Posts by Goat Jam

O RLY?

"also seeing further expansion of hard drive sizes at a fast rate"

Now that's funny, because where I'm at hard drives have been stuck on 2TB for quite some time now.

In fact I think I remember reading that there is some sort of technical impediment to going larger and some sort of completely different encoding technology is required to increase capacities.

I myself run a 4Tb LVM made up of 4 1tb drives, I can't imagine I am Robinson Crusoe in that respect.

Another big fail from MS. Get over it fanboys, this is what happens when you lock yourself in to a pretty looking closed source prison.

To all the numpties blathering on about DECT phones

Are you all complete morons or are you just trolling?

"and anyone who thinks the current iPad is too expensive"

Say what?

Isn't he SGT almost the same price as the Ipad? Or is there some serious high street discounting going on?

If so, that should tell us something about where the SGT sits versus the ipad in the eyes of consumers / retailers too.

Know nothing about the Toshiba, but I have trouble believing that their tablet would be

a) Good

b) Cheap

Sigh

I expect this sort of epic fail from entrenched players in the IT industry but then to have a newcomer come along and produce Just Another Craptastic Netbook (albeit sans the Windows Tax) it is truly disheartening.

These people had the opportunity to come into the market with zero baggage and offer up something different. A low cost, ARM + Flash based device might have been quite interesting, and if cheap enough would probably have flown off the shelves.

Instead, what do they do? They release a "me too", not cheap, not interesting, run of the mill Netbook whose only differentiator is that you don't have to pay for Windows.

Not that that seems to be reflected in the ticket price mind you.

PS. What is with all the 503 errors emanating from the Vulture Central servers today? Is the Amstrad you have running in the closet overheating perhaps? Maybe somebody could open the door a touch and let some air in for the poor dear.

Creative Zen

"Three times now I’ve had to reset the device after it froze"

LOL. They are still doing that? If so then the haven't improved in YEARS, because they were well known for that 5 years ago, and probably even longer.

Avoid Creative products like the plague!

"the guff about GNOME versus KDE and so on becomes completely irrelevant"

but the guff about APT versus YUM becomes even more heated!

Tegra tablets

would be "absolutely magical"

Ignoring the poor phrasing here I hope he is right but current Tegra tablets are nothing but vapourware. I haven't even seen a prototype being demo'ed.

I do like nvidias products however. I would love to see some decent tablets based on nvidia chips, here's hoping Android 3 adds the missing part required in order to create an "absolutely magical" product.

"This is a small thing. But quite important to some."

To hazard a guess I would suggest that a phone unencumbered by manufacturer/telco "improvements" is not reliant on said manufacturer/telco for its updates.

As much as it saddens me to say

but I expect people will buy these in droves and then go straight to loading Windoze on them.

I hope these people are prepared for that and not expecting to subsidize the purchase price of the unit through some other revenue source based on users accessing their cloud with it.

As for putting a spinny hard disk in it that just beggars belief. The atom processor is a bit iffy too but at least it is understandable given the easy access to atom mobo reference designs for them to use.

Ahhh, those were the days

I pine for the old days when innovation was king and anyone who had an idea could whack together a prototype and run with it. Geeks ruled and hacking abounded.

These days PC developments have been repressed by the dead hand of corporate greed and suppressed by monopolist control.

The hackers of the OSS community are the evolution of the Computer Clubs of the 70's and 80's and thank god they are still doing OK. For me, playing with Linux evokes some of the geeky fun that was common back then and it would be a shame if the likes of Microsoft are able to ever shut them down for good to suit their own bottom line.

Personally

I reckon they should bring back the Spitfire. Now THAT was a cool airplane.

Love

"The brown dwarfs jump out at you like big, fat, green emeralds," she is quoted as saying, excellently.

I hope they can keep running with this

What I fear is that none of the established mobo manufacturers will play with this for fear of upsetting their Wintel masters and it will be relegated to specialty uses and appliance style products.

I want what has been listed above. TX form factor boards that take standard memory SIMMS, and provide all the usual PCI, USB and networking goodies.

Then I want a Debian port to install on it.

Oracle Vs World + Dog

I have given up caring who wins, I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy the fight.

Popcorn anyone?

Ignoring Googles motives

it would seem that Facebook is trying to have it both ways.

I have no doubt that Google would really like to grow the already gargantuan amount of data it has in its databases but the bottom line is if you don't like it then don't use Google. Or Twitbook.

If Facebook want to allow users to get their google data into facebook then it seems only fair that they provide Google with the necessary API to allow users to do the reverse procedure.

Dropped the ball

I never thought there was much point in the Xserves. Unless you had a specific reason to use them then it always seemed that using off the shelf x86 servers with some flavour of Linux was always going to be just as good and considerably less expensive.

However, now that apple are investing so much into ARM products, it seems that they were in a perfect position to transition their few existing Xserve customers over to low power, high density blade servers based on their own A4 processors.

Having such a product out there would have been another market leading move from Apple and would have likely attracted attention of a lot of new server buyers who are interested in power savings in the server room and are not currently well served in that regard by intel. Somebody would quickly port a linux distro to such a platform and if apple were smart they could have picked up a lot of sales from the freetards as well.

What they should have done is refresh the existing products to take the 5600 xeons as suggested in the article. This would have bought them some time and not pissed off their existing customers as well as avoid reinforcing the "apple is not serious about servers" attitude that already existed in the market.

If they ever want to reentering the server market it will be a lot harder.