15 inch 2.4Ghz Macbook Pro: 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo 2GB Memory Nvidia 9400M Geforce 250 Gb of hard drive space $1999
What I bought:
15.4" 2.5Ghz R61 Thinkpad 2.5 Core 2 Duo 1GB Memory 160 Gb of hard drive space Nvidia NVS140M Quadro $950
4GB of Ram : $70 on Newegg
Other goodies: The Thinkpad has a 1680x1050 screen, DVD-RAM drive, Wireless N, and Bluetooth. I think it was worth it for $1050 all told. I consider my laptop to be fairly high end.
I have a Core 2 Duo (T9300 on a Lenovo Thinkpad) laptop that runs 3 instances of linux at the same time.
The host is a 64 bit linux, and the VMs are 32 and 64 bit linux guests. I've done basic text editing and messing around in 64-guest, while playing music and watching youtube and IMing and w/e on 64-host and compiling linux on 32-guest. Didn't break a sweat, and used about 1.2GB of Ram total (I have 4 installed). So for basic tinkering any new-ish machine should have no problems.
Speaking as somebody using an Nvidia Quadro NVS140M on a Thinkpad with the 177 drivers in Linux,
all I have to say is,
my next computer will pack an ATI Radeon. I've never seen drivers that sucked as bad, both in performance and in rendering things correctly, as Nvidia. When compiz is enabled, and especially in QT4 apps, it doesn't handle repainting damaged screen areas correctly. That is not acceptable. The newer drivers, while marginally better at handling this, break suspend to ram functionality.
If anyone is considering an Nvidia card to run under Linux, my advice is to run as far away as possible. The only ATI card I've used under linux is a radeon 9800pro on a desktop, and it is flawless. Both in performance and correctness of what it renders.
Now the Nvidia card does work correctly under windows, but I boot into windows only about once every couple of months, so...
^Logs on the router is typically a good way to go, if you don't tell them what the router password is. Maybe Wireshark and a hub would work? You could leave their computer clean, but still snoop on them...
Or you could state some expectations and show a bit of trust in the relationship.
^Normally,root has no password so you can't login as root. All you did was give it a pw for the first time. I think it's the/etc/passwd file that just has a blank entry where the root pw would normally be.
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IANAA, but the sun appears spherical instead of like a big flat bright disc because it is indeed a spherical object - not a big flat bright disc.
Having been there for a summer, pretty sure they didn't filter.
Well, stuff within reason anyways. Youtube was available, as was slashdot, which made for a nice break occasionally.
GNOME?
The other day I was running a Windows 3.1 app on XP Professional. So it is possible.
You ask this as a rhetorical question, but I'm sure there are people idiotic enough to do so.
What I considered:
15 inch 2.4Ghz Macbook Pro:
2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo
2GB Memory
Nvidia 9400M Geforce
250 Gb of hard drive space
$1999
What I bought:
15.4" 2.5Ghz R61 Thinkpad
2.5 Core 2 Duo
1GB Memory
160 Gb of hard drive space
Nvidia NVS140M Quadro
$950
4GB of Ram : $70 on Newegg
Other goodies: The Thinkpad has a 1680x1050 screen, DVD-RAM drive, Wireless N, and Bluetooth. I think it was worth it for $1050 all told.
I consider my laptop to be fairly high end.
A law outlawing free speech would crash and burn in the US.
Good troll though. =D
Students might have computers, but what they don't necessarily have:
-Matlab
-Mathematica
-Pro/E
-Solidworks
-Autocad
-FPGA Dev. Software
-Oracle DB software
etc.
etc.
etc.
Tons of people I know use the computer lab for school licensed software.
To add some support for this, for basic VM needs;
I have a Core 2 Duo (T9300 on a Lenovo Thinkpad) laptop that runs 3 instances of linux at the same time.
The host is a 64 bit linux, and the VMs are 32 and 64 bit linux guests.
I've done basic text editing and messing around in 64-guest, while playing music and watching youtube and IMing and w/e on 64-host and compiling linux on 32-guest. Didn't break a sweat, and used about 1.2GB of Ram total (I have 4 installed). So for basic tinkering any new-ish machine should have no problems.
This was with VMWare Player, btw.
I hear your fore arm is pretty powerful.
Exactly. x86 in the browser? For the love of all that is good, why?
Preemptive answer to anyone justifying it: no.
Don't install with the livecd, and the resulting install will work just fine. Use the alternate text mode installer cd.
^Yes, but I'm using the FGLRX driver, not the open source radeon driver. Both work very well.
What about suspend to ram and the damaged area refresh problem?
Speaking as somebody using an Nvidia Quadro NVS140M on a Thinkpad with the 177 drivers in Linux,
all I have to say is,
my next computer will pack an ATI Radeon. I've never seen drivers that sucked as bad, both in performance and in rendering things correctly, as Nvidia.
When compiz is enabled, and especially in QT4 apps, it doesn't handle repainting damaged screen areas correctly. That is not acceptable. The newer drivers, while marginally better at handling this, break suspend to ram functionality.
If anyone is considering an Nvidia card to run under Linux, my advice is to run as far away as possible.
The only ATI card I've used under linux is a radeon 9800pro on a desktop, and it is flawless. Both in performance and correctness of what it renders.
Now the Nvidia card does work correctly under windows, but I boot into windows only about once every couple of months, so...
^Logs on the router is typically a good way to go, if you don't tell them what the router password is. Maybe Wireshark and a hub would work? You could leave their computer clean, but still snoop on them...
Or you could state some expectations and show a bit of trust in the relationship.
10. VMWare
9. Symantec
8. Citrix
7. Sun
6. AMD
6. CA
5. Salesforce.com
4. McAfee
3. Checkpoint
2. NetApp
1. Novell
Why is this in Flash? Why did that page need javascript?
You say linux x86-64 is even less interesting than Win x86-64, and it has all the compatibility problems of Long Mode.
However, I've not run into any troubles using linux x86_64 with common software over the past three years. It seems to be working pretty well :P
Common software =
Firefox/Thunderbird/Gnome Apps/KDE Apps/gcc/javac/python + java/wine/etc.
I haven't seen any point to using 32 bit linux on my 64 bit machines in the past few years. (In fact, the only 32bit os I still run is XP).
^Normally,root has no password so you can't login as root. All you did was give it a pw for the first time. I think it's the /etc/passwd file that just has a blank entry where the root pw would normally be.
Enlighten me, please. Office as a development platform?
Do you mean integrating freshly written programs with Office through some API, or using Office as an IDE?
I'm personally looking forward to this:
http://www.wcsaga.com/
About how well kept would you say your lawn is?
In Soviet Russia the free espresso is giving away McDonalds.
Electrify the everloving fuck out of it, to nab those who try to steal it. (or at least their ashes)
Keep it away from squirrels though.
The use case would be:
A owns PC (with virus)
B owns Mac
C owns PC (no virus but currently vulnerable)
A sends infected file to B who is immune, who then sends it to C. C gets infected.
I guess it would be too much to ask mac users to be altruistic wrt. their power bills and cpu cycles to lower overall virus rates, though.