Anecdote time! Just before checking slashdot today I took a second to read the fine print in my local cable company's latest ad for cable internet access. On all plans 2-year contracts are required. Period. Can't get internet otherwise through them. Oh, and they are the only cable provider in the county.
That doesn't sound right. How do they expect to deliver internet service to people who rent apartments and plan on living there for less than 2 years? Is the cable company going to not sell them internet - and loose profit - because of this? Most of these "deals" that are advertised require contracts ("Get the first 6 months for $20/month with 2 year commitment - for new customers only"), but the regular internet plans don't.
I have a laptop running Ubuntu with 1GB RAM. I didn't know how much swap space I should havve, and I didn't want to use 2 GB of my 60GB HDD on a unused swap partition. I made the partition 487.20MB and right now I'm only using about 7MB of that and my laptop has an uptime of 14 hours. I have heard that you should set the swap space greater than or equal to the amount of RAM - especially if you are planning on hibernating your laptop.
Although the commercial had nothing to do with Windows, I thought it was quite hilarious. I especially liked the part when Bill flashed his Shoe Circus club member card. Priceless.
While this may be a well suited way of emulation for developers (although nothing can beat a real pure Linux install), I just don't see the point for end users. Considering that most Linux applications are also ported to Windows, there isn't any real use for the average user. And I know some people here are going to say that the ports are not as quick or executed as well as the Linux counterpart, but doesn't the bloat of this virtualized Linux-in-Windows system outweigh the crappyness of the Windows port?
The article said that the teacher didn't know anything about those claims. I'm sure there is something else behind this. Maybe the administration didn't like his personality or teaching techniques.
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Oh Ubuntu you are my favorite Linux-based operating system.
Anecdote time! Just before checking slashdot today I took a second to read the fine print in my local cable company's latest ad for cable internet access. On all plans 2-year contracts are required. Period. Can't get internet otherwise through them. Oh, and they are the only cable provider in the county.
That doesn't sound right. How do they expect to deliver internet service to people who rent apartments and plan on living there for less than 2 years? Is the cable company going to not sell them internet - and loose profit - because of this?
Most of these "deals" that are advertised require contracts ("Get the first 6 months for $20/month with 2 year commitment - for new customers only"), but the regular internet plans don't.
I have a laptop running Ubuntu with 1GB RAM. I didn't know how much swap space I should havve, and I didn't want to use 2 GB of my 60GB HDD on a unused swap partition. I made the partition 487.20MB and right now I'm only using about 7MB of that and my laptop has an uptime of 14 hours.
I have heard that you should set the swap space greater than or equal to the amount of RAM - especially if you are planning on hibernating your laptop.
Although the commercial had nothing to do with Windows, I thought it was quite hilarious. I especially liked the part when Bill flashed his Shoe Circus club member card. Priceless.
That would be a great way to overwhelm the average user. Even more so than the 6 editions of Vista.
I still pay attention, but there is a lot of dead time in class (professor helping classmates with their JCL errors), and I love browsing /.
I'm taking a Cobol class as we speak (literally... I'm in class)
Now Ken, We all know that the moon is not made of green cheese.
Yes, that's true, Harry.
But what if it were made of barbecue spare ribs. Would you eat it then?
What?
I know I would. Heck, I'd have seconds. Then polish it off with a tall, cool Budweiser. I would do it.
Yeah.
Would you?
I'm confused.
It's a simple question, doctor. Would ya eat the moon if it were made of ribs?
I, uh... I don't... I don't know how to answer that, Harry.
It's not rocket science. Just say yes and we'll move on.
While this may be a well suited way of emulation for developers (although nothing can beat a real pure Linux install), I just don't see the point for end users. Considering that most Linux applications are also ported to Windows, there isn't any real use for the average user. And I know some people here are going to say that the ports are not as quick or executed as well as the Linux counterpart, but doesn't the bloat of this virtualized Linux-in-Windows system outweigh the crappyness of the Windows port?
The article said that the teacher didn't know anything about those claims. I'm sure there is something else behind this. Maybe the administration didn't like his personality or teaching techniques.
Link doesn't seem to be working, I get a 404 error.