I don't think Microsoft has to worry about Linux taking over desktop computing for quite sometime. No average user can use Linux and buy all the silly programs that go along with it. Microsoft needs to worry about Apple for that battle. Now when it comes to Server Platforms, Microsoft has every reason int he world to worry. With good reason too.
Microsoft owns and will own desktop computers and home-end users for quite awhile. Linux can't compete on that level yet. But they can work the server community pretty well.
I don't think MS will ever really embrace Linux but I do think they might drop NT and use a Unix based kernel to compete. That would be a cherry combination to. Microsofts API coupled with say the Mach 3 kernel and throw in Apples Desktop. Damn, 1000's upon 1000's of programs and games to boot and a damn pretty interface.
1.) The number of errors I got from event manager spiraled thru the roof.
Were these security errors, Application errors or system errors. I would be lead to believe that you had a driver or two out of date.
2.) It also caused internet explorer to error out with dll errors every other page.
Possible problem to this is add on 3rd party features that did not like the update to IE security. (i.e. pop-up blockers, skinners, object desktop, windowsblinds, etc) Simple reinstallation of these programs would have fixed the problem I imagine.
3.) My scanner would scan in all pitch dark pictures.
This again is either a driver or software problem with SP1. That or a hardware issue. I can't imagine SP1 did this directly.
4.) My graphics card would just get dll errors in the middle of games that would work before.
Driver yet again that or drivers that are incompatible with an older version of DX. An upgrade to 9 is suggested.
I re-norton ghosted back an image of pre SP1, and all was in harmony again. You can pay me to touch SP2.
As for using Norton to go back? Windows has two built in features dealing with SP1 to remove the pack. The first is the option where SP1 asked if you wanted to back up your files or not for an uninstallation. If you clicked yes you could simply go under "Add/Remove Programs" and take off SP1. The other option is the "System Restore" feature built into Xp that would allow you to role back to before the installation and remove SP1.
Seems like you have old drivers and went way out of your way to remove SP1.
Microsoft always has and end support date for every OS. Wk2 has one, 95 had one, 98 has one... and they all are planned way into the future. Hell even XP has one. This isn't a marketing strategy for Longhorn this is just standard business practice. Why support a product that is out-of-date when there are newer and better options?
Can you honestly expect Microsoft to support 98 for the next 10 years? Or XP for the next 15? Of course not and it is silly to think so.
How far back to Linux Distributions support their OS's? Does Slackware 1.0 have a full time support staff? Or Redhat? Or Mandrake? How about Apple? Or IBM?
No I doubt anyone off the street could make changes to Windows. Then again I never said they could either. You mentioned that. The point I was trying to make is that it takes an educated person to program properly.
As for Windows source code, what you heard is a rumor as I am sure none of the people who view the code actually talk about it. The acronym NDA should explain that further.
The point I am trying to make in regards to Linux is that yes there are more users than developers. However it is common place for the users of Linux to take and not give. Show me something you have given back to the Linux community in the sense that you helped pay the salary of a programmer of Linux. I know I have. I only use Slackware and I have bought every version they released on CD that I intended to use as a means of support. Have you?
1 Cup Hops
1 Cup Barley
1 Cup Water
1 Cup Wheat
There is your free recipe. Now the question. Is the beer gonna come out good if you follow that recipe? Probably not, and the marginal cost was zero. Nothing. Nada. However for a recipe to be given to you for free experimentation has to happen to make sure the recipe works. Hell that recipe I gave you for "free" might not even make beer but maybe an alcoholic paste instead. So cost has to go into the recipe. To say a "free beer recipe" is just sheer ignorance. No way. Can't ben done without actually trial and error to make the recipe work. Whether the beer tastes good or not is another issue all together.
Now as for the use of networks and the sort for the Linux install, yeah it will ger cheaper. Never zero. That isn't what I was talking about. I am talking about how Linux isn't really free. I was trying tog et the point across that the user's of Linux take and rarely give.
Free beer? There is no such thing. My high school economics tracher taught me that. Just like Linux us really free. I mean they say it is free but really, there is no way it can be.
Lets take Red Hook beer for example in comparison to a Linux Distribution. So you have to make the beer which takes labor. Now unless someone volunteers their own free time to process the 4 key ingredients you have to pay that certain person a wage. However no idiot can go out and make beer. You have to have someone who knows what they are doing as beer is a fine substance to produce.
So to make red hook beer you have 4 components. Water, Wheat, Barley and Hops. Well the water is cleaned fromt he water company which costs money. Then there are the other 3 components which must be grown properly and harvested. Since it takes quite sometime to get those 3 items someone would be insane not to get paid for it.
Alright then you have to have a smart person combine them in a proper way. (Fermentation, cooling, extraction, etc.) Now yes someone can do this for free as making beer is fun, however no idiot can make Red Hook beer. To be a brew master you have to have 20 years exp in the factory itself ontop of a degree in biocemestry. Both of which cost the compenty money and the individual money.
So this brings us to basically after the beer was processed and the such, where you get it for free. Wow. Sure doesn't seem free to me. I mean sure as a consumer it is free but all the money that was spent on that beer you got free. Someone lost something apparently.
Same with Linux. No guy off the street can program and manage it. You need someone who knows what they are doing. Can't have some 20 year old with personal programming experience rewriting the kernel with sloppy ass code. More importnatly the CD's the OS is copied onto cost money from someones pocket. (Unless you use a network to install it onto but that costs money to buy and setup) You can also chalk up a few dollars to advertising and keeping a website up and running so people can hear about your product.
So really Linux isn't really free. Sure as a company I can go download the OS and throw it on a CD and use the OS to make my company profit. But that doesn't really help out the hard working individuals that put the OS together. So they spend their time (wasteing their time) Bug fixing and writing more code for linux while I paid for nothing. That seems so fair and true that it should be the american way. Use the work of other individuals, take what they created, use it to my own ends and pay nothing. God I love this country. Long live Open Source! WOO WOO!
I am sure there are some. However, to avoid this article being marked up in my eyes as Linux FUD. I need to see some sources that back up the claims of the writer. From what I read it looks more like they are loosly throwing some ideas around versus actually displaying some real hard facts. Not the sign of a good writer.
It isn't a terrible idea but the first problem I see is heat. That wooden case is gonna heat up pretty fast I expect. I think one of the easiest ways to make your computer quiet is not to decprate it is shag carpet but it is to find a means to cool your computer in another way besides airflow. Liquid cooling is always an option but has anyone created an efficient means to this?
Digital versus Film. Such the debate has been on going for a few years now. Which one is better, which has the higher quality, etc etc etc. In the post is asks is it time to switch? I will say this being a photog. If you are going to switch to digital photography and are heavily into photo-editing to the point where you actually bought Adobe Photoshop (versus pirating it) then I recommend getting a Digital SLR camera. I would wait to see what Canon or Nikon will throw out next. As if they throw out something better, the current Rebel is going to drop a bit in price. (Save yourself some money)
The most expensive thing in photography isn't the camera. It is your lenses.
Now if you aren't the heaviest photo editor but want to get into digital and leave film behind you, then go get one of the compact digi cameras like the Elf. It will suit your means just fine.
As for all you film buffs out there who refuse to switch, don't worry, film isn't going anywhere. It may get used less for conventional purposes, but film still has its use. Believe me, I know. If you are worried that Digi cameras are going to surpass film. Don't worry, they will. It is just a matter of time till Digi cameras take better quality pictures than 35mm. But if you are the serious Photog, you always know there is medium format followed up by Large Format.
I hope any of this advie helps. Oh and my N90s will never ever hit Ebay. It is too cherry of a camera to just throw it up for sale. Now if it was an Elan II then sure, then again I am not a fan of the Eos lineup at all.
I remember a Slashdot article that was post sometime this year in regards to running a company on Linux versus Windows and which decision was cheaper. In accordance with the article run here on Slashdot it was cheaper to run Windows.
What sucks is I can't back it up because I can't seem to find the article but I know I read it, because I couldn't believe it to be true.
Why does MS have to take resonsibility in this lawsuit? When an exploit is discovered they create patches to remove the hole, which at that time no one knew existed. Even Mozilla (current browser) has had not only security holes but bugs that rendered the browser super unstable. It crashed quite often. No one is sueing them.
We could even attack IBm for the faulty disk drives they made a few years back that would just crash. Whats worse than a security hole? Losing all the data from all backups. At least with the Blaster.A worm you kept your data.
If we start suing for all the flaws and crashes and security holes etc... for all companies... Sony is screwed, IBM is screwed, MS is screwed... etc... (I ran out of periods) Everquest is buggy as hell, it crashes all the time, it is unbalanced, random mice appear from time to time. Where is the lawsuit?
I have always said a security exploit is only an exploit when someone takes advantage of it. It is in that moment that the hole becomes a problem.
What is more upsetting to me is simply that computer failure is being compared to automobile failure.
You simply cannot compare the two. They not only two different ballparks they are two different games. If a computer fails to be secure because some guy who has a preternatural talent; hacks, cracks and compromises the security of a computer system... no ones life si threatened. If an automobile fails to do its task of braking or turning lives are put to a risk. People can and will die in the event a failure occurs because an engineer screwed up. That is unexcusable.
The mere audasity to compare computers which do not effect the ebb and flow of ones life span versus an automobile that has to work or people die is just wrong. It shows lack of compassion for life.
Very strange. I have added new ram with an install already on board and never received that screen or that problem. Only problem I ever received witha blue screen and ram was a direct result of bad ram. I am talking way bad. So bad it smelled kinda funky. Infact the whole stick was trashed. Damn PC Recycler for a no return policy. The name alone should have set off some sort of an alarm.
Thankyou. That is the absolute truth. I choose not to use Linux for one reason. I have hit a point where I don't have the time or patience to relearn a new OS. I am not saying Linux is bad, awful or pathetic. It does consume a great amount of ones time to relearn a new OS. Why go spend days figuring out Linux when I can just do it on the system I already know.
Do I swear by Windows? Yes. It is what I grew up with. Do I bash Linux? No. I do point out and receive much critisism the flaws Linux has. Not flaws with the OS itself but the lack of standard to make it a home-end user desktop. Linux could rule the desktop world, it really could. Without a lack of standard it is just going to either float along or float away.
Even Macintosh has a standard and it runs a Unix based system. Why is it so hard for a standard to come to Linux?
In all truth I would say you have never run windows on your ISP and this is a trolling comment. I know for a fact that windows does not need or come close to needing a reinstall in a GFX card change. That is an absolute farse. I have changed my card a few times for upgrades and had the whole thing done, complete and configured in under 6min. This has been on Win95, 98, ME, 2k Pro, 2k Server, 2k Adv Server, XP Home and XP Pro. Never once has the system crashed or lost integrity from a simple GFX change. This is absolutley false. If you are having problems with integrity then perhaps you should do some research and see if the cards you have chosen completely conflict with your Motherboard or AGP slot. This has happened to me with an old Super7 and Asus Slot 1 board that had problems with nVidia cards.
Now I don't have any experience with adding procs to a board as I have never run a dual+ configuration. However, why on earth would you buy a dual proc board without buying two procs. This seems silly to me.
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I don't think Microsoft has to worry about Linux taking over desktop computing for quite sometime. No average user can use Linux and buy all the silly programs that go along with it. Microsoft needs to worry about Apple for that battle. Now when it comes to Server Platforms, Microsoft has every reason int he world to worry. With good reason too.
Microsoft owns and will own desktop computers and home-end users for quite awhile. Linux can't compete on that level yet. But they can work the server community pretty well.
I don't think MS will ever really embrace Linux but I do think they might drop NT and use a Unix based kernel to compete. That would be a cherry combination to. Microsofts API coupled with say the Mach 3 kernel and throw in Apples Desktop. Damn, 1000's upon 1000's of programs and games to boot and a damn pretty interface.
I say DAMN!
With the price of PC's nowadays. What is the point of
Multiple-Concurrent Users?
1.) The number of errors I got from event manager spiraled thru the roof.
Were these security errors, Application errors or system errors. I would be lead to believe that you had a driver or two out of date.
2.) It also caused internet explorer to error out with dll errors every other page.
Possible problem to this is add on 3rd party features that did not like the update to IE security. (i.e. pop-up blockers, skinners, object desktop, windowsblinds, etc) Simple reinstallation of these programs would have fixed the problem I imagine.
3.) My scanner would scan in all pitch dark pictures.
This again is either a driver or software problem with SP1. That or a hardware issue. I can't imagine SP1 did this directly.
4.) My graphics card would just get dll errors in the middle of games that would work before.
Driver yet again that or drivers that are incompatible with an older version of DX. An upgrade to 9 is suggested.
I re-norton ghosted back an image of pre SP1, and all was in harmony again. You can pay me to touch SP2.
As for using Norton to go back? Windows has two built in features dealing with SP1 to remove the pack. The first is the option where SP1 asked if you wanted to back up your files or not for an uninstallation. If you clicked yes you could simply go under "Add/Remove Programs" and take off SP1. The other option is the "System Restore" feature built into Xp that would allow you to role back to before the installation and remove SP1.
Seems like you have old drivers and went way out of your way to remove SP1.
Which component are you referring too? Hardware? Software? OS? Bluetooth?
Microsoft always has and end support date for every OS. Wk2 has one, 95 had one, 98 has one... and they all are planned way into the future. Hell even XP has one. This isn't a marketing strategy for Longhorn this is just standard business practice. Why support a product that is out-of-date when there are newer and better options?
Can you honestly expect Microsoft to support 98 for the next 10 years? Or XP for the next 15? Of course not and it is silly to think so.
How far back to Linux Distributions support their OS's? Does Slackware 1.0 have a full time support staff? Or Redhat? Or Mandrake? How about Apple? Or IBM?
No I doubt anyone off the street could make changes to Windows. Then again I never said they could either. You mentioned that. The point I was trying to make is that it takes an educated person to program properly.
As for Windows source code, what you heard is a rumor as I am sure none of the people who view the code actually talk about it. The acronym NDA should explain that further.
The point I am trying to make in regards to Linux is that yes there are more users than developers. However it is common place for the users of Linux to take and not give. Show me something you have given back to the Linux community in the sense that you helped pay the salary of a programmer of Linux. I know I have. I only use Slackware and I have bought every version they released on CD that I intended to use as a means of support. Have you?
1 Cup Hops 1 Cup Barley 1 Cup Water 1 Cup Wheat There is your free recipe. Now the question. Is the beer gonna come out good if you follow that recipe? Probably not, and the marginal cost was zero. Nothing. Nada. However for a recipe to be given to you for free experimentation has to happen to make sure the recipe works. Hell that recipe I gave you for "free" might not even make beer but maybe an alcoholic paste instead. So cost has to go into the recipe. To say a "free beer recipe" is just sheer ignorance. No way. Can't ben done without actually trial and error to make the recipe work. Whether the beer tastes good or not is another issue all together.
Now as for the use of networks and the sort for the Linux install, yeah it will ger cheaper. Never zero. That isn't what I was talking about. I am talking about how Linux isn't really free. I was trying tog et the point across that the user's of Linux take and rarely give.
Free beer? There is no such thing. My high school economics tracher taught me that. Just like Linux us really free. I mean they say it is free but really, there is no way it can be.
Lets take Red Hook beer for example in comparison to a Linux Distribution. So you have to make the beer which takes labor. Now unless someone volunteers their own free time to process the 4 key ingredients you have to pay that certain person a wage. However no idiot can go out and make beer. You have to have someone who knows what they are doing as beer is a fine substance to produce.
So to make red hook beer you have 4 components. Water, Wheat, Barley and Hops. Well the water is cleaned fromt he water company which costs money. Then there are the other 3 components which must be grown properly and harvested. Since it takes quite sometime to get those 3 items someone would be insane not to get paid for it.
Alright then you have to have a smart person combine them in a proper way. (Fermentation, cooling, extraction, etc.) Now yes someone can do this for free as making beer is fun, however no idiot can make Red Hook beer. To be a brew master you have to have 20 years exp in the factory itself ontop of a degree in biocemestry. Both of which cost the compenty money and the individual money.
So this brings us to basically after the beer was processed and the such, where you get it for free. Wow. Sure doesn't seem free to me. I mean sure as a consumer it is free but all the money that was spent on that beer you got free. Someone lost something apparently.
Same with Linux. No guy off the street can program and manage it. You need someone who knows what they are doing. Can't have some 20 year old with personal programming experience rewriting the kernel with sloppy ass code. More importnatly the CD's the OS is copied onto cost money from someones pocket. (Unless you use a network to install it onto but that costs money to buy and setup) You can also chalk up a few dollars to advertising and keeping a website up and running so people can hear about your product.
So really Linux isn't really free. Sure as a company I can go download the OS and throw it on a CD and use the OS to make my company profit. But that doesn't really help out the hard working individuals that put the OS together. So they spend their time (wasteing their time) Bug fixing and writing more code for linux while I paid for nothing. That seems so fair and true that it should be the american way. Use the work of other individuals, take what they created, use it to my own ends and pay nothing. God I love this country. Long live Open Source! WOO WOO!
I am sure there are some. However, to avoid this article being marked up in my eyes as Linux FUD. I need to see some sources that back up the claims of the writer. From what I read it looks more like they are loosly throwing some ideas around versus actually displaying some real hard facts. Not the sign of a good writer.
It isn't a terrible idea but the first problem I see is heat. That wooden case is gonna heat up pretty fast I expect. I think one of the easiest ways to make your computer quiet is not to decprate it is shag carpet but it is to find a means to cool your computer in another way besides airflow. Liquid cooling is always an option but has anyone created an efficient means to this?
Digital versus Film. Such the debate has been on going for a few years now. Which one is better, which has the higher quality, etc etc etc. In the post is asks is it time to switch? I will say this being a photog. If you are going to switch to digital photography and are heavily into photo-editing to the point where you actually bought Adobe Photoshop (versus pirating it) then I recommend getting a Digital SLR camera. I would wait to see what Canon or Nikon will throw out next. As if they throw out something better, the current Rebel is going to drop a bit in price. (Save yourself some money)
The most expensive thing in photography isn't the camera. It is your lenses.
Now if you aren't the heaviest photo editor but want to get into digital and leave film behind you, then go get one of the compact digi cameras like the Elf. It will suit your means just fine.
As for all you film buffs out there who refuse to switch, don't worry, film isn't going anywhere. It may get used less for conventional purposes, but film still has its use. Believe me, I know. If you are worried that Digi cameras are going to surpass film. Don't worry, they will. It is just a matter of time till Digi cameras take better quality pictures than 35mm. But if you are the serious Photog, you always know there is medium format followed up by Large Format.
I hope any of this advie helps. Oh and my N90s will never ever hit Ebay. It is too cherry of a camera to just throw it up for sale. Now if it was an Elan II then sure, then again I am not a fan of the Eos lineup at all.
I can't seem to find the stupid article. I know it is in here somewhere. Time to start hacking the DB.
I remember a Slashdot article that was post sometime this year in regards to running a company on Linux versus Windows and which decision was cheaper. In accordance with the article run here on Slashdot it was cheaper to run Windows.
What sucks is I can't back it up because I can't seem to find the article but I know I read it, because I couldn't believe it to be true.
Why does MS have to take resonsibility in this lawsuit? When an exploit is discovered they create patches to remove the hole, which at that time no one knew existed. Even Mozilla (current browser) has had not only security holes but bugs that rendered the browser super unstable. It crashed quite often. No one is sueing them.
We could even attack IBm for the faulty disk drives they made a few years back that would just crash. Whats worse than a security hole? Losing all the data from all backups. At least with the Blaster.A worm you kept your data.
If we start suing for all the flaws and crashes and security holes etc... for all companies... Sony is screwed, IBM is screwed, MS is screwed... etc... (I ran out of periods) Everquest is buggy as hell, it crashes all the time, it is unbalanced, random mice appear from time to time. Where is the lawsuit?
I have always said a security exploit is only an exploit when someone takes advantage of it. It is in that moment that the hole becomes a problem.
What is more upsetting to me is simply that computer failure is being compared to automobile failure.
You simply cannot compare the two. They not only two different ballparks they are two different games. If a computer fails to be secure because some guy who has a preternatural talent; hacks, cracks and compromises the security of a computer system... no ones life si threatened. If an automobile fails to do its task of braking or turning lives are put to a risk. People can and will die in the event a failure occurs because an engineer screwed up. That is unexcusable.
The mere audasity to compare computers which do not effect the ebb and flow of ones life span versus an automobile that has to work or people die is just wrong. It shows lack of compassion for life.
Very strange. I have added new ram with an install already on board and never received that screen or that problem. Only problem I ever received witha blue screen and ram was a direct result of bad ram. I am talking way bad. So bad it smelled kinda funky. Infact the whole stick was trashed. Damn PC Recycler for a no return policy. The name alone should have set off some sort of an alarm.
Wow. I don't see how I got a flamebait for that one. Express an opinion and BAMO! get struck with a negative 1.
Thankyou. That is the absolute truth. I choose not to use Linux for one reason. I have hit a point where I don't have the time or patience to relearn a new OS. I am not saying Linux is bad, awful or pathetic. It does consume a great amount of ones time to relearn a new OS. Why go spend days figuring out Linux when I can just do it on the system I already know.
Do I swear by Windows? Yes. It is what I grew up with. Do I bash Linux? No. I do point out and receive much critisism the flaws Linux has. Not flaws with the OS itself but the lack of standard to make it a home-end user desktop. Linux could rule the desktop world, it really could. Without a lack of standard it is just going to either float along or float away.
Even Macintosh has a standard and it runs a Unix based system. Why is it so hard for a standard to come to Linux?
In all truth I would say you have never run windows on your ISP and this is a trolling comment. I know for a fact that windows does not need or come close to needing a reinstall in a GFX card change. That is an absolute farse. I have changed my card a few times for upgrades and had the whole thing done, complete and configured in under 6min. This has been on Win95, 98, ME, 2k Pro, 2k Server, 2k Adv Server, XP Home and XP Pro. Never once has the system crashed or lost integrity from a simple GFX change. This is absolutley false. If you are having problems with integrity then perhaps you should do some research and see if the cards you have chosen completely conflict with your Motherboard or AGP slot. This has happened to me with an old Super7 and Asus Slot 1 board that had problems with nVidia cards.
Now I don't have any experience with adding procs to a board as I have never run a dual+ configuration. However, why on earth would you buy a dual proc board without buying two procs. This seems silly to me.