Uhhh, what software are you running on your recycled machines? I know Canada gets Windows98 for free from Microsoft. If that is the case, then yes - please do yourself a favour and load Linux.
Heh, FF users are probably a more select and savvy group than the unwashed masses using IE. So, why any business would turn away 5 to 10% of its best possible clients, I fail to understand.
Well, considering that there are 2 billion Linux systems (counting all the embedded stuff) and only 600 million Windows systems, Linux is a serious threat.;-)
The problem is the keyboard. The keyboard driver is prehistoric and it doesn't help if you have everything double but has only one keyboard. You have to jump through some hoops to get multiple keyboards to work.
Well, there are waaaaaaaaay more people in non technical jobs, who all loooooove their Windoze simplicity, screensavers and viruses.
According to IBM Marketing, there are about 30 million Linux desktops in the world, compared to about 600 million Windoze desktops. However, there are about 2 billion Linux embedded devices. Consequently, Linux systems outnumber Windows systems by a very wide margin.
It all just depends on how you count things.
See this article:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.as p
Heh, a week ago, I loaded Mandrake Linux with a multiprocessing kernel onto a friend's P4 and the friggen hyperthreading processor promptly burned out - fortunately the machine was still under warranty.
Shit happens, but Linux is probably more stressful on a processor than Windoze.
Those weekly figures don't mean squat. I think AMD has good processors and actually I'm using VIA miniITX machines lately, simply because they are so nice and small, but the main market still belongs to Intel.
I don't get it. My miniITX VIA Nehemiah 1GHz with Mandrake 10.0 starts OpenOffice Writer in 8 seconds. A VIA 1GHz is about equivalent to a 500MHz Pentium.
Nothing ever takes 15 seconds to load, unless there is something wrong, in which case it won't start at all.
I do have 512MB RAM in this little machine, maybe that makes the difference?
On my VIA Nehemia 1GHz (which is about equivalent to a Pentium III at 500MHz) with Mandrake 10.0, MS Word on CxOffice starts up in 7 seconds and OpenOfice.org Writer starts up in 8 seconds.
So, on a P4 at 1.8GHz, either word processor should start in about 3 seconds.
A woman with a gun, or a man with a knife are avoided by criminals.
A man with a gun, can still get in trouble, since the perps figure that a man probably won't shoot, but a woman will.
As for a man with big knife - all perps know that its gonna hurt like hell, so they run off. A woman with a knife is not a threat, since the perps think that they are stronger than the woman.
Plug 'n play is way better on Linux than on Windows. Witness a Knoppix disk. Plug 'n play is so good, that you don't even have to install anything, it figures everything out on the fly when it starts up.
Get a Knoppix or LiveCD disc. You'll be amazed at how good Linux driver support is. Chances are that everything you got on your machine will just work, without you having to install anything manually.
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How are you ever going to convince the American Public that there are stars down there to look at - aren't all the stars up here???
Yes, of course it is a joke, but the responses of these guys are waaay more funny...
Uhhh, what software are you running on your recycled machines? I know Canada gets Windows98 for free from Microsoft. If that is the case, then yes - please do yourself a favour and load Linux.
We have a dress code sir, 'no ties allowed'...
machines draw less than 100W. Great little machines, quite fast.
According to the McAffee stats, the worst infection rate is in North America. This must be due to outsourcing all geek jobs to India...
Well, considering that there are 2 billion Linux systems (counting all the embedded stuff) and only 600 million Windows systems, Linux is a serious threat. ;-)
my Firefox identifies itself as vi on a ZXSpectrum and I never have problems with sites refusing me entry.
That means on a 1GHz machine we should be able to run 4000 users... Ugh...
Kinda gives my age away doesn't it...
The problem is the keyboard. The keyboard driver is prehistoric and it doesn't help if you have everything double but has only one keyboard. You have to jump through some hoops to get multiple keyboards to work.
No you can't really. X doesn't handle the keyboard. You have to jump through some hoops to get multiple keyboards to work.
According to IBM Marketing, there are about 30 million Linux desktops in the world, compared to about 600 million Windoze desktops. However, there are about 2 billion Linux embedded devices. Consequently, Linux systems outnumber Windows systems by a very wide margin.
It all just depends on how you count things.
See this article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1210067,00.as p
Shit happens, but Linux is probably more stressful on a processor than Windoze.
Their processors are tiny, use almost no power and only costs about $50.
Those weekly figures don't mean squat. I think AMD has good processors and actually I'm using VIA miniITX machines lately, simply because they are so nice and small, but the main market still belongs to Intel.
Nothing ever takes 15 seconds to load, unless there is something wrong, in which case it won't start at all.
I do have 512MB RAM in this little machine, maybe that makes the difference?
On my VIA Nehemia 1GHz (which is about equivalent to a Pentium III at 500MHz) with Mandrake 10.0, MS Word on CxOffice starts up in 7 seconds and OpenOfice.org Writer starts up in 8 seconds.
So, on a P4 at 1.8GHz, either word processor should start in about 3 seconds.
Well considering that Apple has revenue that that is 10,000 times more than my revenue, that makes them a mega corp...
Stupid idiot...
Woohoo: http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/09/12/gun.ban.ap/index. html
A man with a gun, can still get in trouble, since the perps figure that a man probably won't shoot, but a woman will.
As for a man with big knife - all perps know that its gonna hurt like hell, so they run off. A woman with a knife is not a threat, since the perps think that they are stronger than the woman.
An electric cow fence will do well as a non lethal perimeter defence system.
Try making a self booting CDROM with Windows...
Get a Knoppix or LiveCD disc. You'll be amazed at how good Linux driver support is. Chances are that everything you got on your machine will just work, without you having to install anything manually.