Same here. I have an ASUS F3JP came with Vista preinstalled. Due to horrific performance, just yesterday I wiped it and installed XP.
Now it runs smooth but had driver and software issues with it. Drivers from Asus were very old so I had to dig in the drivers. Also, utilities from Asus made for XP (such as Power4Gear and OSD software) are much more uglier (they even don't look like Win32).
Now the whole system is more responsive, less resource hog and runs smoother. I miss the eyecandy though.
Sluggish on a 2.0 Ghz Duo 2, bloody IIS 7.0 made me install VS2003 and ASP.NET v1.1 took one day (and this is quick, check the net), bloody IE 7.0 not running my banking application (should blame the bank nevertheless), random glitches and 2-3 seconds hangs.. By the way, I never tell lies.
I didn't said I'm gonna install Linux when I got back home, as this is not MY machine. 2 of my 3 PCs at home already run Slackware. This is the computer given to me by my new company I work and I don't know if I will violate any policy installing Linux on it or not.
Smart choice indeed. I for myself would have chosen Windows XP over Vista, because even though my personal choice is Linux, I will not force anyone on using it, whatsoever.
My new laptop (issued by the new company I work) comes with Vista, and making my life a hell. I am going to install Linux on it if it won't hurt any company policy, as all I do is to develop Java applicatons and run some office work.
You should be able to define the middle-click behavior in the mouse driver if you install the bundled-CD. Define it as "middle-button" or something similar like that like the grandparent has said and you'll be good to go.
You have just installed MDAC 2.8 and.NET Framework 1.1. You restart. Windows keeps rebooting again again and again forever.. It's not able to boot the GUI.
Safe mode does not work. Boot journal shows nothing. What's the cause? What can you do? With any Linux distribution, you have many choices.
Mine does. 3 TL/month. Approximately 1.84 Euro or 2.2 USD. When I signed the agreement, it was free. Is this legal? I wonder what if RIPE has warned them..
The Turkish government has acted with agility. All (known) chicken and other wingy animals infected with this virus are quarantined and killed (Not a nice thing but good for us), also hunting sessions are cancelled a day before it hit the news.
Also the government has guaranteed that they will (in fact, people paying taxes) take the burden of any losses of farmers.
But when it comes to the migration of birds, in God we trust.
Even though negotiations with EU and Turkey has started, Turkey is not a EU-country and EU does not import wingy thingies from Turkey anyhow.
I also distribute my resume in PDF format. It also feels more serious to me, supplying a (relatively) non-editable file.
Some day someone asked me why. I replied with my own reasons and added that the file will be platform independent and people not having MS Office would be able to view my resume. Also the file will be seen the same by everyone, just like I see it.
What he (economist, likes computers, divx stuff etc.) said was interesting:
"I have never seen a computer without MS Office."
I think Microsoft would have thought about this and put a "Switch to classic view" option. Every 4 of 5 people I have seen is using Windows XP in classic theme, classic start menu and classic everything.
1. Turkey is not a federation. It has a centralized government.
2. In Turkey, people talk Turkish in the streets. The only official language is also Turkish. (Noone cares if somebody talks in any other language, but noone does, except some people. Kurdish sites, TVs, magazines are all in Turkish)
People who identifies them as Kurdish (as they like, no offense to them) also speak Turkish. Armenians (you would be surprised that Armenian people living in Turkey has no problems) and Jews happily speak Turkish. Leader of PKK (Ocalan) also speak Turkish, he has never seen speaking Kurdish.
Oh, that reminds me the Canada song in South Park..
Yes, I don't know the exact amount but enough to be under pressure of IMF. I also think that translation to YTL is a bit early, but it might be encouraging. It's also nice, as I work for a company developing financial software:)
Yes, I also don't think that membership of Turkey to the EU is appropriate. I also have the same thought for other countries that are going to be a member.
The Turkey's operation was legal (as a guarantor country), even though the current Turkish state on the north is not. The current state of the world-wide known Republic of Cyprus is also illegal, as it is not approved by all the three guarantor countries (which are Turkey, Greece and the UK).
For the human rights ussue, yes we don't provide rights for people who like to divide our country (I don't know if any other country provides this or not), but there are no problems other than that.
Talk to a friend of yours who has visited Turkey. Every single foreign person who has visited Turkey I have ever talked says that our country is not what it is know to be.
I don't believe that we have any other issue than economy.
Yes of course, but it's the first time in the history of Turkey, and remember that many countries have undergone such changes (the most famous one is Italy, as far as I know).
BUT... Let's take a look at the real news article in NTV MSNBC, who takes the story from AA. Anadolu Ajansi (Anatolian Agency, the official (read STATE) news agency of Turkey. The STATE news agency of the Republic of Turkey publishes this kind of story. So the state kills Kurds? Yeah right..
The first (Kurdish site which claims that it has published the information) has sentences removed from the original article! Take a look at those.
1. The Kurdish site makes him to be seen as a Kurdish hero, but in the original article, H. Ertas claims that he does not have any kind of sympaty to the terrorist group. A hero that denies the link would of course won't be a good story.
2. In his computer, e-mails of himself that contains propaganda of Kurdish terrorist and separatory acts has been found.
3. His lawyer says that they'll go to appeal. Go on, it's open. The Kurdish site seems that he has been sentected without judgement.
4. The Kurdish site is in Turkish, their TV is in Turkish, their newspaper published in several European Countries is in Turkish. Blah.
Believe me, he wouldn't be sentenced for nothing. It's not illegal in Turkey to talk Kurdish, to be Kurdish (several ministers, even several of the most beloved prime ministers were Kurdish). It's just illegal to:
1. Kill people in terrorist acts.
2. Claim ownership in a territory of the country, which is known and acknowledged by the world.
I'm sure that these are all illegal in other countries also.
If you live in Europe, especially in northern Europe, you would not understand such dynamics and therefore you may see PKK/KADEK as a nice group claiming their rights. But maybe citizens of southern Europe countries, who know at least a little of terrorism, may see the acts of Turkey is to protect its people and its own land.
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Same here. I have an ASUS F3JP came with Vista preinstalled. Due to horrific performance, just yesterday I wiped it and installed XP.
Now it runs smooth but had driver and software issues with it. Drivers from Asus were very old so I had to dig in the drivers. Also, utilities from Asus made for XP (such as Power4Gear and OSD software) are much more uglier (they even don't look like Win32).
Now the whole system is more responsive, less resource hog and runs smoother. I miss the eyecandy though.
... as it had implemented a RAD drive, a kind of RAM drive which stays there and was able to boot after a soft restart.
As far as I know, they are not literally "brothers" anymore..
No worries. They will be pushing out their DRM-chips to mainboard producers to speed up network traffice while doing background DRM thingies.
You would never believe that this joke still makes me laugh.
How is having an employee or client use Linux "force"?
I think you've got me wrong or missed the end of my comment.
Suppose you've got a corporate laptop with Vista preinstalled (like my case) given to you by your employer.
This is "having".
And suppose they don't let you install Linux on it, even dual booting for use at home or off-site.
This is "forcing".
Sluggish on a 2.0 Ghz Duo 2, bloody IIS 7.0 made me install VS2003 and ASP.NET v1.1 took one day (and this is quick, check the net), bloody IE 7.0 not running my banking application (should blame the bank nevertheless), random glitches and 2-3 seconds hangs.. By the way, I never tell lies. I didn't said I'm gonna install Linux when I got back home, as this is not MY machine. 2 of my 3 PCs at home already run Slackware. This is the computer given to me by my new company I work and I don't know if I will violate any policy installing Linux on it or not.
Smart choice indeed. I for myself would have chosen Windows XP over Vista, because even though my personal choice is Linux, I will not force anyone on using it, whatsoever. My new laptop (issued by the new company I work) comes with Vista, and making my life a hell. I am going to install Linux on it if it won't hurt any company policy, as all I do is to develop Java applicatons and run some office work.
You should be able to define the middle-click behavior in the mouse driver if you install the bundled-CD. Define it as "middle-button" or something similar like that like the grandparent has said and you'll be good to go.
Sure! As it even runs Gator now, it can be considered feature complete for the corporate desktop!
That's one of the best jokes I've ever read nowadays.
You have just installed MDAC 2.8 and .NET Framework 1.1. You restart. Windows keeps rebooting again again and again forever.. It's not able to boot the GUI.
Safe mode does not work. Boot journal shows nothing. What's the cause? What can you do? With any Linux distribution, you have many choices.
Windows systems are a pain in the ass to support.
Lesser and lesser people are showing respect to the first rule of 1st NF:
Every data field must be atomic.
At least 80 of McDonald's restaurants in Istanbul already provides free wireless Internet access for over a year.
Mine does. 3 TL/month. Approximately 1.84 Euro or 2.2 USD. When I signed the agreement, it was free. Is this legal? I wonder what if RIPE has warned them..
The Turkish government has acted with agility. All (known) chicken and other wingy animals infected with this virus are quarantined and killed (Not a nice thing but good for us), also hunting sessions are cancelled a day before it hit the news.
Also the government has guaranteed that they will (in fact, people paying taxes) take the burden of any losses of farmers.
But when it comes to the migration of birds, in God we trust.
Even though negotiations with EU and Turkey has started, Turkey is not a EU-country and EU does not import wingy thingies from Turkey anyhow.
I also distribute my resume in PDF format. It also feels more serious to me, supplying a (relatively) non-editable file.
Some day someone asked me why. I replied with my own reasons and added that the file will be platform independent and people not having MS Office would be able to view my resume. Also the file will be seen the same by everyone, just like I see it.
What he (economist, likes computers, divx stuff etc.) said was interesting: "I have never seen a computer without MS Office."
That was a good one..
I think Microsoft would have thought about this and put a "Switch to classic view" option. Every 4 of 5 people I have seen is using Windows XP in classic theme, classic start menu and classic everything.
Sorry, you're right. I was just somewhat nervous because of other people's offending posts.
First of all, let's look at some facts:
1. Turkey is not a federation. It has a centralized government.
2. In Turkey, people talk Turkish in the streets. The only official language is also Turkish. (Noone cares if somebody talks in any other language, but noone does, except some people. Kurdish sites, TVs, magazines are all in Turkish) People who identifies them as Kurdish (as they like, no offense to them) also speak Turkish. Armenians (you would be surprised that Armenian people living in Turkey has no problems) and Jews happily speak Turkish. Leader of PKK (Ocalan) also speak Turkish, he has never seen speaking Kurdish.
Oh, that reminds me the Canada song in South Park..
Yes, I don't know the exact amount but enough to be under pressure of IMF. I also think that translation to YTL is a bit early, but it might be encouraging. It's also nice, as I work for a company developing financial software :)
Yes, I also don't think that membership of Turkey to the EU is appropriate. I also have the same thought for other countries that are going to be a member.
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For Cyprus, please read my post at (and appropriate links there): http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=130990&cid=10
The Turkey's operation was legal (as a guarantor country), even though the current Turkish state on the north is not. The current state of the world-wide known Republic of Cyprus is also illegal, as it is not approved by all the three guarantor countries (which are Turkey, Greece and the UK).
For the human rights ussue, yes we don't provide rights for people who like to divide our country (I don't know if any other country provides this or not), but there are no problems other than that.
Talk to a friend of yours who has visited Turkey. Every single foreign person who has visited Turkey I have ever talked says that our country is not what it is know to be.
I don't believe that we have any other issue than economy.
Yes of course, but it's the first time in the history of Turkey, and remember that many countries have undergone such changes (the most famous one is Italy, as far as I know).
Yes they are Turkish, but they are approved by official documents, soooo.. :P
This story is bullshit. The story takes reference of the news article in: http://www.mhanews.com/modules.php?name=News&file= article&sid=9485
BUT... Let's take a look at the real news article in NTV MSNBC, who takes the story from AA. Anadolu Ajansi (Anatolian Agency, the official (read STATE) news agency of Turkey. The STATE news agency of the Republic of Turkey publishes this kind of story. So the state kills Kurds? Yeah right..
http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/297724.asp?cp1=1
The first (Kurdish site which claims that it has published the information) has sentences removed from the original article! Take a look at those.
1. The Kurdish site makes him to be seen as a Kurdish hero, but in the original article, H. Ertas claims that he does not have any kind of sympaty to the terrorist group. A hero that denies the link would of course won't be a good story.
2. In his computer, e-mails of himself that contains propaganda of Kurdish terrorist and separatory acts has been found.
3. His lawyer says that they'll go to appeal. Go on, it's open. The Kurdish site seems that he has been sentected without judgement.
4. The Kurdish site is in Turkish, their TV is in Turkish, their newspaper published in several European Countries is in Turkish. Blah.
Believe me, he wouldn't be sentenced for nothing. It's not illegal in Turkey to talk Kurdish, to be Kurdish (several ministers, even several of the most beloved prime ministers were Kurdish). It's just illegal to:
1. Kill people in terrorist acts.
2. Claim ownership in a territory of the country, which is known and acknowledged by the world.
I'm sure that these are all illegal in other countries also.
If you live in Europe, especially in northern Europe, you would not understand such dynamics and therefore you may see PKK/KADEK as a nice group claiming their rights. But maybe citizens of southern Europe countries, who know at least a little of terrorism, may see the acts of Turkey is to protect its people and its own land.