I got an MD bundle from Best Buy with both an MD console player/recorder and an MD Walkman. They work great! I think $299 for both is not such a bad deal.
Didn't HP come out with a DVD-RW drive? What is the difference between that and the DVD-RAM? And I read somewhere that said you can put data on these disks but you can't burn in and use binary executables?
If anyone asks me a Winbloz question I first look at them with distain. Then I tell myself the general population has not had the opportunity to see the light of Unix/Linux. They don't know any better. They also don't have the time to discover the beauty and power of Unix/Linux. If Micros~1 software does what they need, then it's all they want to use and that's the way it should be.
Linux is not Windows. Linux is not meant to replace Windows. (Some of us feel Linux is better than windows including yours truly.) If Mr. J. Six-pack is satisfied with Micros~1 wares with all their bloatedness and propensity to crash, then so be it. At this point Linux is still not brain-dead easy to install and use (although improvements have been made in leaps and bounds). However, the person who wants its power, stability and flexibility will traverse this learning curve due to sheer will and determination. And a screaming boss might help too.
Long long ago in a galaxy far far away (OK it was September 1995) I got my first exposure to Linux. It was a copy of Slackware and I thought it was somewhat difficult to use but not too bad. I had not heard of any other distros because Slackware was the dominant one at the time.
Then I saw the beta 1 for Caldera OpenLinux based on Red Hat. I thought to myself what is so great about Red Hat over Slackware? The biggest improvement RH had over Slackware was you could manage your system more easily using RPM. I tried using Slackware again last year but I was not impressed. I have been and still am using Red Hat.
THAT is why I use Red Hat. Not because it's the in-vogue distro. Because it's useful for me.
I use IE5 and NS46 on my WinNTW4 here at work and NS is far more reliable compared to IE. Both of them don't really crash, but when an errant process takes hold of the desktop, I have to terminate IE which resets everything. That is what sucks about browser/GUI integration.
PS -- I hate it when Spencer Krapp takes pot shots at my boyz. GO YANKEES!!!
Advantages? Nothing if you are satisfied with what you have. If you are not, then Linux may be for you.
Personally, I have used Slackware and Red Hat. I have since stuck with Red Hat. Slackware, in my opinion, is not very easy to use. RH has a very good software mgmt system and has alot of software included. I think Caldera 2.2 is probably easy to install, but you don't need to be a rocket scientist to install RH.
See the following:
www.linux.org
www.redhat.com
www.cheapbytes.com
sunsite.unc.edu/mdw
www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml
www.littleigloo.com
www.freshmeat.net
www.stardivision.com (OK so I'm biased.)
Am I missing anything else...
Any questions -- send them to me or post in a newsgroup (comp.os.linux......)
My personal preference is Unix/Linux. I've worked with it, got it to work reliably at my office and it does exactly what I want and then some. Some people swear by NT. I cannot and will not sway them over.
So why listen to this kind of crap? ZDNet is obviously going to run a test in such a way as to guarantee their revenue stream will not dry up. So you go on doing what you're doing and don't listen to naysayers.
(On the other hand, PHBs could be another story...)
I currently commute from Silver Spring to Arlington and it's always a bitch! I'm hoping to land a job either in Beltsville or Rockville -- a WHOLE LOT closer.
I haven't seen GNU come out with a 64-bit compiler yet... Meanwhile although we did pay for Workshop 3.0 and support, we did get the 64-bit Workshop 5.0 as a free (or more accurately, already paid for) upgrade.
Notably, the Red Hat* Linux 6.0 distribution pushes symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) support to at least four processors.
I thought the SMP support was for up to sixteen processors. Who is the one who is misinformed here?
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I do have an NT system that runs for months at a time. The thing is that box only does DNS resolution.
The really beefy NT boxes I have that run other services (file, database, web) crash within two days due to memory leaks, illegal instructions, crashed services (see IIS4, MSSQL) -- I can go on and on and on...
I don't think I've ever had much luck with NT. My web servers crap out after three days. IIS dies after a single day. (I've got my boxes rebooting themselves once a morning.) But the suits wanted NT... They get a web site run with NT and I get to clean up the mess.
Hard core Internet users DO NOT USE FSCKING AOL!!!!! We know better! These were just loser punks who took their misguidings too far and their parents didn't do enough to see what they were up to.
Bring back the public service message that asked "It's 10pm - do you know where your kids are?"
We used to use Exchange as our client here at the office and we're migrating over to Outlook. The Exchange interface is very clunky to use and not very intuitive.
(Of course it's less of a resource hog than Outlook.)
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And Micros~1 isn't? You can't exactly call them an enterprise solutions vendor!!!
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May the source be with him. :)
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Then I saw the beta 1 for Caldera OpenLinux based on Red Hat. I thought to myself what is so great about Red Hat over Slackware? The biggest improvement RH had over Slackware was you could manage your system more easily using RPM. I tried using Slackware again last year but I was not impressed. I have been and still am using Red Hat.
THAT is why I use Red Hat. Not because it's the in-vogue distro. Because it's useful for me.
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PS -- I hate it when Spencer Krapp takes pot shots at my boyz. GO YANKEES!!!
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Personally, I have used Slackware and Red Hat. I have since stuck with Red Hat. Slackware, in my opinion, is not very easy to use. RH has a very good software mgmt system and has alot of software included. I think Caldera 2.2 is probably easy to install, but you don't need to be a rocket scientist to install RH.
See the following:
www.linux.org
www.redhat.com
www.cheapbytes.com
sunsite.unc.edu/mdw
www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml
www.littleigloo.com
www.freshmeat.net
www.stardivision.com
(OK so I'm biased.)
Am I missing anything else...
Any questions -- send them to me or post in a newsgroup (comp.os.linux......)
So why listen to this kind of crap? ZDNet is obviously going to run a test in such a way as to guarantee their revenue stream will not dry up. So you go on doing what you're doing and don't listen to naysayers.
(On the other hand, PHBs could be another story...)
I currently commute from Silver Spring to Arlington and it's always a bitch! I'm hoping to land a job either in Beltsville or Rockville -- a WHOLE LOT closer.
Hows THAT for reliability and uptime???
I haven't seen GNU come out with a 64-bit compiler yet... Meanwhile although we did pay for Workshop 3.0 and support, we did get the 64-bit Workshop 5.0 as a free (or more accurately, already paid for) upgrade.
I thought the SMP support was for up to sixteen processors. Who is the one who is misinformed here?
The really beefy NT boxes I have that run other services (file, database, web) crash within two days due to memory leaks, illegal instructions, crashed services (see IIS4, MSSQL) -- I can go on and on and on...
I don't think I've ever had much luck with NT. My web servers crap out after three days. IIS dies after a single day. (I've got my boxes rebooting themselves once a morning.) But the suits wanted NT... They get a web site run with NT and I get to clean up the mess.
Bring back the public service message that asked "It's 10pm - do you know where your kids are?"
Sounds like an Amiga user wanting to come out of the closet... :)
That'd be really kewl... To have an MP3 player, sound recorder AND a stereo radio...
I downloaded Gnome 1.0.3 and I think it sucks. Shows alot of promise but still seems unstable and reeeeeeal slow.
(Of course it's less of a resource hog than Outlook.)