Hehe. She's holds a degree in English Literature and is working towards her doctorate.
If I asked her to take the time to learn how computer worked, I'm afraid she'd ask me, in return, to read and analyze some 500 page book written in middle-english from the year 1500.
Well, for one, my wife would have one less thing to yell at me about.
I recently bought a little shuttle PC, put windows media center on it and a wireless. I made this mistake of telling her that she could surf the web on our TV. Well, she did and she was pissed that when she logged on with her account (which I manually configured using the same username/password), her files/settings were not there.
I had planned on configuring so that all her stuff would be available, but just hadn't gotten around to it yet.
One thing I can think of, is that it doesn't allow for centralized logins (no "mini active directory" like small business server). being about to log into any computer in your home with the same login/password and have a central profile would be nice. Right now it can be done, sort of, with hacks, but that's over the head of the typical home user.
"And also the main reason...the systems using this licence never took off like the other one not using this licence." I'm not sure why you are trying to point this out to me. Just as the GP poster seems to have missed the point of the BSD license, you seemed to have missed the point of my post.
As for your assertion, there were many different reasons why GNU/Linux took off in favor of BSD based OSs in the early 90's and from all accounts I've read, the license wasn't "the main reason" at all.
Some of the reasons for linux's early success...
* BSD was on shaky legal ground at the time because of the AT&T lawsuit, which scared many people away from it at the time. * The original goal of Linux was to make a free UNIX that would run on cheap desktop hardware. * Though it could make a good UNIX workstation, BSD was not specifically targeted towards the desktop, and (purposely?) lacked hardware support for many low-end devices. This created a barrier to entry. * BSD developers were not very good in the advocacy department.
Did the license have something to do with it? Maybe. I do know that the first time I tried Linux in 1997, the license meant nothing to me. As far as I was concerned it was just "freeware". I also tried FreeBSD for the first time that same year, and to be honest I though it was just another version of Linux. This was a result of the huge amount of hype around linux on the net at the time. It's quite possible that GPL fanaticism was the force behind the linux advocacy phenomenon on the net. Like I said, I don't know because I didn't care about licenses at the time. I just wanted to experiment with my computer.
"It's more like you can write software that is BSD licensed but you can just take that software as a base without either paying the authors or contributing code back" Yes. That's the whole point of the license.
Apple has contributed back the BSD community, and I've never seen BSD developers express dissatisfaction with what Apple has done. Are you a FreeBSD developer? As for Microsoft, they use a few utilities (ftp/telnet/etc) that seem to be ported over from BSD, and for a very short time, used an IP stack that was derived from BSD code. They also wrote their own implementation of Kerberos from scratch (which had nothing to do with BSD, or using other's code).
Maybe they are to you, but those examples are not particularly compelling to me.
"The only thing you needed to do was plug in your soundcard values." ha!
I spent countless hours pulling my hair out editing files like this... device=c:\dos\himem.sys device=c:\dos\emm386.exe ram device=c:\mouse\mouse.sys files=30 buffers=40 dos=high,umb ..trying to get stupid DOS games to work.
Gee, I had no idea my alcohol habit, which consists of around six beers per month, constituted "hedonism". What will I do? I must also ask, what will my Dad do? When he told his heart doctor his 1 or 2 beer per month drinking habit, the evil hedonistic doctor said he should drink a little more often!
I never attacked the the parent poster; I simply advised that alcohol was actually good for you. Moderation was implied, but I guess you shouldn't imply things when you're talking to people who like to take things literally.
If don't want to drink alcohol because you don't like the taste or it, or you are sensitive to it, or you don't like the way it makes you feel, or you can't control yourself, or some other logical reason, then that's great. If you don't want to drink alcohol because someone told you it's "immoral" then I'm sorry.
By your posts I would guess you either had someone close to you killed in an alcohol related death....or you are a Mormon, so posting this is probably pointless, but...
I'm was not talking about getting drunk Mr. holier-than-thou-with-an-obvious-ax-to-grind.
Now go back to your Elks/Rotary/Boy Scout Club meeting and discuss what other morality you'd like to legislate.
"When people ask this question, they get details, and perhaps a link to a list or two. But there is no single up-to-date reliable hardware list that a Linux-user can really rely on." This is one of the reasons I like and use FreeBSD. When I want to purchase a piece of hardware, or even an entire system, there is a single up-to-date reliable hardware list that I can consult to make sure what I buy will work.
"Win users are still defragging HD, And most Linux users still having to run fsck after hard reboots.
"rebooting for sw update and installation, Not always necessary
"rebooting twice after a serious crash wtf are you talking about?
"deal with a global flat text file called the registry," The registry is actually a transactional database with separate hives for the system and users, and is protected by ACLs.
"have sw complaining if it's run unprivileged," Has nothing to do with the design of the OS.
"can't automatically have all the installed software being updated," Welcome to the world of ISVs.
"have to deal with different keyboard shortcuts in different languages (OSX gnome kde seem way more unified)," Nitpick much?
"office has noobish usability issues" I guess other inferior office suits should work on integrating these features then eh?
"In the meantime linux and osx get things like ZFS." ZFS is cool, but OSX doesn't have it yet, and I don't know of a Linux distro that uses it by default yet. Most still use the ancient, shitty ext3 filesystem.
"When I went over to the dark side (doing server to switch to user support), I was shocked. Everything sucked so bad. I had 300 users with different installs, different software, and different problems." What you has there was a horribly managed group of Windows machines. I've seen many of them before, and I'm sure I'll see many more of them in the future.
"The "Why" of linux came down to this: the ability to easily standardize desktops and easily back-up and restore a user's PC. In Linux, I know all the users' files are in/home I can easily set up scripts on a server to back up those files nightly. If a user's PC breaks, I can easily copy his profile to a laptop and have him back up within an hour." All of that is just as easy to do with Windows.
I'm not saying that what you did was wrong. If it worked for you then that's great, and I'm sure you've saved a bit of money. I'm just saying that situation you ran into was not caused by a shortcoming of Windows, but by a shortcoming of the monkeys who set up the environment before you arrived.
When Linux and Windows arrive to a point where they are subjected to equal conditions, then single metric stats like vulnerability counts and infection rates might mean something.
I have Hyundai Sonata and the mileage quoted on the sticker at the lot is *exactly* what I've gotten. Aside from the hybrid variety, are certain cars more likely to get lower mileage than the EPA estimate?
"Sound isn't used on business computers, for good reason." Of course it is. Our employees can listen to their voice-mail on their computers, so sound is a requirement.
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Hehe. She's holds a degree in English Literature and is working towards her doctorate.
;)
If I asked her to take the time to learn how computer worked, I'm afraid she'd ask me, in return, to read and analyze some 500 page book written in middle-english from the year 1500.
I'm not willing to take that chance.
"I strongly believe in having people solve their own computer problems, with some guidance, so that they can fix those same problems in the future.
;)
And I strongly believe in getting laid sometime withing the next month.
The advantages?
Well, for one, my wife would have one less thing to yell at me about.
I recently bought a little shuttle PC, put windows media center on it and a wireless. I made this mistake of telling her that she could surf the web on our TV. Well, she did and she was pissed that when she logged on with her account (which I manually configured using the same username/password), her files/settings were not there.
I had planned on configuring so that all her stuff would be available, but just hadn't gotten around to it yet.
One thing I can think of, is that it doesn't allow for centralized logins (no "mini active directory" like small business server). being about to log into any computer in your home with the same login/password and have a central profile would be nice. Right now it can be done, sort of, with hacks, but that's over the head of the typical home user.
BadAnalogyGuy, is that you?
Don't karma whore now!
It contains more FUD than insight.
As for your assertion, there were many different reasons why GNU/Linux took off in favor of BSD based OSs in the early 90's and from all accounts I've read, the license wasn't "the main reason" at all.
Some of the reasons for linux's early success...
* BSD was on shaky legal ground at the time because of the AT&T lawsuit, which scared many people away from it at the time.
* The original goal of Linux was to make a free UNIX that would run on cheap desktop hardware.
* Though it could make a good UNIX workstation, BSD was not specifically targeted towards the desktop, and (purposely?) lacked hardware support for many low-end devices. This created a barrier to entry.
* BSD developers were not very good in the advocacy department.
Did the license have something to do with it? Maybe. I do know that the first time I tried Linux in 1997, the license meant nothing to me. As far as I was concerned it was just "freeware". I also tried FreeBSD for the first time that same year, and to be honest I though it was just another version of Linux. This was a result of the huge amount of hype around linux on the net at the time. It's quite possible that GPL fanaticism was the force behind the linux advocacy phenomenon on the net. Like I said, I don't know because I didn't care about licenses at the time. I just wanted to experiment with my computer.
Apple has contributed back the BSD community, and I've never seen BSD developers express dissatisfaction with what Apple has done. Are you a FreeBSD developer? As for Microsoft, they use a few utilities (ftp/telnet/etc) that seem to be ported over from BSD, and for a very short time, used an IP stack that was derived from BSD code. They also wrote their own implementation of Kerberos from scratch (which had nothing to do with BSD, or using other's code).
Maybe they are to you, but those examples are not particularly compelling to me.
Please name an example of a company who has taken one of the BSDs and "screwed the community".
I spent countless hours pulling my hair out editing files like this...
device=c:\dos\himem.sys
device=c:\dos\emm386.exe ram
device=c:\mouse\mouse.sys
files=30
buffers=40
dos=high,umb
Gee, I had no idea my alcohol habit, which consists of around six beers per month, constituted "hedonism". What will I do? I must also ask, what will my Dad do? When he told his heart doctor his 1 or 2 beer per month drinking habit, the evil hedonistic doctor said he should drink a little more often!
I never attacked the the parent poster; I simply advised that alcohol was actually good for you. Moderation was implied, but I guess you shouldn't imply things when you're talking to people who like to take things literally.
If don't want to drink alcohol because you don't like the taste or it, or you are sensitive to it, or you don't like the way it makes you feel, or you can't control yourself, or some other logical reason, then that's great. If you don't want to drink alcohol because someone told you it's "immoral" then I'm sorry.
By your posts I would guess you either had someone close to you killed in an alcohol related death....or you are a Mormon, so posting this is probably pointless, but...
I'm was not talking about getting drunk Mr. holier-than-thou-with-an-obvious-ax-to-grind.
Now go back to your Elks/Rotary/Boy Scout Club meeting and discuss what other morality you'd like to legislate.
I'm not saying that what you did was wrong. If it worked for you then that's great, and I'm sure you've saved a bit of money. I'm just saying that situation you ran into was not caused by a shortcoming of Windows, but by a shortcoming of the monkeys who set up the environment before you arrived.
"What Paul Murphy, resident ZDNet Sun Fanboy, hopes will happen in IT 2007"
When Linux and Windows arrive to a point where they are subjected to equal conditions, then single metric stats like vulnerability counts and infection rates might mean something.
Hyuandais are actually reliable now. You just happened to buy one when they were junk.
Well I'm in CA..though I am in a rural area, so stop and go for long distances is a rare thing.
Maybe I just drive like a grandma.
I have Hyundai Sonata and the mileage quoted on the sticker at the lot is *exactly* what I've gotten. Aside from the hybrid variety, are certain cars more likely to get lower mileage than the EPA estimate?