No... I don't want it to run windows... I want it to run on windows... there's a very major difference... And I'm rather annoyed with the clueless mod who modded my OP down... cos the question is highly relevant... if Xen allows me to run Linux on top of windows without all the palaver of having to go commercial with VMware etc. then I can easily run Linux at work without having to go to all the trouble of 1) purchasing VMware licenses, or 2) having to buy extra machines just to run Linux on... we're a ms-windows shop here, and I want to get Linux in through the side door so I can run programs like Umbrello... Cygwin just isn't the same.
er,... you can go down the high street and pick up the bits to build a PC...then slap a dodgy copy of windows on it... AFAIK, you can't buy the bits to build your own Mac on the high street... you have to have a complete Mac in the first place... and that means having paid for the OS... Steve's only a little pissed cos you already paid him once (original OS plus hardware)... just that you haven't paid him for that copy of Tiger you picked up off the web...
I think a Mac Mini would fit better though, as it supports a lot of free/open software (a lot of these are well-integrated to Mac OS too) AND a lot of commercial software to boot.
Just try using a mac mini in your car, or on a train or more than three feet away from a power socket... durrr...
In comparison, Linux doesn't have much by the way of commercial software support.
That could be because we don't need our hand holding all over the place and we are safe to go out on the streets unaccompanied... we're perfectly capable of creating our own software and creating a support economy around that...
My question is " How is this different from NoMachine's NX Server?"
It's far worse... it uses a heck of a lot of bandwidth compared to NX... (It was maxing out my downstream on this broadband connection 130KBytes/s). It would be impossible to use it over dialup...
Amazingly... YES!!! oh this is so funny... I've got a massive grey shaded window in firefox with a sorry, too many users window in the middle of it... all on top of my nice Linux desktop...
"How hard would it be for a large company like Telewest to send it's subsribers a CD with anti-virus/adware removal tools on it?"
Telewest (AKA Blueyonder) sent one out to all subscribers about a year ago... it was a little tin box with a first aid symbol on the top with a CDROM inside... absolutely useless and unnecessary to me as I run Linux;)
I suppose I could open it up tonight and report back with what's actually on the disk... unless any other Telewest (AKA Blueyonder) user is able to check during working hours...
Microsoft sell student/teacher licenses for MS Office that are a fraction of the full retail price. I don't think that for students, cost is that much of an issue.
to put it politely... Bollocks... have you seen the current cost of the student/teacher discount and compared it with the cost of StarOffice (where you can install on a total of 5 machines) or OpenOffice (where you can deploy it on as many machines as you want to)??? for most people, £95 is a major amount to fork out just so they can submit their homework in.doc or.xls... we have a major problem with the widening "digital divide" between kids whose parents don't even blink when it comes to buying a computer, printer and software for little Johnny/Jilly and those who would have to make severe cuts in their budget just to find an old secondhand computer (with XP or Win2K) + printer and then find the £95 for a student license... especially with a recession looming fast...
My old maths master had to re-write all his favourite questions to specify that the string in question for his applied maths questions was not only light and non-elastic, but also at normal room temperature...
so basically... it's not how long it is but how you wave it that matters...
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it's not just for Google... if you click on the little down arrow you'll be surprised at the number of entries there... the one that isn't on there I'd delete anyway...
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Gates made a point of screwing up the pronunciation of the name, trying to give the impression that this OS was from a foreign planet or something. Then he set about ridiculing the available apps, the ease of use, etc. He threw a handful of ill-considered (to anyone who knew anything about Linux) criticisms against the wall, hoping something would stick. He tried to make fun of the whole thing.
So it's him posting in comp.os.linux.advocacy under various pseudonyms...
"Whether you agree with the law, or wear sandals and hug penguins"
So, you accusing us penguin-hugging sandal-wearers of not agreeing with the law??? Others might have missed your subtle bias... but not I... I shall now despatch my elite squad of killer penguins in pursuit of you...
crap by today's standards, but it does the job. Now would I be better served having a Radeon 9600 purely for the purpose of getting rid of the proprietary nvidia drivers??? would my glxgears be better or worse?
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wget http://media2.big-boys.com/bbmedia/kosovo1.wmv
I went diving into the source for that page to find the real link...
No... I don't want it to run windows... I want it to run on windows... there's a very major difference... And I'm rather annoyed with the clueless mod who modded my OP down... cos the question is highly relevant... if Xen allows me to run Linux on top of windows without all the palaver of having to go commercial with VMware etc. then I can easily run Linux at work without having to go to all the trouble of 1) purchasing VMware licenses, or 2) having to buy extra machines just to run Linux on... we're a ms-windows shop here, and I want to get Linux in through the side door so I can run programs like Umbrello... Cygwin just isn't the same.
does it run on ms-windows??? cos if it's yet another virtual machine running on Linux then it's no good to me...
er,... you can go down the high street and pick up the bits to build a PC...then slap a dodgy copy of windows on it... AFAIK, you can't buy the bits to build your own Mac on the high street... you have to have a complete Mac in the first place... and that means having paid for the OS... Steve's only a little pissed cos you already paid him once (original OS plus hardware)... just that you haven't paid him for that copy of Tiger you picked up off the web...
Just try using a mac mini in your car, or on a train or more than three feet away from a power socket... durrr...
That could be because we don't need our hand holding all over the place and we are safe to go out on the streets unaccompanied... we're perfectly capable of creating our own software and creating a support economy around that...
all they ever show was the decontam shower scene on endless loop....
I would be far more worried if they both agreed... there's then the distinct possibility that both of them are wrong about it...
It's far worse... it uses a heck of a lot of bandwidth compared to NX... (It was maxing out my downstream on this broadband connection 130KBytes/s). It would be impossible to use it over dialup...
yes... I'm in... and it's KDE3.3, not 3.2 that's running there...
Amazingly... YES!!! oh this is so funny... I've got a massive grey shaded window in firefox with a sorry, too many users window in the middle of it... all on top of my nice Linux desktop...
Telewest (AKA Blueyonder) sent one out to all subscribers about a year ago... it was a little tin box with a first aid symbol on the top with a CDROM inside... absolutely useless and unnecessary to me as I run Linux ;)
I suppose I could open it up tonight and report back with what's actually on the disk... unless any other Telewest (AKA Blueyonder) user is able to check during working hours...
Why are the ISPs responsible for cleaning up the poop left by infections in MS Operating Systems???
I'm confused... If they're illegals, then how can they be counted on a census???
to put it politely... Bollocks... have you seen the current cost of the student/teacher discount and compared it with the cost of StarOffice (where you can install on a total of 5 machines) or OpenOffice (where you can deploy it on as many machines as you want to)??? for most people, £95 is a major amount to fork out just so they can submit their homework in .doc or .xls... we have a major problem with the widening "digital divide" between kids whose parents don't even blink when it comes to buying a computer, printer and software for little Johnny/Jilly and those who would have to make severe cuts in their budget just to find an old secondhand computer (with XP or Win2K) + printer and then find the £95 for a student license... especially with a recession looming fast...
It has to also OPEN pdf files, not just export to them... then it'll be a real killer app...
erm, yes you can... when it's frozen...
My old maths master had to re-write all his favourite questions to specify that the string in question for his applied maths questions was not only light and non-elastic, but also at normal room temperature...
so basically... it's not how long it is but how you wave it that matters...
it's not just for Google... if you click on the little down arrow you'll be surprised at the number of entries there... the one that isn't on there I'd delete anyway...
So it's him posting in comp.os.linux.advocacy under various pseudonyms...
So, you accusing us penguin-hugging sandal-wearers of not agreeing with the law??? Others might have missed your subtle bias... but not I... I shall now despatch my elite squad of killer penguins in pursuit of you...
will the card be forced to support Macrovision in order to legally play back DVD content on the TVout card???
AMD Duron 850 MHz, 512MB ram
nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x
crap by today's standards, but it does the job. Now would I be better served having a Radeon 9600 purely for the purpose of getting rid of the proprietary nvidia drivers??? would my glxgears be better or worse?
where did you want to go today???
As we have some figures for the numbers of machines in the early days and surely we have the traffic figures for then as well...
We should be able to make a reasonable guess at the number of machines out there with Linux on them...