My 500 MHz G4 processor goes faster than it on floating-point tests. These include rendering spreadsheets in Photoshop, generating animations in Photoshop, and word-processing documents in Photoshop. Granted, possible.
No application currently requires a Pentium 4, nor will it ever.
Talk to me in 5 years about what an application requires.
My fundamental right to overclock my computers until they explode is being violated. Intel has probably put in some clock-limiting circuitry. I want this processor to run at 2 GHz. I don't need that power, but I must run my systems as fast as possible.
You can turn this feature off if you want.
Linux is not optimized for it. Yet.
Man, you linux fanatics are all the same aren't you:)
A friend of mine just got a USB scanner for his birthday. Being a rabid linux fanatic, he tried it out and.. it didn't work.
Last I heard he was grudgingly setting up a dual boot.
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Total cloud cover here too.
Thx bye!
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While we are on the subject of Australian stuff that the US doesn't get:
I'm curious about the olympics coverage that the US/World got from us too. Did you get 'The Dream' by Roy and HG?
USB has worked flawlessly for me on Linux since 2.3.something. Recently I had to use a USB floppy drive on a machine which had never used USB before. In a single terminal window, I compiled and installed the drivers and mounted the disk. Took me less then 1min. If I had felt like running the load-and-automount-and-make-me-sandwich-d that so many seem to favor, it would have happened the instant I plugged in the drive.
Yes, but the majority of users don't want, need or use USB floppy drives. They use Scanners, USB Network Cards, Joysticks, Video Cameras, and things of that ilk. How many of those devices could I just plug into a linux box and have it go.
USB on Windows is a joke
Obviously, I'll just pack up my USB joystick, scanner, network card, printer, video camera and go home.
with windows you have to deal with nonsense like the registry, a half ass command prompt, and so forth. With linux, everything just works, and if it doesn't, i type apt-get install something-or-other, and i magically have the latest version and everything works.
Prosecution rests. The average user doesn't have to deal with registries, command prompts, device drivers. They want to be able to plug in things like a USB joystick and go "ooooh" as it detects what sort of device it is, and installs the drivers all without having to reboot. [Thanks Windows 2000!]
Average users don't want to have to type "apt-get-anything at all" they want it to automatically download when they connect to the internet. Users are getting lazier [or perhaps lazier people are just becoming more computer literate], and for 90% of the population 'Linux' is either too hard to use, just the name of some computery thing, or totally meaningless.
Really? Telstra and all it's baby ISP's [all using Telstra direct to resell bandwidth] all had access to the rest of the world np [Apart from being a little slow].
Maybe you need to find a better ISP.
There is a difference between a profit margin and money for food, clothes, beers, etc.
How many actors make movies for free these days? How many software houses release games for free? [And sure, Shareware is a good concept, but even so you still have to pay money to get the full benefit of the product in most cases.]
You will occasionally get people who create for free, but most of the time only because they create on a part time basis, or because they already have all the money they ever need.
Just because you aren't making mortgage repayments and spending money on gas doesn't mean that no one else is.
I will applaud you. [Of course, I will still be going to work daily, buying things like a good consumer and generally enjoying things like getting fresh food shipped into my city daily and a regular pay packet.]
But sure, if you want to destroy your city [remember, a city only holds about 3 or 4 days worth of food at any one time] go for your life.
Why is getting paid for what you do wrong?
Nothing is stopping you releasing something for free, but if 'artists' including programmers, writers, actors, singers, whatever, want to get paid for what they do more power to them...
I have no problems with [automated systems] verifying that I am not breaking the law, sure, having a person looking over my shoulder would annoy me, but if I want to use the latest version of FantasticProgramX that I have bought, and the people who produce FantasticProgramX make it connect to a server to verify that I am using it legally, good for them. Especially if FantasticProgramX is as good as they say it is. The whole information should be free thing is 'nice', but it won't buy you a meal in any restaurant in town.
So your ultimate goal is to stop people releasing music, art work, videos, etc?
Great, when do we all move into our grey boxes, with grey walls, we can all wear grey robes and eat grey mush for dinner. After this we will all go to our seperate rooms and look at the grey walls until we pass out.
Or we could put things in place to protect the revenue of 'artists' who release music/video/artworks/games/whatever to 'humanise' us. This inspires them to write/design/program/act more often, as they will be rewarded for the task.
> Sure we have. We are all ignoring it.
You are ignoring it.. I'm sure the corporations are taking it very seriously indeed.
Good luck!
PS: As you drive home tonight, blissfully doing 160K's an hour on the freeway, don't worry about the cops or other drivers, you are 'ignoring it' so it's ok.
"We're the techie wizards. Force some suits to try to keep up with the tech themselves and it won't take long before they start to listen to what we say.:)"
Unfortunately in the real world, techie wizard doesn't mean much besides slightly larger pay packet. If you work for a company, the CEO isn't going to bend to your will just because you are 'a techie wizard', they will fire you and hire someone else.
The thing about politics is that it's not just about technical things, politicians have a lot more to do then worry about how the DCMA is going to stop lunix users from hax0ring their favorite DVD. They have to worry about things like gun control and abortion and 'how the hell are we going to stop the president from screwing the US over'.
Forming your own collective won't give you clout, [unless of course you have lots of money].
If you can't see the difference between i) publicly serving traffic, and ii) e-mails being sent between two people, then I don't see why you should be posting here.
Please move out, maybe you would be happier in a country that reads everyone's e-mails to make sure they aren't doing anything bad.
SME [Small-Medium Enterprise] and larger don't ask to deploy computers. Their account execs meet the Microsoft account execs and say "How much is your newest most stable product".
Microsoft then say "Ok, here is a corporate licence for X million dollars a year. Thx bye."
The reality is any reasonably large company is going to have a CIO, and that CIO is not going to trust free software, after all, that's why they have a multi-million dollar IT budget right?
Servers, on the other hand, are slightly different.
From what I've seen crashes in Win2K mainly occur when a badly designed app tries to do something it shouldn't have.
ie: We use a terminal emulation program here that is very old, when my laptop goes into standby, it causes a blue screen as it comes back up from standby and it tries to access the network.
Just using standard software [Office 2K, IE5, whatever] it seems pretty standard, of course, I don't have a lot of adventurous hardware.
> They compete with the crashing by making sure that when the borser crashes it takes down the entire system with it.
You know.. you can turn that off.
Or didn't you?
Umm.. I feel I have to point out: The 10% that you claim will leave are the 10% that aren't buying it anyway, Microsoft lose nothing except the feeling of being shafted.
> Research? Hacking? Wordprocessing? Networking
> our houses? business?
Try Win2k, that's just what it's for.
> I can't see why MS can't get it though their
> fat heads that stability, security AND lean
> OSes are what is needed
No, it's what YOU need. Enterprise has enough money to buy the hardware that is required to run the operating systems, and if a company can run Win2K to get X% more productivity per year, you can bet they are going to do it, irrespective of how much it costs to upgrade. [And the price is dropping by the day.]
> At this rate, 1 *gig* of memory will have to be
> standard in 5 years for Windows.
Exactly, 1Gb of memory will be cheaply available, so why not? Sure, you can talk about backwards compatability as much as you want. But don't expect enterprise to slow down just because you don't want to upgrade once in a while.
> Thank goodness I'm learning Linux, by next year
> I won't even give Windows another look.
Great, we won't miss you.
Are you kidding?
Choosing a standard install of windows, with standard networking. That's something like 5 or 6 mouse clicks and 30 minutes of waiting.
Of course, everyone likes to click the advanced options and wade through all of the clients, drivers, protocols etc, but if you don't want to do that, it is very easy to setup the defaults. [Experience from Win2K installs]
Yes, but remember, Win XP isn't supposed to be a big stable *nix type OS, that is what Win2K is.
This is for home use.
You can't compare apples and oranges and say "Hey, this apple doesn't taste orange enough for me."
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Granted, possible.
No application currently requires a Pentium 4, nor will it ever.
Talk to me in 5 years about what an application requires.
My fundamental right to overclock my computers until they explode is being violated. Intel has probably put in some clock-limiting circuitry. I want this processor to run at 2 GHz. I don't need that power, but I must run my systems as fast as possible.
You can turn this feature off if you want.
Linux is not optimized for it. Yet. :)
Man, you linux fanatics are all the same aren't you
A friend of mine just got a USB scanner for his birthday. Being a rabid linux fanatic, he tried it out and.. it didn't work.
Last I heard he was grudgingly setting up a dual boot.
Thx bye!
I'm curious about the olympics coverage that the US/World got from us too. Did you get 'The Dream' by Roy and HG?
If so, what did you think of it?
Yes, but the majority of users don't want, need or use USB floppy drives. They use Scanners, USB Network Cards, Joysticks, Video Cameras, and things of that ilk. How many of those devices could I just plug into a linux box and have it go.
USB on Windows is a joke
Obviously, I'll just pack up my USB joystick, scanner, network card, printer, video camera and go home.
Prosecution rests. The average user doesn't have to deal with registries, command prompts, device drivers. They want to be able to plug in things like a USB joystick and go "ooooh" as it detects what sort of device it is, and installs the drivers all without having to reboot. [Thanks Windows 2000!]
Average users don't want to have to type "apt-get-anything at all" they want it to automatically download when they connect to the internet. Users are getting lazier [or perhaps lazier people are just becoming more computer literate], and for 90% of the population 'Linux' is either too hard to use, just the name of some computery thing, or totally meaningless.
Really? Telstra and all it's baby ISP's [all using Telstra direct to resell bandwidth] all had access to the rest of the world np [Apart from being a little slow].
Maybe you need to find a better ISP.
There is a difference between a profit margin and money for food, clothes, beers, etc. How many actors make movies for free these days? How many software houses release games for free? [And sure, Shareware is a good concept, but even so you still have to pay money to get the full benefit of the product in most cases.] You will occasionally get people who create for free, but most of the time only because they create on a part time basis, or because they already have all the money they ever need. Just because you aren't making mortgage repayments and spending money on gas doesn't mean that no one else is.
I will applaud you. [Of course, I will still be going to work daily, buying things like a good consumer and generally enjoying things like getting fresh food shipped into my city daily and a regular pay packet.]
But sure, if you want to destroy your city [remember, a city only holds about 3 or 4 days worth of food at any one time] go for your life.
Nothing is stopping you releasing something for free, but if 'artists' including programmers, writers, actors, singers, whatever, want to get paid for what they do more power to them...
I have no problems with [automated systems] verifying that I am not breaking the law, sure, having a person looking over my shoulder would annoy me, but if I want to use the latest version of FantasticProgramX that I have bought, and the people who produce FantasticProgramX make it connect to a server to verify that I am using it legally, good for them. Especially if FantasticProgramX is as good as they say it is.
The whole information should be free thing is 'nice', but it won't buy you a meal in any restaurant in town.
Great, when do we all move into our grey boxes, with grey walls, we can all wear grey robes and eat grey mush for dinner. After this we will all go to our seperate rooms and look at the grey walls until we pass out.
Or we could put things in place to protect the revenue of 'artists' who release music/video/artworks/games/whatever to 'humanise' us. This inspires them to write/design/program/act more often, as they will be rewarded for the task.
You are ignoring it.. I'm sure the corporations are taking it very seriously indeed.
Good luck!
PS: As you drive home tonight, blissfully doing 160K's an hour on the freeway, don't worry about the cops or other drivers, you are 'ignoring it' so it's ok.
Unfortunately in the real world, techie wizard doesn't mean much besides slightly larger pay packet. If you work for a company, the CEO isn't going to bend to your will just because you are 'a techie wizard', they will fire you and hire someone else.
The thing about politics is that it's not just about technical things, politicians have a lot more to do then worry about how the DCMA is going to stop lunix users from hax0ring their favorite DVD. They have to worry about things like gun control and abortion and 'how the hell are we going to stop the president from screwing the US over'.
Forming your own collective won't give you clout, [unless of course you have lots of money].
Maybe I'm just too much of a realist..
Please move out, maybe you would be happier in a country that reads everyone's e-mails to make sure they aren't doing anything bad.
What about iron? Crackhead.
Yes, but it doesn't have to offer all of the security and things that an office OS has to.
SME [Small-Medium Enterprise] and larger don't ask to deploy computers. Their account execs meet the Microsoft account execs and say "How much is your newest most stable product".
Microsoft then say "Ok, here is a corporate licence for X million dollars a year. Thx bye."
The reality is any reasonably large company is going to have a CIO, and that CIO is not going to trust free software, after all, that's why they have a multi-million dollar IT budget right?
Servers, on the other hand, are slightly different.
From what I've seen crashes in Win2K mainly occur when a badly designed app tries to do something it shouldn't have. ie: We use a terminal emulation program here that is very old, when my laptop goes into standby, it causes a blue screen as it comes back up from standby and it tries to access the network. Just using standard software [Office 2K, IE5, whatever] it seems pretty standard, of course, I don't have a lot of adventurous hardware.
> They compete with the crashing by making sure that when the borser crashes it takes down the entire system with it.
You know.. you can turn that off.
Or didn't you?
Umm.. I feel I have to point out: The 10% that you claim will leave are the 10% that aren't buying it anyway, Microsoft lose nothing except the feeling of being shafted.
Hmm.. trying to share advice gets a scornful remark about h0w w1nd3rs sux0rs - should have expected it I guess.
> Research? Hacking? Wordprocessing? Networking > our houses? business? Try Win2k, that's just what it's for. > I can't see why MS can't get it though their > fat heads that stability, security AND lean > OSes are what is needed No, it's what YOU need. Enterprise has enough money to buy the hardware that is required to run the operating systems, and if a company can run Win2K to get X% more productivity per year, you can bet they are going to do it, irrespective of how much it costs to upgrade. [And the price is dropping by the day.] > At this rate, 1 *gig* of memory will have to be > standard in 5 years for Windows. Exactly, 1Gb of memory will be cheaply available, so why not? Sure, you can talk about backwards compatability as much as you want. But don't expect enterprise to slow down just because you don't want to upgrade once in a while. > Thank goodness I'm learning Linux, by next year > I won't even give Windows another look. Great, we won't miss you.
Are you kidding? Choosing a standard install of windows, with standard networking. That's something like 5 or 6 mouse clicks and 30 minutes of waiting. Of course, everyone likes to click the advanced options and wade through all of the clients, drivers, protocols etc, but if you don't want to do that, it is very easy to setup the defaults. [Experience from Win2K installs]
Yes, but remember, Win XP isn't supposed to be a big stable *nix type OS, that is what Win2K is. This is for home use. You can't compare apples and oranges and say "Hey, this apple doesn't taste orange enough for me."
Ooops, sounds like you were running something surprising and different. A boot manager? Any other software running on the boot sector? A virus?