I love my T410s with OpenSUSE 11.4. All the drivers "just work" out of the box, and support from IBM was decent the one time they had to replace the keyboard.
How clueless is this guy? Our helpdesk team takes calls every day to help someone with their mobile device. This guy acts like cell phones are getting less complicated.
They spun some of the bits (USB drivers, some other stuff) off into an extension pack, but 90% of Virtualbox is opensource and nevertheless maintained by Oracle.
Proper PXE booting is part of the 10% closed source extension. I tried every NIC in the free verison of 3.x when it was owned by Sun, only the closed source PXE boot implementation would work with our Windows SCCM servers.
The non-open source parts of virtual box are free as in beer. That said, PXE isn't a part of it, USB peripherals are.
Where is the -1, Incorrect mod? Just kidding of course, but under Sun the OSE version used an open source "openboot" library that contains implementation flaws. The commercially licensed version actually contains a closed-source, more accurate implementation of PXE booting that works with our Windows SCCM servers.
This is the understanding I developed regarding PXE and open source vs commercial editions of VirtualBox 3.x after making many repeated trips to their support forums. It may be partially or entirely incorrect. But I am sure that after three days of trying to troubleshoot PXE booting in the open source version, that all of my troubles went away without a single configuration change by switching to the commercial licensed VirtualBox.
VirtualBox is open source. Instead of name-calling and whining, how about fixing the underlying problem?
Parts of VirtualBox are open source. If you want to network boot your VM by PXE, you need to pony up the cash for the closed source version maintained by Oracle. The open source version supposedly supports PXE boot, but I was never able to make that version work with our environment.
As with MySQL, open source contributions to dual licensed software are not frequent nor great. With someone like Oracle at the helm, community cooperation with their free and open version is even further diminished.
Goldman Sachs bought all those private shares some time ago, looking to make a bunch of money off the IPO. Now that they've had a look at the books, maybe they fear that Facebook isn't worth nearly as much as they hoped.
I wonder if this move is influenced from patent madness occurring in the mobile world, where Intel is currently behind on the curve and wants to catch up.
The PHP project has shown some pretty poor QA when it comes to defects in their code.
Hell, their ODBC interface has been returning wrongly typed data for years now and nobody on the project seems to care. It's not like ODBC is something brand new and still widely misunderstood.
It's almost like the people who build PHP aren't even interested in maintaining it.
I can wifi tether my Optimus V without root on Virgin Mobile. There's some widget I got for free from the market that simply toggles the underlying OS support for it. I guess they didn't block those bits out on the V.M. firmware.
As for price, though, the smaller/contractless providers like Virgin Mobile may be your best bet. I've heard they're far cheaper than any of the "big three" and make good on their "unlimited" promises. Even so, I can't vouch for their quality, having never used one myself.
FYI, Virgin Mobile uses the Sprint network.. in the US anyways. I have an Optimus V and can't tell any difference from the Sprint service that I left after 10 years. $80+ a month is simply too much money for a phone.
KRK's are very nice, but they were priced just a bit out of my range. I can't find the matching reference sub for my speakers though, so I've had my eye on the KRK version instead.
I own quite a bit of Behringer gear, too (mixing board, compressors, direct boxes, etc.)
I know the reputation that Behringer has earned for quite a bit of their hardware, but their latest speaker series were all designed and built in Germany. This is different from almost all other electronics that they have manufactured in China at the cheapest prices available, where their quality is known be hit or miss.
If you ever get a chance to listen to these monitors, take it. I think you'll be surprised.
I highly doubt that stereos made 30 years ago sound nearly as good as my pair of B3031A active monitors. Screaming loud with clarity throughout the sound spectrum.
When it takes 3-4 days to turn around a DVD, $8 for a DVD-only plan simply isn't worth it. The few extra bucks I was spending a month before, then sure.
I guess Netflix would rather not have the money I was paying for that part of the service I rarely used.
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I love my T410s with OpenSUSE 11.4. All the drivers "just work" out of the box, and support from IBM was decent the one time they had to replace the keyboard.
Couldn't Google change their HTML form method to use POST? That would remove most of the value from the HTTP-Referer header.
How clueless is this guy? Our helpdesk team takes calls every day to help someone with their mobile device. This guy acts like cell phones are getting less complicated.
The courts have held that you have no freedom of speech when writing in a computer language.
Well, at least Sony made a decent catch. Perhaps for the first time in ten years.
They spun some of the bits (USB drivers, some other stuff) off into an extension pack, but 90% of Virtualbox is opensource and nevertheless maintained by Oracle.
Proper PXE booting is part of the 10% closed source extension. I tried every NIC in the free verison of 3.x when it was owned by Sun, only the closed source PXE boot implementation would work with our Windows SCCM servers.
The non-open source parts of virtual box are free as in beer. That said, PXE isn't a part of it, USB peripherals are.
Where is the -1, Incorrect mod? Just kidding of course, but under Sun the OSE version used an open source "openboot" library that contains implementation flaws. The commercially licensed version actually contains a closed-source, more accurate implementation of PXE booting that works with our Windows SCCM servers.
This is the understanding I developed regarding PXE and open source vs commercial editions of VirtualBox 3.x after making many repeated trips to their support forums. It may be partially or entirely incorrect. But I am sure that after three days of trying to troubleshoot PXE booting in the open source version, that all of my troubles went away without a single configuration change by switching to the commercial licensed VirtualBox.
VirtualBox is open source. Instead of name-calling and whining, how about fixing the underlying problem?
Parts of VirtualBox are open source. If you want to network boot your VM by PXE, you need to pony up the cash for the closed source version maintained by Oracle. The open source version supposedly supports PXE boot, but I was never able to make that version work with our environment.
As with MySQL, open source contributions to dual licensed software are not frequent nor great. With someone like Oracle at the helm, community cooperation with their free and open version is even further diminished.
I love you, Slashdot.
But we’re scratching our heads to find the value for everyone else.
Dish is hoping to grab some new customers by offering more value to their network. Is that really a head-scratcher?
Netflix does not have competitors.
I take it you haven't been reading the number of posts on here about Slashdotters being completely satisfied with Block Buster's alternative.
Goldman Sachs bought all those private shares some time ago, looking to make a bunch of money off the IPO. Now that they've had a look at the books, maybe they fear that Facebook isn't worth nearly as much as they hoped.
In order to stop tracking the MAC address on my router, Google's going to have to keep track of the MAC address on my router. Got it.
I wonder if this move is influenced from patent madness occurring in the mobile world, where Intel is currently behind on the curve and wants to catch up.
HTTPS is still HTTP. There's just an SSL layer in between. If you want to interact with some HTTPS server, try using OpenSSL with the s_client option.
Obama [... has] run up more debt in less than 3 years that GW Bush did in his whole 8 years...
There's no need for lies here. We've incurred $2.4 trillion in debt under Obama and a staggering $6.1 trillion under GW.
Don't believe me? You can check for yourself, but I don't take you to be a facts-based kinda guy.
The PHP project has shown some pretty poor QA when it comes to defects in their code.
Hell, their ODBC interface has been returning wrongly typed data for years now and nobody on the project seems to care. It's not like ODBC is something brand new and still widely misunderstood.
It's almost like the people who build PHP aren't even interested in maintaining it.
I can wifi tether my Optimus V without root on Virgin Mobile. There's some widget I got for free from the market that simply toggles the underlying OS support for it. I guess they didn't block those bits out on the V.M. firmware.
Virgin phones only talk to Sprint owned towers, no Verizon towers, so the coverage isn't as good.
Perhaps you missed this part of his post?
As for price, though, the smaller/contractless providers like Virgin Mobile may be your best bet. I've heard they're far cheaper than any of the "big three" and make good on their "unlimited" promises. Even so, I can't vouch for their quality, having never used one myself.
FYI, Virgin Mobile uses the Sprint network.. in the US anyways. I have an Optimus V and can't tell any difference from the Sprint service that I left after 10 years. $80+ a month is simply too much money for a phone.
KRK's are very nice, but they were priced just a bit out of my range. I can't find the matching reference sub for my speakers though, so I've had my eye on the KRK version instead.
I own quite a bit of Behringer gear, too (mixing board, compressors, direct boxes, etc.)
I know the reputation that Behringer has earned for quite a bit of their hardware, but their latest speaker series were all designed and built in Germany. This is different from almost all other electronics that they have manufactured in China at the cheapest prices available, where their quality is known be hit or miss.
If you ever get a chance to listen to these monitors, take it. I think you'll be surprised.
I highly doubt that stereos made 30 years ago sound nearly as good as my pair of B3031A active monitors. Screaming loud with clarity throughout the sound spectrum.
The fact that we got easy access to a new search engine recently demonstrates that Google isn't a monopoly.
When it takes 3-4 days to turn around a DVD, $8 for a DVD-only plan simply isn't worth it. The few extra bucks I was spending a month before, then sure.
I guess Netflix would rather not have the money I was paying for that part of the service I rarely used.