> there are more likely 2 out of 3 people who have 'some' experience in using if not supporting Windows
"running Windows" and supporting it are 2 entirely different things.
All having "run Windows" does is ensure that people will be irrationally reluctant to deal with anything else. It by no means indicates that these people can sort out their own problems with Windows or help anyone that does.
If the machine is outdated, the whole "it runs everything" mantra might not be valid. It might only be able to handle older software that's not sold anymore. The apps are probably much like XP itself. The machine might be fine for "outdated" stuff but not really handle the newer stuff well either because of OS support or the age of the hardware.
When's the last time you saw anyone else's "statistically insignificant" represenatives rioting over this sort of thing?
The sh*t's going on. You really can't spin your way around that.
You could try the same argument on Xian extremists but you would be lacking any video footage that includes riots and burning people in effigy. There are also no equivalents of Death Warrants there either.
...at least make the indoor spaces kind of "themed" with different ships in mind so that you feel like you are on one ship or another with accomodations to match.
If you are cheap, you get a TOS era stateroom.
If you are more spendy, you get a TNG era stateroom.
Having a smart attacker anywhere inside your network is a problem. In a corporate environment, your weakest link is the person sitting in the chair and the biggest problem is social engineering. This is more of an internal threat posed by a determined and dedicated attacker rather than the usual sorts of browse by infections you get from visiting the wrong web site.
Whether or not MacOS is "sturdy" under these conditions seems to be the least important aspect of the entire situation.
The version of Windows you are running already gave away the corporate family jewels remotely already.
Still. Why bother? This box is intended to do something other than what your so-called portable machine can manage. At that point, why bother with having the other box be a dumb peripheral. Just let it be an entirely separate machine. Clearly it doesn't need to be portable. So it can be anything. It doesn't need to be tied to any particular flawed way of doing things.
In truth, a discarded Windows laptop with "no resale value" makes more sense for the typical home use case being described here.
You mean all of the geniuses couldn't find any common links between Las Vegas and Florida?
Really?
You've got to be kidding me.
The first option ARM I saw while the bubble was warming up made it apparent that the pop would be messy. Corporations would cut off the branches they were sitting on and things would get really nasty. All sorts of people were getting loans they couldn't handle in their original form. Never mind what happens when the bankers try to squeeze blood from turnips. The nonsense with muddling such loans with conventional ones was just icing on the cake.
The guys at S&P should be the first ones lined up against the wall when the time comes. They just stole that honor from AIG.
Just because an action seems to play into the hands of Democrats doesn't mean that it was meant to benefit Democrats. It could be intended to hurt teabaggers (or even the congress in general) and only help Democrats by accident.
However, the idea that Wall Street is trying to treat Congress like a puppy that peed on the carpet should not be overlooked.
Mixing junk with non-junk will obviously yield you something that's crap. You're diluting a good risk with a bad risk.
It's f*cking obvious. Why anyone went along with it is mind boggling.
The relevant parties just went along with the sweet talk and flimflam because everyone thought that they could make a buck. So they chose to ignore the obvious.
Some things are obvious and forseeable to anyone with a basic grasp of mathematics.
Training spamassasin is not that big of a deal really. Just automate a process for feeding it new bits of spam to train the filters. You can do this by just designating a standard place for it to look for new examples.
It's Unix. If there are any "chores" then you probably failed to automate something and the solution is probably not that hard.
I've had my own self-hosted email for years. Every so often I wonder if it would make sense to "outsource" it all.
Then there was this rash of accounts being hacked on sites like Yahoo and that entirely cured me of any interest in depending on anyone else for this. I may not be the best mail admin out there but at least I don't have a target painted on my forehead. Whatever headache I have from being my own server admin is mitigated by not needing to explain myself to clueless rubes that think I've started spamming them with malware.
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Most of what people are likely to install is going to be stuff downloaded from the Internet rather than bought from Best Buy.
In this case, Linux has a considerable advantage against Windows.
Usually, the two are one in the same.
It's the mindless cattle that make piss poor teachers. While pleasant at the time, they are ultimately of no long term value.
It helps to have some noticable interest in what you are doing.
> there are more likely 2 out of 3 people who have 'some' experience in using if not supporting Windows
"running Windows" and supporting it are 2 entirely different things.
All having "run Windows" does is ensure that people will be irrationally reluctant to deal with anything else. It by no means indicates that these people can sort out their own problems with Windows or help anyone that does.
If the machine is outdated, the whole "it runs everything" mantra might not be valid. It might only be able to handle older software that's not sold anymore. The apps are probably much like XP itself. The machine might be fine for "outdated" stuff but not really handle the newer stuff well either because of OS support or the age of the hardware.
I use it often as well. It runs circles around VNC. If that's the result of Linux having a poor client, then the performance of VNC is really sad.
The USSR managed to project force plenty well without having the best Naval air power around.
There's more than one way to skin a tiger.
The same comment still applies.
You're still paying for a juiced up version of a movie theatre versus a university, a lab, or a fab.
That is what literacy is period. You just want to move the bar to suit your particular agenda today.
If you decide to move the bar for one measurement, then you have to move it again for the population you don't have an obvious bias against.
That 10% is not literate enough to avoid buying a pulled pork sandwich.
A battleship in a land battle? Bad idea. You will probably frag as many of your friendlies as you do the enemy.
This isn't a siege inside a Chicago office building we would be talking about here.
When's the last time you saw anyone else's "statistically insignificant" represenatives rioting over this sort of thing?
The sh*t's going on. You really can't spin your way around that.
You could try the same argument on Xian extremists but you would be lacking any video footage that includes riots and burning people in effigy. There are also no equivalents of Death Warrants there either.
Or they could have invested in "geek things" in ways that aren't purely for entertainment.
Stupid? You mean in making Jewish geeks (and geeks in general) travel to Jordan? Or did you mean something else?
Wonder if anyone has told Nimoy yet?
...at least make the indoor spaces kind of "themed" with different ships in mind so that you feel like you are on one ship or another with accomodations to match.
If you are cheap, you get a TOS era stateroom.
If you are more spendy, you get a TNG era stateroom.
"marathon. That's a word with a greek base."
I rather doubt the Greeks mind having things named after them.
Having a smart attacker anywhere inside your network is a problem. In a corporate environment, your weakest link is the person sitting in the chair and the biggest problem is social engineering. This is more of an internal threat posed by a determined and dedicated attacker rather than the usual sorts of browse by infections you get from visiting the wrong web site.
Whether or not MacOS is "sturdy" under these conditions seems to be the least important aspect of the entire situation.
The version of Windows you are running already gave away the corporate family jewels remotely already.
The key limiting factor here is whether the GPU of your choice is supported (and fully so).
Still. Why bother? This box is intended to do something other than what your so-called portable machine can manage. At that point, why bother with having the other box be a dumb peripheral. Just let it be an entirely separate machine. Clearly it doesn't need to be portable. So it can be anything. It doesn't need to be tied to any particular flawed way of doing things.
In truth, a discarded Windows laptop with "no resale value" makes more sense for the typical home use case being described here.
So would any random PC with PCI* expansion slots.
You mean all of the geniuses couldn't find any common links between Las Vegas and Florida?
Really?
You've got to be kidding me.
The first option ARM I saw while the bubble was warming up made it apparent that the pop would be messy. Corporations would cut off the branches they were sitting on and things would get really nasty. All sorts of people were getting loans they couldn't handle in their original form. Never mind what happens when the bankers try to squeeze blood from turnips. The nonsense with muddling such loans with conventional ones was just icing on the cake.
The guys at S&P should be the first ones lined up against the wall when the time comes. They just stole that honor from AIG.
That is not an opinion.
It is a fact.
Instead of letting the free market decide, Apple wants to litigate instead. There is no rhetoric you can use to weasel out of this one.
Apple chooses to do evil to benefit itself and to the harm of the users everywhere.
Where is Tron when you need him?
You can cut off your nose to spite your face.
Just because an action seems to play into the hands of Democrats doesn't mean that it was meant to benefit Democrats. It could be intended to hurt teabaggers (or even the congress in general) and only help Democrats by accident.
However, the idea that Wall Street is trying to treat Congress like a puppy that peed on the carpet should not be overlooked.
Bullshit.
Mixing junk with non-junk will obviously yield you something that's crap. You're diluting a good risk with a bad risk.
It's f*cking obvious. Why anyone went along with it is mind boggling.
The relevant parties just went along with the sweet talk and flimflam because everyone thought that they could make a buck. So they chose to ignore the obvious.
Some things are obvious and forseeable to anyone with a basic grasp of mathematics.
This is just a red herring.
Gartner doesn't evaluate debt and it's decisions aren't then acted upon by governments and pension plans.
Gartner is like a PC game company when compared to something like a DB vendor like Oracle or a mainframe vendor like IBM.
A lot less is riding on Gartner's result. The "analogy" is entirely bogus.
Training spamassasin is not that big of a deal really. Just automate a process for feeding it new bits of spam to train the filters. You can do this by just designating a standard place for it to look for new examples.
It's Unix. If there are any "chores" then you probably failed to automate something and the solution is probably not that hard.
I've had my own self-hosted email for years. Every so often I wonder if it would make sense to "outsource" it all.
Then there was this rash of accounts being hacked on sites like Yahoo and that entirely cured me of any interest in depending on anyone else for this. I may not be the best mail admin out there but at least I don't have a target painted on my forehead. Whatever headache I have from being my own server admin is mitigated by not needing to explain myself to clueless rubes that think I've started spamming them with malware.
Yes. That works just great for iLife or MCE.