Mozilla is one HUGE application. It is grindingly slow and painful, IE is lean and mean comparatively.
For a while Netscape 4.7x communicator was all that was available for AIX, Solaris etc. Firefox has changed things, and gained market share.
I used to use netscape 3.x back in the early days, then switched to IE because it was there by default, and also because Netscape 4.x was too slow for my brand new hardware. Browsing has to be fast, and most people multitask it with other things, so it shouldnt take 100% of your memory. I then started using Opera as soon as that was available, and now back to Firefox.
I'm not alone.
Many others who were capable of downloading and installing Netscape didnt for its size alone. I just hate to see Firefox called Mozilla because theres a big difference. Sure they share code but the philosophy is different.
I hope they completely dump the entire mozilla browser and continue the firefox line, and even produce something thats smaller, leaner and faster than the current firefox, for older machines.
I'm too itching for real benchmarks for packet receiving, routing, switching as a bridge etc between the BSDs including both FreeBSD 4 and 5.x, and Linux and the rest, including maybe cisco 2600 routers.
For some reason, I dont think cisco or Microsoft would fund such studies.
Theres a better idea, dynamic-sized hoods, just like newsgroups.
You start with entire countries, for example everyone in Latvia. As the population grows beyond 100 members, you split it into provinces, then cities, then boroughs etc.
So People from Mongolia and Afghanistan would have enough members to talk to, while LA and California would be heavily divided where one room would consist of everyone in a certain building.
This is the first time I've gotten interested in social networks. I've been offered gmail accounts by several friends, but this is different. You can relate that to real-life people around you, and you can make friends where it matters: next door.
Also the potential for kidnappers and child molesters increases with this service, so the rules of Internet safety still applies. Beyond the 'general neighborhood', or say upto 2 blocks away, no other information about the person should be shared IMHO.
I'd be interested in everyone next door, in my building etc. For example there are other geeks, and classical-music players/listeners in my building, just cant find them, or a good time to start a conversation.
I am ONLY saying Linux has more features than Windows. I never said it was easier to use for Joe Public. Even though some of your points are wrong, like I can give you 10 OSes without BSD in their names, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, BeOS, Unixware, OpenVMS, Nextstep, minix, MacOS 9, Novell Netware. Hey that doesnt even include Linux.
And that Windows has more GUI features than KDE.
I firmly believe Linux is not quite ready for Joe User, never rooted for it. In fact I believe the X system needs an overhaul with better integration with modern video cards and the kernel, like BeOS was, and some simplification of the graphic system, and much more simplification of the packaging system. In addition everything should be standardized and used by redhat, suse and ibm to begin with, thats when users can even start using Linux without knowing how to use tar xvfz;./configure;make;make install.
But I'm only saying Linux has more features than Windows.
Linux has more functionality than Windows. No question about it.
Answer these:
how many ports (cpu architectures) does windows run on?
is windows tcpip more featureful and flexible than windows?
which version of windows has more GUI features than the latest KDE or GNOME?
does windows or dos support more different hardware than linux? (I have one pentium3 sitting right here that crashes on the HLT instruction. I can only run Linux on it, and quite well.)
how many different ways can you install windows?
is windows' threads implementation the best in the market?
is windows memory management the best in the market?
show me the most secure windows, I'll show you 10 more oses more secure than that.
This article was not a comparison of Linux versus Windows. It was just an insight into the mind of a Windows salesman from the heart of Microsoft. The guy cries for Microsoft ads on TV.
My favorite quote was where they asked what Linux could do that Microsoft couldnt. Another good quote was where he high-fived everyone when Novell bought SuSE. A few comments:
Linux can do things Microsoft cant. Try configuring the Linux kernel's networking part, and try the same on Windows2000 Server. Compare VPN solutions. Last but not least, check out the drivers in Linux. My Arcnet (ancient pre-ethernet) cards worked well on Linux, had issues on Windows. Next check out the security options in Linux. Enough said.
Novell did lose to Microsoft, but even in the Windows95 days we were installing Netware 4.x clients on Windows to keep them working with the Netware servers. Look at all Ethernet drivers, they still have Novell parts in them. Novell pretty much gave birth to consumer networking as we know it, Microsoft didnt. Novell just made a few bad mistakes along the way, and learned lessons. However it now has a piece of Linux. Just one distro.. a good one mind you. Kill Novell and RedHat, Linux will still be getting patches from various groups around. Someone else will getup and start some company to provide support.
Theres a great push for Linux everywhere. I dont think Taylor has realized that yet. We run 6 Windows servers at work, and all the IT people we've had, the president and vice president all have shown interest in moving everything to Linux. Our ERP system, and lotus notes are both Windows-only, which is whats holding us back. Notes is IBM, so we are expecting good Linux clients, and the ERP software has a few beta parts made in wxwindows for Linux/X11 already. Engineering runs Autocad, I expect that to run on Linux in a few years too. If not, we will move to a CAD system that will.
So while Microsoft has more than 90% of the market share, 90% of their sysadmins are looking for reasons and ways to get to Linux. That means 90% of the market has already been SOLD, but there are obstacles that will almost certainly go away. I'd be cashing my MS stocks if I were Taylor.
Its amazing theyre running 50 servers testing Linux, and certifying salesreps on it. Hotmail must be running on one of those servers. How does it feel to work at a company with good pay selling bad products. How can you face customers asking you about the superiority of Linux you tested in your labs, and lie to their faces? Hard to have any pride in your work. Hard to have passion in technology if youre supposed to hate free software.
For this reason I think selling Windows costs Microsoft much more than selling Linux. Anyone skeptical of Linux imagines it as a collection of companies or a text-based UNIX copycat. "Linux" in these articles increasingly means Linux + GNU software + other sourceforce software / *BSD. They can damage the Linux kernel group, but its free and someone else will pick up the pieces and continue. They will have to go after every single group of GNU and the sourceforge collection. What can you do to a kid in a basement using free compilers on his own computers making programs and giving it away for free? Buy him out? Or get more of your $80,000 per year 40 hours per week programmers to do a better job than a million eyeballs? Linux is here to stay, and in my opinion will be around 10 years from now, 50 and 100 years. Free software like samba, gaim, winex, firefox, thunderbird, will be able to cover Microsofts functionality in days of the release of the software, and improve upon it by leaps and bounds. Its a different beast than good ol Novell.
QT is not Linux or Win32. Making something FreeBSD-secific isnt the way to go with GUI APIs. Take QT and wxWindows for example, they do the basic OSes very well... win32, X, OSX. Make something platform specific like Visual.NET and there goes the main benefit of having a portable API.
QT is awesome. Its extremely simple, clean, and just works. It doesnt have the excessive clutter, nor the crazy syntax, nor does it require too many macros and environmental preparation to compile. Beating that would be really tough, but any API that can do that will rule. I'd like to see a free GUI framework, as clean and small as QT, that can become a standard on win32 too. That should bring far more apps to Linux and BSD, and make porting easy for software development houses.
Well for us admins at our company, all admin accounts have the same password. Theyre changed when someone high profile is fired or resigns, and changed across the board. The passwords are always chosen to be complex, but when you have to enter them 20 times a day on various systems, you'll remember them.
Much long ago, we had different passwords everywhere, which we forgot when IT guys were changed, and at least one ancient ERP system is still running with us not knowing the admin password. Its used for reference only and we've made it clear we cant service it at all to management, but it sucks to have one system in the rack you cant touch.
We're a company of about 100 people. Most people trust everyone else, and almost half of these people have been working here for over 10 years.
Last year, we tried to make everyone change their passwords. My then-boss had come from much larger companies, and insisted on frequently-changing passwords( forced to change every 3 months). It backfired. Almost everyone had little pieces of paper with the password on it stuck on the desk in the clear. Personally making someone choose and use a complex password is.... well... complex.
So we changed the rules a bit. The password cant include the users name, should try to make it complex, shouldnt write it down, and doesnt have to be 6 chars, or have to change every 6 months. In fact theres no expiry date.
So in the next forced change, they again started attaching sticky notes on the desk. In time, the stickies will disappear and passwords will work the way theyre supposed to.
Back in the days, around 1995, my friends and I were looking for any UNIX to put on our machines to learn. We tried an old copy of SCO Unix which didnt work, and were busy snooping till we found Linux just as it was getting popular online. We got into Linux because we were out looking for UNIX.
Nowadays I've got AIX and Solaris on ultrasparc to play with, so I can finally brag about knowing 'unix', but would be real nice if Linux is called UNIX. Even though SCO has spilled cold water on the brand name, it still carries enough weight, and maturity of two decades, to get attention. Linux is still new to the scene, and UNIX has carried the full weight of the Internet since its birth... that means something.
Linux means alot more now, so can UNIX be Linux, or at least its former self? Thats possible, if Linux is branded UNIX, and UNIX can once again claim to be a popular flexible modern OS. Cant do that with SCO Unixware.
Most of IP traffic is very bursty, and when they do burst, the users want the minimum latency. An IDE interface cant handle anything to saturate a 100Gbps, (well maybe IDE interface can, but the disks cant).
Note also that the average memory will soon be 512MB, so if 3 other users are connected to this machine, plus the user of this machine is playing counterstrike with voice/video chat, the requirements cant be handled with 100mbps unless the priorities of the various types of traffic are carefully managed.
We dont have to use 10Gbps constantly to justify its necessity.
I drive up once in a while to Lake Bigpond in central Ontario to fish. Now the fish seem to be around the west side in the mornings, except the days I fish there. I suspect when it rains, the fish swim to the north part of the lake.
I also tire out my legs easily waiting several hours for the fish, I've tried cross-legged, stretch out straight, and even lying on my back in the boat. After 4 hours it becomes unbearable. Has anyone experienced this before?
I'd appreciate if the fellow geeks could find a solution.
PS, sometimes when I wear my socks, I get a read sock on one foot and blue on the other. Funny I remember buying a pair of both-blue and both-red. This has happened to both pairs.
I expected the bare minimum to be much higher. Given the trailers and screenshots, no way this bare system could produce that at 10fps.
But then again, the people at id can really produce optimized code. Remember the BSPs in quake2 or the basic system requirements of even doom?
Theres still no PC that can respectably run Giants, citizen Kabuto at full settings on, because they shipped the product before optimizations, but I'd expect ID to allow more fans to play this game. If the minimum CPU was 3.5GHz and minimum ram was 1GB for instance, their sales would be much lower.
People coming from Afghanistan to N America frequently have one name. No last name. People are identified by their fathers name or place of birth, so Osama Bin Laden (not an Afghan), means Osama, Son of Laden. Therefore a person can be just his name, his name plus daddys name, his name plus city's name, or all together in whichever order.
Another guy I know from work is named Sivakumar. One name. Thats all. Some documents take him as Siva Kumar, others like his passport say Siva Sivakumar. My chinese friends get their names flipped over like Tao Lei becomes Lei Tao in N America (family name comes first in China).
In Pakistan, anyone can have any name, and their last name is not necessarily the family name. So when an immigrant family has all but one son's last name common, the department becomes suspicious.
So Europe standardized names like Firstname (full christian name), optional middle name and last family name... gotta be same as your dads last name. Period. No exceptions. All names are atomic tokens with no variations, variations are taken as complete names itself, so Smithson is Smithson, different from Smith. Strange, because even in Europe, say in iceland, name assignments are far more complex.
What's the right monitor for me. Thats what you should ask. We wouldnt know your budget, home setting, preference (curtains drawn or darkroom), and other preferences like some people are suckers for good color, others for high res, I'm a sucker for good refresh rates, dont care about anything above 800x600.
Almost anything can be put to gaming use. Given a refresh rate above a threshold, resolution above 1024x768, the display can be usable for gaming. Thats ALL thats really required. The rest are all preferences.
Except for its latest incarnation Firefox. I used to use netscape 3.0, and from then on, hated its bloatware develelopment into what became Netscape 7. I used IE during this time, which itself competed in the international Hall of Bloat competition, but was second to Netscape, and later to Mozilla.
Mozilla started out as a free Netscape, with ALL the browsers features. That was the big mistake. Noone can wait 15 seconds to load a page, or fork out $$$ for more memory to run a simple browser, IE stayed a little closer to the 'balance' during this time, making itself more palatable to the ex-Netscape crowd.
Then came along Opera. They understood the game, and sold exactly what the public needed. During these days of running highly bloated spyware-infested applications on ever-faster CPUs, opera was a refresher. Everyone took notice.
And now, the team whose products I hated for so long blew my mind.
First I installed it on windows. It worked. It took little memory and never froze. Thats not like Netscape or IE at all. Then I installed it in Linux. It just worked. I didnt even have to wrestle with the source code. It even allowed flash plugins designed for netscape/mozilla.
That gave me the idea I could possibly put my sun Ultra5 and RS/6000 to good use, both of which lacked a good browser for basic usability. Thats when I realized the Mozilla Foundation has put its house back in order. They've produced a fast efficient and secure browser that compiles and runs anywhere, and only uses the CPU cycles it needs (almost). Just what all software should be like.
It has taken almost a decade for the software producing world to realize Bloat=Bad=No Profits. N A free piece o code like firefox will set a trend, hopefully even with Microsoft, whose Win98 is still used around because its smaller and faster than WinXP.Now why was that so difficult?
$60 sounds good, I'll take it if it works close to and beyond the Arctic circle. I've always wanted to build myself an igloo in Salikiluaq, Salluit or somewhere on Baffin Island even. I'm a sucker for remote Canadian wilderness, but my IT job forbids travel.
With a laptop, solar panel, sleeping bag + tent, GPS etc, I wouldnt need human interaction at all, well, maybe to hang around the locals learning Inuktitut while on my photography trips.
Heck, to be honest, I'd pay $120 if I can blog my way to the pole.Last entry: aaaaaaaaa!
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Mozilla is one HUGE application. It is grindingly slow and painful, IE is lean and mean comparatively.
For a while Netscape 4.7x communicator was all that was available for AIX, Solaris etc. Firefox has changed things, and gained market share.
I used to use netscape 3.x back in the early days, then switched to IE because it was there by default, and also because Netscape 4.x was too slow for my brand new hardware. Browsing has to be fast, and most people multitask it with other things, so it shouldnt take 100% of your memory. I then started using Opera as soon as that was available, and now back to Firefox.
I'm not alone.
Many others who were capable of downloading and installing Netscape didnt for its size alone. I just hate to see Firefox called Mozilla because theres a big difference. Sure they share code but the philosophy is different.
I hope they completely dump the entire mozilla browser and continue the firefox line, and even produce something thats smaller, leaner and faster than the current firefox, for older machines.
I'm too itching for real benchmarks for packet receiving, routing, switching as a bridge etc between the BSDs including both FreeBSD 4 and 5.x, and Linux and the rest, including maybe cisco 2600 routers.
For some reason, I dont think cisco or Microsoft would fund such studies.
Those big black things are records. Laser disks are same size as records, but shiny and with bigger holes.
:)
I know how you lost your laserdisc player!
And the handle of the purchaser. Might be the little guy working in the rental, the one you gave a bad eye.
Theres a better idea, dynamic-sized hoods, just like newsgroups.
You start with entire countries, for example everyone in Latvia. As the population grows beyond 100 members, you split it into provinces, then cities, then boroughs etc.
So People from Mongolia and Afghanistan would have enough members to talk to, while LA and California would be heavily divided where one room would consist of everyone in a certain building.
This is the first time I've gotten interested in social networks. I've been offered gmail accounts by several friends, but this is different. You can relate that to real-life people around you, and you can make friends where it matters: next door.
Also the potential for kidnappers and child molesters increases with this service, so the rules of Internet safety still applies. Beyond the 'general neighborhood', or say upto 2 blocks away, no other information about the person should be shared IMHO.
I'd be interested in everyone next door, in my building etc. For example there are other geeks, and classical-music players/listeners in my building, just cant find them, or a good time to start a conversation.
Useless?
How many of the 'features' in the linux kernel are useless?
find a few, google for it and meet the thousands of people using it and wanting more.
Linux meets the needs of all the fringe users who cant do away with windows. Thats because it has all the features.
Youre the third person who didnt get the point.
I am ONLY saying Linux has more features than Windows. I never said it was easier to use for Joe Public. Even though some of your points are wrong, like I can give you 10 OSes without BSD in their names, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, BeOS, Unixware, OpenVMS, Nextstep, minix, MacOS 9, Novell Netware. Hey that doesnt even include Linux.
And that Windows has more GUI features than KDE.
I firmly believe Linux is not quite ready for Joe User, never rooted for it. In fact I believe the X system needs an overhaul with better integration with modern video cards and the kernel, like BeOS was, and some simplification of the graphic system, and much more simplification of the packaging system. In addition everything should be standardized and used by redhat, suse and ibm to begin with, thats when users can even start using Linux without knowing how to use tar xvfz;./configure;make;make install.
But I'm only saying Linux has more features than Windows.
You didnt get my point like the last poster.
I am ONLY saying that Linux has more features than Windows.
You are telling me Linux is difficult compared to Windows.
Guess what, we're both right. You arent denying anything I'm saying up there.
You missed the point.
I'm only saying Linux is more featureful than Windows. Nowhere did I say Linux is easier to use, or better for Joe Public.
And I'll say it again.
Linux has more features than Windows.
I just cant bear NOT to reply to this.
Linux has more functionality than Windows. No question about it.
Answer these:
how many ports (cpu architectures) does windows run on?
is windows tcpip more featureful and flexible than windows?
which version of windows has more GUI features than the latest KDE or GNOME?
does windows or dos support more different hardware than linux? (I have one pentium3 sitting right here that crashes on the HLT instruction. I can only run Linux on it, and quite well.)
how many different ways can you install windows?
is windows' threads implementation the best in the market?
is windows memory management the best in the market?
show me the most secure windows, I'll show you 10 more oses more secure than that.
by a WIDE margin.
The greatest pleasure is to defeat one's enemy
-Genghis Khan (greatest conquerer)
Newsforge has been putting up some nice articles.
This article was not a comparison of Linux versus Windows. It was just an insight into the mind of a Windows salesman from the heart of Microsoft. The guy cries for Microsoft ads on TV.
My favorite quote was where they asked what Linux could do that Microsoft couldnt. Another good quote was where he high-fived everyone when Novell bought SuSE. A few comments:
Linux can do things Microsoft cant. Try configuring the Linux kernel's networking part, and try the same on Windows2000 Server. Compare VPN solutions. Last but not least, check out the drivers in Linux. My Arcnet (ancient pre-ethernet) cards worked well on Linux, had issues on Windows. Next check out the security options in Linux. Enough said.
Novell did lose to Microsoft, but even in the Windows95 days we were installing Netware 4.x clients on Windows to keep them working with the Netware servers. Look at all Ethernet drivers, they still have Novell parts in them. Novell pretty much gave birth to consumer networking as we know it, Microsoft didnt. Novell just made a few bad mistakes along the way, and learned lessons. However it now has a piece of Linux. Just one distro.. a good one mind you. Kill Novell and RedHat, Linux will still be getting patches from various groups around. Someone else will getup and start some company to provide support.
Theres a great push for Linux everywhere. I dont think Taylor has realized that yet. We run 6 Windows servers at work, and all the IT people we've had, the president and vice president all have shown interest in moving everything to Linux. Our ERP system, and lotus notes are both Windows-only, which is whats holding us back. Notes is IBM, so we are expecting good Linux clients, and the ERP software has a few beta parts made in wxwindows for Linux/X11 already. Engineering runs Autocad, I expect that to run on Linux in a few years too. If not, we will move to a CAD system that will.
So while Microsoft has more than 90% of the market share, 90% of their sysadmins are looking for reasons and ways to get to Linux. That means 90% of the market has already been SOLD, but there are obstacles that will almost certainly go away. I'd be cashing my MS stocks if I were Taylor.
Its amazing theyre running 50 servers testing Linux, and certifying salesreps on it. Hotmail must be running on one of those servers. How does it feel to work at a company with good pay selling bad products. How can you face customers asking you about the superiority of Linux you tested in your labs, and lie to their faces? Hard to have any pride in your work. Hard to have passion in technology if youre supposed to hate free software.
For this reason I think selling Windows costs Microsoft much more than selling Linux. Anyone skeptical of Linux imagines it as a collection of companies or a text-based UNIX copycat. "Linux" in these articles increasingly means Linux + GNU software + other sourceforce software / *BSD. They can damage the Linux kernel group, but its free and someone else will pick up the pieces and continue. They will have to go after every single group of GNU and the sourceforge collection. What can you do to a kid in a basement using free compilers on his own computers making programs and giving it away for free? Buy him out? Or get more of your $80,000 per year 40 hours per week programmers to do a better job than a million eyeballs? Linux is here to stay, and in my opinion will be around 10 years from now, 50 and 100 years. Free software like samba, gaim, winex, firefox, thunderbird, will be able to cover Microsofts functionality in days of the release of the software, and improve upon it by leaps and bounds. Its a different beast than good ol Novell.
QT is not Linux or Win32. Making something FreeBSD-secific isnt the way to go with GUI APIs. Take QT and wxWindows for example, they do the basic OSes very well... win32, X, OSX. Make something platform specific like Visual.NET and there goes the main benefit of having a portable API.
QT is awesome. Its extremely simple, clean, and just works. It doesnt have the excessive clutter, nor the crazy syntax, nor does it require too many macros and environmental preparation to compile. Beating that would be really tough, but any API that can do that will rule. I'd like to see a free GUI framework, as clean and small as QT, that can become a standard on win32 too. That should bring far more apps to Linux and BSD, and make porting easy for software development houses.
Well for us admins at our company, all admin accounts have the same password. Theyre changed when someone high profile is fired or resigns, and changed across the board. The passwords are always chosen to be complex, but when you have to enter them 20 times a day on various systems, you'll remember them.
Much long ago, we had different passwords everywhere, which we forgot when IT guys were changed, and at least one ancient ERP system is still running with us not knowing the admin password. Its used for reference only and we've made it clear we cant service it at all to management, but it sucks to have one system in the rack you cant touch.
PS always write the admin passwords SOMEWHERE.
We're a company of about 100 people. Most people trust everyone else, and almost half of these people have been working here for over 10 years.
Last year, we tried to make everyone change their passwords. My then-boss had come from much larger companies, and insisted on frequently-changing passwords( forced to change every 3 months). It backfired. Almost everyone had little pieces of paper with the password on it stuck on the desk in the clear. Personally making someone choose and use a complex password is.... well... complex.
So we changed the rules a bit. The password cant include the users name, should try to make it complex, shouldnt write it down, and doesnt have to be 6 chars, or have to change every 6 months. In fact theres no expiry date.
So in the next forced change, they again started attaching sticky notes on the desk. In time, the stickies will disappear and passwords will work the way theyre supposed to.
well, it mattered to me.
Back in the days, around 1995, my friends and I were looking for any UNIX to put on our machines to learn. We tried an old copy of SCO Unix which didnt work, and were busy snooping till we found Linux just as it was getting popular online. We got into Linux because we were out looking for UNIX.
Nowadays I've got AIX and Solaris on ultrasparc to play with, so I can finally brag about knowing 'unix', but would be real nice if Linux is called UNIX. Even though SCO has spilled cold water on the brand name, it still carries enough weight, and maturity of two decades, to get attention. Linux is still new to the scene, and UNIX has carried the full weight of the Internet since its birth... that means something.
Linux means alot more now, so can UNIX be Linux, or at least its former self? Thats possible, if Linux is branded UNIX, and UNIX can once again claim to be a popular flexible modern OS. Cant do that with SCO Unixware.
So which SPF of sunscreen should we use?
And will it mean one ethnic group will survive the onslaught, and another won't?
Most of IP traffic is very bursty, and when they do burst, the users want the minimum latency. An IDE interface cant handle anything to saturate a 100Gbps, (well maybe IDE interface can, but the disks cant).
Note also that the average memory will soon be 512MB, so if 3 other users are connected to this machine, plus the user of this machine is playing counterstrike with voice/video chat, the requirements cant be handled with 100mbps unless the priorities of the various types of traffic are carefully managed.
We dont have to use 10Gbps constantly to justify its necessity.
Hi Slashdot,
I drive up once in a while to Lake Bigpond in central Ontario to fish. Now the fish seem to be around the west side in the mornings, except the days I fish there. I suspect when it rains, the fish swim to the north part of the lake.
I also tire out my legs easily waiting several hours for the fish, I've tried cross-legged, stretch out straight, and even lying on my back in the boat. After 4 hours it becomes unbearable. Has anyone experienced this before?
I'd appreciate if the fellow geeks could find a solution.
PS, sometimes when I wear my socks, I get a read sock on one foot and blue on the other. Funny I remember buying a pair of both-blue and both-red. This has happened to both pairs.
Does the slashdot crowd have something to say?
I expected the bare minimum to be much higher. Given the trailers and screenshots, no way this bare system could produce that at 10fps.
But then again, the people at id can really produce optimized code. Remember the BSPs in quake2 or the basic system requirements of even doom?
Theres still no PC that can respectably run Giants, citizen Kabuto at full settings on, because they shipped the product before optimizations, but I'd expect ID to allow more fans to play this game. If the minimum CPU was 3.5GHz and minimum ram was 1GB for instance, their sales would be much lower.
People coming from Afghanistan to N America frequently have one name. No last name. People are identified by their fathers name or place of birth, so Osama Bin Laden (not an Afghan), means Osama, Son of Laden. Therefore a person can be just his name, his name plus daddys name, his name plus city's name, or all together in whichever order.
Another guy I know from work is named Sivakumar. One name. Thats all. Some documents take him as Siva Kumar, others like his passport say Siva Sivakumar. My chinese friends get their names flipped over like Tao Lei becomes Lei Tao in N America (family name comes first in China).
In Pakistan, anyone can have any name, and their last name is not necessarily the family name. So when an immigrant family has all but one son's last name common, the department becomes suspicious.
So Europe standardized names like Firstname (full christian name), optional middle name and last family name... gotta be same as your dads last name. Period. No exceptions. All names are atomic tokens with no variations, variations are taken as complete names itself, so Smithson is Smithson, different from Smith. Strange, because even in Europe, say in iceland, name assignments are far more complex.
Bad question.
What's the right monitor for me. Thats what you should ask. We wouldnt know your budget, home setting, preference (curtains drawn or darkroom), and other preferences like some people are suckers for good color, others for high res, I'm a sucker for good refresh rates, dont care about anything above 800x600.
Almost anything can be put to gaming use. Given a refresh rate above a threshold, resolution above 1024x768, the display can be usable for gaming. Thats ALL thats really required. The rest are all preferences.
Except for its latest incarnation Firefox. I used to use netscape 3.0, and from then on, hated its bloatware develelopment into what became Netscape 7. I used IE during this time, which itself competed in the international Hall of Bloat competition, but was second to Netscape, and later to Mozilla.
Mozilla started out as a free Netscape, with ALL the browsers features. That was the big mistake. Noone can wait 15 seconds to load a page, or fork out $$$ for more memory to run a simple browser, IE stayed a little closer to the 'balance' during this time, making itself more palatable to the ex-Netscape crowd.
Then came along Opera. They understood the game, and sold exactly what the public needed. During these days of running highly bloated spyware-infested applications on ever-faster CPUs, opera was a refresher. Everyone took notice.
And now, the team whose products I hated for so long blew my mind.
First I installed it on windows. It worked. It took little memory and never froze. Thats not like Netscape or IE at all. Then I installed it in Linux. It just worked. I didnt even have to wrestle with the source code. It even allowed flash plugins designed for netscape/mozilla.
That gave me the idea I could possibly put my sun Ultra5 and RS/6000 to good use, both of which lacked a good browser for basic usability. Thats when I realized the Mozilla Foundation has put its house back in order. They've produced a fast efficient and secure browser that compiles and runs anywhere, and only uses the CPU cycles it needs (almost). Just what all software should be like.
It has taken almost a decade for the software producing world to realize Bloat=Bad=No Profits. N A free piece o code like firefox will set a trend, hopefully even with Microsoft, whose Win98 is still used around because its smaller and faster than WinXP.Now why was that so difficult?
$60 sounds good, I'll take it if it works close to and beyond the Arctic circle. I've always wanted to build myself an igloo in Salikiluaq, Salluit or somewhere on Baffin Island even. I'm a sucker for remote Canadian wilderness, but my IT job forbids travel.
With a laptop, solar panel, sleeping bag + tent, GPS etc, I wouldnt need human interaction at all, well, maybe to hang around the locals learning Inuktitut while on my photography trips.
Heck, to be honest, I'd pay $120 if I can blog my way to the pole.Last entry: aaaaaaaaa!