Until you've used an actual quiet machine, you have no idea how fucking annoying PC fan noise is. And I type this from one (a haswell box built 2 months ago) sitting right next to me, pissing me the fuck off. With a 2 month old case with 200 mm fan in the top.
OS X is not FreeBSD. The FreeBSD part(s) of OS X are actually largely irrelevant as far as the actual application framework(s) are concerned (when it was still NextSTEP, it was all 4.4(?) BSD). Until there's a decent open source competitor to Cocoa and the other apple frameworks, Linux application development is going to continue to lag.
In the real world, people have tasks they wish to accomplish, and buy the product(s) that enable them to do the tasks they want to do. I vote with my money for the entity which enables me to do the things i want to do. Not piss it away on ideology.
Its not keeping up very well at all. Though i hear development is moving along a bit faster and there is a kickstarter campaign for it. To get it up to par with 10.6 or 10.7 at some point in the future. Meanwhile, apple has 10.9 out the door and shows no signs of stopping. And those aren't just version number bumps for marketing's sake, there is real development going on there.
Sounds like you didn't choose your hardware properly. If we're going to use that argument for Linux, where hardware selection is FAR MORE CRITICAL then bitching about windows not working on the wrong hardware is just as invalid.
Too bad friends are playing totally other stuff, and gaming has moved on from single player solitary activity to multiplayer with friends. Yes i have GOG as well, but the vast majority of my time is spent shooting people in the face with friends in Borderlands, etc.
A basic "Linux firewall" without a competent admin to do deep packet inspection, http content inspection, etc. is not worth shit in today's threat landscape. Unless the XP box in question is headless and never used to retrieve content from the internet (in which case, firewall is superfluous)....
ISPs are not a charity, they are a business. Business exists to make money. Deal with it. If your politicians are doing favours, it is your politicians that is where the evil lies.
This is 2013 and we live in the richest nation in the world
Actually you live in the most indebted nation in the history of the world. ergo, you do not live in the "richest nation in the world" despite what your politicians would have you believe.
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Until you've used an actual quiet machine, you have no idea how fucking annoying PC fan noise is. And I type this from one (a haswell box built 2 months ago) sitting right next to me, pissing me the fuck off. With a 2 month old case with 200 mm fan in the top.
Uh.... apple support = take machine to apple store, obtain replacement, restore from time machine backup. Not 2 weeks. That day, generally.
OS X is not FreeBSD. The FreeBSD part(s) of OS X are actually largely irrelevant as far as the actual application framework(s) are concerned (when it was still NextSTEP, it was all 4.4(?) BSD). Until there's a decent open source competitor to Cocoa and the other apple frameworks, Linux application development is going to continue to lag.
In the real world, people have tasks they wish to accomplish, and buy the product(s) that enable them to do the tasks they want to do. I vote with my money for the entity which enables me to do the things i want to do. Not piss it away on ideology.
Its not keeping up very well at all. Though i hear development is moving along a bit faster and there is a kickstarter campaign for it. To get it up to par with 10.6 or 10.7 at some point in the future. Meanwhile, apple has 10.9 out the door and shows no signs of stopping. And those aren't just version number bumps for marketing's sake, there is real development going on there.
Or indeed, the rest of Cocoa.
Sounds like you didn't choose your hardware properly. If we're going to use that argument for Linux, where hardware selection is FAR MORE CRITICAL then bitching about windows not working on the wrong hardware is just as invalid.
msiexec /i /q foo.msi
But hey, lets not let the truth get in the way of a nice windows rant.
Have you not heard of msiexec?
Too bad friends are playing totally other stuff, and gaming has moved on from single player solitary activity to multiplayer with friends. Yes i have GOG as well, but the vast majority of my time is spent shooting people in the face with friends in Borderlands, etc.
No, you would have ended up with an MBA or an iMac.
I have literally thrown out Windows 7 capable hardware. 12 months ago.
Windows 7 x64 does not support 16 bit Windows software. The 16 bit subsystem is REMOVED. Most true Windows 95 software is 32 bit.
not so strange. the 68000 was 32 bit internally with a 16 bit IO bus. As was the 386SX.
In other words, yes, the 8088 was a "16 bit" CPU,albeit with a slow external bus.
A basic "Linux firewall" without a competent admin to do deep packet inspection, http content inspection, etc. is not worth shit in today's threat landscape. Unless the XP box in question is headless and never used to retrieve content from the internet (in which case, firewall is superfluous)....
They already offer a for-money patch. It's called Vista, 7 or 8.
Malware is self replicating. Windows isn't. In fact it has safeguards built into it against replication.
I'm sure that will work well with the VOIP I use the machine for.
So you mean 2 extra steps then? One to open the cover, and another step to close the default app when I want to use something else instead?
Try keeping Ubuntu up to date. The individual downloads aren't as big but they are every day.
ISPs are not a charity, they are a business. Business exists to make money. Deal with it. If your politicians are doing favours, it is your politicians that is where the evil lies.
Actually you live in the most indebted nation in the history of the world. ergo, you do not live in the "richest nation in the world" despite what your politicians would have you believe.
... i foiled a global internet attack that would have caused routers the world over to explode. just prove i didn't, right?
Also Netapp, Juniper, Bluecoat...