You know, I am not really into gaming anymore. But this one thing has me laughing a lot inside. I didn't know there was SILENCE after the announcement...As in, dead silence...I would love to see a video of that one...I just would.
And $600 for another 40GB hard drive and the media readers!? WTF were they thinking when they came up with this one?!?
Is Sony really in such a bind financially that they need to jack up the price of this thing?
I am no Unix/Linux guru by any means, but in a default install of say, Debian, or Ubuntu, to open a number of programs I need to use sudo quite a bit to set it up. Maybe I am missing something somewhere, but the 'use sudo if you absolutely need root' is crap.
I dunno about the rest of you guys, but Windows, properly installed and tweaked here and there, will run just fine.
Linux on the other hand, IME, is not quite as easy to get running too well. I've tried several distributions, but have not tried Xubuntu as of yet. Even on a fairly modern system (2GHz, 1GB RAM, etc, etc) it seems that Linux is lacking in a few areas. As someone else said, it still uses a 20 year old (is it really that old?) method of talking with the video card, while the kernel is set to talk to most of the other hardware.
Going along with a few posts up, Linux is great and all because one can make their own OS, technically, and not get fried for it. For those of you that want some more customization from 2000/XP/2003, get http://www.nliteos.com/
I've used it on a few of my machines to add drivers and whatnot before installing XP, and they work just great! You can even add some security by taking some components out before installing it, even. With Linux, I believe that's a little harder, since you have to do everything yourself before you can do anything with it.
Mind you, I am all about open-source and everything, but Linux is not as easy to setup and use as Windows XP, or even Mac OSX, for that matter.
WTF!? I didn't know that we had to crash things into the ground to test 'em.
Why don't they just use a rocket like most of the scramjet tests have been?
I did something like this when I was working at a call center late last year. I took my flash drive in with me and tried as hard as I could to get some data onto it or off of it, but eventually just hosted it on a web server I have access to, and then got it, or put it, on there...
Nothing too bad, though, just a bunch of scripts and programs that they had on their COMPLETELY OPEN file server...Except for the folders containing their specialized XP images...I should have stayed there and tried to come up with something like this.
I'm not an admin, but I was at a high school a year ago, and in my final year, got to do quite a bit here and there. I did very little actual admin work, but when I needed the admin to do something, he wanted me to go through all this paperwork for a simple driver install...I was like 'WTF?' and then I tried to hack DeepFreeze in my spare time while in programming class. It didn't work, because we were apparently using the latest at the time (5.2.x.x) and the latest hack at the time was for 4.2 I believe.
Anyway, I applied for a summer position in the whole district, and heard not even a peep from them about a job, or even potential jobs...
Maybe I need to talk to the right people or something, but that annoyed me, seeing as most of the infrastructure seems to work pretty well, except that it is all Windows-based...They have a machine that is running 98SE for a small file server in one room, because XP will only allow 10 connections at a time by default, and has to wait a certain amount of time before it will allow a new connection...*shrugs*
I want to get into some admin work, but there just doesn't seem to be 'room' for a new one just yet, being that my school district is spending quite a sum on a new high school, I might just be there for a job interview in '07.
They are not using a computer that was operational since '67, but rather the archtecture of how things work there....
And $2 trillion in taxes each year!? WTF?! How does the IRS process that and then 'can't' do Gates' taxes?
There are limitations on that, too... spin too fast and the edges start to break the sound barrier, and all sorts of weird crap happens, including the platters tearing themselves apart.
They can actually break the sound barrier? And rip themselves apart? Have there been tests or anything to prove this? That sounds awesome!
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And $600 for another 40GB hard drive and the media readers!? WTF were they thinking when they came up with this one?!?
Is Sony really in such a bind financially that they need to jack up the price of this thing?
Then again, I am quite a newbie either way.
Linux on the other hand, IME, is not quite as easy to get running too well. I've tried several distributions, but have not tried Xubuntu as of yet. Even on a fairly modern system (2GHz, 1GB RAM, etc, etc) it seems that Linux is lacking in a few areas. As someone else said, it still uses a 20 year old (is it really that old?) method of talking with the video card, while the kernel is set to talk to most of the other hardware.
Going along with a few posts up, Linux is great and all because one can make their own OS, technically, and not get fried for it. For those of you that want some more customization from 2000/XP/2003, get http://www.nliteos.com/
I've used it on a few of my machines to add drivers and whatnot before installing XP, and they work just great! You can even add some security by taking some components out before installing it, even. With Linux, I believe that's a little harder, since you have to do everything yourself before you can do anything with it.
Mind you, I am all about open-source and everything, but Linux is not as easy to setup and use as Windows XP, or even Mac OSX, for that matter.
WTF!? I didn't know that we had to crash things into the ground to test 'em.
Why don't they just use a rocket like most of the scramjet tests have been?
Nothing too bad, though, just a bunch of scripts and programs that they had on their COMPLETELY OPEN file server...Except for the folders containing their specialized XP images...I should have stayed there and tried to come up with something like this.
I'm not an admin, but I was at a high school a year ago, and in my final year, got to do quite a bit here and there. I did very little actual admin work, but when I needed the admin to do something, he wanted me to go through all this paperwork for a simple driver install...I was like 'WTF?' and then I tried to hack DeepFreeze in my spare time while in programming class. It didn't work, because we were apparently using the latest at the time (5.2.x.x) and the latest hack at the time was for 4.2 I believe. Anyway, I applied for a summer position in the whole district, and heard not even a peep from them about a job, or even potential jobs... Maybe I need to talk to the right people or something, but that annoyed me, seeing as most of the infrastructure seems to work pretty well, except that it is all Windows-based...They have a machine that is running 98SE for a small file server in one room, because XP will only allow 10 connections at a time by default, and has to wait a certain amount of time before it will allow a new connection...*shrugs* I want to get into some admin work, but there just doesn't seem to be 'room' for a new one just yet, being that my school district is spending quite a sum on a new high school, I might just be there for a job interview in '07.
They are not using a computer that was operational since '67, but rather the archtecture of how things work there.... And $2 trillion in taxes each year!? WTF?! How does the IRS process that and then 'can't' do Gates' taxes?
There are limitations on that, too... spin too fast and the edges start to break the sound barrier, and all sorts of weird crap happens, including the platters tearing themselves apart. They can actually break the sound barrier? And rip themselves apart? Have there been tests or anything to prove this? That sounds awesome!