This will only impress the type of douchebag who lists his RAM timings in his tweaker forum sig. People aren't using Windows because it boots fast, they use it because it came with their PC, and they can bootleg Office from work, and play Snood.
The hassle factor is far less than you hint at, and 32MB starves the box for RAM. Combine the 32MB of RAM with a dinky 266MHz chip and you get mediocre->crappy Ethernet performance over anything other than FTP. I own one running Debian - great little box, but puny.
If a "document" wants to _do_ anything, then it is not a document, and should be given the same trust as other programs. The Microsoftification of the world must stop.
Linux was a steady progression of stability and driver support (with the exception of a few evil kernel updates). MS upgrades are just... reinventing the wheel. New GUI widgets, maybe some new hw support that wasn't there, but generally increased bloat, or swapping 1 user level idiosycracy for another. With Linux kernel updates you were generally sure of getting a better experience.
A browser runs IN an OS, not the other way 'round, and despite the blurring of app and kernel in MS-land. If you're talking a browser-based UI, or an "operating environment" like Windows used to have decency to call itself, that's another story.
Its enormously popular, and (to some) provides a lot of value... and its free. What did you THINK they were going to do with the info you have up there ? It's a massive social engineering/data mining study, and you're taking part in it.
Once we let computers start to think for us. It's really only a matter of time. I highly recommend "I, Robot" - the book, not the lame movie. The final section is +1, Insightful.
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This will only impress the type of douchebag who lists his RAM timings in his tweaker forum sig. People aren't using Windows because it boots fast, they use it because it came with their PC, and they can bootleg Office from work, and play Snood.
Why should I watch commercials for tampons, tinned soup, and shampoo? Show me Apple ads, Best Buy ads, trailers to movies I might like, etc.
People still get malware, and still use Symantec products?
No, the yutzes who allowed emacs to execute code lost the fight.
Executable code should not be embedded in documents, the format should not allow it, and document readers should not execute code.
How fscking hard is this?
Way to editorialize. I for one, am happy to see fewer certification-hoarding, Samir Not-gonna-work-heres in the industry.
Just because he's from China, don't call him a 'quant'. This is the 21st century.
Your use of the term 'lappies' invalidates your entire existence^Wpoint.
What's wrong with X-WRT?
OpenWRT is something you set up, then forget. It doesn't need "themes" or "skins", or 3d effects. This is not "pimp my router".
The hassle factor is far less than you hint at, and 32MB starves the box for RAM. Combine the 32MB of RAM with a dinky 266MHz chip and you get mediocre->crappy Ethernet performance over anything other than FTP. I own one running Debian - great little box, but puny.
I wonder how much THAT is costing them. Homogeneity FTW !
Anyone else read that as "Zune Return" and then belly-laugh?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/25/024211
Yet another case where a document has blurred into an application, the way Windows blurred from a WM to an OS.
DONT CROSS THE STREAMS! Curse you von Neumann.
If a "document" wants to _do_ anything, then it is not a document, and should be given the same trust as other programs. The Microsoftification of the world must stop.
Linux was a steady progression of stability and driver support (with the exception of a few evil kernel updates). MS upgrades are just ... reinventing the wheel. New GUI widgets, maybe some new hw support that wasn't there, but generally increased bloat, or swapping 1 user level idiosycracy for another. With Linux kernel updates you were generally sure of getting a better experience.
And the browning of America continues.
A browser runs IN an OS, not the other way 'round, and despite the blurring of app and kernel in MS-land. If you're talking a browser-based UI, or an "operating environment" like Windows used to have decency to call itself, that's another story.
1st, put /tmp on RAM, and 2nd, use a modern filesystem and LVM so that you can extend/shrink your partitions dynamically. This ain't 1998.
I discovered that if I log my wifi router to /dev/null, it works really fast and never seems to fill up, how excellent!
Taco, nobody cares about your douchebag relatives.
Isn't Windows itself basically a giant filesharing application?
How does it modify your hosts file if you're not root?
Its enormously popular, and (to some) provides a lot of value... and its free. What did you THINK they were going to do with the info you have up there ? It's a massive social engineering/data mining study, and you're taking part in it.
Once we let computers start to think for us. It's really only a matter of time. I highly recommend "I, Robot" - the book, not the lame movie. The final section is +1, Insightful.
How did he 'write the rules' in 1997 when GNU & FSF long predated this?