I hate to say it, especially since I never downloaded the betas to this "groundbreaking" software, but isn't Vista simply another iteration of OS/2 / NT? I remember being very exited by XP when it was hyped and paraded around like a "new" operating system that was somehow different than NT 5.0 (a.k.a. Win2K).
However, once I got my beta of XP (NT 5.1) I was sorely dissapointed when the ntoskrnl.exe and other nt*.exe and nt*.dll files (I forget exactly what they are named.) had similar architecture and functions to the same ntoskrnl.exe files in NT 3.1, which I recall running like a dog on my DX/66 (particularly compared to OS/2 2.0 which ran great).
Seriously, I agree. I think that is why I like giving SUSE to my friends/family. Telling my elder family to click on "Image Editor" is much easier than telling them to click on "GIMP."
It might be interesting to note that in my IT shop - roughly 150 programmers and analysts - a little under half are women. In fact , several management positions are held by women. In fact we made two hires the other week for vacant positions, and both were recent female CS grads.
Just an observation. Of course, I don't actually have a CS degree either...
In all seriousness, I like how the doctor quoted said that this won't be the cure requested since it won't make as much money as a drug-based cure would. For me - and my head-injured brother-in-law - it would be great to see such research come to fruition.
I was wondering when - after I bought a recent album - Konqueror opens up instead of Amarok. I thought, WTF? Then I realized I had a Sony CD. I'd be pissed if I were a Windows user - or worse, a sysadmin - and this thing got installed on my desktop.
I run KDE (arguably considered bloatware itself) on my laptop with 1GB memory. I loaded an Excel spreadsheed (23K) by double clicking. It opened in four seconds for editing. Not quite sure how to read it (i'm a total newbie) but the process table shows calc as having 135,468 VM Size and 67,700 VM Res.
Opening the same spreadsheet in Windows 2000 with 512MB memory running Office Pro 2003, it took eight seconds to load. According to task manager, excel shows 28,992K. Now I know Excel relies on the MFC so I opened a process viewer. According to that, Excel has 48 DLL's loaded. Um, that seems like a HUGE bit of memory.
I was about to move into a management position, which was going to allow me to carry a blackberry. (Only cool managers at my company get blackberrys.) Now I'll be stuck as a peon working for The Man until another cool gadget can come along which doesn't infringe on trademarks.
Seriously, though, I think I'm in the wrong business. Instead of creating software and hardware, I should just come up with some really cool ideas and patent them. Eventually someone else will come up with the same idea and I can sue for $$$$.
Though this looks great, and will be soon to be added to my download list (once I get SuSE 10.0 loaded up), I cannot help but wonder when the GIMP team will ever allow for an MDI version.
On another note, I am curious to find out if GIMPShop will be updated. I know several people who really like that port of GIMP.
I'm going to stop hitting those pr0n, warez and gambiling sites on my work computer. I'm going to stop opening those emails saying I have to apply the latest hotfixes. I'm going to disable javascript, images, and popups.
Wait - maybe I should just use Lynx. Naahh.
I cannot believe that exploits are coming so fast and furious.
Hey, this has absolutely helped out!! My mother (63 years old) had been using Photoshop for about ten years under Windows. In wanting to upgrade her from XP to Linux, I decided I needed to get her used to her main app - Photoshop - or the alternative, GIMP. I had her use GIMP for awhile, but she quickly was frustrated. After seeing GIMPShop, I loaded it on for her and she's been a happy Linux camper ever since. No more virus or spyware issues for her.
It was - lemme look here - Xenix/386. Yeah, that's the ticket!
As one who's working under the radar on migrating 18,000 clients over to linux, I can say that it is best to do one server at a time. We started with zero last year and are now up to 12 not including the SLES partition on our z890 mainframe.
I've changed my motto at work to - Linux: Because a computer is a terrible thing to waste.:)
It is a dual-edged sword and there may be other issues, depending on the cert.
At work - in order to point out the fallicy of certs, I put on my signature, NMCAA. That stands for No Microsoft Certification At All. It comes becaue I often know more about the systems than those who posess the coveted MCSE or MCSD.
However, I make a point to distinguish between theese chop-shop certs and those like the Cisco CCIE, which requires a two day (if I recall correctly) onsite test after doing the paper tests
As a senior project manager I am surrounded by 20-somethings who think that the world revolves around Halo and/or MechAssult...
Every once in a while I like to fire up either MAME or Stella (Atari 2600 emulator) to show them "the old days". I usually bring out Galaxian or Pac Man or Night Driver or Pitfall...
Oddly enough, some of these peeps have learned a bit and are enjoying using the emulators during break time.
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Um, I run linux as my main OS and even I don't understand what you just wrote. Seems interesting, though.
/me reminds self to learn regex...
However, once I got my beta of XP (NT 5.1) I was sorely dissapointed when the ntoskrnl.exe and other nt*.exe and nt*.dll files (I forget exactly what they are named.) had similar architecture and functions to the same ntoskrnl.exe files in NT 3.1, which I recall running like a dog on my DX/66 (particularly compared to OS/2 2.0 which ran great).
However, you're still limited to 4GB of addressable memory per process.
I wonder if that is enough to run MS Office.
touch...
mv...
finger..
touch..
mount...
mv...
finger...
unmount...
sleep...
Seriously, I agree. I think that is why I like giving SUSE to my friends/family. Telling my elder family to click on "Image Editor" is much easier than telling them to click on "GIMP."
Just an observation. Of course, I don't actually have a CS degree either...
But Window IS broke. (Writing this on a XP system while my Linux laptop sits next to me acting as a jukebox...)
I've fallen and I can't get up...
...oh, wait. I guess I can get up.
Nevermind.
In all seriousness, I like how the doctor quoted said that this won't be the cure requested since it won't make as much money as a drug-based cure would. For me - and my head-injured brother-in-law - it would be great to see such research come to fruition.
Well, since no one can actually live in the New Orleans area, I guess we could all just drive through with our laptops...
I was wondering when - after I bought a recent album - Konqueror opens up instead of Amarok. I thought, WTF? Then I realized I had a Sony CD. I'd be pissed if I were a Windows user - or worse, a sysadmin - and this thing got installed on my desktop.
Yes. Bill and buddies wrote several compilers. AFAIK there were: Altair, TRS-80, Apple BASIC, Q-BASIC and possibly others.
Come to think of it - has MS EVER written their own OS from scratch?
Go figure.
Hmmm...
http://www.newzbin.com/ seems to have all this covered and for free.
I'm writing a tool which will hopefully interface with newzbin - www.donutmonster.com - and run on several OSs.
Next!
As one working right under a CIO - that's usually not an issue. Remember, CIO stands for "Career Is Over". :)
Opening the same spreadsheet in Windows 2000 with 512MB memory running Office Pro 2003, it took eight seconds to load. According to task manager, excel shows 28,992K. Now I know Excel relies on the MFC so I opened a process viewer. According to that, Excel has 48 DLL's loaded. Um, that seems like a HUGE bit of memory.
...so if I put some "powered by Honda" stickers around it, lower it, and add a cool exhaust tip, will it be fast just like a Civic?
Seriously, though, I think I'm in the wrong business. Instead of creating software and hardware, I should just come up with some really cool ideas and patent them. Eventually someone else will come up with the same idea and I can sue for $$$$.
On another note, I am curious to find out if GIMPShop will be updated. I know several people who really like that port of GIMP.
Heh, you beat me to the punch (line). That's the first thought that I had after reading this. Google...NASA...lunar jobs.
I'm going to stop hitting those pr0n, warez and gambiling sites on my work computer. I'm going to stop opening those emails saying I have to apply the latest hotfixes. I'm going to disable javascript, images, and popups.
Wait - maybe I should just use Lynx. Naahh.
I cannot believe that exploits are coming so fast and furious.
Hey, this has absolutely helped out!! My mother (63 years old) had been using Photoshop for about ten years under Windows. In wanting to upgrade her from XP to Linux, I decided I needed to get her used to her main app - Photoshop - or the alternative, GIMP. I had her use GIMP for awhile, but she quickly was frustrated. After seeing GIMPShop, I loaded it on for her and she's been a happy Linux camper ever since. No more virus or spyware issues for her.
As one who's working under the radar on migrating 18,000 clients over to linux, I can say that it is best to do one server at a time. We started with zero last year and are now up to 12 not including the SLES partition on our z890 mainframe.
I've changed my motto at work to - Linux: Because a computer is a terrible thing to waste. :)
It is a dual-edged sword and there may be other issues, depending on the cert.
At work - in order to point out the fallicy of certs, I put on my signature, NMCAA. That stands for No Microsoft Certification At All. It comes becaue I often know more about the systems than those who posess the coveted MCSE or MCSD.
However, I make a point to distinguish between theese chop-shop certs and those like the Cisco CCIE, which requires a two day (if I recall correctly) onsite test after doing the paper tests
As a senior project manager I am surrounded by 20-somethings who think that the world revolves around Halo and/or MechAssult...
Every once in a while I like to fire up either MAME or Stella (Atari 2600 emulator) to show them "the old days". I usually bring out Galaxian or Pac Man or Night Driver or Pitfall...
Oddly enough, some of these peeps have learned a bit and are enjoying using the emulators during break time.