- If someone doesn't know that pulling a trigger on a gun is going to get somebody crippled or killed, then I don't think it's the gun that lacks intelligence.
Use that line to console any parent who has lost a child that was playing with a 'simple' gun. Go on, I dare you.
* In our current universe, if you were to exit one edge, you would not come in on the opposite side. Rather, you would only increase the size of the universe, because you are just another object of the universe, and you would only be increasing the space between you and the rest of the objects in existence.
So what's at the leading edge then? As you move forward, expanding the universe by increasing the space between you and the rest of it, what's that area in front of you that you're moving into?
If light was continuing to go on and on like that, coming around from the other side for another pass so we could see it again, then with all the lightsources that have been born since and continue to burn, wouldn't the universe be getting gradually brighter and brighter?
Wow, I must be lucky then. When I started burning a few years ago with an HP external, I tried a few brands and Memorex discs always worked out. I've switched burners a couple of times since then, and I've still been using Memorex. I don't remember the last time I got a 'coaster'.
First was an HP-7500e (I think that was the number) Then an HP-9500i Then an 'LG Combo drive CD-R/W DVD-ROM' sold without a box, that also works flawlessly with these discs.
I haven't bothered to shop around for CD-R media at all, I haven't had the need to.
Well then, include the filesize in your comparison. While it is of course true that two or many different files can have the same MD5, there's probably a much much smaller chance that 2 will have the same MD5 *AND* filesize and still be different.
Personally, if I'm looking for software that I know is free, P2P doesn't even occur to me since I'm likely to find the very latest version at the author's site. If the author hasn't got a site, then Tucows and the like are next. If I find it on P2P, I'm still going to want to go to the author's site to check the version, so the 'extra step' of P2P doesn't make sense to me. Do you find that your GPLed stuff you share gets a lot of requests? I would imagine only a handful try to use P2P to find such things, since you can generally go elsewhere where there are no queues.
So, currently, every time I buy something I'm paying for broadcast TV which, except for PBS and some of the few remaining local stations, is absolute unmitigated crap. I also pay for basic cable, and then pay again for the stuff that's advertised on basic cable; I'm paying to watch ads.
Everytime you buy something, you're paying for the thing you bought. Period. The money goes to various places that are not your concern, you got the product you wanted, right? The rest is not important, as you now have a thing that you didn't have before. You need a TV to tell you what to go and buy? Or do you (like most people) go shopping now and then and just buy things that you want/need, based on non ad-related sources? Those ads are there in the *hope* that they might influence your spending. That's what the advertizers are paying for. Are you saying that they have to jack up the price of their merchandise to pay for those ads? Yeah probably, but if they weren't paying for ads it'd probably still cost you what it costs now anyhow, this way they just have a nice excuse to justify that price. But it can even be said that, through large volume caused by a good media campaign, that in many cases the ads pay for themselves without any need to adjust prices.
And absolutely nobody is putting a gun to your head forcing you to pay your cable company to serve you "unmitigated crap". Reading is good, and no ads...
It should be illegal for the internet broadcasters to modify the signal (by trimming commercials). I said this in my original post. But as far as the end user's ability to trim commercials, it makes absolutely no difference whether it comes from an internet stream, a satellite signal, cable, or broadcast.
So when you capture that internet stream to share out on Kazaa or wherever, are you planning to leave the commercials in? It's not like the old days of dubbing a VHS tape for your buddies, you'll only do that now and then. Nobody has time to make thousands of copies of tapes for random distribution to whoever wants their recording of last week's Futurama, or whatever the hell's on TV these days. Yeah lots of us have tuner cards and can have all the digital copies of shows we want. But most users don't know how to do that. A file neatly placed on their harddrive, when all the user has to do is click a URL to get it, is another matter.
Now if they could make these streams so they cannot be modified (hah!) so that the end user can't redistribute it without commercials (but can freely give and copy the piece INTACT) then we can get broadcast TV on the net with everybody happy. It's not going to happen as long as PCs and software remain open. So hopefully, it's just not going to happen.
I don't think that it's to make the author look stupid, but rather to point out to the reader, "We're not stupid, we know it looks wrong but that's how we received it. Not our fault!"
You don't have to be trying to diss someone if you're merely trying to save face. Saving face is allowed, especially when someone else is trying to talk through you.
Here's a better one: If the exploit is for *nix, and only a certain music player at that, then how does that account for their claim of 95% saturation across all p2p networks? Hoax, plain and simple.
1. If IE+IIS is so much faster without negative side effects then should the general Internet world adopt the same techniques?
The answer is 'Yes', but this was the plan all along you see. You're not adopting anything they do without paying heavy licensing fees or you risk a lawsuit. That makes it dirty pool, so the entire MSFT entity should get a good spanking and be sent to bed without dessert until they learn how to play nicely with the rest of the world.
1. Slashdot is not a hosting site so they shouldn't offer to mirror. 2. They have no way of knowing if a site can't handle the load. 3. Waiting for a mirror to appear would make news show up incredibly slow. 4. The community automatically mirrors or pastes content that has been/.-ed you just need to spend 2 seconds reading the comments. 5. The guy with the Lego site is probably tickled pink that his site just got a billion hits and probably doesn't mind things crawling to a halt for a while. It's his 15 minutes of internet fame.
1. True, but it would help 2. True 3. True, but the alternative for me is that I never bother to go back later once the furor has died down. That's 1 less person that would have been interested but isn't anymore. 4. True, sometimes 5. True, but that 15 minutes can get awfully expensive and is bound to curb his glee when the bill arrives.
None of that changes the fact that it is *known* to the editors and to all of us that linking a site from Slashdot has negative implications in a lot of cases. This ought to at least give one cause to pause when deciding to link to a site whose traffic-handling ability is unknown. You've got the right to link to anything you want, yes. But just because you can do a thing doesn't mean you should. Link responsibly. No more freakin' fake monkey automata either.
I am pretty sure that's incorrect. MS's TCP stack though - where all this would happen - is (last I knew) mostly kernel-land. IE's rendering stuff, etc is most certainly *not* kernel land.
Considering that certain problems having nothing to do with web pages or even the internet at all can sometimes be fixed by running IE's repair function (or updating IE to a newer version), I would say that IE is more than just a web browser. Whatever else it is for is anybody's guess, including kernel-level manipulation. As we can not examine the source, anything you or I say about IE's innards is pure speculation.
Let me put it another way: If I came out with an operating system today and thought that a component of it, semaphores, would make a neat name, and I called my operating system SemaphoreTM, for someone to come along in 10 years and call theirs Lemaphones is just weak (This Lindows case is even MORE weak because they don't even call it Windows making their ultimate goal, which is to capitalize on the success of Microsoft Windows not to mention the likely goal of raising publicity due to the almost certain legal action, very obvious).
I seriously doubt that if they had gone with "Interface Manager" that they would currently be in a lawsuit against "Linterface Manager"... That sounds completely stupid. Lindows was quite obviously meant to be a clever combination of the names LINux and winDOWS, unfortunately there's only one letter's difference between them but for me the association with Linux is immediate. I think it's a cool name that does not cause confusion. The attention it's received is just an incidental side-benefit IMHO. Besides, "Winux" or "Windux" just don't roll off the tounge as nicely.
XP activation is broken as all hell. Some personal examples:
Installed XP Home for the first time. True to Windows form, about 2 weeks later I felt the need to dump it all and re-install. The first install, I activated after putting in drivers for everything. The second time I opted to activate during the install, before video drivers etc. Guess what? Windows thought I was using it on a substantially different machine. I had to call MS, all pissed off, and they made me a new activation string. Now, of course, I'm on record as activating DURING install, and I have to always do it this way or I'll have to phone again. GRRRRR!!! It's the same hardware, but it gets enumerated differently depending on proper drivers/no drivers. Lame!
Another one: If you switch your network connection while running (ie: unplug cat-5 from NAT router and plug into straight hub, so as to have a 'real' IP) XP will occasionally mess up the NIC (packet storm, even through reboot) and you have to remove and re-install the drivers for it to fix it. Guess what? "Your configuration has changed substantially and you must activate again within 3 days" Goddammit!!!
I was at a customer's home today, and they hadn't activated yet (hadn't had the net before I got there) so I decided to get that out of the way for them. It rejected their Authorization code (the 5x5 numbers/letters on the cert. of authenticity). They definately have a proper certificate etc, and carefully typing the strings in didn't work. They'll have to phone their manufacturer and find out what the heck's wrong with their number. I'm thinking the box builder might have put their sticker on the wrong box by mistake, and someone already activated using this person's code.
You're paranoid and insane. Everyone knows that way way back a long time ago, Morgoth the Great Enemy, and Ungoliant the mother of all wicked spiders slew the Two Trees of Valinor, plunging all the world into darkness. After Manwe bumped his head on a shelf looking for something, he got really pissed and ordered Yavanna to grow a couple of blossoms out of the dead Trees, and she did so. They took the silver blossom (the moon) and gave it to this dude, and gave the gold blossom (the sun) to this chick, and they sent them off in magic boats to fly through the sky for the rest of eternity, keeping Manwe from bumping his head forevermore. I didn't see any magic boats in that footage we've all been subjected to, so this is all highly suspicious.
Most people I've met who remember things before the age of three learned to read before they were three as well. I believe language plays a very definite role in memory, helping us encode the data somehow.
Yep, my first memory is at about age 1.25, looking up from my crib at two unfamiliar people (they were unfamiliar at the time, my adoptive parents). They had just given me one of those baby cookies (digestive biscuits) and I recall reaching up to them and saying, "Another." In school my reading and spelling were always well off the charts. I have access to TONS of memories but I can't find any of when I couldn't read. On occasion I have spent hours sorting through childhood memories, to see what I can find, and the road back to babyhood is rather well-mapped. All of them are based around things that were said (or thought in words, but I talked to myself a heck of a lot), songs that were sung or heard, etc. Complete with images of course, but I think that the language is why I remember it.
I'm not sure that you can claim closure if she is still psychologically interacting with her VH (virtual husband) on a daily basis. There will come a time when someone will politely suggest that she play another game for awhile. Or maybe a nasty virus will wipe out her system. Her reaction at that time will say whether this was a good idea or not. If she freaks at the thought of deleting the character for example, then I think there's a problem. If, a couple months down the road she can decide, "Ok, this is a bit silly now, back to solitaire", then congrats on a job well done. But none of us, professional or otherwise, can assess that at this time.
Security Office is admitting to criminal activity?
> Not necesarily. They never said they "hacked" it. Read this article [wired.com] at Wired yesterday. Apparently there was a public FTP server at MS that MS employees were using to store sensitive files, because they weren't aware that it was public.
No dude, read the wired article again, and note near the bottom:
"In an e-mail interview, Tamer Sahin said he was able to access Microsoft's internal network at the beginning of this year using "known vulnerabilities" in Microsoft's software."
and
"Sahin said he hacked Microsoft and posted documents he retrieved during his trespass because of his "fanaticism to Unix." "
You don't use a device like this for storing important data, and you also schedule nightly backups of what's on it, in case the UPS fails or whatnot. It's a daily-use tool that speeds your productivity if you're using it as temp storage/workspace. The backups are to make sure you don't lose transitional stuff you might have there (such as software, like a game or something) if there's some disaster. If you're in the middle of editing a video clip with the tech you have right now and somebody kicks out the power, that sucks just as much as what we're worrying about here, if you set it up properly.
Putting your swapfile on this doesn't make much sense. You'd be buying memory, putting it in a special card that makes the memory act like a hard drive, then making that hard drive act like memory. It would be cheaper to just buy more regular memory.
Except that you can have memory from here to the moon, yet Windows and various programs running on it will still insist on using disk-based virtual memory anyhow. With XP, setting the pagefile to 0 MB for all drives tends to work for awhile, and through several reboots, but then suddenly Windows will pick a drive and make a 1.5G (the same as the physical memory in my box) pagefile there, without telling me. It only does that if I had it at 0. If I have set some other value, like 512, that will stick. My system has over a gig physical free most of the time, yet still has about 150MB or so allocated as paged. This device turns that stupid problem into nothing, voila! I want it bootable before I will buy one, but I can't wait to have one and point all my apps' temp folders at it, like Cool Edit and such, that would be mega-sweet. Getting to set a nice big pagefile on it as well would be a nice bonus, as Windows could leave me the hell alone about such issues and I wouldn't care that it was being used needlessly.
No doubt! The article said it takes standard SDRAM, I can get 2G of PC-133 for less than $400 (Canadian, yet!) and here they want $2300 USD to populate the slots. Either they think that 512MB of SDRAM is worth around $600/stick or that's one hell of a labor charge, isn't it?
It looks cool, but I don't feel the urge to shell out any bucks for it until it can operate as a boot device. I can see good uses for it in its present form, but I'm going to wait till it's bootable.
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- If someone doesn't know that pulling a trigger on a gun is going to get somebody crippled or killed, then I don't think it's the gun that lacks intelligence.
Use that line to console any parent who has lost a child that was playing with a 'simple' gun. Go on, I dare you.
* In our current universe, if you were to exit one edge, you would not come in on the opposite side. Rather, you would only increase the size of the universe, because you are just another object of the universe, and you would only be increasing the space between you and the rest of the objects in existence.
So what's at the leading edge then? As you move forward, expanding the universe by increasing the space between you and the rest of it, what's that area in front of you that you're moving into?
If light was continuing to go on and on like that, coming around from the other side for another pass so we could see it again, then with all the lightsources that have been born since and continue to burn, wouldn't the universe be getting gradually brighter and brighter?
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Wow, I must be lucky then. When I started burning a few years ago with an HP external, I tried a few brands and Memorex discs always worked out. I've switched burners a couple of times since then, and I've still been using Memorex. I don't remember the last time I got a 'coaster'.
First was an HP-7500e (I think that was the number)
Then an HP-9500i
Then an 'LG Combo drive CD-R/W DVD-ROM' sold without a box, that also works flawlessly with these discs.
I haven't bothered to shop around for CD-R media at all, I haven't had the need to.
Question for the parent: What makes you doubt that someone knows something when you don't even know them at all? What a question...
Well then, include the filesize in your comparison. While it is of course true that two or many different files can have the same MD5, there's probably a much much smaller chance that 2 will have the same MD5 *AND* filesize and still be different.
Personally, if I'm looking for software that I know is free, P2P doesn't even occur to me since I'm likely to find the very latest version at the author's site. If the author hasn't got a site, then Tucows and the like are next. If I find it on P2P, I'm still going to want to go to the author's site to check the version, so the 'extra step' of P2P doesn't make sense to me. Do you find that your GPLed stuff you share gets a lot of requests? I would imagine only a handful try to use P2P to find such things, since you can generally go elsewhere where there are no queues.
So, currently, every time I buy something I'm paying for broadcast TV which, except for PBS and some of the few remaining local stations, is absolute unmitigated crap. I also pay for basic cable, and then pay again for the stuff that's advertised on basic cable; I'm paying to watch ads.
Everytime you buy something, you're paying for the thing you bought. Period. The money goes to various places that are not your concern, you got the product you wanted, right? The rest is not important, as you now have a thing that you didn't have before. You need a TV to tell you what to go and buy? Or do you (like most people) go shopping now and then and just buy things that you want/need, based on non ad-related sources? Those ads are there in the *hope* that they might influence your spending. That's what the advertizers are paying for. Are you saying that they have to jack up the price of their merchandise to pay for those ads? Yeah probably, but if they weren't paying for ads it'd probably still cost you what it costs now anyhow, this way they just have a nice excuse to justify that price. But it can even be said that, through large volume caused by a good media campaign, that in many cases the ads pay for themselves without any need to adjust prices.
And absolutely nobody is putting a gun to your head forcing you to pay your cable company to serve you "unmitigated crap". Reading is good, and no ads...
It should be illegal for the internet broadcasters to modify the signal (by trimming commercials). I said this in my original post. But as far as the end user's ability to trim commercials, it makes absolutely no difference whether it comes from an internet stream, a satellite signal, cable, or broadcast.
So when you capture that internet stream to share out on Kazaa or wherever, are you planning to leave the commercials in? It's not like the old days of dubbing a VHS tape for your buddies, you'll only do that now and then. Nobody has time to make thousands of copies of tapes for random distribution to whoever wants their recording of last week's Futurama, or whatever the hell's on TV these days.
Yeah lots of us have tuner cards and can have all the digital copies of shows we want. But most users don't know how to do that. A file neatly placed on their harddrive, when all the user has to do is click a URL to get it, is another matter.
Now if they could make these streams so they cannot be modified (hah!) so that the end user can't redistribute it without commercials (but can freely give and copy the piece INTACT) then we can get broadcast TV on the net with everybody happy. It's not going to happen as long as PCs and software remain open. So hopefully, it's just not going to happen.
I don't think that it's to make the author look stupid, but rather to point out to the reader, "We're not stupid, we know it looks wrong but that's how we received it. Not our fault!"
You don't have to be trying to diss someone if you're merely trying to save face. Saving face is allowed, especially when someone else is trying to talk through you.
Here's a better one: If the exploit is for *nix, and only a certain music player at that, then how does that account for their claim of 95% saturation across all p2p networks? Hoax, plain and simple.
The question is:
1. If IE+IIS is so much faster without negative side effects then should the general Internet world adopt the same techniques?
The answer is 'Yes', but this was the plan all along you see. You're not adopting anything they do without paying heavy licensing fees or you risk a lawsuit. That makes it dirty pool, so the entire MSFT entity should get a good spanking and be sent to bed without dessert until they learn how to play nicely with the rest of the world.
1. Slashdot is not a hosting site so they shouldn't offer to mirror.
2. They have no way of knowing if a site can't handle the load.
3. Waiting for a mirror to appear would make news show up incredibly slow.
4. The community automatically mirrors or pastes content that has been
5. The guy with the Lego site is probably tickled pink that his site just got a billion hits and probably doesn't mind things crawling to a halt for a while. It's his 15 minutes of internet fame.
1. True, but it would help
2. True
3. True, but the alternative for me is that I never bother to go back later once the furor has died down. That's 1 less person that would have been interested but isn't anymore.
4. True, sometimes
5. True, but that 15 minutes can get awfully expensive and is bound to curb his glee when the bill arrives.
None of that changes the fact that it is *known* to the editors and to all of us that linking a site from Slashdot has negative implications in a lot of cases. This ought to at least give one cause to pause when deciding to link to a site whose traffic-handling ability is unknown. You've got the right to link to anything you want, yes. But just because you can do a thing doesn't mean you should. Link responsibly. No more freakin' fake monkey automata either.
>>IE is part of the Windows kernel
Are you sure about that?
I am pretty sure that's incorrect. MS's TCP stack though - where all this would happen - is (last I knew) mostly kernel-land. IE's rendering stuff, etc is most certainly *not* kernel land.
Considering that certain problems having nothing to do with web pages or even the internet at all can sometimes be fixed by running IE's repair function (or updating IE to a newer version), I would say that IE is more than just a web browser. Whatever else it is for is anybody's guess, including kernel-level manipulation. As we can not examine the source, anything you or I say about IE's innards is pure speculation.
Let me put it another way: If I came out with an operating system today and thought that a component of it, semaphores, would make a neat name, and I called my operating system SemaphoreTM, for someone to come along in 10 years and call theirs Lemaphones is just weak (This Lindows case is even MORE weak because they don't even call it Windows making their ultimate goal, which is to capitalize on the success of Microsoft Windows not to mention the likely goal of raising publicity due to the almost certain legal action, very obvious).
I seriously doubt that if they had gone with "Interface Manager" that they would currently be in a lawsuit against "Linterface Manager"... That sounds completely stupid. Lindows was quite obviously meant to be a clever combination of the names LINux and winDOWS, unfortunately there's only one letter's difference between them but for me the association with Linux is immediate. I think it's a cool name that does not cause confusion. The attention it's received is just an incidental side-benefit IMHO. Besides, "Winux" or "Windux" just don't roll off the tounge as nicely.
XP activation is broken as all hell. Some personal examples:
Installed XP Home for the first time. True to Windows form, about 2 weeks later I felt the need to dump it all and re-install. The first install, I activated after putting in drivers for everything. The second time I opted to activate during the install, before video drivers etc. Guess what? Windows thought I was using it on a substantially different machine. I had to call MS, all pissed off, and they made me a new activation string. Now, of course, I'm on record as activating DURING install, and I have to always do it this way or I'll have to phone again. GRRRRR!!! It's the same hardware, but it gets enumerated differently depending on proper drivers/no drivers. Lame!
Another one: If you switch your network connection while running (ie: unplug cat-5 from NAT router and plug into straight hub, so as to have a 'real' IP) XP will occasionally mess up the NIC (packet storm, even through reboot) and you have to remove and re-install the drivers for it to fix it. Guess what? "Your configuration has changed substantially and you must activate again within 3 days" Goddammit!!!
I was at a customer's home today, and they hadn't activated yet (hadn't had the net before I got there) so I decided to get that out of the way for them. It rejected their Authorization code (the 5x5 numbers/letters on the cert. of authenticity). They definately have a proper certificate etc, and carefully typing the strings in didn't work. They'll have to phone their manufacturer and find out what the heck's wrong with their number. I'm thinking the box builder might have put their sticker on the wrong box by mistake, and someone already activated using this person's code.
Lame, lame, lame...
You're paranoid and insane. Everyone knows that way way back a long time ago, Morgoth the Great Enemy, and Ungoliant the mother of all wicked spiders slew the Two Trees of Valinor, plunging all the world into darkness. After Manwe bumped his head on a shelf looking for something, he got really pissed and ordered Yavanna to grow a couple of blossoms out of the dead Trees, and she did so. They took the silver blossom (the moon) and gave it to this dude, and gave the gold blossom (the sun) to this chick, and they sent them off in magic boats to fly through the sky for the rest of eternity, keeping Manwe from bumping his head forevermore. I didn't see any magic boats in that footage we've all been subjected to, so this is all highly suspicious.
Most people I've met who remember things before the age of three learned to read before they were three as well. I believe language plays a very definite role in memory, helping us encode the data somehow.
Yep, my first memory is at about age 1.25, looking up from my crib at two unfamiliar people (they were unfamiliar at the time, my adoptive parents). They had just given me one of those baby cookies (digestive biscuits) and I recall reaching up to them and saying, "Another." In school my reading and spelling were always well off the charts. I have access to TONS of memories but I can't find any of when I couldn't read. On occasion I have spent hours sorting through childhood memories, to see what I can find, and the road back to babyhood is rather well-mapped. All of them are based around things that were said (or thought in words, but I talked to myself a heck of a lot), songs that were sung or heard, etc. Complete with images of course, but I think that the language is why I remember it.
The dude that wrote the description read the book I'm sure, and he did answer your question in the link you posted.
so anything that brings relief and closure
I'm not sure that you can claim closure if she is still psychologically interacting with her VH (virtual husband) on a daily basis. There will come a time when someone will politely suggest that she play another game for awhile. Or maybe a nasty virus will wipe out her system. Her reaction at that time will say whether this was a good idea or not. If she freaks at the thought of deleting the character for example, then I think there's a problem. If, a couple months down the road she can decide, "Ok, this is a bit silly now, back to solitaire", then congrats on a job well done. But none of us, professional or otherwise, can assess that at this time.
Security Office is admitting to criminal activity?
> Not necesarily. They never said they "hacked" it. Read this article [wired.com] at Wired yesterday. Apparently there was a public FTP server at MS that MS employees were using to store sensitive files, because they weren't aware that it was public.
No dude, read the wired article again, and note near the bottom:
"In an e-mail interview, Tamer Sahin said he was able to access Microsoft's internal network at the beginning of this year using "known vulnerabilities" in Microsoft's software."
and
"Sahin said he hacked Microsoft and posted documents he retrieved during his trespass because of his "fanaticism to Unix." "
So yeah, he's admitting to criminal activity.
You don't use a device like this for storing important data, and you also schedule nightly backups of what's on it, in case the UPS fails or whatnot. It's a daily-use tool that speeds your productivity if you're using it as temp storage/workspace. The backups are to make sure you don't lose transitional stuff you might have there (such as software, like a game or something) if there's some disaster. If you're in the middle of editing a video clip with the tech you have right now and somebody kicks out the power, that sucks just as much as what we're worrying about here, if you set it up properly.
Putting your swapfile on this doesn't make much sense. You'd be buying memory, putting it in a special card that makes the memory act like a hard drive, then making that hard drive act like memory. It would be cheaper to just buy more regular memory.
Except that you can have memory from here to the moon, yet Windows and various programs running on it will still insist on using disk-based virtual memory anyhow. With XP, setting the pagefile to 0 MB for all drives tends to work for awhile, and through several reboots, but then suddenly Windows will pick a drive and make a 1.5G (the same as the physical memory in my box) pagefile there, without telling me. It only does that if I had it at 0. If I have set some other value, like 512, that will stick. My system has over a gig physical free most of the time, yet still has about 150MB or so allocated as paged. This device turns that stupid problem into nothing, voila! I want it bootable before I will buy one, but I can't wait to have one and point all my apps' temp folders at it, like Cool Edit and such, that would be mega-sweet. Getting to set a nice big pagefile on it as well would be a nice bonus, as Windows could leave me the hell alone about such issues and I wouldn't care that it was being used needlessly.
(no memory)
$699 USD RDB-002-G, 2 GB Rocket Drive
(with memory)
$2,999 USD RDS-002-G, 2 GB Rocket Drive
i hope they put some sweet memory in there...
No doubt! The article said it takes standard SDRAM, I can get 2G of PC-133 for less than $400 (Canadian, yet!) and here they want $2300 USD to populate the slots. Either they think that 512MB of SDRAM is worth around $600/stick or that's one hell of a labor charge, isn't it?
It looks cool, but I don't feel the urge to shell out any bucks for it until it can operate as a boot device. I can see good uses for it in its present form, but I'm going to wait till it's bootable.