But within months of the official release, I switched to Linux.
And today -- 15 years later -- it's still "almost ready" for the desktop.
Yes, more back-end shit runs Linux, but the sad fact is that Windows still owns desktops and Linux advocates have been too busy pissing in each other's teacups to bother taking advantage of the massive learning curve that Win7 requires, something so bad that switching to KDE or even Gnome is easier and more intuitive than "upgrading" from XP.
Super SATA Cables on Sale Soon
Posted by Malcolm Steward on 8/17/10 Categorized as Audio
The Super SATA cables I recently tested proved to be real shockers. Every logical thought was telling me that the wires that transmit the raw digital data between a hard disk and the motherboard in a NAS simply could not influence the sound that emerged from the player – after the music has already subsequently passed through metres of CAT5.
But they do.
I listened to the cables in my NAS feeding my Naim HDX/DAC/XPS and clearly identified easily perceptible improvements through my highly revealing active Naim DBL system. Quite what it is that wrought these improvements I do not know. My only guess is that the Super SATAs reject interference significantly better than the standard cables and in so doing lower the noise floor revealing greater low-level musical detail and presentational improvements in the soundstage and the ‘air’ around instruments.
The most marked and worthwhile difference, I felt, was in the increased naturalness in both the sound of instruments and voices, which seemed more organic, human and less ‘electronic’, and in the music’s rhythmical progression, which was also more natural and had the realistic ebb and flow that musicians exhibit when playing live. In short, recordings sounded more like musical performances then recordings.
As you can see the cables do not look anything special even though they are far more robust than the standard issue flat cables, and they are are irradiated, I am told, to vapourise any moisture that has found its way into the molecular structure of the conductors.
The photo here shows the original, Generation 1 cable but there is now a more advanced, wider bandwidth Generation 2 version that is soon going to be available from the same American manufacturer. They will, of course, be more expensive than ‘ordinary’ SATA cables – the red and grey insulated flat cables that come free with hard disks or sell for around £2.99. But their superior performance easily justifies the extra expense.
When I have a definite price on the new cables and the URL from which they will be able to be purchased, I will post the information here. I cannot wait: I only have one of the generation 1 cables and wanted a dozen more for other hard disks and SATA peripherals. Now there is a supposedly ‘better’ version I cannot wait to evaluate it and if it is, as I am told, substantially superior, get my order in for a dozen of those.
If they had this back in my day I would've gone from Bear to Weeblo in about 12 minutes. I had to spend three weeks just carving a fucking molar out of Ivory soap. And then there was the creepy den mother's boyfriend.
If you really have a girlfriend AND she's a gamer AND she likes better games than you AND her name isn't actually Henry or Sylvester or Wayne, please tell me your 6 most favourite numbers from 0-49 because the drawing on Saturday is for around €10M.
This three-week-old story hasn't changed a bit and neither has Monty's disingenuous hypocrisy.
If he'd wanted to retain control then why did he sell mySQL to Sun? Once that sale was completed he gave up his rights and claims. He certainly didn't have a problem with a corporation owning it in exchange for a cool billion earlier.
What Sun said they wanted to do with it is immaterial; Monty's rights to do anything more than complain vocally were terminated by his own hand the instant he signed the contract, and were made irreversible when he deposited that check.
The fact of the matter is that Oracle doesn't give more than about a shit-and-a-half about mySQL. Oracle cares about Enterprise installations and mySQL not only ain't there now, it never will be. Even Foxbase^W^H MS SQL Server spanks it 37 ways to next Tuesday in Enterprise and Data Warehousing environments.
Meanwhile, if mySQL really is and has remained open source, then it's still open, so Monty should STFU and fork it already. If not, then he himself killed it and there's no one else to blame.
Once you sell your 2CV to someone, you have no more say in what's done with the car, even if it turns out to have been bought by Top Gear and they want to blow it up. Once you take the money, you don't get to complain anymore. If it had meant that much to Monty then why did he sell?
Cake: have vs. eat.
The comment moderation on his blog is just icing on that cake -- only comments supporting poor, ickle widdle Monty's untenable position are allowed through.
And for those who still refuse to change the "evil Oracle" record, The base Oracle DB charge is $350 (Std) / $950 (Ent) per user or $17,500 (Std) / $47,500 (Ent) per processor -- annually, not including required support and other charges -- Oracle doesn't give a shit about mySQL and the paltry few thousand that supporting it might bring in.
If it's really still Open Sauce and the community doesn't like what happens with it then mySQL will fork. Again. Except that it will need a new core team since the current core team has bills to pay and enjoys employment during an economic mess.
If it was that important to Widenius then why did he sell his company instead of holding onto it? And Stallman giving business advice to anyone is like a vegetarian giving tips on how to slow-barbecue whale liver.
Is mySQL open source? If not, it doesn't matter that Larry owns it. If it is, it can fork. End of discussion.
Tesla was working on wireless electricity transmission but he was also working on a load of other stuff, all while baking his brain with "health-giving" X-rays. And while Tesla both claimed to have succeeded in wireless transmission and others are purported to have witnessed it, he never once made a claim as to the efficiency which, based on the efficiency of a lot of his other inventions (70% [RMS] for AC, >80% for a coil) was never higher than what Sony's come up with here.
They owned the connection, they owned the content, they had their little walled village with ads as far as the eye could see and redirects to every possible "premium partner". And then came 1996...
You don't need to DL a bunch of kiddie pr0n to study it nor do you do it without informing any police organisation before doing so, if only to prevent any mistaken ideas, much less prevent duplication of work and chasing down useless paths.
Tauss has very good representation who know how to take advantage of a few laws here in Germany which more or less allow public figures to buy their way out of a courtroom.
It has an occasional use but for the price of a couple of pairs of shoes (and don't forget the recurring monitoring fees/costs) there's a much easier solution which has been highly effective.
On Win machines you have to uninstall the prior version first. Fine. Except uninstalling also removes all associated libraries and CODECs. And then it requires a reboot. And only then can you install the new version. And then reboot. And then hunt down all the fucking CODECs.
It's not that shit like this is surprising but a FUCKING WARNING FIRST would've been nice. Now I have to stop everything I'm doing on a main workstation (because CS3 and other filmmaking software runs like shit on my SuSE boxen). To reboot a machine that otherwise wouldn't have neede it. After I save 20 apps' worth of work, instructions and notes.
Dreamhost didn't host the mail before. It's run through SquirrelMail. I write this not because I'm some sort of pontificating intarwebs expert with illogical expectations and notions but because I have multiple domains running on DreamHost, like this one. I highly recommend them.
Refuse to talk to him. Tell him to mail you his complaints and walk away. If necessary mention that you have to synchronise his boss' RAM. The mail will either be considerably more polite or you'll have written proof of his unacceptable behaviour and he'll be gone in short time.
That's my strategy unless I'm in a position where I can tell him directly to fuck off with no repercussions.
In 1993 my DX2/66 laptop could ray trace pretty damned fast with POVray, and much faster if I optimised the code (stupid specularity!) and put a heat sink on the processor (which, in my laptop, was accessible). That was 15 years ago, at at a resolution of 800x600. Current cell phone processors run at least 10x that speed and have to deal with a resolution of around 1/8-1/16 of that. And for what? A ray-traced game? As everyone else has pointed out, the games are neat-o looking but playing them sucks ass.
I made the mistake of buying NFS Underground a few years ago. It looked pretty and the physics were OK, but then it quickly became a chore: you have to become ghetto trash and "pimp out" the car rather than actually fucking drive. And you have to do all sorts of non-driving shit to continue to the few drivy bits. Within 48 hours I fired up MAME and went back to playing Atari Sprint 1979, where I could actually, you know, drive the fucking car.
Not complaining in TFA, but this is/. -- I just anticipated the howls of the unwashed hordes rightfully bitching about yet another "professional" OS with a markedly unprofessional Teletubbies UI which certainly isn't ready for market yet, all while ignoring MS' internal dogfood consumption. I'll bet if enough Microsofties had eaten Office dogfood you could shut off that fucking control-click "Research" panel easily.
How can anyone complain that they're running Server 2008? My company's software quality dropped considerably when we stopped eating our own dogfood two years ago. When techs, engineers and everyone else is stuck with the same problems as the future ell-users, shit gets fixed a lot faster and a lot better.
But if you chose to place your work under, say, the Creative Commons, you've just told the world at large, "here, take it and use it as you wish, I don't want anything in return, I don't forbid anything, have fun with it." So please have the _decency_ then to not act enraged when someone does just that. That would be all well and good and I'd be right there with you applying the LART to dotancohen were it not for the minor inconvenience that Wikipedia is not covered by the Creative Commons license but rather by the GFDL:
From Wikipedia's Copyright FAQ:
* Can I reuse Wikipedia's content somewhere else?
Wikipedia's textual content is copyrighted, but you may reuse it under the terms of our licensing requirements, summarized below.
Text in Wikipedia, excluding quotations, has been released under the GNU Free Documentation License (or is in the public domain), and can therefore be reused only if you release any derived work under the GFDL. This requires that, among other things, you attribute the authors and allow others to freely copy your work. (This is a summary, see the licence text for the exact details.)
If you are unwilling or unable to use the GFDL for your work, use of Wikipedia content is unauthorized. Small quotations of Wikipedia content, with its source attributed, may be permissible under the "fair use" clause of U.S. copyright law. See Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia for information about the proper citation of articles. No permission is needed to create a hyperlink to Wikipedia or its articles.
Emphasis mine, used to highlight the important bits.
Heston Blumenthal's Kitchen Chemistry series (which unfortunately didn't make it) was a lot more interesting than this article. You can even find torrents of the pilot episodes. I wish that series had been picked up and continued because there were some very interesting subjects, like the reasons behind certain flavours simply being unable to mix (basil and coffee, for example) as well as an everyman's guide to how the chemistry worked. As innovative as Blumenthal can be, there's no way I'm shelling out £300 for a meal at his restaurant.
Mark me as a troll as much as you want but anyone who's been through a Terry stop (or, for that matter, any sort of police stop) in the US will want this recorded along with a few well-placed mics for audio. At least 45 minutes' recording. Just in case you missed it, here's a good example of the reason why. I've been through such stops in Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, Pennsylvania and Maryland and I've never been guilty of Driving While Black.
why don't they invest those billions in new drivetrain, suspension, and rail technology You answered your own question. It's not sexy. Maglev is sexy. This is truly a real-life version of Monorail. No one but Stoiber and his little group of cronies wants it built. The track costs are enormous, the route will require no fewer than three more tunnels and two bridges (or bridge extensions), there are some difficult easements to obtain along the route, the energy usage is extreme, ugly noise abatement walls will have to be built, annual track maintenance is more than double the standard rail tracks which the S-Bahn uses, and all of this for what? To shave a maximum of half an hour off the trip between the airport and the train station.
Except no one will ride it. Most travelers aren't going to Hauptbahnhof. They're headed to Ostbahnhof, Marienplatz or Pasing. Once they arrive at the Hauptbahnhof they then have to transfer to the S-Bahn anyway. Not that anyone will ride the thing to begin with. The costs are so high that the ticket prices will be at least three times that of the normal S-Bahn. No local is about to shell out for that and neither would most of the foreigners.
An express S-Bahn in conjunction with the existing S-8 route could be done with only one additional track, but even with a dual track would be a much better solution. The time could be cut from 60 minutes to 40, only 10 minutes slower than the expected maglev time at a cost savings of a few billion plus more than 120 million annually in track maintenance, a recurring cost which will also continue to rise.
Anyone who believes the costs will actually stay anywhere near 2.6B is on drugs. This white elephant will end up costing us more than 5B. But it's sexy.
I want to know just how much of a vested interest in the suppliers, operators and landowners those who have pushed this project have. Maybe we can have another neat scandal.
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And today -- 15 years later -- it's still "almost ready" for the desktop.
Yes, more back-end shit runs Linux, but the sad fact is that Windows still owns desktops and Linux advocates have been too busy pissing in each other's teacups to bother taking advantage of the massive learning curve that Win7 requires, something so bad that switching to KDE or even Gnome is easier and more intuitive than "upgrading" from XP.
If they had this back in my day I would've gone from Bear to Weeblo in about 12 minutes. I had to spend three weeks just carving a fucking molar out of Ivory soap. And then there was the creepy den mother's boyfriend.
If you really have a girlfriend AND she's a gamer AND she likes better games than you AND her name isn't actually Henry or Sylvester or Wayne, please tell me your 6 most favourite numbers from 0-49 because the drawing on Saturday is for around €10M.
If he'd wanted to retain control then why did he sell mySQL to Sun? Once that sale was completed he gave up his rights and claims. He certainly didn't have a problem with a corporation owning it in exchange for a cool billion earlier.
What Sun said they wanted to do with it is immaterial; Monty's rights to do anything more than complain vocally were terminated by his own hand the instant he signed the contract, and were made irreversible when he deposited that check.
The fact of the matter is that Oracle doesn't give more than about a shit-and-a-half about mySQL. Oracle cares about Enterprise installations and mySQL not only ain't there now, it never will be. Even Foxbase^W^H MS SQL Server spanks it 37 ways to next Tuesday in Enterprise and Data Warehousing environments.
Meanwhile, if mySQL really is and has remained open source, then it's still open, so Monty should STFU and fork it already. If not, then he himself killed it and there's no one else to blame.
Once you sell your 2CV to someone, you have no more say in what's done with the car, even if it turns out to have been bought by Top Gear and they want to blow it up. Once you take the money, you don't get to complain anymore. If it had meant that much to Monty then why did he sell?
Cake: have vs. eat.
The comment moderation on his blog is just icing on that cake -- only comments supporting poor, ickle widdle Monty's untenable position are allowed through.
And for those who still refuse to change the "evil Oracle" record, The base Oracle DB charge is $350 (Std) / $950 (Ent) per user or $17,500 (Std) / $47,500 (Ent) per processor -- annually, not including required support and other charges -- Oracle doesn't give a shit about mySQL and the paltry few thousand that supporting it might bring in.
If it's really still Open Sauce and the community doesn't like what happens with it then mySQL will fork. Again. Except that it will need a new core team since the current core team has bills to pay and enjoys employment during an economic mess.
Filing a false notice is a fucking FELONY (17 USC 512). Call the police and press charges.
To prvnt phishing and other abus. provids an identifiabl stpgap to prvnt m ding smthing with th URL that I'v just dn in this mmnt.
Is mySQL open source? If not, it doesn't matter that Larry owns it. If it is, it can fork. End of discussion.
Tesla was working on wireless electricity transmission but he was also working on a load of other stuff, all while baking his brain with "health-giving" X-rays. And while Tesla both claimed to have succeeded in wireless transmission and others are purported to have witnessed it, he never once made a claim as to the efficiency which, based on the efficiency of a lot of his other inventions (70% [RMS] for AC, >80% for a coil) was never higher than what Sony's come up with here.
They owned the connection, they owned the content, they had their little walled village with ads as far as the eye could see and redirects to every possible "premium partner". And then came 1996...
Same as the old boss. Almost
You don't need to DL a bunch of kiddie pr0n to study it nor do you do it without informing any police organisation before doing so, if only to prevent any mistaken ideas, much less prevent duplication of work and chasing down useless paths.
Tauss has very good representation who know how to take advantage of a few laws here in Germany which more or less allow public figures to buy their way out of a courtroom.
It has an occasional use but for the price of a couple of pairs of shoes (and don't forget the recurring monitoring fees/costs) there's a much easier solution which has been highly effective.
With a spoon resting on a flat surface and a used syringe in one hand, pulling the rubber band off of my bicep.
XP Pro SP2 32-bit, probably VLC 0.8.6b based on some virtual environments built around the time of the new machine build.
It's not that shit like this is surprising but a FUCKING WARNING FIRST would've been nice. Now I have to stop everything I'm doing on a main workstation (because CS3 and other filmmaking software runs like shit on my SuSE boxen). To reboot a machine that otherwise wouldn't have neede it. After I save 20 apps' worth of work, instructions and notes.
Dreamhost didn't host the mail before. It's run through SquirrelMail. I write this not because I'm some sort of pontificating intarwebs expert with illogical expectations and notions but because I have multiple domains running on DreamHost, like this one. I highly recommend them.
Refuse to talk to him. Tell him to mail you his complaints and walk away. If necessary mention that you have to synchronise his boss' RAM. The mail will either be considerably more polite or you'll have written proof of his unacceptable behaviour and he'll be gone in short time. That's my strategy unless I'm in a position where I can tell him directly to fuck off with no repercussions.
In 1993 my DX2/66 laptop could ray trace pretty damned fast with POVray, and much faster if I optimised the code (stupid specularity!) and put a heat sink on the processor (which, in my laptop, was accessible). That was 15 years ago, at at a resolution of 800x600. Current cell phone processors run at least 10x that speed and have to deal with a resolution of around 1/8-1/16 of that. And for what? A ray-traced game? As everyone else has pointed out, the games are neat-o looking but playing them sucks ass.
I made the mistake of buying NFS Underground a few years ago. It looked pretty and the physics were OK, but then it quickly became a chore: you have to become ghetto trash and "pimp out" the car rather than actually fucking drive. And you have to do all sorts of non-driving shit to continue to the few drivy bits. Within 48 hours I fired up MAME and went back to playing Atari Sprint 1979, where I could actually, you know, drive the fucking car.
Not complaining in TFA, but this is /. -- I just anticipated the howls of the unwashed hordes rightfully bitching about yet another "professional" OS with a markedly unprofessional Teletubbies UI which certainly isn't ready for market yet, all while ignoring MS' internal dogfood consumption. I'll bet if enough Microsofties had eaten Office dogfood you could shut off that fucking control-click "Research" panel easily.
How can anyone complain that they're running Server 2008? My company's software quality dropped considerably when we stopped eating our own dogfood two years ago. When techs, engineers and everyone else is stuck with the same problems as the future ell-users, shit gets fixed a lot faster and a lot better.
Heston Blumenthal's Kitchen Chemistry series (which unfortunately didn't make it) was a lot more interesting than this article. You can even find torrents of the pilot episodes. I wish that series had been picked up and continued because there were some very interesting subjects, like the reasons behind certain flavours simply being unable to mix (basil and coffee, for example) as well as an everyman's guide to how the chemistry worked. As innovative as Blumenthal can be, there's no way I'm shelling out £300 for a meal at his restaurant.
Mark me as a troll as much as you want but anyone who's been through a Terry stop (or, for that matter, any sort of police stop) in the US will want this recorded along with a few well-placed mics for audio. At least 45 minutes' recording. Just in case you missed it, here's a good example of the reason why. I've been through such stops in Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, Pennsylvania and Maryland and I've never been guilty of Driving While Black.
You answered your own question. It's not sexy. Maglev is sexy. This is truly a real-life version of Monorail. No one but Stoiber and his little group of cronies wants it built. The track costs are enormous, the route will require no fewer than three more tunnels and two bridges (or bridge extensions), there are some difficult easements to obtain along the route, the energy usage is extreme, ugly noise abatement walls will have to be built, annual track maintenance is more than double the standard rail tracks which the S-Bahn uses, and all of this for what? To shave a maximum of half an hour off the trip between the airport and the train station.
Except no one will ride it. Most travelers aren't going to Hauptbahnhof. They're headed to Ostbahnhof, Marienplatz or Pasing. Once they arrive at the Hauptbahnhof they then have to transfer to the S-Bahn anyway. Not that anyone will ride the thing to begin with. The costs are so high that the ticket prices will be at least three times that of the normal S-Bahn. No local is about to shell out for that and neither would most of the foreigners.
An express S-Bahn in conjunction with the existing S-8 route could be done with only one additional track, but even with a dual track would be a much better solution. The time could be cut from 60 minutes to 40, only 10 minutes slower than the expected maglev time at a cost savings of a few billion plus more than 120 million annually in track maintenance, a recurring cost which will also continue to rise.
Anyone who believes the costs will actually stay anywhere near 2.6B is on drugs. This white elephant will end up costing us more than 5B. But it's sexy.
I want to know just how much of a vested interest in the suppliers, operators and landowners those who have pushed this project have. Maybe we can have another neat scandal.