I prefer KDE because tasks are more easily automated, plus I rather like the integration of applications - yes, even integration of the web browser into the environment. Because there is no ActiveX, no VB Script, and Javascript is more properly sandboxed in Konqueror in comparison to MSIE, I can have nice convenient integration without the security risks such integration presents in MSIE. Also some call KDE bloated - it's simply full-featured. I still run dual Pentium II boxes, single Pentium II boxes, and even dual Celerons and KDE runs just fine on them. Just don't run all the eye candy and don't have 3,291 applications in the notification area (read: System Tray) and the system will be perfectly responsive. I never throw out old machines until the board or CPU dies because they're still very usable for day-to-day tasks, or even as lightweight *nix (Linux or BSD) servers.
Gnome? Some claim it's a more corporate look, but with offices accepting Windows XP and with folks running the god-awful "lilac" or "valentine" themes on older Windows versions in corporate environments, KDE's default skins are by no means gaudy. Heck, I would argue that KDE is better than Gnome out of the box for corporate use, because Gnome's out-of-the-box themes are downright drab, while KDE is colorful but at the same time fairly reserved (out of the box), with the default colors (SuSE in particular) being less prone to promoting eyestrain. Heck, the window decorations in SuSE's default skin (plastik) are very, very similar to Windows XP's default Luna theme that corporations have embraced en masse.
I know, I know, both KDE/kwin and Gnome/GDE can be skinned however you like, but really, how many corporations are going to put time into skinning the desktop for internal use?
I'm not saying that KDE is perfect by any means, but every time I read some rant about how evil KDE is, in that same post I read rants about how great that user's tweaked/hacked/skinned Gnome desktop environment is. Uh, bait and switch there. How about an apples-to-apples comparison?
I used to abhor KDE with a passion and much preferred Gnome, but KDE has come a long way, especially since 3.0.
Also:
For what it's worth: I've sat newbies (who are familiar with Mac or Windowsdown in front of KDE (both Mandriva and SuSE out-of-the-box skins) and Gnome (likewise out of the box skins). When I sit them down in front of KDE all I need to do is tell them "you have writer instead of Word, and Konqueror or Firefox instead of Internet Explorer or Safari" and they're good to go - in each case they've found their way around everything else they've needed.
Not so with Gnome/GDE. I have to handhold them too much for a desktop which many claim to be "easier" than KDE.
It depends on whether or not they remember to convert from Imperial to metric measurements, and who did the math.;)
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There is a big problem with the way Google bills though - or at least was (I haven't checked recently).
Sometimes competitors seek to drive each other out of the ads so they create robots to run automated queries repeatedly (which violates Google's TOS to begin with but read on) and then click on their competitors' ads, to drive up their advertising bill so it goes over their preset spending limit, then their ads get priority and get displayed at the top, or at least more often.
Another thing that is done is Google's competitors (usually on the local level - one of my partners knows someone who once worked at such a plce) will check google, yahoo, overture, and other pay-for-click campaigns. and when they find customers or former customers on those competing services, they start clicking the ads. Of course because the clicks from them never result in solid leads and don't turn to sales, their services looks like a better ROI despite the (relatively) puny traffic they get.
There are also sleazy outfits which build generated Traffic Hurricane-based sites, host adsense ads on them, and pay people to surf the site and click the ads (I'm sure you've seen the "get paid to surf the web" ads - they're not so common now).
Google has been criticised for not having a detection mechanism in place to not only not bill for such fradulent clicks, and as of last year they were merely investigating the issue but haven't announced plans for any solutions. I haven't read anything more recent than last year about the issue. I can only assume that Google has already or is developing some sort of solution to prevent this sort of thing from occurring because to allow that sort of thing to continue would dilute the value of their service, and drive advertisers to their competitors. It would also go against Google's "Do no evil" creed to not do anything about the issue.
If you think current laptop backlighting is bad due to lack of uniformity (tubes at edges, light transmitted by a polycarbonate diffuser panel) how bad will a spot-source LED be?
Now, give us a white OLED flat panel backlight, and I'll agree with you!:)
It's dangerous if you put your nose up to it an inhale it. As others mentioned above, the total amount is probably less than your last dental filling, but it's best to minimize mercury exposure. After all, we get enough in tainted and processed foods every day.
Just open up the monitor in a well-ventilated area and don't put your nose down to the tube if it cracks, and you'll be okay. Just use a little common sense. I disassemble laptops and monitors often, and have never cracked a tube yet.
Yes, it will work for most laptops, but laptop screens are usually more difficult to disassemble. Some of them are glued or even welded together which will sometimes require very careful prying and cutting with an X-acto knife or dremel tool, and then if you want to re-seal the case either use expoxy-resin to mount standoffs and drill holes for screws, or use epoxy-resin or an ABS or PVC cement (depending on the plastic used) to re-seal the case. I'm partial to epoxying standoffs in place to allow for future servicing down the road.
I'm sure that the new campaign will be successful, and Vietnamese and North Korean families will gladly pay one year's salary for Windows rather than pirated copies for dirt after hearing what the BSD has to say about their "massive losses". Tossing them still-expensive bones like "Windows Start Edition" isn't helping your cause either.
Does it make piracy right (the fact that they cannot afford it)? No, but it (piracy) is creating a future market so that when they can afford the products as their economy develops, they will likely start buying legit copies. "Piracy" helped Windows, Norton Antivirus, AutoCAD, and Adobe Photoshop gain the market share they now control, why should they end the 'free trial' system now?
Does this mean the next Arnold Schwarzenegger-like "star" will start filming his first action blockbuster three weeks from the day human test trials of this discovery begins?
Is it any surprise why few submit patches to OOo.org?
At one point I started investigating some I/O issues and looked at how huge the project was, and how disorganized the code in particular I would need to patch is (split up among many, many libraries for the issue in question). To simply learn the project would take weeks (either that or do a hack job by creating a new class doing something in a way totally inconsistent with the rest of the project) so it was either spend weeks of time to learn a project consisting of disorganized code, or just spend an hour or two configuring wine and installing MS Office so I could open a moderate-sized (1200 to 1500 lines per sheet, three sheets) formatted and hyperlinked spreadsheet? Of course the solution for me was to turn to wine.
Learning code and submitting a patch for a product like, oh for example,/bin/cp is one thing - you can learn a project like that in under an hour - but submitting code for a project consisting of more code than some entire operating systems is a different matter altogether.
Of course, some will toss out some elitist remarks like the writer did, and place the blame on users who don't have the time or in many cases the knowledge to address various bugs. Some who have the ability and desire to submit bug fixes to projects don't because they don't have the time to spend learning disorganized and poorly-documented projects, some don't because they simply don't give a crap, and the vast majority doesn't because they can barely crasp the file/folder metaphor (compiling code alone is an impossibility for them), let alone tweak code.
If open source project managers actually want people to contribute, here are some key items you need to have in place:
- Document your project as you code
- Have at LEAST a rudimentary spec for config files, etc. (the KDE team is notorious for not supplying this. I HATE having to read the million config files under ~/.kde to track down why a user's desktop is f'ing up and all too often resort to renaming or nuking conf/rc files because no documentation is provided )
- have SOME sort of design spec on the project's home page, preferably including a coding style spec so that way Tom, Dick, Jane, and everyone else contributing to the project uses one coding style and not 29 different styles
- If you put a wiki on the project home page, POPULATE the damn wiki. Don't put 5,291,281 excellent categories and a very good table of contents on the page, with all 5,291,281 categories being empty. You're better off not putting up any wiki at all.
- did I mention documenting code as you go, and maintain a consistent style?
- For the love of GOD, if you have I/O (be it file, database, etc.) implement some sort of data access layer or file I/O layer, reusing and extending the same classes as needed. Don't call a database or open/read/write/close files 38 different ways in the project. If filters are needed, implement a filtering layer so the user knows "okay, filefilter() will be needed to import a.doc file" rather than having a bunch of different ways to open files. Maintaining consistency from the very beginning will help greatly if the project has ANY potential of becoming a competitor to large dominant suites (e.g., a Photoshop killer or an Office killer)
If you maintain consistency and document your project as you go along, and provide a realistic roadmap, people might be more willing to learn larger projects, because you'll have kept things organized and easy to follow right from the beginning.
I'm so glad that/. story submitters are not contributing to FUD.
You can most certainly get support for OpenOffice from the primary sponsor of OpenOffice.org (Sun Microsoystems) as well as for the commercial product, StarOffice.
OpenOffice.org has come a long way. In fact if they clean up the I/O and fix the related I/O performance bottlenecks I plan to buy StarOffice as an upgrade to OpenOffice for all of my users next year. We've already switched most of our users from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice and have lost little to no functionality (and have gained some functionality in some ways).
1. Countersue Creative 2. Detect Creative products, if detected, disables sound in DOOM3 and display a splash screen proclaiming Creative to be a bunch of dips**ts
Actually, NeXT's multicolumn navigation is a direct ancestor of the OS/X and iPod interface. Since NeXT and Apple are one, Apple clearly not only used their look and feel, but the're own PRIOR, EXISTING art in the iPOD. The Zen patent should and will be found invalid if this goes through any judge who is at LEAST a barely functional mentally challenged individual, let alone an intelligent judge with some common sense. That presumes that court justices are not on the take, of course.
I have neither purchased nor sold any Creative Labs product ever since you dropped the ball on the SMP compatibility issue in your Live! drivers back in 1998/1999. You flat-out lied, denying the problem despite many folks on the newsgroup and mailing list reporting the exact same fix, and the exact same workaround (booting with the/OneCPU switch or apply CPU affinity hacks to the driver). You didn't acknowledge the issue until late 2001 or early 2002, but by then you alienated many of your higher-end customers. You know, people who actually buy your products.
Anyhow, I would like to mention that I will never, ever buy any one of your products and instead will continue to buy your competitors' products, and also offer your competitors' products to my customers. Why? Because you continue to be scumbags. A GUI is something which is OBVIOUS, there is PLENTY of prior art, and should NOT be patentable. I hope Apple and others countersue you into bankruptcy once your patent is invalidated.
In short: F*** YOU CREATIVE. Welcome to the ranks of SCO and Sony.
The coil driving the heads is called a voice coil for a reason; it is very similar to the windings of a loudspeaker. If the heads jam then the resulting vibration against whatever obstruction exists can resonate the platters or the drive case itself, amplifying the sound.
I limit case mods to improving airflow on machines with 5 or more hard drives, especially since I can't get any more SuperMicro SC-750A cases. Before the days of really huge drives I once had 12 hard drives (6 IDE, 6 SCSI) crammed into one of those cases - I had to fabricate additional brackets to fit all the drives and that system need a LOT of airflow to keep cool (11 or 12 fans).What did I do with the storage? ATI TV Tuner card - yes, the old one with the proprietary ATI Media Channel connector. I had many, many Simpsons, South Park, and Seinfeld episodes recorded in ATI's glorious ATI VCR codec. What a waste of time, but it was fun. I still have many of the episodes archived on CD-R somewhere. Interestingly, most of the drives are still running to this day in other machines; only a couple of the Western Digital drives died. I still use that case today for my single Pentium 4, and right now I have "only" six drives installed, and "only" 4 fans. Case mods: fabricated 3.5" drive bays plus I used a die grinder to cut out the inset/flat part of the louvers over one of the fans to get more air in AND quiet the thing down.
(Tivo? **** Tivo! Now it's MythTV! I'll never buy a PVR that randomly decides what I can or can't record, or when something should be deleted)
I've tbought about a novelty product for years: Micro-soft bathroom tissue. It would have butterflies imprinted on it, and of course there would be technically no trademark issue as it is in a different business classification than computer software. I'm sure that Microsoft idiot legal teams would be sending cease-and-desist letters but those letters would have no real legal force behind them.
If I had the money to toy with Microsoft and fight them in court I would introduce micro-soft bathroom tissue. I really would. Unfortunately I don't have the time and money for such amusements. That's best reserved for people who have far too much money and time on their hands.
I would like to apologise for the anonymous idiot who has no appreciation for your bravery and dedication to preserving the anonymous idiot's inalienable constitutional right to be an anonymous idiot.
I for one DO welcome our new DRM overlords as it is obviously best that they decide that I should not be able to use legally-purchased music and should instead turn to P2P networks so my PC doesn't get rooted. Well, that would be the case were I still running Windows.
The thing is you don't really subsidize them. The labels screw consumers and artists alike. If you read up on how the big record labels write contracts they sucker most artists into, the signing bonus is really a conditional advance - a loan, if you will, and the record company promises X dollars for your work providing you meet certain conditions - only (inflated) studio and engineering costs, cost of distribution, etc. all comes out of the artist's pay, leaving them with dirt, or in many cases, actually in DEBT to the recording company to which the label's response is "Yeah? So? You can tour if you want to get out of debt and make some money" - and fortunately the less clueless artists who were naive enough to get suckered into one of these contracts are smart enough to retain merchandising rights as well as rights to the band name and live performances. Many aren't even THAT clueful and get utterly screwed.
Google for a few articles on the matter - you'll be simultaneously amazed and disgusted at the shit labels pull.
If people just stop placing the power supply on shag carpeting which blocks the vents, their overheating problems would stop.
What do you want? Do you want Microsoft to include a coffee table to place the power supply on? What if they do not put a warning sticker reading "Don't put this in the way of a forced heating air vent, dumbass" and some dolt puts the newly-designed-with-a-stand power supply in front of the vent, and then decides to sue because of his stupidity? After all, Microsoft would still not be covering all the bases.
At some point personal responsibility (e.g., RTFM) needs to come into play.
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I prefer KDE because tasks are more easily automated, plus I rather like the integration of applications - yes, even integration of the web browser into the environment. Because there is no ActiveX, no VB Script, and Javascript is more properly sandboxed in Konqueror in comparison to MSIE, I can have nice convenient integration without the security risks such integration presents in MSIE. Also some call KDE bloated - it's simply full-featured. I still run dual Pentium II boxes, single Pentium II boxes, and even dual Celerons and KDE runs just fine on them. Just don't run all the eye candy and don't have 3,291 applications in the notification area (read: System Tray) and the system will be perfectly responsive. I never throw out old machines until the board or CPU dies because they're still very usable for day-to-day tasks, or even as lightweight *nix (Linux or BSD) servers.
Gnome? Some claim it's a more corporate look, but with offices accepting Windows XP and with folks running the god-awful "lilac" or "valentine" themes on older Windows versions in corporate environments, KDE's default skins are by no means gaudy. Heck, I would argue that KDE is better than Gnome out of the box for corporate use, because Gnome's out-of-the-box themes are downright drab, while KDE is colorful but at the same time fairly reserved (out of the box), with the default colors (SuSE in particular) being less prone to promoting eyestrain. Heck, the window decorations in SuSE's default skin (plastik) are very, very similar to Windows XP's default Luna theme that corporations have embraced en masse.
I know, I know, both KDE/kwin and Gnome/GDE can be skinned however you like, but really, how many corporations are going to put time into skinning the desktop for internal use?
I'm not saying that KDE is perfect by any means, but every time I read some rant about how evil KDE is, in that same post I read rants about how great that user's tweaked/hacked/skinned Gnome desktop environment is. Uh, bait and switch there. How about an apples-to-apples comparison?
I used to abhor KDE with a passion and much preferred Gnome, but KDE has come a long way, especially since 3.0.
Also:
For what it's worth: I've sat newbies (who are familiar with Mac or Windowsdown in front of KDE (both Mandriva and SuSE out-of-the-box skins) and Gnome (likewise out of the box skins). When I sit them down in front of KDE all I need to do is tell them "you have writer instead of Word, and Konqueror or Firefox instead of Internet Explorer or Safari" and they're good to go - in each case they've found their way around everything else they've needed.
Not so with Gnome/GDE. I have to handhold them too much for a desktop which many claim to be "easier" than KDE.
It depends on whether or not they remember to convert from Imperial to metric measurements, and who did the math. ;)
There is a big problem with the way Google bills though - or at least was (I haven't checked recently).
Sometimes competitors seek to drive each other out of the ads so they create robots to run automated queries repeatedly (which violates Google's TOS to begin with but read on) and then click on their competitors' ads, to drive up their advertising bill so it goes over their preset spending limit, then their ads get priority and get displayed at the top, or at least more often.
Another thing that is done is Google's competitors (usually on the local level - one of my partners knows someone who once worked at such a plce) will check google, yahoo, overture, and other pay-for-click campaigns. and when they find customers or former customers on those competing services, they start clicking the ads. Of course because the clicks from them never result in solid leads and don't turn to sales, their services looks like a better ROI despite the (relatively) puny traffic they get.
There are also sleazy outfits which build generated Traffic Hurricane-based sites, host adsense ads on them, and pay people to surf the site and click the ads (I'm sure you've seen the "get paid to surf the web" ads - they're not so common now).
Google has been criticised for not having a detection mechanism in place to not only not bill for such fradulent clicks, and as of last year they were merely investigating the issue but haven't announced plans for any solutions. I haven't read anything more recent than last year about the issue. I can only assume that Google has already or is developing some sort of solution to prevent this sort of thing from occurring because to allow that sort of thing to continue would dilute the value of their service, and drive advertisers to their competitors. It would also go against Google's "Do no evil" creed to not do anything about the issue.
If you think current laptop backlighting is bad due to lack of uniformity (tubes at edges, light transmitted by a polycarbonate diffuser panel) how bad will a spot-source LED be?
:)
Now, give us a white OLED flat panel backlight, and I'll agree with you!
Don't use the Big Fooking Hammer for every job then you'll start having more success. A hammer is not always the right choice of tool. ;)
It's dangerous if you put your nose up to it an inhale it. As others mentioned above, the total amount is probably less than your last dental filling, but it's best to minimize mercury exposure. After all, we get enough in tainted and processed foods every day.
Just open up the monitor in a well-ventilated area and don't put your nose down to the tube if it cracks, and you'll be okay. Just use a little common sense. I disassemble laptops and monitors often, and have never cracked a tube yet.
Yes, it will work for most laptops, but laptop screens are usually more difficult to disassemble. Some of them are glued or even welded together which will sometimes require very careful prying and cutting with an X-acto knife or dremel tool, and then if you want to re-seal the case either use expoxy-resin to mount standoffs and drill holes for screws, or use epoxy-resin or an ABS or PVC cement (depending on the plastic used) to re-seal the case. I'm partial to epoxying standoffs in place to allow for future servicing down the road.
If you RTFA you'll find http://www.lcdpart.com/doc/ccfl.html which lists many 2mm tubes.
I'm sure that the new campaign will be successful, and Vietnamese and North Korean families will gladly pay one year's salary for Windows rather than pirated copies for dirt after hearing what the BSD has to say about their "massive losses". Tossing them still-expensive bones like "Windows Start Edition" isn't helping your cause either.
Does it make piracy right (the fact that they cannot afford it)? No, but it (piracy) is creating a future market so that when they can afford the products as their economy develops, they will likely start buying legit copies. "Piracy" helped Windows, Norton Antivirus, AutoCAD, and Adobe Photoshop gain the market share they now control, why should they end the 'free trial' system now?
Does this mean the next Arnold Schwarzenegger-like "star" will start filming his first action blockbuster three weeks from the day human test trials of this discovery begins?
Is it any surprise why few submit patches to OOo.org?
/bin/cp is one thing - you can learn a project like that in under an hour - but submitting code for a project consisting of more code than some entire operating systems is a different matter altogether.
.doc file" rather than having a bunch of different ways to open files. Maintaining consistency from the very beginning will help greatly if the project has ANY potential of becoming a competitor to large dominant suites (e.g., a Photoshop killer or an Office killer)
At one point I started investigating some I/O issues and looked at how huge the project was, and how disorganized the code in particular I would need to patch is (split up among many, many libraries for the issue in question). To simply learn the project would take weeks (either that or do a hack job by creating a new class doing something in a way totally inconsistent with the rest of the project) so it was either spend weeks of time to learn a project consisting of disorganized code, or just spend an hour or two configuring wine and installing MS Office so I could open a moderate-sized (1200 to 1500 lines per sheet, three sheets) formatted and hyperlinked spreadsheet? Of course the solution for me was to turn to wine.
Learning code and submitting a patch for a product like, oh for example,
Of course, some will toss out some elitist remarks like the writer did, and place the blame on users who don't have the time or in many cases the knowledge to address various bugs. Some who have the ability and desire to submit bug fixes to projects don't because they don't have the time to spend learning disorganized and poorly-documented projects, some don't because they simply don't give a crap, and the vast majority doesn't because they can barely crasp the file/folder metaphor (compiling code alone is an impossibility for them), let alone tweak code.
If open source project managers actually want people to contribute, here are some key items you need to have in place:
- Document your project as you code
- Have at LEAST a rudimentary spec for config files, etc. (the KDE team is notorious for not supplying this. I HATE having to read the million config files under ~/.kde to track down why a user's desktop is f'ing up and all too often resort to renaming or nuking conf/rc files because no documentation is provided )
- have SOME sort of design spec on the project's home page, preferably including a coding style spec so that way Tom, Dick, Jane, and everyone else contributing to the project uses one coding style and not 29 different styles
- If you put a wiki on the project home page, POPULATE the damn wiki. Don't put 5,291,281 excellent categories and a very good table of contents on the page, with all 5,291,281 categories being empty. You're better off not putting up any wiki at all.
- did I mention documenting code as you go, and maintain a consistent style?
- For the love of GOD, if you have I/O (be it file, database, etc.) implement some sort of data access layer or file I/O layer, reusing and extending the same classes as needed. Don't call a database or open/read/write/close files 38 different ways in the project. If filters are needed, implement a filtering layer so the user knows "okay, filefilter() will be needed to import a
If you maintain consistency and document your project as you go along, and provide a realistic roadmap, people might be more willing to learn larger projects, because you'll have kept things organized and easy to follow right from the beginning.
They don't offer support?
/. story submitters are not contributing to FUD.
That's news to me!
http://support.openoffice.org/index.html
I'm so glad that
You can most certainly get support for OpenOffice from the primary sponsor of OpenOffice.org (Sun Microsoystems) as well as for the commercial product, StarOffice.
OpenOffice.org has come a long way. In fact if they clean up the I/O and fix the related I/O performance bottlenecks I plan to buy StarOffice as an upgrade to OpenOffice for all of my users next year. We've already switched most of our users from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice and have lost little to no functionality (and have gained some functionality in some ways).
Uh, n00b, how is my post off topic?
His correct course of action would have been to:
1. Countersue Creative
2. Detect Creative products, if detected, disables sound in DOOM3 and display a splash screen proclaiming Creative to be a bunch of dips**ts
Actually, NeXT's multicolumn navigation is a direct ancestor of the OS/X and iPod interface. Since NeXT and Apple are one, Apple clearly not only used their look and feel, but the're own PRIOR, EXISTING art in the iPOD. The Zen patent should and will be found invalid if this goes through any judge who is at LEAST a barely functional mentally challenged individual, let alone an intelligent judge with some common sense. That presumes that court justices are not on the take, of course.
I have neither purchased nor sold any Creative Labs product ever since you dropped the ball on the SMP compatibility issue in your Live! drivers back in 1998/1999. You flat-out lied, denying the problem despite many folks on the newsgroup and mailing list reporting the exact same fix, and the exact same workaround (booting with the /OneCPU switch or apply CPU affinity hacks to the driver). You didn't acknowledge the issue until late 2001 or early 2002, but by then you alienated many of your higher-end customers. You know, people who actually buy your products.
Anyhow, I would like to mention that I will never, ever buy any one of your products and instead will continue to buy your competitors' products, and also offer your competitors' products to my customers. Why? Because you continue to be scumbags. A GUI is something which is OBVIOUS, there is PLENTY of prior art, and should NOT be patentable. I hope Apple and others countersue you into bankruptcy once your patent is invalidated.
In short: F*** YOU CREATIVE. Welcome to the ranks of SCO and Sony.
The coil driving the heads is called a voice coil for a reason; it is very similar to the windings of a loudspeaker. If the heads jam then the resulting vibration against whatever obstruction exists can resonate the platters or the drive case itself, amplifying the sound.
I limit case mods to improving airflow on machines with 5 or more hard drives, especially since I can't get any more SuperMicro SC-750A cases. Before the days of really huge drives I once had 12 hard drives (6 IDE, 6 SCSI) crammed into one of those cases - I had to fabricate additional brackets to fit all the drives and that system need a LOT of airflow to keep cool (11 or 12 fans).What did I do with the storage? ATI TV Tuner card - yes, the old one with the proprietary ATI Media Channel connector. I had many, many Simpsons, South Park, and Seinfeld episodes recorded in ATI's glorious ATI VCR codec. What a waste of time, but it was fun. I still have many of the episodes archived on CD-R somewhere. Interestingly, most of the drives are still running to this day in other machines; only a couple of the Western Digital drives died. I still use that case today for my single Pentium 4, and right now I have "only" six drives installed, and "only" 4 fans. Case mods: fabricated 3.5" drive bays plus I used a die grinder to cut out the inset/flat part of the louvers over one of the fans to get more air in AND quiet the thing down.
(Tivo? **** Tivo! Now it's MythTV! I'll never buy a PVR that randomly decides what I can or can't record, or when something should be deleted)
I've tbought about a novelty product for years: Micro-soft bathroom tissue. It would have butterflies imprinted on it, and of course there would be technically no trademark issue as it is in a different business classification than computer software. I'm sure that Microsoft idiot legal teams would be sending cease-and-desist letters but those letters would have no real legal force behind them.
If I had the money to toy with Microsoft and fight them in court I would introduce micro-soft bathroom tissue. I really would. Unfortunately I don't have the time and money for such amusements. That's best reserved for people who have far too much money and time on their hands.
I would like to apologise for the anonymous idiot who has no appreciation for your bravery and dedication to preserving the anonymous idiot's inalienable constitutional right to be an anonymous idiot.
re: (Luckily, I'm compensated in pay for the next two weeks)
They HAVE to pay you the two weeks in many states. They weren't being nice to you, they were avoiding a lawsuit.
I for one DO welcome our new DRM overlords as it is obviously best that they decide that I should not be able to use legally-purchased music and should instead turn to P2P networks so my PC doesn't get rooted. Well, that would be the case were I still running Windows.
If you move out of your parents' basement you won't have to worry about their being home. (kidding, only kidding!)
The thing is you don't really subsidize them. The labels screw consumers and artists alike. If you read up on how the big record labels write contracts they sucker most artists into, the signing bonus is really a conditional advance - a loan, if you will, and the record company promises X dollars for your work providing you meet certain conditions - only (inflated) studio and engineering costs, cost of distribution, etc. all comes out of the artist's pay, leaving them with dirt, or in many cases, actually in DEBT to the recording company to which the label's response is "Yeah? So? You can tour if you want to get out of debt and make some money" - and fortunately the less clueless artists who were naive enough to get suckered into one of these contracts are smart enough to retain merchandising rights as well as rights to the band name and live performances. Many aren't even THAT clueful and get utterly screwed.
Google for a few articles on the matter - you'll be simultaneously amazed and disgusted at the shit labels pull.
If people just stop placing the power supply on shag carpeting which blocks the vents, their overheating problems would stop.
What do you want? Do you want Microsoft to include a coffee table to place the power supply on? What if they do not put a warning sticker reading "Don't put this in the way of a forced heating air vent, dumbass" and some dolt puts the newly-designed-with-a-stand power supply in front of the vent, and then decides to sue because of his stupidity? After all, Microsoft would still not be covering all the bases.
At some point personal responsibility (e.g., RTFM) needs to come into play.