I'm not sure it's the apps. I think what actually happens is that Vista puts up a login prompt well before it has truly finished booting. i.e. before all the services have started.
The result is that you can login but the machine runs like a dog with no legs for the next 5 minutes as it tries to complete the boot process and deal with you trying to use it all at once.
Any article that uses "loading excessive library files forced on us by the DOJ" as the first (and presumably therefore most significant) reason for Vista slowness should be laughed out of town.
You've got to look closely at the courses involved. I studied IT at Leicester and it was nothing like what some on this discussion are suggesting. It was not a course for sysadmins.
In my case the CS students learned application development (including Cobol believe it or not). In IT we studied operating systems, data commmunications and electronics. The net result was a much more rounded course. My first job was as a software engineer for British Telecom research. Now I'm the CTO for a company in America.
In short, look closely at the details of the course, remember your degree gets you your first interview and that's about all, and good luck.
I wasn't saying not to use font hinting I was saying that sub-pixel hinting has in my experience (with a variety of LCD displays) proven to be fairly ineffective.
Maybe it's just me but I've turned cleartype on in both Linux (a couple of distros) and Windows and I can't say I like the results.
I find font rendering in Linux more visually pleasing than that in Windows XP and I turn off the sub-pixel smoothing in Linux because text looks better without it.
Interesting, I found quite the reverse -- SQL Server would have been several times more expensive than Oracle. I guess it depends on what features you require, number of CPUs etc.
Data guard is only available in Oracle Enterprise Edition which makes it as expensive as RAC ($40,000/cpu).
That said you can run a standby database and do manual transfer of archivelog files without using data guard. In this case you only need Standard Edition ($15,000/cpu) or even Standard One Edition ($5,000/cpu) if you only have a one or two cpu machine.
Standard One Edition on a single CPU is pretty cost effective.
amazon.co.uk is your saviour here. Now that I live in the US it's how I get hold of my Pratchett fix without having to wait ages for the books to come out in the US [1] and the shipping is offset by the usual Amazon discounts.:)
[1] They say this will nolonger be the case and the books will be released simultaneously, however I understand they'll continue with the awful US cover art.
Last summer I was thinking about transmeta's patents, their secretiveness and Linus' involvement with them and came up with the following speculation:
A chip to emulate an x86, or even multiple architectures isn't all that interesting. However, Linus is known as a kernel developer rather than a chip specialist. Link a vmware type kernel with an emulating CPU and you could run multiple OSes on a single machine at the same time.
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I'm not sure it's the apps. I think what actually happens is that Vista puts up a login prompt well before it has truly finished booting. i.e. before all the services have started.
The result is that you can login but the machine runs like a dog with no legs for the next 5 minutes as it tries to complete the boot process and deal with you trying to use it all at once.
Absolutely, that article was ridiculous.
Any article that uses "loading excessive library files forced on us by the DOJ" as the first (and presumably therefore most significant) reason for Vista slowness should be laughed out of town.
The prices are truly ridiculous. There are albums on there that are more expensive as mp3 than as a CD.
Motorhead Another Perfect Day, mp3 from Amazon $17.98, CD from Amazon $11.98
And I'd choose the mp3 because?
You've got to look closely at the courses involved. I studied IT at Leicester and it was nothing like what some on this discussion are suggesting. It was not a course for sysadmins.
In my case the CS students learned application development (including Cobol believe it or not). In IT we studied operating systems, data commmunications and electronics. The net result was a much more rounded course. My first job was as a software engineer for British Telecom research. Now I'm the CTO for a company in America.
In short, look closely at the details of the course, remember your degree gets you your first interview and that's about all, and good luck.
I wasn't saying not to use font hinting I was saying that sub-pixel hinting has in my experience (with a variety of LCD displays) proven to be fairly ineffective.
I can't see what all the fuss is about.
Maybe it's just me but I've turned cleartype on in both Linux (a couple of distros) and Windows and I can't say I like the results.
I find font rendering in Linux more visually pleasing than that in Windows XP and I turn off the sub-pixel smoothing in Linux because text looks better without it.
Sure is. Bet ya paid more than $5000 for unlimited users though. :)
Interesting, I found quite the reverse -- SQL Server would have been several times more expensive than Oracle. I guess it depends on what features you require, number of CPUs etc.
This was why we dumped SQL Server in favour of Oracle.
That would require 192 unique characters to be used in continuous rotation.
Sounds more than just unlikely.
Data guard is only available in Oracle Enterprise Edition which makes it as expensive as RAC ($40,000/cpu).
That said you can run a standby database and do manual transfer of archivelog files without using data guard. In this case you only need Standard Edition ($15,000/cpu) or even Standard One Edition ($5,000/cpu) if you only have a one or two cpu machine.
Standard One Edition on a single CPU is pretty cost effective.
Here's some more in addition to the cisco one:
Oracle default system account SYSTEM/manager
VMS default system account SYSTEM/manager, default
service account FIELD/service
The list of systems that install with no system password or with a known system password is very very long.
amazon.co.uk is your saviour here. Now that I live in the US it's how I get hold of my Pratchett fix without having to wait ages for the books to come out in the US [1] and the shipping is offset by the usual Amazon discounts. :)
[1] They say this will nolonger be the case and the books will be released simultaneously, however I understand they'll continue with the awful US cover art.
Last summer I was thinking about transmeta's patents, their secretiveness and Linus' involvement with them and came up with the following speculation:
:)
A chip to emulate an x86, or even multiple architectures isn't all that interesting. However, Linus is known as a kernel developer rather than a chip specialist. Link a vmware type kernel with an emulating CPU and you could run multiple OSes on a single machine at the same time.
Now that would be cool.