Not necessarily. Most likely, it's slower hard drives and less RAM. My Pentium-M (1.5GB RAM, 7200RPM IDE drive on its own controller) ran circles around my dual Xeon (both at 1.7GHz). This is using Linux, though, so Windows users may have vastly different experiences.
The paranoid side of me is screaming that Microsoft is going to shoot this option down by making Windows not quite work as well when run under VMWare....
I don't think it's possible to install the OEM version of XP onto vmware so if I need windows this is the setup I have to use (or possibly pirate).
Depending on your OEM. FWIW, the Campus Software Coercion version I got from the bookstore (only $50/semester + $5 at purchase!) installed just fine under vmware. And then I toasted it in favor of 98 for space reasons (stupid little laptop hard drive).
Additionally, you can install XP on a partition or drive, and then access that drive directly via vmware (it's one of the disk options, since vmware 4, iirc). So you should be able to install XP, install Linux, install VMWare, and then set up the XP partition[s] under VMWare just fine. I think that should work.
From a business POV, you might look at VMWare, which supports both already (and has no interest in torpedoing one or the other of your Needed OSen;)
Main downside of VMWare is that MSFT controls the Windows side of things, and does have an interest in torpedoing both Linux and VMWare. Personally, I'd say go with the global maximum of goodness ATM and go with VMWare with Linux on Linux and wait for MSFT's power to abate. But that's no longer from a purely "business" POV
While it's true that current Xservers only exercise the 2D portion of the graphics card, Xgl (OpenGL/DRI-based X11) is under heavy development, and will likely be the future of X graphics. Hence 3D performance will likely be of critical importance in the near-ish future (though how much of a difference good versus great 3D performance will make remains to be seen)
What this translates to for me personally is that XGI, VIA, and Intel chips are all major contenders for my future desktop, as the current contenders (Nvidia, ATI) both have binary-only drivers that come with some pretty serious headaches (ati in particular, Nvidia much less). Again, I'd also very much consider older ATI cards, as their specs are available to X devs and (hence?) have good drivers. But given my current fight with my ATI card, I'm seriously considering not buying modern ATI again.
Remove support for USB Mass Storage in the kernel and remove any usb mass storage drivers in the kernel (also disable firewire or do the same for firewire devices)
(if you use 2.6.x or later and udev) Modify your udev rules to make usb mass storage devices (and whatever devices you wish) to appear where you want it to (e.g. in a mode 000 directory) and with the user/group and perms you want it to have.
Where? Newegg lists your choice of OSes as "Any," "Windows XP Media Center" "Windows XP Home" "Windows XP Pro" or "Windows XP Tablet". Asus apparently only sells to resellers.
a new worm has emerged which targets Linux exclusively. Reverse-engineering has thus far only revealed the string "!seineew era sreenigne xunil zes rekcah retsalB".
While true, it's a very good option for those in geeks' families, and hopefully the Free (not free) bug will spread, especially as all of the steps listed above get easier with time.
Indeed, there's nothing prohibiting someone from taking mythtv code, shining it up, and selling it as a set-top-box + personal distribution server. In fact, I suspect people would pay TiVo for precisely that, provided they don't get sued out of the water. Or someone could set it up as a LiveCD, like they currently do, for free.... The main catch is the hardware,really, and that's getting better as more and more people adopt Linux. Given that lack of hardware/software support is entirely an intertia problem, and the intertia's changing, there's reason yet to hope for some real service.
Indeed, if anyone from TiVo or others are listening, I bet people would be quite willing to pay to have remote TiVo interfaces so that they can monitor their TiVo and play shows back and watch them live, via TiVo's servers (for a nominal monthly fee, of course). This sounds kind of like what Microsoft may be doing, but with TiVo being merely a very minor cog in the Great Microsoft Video Wheel.
Hopefully, we can convince MythTV and others to build separate frontends (not just the full-screen one) so that we can do things like I describe for free (playback, live TV watching, episode download, and remote control of the backends) as I describe. Given MythTV's backend/frontend separation, it seems like a very logical next step. I know I've wanted to watch some TV on my laptop in my office while working on some stuff. It'd be very convenient for, say, gstreamer to incorporate such a mythtv frontend functionality. Maybe someone from Apache could hack together a mod_mythtv....
Step 1
Build mythtv box
Step 2
Record a show (manually or automatically)
Step 3
Use nuvtranscode (or whatever the name is; my box died a quite while ago) to export to divx/mpeg2/mpeg4/whatever
Step 4
Place final video on SD/CF/whatever card (or on your webserver)
Step 5
Enjoy videos on your palm, laptop, or whatever, without commercials (if you've removed 'em) or drm crap to get in your way
Step 6
Try to get momentum behind a mythfrontend port/server version to make steps 3-5 reduce to "5) Attach your webserver (with proper auth, natch) to your mythtv server and enjoy your shows wherever you go without commercials (if you've {auto,}removed them) or drm crap to get in your way"
Indeed. I find it interesting that the Democrats (or at least the candidates) didn't really seem to mention this much during the last election. Sure, most everybody thought that Iraq had chem, bio, and maybe was working on nuke weapons (indeed, Iraq submitted a huge paper on all of the weapons they supposedly had, in compliance with the UN resolution passed earlier (but the fact that they complied with the resolution thanks to the sabre-rattling, and that the sabre-rattling should have stopped when Iraq submitted that report and let inspectors back in is another discussion)).
But the justification to go to war was the WMDs, for lack of a better/less overused term, and the "fact" that Iraq had hidden a lot more development and weapons from the inspectors. But that didn't pan out, and I'm suprised that the rest of the Americans didn't vote Bush/Cheney out because the grounds on which we went to war and lost lives proved false. No administration should be able to go to war on grounds that were later proven wrong and simply get re-elected (or at least not get impeached.) I'm very disappointed with my fellow Americans on this.
War is a serious thing, and if the reasons turn out to be wrong (regardless of whether the reasons were lies or merely huge mistakes), you should logically step down from power, be impeached, or be voted out. Regardless of how great or ungreat the situation now is, the original reasons turned out to be wrong, and that's precisely (amongst other factors) voted for Kerry last fall.
I've used both gzip and bzip2. I rather like bzip2 for plain text data files, but there is a rather large cost--compressing and uncompressing can take a much longer time than with gzip! These are important considerations to make, especially if you're gonna need to pull this data back off the shelf anytime soon. For this reason (time), I currently use gzip for intermediate-range storage.
f Microsoft were to stop making money it would cease to be (as we currently know it).
Venkman:
This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor:
What do you mean, biblical?
Ray:
What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor... real Wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies.
Venkman:
Rivers and seas boiling!
Egon:
40 years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanos.
Winston:
The dead rising from the grave!
Venkman:
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together...
Richard Stallman:
Linux on every desktop!
Venkman:
mass hysteria!
[With gratitude toward MovieSounds.com for the quote, and humblest apologies toward everyone who was involved with or who is partial to Ghostbusters for the bastardization thereof.]
For great vector drawings, I use Inkscape. Unfortunately, to pull it into an OOo file, I have to export it to png. Hopefully OOo 2 will have SVG support. Though thinking about it, I might well be able to do postscript.
But seriously, Inkscape is extremely nice for vector graphics, in my admittedly limited experience.
When your business model is selling PCs to the masses (high volume, narrow profit margins, i.e. major system vendors), and if you have the balls to stand up to Microsoft, it seems to me that you'll rapidly get them kicked often and hard by that happy-go-lucky 900lb gorilla.
I think Lindo^H^Hspire's CEO was right on the money when he pointed out that, with Dell's profit and volume, even a few tens of bucks on each PC rapidly means little or no profit. They're a business, and not the government. While it'd be great if they stood up to MSFT, it's not realistic in the current state of the market. Which is what the government--a monopoly controlled somewhat directly by the people and which is supposed to be immune to the market--is for. It's a monopoly "immune" to market forces whose sole purpose is the good of the people. We should be asking where their cojones are in allowing such a market condition to continue.
If you're in a niche market, you're much more immune to the more direct pressure Microsoft can bring to bear--since you are already concentrating on a lower-volume (and thus higher price) market, a few tens of bucks per item won't ding your margins all that much, and you can focus on more long-term things such as "Microsoft's tactics suck; we should try to convert away from them." Of course, this ignores other weapons in Microsoft's arsenal, such as (if you sell software) interoperability problems (either direct due to MSFT wanting to screw you like DR-DOS, or indirect, due to their Embrace&Extend&Extinguish tactics), vendor manipulation (those who aren't in a niche market), direct competition (they don't make hardware, remember?), and then those that you helped create yourself, such as audits and other licensing issues. And others I'm surely forgetting.
Give a man a.rm, and he'll be viewing for a moment.
Give a man a.wmv, and he'll be viewing for a month.
Give a man a.theora, and he'll be viewing for the rest of his life.
I consider myself fairly reasonable and I think that a Web server world dominated by tools like Apache, PHP, Perl, Linux, Python, and MySQL would be a fine thing compard to one dominated by Windows, IIS, MS SQL, and ASP.
I would agree with this statement. If we were to require a monopoly, I'd be the first to claim that a Free monopoly is better than a Proprietary monopoly. However, I'd also heartily argue that a monopoly of any sort is not a maximal-goodness state.:)
Also, one of the original intentions of the Java Applet was for things like dynamic, sandboxed plugins to handle different content formats that your browser could automatically snag with a Web page, like a plugin for Shockwave Flash if you don't already have one installed (see also the HotJava browser; iirc, HotJava was the only browser to actually do this)
Every Java applet should be able to be easily assigned a set of permissions.
here was no true concept of widgets, but if you wanted something bad enough, you made it work. In some sick sense there was/is a widget library,
There was Xlib, and Xtk (the X Toolkit) and the Athena widgets. Both Xtk and Athena provided widgets, iirc. They weren't nearly as pretty as modern graphics, but they were quite functional (for a look at such an app, try xman); not at all "sick" imho.
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Not necessarily. Most likely, it's slower hard drives and less RAM. My Pentium-M (1.5GB RAM, 7200RPM IDE drive on its own controller) ran circles around my dual Xeon (both at 1.7GHz). This is using Linux, though, so Windows users may have vastly different experiences.
Heh. OK. Sorry. Misread your statement. :)
The paranoid side of me is screaming that Microsoft is going to shoot this option down by making Windows not quite work as well when run under VMWare....
Additionally, you can install XP on a partition or drive, and then access that drive directly via vmware (it's one of the disk options, since vmware 4, iirc). So you should be able to install XP, install Linux, install VMWare, and then set up the XP partition[s] under VMWare just fine. I think that should work.
Main downside of VMWare is that MSFT controls the Windows side of things, and does have an interest in torpedoing both Linux and VMWare. Personally, I'd say go with the global maximum of goodness ATM and go with VMWare with Linux on Linux and wait for MSFT's power to abate. But that's no longer from a purely "business" POV
What this translates to for me personally is that XGI, VIA, and Intel chips are all major contenders for my future desktop, as the current contenders (Nvidia, ATI) both have binary-only drivers that come with some pretty serious headaches (ati in particular, Nvidia much less). Again, I'd also very much consider older ATI cards, as their specs are available to X devs and (hence?) have good drivers. But given my current fight with my ATI card, I'm seriously considering not buying modern ATI again.
aight, for clarity, "If you're using Linux kernel version 2.6.0 or later"
Where? Newegg lists your choice of OSes as "Any," "Windows XP Media Center" "Windows XP Home" "Windows XP Pro" or "Windows XP Tablet". Asus apparently only sells to resellers.
a new worm has emerged which targets Linux exclusively. Reverse-engineering has thus far only revealed the string "!seineew era sreenigne xunil zes rekcah retsalB".
While true, it's a very good option for those in geeks' families, and hopefully the Free (not free) bug will spread, especially as all of the steps listed above get easier with time.
Indeed, there's nothing prohibiting someone from taking mythtv code, shining it up, and selling it as a set-top-box + personal distribution server. In fact, I suspect people would pay TiVo for precisely that, provided they don't get sued out of the water. Or someone could set it up as a LiveCD, like they currently do, for free.... The main catch is the hardware,really, and that's getting better as more and more people adopt Linux. Given that lack of hardware/software support is entirely an intertia problem, and the intertia's changing, there's reason yet to hope for some real service.
Indeed, if anyone from TiVo or others are listening, I bet people would be quite willing to pay to have remote TiVo interfaces so that they can monitor their TiVo and play shows back and watch them live, via TiVo's servers (for a nominal monthly fee, of course). This sounds kind of like what Microsoft may be doing, but with TiVo being merely a very minor cog in the Great Microsoft Video Wheel.
Hopefully, we can convince MythTV and others to build separate frontends (not just the full-screen one) so that we can do things like I describe for free (playback, live TV watching, episode download, and remote control of the backends) as I describe. Given MythTV's backend/frontend separation, it seems like a very logical next step. I know I've wanted to watch some TV on my laptop in my office while working on some stuff. It'd be very convenient for, say, gstreamer to incorporate such a mythtv frontend functionality. Maybe someone from Apache could hack together a mod_mythtv....
Step 1 Build mythtv box Step 2 Record a show (manually or automatically) Step 3 Use nuvtranscode (or whatever the name is; my box died a quite while ago) to export to divx/mpeg2/mpeg4/whatever Step 4 Place final video on SD/CF/whatever card (or on your webserver) Step 5 Enjoy videos on your palm, laptop, or whatever, without commercials (if you've removed 'em) or drm crap to get in your way Step 6 Try to get momentum behind a mythfrontend port/server version to make steps 3-5 reduce to "5) Attach your webserver (with proper auth, natch) to your mythtv server and enjoy your shows wherever you go without commercials (if you've {auto,}removed them) or drm crap to get in your way"
But the justification to go to war was the WMDs , for lack of a better/less overused term, and the "fact" that Iraq had hidden a lot more development and weapons from the inspectors. But that didn't pan out, and I'm suprised that the rest of the Americans didn't vote Bush/Cheney out because the grounds on which we went to war and lost lives proved false . No administration should be able to go to war on grounds that were later proven wrong and simply get re-elected (or at least not get impeached.) I'm very disappointed with my fellow Americans on this.
War is a serious thing, and if the reasons turn out to be wrong (regardless of whether the reasons were lies or merely huge mistakes), you should logically step down from power, be impeached, or be voted out. Regardless of how great or ungreat the situation now is, the original reasons turned out to be wrong, and that's precisely (amongst other factors) voted for Kerry last fall.
I've used both gzip and bzip2. I rather like bzip2 for plain text data files, but there is a rather large cost--compressing and uncompressing can take a much longer time than with gzip! These are important considerations to make, especially if you're gonna need to pull this data back off the shelf anytime soon. For this reason (time), I currently use gzip for intermediate-range storage.
*cough*
Noooo, nooo. It just underscores how, erm, hysterical things are.... Yeah. That's the ticket.
[With gratitude toward MovieSounds.com for the quote, and humblest apologies toward everyone who was involved with or who is partial to Ghostbusters for the bastardization thereof.]
For great vector drawings, I use Inkscape. Unfortunately, to pull it into an OOo file, I have to export it to png. Hopefully OOo 2 will have SVG support. Though thinking about it, I might well be able to do postscript. But seriously, Inkscape is extremely nice for vector graphics, in my admittedly limited experience.
When your business model is selling PCs to the masses (high volume, narrow profit margins, i.e. major system vendors), and if you have the balls to stand up to Microsoft, it seems to me that you'll rapidly get them kicked often and hard by that happy-go-lucky 900lb gorilla.
I think Lindo^H^Hspire's CEO was right on the money when he pointed out that, with Dell's profit and volume, even a few tens of bucks on each PC rapidly means little or no profit. They're a business, and not the government. While it'd be great if they stood up to MSFT, it's not realistic in the current state of the market. Which is what the government--a monopoly controlled somewhat directly by the people and which is supposed to be immune to the market--is for. It's a monopoly "immune" to market forces whose sole purpose is the good of the people. We should be asking where their cojones are in allowing such a market condition to continue.
If you're in a niche market, you're much more immune to the more direct pressure Microsoft can bring to bear--since you are already concentrating on a lower-volume (and thus higher price) market, a few tens of bucks per item won't ding your margins all that much, and you can focus on more long-term things such as "Microsoft's tactics suck; we should try to convert away from them." Of course, this ignores other weapons in Microsoft's arsenal, such as (if you sell software) interoperability problems (either direct due to MSFT wanting to screw you like DR-DOS, or indirect, due to their Embrace&Extend&Extinguish tactics), vendor manipulation (those who aren't in a niche market), direct competition (they don't make hardware, remember?), and then those that you helped create yourself, such as audits and other licensing issues. And others I'm surely forgetting.
they now have the cash to justify making Linux games! Well, I can dream, can't I?
Give a man a .rm, and he'll be viewing for a moment.
Give a man a .wmv, and he'll be viewing for a month.
Give a man a .theora, and he'll be viewing for the rest of his life.
You mean Java applets, right?