But hopefully, with systemd making things more "Windows-like" people will be able to disable avahi daemon without being a professional linux/unix sysadmin.
It's sad. Just a few days ago I stumbled upon a site about old win16 (Windows 1.0 and 2.0!) which has links to a collection of Windows 3.1 games too. In particular I found out about a "lost" microsoft game : when Windows 3.1 came out, Reversi was left out but they actually made an updated version of it that looks like a Windows 3.1 game!
The worst/best thing about it is that it's actually useful to have that game around. I have a gnome 3 version of Reversi (Iagno 3.8.2) which always end up locking itself with 100% CPU at one point. And Win16 Reversi is challenging on "beginner".
Rather than old Windows I think I would try to run old Linux in a VM, such as debian squeeze (got extended to five years of support)
LCD TV might need a lot more energy at fabrication than a CRT TV, and lasts about a decade rather than two decades. Likewise phones may need a couple watts but you have to make them, and they're supported by many wifi routers and datacenters. Of course the flat TV may even out itself but we have loads of "external" energy use.
Right now we very roughly have about one billion people consuming about 80% of resources, six billions consuming the other 20%. Democidal concepts are usually reserved for the poors. So let's imagine the "rich" population stays stable at one billion and the "poor" is reduced from six billions to one billion. The consumption in resources is reduced by only 17%, and defeating financial capitalism is already required in that scenario so that the economic activity is stagnating not growing.
At least 10 of the top 20 most played games on Steam have native Linux versions, so they are hardly irrelevant. DOTA2, CS:GO, and TF2 alone have peaks of more than 1.1 million active (in-game) players combined. Some of the rest, like Skyrim, can be run well with Wine, other than lower frame rate compared to Windows.
The issue may be how to install the game, and how to acquire it? Sometimes you can run a Windows game on Wine, but you can't install it. And then maybe you need to crack the game before running it on Wine. And to try the game out, you might need warez downloads anyway. e.g. to run the first Serious Sam (over 10-year-old at that point) I had to boot into Windows to install it. Then it runs fine under Windows. Then it runs on linux when mounting the.iso under/mnt.. except for the graphical output which stays empty outside of menus. Maybe it'll work with a different graphics card and/or by upgrading the distro. BUT, I'd be spending money to buy new hardware without knowing if the game will work or not afterwards.
That some new games (e.g. Starcraft II) do work under Wine is a weak argument (e.g. Blizzard is known to test games under Wine)
There's considerable heating when you ride, from your metabolism and muscles etc. It makes riding at -5C (23F) a piece of cake and I think the worst I ever experienced was -10C (14F). In fact the problem then is when entering a building, that's like a heatwave and you're heavily sweating. Have to stand outside a bit, waiting to cool off.
I would love to try riding at -30C to -20C (-40C? if the "warmer" rides work out and even then maybe not!). I have no experience of these temperatures whatsoever. I'd fear something nasty could happen to the tires, brake cables and whatnot.
There really were "Windows Nein" jokes already waiting for it some of them involving moustaches, svatiskas and hysterical screams (decency standards need not apply)
I believe electrics and hybrids are overrated most of the time : huge costs and environmentally friendly don't mix that well in my mind. Garbage trucks are a nice low hanging fruit and are universally needed. Whatever place they're to be found before/after their work day so to speak is where you can do electrical charging and maintenance (and maybe the same for other municipal vehicles)
If electric somewhat hybrid garbage trucks make sense, they'd be welcome everywhere, even/especially in African and Asian countries.
That's not a compelling reason to have two code bases. Indeed, in Windows 7 itself, the need to support 32-bit went away. By now, it should be history.
I really don't understand what you say there. Win 7 32bit allows to use XP drivers, and then it runs on Athlon XP, Pentium 4 etc. It's absolutely needed and with EOL XP, Microsoft would have had to tell users to junk their hardware or switch to linux.
I remember seeing on TV some many years ago french cops or gendarmerie had a Subaru to catch severe speeders and other criminals. Decades before the Citroen SM served that role. (Else usually it's motorbikes)
I agree and I'm not the only one. If an idiot is tailgating you, slowing down is a very sensible thing to do. They're endangering you (and possibly others such as stranded people or animals waiting ahead on the road) not only themselves.
In fact tailgating should be considered a more serious offense than very minimal speeding (yet I'm of the opinion that speed limit is a maximum, not a minimum)
Apple used to have media campaigns based on big, blatant benchmarking lies. They cooked up Photoshop benchmarks, which if you pay minimal attention were not actually benchmarking Photoshop but some specially prepared plugins. Find a workload that favours your CPU, create an artificial benchmark disguised as an useful program, hand optimize it like fuck on Mac/PPC and make a sloppy variant for Windows/x86. Then you can boast that e.g. PowerPC G3 is twice as fast as Pentium II in "Photoshop".
SSE2 is already required by Windows at least, as NX bit is required and CPU that support it have SSE2. It's built-in into every x86-64 processor too. After that, you have diminishing returns. For processes/threads scheduling, file management and whatever housekeeping, wide SIMD floating point seems worthless. Tesselation? A window manager will use rectangles, made of two triangles. In some limited cases like thumbnail management, maybe advanced SIMD or hardware can be used. Using a special version of a library or binary would be worth it.
Or upgrade to 2GB and SSD (there might be solutions like 2.5" IDE to mSATA adapter) ; clean up dust and even thermal paste as needed. It would possibly make Vista quite bearable. Around 2016 or 2017, upgrade to Windows 10.1 or whatever it's called by then.
Microsoft supports its operating systems for 11 years, but that support may get extended (it could likely happen to 7 as with Windows XP) For hardware repairs, DIY or ask an independant computer shop.
Not every Prescott CPU supports NX bit, let's say it was not yet enabled. You have Pentium 4 Prescott with 32bit support, then 32bit + NX, then 64bit - which always includes NX. A really huge amount of machines had the first ones such as Pentium 4 530, Pentium 4 540 and thus no support for NX bit. Often little Dell or Compaq thinks with Intel chipset that just won't die and may be nice to use even now.
Funnily, a Celeron Prescott is more likely to support NX and even 64bit, they seem to have the later revisions of the chip. Athlon/Athlon XP do not support NX bit at all and arguably still usable even today, if the motherboard didn't die.
Your flawed custom C++ application may run better on linux, but in the real world my linux desktop uses more CPU cycles than a Windows desktop and that's a trade off I make. Worse drivers, Xorg CPU usage, Pulseaudio CPU usage, and then some little bugs, warts or cruft or hope for better drivers/programs mean I have to upgrade distro about once a year or every couple years (by which it's overdue). Windows version can be upgraded every 5 or 6 years.
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But hopefully, with systemd making things more "Windows-like" people will be able to disable avahi daemon without being a professional linux/unix sysadmin.
It's sad. Just a few days ago I stumbled upon a site about old win16 (Windows 1.0 and 2.0!) which has links to a collection of Windows 3.1 games too.
In particular I found out about a "lost" microsoft game : when Windows 3.1 came out, Reversi was left out but they actually made an updated version of it that looks like a Windows 3.1 game!
http://members.chello.at/theod...
The worst/best thing about it is that it's actually useful to have that game around. I have a gnome 3 version of Reversi (Iagno 3.8.2) which always end up locking itself with 100% CPU at one point. And Win16 Reversi is challenging on "beginner".
Rather than old Windows I think I would try to run old Linux in a VM, such as debian squeeze (got extended to five years of support)
We need an emacs smartphone! Not necessarily to run emacs on it, but at least we'll have the modifier keys on or around it.
LCD TV might need a lot more energy at fabrication than a CRT TV, and lasts about a decade rather than two decades. Likewise phones may need a couple watts but you have to make them, and they're supported by many wifi routers and datacenters.
Of course the flat TV may even out itself but we have loads of "external" energy use.
Right now we very roughly have about one billion people consuming about 80% of resources, six billions consuming the other 20%.
Democidal concepts are usually reserved for the poors. So let's imagine the "rich" population stays stable at one billion and the "poor" is reduced from six billions to one billion. The consumption in resources is reduced by only 17%, and defeating financial capitalism is already required in that scenario so that the economic activity is stagnating not growing.
At least 10 of the top 20 most played games on Steam have native Linux versions, so they are hardly irrelevant. DOTA2, CS:GO, and TF2 alone have peaks of more than 1.1 million active (in-game) players combined. Some of the rest, like Skyrim, can be run well with Wine, other than lower frame rate compared to Windows.
The issue may be how to install the game, and how to acquire it? .iso under /mnt .. except for the graphical output which stays empty outside of menus. Maybe it'll work with a different graphics card and/or by upgrading the distro. BUT, I'd be spending money to buy new hardware without knowing if the game will work or not afterwards.
Sometimes you can run a Windows game on Wine, but you can't install it. And then maybe you need to crack the game before running it on Wine. And to try the game out, you might need warez downloads anyway.
e.g. to run the first Serious Sam (over 10-year-old at that point) I had to boot into Windows to install it. Then it runs fine under Windows. Then it runs on linux when mounting the
That some new games (e.g. Starcraft II) do work under Wine is a weak argument (e.g. Blizzard is known to test games under Wine)
We are currently wasting almost a 100% of it now. All that solar energy and hardly anyone is capturing it.
We're failing to build a Dyson sphere, capture the Earth mantle's heat and siphon the hydrocarbons of Titan, while we're at it.
There's considerable heating when you ride, from your metabolism and muscles etc.
It makes riding at -5C (23F) a piece of cake and I think the worst I ever experienced was -10C (14F). In fact the problem then is when entering a building, that's like a heatwave and you're heavily sweating. Have to stand outside a bit, waiting to cool off.
I would love to try riding at -30C to -20C (-40C? if the "warmer" rides work out and even then maybe not!). I have no experience of these temperatures whatsoever. I'd fear something nasty could happen to the tires, brake cables and whatnot.
How the hell then do people there manage to get out of their home at all and not freeze to death?
There really were "Windows Nein" jokes already waiting for it some of them involving moustaches, svatiskas and hysterical screams (decency standards need not apply)
Bike roads ought to be rather cheap : not much weight is applied on them by the vehicles.
I believe electrics and hybrids are overrated most of the time : huge costs and environmentally friendly don't mix that well in my mind.
Garbage trucks are a nice low hanging fruit and are universally needed. Whatever place they're to be found before/after their work day so to speak is where you can do electrical charging and maintenance (and maybe the same for other municipal vehicles)
If electric somewhat hybrid garbage trucks make sense, they'd be welcome everywhere, even/especially in African and Asian countries.
XP mode is end-of-lined since April 2014 and thus it's deprecated, unsupported, considered a security risk.
That's not a compelling reason to have two code bases. Indeed, in Windows 7 itself, the need to support 32-bit went away. By now, it should be history.
I really don't understand what you say there. Win 7 32bit allows to use XP drivers, and then it runs on Athlon XP, Pentium 4 etc.
It's absolutely needed and with EOL XP, Microsoft would have had to tell users to junk their hardware or switch to linux.
Plenty motherboards with the latest sockets or soldered CPU have a parallel port.
Windows needs to support both amd64 and ARM 32bit, soon ARM 64bit.
So there are already multiple architectures + 32bit vs 64bit.
I remember seeing on TV some many years ago french cops or gendarmerie had a Subaru to catch severe speeders and other criminals. Decades before the Citroen SM served that role. (Else usually it's motorbikes)
Why is this down-modded..
I agree and I'm not the only one. If an idiot is tailgating you, slowing down is a very sensible thing to do. They're endangering you (and possibly others such as stranded people or animals waiting ahead on the road) not only themselves.
In fact tailgating should be considered a more serious offense than very minimal speeding (yet I'm of the opinion that speed limit is a maximum, not a minimum)
Apple used to have media campaigns based on big, blatant benchmarking lies. They cooked up Photoshop benchmarks, which if you pay minimal attention were not actually benchmarking Photoshop but some specially prepared plugins.
Find a workload that favours your CPU, create an artificial benchmark disguised as an useful program, hand optimize it like fuck on Mac/PPC and make a sloppy variant for Windows/x86. Then you can boast that e.g. PowerPC G3 is twice as fast as Pentium II in "Photoshop".
I am not going to browse slashdot with wget, use a curses music player and watch movies/shows with mplayer and libcaca just to please you.
SSE2 is already required by Windows at least, as NX bit is required and CPU that support it have SSE2. It's built-in into every x86-64 processor too.
After that, you have diminishing returns. For processes/threads scheduling, file management and whatever housekeeping, wide SIMD floating point seems worthless. Tesselation? A window manager will use rectangles, made of two triangles.
In some limited cases like thumbnail management, maybe advanced SIMD or hardware can be used. Using a special version of a library or binary would be worth it.
Or upgrade to 2GB and SSD (there might be solutions like 2.5" IDE to mSATA adapter) ; clean up dust and even thermal paste as needed.
It would possibly make Vista quite bearable. Around 2016 or 2017, upgrade to Windows 10.1 or whatever it's called by then.
Microsoft supports its operating systems for 11 years, but that support may get extended (it could likely happen to 7 as with Windows XP)
For hardware repairs, DIY or ask an independant computer shop.
Not every Prescott CPU supports NX bit, let's say it was not yet enabled.
You have Pentium 4 Prescott with 32bit support, then 32bit + NX, then 64bit - which always includes NX.
A really huge amount of machines had the first ones such as Pentium 4 530, Pentium 4 540 and thus no support for NX bit. Often little Dell or Compaq thinks with Intel chipset that just won't die and may be nice to use even now.
Funnily, a Celeron Prescott is more likely to support NX and even 64bit, they seem to have the later revisions of the chip.
Athlon/Athlon XP do not support NX bit at all and arguably still usable even today, if the motherboard didn't die.
Your flawed custom C++ application may run better on linux, but in the real world my linux desktop uses more CPU cycles than a Windows desktop and that's a trade off I make. Worse drivers, Xorg CPU usage, Pulseaudio CPU usage, and then some little bugs, warts or cruft or hope for better drivers/programs mean I have to upgrade distro about once a year or every couple years (by which it's overdue). Windows version can be upgraded every 5 or 6 years.