They will, it's an early beta and is therefore considered unstable... Today's nightly for mac crashes on http://www.pentestmonkey.net/jsbm/index.html which is a javascript benchmark, i was trying to see if it really is as fast as the article claims... Currently the webkit nightlies seem to be the fastest on this benchmark, by quite some considerable margin.
Well, crossover lets you run a non free runtime ontop of your free os and use it to run windows programs (free or otherwise)... The alternative, is using a non free os and a non free runtime, so it's a small step forwards if nothing else.
Some people do learn from history you know... The microsoft way has always involved being as proprietary as possible to force users onto their products, and if that means a temporary use of open protocols to temp users over before screwing them over and locking them in, then that's what they do.
History has taught us to be extremely wary of microsoft's actions, and that they will not hesitate to screw people over given the chance.
That's just how KDE is designed... That said, if you have a distro which defaults to gnome it's unlikely to have included amarok as it's default media player, and if you want a lightweight media player there are several better choices.
Some places expect more than GCSE's, ie they expect you to have a degree or they won't even look at you... Many people are very smart, but either couldn't afford university, or went straight into work anyway, i was thinking elitist in this regard rather than plain GCSEs...
That said, some people don't even have GCSE's for many reasons other than being too stupid to pass or too lazy to turn up, there are perfectly intelligent people who didn't pay any attention in classes due to peer pressure, there are those who missed the exams due to illness or similar, or who got far lower results than they should have due to other circumstances outside of their control, external pressures or major negative events during the exams and the last 2 years of school can affect peoples concentration, moving schools during the gcse years (last 2 years) can also have a major impact if the school teaches the curriculum in a different order, so you end up repeating some parts and missing some entirely.
There are many reasons why someone would have little or no formal grades, and a lot of them are out of the control of the individual concerned.
Most gentoo users have relatively conservative CFLAGS, equivalent to the flags used to build any other distro, but targeting your particular cpu, eg "-O2 -march=core2"... What this means is that the compiler can use features only present on this cpu, for many apps this doesn't help but also doesn't hinder, for some things it makes a significant difference (eg media encoding, modern cpus have features specifically for media encoding)
But what really matters about gentoo, is not the ability to set your cflags, it's the ability to set USE flags, whereby you can compile a program using different parameters or options.
Most CPUs cant allow cores to run at independent speeds... On the other hand, AMD quad cores do, and i'm glad to have one core running full speed processing a single threaded program, and the other 3 cores as slow as possible to handle the background OS tasks..
Using a hypervisor will always introduce a performance hit... Making the hardware more expensive to produce and ultimately slower.
The idea of a games console was that the hardware was static, thus you could program it directly without being hindered by any layers of abstraction.... For the best example of how the overhead of abstraction hurts performance, take some games written for the first xbox, and compare them with the corresponding windows versions running on equivalent hardware (700mhz celeron i believe, geforce 3 based video, 64mb ram, 8gb hd)
It's down to the individual company, the people doing the hiring and the job in question...
Some places are snobs, and demand people who have a list of educational certifications... Others will have someone who understands the job doing the interview and use his knowledge of the field to gauge who is best suited to the job, while some will simply go based on experience.
If the new kernel is considerably slower than the previous one, then they can continue shipping the old one until the new version catches up... Same with gcc - they can compile using the older faster version until the current version is capable of keeping up.
You have whatever flexibility microsoft give you, and no more... And while you can remove components and potentially replace them with others, there are more limits to it and more chance of breakage because a lot of apps just assume some things will be there.
And as a Linux/Unix consultant, seeing as how there's less of us and we generally work more efficiently than our windows counterparts, you could probably be making a lot more than $700/day.
At least all the positions i've seen, unix consultants command more money, have less interview competition, and still provide better value for money to the companies who hire them, whereas windows consultants are ten a penny and most are very poor at their job, having very little real experience being fresh off an mcse course or similar.
Ubuntu being demonstrably slower than older versions of itself is not exactly a selling point, especially because linux is often considered for lower powered machines... But having Ubuntu running typical tasks slower than windows is just inexcusable, i saw some benchmarks where open source tools such as ffmpeg were slower on ubuntu than xp... There really is no excuse for that.
The page margins *should* be saved in the document... If you change your page margin, save, and reopen in another version of openoffice it will work just fine... Openoffice uses the margins you or the document specifies, but word uses whatever paper margins are set by your printer... Send a file to someone with a different default printer and you have problems. Incidentally, how many word documents have you seen where people put tables and other detritus way outside of the margins anyway? OO shows the margins by default, word does not which leads to this shoddy unprofessional behaviour.
Also the fonts depend on what's installed on your system, and should be saved in the document... If the target system doesn't have the same font you used then it will try to substitute it for one it thinks is similar, which can often break things.
Not exactly.. Since they didn't know enough details about the microsoft formats, and realised the formats were highly likely to be changed, they had to make the reader part very robust because it could be fed almost anything.
If your using excel for accounting, aren't you potentially running afowl of some of the legal regulations, specifically the ones which make you liable for knowingly using a process that's known to produce incorrect results? If you google, you will find plenty of documented cases where excel produces inaccurate or downright incorrect results.
According to the eee documentation, it can do 5 hours battery life with xandros and 8 with xp, it explains what software they used to come to this... But it does just seem the benchmarking program on xp is just far less accurate than the linux one.
Having extra stuff installed is not a problem per se, at least not on linux or osx...
Having extra stuff loaded at startup is an issue... Having extra stuff which cannot be removed is an issue...
On windows, merely installing something typically adds crap to the registry which has to be loaded anyway, even if you never use the program itself, there are often update daemons loaded at startup because there's no other way to keep arbitrary apps up to date and uninstall programs work on the principle of trusting the app vendor to provide a working uninstaller, and they are usually completely half assed and dysfunctional because the app vendors doesn't want their app to be removed and isn't going to assign much priority to it.
Yeah i have the same issue, on a machine with 800gb of disk space and lots of small files (maildirs) it takes a ridiculous time to run quotacheck, and it can't run it in the background or after the fs has been mounted so it takes forever. It does it during clean reboots too, not just unclean shutdowns.
BIOS - Intel have been trying to replace the crufty old bios with EFI for years, but microsoft simply refuse to support it (vista was supposed to support efi, but doesnt), about the only widely available machines with EFI support come from Apple.
Motherboard manufacturers maintain the bios because replacing it with something better would break compatibility. As usual, microsoft is behind the curve, and won't support someone else's tech unless forced to.
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They will, it's an early beta and is therefore considered unstable...
Today's nightly for mac crashes on http://www.pentestmonkey.net/jsbm/index.html which is a javascript benchmark, i was trying to see if it really is as fast as the article claims... Currently the webkit nightlies seem to be the fastest on this benchmark, by quite some considerable margin.
Well, crossover lets you run a non free runtime ontop of your free os and use it to run windows programs (free or otherwise)...
The alternative, is using a non free os and a non free runtime, so it's a small step forwards if nothing else.
Yeah, use winpopup for IM, that was around in 3.11 for workgroups.
Some people do learn from history you know...
The microsoft way has always involved being as proprietary as possible to force users onto their products, and if that means a temporary use of open protocols to temp users over before screwing them over and locking them in, then that's what they do.
History has taught us to be extremely wary of microsoft's actions, and that they will not hesitate to screw people over given the chance.
That's just how KDE is designed...
That said, if you have a distro which defaults to gnome it's unlikely to have included amarok as it's default media player, and if you want a lightweight media player there are several better choices.
Some places expect more than GCSE's, ie they expect you to have a degree or they won't even look at you...
Many people are very smart, but either couldn't afford university, or went straight into work anyway, i was thinking elitist in this regard rather than plain GCSEs...
That said, some people don't even have GCSE's for many reasons other than being too stupid to pass or too lazy to turn up, there are perfectly intelligent people who didn't pay any attention in classes due to peer pressure, there are those who missed the exams due to illness or similar, or who got far lower results than they should have due to other circumstances outside of their control, external pressures or major negative events during the exams and the last 2 years of school can affect peoples concentration, moving schools during the gcse years (last 2 years) can also have a major impact if the school teaches the curriculum in a different order, so you end up repeating some parts and missing some entirely.
There are many reasons why someone would have little or no formal grades, and a lot of them are out of the control of the individual concerned.
Most gentoo users have relatively conservative CFLAGS, equivalent to the flags used to build any other distro, but targeting your particular cpu, eg "-O2 -march=core2"...
What this means is that the compiler can use features only present on this cpu, for many apps this doesn't help but also doesn't hinder, for some things it makes a significant difference (eg media encoding, modern cpus have features specifically for media encoding)
But what really matters about gentoo, is not the ability to set your cflags, it's the ability to set USE flags, whereby you can compile a program using different parameters or options.
Most CPUs cant allow cores to run at independent speeds...
On the other hand, AMD quad cores do, and i'm glad to have one core running full speed processing a single threaded program, and the other 3 cores as slow as possible to handle the background OS tasks..
Or piracy... Download, play, realise its crap, delete, unless your network connection is especially poor you wasted less time and money than renting.
Using a hypervisor will always introduce a performance hit... Making the hardware more expensive to produce and ultimately slower.
The idea of a games console was that the hardware was static, thus you could program it directly without being hindered by any layers of abstraction.... For the best example of how the overhead of abstraction hurts performance, take some games written for the first xbox, and compare them with the corresponding windows versions running on equivalent hardware (700mhz celeron i believe, geforce 3 based video, 64mb ram, 8gb hd)
It's down to the individual company, the people doing the hiring and the job in question...
Some places are snobs, and demand people who have a list of educational certifications... Others will have someone who understands the job doing the interview and use his knowledge of the field to gauge who is best suited to the job, while some will simply go based on experience.
If the new kernel is considerably slower than the previous one, then they can continue shipping the old one until the new version catches up...
Same with gcc - they can compile using the older faster version until the current version is capable of keeping up.
You have whatever flexibility microsoft give you, and no more...
And while you can remove components and potentially replace them with others, there are more limits to it and more chance of breakage because a lot of apps just assume some things will be there.
And as a Linux/Unix consultant, seeing as how there's less of us and we generally work more efficiently than our windows counterparts, you could probably be making a lot more than $700/day.
At least all the positions i've seen, unix consultants command more money, have less interview competition, and still provide better value for money to the companies who hire them, whereas windows consultants are ten a penny and most are very poor at their job, having very little real experience being fresh off an mcse course or similar.
Ubuntu being demonstrably slower than older versions of itself is not exactly a selling point, especially because linux is often considered for lower powered machines...
But having Ubuntu running typical tasks slower than windows is just inexcusable, i saw some benchmarks where open source tools such as ffmpeg were slower on ubuntu than xp... There really is no excuse for that.
The page margins *should* be saved in the document... If you change your page margin, save, and reopen in another version of openoffice it will work just fine... Openoffice uses the margins you or the document specifies, but word uses whatever paper margins are set by your printer...
Send a file to someone with a different default printer and you have problems.
Incidentally, how many word documents have you seen where people put tables and other detritus way outside of the margins anyway? OO shows the margins by default, word does not which leads to this shoddy unprofessional behaviour.
Also the fonts depend on what's installed on your system, and should be saved in the document... If the target system doesn't have the same font you used then it will try to substitute it for one it thinks is similar, which can often break things.
Not exactly..
Since they didn't know enough details about the microsoft formats, and realised the formats were highly likely to be changed, they had to make the reader part very robust because it could be fed almost anything.
And if you use a print to pdf hack, you lose the ability to create hyperlinks and a table of contents etc...
If your using excel for accounting, aren't you potentially running afowl of some of the legal regulations, specifically the ones which make you liable for knowingly using a process that's known to produce incorrect results?
If you google, you will find plenty of documented cases where excel produces inaccurate or downright incorrect results.
According to the eee documentation, it can do 5 hours battery life with xandros and 8 with xp, it explains what software they used to come to this...
But it does just seem the benchmarking program on xp is just far less accurate than the linux one.
Why are you using acroread?
Kpdf is a fine pdf viewer, far superior to adobe's bloated garbage...
Having extra stuff installed is not a problem per se, at least not on linux or osx...
Having extra stuff loaded at startup is an issue...
Having extra stuff which cannot be removed is an issue...
On windows, merely installing something typically adds crap to the registry which has to be loaded anyway, even if you never use the program itself, there are often update daemons loaded at startup because there's no other way to keep arbitrary apps up to date and uninstall programs work on the principle of trusting the app vendor to provide a working uninstaller, and they are usually completely half assed and dysfunctional because the app vendors doesn't want their app to be removed and isn't going to assign much priority to it.
Yeah i have the same issue, on a machine with 800gb of disk space and lots of small files (maildirs) it takes a ridiculous time to run quotacheck, and it can't run it in the background or after the fs has been mounted so it takes forever.
It does it during clean reboots too, not just unclean shutdowns.
BIOS - Intel have been trying to replace the crufty old bios with EFI for years, but microsoft simply refuse to support it (vista was supposed to support efi, but doesnt), about the only widely available machines with EFI support come from Apple.
Motherboard manufacturers maintain the bios because replacing it with something better would break compatibility. As usual, microsoft is behind the curve, and won't support someone else's tech unless forced to.
2) On solaris, you do "touch /reconfigure" and reboot, and it will re-detect the hardware on the next boot, otherwise it assumes it's unchanged..