As soon as I read the summary, I realized they got it backwards.
From TFA:
''In a September article, Bloomberg reported that NAC “has deals with major record labels like Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group as well as a number of small contracts with indie bands. About 70 percent of the company's sales are from music cassettes while the rest are blank cassettes.” ''
Most Cellphone users are not sophisticated enough to switch between the two pipes you propose.
So, they will either get stuck in the slow unlimited one and complain about crappy services, or get stuck in the limited fast one, and complain about overcharges.
Therefore, among many other things, T-Mobile needs the contend deliverer cooperation to provide the technical means to do the switching behind the scenes, and transparent to the users...
PS: How do I get my ramblings published to/.'s front page?
Whatever you end up doing with that machine, do not forget to upgrade each and every firmware for which updates are available (Mandatory; BIOS/UEFI, graphics card, storage), Max Out the RAM (mandatory), put a SDD and maybe a better graphics card (if budget allows). After the BIOS updates, enable Hyperthreading on the P4. Since the machines are so old, go for 32Bit OSs (as this will improve your chances to get drivers)
If you can put 2GB RAM (or more) on both machines (and perhaps a small SSD), the best upgrade path is Windows 10, or Windows 8.1 + ClassicShell (depending of course on Processor Instruction Support and Graphics card support).
But Your Question was Specific to Liux, so, if you want a desktop, and the machines have reasonable good Specs, go for Ubuntu straight ahead. Is better to learn a standard distro, as both the general and specific knowledge that you gain will be transferable/useable in a work environment.
If your machine has somewhat weaklish specs, go for CrunchBang!++ . At least you get a functional distro...
If you want the opportunity to learn your way around a server (in particular with the desktop), go for CentOS 6.3 (the last supported version with 32 bits support).
While I am Sold to the Win10 new ways* , I understand why some other people (minority or not, but VERY vocal) are opposed to it. So it is NOT NICE from Microsoft to push so hard for Win10.
Had they had a gentler touch from the beginning, we wouldn't see all this pushback, and all this cottage industry of tips and tricks and apps to disable the upgrade...
You harvest the tempests you sowed...
*full disclosure, my main machines are macs, some legacy win laptops and all my bootcamp partitions are going to Win10*
In short: I personally HOPE that the answer to "What is the future of Television" is nothing, I hope it dies and like the telegraph. If someone were to offer a big screen with an acceptable resolution with nothing but inputs and outputs on the back then I would probably buy that. As it stands right now I don't have a television and I do not want one and I would not accept one if I got one for free.
But, I don't know about you, but I also need a Remote with Power, volume, Sleep, mute and Change input buttons for my dumb panel.
I decided my brain power is better spent researching to decide that Leaf-Spine with 802.1aq is better than Leaf-Spine with TRILL, and yet both are better than Core-Distribution-Access, or Submitting things that make it to the front page, or making meaningful comments than learning how to put hyperlinks in Slashdot in some arcane old fashioned way because they rather do BETA than give us a decent WYSIWYG editor...
Or some troll can not do triple click Flower+c Flower+v... Just saying.
First of, to some other chap that called me a shill (fortunately, down modded), my disbelief about the many eyes is not new, nor is it related to FOSS versus closed source. Please see my posting history on/.
Second, this bug was "Unshallow" seven (7) years... 'Nuff Said!
Let me explain using my favourite example: The Metafile fiasco of 2005.
Here we had Two (2) Codebases. One Closed Source (Windows) and one FOSS (Wine). BOTH codebases contained the error. It took 10 years for someone (the guys at Sunbelt Software) to realize the error. Neither Microsoft nor WINE detected the error, even if they had many eyes looking at the code. My hypothesis is that the Microsoft guys were unmotivated, and the WINE guys lacked QA and technical direction. Both codebases patched fast.
Please notice that the fact that WINE was FOSS did not help in the least the WINE team to detect the error (or any other group for that matter). And while some people say "The WINE team was just replicating the functionality", this is false, for, had the WINE Team themselves detected the security vulnerability as such, they would have made it public immediately, patched the code, and added a line in the config file of the form:
MetaFileVuln = 0/* 0 keep the vuln replicate windows behaviour/* 1 implement WINE team Fix/* 2 replicate Microsoft fix If or when they release it
So, is not about many eyes. To catch and solved the bugs and security vulnerabilities you need more than many eyes...
You need QUALIFIED AND MOTIVATED eyes, QA, Test Cases, and some Process guidance...
And my friends, I read, and still have in my drive the Version 1 of ESR's paper. Read it fresh from the oven, not the many reinterpretations, remember, is a work in progress, is V3 nowadays...
I updated a freaking bunch of CoreDuo laptops (please notice the absence of the number 2 in the middle of the name) with intel graphics (granted, not integrated) with no issues. (you can search my past posts for the gory details)...
It stands to reason that if such old graphics can handle win10, so can more modern Core iX integrated graphics, with some tweaking (perhaps using the Vista/7/8 drivers instead of the out of the box 10 ones, and checking that ALL your firmware is up to the latest, no matter what the release notes say).
Yes, is a hassle, and yes, true, Microsoft should have blocked the upgrade on your machines for the time being. But, the engineers there are not omniscient, and when (as a previous commenter said) the big boss says "I want X updates by Y date no matter how", this type of things happens, and is up to us to deal with the fallout. Lucky for me, I did it as a favor, and is not my day to day job.
I empathize with you, and do not envy your plight.
At least, those laptops will not end in Ghana for the next 5~10 years; or so I hope.
You mean, moving him to linux? Nice fantasy, and would have made his life easier, but it was NOT going to happen.
I suggested them to use OpenOffice, even installed it for them. Guess what they did after they got the machines?
Install Office 2010. They didn't wait a few weeks for Office 2016. They didn't install Office 2013, no, they went straight to Office 2010.
Try to imagine the reaction if the suggestion was: "Go to linux mint". Was NOT going to happen...:-(
Besides, they have a few windows programs (admin/accounting stuff) they need. Here were we are, Linux support is non-existent, and windows support people are crappy, to say the least...
Just as an example, on the P105, the resident techie installed 1 2GB stick, and left the other slot empty. Q: Why did not take the machine to full 4GB? A: That required a BIOS update, and that was beyond the guy's Kung-Fu. Try to imagine that guy running "A2 Software" under WINE (with NO support from the distributor). Yeah, right! Besides, as I said, my brother would never allow it in the first place.
As a matter of fact, the promise to move them to Win10 was the big draw/carrot for my brother to move his ass and let me do the hardware upgrades, instead of plowing along with those CRAPPY machines (or worse, filling the landfield with them - Remember, I did this for mother earth).
Last detail, In his personal machine (a 17" beast of a laptop, with dual HDDs, and 8GB of RAM), my brother had 8.1, and was HAPPY with it, he is eagerly waiting for 10 his automatic update to 10. So no, linux is a nice fantasy, but is not going to happen for him.
And if you meant moving them to Win7, remember microsoft backported their telemetry crap. The resident techie will not be able to play wack-a-mole with the relevant patches.
As for me, apple forced my hand by not having win7 drivers for the air 2015 in bootcamp. So 10 it is for both machines. From my machines, microsoft will only see me using project, visio, WD Drive check utility, Nokia suite for my old-now-just-used-for-here-maps nokia N9, and Arkam City Origins.
There are 5 more machines to update, but I am not sure He will be willing to pay for the required hardware. The next one for sure is a P35-S6111, that only goes to Win7. It is getting a PATA (for crying uot loud) SSD, and, guess what? 2x1GB DDR-0 sticks.
I have been as of late upgrading the Laptops of my brother's firm, mostly as a favor to mother earth (to keep them out of the landfield, and to avoid buying new ones, increasing resources usage) and as a favor to him.
Sadly, he is a fan of Toshiba (but then again, it could be worse), the models are: One A1235-S2386, one A135-SSP4108, one A135-S4527, one P200 and two P105-S6062.
All of them were on WinXP (on some, it came, on some, it was a Downgrade). Every single one of them was moved to Windows 10 (with some trickery). Every single one of them got the latest BIOS, an SSD, and more importantly for the article THE FULL AMOUNT OF RAM THEY SUPPORTED (all DDR2, some pc4200, some PC5300).
That means all the machines went from 1 or 1,5GB to 2GB (in the A series case) and from 1,5 or 2GB to a full 4GB (in the P series case).
I, personally use a Mac. My current Air has the full 8GB apple ships, my older MacBook has 6GB from the Original two (and an SSD instead of the original HDD). Again, the fact that OS upgrades are free, does not mean LESS sales of memory.
So, as some other commenters have said, the article has flawed logic, the fact that an OS upgrade is free does not mean that RAM sales volume will diminish. If anything, the fact that the upgrade is free means there is more "share of wallet" available to buy RAM and other upgrades in order to make an upgraded machine more snappy.
Funny, I found WIndows 10 to be completely unusable on my Toshiba A105 (with an upgraded HDD and 2GB of RAM). DWM and Windows Defender kept the CPU busy at all times. Windows 7 and Windows 8 ran smoothly on this laptop (but not as good as XP).
Try to go to tosh's support site and download the latest drivers (particularly video, as DWM is the Desktop Window Manager) available there (they may be labeled as Win7, that was my case). If there is a firmware (i.e. bios) patch, get that as well.
Apply the BIOS patch first, then the video drivers. Then let Windows update the drivers. Tosh has the nasty habit of blocking generic drivers from providers. While in 7, I had to use drivers unlocked by the friends on "Mobility.Dot.Net" but in Win10 that is frowned upon. See if that helps with the problems.
As per the Windows Defender, I read you upgraded the HDD, but is still an HDD, not an SSD. Anyhow, use Process Manager to lower the priority of windows defender and let it do its work. While at it, schedule it to scan your machine at lunch or at night.
It would also be wise, after windows defender is done, do a "online scan" with some tool such as "TrendMicro HouseCall"
Best of luck, and let me know when and how you fixed it.
At work or Academia, I had used all there is to use. DOS, Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, Sinix, VMS, Linux, FreeBSD...
At home, it was DOS (3.2, 3.3, 5.0, 6.22) Windows (WFW 3.11, 95, 98, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista) all the way (with a brief innuendo with Warp), until Early 2009, when I declared my switchover to MAC Successful.
Now, Apple forced my hand by not releasing Win7 Drivers for the 2015 13"Air... So, between having a ragtag fleet of machines on Win732, Win764 and Win8.1 64, I'll go 10 all the way.
The fact that I can get Windows 10 Working on a Toshiba Satellite A123 ** (My last windows machine), with an Xpress200m Chipset whose graphics part is based on a chip (R300) released in Aug. 2002, and a processor whose architecture (Yonah T2080) was released on 2006 speaks volumes at the effort microsoft has put in preserving compatibility AND make the OS perform better.
On the same resources, Win 8 will perform better than 7 and Win 10 will outperform them both. It has actually breathed new life into the old machine.
What really interest me is the new powers under the hood. Better performance (as said before), Edge, better included antivirus and security tools, DX12, etc, etc, etc.
Maybe things moved around a lot from what I remember, but is in no way as bad as windows 8, were I had to rip of the virtual machine due to the hotcorners, and wanted to pull my hair everytime I had to use a Win8 machine from a friend without a shell replacement. Besides, if one does not like the interface, one can change it (as they said in the TFA, Classic Shell works like a charm, and I am sure there will be other customization apps in no time), if they removed mediaplayer, there is MithTV or VLC, the app store is empty, so what, is not like I forgot how to download an exe or a msi file...
But then again, I use this only for some games (currently Batman Arkam Origins, and anything that strikes my fancy that Steam has not ported to Apple yet) on bootcamp, and via VirtualBox on raw partition for Visio and Project.
The fact that the upgrade is free sweetens and seals the deal (if I had to pay for it, or had to go through the hoops of the university to get the license key, well....). Yes, there are privacy concerns, and I will deal with them, the same way I dealt with iCloud and all of Apple's privacy invasions, I have the knowledge to do so, and I can relay on my fellow techies when my knowledge fails me.
For me is a welcome upgrade, one that will bring homogeneity to my fleet, along with better performance accross the board, and I am recommending all non-techie friends to upgrade (after updating FW, maxing RAM and putting an SSD, of course), especially from Windows XP. Besides, I already issued them a stern Warning. After march 2016, I'll only answer questions about Win10 or "El Capitan". That will drastically cut the amount of free tech support I must do...;-)
Welcome Windows 10, you may not warrant a rolling stones theme song, but your low-key entry will make many lives easier...
Suerte a todos y feliz dia.
** Yes, after firmware updates, maxed RAM to 2GB, and put a SATA3 64GB SSD on the puny SATA1 interface of the Xpress200M
PS: For what is worth, I have CrunchBang++ for basic Linux demos to my students in the Toshiba (the machine I carry around in mass transport to class, because, if they mug me, I'll not miss it), and have A few CentOS and Oracle Linux machines for, you know, stuff...
****: The other option I was exploring today was setting up a dedicated access point just for the Chromecast. I've got the hardware, and a bit of room on the outskirts of the ISM band, but fuuuuuu.
Exactly This, While I live in Venezuela, my chromecast thinks it is in Japan, and is happily using chanel 14 (sadly in b mode) with no incidents on my WRT-54G with DD-WRT. Easy peasy.
While I have the ductery and chops to string a CAT3/5 cable to the TV, I do not feel like it...
The Macbook is using chan 1, but will be wired, not because of BW (mind you, my ADSL is 3Mbps, 10Mbps is the top the telco will give, evein in their (experimental) FTTH). the macbook will be wired because of apple's wifi problems....
Shell Scripting to detect "Dormant BTSs", the feature cost $50K in OMC-B 4.5 and was free in 5.5 (which was due in 1 year and had hardware upgrade and consulting costs associated). Script: $0, one afternoon.
DispMCR on a Siemens mobile switch of 100k subscribers. Fair enough. but how do you balance 3 of those running at the same time go get 24/7 MCRs? Without bringing down the switch? That takes skill, and steel nerves.
Now a day, not much hacking, but my chromecast thinks it is in japan, and happily uses WiFi Channel 14...;-)
If by "Use" you mean: Copy/paste sections of GPLed code, then yea, you are forced to use the GPL (this also applies to Read-Memorized-Retyped).
If by use you mean: I link to some GPLed libraries. Or: I invoke some GPLed executable to do some work. Or: I send some IPC message to some GPLed process then you can use pretty much any licence you may well please.
For code I develop for commercial use (either if I want to turn it into a product, or if I am developing for a Third party) I prefer BSD/MIT/Apache.
For code I develop as a hobby, or as a service to the community, I preffer the GPL (v2).
Also, bear in mind two things: * If you use a substantial amount of GPL code, the community frowns upon using a non GPL license. * But, apples AppStore has had troubles with GPLed applications in the past.
I agree wholeheartedly with the Parent, Xilinx should not copy Intel's strategy, but rather, come up with a new one...
But sometimes managers are not creative enough. If the folks at Xilinx want to copy Intel's strategy on the cheap, they can try to buy Via/Centaur from Formosa Plastics Group.
They make the Via Nano and related chipsets, the group is small (so less culture clashes, things will be done the Xilinx way). Have you read of the culture clashed between the red Team (ATi) and the Green Team (AMD) When the companies merged? Would Xilinx want a repeat of that?
Yes, VIA has 0% market share in servers, so Xilinx would have to construct the thing from scratch, the Xilinx way, still, that's better than hiring the same server sales/marketing guys at AMD, were they had clawed a healthy 20% of server market share around 2005 and lost it to Intel (mostly with a boneheaded Arch, but still sales should inform R&D about customer needs).
VIA has a presence in the autotainment market, that could be interesting to Xilinx...
The only reason I see for Xilinx to buy AMD is that AMD has Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft as console customers. If Xilinx KNOWS FOR SURE that next gen consoles will have an FPGA, that may be worthwhile, otherwise, as parent said:
Come Up with a different strategy. But, as I said, if you feel the urge of copying Intel, do it on the cheap and buy Via, not AMD.
Probably the last one where the batteries are not Glued, meaning that, when the time is due, after removing 14 pentalobe screws, and doing some other voodoo I can replace them myself.*
2,4Ghz proc, 8GB RAM and 255SSD.
Is used mainly as a Desktop, so extrernal wired USB Keyboard (from an HP PA-RISK Workstation no less, which probably means the machine never goes into deep hibernation)...
And wired Genius 1200dpi mouse (tried the magic mouse for 3 weeks, hated it). A second panel, a Dell P2011H (with all the shortages in Venezuela, I was lucky to get this one) Bought mainly because it can pivot.
And a bunch of extrenal USB 2.0 HDDs and Hubs (inherited from the previous machine). Only this machine is backed up (via time Machine).
Mostly web browsing, office work, ScreenFlow lectures, Chromecasting and Portal 1 and 2 as well as Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 (stupid me bought them at the same time). Windows 8.1 64 Bits via BootCamp for Arkam Origins and via VirtualBox for Project and Visio.
LabTec LCS-600 Speakers from my DEC starion 700i (still sound good).
Also have a MacBook Aluminum Unibody Late 2008, was my main machine until a few months ago, now at my parents' house (I visit every 3 weeknds or so). And an old and beaten toshiba from 2007 when I need to take a machine with me for presentations and notetaking (used to carry the mac to impress people circa 2009, but that now is old school), if I get mugged, not much is lost really.
* My previous mac was hit by pregnant battery syndrome, and I do not live near an Apple Store (as a matter of fact, there are none in my country), since I use the machine as a desktop, I only realized the malaise when I was at a customer consulting gig, and was later told by apple that "The battery is a consumible anyway, not covered by AppleCare". I bowed to never buy an apple battery again, nor buy a laptop were I am not able to replace the battery.
This pain me the most. Not because of solitaire/spidersolitaire/minesweeper per se, but because of the high scores and statistics.....
Anyhow, a small price to pay for a free upgrade and consistency across machines.
And since my plan is to upgrade my three machines (Toshiba Win 7, MacBook Aluminum Late 2008 bootcamp Win 7 and MacBook Air 13" Early 2015 Bootcamp Win8.1) in the December downturn/downtime, I may find a way to move those....
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I need to block The Kardashians, The Jenners and Marjorie de Souza.
If it is open source, and provides for multilingual/localization, i can modify to suit the needs of the spanish speaking people.
I read TFA last night from ARS itself...
As soon as I read the summary, I realized they got it backwards.
From TFA:
''In a September article, Bloomberg reported that NAC “has deals with major record labels like Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group as well as a number of small contracts with indie bands. About 70 percent of the company's sales are from music cassettes while the rest are blank cassettes.” ''
70% pre-recorded; 30% blanks.
Most Cellphone users are not sophisticated enough to switch between the two pipes you propose.
So, they will either get stuck in the slow unlimited one and complain about crappy services, or get stuck in the limited fast one, and complain about overcharges.
Therefore, among many other things, T-Mobile needs the contend deliverer cooperation to provide the technical means to do the switching behind the scenes, and transparent to the users...
PS: How do I get my ramblings published to /.'s front page?
Whatever you end up doing with that machine, do not forget to upgrade each and every firmware for which updates are available (Mandatory; BIOS/UEFI, graphics card, storage), Max Out the RAM (mandatory), put a SDD and maybe a better graphics card (if budget allows). After the BIOS updates, enable Hyperthreading on the P4. Since the machines are so old, go for 32Bit OSs (as this will improve your chances to get drivers)
If you can put 2GB RAM (or more) on both machines (and perhaps a small SSD), the best upgrade path is Windows 10, or Windows 8.1 + ClassicShell (depending of course on Processor Instruction Support and Graphics card support).
But Your Question was Specific to Liux, so, if you want a desktop, and the machines have reasonable good Specs, go for Ubuntu straight ahead. Is better to learn a standard distro, as both the general and specific knowledge that you gain will be transferable/useable in a work environment.
If your machine has somewhat weaklish specs, go for CrunchBang!++ . At least you get a functional distro...
If you want the opportunity to learn your way around a server (in particular with the desktop), go for CentOS 6.3 (the last supported version with 32 bits support).
Best of luck.
While I am Sold to the Win10 new ways* , I understand why some other people (minority or not, but VERY vocal) are opposed to it. So it is NOT NICE from Microsoft to push so hard for Win10.
Had they had a gentler touch from the beginning, we wouldn't see all this pushback, and all this cottage industry of tips and tricks and apps to disable the upgrade...
You harvest the tempests you sowed...
*full disclosure, my main machines are macs, some legacy win laptops and all my bootcamp partitions are going to Win10*
In short: I personally HOPE that the answer to "What is the future of Television" is nothing, I hope it dies and like the telegraph. If someone were to offer a big screen with an acceptable resolution with nothing but inputs and outputs on the back then I would probably buy that. As it stands right now I don't have a television and I do not want one and I would not accept one if I got one for free.
But, I don't know about you, but I also need a Remote with Power, volume, Sleep, mute and Change input buttons for my dumb panel.
You know, the lowest powered processor intel makes...
That should have enough performance for a Smartwatch and prolong battery life to boot....
Actually, I do not understand why intel does not have a few quark SKUs for Smartwatches and multicore Quarks for Low End smartphones...
If you do not know what usub is, is difficult to determine what is is doing. In that, Linus is right. But look inside the Parenthesis:
" (mtu, hlen + sizeof(struct frag_hdr), &mtu) || mtu = 7) "
Here is a very Clear OR. The guys are checking for the MTU Being to big OR too small...
Linus offers this code:
"if (mtu hlen + sizeof(struct frag_hdr) + 8)"
Which obfuscates the OR comparison...
And Both Call the label "fail_toobig" intead of a more readable "fail_MTU_outofbounds"
Or am I missing Something?
You know /. supports hyperlinks you asshat.
I decided my brain power is better spent researching to decide that Leaf-Spine with 802.1aq is better than Leaf-Spine with TRILL, and yet both are better than Core-Distribution-Access, or Submitting things that make it to the front page, or making meaningful comments than learning how to put hyperlinks in Slashdot in some arcane old fashioned way because they rather do BETA than give us a decent WYSIWYG editor...
Or some troll can not do triple click Flower+c Flower+v ... Just saying.
First of, to some other chap that called me a shill (fortunately, down modded), my disbelief about the many eyes is not new, nor is it related to FOSS versus closed source. Please see my posting history on /.
Second, this bug was "Unshallow" seven (7) years... 'Nuff Said!
Let me explain using my favourite example: The Metafile fiasco of 2005.
Here we had Two (2) Codebases. One Closed Source (Windows) and one FOSS (Wine). BOTH codebases contained the error. It took 10 years for someone (the guys at Sunbelt Software) to realize the error. Neither Microsoft nor WINE detected the error, even if they had many eyes looking at the code. My hypothesis is that the Microsoft guys were unmotivated, and the WINE guys lacked QA and technical direction. Both codebases patched fast.
Please notice that the fact that WINE was FOSS did not help in the least the WINE team to detect the error (or any other group for that matter). And while some people say "The WINE team was just replicating the functionality", this is false, for, had the WINE Team themselves detected the security vulnerability as such, they would have made it public immediately, patched the code, and added a line in the config file of the form:
MetaFileVuln = 0 /* 0 keep the vuln replicate windows behaviour /* 1 implement WINE team Fix /* 2 replicate Microsoft fix If or when they release it
So, is not about many eyes. To catch and solved the bugs and security vulnerabilities you need more than many eyes...
You need QUALIFIED AND MOTIVATED eyes, QA, Test Cases, and some Process guidance...
And my friends, I read, and still have in my drive the Version 1 of ESR's paper. Read it fresh from the oven, not the many reinterpretations, remember, is a work in progress, is V3 nowadays...
ESR Was wrong. Enough Eyes are not enough!
One needs Enough QUALIFIED AND MOTIVATED eyes, as well as proper test cases, a Quality Assurance group and Technical Guidelines.
https://xkcd.com/606/
I updated a freaking bunch of CoreDuo laptops (please notice the absence of the number 2 in the middle of the name) with intel graphics (granted, not integrated) with no issues. (you can search my past posts for the gory details)...
It stands to reason that if such old graphics can handle win10, so can more modern Core iX integrated graphics, with some tweaking (perhaps using the Vista/7/8 drivers instead of the out of the box 10 ones, and checking that ALL your firmware is up to the latest, no matter what the release notes say).
Yes, is a hassle, and yes, true, Microsoft should have blocked the upgrade on your machines for the time being. But, the engineers there are not omniscient, and when (as a previous commenter said) the big boss says "I want X updates by Y date no matter how", this type of things happens, and is up to us to deal with the fallout. Lucky for me, I did it as a favor, and is not my day to day job.
I empathize with you, and do not envy your plight.
At least, those laptops will not end in Ghana for the next 5~10 years; or so I hope.
You mean, moving him to linux? Nice fantasy, and would have made his life easier, but it was NOT going to happen.
I suggested them to use OpenOffice, even installed it for them. Guess what they did after they got the machines?
Install Office 2010. They didn't wait a few weeks for Office 2016. They didn't install Office 2013, no, they went straight to Office 2010.
Try to imagine the reaction if the suggestion was: "Go to linux mint". Was NOT going to happen... :-(
Besides, they have a few windows programs (admin/accounting stuff) they need. Here were we are, Linux support is non-existent, and windows support people are crappy, to say the least...
Just as an example, on the P105, the resident techie installed 1 2GB stick, and left the other slot empty. Q: Why did not take the machine to full 4GB? A: That required a BIOS update, and that was beyond the guy's Kung-Fu. Try to imagine that guy running "A2 Software" under WINE (with NO support from the distributor). Yeah, right! Besides, as I said, my brother would never allow it in the first place.
As a matter of fact, the promise to move them to Win10 was the big draw/carrot for my brother to move his ass and let me do the hardware upgrades, instead of plowing along with those CRAPPY machines (or worse, filling the landfield with them - Remember, I did this for mother earth).
Last detail, In his personal machine (a 17" beast of a laptop, with dual HDDs, and 8GB of RAM), my brother had 8.1, and was HAPPY with it, he is eagerly waiting for 10 his automatic update to 10. So no, linux is a nice fantasy, but is not going to happen for him.
And if you meant moving them to Win7, remember microsoft backported their telemetry crap. The resident techie will not be able to play wack-a-mole with the relevant patches.
As for me, apple forced my hand by not having win7 drivers for the air 2015 in bootcamp. So 10 it is for both machines. From my machines, microsoft will only see me using project, visio, WD Drive check utility, Nokia suite for my old-now-just-used-for-here-maps nokia N9, and Arkam City Origins.
There are 5 more machines to update, but I am not sure He will be willing to pay for the required hardware. The next one for sure is a P35-S6111, that only goes to Win7. It is getting a PATA (for crying uot loud) SSD, and, guess what? 2x1GB DDR-0 sticks.
Bollocks!!!!!
I have been as of late upgrading the Laptops of my brother's firm, mostly as a favor to mother earth (to keep them out of the landfield, and to avoid buying new ones, increasing resources usage) and as a favor to him.
Sadly, he is a fan of Toshiba (but then again, it could be worse), the models are:
One A1235-S2386, one A135-SSP4108, one A135-S4527, one P200 and two P105-S6062.
All of them were on WinXP (on some, it came, on some, it was a Downgrade). Every single one of them was moved to Windows 10 (with some trickery). Every single one of them got the latest BIOS, an SSD, and more importantly for the article THE FULL AMOUNT OF RAM THEY SUPPORTED (all DDR2, some pc4200, some PC5300).
That means all the machines went from 1 or 1,5GB to 2GB (in the A series case) and from 1,5 or 2GB to a full 4GB (in the P series case).
I, personally use a Mac. My current Air has the full 8GB apple ships, my older MacBook has 6GB from the Original two (and an SSD instead of the original HDD). Again, the fact that OS upgrades are free, does not mean LESS sales of memory.
So, as some other commenters have said, the article has flawed logic, the fact that an OS upgrade is free does not mean that RAM sales volume will diminish. If anything, the fact that the upgrade is free means there is more "share of wallet" available to buy RAM and other upgrades in order to make an upgraded machine more snappy.
Funny, I found WIndows 10 to be completely unusable on my Toshiba A105 (with an upgraded HDD and 2GB of RAM). DWM and Windows Defender kept the CPU busy at all times. Windows 7 and Windows 8 ran smoothly on this laptop (but not as good as XP).
Try to go to tosh's support site and download the latest drivers (particularly video, as DWM is the Desktop Window Manager) available there (they may be labeled as Win7, that was my case). If there is a firmware (i.e. bios) patch, get that as well.
Apply the BIOS patch first, then the video drivers. Then let Windows update the drivers. Tosh has the nasty habit of blocking generic drivers from providers. While in 7, I had to use drivers unlocked by the friends on "Mobility.Dot.Net" but in Win10 that is frowned upon. See if that helps with the problems.
As per the Windows Defender, I read you upgraded the HDD, but is still an HDD, not an SSD. Anyhow, use Process Manager to lower the priority of windows defender and let it do its work. While at it, schedule it to scan your machine at lunch or at night.
It would also be wise, after windows defender is done, do a "online scan" with some tool such as "TrendMicro HouseCall"
Best of luck, and let me know when and how you fixed it.
Suerte y feliz dia.
At work or Academia, I had used all there is to use. DOS, Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, Sinix, VMS, Linux, FreeBSD...
At home, it was DOS (3.2, 3.3, 5.0, 6.22) Windows (WFW 3.11, 95, 98, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista) all the way (with a brief innuendo with Warp), until Early 2009, when I declared my switchover to MAC Successful.
Now, Apple forced my hand by not releasing Win7 Drivers for the 2015 13"Air... So, between having a ragtag fleet of machines on Win732, Win764 and Win8.1 64, I'll go 10 all the way.
The fact that I can get Windows 10 Working on a Toshiba Satellite A123 ** (My last windows machine), with an Xpress200m Chipset whose graphics part is based on a chip (R300) released in Aug. 2002, and a processor whose architecture (Yonah T2080) was released on 2006 speaks volumes at the effort microsoft has put in preserving compatibility AND make the OS perform better.
On the same resources, Win 8 will perform better than 7 and Win 10 will outperform them both. It has actually breathed new life into the old machine.
What really interest me is the new powers under the hood. Better performance (as said before), Edge, better included antivirus and security tools, DX12, etc, etc, etc.
Maybe things moved around a lot from what I remember, but is in no way as bad as windows 8, were I had to rip of the virtual machine due to the hotcorners, and wanted to pull my hair everytime I had to use a Win8 machine from a friend without a shell replacement. Besides, if one does not like the interface, one can change it (as they said in the TFA, Classic Shell works like a charm, and I am sure there will be other customization apps in no time), if they removed mediaplayer, there is MithTV or VLC, the app store is empty, so what, is not like I forgot how to download an exe or a msi file...
But then again, I use this only for some games (currently Batman Arkam Origins, and anything that strikes my fancy that Steam has not ported to Apple yet) on bootcamp, and via VirtualBox on raw partition for Visio and Project.
The fact that the upgrade is free sweetens and seals the deal (if I had to pay for it, or had to go through the hoops of the university to get the license key, well....). Yes, there are privacy concerns, and I will deal with them, the same way I dealt with iCloud and all of Apple's privacy invasions, I have the knowledge to do so, and I can relay on my fellow techies when my knowledge fails me.
For me is a welcome upgrade, one that will bring homogeneity to my fleet, along with better performance accross the board, and I am recommending all non-techie friends to upgrade (after updating FW, maxing RAM and putting an SSD, of course), especially from Windows XP. Besides, I already issued them a stern Warning. After march 2016, I'll only answer questions about Win10 or "El Capitan". That will drastically cut the amount of free tech support I must do... ;-)
Welcome Windows 10, you may not warrant a rolling stones theme song, but your low-key entry will make many lives easier...
Suerte a todos y feliz dia.
** Yes, after firmware updates, maxed RAM to 2GB, and put a SATA3 64GB SSD on the puny SATA1 interface of the Xpress200M
PS: For what is worth, I have CrunchBang++ for basic Linux demos to my students in the Toshiba (the machine I carry around in mass transport to class, because, if they mug me, I'll not miss it), and have A few CentOS and Oracle Linux machines for, you know, stuff...
****: The other option I was exploring today was setting up a dedicated access point just for the Chromecast. I've got the hardware, and a bit of room on the outskirts of the ISM band, but fuuuuuu.
Exactly This, While I live in Venezuela, my chromecast thinks it is in Japan, and is happily using chanel 14 (sadly in b mode) with no incidents on my WRT-54G with DD-WRT. Easy peasy.
While I have the ductery and chops to string a CAT3/5 cable to the TV, I do not feel like it...
The Macbook is using chan 1, but will be wired, not because of BW (mind you, my ADSL is 3Mbps, 10Mbps is the top the telco will give, evein in their (experimental) FTTH). the macbook will be wired because of apple's wifi problems....
Shell Scripting to detect "Dormant BTSs", the feature cost $50K in OMC-B 4.5 and was free in 5.5 (which was due in 1 year and had hardware upgrade and consulting costs associated). Script: $0, one afternoon.
DispMCR on a Siemens mobile switch of 100k subscribers. Fair enough. but how do you balance 3 of those running at the same time go get 24/7 MCRs? Without bringing down the switch? That takes skill, and steel nerves.
Now a day, not much hacking, but my chromecast thinks it is in japan, and happily uses WiFi Channel 14... ;-)
If by "Use" you mean: Copy/paste sections of GPLed code, then yea, you are forced to use the GPL (this also applies to Read-Memorized-Retyped).
If by use you mean: I link to some GPLed libraries. Or: I invoke some GPLed executable to do some work. Or: I send some IPC message to some GPLed process then you can use pretty much any licence you may well please.
For code I develop for commercial use (either if I want to turn it into a product, or if I am developing for a Third party) I prefer BSD/MIT/Apache.
For code I develop as a hobby, or as a service to the community, I preffer the GPL (v2).
Also, bear in mind two things:
* If you use a substantial amount of GPL code, the community frowns upon using a non GPL license.
* But, apples AppStore has had troubles with GPLed applications in the past.
Choose Wisely.
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I agree wholeheartedly with the Parent, Xilinx should not copy Intel's strategy, but rather, come up with a new one...
But sometimes managers are not creative enough. If the folks at Xilinx want to copy Intel's strategy on the cheap, they can try to buy Via/Centaur from Formosa Plastics Group.
They make the Via Nano and related chipsets, the group is small (so less culture clashes, things will be done the Xilinx way). Have you read of the culture clashed between the red Team (ATi) and the Green Team (AMD) When the companies merged? Would Xilinx want a repeat of that?
Yes, VIA has 0% market share in servers, so Xilinx would have to construct the thing from scratch, the Xilinx way, still, that's better than hiring the same server sales/marketing guys at AMD, were they had clawed a healthy 20% of server market share around 2005 and lost it to Intel (mostly with a boneheaded Arch, but still sales should inform R&D about customer needs).
VIA has a presence in the autotainment market, that could be interesting to Xilinx...
The only reason I see for Xilinx to buy AMD is that AMD has Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft as console customers. If Xilinx KNOWS FOR SURE that next gen consoles will have an FPGA, that may be worthwhile, otherwise, as parent said:
Come Up with a different strategy. But, as I said, if you feel the urge of copying Intel, do it on the cheap and buy Via, not AMD.
Probably the last one where the batteries are not Glued, meaning that, when the time is due, after removing 14 pentalobe screws, and doing some other voodoo I can replace them myself.*
2,4Ghz proc, 8GB RAM and 255SSD.
Is used mainly as a Desktop, so extrernal wired USB Keyboard (from an HP PA-RISK Workstation no less, which probably means the machine never goes into deep hibernation) ...
And wired Genius 1200dpi mouse (tried the magic mouse for 3 weeks, hated it).
A second panel, a Dell P2011H (with all the shortages in Venezuela, I was lucky to get this one) Bought mainly because it can pivot.
And a bunch of extrenal USB 2.0 HDDs and Hubs (inherited from the previous machine). Only this machine is backed up (via time Machine).
Mostly web browsing, office work, ScreenFlow lectures, Chromecasting and Portal 1 and 2 as well as Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 (stupid me bought them at the same time).
Windows 8.1 64 Bits via BootCamp for Arkam Origins and via VirtualBox for Project and Visio.
LabTec LCS-600 Speakers from my DEC starion 700i (still sound good).
Also have a MacBook Aluminum Unibody Late 2008, was my main machine until a few months ago, now at my parents' house (I visit every 3 weeknds or so). And an old and beaten toshiba from 2007 when I need to take a machine with me for presentations and notetaking (used to carry the mac to impress people circa 2009, but that now is old school), if I get mugged, not much is lost really.
* My previous mac was hit by pregnant battery syndrome, and I do not live near an Apple Store (as a matter of fact, there are none in my country), since I use the machine as a desktop, I only realized the malaise when I was at a customer consulting gig, and was later told by apple that "The battery is a consumible anyway, not covered by AppleCare". I bowed to never buy an apple battery again, nor buy a laptop were I am not able to replace the battery.
This pain me the most. Not because of solitaire/spidersolitaire/minesweeper per se, but because of the high scores and statistics.....
Anyhow, a small price to pay for a free upgrade and consistency across machines.
And since my plan is to upgrade my three machines (Toshiba Win 7, MacBook Aluminum Late 2008 bootcamp Win 7 and MacBook Air 13" Early 2015 Bootcamp Win8.1) in the December downturn/downtime, I may find a way to move those....
I guess if you missconfigure, all those remote users hammering on the 'shards' stored on your SSD will do wonders to its rated life...