If your PC has plenty of RAM, use something like VMWare to try it out first. Or if you have the spare time, setup a beater box in a similar way your computer is now, and test an upgrade or install on the beater box.
The experience you'll pull out of it will be worth it.
I use a Certance Travan 40 GB IDE tape drive at home (I bought one for our small office Linux server shortly after because it works so well). The drive comes with Yosemite TapeWare, which has a text UI reminiscent of the Novell NetWare Text utilities.
It's easy to use, fast, allows for easy off-site backups, and restores are a snap. The media is a bit pricey, but I find it's a better solution than backing up 20 GB of data to CD (or even DVD).
Look on ebay for used Travan 20 or Travan 40 units.
This is why "embrace and extend" (and then make incompatible) keeps failing as a strategy.
How do you measure failure? A company with many executives in the world's richest? A company who owns 95% of the desktop marketplace? A company whose revenue is in the billions annually? A company who is labeled as a monopoly because they managed to get themselves there?
If that's your measure of a failure, I wish I was one also!
"If you build it, they will come"... Loki were betting on that, and they went belly-up a couple of short years after the beginning of their existence. Sure, they released some old games, but some of them, like Quake 3, were released simultaneously on Windows and Linux.
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"The R300 is an ideal rendering target for the DOOM engine, it can do both our highly complex pixel shaders for light surface interactions and can very rapidly render all the stencil shadow volumes which deal with all our dynamic masking of way light operations"
"3D accelerators are all about performance, quality and flexibility and the R300 breaks new ground over anything thats come before it in all three areas."
We don't cheat in hockey. We simply invent the rules =)
Unix servers breaking out all over
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Is it just me, or does that subject line just sound bad? At first thought, I figures lots of UNIX server were breaking. But when I read the article, I realized otherwise.
I think CNET chose that confusing tagline on purpose, to help spread FUD.
GPL software is free... But when you develop software for Windows, you have to buy Windows, plus you have to buy most of the software (compilers, ide's, etc.) to *make* your software.
So who can make free software for Windows? I can't.
Absolutely! Everyone misses the checkbox, so you end up with the "spyware". webHancer paid Audiogalaxy (and many others) a large sum of money to be able to bundle their software. Who do you think pays for all that "free" software? Companies like webHancer do. If not for their crappy spyware (I hate it as much as you do), Limewire et al. wouldn't exist.
Nothing comes for free. Want free software? Take a few minutes and read the 15 pages of dialogs.
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I've been reading Slashdot for years, and it's spelled CompatAbility..
Just thought you ought to know, because you look like an idiot who kan't spel.
You'd figure these kids would know what a lowid looked like by now..
Maybe we wouldn't have as many viruses if browsers couldn't do what they wanted with the filesystem?
If your PC has plenty of RAM, use something like VMWare to try it out first. Or if you have the spare time, setup a beater box in a similar way your computer is now, and test an upgrade or install on the beater box.
The experience you'll pull out of it will be worth it.
Tell them about it: http://apps.ati.com/linuxDfeedback/index.asp
I use a Certance Travan 40 GB IDE tape drive at home (I bought one for our small office Linux server shortly after because it works so well). The drive comes with Yosemite TapeWare, which has a text UI reminiscent of the Novell NetWare Text utilities.
It's easy to use, fast, allows for easy off-site backups, and restores are a snap. The media is a bit pricey, but I find it's a better solution than backing up 20 GB of data to CD (or even DVD).
Look on ebay for used Travan 20 or Travan 40 units.
This is why "embrace and extend" (and then make incompatible) keeps failing as a strategy.
How do you measure failure? A company with many executives in the world's richest? A company who owns 95% of the desktop marketplace? A company whose revenue is in the billions annually? A company who is labeled as a monopoly because they managed to get themselves there?
If that's your measure of a failure, I wish I was one also!
I have RIP running on my Pentium II for several years now.
You'd think that with a name line Xnews....
When was the last time I got into an accident? When will my house burn down? When will I die before age 70?
Insurance. It's all about insurance...
Well, I for one just moderated your last post "Overrated" just for the hell of it, but I lost my mod point because I posted this. So there.
TCP/IP has 65535 ports (excluding port 0).
"If you build it, they will come"... Loki were betting on that, and they went belly-up a couple of short years after the beginning of their existence. Sure, they released some old games, but some of them, like Quake 3, were released simultaneously on Windows and Linux.
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The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFQUERY), occupying document position (21:3) to (21:111).
would be the cost of the oil change.
Read the fine print, and the flip-side of the oil change contract.
From ati's website:
John Carmack
"The R300 is an ideal rendering target for the DOOM engine, it can do both our highly complex pixel shaders for light surface interactions and can very rapidly render all the stencil shadow volumes which deal with all our dynamic masking of way light operations"
"3D accelerators are all about performance, quality and flexibility and the R300 breaks new ground over anything thats come before it in all three areas."
I agree. I haven't seen this floating around in the last 2 years, and I found it cool to read this stuff.
People need to stop griping about everything.
I don't know what country you're in, but in Canada we plug our washing machines in 120V outlets, and our dryers go in 240V.
Because Americans give Friendly Fire a whole new meaning.
Cadada: 32 million.
We don't cheat in hockey. We simply invent the rules =)
Is it just me, or does that subject line just sound bad? At first thought, I figures lots of UNIX server were breaking. But when I read the article, I realized otherwise.
I think CNET chose that confusing tagline on purpose, to help spread FUD.
hehe and farther is not the best term either... Further would be better in this sentence.
Besides, farther looks like farter at quick glance.
From AMD's website:
Note: This patch is not needed for Windows XP
GPL software is free... But when you develop software for Windows, you have to buy Windows, plus you have to buy most of the software (compilers, ide's, etc.) to *make* your software.
So who can make free software for Windows? I can't.
Absolutely! Everyone misses the checkbox, so you end up with the "spyware". webHancer paid Audiogalaxy (and many others) a large sum of money to be able to bundle their software. Who do you think pays for all that "free" software? Companies like webHancer do. If not for their crappy spyware (I hate it as much as you do), Limewire et al. wouldn't exist.
Nothing comes for free. Want free software? Take a few minutes and read the 15 pages of dialogs.