Well, as long as the core isnt dependant on the mono crap. People can make external applications in mono for all they want but i and others wont touch them with a ten foot pole. The real gnome devs (not Novells puppets) should be aware that mono in proper gnome will kill it off very fast.
The only thing i really care for is that gnome doesn't get Mono infested. If Gnome 3 becomes a push for getting mono stuff into gnome i will drop it like a poisonous snake no matter what. Thankfully LXDE, XFCE and KDE is getting really good these days so a switch to something non mono wont be a problem.
The short answer is, if you want less work throw in the towel and get them a Mac or a Linux box. Refuse to help with the windows boxes or only help out with really hard tasks.
Fighting malware is an everyday task on Windows XP/Vista/7 so if someone wants to use it they have to accept it and learn Windows from the bottom and up. Throwing that on someone else isnt nice. Do you buy a crappy car and demand someone else to fix it for free?
At home i only have Linux except for my 12 y old son who plays games. My refusal to help with Windows has made him learn it pretty well by now so i like to view it a win-win situation. I dont have to put in hours of keeping an insecure crappy OS afloat and he learns some stuff about computers.
Same goes for my mom and pop who i gladly help with recovering lost files from formatted hard disks, failed USB disks etc and their Linux boxes. They know i wont go near Windows without serious money changing hands which is exactly how i like it. Helping out with Windows is really helping Microsoft more than helping your relatives. They bought something already broken from the get go and should really go to the reseller instead of to you.
How about GPLv3 ? Its one of the most important licenses today . First and foremost it closes the patent hole where someone can use your code and then sue you for using it yourself. Its a very common license and its absence speaks volumes.
Wolfram Alpha is an interesting research concept but really not a product thats even remotely ready for daily use. There are some areas where online search could be improved and where Microsoft could be better than others. For example, why not create an error message / log message search function ? That alone would drive people to Bing in droves.
Microsoft should stop and think about what information they have themselves thats interesting and how they can index it for easy use. Right now their own support sites are a total nightmare because of their utter crap of a search function.
Have you actually read the Codeplex bylaws and what types of licenses they want? Microsoft is hard at work trying to redefine open source into something completely different than it is today.
This is a very good example of one of the reasons Microsoft hates the GPL so much. GPL makes it difficult to take other peoples hard work without giving anything back, or as in MS case, while doing everything they can to kill open source in general. Microsofts version of open source is that i develop and they take the code, the credit and the ownership. No thanks.
Firefox is very much not a native application for Linux. Its primarily developed for Windows and then ported to Linux just as its predecessor (netscape) was. The only "linuxy" about it is that it happens to be using the GCC toolchain and compiles on Linux.
My main problem when managing terminal servers with Linux on them is applications that isnt developed primarily for it. Putting worldwide settings in/etc would be a good start. Arcane and broken registrys, XML files and sprinkling the filesystem with settings all over/usr/lib/ is not what i call a linux adapted application.
No, im saying that X11 is fast and not a bottleneck, not that Linux is slow. The slowest applications on Linux is non native applications like OpenOffice, Firefox, Azureus and the like. Native apps are mostly fast and nimble.
X11 has never been a bottleneck in performance on the desktop. Many people have been confusing X11 with the desktop system/kernel/applications and wrongly blamed X11 for any slowness.
I find it a big rewrite of history to call Bill Gates a geek. If anything he is a cunning, soulless strategist who stop at nothing to bury you if it gives him the upper hand. A techie is to me someone who feel pride in delivering good products and the best solutions.
Historically i dont know about any product he has done or been involved in himself.
Why on earth didnt they have a clock source other than the standard one? There are numerous sources of correct time like GPS, radio, NTP, clock servers, atom clocks or add in cards. The worst possible clock source is a standard PC. This system was probably faulty by design since the simple clock hardware in a normal server isnt made for keeping exact time.
Windows 7 sucks just as bad as Vista did. Nothing has really changed. I still have my documentation from when i did testing for Vista and when i do the same tests with Windows 7 the same things makes and upgrade not worth the troubles.
I respect you being satisfied with Windows 7 but to me, its still an incredibly sucky product that brings no apparent benefits compared to XP. The applications is whats importand and Windows 7/Vista is like an ADHD kid jumping all over screaming and shouting for attention and breaking stuff while im trying to get work done.
Living a nice life under that rock? You ofcourse totally missed that Microsoft just happens to ship a whole virtualized XP enviroment for compability? They complain about Google making the attack vector of IE bigger by making a plugin to render pages with Chrome. Then Microsoft goes out and ship an OS with another OS ontop thats not even supported or fixed for serious security issues anymore...
Windows 7 is horribly incompatible, that XP thing they toss along it for compability isnt.
Windows 7 is just a servicepack and some graphical changes to Windows Vista. Its still horribly incompatible with older applications, has very bad support for older hardware like printers and scanners and are a real resource pig. Frankly, Vista/Windows 7 still sucks just as bad despite the name change.
If you have a working computer at home with XP there arent any reason whatsoever to install Windows 7. The benefits just doesnt exist.
Buying a new computer and getting Windows 7 is something else but to get rid of a functioning XP install in return for a world of pain? Im not even sure Vista users will get that much out of installing Windows 7 unless the install is 100% flawless (wich it looks like it never is).
"Which European countries rely 100% on American technology? I offer the Tornado, Jaguar, Eurofighter, Rafale, Mirage and others as proof to the contrary."
Most countries in europe has computers. Almost all of them are running Windows and the PC is manufactured by Dell, HP or some other American company. I would say you really would have to search for a country that hasnt got american tech in most sensitive places.
The real problem isnt really buying US stuff, the real problem is the US pulling stunts like theese. I could understand someone using it when under severe threat but swinging it around like a pillow fighting cheerleader is to beg for people to avoid american parts like the plague.
Dont buy important technology from foreign countries, do it yourself. Especially if you ever under any way, shape or form could cross paths with said foreign country.
I think this should be a really big wakeup call to european countries that relies 100% on american tech, both on hardware and software.
Making it hard to use one product without another is illegal if you have a monopoly. Google is going every step they can making it easy to use their products with whatever you want and whomever you are, friend or foe. Its a huge difference between tying products and promote products.
The reason Microsoft was forced to provide browser selection was because of a large range of bad conduct. All the way from artificially tying the browser to the OS to striking exclusive deals with OEMs that forbid them to ship any other browser than Internet Explorer on new computers.
As soon as Google does stupid things like that ill be the first on the barricades but they have been behaving very good up until now. In comparison Microsoft started out with Qdos that was tricked away from its creator. Said Qdos was an outright clone of CP/M and contained CP/M source code.
The differences between Google and Microsoft are huge by any measure. Their recent attempts to portrait Google being at least as bad as Microsoft lacks one crucial thing, anything bad Google has done. The best dirt they can come up with are things Microsoft already does but ten times worse.
At first i thought that Microsoft had beaten Google to the punch and gotten an exclusive deal with Twitter. That would have been a raw deal for Twitter but not much of an issue for Google.
Bing will have to deliver something more useful than copying Google. Google needs a blowtorch up their behinds but i dont think Microsoft is capable of holding it the right way. The last thing Google needs is to sink all the way down to Microsofts level.
Its all ok to be dominant in a market. Whats not legal is to use it to squash competition like Microsoft does. In short, actions that promote a monopoly is ok, actions that denote competition isnt. If Google would stop indexing competitors services, refuse to run their ads or make sure their browser wouldnt work with Googles services then it would be illegal. Google has a really long way to go before they are even near average market etics and even longer path to become as evil as Microsoft is.
A small and very insignificant *yawn*. I have never been so jaded about a new Windows version as i am now. Vista had some new bits in it that while they sucked was fun to discover and evaluate. Windows 7 is as interesting as any old servicepack or gray rock. No amount of paid journalism can change that once people start to use it themselves and discover what it really is. Linux isnt Microsofts biggest enemy, Microsoft is their own enemy and i cant think of a more dangerous adversary.
Who in their right mind would put Microsoft on the same project as anything even remotely adjacent to the security realm? Congrats to American enemies who now will have a swell time if it ever comes to cyber warfare. Americans, not so lucky.
Since i started using Linux full time the need to upgrade for each new version of the OS has disappeared. I do upgrade when a new fun game or applications comes out that can use the hardware but upgrading for the sake of the OS is just stupid. Movie editing made me buy a new computer for example.
Dell should be focusing in getting more applications out that drives upgrades, not an old servicepacked Vista with new shiny colours. Its as exciting as wet bread because once you scratch the surface of Windows 7 its all Vista behind the curtain.
Dell is hurting themselves in the long run by letting the OS take away all the processing power leaving nothing for the applications developers to use.
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Well, as long as the core isnt dependant on the mono crap. People can make external applications in mono for all they want but i and others wont touch them with a ten foot pole. The real gnome devs (not Novells puppets) should be aware that mono in proper gnome will kill it off very fast.
The only thing i really care for is that gnome doesn't get Mono infested. If Gnome 3 becomes a push for getting mono stuff into gnome i will drop it like a poisonous snake no matter what. Thankfully LXDE, XFCE and KDE is getting really good these days so a switch to something non mono wont be a problem.
The short answer is, if you want less work throw in the towel and get them a Mac or a Linux box. Refuse to help with the windows boxes or only help out with really hard tasks.
Fighting malware is an everyday task on Windows XP/Vista/7 so if someone wants to use it they have to accept it and learn Windows from the bottom and up. Throwing that on someone else isnt nice. Do you buy a crappy car and demand someone else to fix it for free?
At home i only have Linux except for my 12 y old son who plays games. My refusal to help with Windows has made him learn it pretty well by now so i like to view it a win-win situation. I dont have to put in hours of keeping an insecure crappy OS afloat and he learns some stuff about computers.
Same goes for my mom and pop who i gladly help with recovering lost files from formatted hard disks, failed USB disks etc and their Linux boxes. They know i wont go near Windows without serious money changing hands which is exactly how i like it. Helping out with Windows is really helping Microsoft more than helping your relatives. They bought something already broken from the get go and should really go to the reseller instead of to you.
How about GPLv3 ? Its one of the most important licenses today . First and foremost it closes the patent hole where someone can use your code and then sue you for using it yourself. Its a very common license and its absence speaks volumes.
Wolfram Alpha is an interesting research concept but really not a product thats even remotely ready for daily use. There are some areas where online search could be improved and where Microsoft could be better than others. For example, why not create an error message / log message search function ? That alone would drive people to Bing in droves.
Microsoft should stop and think about what information they have themselves thats interesting and how they can index it for easy use. Right now their own support sites are a total nightmare because of their utter crap of a search function.
Have you actually read the Codeplex bylaws and what types of licenses they want? Microsoft is hard at work trying to redefine open source into something completely different than it is today.
This is a very good example of one of the reasons Microsoft hates the GPL so much. GPL makes it difficult to take other peoples hard work without giving anything back, or as in MS case, while doing everything they can to kill open source in general. Microsofts version of open source is that i develop and they take the code, the credit and the ownership. No thanks.
Firefox is very much not a native application for Linux. Its primarily developed for Windows and then ported to Linux just as its predecessor (netscape) was. The only "linuxy" about it is that it happens to be using the GCC toolchain and compiles on Linux.
My main problem when managing terminal servers with Linux on them is applications that isnt developed primarily for it. Putting worldwide settings in /etc would be a good start. Arcane and broken registrys, XML files and sprinkling the filesystem with settings all over /usr/lib/ is not what i call a linux adapted application.
No, im saying that X11 is fast and not a bottleneck, not that Linux is slow. The slowest applications on Linux is non native applications like OpenOffice, Firefox, Azureus and the like. Native apps are mostly fast and nimble.
X11 has never been a bottleneck in performance on the desktop. Many people have been confusing X11 with the desktop system/kernel/applications and wrongly blamed X11 for any slowness.
I find it a big rewrite of history to call Bill Gates a geek. If anything he is a cunning, soulless strategist who stop at nothing to bury you if it gives him the upper hand. A techie is to me someone who feel pride in delivering good products and the best solutions.
Historically i dont know about any product he has done or been involved in himself.
Why on earth didnt they have a clock source other than the standard one? There are numerous sources of correct time like GPS, radio, NTP, clock servers, atom clocks or add in cards. The worst possible clock source is a standard PC. This system was probably faulty by design since the simple clock hardware in a normal server isnt made for keeping exact time.
Windows 7 sucks just as bad as Vista did. Nothing has really changed. I still have my documentation from when i did testing for Vista and when i do the same tests with Windows 7 the same things makes and upgrade not worth the troubles.
I respect you being satisfied with Windows 7 but to me, its still an incredibly sucky product that brings no apparent benefits compared to XP. The applications is whats importand and Windows 7/Vista is like an ADHD kid jumping all over screaming and shouting for attention and breaking stuff while im trying to get work done.
Living a nice life under that rock? You ofcourse totally missed that Microsoft just happens to ship a whole virtualized XP enviroment for compability? They complain about Google making the attack vector of IE bigger by making a plugin to render pages with Chrome. Then Microsoft goes out and ship an OS with another OS ontop thats not even supported or fixed for serious security issues anymore...
Windows 7 is horribly incompatible, that XP thing they toss along it for compability isnt.
"They all use XP SP3."
Good point, really good. Compared to XP SP2 the XP SP3 is a real resource hog. On most machines at work the performance drop was pretty big.
Windows 7 is just a servicepack and some graphical changes to Windows Vista. Its still horribly incompatible with older applications, has very bad support for older hardware like printers and scanners and are a real resource pig. Frankly, Vista/Windows 7 still sucks just as bad despite the name change.
If you have a working computer at home with XP there arent any reason whatsoever to install Windows 7. The benefits just doesnt exist.
Buying a new computer and getting Windows 7 is something else but to get rid of a functioning XP install in return for a world of pain? Im not even sure Vista users will get that much out of installing Windows 7 unless the install is 100% flawless (wich it looks like it never is).
"Which European countries rely 100% on American technology? I offer the Tornado, Jaguar, Eurofighter, Rafale, Mirage and others as proof to the contrary."
Most countries in europe has computers. Almost all of them are running Windows and the PC is manufactured by Dell, HP or some other American company. I would say you really would have to search for a country that hasnt got american tech in most sensitive places.
The real problem isnt really buying US stuff, the real problem is the US pulling stunts like theese. I could understand someone using it when under severe threat but swinging it around like a pillow fighting cheerleader is to beg for people to avoid american parts like the plague.
Dont buy important technology from foreign countries, do it yourself. Especially if you ever under any way, shape or form could cross paths with said foreign country.
I think this should be a really big wakeup call to european countries that relies 100% on american tech, both on hardware and software.
Making it hard to use one product without another is illegal if you have a monopoly. Google is going every step they can making it easy to use their products with whatever you want and whomever you are, friend or foe. Its a huge difference between tying products and promote products.
The reason Microsoft was forced to provide browser selection was because of a large range of bad conduct. All the way from artificially tying the browser to the OS to striking exclusive deals with OEMs that forbid them to ship any other browser than Internet Explorer on new computers.
As soon as Google does stupid things like that ill be the first on the barricades but they have been behaving very good up until now. In comparison Microsoft started out with Qdos that was tricked away from its creator. Said Qdos was an outright clone of CP/M and contained CP/M source code.
The differences between Google and Microsoft are huge by any measure. Their recent attempts to portrait Google being at least as bad as Microsoft lacks one crucial thing, anything bad Google has done. The best dirt they can come up with are things Microsoft already does but ten times worse.
At first i thought that Microsoft had beaten Google to the punch and gotten an exclusive deal with Twitter. That would have been a raw deal for Twitter but not much of an issue for Google.
Bing will have to deliver something more useful than copying Google. Google needs a blowtorch up their behinds but i dont think Microsoft is capable of holding it the right way. The last thing Google needs is to sink all the way down to Microsofts level.
Its all ok to be dominant in a market. Whats not legal is to use it to squash competition like Microsoft does. In short, actions that promote a monopoly is ok, actions that denote competition isnt. If Google would stop indexing competitors services, refuse to run their ads or make sure their browser wouldnt work with Googles services then it would be illegal. Google has a really long way to go before they are even near average market etics and even longer path to become as evil as Microsoft is.
A small and very insignificant *yawn*. I have never been so jaded about a new Windows version as i am now. Vista had some new bits in it that while they sucked was fun to discover and evaluate. Windows 7 is as interesting as any old servicepack or gray rock. No amount of paid journalism can change that once people start to use it themselves and discover what it really is. Linux isnt Microsofts biggest enemy, Microsoft is their own enemy and i cant think of a more dangerous adversary.
Who in their right mind would put Microsoft on the same project as anything even remotely adjacent to the security realm? Congrats to American enemies who now will have a swell time if it ever comes to cyber warfare. Americans, not so lucky.
Microsoft sure seams to have a wicked spell of utter incompetence cast upon them. Anything they tuch turns to crap.
Nobody in their right mind will put anything even remotely important in a cloud ran by Microsoft.
Since i started using Linux full time the need to upgrade for each new version of the OS has disappeared. I do upgrade when a new fun game or applications comes out that can use the hardware but upgrading for the sake of the OS is just stupid. Movie editing made me buy a new computer for example.
Dell should be focusing in getting more applications out that drives upgrades, not an old servicepacked Vista with new shiny colours. Its as exciting as wet bread because once you scratch the surface of Windows 7 its all Vista behind the curtain.
Dell is hurting themselves in the long run by letting the OS take away all the processing power leaving nothing for the applications developers to use.