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In my experience people aren't switching as such, but they're not upgrading either, and just sticking with what they have and taking the pain of newer things being difficult to integrate. At some point it just doesn't become economical to keep rolling out windows for precious little needed extra functionality.
I had a game that let me play a pacman clone while the real game was loading from tape.... the name escapes me at the moment, can anyone remember what it was called? Some form of side scrolling beat 'em up if I recall.
AA is pointless at higher resolutions IMO, but AF is nice admittedly, however neither is really worth the 300% premium that the top cards currently carry. The graphics market needs someone like AMD to shake it up with some decent low cost solutions.
I suppose card manufacturers can get away with it because the differences are much more obvious to the eye than things like SSE or 3DNow!
However you could have saved yourself a stack of cash and got something like a GF4 4200, which plays UT2k3 perfectly well, and will be just as inadequate as the 9700pro when Doom 3 and Half Life 2 comes along.
Are these 'mature' folk in the US not allowed to run for political office / appear on TV / go on holidays abroad? All I see are gab happy gung ho idiots who think being environmentally friendly is farting in private.
Surely they're alleging that IBM must have had access to this source somehow? Whatever the hell they are talking about will be mirrored throughout the world on the Linux side. As far as the code they're claiming they did first, I assume they'll have to prove it with dated documentation, which is pretty difficult to prove/disprove either way. Unless they've got some magical ace up their sleeve I can't see anyone but IBM winning. I always hated SCO anyway.
Last time I looked to set up a windows system with anything like the functionality of a linux system you'd need the windows CD, the office CD(s), the visual studio CD(s), the SQL Server CD(s) ad infinitum.
Then this is the right way to go about it! On one hand we have 802.11x which is multiplatform and rich with many forms of software, as well as innovations such as Apple's rendezvous. On the other hand we'll have this, restrictive, closed and limited. I know where my money (already) is....
I say make him keep the old graphics card. That's a good minimum level in terms of consumer graphics hardware and it'll ensure the end product isn't bloated if it's useable.
I just set up jumpstart with our default build and let it install itself. Doesn't everyone do this? I don't think I'd be looked upon too fondly at work if I just sat stabbing the keyboard for every build I'm asked to do here.
Except of course it's only the large labels are members. Look at what they did to small internet radio stations. It's not a monopoly - it's a cartel, which is just as illegal. Unfortunately eyes just keep getting blinder.
Agree wholeheartedly. I just switched to Mac after Linux, and before that I was on Windows. I've tried XP at work (no choice there really) but I just think it's poor. Once I new Apple were going to base on *BSD and saw that they were becoming sufficiently reliable, I couldn't wait.
I'm a Solaris sysadmin by trade so it's nice to get home to something that really just works. I think the platform is more than fast enough these days (hell it's nice to get out of the upgrade cycle). I can't see how much more mileage there is in speeding up and bloating the OS to suit.
Most windows security flaws are based around IE and Outlook though. I can't remember the last time I saw a flaw in a Linux mail client, and gecko/khtml based browsers also number in single digits over the last couple of years.
Most linux flaws are not linux at all, but stuff like named, sendmail, sshd, i.e. stuff that the standard desktop machine won't be running anyway.
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In my experience people aren't switching as such, but they're not upgrading either, and just sticking with what they have and taking the pain of newer things being difficult to integrate. At some point it just doesn't become economical to keep rolling out windows for precious little needed extra functionality.
I had a game that let me play a pacman clone while the real game was loading from tape.... the name escapes me at the moment, can anyone remember what it was called? Some form of side scrolling beat 'em up if I recall.
AA is pointless at higher resolutions IMO, but AF is nice admittedly, however neither is really worth the 300% premium that the top cards currently carry. The graphics market needs someone like AMD to shake it up with some decent low cost solutions. I suppose card manufacturers can get away with it because the differences are much more obvious to the eye than things like SSE or 3DNow!
However you could have saved yourself a stack of cash and got something like a GF4 4200, which plays UT2k3 perfectly well, and will be just as inadequate as the 9700pro when Doom 3 and Half Life 2 comes along.
Are these 'mature' folk in the US not allowed to run for political office / appear on TV / go on holidays abroad? All I see are gab happy gung ho idiots who think being environmentally friendly is farting in private.
Surely they're alleging that IBM must have had access to this source somehow? Whatever the hell they are talking about will be mirrored throughout the world on the Linux side. As far as the code they're claiming they did first, I assume they'll have to prove it with dated documentation, which is pretty difficult to prove/disprove either way. Unless they've got some magical ace up their sleeve I can't see anyone but IBM winning. I always hated SCO anyway.
Last time I looked to set up a windows system with anything like the functionality of a linux system you'd need the windows CD, the office CD(s), the visual studio CD(s), the SQL Server CD(s) ad infinitum.
Then this is the right way to go about it! On one hand we have 802.11x which is multiplatform and rich with many forms of software, as well as innovations such as Apple's rendezvous. On the other hand we'll have this, restrictive, closed and limited. I know where my money (already) is....
I say make him keep the old graphics card. That's a good minimum level in terms of consumer graphics hardware and it'll ensure the end product isn't bloated if it's useable.
I just set up jumpstart with our default build and let it install itself. Doesn't everyone do this? I don't think I'd be looked upon too fondly at work if I just sat stabbing the keyboard for every build I'm asked to do here.
Except of course it's only the large labels are members. Look at what they did to small internet radio stations. It's not a monopoly - it's a cartel, which is just as illegal. Unfortunately eyes just keep getting blinder.
Agree wholeheartedly. I just switched to Mac after Linux, and before that I was on Windows. I've tried XP at work (no choice there really) but I just think it's poor. Once I new Apple were going to base on *BSD and saw that they were becoming sufficiently reliable, I couldn't wait.
I'm a Solaris sysadmin by trade so it's nice to get home to something that really just works. I think the platform is more than fast enough these days (hell it's nice to get out of the upgrade cycle). I can't see how much more mileage there is in speeding up and bloating the OS to suit.
Most windows security flaws are based around IE and Outlook though. I can't remember the last time I saw a flaw in a Linux mail client, and gecko/khtml based browsers also number in single digits over the last couple of years. Most linux flaws are not linux at all, but stuff like named, sendmail, sshd, i.e. stuff that the standard desktop machine won't be running anyway.
I thought it was 'Sam Tramiel', as in 'Atari ST' (as one half of the rumour goes, the other being that ST meant Sixteen Thirty-Two).
Jimmy Page now uses an electronically self tuning guitar.....wired has a story about it.
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Try to keep up, like Jimmy does.