Hey wait a minute! Now that you are mentioning 96dpi... if you have an ATI card under Windows and not just the ATI driver but also the Catalyst Control Center... There is a DPI option somewhere! Maybe you do not even need to buy a new monitor!:D
And there is another problem; applications nowadays are made for larger resolutions. A netbook for example, like the ASUS EEE PC 900, has a resolution of 1024*800. Almost all applications out there do not even fit on it!
It's not my intention to troll, but with KDE4 on Linux everything is vector graphics and scales percentage wise to a resolution instead of Windows XP where everything is just fixed size and looking horrible when scaled up.
So if you are running KDE 4.3 for example on a low resolution screen (try a full screen Windows game in Wine and kill it from a terminal and switch back to the terminal where X is running and you can see very tiny windows, icons and fonts untill you go to the controll center and set it to run on your native resolution) everything scales down. On higher resolution everything scales up. This, for me, is a major advantage over Gnome = 2.2.8 on very high resolutions.
I am amazed at why Windows still doesn't do this. Maybe it's for the better to buy a large standard definition Plasma screen. It would eat up about as much power as a large, low-DPI CRT screen and if you can still buy it it is very, very, very cheap. Think about 299 USD...
At that point in time retired Intel employees would say: "It was all binary... You know ones and zero's on solicon *audience laughs*, which was a bunch of sand basically. Heh... And at that time we were bumping against the limits of this technology so we decided to bake a multitude of them on a single die. Haha... dear God... can you imagine? *audience laughs* Programming this was, well you can imagine, not so pretty. Taking advantage of this technology was still very hard at that time, but OpenCL largely made up for it, so... Any questions?" -"I worked for a RAM company at that time. And I realised that while the CPU was in fact doing everything in parallel, the RAM was actually serialy read out. What was your stand on this?" Ühm... *audience laughs* That question is for [person sitting next to the speaker]. *audience laughs harder*
I think that the Core i7 is a little bit too complex to understand right away. I mean with the 4004 everything was realy, realy basic. It had a design team consisting of four people. Nowadays it takes a whole team to improve it all. So I guess the awnser is no.
The entire point with DRM and Apple is that Apple didn't want it, but needed it. You see, when you open up an online music store like iTunes and you go to the RIAA record labels, then you get: "Yeah... you have no copyright on most music out there that people buy because everytime they fall for our marketing. So uhm... You can get a license to sell songs for 99 USD cents, but only if you bite into our DRM. Otherwise you can pay us 10 USD per song and you don't want that". Apple: "Okey... fsck..."
So then when iTunes became an income for the RIAA labels Apple could make demands. And when EMI found out that their business was in danger they needed a competetive edge. It was then found that removing DRM could make you more money, and so forth and so forth... And eventually Apple had the entire collection from the big four record labels, largely DRM free, avaible for 99 USD cents to it's customers, with the ability to burn DRM'ed songs DRM free to a CD as.wav, which you could RIP back to a DRM free audio file, with the GUI functionality provided to users by default from iTunes.
The same thing is starting all over again with movies and the MPAA labels fall for the same, genious trap that consumers like:)
You see... Apple actually made the best thing happen. But the problem with most people is that they (and this is a Dutch saying) don't look any further into a subject than the length of their own nose.
Google would laugh it's own ass of! "Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You lost one billion US dollars... Well... about these robots... You see... we do not realy obey them for websites that are known anyway, they are there for privacy of individuals. And uhm... You just lost... one billion US dollars WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!"
But go ahead. I am sure that websites like/. would remove themselves... NOT! And he would pay Google to bring up Ubuntu and Wine instead of MS... So who's fscking who?:D
They do need to prove that they are capable, because there was a huge problem with Vista's reputation, remember?
Also: "Nah... I am going for Apple because they make better products." Reputation is marketing. People that go from Windows to Mac OS X do not care about legacy support. All they care about is a better product, which is something that Microsoft can easily make possible. Free software or closed source; it doesn't matter. It's all about crushing competitors. If making sure that they do not earn profit is a means to reach that goal, then so be it.
WICD should become the default backend for every Linux distro IMHO. It supports the mschapv2 protocol, which is required for most secured Windows log-in networks.
What's on the LiveCD will be installed on your HDD. Are you sure your HDD isn't failing? If not, please considder trying out future releases of Ubuntu;)
It has better batterylife than Vista and Windows 7. You can browse the web, with flash too. You can manage and play your music and video's. You can edit video's with Kdenlive, which is about just as good as Sony Vegas, if not better. You can chat with all messenger protocols. You can import and export MS Office documents, spreadsheets and presentations (unless you are among those macro wizzards that can do raytracing with Excel;-) ). It has a WiFi manager*, powermanagement and a next generation desktop environment/GUI. You can burn you music and videos and play them just the same... You can do all kinds of shit.
* If your WiFi card is supported. Today Linux supports about 30% of all network cards out there fully, and 40% partialy. Check out a LiveCD iso to see if everything will work;)
Try out a LiveCD/DVD iso. You can even put it on a USB stick with unetbootin*.
First format the USB stick in Windows as Fat32. Then run unetbootin with admin privileges. Make sure Windows has already mounted the USB stick before you run the tool and check what the mount point is called (F:\, E:\, etc)
Microsoft has the manpower and the money to deliver. Their problem is backwards compatibility cruft and hardware support if they would start over.
Given the fact that Linux already poses a thread to Windows, it would not hurt for Microsoft do develop and releasy a Unix(y), free software OS alongside of Windows. Why?
A) To prove that they can actually make a good OS. Press and restecpa right there. B) They can offer a stable and advanced OS to people/companies that do not care about legacy compatibility. C) They can always port over a closed source version of Office and make it compatible with exchange and whatnot (and release that code under a free software license that is like the GPL, but isn't so that Linux projects can't take over that very code D) Keep marketshare. If people don't want to use Windows anyway; they can use their other OS.
Just look at your job as anyone else who is not a sysadmin would look at his job. I mean: what is your goal? Then answer:
Did you reach your goal? If yes/no; what's your progress? What are your next goals? Do you have the manpower, being on your own? How long will it take? How's the planning going along? How is the system doing on a technical level? Is it fast enough? Room for improvements? Is the security up to par with todays threats? And how do you keep up with the latest IT developments and security threads? How is the system doing for personel? Is everybody satisfied? Room for improvements there? Etc. Is the system 100% fit for its purpose? Is it still functioning well enough? Do you need hardware upgrades? Etc.
Awnser these questions in a nice format. Google a status report format that is NOT an IT status report and use that one. Finally give it to the person. Just ask him if he wants a monthly or quarterly status report.
That should get you going.
PS: Do not report on anything too technical like "Our BLT drive just went AWOL" and you should be fine;)
It's on my home computer as my primary OS, next to Windows XP for anything else that I am forced to use by third parties. It is indeed embarassing... If anything it could be just a lazy guy who did this...
I mean come on... Hackers 3 is a fictional movie. Microsoft didn't swap NT with Linux in Windows 7 or anything, or used Plasma for their desktop... _'
I didn't really mean 'education' but Babelfish could only find this English word for a dutch word that means 'the process of raising a child' and that very process, in the Dutch language, can be owned to oneself. So what I was trying to say was "Is this a missing hole in my being raised process?". I thought it might have been something cultural, for example somethiong out of a book or a movie.
"crucial to my intellectual survival?" was meant in a joking kind of way.
That said I did not know about this cat. I do am interested in quantum physics although I believe it's not really correct. Unfortunately I am still only halfway reading 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything'*, so you can't really blame me for not knowing;)
That's actually a smart thing to do: Install Wine, then the Windows version of Firefox and Flash. It is then run from inside you home folder and can't change anything that requires roo-... Ow shit... the home folder:')
The official response from Adobe at the time was that there was no screen color adjustment software (or whatever it's called, you know what I mean) for Linux at that time. Maybe if someone informs them about these software packages on Linux they might reconsidder a Photoshop port and see what their next complaints are so the 'community' could adress these problems...
Are you sure? I remember a guy from my class who had a Vista laptop, decided to install the 64bit version and installed 32bit drivers succesfully (because there were almost no 64bit driver for his HW)
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Hey wait a minute! Now that you are mentioning 96dpi... if you have an ATI card under Windows and not just the ATI driver but also the Catalyst Control Center... There is a DPI option somewhere! Maybe you do not even need to buy a new monitor! :D
And there is another problem; applications nowadays are made for larger resolutions. A netbook for example, like the ASUS EEE PC 900, has a resolution of 1024*800. Almost all applications out there do not even fit on it!
It's not my intention to troll, but with KDE4 on Linux everything is vector graphics and scales percentage wise to a resolution instead of Windows XP where everything is just fixed size and looking horrible when scaled up.
So if you are running KDE 4.3 for example on a low resolution screen (try a full screen Windows game in Wine and kill it from a terminal and switch back to the terminal where X is running and you can see very tiny windows, icons and fonts untill you go to the controll center and set it to run on your native resolution) everything scales down. On higher resolution everything scales up. This, for me, is a major advantage over Gnome = 2.2.8 on very high resolutions.
I am amazed at why Windows still doesn't do this. Maybe it's for the better to buy a large standard definition Plasma screen. It would eat up about as much power as a large, low-DPI CRT screen and if you can still buy it it is very, very, very cheap. Think about 299 USD...
At that point in time retired Intel employees would say: "It was all binary... You know ones and zero's on solicon *audience laughs*, which was a bunch of sand basically. Heh... And at that time we were bumping against the limits of this technology so we decided to bake a multitude of them on a single die. Haha... dear God... can you imagine? *audience laughs* Programming this was, well you can imagine, not so pretty. Taking advantage of this technology was still very hard at that time, but OpenCL largely made up for it, so... Any questions?"
-"I worked for a RAM company at that time. And I realised that while the CPU was in fact doing everything in parallel, the RAM was actually serialy read out. What was your stand on this?"
Ühm... *audience laughs* That question is for [person sitting next to the speaker]. *audience laughs harder*
I think that the Core i7 is a little bit too complex to understand right away. I mean with the 4004 everything was realy, realy basic. It had a design team consisting of four people. Nowadays it takes a whole team to improve it all. So I guess the awnser is no.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j00AULJLCNo
The entire point with DRM and Apple is that Apple didn't want it, but needed it. You see, when you open up an online music store like iTunes and you go to the RIAA record labels, then you get: "Yeah... you have no copyright on most music out there that people buy because everytime they fall for our marketing. So uhm... You can get a license to sell songs for 99 USD cents, but only if you bite into our DRM. Otherwise you can pay us 10 USD per song and you don't want that". Apple: "Okey... fsck..."
So then when iTunes became an income for the RIAA labels Apple could make demands. And when EMI found out that their business was in danger they needed a competetive edge. It was then found that removing DRM could make you more money, and so forth and so forth... And eventually Apple had the entire collection from the big four record labels, largely DRM free, avaible for 99 USD cents to it's customers, with the ability to burn DRM'ed songs DRM free to a CD as .wav, which you could RIP back to a DRM free audio file, with the GUI functionality provided to users by default from iTunes.
The same thing is starting all over again with movies and the MPAA labels fall for the same, genious trap that consumers like :)
You see... Apple actually made the best thing happen. But the problem with most people is that they (and this is a Dutch saying) don't look any further into a subject than the length of their own nose.
Google would laugh it's own ass of! "Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! You lost one billion US dollars... Well... about these robots... You see... we do not realy obey them for websites that are known anyway, they are there for privacy of individuals. And uhm... You just lost... one billion US dollars WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!"
But go ahead. I am sure that websites like /. would remove themselves... NOT! And he would pay Google to bring up Ubuntu and Wine instead of MS... So who's fscking who? :D
That's the one of the best sayings I have heared in years! :-o
They do need to prove that they are capable, because there was a huge problem with Vista's reputation, remember?
Also: "Nah... I am going for Apple because they make better products." Reputation is marketing. People that go from Windows to Mac OS X do not care about legacy support. All they care about is a better product, which is something that Microsoft can easily make possible. Free software or closed source; it doesn't matter. It's all about crushing competitors. If making sure that they do not earn profit is a means to reach that goal, then so be it.
Who said they wouldn't make any money from it?
If Windows would die, Microsoft would already have a stand in replacement. Support. Closed source office.
But most importantly: No need for Red Hat? It's either don't use Windows and pay a competitor, or not pay a competitor. It's that simple.
What it comes down to: Damange controll may cost money and wouldn't earn you any money... _directly_.
WICD should become the default backend for every Linux distro IMHO. It supports the mschapv2 protocol, which is required for most secured Windows log-in networks.
What's on the LiveCD will be installed on your HDD. Are you sure your HDD isn't failing? If not, please considder trying out future releases of Ubuntu ;)
PS: It has multi-channel audio too, so what more can you possible want from a laptop?
It has better batterylife than Vista and Windows 7. You can browse the web, with flash too. You can manage and play your music and video's. You can edit video's with Kdenlive, which is about just as good as Sony Vegas, if not better. You can chat with all messenger protocols. You can import and export MS Office documents, spreadsheets and presentations (unless you are among those macro wizzards that can do raytracing with Excel ;-) ). It has a WiFi manager*, powermanagement and a next generation desktop environment/GUI. You can burn you music and videos and play them just the same... You can do all kinds of shit.
* If your WiFi card is supported. Today Linux supports about 30% of all network cards out there fully, and 40% partialy. Check out a LiveCD iso to see if everything will work ;)
Luckily SuSE was the only one doing it because back then NTFS support SUCKED!
Try out a LiveCD/DVD iso. You can even put it on a USB stick with unetbootin*.
First format the USB stick in Windows as Fat32. Then run unetbootin with admin privileges. Make sure Windows has already mounted the USB stick before you run the tool and check what the mount point is called (F:\, E:\, etc)
Jesus...
* http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Microsoft has the manpower and the money to deliver. Their problem is backwards compatibility cruft and hardware support if they would start over.
Given the fact that Linux already poses a thread to Windows, it would not hurt for Microsoft do develop and releasy a Unix(y), free software OS alongside of Windows. Why?
A) To prove that they can actually make a good OS. Press and restecpa right there.
B) They can offer a stable and advanced OS to people/companies that do not care about legacy compatibility.
C) They can always port over a closed source version of Office and make it compatible with exchange and whatnot (and release that code under a free software license that is like the GPL, but isn't so that Linux projects can't take over that very code
D) Keep marketshare. If people don't want to use Windows anyway; they can use their other OS.
Everybody would probably be happy.
Don't even bother asking. This article is one bug FUD and trolling... Everybody knows IE8 is the most vulnerable browser. Fucking period.
Just look at your job as anyone else who is not a sysadmin would look at his job. I mean: what is your goal? Then answer:
Did you reach your goal? If yes/no; what's your progress?
What are your next goals? Do you have the manpower, being on your own? How long will it take? How's the planning going along?
How is the system doing on a technical level? Is it fast enough? Room for improvements? Is the security up to par with todays threats? And how do you keep up with the latest IT developments and security threads?
How is the system doing for personel? Is everybody satisfied? Room for improvements there? Etc.
Is the system 100% fit for its purpose? Is it still functioning well enough? Do you need hardware upgrades? Etc.
Awnser these questions in a nice format. Google a status report format that is NOT an IT status report and use that one. Finally give it to the person. Just ask him if he wants a monthly or quarterly status report.
That should get you going.
PS: Do not report on anything too technical like "Our BLT drive just went AWOL" and you should be fine ;)
It's on my home computer as my primary OS, next to Windows XP for anything else that I am forced to use by third parties. It is indeed embarassing... If anything it could be just a lazy guy who did this...
I mean come on... Hackers 3 is a fictional movie. Microsoft didn't swap NT with Linux in Windows 7 or anything, or used Plasma for their desktop... _'
I didn't really mean 'education' but Babelfish could only find this English word for a dutch word that means 'the process of raising a child' and that very process, in the Dutch language, can be owned to oneself. So what I was trying to say was "Is this a missing hole in my being raised process?". I thought it might have been something cultural, for example somethiong out of a book or a movie.
"crucial to my intellectual survival?" was meant in a joking kind of way.
That said I did not know about this cat. I do am interested in quantum physics although I believe it's not really correct. Unfortunately I am still only halfway reading 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything'*, so you can't really blame me for not knowing ;)
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything
I hope that this is none of the lolcats? Or is my education missing something crucial to my intellectual survival? :P ;)
That's actually a smart thing to do: Install Wine, then the Windows version of Firefox and Flash. It is then run from inside you home folder and can't change anything that requires roo-... Ow shit... the home folder :')
The official response from Adobe at the time was that there was no screen color adjustment software (or whatever it's called, you know what I mean) for Linux at that time. Maybe if someone informs them about these software packages on Linux they might reconsidder a Photoshop port and see what their next complaints are so the 'community' could adress these problems...
"Drivers must be 64-bit"
Are you sure? I remember a guy from my class who had a Vista laptop, decided to install the 64bit version and installed 32bit drivers succesfully (because there were almost no 64bit driver for his HW)