Eye of the Beholder is retro for me. Of course, someone with a low/. ID might come buy and talk about mainframe 'dnd'...
Believe it or not, I actually hadn't heard of requiem, so thanks for the tip (I knew about hymn, but now that I'm on a Mac I will have to check requiem out).
Why would they have to mention that in the question? They asked for pointers on setting up servers, not career advice. In all seriousness, if you're into office politics more than tech, I recommend The Daily WTF over slashdot.
Consider the following: an IT shop may not need a big-time sysamdin, since everyone knows enough to keep things running. Perhaps this person was hired to keep things organized, act as an intermediary, audit software licenses, and in general do everything *but* set up the servers. But they are choosing, for their own enrichment, to get more hands-on than what's in their job description.
I think the point was that Slackware is rigid enough that it forces to you learn linux at a (slightly) lower level. You can't click through the installer and end up with a magically working system.
Which is good experience for when something goes wrong, and it doesn't magically fix itself. Of course, Slackware will probably draw some chuckles on a CV, but there's always the chance that the guy hiring is a SubGenius, and will hire you on the spot:D
Emulation is more useful for playing older games, since many of the old consoles and computers ran on Z80s or 68000s. A very crude way of putting it would be to say that, while emulation completely recreates the old hardware in code, virtualization (in this context) simply runs the code in a sandboxed portion of memory.
Also, I've no doubt that the whole thing is just to make Childs look bad, and justify his continued imprisonment to the citizens of SF, who will be paying back in taxes the money he sues out of the city in civil court once they're done playing games.
You'll be glad to know that it doesn't. An iPod is just a standard USB hard drive. All communications between iTunes and the iPod use standard file operations.
Mac OS X is UNIX. Apple understands the "everything is a file" concept.
The only "special" thing Apple installs is a service that checks if newly connected USB hard drives are iPods.
This is 100% Vista's fault.
Depends on what iPod, or if it's the iPhone. iTunes has to support all of them.
A lot more people own iPods than do iMacs. Would they risk pissing off millions and purposely put out a bad version of something they spend money and time on?
I think it has more to do with Apple treating everything like a port. That is, rather than developing iTunes for Windows as a Windows program, making use of libraries and calls that Windows already provides, they do everything with the Mac frameworks in mind and then find hackish ways to bring everything over.
I think the lack of Rockbox on new iPods has more to do with it being complete different and largely custom hardware than the 5G ones.
I've used Rockbox on a 5.5G iPod and an iRiver H120 (iHP-120 if you prefer). All in all I thought the iRiver was a better experience. It's hard to move up or down just one list element with a scroll wheel. Obviously the screen is better on the iPod. But the H120's still running smooth, bless his little heart.
They're spending $300 million on TV ads targeting home users. Aero is one of the biggest selling points of Vista, and it's useless for businesses. The Windows Live platform is seeing tons of development these days. I'd say they care somewhat. Maybe they're not as directly focused on that segment as Apple, but they care.
You could, but then everyone would just complain about how they shouldn't have to have fast hardware to run your OS, when they're doing the same things they did ten years ago, albeit on a crappier OS.
WMV is only recently becoming a big deal. For a long time, Windows Media Player was that little gray thing you told to go away while you installed Winamp. I think he's right: Quicktime could have been bigger than it is now. Even in the Windows world, the fact that vanilla QT was neutered was a big impediment. But hey, that was before the bubble. Now there's value in giving away software. Back then the value was in boxing it.
You can always run Linux in a VM if you just want to learn something new or get up to speed. It's a lot of pressure to be trying to learn a new OS at the same time you need it to "just work". Also, the experience you have is largely going to depend on the distro -- whether it's a good fit for you and for the hardware. Also whether you like using a shell, etc. The good thing is, you don't have to do it all in one shot...little things change, but in a couple years a lot has stayed the same, over time and between distros.
If you're looking for good flash support, well, on linux the situation is "less than optimal".
It seems like they're diversifying, though. PCs may be around for a good while longer, but who knows? Maybe not forever. MS has been pushing tablets for years, with less-than-stellar results outside of doctor's offices. I don't think I've ever seen an Origami machine in the wild. I consider Windows Mobile to be pretty clumsy. But they're trying, at least. I'm just an armchair analyst, but these appear to be transitory times for MS. They want to expand in online advertising, in gaming, in embedded platforms...at this point probably only Google has close to the same number of projects going on at any one time as Microsoft, most of those not even destined for a real shipped product.
If Microsoft pushes further into hardware, I think it will be because the OEM/desktop model starts to go away and people expect off-the-shelf machines with little customization. Those various gadgets where the first thing a slashdotter says is "pff, no replaceable battery", "why can't I change this or that", etc. Things that aren't flexible, but are sleek, small, easy. Anti-desktops.
I think the real money's in a computer monocle that clips onto your ear and you control one-handed, but that'll be a while, sadly.
I'd never seen that quote. It's a good one. Nice and creepy.
If you were joking, then it's funny, but I sort of think you're serious. So here goes. Most people do not do the things you're talking about. Pimply-faced youths do those things. The big benefit for people with Windows is that it runs Windows software, and they know where to click to launch a browser. The look is not that important. That's "most" people. Out of the XP machines I have worked on for people, *none* of them have had manually set wallpapers. A small amount have wallpapers set from IE. Some change to one that's in the list in the Display dialog. The rest have "Bliss" or a solid color.
It's not that there aren't a lot of people who get wrapped up in fine-tuning those things, but they represent very little of the marketplace. And honestly, eye-candy is the last reason someone should use linux. What good is a rotating cube when your fonts aren't kerned worth a damn? And you can't even screw with them, because it (inevitably) requires screwing around in the bowels of X's font configs?
You can't have the free market without the market part, though. The software itself is not getting charged for (well, not by honest people, outside of eBay, etc).
Sucks for them if you are planning on formatting the drive an installing Ubuntu anyway;)
Nah, McAfee is publicly traded and they get to brag about how many installs they have, most of which don't last for more than a half hour. Got any mutual funds?
Very true. Microsoft, more than anyone, has the resources to put out a PC. But that would be the absolute fastest way to earn the hatred of the OEMs that their business depends on. They make money doing what they do now. There's no reason for them to cannibalize the entire industry.
The OP's comment may not be apples-to-apples, but I thought the joke was insightful -- while most of us here can understand that there's a combination of hardware and OS, and choices every step of the way, for most people, they see a computer with Windows the same as the iMac...a single unit that has everything necessary to do what people expect it to. Cars usually have third-party tires pre-installed, do we call it a tire tax?
I'd be suprised if, at least for the larger OEMs, they don't get most of that money back from MS. Advertising budget, gifts, trips, whatever. I don't think they'd be able to twist the OEMs' arms as tightly as they have in the past if the OEMs didn't feel that they came out ahead.
Of course, it could just be that most of their customers want Windows, and they want to cater to the largest demographic. In both cases, the OEM has made a decision to deal with Microsoft. This isn't like "shopping" for cable service in the face of local monopolies. These companies are in it to make money, and they could make money knitting sweaters if they wanted. We need to realize that, at least to some extent, OEMs are choosing MS. People are choosing those OEMs.
People should be supporting system76 and others like them. People should vote with their wallets. Finally, people should also realize that not everyone is going to vote the same way. Not that MS isn't evil or anything:D
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Diablo is retro now? Bah humbug :)
/. ID might come buy and talk about mainframe 'dnd'...
Eye of the Beholder is retro for me. Of course, someone with a low
Believe it or not, I actually hadn't heard of requiem, so thanks for the tip (I knew about hymn, but now that I'm on a Mac I will have to check requiem out).
Why would they have to mention that in the question? They asked for pointers on setting up servers, not career advice. In all seriousness, if you're into office politics more than tech, I recommend The Daily WTF over slashdot.
Consider the following: an IT shop may not need a big-time sysamdin, since everyone knows enough to keep things running. Perhaps this person was hired to keep things organized, act as an intermediary, audit software licenses, and in general do everything *but* set up the servers. But they are choosing, for their own enrichment, to get more hands-on than what's in their job description.
I think the point was that Slackware is rigid enough that it forces to you learn linux at a (slightly) lower level. You can't click through the installer and end up with a magically working system.
:D
Which is good experience for when something goes wrong, and it doesn't magically fix itself. Of course, Slackware will probably draw some chuckles on a CV, but there's always the chance that the guy hiring is a SubGenius, and will hire you on the spot
Emulation is more useful for playing older games, since many of the old consoles and computers ran on Z80s or 68000s. A very crude way of putting it would be to say that, while emulation completely recreates the old hardware in code, virtualization (in this context) simply runs the code in a sandboxed portion of memory.
Wasn't that what started this mess?
Also, I've no doubt that the whole thing is just to make Childs look bad, and justify his continued imprisonment to the citizens of SF, who will be paying back in taxes the money he sues out of the city in civil court once they're done playing games.
It's probably running IP, and they're probably complete morons who deserve what they get.
You'll be glad to know that it doesn't. An iPod is just a standard USB hard drive. All communications between iTunes and the iPod use standard file operations.
Mac OS X is UNIX. Apple understands the "everything is a file" concept.
The only "special" thing Apple installs is a service that checks if newly connected USB hard drives are iPods.
This is 100% Vista's fault.
Depends on what iPod, or if it's the iPhone. iTunes has to support all of them.
A lot more people own iPods than do iMacs. Would they risk pissing off millions and purposely put out a bad version of something they spend money and time on?
I think it has more to do with Apple treating everything like a port. That is, rather than developing iTunes for Windows as a Windows program, making use of libraries and calls that Windows already provides, they do everything with the Mac frameworks in mind and then find hackish ways to bring everything over.
That has nothing to do with transfers.
I think the lack of Rockbox on new iPods has more to do with it being complete different and largely custom hardware than the 5G ones.
I've used Rockbox on a 5.5G iPod and an iRiver H120 (iHP-120 if you prefer). All in all I thought the iRiver was a better experience. It's hard to move up or down just one list element with a scroll wheel. Obviously the screen is better on the iPod. But the H120's still running smooth, bless his little heart.
It wasn't just EAX. People who mix sound for a living aren't thrilled about the added latency.
They're spending $300 million on TV ads targeting home users. Aero is one of the biggest selling points of Vista, and it's useless for businesses. The Windows Live platform is seeing tons of development these days. I'd say they care somewhat. Maybe they're not as directly focused on that segment as Apple, but they care.
Whoa...sweet Chieftains album in the screenshot. I'm sold.
You could, but then everyone would just complain about how they shouldn't have to have fast hardware to run your OS, when they're doing the same things they did ten years ago, albeit on a crappier OS.
WMV is only recently becoming a big deal. For a long time, Windows Media Player was that little gray thing you told to go away while you installed Winamp. I think he's right: Quicktime could have been bigger than it is now. Even in the Windows world, the fact that vanilla QT was neutered was a big impediment. But hey, that was before the bubble. Now there's value in giving away software. Back then the value was in boxing it.
If it's just cutting stuff up, GarageBand does fine. Better than sndrec32.exe, anyway :D
And as others have mentioned, you have other options.
You can always run Linux in a VM if you just want to learn something new or get up to speed. It's a lot of pressure to be trying to learn a new OS at the same time you need it to "just work". Also, the experience you have is largely going to depend on the distro -- whether it's a good fit for you and for the hardware. Also whether you like using a shell, etc. The good thing is, you don't have to do it all in one shot...little things change, but in a couple years a lot has stayed the same, over time and between distros.
If you're looking for good flash support, well, on linux the situation is "less than optimal".
It seems like they're diversifying, though. PCs may be around for a good while longer, but who knows? Maybe not forever. MS has been pushing tablets for years, with less-than-stellar results outside of doctor's offices. I don't think I've ever seen an Origami machine in the wild. I consider Windows Mobile to be pretty clumsy. But they're trying, at least. I'm just an armchair analyst, but these appear to be transitory times for MS. They want to expand in online advertising, in gaming, in embedded platforms...at this point probably only Google has close to the same number of projects going on at any one time as Microsoft, most of those not even destined for a real shipped product.
If Microsoft pushes further into hardware, I think it will be because the OEM/desktop model starts to go away and people expect off-the-shelf machines with little customization. Those various gadgets where the first thing a slashdotter says is "pff, no replaceable battery", "why can't I change this or that", etc. Things that aren't flexible, but are sleek, small, easy. Anti-desktops.
I think the real money's in a computer monocle that clips onto your ear and you control one-handed, but that'll be a while, sadly.
I'd never seen that quote. It's a good one. Nice and creepy.
If you were joking, then it's funny, but I sort of think you're serious. So here goes. Most people do not do the things you're talking about. Pimply-faced youths do those things. The big benefit for people with Windows is that it runs Windows software, and they know where to click to launch a browser. The look is not that important. That's "most" people. Out of the XP machines I have worked on for people, *none* of them have had manually set wallpapers. A small amount have wallpapers set from IE. Some change to one that's in the list in the Display dialog. The rest have "Bliss" or a solid color.
It's not that there aren't a lot of people who get wrapped up in fine-tuning those things, but they represent very little of the marketplace. And honestly, eye-candy is the last reason someone should use linux. What good is a rotating cube when your fonts aren't kerned worth a damn? And you can't even screw with them, because it (inevitably) requires screwing around in the bowels of X's font configs?
You can't have the free market without the market part, though. The software itself is not getting charged for (well, not by honest people, outside of eBay, etc).
Sucks for them if you are planning on formatting the drive an installing Ubuntu anyway ;)
Nah, McAfee is publicly traded and they get to brag about how many installs they have, most of which don't last for more than a half hour. Got any mutual funds?
Dude, quit making things up. You can't get a laptop that doesn't have an Intel 900 or 950 chip for graphics. Just doesn't exist :P
Very true. Microsoft, more than anyone, has the resources to put out a PC. But that would be the absolute fastest way to earn the hatred of the OEMs that their business depends on. They make money doing what they do now. There's no reason for them to cannibalize the entire industry.
The OP's comment may not be apples-to-apples, but I thought the joke was insightful -- while most of us here can understand that there's a combination of hardware and OS, and choices every step of the way, for most people, they see a computer with Windows the same as the iMac...a single unit that has everything necessary to do what people expect it to. Cars usually have third-party tires pre-installed, do we call it a tire tax?
I'd be suprised if, at least for the larger OEMs, they don't get most of that money back from MS. Advertising budget, gifts, trips, whatever. I don't think they'd be able to twist the OEMs' arms as tightly as they have in the past if the OEMs didn't feel that they came out ahead.
:D
Of course, it could just be that most of their customers want Windows, and they want to cater to the largest demographic. In both cases, the OEM has made a decision to deal with Microsoft. This isn't like "shopping" for cable service in the face of local monopolies. These companies are in it to make money, and they could make money knitting sweaters if they wanted. We need to realize that, at least to some extent, OEMs are choosing MS. People are choosing those OEMs.
People should be supporting system76 and others like them. People should vote with their wallets. Finally, people should also realize that not everyone is going to vote the same way. Not that MS isn't evil or anything