Most updates don't require reboots? I guess that's why it almost always says 'you must restart your computer now, ok or cancel'.
What you were saying about services I already know. That's what Linux does, just sends a sighup to the service then it pops back up running the updated version. My question, which you didn't answer, was when is Microsoft going to implement something this simple and effective?
My guess is that Windows is so inbred and ingrown now that restarting services affects so many parts of the OS that you have to restart the whole machine. I never understood why Microsoft works this way.
Doesn't Microsoft own SGI now, and with that acquisition came SGI's intellectual property? Didn't SGI make a shitload of OpenGL code?
Now let's see...OpenGL...Quartz Extreme...Microsoft. I think you see where I'm going here. Don't be surprised if Microsoft actually uses OpenGL and 'extends' it via some wacky DirectX wrapper.
If you had windows boxen up for 120 days or more, then you weren't patching them or keeping them up to date at all. Guess some IRC skript kiddies are having fun using your boxes as DDOS drones.
Don't forget, every microsoft update carries a reboot with it. It's still one thing that makes me think Windows is primitive in comparison to linux. Will Longhorn end the damn reboot cycle?
Let's not forget the ENTIRE quake series running with 3d acceleration under Linux. And the whole Unreal series. And Savage. And Enemy Territory. And RTCW. And Armagetron.
If you were a linux gamer, you'd already know. There are more than a few 3d games available on linux. Doom3 and UT2k4 are the biggest coming soon titles however.
What? You *have* to run linux in vmware on your laptop because there aren't open source centrino wifi drivers? Um...I'm not sure how long you've been using linux, but ndiswrapper has been around since last year, and will get your wireless card working in linux.
Poke around on google or sourceforge for ndiswrapper. I got my Inspiron 8600's broadcom card working in linux with ndiswrappers and I know from the docs that the centrino is supported.
That was easily sidestepped by the IT boom which followed in the 90's. I'm not sure what the next boom will be, but whatever it is it needs to be big. There was alot of overdevelopment here and in other North Texas cities, and I believe Plano has a huge used home market due to chapter 7 and chapter 11 filings. Something like 230% default rate for mortgages last year.
By metro do you mean 'close to downtown'? They're still building like mad out here, all over the place. Most of the construction is up north but still..
I'm not sure what city you live in, but here in Dallas, the apartments are more affordable near SMU and Baylor than they are anywhere else (excepting maybe Plano and Garland). There is a nice DART rail and bus routes to get you anywhere. Norman, Oklahoma is the same way. The old-houses-converted-to-apartments near the University of Oklahoma are very affordable and close enough to campus to supply all your needs. Alot of students do without cars in this town, or only use theirs on the weekend to go home.
You have to make a distinction here between ghetto poor and below the poverty line poor. You can choose not to smoke crack, drink 40's daily, knock up yo baby's momma, etc. and live a somewhat normal existance, regardless of how much money you make. It all comes down to choices; yes, choices can be limited by cash flow, but the choice of whether or not you want to shoot heroin is ultimately yours.
Depending on the city, 13k can be a decent amount of money or less than enough to get by. There are so many factors that go into whether or not 13k a year is acceptable I guess I never should've said anything about it in the first place. My point is that in some places, in some circumstances, 13k is just fine.
You made some good points, and your PPS was unnecessary. With a name like Elwood, not only would the majority of us expect you to be drunk, but also excercising a unique form of spousal control that involves fisticuffs while wearing an off-white tank top.
The poverty line was 13k in the US last year, this year it may have moved up or down.
You can indeed live on 13k a year if forced to. Just live in cheap housing close to a university and drive a used car (or not at all). I know plenty of people that can live well on 13k. It's really about choices you make.
An ostentatious American lifestyle will suffer under this kind of money, but if you're willing to live on 13k, you're willing to make changes to your lifestyle.
Dude, we're talking Lucasarts here. They'd have to pull 2 guys off the hundred man Star Wars Whatever team to work on a sequel to the Sam and Max game.
Coming Soon: Star Wars Jedi Knight Armageddon Command and Conquer Delta Force!
What does OJ Simpson have to do with Linux, SCO, or anything else for that matter?
This has to be the furthest-fetched correlation ever. Also remember that OJ lost his ass...ets to Nicole's family in the civil case. The civil damages were huge and they basically found him liable for everything, regardless of what the criminal court found. That trial was a disaster.
Seeing how over the last 10 years we've been stuck in a 'what fashion period of the past can we recycle now?' phase, I doubt double neckties or those funky sunglasses will make it here.
My prediction for next year: the 50's! Greaser hairstyles, leather jackets with white t-shirts and dirty rolled up jeans, those awful poodle skirts, you name it. Mark my words. This year is white trash, fucked-up haircut, that-70's-show fashion, next year it's the 50's.
Wow, people actually *use* the magnetic lasso? That thing is a waste of time in my experience. Most of the time you have to go back and adjust the mask or selection by hand all over the place, so the time you *think* you saved by using it gets wasted.
It's much easier in most cases to use the path tools and create a nicely shaped path around the object. Now, if we're talking hair or something equally difficult, the lasso may be a good choice. Nine times out of ten, however, the path tool gets the job done quicker and easier.
Photoshop has supported multi-monitors for as long as I can remember. I used a dual head setup on a PowerPC 9500 back in the olden tymes. Dual head support in Photoshop has more to do with the underlying OS than the program itself.
If anyone is having issues with this on Windows, blame windows.
Hey, you forgot everyone's favorite, more secure email daemon: qmail. Add that together with courier-imap and squirrelmail, you have a nice trio that can do nearly anything. Spamassassin plugs in nicely also.
Yeah you think it'll be a nice fortress of solitude until some Sleestaks come and tweak the damn things every day. Before you know it they'll do an 'emerge dinosaurs and bad 70's actors' and all hell with break loose.
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Most updates don't require reboots? I guess that's why it almost always says 'you must restart your computer now, ok or cancel'.
What you were saying about services I already know. That's what Linux does, just sends a sighup to the service then it pops back up running the updated version. My question, which you didn't answer, was when is Microsoft going to implement something this simple and effective?
My guess is that Windows is so inbred and ingrown now that restarting services affects so many parts of the OS that you have to restart the whole machine. I never understood why Microsoft works this way.
Doesn't Microsoft own SGI now, and with that acquisition came SGI's intellectual property? Didn't SGI make a shitload of OpenGL code?
Now let's see...OpenGL...Quartz Extreme...Microsoft. I think you see where I'm going here. Don't be surprised if Microsoft actually uses OpenGL and 'extends' it via some wacky DirectX wrapper.
If you had windows boxen up for 120 days or more, then you weren't patching them or keeping them up to date at all. Guess some IRC skript kiddies are having fun using your boxes as DDOS drones.
Don't forget, every microsoft update carries a reboot with it. It's still one thing that makes me think Windows is primitive in comparison to linux. Will Longhorn end the damn reboot cycle?
Let's not forget the ENTIRE quake series running with 3d acceleration under Linux. And the whole Unreal series. And Savage. And Enemy Territory. And RTCW. And Armagetron.
If you were a linux gamer, you'd already know. There are more than a few 3d games available on linux. Doom3 and UT2k4 are the biggest coming soon titles however.
What? You *have* to run linux in vmware on your laptop because there aren't open source centrino wifi drivers? Um...I'm not sure how long you've been using linux, but ndiswrapper has been around since last year, and will get your wireless card working in linux.
Poke around on google or sourceforge for ndiswrapper. I got my Inspiron 8600's broadcom card working in linux with ndiswrappers and I know from the docs that the centrino is supported.
Three words: Licensed SGI code. End of story.
If it was built in South Africa, it'd probably have a flamethrower as an option. That's just so awesome.
Awesome. Those devs were obviously big fans of The Dukes of Hazzard. YYeeeeeeee-hawwww!
That was easily sidestepped by the IT boom which followed in the 90's. I'm not sure what the next boom will be, but whatever it is it needs to be big. There was alot of overdevelopment here and in other North Texas cities, and I believe Plano has a huge used home market due to chapter 7 and chapter 11 filings. Something like 230% default rate for mortgages last year.
By metro do you mean 'close to downtown'? They're still building like mad out here, all over the place. Most of the construction is up north but still..
If you're a vascular surgeon, you already know the basics. ;)
I'm not sure what city you live in, but here in Dallas, the apartments are more affordable near SMU and Baylor than they are anywhere else (excepting maybe Plano and Garland). There is a nice DART rail and bus routes to get you anywhere. Norman, Oklahoma is the same way. The old-houses-converted-to-apartments near the University of Oklahoma are very affordable and close enough to campus to supply all your needs. Alot of students do without cars in this town, or only use theirs on the weekend to go home.
You have to make a distinction here between ghetto poor and below the poverty line poor. You can choose not to smoke crack, drink 40's daily, knock up yo baby's momma, etc. and live a somewhat normal existance, regardless of how much money you make. It all comes down to choices; yes, choices can be limited by cash flow, but the choice of whether or not you want to shoot heroin is ultimately yours.
Depending on the city, 13k can be a decent amount of money or less than enough to get by. There are so many factors that go into whether or not 13k a year is acceptable I guess I never should've said anything about it in the first place. My point is that in some places, in some circumstances, 13k is just fine.
What if you say you rented a Chrysler? That's close right?
Even though it'd be a crappier ride from the airport.
You made some good points, and your PPS was unnecessary. With a name like Elwood, not only would the majority of us expect you to be drunk, but also excercising a unique form of spousal control that involves fisticuffs while wearing an off-white tank top.
And kicking your dog.
Sounds like your previous distros of choice were outdated.
The poverty line was 13k in the US last year, this year it may have moved up or down.
You can indeed live on 13k a year if forced to. Just live in cheap housing close to a university and drive a used car (or not at all). I know plenty of people that can live well on 13k. It's really about choices you make.
An ostentatious American lifestyle will suffer under this kind of money, but if you're willing to live on 13k, you're willing to make changes to your lifestyle.
but I'm sure it would get tedious after a while.
Can you say Discworld? I knew you could.
God that game was a nightmare to control on the playstation.
Dude, we're talking Lucasarts here. They'd have to pull 2 guys off the hundred man Star Wars Whatever team to work on a sequel to the Sam and Max game.
Coming Soon: Star Wars Jedi Knight Armageddon Command and Conquer Delta Force!
What does OJ Simpson have to do with Linux, SCO, or anything else for that matter?
This has to be the furthest-fetched correlation ever. Also remember that OJ lost his ass...ets to Nicole's family in the civil case. The civil damages were huge and they basically found him liable for everything, regardless of what the criminal court found. That trial was a disaster.
Seeing how over the last 10 years we've been stuck in a 'what fashion period of the past can we recycle now?' phase, I doubt double neckties or those funky sunglasses will make it here.
My prediction for next year: the 50's! Greaser hairstyles, leather jackets with white t-shirts and dirty rolled up jeans, those awful poodle skirts, you name it. Mark my words. This year is white trash, fucked-up haircut, that-70's-show fashion, next year it's the 50's.
Wow, people actually *use* the magnetic lasso? That thing is a waste of time in my experience. Most of the time you have to go back and adjust the mask or selection by hand all over the place, so the time you *think* you saved by using it gets wasted.
It's much easier in most cases to use the path tools and create a nicely shaped path around the object. Now, if we're talking hair or something equally difficult, the lasso may be a good choice. Nine times out of ten, however, the path tool gets the job done quicker and easier.
Photoshop has supported multi-monitors for as long as I can remember. I used a dual head setup on a PowerPC 9500 back in the olden tymes. Dual head support in Photoshop has more to do with the underlying OS than the program itself.
If anyone is having issues with this on Windows, blame windows.
Hey, you forgot everyone's favorite, more secure email daemon: qmail. Add that together with courier-imap and squirrelmail, you have a nice trio that can do nearly anything. Spamassassin plugs in nicely also.
Oh. Yeah. I knew that.
*whistles and tries to play it off*
Yeah you think it'll be a nice fortress of solitude until some Sleestaks come and tweak the damn things every day. Before you know it they'll do an 'emerge dinosaurs and bad 70's actors' and all hell with break loose.