I've never had to do this. The people I know who TRUELY know what they are doing have never had to do this.
I don't fear my XP system crashing, because it doesn't.
Dude, how many people do you know who both run XP Home and know what they're doing? I can't think of any.
I was just at my uncle's house. His computer runs XP, he and his wife are the only ones who use it. One of the user accounts was so fscked up as to be unusable, so they switched to just using one of them. His e-mail didn't work, but that was because Sasktel changed their POP3 authentication method. And it was slow and somewhat unstable. I fixed these things quite easily, but I know what I'm doing with computers and my uncle didn't.
My 2K server box and my XP box are sable like packed dirt (pretty stable, month long uptimes with no slowdown), while my FreeBSD box is like a rock (multi-month runtimes -- pretty much solid between releases -- with no slowdown). I know what I'm doing, so Windows and FreeBSD work. For the average home user, Windows won't work because it's too easy to fuck up....and I refuse to believe that I'm superior to other users.
But that's exactly what it is. You're a better user than most of the "XP sucks" crowd. It [XP] ain't bad, but it can be fucked up just like anything else.
Or, maybe, most users just don't know what they are doing? I think I'll buy that one.
You just hit the nail on the head. People assume that they know everything or that they'll figure it out (which they probably can, but they'll end up installing it a few times before they do)
Define "destroy". From its specs it'll do slightly better on acceleration, but what else? I'd like to see it on a track with inclines. How does it do on hills?
I attend the University of Saskatchewan, and our computer store is telling everybody who gets a new computer to upgrade to WinXP Pro from XP Home. See here to see for yourselves at the Campus Computer Store.
I myself use MacOS X which is also supported, as is OS 9. I can even get access to their Mac software library. It's neat.
If you're a CS student, you can get all MS OSs for free with your MSDN access, as well as Visual Studio, and lots of other fun software. Thanks to that access, my PC is using Windows 2000 Advanced Server, for its AppleTalk support:)
Oh, no. Don't do that. The border is a good thing, but Canadians should protect Canada, and Americans should protect America. That was a reply to some flaimbait.
I simply don't think that Canada should (have to) protect America from people entering their country from Canada. I also don't think that Americans should (have to) protect Canada from people entering our country from America.
Maybe now Canada will secure its fucking borders and keep terrorists away from American soil. Stupid frostbacks. Oh... and Chretien is a socialist pussy.
My post had absoloutly nothing to do with the iris scanners in the airports. The top poster said something stupid, so I pointed out his stupidity. Should we ask people "Welcome to Canada. Do you plan on committing atrocities in America? No? Good. Business or Pleasure?"
(Note: I am neither American nor Canadian. I am, however, against stupidity.)
I am Canadian, and I'm against people taking a post out of context. I'm just going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you're reading at a threshold above -1 or 0, and didn't see the parent of my reply.
I like FreeBSD and OpenBSD. NetBSD is okay, but i like OpenBSD better. Yes, there is something of a lack of drivers in all of the BSDs.. but nothing important is missing. Most things that linux has the the BSDs don't are what I call "toys". Things like my SB Audigy and 1394 controller.
It seems that the 1394 controller is supported in NetBSD-current if not 1.6, but not the Audigy to which it is attached. If I could use the Audigy in NetBSD or FreeBSD I'd dump Linux in a second.
The minimum system requirements being hyperrbole is hardly a new phenomenon.
Doom II was listed as requiring a 486/66 with 8mb ram. I ran it on a 386/DX with 4mb ram until I got a new computer in '97. Ran a little slow, but otherwise just fine.
OS X is based on FreeBSD, yes, but only its "BSD layer". The BSD layer controlls such things as file systems, networking, unixy apis used throuout the system, etc. The libraries and userland tools are based on NetBSD.
Its driver interface is a homebrew system from Apple called "IOKit". IOKit is where you'd find the DMA stuff, but I don't know offhand how to access it. You may do well to try Apple's "Apple System Profiler".
While funny, it's also true. A certain kind of person will find unixy operating systems (or any decent command-line os) very easy to use. Other types will find GUIs easier to use. And yet a third type will find neither style easy to use. There are mixtures of the first two, and some find neither easy, but one easier than the other.
I personally find CLIs easiest, but GUIs don't throw me off either. Some tasks are best done with a gui, but other tasks are best done by dropping to the shell and doing it on the commandline.
Actually, while IBM processors are in the G3 iBook, they do not have Altivec. One of the main differences between the G3 and the G4 is the presence of Altivec.
Broadband is less available now, in one of America's largest cities, than it was just a couple of year ago, and what is more, it is less avaiable here, in the heart of Chciago, than it is in typical rural portions of Western Canada, as numerous people fortunate enough to live north of our borders have pointed out several times in this thread already.
Move here and get a job, then!:)
Well, as an American, you qualify as a "Welcome Foreigner", and are able to get a job in Western Canada. Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Regina are the biggest cities in Alberta and Saskatchewan (in order from biggest to smallest). Depending on your industry, you shouldn't have trouble getting a job in Western Canada.
High tech worker? Calgary, Edmonton or Regina. Engineer? Calgary Trade? Saskatoon, Regina Edmonton. Trucker? Saskatoon. Want a cheap house? Saskatoon or Regina
Once you have a job, Sasktel or Telus will be happy to get you hooked up cheaply.
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I've never had to do this. The people I know who TRUELY know what they are doing have never had to do this.
...and I refuse to believe that I'm superior to other users.
I don't fear my XP system crashing, because it doesn't.
Dude, how many people do you know who both run XP Home and know what they're doing? I can't think of any.
I was just at my uncle's house. His computer runs XP, he and his wife are the only ones who use it. One of the user accounts was so fscked up as to be unusable, so they switched to just using one of them. His e-mail didn't work, but that was because Sasktel changed their POP3 authentication method. And it was slow and somewhat unstable. I fixed these things quite easily, but I know what I'm doing with computers and my uncle didn't.
My 2K server box and my XP box are sable like packed dirt (pretty stable, month long uptimes with no slowdown), while my FreeBSD box is like a rock (multi-month runtimes -- pretty much solid between releases -- with no slowdown). I know what I'm doing, so Windows and FreeBSD work. For the average home user, Windows won't work because it's too easy to fuck up.
But that's exactly what it is. You're a better user than most of the "XP sucks" crowd. It [XP] ain't bad, but it can be fucked up just like anything else.
Or, maybe, most users just don't know what they are doing? I think I'll buy that one.
You just hit the nail on the head. People assume that they know everything or that they'll figure it out (which they probably can, but they'll end up installing it a few times before they do)
Define "destroy". From its specs it'll do slightly better on acceleration, but what else? I'd like to see it on a track with inclines. How does it do on hills?
Personally i like the idea of web-polling and referendums through the web.
I can see it now:
puts("Would you like to separate: y/n");
yorn=getch();
if (yorn=='n')
yorn = 'y';
I attend the University of Saskatchewan, and our computer store is telling everybody who gets a new computer to upgrade to WinXP Pro from XP Home. See here to see for yourselves at the Campus Computer Store.
:)
I myself use MacOS X which is also supported, as is OS 9. I can even get access to their Mac software library. It's neat.
If you're a CS student, you can get all MS OSs for free with your MSDN access, as well as Visual Studio, and lots of other fun software. Thanks to that access, my PC is using Windows 2000 Advanced Server, for its AppleTalk support
-40C? Is that as cold as -40F?
Yes.
Oh, no. Don't do that. The border is a good thing, but Canadians should protect Canada, and Americans should protect America. That was a reply to some flaimbait.
I simply don't think that Canada should (have to) protect America from people entering their country from Canada. I also don't think that Americans should (have to) protect Canada from people entering our country from America.
From the person to whom I was replying:
Maybe now Canada will secure its fucking borders and keep terrorists away from American soil. Stupid frostbacks. Oh... and Chretien is a socialist pussy.
My post had absoloutly nothing to do with the iris scanners in the airports. The top poster said something stupid, so I pointed out his stupidity. Should we ask people "Welcome to Canada. Do you plan on committing atrocities in America? No? Good. Business or Pleasure?"
(Note: I am neither American nor Canadian. I am, however, against stupidity.)
I am Canadian, and I'm against people taking a post out of context. I'm just going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you're reading at a threshold above -1 or 0, and didn't see the parent of my reply.
I like FreeBSD and OpenBSD. NetBSD is okay, but i like OpenBSD better. Yes, there is something of a lack of drivers in all of the BSDs.. but nothing important is missing. Most things that linux has the the BSDs don't are what I call "toys". Things like my SB Audigy and 1394 controller.
It seems that the 1394 controller is supported in NetBSD-current if not 1.6, but not the Audigy to which it is attached. If I could use the Audigy in NetBSD or FreeBSD I'd dump Linux in a second.
Why should Canada defend your country? You're perfectly capable of stopping people at the border, so why don't you?
Damn straight that makes you unreasonable! McDonalds sandwiches are 100% Beef(tm), can the burgers you buy at Safeway claim that? Didn't think so.
See? McDonalds burgers are better, because they're faster, 100% beef, and you don't have to cook them yourself.
Wow, you spelled my name properly and everything :)
As if it was hard to figure out, you at least changed your handle.
You used to be the sysop of Games Garden, no?
Which province are you in? Here it starts at $35, and goes up from there (save "lite speed" which is $22).
My province was also the first to have ADSL broadband, we had it in one of our small towns before Calgary had it at all.
Yea, that turkey baster deserves what he gets for what he did to all those turkeys.
The minimum system requirements being hyperrbole is hardly a new phenomenon.
Doom II was listed as requiring a 486/66 with 8mb ram. I ran it on a 386/DX with 4mb ram until I got a new computer in '97. Ran a little slow, but otherwise just fine.
Runs like a charm on the Sparc 5's and 10's
That's because de Raadt is the former maintainer of NetBSD's Sparc port. He's now the leader of the OpenBSD project.
OS X is based on FreeBSD, yes, but only its "BSD layer". The BSD layer controlls such things as file systems, networking, unixy apis used throuout the system, etc. The libraries and userland tools are based on NetBSD.
Its driver interface is a homebrew system from Apple called "IOKit". IOKit is where you'd find the DMA stuff, but I don't know offhand how to access it. You may do well to try Apple's "Apple System Profiler".
... I have not come aross a single button on M$ keyboards that is so useful it boosts my prouctivity.
:)
I certainly have.. ctrl-alt-del
It's actually $ behind american music > $ behind Canadian music.
While funny, it's also true. A certain kind of person will find unixy operating systems (or any decent command-line os) very easy to use. Other types will find GUIs easier to use. And yet a third type will find neither style easy to use. There are mixtures of the first two, and some find neither easy, but one easier than the other.
I personally find CLIs easiest, but GUIs don't throw me off either. Some tasks are best done with a gui, but other tasks are best done by dropping to the shell and doing it on the commandline.
Actually, while IBM processors are in the G3 iBook, they do not have Altivec. One of the main differences between the G3 and the G4 is the presence of Altivec.
You can't win if you don't play.
You've obviously never heard of Publisher's Clearing House.
Yea, but in the UK an hour of sun is all you'd need to cross it :)
Um... how about this:
s/Canadian police agent/RCMP officer/g
s/Canadian detective/RCMP inspector/g
Broadband is less available now, in one of America's largest cities, than it was just a couple of year ago, and what is more, it is less avaiable here, in the heart of Chciago, than it is in typical rural portions of Western Canada, as numerous people fortunate enough to live north of our borders have pointed out several times in this thread already.
:)
Move here and get a job, then!
Well, as an American, you qualify as a "Welcome Foreigner", and are able to get a job in Western Canada. Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Regina are the biggest cities in Alberta and Saskatchewan (in order from biggest to smallest). Depending on your industry, you shouldn't have trouble getting a job in Western Canada.
High tech worker? Calgary, Edmonton or Regina.
Engineer? Calgary
Trade? Saskatoon, Regina Edmonton.
Trucker? Saskatoon.
Want a cheap house? Saskatoon or Regina
Once you have a job, Sasktel or Telus will be happy to get you hooked up cheaply.