Comment Re:Classic Mac OS (Score 1) 763
Oh, you have the diagnose-and-repair-external-hardware package installed? He said the UPS died, not the server itself, moron.
He also said "averaged 6 months between restarts",
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Comment Re:Classic Mac OS (Score 1) 763
thing ran like a clock, averaged 6 months between restarts.
I went on to have an OS X Server 10.4 box go 422 days before a bad UPS brought it down.
That's why I use Linux
# uptime
14:10:28 up 1224 days, 2:04
Comment Re:What if the local storage is made zero? (Score 2) 179
You mean, you actually reboot ?
Comment Re:security holes of releasing source code (Score 1) 187
Clearly you have no idea how SELinux works. It's an enormous pain in the ass to setup correctly. Simply enabling it will do nothing at all.
Looks like you never tried it. It will make a lot of stuff stop working. Even serving a webpage will become complicated.
Comment Re:Some Helpful Advise (Score 1) 528
Internet facing web server
# uptime
12:11:11 up 1027 days, 23:05,
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora Core release 6 (Zod)
B.t.w. I see thousands of breakin attempts a day, they can keep trying, I sleep well :)
# uptime
12:11:11 up 1027 days, 23:05,
# cat
B.t.w. I see thousands of breakin attempts a day, they can keep trying, I sleep well
Comment Re:No good (Score 1) 307
Harder solution: Install an operating system that they will actually have applications for.
Windows wins again.
Wrong. Please take a look here : http://packages.ubuntu.com/
Comment Re:good (Score 1) 256
There IS a limit on how many machines a copy of windows can be MOVED to (remove from old, install on new) and that is spelled out in the licence terms you agreed to
I'm sorry but I never agreed to any license terms. I went to the store, bought a product on display (a box of Windows XP) and paid at the cash. What license terms are you talking about ?
It may be like so where you live, but where I am there is law protecting the consumer, and one of them say that if I have to agree to a contract to use your product, you have to make me sign it BEFORE I buy the damn thing.
Now, if MS don't let me activate my copy of XP when I upgrade my machine, I will just call the consumer protection agency and let them explain the law to MS.
Comment Re:Mod parent way the hell up, plz. (Score 1) 256
You know the difference between an MD and God ?
God doesn't believe he's an MD
God doesn't believe he's an MD
Comment Re:SageTV on XP (Score 1) 536
I like the seperate MythTV backend because I have two XBMC/ASRock installations and both can then read from the same source for playback in either room.
For your information, I have a MythTV backend that record TV from 3 Hauppage card and I can stream it to any of the 4 frontend I have in the house, without ever using CIFS
Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140
Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."
Comment Re:I hope it catches on (Score 3, Informative) 160
What? There's no need to buy a new monitor or projector. DVI/DisplayPort will drive a VGA device without any problems at all. But the reverse is not true. It really is bizarre that they still make laptops with just VGA output, when the digital alternatives offer VGA and more, with smaller connectors.
This is only true for DVI-I (Integrated) ports. DVI-D (Digital) doesn't have the VGA (analog) output. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface for details
Comment Re:Does it save me from commercials? (Score 2, Informative) 329
Once the show is recorded, there is a background job flagging the commercials. When I watch a show, I just hit Z to bypass the commercial in a millisecond.
Watching live TV is a pain now because of this !
Watching live TV is a pain now because of this !
Comment Re:does anyone still use it? (Score 2, Insightful) 329
I got sick of MythTV locking up, crashing, and the constant non-stop twiddling with my configuration because I could never get things quite right.
SageTV isn't much better. I spend a lot less time twiddling, but it crashes and freezes about as often as MythTV used to. I'm still looking for that HTPC that just works. I haven't found it yet.
I have one MythTV backend in my server closet, plus 2 frontend in my house. I never fiddle with the settings, and the server keeps running and recording the shows we tell it to. It never seem to crash.
Since you have the same crashing with SageTV and MythTV, I would be tempted to say that the only point in common those 2 have is : YOU.
I would not let you touch my setup
Comment Re:You have a warped sense of morality (Score 1) 1012
What agreement ? I never signed anything when I went to the Apple store and bought a product that was sitting on the shelf. It maybe so in USA, but not here. It's written in the law here : if I have to accept a contract to use a product, you have to make me sign it before I buy it.
Geez, I don't care what Apple or Microsoft write in their EULA, I just click "Accept" and think to myself : let's see them try to uphold this in court.
Still, if they make it so that OS X won't run on an Atom, that is still legal, as much legal as me running OS X on an unapproved hardware.
Comment Re:Anyone surprised? (Score 5, Informative) 865
I don't think Apple has a right to say what piece of hardware you can run OS X on. It's paid for, end of story.
They may not have a right (morally, that is), but, since the EULA states what you can run OS X on, they would seem to have a legal right.
Not everyone lives in USA. Different places have different laws. Where I am, that EULA as no validity. You can't impose a contract to use your product after I bought it. You have to make me accept that contract before I buy it. So it looks like eveybody in Quebec can go buy OS X and run it on anything they seem fit, even a toaster if they can make it work.
