Seems like mainly a way of avoiding the real question. It's pretty obvious what software the OP wants: PC server stuff. Any ideas, or did you just intend to hijack the thread?
Start renting out the Parthenon for parties. If that doesn't work, start charging $0.50 each for Thermopylae selfies.
Thermopylae no longer exists. Well, it does, but it's no longer the narrow bottleneck between the mountains and the sea that it was during Leonidas's time.
Microsoft tries really hard to get $100/machine from the vendors, I seem to recall a powerpoint leaked about that some years back. Anyway, there's also the Linux efficiency factor: you can just do a lot more with a Linux based machine than a MSFT one.
Uhhh and how many of the average users that will end up buying these laptops will know the archaic terminal commands required to pull this off?
In India? A lot. Minds not as lazy, you see. But you're already off on a tangent. Configuring a decent, easy desktop environment and base system is the responsibility of the vendor. Of course as a user its always nice to know that you can reconfigure it any way you want, because that's just how debian->ubuntu is.
FTFY. Seriously, KDE is pretty smooth these days. Never mind that kmail fell down and can't get up, likewise anything that has anything to do with akonadi or ever did. Somehow, those epic fiascos don't seem to affect the experience much any more, and KDE has finally clawed its way back to where 3.5 was: you don't think about it, just do stuff, and it manages the windows without surprises and not a lot of configuring. Like 3.5 but prettier and a few creature comforts.
Heh, that's amusing considering the zero content nature of your reply, coupled with supreme confidence in the pure, unadulterated wit of it. I guess there's a dilbert comic in there somewhere, but not starring me.
FPGA is just gimmicked flash sandbagged with a liberal topping of patents. The fundamental patents are getting long in the tooth, keep an eye on those expiry dates. See the obvious connection with OP.
SSD cannot displace the nearline functionality of hard disk until it gets within a factor of two in price. BTW, nearline is still expanding exponentially with no end in sight.
Using myself as a predictive example... My workstations all have spinning disks in them, and each has at least one SSD for booting and serious work. The hds are normally spun down, which does wonders for noise and lifetime. The ssds are normally 90% full.
the school system would be doing their students a disservice if they didn't teach them to use MS products
Isn't that vocational school stuff? You're proposing to train every student to be a secretary in a Microsoft shop, or what? These days, students should be using Libreoffice, it's free and perfectly adequate for all the educational needs that I know of.
Actually, the school system would be doing their students a disservice if they didn't teach them critical thinking skills and basic subjects that they need to get their post secondary education. That most definitely does not include Microsoft products.
Siemens motor controllers may be replaced with inexpensive software. Siemens DC motor controllers can be replaced with inexpensive embedded controllers AC controllers are trickier but doable, any EE can do it. Research it, you know I'm right. The time is ripe to get the necessary payback happening Please go crazy and have loads of fun.
First to post an open source design for a Siemens-compatible AC motor controller wins a larting tool.
Knowing when not to use templates, virtualization, [insert favorite c++ function here], etc.
+this.
I observed someone employing a regex parser generator implemented in 80,000 lines of template code (no typo) to parse a simple lexical construct. I recoded the parser in 100 lines of ordinary C in about 1/2 an hour, to compile 10 times faster, run 100 times faster, be 1,000 times clearer, and accept/reject exactly the same input text. Using proper parsing technology of course, no hacks, and no parsers from the library. Somehow, I think they still didn't get the message.
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Seems like mainly a way of avoiding the real question. It's pretty obvious what software the OP wants: PC server stuff. Any ideas, or did you just intend to hijack the thread?
Alaska is not exactly ideal for latency.
Thermopylae no longer exists. Well, it does, but it's no longer the narrow bottleneck between the mountains and the sea that it was during Leonidas's time.
No problem. Just build a theme park there.
Start renting out the Parthenon for parties. If that doesn't work, start charging $0.50 each for Thermopylae selfies.
brilliant
Microsoft tries really hard to get $100/machine from the vendors, I seem to recall a powerpoint leaked about that some years back. Anyway, there's also the Linux efficiency factor: you can just do a lot more with a Linux based machine than a MSFT one.
Uhhh and how many of the average users that will end up buying these laptops will know the archaic terminal commands required to pull this off?
In India? A lot. Minds not as lazy, you see. But you're already off on a tangent. Configuring a decent, easy desktop environment and base system is the responsibility of the vendor. Of course as a user its always nice to know that you can reconfigure it any way you want, because that's just how debian->ubuntu is.
FTFY. Seriously, KDE is pretty smooth these days. Never mind that kmail fell down and can't get up, likewise anything that has anything to do with akonadi or ever did. Somehow, those epic fiascos don't seem to affect the experience much any more, and KDE has finally clawed its way back to where 3.5 was: you don't think about it, just do stuff, and it manages the windows without surprises and not a lot of configuring. Like 3.5 but prettier and a few creature comforts.
Heh, that's amusing considering the zero content nature of your reply, coupled with supreme confidence in the pure, unadulterated wit of it. I guess there's a dilbert comic in there somewhere, but not starring me.
Ah, somebody who actually has a clue. (But drew the wrong conclusion anyway.)
You're simply underestimating the propensity of some people to proudly display their ignorance to the world.
Indeed. Go here. Then read: Conguration Cell Technology: FLASH
FPGA is just gimmicked flash sandbagged with a liberal topping of patents. The fundamental patents are getting long in the tooth, keep an eye on those expiry dates. See the obvious connection with OP.
Public school is not the place to teach children to use "products".
SSD cannot displace the nearline functionality of hard disk until it gets within a factor of two in price. BTW, nearline is still expanding exponentially with no end in sight.
Using myself as a predictive example... My workstations all have spinning disks in them, and each has at least one SSD for booting and serious work. The hds are normally spun down, which does wonders for noise and lifetime. The ssds are normally 90% full.
the school system would be doing their students a disservice if they didn't teach them to use MS products
Isn't that vocational school stuff? You're proposing to train every student to be a secretary in a Microsoft shop, or what? These days, students should be using Libreoffice, it's free and perfectly adequate for all the educational needs that I know of.
Actually, the school system would be doing their students a disservice if they didn't teach them critical thinking skills and basic subjects that they need to get their post secondary education. That most definitely does not include Microsoft products.
Siemens motor controllers may be replaced with inexpensive software. Siemens DC motor controllers can be replaced with inexpensive embedded controllers AC controllers are trickier but doable, any EE can do it. Research it, you know I'm right. The time is ripe to get the necessary payback happening Please go crazy and have loads of fun.
First to post an open source design for a Siemens-compatible AC motor controller wins a larting tool.
+1 clueful
mod up please
Wow, that's me! More computer for the buck, anything else is a fool's game.
Knowing when not to use templates, virtualization, [insert favorite c++ function here], etc.
+this.
I observed someone employing a regex parser generator implemented in 80,000 lines of template code (no typo) to parse a simple lexical construct. I recoded the parser in 100 lines of ordinary C in about 1/2 an hour, to compile 10 times faster, run 100 times faster, be 1,000 times clearer, and accept/reject exactly the same input text. Using proper parsing technology of course, no hacks, and no parsers from the library. Somehow, I think they still didn't get the message.
Bitter, are we?
These words do not fit together willingly.
Or maybe Google really is being more evil, and a Google monopoly really is a net loss for society.
What is coming, inevitably, is mandatory external override by air traffic controllers. With all the hacking risk that entails, but it is coming.
It wasn't a boxing match.
OpenGL 4 got a bunch of really major improvements, for example, direct state access in 4.5.