I'm not holding my breath Me neither. I recently switched from ATI (on which I spent several days to get it to work but *still* suboptimal) to NVidia to get accelerated dualscreen and it Just Works. Never looked back. Sorry ATI, you're too late. Exact same here, I fought with an ATI X1050 PCI-E for 2 days before tossing it on the "I need any part I can find, right now!" shelf, and got a GeForce 8500GT just last week. This is running under Solaris Express Developer Edition.
The NVidia driver update was a single.bin that removed the old drivers, installed the new ones, and setup xorg.conf. It also moved the old xorg.conf to xorg.conf.bak, I was surprised to see that they did the Right Thing throughout the entire install. Fire and forget, reboot and move on to more pressing issues. These drivers were only a few days old, but they don't feel 'beta' at all; they feel very well tested.
I've been a long time ATI user except for a single Geforce4 back in my gaming days. So long, and thanks for all the fish, ATI.
This post was intended to make no sense what so ever, if you do see the slightest spark of logic in it I pity you...
I thought it was insightful, but I didn't have mod points today; I also haven't had my first cup of coffee yet. I never use mod points until I have my first cup of coffee as lack of caffeine hinders my reasoning capabilities. I'm off to find coffee before I post something else like this and find my karma so low I have to dig for it. Be back in an hour to join you fine gents' in todays series of flame wars.
tell me one decent bit of software that has been out 5 years I dunno, maybe you should ask a few server administrators who have systems with uptimes of several years. Well, there were a bunch that had 2 years up time until 365 Main went down yesterday;) I'd hack the clock on account of it not being my fault my server lost its uptime if they were my boxes!
How coincidental that I was actually trying to reach a Sun page before and couldn't get to it. I don't even remember what it was anymore, I really need to make my Firefox closed tabs list longer than 5. Doesn't matter, I went to 10 and I'm always looking for the 11th. If you go to 20, you'll need the 21st - Just drop in another gig of RAM and leave them open until the CPU bug hits you:). Actually, I sync my computers bookmarks, history and open tabs with a google plugin that encrypts the info and stores it on your google account. It's nice to have 20 open tabs at home before leaving for work, closing them all and opening firefox when I get to work and having a google popup in the corner ask, "would you like to open the last tabs you've had open?", and then being right back up to speed from where I left off. Even updates my bookmarks, cookies, history, and stored passwords. From one geek to another, I highly recommend it. I'm sure you know how to find it.:)
It means they (the sites) didn't bother to setup fail-overs to another site, geographically separate. Now we know who keeps all of their eggs in one basket.:)
Actually, I think that the problem with this lies in the scheduler; it favors IO bound operations over CPU bound operations for time slice quanta and dynamic priority. I'm not sure if that's correct, I've only been using *nix for about 3 years now. Anyways, the idea is that time slice favor goes to IO bound operations to minimize context switches and the inherent penalties thereof. The Linux scheduler uses some pretty large time slices (~300 ms) and that will give you better IO throughput at the cost of responsiveness.
I believe my statements are mostly accurate, but if I'm wrong, please let me know so that I'm not going around spewing ignorance in the future.
Indeed! I was programming an app which required me to test it on a completely clean windows box, as well as different patch levels (vanilla, SP1, SP2, current) for both Home and Pro versions, which meant that I'd have to reinstall after each test run. With being able to install each from CD, snapshot the clean machine, and then zip a copy of the folder and drop it over to my server in case I killed or corrupted the initial snapshot, I could have a clean machine after each run within a few seconds. Furthermore using VMWare, I could mount an ISO to all the virtual machines as the CD ROM drive, and then I just had to compile and drop the binary into the ISO and it was ready on all 8 iterations of Windows. Lastly, (and the first on topic thing I'll say) due to the nature of the project, I had to infect the Windows virtual machines while they were on my dev box (for lack of another sufficiently powered box at that time), which is great when I'm physically (at the file system level) removed from an infected box! Without VMware, I'd still be writing the app.
A commenter on the post said, "Unfortunately we are likely to see neither sense nor principle from the Democrats on this issue, as Hollywood is their biggest cash machine."
...you think that's bad? you should see some of the crap I've posted as comments here... We have, and we forgive you on the basis that you unknowingly post before your morning caffeine fix.
Speaking of which, I need to have a coffee and start writing some code before I realize what a waste of karma this post was.
Great quote, and great insight on it... and that's coming from a conservative Christian.
Anyways, I thought I'd share something one of my more liberal friends once told me when we happened to somehow get on to the subject of Michael Moore. He said, "...yeah, Michael Moore is so liberal, he makes being conservative look cool!". I laughed so hard I nearly had soda coming out of my nose.
So, it's scary when someone, whose own political fellows openly admit they're slightly out of touch, and then realize that same person is more in touch than our elected officials.
Well, I live in Kutztown, PA. Thanks to the local government having the foresight to install a loop of fiber around this small farm valley town about 5 years ago, I'm posting this on a 10Mbit down, 1Mbit up (it's faster than that... 10 down and 2 up, usually) fiber line that costs me $45/month.
This is proof it's possible if those in charge have foresight, plan well, do it right, and don't give in to the pressure of the industry giants who'll try to stop them. Perhaps we should expect more from our
True. I think that, along with the mutual benefit thing (unfortunately of late I've become rather neutral on google, so I would love to be pleasantly surprised), this is also just good tactics. They're holding all the aces, and they know it.
They've probably got a bit of good exposure, and managed to weed out the companies who would flirt around the issue without ever throwing their hat into the ring, so to speak. The bar has been set at $4.6B, and that's going to be the admission price to play with the big boys - the kids can go home, it's past their bed time. They've also named their conditions; this is how bargaining works. They've probably got a key issue among those stated, and a few are probably for giving away for the appearance of meeting them half way. Just my $.02.
is a Bad Idea. The fact that I got to see that forgetting to deallocate memory was uniquely refreshing, like the spring mist in Brooklyn.
However, I thought that the compiler took care of destroying pointers when variables went out of scope? Aren't destructors implicit clean up calls? I'm fairly sure that Borland 16-bit Turbo C++ did this, back in the day.
I'd agree with you 95% - the only thing that Office has, that I can't readily find without setting up a server or datamining app, is pivot tables. I don't like Microsoft Office in the least bit, but I'll give credit where credit is due. Pivot tables make my job so much easier since I'm stuck with a legacy Access database solution and can't get my boss to let me migrate to SQL (our front end uses DAO, we'd have to wrap calls in ODBC, JDBC, or ADO.NET - I'm pushing for anything but the latter). There is just no other way to visualize data right from the queries, in real time, so easily and with so much versatility.
It also has a bit to do with the structure of our tables and queries. Pulling related data and referencing from inventory and invoices and PO's would be a hassle unless we set up a real client/server paradigm (sorry, I think I was forced to read a white paper recently, I never say 'paradigm') and used a data mining app (I would use Oracle's whole stack just for their datamining and datawarehousing that JBoss just doesn't have) to translate all the data.
Other than that, yeah, you can't use Office for reporting of any useful kind. I just happen to be in a crappy, legacy position where Excel just happens to be useful, for lack of options.
Nah, I wish they carried Seagate. This is a Wal*Mart in Reading, PA. They actually have a fairly large variety of crappy, run-of-the-mill computer hardware. Linksys, WD, Logitech, Saitek, and Durabrand. Where is your Wal*Mart? You must be in a different region or something. I think the way that they do warehousing, regions all get the same products.
Wal*Mart is 'hip' (as the kids phrase it), speaking strictly relatively, when you consider we're hanging out at slashdot. "Hey, kids - you go hang out at your Wally World, if you'd like. I'm off to to discuss package management over at slashdot!"
You're lucky, or buying the right drives... I'm a broke student, so, I keep buying WD's and cursing them when I get the 'click of death', however at this junction one of two things happens:
1.) It's 3AM Sunday morning and Wal*Mart is the only place I can get a drive. I purchase the next WD that I will later be cursing.
2.) I go to buy a drive (either online or otherwise) and WD's are cheaper than any other real drives; Maxtor's not included - I don't consider them a harddrive, but rather, a ticking timebomb holding my data captive. I purchase the next WD that I will later be cursing.
That being said, I just bought 4 WD 500 Gig AAKS series drives after reading the reviews at Toms Hardware. Fortunately newegg sent me 4 drives from the same lot, pallet, box, partition. I think they all have sequential serial numbers. I think I know how this ends.
In the last 10 years, I've lost about 3 drives to the 'click of death', 1 to power related issues (bad molex?), and I think 1 to a blown motor or thrown bearing. I've got 2 drives starting to act up and they're both at the 3-year-old-failure barrier. Granted, 1 of those is an external that probably gets its heads slammed every now and then, so that's mostly PEBKAC. Oh, yeah, and 2 DOA drives from a shady vendor at a computer show.
What kind of drives do you usually buy, and how often? Your success rate surprises me, to be honest.
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On another note, I'm willing to bet that the person asking/. this question has spent more time reading about writing code than he/she has spent actually writing code. Why do you say that? And is that a bad thing?
I probably spend an equal chunk of time looking at code as I do writing it (then again, being an intern consultant/admin I'm always looking for a reason to write code and can never justify scratching an itch someone else, who is smarter than I, has already scratched sufficiently), I think I once spent a good chunk of time, that I should have been studying for my data structures final, reading the 2.6 kernel - and I probably take a peak at samba on every 2 weeks or so... and I'm a software development major.
This wasn't made to sound like an attack, although it probably does; I'm really curious what prompted you to say what you did, and if you know something I don't (which is currently going off at 50/50 odds - the things I don't know could fill volumes, and the things I do, a small pamphlet, with large text).
I meant, do the regular rules apply to snapshots with ADS? I assumed it wasn't in header data (because of the file syntax filename.txt:myStream), but rather a pointer to a stream, which once broken cannot be brought back. I need to wikipedia ADS now.
A proxy with a memory leak has segfaulted at Australia's ioctl interface.
Debuggers are taking core samples for analysis. This kind of crap always happens when Australia's pipes are involved! The debuggers can do what they will in their own sweet time, man, just tell me it was HA and we failed over to a mirror and redirected the DNS entries on the balancer! If not, we'll blame this on GPLv3 or IPv6 or some kind of technology with an 'x' in it... product names with an 'x' always sound cutting edge and therefore dangerous!
I saw an interview with Arthur C. Clarke where this came up. He said something along the lines of, "It's infinitely improbable. Then again, somebody has to be first." Great quote! I guess I just hope, if there is life out there, that we can choose to be followers instead of being forced to be leaders.
Thank you very much! I'll give this a try. I salute you! P.S. - I actually kinda like the SQL Studio mgmt... it's a fisher-price GUI, but it gets out of my way so much more than the VB IDE does, and I can tab up things as I go along.
Let me just throw this out there... what if weare the most intelligent in all the universe? The very idea terrifies and intrigues me at the same moment. Philosophical thoughts aside, imagine us as the alpha-males (erm... alpha-geeks, this is slashdot) of the universe.
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The NVidia driver update was a single
I've been a long time ATI user except for a single Geforce4 back in my gaming days. So long, and thanks for all the fish, ATI.
I thought it was insightful, but I didn't have mod points today; I also haven't had my first cup of coffee yet. I never use mod points until I have my first cup of coffee as lack of caffeine hinders my reasoning capabilities. I'm off to find coffee before I post something else like this and find my karma so low I have to dig for it. Be back in an hour to join you fine gents' in todays series of flame wars.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself! *ducks*
*Sigh* Allow.
It means they (the sites) didn't bother to setup fail-overs to another site, geographically separate. Now we know who keeps all of their eggs in one basket. :)
I believe my statements are mostly accurate, but if I'm wrong, please let me know so that I'm not going around spewing ignorance in the future.
Indeed! I was programming an app which required me to test it on a completely clean windows box, as well as different patch levels (vanilla, SP1, SP2, current) for both Home and Pro versions, which meant that I'd have to reinstall after each test run. With being able to install each from CD, snapshot the clean machine, and then zip a copy of the folder and drop it over to my server in case I killed or corrupted the initial snapshot, I could have a clean machine after each run within a few seconds. Furthermore using VMWare, I could mount an ISO to all the virtual machines as the CD ROM drive, and then I just had to compile and drop the binary into the ISO and it was ready on all 8 iterations of Windows. Lastly, (and the first on topic thing I'll say) due to the nature of the project, I had to infect the Windows virtual machines while they were on my dev box (for lack of another sufficiently powered box at that time), which is great when I'm physically (at the file system level) removed from an infected box! Without VMware, I'd still be writing the app.
Speaking of which, I need to have a coffee and start writing some code before I realize what a waste of karma this post was.
Anyways, I thought I'd share something one of my more liberal friends once told me when we happened to somehow get on to the subject of Michael Moore. He said, "...yeah, Michael Moore is so liberal, he makes being conservative look cool!". I laughed so hard I nearly had soda coming out of my nose.
So, it's scary when someone, whose own political fellows openly admit they're slightly out of touch, and then realize that same person is more in touch than our elected officials.
This is proof it's possible if those in charge have foresight, plan well, do it right, and don't give in to the pressure of the industry giants who'll try to stop them. Perhaps we should expect more from our
They've probably got a bit of good exposure, and managed to weed out the companies who would flirt around the issue without ever throwing their hat into the ring, so to speak. The bar has been set at $4.6B, and that's going to be the admission price to play with the big boys - the kids can go home, it's past their bed time. They've also named their conditions; this is how bargaining works. They've probably got a key issue among those stated, and a few are probably for giving away for the appearance of meeting them half way. Just my $.02.
However, I thought that the compiler took care of destroying pointers when variables went out of scope? Aren't destructors implicit clean up calls? I'm fairly sure that Borland 16-bit Turbo C++ did this, back in the day.
It also has a bit to do with the structure of our tables and queries. Pulling related data and referencing from inventory and invoices and PO's would be a hassle unless we set up a real client/server paradigm (sorry, I think I was forced to read a white paper recently, I never say 'paradigm') and used a data mining app (I would use Oracle's whole stack just for their datamining and datawarehousing that JBoss just doesn't have) to translate all the data.
Other than that, yeah, you can't use Office for reporting of any useful kind. I just happen to be in a crappy, legacy position where Excel just happens to be useful, for lack of options.
Wal*Mart is 'hip' (as the kids phrase it), speaking strictly relatively, when you consider we're hanging out at slashdot. "Hey, kids - you go hang out at your Wally World, if you'd like. I'm off to to discuss package management over at slashdot!"
1.) It's 3AM Sunday morning and Wal*Mart is the only place I can get a drive. I purchase the next WD that I will later be cursing.
2.) I go to buy a drive (either online or otherwise) and WD's are cheaper than any other real drives; Maxtor's not included - I don't consider them a harddrive, but rather, a ticking timebomb holding my data captive. I purchase the next WD that I will later be cursing.
That being said, I just bought 4 WD 500 Gig AAKS series drives after reading the reviews at Toms Hardware. Fortunately newegg sent me 4 drives from the same lot, pallet, box, partition. I think they all have sequential serial numbers. I think I know how this ends.
In the last 10 years, I've lost about 3 drives to the 'click of death', 1 to power related issues (bad molex?), and I think 1 to a blown motor or thrown bearing. I've got 2 drives starting to act up and they're both at the 3-year-old-failure barrier. Granted, 1 of those is an external that probably gets its heads slammed every now and then, so that's mostly PEBKAC. Oh, yeah, and 2 DOA drives from a shady vendor at a computer show.
What kind of drives do you usually buy, and how often? Your success rate surprises me, to be honest.
...On another note, I'm willing to bet that the person asking
I probably spend an equal chunk of time looking at code as I do writing it (then again, being an intern consultant/admin I'm always looking for a reason to write code and can never justify scratching an itch someone else, who is smarter than I, has already scratched sufficiently), I think I once spent a good chunk of time, that I should have been studying for my data structures final, reading the 2.6 kernel - and I probably take a peak at samba on every 2 weeks or so... and I'm a software development major.
This wasn't made to sound like an attack, although it probably does; I'm really curious what prompted you to say what you did, and if you know something I don't (which is currently going off at 50/50 odds - the things I don't know could fill volumes, and the things I do, a small pamphlet, with large text).
I meant, do the regular rules apply to snapshots with ADS? I assumed it wasn't in header data (because of the file syntax filename.txt:myStream), but rather a pointer to a stream, which once broken cannot be brought back. I need to wikipedia ADS now.
...or some kind of technology with an 'x' in it. sex? I've heard of it... It's kind of like SOAP, right?Instead of using TrueCrypt, doesn't vista's version of NTFS (5?) still allow Alternate Data Streams? Wouldn't this be harder to detect?
Debuggers are taking core samples for analysis.
This kind of crap always happens when Australia's pipes are involved! The debuggers can do what they will in their own sweet time, man, just tell me it was HA and we failed over to a mirror and redirected the DNS entries on the balancer! If not, we'll blame this on GPLv3 or IPv6 or some kind of technology with an 'x' in it... product names with an 'x' always sound cutting edge and therefore dangerous!
Thank you very much! I'll give this a try. I salute you! P.S. - I actually kinda like the SQL Studio mgmt... it's a fisher-price GUI, but it gets out of my way so much more than the VB IDE does, and I can tab up things as I go along.
Let me just throw this out there... what if we are the most intelligent in all the universe? The very idea terrifies and intrigues me at the same moment. Philosophical thoughts aside, imagine us as the alpha-males (erm... alpha-geeks, this is slashdot) of the universe.