I wish someone would come up with something new, that combines all good ideas of all OSes into a new basic architecture, after understanding that, creates some new, modern paradigms, and then re-builds all those good ideas from scratch into those new main paradigms.
It exists! Just visit your favourite computer shop and get yourself this shiny new W7-DVD.
No. No, I usually don't answer ACs. In this case I do, since I used to use DSL and came across Tiny Core via this post of yours, and downloaded it. 'No' is the answer to your suggestion, alas. It doesn't run in 32 MB of RAM, even. It simply panics the kernel. And the OP said '28 MB of RAM'. I increased the RAM to 128 and found it to boot fast as lightning, and consume around 36 MB (using 'top') by just being up. Alas, no.
As an only-used-FOSS-for-the-last-10-years person, I am unhappy to disappoint you. Was playing with W7, Build 7600(?) today; and not in a Microsoft shop, and found it 'smoother' than my best install of you-name-it FOSS. The highlighting was very clear, the system easy to be used, the task list showing all the previews, and all the previews of Firefox tabs above the icon, and everything came up and disappeared in an 'elegant' manner. It felt 'effortless'; while my similar exploration of Vista, of two years ago, went horribly wrong. If my experience was to predict anything about the success, W7 will be a huge success, like Vista was a huge failure. And while I like and actually use compiz, it doesn't make up for the smoothness that I experienced today.
No, I am surely not a convert. But one should give credit, where credit is due.
... because even surveillance is not purely objective. Think about selling it to Islamic countries, for example. Suddenly drinking alcoholic beverages should raise an alert, marrying a second, third or fourth wife must not. There is a whole new market for Hijab, the head-scarves, scantily clad woman. But even in the Western society, a lot needs to be learned. Finns carry their wifes one day in a year, while a woman carried around by a man is 'offensive' in any other society. Yes, man, there are absolutely zero objective standards for what a surveillance system should and should not detect. May I myself climb my fence when I lost the gate key? How does the system know? Or does it shoot me on preemptive reasoning?
Is to further the transformation of professors from a collegial model supported by tenure and academic freedom to an underpaid, no-job-security "information transmission technician" temp job to facilitate the extraction of tuition from McStudents.
Is this a question? Scroll further up to 'Kaplan' to know the answer.
The Open University in the UK did just that, and they did it really successfully.
and you happened to be affiliated with this place, are you? Once I read they 'convert publications into a PhD' I was thinking to pay another place to 'convert life experience into a PhD'. Because that latter was much cheaper.
Thanks, DocHoncho! I tried it; and can't make a deal-breaker from that one, neither. My deal-breaker, if there was one, would be the writing of academic papers, because the bibliography handling of OpenOffice is just one thing: lousy. In Office 2007, I could save all references and insert them properly by simply activating APA style. But some features of OpenOffice still make me prefer OpenOffice. Like - on my wide screen - having the Navigator open left to the document, and the Styles on the right hand side. To me, personally, that beats Word 2007 hands down.
Maybe this kind of explains the perceived 'misery' of the FOSS applications?: Expecting them to work like their proprietary counterparts; and blatantly disregard their other advantages? Over the writing of that book, I noticed the other parties, when using Word, scrolling up and down like hell (and we had some 600 pages at one moment!), and usually employing the - I agree - handy 'Search' box; much more handy than 'Edit'->'Find'->... . On the other hand, usually I scrolled one-tenth of their scrolling; simply by navigating to chapters, figures, tables, etc. with the Navigator; after having named all inserted objects in a suitable manner immediately, including numbering. In the end, even comparing myself to the 'expert' user of Word who was working with us, and doing proof-reading etc., I surely felt much more in control; with a better overview, than that other chap. It was kind of using a map compared to roaming all streets.
Interesting. Where is it? I was trying to find out what I was missing, fired up VirtualBox and Office 2007, but there was no such thing. I get to chose between 'Print', 'Full Screen', 'Web','Outline', 'Draft'. I'd simply like to know what is being discussed, and I have been doing everything on OpenOffice for the last 10 years, including the complete layout for a book published recently; without problems.
Of course, there is also the fact that Con and his fanbois didn't back up their position with benchmarks in the entire CK scheduler flamewar, instead relying on 'it just feels faster' subjective judgments.
Not quite. For a server or database, of course transactions count all. But Desktop is a different animal, because 'snappyness' cannot be measured. It is much too subjective. I for one suffer from those 'short freezing' moments on the more recent kernels. Visibly doing nothing for a second or two is about the worst an OS can do to a user.
Let's hope Ubuntu offers some precompiled kernels, at least for testing.
there are plenty enough people outside the US who are wise to the ways of The Vole who would keep this from being able to happen
Exactly. Then 'we' need to go and pound them with bombs, under some made-up pretext. Like, total disrespect of human rights, wrong religion, too much oil. Or, lack of a proper patent office, and totally ineffective enforcement; to be helped by Marines. With certain Swedish people put on trial on the small island group Guantanamero, right in front of Gothenburg harbour. Not to mention PRC, for fake products, watches, Viagra; as well as 1:1 copies of the original products.
[Can someone please mod this post 'redundant', please? The poster is absolutely right, but we all have been trained to know the fact, that MS software is basically shoddy. We all know the advantages of a package manager; and we all know that MS doesn't have one.]
Look elsewhere. The trouble is not the technical side of re-imaging; at least not the major trouble. You simply CANT re-image PCs with a different software. If DELL delivered a box with Word and some features, there you go. Obtaining a new.iso with another software or other features can screw your whole business continuity. That will be very costly for DELL.
M$ lied cheated and stole and they are meant to be penalised for it, so in this case the problems caused to Dell and HP by M$, should be solved in court by Dell and HP suing M$. As for disgruntled customers Dell and HP can simply install OpenOffice.org in the interim.
Yes. Think through the matter: That requires re-imaging. Back at square one. And I for one would sue the hell out of them, if the original was WORD; and I had 1000 boxes running it, and after some hardware trouble ended without. Not everyone is a single SoHo user.
GP is correct w.r.t. the minor effort. But he is a technician, not a business person, and neither a lawyer.
I'd actually mod you up had I mod points. But you are not alone. The whole world experiences currently a complete slump of education, into a purely economic, business-like realm. There is a large number of good books describing this lately. Only, as of now it is felt more in the lower, if not sub-par, places (sorry, community colleges); while the Ivy League as of now reaps the immaterial profits: Rankings are bumped up; their immaterial value increases. Harvard is as of now valued around US$ 50 billion; and most of that based on the brand name alone. The repercussions will be felt shortly, and are felt already: The previous prestigious places, the highly valued public unis, are all falling behind. Not because of bad staff, but no administrator of the public purse can gamble by paying exorbitant salaries just to pinch good professors from other places. Yes, it is a rat race. What is left for the lowly places? Lowly staff, lowly students. That can only mean: deception and self-deception. Too many academics, alas, remain in a state of denial. Fact is, that capitalism has seemingly won; the so-called former socialist countries have disappeared. And now the civilised society slips down the slope into brutal capitalism, be it in health care, old age homes, or education.
Scratching my head: Where is the racism in there?? I for one can do without that supremacist colony of the clever and witty. But a place inhabited by the not-so-clever and not-always-so-witty, though free of drug addicts and criminals, could well be my choice number one.
I'd rather know more about Switzerland. The Netherlands, I'm a citizen, and it is okay; but used to be much better, and is currently driven downhill rapidly. Scandinavia; that's also a remote choice; though neither does the climate really invite; and the liberties enjoyed are narrowing down as well; in the end probably there won't be enough to make up for long, cold winters and high taxes. Denmark. How is Denmark, anyone?
Having no mod-points, I just want to thumbs-up your comment verbally!
It is so frustrating to live in an ever more homogeneous world, at least on the outside of life. A world ever more Anglo-Americanised, with the unwashed masses in principle trying to follow, if not imitate, the 'American Way of Life'. When I ask the people around me what they dream, do, aspire, the usual answer is pretty much skewed versus McDonalds, Coke, 3G-iPhone, and wealth. Let's face it, there is about no choice left. Country-wise. We'd need another revolution before we can pinpoint to what the OP was asking for: A country worthy to migrate to; a country inhabited by essentially responsible libertarians. Sad.
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I wish someone would come up with something new, that combines all good ideas of all OSes into a new basic architecture, after understanding that, creates some new, modern paradigms, and then re-builds all those good ideas from scratch into those new main paradigms.
It exists!
Just visit your favourite computer shop and get yourself this shiny new W7-DVD.
No. No, I usually don't answer ACs. In this case I do, since I used to use DSL and came across Tiny Core via this post of yours, and downloaded it.
'No' is the answer to your suggestion, alas. It doesn't run in 32 MB of RAM, even. It simply panics the kernel. And the OP said '28 MB of RAM'. I increased the RAM to 128 and found it to boot fast as lightning, and consume around 36 MB (using 'top') by just being up. Alas, no.
As an only-used-FOSS-for-the-last-10-years person, I am unhappy to disappoint you. Was playing with W7, Build 7600(?) today; and not in a Microsoft shop, and found it 'smoother' than my best install of you-name-it FOSS. The highlighting was very clear, the system easy to be used, the task list showing all the previews, and all the previews of Firefox tabs above the icon, and everything came up and disappeared in an 'elegant' manner. It felt 'effortless'; while my similar exploration of Vista, of two years ago, went horribly wrong.
If my experience was to predict anything about the success, W7 will be a huge success, like Vista was a huge failure.
And while I like and actually use compiz, it doesn't make up for the smoothness that I experienced today.
No, I am surely not a convert. But one should give credit, where credit is due.
In the post, the major information is sorely missing: the new link for pr0n and gamez; the link to RapidShare.
... because even surveillance is not purely objective. Think about selling it to Islamic countries, for example. Suddenly drinking alcoholic beverages should raise an alert, marrying a second, third or fourth wife must not. There is a whole new market for Hijab, the head-scarves, scantily clad woman. But even in the Western society, a lot needs to be learned. Finns carry their wifes one day in a year, while a woman carried around by a man is 'offensive' in any other society.
Yes, man, there are absolutely zero objective standards for what a surveillance system should and should not detect. May I myself climb my fence when I lost the gate key? How does the system know? Or does it shoot me on preemptive reasoning?
Fine.
Not a native English speaker, and yet a regular Slashdot reader, an OT question: Why could this be considered funny?
[how much I love this pun ...]!
Mod him funny, please!
Is to further the transformation of professors from a collegial model supported by tenure and academic freedom to an underpaid, no-job-security "information transmission technician" temp job to facilitate the extraction of tuition from McStudents.
Is this a question? Scroll further up to 'Kaplan' to know the answer.
The Open University in the UK did just that, and they did it really successfully.
and you happened to be affiliated with this place, are you?
Once I read they 'convert publications into a PhD' I was thinking to pay another place to 'convert life experience into a PhD'. Because that latter was much cheaper.
Thanks, DocHoncho! I tried it; and can't make a deal-breaker from that one, neither. My deal-breaker, if there was one, would be the writing of academic papers, because the bibliography handling of OpenOffice is just one thing: lousy. In Office 2007, I could save all references and insert them properly by simply activating APA style. But some features of OpenOffice still make me prefer OpenOffice. Like - on my wide screen - having the Navigator open left to the document, and the Styles on the right hand side. To me, personally, that beats Word 2007 hands down.
Maybe this kind of explains the perceived 'misery' of the FOSS applications?: Expecting them to work like their proprietary counterparts; and blatantly disregard their other advantages? Over the writing of that book, I noticed the other parties, when using Word, scrolling up and down like hell (and we had some 600 pages at one moment!), and usually employing the - I agree - handy 'Search' box; much more handy than 'Edit'->'Find'-> ... . On the other hand, usually I scrolled one-tenth of their scrolling; simply by navigating to chapters, figures, tables, etc. with the Navigator; after having named all inserted objects in a suitable manner immediately, including numbering.
In the end, even comparing myself to the 'expert' user of Word who was working with us, and doing proof-reading etc., I surely felt much more in control; with a better overview, than that other chap. It was kind of using a map compared to roaming all streets.
Interesting. Where is it? I was trying to find out what I was missing, fired up VirtualBox and Office 2007, but there was no such thing. I get to chose between 'Print', 'Full Screen', 'Web','Outline', 'Draft'.
I'd simply like to know what is being discussed, and I have been doing everything on OpenOffice for the last 10 years, including the complete layout for a book published recently; without problems.
Of course, there is also the fact that Con and his fanbois didn't back up their position with benchmarks in the entire CK scheduler flamewar, instead relying on 'it just feels faster' subjective judgments.
Not quite. For a server or database, of course transactions count all. But Desktop is a different animal, because 'snappyness' cannot be measured. It is much too subjective.
I for one suffer from those 'short freezing' moments on the more recent kernels. Visibly doing nothing for a second or two is about the worst an OS can do to a user.
Let's hope Ubuntu offers some precompiled kernels, at least for testing.
there are plenty enough people outside the US who are wise to the ways of The Vole who would keep this from being able to happen
Exactly. Then 'we' need to go and pound them with bombs, under some made-up pretext. Like, total disrespect of human rights, wrong religion, too much oil. Or, lack of a proper patent office, and totally ineffective enforcement; to be helped by Marines. With certain Swedish people put on trial on the small island group Guantanamero, right in front of Gothenburg harbour. Not to mention PRC, for fake products, watches, Viagra; as well as 1:1 copies of the original products.
[Can someone please mod this post 'redundant', please? The poster is absolutely right, but we all have been trained to know the fact, that MS software is basically shoddy. We all know the advantages of a package manager; and we all know that MS doesn't have one.]
Lucky, you not an Anonymous Coward. If you were, I'd point out to you, that removing a single application from an image ... oh, wait ...!
[I can only hope the mods have sufficient sense to mod this up. And I am out of mod points, alas.]
This is, in case you can't add it up yourselves, Funny+1
Look elsewhere. The trouble is not the technical side of re-imaging; at least not the major trouble. .iso with another software or other features can screw your whole business continuity. That will be very costly for DELL.
You simply CANT re-image PCs with a different software. If DELL delivered a box with Word and some features, there you go. Obtaining a new
like the charges against Boeing for the repeated delays of their "dreamliner" for those who ordered them but still haven't got them.
Right-o. But there is Airbus once you p***** Boeing. MS is a monoploy - ehem - monopoly.
[Waiting for the Apple fanbois to stomp on me...]
M$ lied cheated and stole and they are meant to be penalised for it, so in this case the problems caused to Dell and HP by M$, should be solved in court by Dell and HP suing M$. As for disgruntled customers Dell and HP can simply install OpenOffice.org in the interim.
Yes. Think through the matter: That requires re-imaging. Back at square one.
And I for one would sue the hell out of them, if the original was WORD; and I had 1000 boxes running it, and after some hardware trouble ended without. Not everyone is a single SoHo user.
GP is correct w.r.t. the minor effort. But he is a technician, not a business person, and neither a lawyer.
I'd actually mod you up had I mod points.
But you are not alone. The whole world experiences currently a complete slump of education, into a purely economic, business-like realm. There is a large number of good books describing this lately. Only, as of now it is felt more in the lower, if not sub-par, places (sorry, community colleges); while the Ivy League as of now reaps the immaterial profits: Rankings are bumped up; their immaterial value increases. Harvard is as of now valued around US$ 50 billion; and most of that based on the brand name alone. The repercussions will be felt shortly, and are felt already: The previous prestigious places, the highly valued public unis, are all falling behind. Not because of bad staff, but no administrator of the public purse can gamble by paying exorbitant salaries just to pinch good professors from other places. Yes, it is a rat race. What is left for the lowly places? Lowly staff, lowly students. That can only mean: deception and self-deception.
Too many academics, alas, remain in a state of denial. Fact is, that capitalism has seemingly won; the so-called former socialist countries have disappeared. And now the civilised society slips down the slope into brutal capitalism, be it in health care, old age homes, or education.
Sorry for you - sorry for all of us.
Yes, thanks. Now I still need to wait for the .deb; and then I'll be up!
Scratching my head: Where is the racism in there?? I for one can do without that supremacist colony of the clever and witty. But a place inhabited by the not-so-clever and not-always-so-witty, though free of drug addicts and criminals, could well be my choice number one.
I'd rather know more about Switzerland.
The Netherlands, I'm a citizen, and it is okay; but used to be much better, and is currently driven downhill rapidly.
Scandinavia; that's also a remote choice; though neither does the climate really invite; and the liberties enjoyed are narrowing down as well; in the end probably there won't be enough to make up for long, cold winters and high taxes.
Denmark. How is Denmark, anyone?
So right you are! And I have no mod points to show my agreement, so here are my words to that behalf!
Having no mod-points, I just want to thumbs-up your comment verbally!
It is so frustrating to live in an ever more homogeneous world, at least on the outside of life. A world ever more Anglo-Americanised, with the unwashed masses in principle trying to follow, if not imitate, the 'American Way of Life'. When I ask the people around me what they dream, do, aspire, the usual answer is pretty much skewed versus McDonalds, Coke, 3G-iPhone, and wealth.
Let's face it, there is about no choice left. Country-wise. We'd need another revolution before we can pinpoint to what the OP was asking for: A country worthy to migrate to; a country inhabited by essentially responsible libertarians. Sad.