Many BSDs have not been tested officially to use the UNIX name. If you simply look at the specification, IBM has done a lot of work with Linux to make it pass. This is a big gray area. The GNU is not UNIX but Linux slowly is becoming an implementation of the standard...
Almost everything runs on ia32 now. People have a choice which is what open source is all about. My personal belief has always been that each OS has an advantage for a specific task or series of tasks. That makes all systems relevant.
As for databases, I think SQL Server isn't that bad but for very large deployments there are a few other options that make more sense. Most people don't need Oracle, SQL Server or DB2. MySQL or Postgresql are adequate. You can get them to run on almost anything.
Most people complaining about Vista have not used it for more than a few hours. There are limitations with software compatibility, but I haven't seen any problems with media playback. iTunes works for playback. I can watch DVDs easier than in XP. They look just as good. I have a CRT. Perhaps when the bit gets set on HD media and I actually get a blueray drive...
I use windows for very little at this point. Gaming and watching iTunes video is it. I wouldn't even use it for iTunes if hard drives in laptops were larger.
Translation: We need open source developers to write games and multimedia applications to help end users replace windows. They must be easy to use and someone needs to advertise this stuff. With luck Linux or even a little project like mine will help make this possible. Remember, Apple and Microsoft are successful because they advertise solutions to end users. We (OSS developers) fail to do that.
No, it was supported minus opengl. They had "basic" support which couldn't run 7 year old games. It was too slow and not real support. I've had more performance out of software renderers in FreeBSD (mesa). I don't call this 100% support. If something works in XP and does not in Vista then the hardware is NOT utilized the same.
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Make your own fork? Trust me.. this is much harder than it sounds. Everyone just sees it as a waste of resources because we already have --insert your favorite os here--. I must say that I've found several posts quite interesting and they require more thought.
Many free software proponents mention forks. GPL supporters often bring it up as "freedom" for the code. Well they don't want forks. Its just seen as less coders for one or two peoples ideals. Linus & co have made it very clear they don't want a forked linux kernel. GNU fans often make the BSD is dead/dying jokes in hopes people might believe them. Why have competition for linux or GNU Mach/Hurd? If you think that way, might as well use windows. If someone forks you, take it as a complement that they thought enough of your work to use it.
PureVideo is not supported in Vista x64 either. That is false advertising. I did upgrade to vista and can tell you that the nvidia drivers are terrible. As of Vista launch day, only the 8000 series had working opengl officially. You can actually install that driver and it will work with the 7000 series as well. I have a 7300 GS which was purchased in november. It should work with vista. I run windows for gaming and right now I can play more games in MidnightBSD which no one supports.
This was my second nvidia card and first in my primary desktop. I will not buy another one. AMD gets my money next time. Their drivers suck and they don't support any BSD, but at least they aren't rude.
Don't start the Macs can't be upgraded FUD. There are websites reporting that you can put quad core chips in the Mac Pros. My wife has a PowerMac Dual 867MHz G4 which shipped with 256MB RAM, a Geforce 4 MX 32mb AGP video card, 60GB HDD, and a Combo drive. We've upgraded it to 1.75GB RAM, added a second 160GB hard drive (primary boot volume now), a second optical drive (dvd burner bought for $32 on newegg), and at one time it had a Radeon 9800 aftermarket card. I even had a second NIC in it for a bit when my old router failed. The system shipped with 10.2. Its been upgraded to 10.3 and 10.4. It will most likely run 10.5 perfectly. My wife wants a new machine to improve her WoW experience and I figure we'll end up getting her a Mac Pro in the next year or so.
Another example is my old iMac. It was an iMac DV 400mhz G3 which came with a 10GB hard drive and 64MB ram with OS 9. I bought it in august of 2000. I upgraded the ram to 512MB and replaced the hard drive with an 80GB seagate. I also put 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 on it before I sold it to a coworker. Her daughter is still using it with 10.3 quite happily.
The beige to color transition was a problem for many people but since then many macs are upgradable. I've put a 60GB hard drive and 512MB ram into my iBook G4 as well. It wasn't fun to remove 52 screws to get to the hard drive, but I was able to do it.
There are overdrive chips for machines up to late G4 models. You can get ATI video cards for many systems. The trick is to buy a PowerMac or now a Mac Pro.
My G4 xserve at work just got a memory upgrade and runs 10.4 server with 2GB of ram and 3 hard drives. It has a radeon graphics card. My G5 xserve at work has an xserve raid attached with a fibre channel card, 5 GB of ram and 2 hard drives in internal modules. It also runs 10.4 server. Most of the iMacs (G4) got new optical drives put in last summer.
Seven year old dell.. well I've got one and I can guarantee it won't run vista. Its a PowerEdge 550Mhz Xeon P3 with 512MB RAM, Ati onboard rage graphics, two scsi 18GB hard drives and a scsi cdrom. It will run Windows 2003 Server and MidnightBSD just fine. The problem with using PowerEdge systems is that its not a fair comparison. Apple did sell PowerMacs configured as servers, but vista is a client OS so you should use the dell Precision line. A 7 year old precision may or may not run vista. I know my ~4 year old Precision could not run Vista beta2 due to lack of drivers for the LSI scsi controller. That's a dual Xeon 2Ghz Precision 650 workstation.
Old Macs also do not have the accelerated APIs but the interface looks mostly the same in Mac OS X. My wife's original iBook can run 10.3 but does not have the disk space for 10.4. I doubt it has enough ram to run mail.app for my email account (160MB) without it crashing. It runs OpenBSD perfectly though.
I guess I don't see the point to all this. We know windows releases are important to generate new hardware sales and therefore require semi-recent computers. This will make intel and amd a lot of money. We benefit as geeks because we get new stuff to play with. Hardware vendors innovate when they actually can sell hardware. All our friends and relatives give us old PCs and Macs as they upgrade. Just enjoy the vista launch. My mother is already asking me about vista. I told her games don't work and its overrated. She still think it sounds good because Bill Gates said so. So I'll probably load it up for her. She can see how "right" Mr. Gates is for herself.
I completely understand his comment. I'm a Windows, Mac, and BSD user. Vista does mostly catch Microsoft up to Mac OS 10.4. The question is will Apple get ahead again. I think 10.5 will do just that. There's also a cost issue. Many people feel Macs are more expensive and I've heard convincing arguments both ways. In the end, I think its all the same. Windows Vista Ultimate costs more than OS X and that is the only version which is fair to compare to Mac OS from a feature perspective. If Microsoft can pick up pace and give enough freebies away with Ultimate updates, then they may cause Apple some problems.
Software incompatibilities with Vista will force consumers to buy new software. They could just as easily switch. Apple's lack of native applications for intel macs has forced some to Windows as well.
Apple has always been considered premiere with windows as the regular everyday OS. Think of it this way. Windows is like a chevy and Mac OS is like a BMW. Not everything thinks a BMW looks good, but many people would buy one if they could afford it. Windows users advocate buying a chevy.. they are more popular and look cheaper up front. The bills to keep the chevy running over time start to add up though. In windows terms, antivirus software and other utilities. I hope this explains why the guy said MS was catching up.. its like chevy releasing a good car. Before anyone gets upset, remember chevy has always been considered GM's lowend line. They are also GM's most popular brand.
Well you're not going to see gamers running to get vista. It doesn't play very many games. I've got Vista x64 Ultimate (technet) installed. Until today, you couldn't get a beta driver from nvidia to play any opengl games. The support was so slow that Enemy territory wouldn't run without freezing on the intro. As of today, if you download the 8800 beta driver it will also support some of the older cards. (7300 GS PCIE in my case) ET then ran and I got kicked for a missing system call by PB while connected to my own server.
I'm hoping Microsoft and game companies will both release updates to fix gaming problems. WoW works, but you have to manually run the update with admin rights last I checked. I don't play WoW that often.
If you are a gamer, don't bother with vista just yet. Stick with XP. ATI/AMD appears to be ahead on vista drivers if you need to buy a new card and use vista.
As for cpu spikes and things, my system is using about 4% cpu and 30% physical ram right now. I'm running firefox, xfire, windows live messenger, steam, and windows defender is on. This is a pentium d 805 with 2.5GB DDR2.
You don't know how right you are. I'm running Vista Ultimate x64 RTM right now. Its peppy for regular tasks.
AMD and NVIDIA are not shipping OpenGL drivers yet. NVIDIA's is very slow and you can not play most games like Enemy Territory (quake3 based). WoW works.
Windows consumes half my ram on startup. I have 2.5GB of ram. Granted I have a NVIDIA 7300 GS w/ turbocache too.
My system is: Pentium D 805 (dual core 2.6Ghz) 2.5GB PC5300 DDR2 SATA II Hitatchi disk. Intel DP965LT Motherboard NVIDIA Geforce 7300 GS 256MB + turbocache up to 512MB
On this vista is usable but I wouldn't recommend running it on anything less. Don't expect games to work.
I've had the following games work so far: Age of Empires II World of Warcraft Burning Crusade (but patching requires manually running the patch with admin rights) Day of defeat source
These don't work so far: Star wars knights of the old republic 2 splinter cell sim city 4 (weird install issue i'm working on)
I haven't bothered to try quake 4, Doom 3 or most of my other games as many require opengl. I did a format last weekend so i haven't gone through extensive install process yet.
Yes. I would have loved to start on an HP, but every year I was forced to use TI's except junior year. That teacher only liked casios! I almost failed that trig class because I couldn't figure out the calculator and she would not allow us to use our own.
I've been quite happy with my wife's TI-85 in college. She had used it in high school. There are times I would have liked a TI-86 but its not much different.
As far as getting you to pull spam with your model, it will just mean new methods of infection for clients. The way to force a pull is malware. Another approach would be to attack the host serving the RSS feeds.
The problem is that everything thinks they have this great answer to spam. Its a social problem which is not possible to fix. We can slow it down, but never stop it. Creating a new protocol will not work. I get spam on IRC, MSN, AIM, ICQ, message boards, e-mail, etc. The only real advantage to using RSS is the ease of using SSL certificates and other authentication methods which are available on mail servers anyway. It would make more sense to argue for forced SSL certificates from a trusted (read expensive) authority. That would piss me off since I run my own mail server and do not have the money for such a cert. I'd almost live with it if it would help. As pointed out somewhere above, spammers are now relaying through the ISP mailservers now.
A good start would be to push mail servers that have integrated authentication, authorization, ssl and some antispam filters with defaults that limit relaying. Its a hassle for someone to configure a mail server, especially using sendmail or postfix. One has to add a bunch of third party software.
The problem is that many people *think* everything coming from cable or dsl is consumer grade. This guy might be using consumer grade dsl, but I've setup business packages for cable and dsl to run servers. I'm paying the premium and yet I'm still often blacklisted because I can't afford an OC48.
I always buy at least 1 copy of OS X. I don't view them as point releases. 10.3.9 or 10.4.8 is a point release. In the apple scheme the major version number is the second number... OS X is a marketing thing... I mean do you think Windows XP at 5.1 and Windows 2003 at 5.2? is a point release? How about Linux 2.4 vs Linux 2.6.. is that a point release?!
Even if you argue that 10.1 to 10.2 wasn't a big release, 10.1 to 10.3 certainly is. Mac OS 10.4 has removed many BSD like configuration options, especially in the server version. Its certainly different than previous releases.
Don't confuse lack of interest in a new release with it being minor. Its not minor to everyone.
I worked at an ISP and can confirm most employees were idiots. I had to train the idiots. Getting them to setup Windows 98 correctly was hard enough, but when an NT or Mac customer called... lets just say one of them cried for 2 hours because the lady couldn't find the start button and kept saying there was an apple in the corner.
Still if google offered real bandwidth instead of this lowend crap I'd jump at it. At least when we were on dial up, new modems came out every few years offering faster speeds. Now we are at the whim of the cable or telco companies for them to decide to bump speeds up. I'd even settle for a lowend broadband package for everyone with at least dual isdn speeds. Customers in BFE can't even get DSL or cable which is holding everyone back. My mother is still on dialup and I'm tired of supporting her modem. If I visit her, she's got a 42k connect.. while I used to 8Mbit/s cable at home.
While they're at it, perhaps some UPSTREAM would be nice.
The sega genesis was 16bit and competed with the SNES. The Sega CD addition was marketed as two 16 bit processors... the 32x addition was a bit weak, but I loved star wars arcade and NBA Jam TE. Doom locked up on it about halfway through.
The Saturn was killed in part by the additions to the genesis. My mother wouldn't buy me one since she just spent all the money on the Sega CD and 32x. I was in high school then. I also went to buy one myself but the only store in town who sold saturns was out (Toys R US) I never did find one.
The dreamcast failure was a real bummer. Its a great console. My genesis, dreamcast and xbox are the most played systems I have. I also have almost every Nintendo system except the Wii and DS. I like the dreamcast over my xbox. Both run a form of windows.
Nintendo will sit on the Wii for 3 years or more. Graphics don't matter anyway. The playstation had terrible graphics and people loved that. Games are the most important thing. In many ways the SNES was superior to the Genesis and yet Sega had a huge following because the games were fun.
Then again, with intel macs people can say buy windows. At work, we are replacing some gx240 dell systems with intel iMacs dual booting windows xp and tiger. We were already half Mac with OS X servers. We don't count because we are a university computer science department though. The number of Mac users is unusually high at my university as a result. Many students and faculty have iBooks, MacBooks Pros, etc. Many people with intel macs ask about bootcamp though. Its hard to say if OS X will be around in 5 years.
Case is also an issue. Some sites only allow lowercase tags while others don't care about case.
This is similar to the problem blogging sites have with cross site scripting. Try to tell a blogger you won't take HTML or bbcode posts (depending on generation of the blogger). Regardless of what you do, there's going to be sites that don't follow the rules and there will also be ways to screw it up for everybody.
There isn't a standard for many things on the internet which causes validation to be near impossible. Security researchers complain people don't do input validation, but I've never seen a complete webapp that's an example of security at the time its written. You can't validate things like addresses, names, e-mail addresses, or long text entries including blogs and content without leaving out characters that should be valid or flat out blocking some from using your service.
As for the standard, this reminds me or RDF. Had it taken off, we could tag data with properly defined, shared tags. Defining tags in RDF would allow sites to share the information through RDF and thus solve the problem of transmittal. Of course getting everyone to agree to this is another thing.
The same people who bitch about the new interface also complain that Microsoft doesn't innovate. At least they tried something new. You can certainly argue on the usefulness to some, but its something new.
This is also the time you can migrate to open office or another product since the UI is different. Your end users might not know the difference. They just hear the new office looks different. Some people will fall for that.
The only reason to upgrade some Microsoft or Apple products is often security patches. Once its not supported, its time to upgrade or migrate off the product.
I beta tested Office 2007 and loved it. I regularly use the Mac version of Word as well as Pages and found Word 2007 to be tolerable which is a big step forward. For me, the interface is everything.
Apple could have ported OS X to the arm. It would not need to be the entire OS. Apple could have kept it closed source. Its not like other vendors don't ship closed source versions of products, etc.
It could even be running on FreeBSD for all we know. They have made progress with the arm port.
True but I was thinking of upstream providers whom are owned by US corporations or at the very least do business in the united states. UUNET and the german telecom for instance.
Not getting into the credit cards for teens, do you realize american express was advertising gift cards that work as their cards this christmas? Also, some ISPs take cash or checks. I've known teens with checking accounts. Hell I had one at 16 and I'm in my late 20s now. While I started with AOL, I did get two different dialup accounts with local ISPs using cash. I had to pay quarterly, but it was offered. I later worked at one of those ISPs and dealt with many customers who paid cash and on at least one occasion gave us a fake name, etc.
Children also regularly have cell phones and other things that were considered adult at one time. There's also the possibility they stole a card, etc.
They don't need to do that. Someone has to provide sealand an INTERNET CONNECTION! The ISP is not above the law and they can simply go after the ISP. This has worked in the past in the US. I think their plan will fail.
Public disclosure does help. Eventually someone will most likely find these bugs. What if an unethical person sat on the knowledge and used it for personal gain? I don't assume all bugs in software are reported or made public. There's also a small chance the programmers will notice other bugs or defects in the code when a bug or defect is published.
I'd much rather these people "play fair", but quite frankly things could be worse. As for meijer, they should replace those damn cash registers with something that doesn't lock up while ringing an order. Some stores use cash registers running on DOS or other systems. Maybe you could start a company to make point of sale solutions that don't run windows and make everyone's day.
I personally report any bugs or vulnerabilities I find in software whenever possible. In fact, I just reported something to apple today using bugreport.apple.com.
Oh its possible for me. I've got 10 computers here. If I were to use a windows based central file server, I could potentially use it up. Then again, I would probably use MidnightBSD with NFS, samba and netatalk. Prior to starting the MidnightBSD project, I had a FreeBSD file server/router setup. It worked out rather well. I did use it primarily for backup on my iBook, but I mapped my home directory to it in BSD and My Documents in windows to it. It worked out very well. I later needed the machine as a "real" server.
As for the microsoft product, I can see people interested in IT or who currently use one of the seagate or other external backup hard drive based systems getting into this product. Its a logical upgrade from those products for people with a little more knowledge. I would have bought it 6 7 years ago when I was working as a Windows admin. Back then I had an NT4 server up at home running my websites on an ISDN line. OK, there might not be a big demand for this new product.
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Please review what UNIX is... http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix.html
Many BSDs have not been tested officially to use the UNIX name. If you simply look at the specification, IBM has done a lot of work with Linux to make it pass. This is a big gray area. The GNU is not UNIX but Linux slowly is becoming an implementation of the standard...
Almost everything runs on ia32 now. People have a choice which is what open source is all about. My personal belief has always been that each OS has an advantage for a specific task or series of tasks. That makes all systems relevant.
As for databases, I think SQL Server isn't that bad but for very large deployments there are a few other options that make more sense. Most people don't need Oracle, SQL Server or DB2. MySQL or Postgresql are adequate. You can get them to run on almost anything.
Most people complaining about Vista have not used it for more than a few hours. There are limitations with software compatibility, but I haven't seen any problems with media playback. iTunes works for playback. I can watch DVDs easier than in XP. They look just as good. I have a CRT. Perhaps when the bit gets set on HD media and I actually get a blueray drive...
I use windows for very little at this point. Gaming and watching iTunes video is it. I wouldn't even use it for iTunes if hard drives in laptops were larger.
Translation: We need open source developers to write games and multimedia applications to help end users replace windows. They must be easy to use and someone needs to advertise this stuff. With luck Linux or even a little project like mine will help make this possible. Remember, Apple and Microsoft are successful because they advertise solutions to end users. We (OSS developers) fail to do that.
No, it was supported minus opengl. They had "basic" support which couldn't run 7 year old games. It was too slow and not real support. I've had more performance out of software renderers in FreeBSD (mesa). I don't call this 100% support. If something works in XP and does not in Vista then the hardware is NOT utilized the same.
Make your own fork? Trust me.. this is much harder than it sounds. Everyone just sees it as a waste of resources because we already have --insert your favorite os here--. I must say that I've found several posts quite interesting and they require more thought.
Many free software proponents mention forks. GPL supporters often bring it up as "freedom" for the code. Well they don't want forks. Its just seen as less coders for one or two peoples ideals. Linus & co have made it very clear they don't want a forked linux kernel. GNU fans often make the BSD is dead/dying jokes in hopes people might believe them. Why have competition for linux or GNU Mach/Hurd? If you think that way, might as well use windows. If someone forks you, take it as a complement that they thought enough of your work to use it.
PureVideo is not supported in Vista x64 either. That is false advertising. I did upgrade to vista and can tell you that the nvidia drivers are terrible. As of Vista launch day, only the 8000 series had working opengl officially. You can actually install that driver and it will work with the 7000 series as well. I have a 7300 GS which was purchased in november. It should work with vista. I run windows for gaming and right now I can play more games in MidnightBSD which no one supports.
This was my second nvidia card and first in my primary desktop. I will not buy another one. AMD gets my money next time. Their drivers suck and they don't support any BSD, but at least they aren't rude.
Don't start the Macs can't be upgraded FUD. There are websites reporting that you can put quad core chips in the Mac Pros. My wife has a PowerMac Dual 867MHz G4 which shipped with 256MB RAM, a Geforce 4 MX 32mb AGP video card, 60GB HDD, and a Combo drive. We've upgraded it to 1.75GB RAM, added a second 160GB hard drive (primary boot volume now), a second optical drive (dvd burner bought for $32 on newegg), and at one time it had a Radeon 9800 aftermarket card. I even had a second NIC in it for a bit when my old router failed. The system shipped with 10.2. Its been upgraded to 10.3 and 10.4. It will most likely run 10.5 perfectly. My wife wants a new machine to improve her WoW experience and I figure we'll end up getting her a Mac Pro in the next year or so.
Another example is my old iMac. It was an iMac DV 400mhz G3 which came with a 10GB hard drive and 64MB ram with OS 9. I bought it in august of 2000. I upgraded the ram to 512MB and replaced the hard drive with an 80GB seagate. I also put 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 on it before I sold it to a coworker. Her daughter is still using it with 10.3 quite happily.
The beige to color transition was a problem for many people but since then many macs are upgradable. I've put a 60GB hard drive and 512MB ram into my iBook G4 as well. It wasn't fun to remove 52 screws to get to the hard drive, but I was able to do it.
There are overdrive chips for machines up to late G4 models. You can get ATI video cards for many systems. The trick is to buy a PowerMac or now a Mac Pro.
My G4 xserve at work just got a memory upgrade and runs 10.4 server with 2GB of ram and 3 hard drives. It has a radeon graphics card. My G5 xserve at work has an xserve raid attached with a fibre channel card, 5 GB of ram and 2 hard drives in internal modules. It also runs 10.4 server. Most of the iMacs (G4) got new optical drives put in last summer.
Macs are upgradeable.
Seven year old dell.. well I've got one and I can guarantee it won't run vista. Its a PowerEdge 550Mhz Xeon P3 with 512MB RAM, Ati onboard rage graphics, two scsi 18GB hard drives and a scsi cdrom. It will run Windows 2003 Server and MidnightBSD just fine. The problem with using PowerEdge systems is that its not a fair comparison. Apple did sell PowerMacs configured as servers, but vista is a client OS so you should use the dell Precision line. A 7 year old precision may or may not run vista. I know my ~4 year old Precision could not run Vista beta2 due to lack of drivers for the LSI scsi controller. That's a dual Xeon 2Ghz Precision 650 workstation.
Old Macs also do not have the accelerated APIs but the interface looks mostly the same in Mac OS X. My wife's original iBook can run 10.3 but does not have the disk space for 10.4. I doubt it has enough ram to run mail.app for my email account (160MB) without it crashing. It runs OpenBSD perfectly though.
I guess I don't see the point to all this. We know windows releases are important to generate new hardware sales and therefore require semi-recent computers. This will make intel and amd a lot of money. We benefit as geeks because we get new stuff to play with. Hardware vendors innovate when they actually can sell hardware. All our friends and relatives give us old PCs and Macs as they upgrade. Just enjoy the vista launch. My mother is already asking me about vista. I told her games don't work and its overrated. She still think it sounds good because Bill Gates said so. So I'll probably load it up for her. She can see how "right" Mr. Gates is for herself.
I completely understand his comment. I'm a Windows, Mac, and BSD user. Vista does mostly catch Microsoft up to Mac OS 10.4. The question is will Apple get ahead again. I think 10.5 will do just that. There's also a cost issue. Many people feel Macs are more expensive and I've heard convincing arguments both ways. In the end, I think its all the same. Windows Vista Ultimate costs more than OS X and that is the only version which is fair to compare to Mac OS from a feature perspective. If Microsoft can pick up pace and give enough freebies away with Ultimate updates, then they may cause Apple some problems.
Software incompatibilities with Vista will force consumers to buy new software. They could just as easily switch. Apple's lack of native applications for intel macs has forced some to Windows as well.
Apple has always been considered premiere with windows as the regular everyday OS. Think of it this way. Windows is like a chevy and Mac OS is like a BMW. Not everything thinks a BMW looks good, but many people would buy one if they could afford it. Windows users advocate buying a chevy.. they are more popular and look cheaper up front. The bills to keep the chevy running over time start to add up though. In windows terms, antivirus software and other utilities. I hope this explains why the guy said MS was catching up.. its like chevy releasing a good car. Before anyone gets upset, remember chevy has always been considered GM's lowend line. They are also GM's most popular brand.
Well you're not going to see gamers running to get vista. It doesn't play very many games. I've got Vista x64 Ultimate (technet) installed. Until today, you couldn't get a beta driver from nvidia to play any opengl games. The support was so slow that Enemy territory wouldn't run without freezing on the intro. As of today, if you download the 8800 beta driver it will also support some of the older cards. (7300 GS PCIE in my case) ET then ran and I got kicked for a missing system call by PB while connected to my own server.
I'm hoping Microsoft and game companies will both release updates to fix gaming problems. WoW works, but you have to manually run the update with admin rights last I checked. I don't play WoW that often.
If you are a gamer, don't bother with vista just yet. Stick with XP. ATI/AMD appears to be ahead on vista drivers if you need to buy a new card and use vista.
As for cpu spikes and things, my system is using about 4% cpu and 30% physical ram right now. I'm running firefox, xfire, windows live messenger, steam, and windows defender is on. This is a pentium d 805 with 2.5GB DDR2.
You don't know how right you are. I'm running Vista Ultimate x64 RTM right now. Its peppy for regular tasks.
AMD and NVIDIA are not shipping OpenGL drivers yet. NVIDIA's is very slow and you can not play most games like Enemy Territory (quake3 based). WoW works.
Windows consumes half my ram on startup. I have 2.5GB of ram. Granted I have a NVIDIA 7300 GS w/ turbocache too.
My system is:
Pentium D 805 (dual core 2.6Ghz)
2.5GB PC5300 DDR2
SATA II Hitatchi disk.
Intel DP965LT Motherboard
NVIDIA Geforce 7300 GS 256MB + turbocache up to 512MB
On this vista is usable but I wouldn't recommend running it on anything less. Don't expect games to work.
I've had the following games work so far:
Age of Empires II
World of Warcraft Burning Crusade (but patching requires manually running the patch with admin rights)
Day of defeat source
These don't work so far:
Star wars knights of the old republic 2
splinter cell
sim city 4 (weird install issue i'm working on)
I haven't bothered to try quake 4, Doom 3 or most of my other games as many require opengl. I did a format last weekend so i haven't gone through extensive install process yet.
Yes. I would have loved to start on an HP, but every year I was forced to use TI's except junior year. That teacher only liked casios! I almost failed that trig class because I couldn't figure out the calculator and she would not allow us to use our own.
I've been quite happy with my wife's TI-85 in college. She had used it in high school. There are times I would have liked a TI-86 but its not much different.
As far as getting you to pull spam with your model, it will just mean new methods of infection for clients. The way to force a pull is malware. Another approach would be to attack the host serving the RSS feeds.
The problem is that everything thinks they have this great answer to spam. Its a social problem which is not possible to fix. We can slow it down, but never stop it. Creating a new protocol will not work. I get spam on IRC, MSN, AIM, ICQ, message boards, e-mail, etc. The only real advantage to using RSS is the ease of using SSL certificates and other authentication methods which are available on mail servers anyway. It would make more sense to argue for forced SSL certificates from a trusted (read expensive) authority. That would piss me off since I run my own mail server and do not have the money for such a cert. I'd almost live with it if it would help. As pointed out somewhere above, spammers are now relaying through the ISP mailservers now.
A good start would be to push mail servers that have integrated authentication, authorization, ssl and some antispam filters with defaults that limit relaying. Its a hassle for someone to configure a mail server, especially using sendmail or postfix. One has to add a bunch of third party software.
The problem is that many people *think* everything coming from cable or dsl is consumer grade. This guy might be using consumer grade dsl, but I've setup business packages for cable and dsl to run servers. I'm paying the premium and yet I'm still often blacklisted because I can't afford an OC48.
I always buy at least 1 copy of OS X. I don't view them as point releases. 10.3.9 or 10.4.8 is a point release. In the apple scheme the major version number is the second number... OS X is a marketing thing... I mean do you think Windows XP at 5.1 and Windows 2003 at 5.2? is a point release? How about Linux 2.4 vs Linux 2.6.. is that a point release?!
Even if you argue that 10.1 to 10.2 wasn't a big release, 10.1 to 10.3 certainly is. Mac OS 10.4 has removed many BSD like configuration options, especially in the server version. Its certainly different than previous releases.
Don't confuse lack of interest in a new release with it being minor. Its not minor to everyone.
I worked at an ISP and can confirm most employees were idiots. I had to train the idiots. Getting them to setup Windows 98 correctly was hard enough, but when an NT or Mac customer called... lets just say one of them cried for 2 hours because the lady couldn't find the start button and kept saying there was an apple in the corner.
Still if google offered real bandwidth instead of this lowend crap I'd jump at it. At least when we were on dial up, new modems came out every few years offering faster speeds. Now we are at the whim of the cable or telco companies for them to decide to bump speeds up. I'd even settle for a lowend broadband package for everyone with at least dual isdn speeds. Customers in BFE can't even get DSL or cable which is holding everyone back. My mother is still on dialup and I'm tired of supporting her modem. If I visit her, she's got a 42k connect.. while I used to 8Mbit/s cable at home.
While they're at it, perhaps some UPSTREAM would be nice.
The sega genesis was 16bit and competed with the SNES. The Sega CD addition was marketed as two 16 bit processors... the 32x addition was a bit weak, but I loved star wars arcade and NBA Jam TE. Doom locked up on it about halfway through.
The Saturn was killed in part by the additions to the genesis. My mother wouldn't buy me one since she just spent all the money on the Sega CD and 32x. I was in high school then. I also went to buy one myself but the only store in town who sold saturns was out (Toys R US) I never did find one.
The dreamcast failure was a real bummer. Its a great console. My genesis, dreamcast and xbox are the most played systems I have. I also have almost every Nintendo system except the Wii and DS. I like the dreamcast over my xbox. Both run a form of windows.
Nintendo will sit on the Wii for 3 years or more. Graphics don't matter anyway. The playstation had terrible graphics and people loved that. Games are the most important thing. In many ways the SNES was superior to the Genesis and yet Sega had a huge following because the games were fun.
Then again, with intel macs people can say buy windows. At work, we are replacing some gx240 dell systems with intel iMacs dual booting windows xp and tiger. We were already half Mac with OS X servers. We don't count because we are a university computer science department though. The number of Mac users is unusually high at my university as a result. Many students and faculty have iBooks, MacBooks Pros, etc. Many people with intel macs ask about bootcamp though. Its hard to say if OS X will be around in 5 years.
Case is also an issue. Some sites only allow lowercase tags while others don't care about case.
This is similar to the problem blogging sites have with cross site scripting. Try to tell a blogger you won't take HTML or bbcode posts (depending on generation of the blogger). Regardless of what you do, there's going to be sites that don't follow the rules and there will also be ways to screw it up for everybody.
There isn't a standard for many things on the internet which causes validation to be near impossible. Security researchers complain people don't do input validation, but I've never seen a complete webapp that's an example of security at the time its written. You can't validate things like addresses, names, e-mail addresses, or long text entries including blogs and content without leaving out characters that should be valid or flat out blocking some from using your service.
As for the standard, this reminds me or RDF. Had it taken off, we could tag data with properly defined, shared tags. Defining tags in RDF would allow sites to share the information through RDF and thus solve the problem of transmittal. Of course getting everyone to agree to this is another thing.
The same people who bitch about the new interface also complain that Microsoft doesn't innovate. At least they tried something new. You can certainly argue on the usefulness to some, but its something new.
This is also the time you can migrate to open office or another product since the UI is different. Your end users might not know the difference. They just hear the new office looks different. Some people will fall for that.
The only reason to upgrade some Microsoft or Apple products is often security patches. Once its not supported, its time to upgrade or migrate off the product.
I beta tested Office 2007 and loved it. I regularly use the Mac version of Word as well as Pages and found Word 2007 to be tolerable which is a big step forward. For me, the interface is everything.
Apple could have ported OS X to the arm. It would not need to be the entire OS. Apple could have kept it closed source. Its not like other vendors don't ship closed source versions of products, etc.
It could even be running on FreeBSD for all we know. They have made progress with the arm port.
True but I was thinking of upstream providers whom are owned by US corporations or at the very least do business in the united states. UUNET and the german telecom for instance.
Not getting into the credit cards for teens, do you realize american express was advertising gift cards that work as their cards this christmas? Also, some ISPs take cash or checks. I've known teens with checking accounts. Hell I had one at 16 and I'm in my late 20s now. While I started with AOL, I did get two different dialup accounts with local ISPs using cash. I had to pay quarterly, but it was offered. I later worked at one of those ISPs and dealt with many customers who paid cash and on at least one occasion gave us a fake name, etc.
Children also regularly have cell phones and other things that were considered adult at one time. There's also the possibility they stole a card, etc.
They don't need to do that. Someone has to provide sealand an INTERNET CONNECTION! The ISP is not above the law and they can simply go after the ISP. This has worked in the past in the US. I think their plan will fail.
Public disclosure does help. Eventually someone will most likely find these bugs. What if an unethical person sat on the knowledge and used it for personal gain? I don't assume all bugs in software are reported or made public. There's also a small chance the programmers will notice other bugs or defects in the code when a bug or defect is published.
I'd much rather these people "play fair", but quite frankly things could be worse. As for meijer, they should replace those damn cash registers with something that doesn't lock up while ringing an order. Some stores use cash registers running on DOS or other systems. Maybe you could start a company to make point of sale solutions that don't run windows and make everyone's day.
I personally report any bugs or vulnerabilities I find in software whenever possible. In fact, I just reported something to apple today using bugreport.apple.com.
Oh its possible for me. I've got 10 computers here. If I were to use a windows based central file server, I could potentially use it up. Then again, I would probably use MidnightBSD with NFS, samba and netatalk. Prior to starting the MidnightBSD project, I had a FreeBSD file server/router setup. It worked out rather well. I did use it primarily for backup on my iBook, but I mapped my home directory to it in BSD and My Documents in windows to it. It worked out very well. I later needed the machine as a "real" server.
As for the microsoft product, I can see people interested in IT or who currently use one of the seagate or other external backup hard drive based systems getting into this product. Its a logical upgrade from those products for people with a little more knowledge. I would have bought it 6 7 years ago when I was working as a Windows admin. Back then I had an NT4 server up at home running my websites on an ISDN line. OK, there might not be a big demand for this new product.