I did RTFA and I must say the article was poorly written - so much so that the author felt he needed to publish a correction that summarily states (what open source power users already know) that the Linux kernel can be "trimmed or fattened up." It is immaterial that Linux has gotten more bloated as the fundamental difference between it and Windows is that you as the consumer have the choice to "trim the fat." While I am an open source users, I am pragmatic and I believe it cannot be all things to all people and Windows has some advantages over Linux. For example, the choices of Linux can be downright bewildering and each distribution behaves differently with its own quirks. Windows is Windows. Even though distributions share a common kernel, they are really distinct OSes in their own right - applications run differently and have different behaviors. As Samba will tell you, sometimes compiling succeeds on three out four large distros. In theory, they should be all compatible.
An educated consumer is a dangerous consumer. You want to be able to trump up a product to sell it. But, you can't trump up a product if your buyer is an expert.
I would say AMD and Intel are neck and neck performance-wise. They both alternate years of being in the lead. Intel does not really have a monopoly. There are really only two manufacturers in the CPU market.
This is slightly off-topic but I really like the newer Celeron processors. It is almost an overclocker's dream as you have a fair amount of room to play with. The new Celeron E3000 series based on the Wolfdale architecture looks especially promising and has 1mb of cache. I bought the Celeron E3300 and I am planning to pump it to 3GHZ. My guess is that a simple increase of 500MHZ should be interesting enough without putting undue stress on it. From there, I'd like to see how it compares with Dual Core Xeon. Oh, it will still get smoked by the Core i7 and its ilk but it will be powerful enough to run a FreeBSD-based webserver and more. I have a Celeron 560 laptop with 2GB and it cruises.
Hi. I'm an adult. I work as a software engineer.
I cannot join in with the Linux community because of you people. You're just *too awful*. Instead of accepting that this stuff happens and it's bad, you childishly nerdsnort and start writing Microsoft with a dollar sign instead of an S, acting as if this stuff is some amazing manifestation of idiocy rather than a likely consequence of using a mainstream OS developed with time and budgetary constraints. It's going to have stupid bugs. Get the fuck over it.
I would like to join in with the Linux community, but all I ever hear is this pathetic nyerr-nyerr-nyerr garbage.
If you want to attract intelligent, grown-up people to Linux you need to stop doing certain things.
1) Don't act as if users of other operating systems are less intelligent than you. It turns out that Linux-advocacy isn't the entire world, and that leaders in different fields (or even this one!) might be using Windows. They're not "lusers", they just have priorities different from your own.
2) Don't act as if Linux hasn't had equally stupid stuff happen to it. Yes, it's a different process altogether, and I would dare say that bugs are less likely due to its open source nature, but they still happen. One that I can remember off the top of my head is Debian's guessable SSL keys.
3) Tryâ"for ten minutesâ"to give the impression that half of your time isn't devoted to bashing an OS you believe is irrelevant.
4) For good measure try cutting out the xkcd worship and meme-spouting. We might be able to relate to you people if you acted as if you weren't cut from the same distasteful mold.
Well, there is always BSD. Yes, we still don't like Microsoft but we recognize that, at least Microsoft, respects us. Some of their internal stuff uses BSD. But, I digress, I am way off topic.
But I have fond memories of the exploit called Win Nuke to cause the BSOD. Back in the day, I was a freshman in college and a football player on our floor was continuously giving me a hard time. In those days, we telnetted into the DEC Alpha to check our email. Also, in those days our IPs were statically assigned and we had no firewall. Those were quite obviously better, more trusting days of the internet. Anyhow, one day I waited until I knew he was in his room and checking email from his computer. I used finger on UNIX to get his IP address. Then, nuke away! I could here him banging, cussing, and throwing his stuff around. So, whenever I needed a little fun, I simply delivered that little exploit. One day he came back from a drunken binge and went to check his email and I felt it was a perfect time to test his patience level. After carefully delivering the little packet, I heard a smashing sound. My guess is he decided to do a body slam, WWF style, on his PC. As I walked by I casually asked what happened as I saw the computer smashed to smithereens. He told me to, "Get outta here, shit nugget!" It was all I could do to keep from bursting out laughing. Moral: Leave the IT guy alone.
It used to be that the only reason you would go to a hosting provider was because the cost of the bandwidth and hardware to do it yourself was prohibitive. Now with providers rolling out Fibre To The Home and Fibre To The Neighborhood and the availability of commodity components, it becomes affordable to do it yourself. It is also preferrable because more of the control is put into your hands. As Google's outtage hopefully demonstrated, cloud computing is risky and it is better to depend on as few contract resources as possible. I believe 1&1's marketing analysts are foreseeing this as the potential end to needing a hosting company and need to make their offers more competitive. Certainly, this offer is very competitive but 1&1 has had a shaky history of reliability. A quick search will show you the number of dissatisfied customers and it is frightening.
So AT&T is actually going to spend money to upgrade its network! Wow, I am genuinely impressed. I figured they would go the Comcast way and just employ bandwidth caps and throttling. Not to mention a usurious overage charge.
IBM seriously expects me to believe the twisted logic that Software Patents help free software, then they need to hire another marketing team. The only way software patents could possibly help free software is if the Free Software Foundation and others like it patent software to ensure that it stays free. Guarranteed any patents sought by IBM are not altruistic. This is just one more example of greed, avarice, and lies from corporate America. IBM, Microsoft, Apple, and indeed any other corporations are friends to two things: money and investors. Anyone believing otherwise is naive and ignorant.
I noticed that the last few days google seemed to be having stability problems. Using gmail myself, I've seen it. After this incident, it is time to upgrade my broadband to a static IP and take care of email for myslef.
This is exactly why cloud computing is probably one of the worst ideas to come about. There was a distinct reason that computing moved from a centralised model to a descentralised one. Imagine being in the position that you were depending upon Google Apps for your small to medium sized business and you can no longer take orders and communicate with vendors and customers. I could imagine the loss would be quite heavy and the impact felt. This is why it is always better to retain control over your computing. It is destiny best left in YOUR hands.
Unfortunately this is one of the innumerable examples of where the law is given overly broad power and it's left up to someone's judgement as to "how far to go" with it. Unless you have good evidence to suspect the perp has gone to extreme measures to hide something, you can't just ransack the place.
The appeals court rightly decided that this violates two major constitutional doctrines: (1) Void for Vagueness and (2) Overbreadth. Laws cannot be written so vaguely as to grant the enforcer extra arbitrary power and, additionally, may not be written in such fashion as to go well beyond the scope of its original intention.
This a major victory for our rights as individuals and highly unexpected! My guess is the system is trying to correct itself from the abuses of the Bush Administration. I wonder if this would over-ride the Patriot Act?
In addition to drug vending machines, try food vending machines. At San Quentin, one of the most dangerous times for a correctional officer is meal time on the high security wing. Officers are assaulted and have had feces thrown at them. This is a great opportunity for robotics to be introduced. Have a robotic cart motor through the cell blocks and push the food trays into the inmates' food slot. At the end, it comes back for collection. Use a remote camera to determine that all dishes are returned with the tray. If the inmate tries to damage the robot, they get a nasty electric shock. Bring in the swat team if the inmate refuses to return everything. Ultimately, this should make things safer for staff.
I acutally like Windows 7, it crusies on my low-end, Sam's Club Dell Inspiron 1525 Celeron with 2GB of RAM. I still have plenty of memory for doing other things. Gnome and KDE have some catching up to do again. Looks like Microsoft took a page from the open source play book of only accepting quality code. That said, I am still pro open source but, at my job, we are going to Windows 7 so I'd better learn it, kicking and screaming.
That would be a piss poor business decision on Lenovo's part to demand a refund for the entire unit. In doing so, they lose the entire sale. Wouldn't they be better off by simply refunding something like 100.00 and not losing the sale entirely? It's not like a car and an engine where the car company would endure a cost hardship by removing the engine. In this case the OS "engine," is being removed and replaced at the consumer's expense.
[quote]By the same logic I could sue apple for the apple tax on the G5, the iMac, my iphone,... it doesn't make sense at all and only in the EU could you see something like that:)[\quote]
That is quite a bit different. With Apple, the MacOS is essentially the engine that drives the platform. People purchase the Macintosh for the MacOS. Not everyone buys a PC for Windows. People buy it to run Linux, BSD, or Solaris.
No, not at all. Industry hasn't colluded with the car manufacturers to force you into paying a higher price for a car without a radio. In the USA, some manufacturers charge extra for the "naked" PC. I've seen this with Dell, where the so-called open source version of their PC is actually priced higher thereby discouraging its purchase.
Perhaps you need to learn more about the system before you critcize it! The SSN is like the keys to the castle for a would-be identity theft perpetrator. That said, maybe we should be required to provide more than just an SSN for purposes of credit.
As an ardent FreeBSD user, I cheer PHK's move. In the EULA, Microsoft claims that denying the license is grounds for a refund. Lenovo is just being a little bitch and they'll most likely lose.
Having been the victim of outsourcing I feel precious little sympathy. When you made your decision, you looked at it in very black and white terms when the world is quite grey and multidimensional. Had you considered the downsides to outsourcing and not just looked at it from a cost/benefit analysis, you would have made a better decision.
Has anyone thought about price collusion? Has anyone thought about industry collusion to keep prices high? A good comparison is Japan where the technology is much better at a comparable price. I have a friend with 100MbiT fibre to the home in Japan and he pays what the leeches at comcast charge us for 3MbiT down and 256K up. Oh, and by the way, that 100MBiT line is symmetrical both ways.
The US has such expensive cell phone plans because the government has been protecting Big Telecom and turning a blind eye to exhorbitant pricing. In fact, by keeping prices high and using media spin to say just "how competitive we are" with the world, many US citizens are unware of anything better. It took Boost Mobile and Straight Talk to do something audacious and lower pricing on unlimited service to wake up competition again. Since the George W. Bush administration was pro rich, little was done to curb the excesses of big telecom and if big telecom can make gobs of money on older technology, there is no incentive to upgrade, thereby putting us further behind the technology curve. We all know what George W. Bush did to stifle science. For a while you really had only four choices: Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. There isn't a doubt that these telecom giants colluded to keep prices high. I remember the hoopla when Verizon came out with FiOS. Everyone was thinking we had hit a miraculous breakthrough in broadband which is just what Verizon wanted everyone to think. Verizon banked on the ignorance of consumers. In reality, FiOS is behind the 8 ball. Japan has 100MBiT to the home right now. When the Verizon sales rep tried to tell me how great it was, I replied, "Stop. Just please stop the bullshit sales pitch. Japan has had 10MbiT to the home just prior to the turn of the century. This is nothing new or miraculous. Don't bank on consumer ignorance." To which I got a snarled response. Qwest is doing this right now in the Arizona Valley. Oh my god, "12MbIT service," whoop ti dooo!"
Is ultimately a fad. I do not see any real utility in giving control of my software and security to a third party company. In fact, just the opposite. Given Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo's dubious record for security, I and many other savvy computer users will not be welcoming our Cirrus overlords any time soon. It definitely holds little value to business and industry because they like to retain control over there information and rightly so. The disadvantage of going back to centralized computing is placing all your eggs in one basket: one intruder comprises a system and has gained, quite literally, the keys to the castle. It often shocks me to see how many people use twitter, facebook, and their ilk - just blindly eschewing their own privacy because something looks cool. This follow the crowd mentality, "sheeple," if you will is not a good a thing. It is amazing what information one can glean from these sites and if any become compromised, we open ourselves to identity theft on a scale unimagined.
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I did RTFA and I must say the article was poorly written - so much so that the author felt he needed to publish a correction that summarily states (what open source power users already know) that the Linux kernel can be "trimmed or fattened up." It is immaterial that Linux has gotten more bloated as the fundamental difference between it and Windows is that you as the consumer have the choice to "trim the fat." While I am an open source users, I am pragmatic and I believe it cannot be all things to all people and Windows has some advantages over Linux. For example, the choices of Linux can be downright bewildering and each distribution behaves differently with its own quirks. Windows is Windows. Even though distributions share a common kernel, they are really distinct OSes in their own right - applications run differently and have different behaviors. As Samba will tell you, sometimes compiling succeeds on three out four large distros. In theory, they should be all compatible.
An educated consumer is a dangerous consumer. You want to be able to trump up a product to sell it. But, you can't trump up a product if your buyer is an expert.
I would say AMD and Intel are neck and neck performance-wise. They both alternate years of being in the lead. Intel does not really have a monopoly. There are really only two manufacturers in the CPU market.
This is slightly off-topic but I really like the newer Celeron processors. It is almost an overclocker's dream as you have a fair amount of room to play with. The new Celeron E3000 series based on the Wolfdale architecture looks especially promising and has 1mb of cache. I bought the Celeron E3300 and I am planning to pump it to 3GHZ. My guess is that a simple increase of 500MHZ should be interesting enough without putting undue stress on it. From there, I'd like to see how it compares with Dual Core Xeon. Oh, it will still get smoked by the Core i7 and its ilk but it will be powerful enough to run a FreeBSD-based webserver and more. I have a Celeron 560 laptop with 2GB and it cruises.
Hi. I'm an adult. I work as a software engineer. I cannot join in with the Linux community because of you people. You're just *too awful*. Instead of accepting that this stuff happens and it's bad, you childishly nerdsnort and start writing Microsoft with a dollar sign instead of an S, acting as if this stuff is some amazing manifestation of idiocy rather than a likely consequence of using a mainstream OS developed with time and budgetary constraints. It's going to have stupid bugs. Get the fuck over it. I would like to join in with the Linux community, but all I ever hear is this pathetic nyerr-nyerr-nyerr garbage. If you want to attract intelligent, grown-up people to Linux you need to stop doing certain things. 1) Don't act as if users of other operating systems are less intelligent than you. It turns out that Linux-advocacy isn't the entire world, and that leaders in different fields (or even this one!) might be using Windows. They're not "lusers", they just have priorities different from your own. 2) Don't act as if Linux hasn't had equally stupid stuff happen to it. Yes, it's a different process altogether, and I would dare say that bugs are less likely due to its open source nature, but they still happen. One that I can remember off the top of my head is Debian's guessable SSL keys. 3) Tryâ"for ten minutesâ"to give the impression that half of your time isn't devoted to bashing an OS you believe is irrelevant. 4) For good measure try cutting out the xkcd worship and meme-spouting. We might be able to relate to you people if you acted as if you weren't cut from the same distasteful mold.
Well, there is always BSD. Yes, we still don't like Microsoft but we recognize that, at least Microsoft, respects us. Some of their internal stuff uses BSD. But, I digress, I am way off topic.
But I have fond memories of the exploit called Win Nuke to cause the BSOD. Back in the day, I was a freshman in college and a football player on our floor was continuously giving me a hard time. In those days, we telnetted into the DEC Alpha to check our email. Also, in those days our IPs were statically assigned and we had no firewall. Those were quite obviously better, more trusting days of the internet. Anyhow, one day I waited until I knew he was in his room and checking email from his computer. I used finger on UNIX to get his IP address. Then, nuke away! I could here him banging, cussing, and throwing his stuff around. So, whenever I needed a little fun, I simply delivered that little exploit. One day he came back from a drunken binge and went to check his email and I felt it was a perfect time to test his patience level. After carefully delivering the little packet, I heard a smashing sound. My guess is he decided to do a body slam, WWF style, on his PC. As I walked by I casually asked what happened as I saw the computer smashed to smithereens. He told me to, "Get outta here, shit nugget!" It was all I could do to keep from bursting out laughing. Moral: Leave the IT guy alone.
It used to be that the only reason you would go to a hosting provider was because the cost of the bandwidth and hardware to do it yourself was prohibitive. Now with providers rolling out Fibre To The Home and Fibre To The Neighborhood and the availability of commodity components, it becomes affordable to do it yourself. It is also preferrable because more of the control is put into your hands. As Google's outtage hopefully demonstrated, cloud computing is risky and it is better to depend on as few contract resources as possible. I believe 1&1's marketing analysts are foreseeing this as the potential end to needing a hosting company and need to make their offers more competitive. Certainly, this offer is very competitive but 1&1 has had a shaky history of reliability. A quick search will show you the number of dissatisfied customers and it is frightening.
So AT&T is actually going to spend money to upgrade its network! Wow, I am genuinely impressed. I figured they would go the Comcast way and just employ bandwidth caps and throttling. Not to mention a usurious overage charge.
IBM seriously expects me to believe the twisted logic that Software Patents help free software, then they need to hire another marketing team. The only way software patents could possibly help free software is if the Free Software Foundation and others like it patent software to ensure that it stays free. Guarranteed any patents sought by IBM are not altruistic. This is just one more example of greed, avarice, and lies from corporate America. IBM, Microsoft, Apple, and indeed any other corporations are friends to two things: money and investors. Anyone believing otherwise is naive and ignorant.
I noticed that the last few days google seemed to be having stability problems. Using gmail myself, I've seen it. After this incident, it is time to upgrade my broadband to a static IP and take care of email for myslef.
This is exactly why cloud computing is probably one of the worst ideas to come about. There was a distinct reason that computing moved from a centralised model to a descentralised one. Imagine being in the position that you were depending upon Google Apps for your small to medium sized business and you can no longer take orders and communicate with vendors and customers. I could imagine the loss would be quite heavy and the impact felt. This is why it is always better to retain control over your computing. It is destiny best left in YOUR hands.
Unfortunately this is one of the innumerable examples of where the law is given overly broad power and it's left up to someone's judgement as to "how far to go" with it. Unless you have good evidence to suspect the perp has gone to extreme measures to hide something, you can't just ransack the place.
The appeals court rightly decided that this violates two major constitutional doctrines: (1) Void for Vagueness and (2) Overbreadth. Laws cannot be written so vaguely as to grant the enforcer extra arbitrary power and, additionally, may not be written in such fashion as to go well beyond the scope of its original intention.
This a major victory for our rights as individuals and highly unexpected! My guess is the system is trying to correct itself from the abuses of the Bush Administration. I wonder if this would over-ride the Patriot Act?
In addition to drug vending machines, try food vending machines. At San Quentin, one of the most dangerous times for a correctional officer is meal time on the high security wing. Officers are assaulted and have had feces thrown at them. This is a great opportunity for robotics to be introduced. Have a robotic cart motor through the cell blocks and push the food trays into the inmates' food slot. At the end, it comes back for collection. Use a remote camera to determine that all dishes are returned with the tray. If the inmate tries to damage the robot, they get a nasty electric shock. Bring in the swat team if the inmate refuses to return everything. Ultimately, this should make things safer for staff.
I acutally like Windows 7, it crusies on my low-end, Sam's Club Dell Inspiron 1525 Celeron with 2GB of RAM. I still have plenty of memory for doing other things. Gnome and KDE have some catching up to do again. Looks like Microsoft took a page from the open source play book of only accepting quality code. That said, I am still pro open source but, at my job, we are going to Windows 7 so I'd better learn it, kicking and screaming.
That would be a piss poor business decision on Lenovo's part to demand a refund for the entire unit. In doing so, they lose the entire sale. Wouldn't they be better off by simply refunding something like 100.00 and not losing the sale entirely? It's not like a car and an engine where the car company would endure a cost hardship by removing the engine. In this case the OS "engine," is being removed and replaced at the consumer's expense.
That is quite a bit different. With Apple, the MacOS is essentially the engine that drives the platform. People purchase the Macintosh for the MacOS. Not everyone buys a PC for Windows. People buy it to run Linux, BSD, or Solaris.
No, not at all. Industry hasn't colluded with the car manufacturers to force you into paying a higher price for a car without a radio. In the USA, some manufacturers charge extra for the "naked" PC. I've seen this with Dell, where the so-called open source version of their PC is actually priced higher thereby discouraging its purchase.
Perhaps you need to learn more about the system before you critcize it! The SSN is like the keys to the castle for a would-be identity theft perpetrator. That said, maybe we should be required to provide more than just an SSN for purposes of credit.
As an ardent FreeBSD user, I cheer PHK's move. In the EULA, Microsoft claims that denying the license is grounds for a refund. Lenovo is just being a little bitch and they'll most likely lose.
Having been the victim of outsourcing I feel precious little sympathy. When you made your decision, you looked at it in very black and white terms when the world is quite grey and multidimensional. Had you considered the downsides to outsourcing and not just looked at it from a cost/benefit analysis, you would have made a better decision.
Simple, just obstruct the camera eye with one of those reusable ice packs. That'll fix 'em
Has anyone thought about price collusion? Has anyone thought about industry collusion to keep prices high? A good comparison is Japan where the technology is much better at a comparable price. I have a friend with 100MbiT fibre to the home in Japan and he pays what the leeches at comcast charge us for 3MbiT down and 256K up. Oh, and by the way, that 100MBiT line is symmetrical both ways.
The US has such expensive cell phone plans because the government has been protecting Big Telecom and turning a blind eye to exhorbitant pricing. In fact, by keeping prices high and using media spin to say just "how competitive we are" with the world, many US citizens are unware of anything better. It took Boost Mobile and Straight Talk to do something audacious and lower pricing on unlimited service to wake up competition again. Since the George W. Bush administration was pro rich, little was done to curb the excesses of big telecom and if big telecom can make gobs of money on older technology, there is no incentive to upgrade, thereby putting us further behind the technology curve. We all know what George W. Bush did to stifle science. For a while you really had only four choices: Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. There isn't a doubt that these telecom giants colluded to keep prices high. I remember the hoopla when Verizon came out with FiOS. Everyone was thinking we had hit a miraculous breakthrough in broadband which is just what Verizon wanted everyone to think. Verizon banked on the ignorance of consumers. In reality, FiOS is behind the 8 ball. Japan has 100MBiT to the home right now. When the Verizon sales rep tried to tell me how great it was, I replied, "Stop. Just please stop the bullshit sales pitch. Japan has had 10MbiT to the home just prior to the turn of the century. This is nothing new or miraculous. Don't bank on consumer ignorance." To which I got a snarled response. Qwest is doing this right now in the Arizona Valley. Oh my god, "12MbIT service," whoop ti dooo!"
Is ultimately a fad. I do not see any real utility in giving control of my software and security to a third party company. In fact, just the opposite. Given Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo's dubious record for security, I and many other savvy computer users will not be welcoming our Cirrus overlords any time soon. It definitely holds little value to business and industry because they like to retain control over there information and rightly so. The disadvantage of going back to centralized computing is placing all your eggs in one basket: one intruder comprises a system and has gained, quite literally, the keys to the castle. It often shocks me to see how many people use twitter, facebook, and their ilk - just blindly eschewing their own privacy because something looks cool. This follow the crowd mentality, "sheeple," if you will is not a good a thing. It is amazing what information one can glean from these sites and if any become compromised, we open ourselves to identity theft on a scale unimagined.