Microsoft has to bump up the specs every year because they get most of their new OS sales from new PC hardware. Plain and simple. If Vista didn't require beefed up specs they couldn't spur hardware sales. Everyone knows this, or at least it should be blatantly obvious to everyone.
Having said that though, compared to the launch of Windows XP, there is better hardware at reasonable prices this time around. It would be silly not to recommend having better hardware when it is reasonably priced.
Even still, I know for a fact that a desktop Linux distro runs better on 256MB of RAM than Windows XP does. If Vista is going to bump up requirements to over 512MB simply to get things running out of the box - then Linux has a better performance advantage as a basic desktop PC over Vista IMHO.
You're just upset because you spent a great deal of time learning its configuration by heart only to find out there are now better programs. That has nothing to do with the fact that Sendmail actually does suck compared to other MTAs. If that hurts your feelings, tough break... *shrug*
I can't believe that in this day and age, people still use sendmail when there are clearly better alternatives out there. Alternatives which don't require you to consult a phonebook-thick bat book to configure, and don't give you nasty security issues. Using sendmail is anomalous to asking for trouble.
No seriously, I think the CEO saw the output of Linux compiling a program with gcc and screamed "LINUX IS BROKEN AND GOING CRAZY!" which made him switch to the "security" of Windows.
I can't see how the CentOS team is at all passionate about a movement that boils down to recompiling the latest release of someone else's work. At least add something of value...
All other distros do to add something of value is usually another package management system (like we all need another).
RHEL ES3 got its 7th Update pack over RHN only a few days ago. These CentOS guys don't waste time!
CentOS is great when you need to run a RedHat supported application, but don't feel you need to fork out a subscription.
I'm really impressed with CentOS, although I don't know how RedHat feels about them simply piggybacking all the source-code to backported package updates and security fixes that RedHat worked hard to produce.
If you're deliberatle going around trying to get as much tail as possible - you're a player and no woman will talk to you. You're smart enough to know that is not a good thing to do. If you're a dumb drunken jerk with problems and chase women around, then you are forgiven for being "uneducated", not smart enought to know better, and have "problems" which "aren't your fault". So women will love you and try and change your bad behaviour... which inevitably never happens.
A Japanese girlfriend of mine has a sick mother who needs constant care all of the time. Nobody is at home to look after her. The father needs to work to pay the bills. She doesn't want to quit her job to stay home to look after her. It is expensive to live in Japan, and it's boring to stay home and look after parents. She doesn't want to do it... in fact none of the family want to do it. She doesn't want to throw her future and career away to do it. Her whole family feels that her mother is a real burden to everyone else, and the whole family wishes that she would just go into a hospital and not be an extra thorn in everyone's lifestyle.
I just can't help but feel that it's very sad that it comes down to needing a robot, but I guess lifestyles and nuclear families are upsetting Japan's old age care system.
Most complaints I hear about it have to do with that vacuuming thing and clustering issues....and speed of course.
Never used PostgreSQL though
*ducks*
I have a dual boot computer between Windows XP and Linux. Experimenting with "America's Army" and "Unreal Tournament 2004", the speedup when using Linux is actually very significant.
Now, if there were only more commerical Linux games!
My point is, I've written some stuff all of my life. I can sit in front of my Commodore 64 and be productive, dammit, all I need is disk space.
I got a 1GB hard drive for my Commodore 64 and it was more than enough for my term papers. In fact, it was way more space than I ever really needed. I even managed to fit every single game for the Commodore 64 on it and still have space!
I've never understood the stupid "xyz vendor recommends Windows XP" campaign. It's not as if desktop users have much of a choice when they buy their Windows XP desktop. What's there to recommend to the user? By the time they have their machine... they have no say in the matter!
I got suckered in to get 6.1 type speakers for my apartment until I realised that I was annoying the neighbors.
I mean, it's great to have these fantastic stereos if you can get away with turning the noise up on them. Not so great for apartment dwellers though....
Actually Japan has an incredibly efficient waste disposal system, and they do garbage sorting between burnable and no burnable rubbish as well.
They can't uselandfills so most rubbish gets burned in a controlled pressurized furnace environment. Harmful gases are treated. The exhaust gas is monitored so that harmful particles do not escape in dangerous volumes. The heat produces from the huge furnaces goes back onto the power grid. The waste material is then treated further and turned into something useful.
The thing I liked about that game was the sections when there are too many of those bone enemies, and the screamers with bombs were as funny as hell.
Also liked the way how picking up items usually always results in an ambush.
With this much space, would we be able to have a "Complete collection of world music" on one Hard Disk - and would I be able to copy the whole thing off my friend in one shot?
Forgetting the law here, $750 is a small price to pay to have a near complete collection of recorded music. I think drives like this will prove popular.
The xxAAs won't have brown underpants for nothing.
In Japan, no game really gets publically banned for being violent or degrading (other than the pubes-mosiac thing), but then there is little violence in society and next to no graffiti. There is no fear of violence ever influencing anybody.
The logic goes that maybe if there was less graffiti and less violence in Australia, then we could have violent games and nobody would care about any influence.
Seems to me that the outside world influences video games more than the other way around.
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Microsoft has to bump up the specs every year because they get most of their new OS sales from new PC hardware. Plain and simple. If Vista didn't require beefed up specs they couldn't spur hardware sales. Everyone knows this, or at least it should be blatantly obvious to everyone.
Having said that though, compared to the launch of Windows XP, there is better hardware at reasonable prices this time around. It would be silly not to recommend having better hardware when it is reasonably priced.
Even still, I know for a fact that a desktop Linux distro runs better on 256MB of RAM than Windows XP does. If Vista is going to bump up requirements to over 512MB simply to get things running out of the box - then Linux has a better performance advantage as a basic desktop PC over Vista IMHO.
I guess not, because by that definition, you'd be boycotting the BSDs and Linux as well.... and we all know how much OpenBSD needs coin.
How does Amanda compare to proprietary solutions (e.g. NetVault)?
And does it support tape backup hardware?
You're just upset because you spent a great deal of time learning its configuration by heart only to find out there are now better programs. That has nothing to do with the fact that Sendmail actually does suck compared to other MTAs. If that hurts your feelings, tough break... *shrug*
I can't believe that in this day and age, people still use sendmail when there are clearly better alternatives out there. Alternatives which don't require you to consult a phonebook-thick bat book to configure, and don't give you nasty security issues.
Using sendmail is anomalous to asking for trouble.
Surely qmail and postfix are way better.
Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate Edition has one of those useless progress bars when it updates its definitions.
No seriously, I think the CEO saw the output of Linux compiling a program with gcc and screamed "LINUX IS BROKEN AND GOING CRAZY!" which made him switch to the "security" of Windows.
;P
Now I bet that's what REALLY happened!
*tears out own hair and screams*
Shouldn't that be "leveraging out own hair and screaming"?
I can't see how the CentOS team is at all passionate about a movement that boils down to recompiling the latest release of someone else's work. At least add something of value...
All other distros do to add something of value is usually another package management system (like we all need another).
RHEL ES3 got its 7th Update pack over RHN only a few days ago. These CentOS guys don't waste time!
CentOS is great when you need to run a RedHat supported application, but don't feel you need to fork out a subscription.
I'm really impressed with CentOS, although I don't know how RedHat feels about them simply piggybacking all the source-code to backported package updates and security fixes that RedHat worked hard to produce.
It works the same way with women as well.
If you're deliberatle going around trying to get as much tail as possible - you're a player and no woman will talk to you. You're smart enough to know that is not a good thing to do.
If you're a dumb drunken jerk with problems and chase women around, then you are forgiven for being "uneducated", not smart enought to know better, and have "problems" which "aren't your fault". So women will love you and try and change your bad behaviour... which inevitably never happens.
This gentlemen, is why geeks can't get laid.
My Sharp SL-C3000 Zaurus does whatever Microsoft wants to do in a handheld already, therefore whatever MS comes up with is all hype and bollocks.
I'm drunk at the moment and even I could tell you that.
A Japanese girlfriend of mine has a sick mother who needs constant care all of the time. Nobody is at home to look after her. The father needs to work to pay the bills. She doesn't want to quit her job to stay home to look after her. It is expensive to live in Japan, and it's boring to stay home and look after parents. She doesn't want to do it... in fact none of the family want to do it. She doesn't want to throw her future and career away to do it. Her whole family feels that her mother is a real burden to everyone else, and the whole family wishes that she would just go into a hospital and not be an extra thorn in everyone's lifestyle.
I just can't help but feel that it's very sad that it comes down to needing a robot, but I guess lifestyles and nuclear families are upsetting Japan's old age care system.
Most complaints I hear about it have to do with that vacuuming thing and clustering issues. ...and speed of course.
Never used PostgreSQL though
*ducks*
I have a dual boot computer between Windows XP and Linux. Experimenting with "America's Army" and "Unreal Tournament 2004", the speedup when using Linux is actually very significant.
Now, if there were only more commerical Linux games!
They're going to need all that bandwith when they get slashdotted.
My point is, I've written some stuff all of my life. I can sit in front of my Commodore 64 and be productive, dammit, all I need is disk space.
I got a 1GB hard drive for my Commodore 64 and it was more than enough for my term papers. In fact, it was way more space than I ever really needed. I even managed to fit every single game for the Commodore 64 on it and still have space!
Fun fun fun with GeoWrite!
As soon as bittorrent gets vastly imporved from it's ability to multi stream data.
Obvious implementation of the protocol, really.
I've never understood the stupid "xyz vendor recommends Windows XP" campaign. It's not as if desktop users have much of a choice when they buy their Windows XP desktop. What's there to recommend to the user? By the time they have their machine... they have no say in the matter!
I got suckered in to get 6.1 type speakers for my apartment until I realised that I was annoying the neighbors.
I mean, it's great to have these fantastic stereos if you can get away with turning the noise up on them. Not so great for apartment dwellers though....
Actually Japan has an incredibly efficient waste disposal system, and they do garbage sorting between burnable and no burnable rubbish as well. They can't uselandfills so most rubbish gets burned in a controlled pressurized furnace environment. Harmful gases are treated. The exhaust gas is monitored so that harmful particles do not escape in dangerous volumes. The heat produces from the huge furnaces goes back onto the power grid. The waste material is then treated further and turned into something useful.
* I for one, welcome our 1.2PB overlords.
* There are 1.2PB drives.... IN JAPAN
The thing I liked about that game was the sections when there are too many of those bone enemies, and the screamers with bombs were as funny as hell. Also liked the way how picking up items usually always results in an ambush.
With this much space, would we be able to have a "Complete collection of world music" on one Hard Disk - and would I be able to copy the whole thing off my friend in one shot?
Forgetting the law here, $750 is a small price to pay to have a near complete collection of recorded music. I think drives like this will prove popular.
The xxAAs won't have brown underpants for nothing.
In Japan, no game really gets publically banned for being violent or degrading (other than the pubes-mosiac thing), but then there is little violence in society and next to no graffiti. There is no fear of violence ever influencing anybody.
The logic goes that maybe if there was less graffiti and less violence in Australia, then we could have violent games and nobody would care about any influence.
Seems to me that the outside world influences video games more than the other way around.