[TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS company shoots itsself in the foot (MS Vista)

[Neil L. Little]

Seems that I saw an article in the N&O about Google eyeing a location 
down Kinston way for a server farm. Something about with the textile 
mill closings there is ample capacity on the electrical grid for such an 
endeavor.

One other thing, The reason that I started this thread the article I 
found about Vista that I saw on Slash Dot talked about the OS dumbing 
down video resolution and audio quality. I work for a company (Gulf 
Stream Communications...shameless plug) that makes its lively hood  with 
the editing of  audio and video. Something like this would cause the 
company to have to look for alternate platforms to perform their/our 
work on. This would mean of course  more Apple machines. Our editing guy 
has had his heart set on getting a M$ machine (Adobe Premiere) as he 
hates Apple or at least the G3 (Media100) we have now.

Neil Little, WA4AZL
JARS Forever!!
http://www.jars.net/
> You might wanna increase the resistor to 1 k Ohm.  60 mA is a little fat for
> a LED.
>
> So, is Google landing in NC soon?  I told Vint last week that I'd personally
> roll out the red carpet for him if they choose Raleigh.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>
> Jim Ray, President
> Neuse River Networks
> tel: 919-838-1672 cell: 919-606-1772
> http://www.Neuse.Net
>
>   
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
>>     
> Behalf Of
>   
>> > Aaron S. Joyner
>> > Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 11:22 PM
>> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
>> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS company, shoots
>>     
> itsself
>   
>> > in the foot (MS Vista)
>> > 
>> > William Sutton wrote:
>>     
>>> > > err...my co-worker says:
>>> > >
>>> > > -----
>>> > > that's utter BS. Real men write their resumes with "lpr", in PostScript.
>>> > > -----
>>> > >
>>> > > William
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>>       
>> > 
>> > Oh come now.  Real men write their resumes with a 6v battery, a 100 ohm
>> > resistor, an LED (and appropriate resistor), and the tx/rx pairs of an
>> > Ethernet cable.  Connect up the LED with the resistor in series to the
>> > RX pair, one of the TX pairs to the negative battery terminal, tie the
>> > 100 Ohm resistor to the other TX pair.  Then just tap out the packet by
>> > hand by connecting the other lead of the 100 Ohm resistor to the
>> > positive battery terminal.  No whining about not being fast enough,
>> > haven't you been playing Quake and it's derivatives for a decade now?
>> > 
>> > Bonus points if you configure the network printer first the same way,
>> > before sending your resume to the printer as Postscript to lpd.  Don't
>> > even think of going all new-fangeldy and tapping out packets ipp packets.
>> > 
>> > Aaron S. Joyner
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