Yeah, the size may be, but anybody that has ever done a lick of hardware work on a Mac knows that these screws date all the way back to the original Macintosh. They were hexalobular, but at the time, it was just as hard to find the drivers for them. Apple has been pulling this kind of stuff for years. I used to turn a blind eye to it, but I have just gotten tired of the creeping amount of control they exert over every new iteration of their products. I honestly see them as the biggest threat to free and open computing out there, bigger than Microsoft ever was.
I just set them up with a reliable AV program, and educate them on how viruses are transmitted. They generally prefer that than taking time out of their lives to learn even more IT type stuff that they weren't interested in in the first place to fit some ideology that they could care less about.
There is no all encompassing "Best" solution. Each user is unique. My mother loves her Macbook Pro. My dad is totally enamored with his EEE PC (running Linux). My brother cannot go without his Windows XP based Dell. What I install is based on what I need the system for. I need a server? Linux, in a heartbeat. Gaming system? Windows 7 is whatI am preferring. I would like a Mac for just day to day internet type stuff. Each OS has strengths and weaknesses, and each user prefers different things.
That being said, Unless Macs get cheaper or Linux gets more compatible and easy to use, Windows will continue to dominate the marketplace. Rarely does the technologically superior win, but the easy to use and best marketed.
I would add that when I tried installing Ubuntu a month or so ago on the same laptop, it said my wi-fi card was working, but it would not work. It also would not let me install the proprietary nVidia driver. When I ran the nVidia installer, it broke X.
It is funny you mention this. I brought up dual booting to my wife once. Her reply was "Why should I have to reboot to run my knitting software, that is stupid."
She would rather play "hunt the driver" to make windows work, and KNOW it will work with the software she wants it to work with, than have the hassle of launching a virtualized session or dual booting. I cannot say I blame her.
My favorite is when they get even THAT wrong. "I am not very computer illiterate" meant I was going to spend the next hour doing tech support with somebody that had a level of technical understanding that was surpassed by the Amish.
Not long before he died, my grandfather and I were able to bond over this.
Now, he did not know the first damn thing about computers. Given that he spent most of the first two decades of his life without electricity, I really could not blame him. However, he was a furniture salesman from the 50s through the 70s. I was relating to him some of the frustration of front line tech support, and he told me about some of the things he dealt with back then. Like people calling in because they bought ironing boards, and the ironing board was not ironing their clothes. Or those newfangled microwaves. People would buy them, put the food in, and not understand why the food was not cooking even though they had not turned any dials or pressed any buttons. We shared quite a few laughs over people misunderstanding technologies that are so elementary today a child can use them.
Why install another whole OS, set up virtualization, get windows working and install the quilting application when just installing windows and electric quilt does the same exact thing? Would you ask hypothetical Joe Enduser and reasonably expect him to be successful in this task? He would likely give up in the hour, say his computer is broken, and would have the Geek Squad charging him out the nose to reinstall windows (fix) his computer, and whenever somebody mentioned Linux, would relate his horror stories, turning more users off from ever trying it.
And he would be totally justified in doing so.
Until there is a Linux distro that "just works" as well as an average new windows installation, there will only be niche uptake of Linux.
Bug fixes without having to pay Microsoft through the nose. Although I would hope at this point most enterprises can work around whatever bugs might crop up in relation to their software.
Define a decent try. In my most recent long term attempt, I used Slackware for over a year starting two years ago. I got tired of rebooting to play games, so I dumped it. I recently tried to install various distros on my laptop, and on each one, some hardware would not work. I am now running Windows 7 Beta, and it has better hardware support than any of the distros I tried (Ubuntu, Suse, Slackware, and Fedora).
I like Linux. I really wish it met my needs. But it doesn't, and I am hardly unique in my usage patterns.
Actually, my wife is the Adobe user. For myself (and her as well) it is games. There are still plenty of DX9 games that will not render correctly in WINE, and we will not even start on DX10 support.
You identify the problem yourself however. It does not support all applications 100%. Windows, however, has full native support for Windows applications. To Joe user, it is a no brainer.
Honestly, it is the same reason I have never fully made the switch to Linux. Every time I try (since Slackware 6 was new) there is something that does not work. I already spend 9-10 hours a day making computers work, I don't want to spend all of my free time making my home system work.
The flashbacks also show that they had a choice in their destinies. Each flashback shows pivotal moments that led to the characters being where they were when The Fall came. Had they made other choices, they likely would have died in the holocaust.
Speed, plain and simple. They use the faster drives for whatever regular disk access they need, and stuff that does not get used as much or just does not need that much speed get shuffled off to the slower but larger drives.
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A good command line on any android device is just an app away. Works much better if you root it of course.
As somebody with an even smaller user ID (see what I did there?), I still think you are jumping to conclusions.
http://www.ifixit.com/iPhone-Parts/iPhone-4-Liberation-Kit/IF182-019
There is always a tool for the job.
Yeah, the size may be, but anybody that has ever done a lick of hardware work on a Mac knows that these screws date all the way back to the original Macintosh. They were hexalobular, but at the time, it was just as hard to find the drivers for them. Apple has been pulling this kind of stuff for years. I used to turn a blind eye to it, but I have just gotten tired of the creeping amount of control they exert over every new iteration of their products. I honestly see them as the biggest threat to free and open computing out there, bigger than Microsoft ever was.
And because they do it, and I work from home on a semi-regular basis (using VPN and OWA), almost all of the ads I get are for the company I work for.
It makes me giggle that they are wasting their money.
Yes, it is made from "special" children.
I really don't see this as breaking news, I had a doctor use an EEG in the timeframe of 1988-1990 to diagnose me with ADD.
What, she is a girl so this will not be more than a phase? Great relationship you got going there.
On the technical end, you can build a pretty economical gaming rig on the cheap, and it is going to be worlds better than any shared solution.
I just set them up with a reliable AV program, and educate them on how viruses are transmitted. They generally prefer that than taking time out of their lives to learn even more IT type stuff that they weren't interested in in the first place to fit some ideology that they could care less about.
There is no all encompassing "Best" solution. Each user is unique. My mother loves her Macbook Pro. My dad is totally enamored with his EEE PC (running Linux). My brother cannot go without his Windows XP based Dell. What I install is based on what I need the system for. I need a server? Linux, in a heartbeat. Gaming system? Windows 7 is whatI am preferring. I would like a Mac for just day to day internet type stuff. Each OS has strengths and weaknesses, and each user prefers different things.
That being said, Unless Macs get cheaper or Linux gets more compatible and easy to use, Windows will continue to dominate the marketplace. Rarely does the technologically superior win, but the easy to use and best marketed.
I would add that when I tried installing Ubuntu a month or so ago on the same laptop, it said my wi-fi card was working, but it would not work. It also would not let me install the proprietary nVidia driver. When I ran the nVidia installer, it broke X.
It is funny you mention this. I brought up dual booting to my wife once. Her reply was "Why should I have to reboot to run my knitting software, that is stupid."
She would rather play "hunt the driver" to make windows work, and KNOW it will work with the software she wants it to work with, than have the hassle of launching a virtualized session or dual booting. I cannot say I blame her.
Funny, when I installed XP on a laptop last week, it automatically ran windows update on boot and downloaded enough drivers that everything worked.
Granted, they did not work as well as up to date drivers from the manufacturer, but they worked enough for the average person.
How far did his jaw drop?
My favorite is when they get even THAT wrong. "I am not very computer illiterate" meant I was going to spend the next hour doing tech support with somebody that had a level of technical understanding that was surpassed by the Amish.
Probably because you all speak English over there, not American ;-)
Not long before he died, my grandfather and I were able to bond over this.
Now, he did not know the first damn thing about computers. Given that he spent most of the first two decades of his life without electricity, I really could not blame him. However, he was a furniture salesman from the 50s through the 70s. I was relating to him some of the frustration of front line tech support, and he told me about some of the things he dealt with back then. Like people calling in because they bought ironing boards, and the ironing board was not ironing their clothes. Or those newfangled microwaves. People would buy them, put the food in, and not understand why the food was not cooking even though they had not turned any dials or pressed any buttons. We shared quite a few laughs over people misunderstanding technologies that are so elementary today a child can use them.
Why install another whole OS, set up virtualization, get windows working and install the quilting application when just installing windows and electric quilt does the same exact thing? Would you ask hypothetical Joe Enduser and reasonably expect him to be successful in this task? He would likely give up in the hour, say his computer is broken, and would have the Geek Squad charging him out the nose to reinstall windows (fix) his computer, and whenever somebody mentioned Linux, would relate his horror stories, turning more users off from ever trying it.
And he would be totally justified in doing so.
Until there is a Linux distro that "just works" as well as an average new windows installation, there will only be niche uptake of Linux.
Bug fixes without having to pay Microsoft through the nose. Although I would hope at this point most enterprises can work around whatever bugs might crop up in relation to their software.
Define a decent try. In my most recent long term attempt, I used Slackware for over a year starting two years ago. I got tired of rebooting to play games, so I dumped it. I recently tried to install various distros on my laptop, and on each one, some hardware would not work. I am now running Windows 7 Beta, and it has better hardware support than any of the distros I tried (Ubuntu, Suse, Slackware, and Fedora).
I like Linux. I really wish it met my needs. But it doesn't, and I am hardly unique in my usage patterns.
Ad Hominem? Never on Slashdot!
Actually, my wife is the Adobe user. For myself (and her as well) it is games. There are still plenty of DX9 games that will not render correctly in WINE, and we will not even start on DX10 support.
Until, of course, they try to download the latest Big Fish or PopCap game and it won't even install.
At least until you try to get a Dell wifi card working.
You identify the problem yourself however. It does not support all applications 100%. Windows, however, has full native support for Windows applications. To Joe user, it is a no brainer.
Honestly, it is the same reason I have never fully made the switch to Linux. Every time I try (since Slackware 6 was new) there is something that does not work. I already spend 9-10 hours a day making computers work, I don't want to spend all of my free time making my home system work.
The flashbacks also show that they had a choice in their destinies. Each flashback shows pivotal moments that led to the characters being where they were when The Fall came. Had they made other choices, they likely would have died in the holocaust.
Speed, plain and simple. They use the faster drives for whatever regular disk access they need, and stuff that does not get used as much or just does not need that much speed get shuffled off to the slower but larger drives.