Yeah, the Telewest boxes are particularly crap. They take ages to change channel, crash fairly regularly, and don't support any of the interactive stuff you get on Sky digital, as well as only being able to select one channel at a time (although this was also the case with their old analogue cable boxes).
It has taken off somewhat in the UK. The majority of sattelite and cable viewers have already switched to digital (to the point that there's ahrdly any sky analogue custormers left). Its the people who just pick up free to air analogue channels with an aerial who don't want to switch.
Thats complete rubbish. I realise the majority of/.ers are Linux obsessives, but that ain't true. Somebody up there makes some valid points about Windows and its general stability (in terms of tweaks and updates)compared to Linux, but it should also be pointed out that the majority of people comparing Windows to Linux comapre Windows 9x which is now a dead product.
I have been using Windows NT based systems since the early days of NT4 (now on W2k Pro) and IMHO it compares very favorible with Linux is terms of responsiveness, reliability and usability. Moderators please note, this is an opinion, not a statememnt of fact. Therefore it is by definition not flamebait. Its unfortunate that this has to be spelled out to you.
Thats why Windows NT has had a pre-emptable kernel since version 3.1? Linux is finally catching up with Windows NT in these areas, we've had a journaling filesystem (NTFS) for years as well.
If you read rhe freep.com atricle on Xboxs breaking down, you'll see that the failiure rate for Xboxes is no worse than any other console. The areticle is about slow repair times for the units, not unusually high failiure rates.
If you believe the recent Microsoft spin it seems they are doing that. It seems Linus has a good attitude about things like this. Perhaps some of the Linux zealots could learn something from him.
As an aside, are there any standards in reliability? I know there are loads for security, but I've never seen a reliability standard.
You could, but why would you? Linux is no better than Windows, and IMHO the apps are less good than the Microsoft ones. Even if you don't consider that to be the case, the main advantage Windows and Office has is that its already installed and people know how to use it. Why waste money changing one perfectly good system to another?
Windows 2000/XP (which is a microkernel client server architecture based on Mach and VMS, IIRC) does this really well, basically because they have to because they don't give you the source. With Windows, you don't have to restart the system, let alone recompile anything to add a lot of new hardware devices. If Microsoft can get this right (for the most part, anyway) why can't the Linux community?
Unlikely, the American military has a habit of shooting / bombing the wrong targets and giving them even more powerful weapons isn't going to help with this.
I think I'm right in saying the British lost more tanks to the Americans than the Iraqis during the gulf war.
How long till we have an Obilisk of Light?
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How long until we have Obilisks of light defending all major buildins around the globe then?
Who modded this as interesting? Its just plain stupid. They can't sue you for taking the lid off a box you bought, poking around a bit and taking a few photos.
Never used Windowmaker, but I agree with you that KDE and GNOME are just toys. The comments made about KDE being superior to Windows Explorer are somewhat out there. Windows Explorer (on NT / 2000 - 9x is too clunky) is, the only genuinely useable GUI filesystem shell thingy that I have come accross. I have a feeling this post is gonna upset the Linux mafia, but hey, everyones entitled to their opinion.
Interestig one that. Not sure how the law works in the states, but in the UK, a credit card company is jointly liable for all credit card transactions. This means that if you buy something on a credit card from anyone and it doesn't turn up for whatever reason, the credit card company has to give you your money back (unless they can prove you were stupid).
So if any of this happend to me on a british credit card, I get my money back from the card company and they have to chase the seller / paypal etc.
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Yeah, the Telewest boxes are particularly crap. They take ages to change channel, crash fairly regularly, and don't support any of the interactive stuff you get on Sky digital, as well as only being able to select one channel at a time (although this was also the case with their old analogue cable boxes).
It has taken off somewhat in the UK. The majority of sattelite and cable viewers have already switched to digital (to the point that there's ahrdly any sky analogue custormers left). Its the people who just pick up free to air analogue channels with an aerial who don't want to switch.
Moderators are w*ankers, BTW
Thats not a troll, thats a funny. Moderators are w*nkers
1,000,000 me's marching on the White House.
Thats complete rubbish. I realise the majority of /.ers are Linux obsessives, but that ain't true. Somebody up there makes some valid points about Windows and its general stability (in terms of tweaks and updates)compared to Linux, but it should also be pointed out that the majority of people comparing Windows to Linux comapre Windows 9x which is now a dead product.
I have been using Windows NT based systems since the early days of NT4 (now on W2k Pro) and IMHO it compares very favorible with Linux is terms of responsiveness, reliability and usability. Moderators please note, this is an opinion, not a statememnt of fact. Therefore it is by definition not flamebait. Its unfortunate that this has to be spelled out to you.
Nah, first they need to build a decent operating system.
Thats why Windows NT has had a pre-emptable kernel since version 3.1? Linux is finally catching up with Windows NT in these areas, we've had a journaling filesystem (NTFS) for years as well.
Guess that puts me in the other 5%. I hate Linux.
If you read rhe freep.com atricle on Xboxs breaking down, you'll see that the failiure rate for Xboxes is no worse than any other console. The areticle is about slow repair times for the units, not unusually high failiure rates.
Yeah, but why would him? He can't act.
If you believe the recent Microsoft spin it seems they are doing that. It seems Linus has a good attitude about things like this. Perhaps some of the Linux zealots could learn something from him.
As an aside, are there any standards in reliability? I know there are loads for security, but I've never seen a reliability standard.
Who said I liked .deb? The FreeBSD ports tree is exactly what I was suggesting. As for flamebait, get a clue moderators.
RPM is utter crap. Kill it ASAP, as far as i'm concerned.
Am running FreeBSD 4.4 on 486-DX50 with 16Mb fine. Servers as an internet gateway for 4-5 users over a 56k dialup no problem.
In order to show that Americans don't know anything about anything that isn't within their borders (and they don't know much full-stop):
You could, but why would you? Linux is no better than Windows, and IMHO the apps are less good than the Microsoft ones. Even if you don't consider that to be the case, the main advantage Windows and Office has is that its already installed and people know how to use it. Why waste money changing one perfectly good system to another?
Thats a little unfair, they nicked a load of stuff from Mach as well.
Windows 2000/XP (which is a microkernel client server architecture based on Mach and VMS, IIRC) does this really well, basically because they have to because they don't give you the source. With Windows, you don't have to restart the system, let alone recompile anything to add a lot of new hardware devices. If Microsoft can get this right (for the most part, anyway) why can't the Linux community?
Unlikely, the American military has a habit of shooting / bombing the wrong targets and giving them even more powerful weapons isn't going to help with this.
I think I'm right in saying the British lost more tanks to the Americans than the Iraqis during the gulf war.
How long until we have Obilisks of light defending all major buildins around the globe then?
Mark - 'GDI unit approaching'
An 'English Breakfast' is a paticular type of breakfast, not just a breakfast eaten in England. Depending on where you are its several or all of:
Probably some other stuff as well
Is it me, or did Wing Commander go rapidly downhill after 3 anyway?
Who modded this as interesting? Its just plain stupid. They can't sue you for taking the lid off a box you bought, poking around a bit and taking a few photos.
Never used Windowmaker, but I agree with you that KDE and GNOME are just toys. The comments made about KDE being superior to Windows Explorer are somewhat out there. Windows Explorer (on NT / 2000 - 9x is too clunky) is, the only genuinely useable GUI filesystem shell thingy that I have come accross. I have a feeling this post is gonna upset the Linux mafia, but hey, everyones entitled to their opinion.
Interestig one that. Not sure how the law works in the states, but in the UK, a credit card company is jointly liable for all credit card transactions. This means that if you buy something on a credit card from anyone and it doesn't turn up for whatever reason, the credit card company has to give you your money back (unless they can prove you were stupid).
So if any of this happend to me on a british credit card, I get my money back from the card company and they have to chase the seller / paypal etc.