Personally I think SCO just killed commercial UNIXes, unlike SCO... SUN, HP, IBM, and SGI all sell boxes as well as software. Their (Commerical UNIXes) primary interest is the hardware not the software. They now see the risk envolved with SVR4, its best for them to have the software out in the open, but in a way that no one else can get competive advantage but just copying the work, HELLO GPL! Then let the hardware compete on its own merit. But SCO, don't make boxes, it only sells a quite bad UNIX, linux is killing them, its a better product at a better price, in a free market Linux should win.
Lets face it Solaris X86 was far more popular than SCO and thats over looking the BSD angle. People don't use SCO cos isn't very good, and far to expensive for the hardware it runs on.
I think the biggest angle is that they have to be fair to all the other registry agents. Sitefinder monopolies every unselected domain for them. This is not a level playing field. Sitefinder also gives the impression a domain is already taken, and customers might think they had to buy it from verislime.
Yes software should stand up to normal abuse, lets look at cars, ok if you drive it the wheels should not fall off. However should Car manufacturers be responsible for cars being broken into? I left 1000 bucks on the front seat of the car and someone smashed the window, clearly thats Fords fault for not making the windows stronger. A professional thief can open my car in seconds, I could have a more secure car but it would cost more. So the question is.... has microsoft made a good enough effort to secure their product? Well... probably yes, the problem really is they are the number one target.
Well we are billies bitch here in the UK, Microsoft got to do alot of the government portal stuff and guess what! It only really works well with windows.
How oftain do you upgrade processor and not the mother board? An old processor without a mother board is useless. A new processor without a new motherboard can really hold it back, unless its a really small and probably useless speed bump.
Right at the bottom there is a lovely disclaimer....
Lindows.com is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft Corporation in any way - in fact, we don't even really like them because they are suing us.
Well, they are clearly understating how much space programs and data takes by using the KiB and MiB notations, hence making the poor hard disk manufacturers look bad. Even Windows explorer says it wrong pretending there is less space on the disk. While I am at it why can't use use ever bit of the disk for my data... file system overhead, how dare the OS STEAL some of my space.
Man they must be joking the standard tower form, has space for 2 Optical Drives (I assume they mean 5 1/4), one Floppy and one hard disk! There isn't even a required gap, in front of the hard disk for a fan! It may be great for the processor but it justs sucks for all the other hardware.
Old hard disks are not worth THAT much compared to the risk envolved, rip out the disks and Crush them, then sell on whats left of the machine. This is what the nuclear industry (here in the UK) has done for years. Its all standard practise for sensitive military work.
This is the only way to be sure, its not worth paying 100 Bucks (just a guess) for a disk with encryption only to get 10 Bucks a disk on resale!
I expect people are not switching to apple cos with linux they can re-deploy their old hardware, with apple they would have to fund the cost of replacing all of that as well as the software.
Personally I think that microsoft shot itself when they started screwing the last penny out of customers for licencing, this scared them, as mistakes could make a company liable for a large ammount of money that has not be bugeted for. With linux they can don't have to worry about licence compliance. Product activation was the final kicker for many, people/companies don't like the idea that the machine THEY payed for is not under their control. Product activation brings it home that really the machine is acting as an agent of the software company.
My Xvid encoding says otherwise! If I wanna turn all the features on I geta whooping 3 frames a second (cos its 2 pass thats really 1.5 frames a second) out of my 2.4Ghz PIV system. There is still some place for processor improvement in my book. Even decoding xvid would strugle on a 733, my Sony C1 picturebook can't handle decoding.
I think a better example should be, my dad knows how to add paper to his printer and that his computer requires electric to run, that like filling your car with gas and checking the oil level. My dad can use his applications, and understands best practice (avoiding opening strange things) and to try to keep up to date with patches. Thats likes driving a car and painting any little stone marks.
What my dad does not do is know how to install all the software and configure it, personally I don't know how to strip an engine on a car and retune it, I use a garage for that, however MY DAD KNOWS!
Yup and my dad is in that boat, he has paid his microsoft Taxes in full and to him it was value for money, he accepts like his car things may go wrong every once in a while, and gets annoyed by "vandals" his word for virus writers on the whole he is happy, and when he needs complex stuff done I have to support this computer, so I kind of agree with him that his isp should do as much as it can to protect him because I am not at home much these days.
You mean like the way the church remove lilith (adams first wife) from the bible because it really didn't fit into what they wanted from a creation myth. (Gensis has far old roots that the Christian or Jewish faith).
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Personally I think SCO just killed commercial UNIXes, unlike SCO... SUN, HP, IBM, and SGI all sell boxes as well as software. Their (Commerical UNIXes) primary interest is the hardware not the software. They now see the risk envolved with SVR4, its best for them to have the software out in the open, but in a way that no one else can get competive advantage but just copying the work, HELLO GPL! Then let the hardware compete on its own merit. But SCO, don't make boxes, it only sells a quite bad UNIX, linux is killing them, its a better product at a better price, in a free market Linux should win.
James
Lets face it Solaris X86 was far more popular than SCO and thats over looking the BSD angle. People don't use SCO cos isn't very good, and far to expensive for the hardware it runs on.
James
I think the biggest angle is that they have to be fair to all the other registry agents. Sitefinder monopolies every unselected domain for them. This is not a level playing field. Sitefinder also gives the impression a domain is already taken, and customers might think they had to buy it from verislime.
James
Yes software should stand up to normal abuse, lets look at cars, ok if you drive it the wheels should not fall off. However should Car manufacturers be responsible for cars being broken into? I left 1000 bucks on the front seat of the car and someone smashed the window, clearly thats Fords fault for not making the windows stronger. A professional thief can open my car in seconds, I could have a more secure car but it would cost more. So the question is.... has microsoft made a good enough effort to secure their product? Well... probably yes, the problem really is they are the number one target.
James
Basically being "soviet" I guess is as unamerican as you can get and it fits into the following.
As said by Gandi
First They ignore us
Next They call us names
Then they attack us
Then we win.
So this is a stage two, currently we are on stage 2-3.....
Well we are billies bitch here in the UK, Microsoft got to do alot of the government portal stuff and guess what! It only really works well with windows.
James
The OS with MS bloat will require a 200 Gb hard disk to fit it on, fortunately it doubles as the heating element.
James
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Perhaps internally Intel half the clock rate, hence allowing current 2.5 Ghz chips to be instantly converted into 5 Ghz ones.
James
List price is 450 pounds, thats 675 dollars to you.
;-)
Amazon.co.uk has it for 338.23 pounds thats 507 dollars to you
That gives a series price of 48 pounds or 72 dollars...
So its a bargin
James
My gf, who is a Linguist says "Linguists can get their tongue round anything", something I highly approve of. :-)
James
How oftain do you upgrade processor and not the mother board? An old processor without a mother board is useless. A new processor without a new motherboard can really hold it back, unless its a really small and probably useless speed bump.
James
Well, other Europian countries may have some hope but I live in the UK, and we have Tony, Georges very own pet PM.
James
Right at the bottom there is a lovely disclaimer....
Lindows.com is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft Corporation in any way - in fact, we don't even really like them because they are suing us.
James
But a billion in Si used to be 10^12, it was america who used 10^9, and its kind of stuck and redefined now.
James
Well, they are clearly understating how much space programs and data takes by using the KiB and MiB notations, hence making the poor hard disk manufacturers look bad. Even Windows explorer says it wrong pretending there is less space on the disk. While I am at it why can't use use ever bit of the disk for my data... file system overhead, how dare the OS STEAL some of my space.
James
Man they must be joking the standard tower form, has space for 2 Optical Drives (I assume they mean 5 1/4), one Floppy and one hard disk! There isn't even a required gap, in front of the hard disk for a fan!
It may be great for the processor but it justs sucks for all the other hardware.
James
Old hard disks are not worth THAT much compared to the risk envolved, rip out the disks and Crush them, then sell on whats left of the machine. This is what the nuclear industry (here in the UK) has done for years. Its all standard practise for sensitive military work.
This is the only way to be sure, its not worth paying 100 Bucks (just a guess) for a disk with encryption only to get 10 Bucks a disk on resale!
James
I expect people are not switching to apple cos with linux they can re-deploy their old hardware, with apple they would have to fund the cost of replacing all of that as well as the software.
Personally I think that microsoft shot itself when they started screwing the last penny out of customers for licencing, this scared them, as mistakes could make a company liable for a large ammount of money that has not be bugeted for. With linux they can don't have to worry about licence compliance. Product activation was the final kicker for many, people/companies don't like the idea that the machine THEY payed for is not under their control. Product activation brings it home that really the machine is acting as an agent of the software company.
James
My Xvid encoding says otherwise! If I wanna turn all the features on I geta whooping 3 frames a second (cos its 2 pass thats really 1.5 frames a second) out of my 2.4Ghz PIV system. There is still some place for processor improvement in my book. Even decoding xvid would strugle on a 733, my Sony C1 picturebook can't handle decoding.
James
I want an aquada, its a sports car is a speed boat, man if it could fly it would be perfect!
James
In this economic climate, if I had a job with SCO I would keep it because finding a replacement is pretty hard. So better the devil you know.
James
I think a better example should be, my dad knows how to add paper to his printer and that his computer requires electric to run, that like filling your car with gas and checking the oil level. My dad can use his applications, and understands best practice (avoiding opening strange things) and to try to keep up to date with patches. Thats likes driving a car and painting any little stone marks.
What my dad does not do is know how to install all the software and configure it, personally I don't know how to strip an engine on a car and retune it, I use a garage for that, however MY DAD KNOWS!
James
Yup and my dad is in that boat, he has paid his microsoft Taxes in full and to him it was value for money, he accepts like his car things may go wrong every once in a while, and gets annoyed by "vandals" his word for virus writers on the whole he is happy, and when he needs complex stuff done I have to support this computer, so I kind of agree with him that his isp should do as much as it can to protect him because I am not at home much these days.
James
You mean like the way the church remove lilith (adams first wife) from the bible because it really didn't fit into what they wanted from a creation myth. (Gensis has far old roots that the Christian or Jewish faith).
James