There are still a few installations around running DCS / SCADA in power stations, refineries etc. We used to put VAX clusters in to run the databases, and used an OS/2 front end for the graphics. In its day (early 1990s) it was miles ahead of anything x86 and many have continued running since then without crashing.
When working on Desalination plants one must allow a certain amount of "raw" or semi treated water to mix with the output from the Reverse Osmosis (RO) trains before distribution. I am not a biologist but my understanding is that pure water pulls ions, salts etc out of your body and will kill you if you do this for too long.
My observation of this was receiving 10+ infected emails a day from a large Australian water utility that for some retarded reason used Symantec "AV". Lucky I was using a free client on my end.
Symantec is rubbish. If you pay for it you are misinformed. Avast!
Yes I have heard of this - but the question remains... why should I have to go through this if Linux is 100% ready for the desktop ?
Adobe, get with the program.
Oh... it will get over 1000 comments;)
I use Linux regularly "on the desktop", and IMHO it's all there and working nicely - EXCEPT 64 bit Flash.
I use 32 bit Ubuntu on my old laptop and it works better out of the box than the *genuine* xp32 cd installer does.
What pisses me off is when I try to get 64 bit going on any modern desktop, the only thing that consistently doesn't go is Flash.
As unimportant as Flash is in reality, it's still needed due to the sheer amount of this shite out there.
And until it works I'm not going to install Linux on any n00b relatives PC.
Fix it Adobe. Or release the source and let us fix it - as you won't.
Don't forget the reason Mr Balmer is down here in Australia right now... to address the threat of Telstra (Microsoft's biggest customer in Southern Hemisphere) SWITCHING to Linux.
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There are still a few installations around running DCS / SCADA in power stations, refineries etc. We used to put VAX clusters in to run the databases, and used an OS/2 front end for the graphics. In its day (early 1990s) it was miles ahead of anything x86 and many have continued running since then without crashing.
When working on Desalination plants one must allow a certain amount of "raw" or semi treated water to mix with the output from the Reverse Osmosis (RO) trains before distribution. I am not a biologist but my understanding is that pure water pulls ions, salts etc out of your body and will kill you if you do this for too long.
My observation of this was receiving 10+ infected emails a day from a large Australian water utility that for some retarded reason used Symantec "AV". Lucky I was using a free client on my end. Symantec is rubbish. If you pay for it you are misinformed. Avast!
Yes I have heard of this - but the question remains... why should I have to go through this if Linux is 100% ready for the desktop ? Adobe, get with the program.
Oh... it will get over 1000 comments ;)
I use Linux regularly "on the desktop", and IMHO it's all there and working nicely - EXCEPT 64 bit Flash.
I use 32 bit Ubuntu on my old laptop and it works better out of the box than the *genuine* xp32 cd installer does.
What pisses me off is when I try to get 64 bit going on any modern desktop, the only thing that consistently doesn't go is Flash.
As unimportant as Flash is in reality, it's still needed due to the sheer amount of this shite out there.
And until it works I'm not going to install Linux on any n00b relatives PC.
Fix it Adobe. Or release the source and let us fix it - as you won't.
Don't forget the reason Mr Balmer is down here in Australia right now... to address the threat of Telstra (Microsoft's biggest customer in Southern Hemisphere) SWITCHING to Linux.
http://www.itnews.com.au/story.cfm?ID=10596
It would be nice if they did...