XP's firewall is off by default and takes at least five steps to turn on
I seem to recall XP's firewall being turned on during the inital "Welcome to Windows" wizard that pops up after installation, if you choose the option "This machine will be directly connected to the internet" (Or something like that).
That being said, I always turned the firewall OFF, it was too much of a pain to set up additional ports to allow.
Since then, I've moved to a Mac, and OS X's firewall is much easier to configure.
I certainly agree with the rest of your points though (and the majority of the article).
Debian is a nightmare to me. It's very hard to diagnose problems during boot up and there isn't very much centralized configuration.
Why? because there isn't a pretty start-up script with a green OK or red ERRROR for every service that starts up?
As for centralized configuration, I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean - config files are stored in/etc. Plus there's debconf, and dpkg-reconfigure.
I've installed Debian plenty of times, and never seen any dependency failures, especially not any failures which would cause it to "not work" - except perhaps when installing unstable, which would therefore make it your own fault. Debian's installation routine may not be straihtforward, but what you call "legacy crap" others may call "features."
It has been my experience that while Debian may not be as easy to install, its certainly much, much easier to administer. Considering you typically only need to install the OS once, however you need to administer it throughout its usable life, thats a trade-off I'm more than happy to make.
Most medium and large-sized businesses purchase site licenses for Microsoft software, which means they DID choose to use it. And those businesses make up the majority of computer users.
I would imagine most home users choose Windows, as well. Linux is too difficult for most non-geeks, and gamers would be unable to run most games. That trend is starting to change somewhat, with those Wal-Mart PCs that come with Linux pre-installed, however, I imagine the change has been minimal.
Linux is still a niche product - fine for the majority of/. readers, but not necessarily a solution for Grandma to read emails with new pictures of little Timmy.
The GeForce 4 4200 has a much slower fan then the newer cards, though.
I'm not sure about the newest Radeon cards, but the fan on the GeForce FX line is apparently quite loud. Saphire must think the new Radeons are rather loud also, since they've developed this solution.
now if you "know what veritas is" why in the fuck did you say "and Veritas isn't a network service, it's a freaking filesystem" ??? i would consider a backup and recovery utility a network service since it is administered and executed over a network. and it is not a filesystem.
Which Veritas product are you two arguing over? NetBackup is Veritas' backup solution. Veritas Volume Manager is just that, a volume manager, for configuring disk arrays and whatnot (Think EMC array - they're often configured with Veritas Volume Manager). It appears as though you two are each referring to the products as Veritas, and as a result, think the other doesn't even know that the product actually is.
"Cray Research merged with SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) in February 1996. In August 1999, SGI created a separate Cray Research business unit to focus exclusively on the unique requirements of high-end supercomputing customers. Assets of this business unit were sold to Tera Computer Company in March 2000. "
I also have to wonder how noisy it is, considering that most PCs have at least two fans.
It's amazing what one can find by actually READING the website:
The MPST Digital Jukebox is basically a Linux CD/MP3/OGG ripper and player (and real-soon-now) burner made for a non-Linux user's home entertainment system. The box is mostly remote and LCD controlled and the GUI is ran through a VNC client (or a touch-screen) such that the user never sees the Linux Desktop or shell interface. The Jukebox is actually a Via C3 home built system designed to run silent and cool. It does not require cooling fans and makes very little hard disk noise.
Popular game-maker Square, the company behind Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, has announced their intention to exit the movie business. Nikkei Financial News says the withdrawal came as the company announced "extraordinary losses" that could be as high as 3.16 billion yen, or 115 million US dollars.
> Maybe I do not fully understand the technology in the PS2 correctly... but doesn't it actually have TWO 300mhz cpu's? I believe one of them has a bus directly to the graphics core...
The PS2 has the main CPU (The emotion engine), a FPU, as well as two Vector Units (VU0 and VU1). The vector units are what makes it difficult to program for the PS2.. But, they also increase the functionality of the PS2..
For example, for SSX: Tricky, EA used one of the VUs for DTS decoding, for multi channel surround sound (The PS2 only does Dolby Digital/DTS for DVDs, not for actual games). Developers can also use the VUs strictly for graphics, or anything else really.
Actually, the Japanese PS2 had PC Card slots... this was changed for the US version, however (They removed the PC Card slots to add the expansion bay for the upcoming hdd/network adapter).
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XP's firewall is off by default and takes at least five steps to turn on
I seem to recall XP's firewall being turned on during the inital "Welcome to Windows" wizard that pops up after installation, if you choose the option "This machine will be directly connected to the internet" (Or something like that).
That being said, I always turned the firewall OFF, it was too much of a pain to set up additional ports to allow.
Since then, I've moved to a Mac, and OS X's firewall is much easier to configure.
I certainly agree with the rest of your points though (and the majority of the article).
Debian is a nightmare to me. It's very hard to diagnose problems during boot up and there isn't very much centralized configuration.
/etc. Plus there's debconf, and dpkg-reconfigure.
Why? because there isn't a pretty start-up script with a green OK or red ERRROR for every service that starts up?
As for centralized configuration, I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean - config files are stored in
I've installed Debian plenty of times, and never seen any dependency failures, especially not any failures which would cause it to "not work" - except perhaps when installing unstable, which would therefore make it your own fault. Debian's installation routine may not be straihtforward, but what you call "legacy crap" others may call "features."
It has been my experience that while Debian may not be as easy to install, its certainly much, much easier to administer. Considering you typically only need to install the OS once, however you need to administer it throughout its usable life, thats a trade-off I'm more than happy to make.
My iBot doesn't have a seat.
Does Novell have a MacOS-X client?
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Yes.
http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/0
Most medium and large-sized businesses purchase site licenses for Microsoft software, which means they DID choose to use it. And those businesses make up the majority of computer users.
/. readers, but not necessarily a solution for Grandma to read emails with new pictures of little Timmy.
I would imagine most home users choose Windows, as well. Linux is too difficult for most non-geeks, and gamers would be unable to run most games. That trend is starting to change somewhat, with those Wal-Mart PCs that come with Linux pre-installed, however, I imagine the change has been minimal.
Linux is still a niche product - fine for the majority of
The GeForce 4 4200 has a much slower fan then the newer cards, though.
I'm not sure about the newest Radeon cards, but the fan on the GeForce FX line is apparently quite loud. Saphire must think the new Radeons are rather loud also, since they've developed this solution.
now if you "know what veritas is" why in the fuck did you say "and Veritas isn't a network service, it's a freaking filesystem" ??? i would consider a backup and recovery utility a network service since it is administered and executed over a network. and it is not a filesystem.
Which Veritas product are you two arguing over? NetBackup is Veritas' backup solution. Veritas Volume Manager is just that, a volume manager, for configuring disk arrays and whatnot (Think EMC array - they're often configured with Veritas Volume Manager). It appears as though you two are each referring to the products as Veritas, and as a result, think the other doesn't even know that the product actually is.
Well, how about oohla.la?
GNU-Darwin just happens to be the best-selling UNIX on the market today mostly because of the Mac OS X GUI layer running on top of it.
Actually, that'd be Darwin, not GNU-Darwin.
3) Cray computer company has a full license but they no longer exist but SGI and Sun own the remains. So add Sun to the list again.
Not exactly. From the "Cray, Inc.web page:
"Cray Research merged with SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) in February 1996. In August 1999, SGI created a separate Cray Research business unit to focus exclusively on the unique requirements of high-end supercomputing customers. Assets of this business unit were sold to Tera Computer Company in March 2000. "
Cray still exists, doing what they do best.
Actually, Caldera bought SCO, they changed their name to Caldera. So SCO really DID release their own Linux distribution.
"Or at least get a settlement."
Jon is the legendary programmer of such classic PC games as Wolfenstein, Doom, Duke nukem 3d, Quake 1, 2, and 3, unreal,
Uhh, since when did Carmack do anything with Unreal?
It signifies backspace... ie. he's backspacing over apartm, and changing it to estate..
Let me get this straight - you waited around on Christmas day for a server?
a 1"x1" centerfold? You've got better eyesight than I do, apparently
hah! We're Canadian! Such frivolous lawsuits would never occur in our great nation!
After all, it's the American way :)
You suck more than the rest of the karma whoring bastards who frequent slashdot :)
This page has links to the different software programs and the custom patches he wrote.
It's amazing what one can find by actually READING the website:
The MPST Digital Jukebox is basically a Linux CD/MP3/OGG ripper and player (and real-soon-now) burner made for a non-Linux user's home entertainment system. The box is mostly remote and LCD controlled and the GUI is ran through a VNC client (or a touch-screen) such that the user never sees the Linux Desktop or shell interface. The Jukebox is actually a Via C3 home built system designed to run silent and cool. It does not require cooling fans and makes very little hard disk noise.
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Popular game-maker Square, the company behind Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, has announced their intention to exit the movie business. Nikkei Financial News says the withdrawal came as the company announced "extraordinary losses" that could be as high as 3.16 billion yen, or 115 million US dollars.
NFS? Why not GTA? :)
> Maybe I do not fully understand the technology in the PS2 correctly... but doesn't it actually have TWO 300mhz cpu's? I believe one of them has a bus directly to the graphics core...
The PS2 has the main CPU (The emotion engine), a FPU, as well as two Vector Units (VU0 and VU1). The vector units are what makes it difficult to program for the PS2.. But, they also increase the functionality of the PS2..
For example, for SSX: Tricky, EA used one of the VUs for DTS decoding, for multi channel surround sound (The PS2 only does Dolby Digital/DTS for DVDs, not for actual games). Developers can also use the VUs strictly for graphics, or anything else really.
> The PS2 does not have any PC Card slots.
Actually, the Japanese PS2 had PC Card slots... this was changed for the US version, however (They removed the PC Card slots to add the expansion bay for the upcoming hdd/network adapter).
Can't you read? XOSL is an alternative to AMD, not "for" AMD. Sigh.
I think he reads better than you.. here, take a look at the title of the post:
XOSL, an alternative to Lilo amd Grub
Obviously, he was poking fun at CmdrTaco's supreme grammatical prowess.