Interesting. They used to have a store a few years back. The site went down for a while and then came back. It didn't occur to me that perhaps the site as is has nohing to do with the company that actually was.
It is the first......personal computer configurable WITHOUT a System Hard Drive with all operating system and program files permanently sitting a on a Flash RamDisk. It operates at the speed of the maximum available memory bandwidth up to 8.5GB/s and is capable of over 150,000 I/O requests per second, with an average of 0.0% CPU utilization.
go-l.com have been selling desktops built on solid state ram disks for at least a couple of years from this site. That's the lowest model too.
Also their laptops included some of the same technology.
Seriously.. thank you for this. I'm going to look into it. Like I said I'm perfectly happy to change if I could so you might have just spurred me on. New year's resolution I think.:-)
Why, you're right! I'll get to work right now on my latest porn dialler so I can upload it to all those web-servers and... oh wait. Perhaps marketshare is the wrong term. I'll make it simpler. Windows is on lots and lots of computers. These people generally either want recognition or personal and private information. The best way to get that is not to take down or graffiti a few websites on servers you can get into, but to attack the tens (hundreds?) of millions of insecure desktop machines running Windows with the latest exploit. Windows is bigger in terms of day-to-day human-contact-with-a-computer use and the dreaded market share, making it the biggest and most tempting target. It's not rocket science, and it's no more complicated than that.
I neither missed the point nor misunderstood it. I simply disagreed with it. And I even managed to describe my reasons for disagreeing with it without immediately resorting to aggressive and critical language. *shock*.... *awe*
I've read Slashdot for years, like many (most?) people reading this now, but have only started posting in the last week occasionaly to fill the odd minute here and there. I find it fascinating that so many people are unable to discuss an issue without having to resort to "The answer is...", "THAT is the point." or "pure and simple bullshit". Whatever happened to debate?
So here's a couple of phrases to try out:
"I see your point but this is what I think..."
"No I disgree, for these reasons..."
"But if I register, people will know who I am when I'm being unreasonable.":-) Happy New Year:-)
I believe you can be "infected" by the wmf-borne issue, but for it to then download and install the malicious code without notfying you first is an IE thing..?
I think they did... get the pitch-forks and the shotguns! We's gonna have ar sels a hangin'!
Windows is attacked more due to desktop marketshare. "Tired old arguement." someone said, "What about Apache?" Well, forget for a moment that Apache is a web server application, not an O/S, and that it's inherently more straight-forward to secure something the size of Apache compared with something the size of Windows (especially with it's mish-mash of new and old code from 1000s of different devs). Whatever the individual purpose of a virus/worm/other exploit writer they will almost certainly be more successful, by their measures, by sitting their "product" on the greatest number of machines and where the information is juicier and more accessible.. the Windows home (and office) desktop market.
Now I'm not an MS cock-sock.. I hate rebooting and regular patching as much as the next guy, I use OSS FTP, archiving, email, browsing and office software wherever possible. That's mainly cos if I don't have to pay for it then why the hell not, but also because there are some superior solutions out there for certain problems that are OSS and why not support that noble effort.
But then comes the deal-breaker for me.. I need to develop something in the latest version of Java and/or C#.NET (properly), and then knock up some gorgeous images in the latest version of a top graphics package for a site (hosted on my Linux server btw) followed by a Flash game and a couple of viral banners, turn off for a bit a destroy some friends on Battlefield 2.. I need Windows cos I can't get all the best software for anything else. I might get somewhere with the graphics package on a Mac but not have it run at a decent pace for the _right price_.
I would _love_ to switch to Linux tommorrow. No, today. Not OS X, I just think it's horrible - personal opinion - but Linux. But I need certain packages, with the features and ease of use they provide, to get the jobs done. And I need Windows to run them on. Not everything's going to work with Wine.
Whenever another Windows security story appears everyone start prodding, pointing and shouting. I'd agree with any balanced anti-Windows arguement. But when you can't offer me a replace-all solution then I don't buy (or download for free) from you.
While I agree that would seem sensible and laudable, I do find it a little disturbing that no one seems to be "allowed" earn any money these days without being criticised.
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Interesting. They used to have a store a few years back. The site went down for a while and then came back. It didn't occur to me that perhaps the site as is has nohing to do with the company that actually was.
go-l.com have been selling desktops built on solid state ram disks for at least a couple of years from this site. That's the lowest model too.
Also their laptops included some of the same technology.
Oh, and checkout the monitors... woah.
AND.. no, I don't work for them.
Seriously.. thank you for this. I'm going to look into it. Like I said I'm perfectly happy to change if I could so you might have just spurred me on. New year's resolution I think. :-)
Why, you're right! I'll get to work right now on my latest porn dialler so I can upload it to all those web-servers and... oh wait. Perhaps marketshare is the wrong term. I'll make it simpler. Windows is on lots and lots of computers. These people generally either want recognition or personal and private information. The best way to get that is not to take down or graffiti a few websites on servers you can get into, but to attack the tens (hundreds?) of millions of insecure desktop machines running Windows with the latest exploit. Windows is bigger in terms of day-to-day human-contact-with-a-computer use and the dreaded market share, making it the biggest and most tempting target. It's not rocket science, and it's no more complicated than that. I neither missed the point nor misunderstood it. I simply disagreed with it. And I even managed to describe my reasons for disagreeing with it without immediately resorting to aggressive and critical language. *shock* .... *awe*
I've read Slashdot for years, like many (most?) people reading this now, but have only started posting in the last week occasionaly to fill the odd minute here and there. I find it fascinating that so many people are unable to discuss an issue without having to resort to "The answer is...", "THAT is the point." or "pure and simple bullshit". Whatever happened to debate?
So here's a couple of phrases to try out:
"I see your point but this is what I think..."
"No I disgree, for these reasons..."
"But if I register, people will know who I am when I'm being unreasonable." :-) Happy New Year :-)
I believe you can be "infected" by the wmf-borne issue, but for it to then download and install the malicious code without notfying you first is an IE thing..?
I think they did... get the pitch-forks and the shotguns! We's gonna have ar sels a hangin'!
.NET (properly), and then knock up some gorgeous images in the latest version of a top graphics package for a site (hosted on my Linux server btw) followed by a Flash game and a couple of viral banners, turn off for a bit a destroy some friends on Battlefield 2.. I need Windows cos I can't get all the best software for anything else. I might get somewhere with the graphics package on a Mac but not have it run at a decent pace for the _right price_.
Windows is attacked more due to desktop marketshare. "Tired old arguement." someone said, "What about Apache?" Well, forget for a moment that Apache is a web server application, not an O/S, and that it's inherently more straight-forward to secure something the size of Apache compared with something the size of Windows (especially with it's mish-mash of new and old code from 1000s of different devs). Whatever the individual purpose of a virus/worm/other exploit writer they will almost certainly be more successful, by their measures, by sitting their "product" on the greatest number of machines and where the information is juicier and more accessible.. the Windows home (and office) desktop market.
Now I'm not an MS cock-sock.. I hate rebooting and regular patching as much as the next guy, I use OSS FTP, archiving, email, browsing and office software wherever possible. That's mainly cos if I don't have to pay for it then why the hell not, but also because there are some superior solutions out there for certain problems that are OSS and why not support that noble effort.
But then comes the deal-breaker for me.. I need to develop something in the latest version of Java and/or C#
I would _love_ to switch to Linux tommorrow. No, today. Not OS X, I just think it's horrible - personal opinion - but Linux. But I need certain packages, with the features and ease of use they provide, to get the jobs done. And I need Windows to run them on. Not everything's going to work with Wine.
Whenever another Windows security story appears everyone start prodding, pointing and shouting. I'd agree with any balanced anti-Windows arguement. But when you can't offer me a replace-all solution then I don't buy (or download for free) from you.
Apache doesn't run well on windows Works fine for me, but hey, while we're being stereotypical...
You might be right. I do find the blood and dripping from my salivating mouth messes with my keyboard.
While I agree that would seem sensible and laudable, I do find it a little disturbing that no one seems to be "allowed" earn any money these days without being criticised.