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Whenever the "font quality" thread breaks out, there seems to be a three-way tie between the people who vastly prefer ClearType, OS X or Linux fonts.
Personally I'm with you -- font support on Linux gives me headaches to try and use. But I installed the latest Gutsy alpha, and font rendering seems to have taken another substantial step forward. To my eyes it's still not as good as ClearType, but it's beginning to get into the level where it might not matter as much.
Firefox fonts on Linux still melt my retinas, but there you go.
There really aren't that many to choose from -- your choices are basically defined by "server vs desktop" motherboard (eg socket 940 dual opteron/registered memory or socket 939 desktop) and "AMD vs Intel". After that, sure you'll want to stretch your current investment as far as possible, but at some point you have to bite the bullet and replace your motherboard and memory, how else are you going to keep getting loads more lovely memory bandwidth for your system?
IMHO, I'm going to try and wait until AMD M2 motherboards are available for a vaguely sensible price, and move to DDR2 memory with a dualcore Athlon X2... hopefully some time next year -- I reckon that will be the next platform with as much longevity as Socket A gave me.
Interesting... I currently have a blue Escort, on which the connection for the electric windows plays up unless I pull off the paneling under the gear lever and twiddle with the wires going into the switch.
Windows listens on dozens of ports - some of which you can't switch off without crippling the system.
Very true, but it's worth noting that "crippling" your system depends strongly on which services you actually use.
You can turn off DCOM of course; if you don't need Windows file share and print then you can knock out ports 137-139 and 445. (SSH, WebDAV and HTTP works for me, pretty much).
I actually have port 135 (RPC portmapper) also not bound on my system, although the RPC service still has to be running of course... I'm running Outlook Express, Firefox, Office and Visual Studio quite happily, and still waiting to see what I discover I've broken at some future point.
Windows can be a bit of a bugger for re-enabling port 135 if it feels like it needs it though.
And if it's so critical, why they won't let you just bind RPC only to 127.0.0.1 after all these years still bemuses me (apparently you can do this in Server 2003 but nothing else).
The answer "just add firewall" has always really unimpressed me from a security point of view.
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Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
Whenever the "font quality" thread breaks out, there seems to be a three-way tie between the people who vastly prefer ClearType, OS X or Linux fonts.
Personally I'm with you -- font support on Linux gives me headaches to try and use.
But I installed the latest Gutsy alpha, and font rendering seems to have taken another substantial step forward. To my eyes it's still not as good as ClearType, but it's beginning to get into the level where it might not matter as much.
Firefox fonts on Linux still melt my retinas, but there you go.
"I'm the Thread of the Worrrrrllld!!!!"
Sorry.
On the subject of books, no-one seems to have mentioned The Terminal Man yet...
It doesn't matter. You take the remaining output and broadcast it on Fox News.
There really aren't that many to choose from -- your choices are basically defined by "server vs desktop" motherboard (eg socket 940 dual opteron/registered memory or socket 939 desktop) and "AMD vs Intel". After that, sure you'll want to stretch your current investment as far as possible, but at some point you have to bite the bullet and replace your motherboard and memory, how else are you going to keep getting loads more lovely memory bandwidth for your system?
... hopefully some time next year -- I reckon that will be the next platform with as much longevity as Socket A gave me.
IMHO, I'm going to try and wait until AMD M2 motherboards are available for a vaguely sensible price, and move to DDR2 memory with a dualcore Athlon X2
Interesting ... I currently have a blue Escort, on which the connection for the electric windows plays up unless I pull off the paneling under the gear lever and twiddle with the wires going into the switch.
It feels very much like using RegEdit.
Windows listens on dozens of ports - some of which you can't switch off without crippling the system.
Very true, but it's worth noting that "crippling" your system depends strongly on which services you actually use.
You can turn off DCOM of course; if you don't need Windows file share and print then you can knock out ports 137-139 and 445. (SSH, WebDAV and HTTP works for me, pretty much).
I actually have port 135 (RPC portmapper) also not bound on my system, although the RPC service still has to be running of course ... I'm running Outlook Express, Firefox, Office and Visual Studio quite happily, and still waiting to see what I discover I've broken at some future point.
Windows can be a bit of a bugger for re-enabling port 135 if it feels like it needs it though.
And if it's so critical, why they won't let you just bind RPC only to 127.0.0.1 after all these years still bemuses me (apparently you can do this in Server 2003 but nothing else).
The answer "just add firewall" has always really unimpressed me from a security point of view.
This is true, but there is such a thing as "scary big".
For example, if you take 3-phase power, that's a pretty good indication that you've crossed the scary threshold.