I have to mention OLVWM because when I used it (back in 1990's) it was beautiful.
I could start xterm on specific virtual windows and all sorts of cool stuff.

I also had a dual 19" Monitor, Solaris Sparc 20 and I thought I was the king of the world.

Current setup: KDE on CentOS 6.5. Yup, CentOS for desktop. Solid as mofo!

Fuck you asshole.

From The Guardian:

Lockett, 38, was convicted of the killing of 19-year-old, Stephanie Neiman, in 1999. She was shot and buried alive. Lockett was also convicted of raping her friend in the violent home invasion that lead to Neiman's death.

You feel bad for this POS? You are stupid motherfucker. Fuck you.

And fuck you again.

None of the stories, CNN, HuffPost, NYT mention the victims.
Fuck this guy. What happenned was perfect justice.
They should've kept this POS alive and keep doing this for
days, weeks even. That's justice.

Again: Fuck this guy.

Whaaaat? Are you for real?

Apple is "not even trying" because they can't. They have:
No standard release dates.
No patch system worth a shit, everything runs from that stupid "System Update".
No enterprise level system tools (individual patch details), on and on...

They are worse that Windows. Much worse.

And as far as being "self-righteous", well, I can be that because I am right.

Let me take a second to applaud Red Hat for doing this.
This is why they own the Enterprise Linux market.

Their thinking, in a nutshell, is this:
Give the software (CentOS) to small companies.
Get kids right out of college using it to build their home servers.
Get everyone comfortable with CentOS/RHEL.
When it is time to buy, they will buy RH. Simple.

Here in NYC, Linux jobs are 99.99% RH/CentOS.
Because CentOS is free, anyone can download it and test
it. No disabled features, nothing. You want a job in Wall St?
Download CentOS, sit down and learn the thing and then
you WILL get a job! I guarantee it!

Microsoft, Oracle, Apple take note: This is how you own
a market. Not by squeezing every penny out of your
customers.

That's why Apple will never break into the Enterprise
market. This is why Microsoft has lost the Enterprise
market and this is how Oracle will fuck off and die soon
(hopefully).

Personally, I was a Slackware guy, for my home machines,
but CentOS has won me over. Now, it is the only thing I use.

One more thing: I work in Wall St. and I use RH/CentOS
every single day.

Red Hat, you guys rule. I salute you! Rock on!

Hehehe, Bugs Bunny FTW!

Thank You!

Did I hurt your little feelings?

Mr. Arthur Chu is too polite to say it but I'm not.

Gee, I'm sorry that he plays to win and in a new and smart way.
I'm sorry you are all a bunch of dumb motherfuckers.
I'm sorry that he interrupted your sorry-ass motherfucking lives.
I'm sorry that he didn't play by your imaginary rules.
I'm sorry for your sad existence where a game is all you
live for.

Why don't you go eat your microwave dinner and drink for your
miserable excuse for a life. Then cry yourself to sleep
over the universe's cruelty.

Boo-fucking-hoo!!!!

Fucking losers...

Weirdo!

I currently work for a major New York based media outfit
with a huge Datacener. Naturally, I have created
a duplicate setup in my bedroom/lab.
Hint: VMWARE

Kidding, just kidding...
Seriously, only a few hundred boxes :P

Even more seriously, old machines are perfect for
tasks like that. In my real lab at home, a have a few Sun boxes
(poor, poor Sun). and about a dozen machines that run
whatever I want them to.

Everybody has at least 16GB RAM, ~2.5-2.8GHz multicore
CPU's and plenty of disk space.

Each box is worth less than $100.00 on eBay.
Sometimes I get them when they reached end
of life at work and we throw them out.

Noise is no problem. Everybody is nice
and quiet.

If you are a real SA, then you use slack.
This is my quick, 1 line, summary of most
distributions today:

1. Fedora -- Fuck no. I want my video to work.
2. Centos -- Not too bad actually. The only thing I would run other than Slack.
3 RH - No! I dont have $10,000.00 a month for support.
4. Debian -- De-what ? Die motherfucker!
5. Ubuntu -- Ubu-suck-my-dick -- another African word that means suck-my-dick
6. BSD -- Hey, listen to me: Fuck off. Go play with OSX... bitch!
7... Whatever...

Yeah, I run Slack, I compile my own kernel, I build my packages from source.
I kill and eat my food. I live in the woods. Grrrrr....
Now leave me alone people. I have a Word document I need to finish,
for management :P

As others have pointed out, if you are going to do serious research,
you dont want to mess around with the latest and greatest.
Stick with something that has been around and works.
COBOL is that language!

Ha! Made you smile :P

Seriously tho, use C or FORTRAN. Nothing beats them for optimization and speed.
Cheers!

OK, I have to be truthful here. I did purchase a single Apple Cinema HD 30" monitor and the damn thing cost me $1,500++
So, I checked out Newegg and the HP LP3065 was a dream come true: 3 Dual-link-DVI inputs and $1,100.00 price tag.

So, I had 1 single Apple 30" display and 5 HP ones.

About 5 months ago, I read somewhere a review of the eBay 2650x1600 30" Korean
monitors and the review was all praise. Which is a good thing for me because
my Apple Cinema HD just bit the dust 2 weeks ago.

So, I tried to see if I can fix the damn thing but there is little info on the web about replacement parts.
I still cant find a Maintenance Manual. Not to mention that the whole unit is like glued together
and difficult to fix. No wonder it blew up. There are no holes for hot air to escape. Stupid shit....

Back to my post. No, I would not spend a premium on an Apple display, but if I wanted to
get a 30" I no longer can. Not because nobody makes them but because Apple thinks
that "most of it's customers do not want a monitor that big".

What really REALLY, bugs me is that I have a friend who had a 30" display and he had to settle
for a second 27" (because he only buys Apple) and when I asked him about it
he was: "Yeah, I think Apple is right. 27" is the way to go."

I told him that he was a dipshit that drank the cool aid. We had a major fight. Still not talking.

Life, you gotta love it...

In the 1990's I was an OS2 and then Windows user. However, I soon got tired of all that and switched to Linux. Slackware full time in 1999.
All was well but the update manager was really ragging on my nerves and compiling everything was getting old. So I switched to Fedora.

In 2007 I got tired of supporting 4 separate Windows laptops at home (for the kids and wife) and I switched everyone to OSX.
I was as happy as can be! I decided that I liked OSX so much that I switched myself.

I went all out. In 2008 I got 2 fully loaded MAC Pro's, 32GB memory and 3 (yes 3!) 30" monitors for each one.
I was in heaven! Everything worked as promised and it was amazing. Spent big $$$$!

Well, life has not been so good lately. I am so disappointed with Apple... They let me down!
No MAC Pro updates in 2 years and empty promises galore. I hate Apple's shit talk.
Especially how they just stopped making 30" displays just because (insert BS excuse here).
Apple is catering to the middle of the road and that's where I get off this fucking train.
I am a power user and I demand the latest and greatest hardware! Dammit, I see all the
nice ASUS and Supermicro mobo's and I am drooling!!!

What are my options? Well my CentOS 6.x desktop, which I use at work, is rock solid. Yes, CentOS for the desktop!
I am thinking of building a massive CentOS desktop: (2, 512GB SSD's RAID1), (2, 3TB disks RAID1), the fastest multicore mobo,
and at least 64GB of memory.

That should be enough to run any Windows 7 VM machine that I will need (for MS Office, and other stuff).
Apple, is losing the power user base. Fortunately for me, I have other options!

For other home users I'll stick with OSX.

Fuck it! Maybe Linux and Windows VMs is the right answer for today's power user.

Cheers!

If I can't get the paradigm shift before the deliverables are met then I'll have to bring it to the next level or get off the reservation.