It's more like: On Windows: find and obtain and pay for DVD-playing software. Install. Play DVD. On Linux: select a dvd player in your package manager. Click install. Play DVD.
Come on people... Why would someone want to run windows on an Apple computer? Not only you wouldn't be able to use it without plugging an usb mouse with more than 1 button, you wouldn't be able to type anything correctly without putting an USB windows compatible keyboard. And honestly, it's such a pain in the ass to get the drivers for a supported "designed for windows" laptop, that I don't even imagine you will be able to find drivers for your hardware. Running linux or BSD however could be an option as they generally recognize most of your hardware out of the box and have "drivers" for Apple designed keyboards.
5. More secure? If linux is more secure than Windows then it's only marginal. The difference is the user base. If I were trying to exploit something I'd much rather do so on 90% of the user base than the other 10% (percentages made up). Not to mention ma and pa aren't exactly the most tech savvy of consumers and may not know the importance of a firewall and updating often. Something which most linux users do know.
Please don't wome again with the larger user base argument. It's totally wrong. An example: what is the most popular and present web server? It's apache, yes you can tell it. What is the most targeted webserver? IIS, yes, indeed. I do not speak about defacements here, which are mostly caused by low security passwords or bad scripts, but attacks against the server itself.
Why not just running a vmplayer instance of a linux OS with all the apps you need. All you need is vmplayer both for linux and windows, that's probably better in size than having all apps with dual OS executables. When I say vmplayer, it's just for performance purposes, but qemu can do the trick as well.
Yes and No... Infogrames did many of the best games on Atari platform. Saying that no Atari is in current Atari games is a little bit false. All the recent games Infogrames' Atari published are probably the best ones. What I mean is that they may have bought the name, but they are preserving a history of great games, which was the purpose of the original Atari. Do you remember when Atari was a japanese firm? Before it was bought by Sam Tramiel? It's about the same now. Preserving the spirit of great games. Atari hardware is dead, yes, but spirit is still here. (note: I still have my Atari 800, 130XE, ST, Mega STE, Falcon)
Insurances are also something you pay for hoping that you won't use it like IT security. But they are considerably easier to market, probably because you are speaking about tangible goods.
What did happen to xfree86 project when they changed thier licensing? Well, I just assume the same will happen with nessus, except if there is no interest in nessus when there was on an X server.
Hmm.. I just bought an Ibook 12" because it was faster and cheaper than x86 counterparts. Powerbooks may not be in this case, but the ibook is cheaper than an x86 for the 12" models with about the same options.
I second that.. Asus has been doing this for years now and they are perfectly stable for servers or prod. And honestly 1 more percent in the benchmarks won't reflect anything as it may also just be your windows install that has some more lifetime or so.
Many(/most?) linux people just dual boot because the games don't run on linux, that's all. If they had the choice not to dual boot or emulate to make the game run, they wouldn't. Most people I know who use linux would just wipe out windows definitely if games were to run natively on linux.
A good starting point for a company would be to publish that linux client but telling there is not QA or support under linux, but with an existing _native_ client. A WOW client existed in the very early stages but was dismissed for an unknown reason.
We are now unfortunately in a chicken and egg situation. Where people don't switch to linux because there are no games, and games developpers don't publish linux clients because people use windows for gaming.
Indeed, but that wouldn't be an incentive if the demon in question is a lvl70 elite flying dragon which follows you everywhere and others cannot see. Maybe you would be able to see it, but that's the end of your character. And if the dragon follows every of your characters created with the cheater account, you really have to return stolen goods.
But, more interestingly, I'd like to have a proof of this cheat, as it's very unclear if it even exists.
Now, well, it's obvious this guy doesn't have a clue about IT.
A good article to read is this one Security Report: Windows vs Linux Windows is good for some things, Linux is good for some things, MAC OS is good for some things, as *BSD are. The fact is, they should just live together, there shouldn't be a forced hegemony.
How did someone let them register _windows_ then. Afetr all, it's a common word.
Word History: The source of our word window is a vivid metaphor. Window comes to us from the Scandinavian invaders and settlers of England in the early Middle Ages. Although we have no record of the exact word they gave us, it was related to Old Norse vindauga, "window," a compound made up of vindr, "wind," and auga, "eye," reflecting the fact that at one time windows contained no glass. The metaphor "wind eye" is of a type beloved by Norse and Old English poets and is called a kenning; other examples include oar-steed for "ship" and whale-road for "sea." Recently we have restored to the 800-year-old word window a touch of its poetic heritage, using it figuratively in such phrases as launch window, weather window, and window of opportunity or vulnerability.
This may be the saddest thing of all, but it was a little bit forecast. I think car makers should more rely on "old school" things to make sure cars just work.
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It's more like:
On Windows: find and obtain and pay for DVD-playing software. Install. Play DVD.
On Linux: select a dvd player in your package manager. Click install. Play DVD.
How would you know some former times were not intentional?
How is that news anyway :)
Z1, Z3 and Z4 are BMW cars :)
Come on people... Why would someone want to run windows on an Apple computer? Not only you wouldn't be able to use it without plugging an usb mouse with more than 1 button, you wouldn't be able to type anything correctly without putting an USB windows compatible keyboard.
And honestly, it's such a pain in the ass to get the drivers for a supported "designed for windows" laptop, that I don't even imagine you will be able to find drivers for your hardware.
Running linux or BSD however could be an option as they generally recognize most of your hardware out of the box and have "drivers" for Apple designed keyboards.
5. More secure? If linux is more secure than Windows then it's only marginal. The difference is the user base. If I were trying to exploit something I'd much rather do so on 90% of the user base than the other 10% (percentages made up). Not to mention ma and pa aren't exactly the most tech savvy of consumers and may not know the importance of a firewall and updating often. Something which most linux users do know.
Please don't wome again with the larger user base argument. It's totally wrong. An example: what is the most popular and present web server? It's apache, yes you can tell it. What is the most targeted webserver? IIS, yes, indeed. I do not speak about defacements here, which are mostly caused by low security passwords or bad scripts, but attacks against the server itself.
Why not just running a vmplayer instance of a linux OS with all the apps you need. All you need is vmplayer both for linux and windows, that's probably better in size than having all apps with dual OS executables. When I say vmplayer, it's just for performance purposes, but qemu can do the trick as well.
Yes and No...
Infogrames did many of the best games on Atari platform.
Saying that no Atari is in current Atari games is a little bit false. All the recent games Infogrames' Atari published are probably the best ones.
What I mean is that they may have bought the name, but they are preserving a history of great games, which was the purpose of the original Atari.
Do you remember when Atari was a japanese firm? Before it was bought by Sam Tramiel? It's about the same now. Preserving the spirit of great games.
Atari hardware is dead, yes, but spirit is still here.
(note: I still have my Atari 800, 130XE, ST, Mega STE, Falcon)
Insurances are also something you pay for hoping that you won't use it like IT security. But they are considerably easier to market, probably because you are speaking about tangible goods.
Does Microsoft releases past-beta software? I mean other than just changing the name and remove beta.
Windows is not yet ad-supported??? Does that mean that all these porn and viagra ads popping around when I use winodws are not normal?
What did happen to xfree86 project when they changed thier licensing?
Well, I just assume the same will happen with nessus, except if there is no interest in nessus when there was on an X server.
That means, they were not smart enough to:
1: change default ssh port
2: disallow direct root logins via ssh
Those 2 simple principles prevent many things.
Hmm.. I just bought an Ibook 12" because it was faster and cheaper than x86 counterparts. Powerbooks may not be in this case, but the ibook is cheaper than an x86 for the 12" models with about the same options.
He, that's cool, China doesn't send any spam...
If only it was a computer virus, that ought to be fun.. But no.. just a plain stupid common problem in most companies.
I second that.. Asus has been doing this for years now and they are perfectly stable for servers or prod. And honestly 1 more percent in the benchmarks won't reflect anything as it may also just be your windows install that has some more lifetime or so.
Many(/most?) linux people just dual boot because the games don't run on linux, that's all. If they had the choice not to dual boot or emulate to make the game run, they wouldn't. Most people I know who use linux would just wipe out windows definitely if games were to run natively on linux.
A good starting point for a company would be to publish that linux client but telling there is not QA or support under linux, but with an existing _native_ client. A WOW client existed in the very early stages but was dismissed for an unknown reason.
We are now unfortunately in a chicken and egg situation. Where people don't switch to linux because there are no games, and games developpers don't publish linux clients because people use windows for gaming.
Indeed, but that wouldn't be an incentive if the demon in question is a lvl70 elite flying dragon which follows you everywhere and others cannot see. Maybe you would be able to see it, but that's the end of your character. And if the dragon follows every of your characters created with the cheater account, you really have to return stolen goods.
But, more interestingly, I'd like to have a proof of this cheat, as it's very unclear if it even exists.
Now, well, it's obvious this guy doesn't have a clue about IT.
A good article to read is this one Security Report: Windows vs Linux
Windows is good for some things, Linux is good for some things, MAC OS is good for some things, as *BSD are. The fact is, they should just live together, there shouldn't be a forced hegemony.
How did someone let them register _windows_ then. Afetr all, it's a common word.
Word History: The source of our word window is a vivid metaphor. Window comes to us from the Scandinavian invaders and settlers of England in the early Middle Ages. Although we have no record of the exact word they gave us, it was related to Old Norse vindauga, "window," a compound made up of vindr, "wind," and auga, "eye," reflecting the fact that at one time windows contained no glass. The metaphor "wind eye" is of a type beloved by Norse and Old English poets and is called a kenning; other examples include oar-steed for "ship" and whale-road for "sea." Recently we have restored to the 800-year-old word window a touch of its poetic heritage, using it figuratively in such phrases as launch window, weather window, and window of opportunity or vulnerability.
This may be the saddest thing of all, but it was a little bit forecast. I think car makers should more rely on "old school" things to make sure cars just work.
Indeed, now could you show me how to run this stuff on my Apple powerbook laptop running OpenBSD?
Java is _not_ portable...
Why? I just did it a while ago: http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/f reezercool/experience1.html
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