Because you're much touted second amendment isn't there specifically so you can. You know, that whole freedom to bear arms so your government cannot oppress you thing?
Well, come on. Your government is oppressing you. I expect to see some militia marching on Washington tommorrow.
Ironic you say that... I setup a dualboot laptop for a friend. Under Kubuntu, everything was detected and worked fine. I even got 3D right out of the box!
Under Windows, I got a bunch of nice yellow question marks in Device Manager, including the graphics (expected), the wifi (expected), but bizarrely, the onboard wired network connection. I mean, wired ethernet is... basic. What the hell is XP doing not supporting it out of the box?
True, some driver downloads solved the problems under Windows, but that isn't Windows supporting the hardware - it's the hardware manufacturers. Windows hardware support isn't as good as you think it is.
Um, your unfamiliarity with Debian is painfully showing. apt-get update doesn't destroy servers. apt-get upgrade might, if you're running testing or unstable. I'd recommend you use neither for production servers, and stick with stable.
And consistency? Like how the entire Debian repository is cross checked every day to ensure consistency?
I'm also intrigued by your reference to updates destroying servers. Do you get this behaviour with Red Hat? Makes me glad I'm not using it, then.
And managing an arbitrary number of nodes under Debian is easy with clusterssh.
I've been using Debian for a while now, and the main configuration tool is HBK - Human Behind Keyboard;) Npt that I'm complaining - I'd rather write a config file, and KNOW that it's right.
Yes, your baby may have worked out how to use her eyes, hands, etc, but she was born knowing how to make then work.
Your suggestion (a computer without a bios or os), is like a baby without the area of his or her brain that autonomously make her heat beat, lungs breathe. Neither people nor machines can figure out their own hardware.
How about irrevocable, unless we decide to revoke it? I think they're raising doubts, not about the current promise, but about the chances of microsoft changing the promise later.
Therefore, OSP is *technically* irrevocable, under the current version. Microsoft could update the OSP tomorrow, and remove that promise. Is it irrevocable then?
The 80-core CPU will/still/ (in my opinion, anyhow), be a cut down version of a dual-CPU box, because those 80 cores are sharing the same north- and southbridge. Can we say bottleneck?
What I would dearly love is to have SMP back, and affordable to the average person, available is x high street computer shop. True, it'll make it more expensive to get two or four cores, but do you really need that many at the moment? My computer right now has a single, single core Athlon XP 2000+ (1.6GHz), and it's running a LAMP setup with several virtualhosts, along with KDE, with stuff like a torrent client, PIM application, etc. And it still barely touches the CPU.
So get rid of the crappy multicore stuff, and get back with true SMP. I have no dualcore computers, and two SMP, dual cpu ones.
If by pipe you mean your own connection, try getting a router/gateway with QoS, and slowing down P2P, giving stuff like email and HTTP normal priority, and interactive stuff like SSH high priority. You'll notice the difference:)
I don't know about Evolution. Given that it's in maintenance mode now, and apparently will be for the rest of it's lifetime, I can see Evolution stopping maturing, and starting aging, very quickly. I've been unable to hook it directly to a Kolab server, for example.
To be fair, about the only things I've seen that can hook directly to Kolab are Kontact and Horde, though. But still, Kolab works extremely well for me as a personal Exchange replacement.
With open source, though, all it takes is one person finding a good solution for everybody to have it. And open source has a hell of a lot of developers.
I dunno - power usage aside, 300gbps isn't something to be sniffed at. I could see this device taking pride of place in some geek's fileserver, for example - I'd imagine being able to max out a few 1gpbs links to the server would be very handy for things like a mythtv server, or ripping hidef video directly to the network server.
And here's me, with no CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM or even BluRay. True it's an ultraportable laptop, so the things are neither needed nor desired. I could understand wanting BluRay in a multimedia laptop, but those things rape their batteries anyway. You want battery life away from the mains? Get an ultraportable. Simple.
(Oh, and I have a good music and video collection stored locally on the laptop)
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I don't really want to know where you pulled that one from, but I've never experienced any failure on my boxes, let alone endless fail.
And personally, I disagree with the Troll moderation. That is Flamebait.
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Because you're much touted second amendment isn't there specifically so you can.
You know, that whole freedom to bear arms so your government cannot oppress you thing?
Well, come on. Your government is oppressing you. I expect to see some militia marching on Washington tommorrow.
Or do you just like having guns?
Win! Just attach a bottle to it, catch the O3, and send it up to the hole in the ozone layer! :P
Computers: Is there any problem they can't solve?
Ironic you say that... I setup a dualboot laptop for a friend. Under Kubuntu, everything was detected and worked fine. I even got 3D right out of the box!
Under Windows, I got a bunch of nice yellow question marks in Device Manager, including the graphics (expected), the wifi (expected), but bizarrely, the onboard wired network connection. I mean, wired ethernet is... basic. What the hell is XP doing not supporting it out of the box?
True, some driver downloads solved the problems under Windows, but that isn't Windows supporting the hardware - it's the hardware manufacturers. Windows hardware support isn't as good as you think it is.
That's no moon... that's Vista SP1!
Non, non. The only way this would be normal is a bluescreen at the end ;)
...but this is obviously impossible. Nobody creates something new, then gives it away for free, that's why we need copyrights.
Or could that tired old argument just possibly be wrong?
Um, your unfamiliarity with Debian is painfully showing. apt-get update doesn't destroy servers. apt-get upgrade might, if you're running testing or unstable. I'd recommend you use neither for production servers, and stick with stable.
And consistency? Like how the entire Debian repository is cross checked every day to ensure consistency?
I'm also intrigued by your reference to updates destroying servers. Do you get this behaviour with Red Hat? Makes me glad I'm not using it, then.
And managing an arbitrary number of nodes under Debian is easy with clusterssh.
I've been using Debian for a while now, and the main configuration tool is HBK - Human Behind Keyboard ;) Npt that I'm complaining - I'd rather write a config file, and KNOW that it's right.
Yep, Debian base install has more, not less. They do have vim, though ;)
Yes, your baby may have worked out how to use her eyes, hands, etc, but she was born knowing how to make then work.
Your suggestion (a computer without a bios or os), is like a baby without the area of his or her brain that autonomously make her heat beat, lungs breathe. Neither people nor machines can figure out their own hardware.
How about irrevocable, unless we decide to revoke it? I think they're raising doubts, not about the current promise, but about the chances of microsoft changing the promise later.
Therefore, OSP is *technically* irrevocable, under the current version. Microsoft could update the OSP tomorrow, and remove that promise. Is it irrevocable then?
The 80-core CPU will /still/ (in my opinion, anyhow), be a cut down version of a dual-CPU box, because those 80 cores are sharing the same north- and southbridge. Can we say bottleneck?
What I would dearly love is to have SMP back, and affordable to the average person, available is x high street computer shop. True, it'll make it more expensive to get two or four cores, but do you really need that many at the moment? My computer right now has a single, single core Athlon XP 2000+ (1.6GHz), and it's running a LAMP setup with several virtualhosts, along with KDE, with stuff like a torrent client, PIM application, etc. And it still barely touches the CPU.
So get rid of the crappy multicore stuff, and get back with true SMP. I have no dualcore computers, and two SMP, dual cpu ones.
sudo apt-get install firefox ;)
If by pipe you mean your own connection, try getting a router/gateway with QoS, and slowing down P2P, giving stuff like email and HTTP normal priority, and interactive stuff like SSH high priority. You'll notice the difference :)
I don't know about Evolution. Given that it's in maintenance mode now, and apparently will be for the rest of it's lifetime, I can see Evolution stopping maturing, and starting aging, very quickly. I've been unable to hook it directly to a Kolab server, for example.
To be fair, about the only things I've seen that can hook directly to Kolab are Kontact and Horde, though. But still, Kolab works extremely well for me as a personal Exchange replacement.
With open source, though, all it takes is one person finding a good solution for everybody to have it. And open source has a hell of a lot of developers.
I dunno - power usage aside, 300gbps isn't something to be sniffed at. I could see this device taking pride of place in some geek's fileserver, for example - I'd imagine being able to max out a few 1gpbs links to the server would be very handy for things like a mythtv server, or ripping hidef video directly to the network server.
I know I'm interested!
Perhaps they'll fight each other!
And here's me, with no CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM or even BluRay. True it's an ultraportable laptop, so the things are neither needed nor desired. I could understand wanting BluRay in a multimedia laptop, but those things rape their batteries anyway. You want battery life away from the mains? Get an ultraportable. Simple.
(Oh, and I have a good music and video collection stored locally on the laptop)
DMCA? Oh yeah, that's that silly American law, isn't it?
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You know, as another person in a modern country, I too would like to know. :)