For one thing things are really moving to service-oriented operating systems and applications. I use Google docs and spreadsheets instead of OpenOffice, I use Flickr instead of iPhoto, I use Gmail instead of Kmail/Outlook/Mail.app. MS is moving to a cool new direction, I don't care what happens to the Desktop. Ubuntu is nice and all and will probably make great headway in that area. But it's a ho-hum dead-end anyway as far as my interest goes. I do all my work online (using whatever... sure Ubuntu/Gentoo then) and play my Games on Windows/Mac.
But one thing he is wrong about... is the model and principles around Free Software. I don't care if people get paid for it and if there are vested financial interests. As long as the intellectual property is free and it's free as in speech. I want to see real innovation and am happy MS is also forced into that direction by 'Free Software'.
As a Mac user I have tried using Camino, and I can say that, yes, It has cool features, but I cannot do without a myriad of plugins for Firefox... Camino is not as extensible when it comes to plugins.
The plugins I use:
AdblockPlus (Camino has this... sorta) DownThemAll! (Great downloader... the built in downloaders all suck. Will have to go back to iGetter) FoxyTunes (Can do without) Google Browser Sync (I GOTTA have this) Google Notebook (Can do without) Google Toolbar (Can do without) Page Update Checker (Can do without)
I think that Camino is indeed faster than lighter than firefox (which is a hog sometimes) with better Keychain and other integration, but it's a plugin dead-end.
From what I could understand from reading those licence agreement files, you should be allowed to install it twice... whether you are allowed to run both at the same time may be a different matter.
I think I read someplace that the same licence key may not be present on a network on two hosts, but I'm not sure in what context I read that...
Perhaps download the doc I linked to earlier and read up further?
One thing the article does not speak about is licensing issues when using Virtulization. For instance MS has some twists and turns...
For instance:
One needs 2 different licenses if you run XP in XP. You can run 4 instances of Windows Server for free in Windows Virtual Server. You can run one copy of an older windows for free in Windows Vista. (You can read more about this on the MS site...)
For Windows XP General Purpose license User Rights:
Download and read document, section "Microsoft Desktop Operating Systems" which reads:
I) Installation and Use Rights.
a) You may install up to two copies of the software on one device.
b) Except as provided in Section II.a and II.b below, only one user may use the software at a time.
c) You may run a prior version in place of the licensed version for either or both of the copies.
d) You may only use the copies on the device on which you first install them.
e) You may use the software on up to two processors on that device at one time.
Thus this means that I can install and use XP as Bootcamp native and Parallels VM guest using only one license.
It still has to go through the BUS to get to the GPU... YOU try using a G3... it becomes noticable slower when you have 'animation effects' abd have to wait for them to complete.
Minimize effects? Selectiung a user on the login screen? Switching users?
These all take seconds for me on my clean G3 iBook running 10.4.
Eye-condy makes a difference.
It's not really noticable on my MacBook pro, and so purty that I'll forgive it...
2 points I would like to make
on
Why Windows is Slow
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Firstly, windows is not that slow... OS X takes longer to boot on my MacBook Pro than XP does... Quake3 UB runs slower on my MacBook Pro than on my old DELL notebook. When it comes down to it, the more eye-candy, the slower the machine... that's a trade I'm wikking to make with CPU cycles to burn...
Secondly, legacy support is a sign of success. MS's Office 2004 on Mac is quite a nice program, mostly because they don't have much government users and thus little legacy support. MS's products need to be stable as MS cater for a huge amount of relatively computer illeterate users who cannot handle change.
The difference is that lately most OS X binaries are going to get more and more bloated with the UB support being added. So soon you will see a new type of problem on OS X... until then, sure things are just peachy.:)
My Laptop is a full 3Ghz P4 with 1 Gb of 400DDR ram dual channeled (DELL Inspiron 9100). I also have a 7200RPM drive with 8MB of cache... it's a monster really.;)
I've been using gentoo linux in my VM as my primary work VM for some time now (SAP and Linux admin work) as well as a XP guest for.NET dev a RH8 guest for C++ dev and a win2000 guest for Delphi dev.
I've also inatlled the latest SAP Netweaver server as a VMWare, but that was only looking for trouble as 700MB of RAM just did not cut it.
I've tried the kernel optimizations suggested on the gentoo forums for a more responsive guest on gentoo, but this only gave me a kernel panic.
Perhaps I'm spoilt using native? -grin-
Don't get me wrong, I can live with the performance knock that vmware gives me so that I can get a stable, portable and consistent work enviroment(s). I am running 5.5 (and was using the beta before that to get the SMP support. I've set up the graphics to work with my laptop's native display of 1920x1200 under linux and windows.
I've reconverted all my disks to be fixed size, and do not use snapshots either.
I've disabled practically all my services not needed for games on my host to boot, so my host *should* not be very busy.
Anyway... it's all moot now... I got my MacBook Pro 2.0 GHz (2GB RAM) just this morning!
*cheer*
And, yes.... it's fast. The first thing I did was re-partition it in preparation to installing XP later.
I'm already doing my (linux) work from it now and typing this too.
As for the 95% of native speed... I also get that sometime... it depends on what you do... check out these benchmarks using the (admittedly old) VMware and Xen:
The latest 5.5 uses cool new tech that uses built-in virtulization support of some CPUs. Perhaps my CPU is just a wee bit old? My experience is not as bad as the link suggests, but it's still not native.
The problem is it's fine for working in word etc, but when I need to do a SAP Server install in a virtual machine or when I need to do CPU or graphics intensive stuff, then I suffer.
I've even been using the Beta VMWare with SMP support to try and speed things up.
Sure, I still think VMWare is an awesome product (I bought a personal copy after all...), but Where VMWare has a 20% performance to native, other products like Xen and coLinux give me a 90%+ performance. Nearly native.
There is one or two already... Xen and Q for example.
There is also VirtualPC (sloow and buggy)
I've been using VMware for years now on my personal laptop. It's barely usable in speed terms.
But why use any of these? I'm not interested in running small PC apps my grandma gave me on a CD she got from the cover of PCWorld magazine! And there is nothing I really need to run on my Mac apart from games and doing.NET 2.0 development, and unfortunately emulation does not cut it for games.
Let see, there is Omnigraffle? for Visio replacement, MS Office, Java SAPGUI for OSX (not perfect though) and many more equivalent applications.
No, I would have to say, I would primarily need Windows for games and thus practically require it to dual boot.
I've got an old iBook, a DELL Inspiron laptop and a fastish desktop, and I'll replace all of this with a sleep, light MacBook Pro. (Since I will be traveling soon, and will need something to play Oblivion and X3 on...)
Emulation is cool, granted... but native for games is even better.;)
I've personally bought both VMWare 3 and 5 and use it every day... I never work on real machines anymore.
All I use my host OS for is playing games, and face it, Linux (cadega/winex/native) and OS X games are still way too expensice (since I have to import them), in the minority and in some cases slower. (Sure Quake 3 runs faster on Linux Native, and even though I love the game, I had to revert back to windows for other games.)
No, you *will* need to dual boot the machine, if only for games (and perhaps a smattering of.NET coding).
But perhaps keep an eye out for Xen... It WAY faster than UML and VMware at virtualization, and I hear they have gotten XP to run tentatively so far...;)
It has become to represent meters due to mass misunderstanding since it used to be meters when it was still called 'waterproof'. A lot of wrongs still don't make a right. The term 'rater resistant' does not *literally* represent the depth of general use (unlike 'waterproof'), but it is more like a placeholder for another different but similar measurement. Manufacturers prefer this symbolic substitution since it serves their purpose. It's like saying that my car can use up 1/3 of it's tank in 250km and it reaches optimal temperature in 1 hour, and thus my engine has a rating of 250KM/H. This is now my own custom rating standard. KM still sorta stands for km and is basically the same, but still misleading. (Perhaps this is a poor example, but you get my drift, right?)
Knowing your SI units would lead you to question: why the discrepancy? Even on diver's forums I find people who discuss this rating, but all of them are under a false impression.
But then everyone (including you probably) also seems to confuse gibibyes and gigabytes anyway.
Slightly off topic: It's similar to the markings on watches where the maker claims 100M water resistant, but this is a ploy, since the 100M does not mean 100m and the measurement only indcates 'safe to bath'. Most buyers don't know this and this confusion has also spread to other cheaper manufacturers...
I would say we are pretty free here compared to the rest of the world. We have a culture of open-mindedness and acceptance, and this has spilled over into our media and politics.
Our laws are slightly different in some respects though... if you tell a person A where he can meet a person B who sells illegal goods, then you are breaking the law, which means that torrents and linking to illegal data (child porn/pirated goods) are technically illegal. At the moment we have bigger problems (crime/poverty/education) and don't spend time chasing after these.
For all the bad things here we have loads of freedom.
Privacy is a different matter, but privacy you can forge with encryption, and as we don't have the silly encryption laws of the US, we can actually use encryption for privacy.
Thus we even have the freedom to enforce our privacy.
For my case there are program out there that can monitor the active program, but this only works if you are working on the same PC.
But for you I would suggest:
1. Get time tracking software for you phone. (Or PDA) 2. Buy an iBook 12". They are pretty portable and the Mac apps are good at doing things like this. 3. Buy a book and use pen and paper... some of my colleagues use it, so don't knock it... it works.
I agree... they may be great players, but I like iTunes. The only thing I would change is to change to mp3. There is way much more mp3 support out there currently. ogg may be better, but it has trivial support in devices (at least the ones I can buy).
Yup, I still recommend iPods to people who want to buy... they must not be lured by a cheaper, better unit. The iPod can do what it sets out to do. And do it well. Play music for long periods of time. (And they still have way simpler and cleaner interfaces)
"But if you look at the most innovative desktop today, Microsoft's Vista is not copying Linux, it is copying Apple."
Basically says that Mocrosoft is not an innovator, but they copy Apple's innovations... and as we all know Apple is inovating with the help of Open Source.
Seriously though. Final year of school in 1989 (I was 17) achieved 10th place in national science olympiad (About 40000 top students) and amoungst the top 10 that attended the London international youth science fortnight from my country that year I was the only one from a public school. My mom had no money for private tutors or expensive schools. I also wrote a 3D CAD program on my Amiga at the same time... all with only my prescribed math books at the time.
Fortunately I discovered music otherwise I would have been totally without social grace. Music saved me! Yay Goth!
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For one thing things are really moving to service-oriented operating systems and applications. I use Google docs and spreadsheets instead of OpenOffice, I use Flickr instead of iPhoto, I use Gmail instead of Kmail/Outlook/Mail.app. MS is moving to a cool new direction, I don't care what happens to the Desktop. Ubuntu is nice and all and will probably make great headway in that area. But it's a ho-hum dead-end anyway as far as my interest goes. I do all my work online (using whatever... sure Ubuntu/Gentoo then) and play my Games on Windows/Mac.
But one thing he is wrong about... is the model and principles around Free Software. I don't care if people get paid for it and if there are vested financial interests. As long as the intellectual property is free and it's free as in speech. I want to see real innovation and am happy MS is also forced into that direction by 'Free Software'.
And he looks silly!
Oh, yes, and VERY importantly...
Both Firefox and Opera can remember open tabs... this is a show-stopper for me currently with the lack in Camino.
As a Mac user I have tried using Camino, and I can say that, yes, It has cool features, but I cannot do without a myriad of plugins for Firefox... Camino is not as extensible when it comes to plugins.
The plugins I use:
AdblockPlus (Camino has this... sorta)
DownThemAll! (Great downloader... the built in downloaders all suck. Will have to go back to iGetter)
FoxyTunes (Can do without)
Google Browser Sync (I GOTTA have this)
Google Notebook (Can do without)
Google Toolbar (Can do without)
Page Update Checker (Can do without)
I think that Camino is indeed faster than lighter than firefox (which is a hog sometimes) with better Keychain and other integration, but it's a plugin dead-end.
That said, I'm still thinking of using it...
From what I could understand from reading those licence agreement files, you should be allowed to install it twice... whether you are allowed to run both at the same time may be a different matter.
I think I read someplace that the same licence key may not be present on a network on two hosts, but I'm not sure in what context I read that...
Perhaps download the doc I linked to earlier and read up further?
And good luck with that IE7 beast!
One thing the article does not speak about is licensing issues when using Virtulization. For instance MS has some twists and turns...
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For instance:
One needs 2 different licenses if you run XP in XP.
You can run 4 instances of Windows Server for free in Windows Virtual Server.
You can run one copy of an older windows for free in Windows Vista.
(You can read more about this on the MS site...)
For Windows XP General Purpose license User Rights:
http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/userights
Download and read document, section "Microsoft Desktop Operating Systems" which reads:
I) Installation and Use Rights.
a) You may install up to two copies of the software on one device.
b) Except as provided in Section II.a and II.b below, only one user may use the software at a time.
c) You may run a prior version in place of the licensed version for either or both of the copies.
d) You may only use the copies on the device on which you first install them.
e) You may use the software on up to two processors on that device at one time.
Thus this means that I can install and use XP as Bootcamp native and Parallels VM guest using only one license.
yay!
This may be due to all the other hacks on my MacBook Pro to get Windows loaded, but I don't know.
All it does is make my power LED flash a couple of times and then BEEP, but then continues to boot without the promised progress bar.
Failure!
I'm going to try the firmware restoration CD now (also a recently available download) to try and fix this.
I'm sure many other onmac.net users will sit in the same boat as me...
It still has to go through the BUS to get to the GPU... YOU try using a G3... it becomes noticable slower when you have 'animation effects' abd have to wait for them to complete.
Minimize effects?
Selectiung a user on the login screen?
Switching users?
These all take seconds for me on my clean G3 iBook running 10.4.
Eye-condy makes a difference.
It's not really noticable on my MacBook pro, and so purty that I'll forgive it...
Firstly, windows is not that slow... OS X takes longer to boot on my MacBook Pro than XP does... Quake3 UB runs slower on my MacBook Pro than on my old DELL notebook. When it comes down to it, the more eye-candy, the slower the machine... that's a trade I'm wikking to make with CPU cycles to burn...
:)
Secondly, legacy support is a sign of success. MS's Office 2004 on Mac is quite a nice program, mostly because they don't have much government users and thus little legacy support. MS's products need to be stable as MS cater for a huge amount of relatively computer illeterate users who cannot handle change.
The difference is that lately most OS X binaries are going to get more and more bloated with the UB support being added. So soon you will see a new type of problem on OS X... until then, sure things are just peachy.
My Laptop is a full 3Ghz P4 with 1 Gb of 400DDR ram dual channeled (DELL Inspiron 9100). ;)
.NET dev a RH8 guest for C++ dev and a win2000 guest for Delphi dev.
r formance.html
;)
I also have a 7200RPM drive with 8MB of cache... it's a monster really.
I've been using gentoo linux in my VM as my primary work VM for some time now (SAP and Linux admin work) as well as a XP guest for
I've also inatlled the latest SAP Netweaver server as a VMWare, but that was only looking for trouble as 700MB of RAM just did not cut it.
I've tried the kernel optimizations suggested on the gentoo forums for a more responsive guest on gentoo, but this only gave me a kernel panic.
Perhaps I'm spoilt using native? -grin-
Don't get me wrong, I can live with the performance knock that vmware gives me so that I can get a stable, portable and consistent work enviroment(s). I am running 5.5 (and was using the beta before that to get the SMP support. I've set up the graphics to work with my laptop's native display of 1920x1200 under linux and windows.
I've reconverted all my disks to be fixed size, and do not use snapshots either.
I've disabled practically all my services not needed for games on my host to boot, so my host *should* not be very busy.
Anyway... it's all moot now... I got my MacBook Pro 2.0 GHz (2GB RAM) just this morning!
*cheer*
And, yes.... it's fast. The first thing I did was re-partition it in preparation to installing XP later.
I'm already doing my (linux) work from it now and typing this too.
As for the 95% of native speed... I also get that sometime... it depends on what you do... check out these benchmarks using the (admittedly old) VMware and Xen:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/pe
The latest 5.5 uses cool new tech that uses built-in virtulization support of some CPUs. Perhaps my CPU is just a wee bit old? My experience is not as bad as the link suggests, but it's still not native.
Only time will tell...
My Laptop has 1 Gb of DDR400 (Dual Channel) RAM.
The problem is it's fine for working in word etc, but when I need to do a SAP Server install in a virtual machine or when I need to do CPU or graphics intensive stuff, then I suffer.
I've even been using the Beta VMWare with SMP support to try and speed things up.
Sure, I still think VMWare is an awesome product (I bought a personal copy after all...), but Where VMWare has a 20% performance to native, other products like Xen and coLinux give me a 90%+ performance. Nearly native.
My fiance is a non-computer person, and I play Quake 3 and Warcraft competitively.
Even though she is a nature/outdoors/sunlight person the following got her hooked:
1. Diablo 2 (I was totally surprised at first)
2. Warcraft (*specifically* Tower Defence and DOTA)
3. Guild Wars
You may also try "desiger board games" for non-computer but advanced fun:
1. Setlers of Catan
2. RoboRally
3. A card game like MtG/Vampire etc.
There is one or two already... Xen and Q for example.
.NET 2.0 development, and unfortunately emulation does not cut it for games.
;)
There is also VirtualPC (sloow and buggy)
I've been using VMware for years now on my personal laptop. It's barely usable in speed terms.
But why use any of these? I'm not interested in running small PC apps my grandma gave me on a CD she got from the cover of PCWorld magazine! And there is nothing I really need to run on my Mac apart from games and doing
Let see, there is Omnigraffle? for Visio replacement, MS Office, Java SAPGUI for OSX (not perfect though) and many more equivalent applications.
No, I would have to say, I would primarily need Windows for games and thus practically require it to dual boot.
I've got an old iBook, a DELL Inspiron laptop and a fastish desktop, and I'll replace all of this with a sleep, light MacBook Pro. (Since I will be traveling soon, and will need something to play Oblivion and X3 on...)
Emulation is cool, granted... but native for games is even better.
Um.
.NET coding).
;)
It's still too slow really...
I've personally bought both VMWare 3 and 5 and use it every day... I never work on real machines anymore.
All I use my host OS for is playing games, and face it, Linux (cadega/winex/native) and OS X games are still way too expensice (since I have to import them), in the minority and in some cases slower.
(Sure Quake 3 runs faster on Linux Native, and even though I love the game, I had to revert back to windows for other games.)
No, you *will* need to dual boot the machine, if only for games (and perhaps a smattering of
But perhaps keep an eye out for Xen... It WAY faster than UML and VMware at virtualization, and I hear they have gotten XP to run tentatively so far...
Cognito is quite a compregensive Video Surveilance system with access control and other biometric functions built in... check it out.
I'm trying to push for it to go GPL, but it's a hard fight.
I wrote most of the system, and it's quite a powerful package... nice to play with iff you like Linux.
The front-ends are windows-only unfortunately... no Mac presence in my coiuntry so no Mac version. (Although I own a Mac)
It has become to represent meters due to mass misunderstanding since it used to be meters when it was still called 'waterproof'. A lot of wrongs still don't make a right. The term 'rater resistant' does not *literally* represent the depth of general use (unlike 'waterproof'), but it is more like a placeholder for another different but similar measurement. Manufacturers prefer this symbolic substitution since it serves their purpose. It's like saying that my car can use up 1/3 of it's tank in 250km and it reaches optimal temperature in 1 hour, and thus my engine has a rating of 250KM/H. This is now my own custom rating standard. KM still sorta stands for km and is basically the same, but still misleading. (Perhaps this is a poor example, but you get my drift, right?)
100M (or 100m or 100 meters) goes a long way to mislead about the depth of use to the uninformed as this really means: A watch marked with 100 Meters should be able to survive surface swimming.
Knowing your SI units would lead you to question: why the discrepancy? Even on diver's forums I find people who discuss this rating, but all of them are under a false impression.
Yup, saw that too...
But then everyone (including you probably) also seems to confuse gibibyes and gigabytes anyway.
Slightly off topic:
It's similar to the markings on watches where the maker claims 100M water resistant, but this is a ploy, since the 100M does not mean 100m and the measurement only indcates 'safe to bath'. Most buyers don't know this and this confusion has also spread to other cheaper manufacturers...
Grr. Know your SI units and you can't get fooled!
I would say we are pretty free here compared to the rest of the world. We have a culture of open-mindedness and acceptance, and this has spilled over into our media and politics.
Our laws are slightly different in some respects though... if you tell a person A where he can meet a person B who sells illegal goods, then you are breaking the law, which means that torrents and linking to illegal data (child porn/pirated goods) are technically illegal. At the moment we have bigger problems (crime/poverty/education) and don't spend time chasing after these.
For all the bad things here we have loads of freedom.
Privacy is a different matter, but privacy you can forge with encryption, and as we don't have the silly encryption laws of the US, we can actually use encryption for privacy.
Thus we even have the freedom to enforce our privacy.
For my case there are program out there that can monitor the active program, but this only works if you are working on the same PC.
But for you I would suggest:
1. Get time tracking software for you phone. (Or PDA)
2. Buy an iBook 12". They are pretty portable and the Mac apps are good at doing things like this.
3. Buy a book and use pen and paper... some of my colleagues use it, so don't knock it... it works.
... clicking in the xterm you want to type in
;)
-- Anonymous internet post I happen to have seen today but cannot now find fot the life of me.
I happen to agree with this... but then again I use vi/bash/totalcmd under windows.
With the exception of Games... of course.
I second that list... I thought Bladerunner and Aliens *should* have been on that list.
I think IMDB's ratings are very much representative of real opinion... more so than other sites. (Larger voting community... and more globalised)
I agree... they may be great players, but I like iTunes. The only thing I would change is to change to mp3. There is way much more mp3 support out there currently. ogg may be better, but it has trivial support in devices (at least the ones I can buy).
Yup, I still recommend iPods to people who want to buy... they must not be lured by a cheaper, better unit. The iPod can do what it sets out to do. And do it well. Play music for long periods of time. (And they still have way simpler and cleaner interfaces)
His statement:
"But if you look at the most innovative desktop today, Microsoft's Vista is not copying Linux, it is copying Apple."
Basically says that Mocrosoft is not an innovator, but they copy Apple's innovations... and as we all know Apple is inovating with the help of Open Source.
Hmmm....
It can control with which app you want to download (or with none) at the time of downloading.
Useful if you have a download accelerator with which some sites don't work, and you have to restart your browser every time you want to disable it.
Very useful if you use a DL manager.
Get it here: http://www.flashgot.net/
... and proud of it!
Seriously though. Final year of school in 1989 (I was 17) achieved 10th place in national science olympiad (About 40000 top students) and amoungst the top 10 that attended the London international youth science fortnight from my country that year I was the only one from a public school. My mom had no money for private tutors or expensive schools. I also wrote a 3D CAD program on my Amiga at the same time... all with only my prescribed math books at the time.
Fortunately I discovered music otherwise I would have been totally without social grace. Music saved me! Yay Goth!