I'm running Windows Vista, installed a few years ago (very soon after Vista was released), no auto updates, disabled security that I could, always turn off defender at boot, running in administator account, no anti-virus. I'm not anal about the sites I visit - however I never run anything from a source I don't trust at least a bit.
No viruses, no slowdown. I've just moved my PC, but prior to that it was at over a month uptime (I know I should probably turn it off when I'm at work, but I'm lazy).
The myth about Windows installs necessarily degenerating and being inherently liable to viruses has to get squished soon - it does nothing for Linux. The users who you are trying to switch over will install any old thing whatever OS they are using.
ps. I just bought a new HD to install Linux on on my computer, I'll probably go Slackware since it's what I'm most familiar with. One of the reasons I'm not running Linux yet is because the fakeraid implementation was pretty technical when I got this computer, and I didn't want to jump right in and hose the partition (which is what the Ubuntu installer suggested... fortunately I knew enough about my system partitioning to not allow it to do that).
So you run with no firewall? No UAC? Geez. You might as leave the door wide open and put a light on. Sure the security of Windows isn't the best ever, but I've found that some is certainly better than nothing. I mean do you use flash? You know that there are like a million exploits right there right? And with no anti-virus scanner or anything, how would you even know if you were infected?
Ohhh yeah. I forgot to add the netbook (asus eeeeeepc) that ubuntu trashed that my friend had. It wouldn't boot or anything. To me it looked dead and/or bricked, but low and behold a magical bios flash from the recovery mode of the board and it sprung back to life ready to be trashed by ubuntu again. If an OS did that once to my hardware, I'd never really trust it again.
I find, if anything, the best course of action is to just install the last version of ubuntu versus the newest one. Usually all the critical bugs of the previous release have been mostly shaken out by the beginning of their release cycle. There is a reason debian plods along so slowly (glacially to some) and it has everything to do with security and stability. Ubuntu is just merely taking debian as a base and throwing their own untested wackiness on top. Sure their desktop looks sleek (modern almost), but it isn't until it hits the masses that serious bugs surface and a lot of it is certainly stuff that should have never made it past the beta stage. I think their commitment to such a short release cycle is really hindering their ability to polish their distro. I don't see the point of 6 month to yearly releases if you can't maintain the quality of say a 2-year release cycle. The real world doesn't move that fast anyways, or is it that the Ubuntu team feels that pushing more and more shiny bling with every release will somehow convince users that they are not using a 3rd rate desktop operating system. Windows, for all its wacky inconsistencies seems like a finely cut and polished gem compared to gnome, what with X rendering your application with whatever developer's widget set of the day and the like. Sure everything is groovy if all your apps were coded to run against gnomes toolkit, but as soon as you get some god awful athena widgets going on, it just all falls apart. The linux community needs to pull their heads out of their self-riteous asses and start acting as some sort of collective versus the fragmentation that is going on, especially on the desktop. Maybe it will take a fork of linux itself to one day do that, the same way that ubuntu was essentially a fork of debian pushed to the masses. Until "linux" can offer a concise, well defined, consistent user interface across all applications, then I don't see it ever having any sort of chance as a mainstream desktop os.
Sorry about the rant. The whole stream of conscious into writing thing kind of gets to me sometimes.
I like to keep things secure so for e-mail I use 1234 as a password and for facebook I use 6789. No need to make it easy for someone to hax0r my accounts!
Every version of Ubuntu I have ever installed had its own issues. Maybe you have the best linux supported hardware in the world or something, but if you just dump ubuntu on some pc with cheap, crappy hardware, you are likely to start feeling some pain. I've even had issues with ubuntu in virtualbox in the past, though that was more likely due to the virtual x drivers. I'm just saying that ubuntu is not this magic linux distro that you can just install on anything and expect everything to work without dropping to a command prompt. That is certainly more the case than it was 10 years ago, but there are all kinds of things that are common that linux does not support well out of the box, like, gee, graphics cards for instance. Unless you are like content with a slow framebuffer or lack of 3d support, or all the problems that the open source drivers seem to have.
The last time I tried ubuntu, it was 9.04 I believe and I couldn't get sound working right due to pulse audio borking everything. I quickly gave up and went right back to windows. Not many people have time for that crap. Also, I would like to add that in spite of having a far more hands on approach, every debian box that I ever built gave me nary an issue once I had hardware support established. Many times when I would throw ubuntu on an older P2-P3 machine, I usually had some sort of issue or several for that matter. I do like ubuntu, but I sure wouldn't run a server with it.......there's always debian for that.....
Clearly they were driving around like reckless idiots so the car's computer clearly interceded and refused to let the start the car again the next day. When the technician arrived, nothing was wrong, but after looking at the data from the boys previous wild joyrides, he decided that the car would be best returned to Jaguar, all the while mumbling about something about 11 million lines of code and systems crashing.
Right. I understand that. My point was just that google maps and every other gps program I've used so far requires a network connection. I'll check into maverick.
Network accuracy is roughly 1-2km....gps is like 10-25m. My G1 only seems to use network location when it just needs a rough idea of the general area I'm in.
Huh? GPS is likely to be far more accurate than someone with poor/average map reading skills. I mean if gps doesn't work, you might be need a backup, but the military seems to have no problems relying on it for all sorts of "live" safety means. That's like saying "a pencil and slide rule...relying on a calculator for math is moronic."
Get an extended life battery. I got a cheap 2200mH (double capacity) for like 20 or so on amazon. I can now easily make it through a whole day of heavy usage without having to plug in a charger. I'd imagine you could get like 8 hrs or so of continuous gps usage, at least with my tracks or something. Probably a lot more if you only pulled open a map app occasionally.
really? there are apps that can download say topo maps and store them? I would have loved something like this when I was in the woods for a week recently and couldn't see a tower yet alone get cell service. I was under the assumption that gps didn't work well unless it talked to some server and that maps was pretty much out of the question.
All of the ports are just ports of the original source code to say windows or linux with opengl graphics. They all play exactly like the original, but with better graphics. jdoom is pretty awesome, and I highly recommend it, especially with good 3d models.
It has its ups and downs. A lot of stuff would get modded up that would be misinformation and whatnot. Like it or not, the mod system on slashdot does seem to have some balancing. You have a limited number of modpoints, versus an unlimited number of digs (and buries), so using a point costs you something. Something tells me that overly abusive people that constantly do nothing but mod down receive mod points far less often (if at all). I've always tried to use my modpoints for the positive, but there are a great deal of cases where something really needs to be modded down somehow, and the slashdot community doesn't seem to be overly mean spirited. There is some fanboyism here, but that's really to be expected. We are all fans of something. Windows 7 is pretty sweet, and so is android, and I'm a huge fan of using the cheapest, best option, but I'll probably get modded somewhere for comments like that.:)
I mean seriously. This is slashdot. The "editors" here don't even bother to proof submissions half the time. Do you really expect them to actually sit down and mod comments? I heard about their wild parties from that anonymous coward user, and let me tell you, natalie portman and hot grits have nothing on the hot steaming fecal matter left from ruffies, laxative, and anal rape.
Thanks to the ability for moderators to mod down, I know where the heart and soul of slashdot lives. Its not +5 insightful, its -1 Troll. How else would I possibly find out how far you can possibly stretch your anus or about the GNAA? Who cares about Microsoft when you have two girls and a one cup? You know how many times you have to click refresh to get in one good frosty piss? That takes dedication, and I salute you trolls of slashdot for keeping this site fucking hillarious over the years and keeping me well informed of BSD's impending demise according to netcraft. Anyone remember the ASCII art and bad formatting abuse days? Ahhh....memories.
If you think doom was ugly you should play wolf3d. We've come a long way. Of course doom was written by a handful of guys, nowadays you need a dedicated team just to work on your engine.
Uh....I think its time to take off the rose colored glasses. Doom looks pretty god awful compared to modern games. As soon as you get too close to a wall or enemy it just falls apart. Also objects don't rotate in 3d. Doom looks like a bunch of cardboard cutouts anymore. Quaint? Surely. But to say that something like Doom 3 or Half-Life is not superior then I think you must have a really funny idea about what constitutes good graphics. That said, I think there is certainly a place for straight-up 2d games, but Doom was really the bridge between the two at the time, and yes, I do realize that a lot of games came out earlier that also featured 2.5d and even 3d. I don't see any remote interest to revisit that sort of graphic style because it was basically an illusion that wore off quickly. Doom was pretty mindblowing....16 years ago. Or was it 18 years ago? Also its not resolution that needs to increase, but really rendering. When we can start to approach real-time ray tracing things are going to start looking a lot more natural and realistic because lighting will become far more accurate.
I can think of lots of failures that make me happy. Like the failure of communism....or the failure of the third reich. Failure isn't always a bad thing.
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That was kind of my thought as well. It didn't seem like they spent any time looking at the actual linux compatibility of the hardware they were sourcing.
Actually if you had paid attention in the article you would have learned that the e-machine was vastly outperformed by the cheap budget box.
Is the form factor worth the extra $100? I guess that's for the reader to decide. This is news in a way because previously it was nearly impossible to build a decent box with case and power supply for $200. Barebones systems used to bottom out at $300 without a drive and memory. Prices have really drastically fallen on low end goods. People should put their P3s away and start building some decent, usable systems for $100 or so plus some spare parts.
I have an mp3 collection approaching over 350 gigs. That's over 40,000 MP3s, OGGs, and FLACs. 20,000 raw photographs on a drive: 150 gigs (and that's just this past year). Heck the 140gb partition I have for my system barely holds windows, CS4 and a few (admittedly large) games. Its only got 40 gigs free right now. Heck I have about 100gigs of PSX ISOs alone, whereas all the 8-bit and 16-bit roms ever released fits somewhere inside the space of like 10 gigs. I never got into collecting PS2 and XBOX ISOs thank god!
Why? Dual core cpus give a quite noticeable increase in system responsiveness. Even if you are only writing e-mail or browsing the web. Sure mozilla isn't going to run any faster (actually with multi-threading this is changing too), but how windows (or linux in this case) responds to you will be certainly improved.
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Can we nuke the site from orbit?
How is this remotely a troll? This is the best idea I've heard all day!
I'm running Windows Vista, installed a few years ago (very soon after Vista was released), no auto updates, disabled security that I could, always turn off defender at boot, running in administator account, no anti-virus. I'm not anal about the sites I visit - however I never run anything from a source I don't trust at least a bit.
No viruses, no slowdown. I've just moved my PC, but prior to that it was at over a month uptime (I know I should probably turn it off when I'm at work, but I'm lazy).
The myth about Windows installs necessarily degenerating and being inherently liable to viruses has to get squished soon - it does nothing for Linux. The users who you are trying to switch over will install any old thing whatever OS they are using.
ps. I just bought a new HD to install Linux on on my computer, I'll probably go Slackware since it's what I'm most familiar with. One of the reasons I'm not running Linux yet is because the fakeraid implementation was pretty technical when I got this computer, and I didn't want to jump right in and hose the partition (which is what the Ubuntu installer suggested... fortunately I knew enough about my system partitioning to not allow it to do that).
So you run with no firewall? No UAC? Geez. You might as leave the door wide open and put a light on. Sure the security of Windows isn't the best ever, but I've found that some is certainly better than nothing. I mean do you use flash? You know that there are like a million exploits right there right? And with no anti-virus scanner or anything, how would you even know if you were infected?
Ohhh yeah. I forgot to add the netbook (asus eeeeeepc) that ubuntu trashed that my friend had. It wouldn't boot or anything. To me it looked dead and/or bricked, but low and behold a magical bios flash from the recovery mode of the board and it sprung back to life ready to be trashed by ubuntu again. If an OS did that once to my hardware, I'd never really trust it again.
I find, if anything, the best course of action is to just install the last version of ubuntu versus the newest one. Usually all the critical bugs of the previous release have been mostly shaken out by the beginning of their release cycle. There is a reason debian plods along so slowly (glacially to some) and it has everything to do with security and stability. Ubuntu is just merely taking debian as a base and throwing their own untested wackiness on top. Sure their desktop looks sleek (modern almost), but it isn't until it hits the masses that serious bugs surface and a lot of it is certainly stuff that should have never made it past the beta stage. I think their commitment to such a short release cycle is really hindering their ability to polish their distro. I don't see the point of 6 month to yearly releases if you can't maintain the quality of say a 2-year release cycle. The real world doesn't move that fast anyways, or is it that the Ubuntu team feels that pushing more and more shiny bling with every release will somehow convince users that they are not using a 3rd rate desktop operating system. Windows, for all its wacky inconsistencies seems like a finely cut and polished gem compared to gnome, what with X rendering your application with whatever developer's widget set of the day and the like. Sure everything is groovy if all your apps were coded to run against gnomes toolkit, but as soon as you get some god awful athena widgets going on, it just all falls apart. The linux community needs to pull their heads out of their self-riteous asses and start acting as some sort of collective versus the fragmentation that is going on, especially on the desktop. Maybe it will take a fork of linux itself to one day do that, the same way that ubuntu was essentially a fork of debian pushed to the masses. Until "linux" can offer a concise, well defined, consistent user interface across all applications, then I don't see it ever having any sort of chance as a mainstream desktop os.
Sorry about the rant. The whole stream of conscious into writing thing kind of gets to me sometimes.
I like to keep things secure so for e-mail I use 1234 as a password and for facebook I use 6789. No need to make it easy for someone to hax0r my accounts!
I don't believe they do any testing. I think Ubuntu is content letting their users do the testing for them.
Every version of Ubuntu I have ever installed had its own issues. Maybe you have the best linux supported hardware in the world or something, but if you just dump ubuntu on some pc with cheap, crappy hardware, you are likely to start feeling some pain. I've even had issues with ubuntu in virtualbox in the past, though that was more likely due to the virtual x drivers. I'm just saying that ubuntu is not this magic linux distro that you can just install on anything and expect everything to work without dropping to a command prompt. That is certainly more the case than it was 10 years ago, but there are all kinds of things that are common that linux does not support well out of the box, like, gee, graphics cards for instance. Unless you are like content with a slow framebuffer or lack of 3d support, or all the problems that the open source drivers seem to have.
The last time I tried ubuntu, it was 9.04 I believe and I couldn't get sound working right due to pulse audio borking everything. I quickly gave up and went right back to windows. Not many people have time for that crap. Also, I would like to add that in spite of having a far more hands on approach, every debian box that I ever built gave me nary an issue once I had hardware support established. Many times when I would throw ubuntu on an older P2-P3 machine, I usually had some sort of issue or several for that matter. I do like ubuntu, but I sure wouldn't run a server with it.......there's always debian for that.....
Clearly they were driving around like reckless idiots so the car's computer clearly interceded and refused to let the start the car again the next day. When the technician arrived, nothing was wrong, but after looking at the data from the boys previous wild joyrides, he decided that the car would be best returned to Jaguar, all the while mumbling about something about 11 million lines of code and systems crashing.
Right. I understand that. My point was just that google maps and every other gps program I've used so far requires a network connection. I'll check into maverick.
Emergency response systems use GPS to determine locations of cell phone users to save lives every day. Better comparison?
Except that plants don't have intentions (doesn't take away from a silly horror flick, of course).
How would we possibly know whether plants have intentions or not?
Network accuracy is roughly 1-2km....gps is like 10-25m. My G1 only seems to use network location when it just needs a rough idea of the general area I'm in.
Huh? GPS is likely to be far more accurate than someone with poor/average map reading skills. I mean if gps doesn't work, you might be need a backup, but the military seems to have no problems relying on it for all sorts of "live" safety means. That's like saying "a pencil and slide rule...relying on a calculator for math is moronic."
Get an extended life battery. I got a cheap 2200mH (double capacity) for like 20 or so on amazon. I can now easily make it through a whole day of heavy usage without having to plug in a charger. I'd imagine you could get like 8 hrs or so of continuous gps usage, at least with my tracks or something. Probably a lot more if you only pulled open a map app occasionally.
really? there are apps that can download say topo maps and store them? I would have loved something like this when I was in the woods for a week recently and couldn't see a tower yet alone get cell service. I was under the assumption that gps didn't work well unless it talked to some server and that maps was pretty much out of the question.
All of the ports are just ports of the original source code to say windows or linux with opengl graphics. They all play exactly like the original, but with better graphics. jdoom is pretty awesome, and I highly recommend it, especially with good 3d models.
It has its ups and downs. A lot of stuff would get modded up that would be misinformation and whatnot. Like it or not, the mod system on slashdot does seem to have some balancing. You have a limited number of modpoints, versus an unlimited number of digs (and buries), so using a point costs you something. Something tells me that overly abusive people that constantly do nothing but mod down receive mod points far less often (if at all). I've always tried to use my modpoints for the positive, but there are a great deal of cases where something really needs to be modded down somehow, and the slashdot community doesn't seem to be overly mean spirited. There is some fanboyism here, but that's really to be expected. We are all fans of something. Windows 7 is pretty sweet, and so is android, and I'm a huge fan of using the cheapest, best option, but I'll probably get modded somewhere for comments like that. :)
I mean seriously. This is slashdot. The "editors" here don't even bother to proof submissions half the time. Do you really expect them to actually sit down and mod comments? I heard about their wild parties from that anonymous coward user, and let me tell you, natalie portman and hot grits have nothing on the hot steaming fecal matter left from ruffies, laxative, and anal rape.
Thanks to the ability for moderators to mod down, I know where the heart and soul of slashdot lives. Its not +5 insightful, its -1 Troll. How else would I possibly find out how far you can possibly stretch your anus or about the GNAA? Who cares about Microsoft when you have two girls and a one cup? You know how many times you have to click refresh to get in one good frosty piss? That takes dedication, and I salute you trolls of slashdot for keeping this site fucking hillarious over the years and keeping me well informed of BSD's impending demise according to netcraft. Anyone remember the ASCII art and bad formatting abuse days? Ahhh....memories.
If you think doom was ugly you should play wolf3d. We've come a long way. Of course doom was written by a handful of guys, nowadays you need a dedicated team just to work on your engine.
Uh....I think its time to take off the rose colored glasses. Doom looks pretty god awful compared to modern games. As soon as you get too close to a wall or enemy it just falls apart. Also objects don't rotate in 3d. Doom looks like a bunch of cardboard cutouts anymore. Quaint? Surely. But to say that something like Doom 3 or Half-Life is not superior then I think you must have a really funny idea about what constitutes good graphics. That said, I think there is certainly a place for straight-up 2d games, but Doom was really the bridge between the two at the time, and yes, I do realize that a lot of games came out earlier that also featured 2.5d and even 3d. I don't see any remote interest to revisit that sort of graphic style because it was basically an illusion that wore off quickly. Doom was pretty mindblowing....16 years ago. Or was it 18 years ago? Also its not resolution that needs to increase, but really rendering. When we can start to approach real-time ray tracing things are going to start looking a lot more natural and realistic because lighting will become far more accurate.
I can think of lots of failures that make me happy. Like the failure of communism....or the failure of the third reich. Failure isn't always a bad thing.
Because they can. Get over it.
Mmmmmmmmm.......booooooooobs.......
That was kind of my thought as well. It didn't seem like they spent any time looking at the actual linux compatibility of the hardware they were sourcing.
Actually if you had paid attention in the article you would have learned that the e-machine was vastly outperformed by the cheap budget box.
Is the form factor worth the extra $100? I guess that's for the reader to decide. This is news in a way because previously it was nearly impossible to build a decent box with case and power supply for $200. Barebones systems used to bottom out at $300 without a drive and memory. Prices have really drastically fallen on low end goods. People should put their P3s away and start building some decent, usable systems for $100 or so plus some spare parts.
I have an mp3 collection approaching over 350 gigs. That's over 40,000 MP3s, OGGs, and FLACs. 20,000 raw photographs on a drive: 150 gigs (and that's just this past year). Heck the 140gb partition I have for my system barely holds windows, CS4 and a few (admittedly large) games. Its only got 40 gigs free right now. Heck I have about 100gigs of PSX ISOs alone, whereas all the 8-bit and 16-bit roms ever released fits somewhere inside the space of like 10 gigs. I never got into collecting PS2 and XBOX ISOs thank god!
Why? Dual core cpus give a quite noticeable increase in system responsiveness. Even if you are only writing e-mail or browsing the web. Sure mozilla isn't going to run any faster (actually with multi-threading this is changing too), but how windows (or linux in this case) responds to you will be certainly improved.