To start, the article deals with upto 1995. As far as I can tell, the "desktop architecture" came across with.NET. WinCE is a different architecture from DOS or NT, and handles some things differently.
Though I agree, PocketPC devices always had the "1337" stuff first (nice, big color screens, fast CPUs, sound, etc) over the Palms, it took the lowering of prices and lengthening of battery lives on PPC machines to really light a fire under the PalmOS camp- and even then, Sony provided most of the competition while Palm was busy introducing a new entry-level PDA (the m100) and a rehash of the now-tired Palm V (the m500 line). Palm itself was only able to compete on the same level as PPC devices with the introduction of the Tungsten.
Would Pro Tools count as "damn good"? Especially their HD line with the 32-bit, 192 KHz I/O (which, for those/.'ers just joining the program, CDs are 16 bit, 44.1 KHz)?
I have the exact same system you're describing- to get a NIC to fit in the damn thing required me to bend the backpanel of the PCI card down.
The system works just great with OpenBSD though; it's the only system that's never given me hardware crap past the lack of legacy connectors. My laptop runs louder than that Gateway.
Agreed. Currently AMD is the performance king. But to keep any hold on the market, they have to keep that performance coming, and Intel provides the market pressure that AMD requires.
Likewise, if AMD were to somehow gain market dominance, Intel would have to push just as AMD is now. This is how capitalism is supposed to work- consumers win in this case by competitors being forced to offer better goods and services to consumers. Hoo-rah to the processor "wars".
Buy XP Pro for what? I use my PDA with a VNC client to connect to RealVNC's GPL'ed server on my desktop- it seems that a Tablet PC (with the included copy of Windows XP) would win pretty decently with a VNC client, or just Remote Desktop into the box- both are free and do not require extra licenses, as it's still one-user-at-a-time. I'd try using Remote Desktop to see if it could perform better than GPL'ed VNC over wlan, but neither I nor Google knows how to get opie-rdesktop working on my PDA.
Multiuser gets tricky- that's where Cygwin would come in, and X-forwarding, but it's still do-able. In that case you're then limited to linux apps that behave under Cygwin, but if that's alright with you, it works just fine.
Unless you were talking about a complete multisession Windows system (a la Terminal Services)... then I agree whole-heartedly with your assessment.
What about VNC/Remote Desktop for basic stuff, or perhaps using Cygwin to make yourself a pseudo-Linux server on the Windows box and do remote X apps to a tablet (running Cygwin's X Server for Windows)?
I use Linux on a daily basis on my personal computers, and I love it, but Windows XP Home was the first consumer-level desktop OS that didn't have its roots in DOS. As much as I'd love to see Linux being sold on computers in Best Buy/CompUSA/Fry's, it's just not happening at the moment.
I agree that MS is behind the curve, but my argument was that people bought 386, 486, Pentiums, etc. for reasons other than 32-bithood, much like today when people buy 64 bit CPUs who aren't even using half of the address space of 32 bits. At least Microsoft is a bit more uppity with getting 64-bit editions of Windows out the door.
I have an HP zd7000 laptop, with a 3.2 GHz P4. And I do Folding @ Home when I'm not playing games or doing 3D rendering (in other words, 100% CPU time nearly all the time). I went through two DVD-ROM/CD-RW drives until I started cooling the thing better- I rigged up an apparatus using a laptop cooling pad to push cool air under the laptop, instead of suck air out from under it (the fan intakes are on the bottom of the laptop). I haven't had a drive die on me yet.
Depending on the version of McAfee, the framework service may be borked. At my university, until we went to version 8, there was a patch available for version 7's framework service to fix it from hogging the CPU.
The 386 was Intel's 32-bit Desktop chip. It was released in what, the mid-80's? Look how long it took before there was a full 32-bit mainstream desktop OS (Windows XP). Being able use 64 bit memory addresses is just one aspect- everything else is what you buy the chip for.
Alright, so this isn't a typical "desktop use", but my 3.2 GHz NWood P4 is much much better at 3D rendering... not games, but things like Maya and Viz (3DS Max adapted for different things). Then again, I'm not the stereotypical desktop user I suppose.
I know I'll be modded down for this, but my P4 3.2 GHz does this *much* faster than my 1.33 GHz Athlon TBird.
And remember- you can have TWO instances of Folding @ Home going at once!!!
And then the geek's blogger friend's geek friend creates an atmospheric simulation on 8-node Athlon cluster he keeps in his basement just to see if it's possible to create his own storm in a teacup.
So what does this geek do when he approaches some woman who he toothed and finds him attractive enough to screw? "My computer models indicate that there is a 97.33% chance that I will commence vaginal insertion upon your pelvic regions in the next 6 hours. Why don't we go somewhere more... private...".
No wonder why toothing died as quick as it came to be.
The highest and most noble of individuals will NEVER bow down to ANYONE for ANY REASON. I, personally, am quite prepared to die before suffering disgrace.
One may win a battle, but still lose the war. This issue is a perfect example- he was focused on saving his own family, which is perfectly acceptable. However, by giving a little (however stupid he was to let himself get in that position is a completely different argument), he prevented the servers from getting seized. And if the FBI was just looking for a technicality to book him on, he infact is beating them better than had he not given in. I'm not into the anarchist movement, however from what it sounds like, the anarchist community needs that website as something to gather around. To let that get taken down would be simply stupid.
One has to realize fear is a natural responce to things to keep someone alive long enough to raise a kid. It's one of nature's ways of ensuring survival of the species. In this case, fear overtook him and he made the right decision. "Courageous" and "coward" impart wrong values here. His fear of what the government could do if he refused to comply enabled him to only give up two IPs instead of ruin the site and give out *all* the IP's.
Exactly. As an architecture student, I live and die by AutoDesk and Adobe products. I know a few computer literate architects who would love to switch to Linux, but what's the point of going Linux if they still spend all their time on a WinXP box for CAD and presentation layouts?
Jim Hassell, managing director of Sun Microsystems Australia, argued that Linux was no loss to the Agility Alliance because it could use Solaris 10 instead of Linux rival Red Hat.
I know this has been said before, but what is Sun's deal with making Red Hat = Linux? I dunno about you, but as far as "Enterprise Editions" of Linux, I've heard SUSE is better anyway. Doesn't matter anyway. If Sun brings down Red Hat, it's not like they bring down Linux. There's a lot of distros out there that Sun would have to target before Linux is dead.
In the system, a rooftop collector concentrates and sends sunlight through optical fibers, tubes made of special, high-purity material that transmit light by reflecting it down their inner walls.
I know for a fact that they've been doing this with light bulbs for a while (they collect like 90% of the emitted light from a halogen bulb and then can light, say, a staircase with it). Why nobody's done this earlier with sunlight, I have no idea.
A true geek would be able to socially handle a she-geek. Once she's proven herself able to geekify like everyone else, she becomes mainly another geek, and a compelling reason to try and get out more as a side issue.
It's pompus jerks who try to be "geek" without really getting the sub-culture other than "I don't get out much. I like computers. That makes me a geek." The New Hacker Dictionary has this to say on the topic (now remember that "geek" has replaced the term "hacker" in the common lexicon):
The ethnic distribution of hackers is understood by them to be a function of which ethnic groups tend to seek and value education. Racial and ethnic prejudice is notably uncommon and tends to be met with freezing contempt.
When asked, hackers often ascribe their culture's gender- and color-blindness to a positive effect of text-only network channels, and this is doubtless a powerful influence. Also, the ties many hackers have to AI research and SF literature may have helped them to develop an idea of personhood that is inclusive rather than exclusive -- after all, if one's imagination readily grants full human rights to future AI programs, robots, dolphins, and extraterrestrial aliens, mere color and gender can't seem very important any more.
I hate it when an asshole makes the rest of hacker-/geek-dom look bad.
Based on our labs' experience, as well as my own, I have to suspect your BS-ing. 2000/XP is more stable than win9x, without doubt. It still tanks significantly more than our Redhat or Fedora stations.
Agreed. I have a WinXP desktop and a Linux server. I track time between power outages with the Linux box. I track time between software crashes with XP.
I used to use SUSE 8.2 myself, and I ran into issues that if it's in a config file that YAST plays with, but YAST doesn't offer the config option for, I'm screwed, because YAST would screw things up next time it looks at that file. Perhaps that's because I used the download edition and didn't get a manual that said "click here to tell YAST to go fuck itself." I actually found system configuration getting easier when I switched to Slackware 9.1- sure, no pretty GUI, but all of the config files are wonderfully clear and readable. After that, I haven't found a reason to use any other distro.
I used MiniMo back when I was using the gpe environment for my iPaq that I installed Linux on. MiniMo is *very* minimalist. I found no tabs, but I didn't get any popups. Don't expect mozilla from MiniMo, expect an extremist-level stripped down Gecko browser. I mean, it's *really* stripped down- there was no menu other than the tap-and-hold, and that was just stuff to replace the removed buttonbar. Of course, I haven't used MiniMo in a few months, so it may have changed by now (and with the port as well)
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IIRC, I seem to recall my dad using IE for Unix on a Sun workstation quite a few years ago. It was IE 5, I want to say.
To start, the article deals with upto 1995. As far as I can tell, the "desktop architecture" came across with .NET. WinCE is a different architecture from DOS or NT, and handles some things differently.
Though I agree, PocketPC devices always had the "1337" stuff first (nice, big color screens, fast CPUs, sound, etc) over the Palms, it took the lowering of prices and lengthening of battery lives on PPC machines to really light a fire under the PalmOS camp- and even then, Sony provided most of the competition while Palm was busy introducing a new entry-level PDA (the m100) and a rehash of the now-tired Palm V (the m500 line). Palm itself was only able to compete on the same level as PPC devices with the introduction of the Tungsten.
Would Pro Tools count as "damn good"? Especially their HD line with the 32-bit, 192 KHz I/O (which, for those /.'ers just joining the program, CDs are 16 bit, 44.1 KHz)?
Or is there something even more damn goody?
I have the exact same system you're describing- to get a NIC to fit in the damn thing required me to bend the backpanel of the PCI card down.
The system works just great with OpenBSD though; it's the only system that's never given me hardware crap past the lack of legacy connectors. My laptop runs louder than that Gateway.
Agreed. Currently AMD is the performance king. But to keep any hold on the market, they have to keep that performance coming, and Intel provides the market pressure that AMD requires.
Likewise, if AMD were to somehow gain market dominance, Intel would have to push just as AMD is now. This is how capitalism is supposed to work- consumers win in this case by competitors being forced to offer better goods and services to consumers. Hoo-rah to the processor "wars".
Most likely, to MSNBC science editors, "vacuum" == "don't try breathing"
Buy XP Pro for what? I use my PDA with a VNC client to connect to RealVNC's GPL'ed server on my desktop- it seems that a Tablet PC (with the included copy of Windows XP) would win pretty decently with a VNC client, or just Remote Desktop into the box- both are free and do not require extra licenses, as it's still one-user-at-a-time. I'd try using Remote Desktop to see if it could perform better than GPL'ed VNC over wlan, but neither I nor Google knows how to get opie-rdesktop working on my PDA.
Multiuser gets tricky- that's where Cygwin would come in, and X-forwarding, but it's still do-able. In that case you're then limited to linux apps that behave under Cygwin, but if that's alright with you, it works just fine.
Unless you were talking about a complete multisession Windows system (a la Terminal Services)... then I agree whole-heartedly with your assessment.
What about VNC/Remote Desktop for basic stuff, or perhaps using Cygwin to make yourself a pseudo-Linux server on the Windows box and do remote X apps to a tablet (running Cygwin's X Server for Windows)?
I use Linux on a daily basis on my personal computers, and I love it, but Windows XP Home was the first consumer-level desktop OS that didn't have its roots in DOS. As much as I'd love to see Linux being sold on computers in Best Buy/CompUSA/Fry's, it's just not happening at the moment.
I agree that MS is behind the curve, but my argument was that people bought 386, 486, Pentiums, etc. for reasons other than 32-bithood, much like today when people buy 64 bit CPUs who aren't even using half of the address space of 32 bits. At least Microsoft is a bit more uppity with getting 64-bit editions of Windows out the door.
I have an HP zd7000 laptop, with a 3.2 GHz P4. And I do Folding @ Home when I'm not playing games or doing 3D rendering (in other words, 100% CPU time nearly all the time). I went through two DVD-ROM/CD-RW drives until I started cooling the thing better- I rigged up an apparatus using a laptop cooling pad to push cool air under the laptop, instead of suck air out from under it (the fan intakes are on the bottom of the laptop). I haven't had a drive die on me yet.
Depending on the version of McAfee, the framework service may be borked. At my university, until we went to version 8, there was a patch available for version 7's framework service to fix it from hogging the CPU.
The 386 was Intel's 32-bit Desktop chip. It was released in what, the mid-80's? Look how long it took before there was a full 32-bit mainstream desktop OS (Windows XP). Being able use 64 bit memory addresses is just one aspect- everything else is what you buy the chip for.
Alright, so this isn't a typical "desktop use", but my 3.2 GHz NWood P4 is much much better at 3D rendering... not games, but things like Maya and Viz (3DS Max adapted for different things). Then again, I'm not the stereotypical desktop user I suppose.
I know I'll be modded down for this, but my P4 3.2 GHz does this *much* faster than my 1.33 GHz Athlon TBird.
And remember- you can have TWO instances of Folding @ Home going at once!!!
And then the geek's blogger friend's geek friend creates an atmospheric simulation on 8-node Athlon cluster he keeps in his basement just to see if it's possible to create his own storm in a teacup.
So what does this geek do when he approaches some woman who he toothed and finds him attractive enough to screw? "My computer models indicate that there is a 97.33% chance that I will commence vaginal insertion upon your pelvic regions in the next 6 hours. Why don't we go somewhere more... private...".
No wonder why toothing died as quick as it came to be.
One may win a battle, but still lose the war. This issue is a perfect example- he was focused on saving his own family, which is perfectly acceptable. However, by giving a little (however stupid he was to let himself get in that position is a completely different argument), he prevented the servers from getting seized. And if the FBI was just looking for a technicality to book him on, he infact is beating them better than had he not given in. I'm not into the anarchist movement, however from what it sounds like, the anarchist community needs that website as something to gather around. To let that get taken down would be simply stupid.
One has to realize fear is a natural responce to things to keep someone alive long enough to raise a kid. It's one of nature's ways of ensuring survival of the species. In this case, fear overtook him and he made the right decision. "Courageous" and "coward" impart wrong values here. His fear of what the government could do if he refused to comply enabled him to only give up two IPs instead of ruin the site and give out *all* the IP's.
Exactly. As an architecture student, I live and die by AutoDesk and Adobe products. I know a few computer literate architects who would love to switch to Linux, but what's the point of going Linux if they still spend all their time on a WinXP box for CAD and presentation layouts?
From TFA:
I know this has been said before, but what is Sun's deal with making Red Hat = Linux? I dunno about you, but as far as "Enterprise Editions" of Linux, I've heard SUSE is better anyway. Doesn't matter anyway. If Sun brings down Red Hat, it's not like they bring down Linux. There's a lot of distros out there that Sun would have to target before Linux is dead.
From TFA:
I know for a fact that they've been doing this with light bulbs for a while (they collect like 90% of the emitted light from a halogen bulb and then can light, say, a staircase with it). Why nobody's done this earlier with sunlight, I have no idea.
A true geek would be able to socially handle a she-geek. Once she's proven herself able to geekify like everyone else, she becomes mainly another geek, and a compelling reason to try and get out more as a side issue.
It's pompus jerks who try to be "geek" without really getting the sub-culture other than "I don't get out much. I like computers. That makes me a geek." The New Hacker Dictionary has this to say on the topic (now remember that "geek" has replaced the term "hacker" in the common lexicon):
I hate it when an asshole makes the rest of hacker-/geek-dom look bad.
Agreed. I have a WinXP desktop and a Linux server. I track time between power outages with the Linux box. I track time between software crashes with XP.
I used to use SUSE 8.2 myself, and I ran into issues that if it's in a config file that YAST plays with, but YAST doesn't offer the config option for, I'm screwed, because YAST would screw things up next time it looks at that file. Perhaps that's because I used the download edition and didn't get a manual that said "click here to tell YAST to go fuck itself." I actually found system configuration getting easier when I switched to Slackware 9.1- sure, no pretty GUI, but all of the config files are wonderfully clear and readable. After that, I haven't found a reason to use any other distro.
Would that make WinXP and OS X "pollacks"?
Before you start flaming about ethnic slurs, I'm quite Polish myself...
I used MiniMo back when I was using the gpe environment for my iPaq that I installed Linux on. MiniMo is *very* minimalist. I found no tabs, but I didn't get any popups. Don't expect mozilla from MiniMo, expect an extremist-level stripped down Gecko browser. I mean, it's *really* stripped down- there was no menu other than the tap-and-hold, and that was just stuff to replace the removed buttonbar. Of course, I haven't used MiniMo in a few months, so it may have changed by now (and with the port as well)
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