We were reviewing the Windows 7 WAT service and found a guaranteed way to circumvent the check and retain perpetual license validity and system usability. Buy a Mac or a Linux system. Works every time.
I bought five Mac mini machines with touch screens a few months ago mostly for front-end use with my Linux systems. While I love KDE and GNOME, there is nothing else out there can match the sheer ease and fluidity of the OS X user interface right now. In my little world the Macs do most of the front end work while the Linux boxes do most of the back-end stuff (as well as some front-end stuff both on-console and through TightVNC and JollyFastVNC). Also, OS X has X11 and Telnet/SSH on it and runs as an X-terminal and Telnet terminal for the Linux GUI apps. And there's Safari, FireFox, and Opera for web connectivity and Linux-based web apps from Apache and Tomcat. So it's an insanely great front end for my Linux boxes!
It's kinda fascinating really. I use just to see how waves of the internet ocean bob up and down with hits. Too it's a really fun to watch how all the comments I leave everywhere take on lives of their own and start popping up on servers all over the world.
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We were reviewing the Windows 7 WAT service and found a guaranteed way to circumvent the check and retain perpetual license validity and system usability. Buy a Mac or a Linux system. Works every time.
I bought five Mac mini machines with touch screens a few months ago mostly for front-end use with my Linux systems. While I love KDE and GNOME, there is nothing else out there can match the sheer ease and fluidity of the OS X user interface right now. In my little world the Macs do most of the front end work while the Linux boxes do most of the back-end stuff (as well as some front-end stuff both on-console and through TightVNC and JollyFastVNC). Also, OS X has X11 and Telnet/SSH on it and runs as an X-terminal and Telnet terminal for the Linux GUI apps. And there's Safari, FireFox, and Opera for web connectivity and Linux-based web apps from Apache and Tomcat. So it's an insanely great front end for my Linux boxes!
...from Debian, SuSE, Red Hat. Just insert one of their DVDs and select "Install".
It's kinda fascinating really. I use just to see how waves of the internet ocean bob up and down with hits. Too it's a really fun to watch how all the comments I leave everywhere take on lives of their own and start popping up on servers all over the world.
This means my cell phone in 2009 will finally be able to read those QR graphics on Japanese web pages written in 2004!