Which is why they believe multi-core is the way to go. However, I rather they strike a balance between processing power and energy savings by turning off the extra cores not being used. Intel is able to do this, not sure about AMD's.
It maybe simple thing but the problem was due to Microsoft's lack of proper testing before they released it to the public. So yes we paid them to be their beta tester!!
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You can actually install the Lightning add-on for Thunderbird which will give you calender functions. I totally agree Evolution suck a$$ and do wish they make Thunderbird de facto standard just like Firefox.
What is really nice about Thunderbird the fact there are Linux and Windows versions which can both read the SAME data files without any kind of conversion. Really slick. I was doing that for awhile until I finally weaned myself off of WinXP for good.
Yep and I've noticed lately that every month whenever there is a windows update the stupid WGA thing would pop up. Very annoying for somebody who deals with PCs all day long and the shop is 100% legit. Sheesh
Seems Microsoft is getting worried now about losing revenue due to Linux and whatnot. It's their restrictive practices is making me want to scream, "I wish we're all Linux shop!". Ah well. It's a curse which I have to live with since my users won't really want to deal with a new operating system and we're 99% WinXP shop.
Like I said.. E-MAILS.. You insensitive clod. I didn't say anything about browsers being a problem for most people.
Ever notice when you use something like Thunderbird or Outlook it doesn't give you the full preview window so it truncate things? That's the problem I'm talking about.
The biggest problem with long URLs would be in e-mails as they usually get word wrapped. So when they click on it may not properly cut/paste the full URL into the default browser.
Every try cut and pasting this LONG URL from e-mail to the browser if you're using a small monitor, i.e. laptop?
I've seen people converted their old cars into all electric using powerful electric motors. One of em was converted into a dragster!! The original design they used rubber belt to drive the wheels. When the guy floored it the main drive belt broke due to massive amount of torque!!
I was like awesome!!
Telsa is giving something the public wanted a real electric car people can buy today. Other people find an old car and convert it to electric themselves which isn't hard to do. Just rip out the gasoline engine and reuse the manual transmission with the electric motor attached. And finally add batteries. Pretty simple setup. I suppose by now they wouldn't need the manual transmission if the motor can provide all the torque they need at any speeds. The manual transmission makes it easier to use a smaller motor.
I wish you best of luck of writing the book as many folks can follow your examples.
I've been a Windows user for years until the past 6 months which I switched to Ubuntu. Eventually I will dump Ubuntu in favor of more robust OS like OpenSolaris or Gentoo. Don't spend alot of time covering Ubuntu as there are a million books for it. Just stick to the basics.
I have to give credit for folks at Ubuntu giving it a nice OS for the masses. But it's not the only linux distro out there.
I always picture Linux or FreeBSD (Unix) as a server platform. A Desktop Manager is a nice added bonus.
There is no shame in using Windows to manage a Linux server. None-what-so-ever at all. Look at Webmin...the name in itself says it all.
- There are too many distros with too many proprietary ways of doing things. Too many proprietary repositories, too many proprietary package systems, to many proprietary filesystem layouts.
You're right about that point. I think we reached to a point that standardization is needed to make things seamless as possible when installing or adding codecs to any flavor of Linux.
This is something Mac OS-X and Windows excel at. Mac OS-X isn't bad but it's not free nor is Windows. I want free software knowing I can install it on a million PCs without digging up a friggin license key.
I've donated money to opensource software before and will continue to do so long as they continue to give me the freedom I enjoy having.
I use pfSense which is based on FreeBSD and it's damn stable.
Now with Debian wanted to offer folks the choice of which two completely different kernels at boot time is kinda scary to me.
Kinda like offering folks the choice of booting Windows 98 and Vista despite the fact most programs will run just fine. Just certain unknowns will bite people in the ass.
I think Gene Roddenberry will haunt Abrams if he really screwed it up which I think he will since the latest movie is totally different from what we're used to seeing for the past 20 years.
Problem is the new Star Trek movie is too much like Fast and Fury which won't be appealing to older audience. Young audience might like it but I think the movie overall will fail.
Yep, my grandfather ordered a Acer laptop that was on sale and it was loaded with Vista Basic. First thing I did was made a image copy of it..whacked it..and then installed Ubuntu 8.10. He never realized what happened long as he can click on firefox and he's happy.
What I find this ironic the fact when I recently installed Windows XP with SP3 as a test PC I didn't put in the license code thinking I got 30 days to activate it.
Well, it wasn't until recently that Microsoft started to be dickheads and pushed this "This copy of windows isn't licensed...please activate now!" I was like get off my ass, it's just a test PC I want to test some software so STFU already! Even though I do have my own VLK via Technet I didn't feel like activating it. A year ago when SP3 first came out I was like oh damn cool that I don't have to enter the keys during install and let it bug me to activate it within 30 days. Now they put a stupid banner on the lower right screen saying it's not legit!!!
Ok Microsoft, I know you're trying to cut down on piracy but with this tatic it forces us to use hacked software just to make the damn thing go away.
Least to say I stopped using Windows and started using Ubuntu more often now. Runs like a dream!
That is pretty much what we do now when we buy new PCs from Dell. We'd order Office 2007 Basic with Adobe so this way the total cost is part of the cost of buying a PC for a user.
Naturally we would have gone open license of Microsoft but at the time we didn't think we would be purchasing so many PCs in short period of time.
It's really a hard sell for a small company so it's just easier to say it cost this much to buy the PC which includes licensed software.
Naturally if I had my way...everybody go Linux but our software only works in Windows and there is no alternative FOSS for it.
I run DD-WRT on my WRT54G as a wireless access point. Two things I did first was change the default username and password. And disable web-admin access via the wireless if they ever break my WPA2 encryption.
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Which is why they believe multi-core is the way to go. However, I rather they strike a balance between processing power and energy savings by turning off the extra cores not being used. Intel is able to do this, not sure about AMD's.
Betcha Tom's Hardware Guide will be eager to test their claim soon.
You know what they say...
"What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!"
It maybe simple thing but the problem was due to Microsoft's lack of proper testing before they released it to the public. So yes we paid them to be their beta tester!!
You can actually install the Lightning add-on for Thunderbird which will give you calender functions. I totally agree Evolution suck a$$ and do wish they make Thunderbird de facto standard just like Firefox.
What is really nice about Thunderbird the fact there are Linux and Windows versions which can both read the SAME data files without any kind of conversion. Really slick. I was doing that for awhile until I finally weaned myself off of WinXP for good.
Yep and I've noticed lately that every month whenever there is a windows update the stupid WGA thing would pop up. Very annoying for somebody who deals with PCs all day long and the shop is 100% legit. Sheesh
Seems Microsoft is getting worried now about losing revenue due to Linux and whatnot. It's their restrictive practices is making me want to scream, "I wish we're all Linux shop!". Ah well. It's a curse which I have to live with since my users won't really want to deal with a new operating system and we're 99% WinXP shop.
Like I said.. E-MAILS.. You insensitive clod. I didn't say anything about browsers being a problem for most people.
Ever notice when you use something like Thunderbird or Outlook it doesn't give you the full preview window so it truncate things? That's the problem I'm talking about.
The biggest problem with long URLs would be in e-mails as they usually get word wrapped. So when they click on it may not properly cut/paste the full URL into the default browser.
Every try cut and pasting this LONG URL from e-mail to the browser if you're using a small monitor, i.e. laptop?
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=37.827041~-122.422875&style=h&lvl=18&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1
I've seen people converted their old cars into all electric using powerful electric motors. One of em was converted into a dragster!! The original design they used rubber belt to drive the wheels. When the guy floored it the main drive belt broke due to massive amount of torque!!
I was like awesome!!
Telsa is giving something the public wanted a real electric car people can buy today. Other people find an old car and convert it to electric themselves which isn't hard to do. Just rip out the gasoline engine and reuse the manual transmission with the electric motor attached. And finally add batteries. Pretty simple setup. I suppose by now they wouldn't need the manual transmission if the motor can provide all the torque they need at any speeds. The manual transmission makes it easier to use a smaller motor.
I've been always been told that my modern day calculator got more horsepower than that first computer back in the day!!
I wish you best of luck of writing the book as many folks can follow your examples.
I've been a Windows user for years until the past 6 months which I switched to Ubuntu. Eventually I will dump Ubuntu in favor of more robust OS like OpenSolaris or Gentoo. Don't spend alot of time covering Ubuntu as there are a million books for it. Just stick to the basics.
I have to give credit for folks at Ubuntu giving it a nice OS for the masses. But it's not the only linux distro out there.
I always picture Linux or FreeBSD (Unix) as a server platform. A Desktop Manager is a nice added bonus.
There is no shame in using Windows to manage a Linux server. None-what-so-ever at all. Look at Webmin...the name in itself says it all.
- There are too many distros with too many proprietary ways of doing things. Too many proprietary repositories, too many proprietary package systems, to many proprietary filesystem layouts.
You're right about that point. I think we reached to a point that standardization is needed to make things seamless as possible when installing or adding codecs to any flavor of Linux.
This is something Mac OS-X and Windows excel at. Mac OS-X isn't bad but it's not free nor is Windows. I want free software knowing I can install it on a million PCs without digging up a friggin license key.
I've donated money to opensource software before and will continue to do so long as they continue to give me the freedom I enjoy having.
I use pfSense which is based on FreeBSD and it's damn stable.
Now with Debian wanted to offer folks the choice of which two completely different kernels at boot time is kinda scary to me.
Kinda like offering folks the choice of booting Windows 98 and Vista despite the fact most programs will run just fine. Just certain unknowns will bite people in the ass.
Dragging their kids to the movies?
Is this like brainwashing?
I think Gene Roddenberry will haunt Abrams if he really screwed it up which I think he will since the latest movie is totally different from what we're used to seeing for the past 20 years.
Problem is the new Star Trek movie is too much like Fast and Fury which won't be appealing to older audience. Young audience might like it but I think the movie overall will fail.
I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 and PTPP VPN works fine with the VPN at work which is running Windows 2003 Server.
There is a bug in the network manager that handles the VPN connections in Ubuntu. They fixed that in 9.4.
So give it another try. Google it!
I oughta start a new company called:
Off-Planet backups where I'd use the moon to store your precious data!
Only three things I'd have to worry about would be:
1) Aliens (if they are out there)
2) Meteors
3) Solar Flairs
Other than that pretty solid plan to me!
Yep, my grandfather ordered a Acer laptop that was on sale and it was loaded with Vista Basic. First thing I did was made a image copy of it..whacked it..and then installed Ubuntu 8.10. He never realized what happened long as he can click on firefox and he's happy.
What I find this ironic the fact when I recently installed Windows XP with SP3 as a test PC I didn't put in the license code thinking I got 30 days to activate it.
Well, it wasn't until recently that Microsoft started to be dickheads and pushed this "This copy of windows isn't licensed...please activate now!" I was like get off my ass, it's just a test PC I want to test some software so STFU already! Even though I do have my own VLK via Technet I didn't feel like activating it. A year ago when SP3 first came out I was like oh damn cool that I don't have to enter the keys during install and let it bug me to activate it within 30 days. Now they put a stupid banner on the lower right screen saying it's not legit!!!
Ok Microsoft, I know you're trying to cut down on piracy but with this tatic it forces us to use hacked software just to make the damn thing go away.
Least to say I stopped using Windows and started using Ubuntu more often now. Runs like a dream!
That is pretty much what we do now when we buy new PCs from Dell. We'd order Office 2007 Basic with Adobe so this way the total cost is part of the cost of buying a PC for a user.
Naturally we would have gone open license of Microsoft but at the time we didn't think we would be purchasing so many PCs in short period of time.
It's really a hard sell for a small company so it's just easier to say it cost this much to buy the PC which includes licensed software.
Naturally if I had my way...everybody go Linux but our software only works in Windows and there is no alternative FOSS for it.
Ummm...then it doesn't really fix the problem..just annoyed buncha users! LOL
I run DD-WRT on my WRT54G as a wireless access point. Two things I did first was change the default username and password. And disable web-admin access via the wireless if they ever break my WPA2 encryption.
Pretty safe to me.
Look at the info from the above link....I pasted it in here for you:
http://dronebl.org/blog/8
I'd imagine the password would be either "password" or "123456"