XP Home comes with an industry standard web server? XP Home can operate as a full-fledged file server? With unlimited client-licensed connections? XP Home provides a secure, virus-free work environment for the corporate desktop?
I'm sorry I'm not interested in these features. I'm just using my PC as a single desktop with hardware firewall and I don't open executable email attachments. (I tried once for fun but the virus scanner picked it up). I think you just need to remove executable email attachments at the email server level. If you still need to send an executable zip it up. And most Linux tools also work on Windows so that word processor and spreadsheet is not an issue.
And in the corporate enverioment price per licesence is less important than how much the sysadmin earns a year.
I do want to say the there is nothing wrong with WindowsXP security as long as you have virus scanners installed, NAT firewall and perhaps use firefox as default browser.
On the other hand I never had problems getting Linux Mandrake running on my PC no extra hardware drivers/configuration needed. And I could pretty much do anything on it except using a downloaded theme from kde-look. I still haven't figured that one out.
The real problem with Windows based enverioments is just that their sysadmins/network designers suck compared to UNIX based ones who must think what they are doing before they simply just click here and there to install something.
I personally think you could just mix Linux with Windows in a home or corporate network. Take the best of both worlds. And that's also what I would recommend: Windows Desktops running as limited user and Linux servers.
I think it's really easy to figure what Osama Bin Ladens supporters are using.
First figure out from what countries they are mostly from.
Second what's the most populair OS in those countries.
My personal awnser would be they are mostly from arab countries and the most populair os is a illegal Windows system. Like that guy that's related to 9/11 what email provider did he use? Hotmail and hotmail is MS. Or the guys from linuxinstalfest QA of Egypte told that most Egyptians assosiate email hotmail.
I might also agree with you if I knew the details of these:
1. How much does the maintance of a 747 cost? During operation and non operation (fuel, repairs, metal fatique, parts) 2. How much would the maintance cost of a smaller plane? My guess is that it would be cheaper. 3. If smaller planes maintance is cheaper then a 747 then maybe you can get a fleet of smaller planes compared to one big one. 4. Are 747's ok to use in all terain types?
Instead on JIT (just in time compiling) they should use JID (just in time downloading) what I mean is that the application is on some LAN or WAN server and if a user needs it it will download the components that's needed for that users task. For instance just want to look at a presentation file? Then just download the presentations file viewer components and save them in a cache. (automated offcourse)
The chances that Joe would be doing something very different with his cached application on his laptop while on a plane then at his office desk are very slim.
Sounds like something that Java Webstart and Java Beans (google for them) should be able to handle with no special webserver. (so could.NET but that's still just Windows based)
Conclusion: Nothing special, move along folks, just marketeers at work.
I don't really buy this as hardware is getting so small today that it's almost at atomic level and also the speeds at which these work have a lot of negative side effects.
The only way would be smarter devices and not faster e.g. IBM G5 vs PIV but this also isn't getting anywhere soon. As will only increase processing time by single digit %. And will hit a barrier.
I forgot if you use a x86 compatible CPU and the above mentioned device stays in the same price range. Then just add a $5 keyboard and Linux or *BSD and there you have it, a cheapo third world PC that works on batteries.
1. Laptops are to powerhungry 2. Not child safe (what if it falls) ( you need some gameboy like build device ) 3. Expensive 4. Overpowered for this situation.
The best thing to do would to build a custom ebook reader. That wouldn't be to hard I think. Just take an el-cheapo (older model) PDA (its engine) and but a bigger LCD screen on and maybe a bit more vram.
For instance: 1. To save development costs on the hardware and OS and tools we will use the: Palm IIIc Handheld. Which has 256 colours and costs $79. Mind you this price is also including all the extra's like warrenty, batteries, small LCD and Synchronizing HotSync cradle and battery recharger (120 VAC, 60 HZ), Metal stylus, Palm Desktop organizer software, Handbook , Lithium ion rechargeable battery (internal),DB-25 adapter,Protective flip lid. So without all of that we will pay Palm $60 for the hardware and OS.
2. Just slap on a slow (not watching video or playing games) and cheap LCD of 800x600 that costs about $60 (in mass quantities). Example here
3. Bluetooth module $5
4. Casing $10
A total price of $60 + $60 + $5 + $10 = $135 for hardware and OS. Now add some $$$ for development costs and accessories and profit and the price will be about $209,95.
Optional: Touchscreen, newer hardware, faster wireless networking etc.
After searching the net for more info on the BeOS Webpad I found this comment:
Everyman's friend Bill Gates was the moderator. A certain Jean-Louis Gassee was a competitor. The question from Gates was (and I am paraphrasing) "What is the name of the yearly contest on Usenet in which the object is to produce the most convoluted C code that still produces a working program?"
According to many, JLG's brilliant answer was: "What is Windows?" As you might have imagined, Mr. Gates was not amused.
If he would have said: "From a programmers point of view all comp...". Then gaming would be content creation. But I think he thought from an end users point of view.
YEah and if the army didn't support local business.
Yeah if the army only bought European arms.
Yeah if the army didn't do this a lot of jobs would have gotten lost. The point is a government would want to support its businesses and keep the money in its country.
Have a look at this and scroll down and look at the quake arena 1.32 benchmark. The G5 apple with ati 9800 is about 19% faster then a PIV 3 Ghz with same card.
I agree with you.
When I read it yesterday (I found the link on another site). I thought goodie goodie some new tech info. But I noticed it was mostly bla bla about FAT(32) and one paragraph about WinFS.
Anyone could have written the review. On the other hand I think for instance the review from arstechnica http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu/02q2/ppc970/ppc970- 1.html on the power 970 was really good and indepth. And you can basicly use it as reference. This is how a review should be done.
I noticed that its faster to copy a large file on a NTFS 5 (W2k and higher) partition to another NTFS 5 from BeOS 5 then in / from Windows Explorer.
For you who don't know BeOS 5 does support NTFS read / write of NTFS. I think they licesenced it or something as it works great except it leaves a folder called "RECYCLER" and it shows all the hidden system filesystem structure files / directories.
I'm now using the BETA of W2k3 Sever and it can't read my old Win2k NTFS partition. It says unknown filesystem and I can't mount it from the logical disk manager:(. So I'm using BeOS to move files from there to a FAT32 partition that W2k3 can read.
But we are just organic machines. So their is no question about if their are similarities. Its just we are build at atom level and have great software.
I disagree. GUI's are not easier to learn its just easier to move from one GUI OS to another. So you can go to from OSX to WinXP with little hassle. However going from MS-DOS to BASH(or whatever shell) takes more effort.
This sounds like the reason why there is a.NET at all.
As the MS JVM (it is said) is faster and better. So Sun said noway.
I also think Mono is wasted time. They should better concentrate on doing their own framework. Which could be as good or better and theirs!
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If you are still wondering just look at their partners page: http://www.freewing.com/jointventure.html (hint top right)
:p
So no guessing anymore for you I think
Where are my car pictures?
How is Windows going to know what pictures are your car pictures, that's assuming that the metadata is useless and so are file names.
You could use a Apple dual g5 but I don't own any Apple machines so I can't tell how good they really are.
Look at this site that another slashdotter posted several posts before you: http://smc.vnet.net/timings50.html (mathimatica benchmarks)
I say if the PETA disagrees then have their members volunteer to clean up the mines!
Maybe they prefer to market their own codec?
I'm sorry I'm not interested in these features. I'm just using my PC as a single desktop with hardware firewall and I don't open executable email attachments. (I tried once for fun but the virus scanner picked it up). I think you just need to remove executable email attachments at the email server level. If you still need to send an executable zip it up. And most Linux tools also work on Windows so that word processor and spreadsheet is not an issue.
And in the corporate enverioment price per licesence is less important than how much the sysadmin earns a year.
I do want to say the there is nothing wrong with WindowsXP security as long as you have virus scanners installed, NAT firewall and perhaps use firefox as default browser.
On the other hand I never had problems getting Linux Mandrake running on my PC no extra hardware drivers/configuration needed. And I could pretty much do anything on it except using a downloaded theme from kde-look. I still haven't figured that one out.
The real problem with Windows based enverioments is just that their sysadmins/network designers suck compared to UNIX based ones who must think what they are doing before they simply just click here and there to install something.
I personally think you could just mix Linux with Windows in a home or corporate network. Take the best of both worlds. And that's also what I would recommend: Windows Desktops running as limited user and Linux servers.
I think it's really easy to figure what Osama Bin Ladens supporters are using.
First figure out from what countries they are mostly from.
Second what's the most populair OS in those countries.
My personal awnser would be they are mostly from arab countries and the most populair os is a illegal Windows system. Like that guy that's related to 9/11 what email provider did he use? Hotmail and hotmail is MS. Or the guys from linuxinstalfest QA of Egypte told that most Egyptians assosiate email hotmail.
I might also agree with you if I knew the details of these:
1. How much does the maintance of a 747 cost? During operation and non operation (fuel, repairs, metal fatique, parts)
2. How much would the maintance cost of a smaller plane? My guess is that it would be cheaper.
3. If smaller planes maintance is cheaper then a 747 then maybe you can get a fleet of smaller planes compared to one big one.
4. Are 747's ok to use in all terain types?
Looks like a big potential security risk to me. And the same reason why it's disabled on future Windows OS's.
You should use this link then http://www.behringer.com/
Instead on JIT (just in time compiling) they should use JID (just in time downloading) what I mean is that the application is on some LAN or WAN server and if a user needs it it will download the components that's needed for that users task. For instance just want to look at a presentation file? Then just download the presentations file viewer components and save them in a cache. (automated offcourse)
.NET but that's still just Windows based)
The chances that Joe would be doing something very different with his cached application on his laptop while on a plane then at his office desk are very slim.
Sounds like something that Java Webstart and Java Beans (google for them) should be able to handle with no special webserver. (so could
Conclusion: Nothing special, move along folks, just marketeers at work.
I don't really buy this as hardware is getting so small today that it's almost at atomic level and also the speeds at which these work have a lot of negative side effects.
The only way would be smarter devices and not faster e.g. IBM G5 vs PIV but this also isn't getting anywhere soon. As will only increase processing time by single digit %. And will hit a barrier.
Only thing left is huge caches and FSB speeds.
I forgot if you use a x86 compatible CPU and the above mentioned device stays in the same price range. Then just add a $5 keyboard and Linux or *BSD and there you have it, a cheapo third world PC that works on batteries.
1. Laptops are to powerhungry
,DB-25 adapter,Protective flip lid .
2. Not child safe (what if it falls) ( you need some gameboy like build device )
3. Expensive
4. Overpowered for this situation.
The best thing to do would to build a custom ebook reader. That wouldn't be to hard I think. Just take an el-cheapo (older model) PDA (its engine) and but a bigger LCD screen on and maybe a bit more vram.
For instance:
1. To save development costs on the hardware and OS and tools we will use the: Palm IIIc Handheld. Which has 256 colours and costs $79. Mind you this price is also including all the extra's like warrenty, batteries, small LCD and Synchronizing HotSync cradle and battery recharger (120 VAC, 60 HZ), Metal stylus, Palm Desktop organizer software, Handbook , Lithium ion rechargeable battery (internal)
So without all of that we will pay Palm $60 for the hardware and OS.
2. Just slap on a slow (not watching video or playing games) and cheap LCD of 800x600 that costs about $60 (in mass quantities). Example here
3. Bluetooth module $5
4. Casing $10
A total price of $60 + $60 + $5 + $10 = $135 for hardware and OS. Now add some $$$ for development costs and accessories and profit and the price will be about $209,95.
Optional: Touchscreen, newer hardware, faster wireless networking etc.
After searching the net for more info on the BeOS Webpad I found this comment:
read it hereIf he would have said: "From a programmers point of view all comp...". Then gaming would be content creation. But I think he thought from an end users point of view.
YEah and if the army didn't support local business. Yeah if the army only bought European arms. Yeah if the army didn't do this a lot of jobs would have gotten lost. The point is a government would want to support its businesses and keep the money in its country.
Have a look at this and scroll down and look at the quake arena 1.32 benchmark. The G5 apple with ati 9800 is about 19% faster then a PIV 3 Ghz with same card.
I agree with you. When I read it yesterday (I found the link on another site). I thought goodie goodie some new tech info. But I noticed it was mostly bla bla about FAT(32) and one paragraph about WinFS. Anyone could have written the review. On the other hand I think for instance the review from arstechnica http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu/02q2/ppc970/ppc970- 1.html on the power 970 was really good and indepth. And you can basicly use it as reference. This is how a review should be done.
I noticed that its faster to copy a large file on a NTFS 5 (W2k and higher) partition to another NTFS 5 from BeOS 5 then in / from Windows Explorer.
:(. So I'm using BeOS to move files from there to a FAT32 partition that W2k3 can read.
For you who don't know BeOS 5 does support NTFS read / write of NTFS. I think they licesenced it or something as it works great except it leaves a folder called "RECYCLER" and it shows all the hidden system filesystem structure files / directories.
I'm now using the BETA of W2k3 Sever and it can't read my old Win2k NTFS partition. It says unknown filesystem and I can't mount it from the logical disk manager
But we are just organic machines. So their is no question about if their are similarities. Its just we are build at atom level and have great software.
I disagree. GUI's are not easier to learn its just easier to move from one GUI OS to another. So you can go to from OSX to WinXP with little hassle. However going from MS-DOS to BASH(or whatever shell) takes more effort.
Yeah and Linux in 2014
They sold it to SCO a long time ago. The weird thing they have to license their own code/ technology back now from SCO.
This sounds like the reason why there is a .NET at all.
As the MS JVM (it is said) is faster and better. So Sun said noway.
I also think Mono is wasted time. They should better concentrate on doing their own framework. Which could be as good or better and theirs!