Asterisk interoperates with gtalk quite nicely, not exactly a "client" per se but you can interface any sip/iax client with it, including a physical ip phone handset (i use a cisco 7960 with it).
Proper gamers make up a small portion of the market, there are far more casual gamers and non gamers (ie parents who buy for their kids) who will look at hype and pretty graphics...
A show like "Canada's Worst Driver" is reality and involves random members of the public, whereas a lot of the "reality" shows are entirely contrived and filled with the rather pathetic kind of people who will degrade themselves to any level in order to have 15 minutes of fame.
They really should use self signed certs for things like banks, and provide you a copy of the root cert in the branch so you can be certain the two match up... No third party involved.
Modern technology has rendered their business model obsolete, and they are trying to hold on to it by force instead of adapting to the new way.
When they were founded distribution and advertising of media cost a lot of money, so they actually provided a semi useful service.. These days distribution and some level of advertising can be done for free, so the value they provide is now considerably less and yet they insist on charging more and placing more restrictions.
Technology moves on and makes things obsolete or relegates them to niches, look at radio, horses, dialup internet and bbs services, floppy disks...
Would you like a company that makes floppy disks and drives trying to force you not to use usb storage devices and cd/dvd media, forcing you to use floppies instead and then further crippling floppies by making them only work on the drive that formatted them?
Piracy was already rampant when monkey island came out. It came on floppies which were easily copied. But the fact is, making good playable games is less profitable than making lousy games with pretty graphics.
As i understand it, psystar don't provide it preinstalled, they just provide a compatible piece of hardware and a bought boxed copy of osx which the user can then install if they so wish.
The web only interface is actually a small step in the right direction... Older vmware only had frontends for linux and windows, leaving those of us who use mac desktops out in the cold. The newer products like esxi only have windows frontends, which is even worse... Competing products like proxmox and sun xvm have web based java frontends that work on any platform, i would imagine vmware are using their free server product as a testbed for implementing something similar.
I like the idea of having a web based frontend with a java applet for connecting to the console of servers, and it would also be nice to have some other method of connecting to the console of a vm, preferably using a protocol which is already published.
Incidentally, sun have a server complement to virtualbox, take a look at xvmserver.org, its not available easily yet, you have to sign up to test it i believe.
Virtualbox is not trying to compete with vmware server, but i do like the background execution vmware server has... But if you like that, try xen or qemu or something similar, virtualbox is designed to compete with vmware workstation at the moment.
I remember when windows nt only supported 2gb of ram on the alpha since it wasnt a true 64bit os, but if you had more ram you could install mssql and it would use the rest of the memory which the os couldn't see...
Any reason why a vm couldn't use memory that's not visible to the host os, since it's executing through the hardware virtualization support.
Maemo (nokia internet tablets, debian based) has something like that, you download a package description file and it adds the repository and installs the apps for you, and can update or remove them through the system package manager... Ubuntu would really benefit from something like this.
1.25gb of heap will be nearly half of your available ram on a 32bit machine as a best case... Once you have the overhead of the base os kernel plus the vm, you won't have a huge amount of ram left for it.
I had stability problems running freebsd under kvm (in the linux kernel) too, it wouldn't reboot (had to fully power cycle it) and would exhibit various stability problems.
The "google updater" is the fault of your OS rather than google... If the OS provided a standard way to check for updates, then it wouldn't be necessary for google and other vendors to write their own... For something which is internet facing like a web browser, an auto update mechanism is absolutely essential.
Indeed, they are now integrating hyper-v with windows in an attempt to force vmware out... How long before windows starts having all kinds of compatibility problems with vmware and not with hyper-v, making vmware look inferior?
Because chrome offers very little that linux/mac users don't already have... If they released the source to something that wasn't already available, you can be sure more developers would pick it up.
I don't want loads of features, i just want a simple unbloated program that lets me easily crop and zoom, with an interface that gets out of the way and just lets me view the images... My experience with irfanview found it nowhere near as simple and effective as xv... Also xv is cross platform, so i can run it on whatever system i have in front of me at the time, irfanview is not.
Internet slower? Linux downloads things much faster than xp did, not least of all because tcp window scaling is turned on by default (vista has it on by default too)... Also i believe consumer versions of windows have artificially low limits on the number of usable sockets, which has a negative impact on things like bittorrent, especially on fast connections...
If you want to change these things on windows, you have to hack around with the registry, which is hardly "easy"... you don't even get any inline comments and you have to use special registry editing tools, you can't just open up your preferred text editor and edit a file that has nice comments explaining what things do.
Ubuntu will work on hardware which was sold with it, just like anything else...
I tried 32bit ubuntu on a machine recently and it was totally broken, i tried the corresponding 64bit version and everything worked out of the box... I can only imagine they figured noone would want to run 32bit on a machine with 4gb ram, the 64bit version offers other advantages too and is far more mature than the 64bit windows variants.
I have yet to find a picture viewer on windows that's as good as xv, it lets me zoom to fill the screen (yes properly fill the screen, no gui elements anywhere) while retaining the aspect ratio with a single keypress which is extremely useful. I use xv on mac too, instead of whatever native viewers there might be.
Here most people seem to have HP printers, and support for HP devices including the all in ones is actually better on linux than it is on windows or osx... HP publish open source drivers for unix which still run on the latest distributions, whereas many of their older closed source drivers no longer work on current versions of windows or osx (my scanner for instance, only has ppc drivers for osx 10.4)...
Lexmark having lousy linux support is the reason i won't even consider their devices, and will recommend HP to anyone i know.
No real customer service? This is the biggest myth against linux out there...
With linux, customer service is optional, you can buy it if you want, while many people on slashdot are competent enough to get by without it and would benefit from saving the cost... What level of support do you get when you buy commercial software? it's usually pretty lousy or nonexistent, and decent support costs more.
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Asterisk interoperates with gtalk quite nicely, not exactly a "client" per se but you can interface any sip/iax client with it, including a physical ip phone handset (i use a cisco 7960 with it).
They will have no choice but to learn if the bank makes them...
Proper gamers make up a small portion of the market, there are far more casual gamers and non gamers (ie parents who buy for their kids) who will look at hype and pretty graphics...
A show like "Canada's Worst Driver" is reality and involves random members of the public, whereas a lot of the "reality" shows are entirely contrived and filled with the rather pathetic kind of people who will degrade themselves to any level in order to have 15 minutes of fame.
They really should use self signed certs for things like banks, and provide you a copy of the root cert in the branch so you can be certain the two match up... No third party involved.
Modern technology has rendered their business model obsolete, and they are trying to hold on to it by force instead of adapting to the new way.
When they were founded distribution and advertising of media cost a lot of money, so they actually provided a semi useful service.. These days distribution and some level of advertising can be done for free, so the value they provide is now considerably less and yet they insist on charging more and placing more restrictions.
Technology moves on and makes things obsolete or relegates them to niches, look at radio, horses, dialup internet and bbs services, floppy disks...
Would you like a company that makes floppy disks and drives trying to force you not to use usb storage devices and cd/dvd media, forcing you to use floppies instead and then further crippling floppies by making them only work on the drive that formatted them?
Piracy was already rampant when monkey island came out. It came on floppies which were easily copied.
But the fact is, making good playable games is less profitable than making lousy games with pretty graphics.
As i understand it, psystar don't provide it preinstalled, they just provide a compatible piece of hardware and a bought boxed copy of osx which the user can then install if they so wish.
The web only interface is actually a small step in the right direction...
Older vmware only had frontends for linux and windows, leaving those of us who use mac desktops out in the cold.
The newer products like esxi only have windows frontends, which is even worse...
Competing products like proxmox and sun xvm have web based java frontends that work on any platform, i would imagine vmware are using their free server product as a testbed for implementing something similar.
I like the idea of having a web based frontend with a java applet for connecting to the console of servers, and it would also be nice to have some other method of connecting to the console of a vm, preferably using a protocol which is already published.
Incidentally, sun have a server complement to virtualbox, take a look at xvmserver.org, its not available easily yet, you have to sign up to test it i believe.
Virtualbox is not trying to compete with vmware server, but i do like the background execution vmware server has...
But if you like that, try xen or qemu or something similar, virtualbox is designed to compete with vmware workstation at the moment.
It works, i had a quad P2 xeon running linux with 2gb of physical ram and 6gb of swap, but no single process can use more than 4gb at once.
I remember when windows nt only supported 2gb of ram on the alpha since it wasnt a true 64bit os, but if you had more ram you could install mssql and it would use the rest of the memory which the os couldn't see...
Any reason why a vm couldn't use memory that's not visible to the host os, since it's executing through the hardware virtualization support.
Maemo (nokia internet tablets, debian based) has something like that, you download a package description file and it adds the repository and installs the apps for you, and can update or remove them through the system package manager... Ubuntu would really benefit from something like this.
1.25gb of heap will be nearly half of your available ram on a 32bit machine as a best case... Once you have the overhead of the base os kernel plus the vm, you won't have a huge amount of ram left for it.
I had stability problems running freebsd under kvm (in the linux kernel) too, it wouldn't reboot (had to fully power cycle it) and would exhibit various stability problems.
Thanks to webkit, which is already available with other frontends...
The "google updater" is the fault of your OS rather than google...
If the OS provided a standard way to check for updates, then it wouldn't be necessary for google and other vendors to write their own... For something which is internet facing like a web browser, an auto update mechanism is absolutely essential.
Indeed, they are now integrating hyper-v with windows in an attempt to force vmware out...
How long before windows starts having all kinds of compatibility problems with vmware and not with hyper-v, making vmware look inferior?
Because chrome offers very little that linux/mac users don't already have...
If they released the source to something that wasn't already available, you can be sure more developers would pick it up.
I don't want loads of features, i just want a simple unbloated program that lets me easily crop and zoom, with an interface that gets out of the way and just lets me view the images... My experience with irfanview found it nowhere near as simple and effective as xv...
Also xv is cross platform, so i can run it on whatever system i have in front of me at the time, irfanview is not.
OSX preview does full screen, but not maximum zoom while retaining aspect ratio, it zooms in steps, so it's more troublesome to use than xv...
Internet slower? Linux downloads things much faster than xp did, not least of all because tcp window scaling is turned on by default (vista has it on by default too)... Also i believe consumer versions of windows have artificially low limits on the number of usable sockets, which has a negative impact on things like bittorrent, especially on fast connections...
If you want to change these things on windows, you have to hack around with the registry, which is hardly "easy"... you don't even get any inline comments and you have to use special registry editing tools, you can't just open up your preferred text editor and edit a file that has nice comments explaining what things do.
Ubuntu will work on hardware which was sold with it, just like anything else...
I tried 32bit ubuntu on a machine recently and it was totally broken, i tried the corresponding 64bit version and everything worked out of the box... I can only imagine they figured noone would want to run 32bit on a machine with 4gb ram, the 64bit version offers other advantages too and is far more mature than the 64bit windows variants.
I have yet to find a picture viewer on windows that's as good as xv, it lets me zoom to fill the screen (yes properly fill the screen, no gui elements anywhere) while retaining the aspect ratio with a single keypress which is extremely useful. I use xv on mac too, instead of whatever native viewers there might be.
Here most people seem to have HP printers, and support for HP devices including the all in ones is actually better on linux than it is on windows or osx... HP publish open source drivers for unix which still run on the latest distributions, whereas many of their older closed source drivers no longer work on current versions of windows or osx (my scanner for instance, only has ppc drivers for osx 10.4)...
Lexmark having lousy linux support is the reason i won't even consider their devices, and will recommend HP to anyone i know.
No real customer service?
This is the biggest myth against linux out there...
With linux, customer service is optional, you can buy it if you want, while many people on slashdot are competent enough to get by without it and would benefit from saving the cost... What level of support do you get when you buy commercial software? it's usually pretty lousy or nonexistent, and decent support costs more.