Just last week I went to install Ubuntu on one of my older laptops and it failed to even boot. Windows XP? Booted and installed with no problem whatsoever
My experience is the opposite: I have two desktop machines and a laptop that wont install WIndows, but run Ubuntu fine. The Laptop (a Thinkpad) used to run FreeBSD, but stopped one day. I was unable to install the WinXP that came with it, getting a message about a broken PCI something. Ubuntu installed and ran fine - still running.
One of the desktops I attempted to upgrade from Win2k to XP - and after 3 days gave up and went to Ubuntu in 40 mins. The other is the one I am using to write this dual-boot XP/Ubuntu - but the graphics drivers in XP are useless - and took weeks to get because its a Fujitsu-Siemens and you can only download the drivers from their website if using a Fujitsu-Siemens machine. (Yes, I have the OEM disk, but it does not have the right graphics drivers on it:-( My other F-S was a laptop whose Ethernet port died. I only Boot Win on it for phone sync. (I can sometimes even get Gimp to do what I want!)
Thanks, but Ubuntu works for me, and Windows doesn't. Word 7 certainly doesn't "Work for me" - I have to edit tables. I use OpenOffice.
Sure I would swittch to Windows if MS paid me, but they would have to pay a lot!
If Americans were worth what they get paid, there would not be a massive trade deficit. The truth is, in the eyes of the rest of the world, most Americans are close to worthless:-)
Its not much use in the UK, because while you are using it, you will likely get a GBP60 fine for parking. Most McD's have clampers that get you if you stay longer than a set time - often 30 minutes! They even tried it on a judge (Google is your friend).
People have been killed by trains because their walkmans
A lot of people die from stupidness. However, laws against stupidness are in short supply (partly because politicians tent to oppose anything that would significantly affect themselves).
Banning stupidness might save the world, or might just be another pointless nanny-state piece of stupidness. (In your reponse, please state whether or not you are a troll).
The excitement and wonder doesn't happen anymore because the OS we already have by and large does not need replacing, and most people know damn well that replacing the OS will trash their data and lead to a whole new learning curve they can do without. Those of us prepared to face this misery migrated to Ubuntu a long time ago.
To be really accurate, you need a bad car analogy: With the govt "scrappage" scheme. I have upgraded
my 1999 Nissan Micra to a 2009 Nissan Micra. (In which My laptops both run Ubuntu 9.10)
Had it not been for the scrappage scheme, I would have bought a 2006 X-Trail instead, and
run NetBSD on the Old laptop (Thinkpad T21) in it.
I have not had to resort to cannibalism, but if the govt's corruption policies dont improve,
I shall be adocating an "eat an MP for breakfast" policy. (with Roast duck as a side salad
for Con MPs.)
As someone who writes assember and PHP for a day job, I want a tool that allows me to code PHP by throwing cow dung at the screen with my Wii remote,
and another that allows inserting ASM statements with a craft knife using my Afro-American-Berry trackerball.
"Eventually" in a scientific/Academic context means "You cant prove its imposssible, and I am looking for funding"
Linguistically, it means "after the current conditions have changed beyond all recognition, and most probably after I am dead and cant be blamed for getting it wrong". It does not mean "technically feasible in the near future" in any context what ever. It is a term used to imply that this is not news, and can safely be ignored here.
Of course Google have a monopoly: there are no other "search engines". Sites that dont answer your query, but tell you what they are paid to tell you are not search engines.
Hint: The answer to "tentacle porn" is NOT "Alamo Car Rentals" or "Barnes and Noble".
Multics was so fantastic that I was able to crash the whole system by declaring an array called "ARRAY" in Fortran, (reboot required) and numerous other
"obvious" blunders. (I am talking about 1972-4). A multi-user system that crashes because of accidental misuse of reserved words is not "user-friendly". I wrote my data capture programs in Basic, and heavy maths (wave equations) in Fortran - Multics certainly had inter-language support in the early 1970's - 20 years before the VAX and VMS.
You are cxomparing Multics (1970 hardware and software) with Unix (1980 hardware and software) and VMS (1990 hardware and software) - these are cross generational comparisons. Try comparing Zyl with a Mercedes R class (obligatory Russian car analogy)
Slashdot Mirror
Prior to that, When Shugart worked for IBM, it was called the "IBM Data Channel Interface" or something. (I'll Google it later)
Yes, but so is everything else!
Please can I have a patent on putting different amounts of sugar in different people's coffee?
And we want Maemo on this
As a UK citizen who has recently been to Italy, I would say the Italians do most things better than us. Unfortunately, that includes also corruption.
replace the PHBs with PHP!
My experience is the opposite: I have two desktop machines and a laptop that wont install WIndows, but run Ubuntu fine. The Laptop (a Thinkpad) used to run FreeBSD, but stopped one day. I was unable to install the WinXP that came with it, getting a message about a broken PCI something. Ubuntu installed and ran fine - still running.
One of the desktops I attempted to upgrade from Win2k to XP - and after 3 days gave up and went to Ubuntu in 40 mins. The other is the one I am using to write this dual-boot XP/Ubuntu - but the graphics drivers in XP are useless - and took weeks to get because its a Fujitsu-Siemens and you can only download the drivers from their website if using a Fujitsu-Siemens machine. (Yes, I have the OEM disk, but it does not have the right graphics drivers on it :-( My other F-S was a laptop whose Ethernet port died. I only Boot Win on it for phone sync. (I can sometimes even get Gimp to do what I want!)
Thanks, but Ubuntu works for me, and Windows doesn't. Word 7 certainly doesn't "Work for me" - I have to edit tables. I use OpenOffice.
Sure I would swittch to Windows if MS paid me, but they would have to pay a lot!
Today I delivered 40 tons of rice and wrote 50 lines of PHP. What do you wnat to do tomorrow?
If Americans were worth what they get paid, there would not be a massive trade deficit. The truth is, in the eyes of the rest of the world, most Americans are close to worthless :-)
Which they have been doing for more than 10 years.
What if customers were to complain about being raped?
They have been doing for 100 years.
Who own your congress-critter?
Its Eurospeak - you adsd up 27 languages, and then divide by 27!
Its not much use in the UK, because while you are using it, you will likely get a GBP60 fine for parking. Most McD's have clampers that get you if you stay longer than a set time - often 30 minutes! They even tried it on a judge (Google is your friend).
A lot of people die from stupidness. However, laws against stupidness are in short supply (partly because politicians tent to oppose anything that would significantly affect themselves).
Banning stupidness might save the world, or might just be another pointless nanny-state piece of stupidness. (In your reponse, please state whether or not you are a troll).
There, thats fixed it for you.
Had it not been for the scrappage scheme, I would have bought a 2006 X-Trail instead, and run NetBSD on the Old laptop (Thinkpad T21) in it.
I have not had to resort to cannibalism, but if the govt's corruption policies dont improve, I shall be adocating an "eat an MP for breakfast" policy. (with Roast duck as a side salad for Con MPs.)
Or maybe a double brandy.
Linguistically, it means "after the current conditions have changed beyond all recognition, and most probably after I am dead and cant be blamed for getting it wrong". It does not mean "technically feasible in the near future" in any context what ever. It is a term used to imply that this is not news, and can safely be ignored here.
The poster meant a working internet connection. (Ie one that actually transfers data) That excludes most O2 customers for a start.
Hint: The answer to "tentacle porn" is NOT "Alamo Car Rentals" or "Barnes and Noble".
When I did have a choice, I ran BSD on a PDP11/60. (I now run BSD on Sparc64).
The guy who said the unused horse was an even more suspicious offer was right!
Would you buy a used horse from a convicted horse-rapist?
The 286 memory management was a direct ripoff of the PDP11/70's. No direct Multics influence whatever.
You are cxomparing Multics (1970 hardware and software) with Unix (1980 hardware and software) and VMS (1990 hardware and software) - these are cross generational comparisons. Try comparing Zyl with a Mercedes R class (obligatory Russian car analogy)
There, thats fixed it for you!