Even if I did have the right hardware and drivers to support the XGL eye candy, I'd turn it off after a few minutes. That stuff might be fun to look at, but it gets old fast. "Themes" and related eye candy are entertainment for people with nothing else to do. The real value of Linux for me is that it makes it much easier to get my work done.
Dells are manufactured in China, are they banned too? Lenovo has been making IBM laptops for years under the IBM name. Does the security risk depend on who's name is glued to the outside?
"In politics, absurdity is not a handicap."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm not exactly sure what you're saying, but if you're implying that having a loud 4-way would be hot, then I'd have to agree with you, though I think I'd prefer bad girs rather than boys. The only thing I don't understand is what this has to do with a manor.
I'm a fan of AMD, but I have to say my IBM T40 (which has a 1.6x GHz Pentium M and runs Fedora 4) is very snappy, and I've never had a heavy-use problem like the one you're describing. I often run very processor intensive, 1/2 day long unit tests on this machine, without any problem at all. I'd say it performs on par with my 2.6 GHz P4 desktop, except perhaps in disk speed.
When I was in school, the PDP-11 hard drives where the size of a washing machine. They had clear covers, and the platters were removable (swappable.) The best part was that, if you carefully programed the heavy read/write head so that it rythmically moved from the inside of the platters to the outside, you could make the entire enclosure rock back and forth. And if you were lucky, that would cause it to "walk" across the computer room floor. Lots of good cheer from that one.
For me a laptop is merely a shell terminal to log-in to some other box
So it doesn't sound like you'll be needing to upgrade then. A five year old laptop would work fine for that application. Some people, though, actualy do work on their laptop.
At least at my company. When we started out, we were building a Java application server for Unix patforms, which mostly meant Suns. We couldn't afford Sun workstations for every developer though, so we used Windows on cheap Dells for development. Once a JDK appeared for Linux many developers dumped Windows and installed Linux on their Dells. After a few years of Java-on-Linux development, Linux moved from an unsupported skunk-works OS in our organization to a platform officially supported both internally by IT and as a deployment platform for our customers. Lucky for us, when our customers started asking for Linux support, we'd already had two years experience with out product on that platform.
Without a decent JDK for Linux, I'd probably still be developing on Windows, and my company certainly wouldn't claim Linux support.
I use Linux on my Thinkpad, and have a powerbook as well. I like them both a lot, but do have problems with Linux occasionally after updates. Like, for example, when Fedora recently changed the suspend script but neglected to update X to point to the new suspend script. Why?
Anyway, I don't think it's fair to say that an OS is not Unix because tar (or whatever) doesn't backup file attributes. It's unfortunate, but most Mac users wouldn't care. It's GNU tar, so you could probably fix it if you really wanted to.
This wasn't supposed to be a troll. In the past GNOME's terminal program was so slow it was slowing down my compiles (you can google 'gnome terminal slow' to see how many people had a problem with this.) This problem is what caused me to try out KDE in the first place. In any case, I just googled it myself and apparently the GNOME terminal has been fixed and is now quite fast. So I take back the that part of my post.
There's not a single KDE app that I can think of that I would want to use
KDE's Konsole is clearly superior to GNOME's terminal app, which is achingly slow. Fedora, a GNOME-centric distribution, has recognized that fact by making Konsole the terminal app on GNOME (desktop right-click->New Terminal). And GNOME has nothing to compare to Konqueror.
One interesting question related to this seems to be, at what point does it become ethical for a country to ignore patent laws to save its citizenry? How many people have to be threatened to make it acceptable?
Tiwan is acting in the face of a pandemic. What about less widespread, but equally fatal diseases? For example, why isn't it equally ethical for a country to ignore patent laws for cancer drugs? Why hasn't this already been done for AIDS drugs?
I'm all for this, by the way. I hope this emboldens other countries to do the right thing for its citizens.
The vast majority of programming languages are case sensitive, it's not just Java. Perhaps if you only know VB or PHP then the subtleties of case sensitivity may be too much, but case insensitivity in a language strikes me (and I'd guess most other programmers) as a recipe for sloppy code.
I find it hard to believe that someone with a Perl background is complaining that Ruby has a quirky syntax. I think if you spend a little more time with Ruby you'll find that it has a nice, well thought-out syntax. I think you'll also come to think of Perl as the real quirky language.
Apparently your "brain" hasn't realized yet that THIS IS JUST A GAME! Most games, including Doom/Quake, are even more implausable, but I don't see people whining about that.
Americans for Technology Leadership was founded by Jonathan Zuck in 1999 as a "grassroots" organisations for concerned consumers who want less regulation in the technology sector. It also campaigns on general tech issues such as spam.
It has been frequently described as a Microsoft front group.
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That joke just never gets old, does it Larry?
Even if I did have the right hardware and drivers to support the XGL eye candy, I'd turn it off after a few minutes. That stuff might be fun to look at, but it gets old fast. "Themes" and related eye candy are entertainment for people with nothing else to do. The real value of Linux for me is that it makes it much easier to get my work done.
If you can't play games, then what is the point of stuffing a fast dual core CPU in there?
Some people use computers to do work
Dells are manufactured in China, are they banned too? Lenovo has been making IBM laptops for years under the IBM name. Does the security risk depend on who's name is glued to the outside?
"In politics, absurdity is not a handicap."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
I'm not exactly sure what you're saying, but if you're implying that having a loud 4-way would be hot, then I'd have to agree with you, though I think I'd prefer bad girs rather than boys. The only thing I don't understand is what this has to do with a manor.
Have you looked at http://www.zimbra.com?
'yum install xmms-mp3'
Wow, you're right. That was hard.
TiVo also runs on a Linux box. And as others have pointed out, you can scheduule TiVo via a web browser.
I'm a fan of AMD, but I have to say my IBM T40 (which has a 1.6x GHz Pentium M and runs Fedora 4) is very snappy, and I've never had a heavy-use problem like the one you're describing. I often run very processor intensive, 1/2 day long unit tests on this machine, without any problem at all. I'd say it performs on par with my 2.6 GHz P4 desktop, except perhaps in disk speed.
When I was in school, the PDP-11 hard drives where the size of a washing machine. They had clear covers, and the platters were removable (swappable.) The best part was that, if you carefully programed the heavy read/write head so that it rythmically moved from the inside of the platters to the outside, you could make the entire enclosure rock back and forth. And if you were lucky, that would cause it to "walk" across the computer room floor. Lots of good cheer from that one.
there's no real advantage to dual-core in a desktop
That statement doesn't make any sense, unless you're assuming that a dual core chip is the same price as two single-core chips, which is false.
For me a laptop is merely a shell terminal to log-in to some other box
So it doesn't sound like you'll be needing to upgrade then. A five year old laptop would work fine for that application. Some people, though, actualy do work on their laptop.
At least at my company. When we started out, we were building a Java application server for Unix patforms, which mostly meant Suns. We couldn't afford Sun workstations for every developer though, so we used Windows on cheap Dells for development. Once a JDK appeared for Linux many developers dumped Windows and installed Linux on their Dells. After a few years of Java-on-Linux development, Linux moved from an unsupported skunk-works OS in our organization to a platform officially supported both internally by IT and as a deployment platform for our customers. Lucky for us, when our customers started asking for Linux support, we'd already had two years experience with out product on that platform.
Without a decent JDK for Linux, I'd probably still be developing on Windows, and my company certainly wouldn't claim Linux support.
I'm worried that conformity in this issue area will reduce competition and stifle innovation.
How the hell can AMD be making such better chips and companies like Dell still selling Intel powered crap?
That's easy: Marketing
I use Linux on my Thinkpad, and have a powerbook as well. I like them both a lot, but do have problems with Linux occasionally after updates. Like, for example, when Fedora recently changed the suspend script but neglected to update X to point to the new suspend script. Why?
Anyway, I don't think it's fair to say that an OS is not Unix because tar (or whatever) doesn't backup file attributes. It's unfortunate, but most Mac users wouldn't care. It's GNU tar, so you could probably fix it if you really wanted to.
This wasn't supposed to be a troll. In the past GNOME's terminal program was so slow it was slowing down my compiles (you can google 'gnome terminal slow' to see how many people had a problem with this.) This problem is what caused me to try out KDE in the first place. In any case, I just googled it myself and apparently the GNOME terminal has been fixed and is now quite fast. So I take back the that part of my post.
There's not a single KDE app that I can think of that I would want to use
KDE's Konsole is clearly superior to GNOME's terminal app, which is achingly slow. Fedora, a GNOME-centric distribution, has recognized that fact by making Konsole the terminal app on GNOME (desktop right-click->New Terminal). And GNOME has nothing to compare to Konqueror.
I just switched to SuSE because I prefer KDE. GNOME strikes me as cobbled together and amateurish. Oh well, there is http://kubuntu.org/
One interesting question related to this seems to be, at what point does it become ethical for a country to ignore patent laws to save its citizenry? How many people have to be threatened to make it acceptable?
Tiwan is acting in the face of a pandemic. What about less widespread, but equally fatal diseases? For example, why isn't it equally ethical for a country to ignore patent laws for cancer drugs? Why hasn't this already been done for AIDS drugs?
I'm all for this, by the way. I hope this emboldens other countries to do the right thing for its citizens.
The vast majority of programming languages are case sensitive, it's not just Java. Perhaps if you only know VB or PHP then the subtleties of case sensitivity may be too much, but case insensitivity in a language strikes me (and I'd guess most other programmers) as a recipe for sloppy code.
I find it hard to believe that someone with a Perl background is complaining that Ruby has a quirky syntax. I think if you spend a little more time with Ruby you'll find that it has a nice, well thought-out syntax. I think you'll also come to think of Perl as the real quirky language.
4) Enough, already, my brain hurts!
Apparently your "brain" hasn't realized yet that THIS IS JUST A GAME! Most games, including Doom/Quake, are even more implausable, but I don't see people whining about that.
From http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=America ns_for_Technology_Leadership
Americans for Technology Leadership was founded by Jonathan Zuck in 1999 as a "grassroots" organisations for concerned consumers who want less regulation in the technology sector. It also campaigns on general tech issues such as spam.
It has been frequently described as a Microsoft front group.
ATL's domain name, techleadership.org, is registered to the Association for Competitive Technology. The site is hosted by Thomas E. Stock and Thomas J. Synhorst's LLC, TSE Enterprises. Synhorst is a founding member of the DCI Group, a Washington DC-based strategic consulting and lobbying firm which has counted Microsoft as a prime client for a number of years.
It's worth it, for the better network performance