Actually, I'm with the grandparent poster. I usually will not buy hardware that I know not to work with Linux, even if I'm buying it for a Windows box, because at some point that box may be re-purposed to run Linux, or *BSD or something else.
Funny thing is, the GP was going on about Broadcom, yet I download their drivers (which are regularly updated) to replace the open source ones (which also work fine) included in the Distribution. The regularly updated Broadcom drivers take advantage of DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module System) and automagically recompile themselves for every kernel, so using them is simple. I'm quite happy with Broadcom's Linux support, though the GP want me to boycott them.
Now, if they weren't supporting Linux themselves, and they were uncooperative with OSS driver writers, then I'd happily boycott.
Why not give everyone who buys the book access to the Wiki-ized version?
For example, I have Securing Cisco Routers but 6 months from now threats can morph into a new format (The rise of Botnets for example). The goal of the book was to organize the security info into an actionable format, If I knew there was a simple place to go that interpreted the latest info in light of the book (While Attack-14 is a serious threat, if you implemented Tip #9 you are safe, since this routes all evil bit enabled packets to the Token-net.) Adding value, and making the book worth purchasing three years from now when I might otherwise assume the info is too taked.
Could someone explain to me what the benifit of more cores is vs. hyperthreading?
Simple. Hyperthreading is a trick to keep very deep CPU pipelines full, but at the end of the day, its executes 1 instruction per clock tick. With SMP/MultiCore, the system can do n instructions per clock tick. On a simle level, there are n little gnomes with calculators on an n-way SMP/Multicore chip, instead of 1 gnome with two INBOXes on a hyperthreading chip.
Of course, technically its more complicated, and I'm completely wrong. but why bring reality into my gnome fanatsy...
The point is that, despite what mass media wants you to beleive, the majority of people that you walk around with every day aren't magazine cover material
And I thank god every time I walk down the street that our ansestors moved north and faced the neccessity of clothes. Once upon a time we subsisted on starvation diets and died by age 30, I also thank god we're past that as well. My point is, keep yer damn clothes on hippie, you aren't in a nudist colony
Let me get this straight: you are not going to by a computer that you know for sure works splendidly, because you are worried that the next model may not work as well?
No, because I'm concerned in two years everyone will be developing for Mac/Intel, and not Mac/PPC. In Two years, will I be able to use the latest software, or will my machine be a relic? Will Apple cut PPC users off like they cut 680x0 users off? I've been through one Mac transition already; while I think this one will be better (In theory OS X has been running on both platforms since its transition form NextOS, and the NextOS had "fat binaries" that worked quite well. But so far I've heard spin and rah! rah! but no reassurances, as if tehy are afraid to make any promises anymore (since they've been burned my not living up to them in the past)
Sure, there are lots of reasons to wait for Intel Macs if you can, but nothing is really a sure bet anyway, so why hold your breath?
Nothing's a sure bet, but there are such things as sucker bets too. The Mac Platform is about to go through serious changes, I'm not about to invest $3,000 on a cool PPC Mac because I haven't been assured the transition will work smoothly.
The smaller your editor, the bigger your penis! Text editors want to be minimalist!
Thats why I write all my term papers in binary as Postscript files. My keyboard is a simple rocker switch, left for 1, right for 0. You crazy kids and your ASCII!
You want the same look and feel/packages installed the same way on ALL servers, but you only want to pay for premium support for the prod servers.
Thats a really bad reason. Run Whitebox/ in you Dev environment, but run RHEL in your Test environment. What kind of QA environment runs a different OS than the Production Environment?
The differences between the $200 and the $400 video card are pretty small
Its the difference between being able to play games at the 1920x1200 native resolution of my LCD and suffering through the visual artifacts of a rescaled image. I own the screen because it makes me vastly more productive doing real work, The $200 extra I "paid" (assuming I went from a $200 card to a $400 card) is roughly the cost of a last generation console. Everything else I had because I need a computer to do my job, complete my degree, etc.
Point is, sometimes that last 20% is the difference between a safe landing and a six month hospital stay.
But the longer the opera goes on, the less likely any of these "Burden the consumer" options will succeed. The MPAA and TV industries have delayed the whole HDTV thing by making everyone afraid the early solution woul dbe incompatible with the "final" solution, but the failure to resolve the issue means that the existing tech has gained a foothold. Soon it will be like trying to get a broadcast flag added to the VCR...
Also, your LCD's color purity sucks compared to a good CRT. Sorry. It does. Anyone who works color-calibrated will tell you this
Yep, and thats one of those niche markets that will stay CRT. The portion of the market that works color calibrated is well below 1%. I expect that over the next 5 years you'll begin to see the price of those "good" CRT's climb, as CRT's replace LCD's as the high end "niche" solution
Whenever I give a user an LCD I explain they shouldn't muck with the resolution anymore but to use the "Zoom" and Text Size options when possible. While this can make a lot of software go ugly, this will increasingly be a bug folks will look for and criticize. No problems so far.
Slashdot Mirror
hyper-responsive vertical and horizontal scrolling
I don't think I want my scroll wheel to be Hyper-Sensitive, It stikes me as more annoying than useful...
The originators of the formula, The Honeymooners .
Funny thing is, the GP was going on about Broadcom, yet I download their drivers (which are regularly updated) to replace the open source ones (which also work fine) included in the Distribution. The regularly updated Broadcom drivers take advantage of DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module System) and automagically recompile themselves for every kernel, so using them is simple. I'm quite happy with Broadcom's Linux support, though the GP want me to boycott them.
Now, if they weren't supporting Linux themselves, and they were uncooperative with OSS driver writers, then I'd happily boycott.
I think his point was that they are far more lame nowadays. People are afraid to risk their ad revenues, etc. so they just post a bunch of links.
But what do I know, I didn't RTFA either :(
For example, I have Securing Cisco Routers but 6 months from now threats can morph into a new format (The rise of Botnets for example). The goal of the book was to organize the security info into an actionable format, If I knew there was a simple place to go that interpreted the latest info in light of the book (While Attack-14 is a serious threat, if you implemented Tip #9 you are safe, since this routes all evil bit enabled packets to the Token-net.) Adding value, and making the book worth purchasing three years from now when I might otherwise assume the info is too taked.
On the plus side I wouldn't mind seeing an "updates" site where the author could publish tech corrections, version updates, etc.
Browse the web: Yes
Check my Accounts: No
640 processes ought to be enough for Anybody!
Simple. Hyperthreading is a trick to keep very deep CPU pipelines full, but at the end of the day, its executes 1 instruction per clock tick. With SMP/MultiCore, the system can do n instructions per clock tick. On a simle level, there are n little gnomes with calculators on an n-way SMP/Multicore chip, instead of 1 gnome with two INBOXes on a hyperthreading chip.
Of course, technically its more complicated, and I'm completely wrong. but why bring reality into my gnome fanatsy...
Don't forget Gator, HotBar, and iFrame!
Yes. One core for my program, 31 for the Spyware/Adware/Open Proxy.
I suspect they only care if its legal in Russia, and then perhaps only a little.
And I thank god every time I walk down the street that our ansestors moved north and faced the neccessity of clothes. Once upon a time we subsisted on starvation diets and died by age 30, I also thank god we're past that as well. My point is, keep yer damn clothes on hippie, you aren't in a nudist colony
No, because I'm concerned in two years everyone will be developing for Mac/Intel, and not Mac/PPC. In Two years, will I be able to use the latest software, or will my machine be a relic? Will Apple cut PPC users off like they cut 680x0 users off? I've been through one Mac transition already; while I think this one will be better (In theory OS X has been running on both platforms since its transition form NextOS, and the NextOS had "fat binaries" that worked quite well. But so far I've heard spin and rah! rah! but no reassurances, as if tehy are afraid to make any promises anymore (since they've been burned my not living up to them in the past)
Nothing's a sure bet, but there are such things as sucker bets too. The Mac Platform is about to go through serious changes, I'm not about to invest $3,000 on a cool PPC Mac because I haven't been assured the transition will work smoothly.
We didn't get naked in the picture window of a busy store. Because we care about our fellow humans, and don't want to be publicly mocked.
There's also a tendency to faint from blood loss during arousal...
Thats why I write all my term papers in binary as Postscript files. My keyboard is a simple rocker switch, left for 1, right for 0. You crazy kids and your ASCII!
Legos are very patient.
Thats a really bad reason. Run Whitebox/ in you Dev environment, but run RHEL in your Test environment. What kind of QA environment runs a different OS than the Production Environment?
Fedora is QUITE different from RHEL.
Its the difference between being able to play games at the 1920x1200 native resolution of my LCD and suffering through the visual artifacts of a rescaled image. I own the screen because it makes me vastly more productive doing real work, The $200 extra I "paid" (assuming I went from a $200 card to a $400 card) is roughly the cost of a last generation console. Everything else I had because I need a computer to do my job, complete my degree, etc.
Point is, sometimes that last 20% is the difference between a safe landing and a six month hospital stay.
Its the Energizer lobby you have to watch out for. They keep going, and going, ...
Are you refering to the one true virus? Forged the cubicles of Mount Doom?
But the longer the opera goes on, the less likely any of these "Burden the consumer" options will succeed. The MPAA and TV industries have delayed the whole HDTV thing by making everyone afraid the early solution woul dbe incompatible with the "final" solution, but the failure to resolve the issue means that the existing tech has gained a foothold. Soon it will be like trying to get a broadcast flag added to the VCR...
Yep, and thats one of those niche markets that will stay CRT. The portion of the market that works color calibrated is well below 1%. I expect that over the next 5 years you'll begin to see the price of those "good" CRT's climb, as CRT's replace LCD's as the high end "niche" solution
Whenever I give a user an LCD I explain they shouldn't muck with the resolution anymore but to use the "Zoom" and Text Size options when possible. While this can make a lot of software go ugly, this will increasingly be a bug folks will look for and criticize. No problems so far.