well some differences between win4lin and vmware I can think of:
1. price difference. $80 vs $300
2. the consensus is that win4lin is much faster than vmware. so much so that if I want to browse huge xml files (several MBs) I would rather open it in IE under win4lin than under mozilla under linux.
3. win4lin only supports win98/ME.
4. win4lin uses the native linux file system so files can be shared by windows/linux (you can create a sym link to your home directory under the win4lin windows directory
5.win4lin has limited support for certain devices such as USB devices (other than mice and keyboards)
I guess they do partial directx, that is, games that run in full screen mode won't work. but running windows media player in full screen mode does work.
admittedly I haven't really tested running starcraft under win4lin, although I doubt it would work.
Subject: Will Win4Lin run Windows 2000 or Windows XP?
Author: Amanda Owens
No, as of Win4Lin Version 4.0, Win4Lin only runs Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME. We are currently developing Windows 2000 support for a future Win4Lin release, but do not yet have a target date when the release will be available.
this is the official party line
http://www.netraverse.com/frame_index.php?screen=s upporthome
Subject Will Win4Lin run Windows 2000 or Windows XP?
Author Amanda Owens
No, as of Win4Lin Version 4.0, Win4Lin only runs Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME. We are currently developing Windows 2000 support for a future Win4Lin release, but do not yet have a target date when the release will be available.
It's a pretty cheap service, but some doubts were brought up whether Americans could legally use the service.
It charges 1 cent per MB of downloading, and it works out to about 5-8 cents per song. You can choose your encoding (mp3, ogg etc.) and bitrate.
Allofmp3.com
Personally, I use Win4Lin. It's runs windows as either a separate window or in full screen mode (think X Windows but running Windws). I sometimes like to run win4lin in full screen mode and confuse people since it's almost impossible to tell you're running it under linux until you try to do low-level stuff like configuring device drivers & network stuff.
It's a really great product; but only runs Windows 98 (heard they're working on Win2K version), and doesn't do directx games.
Other than that, everything works -- Microsoft Office, IE, Kazaa, chessmaster etc. I'll be happy to provide more details on request.
Oh yes, I have no links to said company other than being a very satisfied customer.
offhand without knowing the actual figures, there are two reasons why Disney might be worth more as part of an acquistion.
the first would be "synergies" which would the additional value created by the merger. Yeah, it sounds like a cop-out, but it refers to additional market share; lower infrastructural costs; leverage of distribution chains etc. that would increate the valuation of the merged firm as compared to both separately. Synergies can be negative though...
the second would be the amount of debt/equity ratio (financial leverage) of the new firm. Again, I don't have the exact figures, but if a firm is able to take on more debt all things being equal its total valuation goes up since interest payments are tax-deductable; so by increasing your debt/equity ratio, you actually create firm value. which is why firm's with a relatively low amount of debt are attractive targets for hostile takeovers.
just wondering something.
when they say 'currently' do they mean now or light-time ago?
eg. they confirmed cruise stage separation less than a minute after it "happened"
funny. what about cars who didn't see checkpoints? what about the countless stories of civilians who were killed "by mistake"?
the reuters camaraman? the intepreter to some diplomat?
how do you know the aliens aren't encoding their 'hello universe' line in the quantum state of a photon? maybe they use entanglement for FTL communications?
Red Hat isn't a marketing organization or even an OS distribution company. It is a support company. Its revenue mainly comes from its support contracts rather than from actually distributing various releases of linux.
btw, I don't think you actually understand their distribution cycle. How long do you think it will be until 2.6 has been stress-tested? Companies need some kind of high level road map to plan their releases, not some unknown "3 months after Linus annouces 2.6 stable" date.
wrt to market share -- Fedora isn't targetted at enterprises which is where their main revenue stream is coming, so your comment doesn't really make much sense does it?
you've never taken a basic finance course before have you? what's to prevent a corporate raider from taking over such a company (think LBO) and making a huge profit? if you have $50 billion in net assets, you basically can buy it cheap and liquidate it immediately. or management can buy out the company and take it private.
that's why real financial analysts have valuation models of a company using its free cash flow, which help them gauge whether a company is 'cheap' relative to their valuation.
hm...for a couple of days last week they had new search ads in groups.google.com in the threaded articles, so we do know they have been 'experimenting'
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run on sentence: Rothenburg a. d. Wümme is not the medival postcard town; it's just a small boring northern german town.
German cities with the same names often differentiate themselves by the rivers they lie at.
1. price difference. $80 vs $300
2. the consensus is that win4lin is much faster than vmware. so much so that if I want to browse huge xml files (several MBs) I would rather open it in IE under win4lin than under mozilla under linux.
3. win4lin only supports win98/ME.
4. win4lin uses the native linux file system so files can be shared by windows/linux (you can create a sym link to your home directory under the win4lin windows directory
5.win4lin has limited support for certain devices such as USB devices (other than mice and keyboards)
which part of satisfied customer do you not understand?
I guess they do partial directx, that is, games that run in full screen mode won't work. but running windows media player in full screen mode does work. admittedly I haven't really tested running starcraft under win4lin, although I doubt it would work.
Subject: Will Win4Lin run Windows 2000 or Windows XP?
Author: Amanda Owens
No, as of Win4Lin Version 4.0, Win4Lin only runs Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME. We are currently developing Windows 2000 support for a future Win4Lin release, but do not yet have a target date when the release will be available.
this is the official party line http://www.netraverse.com/frame_index.php?screen=s upporthome
Subject Will Win4Lin run Windows 2000 or Windows XP?
Author Amanda Owens
No, as of Win4Lin Version 4.0, Win4Lin only runs Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME. We are currently developing Windows 2000 support for a future Win4Lin release, but do not yet have a target date when the release will be available.
It's a pretty cheap service, but some doubts were brought up whether Americans could legally use the service.
It charges 1 cent per MB of downloading, and it works out to about 5-8 cents per song. You can choose your encoding (mp3, ogg etc.) and bitrate. Allofmp3.com
Personally, I use Win4Lin. It's runs windows as either a separate window or in full screen mode (think X Windows but running Windws). I sometimes like to run win4lin in full screen mode and confuse people since it's almost impossible to tell you're running it under linux until you try to do low-level stuff like configuring device drivers & network stuff. It's a really great product; but only runs Windows 98 (heard they're working on Win2K version), and doesn't do directx games. Other than that, everything works -- Microsoft Office, IE, Kazaa, chessmaster etc. I'll be happy to provide more details on request. Oh yes, I have no links to said company other than being a very satisfied customer.
I was thinking more of the borg...
don't you mean the RIAA and the FBI agents showing up on the doorsteps of the neighbour that you're um...sharing his connection with?
I assume you're using softswp (resume) or pm_disk? which works better? have you tried the new softswp patch (resume2)? which kernel are you running?
this guy psycho-analyses his own joke and he gets modded up???
offhand without knowing the actual figures, there are two reasons why Disney might be worth more as part of an acquistion. the first would be "synergies" which would the additional value created by the merger. Yeah, it sounds like a cop-out, but it refers to additional market share; lower infrastructural costs; leverage of distribution chains etc. that would increate the valuation of the merged firm as compared to both separately. Synergies can be negative though... the second would be the amount of debt/equity ratio (financial leverage) of the new firm. Again, I don't have the exact figures, but if a firm is able to take on more debt all things being equal its total valuation goes up since interest payments are tax-deductable; so by increasing your debt/equity ratio, you actually create firm value. which is why firm's with a relatively low amount of debt are attractive targets for hostile takeovers.
just wondering something. when they say 'currently' do they mean now or light-time ago? eg. they confirmed cruise stage separation less than a minute after it "happened"
me too... who's the asian dude in the flag? he was wearing it the last time too.
funny. what about cars who didn't see checkpoints? what about the countless stories of civilians who were killed "by mistake"? the reuters camaraman? the intepreter to some diplomat?
how do you know the aliens aren't encoding their 'hello universe' line in the quantum state of a photon? maybe they use entanglement for FTL communications?
Redhat is a company and has to actually make money to survive.
Red Hat isn't a marketing organization or even an OS distribution company. It is a support company. Its revenue mainly comes from its support contracts rather than from actually distributing various releases of linux. btw, I don't think you actually understand their distribution cycle. How long do you think it will be until 2.6 has been stress-tested? Companies need some kind of high level road map to plan their releases, not some unknown "3 months after Linus annouces 2.6 stable" date. wrt to market share -- Fedora isn't targetted at enterprises which is where their main revenue stream is coming, so your comment doesn't really make much sense does it?
that's why real financial analysts have valuation models of a company using its free cash flow, which help them gauge whether a company is 'cheap' relative to their valuation.
the only thing that impresses me faster than first posts is the speed at which they get modded down, like this parent
wow what kind of compression algorithm managed to squeeze all that into 4 characters?
actually, I wouldn't have a choice. Who else has 20 years archives of usenet, which is the best source for solving technical problems?
hm...it looks like google.com owns 216.239.37.99/18
hm...for a couple of days last week they had new search ads in groups.google.com in the threaded articles, so we do know they have been 'experimenting'