I've had a couple AMD boards go bad because of leaky capacitors.
That's nothing. I work at a university where we purchased hundreds of the Dell GX270 a couple years ago. In the last year we've had almost all of the fail on us (we are expecting all to fail in time). The worst part is that we've had to wait up to 4 weeks to get warranty service when we paid for NBD service. The hold up we were told was due to backorder.
The warranty service tech tells us the problem is with the faulty capacitors. Gotta love how businesses screw themselves when they trade quality for cheap, unreliable parts.
Well, we all know that Kansas is flatter than a pancake, so this is a feasible assumption. But back to the topic, I haven't looked too much into what "Inteligent Design" teachings all entail but I think that all ideas should be given fair weight. I don't believe the theory of evolution completely and I don't believe that young students should be taught that this theory is the end all, be all, but that there are also other theories.
This isn't the only donation the foundation has made. According to wikipedia the foundation donates about $1 Billion a year. That's a hefty amount even for the rich Bill Gates.
IAX is a VoIP protocol that does well over NAT and also (at least when used with Asterisk) has a trunking function which when used to connect two sites conserves bandwidth for multiple calls between the sites.
I agree. The place to resolve this isn't in the private sector. If we are so against oppressive regimes, then why don't the governments take care of it? Sanctions are one way, but as we can see from the "Food For Oil" scandal, this doesn't always work. We bitch about how countries are restricting free speech, but when someone trys to actually do something about the regimes, we bash them.
I agree wholeheartedly with you. The US doesn't control the internet. They host the root servers, which have been working great. Why do the root servers need to be turned over to the UN? Are they afraid that the "big, bad America" is going to remove say.fr from the root servers? Come one. Get a grip, UN!
What is the benefit of releasing control to an international governing body? More bureaucracy? From what I can see, things are working quite well right now. With so many businesses relying upon the internet these days, I believe that it's in everyones best interest that this sort of thing remain stable and protected.
...but the corporate entities that provide teh high speed internet access are quite greedy
That's why the infrastructure needs to be done by the city. Where I live the city has done just that and everyone has the opportunity to receive 10Mbps for only $40. Now I know that this cost is more per megabit than the article talks about. But still, when compared to what cable and telcos offer, it's a great price.
I like Ubuntu for a few reasons. The first that I found nice was how fast it installed. It takes me about 15 minutes to have it all installed. Fedora and the others take much longer. I like the apps that come packaged with it. And oh yeah, the naked people were cool too.
I remember the days when I was proud of NASA and the nation was proud of NASA. The dreams as a school kid of working for NASA and everything great it stood for. Reading this and other things that have happened with NASA, one has to wonder what can be done to bring NASA out of the blackhole it finds itself in.
Some time ago, I did buy songs for less than $0.99. I think it was from Walmart's online music store. I've actually stopped purchasing music or downloading it via P2P. In my opinion, there hasn't been any really good music released that's worth $1, the restriction of only burning it 3 times, having to check in or out, etc. It's such a hassle.
Funny how everyone remembers how Microsoft's products have vulnerabilities when it's discovered that there is a vulnerability in Linux, but when one is found in Microsoft products, everyone forgets about the vulnerability in Linux.
Granted this one is in the Koren versions, but the point still is that Linux isn't perfect. Don't get me wrong. I love working with Linux and all the things I can do with it. It just gets to me when everyone blasts Microsoft for one thing and then for the same thing they praise Linux.
No more shoplifting now. They just scan my creid card as I walk out the door, after they scanned the merchandise that was in my backpack. What has the world come to?
Why hate Exchange? I've managed Exchange 2000 and 2003 for 5 years and I have loved working with it. Simple to setup and manage and loads of features. I've looked for a truly comprable OSS option and haven't found one that does nearly as much with the same ease.
My coworker and I debate between the different distros. He loves and swears by Mandriva and I prefer a couple others (Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE). Now I'm gonna have to go to work Monday and hear how Mandriva must be better since Dell is using it!
Corporations don't upgrade each time a new version of Windows comes out. One, because of the cost of the software upgrade, but I believe mostly because of the cost of the downtime of the computers, paying the IT personnel to do the upgrade, and why mess with something that's not broken.
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Well, if Sony hadn't went off and got caught they would have the largest supercomputer and it would be running Microsft Windows!
Man, what to say? They said something right for a change.
I've had a couple AMD boards go bad because of leaky capacitors.
That's nothing. I work at a university where we purchased hundreds of the Dell GX270 a couple years ago. In the last year we've had almost all of the fail on us (we are expecting all to fail in time). The worst part is that we've had to wait up to 4 weeks to get warranty service when we paid for NBD service. The hold up we were told was due to backorder.
The warranty service tech tells us the problem is with the faulty capacitors. Gotta love how businesses screw themselves when they trade quality for cheap, unreliable parts.
Well, we all know that Kansas is flatter than a pancake, so this is a feasible assumption. But back to the topic, I haven't looked too much into what "Inteligent Design" teachings all entail but I think that all ideas should be given fair weight. I don't believe the theory of evolution completely and I don't believe that young students should be taught that this theory is the end all, be all, but that there are also other theories.
As much as it pains me to say I think at this point Mandriva is probably the best KDE-centric distro out there.
This isn't the only donation the foundation has made. According to wikipedia the foundation donates about $1 Billion a year. That's a hefty amount even for the rich Bill Gates.
IAX is a VoIP protocol that does well over NAT and also (at least when used with Asterisk) has a trunking function which when used to connect two sites conserves bandwidth for multiple calls between the sites.
I agree. The place to resolve this isn't in the private sector. If we are so against oppressive regimes, then why don't the governments take care of it? Sanctions are one way, but as we can see from the "Food For Oil" scandal, this doesn't always work. We bitch about how countries are restricting free speech, but when someone trys to actually do something about the regimes, we bash them.
I agree wholeheartedly with you. The US doesn't control the internet. They host the root servers, which have been working great. Why do the root servers need to be turned over to the UN? Are they afraid that the "big, bad America" is going to remove say .fr from the root servers? Come one. Get a grip, UN!
What is the benefit of releasing control to an international governing body? More bureaucracy? From what I can see, things are working quite well right now. With so many businesses relying upon the internet these days, I believe that it's in everyones best interest that this sort of thing remain stable and protected.
...but the corporate entities that provide teh high speed internet access are quite greedy
That's why the infrastructure needs to be done by the city. Where I live the city has done just that and everyone has the opportunity to receive 10Mbps for only $40. Now I know that this cost is more per megabit than the article talks about. But still, when compared to what cable and telcos offer, it's a great price.
Very true. One of its biggest pitfalls. For the experienced user not a problem, but I wouldn't ask my parents to install it.
I like Ubuntu for a few reasons. The first that I found nice was how fast it installed. It takes me about 15 minutes to have it all installed. Fedora and the others take much longer. I like the apps that come packaged with it. And oh yeah, the naked people were cool too.
I remember the days when I was proud of NASA and the nation was proud of NASA. The dreams as a school kid of working for NASA and everything great it stood for. Reading this and other things that have happened with NASA, one has to wonder what can be done to bring NASA out of the blackhole it finds itself in.
I agree completely. MythTV is looking better and better each day.
Some time ago, I did buy songs for less than $0.99. I think it was from Walmart's online music store. I've actually stopped purchasing music or downloading it via P2P. In my opinion, there hasn't been any really good music released that's worth $1, the restriction of only burning it 3 times, having to check in or out, etc. It's such a hassle.
Funny how everyone remembers how Microsoft's products have vulnerabilities when it's discovered that there is a vulnerability in Linux, but when one is found in Microsoft products, everyone forgets about the vulnerability in Linux.
Granted this one is in the Koren versions, but the point still is that Linux isn't perfect. Don't get me wrong. I love working with Linux and all the things I can do with it. It just gets to me when everyone blasts Microsoft for one thing and then for the same thing they praise Linux.
No more shoplifting now. They just scan my creid card as I walk out the door, after they scanned the merchandise that was in my backpack. What has the world come to?
Why hate Exchange? I've managed Exchange 2000 and 2003 for 5 years and I have loved working with it. Simple to setup and manage and loads of features. I've looked for a truly comprable OSS option and haven't found one that does nearly as much with the same ease.
My coworker and I debate between the different distros. He loves and swears by Mandriva and I prefer a couple others (Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE). Now I'm gonna have to go to work Monday and hear how Mandriva must be better since Dell is using it!
Does that mean that we'd expect hourly updates from Windows Update with bookmarks to the new greatest porn sites?
Corporations don't upgrade each time a new version of Windows comes out. One, because of the cost of the software upgrade, but I believe mostly because of the cost of the downtime of the computers, paying the IT personnel to do the upgrade, and why mess with something that's not broken.