Thats a very bad idea. If we were to stop considering ideas, then slavery would not have ended and equal rights would not have come to pass. In fact, it would cause serious problems with the gay marriage debate regardless of what side you're on.
I agree completely. I still don't have hardware acceleration for my ati radeon 9600 xt! Heck since its the AIW model, i can't even get it to detect the pci id without adding it to the x config. I reported it and two minor versions of xorg came out without the improvements. Granted ati and nvidia need to get it together with specs, but i dont think the xorg guys care either.
And releasing closed source linux drivers is not a solution people! I use freebsd 5.x. (even amd64 linux is screwed over cause of this!)
I think there is one advantage to the powermac lineup.. you can upgrade the computer! An imac can be upgraded in two ways.. new hard drive and more memory. Thats about it. Sure you can use firewire/usb devices but thats limiting. A real powermac can be upgraded in two years.
For example, my wife has a dual 867mhz g4 powermac. It originally shipped with 1 60 gig hdd, 256mb ram and an nvidia geforce 4mx. We've upgraded it to 1.25gb ram, 160 gb hdd and left the 60 gb hdd as well, plus we added a dvd burner (had a combo drive already) and dropped in an ati radeon 9800 128mb agp 4x! There's even a dual processor upgrade for it to like 1.4 ghz dual g4's for 500 bucks. (we didn't do that step yet)
High end macs are upgradable! Very upgradable!
Why did we upgrade it? My wife got into WOW and has about 10 characters. I never see her anymore:)
She's also a masters canidate in a CS program so she does a lot of compiling with java and C++.
It also depends on the version of freebsd and if a firewall like ipfw is running. My experience has been that freebsd 4 is faster than 5.x and 6 current in networking so far. Its getting better though. For certain services like apache 2, freebsd 5 seems peppy though. ipfw has a noticably impact on performance, although it could be my ruleset. I know in early 5.x builds, ipfw required giant lock.. that might have been the problem.
My experience has been that Windows XP, etc. allocate 80% of the bandwith to regular apps and reserve 20 percent for QoS apps. Its impossible to use more than 80% for file copies over the network. That cap is based on the link speed though.. so say 80MB/s for a 100MB/s connection. Presuming its a 100 base T switch, you should have pushed more traffic than that. I typically only get 10MB/s or less with sftp transfers on my home network using an ibook g4 and a dual xeon dell with a built in 1000MT intel nic builtin. (64bit pci bus nic) I've got a netgear switch/router 100 base t. Using samba i can use 80% of the connection in windows copying to my wife's powermac g4 (samba) or my FreeBSD machine (samba or nfs with ms sfu)
The problem with ASUS boards is actually the bios. Their ACPI implementation is not complete. I've had a lot of problems with FreeBSD 5.x on ASUS boards, especially the nforce2 chipset models. I think GNU/Linux handles ACPI bugs better or at least in a similar way to windows.
Aside from the stuff above, I used to love asus. They sold certified Solaris x86 compatible motherboards in the late 90s. I had a nice solaris box running on a SiS chipset of all things. It worked for years. Anything before the softbios era was great. After that, they've never had a stable bios implemenatation and the ACPI bugs in more recent boards limit my use oF BSD. My last home built was a MSI board with an nforce2 chipset.. works great on FreeBSD 5.x (well the sata controller wasn't supported till i hacked it!)
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They did. IBM still sells the laptops on their website. Infact part of the deal was to use the IBM name for the laptops. If you look on their site, you'll notice the true manufacturer is listed in several places.
I decided never to buy IBM computers again after the sale. I don't have a problem with a chinese company owning ibm's desktop/laptop divison, but I do have a problem with the chinese government owning a large stake in it. (I'd also have a problem with my government owning a stake in a company)
Why should they charge a different price? Someone can download windows media player for the stripped version thus turning into the "full" version. Its the same thing really. Just one can't play most multimedia on the web.
The real punishment should have been that the default install doesn't have anything installed in it... ie, wmp, or any other "addon" to windows. Make it an optional check box in the add/remove programs like they do with IIS in xp pro. Users who want ie or whatever can turn them on and it will install them. Then a pc vendor like dell can sell boxes with say firefox and thunderbird on there. They won't have to support any of the microsoft stuff or worry about applying patches to software thats not installed.
Microsoft could then ship 1 version of windows with all the software. I think the idea of xp home and xp pro is stupid. Many times i've needed the permissions dialog in xp home to fix something because my NTFS volume got hosed up or i had to reinstall windows. (too lazy to format)
As a consumer, I want xp pro + media center features in 1 os that everyone gets. The fact that I have to buy a dell to get windows media center edition (or newegg with no support/drivers) is stupid. I happen to have a tv tunner card and it would be nice to have. ATI's software sucks.
If real networks wants to compete, give out free real player disks at target and other local stores like AOL has done for years! They could make it back on server products and encoders. The EU could have regulated the server products and encorders and made them pay addons.
Luckily, apple has already found a way to compete.. quicktime is bundled with itunes and so anyone with an ipod has it.:)
Java 1.5 is alpha quality last i checked on FreeBSD. The patchset isn't done yet. AMD64 support is also new in the 1.5 build. That is a known problem.
In a ia32 install, you just install linux sun jdk14 port and then download like two or three files from sun plus the patch set and put them in/usr/ports/distfiles
Then just do make, make install. After an hour or two it should be done (somewhat recent hardware). I use native java in production with Tomcat 5.5 right now. It works well.
In the mean time, you could install the 32 bit version of FreeBSD on the AMD64 to get java support. It sucks, but its a start. Sun's the reason Apple has to make their own JVM and we get into headaches with compatibility.. write once run anywhere my ass.
While i haven't used the GIMP extensively, i doubt it supports all the features of this Microsoft product. It may have unique features, but they are not the same product. Its similar to the original author's mistake of comparing to photoshop exclusively.
Quite frankly, even if the GIMP has the same feature set, I don't like the user interface. Its rather difficult to use. I can use most macromedia and adobe products which aren't a cake walk either. The GIMP people need a HCI person on there team really bad! Maybe they could start by reading the apple or gnome usability guidelines.
I'm glad microsoft is releasing this product. Adobe will need someone to compete against after their macromedia aquisition.
People often forget that 4BSD has gotten several of the features that ULE has during the last two releases of 5.x. The advantage of 4BSD is obvious when you consider people who manually enable HTT, or buy dual core cpus. In my case, my system must run under 4BSD because of the SMP issues.
I'm hoping they go with the xeons for the "PowerMacs." Seriously, they should rename those. I've got a dual 2.0ghz xeon on my desk and I love it. Now if i could only find a good counter balance so my desk doesn't lean to one side.:)
Isn't this just virtual pc? Microsoft bought Connectix a few years back. Since then they've released new versions of VPC for windows, macs and recently windows server (their virtual server product). It just sounds like another way to sell me vpc, crush vmware and OSS stuff, and raise the price of windows again.
I wonder if this is a way to run OS X Intel edition in the future. With intel telling lamers to buy mac that will say the big word.. "Pentium".. i'm wondering what the masses will do. As bad as the apple announcment was, maybe there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Anything but Microsoft!!!!!
I did nothing.. the game is not multithreaded. 2 cpus can't help you when the game developers don't multithread their games. I have hyperthreading disabled for just that reason. (otherwise windows sees 4 processors) I don't get people that game with HTT on actually. With dual core cpus coming out i'm hoping they will get the hint.
Also, to clarify again.. i bought the all in wonder model. Its more than just the generic at your local pc store.
Yes it is better than my tv.. but i dont use my tv.. i use my pc monitor with my AIW. Its rather nice although of course the resolution is not that high.
I can play racing games with a gamecube controller just fine. I don't need to buy the extras for it.
Previously my pc had IIS and ASP.NET because i also did web development on it. I've switched to a UNIX webserver and now don't need the extra stuff. I have not tried since then. Of course i did turn off IIS, SAV, and all non essential services before gaming. I also periodically update all my drivers. The original drivers with the card had doom 3 issues.
I'm also aware i could have bought the game later, but I loved the doom series and wanted it right away. No harm in that. I got the video card before the game came out as i always wanted an AIW. its great for recording tv and making dvds. I payed 52 dollars the day it was out at best buy, not 65.
For all the down sides of the pc, running a UNIX like os on it with two cpus is very rewarding. it was worth it for that reason alone. (linux 2.6 kernel and freebsd both rock!)
Never, ever wish IBM would buy someone unless you hate the product! Look at Lotus Notes/Smartsuite.. where are they now? IBM'd. IBM can't do software.. its like asking Microsoft to make pcs. IBM is essentially a processor manufacturer now. They sold the desktop division to China and as usual put themselves in an elite hole where the average person never speaks of them. Try going to a college campus and asking CS majors about IBM some time. They've never heard of their software products except maybe ViaVoice. Some miscredit ibm for inventing dos! I haven't found one cs major (other than myself) who's heard of OS/2 or is familiar with Lotus Smartsuite.
For humor sake, also go to the one guy in the department who bought a thinkpad.. there's always one.. he will tell you IBM is still the pc market. Now to mess with him, bought up an ibook or powerbook in front of him. Wait a minute or two for the "You're an apple user.. idiot" comments and then hit him with.. who do you think made the processor in this laptop? Oops! Now he doesn't know what to do.. say apple's suck.. accept that IBM is really a multifaced company, cling to microsoft or throw Linux on his laptop because ibm says its the next best thing. Linux is in trouble if it doesn't shake IBM's blessing. By the time IBM pushes something.. its too late.
Novell has some nice features in Netware, Zen, iprint.. etc. I don't like to support them... (workstation only check box is EVIL! RENAME IT to dont connect to network!!!!!!) Spam filtering that works in groupwise would be a big help.
Sometimes though I wonder why people bother to use netware. If you actually use all or most of the features its worth the money. If you are an idiot like my boss who only pushes down printers and installs msi files.. why not just use the microsoft crap?
I take it you didn't try to play doom 3 when it came out! I had just bought a $250 ati AIW 9600 XT 128mb.... its only playable at 800 x 600 resolution on my pc. (dual xeon 2 ghz, 1 gb of ram)
There's two sides to it. Personally, I play games on consoles, PCs and Macs. Each platform has different game play and are better suited to different games. I like to play FPS games like ET, RTCW and Doom 3 on a pc because i value a keyboard/mouse, i like to play strategy games like Age of Empires 2 on a Mac because its easy on the eyes and i benefit from a keyboard/mouse (not a mac mouse of course) and i like to play racing/sim games on consoles. They tend to have the best play control for that type of game. Compare Need for speed on a console vs a PC. Sure the graphics are better on a pc, but try to take a corner without buying some special joystick or steering wheel addon.. then try to get it to work in windows! ugh!
I understand what you mean. Firefox tends to be slower on some platforms than others. I have noticed the plugins added to the browser have a big impact on memory usage and sluggishness though. Firefox in windows occasionally crashes on me using flash, but often renders very fast. However, comparing firefox on my mac laptop to Safari or even IE often results in a big loss for firefox. The browser is slow and constantly crashes. The only OS I've never had problems in is FreeBSD 5.x. I suspect thats just the extra resources available.
It does point to low memory causing the problem though. My desktop has 1 gig of ram, but my laptop only has 256mb of ram. It is a 1.0 release though.. it will get better. Its already better than the full bloated mozilla suite.
Very true. I suspect RMS is anal about the name because he's always wanted to ride on the coat-tails of the Linux kernel's popularity. Granted, there are several important GNU related projects; most notably gcc.
In reality, he's going to push Linux until GNU/Mach & GNU/Hurd is actually usable. Most likely he'll die pushing linux!
Some day his vision will come true of a Mach kernel based operating system containing open source software with a Objective C library powering the graphical user interface.. oh wait it happened in 1988.. its called NeXTSTEP!!!!!!!!!!! Some of you might know it as Mac OS X.
Last I checked.. you could run Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenDarwin, and coming soon.. FreeBSD all on a Macintosh. Likewise, you can run several unix variants on Sparc boxes. x86 boxes are not unique in having multiple operating systems. In fact, Linux works well on a Mac. So does OpenBSD.
As for tinkering.. if you mean installing oses and upgrading.. my wife's PowerMac G4 started with 256 mb of ram, dual 867mhz G4s, 60 gig hdd, and an nvidia geforce 4 mx 32mb agp 4x video card. We've since added an additional gig of ram, DVD burner (it had combo drive already), additional 160 gb hdd, and an ati radeon 9800 128mb agp 4x video card. There is even a dual g4 processor upgrade card for it we are considering buying that would make it around a dual 1.5 ghz. Macs are upgradable and exandable if you don't buy an iMac! (and i even upgraded the hard drive in one of those before!)
Its great that you like pcs and like to multiboot. I share that love of multibooting and tinkering as well.. just don't discredit the Mac platform because you disagree with someone who likes PowerPC processors over intel/amd cpus. Its a silly argument.
As for OS reliability.. i am very hard on operating systems. Here' my personal reinstall list due to os failures or me screwing them up starting in 1995 to present:
Windows 95: 53 installs! (that os sucked!) Windows 98: 5 installs and i gave up on it. Windows 98 SE: 5 installs.. decied on NT forever. Windows NT 4.0: 5 installs over a 4 year period from 96 to 2000 (i dual booted) Windows 2000: 5 installs over several hardware upgrades (new systems) best windows os ever. Windows XP: 4 total on two systems. File system corruption each time. (NTFS) OS/2 Warp 3: 13 installs on 3 systems OS/2 Warp 4: 4 installs on 3 systems Mac OS 9: 4 installs (crashes a lot with low memory setup) Mac OS 10.1: 2 installs on 1 systems Mac OS 10.2: 4 installs (netinfo sucks.. bad disk image and the netinfo database goes to hell) Mac OS 10.3: 4 installs on 3 systems Mac OS 10.4: 1 install.. kernel panic shutting down on my ibook g4.. wtf! Redhat: 15 installs on 4 computers.. 5.0 through 9.0 usually ext2 file system failure from power loss.. STUPID file system! Gentoo: 1 install.. love it.. lost lilo config when my windows xp install corrupted.:( FreeBSD: 10 installs on 5 systems.. not counting buildworld/buildkernel source upgrades. NetBSD Sparc: 2 installs.. nice os! Solaris 7: 3 installs on 2 boxes.. hardware failure or trying to enable udma (x86 build) Solaris 8: 2 installs.. (udma failure, decided to use linux & bsd) Solaris 9: 1 install.. not impressed. Suse: never could install.. bad DVD iso...
I could go on forever. Multi booting is fun!
Conclusions: All OSes suck!
My personal experience indicates this in terms of stability:
1. Mac OS 10.1 2. Windows 2000 Pro/Server 3. FreeBSD 5.x 4. Linux (well with a good file system) 5. NetBSD 1.6 6. Mac OS 10.3 7. Windows XP SP1 or better 8. OS/2 Warp 4 9. Solaris x86
I'm counting these in a desktop configuration only. My server list is different.
Experiences influence our opinions of processors and operating systems. Given this list, I still have negative feelings about linux for some reason. I also personally would buy a Mac for a friend or relative or for a corporate network because i feel apple has more stable hardware and better support than off the shelf pc vendors. I have broken dells at work all the time. One even had the foil on it from the jerk tech who didn't remove it from the HEAT SINK! It overheated and lets just say its a mess. (dell tech replaced mobo/cpu optiplex gx240s have processor cache issues)
How about Linux ON mac.. Linux on sparc.. Linux on (insert anything besides x86 here). How about freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, opendarwin, OS/2 Warp/ecomstation,...
There is a serious need for this. Granted its possible to run flash in linux emulation mode sometimes in *bsd on a ia-32 box but it sucks.
How about all the sites that require flash to browse. My university's payroll site uses flash buttons for navigation!!!!!! The division of student affairs doesn't even have flash built into our Ghost images! (DONT EVER USE FLASH FOR NAVIGATION.. if you do.. your an )
Personally, I think this is one case where microsoft did something right.. & for concatination in VB.
Before anyone asks... a period is ignorant because its HARD TO READ in a big long concatinated string! Its also not used in most other languages making it less intuitive.
I like Macs, but using a Macintosh with an apple mouse sucks.
Why?
1. Try to use a graphics app like photoshop with one button sometime.
2. Try to play a first person shooter like enemy territory on the Mac.
3. Try to use a web browser and scroll a lot...
For those Mac users considering buying a real mouse, here's my experience. Logitech mice require a OS X driver to run at about the same sensitivity as a mac mouse. If you don't install the software, it takes 2 weeks to get to the other side of the screen. Recent microsoft mice work perfectly without any software. (ironic isn't it)
As others have pointed out, middle clicking does NOT open a new tab in safari by default.
Carbon and Cocoa apps (OS X) support right click and scrolling. As I recall, some old apps running in classic emulation mode don't always support them. I refer to pre carbon apps from say 1988.. not everyone has microsoft's backward compatiblity policy.:)
Glad to hear microsoft is "innovating" again with tabs. There goes my argument to add firefox to the default ghost image at work.:(
FreeBSD does not focus on i386 performance. That was an old goal.. its not true anymore. FreeBSD 5.x and greater now focus on SMP. SMP designed kernels are slower for single cpu cases which is why Solaris always gets a bad rap as VERY slow.
NetBSD arguably is now the fastest BSD for single cpu i386 boxes. They have "benchmarks" to prove it.
Here's the new goal list for the *BSD community:
FreeBSD: threads/SMP (5.x)
NetBSD: Performance (2.x)
OpenBSD: Security and now replacing the entire userland with BSD stuff.
DragonFly: FreeBSD did it wrong.. i can fix it... Note that matt D. wrote a lot of the freebsd 5.x code he makes fun of now! Seriously, his message approach reminds me of a Mach style.
OpenDarwin: Some consider this a BSD others do not.. based on Apple's Darwin/OSX releases, it has a Mach kernel with monolithic memory management from FreeBSD. Mach descends from 4.3/4.4 BSD releases so its a BSD derivative at least.
PC BSD: New kid on the block (sorry).. trying to be GNU GPL licensed, freebsd distro/fork? focusing on Desktop market.
Then the countless BSD distros emerging.. most are freebsd based and focus on live cds. Frenzy is one example. PicoBSD is another... etc.
Like it or not the BSD community is going through what the GNU/Linux community went through in the mid to late 90s. I don't have to say its not dead anymore.. its quite alive. While I don't agree with Theo De Raadt, many BSD people feel the Linux camp sold out with most of the big players taking the helm.. IBM, Novell, Sun, Redhat, etc. Its a shame linux has gone corporate.. at least we have a few grassroots distros like Gentoo left.
Just for clarification, I am a FreeBSD, OSX, Gentoo, Solaris, and Windows user. Its helpful to know what my bias is.:)
The younger generation did try to show up during the last presidential election. Thats why it was so close! Baby boomers all vote for those "carpet baggers" minus a few intelligent people.
At least locally, we had the largest turn out in 30 years by younger people to the polls. Blame my mother-in-law.. she still believes they'll find WMD in iraq!
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Thats a very bad idea. If we were to stop considering ideas, then slavery would not have ended and equal rights would not have come to pass. In fact, it would cause serious problems with the gay marriage debate regardless of what side you're on.
I agree completely. I still don't have hardware acceleration for my ati radeon 9600 xt! Heck since its the AIW model, i can't even get it to detect the pci id without adding it to the x config. I reported it and two minor versions of xorg came out without the improvements. Granted ati and nvidia need to get it together with specs, but i dont think the xorg guys care either.
And releasing closed source linux drivers is not a solution people! I use freebsd 5.x. (even amd64 linux is screwed over cause of this!)
I think there is one advantage to the powermac lineup.. you can upgrade the computer! An imac can be upgraded in two ways.. new hard drive and more memory. Thats about it. Sure you can use firewire/usb devices but thats limiting. A real powermac can be upgraded in two years.
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For example, my wife has a dual 867mhz g4 powermac. It originally shipped with 1 60 gig hdd, 256mb ram and an nvidia geforce 4mx. We've upgraded it to 1.25gb ram, 160 gb hdd and left the 60 gb hdd as well, plus we added a dvd burner (had a combo drive already) and dropped in an ati radeon 9800 128mb agp 4x! There's even a dual processor upgrade for it to like 1.4 ghz dual g4's for 500 bucks. (we didn't do that step yet)
High end macs are upgradable! Very upgradable!
Why did we upgrade it? My wife got into WOW and has about 10 characters. I never see her anymore
She's also a masters canidate in a CS program so she does a lot of compiling with java and C++.
It also depends on the version of freebsd and if a firewall like ipfw is running. My experience has been that freebsd 4 is faster than 5.x and 6 current in networking so far. Its getting better though. For certain services like apache 2, freebsd 5 seems peppy though. ipfw has a noticably impact on performance, although it could be my ruleset. I know in early 5.x builds, ipfw required giant lock.. that might have been the problem.
My experience has been that Windows XP, etc. allocate 80% of the bandwith to regular apps and reserve 20 percent for QoS apps. Its impossible to use more than 80% for file copies over the network. That cap is based on the link speed though.. so say 80MB/s for a 100MB/s connection. Presuming its a 100 base T switch, you should have pushed more traffic than that. I typically only get 10MB/s or less with sftp transfers on my home network using an ibook g4 and a dual xeon dell with a built in 1000MT intel nic builtin. (64bit pci bus nic) I've got a netgear switch/router 100 base t. Using samba i can use 80% of the connection in windows copying to my wife's powermac g4 (samba) or my FreeBSD machine (samba or nfs with ms sfu)
The problem with ASUS boards is actually the bios. Their ACPI implementation is not complete. I've had a lot of problems with FreeBSD 5.x on ASUS boards, especially the nforce2 chipset models. I think GNU/Linux handles ACPI bugs better or at least in a similar way to windows.
Aside from the stuff above, I used to love asus. They sold certified Solaris x86 compatible motherboards in the late 90s. I had a nice solaris box running on a SiS chipset of all things. It worked for years. Anything before the softbios era was great. After that, they've never had a stable bios implemenatation and the ACPI bugs in more recent boards limit my use oF BSD. My last home built was a MSI board with an nforce2 chipset.. works great on FreeBSD 5.x (well the sata controller wasn't supported till i hacked it!)
They did. IBM still sells the laptops on their website. Infact part of the deal was to use the IBM name for the laptops. If you look on their site, you'll notice the true manufacturer is listed in several places.
I decided never to buy IBM computers again after the sale. I don't have a problem with a chinese company owning ibm's desktop/laptop divison, but I do have a problem with the chinese government owning a large stake in it. (I'd also have a problem with my government owning a stake in a company)
Why should they charge a different price? Someone can download windows media player for the stripped version thus turning into the "full" version. Its the same thing really. Just one can't play most multimedia on the web.
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The real punishment should have been that the default install doesn't have anything installed in it... ie, wmp, or any other "addon" to windows. Make it an optional check box in the add/remove programs like they do with IIS in xp pro. Users who want ie or whatever can turn them on and it will install them. Then a pc vendor like dell can sell boxes with say firefox and thunderbird on there. They won't have to support any of the microsoft stuff or worry about applying patches to software thats not installed.
Microsoft could then ship 1 version of windows with all the software. I think the idea of xp home and xp pro is stupid. Many times i've needed the permissions dialog in xp home to fix something because my NTFS volume got hosed up or i had to reinstall windows. (too lazy to format)
As a consumer, I want xp pro + media center features in 1 os that everyone gets. The fact that I have to buy a dell to get windows media center edition (or newegg with no support/drivers) is stupid. I happen to have a tv tunner card and it would be nice to have. ATI's software sucks.
If real networks wants to compete, give out free real player disks at target and other local stores like AOL has done for years! They could make it back on server products and encoders. The EU could have regulated the server products and encorders and made them pay addons.
Luckily, apple has already found a way to compete.. quicktime is bundled with itunes and so anyone with an ipod has it.
Java 1.5 is alpha quality last i checked on FreeBSD. The patchset isn't done yet. AMD64 support is also new in the 1.5 build. That is a known problem.
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In a ia32 install, you just install linux sun jdk14 port and then download like two or three files from sun plus the patch set and put them in
Then just do make, make install. After an hour or two it should be done (somewhat recent hardware). I use native java in production with Tomcat 5.5 right now. It works well.
In the mean time, you could install the 32 bit version of FreeBSD on the AMD64 to get java support. It sucks, but its a start. Sun's the reason Apple has to make their own JVM and we get into headaches with compatibility.. write once run anywhere my ass.
Yes, the advertise clause. Most BSD based operating systems changed the license to the new one years ago. FreeBSD code is clean for example.
While i haven't used the GIMP extensively, i doubt it supports all the features of this Microsoft product. It may have unique features, but they are not the same product. Its similar to the original author's mistake of comparing to photoshop exclusively.
Quite frankly, even if the GIMP has the same feature set, I don't like the user interface. Its rather difficult to use. I can use most macromedia and adobe products which aren't a cake walk either. The GIMP people need a HCI person on there team really bad! Maybe they could start by reading the apple or gnome usability guidelines.
I'm glad microsoft is releasing this product. Adobe will need someone to compete against after their macromedia aquisition.
People often forget that 4BSD has gotten several of the features that ULE has during the last two releases of 5.x. The advantage of 4BSD is obvious when you consider people who manually enable HTT, or buy dual core cpus. In my case, my system must run under 4BSD because of the SMP issues.
I'm hoping they go with the xeons for the "PowerMacs." Seriously, they should rename those. I've got a dual 2.0ghz xeon on my desk and I love it. Now if i could only find a good counter balance so my desk doesn't lean to one side. :)
Isn't this just virtual pc? Microsoft bought Connectix a few years back. Since then they've released new versions of VPC for windows, macs and recently windows server (their virtual server product). It just sounds like another way to sell me vpc, crush vmware and OSS stuff, and raise the price of windows again.
I wonder if this is a way to run OS X Intel edition in the future. With intel telling lamers to buy mac that will say the big word.. "Pentium".. i'm wondering what the masses will do. As bad as the apple announcment was, maybe there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Anything but Microsoft!!!!!
I did nothing.. the game is not multithreaded. 2 cpus can't help you when the game developers don't multithread their games. I have hyperthreading disabled for just that reason. (otherwise windows sees 4 processors) I don't get people that game with HTT on actually. With dual core cpus coming out i'm hoping they will get the hint.
Also, to clarify again.. i bought the all in wonder model. Its more than just the generic at your local pc store.
Yes it is better than my tv.. but i dont use my tv.. i use my pc monitor with my AIW. Its rather nice although of course the resolution is not that high.
I can play racing games with a gamecube controller just fine. I don't need to buy the extras for it.
Previously my pc had IIS and ASP.NET because i also did web development on it. I've switched to a UNIX webserver and now don't need the extra stuff. I have not tried since then. Of course i did turn off IIS, SAV, and all non essential services before gaming. I also periodically update all my drivers. The original drivers with the card had doom 3 issues.
I'm also aware i could have bought the game later, but I loved the doom series and wanted it right away. No harm in that. I got the video card before the game came out as i always wanted an AIW. its great for recording tv and making dvds. I payed 52 dollars the day it was out at best buy, not 65.
For all the down sides of the pc, running a UNIX like os on it with two cpus is very rewarding. it was worth it for that reason alone. (linux 2.6 kernel and freebsd both rock!)
Never, ever wish IBM would buy someone unless you hate the product! Look at Lotus Notes/Smartsuite.. where are they now? IBM'd. IBM can't do software.. its like asking Microsoft to make pcs. IBM is essentially a processor manufacturer now. They sold the desktop division to China and as usual put themselves in an elite hole where the average person never speaks of them. Try going to a college campus and asking CS majors about IBM some time. They've never heard of their software products except maybe ViaVoice. Some miscredit ibm for inventing dos! I haven't found one cs major (other than myself) who's heard of OS/2 or is familiar with Lotus Smartsuite.
For humor sake, also go to the one guy in the department who bought a thinkpad.. there's always one.. he will tell you IBM is still the pc market. Now to mess with him, bought up an ibook or powerbook in front of him. Wait a minute or two for the "You're an apple user.. idiot" comments and then hit him with.. who do you think made the processor in this laptop? Oops! Now he doesn't know what to do.. say apple's suck.. accept that IBM is really a multifaced company, cling to microsoft or throw Linux on his laptop because ibm says its the next best thing. Linux is in trouble if it doesn't shake IBM's blessing. By the time IBM pushes something.. its too late.
Novell has some nice features in Netware, Zen, iprint.. etc. I don't like to support them... (workstation only check box is EVIL! RENAME IT to dont connect to network!!!!!!) Spam filtering that works in groupwise would be a big help.
Sometimes though I wonder why people bother to use netware. If you actually use all or most of the features its worth the money. If you are an idiot like my boss who only pushes down printers and installs msi files.. why not just use the microsoft crap?
I take it you didn't try to play doom 3 when it came out! I had just bought a $250 ati AIW 9600 XT 128mb.... its only playable at 800 x 600 resolution on my pc. (dual xeon 2 ghz, 1 gb of ram)
There's two sides to it. Personally, I play games on consoles, PCs and Macs. Each platform has different game play and are better suited to different games. I like to play FPS games like ET, RTCW and Doom 3 on a pc because i value a keyboard/mouse, i like to play strategy games like Age of Empires 2 on a Mac because its easy on the eyes and i benefit from a keyboard/mouse (not a mac mouse of course) and i like to play racing/sim games on consoles. They tend to have the best play control for that type of game. Compare Need for speed on a console vs a PC. Sure the graphics are better on a pc, but try to take a corner without buying some special joystick or steering wheel addon.. then try to get it to work in windows! ugh!
I understand what you mean. Firefox tends to be slower on some platforms than others. I have noticed the plugins added to the browser have a big impact on memory usage and sluggishness though. Firefox in windows occasionally crashes on me using flash, but often renders very fast. However, comparing firefox on my mac laptop to Safari or even IE often results in a big loss for firefox. The browser is slow and constantly crashes. The only OS I've never had problems in is FreeBSD 5.x. I suspect thats just the extra resources available.
It does point to low memory causing the problem though. My desktop has 1 gig of ram, but my laptop only has 256mb of ram. It is a 1.0 release though.. it will get better. Its already better than the full bloated mozilla suite.
Very true. I suspect RMS is anal about the name because he's always wanted to ride on the coat-tails of the Linux kernel's popularity. Granted, there are several important GNU related projects; most notably gcc.
In reality, he's going to push Linux until GNU/Mach & GNU/Hurd is actually usable. Most likely he'll die pushing linux!
Some day his vision will come true of a Mach kernel based operating system containing open source software with a Objective C library powering the graphical user interface.. oh wait it happened in 1988.. its called NeXTSTEP!!!!!!!!!!! Some of you might know it as Mac OS X.
Last I checked.. you could run Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OpenDarwin, and coming soon.. FreeBSD all on a Macintosh. Likewise, you can run several unix variants on Sparc boxes. x86 boxes are not unique in having multiple operating systems. In fact, Linux works well on a Mac. So does OpenBSD.
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As for tinkering.. if you mean installing oses and upgrading.. my wife's PowerMac G4 started with 256 mb of ram, dual 867mhz G4s, 60 gig hdd, and an nvidia geforce 4 mx 32mb agp 4x video card. We've since added an additional gig of ram, DVD burner (it had combo drive already), additional 160 gb hdd, and an ati radeon 9800 128mb agp 4x video card. There is even a dual g4 processor upgrade card for it we are considering buying that would make it around a dual 1.5 ghz. Macs are upgradable and exandable if you don't buy an iMac! (and i even upgraded the hard drive in one of those before!)
Its great that you like pcs and like to multiboot. I share that love of multibooting and tinkering as well.. just don't discredit the Mac platform because you disagree with someone who likes PowerPC processors over intel/amd cpus. Its a silly argument.
As for OS reliability.. i am very hard on operating systems. Here' my personal reinstall list due to os failures or me screwing them up starting in 1995 to present:
Windows 95: 53 installs! (that os sucked!)
Windows 98: 5 installs and i gave up on it.
Windows 98 SE: 5 installs.. decied on NT forever.
Windows NT 4.0: 5 installs over a 4 year period from 96 to 2000 (i dual booted)
Windows 2000: 5 installs over several hardware upgrades (new systems) best windows os ever.
Windows XP: 4 total on two systems. File system corruption each time. (NTFS)
OS/2 Warp 3: 13 installs on 3 systems
OS/2 Warp 4: 4 installs on 3 systems
Mac OS 9: 4 installs (crashes a lot with low memory setup)
Mac OS 10.1: 2 installs on 1 systems
Mac OS 10.2: 4 installs (netinfo sucks.. bad disk image and the netinfo database goes to hell)
Mac OS 10.3: 4 installs on 3 systems
Mac OS 10.4: 1 install.. kernel panic shutting down on my ibook g4.. wtf!
Redhat: 15 installs on 4 computers.. 5.0 through 9.0 usually ext2 file system failure from power loss.. STUPID file system!
Gentoo: 1 install.. love it.. lost lilo config when my windows xp install corrupted.
FreeBSD: 10 installs on 5 systems.. not counting buildworld/buildkernel source upgrades.
NetBSD Sparc: 2 installs.. nice os!
Solaris 7: 3 installs on 2 boxes.. hardware failure or trying to enable udma (x86 build)
Solaris 8: 2 installs.. (udma failure, decided to use linux & bsd)
Solaris 9: 1 install.. not impressed.
Suse: never could install.. bad DVD iso
I could go on forever. Multi booting is fun!
Conclusions:
All OSes suck!
My personal experience indicates this in terms of stability:
1. Mac OS 10.1
2. Windows 2000 Pro/Server
3. FreeBSD 5.x
4. Linux (well with a good file system)
5. NetBSD 1.6
6. Mac OS 10.3
7. Windows XP SP1 or better
8. OS/2 Warp 4
9. Solaris x86
I'm counting these in a desktop configuration only. My server list is different.
Experiences influence our opinions of processors and operating systems. Given this list, I still have negative feelings about linux for some reason. I also personally would buy a Mac for a friend or relative or for a corporate network because i feel apple has more stable hardware and better support than off the shelf pc vendors. I have broken dells at work all the time. One even had the foil on it from the jerk tech who didn't remove it from the HEAT SINK! It overheated and lets just say its a mess. (dell tech replaced mobo/cpu optiplex gx240s have processor cache issues)
How about Linux ON mac.. Linux on sparc.. Linux on (insert anything besides x86 here). How about freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, opendarwin, OS/2 Warp/ecomstation, ...
There is a serious need for this. Granted its possible to run flash in linux emulation mode sometimes in *bsd on a ia-32 box but it sucks.
How about all the sites that require flash to browse. My university's payroll site uses flash buttons for navigation!!!!!! The division of student affairs doesn't even have flash built into our Ghost images! (DONT EVER USE FLASH FOR NAVIGATION.. if you do.. your an )
It sure beats the ignorant . used in PHP!
Personally, I think this is one case where microsoft did something right.. & for concatination in VB.
Before anyone asks... a period is ignorant because its HARD TO READ in a big long concatinated string! Its also not used in most other languages making it less intuitive.
I like Macs, but using a Macintosh with an apple mouse sucks.
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Why?
1. Try to use a graphics app like photoshop with one button sometime.
2. Try to play a first person shooter like enemy territory on the Mac.
3. Try to use a web browser and scroll a lot...
For those Mac users considering buying a real mouse, here's my experience. Logitech mice require a OS X driver to run at about the same sensitivity as a mac mouse. If you don't install the software, it takes 2 weeks to get to the other side of the screen. Recent microsoft mice work perfectly without any software. (ironic isn't it)
As others have pointed out, middle clicking does NOT open a new tab in safari by default.
Carbon and Cocoa apps (OS X) support right click and scrolling. As I recall, some old apps running in classic emulation mode don't always support them. I refer to pre carbon apps from say 1988.. not everyone has microsoft's backward compatiblity policy.
Glad to hear microsoft is "innovating" again with tabs. There goes my argument to add firefox to the default ghost image at work.
FreeBSD does not focus on i386 performance. That was an old goal.. its not true anymore. FreeBSD 5.x and greater now focus on SMP. SMP designed kernels are slower for single cpu cases which is why Solaris always gets a bad rap as VERY slow.
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NetBSD arguably is now the fastest BSD for single cpu i386 boxes. They have "benchmarks" to prove it.
Here's the new goal list for the *BSD community:
FreeBSD: threads/SMP (5.x)
NetBSD: Performance (2.x)
OpenBSD: Security and now replacing the entire
userland with BSD stuff.
DragonFly: FreeBSD did it wrong.. i can fix it... Note that matt D. wrote a lot of the freebsd 5.x code he makes fun of now! Seriously, his message approach reminds me of a Mach style.
OpenDarwin: Some consider this a BSD others do not.. based on Apple's Darwin/OSX releases, it has a Mach kernel with monolithic memory management from FreeBSD. Mach descends from 4.3/4.4 BSD releases so its a BSD derivative at least.
PC BSD: New kid on the block (sorry).. trying to be GNU GPL licensed, freebsd distro/fork? focusing on Desktop market.
Then the countless BSD distros emerging.. most are freebsd based and focus on live cds. Frenzy is one example. PicoBSD is another... etc.
Like it or not the BSD community is going through what the GNU/Linux community went through in the mid to late 90s. I don't have to say its not dead anymore.. its quite alive. While I don't agree with Theo De Raadt, many BSD people feel the Linux camp sold out with most of the big players taking the helm.. IBM, Novell, Sun, Redhat, etc. Its a shame linux has gone corporate.. at least we have a few grassroots distros like Gentoo left.
Just for clarification, I am a FreeBSD, OSX, Gentoo, Solaris, and Windows user. Its helpful to know what my bias is.
The younger generation did try to show up during the last presidential election. Thats why it was so close! Baby boomers all vote for those "carpet baggers" minus a few intelligent people.
At least locally, we had the largest turn out in 30 years by younger people to the polls. Blame my mother-in-law.. she still believes they'll find WMD in iraq!