Fair enough, but I would rather see someone write "Comparing OSX to a Linux distribution".
Make it clear what they're comparing (including the CPU family etc..). It's not much use comparing Red Hat running on a P4 2GHz 256MB RAM to a Dual G5 with 1GB RAM.
How many times do we have to say it, comparing KDE/Gnome etc.. to OSX isn't comparing Linux with OSX. You're comparing a desktop environment that just happens to run on Linux with OSX.
KDE, Gnome etc.. are available on other OSes like Solaris and the BSDs.
If you're going to compare OSX and Linux then you should be looking at the kernel performance.
You can buy another virtual PC product that will allow you to test many operating systems other than Windows, so for once Microsoft have produced a rather feature-less rubbish product, all in the name of monopoly protection.
Zealot? I use Windows 2000, Windows XP and Linux. KDE is much more powerful desktop environment than Windows. Almost everything from Window borders to buttons, taskbar backgrounds can be altered. You can have many dockbars, multiple start menus etc... not to mention a user defineable number of desktop tabs.
Maybe one day you'll be able to use alternative products and offer sensible opinions of them instead of offering childish abuse.
Indeed, however this article is more about ways to stop people registering loads of webmail accounts using software tools. If they can't send mail you don't receive it.
Depends what their staff do, Word runs under Crossover Office as good as it does under Windows. As long as they have a good tech support team they'll be alright.
I mentioned ages ago that this would solve a lot of driver shortages. Now if this layer can snoop and aid the development of Linux drivers then even better. Of course laws can be broken with this approach.
With many companies and government agencies trialling or converting to Linux if Microsoft sabotage Samba etc.. then many such organisations are likely to cut out Windows from their networks than cut out Linux.
Anyway, isn't it part of the DOJ settlement that they provide information on their protocols?
I don't think under 60MB is possible. I've severely stunted my XP installation as I use it for music production and it comes in at around 64-68MB.
Have a look at www.litepc.com as they now do an XP lite tool, it's not free but it's handy for the less techie users.
Basically what I've done is disable lots of unneeded services, check what's running when you bootup and then see if you really need it. Also disabled messenger.
Personally 256MB is fine for a laptop if it really is just used as a portable. You should (if using 2k/XP) remove/disable as much junk as possible. Make sure as little as possible is started on boot up, it's possible to have Windows only use around 60MB of RAM after bootup if you do this.
But we have IR35 contend with, many contractors have said that the money they accumulated through contracting allowed them to start their own business.
Sure IT in the US has survived, but they have Oracle, Dell, Microsoft, Sun, IBM etc.. who do we have in the UK? erm....Arm, Symbian....ICL? hardly thriving is it.
The smaller companies will suffer when patents are phased in and it is these smaller companies that employ workers in the UK. The larger organisations are on the whole moving many jobs to countries such as India.
Naive? at times maybe. But I woud rather hear what a person has to say than what an interviewer wants to say about how they look.
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To me it's more of an infrared replacement, more handy than having devices in line of light.
Of course it was hyped up as being something that all your household appliances would communicate with, so I think it's a bit early to write it off yet.
I found it rather more disturbing how the interviewer went into detail describing how he looks. Maybe it would be alright if he was interviewing some sexy female celeb, but interviewing a famous computer innovator?
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Fair enough, but I would rather see someone write "Comparing OSX to a Linux distribution".
Make it clear what they're comparing (including the CPU family etc..). It's not much use comparing Red Hat running on a P4 2GHz 256MB RAM to a Dual G5 with 1GB RAM.
How many times do we have to say it, comparing KDE/Gnome etc.. to OSX isn't comparing Linux with OSX. You're comparing a desktop environment that just happens to run on Linux with OSX.
KDE, Gnome etc.. are available on other OSes like Solaris and the BSDs.
If you're going to compare OSX and Linux then you should be looking at the kernel performance.
Might as well drop the VirtualPC moniker and call it VirtualWindows/Mac.
You can buy another virtual PC product that will allow you to test many operating systems other than Windows, so for once Microsoft have produced a rather feature-less rubbish product, all in the name of monopoly protection.
Why bother buying it at all then? if you really can only really test Microsoft OSes with it now then I can't see that being of much use to anyone.
In the UK they have these signs about not using your phone yet some petrol stations have mobile phone masts on top of them.
Oooo big language.
Zealot? I use Windows 2000, Windows XP and Linux. KDE is much more powerful desktop environment than Windows. Almost everything from Window borders to buttons, taskbar backgrounds can be altered. You can have many dockbars, multiple start menus etc... not to mention a user defineable number of desktop tabs.
Maybe one day you'll be able to use alternative products and offer sensible opinions of them instead of offering childish abuse.
Eh? KDE is a lot more configureable than Windows is.
Indeed, however this article is more about ways to stop people registering loads of webmail accounts using software tools. If they can't send mail you don't receive it.
Depends what their staff do, Word runs under Crossover Office as good as it does under Windows. As long as they have a good tech support team they'll be alright.
After all humans are supposed to be adaptable, so why not switch to a system that can do the same for peanuts?
This is the problem with the kernel as it stands. We need a proper microkernel approach or similar.
I mentioned ages ago that this would solve a lot of driver shortages. Now if this layer can snoop and aid the development of Linux drivers then even better. Of course laws can be broken with this approach.
With many companies and government agencies trialling or converting to Linux if Microsoft sabotage Samba etc.. then many such organisations are likely to cut out Windows from their networks than cut out Linux.
Anyway, isn't it part of the DOJ settlement that they provide information on their protocols?
I don't think under 60MB is possible. I've severely stunted my XP installation as I use it for music production and it comes in at around 64-68MB.
Have a look at www.litepc.com as they now do an XP lite tool, it's not free but it's handy for the less techie users.
Basically what I've done is disable lots of unneeded services, check what's running when you bootup and then see if you really need it. Also disabled messenger.
Personally 256MB is fine for a laptop if it really is just used as a portable. You should (if using 2k/XP) remove/disable as much junk as possible. Make sure as little as possible is started on boot up, it's possible to have Windows only use around 60MB of RAM after bootup if you do this.
But we have IR35 contend with, many contractors have said that the money they accumulated through contracting allowed them to start their own business.
Sure IT in the US has survived, but they have Oracle, Dell, Microsoft, Sun, IBM etc.. who do we have in the UK? erm....Arm, Symbian....ICL? hardly thriving is it.
Are they trying to kill IT in the UK or what?
The smaller companies will suffer when patents are phased in and it is these smaller companies that employ workers in the UK. The larger organisations are on the whole moving many jobs to countries such as India.
System works as it is, why ruin it and create the potential for commercial politics and industrial espionage?
Isn't it more that quite a lot of peope are using Linux that they don't want to supply them with free software?
I know the free version is supposed to be for non commercial use, but that won't stop some people.
Naive? at times maybe. But I woud rather hear what a person has to say than what an interviewer wants to say about how they look.
To me it's more of an infrared replacement, more handy than having devices in line of light.
Of course it was hyped up as being something that all your household appliances would communicate with, so I think it's a bit early to write it off yet.
I found it rather more disturbing how the interviewer went into detail describing how he looks. Maybe it would be alright if he was interviewing some sexy female celeb, but interviewing a famous computer innovator?
I'm not talking AIFF, I'm talking the codec chip or are you not familiar with the use of the word codec in that context?
Apple have obviously selected a good codec, but who designed it? I can't imagine them designing their own codec unless they really needed to.