Yeah, as soon as I clicked "Submit" I know somebody would pick that nit. So all right, WINE is a compatibility layer, not an CPU emulator.
But consider the way I was using the word: In my final sentence I wasn't talking about CPU emulators, and I wasn't talking about compatibility layers. I was making a generalization about things that make one thing act like another thing. What's a good word for that? I think "emulator" is fine.
I know. But like you said, somebody had to pick that nit.
Is this for real? Any copy of vista you pay for you can take an OEM CD of XP and install it and you're legal?
What code do you enter when it asks? The one for the vista install? Does it activate? Who has done this?
Most people will have a copy of XP around, probably OEM. I have a CD for pro and home, so this may just make the vista thing a non-issue. You're still buying a copy of AN operating system, there's just an extra step of the format/reinstall to fix it.
If you went crazy with it you could simulate every second of every day of every person on the earth, like a simulated earth, and then invent some kind of direct-to-brain interface, and then when you keep all the people in some kind of unconscious stasis pod thing, then the machines could take over the world, then....
I bet it has something to do with the nature of the cable. It is probably the twisted pairs. They are hand twisted by hot 6 foot tall blond virgins with phd degrees.
That way you're guaranteed the best and most precise twistiness for your twisted pairs.
See, they don't tell you that in the ad because it's a trade secret. The other cables are just twisted by a machine or something, thus the mundane pricing.
I gave up on GBS when it began to work horribly, and started using foxmarks.
When they messed foxmarks up for a few weeks I tried GBS again, but it insisted on blowing away the local bookmarks instead of, you know, syncronizing them. No matter what setting I used.
I used some other kludge which was terrible but now foxmarks works again. Personally I don't want or need my history or other stuff synchronized.
Hey now, watch it buddy. 99% of people will BUY a more expensive OS than use Linux?
I beg to differ.
I'd say it's more like 97% to 98% will USE a more expensive OS, and about 15% will install a non-legal copy, 15% will buy a legal copy and install it, and the other 70% will get it with their Dell, HP, Everex, Gateway, Mac, etc.
Just thought I should clarify a little bit there.
Yes, I do have a machine with Linux on it, BTW. Works fine. I'm not in the majority on a few other things, either.
Perhaps we should devise some metrics to determine intelligence before a person is even born, and mandate that the fetus be aborted if they fall below a certain metric.
Or, how about intelligence tests for the parents, mandating that persons with a combined mental capacity below a certain threshold not be allowed to reproduce?
Or, how about persons who are alive now that fall below a certain mental ability be euthanized?
Am I being absurd? Were you? I am, but your comment, while having arguable merit in a purely practical sense, smells like a "slippery slope" kind of thing.
What if a kid has a health problem that is holding him/her back? What if they're dyslexic? What if they are "visual" learners stuck with teachers who don't grasp that concept and teach otherwise? What if they're abused?
Yes, it is a nice solution. Sync-back is a program that can have any number of tasks configured to automatically back up directories from one location to another, doing so at a time and an interval pre-selected by the user (me).
So, to answer your question, everything about it is automatic.
Sorry if I wasn't totally clear, I'll try better next time.
Buffalo NAS or similar, backed up automatically to a USB HDD plugged into the back of it, and something like sync-back to automatically copy stuff over to the NAS. Sync-back is either free or has a free version, the NAS might be $200, and the HDD can be found for $100. So yeah, $300 is WAY cheaper than $1500, and you got a backup with a backup of that.
a very insightful comment (don't have mod points today)
I use sync-back on my windows laptop at work. Copy key files to the NAS, which is then automatically backed up every night. So for some stuff of mine, there are 3 copies at any one time.
Thank you for at least agreeing with me. I'm the OP who is presently marked a troll.
The thing is, I should have put on my post that I do have a linux laptop, Ubuntu, and it does work well.
But it wasn't the first linux install I'd ever done, either. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX1 or whatever, and I programmed basic on a Apple ][+ when it was new, then moved on to a Tandy1000 as my first DOS machine. I was something like 6 or 7 when I was programming the Apple.
I don't have a problem with setting up a linux box. I got dual monitors working properly with an ATI card back 2 years ago in Ubuntu, and that was pretty challenging. Thank GOD for the Ubuntu forums. Would it be easier now? True dual monitors with an ATI card? Firewire? My next box, I'll give it a go - I don't want to live with Vista every day.
My statements above weren't intended to be trollish, they were intended to be realistic.
Now talk someone through that who wonders where the "any" key is, or who tells you they "downloaded the linux" and now "the windows won't turn on".
Seriously, people, the thing you are missing is this: Linux on the desktop will not be widespread until the config files are gone. The mythical Joe Sixpack CANNOT and WILL NOT ever edit a.conf to set up his screen, his boot loader, his sound, nor anything else. Ever. NEVER EVER. The same people who edited config.sys and autoexec.bat don't have a problem editing.conf files in linux. It's the 98 and XP generation who are adopting computers as an appliance you buy from wal-mart, point and click and it just works. XP allowed a computer to be an appliance and huge percentages of the population were exposed to computing with no requirement to know anything about how it works. Linux still requires that knowledge.
With the caveat that thermodynamics scares and confuses me, if you have a bunch of heat coming out of the servers' water-coolers, couldn't you pipe that into a heat pump and recover some cooling energy or even electricity? Yes. Now, THAT would be smart. Eliminate the cost of water heaters, augment winter HVAC bills, etc. Steam power plants use "waste" energy, the heat left over in the water after it runs the main turbines, to preheat the water going into the boiler. There's usually heat left over after THAT, and it is at a good temp for use in the power plant building itself. Any heat sent back out to the environment is wasted, and wasted energy = wasted $$.
Now, if it's enough wasted energy to warrant the cost of capturing it... Depends. That's what they pay engineers for, to figure that out.
This is, at least, what I remember from my thermo 1, thermo 2, heat transfer, and advanced thermo courses in college. MMmmmmm.... Thermo.
Are these machines with lots of RAM, because that was a caveat, too.
Generally speaking, if a 3 year old machine with enough RAM can't run Windows XP, I start thinking that there's a hardware fault somewhere. XP ran very well for me on a Duron 700MHz with 512 megs of ram.... That's circa 1999-2000 stuff there, IIRC.
Redraw problems sounds like a driver issue. Or ultra low ram, spyware, tons of apps running, slow HD, etc.
However a $500 computer is *another* computer. I have enough already, I don't want to buy more if I can happily get by with my existing setup. Why would anyone in your situation even be looking to upgrade from XP (or something else) to Vista?
The ONLY benefit to Vista, basically, is the eye candy and DX10. If you have an old computer that WONT run vista, you don't have a need for it anyway.
Most if these comments are pointless. Sure, vista requires "real" graphics processing and more ram than XP. Likewise, XP required a little more hardware than 98 did. 95/98 required more hardware than 3.11. WHAT IS THE POINT, PEOPLE? Stop beating the dead horse that is Vista. It took way too long to release and isn't worth buying unless you get it with a new box. We established that a LONG time ago. Let's get back to some meaningful discussions, like how the RIAA sucks and Linux is cool.
I've heard about CNC milling machines. I've had many of the parts I've designed made on them.
For building a piece of capital equipment, the parts must be designed in CAD and the DXF files and part prints must be created. Then all of the sheet metal parts, steel plate parts, machined parts, purchased parts, and hardware have to all be ordered, made, purchased, borrowed, etc.
What if, some day, a company that wanted to design and build a piece of capital equipment could do so - all internally? Without the overhead of an extensive tool room? Parts could be designed for a function, not designed around ease of manufacture?
I'm envisioning a large 120 inch x 60 inch table, much like a laser or waterjet or plasma table, but instead you send it a 3D model and some parameters and it "prints out" the parts for a machine, large, small, flat, simple, complicated, etc. It would pull from a few drums of special slurry material that has all the best properties of aluminum and steel, and is real cheap. Soylent Gray! (made from garbage, good for the environment, ok for you)
I know CNC milling, CNC laser, CNC waterjet, plasma, etc, are all great and we use them daily around here, I'm thinking of something faster, cheaper, less wasteful, quicker turnaround, no limitations, no compromises. Again, if we are at the 1971 era dot matrix stage today, my idea is at the $35 photo quality Walmart printer-in-a-blister-pack disposable printer stage.
Again, the selective sintering machines are a foreshadowing. They are heading in the right direction. I recall back in 1997 1998 timeframe SLA rapid prototyping was "cutting edge" and I had some plastic parts I was designing made in it, before we cut a mold. That tech is "old school" now, you can get durable parts made up today, rapid prototype or direct to manufacture, you can use IN PRODUCTION.
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Yeah, as soon as I clicked "Submit" I know somebody would pick that nit. So all right, WINE is a compatibility layer, not an CPU emulator.
But consider the way I was using the word: In my final sentence I wasn't talking about CPU emulators, and I wasn't talking about compatibility layers. I was making a generalization about things that make one thing act like another thing. What's a good word for that? I think "emulator" is fine.
I know. But like you said, somebody had to pick that nit.Do you have any idea how difficult that would be? Emulating Windows down to the last undocumented quirk
Wine Is Not an Emulator
Or, the other user is the botnet admin who 0wnz his box.
So it's $50 for labor?
Is this for real? Any copy of vista you pay for you can take an OEM CD of XP and install it and you're legal?
What code do you enter when it asks? The one for the vista install? Does it activate? Who has done this?
Most people will have a copy of XP around, probably OEM. I have a CD for pro and home, so this may just make the vista thing a non-issue. You're still buying a copy of AN operating system, there's just an extra step of the format/reinstall to fix it.
If you went crazy with it you could simulate every second of every day of every person on the earth, like a simulated earth, and then invent some kind of direct-to-brain interface, and then when you keep all the people in some kind of unconscious stasis pod thing, then the machines could take over the world, then ....
That would make a cool movie....
I bet it has something to do with the nature of the cable. It is probably the twisted pairs. They are hand twisted by hot 6 foot tall blond virgins with phd degrees.
That way you're guaranteed the best and most precise twistiness for your twisted pairs.
See, they don't tell you that in the ad because it's a trade secret. The other cables are just twisted by a machine or something, thus the mundane pricing.
I gave up on GBS when it began to work horribly, and started using foxmarks.
When they messed foxmarks up for a few weeks I tried GBS again, but it insisted on blowing away the local bookmarks instead of, you know, syncronizing them. No matter what setting I used.
I used some other kludge which was terrible but now foxmarks works again. Personally I don't want or need my history or other stuff synchronized.
+1 really eloquent for /.
Hey now, watch it buddy. 99% of people will BUY a more expensive OS than use Linux?
I beg to differ.
I'd say it's more like 97% to 98% will USE a more expensive OS, and about 15% will install a non-legal copy, 15% will buy a legal copy and install it, and the other 70% will get it with their Dell, HP, Everex, Gateway, Mac, etc.
Just thought I should clarify a little bit there.
Yes, I do have a machine with Linux on it, BTW. Works fine. I'm not in the majority on a few other things, either.
Perhaps we should devise some metrics to determine intelligence before a person is even born, and mandate that the fetus be aborted if they fall below a certain metric.
Or, how about intelligence tests for the parents, mandating that persons with a combined mental capacity below a certain threshold not be allowed to reproduce?
Or, how about persons who are alive now that fall below a certain mental ability be euthanized?
Am I being absurd? Were you? I am, but your comment, while having arguable merit in a purely practical sense, smells like a "slippery slope" kind of thing.
What if a kid has a health problem that is holding him/her back? What if they're dyslexic? What if they are "visual" learners stuck with teachers who don't grasp that concept and teach otherwise? What if they're abused?
The good teachers are those who don't give up.
don't start
And AOL *IS* the Internets!
Just zip it all up and password protect it, come on!
-ducks-
That is, of course, because my cable modem is NOT in a closet somewhere and I look at it all the time and not just when the connection drops.... Yep.
I'd mod you up but you're already at 5. Dude, that's like the most insightful comment I've seen on here in a while.
I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter...
Yes, it is a nice solution. Sync-back is a program that can have any number of tasks configured to automatically back up directories from one location to another, doing so at a time and an interval pre-selected by the user (me).
So, to answer your question, everything about it is automatic.
Sorry if I wasn't totally clear, I'll try better next time.
Buffalo NAS or similar, backed up automatically to a USB HDD plugged into the back of it, and something like sync-back to automatically copy stuff over to the NAS. Sync-back is either free or has a free version, the NAS might be $200, and the HDD can be found for $100. So yeah, $300 is WAY cheaper than $1500, and you got a backup with a backup of that.
a very insightful comment (don't have mod points today)
I use sync-back on my windows laptop at work. Copy key files to the NAS, which is then automatically backed up every night. So for some stuff of mine, there are 3 copies at any one time.
Thank you for at least agreeing with me. I'm the OP who is presently marked a troll.
The thing is, I should have put on my post that I do have a linux laptop, Ubuntu, and it does work well.
But it wasn't the first linux install I'd ever done, either. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX1 or whatever, and I programmed basic on a Apple ][+ when it was new, then moved on to a Tandy1000 as my first DOS machine. I was something like 6 or 7 when I was programming the Apple.
I don't have a problem with setting up a linux box. I got dual monitors working properly with an ATI card back 2 years ago in Ubuntu, and that was pretty challenging. Thank GOD for the Ubuntu forums. Would it be easier now? True dual monitors with an ATI card? Firewire? My next box, I'll give it a go - I don't want to live with Vista every day.
My statements above weren't intended to be trollish, they were intended to be realistic.
Now talk someone through that who wonders where the "any" key is, or who tells you they "downloaded the linux" and now "the windows won't turn on".
.conf to set up his screen, his boot loader, his sound, nor anything else. Ever. NEVER EVER. The same people who edited config.sys and autoexec.bat don't have a problem editing .conf files in linux. It's the 98 and XP generation who are adopting computers as an appliance you buy from wal-mart, point and click and it just works. XP allowed a computer to be an appliance and huge percentages of the population were exposed to computing with no requirement to know anything about how it works. Linux still requires that knowledge.
Seriously, people, the thing you are missing is this: Linux on the desktop will not be widespread until the config files are gone. The mythical Joe Sixpack CANNOT and WILL NOT ever edit a
Yes. Now, THAT would be smart. Eliminate the cost of water heaters, augment winter HVAC bills, etc. Steam power plants use "waste" energy, the heat left over in the water after it runs the main turbines, to preheat the water going into the boiler. There's usually heat left over after THAT, and it is at a good temp for use in the power plant building itself. Any heat sent back out to the environment is wasted, and wasted energy = wasted $$.
Now, if it's enough wasted energy to warrant the cost of capturing it... Depends. That's what they pay engineers for, to figure that out.
This is, at least, what I remember from my thermo 1, thermo 2, heat transfer, and advanced thermo courses in college. MMmmmmm.... Thermo.
Redraw problems sounds like a driver issue. Or ultra low ram, spyware, tons of apps running, slow HD, etc.
Or, GP is a troll.
The ONLY benefit to Vista, basically, is the eye candy and DX10. If you have an old computer that WONT run vista, you don't have a need for it anyway.
Most if these comments are pointless. Sure, vista requires "real" graphics processing and more ram than XP. Likewise, XP required a little more hardware than 98 did. 95/98 required more hardware than 3.11. WHAT IS THE POINT, PEOPLE? Stop beating the dead horse that is Vista. It took way too long to release and isn't worth buying unless you get it with a new box. We established that a LONG time ago. Let's get back to some meaningful discussions, like how the RIAA sucks and Linux is cool.
I've heard about CNC milling machines. I've had many of the parts I've designed made on them.
For building a piece of capital equipment, the parts must be designed in CAD and the DXF files and part prints must be created. Then all of the sheet metal parts, steel plate parts, machined parts, purchased parts, and hardware have to all be ordered, made, purchased, borrowed, etc.
What if, some day, a company that wanted to design and build a piece of capital equipment could do so - all internally? Without the overhead of an extensive tool room? Parts could be designed for a function, not designed around ease of manufacture?
I'm envisioning a large 120 inch x 60 inch table, much like a laser or waterjet or plasma table, but instead you send it a 3D model and some parameters and it "prints out" the parts for a machine, large, small, flat, simple, complicated, etc. It would pull from a few drums of special slurry material that has all the best properties of aluminum and steel, and is real cheap. Soylent Gray! (made from garbage, good for the environment, ok for you)
I know CNC milling, CNC laser, CNC waterjet, plasma, etc, are all great and we use them daily around here, I'm thinking of something faster, cheaper, less wasteful, quicker turnaround, no limitations, no compromises. Again, if we are at the 1971 era dot matrix stage today, my idea is at the $35 photo quality Walmart printer-in-a-blister-pack disposable printer stage.
Again, the selective sintering machines are a foreshadowing. They are heading in the right direction. I recall back in 1997 1998 timeframe SLA rapid prototyping was "cutting edge" and I had some plastic parts I was designing made in it, before we cut a mold. That tech is "old school" now, you can get durable parts made up today, rapid prototype or direct to manufacture, you can use IN PRODUCTION.