved to true in an onOpen event doesn't fix the problem - it's bloody annoying!
You let your girlfriend get a Dell? No, I don't care if she got it before you met her. Please hand in your geek license.
I know... she won't let me put linux or solaris on there and refuses to use anything other than IE, then she complains that it keeps slowing down due to adware =/
BTW - I run Fedora core... don't think that qualifies me for a geek
Dell have NO idea about business efficiency:
My gf's relatively new Dell laptop recently shed it's little rubber feet. We asked Dell to send some new ones and Dell refused to put the parts, which probably cost them £0.02p, in a normal envelope so that one of us didn't have to stay inside all day waiting for a parcel and also to save Dell costs but noooo.... it had to be couriered in case the parts got damaged - they're flippin' rubber feet!!! They also came in a huge box with protective foam - what a waste!!
Personally I think it should've been complete ages ago!
Doesn't anyone else think a window manager should display windows on the screen, move/resize them, offer a way to open applications (eg: start button in windoze), respond to events (key presses/mouse clicks) and that's it?? I believe that any other functionality should be provided by independant applications - not apps that are bundled with a window manager and will only play nice on that window manager!
Give me something light weight any day! Personally I use window maker still, even if there hasn't been to much development on it as late. Oh and don't get me started on CDE with solaris - I used to love that - a little front panel and not much else, perfect! (although the colour options on CDE left a lot to be desired!).
Slashdot Mirror
Haydn.
I think it was in about '98 or '99 when Scott McNealy was discussing a vision Sun has had for a long time. The vision being that in the future won't by pc's, they'll buy applications/services. You'll pay a monthly sum and receive a basic bit of hardware, this is where the SunRays are important, and depending on what package you're paying for you'll get access to different applications.
/. readers even have off site backups.
For the basic home user this would be a great benefit - no more problems with broken hardware - if it breaks they'll send you a new one, plug it in and your back up and running. No more problems with installing software - it's all on the servers at the ISP, decide you want to use OOo? Just upgrade your package with the ISP. And of course no more hassle with adware etc as the ISP will be taking care of that side aswell. Not to mention data loss - as the date would be stored at the ISP it'll always be there... I doubt if most of us
For the power users like us (well most of us!) it wouldn't be too good - no choice in OS, hardware yadda yadda yadda... and I'm sure storing all your illegal downloads at your ISP would worry most of you! (I don't have anything illegal on my comp - honest guv).
So, back to the article, this could be another step closer to this vision - with broadband speeds increasing all the time we're approaching the possiblity of using SunRays over the net. Having a solid security system in place that people can trust, especially in an age where we receive security alerts every few minutes for certain big software giants, added the ease of the system as mentioned above are we seeing this vision becoming reality?
Haydn.
Haydn.
You know there's something wrong when you see a homeless guy in India pull out a mobile better than yours and say in a perfect british accent "Hello, BT help desk"!
So when do we get GoolgeTunes??
http://www.sun.com/servers/highend/sunfire_e25k/s
Anybody want a pocket calculator?
Haydn.
hmmm... 500 visits in a few hours - not a particularly high load but for a web site that gets on average 50 visits per day it makes the usage graphs a tad skewed =P
Haydn.
Someone above requested a screenshot, I've replied above but for those that missed the reply and can't run .msi files, here's a screenie:
.msi files!
http://www.jeanhaines.com/tmp/wormSim.html
Haydn.
p.s: thank god I'm at work so I can open
Sure: http://www.jeanhaines.com/tmp/wormSim.html
/.'ed!*
*watches website get
Haydn.
Haydn
p.s: If you're looking for a great ISP, Zen are very good although they are a little pricey - but their services aren't capped which is nice!
Haydn.
Oh come off it - just because someone said it looks a bit like a mac doesn't mean it's as sexy as a mac! Even if it had the same designer it probably wouldn't of been as sexy - take the Fiat Coupe (http://www.fiat-coupe.fsnet.co.uk/) as an example: It was designed by Pininfarina, you can't tell me that it looks even slightly as sexy as the Ferraris he designed??
Haydn.
Haydn.
Ooops... I used a < which confused the end of my post - I really need to start using preview before posting! (+5 idiotic - Oh thats me! (see sig))
... < 2MB app.
That should've finsihed:
Haydn.
Haydn.
"The normal bandwidth used by kernel.org is between 150 to 200 megabits per second"...
... "There has been discussion about making the logs available in an anonymized form, but it's not the top priority."
"When asked about viewing the actual access logs, Peter explained that although they do occasionally get requests from various sorts of researchers, they generally don't make them available for privacy reasons."
Perhaps the anonymous logs should be sold to pay for some of this juicy bandwidth they're consuming?
Haydn.
I'm currently working on an Excel/Access contract - not by choice, but I can't exactly install a PHP/PostgreSQL system as they have nobody that has ever heard of PHP let alone would know how to make a change to it.
.saved to true in an onOpen event doesn't fix the problem - it's bloody annoying!
Access would cost a load to install on all the machines where as they already have Excel. Due to this we're creating the questionnaires in Excel which each member of staff can access and make changes to. The Access database then grabs the data from each completed questionnaire where statistical reports are generated.
I hate Excel but it does have it's uses. I especially wish there were less bugs in it, for example: Try inserting an Active-X combo box in to an Excel 2000 worksheet and assign its ListFillRange to assign its options - then save the file, reopen and try to close it again and you always get prompted "do you wish to save?" even if you make no changes - even setting
Haydn.
You let your girlfriend get a Dell? No, I don't care if she got it before you met her. Please hand in your geek license.
I know... she won't let me put linux or solaris on there and refuses to use anything other than IE, then she complains that it keeps slowing down due to adware =/ BTW - I run Fedora core... don't think that qualifies me for a geek
Dell have NO idea about business efficiency: My gf's relatively new Dell laptop recently shed it's little rubber feet. We asked Dell to send some new ones and Dell refused to put the parts, which probably cost them £0.02p, in a normal envelope so that one of us didn't have to stay inside all day waiting for a parcel and also to save Dell costs but noooo.... it had to be couriered in case the parts got damaged - they're flippin' rubber feet!!! They also came in a huge box with protective foam - what a waste!!
Personally I think it should've been complete ages ago!
Doesn't anyone else think a window manager should display windows on the screen, move/resize them, offer a way to open applications (eg: start button in windoze), respond to events (key presses/mouse clicks) and that's it?? I believe that any other functionality should be provided by independant applications - not apps that are bundled with a window manager and will only play nice on that window manager!
Give me something light weight any day! Personally I use window maker still, even if there hasn't been to much development on it as late. Oh and don't get me started on CDE with solaris - I used to love that - a little front panel and not much else, perfect! (although the colour options on CDE left a lot to be desired!).
Haydn.