I'm a Gentoo user too. My CPU and hard drive are decent (Core 2 Duo 3.33 Ghz, Western Digital 500 Gb RE2). I build on the root filesystem. I've never seen an I/O bound build, it's always the CPU. What are you people talking about?
I, for one, am looking forward to a light ARM-based notebook that can blow the doors off the competition in the battery life department. I am looking forward to putting Ubuntu on it. And I am definitely looking forward to the looks of my Windows-using friends.
This could finally make the abstract concept of the countless potential advantages of free software very very real to non-geeks. Bring it on, I say. I'm in.
Janella Spears wiped out her husband's retirement account
Somebody please explain to me how she was able to wipe out her husband's account. Shouldn't the husband be the only one able to wipe out his own account?
the entire idea is to move data safety away from hardware redundancy toward software-driven duplication
You are exactly right. When you pay the exorbitant price, you pay for great hardware, the development of great software (which you could have gotten for free), the convenience of a prepackaged solution, and for the hardware and software support.
Should anything happen to these machines, you can always get your data back. If you can't afford another set of machines like these, simply plug the drives into anything that runs Solaris (or generally ZFS), and you have your data.
Just because it's open doesn't mean it has to be cheap. But Solaris is open source, so if you don't like these, roll your own and support it yourself.
If whatever they are going to open up (didn't RTFA) is as open as Android, it will only be open to you if you are a large company that has the money to manufacture . To the rest of us, it will be as open as an iPhone.
After Android, I don't hold my breath when Google promise anything open. I'll believe them again when they open-source Google Earth or something.
You know, all these companies sound like teenagers.
The rich asshole kid on the block (M) wants to get the cool chick (Y), not because he likes her, but because she wants to go out with the cool kid (G), and M won't have any of that. But then the cool kid realizes Y is just a whore and dumps her. And now even the rich kid doesn't want her anymore. So everyone thinks Y is a cheap slut. In the mean time, the geeks (Sun, IBM...) don't even try going for the whore because they are busy doing their own stuff. As for the classy chick (Apple), she's single because she looks down on everybody.
That used to be the case, but these days the.0 release is the RC, the RC is the new beta, and beta is the new alpha. I don't know what that makes alpha, but it's pretty much the same as beta.
We all know the guy's been annoying everyone on Slashdot, but a "terrorist operation tool"? That's waay overreacting. He just hates Microsoft, that all.
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I'm a Gentoo user too. My CPU and hard drive are decent (Core 2 Duo 3.33 Ghz, Western Digital 500 Gb RE2). I build on the root filesystem. I've never seen an I/O bound build, it's always the CPU. What are you people talking about?
The contract says thing like "You can never sue us."
Sure, but what's to stop them from suing everyone except "us"? They'll sue "us" for something else that someone else gave them.
That's exactly what happens when astronauts don't get to see "BURN-E" before going on a mission!
And the scent of burning karma will fill the midnight air.
I, for one, am looking forward to a light ARM-based notebook that can blow the doors off the competition in the battery life department. I am looking forward to putting Ubuntu on it. And I am definitely looking forward to the looks of my Windows-using friends.
This could finally make the abstract concept of the countless potential advantages of free software very very real to non-geeks. Bring it on, I say. I'm in.
At the time of posting, the parent was appropriately rated 3, Funny.
Janella Spears wiped out her husband's retirement account
Somebody please explain to me how she was able to wipe out her husband's account. Shouldn't the husband be the only one able to wipe out his own account?
the entire idea is to move data safety away from hardware redundancy toward software-driven duplication
You are exactly right. When you pay the exorbitant price, you pay for great hardware, the development of great software (which you could have gotten for free), the convenience of a prepackaged solution, and for the hardware and software support.
Should anything happen to these machines, you can always get your data back. If you can't afford another set of machines like these, simply plug the drives into anything that runs Solaris (or generally ZFS), and you have your data.
Just because it's open doesn't mean it has to be cheap. But Solaris is open source, so if you don't like these, roll your own and support it yourself.
If whatever they are going to open up (didn't RTFA) is as open as Android, it will only be open to you if you are a large company that has the money to manufacture . To the rest of us, it will be as open as an iPhone.
After Android, I don't hold my breath when Google promise anything open. I'll believe them again when they open-source Google Earth or something.
You know, all these companies sound like teenagers.
The rich asshole kid on the block (M) wants to get the cool chick (Y), not because he likes her, but because she wants to go out with the cool kid (G), and M won't have any of that. But then the cool kid realizes Y is just a whore and dumps her. And now even the rich kid doesn't want her anymore. So everyone thinks Y is a cheap slut. In the mean time, the geeks (Sun, IBM...) don't even try going for the whore because they are busy doing their own stuff. As for the classy chick (Apple), she's single because she looks down on everybody.
The stock market sure is one crazy high school.
A protocol cannot have been software. Duh.
Several hard disk drives and ZFS (which has automatic error detection and correction). Backup problem solved.
What's the age of consent of a sheep? ;)
Alight, forget about the 64 bits. It still crashes my browser. And I still have no idea what it does or how or when, including phoning home.
Is my zealotry still exposed?
Flash doesn't just work. It requires a proprietary plugin that crashes my browser all the time, and is not 64-bit.
What the hell? A dating success srory on Slashdot? And there I was, thinking I'd seen it all.
That used to be the case, but these days the .0 release is the RC, the RC is the new beta, and beta is the new alpha. I don't know what that makes alpha, but it's pretty much the same as beta.
Two counterarguments:
1) Human greed knows no limits, and if it does, they are way above any country's budget for public sector salaries.
2) The "keepers" can be corrupted too. Raise their own salaries, assign someone to watch over them, and you have an infinite loop.
diseases like MS and ALS
We all know that Microsoft is a disease, but what the hell is ALS?
Shouldn't we at least wait until the final release is available? The release candidate, by definition, is unfinished.
Then what's the record in TFS?
I don't remember the exact Firefox numbers a while ago, but did OpenOffice beat Firefox too?
I agree with your first example, but the second one - nobody wants to bother with proprietary data formats when you have free ones.
.eml file, but people would still need data recovery.
In other words, in a perfect world nobody would use Outlook or send around
We all know the guy's been annoying everyone on Slashdot, but a "terrorist operation tool"? That's waay overreacting. He just hates Microsoft, that all.
Name one virus that runs on Linux and ever got out in the wold and did any damage.