Trust me, they didn't retain backwards compatibility. My scanner does not work with Vista. I am a Mechanical Engineer and barely any of my vendor software works with Vista. Carrier's HAP load calc software does not work. Bell & Gossett's pump selection software does not work. AAON rooftop unit selection software does not work. AutoCAD 2006 does not work. These are large companies whose software does not work, Autodesk undoubtedly used this a forced upgrade opportunity though. Carrier HAP is a $1500 program. AutoCAD is a $4000 program. Why would I spend hundreds on an OS that will force me to spend thousands on software and hardware upgrades. Luckily my IT department agrees.
Well unless you are paying for their business class service, you are not allowed to run a mail server. Read their Acceptable Usage Policy:
"Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to, using the Service, Customer Equipment, or the Comcast Equipment to: . . . run programs, equipment, or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises LAN (Local Area Network), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited services and servers include, but are not limited to, e-mail, Web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers;"
I don't necessarily like or agree with that, but it is still the terms in which you signed up for the service.
Standard operating procedure. You can tell when it's a democrat doing something stupid, because they leave off the party affiliation. If it's a republican, you can be sure that the party affiliation will be firmly attached. It's not like the press is biased in any way, is it? Makes you wonder what other news they are playing with.
Mining your IP address and OS version is nothing special, but TFS says that it also transmits information about your installed programs and connected hardware. That is a little more invasive than the info included in your headers.
It is basically all converted to heat. There is very little energy consumed in data center equipment for light, sound or mechanical movement. Electrical energy in = heat out.
I am a mechanical engineer and design HVAC systems. I do not specialize in data centers, but most hospitals, schools and offices nowadays have data rooms. What we would typically do is provide cooling for the amount of power you have. For example, if you have ten 20A 120V receptacles feeding your equipment, then the cooling system should be designed for 10 X 20A X 120V X 3.41 BTU/hr per Watt equaling 81,912 BTUH or around 7 tons.
Make sure you go with a new refrigerant if you going to replace an old unit. R-22 is close to end of life, contractors are trying to sell what they have.
On this subject, my brilliant idea is a data rack with a chilled water manifold, then have rack-mount equipment which would just plug into the manifold as required. You could use small modular chillers and increase as necessary. The problem would be getting the computer manufacturer's to install water cooling inlet & outlet connections on their equipment. Moving air is inefficient and much more costly to install and operate than a few very small pumps and a couple small chillers.
Actually since Google makes a profit on each click, it actually earns them money, not cost them money. In my fictitious example, as I know it, Google pays me as an adsense displaying webmaster $0.25 per click I generate from my site, and charges the advertiser $0.30 for that click. They then pocket the difference. Why would Google care if the clicks are fraudulent? Unless of course they are claiming that advertisers are leaving at the rate of $1 billion per year, which may be the case since I didn't RTFA.
And since he just received a $30,000 car that places him just in the 25% bracket, after standard deductions and what not, assuming he made no other money, he would owe somewhere around $4,000. Not bad for a 350Z IMHO.
So you are using a 32-bit browser. The only 64-bit java plugin available for 64-bit browsers is the insecure Blackdown java plugin which is still at version 1.4.2-something. It hasn't been updated in years.
I agree with you, however the expat update was marked stable. I personally didn't have any issues with it, just emerged it, reemerged gettext & curl, emerge -avuDn world then revdep-rebuild -av. I didn't need any special instructions, just the knowledge of using Gentoo for a few years. Again, someone managing Gentoo servers in a production environment should 1) have the know how to fix that minor issue & 2) not upgrade blindly without knowing what they are upgrading. Broken dependencies happen & they are usually trivial to fix.
The taste (err, performance) is a lot better with the compiled yourself.
Gentoo's benefit is not speed. Compiling for your arch may give you a 2-3% increase and it is not noticeable. The benefit is being able to compile everything with the options you want set. There is no 40-50 questions, that poster has obviously never used Gentoo. It is not like you are asked each time what options you want set. You go through your/etc/make.conf when you install, set the correct options and forget about it. That is how Freebsd behaves however, but like the OP said, you can add batch=YES to your make.conf and it will skip that. It is easy enough to type "make config" to set/change your options at a later date.
For example, say you don't want newsreader support with your Seamonkey, how easy is that to do on Ubuntu??
I am using Gentoo as well. Actually it doesn't really crash the browser, but it does sometimes decide to just stop working and you have to restart the browser for it to work again.
I've noticed that flash on my amd64 box using the nspluginwrapper is quite unstable compared to my other box with is running a P4 and doesn't need the wrapper.
When you start an app in Vista, you don't see all your desktop icons flicker 3-4 times for no reason. That is because your entire desktop goes black for about 2 seconds then comes back with a dialog box asking if you want to run the program you just clicked, cancel or allow? Much less annoying if you ask me......
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Trust me, they didn't retain backwards compatibility. My scanner does not work with Vista. I am a Mechanical Engineer and barely any of my vendor software works with Vista. Carrier's HAP load calc software does not work. Bell & Gossett's pump selection software does not work. AAON rooftop unit selection software does not work. AutoCAD 2006 does not work. These are large companies whose software does not work, Autodesk undoubtedly used this a forced upgrade opportunity though. Carrier HAP is a $1500 program. AutoCAD is a $4000 program. Why would I spend hundreds on an OS that will force me to spend thousands on software and hardware upgrades. Luckily my IT department agrees.
$130??? Office "Standard" which is just Word, Excel, Powerpoint & Outlook is $400. Office Ultimate is $680!!!
The touch of His noodly appendage works in mysterious ways.
I don't necessarily like or agree with that, but it is still the terms in which you signed up for the service.
Idiotic modding of the OP as insightful aside, you might want to save some money and make a purchase.
Mining your IP address and OS version is nothing special, but TFS says that it also transmits information about your installed programs and connected hardware. That is a little more invasive than the info included in your headers.
Well I think they have some infringing content here. Unless of course they have 2Live Crew & Brittany's permission ;)
Cleartype. The only reason I prefer XP to 2k is cleartype, I like pretty fonts.
It is basically all converted to heat. There is very little energy consumed in data center equipment for light, sound or mechanical movement. Electrical energy in = heat out.
I am a mechanical engineer and design HVAC systems. I do not specialize in data centers, but most hospitals, schools and offices nowadays have data rooms. What we would typically do is provide cooling for the amount of power you have. For example, if you have ten 20A 120V receptacles feeding your equipment, then the cooling system should be designed for 10 X 20A X 120V X 3.41 BTU/hr per Watt equaling 81,912 BTUH or around 7 tons.
Make sure you go with a new refrigerant if you going to replace an old unit. R-22 is close to end of life, contractors are trying to sell what they have.
On this subject, my brilliant idea is a data rack with a chilled water manifold, then have rack-mount equipment which would just plug into the manifold as required. You could use small modular chillers and increase as necessary. The problem would be getting the computer manufacturer's to install water cooling inlet & outlet connections on their equipment. Moving air is inefficient and much more costly to install and operate than a few very small pumps and a couple small chillers.
Actually since Google makes a profit on each click, it actually earns them money, not cost them money. In my fictitious example, as I know it, Google pays me as an adsense displaying webmaster $0.25 per click I generate from my site, and charges the advertiser $0.30 for that click. They then pocket the difference. Why would Google care if the clicks are fraudulent? Unless of course they are claiming that advertisers are leaving at the rate of $1 billion per year, which may be the case since I didn't RTFA.
And since he just received a $30,000 car that places him just in the 25% bracket, after standard deductions and what not, assuming he made no other money, he would owe somewhere around $4,000. Not bad for a 350Z IMHO.
So you are using a 32-bit browser. The only 64-bit java plugin available for 64-bit browsers is the insecure Blackdown java plugin which is still at version 1.4.2-something. It hasn't been updated in years.
I agree with you, however the expat update was marked stable. I personally didn't have any issues with it, just emerged it, reemerged gettext & curl, emerge -avuDn world then revdep-rebuild -av. I didn't need any special instructions, just the knowledge of using Gentoo for a few years. Again, someone managing Gentoo servers in a production environment should 1) have the know how to fix that minor issue & 2) not upgrade blindly without knowing what they are upgrading. Broken dependencies happen & they are usually trivial to fix.
For example, say you don't want newsreader support with your Seamonkey, how easy is that to do on Ubuntu??
I am using Gentoo as well. Actually it doesn't really crash the browser, but it does sometimes decide to just stop working and you have to restart the browser for it to work again.
I've noticed that flash on my amd64 box using the nspluginwrapper is quite unstable compared to my other box with is running a P4 and doesn't need the wrapper.