If the Magnetic Vortex Core (http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/documentation/pressReleases/2006/pressRelease200611281) technology ever makes it into the hard-drive markets, it will considerably reduce the size of these drives. Densely packed cores would mean less movement, thus lesser power, and higher stability - and yes, less weight. SSDs would be quite expensive and slow when compared with drives built on Vortex Cores. Lets see what the future has in store.
Why would you need defragmentation when there's no read head to consider? The whole idea behind defragmenting programs is to gather a file at one place so that the head doesn't have to jump to different addresses on the cylinder.
As long as your name doesn't show up in documents when people search for "Michael Moore", you have a high chance of getting a security clearance.
There. I just ruined the chances of everyone here who expected to get a clearance themselves.
I was under the impression that the general could choose which questions to answer from a pool of questions. The reason he chose to answer this question might be so that he could use the net lingo he learned the night before.
The file would be downloaded like crazy over the next few days, and if its not taken down by S-logy lawyers, it will surely surpass the bandwidth quota of the person hosting it. If its made into a.torrent, it will live happily ever after, or before it becomes stale.
All these sounds do is hog some memory and add an extra delay for an application. The way things are set up, it plays the sound first and then proceeds with the application. Same with those dastardly themes and special effects for menus and stuff. Most of the folks who want to get the maximum mileage out of their processors and memory and blazing speeds tend to disable the sounds and go for the minimalistic themes with plain window borders (not those flashy 3d buttons, just plain gray ones), no wallpaper, no sounds, and heavily trimmed down boot up applications.
Be it Windows or Linux - these sound schemes are good for people who love to spend those extra five seconds for every mouse click.
And if you need notification for certain events, you can download any sound you want and just plug that for that specific event notification.
All you get after the last release of XP service packs is some shiny buttons and a new file system? Their transparent panels and animated folders could have been implemented as add-on themes to Win95, whats so special about it? Same about the file system. Now if it had included built in protocols for ssh, had disk partitioning tools, included CD/DVD writing tools, developer tools, an built in office environment, etc. then it would have amounted to something. All the Linux distros have been having these features since 2003 - and for free!
Oh and Linux has shiny buttons too. But still it runs at blazing speeds at sub-512MB memory speeds. I'd rather contribute $50 to GNU folks who make a fully loaded operating system, than pay 300 for a lame ass dysfunctional Vista loaded with nothing but bling-bling. And the government is gonna shell out $$$ for each licensed version of Vista and subsequently another $500 something for the Office 2007 (more shine).
And you wonder how we run into trillions of dollars worth of deficit.
The installation process failed to access the hard drive! I have no clue what it means, but just so you know, the hard drive has undergone installations of Suse, Ubuntu, and Fedora Core previously. Currently my drive houses a dual boot Windows/Suse and I was planning to overwrite Suse with FC6. However it seems like FC6 chickened out at the very onset so Suse 10.1 stays on my drive.
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If the Magnetic Vortex Core (http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/documentation/pressReleases/2006/pressRelease200611281) technology ever makes it into the hard-drive markets, it will considerably reduce the size of these drives. Densely packed cores would mean less movement, thus lesser power, and higher stability - and yes, less weight. SSDs would be quite expensive and slow when compared with drives built on Vortex Cores. Lets see what the future has in store.
Why would you need defragmentation when there's no read head to consider? The whole idea behind defragmenting programs is to gather a file at one place so that the head doesn't have to jump to different addresses on the cylinder.
As long as your name doesn't show up in documents when people search for "Michael Moore", you have a high chance of getting a security clearance. There. I just ruined the chances of everyone here who expected to get a clearance themselves.
I was under the impression that the general could choose which questions to answer from a pool of questions. The reason he chose to answer this question might be so that he could use the net lingo he learned the night before.
Unless "Instant Karma" gets you first.
Thats what I get for not having my mind wired to the Internets :)
The file would be downloaded like crazy over the next few days, and if its not taken down by S-logy lawyers, it will surely surpass the bandwidth quota of the person hosting it. If its made into a .torrent, it will live happily ever after, or before it becomes stale.
All these sounds do is hog some memory and add an extra delay for an application. The way things are set up, it plays the sound first and then proceeds with the application. Same with those dastardly themes and special effects for menus and stuff. Most of the folks who want to get the maximum mileage out of their processors and memory and blazing speeds tend to disable the sounds and go for the minimalistic themes with plain window borders (not those flashy 3d buttons, just plain gray ones), no wallpaper, no sounds, and heavily trimmed down boot up applications. Be it Windows or Linux - these sound schemes are good for people who love to spend those extra five seconds for every mouse click. And if you need notification for certain events, you can download any sound you want and just plug that for that specific event notification.
All you get after the last release of XP service packs is some shiny buttons and a new file system? Their transparent panels and animated folders could have been implemented as add-on themes to Win95, whats so special about it? Same about the file system. Now if it had included built in protocols for ssh, had disk partitioning tools, included CD/DVD writing tools, developer tools, an built in office environment, etc. then it would have amounted to something. All the Linux distros have been having these features since 2003 - and for free! Oh and Linux has shiny buttons too. But still it runs at blazing speeds at sub-512MB memory speeds. I'd rather contribute $50 to GNU folks who make a fully loaded operating system, than pay 300 for a lame ass dysfunctional Vista loaded with nothing but bling-bling. And the government is gonna shell out $$$ for each licensed version of Vista and subsequently another $500 something for the Office 2007 (more shine). And you wonder how we run into trillions of dollars worth of deficit.
The installation process failed to access the hard drive! I have no clue what it means, but just so you know, the hard drive has undergone installations of Suse, Ubuntu, and Fedora Core previously. Currently my drive houses a dual boot Windows/Suse and I was planning to overwrite Suse with FC6. However it seems like FC6 chickened out at the very onset so Suse 10.1 stays on my drive.