mmc? open and use the proper script? uggg. That things another unsightly mess. But lets focus on the database. A poorly engineered, not quite a database, um, database. Not a good thing at all.
I dont get it. I am on Linux with FF4. I have 15 tabs open, only using 197 megs. Do you have plugins running? I only use 3: Flashblock, Adblock, and Craigslist Imager.
Please, Please Please may iTunes NEVER come near my Linux box. Damn I hate that software, both in the way it does things, and in the whole idea behind it.
I am so confused by this, see my comment above. No one in my household hacks any makefiles, gets obscure patches and things just work. Thats 6 computers, not counting servers, and they are all the standard desktops. We have been all linux for about 7 years now. Years ago there may have been some issues, but those days are long gone. What the hell do you do to your computer to make it so difficult to use?
Everyone in my household and most of my friends use Linux on the desktop. Windows, at this point, seems foreign and difficult. Support from me is almost always about Windows, with some support for how a specific app works (like really getting use out of Digikam or Firefox plugins). From my point of view, windows is not ready for desktop use. As for windows, try setting up Linux first and adding Windows as the other OS. Think that is easy? Much worse then dealing with Grub. I have not had a problem setting up a dual booting computer in a long time, so I dont know why yours is difficult, but I am guessing its using the slave and setting the MBR.
I find the comment about GIMP a little odd, it does need to support more color space, but whats wrong with the app itself? In Linux the workflow of multi windows with focus follows mouse is really nice to work with. Not to mention that you can leave it in one desktop and switch to another for other tasks so the layout is always the way you leave it.
Will go against the grain here. My older laptop has no windows driver for WPA. With Linux it just works and there was nothing I had to do as a user to make it work. It saw a WPA network, asked for password and I was done.
No. It just does not seem to happen. Every family member, friend, and colleague just seem to quit having problems once they are using Linux. For some reason, once moved away from windows, the problem seems to away.
YES. This is it exactly. Linux support is about making things better and moving forward. Windows is about cleaning up a mess. And in my experience, although Linux needs support to get the ball rolling, once in motion, it takes care of itself. Window's on the other hand, well, the work is never done, there is always more to do, more to fix.
And yet Apple does not have an easy method to show me what I purchased in the Ap-store for my phone? Or an easy way to just reload all purchased apps if my iPhone gets restored? Or make iTunes not suck so hard? I wouldn't trust these bozo's to make it easy to get to any information I entrusted them with.
Choice is what I like, Unity is driving me crazy because it seems so locked down (or devoid of anything interesting all together). I agree with the ability to personalise philosophy.
KDE still rocks for me. Activities is a great concept and actually works well. If you dont want it, dont use it no big deal. Like classic menus? Use them. Like a desktop or several "workspaces"? Its your choice (or the distro managers for the default appearance).
I can not even..... I have to use windows at work, fortunately I can use Linux in a VM. Windows just sucks away my time, while Linux gets work done, and done fast. I cant even fathom what you are talking about.
Why the hate? It was an example, albeit a simple one, just something for it to do. And how long for powershell to start up? The real world examples I have are things like parsing, sorting, logging, and using functions like tail. Fact is wget, awk, sed, tail, grep are all pre compiled. Using the.NET libraries to perform what appears to be simple tasks, can often hurt performance considerably, which also was my point. I ran into this using get-child item and get-content, there were better ways. Finally, why so defensive? Win 7 is measurable better then XP, from security to usability, gone are the days when the whole screen would just go away because a network drive went off line. In the end it doesnt matter, if it is slow and uses gobs of resources for me, then it does. Period. If I get better performance putting my windows apps in Wine or running Win7 in a VM while still running a complete suite of tools then it is that way for me.
No it's not memory, I have checked (as I watch apps that DO leak memory....), it might be IO. Typical load: VS, SQL Studio, Firefox (20 or so Tabs), 2 instances of CAD, Outlook, Several word docs, Excel, Lightweight Linux Distro in a VM with a few small apps) and Antivirus.
Change this around to a the same machine but run a Linux box: 20 or so tabs in Firefox, a VM with Win7 (VS and SQLStudio), several Libre docs and calc sheets, a few PDF's, Kmail and Kontact + Amarok, nice widgets (not crappy Win7 ones) full desktop effects, Digikam photo software and the Gimp, 4 workspaces... you get the idea.
Win 7 just pauses from time to time, opening apps, right clicking menus always seem slow.
Powershell slow? Go ahead its easy to pick a simple task, write it in powershell (maybe a sort or nested loop counter?) then write it in C#. Even just launching powershell is enough to make me want to use bash (or make a.NET app). For general tasks that you dont care about the time it takes, then it doesnt matter. Also it is easy to make a powershell script that functions but is not the most efficient, but that is not what I am talking about here.
Win 7 performance when doing more then one task at once is really poor. Admittedly, this is on machines that do have full anti virus running, so that is an additional load, but in general once several tasks are running, it is not very responsive. Far better then XP however, particularly with network operations, and clearly the kernel space is separated from the user. But I cant just leave applications running like I do on the production Linux boxes, and this seems to be across a variety of software. Some of the slow down could be due to the huge reliance on.NET in many of the windows applications, and I am not saying that.NET is slow, but that the framework may make it a little to easy to slap together apps using a lot of libraries at run time. I have discovered several memory leaks in Win7, for example the Sidebar.exe. Powershell is dreadfully slow as well, several tests have confirmed that it is 20 to 50 times slower then a.NET C# app doing the same thing. For this reason I still use Bash on Windows. System resources are wasteful, the requirements are going through the roof on the server side, although if the requirements are met, the server performs fairly well.
I used to set up encryption using fuse and encfs. That worked well enough for me. The problem I have with Truecrypt is that I have to define a file size before hand. Is there a function for Truecrypt to use cowfs or auto resizing files?
I wonder if they are using Web Workers? Distributing the work while people are visiting the web site would surely help speed up the processing and distribute the load. Nothing to do with the site being down, just a thought after I saw this page: http://blog.0x82.com/2010/11/22/map-crowd-reduce
He may not be technically correct, but I have many times worked with projects where the.NET developer basically gives up because Microsoft did not A) provide that tool already, or B) his training never explored the possibility that someone would ever want 1.7oz burger.
BS. Assuming a web product and assuming you want everything to work smoothly, so you use MS products: You license the Windows machine, Visual studio (no way you are doing corporate work on Express), MSSQL plus the web license. Now this is where it gets fun: You want a Dev environment, and you want to backport production data into it, thats gonna cost you. You want to send the sample project over to a different division as well, so you need to get a whole new set of licenses WIndows + MSSQL dev, more cost. Quickly you find yourself managing a lot of licenses, and sometimes you spend a great deal of time just trying to figure out what you can or cant do.
Do start with the reboot of the new series in 2005. Give yourself about 4 episodes or so, it grows on you. My first impressions were that it was like watching the Outer Limits series when it was redone; decent TV nothing exceptional. But then about by episode 4 or 5 I found it to be more, the characters were interesting and I rooted for the doctor. From then on it is good TV, acting is well done, some of the episodes (Empty Child/Doctor Dances) are really great, and you realise there is an story arc encompassing each season. I also found it to be a great vehicle to bond with my pre teen. There is science to talk about, CGI to gawk at, and human relationships to explore, while never crossing the threshold of distasteful or vulgar.
You know what? I challenge this assumption: First that cost is often associated with the training programs that the vendors themselves charge, and will not let you copy or distribute the training materials.
Second, and most importantly, if others join in this movement, we effectively have increased our knowledge and support base. Here the emphasis is on getting work done, contributions to the software, manuals, etc, are shared.
Third, and most important: If I am cutting costs, I would be willing to say to my employees, either help me save some money and learn to do things differently, or I will find someone who will. But dont be shy about it, be up front with cost savings, the bottom line, and how their contribution is saving all of our positions.
Why is the Windows trash can a folder, yet I can not just browse the contents? In KDE I can just look in the folder and treat it just like any other, and I can purge by date to clean it up. All files are exactly what they were before but with the one additional option to restore it.
Quickbooks is 1 of the two reasons why I LEFT Microsoft products behind. I dont agree at all with your assesment. QB is a crutch, a timewaster and a pain in the ass if you have to manage multiple locations and offices. Add in the questionable legal tactics and security flaws of Quicken (at the time for me anyway) and the deal was over. I am not trusting some closed ever changing application with my financial data. The effort of tracking licenses and users was unbearable. I moved all accounting to a server based solution, rolled out the ability to do entry and views in and out of the office, and got it onto a Linux server. End of year I paid an accountant/tax office to actually do thier job to pour over the books and make sure we were in balance and that was that. As for Outlook, I am not impressed (maybe I should try the plugin's as I never have) but the (out of the box) lack of instant search for people, lack of drag and drop of resources/accounts into calendars, and general mess the UI is for me, I would have to believe there is a better way.
The IT manager of a small (about 700) users system has gone all FOSS and does just fine once told me "People come and see, admire the low operating cost, satisfied workers and high uptime of the system, then go home saying it will never work". Quite frankly, I have personally been fairly happy with the latest release of Kontact, but I have to admit I have never seen it in a large operation.
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Yeah, its good at that. But funny thing, it has the better desktop workflows too. Go figure.
mmc? open and use the proper script? uggg. That things another unsightly mess. But lets focus on the database. A poorly engineered, not quite a database, um, database. Not a good thing at all.
I dont get it. I am on Linux with FF4. I have 15 tabs open, only using 197 megs. Do you have plugins running? I only use 3: Flashblock, Adblock, and Craigslist Imager.
And a lot of things Linux Music stuff DOES do that iTunes just cant as well.
Please, Please Please may iTunes NEVER come near my Linux box. Damn I hate that software, both in the way it does things, and in the whole idea behind it.
Long live Clementine, Amarok, and DeadBeef.
Oh and you too VLC.
I am so confused by this, see my comment above. No one in my household hacks any makefiles, gets obscure patches and things just work. Thats 6 computers, not counting servers, and they are all the standard desktops. We have been all linux for about 7 years now. Years ago there may have been some issues, but those days are long gone. What the hell do you do to your computer to make it so difficult to use?
Everyone in my household and most of my friends use Linux on the desktop. Windows, at this point, seems foreign and difficult. Support from me is almost always about Windows, with some support for how a specific app works (like really getting use out of Digikam or Firefox plugins). From my point of view, windows is not ready for desktop use. As for windows, try setting up Linux first and adding Windows as the other OS. Think that is easy? Much worse then dealing with Grub. I have not had a problem setting up a dual booting computer in a long time, so I dont know why yours is difficult, but I am guessing its using the slave and setting the MBR.
I find the comment about GIMP a little odd, it does need to support more color space, but whats wrong with the app itself? In Linux the workflow of multi windows with focus follows mouse is really nice to work with. Not to mention that you can leave it in one desktop and switch to another for other tasks so the layout is always the way you leave it.
Will go against the grain here. My older laptop has no windows driver for WPA. With Linux it just works and there was nothing I had to do as a user to make it work. It saw a WPA network, asked for password and I was done.
You can still watch netflix. Just keep bouncing around the menus, and the Sony annoyance will go away and into netflix you go.
No. It just does not seem to happen. Every family member, friend, and colleague just seem to quit having problems once they are using Linux. For some reason, once moved away from windows, the problem seems to away.
YES. This is it exactly. Linux support is about making things better and moving forward.
Windows is about cleaning up a mess. And in my experience, although Linux needs support to get the ball rolling, once in motion, it takes care of itself. Window's on the other hand, well, the work is never done, there is always more to do, more to fix.
And yet Apple does not have an easy method to show me what I purchased in the Ap-store for my phone? Or an easy way to just reload all purchased apps if my iPhone gets restored? Or make iTunes not suck so hard?
I wouldn't trust these bozo's to make it easy to get to any information I entrusted them with.
Choice is what I like, Unity is driving me crazy because it seems so locked down (or devoid of anything interesting all together). I agree with the ability to personalise philosophy.
KDE still rocks for me. Activities is a great concept and actually works well. If you dont want it, dont use it no big deal. Like classic menus? Use them. Like a desktop or several "workspaces"? Its your choice (or the distro managers for the default appearance).
I can not even..... I have to use windows at work, fortunately I can use Linux in a VM. Windows just sucks away my time, while Linux gets work done, and done fast. I cant even fathom what you are talking about.
Why the hate? It was an example, albeit a simple one, just something for it to do. And how long for powershell to start up? The real world examples I have are things like parsing, sorting, logging, and using functions like tail. Fact is wget, awk, sed, tail, grep are all pre compiled. Using the .NET libraries to perform what appears to be simple tasks, can often hurt performance considerably, which also was my point. I ran into this using get-child item and get-content, there were better ways.
Finally, why so defensive? Win 7 is measurable better then XP, from security to usability, gone are the days when the whole screen would just go away because a network drive went off line.
In the end it doesnt matter, if it is slow and uses gobs of resources for me, then it does. Period. If I get better performance putting my windows apps in Wine or running Win7 in a VM while still running a complete suite of tools then it is that way for me.
No it's not memory, I have checked (as I watch apps that DO leak memory....), it might be IO. Typical load: VS, SQL Studio, Firefox (20 or so Tabs), 2 instances of CAD, Outlook, Several word docs, Excel, Lightweight Linux Distro in a VM with a few small apps) and Antivirus.
Change this around to a the same machine but run a Linux box: 20 or so tabs in Firefox, a VM with Win7 (VS and SQLStudio), several Libre docs and calc sheets, a few PDF's, Kmail and Kontact + Amarok, nice widgets (not crappy Win7 ones) full desktop effects, Digikam photo software and the Gimp, 4 workspaces ... you get the idea.
Win 7 just pauses from time to time, opening apps, right clicking menus always seem slow.
Powershell slow? Go ahead its easy to pick a simple task, write it in powershell (maybe a sort or nested loop counter?) then write it in C#. Even just launching powershell is enough to make me want to use bash (or make a .NET app). For general tasks that you dont care about the time it takes, then it doesnt matter. Also it is easy to make a powershell script that functions but is not the most efficient, but that is not what I am talking about here.
Win 7 performance when doing more then one task at once is really poor. Admittedly, this is on machines that do have full anti virus running, so that is an additional load, but in general once several tasks are running, it is not very responsive. Far better then XP however, particularly with network operations, and clearly the kernel space is separated from the user. But I cant just leave applications running like I do on the production Linux boxes, and this seems to be across a variety of software. Some of the slow down could be due to the huge reliance on .NET in many of the windows applications, and I am not saying that .NET is slow, but that the framework may make it a little to easy to slap together apps using a lot of libraries at run time. .NET C# app doing the same thing. For this reason I still use Bash on Windows.
I have discovered several memory leaks in Win7, for example the Sidebar.exe. Powershell is dreadfully slow as well, several tests have confirmed that it is 20 to 50 times slower then a
System resources are wasteful, the requirements are going through the roof on the server side, although if the requirements are met, the server performs fairly well.
I used to set up encryption using fuse and encfs. That worked well enough for me. The problem I have with Truecrypt is that I have to define a file size before hand. Is there a function for Truecrypt to use cowfs or auto resizing files?
I wonder if they are using Web Workers? Distributing the work while people are visiting the web site would surely help speed up the processing and distribute the load. Nothing to do with the site being down, just a thought after I saw this page: http://blog.0x82.com/2010/11/22/map-crowd-reduce
He may not be technically correct, but I have many times worked with projects where the .NET developer basically gives up because Microsoft did not A) provide that tool already, or B) his training never explored the possibility that someone would ever want 1.7oz burger.
BS. Assuming a web product and assuming you want everything to work smoothly, so you use MS products:
You license the Windows machine, Visual studio (no way you are doing corporate work on Express), MSSQL plus the web license.
Now this is where it gets fun: You want a Dev environment, and you want to backport production data into it, thats gonna cost you. You want to send the sample project over to a different division as well, so you need to get a whole new set of licenses WIndows + MSSQL dev, more cost.
Quickly you find yourself managing a lot of licenses, and sometimes you spend a great deal of time just trying to figure out what you can or cant do.
Particularly with SQL server I might add: http://www.straightpathsql.com/archives/2010/07/sql-server-licensing-or-tax-forms/
Do start with the reboot of the new series in 2005.
Give yourself about 4 episodes or so, it grows on you. My first impressions were that it was like watching the Outer Limits series when it was redone; decent TV nothing exceptional. But then about by episode 4 or 5 I found it to be more, the characters were interesting and I rooted for the doctor. From then on it is good TV, acting is well done, some of the episodes (Empty Child/Doctor Dances) are really great, and you realise there is an story arc encompassing each season. I also found it to be a great vehicle to bond with my pre teen. There is science to talk about, CGI to gawk at, and human relationships to explore, while never crossing the threshold of distasteful or vulgar.
You know what? I challenge this assumption:
First that cost is often associated with the training programs that the vendors themselves charge, and will not let you copy or distribute the training materials.
Second, and most importantly, if others join in this movement, we effectively have increased our knowledge and support base. Here the emphasis is on getting work done, contributions to the software, manuals, etc, are shared.
Third, and most important: If I am cutting costs, I would be willing to say to my employees, either help me save some money and learn to do things differently, or I will find someone who will. But dont be shy about it, be up front with cost savings, the bottom line, and how their contribution is saving all of our positions.
Why is the Windows trash can a folder, yet I can not just browse the contents? In KDE I can just look in the folder and treat it just like any other, and I can purge by date to clean it up. All files are exactly what they were before but with the one additional option to restore it.
Quickbooks is 1 of the two reasons why I LEFT Microsoft products behind. I dont agree at all with your assesment. QB is a crutch, a timewaster and a pain in the ass if you have to manage multiple locations and offices. Add in the questionable legal tactics and security flaws of Quicken (at the time for me anyway) and the deal was over. I am not trusting some closed ever changing application with my financial data.
The effort of tracking licenses and users was unbearable. I moved all accounting to a server based solution, rolled out the ability to do entry and views in and out of the office, and got it onto a Linux server. End of year I paid an accountant/tax office to actually do thier job to pour over the books and make sure we were in balance and that was that.
As for Outlook, I am not impressed (maybe I should try the plugin's as I never have) but the (out of the box) lack of instant search for people, lack of drag and drop of resources/accounts into calendars, and general mess the UI is for me, I would have to believe there is a better way.
The IT manager of a small (about 700) users system has gone all FOSS and does just fine once told me "People come and see, admire the low operating cost, satisfied workers and high uptime of the system, then go home saying it will never work".
Quite frankly, I have personally been fairly happy with the latest release of Kontact, but I have to admit I have never seen it in a large operation.