Tom doesn't review Alphas and RISC's because it is not what most consumers buy. AMDs and Intels are what most people buy.
I like that you don't say "ooh linux is so smart this wouldn't happen in linux!" instead that "linux admins would never do this!". The OS has nothing to do with this, Tom was trying to show that AMD chips run very very hot and w/o the necessary heat protection they will damage themselves very very quickly.
As long as Linux still requires knowledge of console commands (and not just any command-prompt commands, but Unix commands), it is going to be very hard for 90% of computer users out there to use Linux.
I don't think the mainstream is very interested in editing their operating system.
In 8 months of working at my university, I've never seen a single user screw up his/her computer with AIM or RealAudio. How is this even possible?
Where I work we try to prevent users from running Linux, especially Linux installations fresh out of the box and un-patched, to protect our own asses - their boxes would quickly get owned and used to cause damage to our own network.
I'm interested though in how Linux machines mess up the NT Domain...
1. Thats why you save all essential info/data on network drives that your IT dept regularly backs up.
2. Not everyone has the luxury of spending an entire day or more with a user's machine trying to troubleshoot why Netscape crashes every single time she opens her mail when the machine could just be re-imaged and her data backed up. Where I work our director starts breathing down our necks any time a ticket is open for more than 72 hours, troubleshooting usually takes a little while.
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You are an idiot.
Tom doesn't review Alphas and RISC's because it is not what most consumers buy. AMDs and Intels are what most people buy.
I like that you don't say "ooh linux is so smart this wouldn't happen in linux!" instead that "linux admins would never do this!". The OS has nothing to do with this, Tom was trying to show that AMD chips run very very hot and w/o the necessary heat protection they will damage themselves very very quickly.
As long as Linux still requires knowledge of console commands (and not just any command-prompt commands, but Unix commands), it is going to be very hard for 90% of computer users out there to use Linux.
I don't think the mainstream is very interested in editing their operating system.
2 hours later and it still says DCMA
Slashdot has been having a lot of spelling errors lately...
MS Frontpage has a spellcheck feature doesn't it?
Also, I think that some double-sided dvds are already in existence
I have Terminator 2 on DVD. One side 16:9, the other side is 4:3.
Can you pass command-line arguments to the WinNT kernel?
What would they do?
In 8 months of working at my university, I've never seen a single user screw up his/her computer with AIM or RealAudio. How is this even possible?
Where I work we try to prevent users from running Linux, especially Linux installations fresh out of the box and un-patched, to protect our own asses - their boxes would quickly get owned and used to cause damage to our own network.
I'm interested though in how Linux machines mess up the NT Domain...
1. Thats why you save all essential info/data on network drives that your IT dept regularly backs up.
2. Not everyone has the luxury of spending an entire day or more with a user's machine trying to troubleshoot why Netscape crashes every single time she opens her mail when the machine could just be re-imaged and her data backed up. Where I work our director starts breathing down our necks any time a ticket is open for more than 72 hours, troubleshooting usually takes a little while.
This article is on a website named Linuxworld.com. hmmm I wonder what their conclusions will be?
...at building features that NO BODY wants.