It's just a few services to start and a parameter to adjust (that's been there ever since I can remember, back in NT 4.0). It's all the same thing, just configured differently.
It will also be in an.iso format only for the download(from the same FAQ), so I guess you could hack the files in the image to enable it to be mounted in a vm.
Or you could simply use your Virtualization software's GUI tool to tell it to mount the ISO as a CD-ROM... Hex editing the vm config file is only required if you're a masochist. This feature as been support in about every Virtualization software for a long long time now...
Apple has a lot of education customers, video editing and sound editing folk, the movie industry, journalists, copy rooms, the list goes on. How are those not enterprise ? Unless enterprise as some very strict meaning where it's only IT companies and Finance firms that count...
Not quite ahead of the game are you. Try virtualbox if you don't want to fork over money for VMWare Workstation. It will boot everything you want to run just fine and it's free and Free.
Same story everytime. Journalists just go crazy for the Beta, and so do most fanboys. They'll claim the Beta is so stable, moreso than the previous release. We saw the same thing with Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, etc.. Then the release comes and it's like a cold shower as people without the rose painted glasses get their hands on it. I'm glad I'm not stuck running Windows anymore.
If you don't want Canadian companies hiring your talent, maybe you should fire the H1Bs and give those jobs to your own people. Otherwise, what reason do they have to stick with your shitty economy that won't even let them work in the first place ? That, and RIM probably has a few offices in the US, meaning the people aren't moving up to Canada because they work for a Canadian company.
Buying the machine isn't the geeky part. Pluging the parts together isn't the geeky part either. The geeky part comes in the full use and appreciation of the resulting machine and the yearning for a few more cores, another gig or ram, another couple TB of disk, etc.
Actually, the most geeky people I've ever known never yearned for more cores, more ram or more TB. They were way too busy using the machine they had to do real geeky stuff.
The point is, there are tons of other softwares that do the same thing as you just pointed out. I doubt Stone Edge has cornered the market of e-commerce or electronic retail management. Same thing as metlin is saying by bringing up Excel all the time. 90% of people don't need the VBA integration for their spreadsheets/graphs. Calc can do pretty much the entire base feature set Excel can, and some of the advance stuff too.
Frankly, this is getting old. The arguments weren't valid back in 2000, they are even less now.
1920x1200 displays ? Real geeks use 80x24 terminals. You're talking about the neo-geeks, the ones that first used a computer with a graphical user interface.
Do you live in 1998 ? Linux has been doing everything you listed here since KDE 1.0 and StarOffice 5.0. You said that the couple of hundreds of dollars for Windows wasn't worth the time you'd spend installing Linux. Ubuntu literally takes 20-30 minutes to install. So that means that you make more than a few hundred dollars an hour while sitting at home in your free time.
You're a Unix guy, you should get this instantly. The "Administrator" account in Windows Vista is the equivalent of being in the sudoers file on Unix for a normal account. Basically, you don't have any administrative privileges on the system until you need to do something that requires. As in a Unix system (where you would type out sudo or a kdesu window would pop up), Vista prompts you for your password before granting you time limited and application limited elevated privileges. This is the Unix way basically.
Even Mac OS X does this, with the locks on the system preferences and for installing software. Bashing Microsoft on this, but not OpenSolaris, HP-UX, Mac OS X, Ubuntu or any other Unix type system is fanboyish. Some don't even offer a root account by default anymore, you need to explicitly activate it.
How would that work ? Ubuntu is a copyrighted work that contains many other copyrighted works in a bundle. You mean that you'd have to set the flag and then not be able to send the ISOs through BitTorrent ? I don't think Ubuntu would like not being able to use BitTorrent to distribute their own copyrighted work.
Visual Basic 4.0 shipped on 17 floppies (there's no typo there). 5 DVDs is nothing aside from huge bloat, which Small Business Server is since it incorporates tons of components that don't ship with Windows, desktop or server editions.
Shared memory and Unix sockets have been a part of Xfree86 and x.org for a very, very long time. Your local applications do not use TCP/IP and haven't, ever.
A solid stone wheel and a modern car wheel are still a round shaped object. The solid stone wheel was built upon, like you can build upon X.org or any other implementation of X11 to make it better. The fact that most problems people cite with X11 are actually implementation problems and not problems with the actual standards goes to show how much people don't understand the wheel at all.
And your crowd is the kind to try to reinvent the wheel. Progress doesn't mean burning the house down and rebuilding each time you want to change a room's color.
Port GTK/QT to this server's API ? If this server doesn't support a version of the X11 standard, then it's not an X server. Since it is being called an X server, no recompilation should be necessary, unless you're using X extensions that are not supported.
Is there a particular reason you have to install everything on the DVD to your HD ? Is IIS that integrated into the OS that if it is on the same DVD as the kernel and UI, it automatically gets installed ? What you say makes no sense. They could ship 1 and only 1 version of Windows. Your license could enable/disable some package trees, which you could choose to install or not. Are we in 2008 with DVD media or in 1986 where floppy number is a determining factor in what you ship ?
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It's just a few services to start and a parameter to adjust (that's been there ever since I can remember, back in NT 4.0). It's all the same thing, just configured differently.
I thought nerds were usually open minded and wanted to try new stuff ?
Time Machine fixes that problem nowadays. Looks like all she needed was a few upgrades and she wouldn't have had that problem.
It will also be in an .iso format only for the download(from the same FAQ), so I guess you could hack the files in the image to enable it to be mounted in a vm.
Or you could simply use your Virtualization software's GUI tool to tell it to mount the ISO as a CD-ROM... Hex editing the vm config file is only required if you're a masochist. This feature as been support in about every Virtualization software for a long long time now...
The battery is guaranteed for 3 years, and my MB battery can do the advertised 5 hours if I'm web browsing on 802.11n wireless.
Apple has a lot of education customers, video editing and sound editing folk, the movie industry, journalists, copy rooms, the list goes on. How are those not enterprise ? Unless enterprise as some very strict meaning where it's only IT companies and Finance firms that count...
... I will be rich when I invent a device to stab someone in the face over the internet.
But then you'll have to give support for it.
Not quite ahead of the game are you. Try virtualbox if you don't want to fork over money for VMWare Workstation. It will boot everything you want to run just fine and it's free and Free.
Same story everytime. Journalists just go crazy for the Beta, and so do most fanboys. They'll claim the Beta is so stable, moreso than the previous release. We saw the same thing with Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, etc.. Then the release comes and it's like a cold shower as people without the rose painted glasses get their hands on it. I'm glad I'm not stuck running Windows anymore.
If you don't want Canadian companies hiring your talent, maybe you should fire the H1Bs and give those jobs to your own people. Otherwise, what reason do they have to stick with your shitty economy that won't even let them work in the first place ? That, and RIM probably has a few offices in the US, meaning the people aren't moving up to Canada because they work for a Canadian company.
Buying the machine isn't the geeky part. Pluging the parts together isn't the geeky part either. The geeky part comes in the full use and appreciation of the resulting machine and the yearning for a few more cores, another gig or ram, another couple TB of disk, etc.
Actually, the most geeky people I've ever known never yearned for more cores, more ram or more TB. They were way too busy using the machine they had to do real geeky stuff.
It could : http://why.openoffice.org/images/base-big.png
The point is, there are tons of other softwares that do the same thing as you just pointed out. I doubt Stone Edge has cornered the market of e-commerce or electronic retail management. Same thing as metlin is saying by bringing up Excel all the time. 90% of people don't need the VBA integration for their spreadsheets/graphs. Calc can do pretty much the entire base feature set Excel can, and some of the advance stuff too.
Frankly, this is getting old. The arguments weren't valid back in 2000, they are even less now.
1920x1200 displays ? Real geeks use 80x24 terminals. You're talking about the neo-geeks, the ones that first used a computer with a graphical user interface.
Do you live in 1998 ? Linux has been doing everything you listed here since KDE 1.0 and StarOffice 5.0. You said that the couple of hundreds of dollars for Windows wasn't worth the time you'd spend installing Linux. Ubuntu literally takes 20-30 minutes to install. So that means that you make more than a few hundred dollars an hour while sitting at home in your free time.
So 20 minutes of your time is worth a couple of hundred bucks ? Nice. Try Ubuntu if you haven't.
They're almost there though : http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_mini?mco=MTE3MDI
You're a Unix guy, you should get this instantly. The "Administrator" account in Windows Vista is the equivalent of being in the sudoers file on Unix for a normal account. Basically, you don't have any administrative privileges on the system until you need to do something that requires. As in a Unix system (where you would type out sudo or a kdesu window would pop up), Vista prompts you for your password before granting you time limited and application limited elevated privileges. This is the Unix way basically.
Even Mac OS X does this, with the locks on the system preferences and for installing software. Bashing Microsoft on this, but not OpenSolaris, HP-UX, Mac OS X, Ubuntu or any other Unix type system is fanboyish. Some don't even offer a root account by default anymore, you need to explicitly activate it.
Windows 95 didn't invent disk compression. Stacker and Doublespace were some products that did the same thing for DOS.
How would that work ? Ubuntu is a copyrighted work that contains many other copyrighted works in a bundle. You mean that you'd have to set the flag and then not be able to send the ISOs through BitTorrent ? I don't think Ubuntu would like not being able to use BitTorrent to distribute their own copyrighted work.
Visual Basic 4.0 shipped on 17 floppies (there's no typo there). 5 DVDs is nothing aside from huge bloat, which Small Business Server is since it incorporates tons of components that don't ship with Windows, desktop or server editions.
Shared memory and Unix sockets have been a part of Xfree86 and x.org for a very, very long time. Your local applications do not use TCP/IP and haven't, ever.
A solid stone wheel and a modern car wheel are still a round shaped object. The solid stone wheel was built upon, like you can build upon X.org or any other implementation of X11 to make it better. The fact that most problems people cite with X11 are actually implementation problems and not problems with the actual standards goes to show how much people don't understand the wheel at all.
And your crowd is the kind to try to reinvent the wheel. Progress doesn't mean burning the house down and rebuilding each time you want to change a room's color.
Port GTK/QT to this server's API ? If this server doesn't support a version of the X11 standard, then it's not an X server. Since it is being called an X server, no recompilation should be necessary, unless you're using X extensions that are not supported.
Is there a particular reason you have to install everything on the DVD to your HD ? Is IIS that integrated into the OS that if it is on the same DVD as the kernel and UI, it automatically gets installed ? What you say makes no sense. They could ship 1 and only 1 version of Windows. Your license could enable/disable some package trees, which you could choose to install or not. Are we in 2008 with DVD media or in 1986 where floppy number is a determining factor in what you ship ?