This is what I recommend to most people I know. Run linux when you're browsing the web, IMing, and doing all the non-gaming stuff. Boot into Windows just for playing games. Not only will your games run faster, because your Windows installation isn't so bloated up with other software, you'll be able to avoid viruses pretty well.
Well, from my experience, Windows is about the same difficulty to install as Linux. However, once most Linux distros are done installing, you have a fully functional computer, with drivers, office suite, photo editing and management, web browsing, email, IM on 6 different networks, web server, database server, music library management and playing, oh and a few simple games. Once windows is done installing, you have a notepad that only searches in one direction, and a couple other basics, but there's still a lot of work left to do.
I have a couple optical trackballs, and they do get a little cruddy. It doesn't so much affect the tracking as it affects how smoothly they roll. I only have to clean mine about once a week. It only takes 2 minutes. I think it's a small price to pay. I like that the trackball is always in the right spot on my desk, and that I don't have to devote a lot of deskspace to it. I also like that I can constantly keep on "moving" without having to pick the thing up and readjust the position of it all the time with like regular mice. This is actually quite and advantage in FPS games.
It would probably be better to just install an OS with multiple desktops. Possibly even use Metisse to have somewhat the same effect, but without having to scroll around to see an entire maximized window.
most standard laptops have enough room for a couple trackpads below the keyboard. I think the only reason they don't have them on the sides is because your hands would hit them too often. But if you could just hit a key to turn it off and on, you could have 2 trackpads, or 1 really big one.
I never understood why they didn't put trackballs on laptops. they could take up much less space than the standard trackpad, and provide much better accuracy. I use a trackball on all my desktop computers. I even find it superior to the mouse.
Yes, but they probably still want people to think they can upgrade easily. If too many people keep using Perl 5, then they have to keep on fixing bugs in it. If they can get a large percentage of people onto Perl 6, then they can just abandon Perl 5, and let those few people who are still using it fix it themselves.
I believe that in the earlier versions of VB there was an option to allow you to set whether or not you're arrays were 0 based or 1 based. Either way, when you defined your array with "Dim MyArray(6) as Integer" you were specifying that the maximum index was 6, regardless of whether or not it was 0 based. When you're not used to this notation, it can be a little confusing, but I program quite a bit in vb.net, and don't find it to be a problem.
Also, with logical operators, it's sometimes nice to have it not short circuit all the time. Again once you get used to it, it feels quite natural to use each one at the appropriate time.
Yeah, just like VB.Net was backwards compatible with VB.Net, and ASP.Net was backwards compatible with ASP. Companies will try to tell you their product is backwards compatible to get you to upgrade. However, a lot of the time backwards compatible requires that you rewrite a lot of your code.
But now the tiger is out of his cage, and the guy standing beside the idiot who was taunting the tiger is also in danger, along with probably a lot of other people who just happened to be at the zoo that day. What about all those people?
Well, if you google Dreamhost horror stories, most of the stuff you'll find is actually recommending people to dreamhost after they've had some horror story with another hosting company. Sure they have some problems, like their recent accidental billings, but I've been pretty happy with their service over all. For the price you pay, you definitely get way better service than you'd expect.
Also, since they don't really need all that money to register domains, they should give the money to charity, rather than to line some executive's pockets.
Maybe you should switch to a different registrar if you forget to renew your domain. My registrar sends me email notices 2 months before mine expires, then again at 1 month, then a couple more times after that. They make it really hard to forget. Also, if you don't remember to renew it, maybe it wasn't worth that much to begin with.
The major problem with the Vista UAC is that it pops up way too often. This causes the user to just ignore it, because it pops up so often, that they just automatically type in the password, or press allow, without even reading the message.
Depending on what you need the machine for, you might be better off just going with Linux. I have a laptop that came with Vista, and it was extremely slow (Celeron 1.5 GHz, 512 MB RAM). I installed Mandriva, and it is now extremely responsive. The interface looks really nice (better than Vista), because Compiz runs beautifully, so I get all the eye-candy, without any slow downs. Now I only use my laptop for internet surfing, watching videos recorded from the TV Tuner on my media centre, web development, and a little light graphic editing. So it does absolutely everything I need. It may not work for everyone, but it sure got me a really nice laptop for way less than what a Vista machine would cost if I wanted it to run as fast.
Are there any numbers that detail the number of vista machines that are due to retail sales, vs. those with vista preinstalled. And of the ones with Vista pre-installed, how many of those had XP as an option.
It's actually a book about the annoyances, and how to fix them. Just listing annoyances would be stupid. Listing the annoyances, along with giving details of how to get around them, so they are no longer annoying, is actually quite useful.
Didn't the Chinese release an iPhone clone weeks after the iPhone was released, with added functionality?
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However, if you pay $1 per GByte, then you are already paying more than most hosts charge. You can go to Dreamhost and pay only $10 a month for 500 TB of transfer. Sure, you would probably never be able to use it, based on the speed the servers send pages at, but at least you have a little room. You could easily serve up 10 GB of traffic to make up for the $10 a month you don't have to pay extra for the space you use. I mean, you could probably pay less if you had a really low traffic site on NearlyFreeSpeech, but you could easily spend a lot more, if for some reason, your site got a lot of visits.
Even if the user does own the computer, it's still a question of access controls. You're going to have to assume in this case that people aren't trying to forge their profile, so they can see things they shouldn't. If someone wants to see something, it's as easy as getting someone else who isn't restricted to use their profile, so that you can see pictures of dead family members, or women's rituals. So, the best you could probably do, is based on the profile, allow them to see only what they are allowed to see, possibly keep all the data encrypted under the same key, so that they can't just go browsing through the files on disk. But that's about it. If they are going to go through the trouble to debug the program and extract the key from memory, or whatever, then they would probably have a much easier time just getting somebody else to use their profile. So, use access controls so they don't stumble upon content they aren't supposed to see, but there isn't much you can do to stop somebody who really wants to thwart the system.
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This is what I recommend to most people I know. Run linux when you're browsing the web, IMing, and doing all the non-gaming stuff. Boot into Windows just for playing games. Not only will your games run faster, because your Windows installation isn't so bloated up with other software, you'll be able to avoid viruses pretty well.
Well, from my experience, Windows is about the same difficulty to install as Linux. However, once most Linux distros are done installing, you have a fully functional computer, with drivers, office suite, photo editing and management, web browsing, email, IM on 6 different networks, web server, database server, music library management and playing, oh and a few simple games. Once windows is done installing, you have a notepad that only searches in one direction, and a couple other basics, but there's still a lot of work left to do.
Or, if this catches on, your parent.
I have a couple optical trackballs, and they do get a little cruddy. It doesn't so much affect the tracking as it affects how smoothly they roll. I only have to clean mine about once a week. It only takes 2 minutes. I think it's a small price to pay. I like that the trackball is always in the right spot on my desk, and that I don't have to devote a lot of deskspace to it. I also like that I can constantly keep on "moving" without having to pick the thing up and readjust the position of it all the time with like regular mice. This is actually quite and advantage in FPS games.
It would probably be better to just install an OS with multiple desktops. Possibly even use Metisse to have somewhat the same effect, but without having to scroll around to see an entire maximized window.
most standard laptops have enough room for a couple trackpads below the keyboard. I think the only reason they don't have them on the sides is because your hands would hit them too often. But if you could just hit a key to turn it off and on, you could have 2 trackpads, or 1 really big one.
You obviously haven't seen the size of pants most teenagers are wearing today. You could easily fit a 7" laptop in those those pockets.
I never understood why they didn't put trackballs on laptops. they could take up much less space than the standard trackpad, and provide much better accuracy. I use a trackball on all my desktop computers. I even find it superior to the mouse.
Yes, but they probably still want people to think they can upgrade easily. If too many people keep using Perl 5, then they have to keep on fixing bugs in it. If they can get a large percentage of people onto Perl 6, then they can just abandon Perl 5, and let those few people who are still using it fix it themselves.
I believe that in the earlier versions of VB there was an option to allow you to set whether or not you're arrays were 0 based or 1 based. Either way, when you defined your array with "Dim MyArray(6) as Integer" you were specifying that the maximum index was 6, regardless of whether or not it was 0 based. When you're not used to this notation, it can be a little confusing, but I program quite a bit in vb.net, and don't find it to be a problem.
Also, with logical operators, it's sometimes nice to have it not short circuit all the time. Again once you get used to it, it feels quite natural to use each one at the appropriate time.
Yeah, just like VB.Net was backwards compatible with VB.Net, and ASP.Net was backwards compatible with ASP. Companies will try to tell you their product is backwards compatible to get you to upgrade. However, a lot of the time backwards compatible requires that you rewrite a lot of your code.
But now the tiger is out of his cage, and the guy standing beside the idiot who was taunting the tiger is also in danger, along with probably a lot of other people who just happened to be at the zoo that day. What about all those people?
Well, if you google Dreamhost horror stories, most of the stuff you'll find is actually recommending people to dreamhost after they've had some horror story with another hosting company. Sure they have some problems, like their recent accidental billings, but I've been pretty happy with their service over all. For the price you pay, you definitely get way better service than you'd expect.
Also, since they don't really need all that money to register domains, they should give the money to charity, rather than to line some executive's pockets.
Maybe you should switch to a different registrar if you forget to renew your domain. My registrar sends me email notices 2 months before mine expires, then again at 1 month, then a couple more times after that. They make it really hard to forget. Also, if you don't remember to renew it, maybe it wasn't worth that much to begin with.
Why not make it $100 to register, and then $5 a year to renew.
The major problem with the Vista UAC is that it pops up way too often. This causes the user to just ignore it, because it pops up so often, that they just automatically type in the password, or press allow, without even reading the message.
Not only that, but it's a newer laptop that came with Vista preinstalled. Bought it just last september.
Depending on what you need the machine for, you might be better off just going with Linux. I have a laptop that came with Vista, and it was extremely slow (Celeron 1.5 GHz, 512 MB RAM). I installed Mandriva, and it is now extremely responsive. The interface looks really nice (better than Vista), because Compiz runs beautifully, so I get all the eye-candy, without any slow downs. Now I only use my laptop for internet surfing, watching videos recorded from the TV Tuner on my media centre, web development, and a little light graphic editing. So it does absolutely everything I need. It may not work for everyone, but it sure got me a really nice laptop for way less than what a Vista machine would cost if I wanted it to run as fast.
Are there any numbers that detail the number of vista machines that are due to retail sales, vs. those with vista preinstalled. And of the ones with Vista pre-installed, how many of those had XP as an option.
Here's a quick undersea cable map for anyone who's looking.
It's actually a book about the annoyances, and how to fix them. Just listing annoyances would be stupid. Listing the annoyances, along with giving details of how to get around them, so they are no longer annoying, is actually quite useful.
Didn't the Chinese release an iPhone clone weeks after the iPhone was released, with added functionality?
However, if you pay $1 per GByte, then you are already paying more than most hosts charge. You can go to Dreamhost and pay only $10 a month for 500 TB of transfer. Sure, you would probably never be able to use it, based on the speed the servers send pages at, but at least you have a little room. You could easily serve up 10 GB of traffic to make up for the $10 a month you don't have to pay extra for the space you use. I mean, you could probably pay less if you had a really low traffic site on NearlyFreeSpeech, but you could easily spend a lot more, if for some reason, your site got a lot of visits.
Even if the user does own the computer, it's still a question of access controls. You're going to have to assume in this case that people aren't trying to forge their profile, so they can see things they shouldn't. If someone wants to see something, it's as easy as getting someone else who isn't restricted to use their profile, so that you can see pictures of dead family members, or women's rituals. So, the best you could probably do, is based on the profile, allow them to see only what they are allowed to see, possibly keep all the data encrypted under the same key, so that they can't just go browsing through the files on disk. But that's about it. If they are going to go through the trouble to debug the program and extract the key from memory, or whatever, then they would probably have a much easier time just getting somebody else to use their profile. So, use access controls so they don't stumble upon content they aren't supposed to see, but there isn't much you can do to stop somebody who really wants to thwart the system.