Look, Symantec does product activation to try and combat the estimated $500+ million in piracy of the Norton product line every year.
You can use the other open source alternatives if you want, but you won't get the immediate response that Symantec provides when large worms and virus outbreaks take place, nor will you get the other customer support provided by Symantec.
Software bugs happen, and it's impossible to test for every possibility (hardware configuration, etc). Just bear with them and let them fix it.
Campus is not a gated community. As a matter of fact, it's several Redmond city streets that run through it. However, the moment you leave that street onto even a grassy area of the building, you're no longer on public property.
Quite simply, the guy violated his employment contract, and they sacked him.
I work for one of the major antivirus vendors in the market, and guess what, we have the same policy. Take pictures of confidential work stuff, and get sacked.
If you can tweak the boot process, you're not the kind of user these changes are targetted towards. Geeks don't care about boot time as much as your normal end user. Where does Microsoft own the market? Not amongst geeks.
Please don't sell that the generic process which needs mass tweaking to speed it up is "The Right Thing(tm)" to the end users of the world.
If you RTFA, you'll see this is aimed at desktops with a GUI, which is somewhere that startup time is very important.
To quote the article:
"SystemServices has four major goals:
1) Provide a full services framework (including handling "boot up")
2) Integrate well with a desktop interface
3) Start X, and then allow login ASAP
4) Allow daemon binaries to directly contribute services rather than requiring each distro/vendor to write shell script wrappers"
Yes, this is very Windows like, but just because it's Windows like does NOT imply it's a bad thing!
FreeBSD, for example, has relied on Perl being available in the past. Gentoo relies on Python. Relying on a scripting language to provide extensibility is not a bad thing.
I'll agree that init works well for servers. I love how DB2 installs itself in the inittab, so init makes sure it's always running. This is a good thing.
Init does not work as well for desktops. My laptop takes incredibly longer to boot Linux than Windows XP. My iPAQ takes a long time to boot Linux, compared to the startup of WinCE. (Yes, I realize that you don't have to restart Linux very often on the iPAQ, but that's not the point)
Pick up a live album from Dave Matthews Band. They sound so much more amazing live. Not to mention how amazing the experience is if you go to a good concert venue for it. (Allow me to reccommend The Gorge in George, Washington!)
Barenaked Ladies. Listening to the CD doesn't give you a feel for just how funny these guys are in concert. It's a performance well worth seeing.
Next reason: You may hear an artist in the opening act that you would have never had any exposure to otherwise.
There are plenty of reasons that you should go see live performances! True, some artists are better in the studio, but...
Remember the destroyer that had to be towed into port because its Windows network crashed and it was dead in the water, because someone entered a 'zero' into a database field, and windows shit the bed? Yeah, the mission-critical functions of a nuclear powered destroyer aren't very important.
If entering a zero into a database field causes Windows to crash, it's because a badly written device driver (more than likely NOT provided / approved by Microsoft!) was the cause. Next question: Why is your code blindly accepting input parameters without validating them?
Since Windows itself does not rely on MSDE or SQL Server, why don't you try blaming the right components?
I'm running 2.6.0-test3-mm on my dual PIII 600 box. It's not a fast machine, but with 2.6.0 it feels downright snappy. (The machine is a Dell Precision 210M Workstation - 384 megs of PC100 RAM, a 5400 RPM hard drive, GeForce4 Ti 4200 card)
The system as a whole feels a lot faster than it did with 2.4.x.. Of course, I have no real perf numbers to throw at you, but I'm really impressed with 2.6. VMware and WineX has some issues with 2.6 (CD-ROM access doesn't like to work correctly)
Also, the new kernel build process is much more streamlined, and building a kernel doesn't seem to take as long. The output is even prettier.:)
I purchased my Dell Inspiron 4150 in February of 2003. It only has one USB 1.1 port. It also does not have FireWire (I bought an SIIG FireWire PCCard)
Something to note on laptops with FireWire: For a lot of devices (like my ADS Pyro 1394 WebCam) you still need an external, powered hub. The laptop does not provide 12V of power to FireWire devices.
The majority of my music listening time is spent between work and my commute. Listening to Ogg Vorbis files at work is easy, but once Kenwood (or another equally good car stereo manufacturer) gets on the Ogg bandwagon, I'll be more than happy to re-encode all my CDs to Ogg instead of MP3. Until I have a car CD player, I can't switch.
And no, an FM modulator, casette adapter or aux input thing is not acceptable in the car... People are dangerous enough using their cell phones in the car, can you picture straining to see the display on your iPod or something?!
With Dell machines, you can choose WordPerfect Office instead of Microsoft Office or Works. I saved some money on my laptop when I did that.
I prefer WordPerfect anyhow (I was a die-hard WordPerfect for DOS user).
Is any other word processor ever going to get a Reveal Codes feature? I'm sure I'm not the only person that considers this one of the most powerful features of WordPerfect.
The amount of control over your document with WordPerfect was absolutely amazing, and something I really miss every time I have to use MS Word.
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Argh, I hate to give up moderation rights but I have to chime in here.
A small business CANNOT afford to employ a full time UNIX administrator. Open source solutions just do not have the ease of administration of the Windows GUIs. Until they do, they will not be small business friendly. Windows Small Business Server provides you with one installer that will basically set you up completely (Exchange Server and all).
Now, before you flame me out for being pro-Microsoft, you should know that almost all my machines at home run Gentoo Linux, and I prefer to use Linux myself.
I had a long discussion with a good friend who is not terribly computer literate. Linux drives him _crazy_ because he can't just, "point, click and go" as he said it. Until these issues are resolved, we won't see small organizations without dedicated IT staff rolling out Linux installs.
I loved my SideWinder controller, but now that I have a "home theater PC", the length of the cable on the SideWinder was just a huge problem. The couch is really not that close to the TV.:)
Now, I use a generic PlayStation2-to-USB adapter I bought at Fry's with a Dual Shock controller. It just feels better on my hands anyway. Most of my PC gaming is done with emulators anyhow (I guess that's not really PC gaming then, huh?)
Vodafone is the world's largest mobile operator with over 112.5m proportionate customers worldwide and equity interests in 28 countries and Partner Networks in a further 7 countries.
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Look, Symantec does product activation to try and combat the estimated $500+ million in piracy of the Norton product line every year.
You can use the other open source alternatives if you want, but you won't get the immediate response that Symantec provides when large worms and virus outbreaks take place, nor will you get the other customer support provided by Symantec.
Software bugs happen, and it's impossible to test for every possibility (hardware configuration, etc). Just bear with them and let them fix it.
Campus is not a gated community. As a matter of fact, it's several Redmond city streets that run through it. However, the moment you leave that street onto even a grassy area of the building, you're no longer on public property.
Quite simply, the guy violated his employment contract, and they sacked him.
I work for one of the major antivirus vendors in the market, and guess what, we have the same policy. Take pictures of confidential work stuff, and get sacked.
Funny, where I grew up, all the TV stations were on UHF.
(I grew up in Bakersfield, CA, 100 miles north of Los Angeles. That city itself currently has over 250,000 people, so it's not some tiny place)
Microsoft will be automatically turning on the firewall built into Windows XP with the next service pack.
This isn't any different than AOL disabling the Messenger service.
This is a double-edged sword. I applaud AOL's efforts and intentions, but I don't think this is at all the right way to go.
No, it's not a hardware/OS problem.
I have the same issue with my P4 3ghz Dell machine.
My solution - I went to Task Manager and changed the priority of the iTunes.exe process to "Above Normal" and that seems to have solved the problem.
Sounds like Internet2 to me.
http://www.internet2.edu
If you can tweak the boot process, you're not the kind of user these changes are targetted towards. Geeks don't care about boot time as much as your normal end user. Where does Microsoft own the market? Not amongst geeks.
Please don't sell that the generic process which needs mass tweaking to speed it up is "The Right Thing(tm)" to the end users of the world.
If you RTFA, you'll see this is aimed at desktops with a GUI, which is somewhere that startup time is very important.
To quote the article:
"SystemServices has four major goals:
1) Provide a full services framework (including handling "boot up")
2) Integrate well with a desktop interface
3) Start X, and then allow login ASAP
4) Allow daemon binaries to directly contribute services rather than requiring each distro/vendor to write shell script wrappers"
Yes, this is very Windows like, but just because it's Windows like does NOT imply it's a bad thing!
FreeBSD, for example, has relied on Perl being available in the past. Gentoo relies on Python. Relying on a scripting language to provide extensibility is not a bad thing.
I'll agree that init works well for servers. I love how DB2 installs itself in the inittab, so init makes sure it's always running. This is a good thing.
Init does not work as well for desktops. My laptop takes incredibly longer to boot Linux than Windows XP. My iPAQ takes a long time to boot Linux, compared to the startup of WinCE. (Yes, I realize that you don't have to restart Linux very often on the iPAQ, but that's not the point)
The only thing that made X slow on my 386DX/33 was my crappy Trident 8900C video card.
:)
I used fvwm for years, then I got hooked on blackbox. I'll still run something like blackbox on slower hardware, and my faster machine runs KDE.
Heck, I'm running WindowMaker on a Sun Ultra 10 now because CDE is slow and bloated.
Oooh I know I'm going to get flamed for this.
:)
On a Windows box:
net start w3svc
That will start IISAdmin automagically too.
Gentoo's init scripts have dependency checking too. Now, if they started in parallel.. Wheee! That would certainly rock for bootup time on my laptop.
Other prime examples:
Pick up a live album from Dave Matthews Band. They sound so much more amazing live. Not to mention how amazing the experience is if you go to a good concert venue for it. (Allow me to reccommend The Gorge in George, Washington!)
Barenaked Ladies. Listening to the CD doesn't give you a feel for just how funny these guys are in concert. It's a performance well worth seeing.
Next reason: You may hear an artist in the opening act that you would have never had any exposure to otherwise.
There are plenty of reasons that you should go see live performances! True, some artists are better in the studio, but...
Remember the destroyer that had to be towed into port because its Windows network crashed and it was dead in the water, because someone entered a 'zero' into a database field, and windows shit the bed? Yeah, the mission-critical functions of a nuclear powered destroyer aren't very important.
If entering a zero into a database field causes Windows to crash, it's because a badly written device driver (more than likely NOT provided / approved by Microsoft!) was the cause. Next question: Why is your code blindly accepting input parameters without validating them?
Since Windows itself does not rely on MSDE or SQL Server, why don't you try blaming the right components?
You should be modded down as flamebait.
*gasp*
Have you ever looked at Qt's libraries and wished you could use them outside of X?
"...but will have sweeping architectural changes, including a splitting of Qt's GUI classes and non-GUI classes."
That in itself has me and a few of my friends sold that we need a new Qt!
I have to agree with you fully on this one.
:)
I'm running 2.6.0-test3-mm on my dual PIII 600 box. It's not a fast machine, but with 2.6.0 it feels downright snappy. (The machine is a Dell Precision 210M Workstation - 384 megs of PC100 RAM, a 5400 RPM hard drive, GeForce4 Ti 4200 card)
The system as a whole feels a lot faster than it did with 2.4.x.. Of course, I have no real perf numbers to throw at you, but I'm really impressed with 2.6. VMware and WineX has some issues with 2.6 (CD-ROM access doesn't like to work correctly)
Also, the new kernel build process is much more streamlined, and building a kernel doesn't seem to take as long. The output is even prettier.
I purchased my Dell Inspiron 4150 in February of 2003. It only has one USB 1.1 port. It also does not have FireWire (I bought an SIIG FireWire PCCard)
Something to note on laptops with FireWire: For a lot of devices (like my ADS Pyro 1394 WebCam) you still need an external, powered hub. The laptop does not provide 12V of power to FireWire devices.
FireWire is _not_ a norm on laptops!
The reasons I use mplayer and xine...
Using that codec under Windows always had wierd results, the video would freeze or start playing at 4x the speed if I seeked through the video a bit.
I haven't keyed up a radio in a few years, but when my license expires in March of 2004, I'm renewing it.
It's just one of those things - you never know when you'll need it, but you'll be glad you had it...
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The majority of my music listening time is spent between work and my commute. Listening to Ogg Vorbis files at work is easy, but once Kenwood (or another equally good car stereo manufacturer) gets on the Ogg bandwagon, I'll be more than happy to re-encode all my CDs to Ogg instead of MP3. Until I have a car CD player, I can't switch.
And no, an FM modulator, casette adapter or aux input thing is not acceptable in the car... People are dangerous enough using their cell phones in the car, can you picture straining to see the display on your iPod or something?!
Has anyone read Congo by Michael Crichton?
This sounds strangely similiar...
With Dell machines, you can choose WordPerfect Office instead of Microsoft Office or Works. I saved some money on my laptop when I did that.
I prefer WordPerfect anyhow (I was a die-hard WordPerfect for DOS user).
Is any other word processor ever going to get a Reveal Codes feature? I'm sure I'm not the only person that considers this one of the most powerful features of WordPerfect.
The amount of control over your document with WordPerfect was absolutely amazing, and something I really miss every time I have to use MS Word.
Argh, I hate to give up moderation rights but I have to chime in here.
A small business CANNOT afford to employ a full time UNIX administrator. Open source solutions just do not have the ease of administration of the Windows GUIs. Until they do, they will not be small business friendly. Windows Small Business Server provides you with one installer that will basically set you up completely (Exchange Server and all).
Now, before you flame me out for being pro-Microsoft, you should know that almost all my machines at home run Gentoo Linux, and I prefer to use Linux myself.
I had a long discussion with a good friend who is not terribly computer literate. Linux drives him _crazy_ because he can't just, "point, click and go" as he said it. Until these issues are resolved, we won't see small organizations without dedicated IT staff rolling out Linux installs.
...without a crappy Atari 5200 controller in my hand with the really bad red buttons on it. :)
No seriously though.. I _loved_ my Atari 5200, but those controllers were awful.
The amount of time I spent playing Mountain King, Joust, and Countermeasure... daaaaamn.
I loved my SideWinder controller, but now that I have a "home theater PC", the length of the cable on the SideWinder was just a huge problem. The couch is really not that close to the TV. :)
Now, I use a generic PlayStation2-to-USB adapter I bought at Fry's with a Dual Shock controller. It just feels better on my hands anyway. Most of my PC gaming is done with emulators anyhow (I guess that's not really PC gaming then, huh?)
I would love this!!
:(
I watch quite a bit of BBC America programming, but I would love to be able to see NEW episodes of shows, instead of the reruns I see now.
Unfortunately, there are probably waaay too many laws this technology would be breaking.
Ahh, but Verizon DOES have a global impact!
Ever hear of Vodafone?
To quote Verizon's "About Us" page:
Vodafone is the world's largest mobile operator with over 112.5m proportionate customers worldwide and equity interests in 28 countries and Partner Networks in a further 7 countries.