I remember the backlash when XP became mainstream and MSFT was everyone's favorite whipping boy because "Windows 98SE had better performance" and "Windows 2000 doesn't have a playskool theme." Now everyone swears by XP.
Go play with XP before service pack 1, before service pack 2. You'll end up swearing and cussing at it a lot I bet. People love XP now because they are used to it, it now considered to be rather stable, and the performance of computers has outpaced the OS by so much that the OS is neither seen as a hog on HD or processor capabilities.
The reason why I hate vista and the people I know that hate it hate it... because it takes up more resources without giving my any significant bonuses back. I mean look at the comparisons between Vista and XP. Most of it is marketing bull by saying that you can do this in Vista and you can't in XP. The bottom line is that Vista comes with things I don't want or don't need, but am basically forced to use because you can't turn it off.
I looked into learning GTW about 6 months ago and found the lack of GOOD documentation and tutorials troubling. This was the main reason I stayed away from it. I didn't really find a good community in which I could ask questions to.
The second part of it is that I do web projects and programming for fun, not for business. With that, I rent a server instead of hosting my own. A lot of companies I see that offer the ability for you to host small websites, don't offer the ability for you to build a GWT application and host it on their site. Which means you have to either build and host your own server to do it or you have to pay more to rent part of a server to do it. I'm only paying 5$ a month to rent, and I'd like to keep it that way. When it comes to doing what I want to do in PHP with an AJAX framework (XAJAX in this case) or moving over to GWT and having to find a whole new setup to do it, I'll stick with PHP.
Actually I would not suggest using the VNC method. First and formost, it is possible (and easy) to hack VNC, even if there is a password set. Basicly then it is possible for students to run a 3rd party program which will break an existing password and take control a computer, a teacher's computer for example.
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I remember the backlash when XP became mainstream and MSFT was everyone's favorite whipping boy because "Windows 98SE had better performance" and "Windows 2000 doesn't have a playskool theme." Now everyone swears by XP.
Go play with XP before service pack 1, before service pack 2. You'll end up swearing and cussing at it a lot I bet. People love XP now because they are used to it, it now considered to be rather stable, and the performance of computers has outpaced the OS by so much that the OS is neither seen as a hog on HD or processor capabilities.
The reason why I hate vista and the people I know that hate it hate it... because it takes up more resources without giving my any significant bonuses back. I mean look at the comparisons between Vista and XP. Most of it is marketing bull by saying that you can do this in Vista and you can't in XP. The bottom line is that Vista comes with things I don't want or don't need, but am basically forced to use because you can't turn it off.
I looked into learning GTW about 6 months ago and found the lack of GOOD documentation and tutorials troubling. This was the main reason I stayed away from it. I didn't really find a good community in which I could ask questions to.
The second part of it is that I do web projects and programming for fun, not for business. With that, I rent a server instead of hosting my own. A lot of companies I see that offer the ability for you to host small websites, don't offer the ability for you to build a GWT application and host it on their site. Which means you have to either build and host your own server to do it or you have to pay more to rent part of a server to do it. I'm only paying 5$ a month to rent, and I'd like to keep it that way. When it comes to doing what I want to do in PHP with an AJAX framework (XAJAX in this case) or moving over to GWT and having to find a whole new setup to do it, I'll stick with PHP.
Actually I would not suggest using the VNC method. First and formost, it is possible (and easy) to hack VNC, even if there is a password set. Basicly then it is possible for students to run a 3rd party program which will break an existing password and take control a computer, a teacher's computer for example.