Also, isn't Server 2008 the one that's going to be all modularized with a microkernel and a CLI interface, enabling you to run the OS with practically no components? Or am I thinking of Win7? Either way, running Server 2008 on a laptop is probably a statement that needs to be qualified.
I have an old XP box (Dell GX620, ~ 3 GHz processor with 1 GByte of RAM) Am I the only person around here that doesn't think this computer is old? Maybe I'm missing something here, but I always thought there was something distinctly prestigious about being able to take something that's maybe 6 years old and make it outperform something that's 1 year old at the same task. Maybe we've entered a newer era of techieness in which the Joneses-style competition is more important than optimization. Meh.
That's not physically possible. If a reaction generates energy, the opposite of that reaction takes more energy than the first reaction generated. What you're suggesting is like if you push lightly on a stationery pendulum and it swings back and hits you harder than you pushed it. In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics.
That's right. 50-100 megs. Times 400 nodes. That sounds like a lot of useful memory when you're on an HPC cluster that's running a job to calculate particle trajectories in the neighborhood of a black hole. The parent was talking about CLUSTERS. Some people need more than an exchange server for their line of work.
I'll give you credit on the admin comment, though. Anybody with a GED can run Active Directory and Exchange on 2k3.
Command line is much better for instruction-based fixes because it's a simple command or two.
Walking someone through a GUI is much better for education-based interactive fixes, because it has a context, and therefore does a better job of teaching why something wasn't working.
Which you choose should depend on what kind of techie you are, and what kind of person you're working with. My grandmother is never going to care or even want to know why she can't connect to the Internet, so I'll just tell her what to type. My inquisitive little sister wants to know everything, so I'll go through the process of showing her where to go and what to change, while explaining what an IP address is. My friend Cory is a bit of a Windows geek, so he knows the principles... I'll show him both ways, then teach him how to check his system's status, so he'll know when to apply that fix again, if needed.
Probably shouldn't feed a troll, but I've got a point to make because I'm tired of seeing it over and over again.
Science in and of itself cannot prove something correct. It can only prove something incorrect. Those that try to use it to prove something correct are those that are doomed to fail.
hypotheses are reasoned guesses based on observation. theories are hypotheses that have been tested (if possible) and seem to generally stand up, while providing a reason for measured observations Laws are theories that have become fundamental in projecting further theories, and are tested to a point of almost certain predictability in observation.
Not even a scientific law is a proven fact. It is an assumption based on reasoned observation and extensive testing.
And while we're at it... Let's not forget some of the most vocal and influential Catholic priests were homosexual child molesters.
Yet there are still catholics sitting around, believing in god, the sanctity of the church, the abomination of homosexuality, and the innocence of children. Just because one person who backs a theory ends up being a fraud doesn't necessarily mean the thoery itself is bunk.
You know, based on all of these Soviet Russia jokes where everything is backward, I think it's safe to assume that Soviet Russia IS a parallel universe.
They have them at Best Buy in my town. I haven't had the extra money laying around to buy one yet. I'm currently torn between getting one of those or trying to find a Wii.
Try Linux Mint. If your wireless card doesn't work, look under the menu and you'll find a program called "Windows Wireless Drivers". Click "Add". Point the browse window to the INF file on the CD. Click "OK". Click "OK". Click "Close".
The American Public are sadly misled. You watch the news, and you see third world countries obtaining new technology. You see peace talks between nations on a tenuous boundary. You see arms dealers getting busted. You see privacy policies being challenged.
We see Paris and Britney. We see LOST. We see O'Reilly telling us that we're not supposed to think. We see people cheering on our troops in Iraq.
The reason you're now hearing complaints is because the American Public are just now starting to see reporters getting fired during an interview with a presidential candidate for stating a simple fact. They're seeing students asking a question of a former presidential candidate and being taken to the ground and tased. They're seeing peaceful protests interrupted and attacked by SWAT teams in full riot gear. They're finally seeing the things happening here that they thought only happened in dictatorial regimes.
The complaints you hear are the great unwashed finally beginning to smell their own odor. Those of us who have known all along have resigned ourselves to trying to cipher the next move, if only so we can survive.
Don't blame those that are pissed off. Instead, help to educate those that AREN'T pissed off. Your help is appreciated.
Or by "do something" did you mean "vote"? Well, I'm sorry to disappoint, but my salary only covers my cost of living expenses, and I can't afford to throw $2.5 million into getting "my representative" to vote a particular way on a particular law. Our system is fundamentally broken. I'd like to see your solution..
F) Buy MacBook Pro, use large partition for storage, partition remaining disk for OS X, WinXP w/KDE and ext2fsd, WinVista w/KDE and ext2fsd, PC-BSD, Ubuntu/LinuxMint, Fedora, and Puppy, all with hfsplusutils installed. If you're going to play with OSes and software, you might as well go all out.
Evolution, by its very nature, IS survival of the fittest in the face of stresses against a particular variation. Those that oppose evolution in schools don't just oppose the possible origin of our species, but the entirety of the theory itself. Trust me. I live in Kansas.
It's for reasons such as this that the United States school system is so far behind those in many other parts of the world.
You make excellent points, but you've got one fallacy in your argument. Nowhere in his post did I find anything that told me he wasn't of the same thinking as you. The problem here is that you're making generalizations, and he took offense.
Even according to your own arguments, not everyone is a sheeple anymore. Perhaps you should consider that when you dismiss people without listening to them.
Our problem is that the system is broken, not that Democrats are bad, or Republicans are bad. Comparing left wing to right is pointless, because they're both on the same turkey vulture, therefore, they're both going the same direction. It's time to switch birds, not feathers.
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Also, isn't Server 2008 the one that's going to be all modularized with a microkernel and a CLI interface, enabling you to run the OS with practically no components? Or am I thinking of Win7? Either way, running Server 2008 on a laptop is probably a statement that needs to be qualified.
*returns to cave full of 'archaic' hardware*
That's not physically possible. If a reaction generates energy, the opposite of that reaction takes more energy than the first reaction generated. What you're suggesting is like if you push lightly on a stationery pendulum and it swings back and hits you harder than you pushed it. In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics.
That's right. 50-100 megs. Times 400 nodes. That sounds like a lot of useful memory when you're on an HPC cluster that's running a job to calculate particle trajectories in the neighborhood of a black hole. The parent was talking about CLUSTERS. Some people need more than an exchange server for their line of work.
I'll give you credit on the admin comment, though. Anybody with a GED can run Active Directory and Exchange on 2k3.
Command line is much better for instruction-based fixes because it's a simple command or two.
Walking someone through a GUI is much better for education-based interactive fixes, because it has a context, and therefore does a better job of teaching why something wasn't working.
Which you choose should depend on what kind of techie you are, and what kind of person you're working with. My grandmother is never going to care or even want to know why she can't connect to the Internet, so I'll just tell her what to type. My inquisitive little sister wants to know everything, so I'll go through the process of showing her where to go and what to change, while explaining what an IP address is. My friend Cory is a bit of a Windows geek, so he knows the principles... I'll show him both ways, then teach him how to check his system's status, so he'll know when to apply that fix again, if needed.
Probably shouldn't feed a troll, but I've got a point to make because I'm tired of seeing it over and over again.
Science in and of itself cannot prove something correct. It can only prove something incorrect. Those that try to use it to prove something correct are those that are doomed to fail.
hypotheses are reasoned guesses based on observation.
theories are hypotheses that have been tested (if possible) and seem to generally stand up, while providing a reason for measured observations
Laws are theories that have become fundamental in projecting further theories, and are tested to a point of almost certain predictability in observation.
Not even a scientific law is a proven fact. It is an assumption based on reasoned observation and extensive testing.
And while we're at it... Let's not forget some of the most vocal and influential Catholic priests were homosexual child molesters.
Yet there are still catholics sitting around, believing in god, the sanctity of the church, the abomination of homosexuality, and the innocence of children. Just because one person who backs a theory ends up being a fraud doesn't necessarily mean the thoery itself is bunk.
It's not the servicemen you need to worry about. It's Blackwater and their ilk.
ext4, and a much faster load time, perhaps?
You know, based on all of these Soviet Russia jokes where everything is backward, I think it's safe to assume that Soviet Russia IS a parallel universe.
They have them at Best Buy in my town. I haven't had the extra money laying around to buy one yet. I'm currently torn between getting one of those or trying to find a Wii.
Try Linux Mint. If your wireless card doesn't work, look under the menu and you'll find a program called "Windows Wireless Drivers". Click "Add". Point the browse window to the INF file on the CD. Click "OK". Click "OK". Click "Close".
Viola. Net.
The American Public are sadly misled. You watch the news, and you see third world countries obtaining new technology. You see peace talks between nations on a tenuous boundary. You see arms dealers getting busted. You see privacy policies being challenged.
We see Paris and Britney. We see LOST. We see O'Reilly telling us that we're not supposed to think. We see people cheering on our troops in Iraq.
The reason you're now hearing complaints is because the American Public are just now starting to see reporters getting fired during an interview with a presidential candidate for stating a simple fact. They're seeing students asking a question of a former presidential candidate and being taken to the ground and tased. They're seeing peaceful protests interrupted and attacked by SWAT teams in full riot gear. They're finally seeing the things happening here that they thought only happened in dictatorial regimes.
The complaints you hear are the great unwashed finally beginning to smell their own odor. Those of us who have known all along have resigned ourselves to trying to cipher the next move, if only so we can survive.
Don't blame those that are pissed off. Instead, help to educate those that AREN'T pissed off. Your help is appreciated.
Or by "do something" did you mean "vote"? Well, I'm sorry to disappoint, but my salary only covers my cost of living expenses, and I can't afford to throw $2.5 million into getting "my representative" to vote a particular way on a particular law. Our system is fundamentally broken. I'd like to see your solution..
F) Buy MacBook Pro, use large partition for storage, partition remaining disk for OS X, WinXP w/KDE and ext2fsd, WinVista w/KDE and ext2fsd, PC-BSD, Ubuntu/LinuxMint, Fedora, and Puppy, all with hfsplusutils installed. If you're going to play with OSes and software, you might as well go all out.
I'm having trouble trying to figure out who you're referring to... the GP, or Fox News?
No personal experience? No reasons why it's a good idea to do all those things? Just stopping by to say "Yeah, that makes sense,"?
And Tripods.
"offending" == "selected against criteria" == "selection"
Evolution, by its very nature, IS survival of the fittest in the face of stresses against a particular variation. Those that oppose evolution in schools don't just oppose the possible origin of our species, but the entirety of the theory itself. Trust me. I live in Kansas.
It's for reasons such as this that the United States school system is so far behind those in many other parts of the world.
Sounds like a terrific way to make corporations with really old Excel data migrate to OpenOffice.
Fixed that for you.
Something tells me this guy was recently denied an admin account on his workstation.
So what's being proposed is an idea for coming up with ideas with regards to breaking a system that defines the system in which we have ideas.
Sounds kinda like trying to unmount a filesystem using a utility contained on the filesystem you're trying to unmount.
How very productive.
Where's the (+1 Tragically Funny) modifier when you need it?
What version of Firefox passes? I just tried your supplied link with Firefox 2.0.0.10-3.fc8 and failed miserably.
Opera 9.25-20071214.6 on Fedora 8 rendered both versions flawlessly.
You make excellent points, but you've got one fallacy in your argument. Nowhere in his post did I find anything that told me he wasn't of the same thinking as you. The problem here is that you're making generalizations, and he took offense.
Even according to your own arguments, not everyone is a sheeple anymore. Perhaps you should consider that when you dismiss people without listening to them.
Our problem is that the system is broken, not that Democrats are bad, or Republicans are bad. Comparing left wing to right is pointless, because they're both on the same turkey vulture, therefore, they're both going the same direction. It's time to switch birds, not feathers.