Not exactly, it's because mobile phone companies think that having complete platform control is a lot more important than allowing an open browser to upset their applecart.
And from their perspective -they're right. If you don't control the application you want to make sure that the people who do control it are either under your influence, or have similar goals. Open source isn't under their influence, and the goals of open source are diametrically opposite of the manufacturers'.
...apart from cmdr taco raking in cash (in the form of ad revenue) off of the slashbot hordes that are queing up to post the usual "M$ sux" comments (which will race to +5 insightful) and lame jokes about ballmer throwing chairs (which invariably get rated +5 funny)?
I've read a lot on the opensolaris forums about getting VMWare to work on Solaris -but I think this move is more to their advantage. VMWare is a closed-source application that they'll never really have control over -even if VMWare did agree to offer host support for Solaris. With Virtual Box all they need to do is get community support (and possibly import more components from qemu?) to add functionality onto the program while keeping control over the direction the program goes in.
All they need to do is implement Solaris host support and it would almost be perfect (disregarding speed issues with both solaris and virutal box, of course).
Seriously...could the whole point of this -from the Russian perspective at least, be that they can use or hire their local blackhats to wreak economic and/or civil damage (eg what happened to estonia) pretty much at will?
I'm not saying that's what Russia is actively doing -but what incentive would Putin have to dismantle a tool that could be used so effectively against his -and russia's- enemies?
No...BSD is better engineered because it's.... (wait for it)....engineered. Linux is just a kernel with a bunch of separately developed utilities strung together -no real coordination, no real direction.
But I don't really count that as it belonged to my sister's boyfriend and I only played it once. A couple years later a pizza place my mom went to after work had several video games I used to feed quarters to -there was a submarine game I've long forgotten the name of that was my favorite. I'd count that as my first gaming experience.
Didn't try pen&paper RPGs until the nineties and still never got into them.
This is what I can never understand. I see these posts all the time saying that Vista is not all that horrible. Wow! What a great selling point! I mean, if vista isn't all that horrible, I guess I better upgrade right away.
If I am going to spend good money to upgrade my hw and os, I want something that is *much* better, otherwise, why bother? I want an actual reason to "upgrade."
I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough for you -Vista came with the computer I bought back in october. It wasn't an upgrade. Is your five-year old computer a dual-core? Do you have 2 gigs of ram? That's what I paid for. And since two of my hobbies are cpu intensive (3d graphics ala' Daz3d and Virtualisation) sticking with 5 year old hardware really wasn't practical.
1) If you could run XP on your current system, I think you would notice the speed difference.
I looked for XP/2000 drivers for all of the hardware in the computer with that exact thought in mind -in fact I went so far as to hunt down an old copy of the.NET runtime so I could install the drivers for my weird hp keyboard.
XP starts and shuts down faster than Vista, but as far as the apps I run on a daily basis goes, I haven't noticed any real difference in performance.
On the plus side -when I reinstalled Vista I got the benefit of having a better organised start bar, and a more unix-ish home directory (I prefer looking for things in \Users\$USERNAME than under "documents and settings\" -cygwin prefers it too.)
2) Have you tried to run a Windows backup?
I have a dvd burner and my computer came with a copy of Roxio basic.
3) Have you tried to copy/move a directory with several sub-folders and files to a network share or another hard drive? Try to do anything else while this is running.
All the time, and apart from hardware problems (which is an issue with both XP and Vista) I didn't have any problems. And I'm able to copy in the background just fine under Vista.
4) Have you tried to run any older applications/games that you had previously?
Yes, I have. I had to get an update to run Sims2 and I couldn't run VMWare 5 -other than that I haven't had any problems. I was even able to install and run the older games I have laying around the house (GTAIII and Knights Of The Old Republic). GTAIII looks like ass (on both Vista and XP) I suspect because of my onboard nvidia card.
5) If you have wireless, have you tried to change from one access point to another?
I don't have wireless -and this is a desktop computer, not a laptop.
6) Have you tried running on a dual monitor setup?
I haven't run a dual monitor system -period.
7) Have you tried running any music/video files that you had previously ripped or downloaded, purchased or not?
Yes. As I type this I'm listening to some mp3s I downloaded from emusic.com -I've got a ton of music files that go back to the napster days. They all play just fine -even in media player 11.
8) Have you tried running a Quicktime stream when QT pops up for an update?
I actively try to avoid quicktime because it's a PITA and I resent that they bundle itunes with it.
9) Have you downloaded a 50Mb+ file and compare it to the download time under XP? (20 mins. in Vista/IE7 changed to less than 2 mins. in XP/Firefox on my 15Mb fiber downloading a 67Mb driver file from nVidia.com)
I've downloaded huge files under both -and haven't noticed any real problems. Hell, the first thing that Vista does when I re-install it is download about 131 megs of updates; I haven't measured how long that takes but it's less than 15 minutes.
Ugh. He said decent -that disqualifies Virtualbox, sorry.
You can get virtual pc 2007 and VMware Server for free. If you have the money to spend, VMware workstation 6 is your best bet.
Avoid everything else (virtual box and qemu specifically) like the fucking plague -at least until one or both of them improve a hell of a lot more in the speed department.
Actually, it does work very well, about as well as the user dialogs for gsudo or whatever in GNOME and KDE work -maybe even better since the UAC gets your attention by dimming your entire display -a lot of people need that drastic of a hint to realise something's serious.
I've been using Vista for a couple of weeks solid now, it's very rare for more than 1.5 gigs of my 2 gigs of ram to be used -usually unless I'm running viretual machines my ram usage hovers around 600 megs -yes, Vista is a ram hog, but if you've got 2 gigs of ram, most of it (in my experience) is going to be laying around half unused whether you use XP or Vista.
>Wow. How amazing that the record companies agreed to this. Low quality streaming with loads of ads and a "download" button that sends you to the iTunes store or amazon.
Yes, it sucks if you want to download the songs, I'll give you that. But ads? Man up and install flashblock and adblockplus already.
Actually, I took the survey (I'm a sucker for this kind of thing, free cds, free games, free smiley icons for my email, etc) and chose only the survey option. It appears as though you only get the software and licenses if you choose to install their monitoring software;but if you choose the first option all you get is a link to participate in a survey on your level of computer experience/literacy, marketing factors (eg does 'brand' influence your purchasing decisions) and how you use mobile technologies.
Asking slashdotters for advice on securing windows is akin to asking people on a windows forum for reasons to switch over to linux. They're not exactly unbiased, know what I'm saying?
>Well you obviously don't like IRC because you've only used it for support. For those of us who use it to just chat it's fine.
I'm amused because I feel just the opposite. If I need a quick-fix answer to a problem I'm having a lot of times it's more effecient for me to hop onto freenode and ask a question in the relevant channel than it is to hunt through a million (mostly irrelevant) results on google. Conversely in my experience IRC sucks shit (to put it mildly) as far as socialising goes.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Then again, maybe I just don't have the patience to play "needle in a haystack" to find that one in a million IRC community which is actually worth hanging out in.
I was on IRC ten years ago too, and IMO it's stronger today than it was then -simply by virtue of the fact that it's more popular. Ten years ago it was very rare to see irc channels mentioned on people's pages; but now half the time you're reading some web comic or whatever you'll see a 'join us on # on ' message. The big names have petered out, but irc itself seems to be more pervasive than it was in 97 from a cultural point of view.
Oh, and I think that as far as networks go -rizon.net and quakenet (just to cite to examples off the top of my head) have done very well for themselves. I'm sure if I paid attention to IRC I could rattle off more networks.
IRC isn't dying any more than BSD is dying -less so, probably.
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Actual human beings are vastly over-rated.
Not exactly, it's because mobile phone companies think that having complete platform control is a lot more important than allowing an open browser to upset their applecart.
And from their perspective -they're right. If you don't control the application you want to make sure that the people who do control it are either under your influence, or have similar goals. Open source isn't under their influence, and the goals of open source are diametrically opposite of the manufacturers'.
...apart from cmdr taco raking in cash (in the form of ad revenue) off of the slashbot hordes that are queing up to post the usual "M$ sux" comments (which will race to +5 insightful) and lame jokes about ballmer throwing chairs (which invariably get rated +5 funny)?
No point at all.
I, for one, welcome our new gray skin overlords...
I've read a lot on the opensolaris forums about getting VMWare to work on Solaris -but I think this move is more to their advantage. VMWare is a closed-source application that they'll never really have control over -even if VMWare did agree to offer host support for Solaris. With Virtual Box all they need to do is get community support (and possibly import more components from qemu?) to add functionality onto the program while keeping control over the direction the program goes in.
All they need to do is implement Solaris host support and it would almost be perfect (disregarding speed issues with both solaris and virutal box, of course).
Seriously ...could the whole point of this -from the Russian perspective at least, be that they can use or hire their local blackhats to wreak economic and/or civil damage (eg what happened to estonia) pretty much at will?
I'm not saying that's what Russia is actively doing -but what incentive would Putin have to dismantle a tool that could be used so effectively against his -and russia's- enemies?
would be snope's credibility circling the drain...
OMG teh Steve Ballmer will throw a chair at teh plane!
...if they're not a church then howcum they got tax-exempt status?
Wait, that's a very good question -why DO they have that?
No...BSD is better engineered because it's .... (wait for it) .... engineered . Linux is just a kernel with a bunch of separately developed utilities strung together -no real coordination, no real direction.
But I don't really count that as it belonged to my sister's boyfriend and I only played it once. A couple years later a pizza place my mom went to after work had several video games I used to feed quarters to -there was a submarine game I've long forgotten the name of that was my favorite. I'd count that as my first gaming experience.
Didn't try pen&paper RPGs until the nineties and still never got into them.
What's that you said ? Slashdot has hit the skids? What?
I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough for you -Vista came with the computer I bought back in october. It wasn't an upgrade. Is your five-year old computer a dual-core? Do you have 2 gigs of ram? That's what I paid for. And since two of my hobbies are cpu intensive (3d graphics ala' Daz3d and Virtualisation) sticking with 5 year old hardware really wasn't practical.
I looked for XP/2000 drivers for all of the hardware in the computer with that exact thought in mind -in fact I went so far as to hunt down an old copy of the
XP starts and shuts down faster than Vista, but as far as the apps I run on a daily basis goes, I haven't noticed any real difference in performance.
On the plus side -when I reinstalled Vista I got the benefit of having a better organised start bar, and a more unix-ish home directory (I prefer looking for things in \Users\$USERNAME than under "documents and settings\" -cygwin prefers it too.)
I have a dvd burner and my computer came with a copy of Roxio basic.
All the time, and apart from hardware problems (which is an issue with both XP and Vista) I didn't have any problems. And I'm able to copy in the background just fine under Vista.
Yes, I have. I had to get an update to run Sims2 and I couldn't run VMWare 5 -other than that I haven't had any problems. I was even able to install and run the older games I have laying around the house (GTAIII and Knights Of The Old Republic). GTAIII looks like ass (on both Vista and XP) I suspect because of my onboard nvidia card.
I don't have wireless -and this is a desktop computer, not a laptop.
I haven't run a dual monitor system -period.
Yes. As I type this I'm listening to some mp3s I downloaded from emusic.com -I've got a ton of music files that go back to the napster days. They all play just fine -even in media player 11.
I actively try to avoid quicktime because it's a PITA and I resent that they bundle itunes with it.
I've downloaded huge files under both -and haven't noticed any real problems. Hell, the first thing that Vista does when I re-install it is download about 131 megs of updates; I haven't measured how long that takes but it's less than 15 minutes.
>Look at some of the things they have been doing.
Such as...?
It has it's upside, it has its' downside. I haven't had any serious problems with it since I bought my computer back in october.
I really don't get what all the bitching's about.
For the love of fucking GOD someone slap a +1 informative up on the parent post -I couldn't have put it better myself!
Ugh. He said decent -that disqualifies Virtualbox, sorry.
You can get virtual pc 2007 and VMware Server for free. If you have the money to spend, VMware workstation 6 is your best bet.
Avoid everything else (virtual box and qemu specifically) like the fucking plague -at least until one or both of them improve a hell of a lot more in the speed department.
Actually, it does work very well, about as well as the user dialogs for gsudo or whatever in GNOME and KDE work -maybe even better since the UAC gets your attention by dimming your entire display -a lot of people need that drastic of a hint to realise something's serious.
I've been using Vista for a couple of weeks solid now, it's very rare for more than 1.5 gigs of my 2 gigs of ram to be used -usually unless I'm running viretual machines my ram usage hovers around 600 megs -yes, Vista is a ram hog, but if you've got 2 gigs of ram, most of it (in my experience) is going to be laying around half unused whether you use XP or Vista.
>Wow. How amazing that the record companies agreed to this. Low quality streaming with loads of ads and a "download" button that sends you to the iTunes store or amazon.
Yes, it sucks if you want to download the songs, I'll give you that. But ads? Man up and install flashblock and adblockplus already.
Actually, I took the survey (I'm a sucker for this kind of thing, free cds, free games, free smiley icons for my email, etc) and chose only the survey option. It appears as though you only get the software and licenses if you choose to install their monitoring software;but if you choose the first option all you get is a link to participate in a survey on your level of computer experience/literacy, marketing factors (eg does 'brand' influence your purchasing decisions) and how you use mobile technologies.
>How many of them give tips on securing windows other than switching to linux?
Apparently twitter and erris slept in this morning.
Asking slashdotters for advice on securing windows is akin to asking people on a windows forum for reasons to switch over to linux. They're not exactly unbiased, know what I'm saying?
Indeed. 640 Resolutions should be enough for anyone.
>Well you obviously don't like IRC because you've only used it for support. For those of us who use it to just chat it's fine.
I'm amused because I feel just the opposite. If I need a quick-fix answer to a problem I'm having a lot of times it's more effecient for me to hop onto freenode and ask a question in the relevant channel than it is to hunt through a million (mostly irrelevant) results on google. Conversely in my experience IRC sucks shit (to put it mildly) as far as socialising goes.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Then again, maybe I just don't have the patience to play "needle in a haystack" to find that one in a million IRC community which is actually worth hanging out in.
I was on IRC ten years ago too, and IMO it's stronger today than it was then -simply by virtue of the fact that it's more popular. Ten years ago it was very rare to see irc channels mentioned on people's pages; but now half the time you're reading some web comic or whatever you'll see a 'join us on # on ' message. The big names have petered out, but irc itself seems to be more pervasive than it was in 97 from a cultural point of view.
Oh, and I think that as far as networks go -rizon.net and quakenet (just to cite to examples off the top of my head) have done very well for themselves. I'm sure if I paid attention to IRC I could rattle off more networks.
IRC isn't dying any more than BSD is dying -less so, probably.