sure thing, just down load the source from the repository the type./configure make make install oh wait......
Well, first you need to sign up before you can get access to the repository. But other than that, I doubt Windows compiles with GNUmake or the GNU configuration tools.
That was just luck. Mainframes, on the other hand, are designed to have uptimes measured in years. Typically, every single component is redundant and the system is designed for failover in the event of a hardware outage. In a transaction-processing environment, a mainframe can detect things like RAM and CPU failure in the middle of a transaction and fail over to a different processor module or addressing space without a hitch. Try that on your Linux box.
I have actually. When that happens on one of my Linuxes boxes, a e-mail is fired off, it's shutdown and another server takes over it's operations without interruption to the service.
Those ancient text based interfaces put modern text based interfaces to shame. Spend more time studying the next mainframe terminal screen you come across, and try to think of the last time you used a remote, rich, curses interface to an app, or to configure a server.
I'm more impressed by RIP terminal systems on that ran on BBSes which ran on 486s, c64s to be honest. I even still run one.
That was what people were saying for ages. There is almost no way to remove mshtml (the real ie) from an up and running Windows OS.
Non-sense. I've been denying access to mshtml.dll since XP to regular users (left access to SYSTEM, so it could upgrade the dll so it wouldn't break Windows updates).
Ok fair enough. I should have asked if you could run.NET outside of windows. There is a fair shot that this will work in environments like Linux of Mac.
Sorry, yes, it does for the most part. But having your desktop spinning on a cube is hardly state of the art, any system is a step away from that. However, doing it right requires functionality entirely missing, eg: try the cube effect while working with video and 3d rendering.
I generally have kaffiene and Second life running at the same time most of the time. Sometimes I start up left 4 dead too (via Wine) to do some admin related tasks on my l4d server (usually checking if someone is cheating) - this is while Second life and kaffiene are active. I also have a tendency to have vmware running too, which makes excessive use of overlays.
I think that's a pretty good benchmark.
To be honest, the only issue I ever see is when I log off KDE4, you see garbage and artefacts as things are tuning off. Beyond that, I never ever see it, only during log off - to my understanding, that's caused by the compositing window manager being killed before other stuff.
I'm not following development any more, but last year you had to choose between glx (slow) or aiglx (ugly). Quartz does that on any situation with zero penalty.
*shrugs* I only used it when it became a default setting in the Linux distros I use (Mandriva, SuSE, Kubuntu) and haven't noticed those issues.
There would be Human Rights complaints if you organized a Straight Pride parade. "We're straight, and that's great!"
Well here in lies the problem. The purpose of the gay parade is to acknowledge that they're not just a very small niche of people, thus preventing 'bad' laws being exercised against them.
A straight pride parade? Well, I don't really see how any of that is relevant to the issues. They aren't getting persecuted for their sexual orientation, they aren't getting denied jobs, homes etc. over their sexual orientation.
Although to be perfectly honest, I think they need to make promote 'why' they're doing it before. Before studying psychology and in particular, before having had studied related information on gay parades in-depth, I thought it was just people flaunting their bits for no real reason at all.
See, that's the problem right there. Hetro isn't the 'default' sexuality, it's *a* sexuality. Classifying it as 'default,' or 'normal', is classifying everything else as 'abnormal.' It's like saying 'male' or 'female' is the 'default.' Nope.
Of course that's the problem, and that's why this scenario exists in the first place.
Just because you and I happen to be open minded on the matter doesn't mean everyone is.
Apples OSX does not come with any crappy activation key or other pain in the a$$ copy protection system, so their actual install base could be way higher than reported. Of course you still need Mac hardware to install OSX on, but there is nothing to stop you (except the law) from buying 1 copy of OSX and updating all the Macs in your building.
Please stop promoting piracy.
You should instead be saying that there is nothing stopping you from updating all your computers to Linux, no law makes it illegal to my knowledge, unlike with OS X.
Overpriced? Thanks, but my time is valuable...
It took 20 minutes to complete and start using Kubuntu on my HP DV6000. It took me a several hours to do the equivalent with windows and OS X simply wouldn't install for obvious reasons.
I'd rather pay the very reasonable price and have the OS up and running in an hour than spend days messing around with Linux trying to get some driver working.
My personal opinion is that if your productivity in the end will be superior, then spending a few extra hours on a OS to get it working to that level you need is reasonable. That said, getting all the software and features I need to start working effectively in OS X also takes me hours while it just took 20 minutes with Kubuntu, and that's from the moment I started installing it.
I think the reason Microsoft see Linux as the competition is that Apple is in another league and as wfolta stated above 'every Windows box is a potential Linux box'.
I think it's because Linux has more market share than Apple does and is a threat to Microsoft's and Apple's business models.
Linux was born in 1991... Where is this OS after 18 years? Linux is in nowhere. There are no major applications for Linux, there are no commercial games, all the free alternatives to apps and games "just" sucks, are buggy and ugly.
Xen, VMware, KDE & Gnome (which includes better-than-windows-alternatives cd burners, media players, text editors), Wine (running windows applications natively on Linux - awesome really. Darwine doesn't even work half the time in comparison), various office suits (OpenOffice.org, staroffice, koffice etc.) Unreal series of games (that's like 9), Doom series of games (three), America's army, Quake wars, Second life, World of goo (and those are just the games at the top of my head).
Now, with the applications mentioned above. I don't really see how they are more buggy or "just suck" compared to their OS X or Windows equivalents. Sure, there are annoyances, but I can find similar annoyances on either platform.
Sure, there is software which is lacking on Linux, and I'll admit that. That said, I find Krita is quite a viable alternative to Photoshop and yes, it supports the common CMYK colour crap that people complain that Gimp is lacking. The video editing tools on Linux are certainly quite crude, but, Linux already has all the libraries and technology for creating a great movie editor - with software like ffmpeg which is used in xine, vlc, mplayer etc. which can play virtually any format and encode to any format, do you really think that iMovie will have a share of daylight the moment it's produced (when you consider the format and codec support)?
I could go on, but, I don't really see the point.
Mac OS was born in 1992. Where is Mac OS today? Evolved in a graphically beautiful desktop, productive and has lot of highend applications and a vast universe of games.
Jesus, have you ever played stuff like Second life under OS X? It's terrible. The majority of games that are available for OS X and Linux, oftend tend to have weird obscure issues in OS X more-so than Linux.
The reason for that is not to do with Linux compatibility, it's actually to do with the fact that OS X has a buggy opengl infrastructure, buggy drivers. Hell, even the developers of crossover games admitted that for EACH and EVERY SINGLE game that they make compatible for crossover games Mac that they have to add specific fixes, because of how buggy it is. While this is not the case for Linux, Solaris (running crossover application in elf compatibility mode), BSD experimental port of the same software.
Major apps and games developers announces Mac versions of their products while Linux is abandoned.
Major OS X applications like Photoshop.. Okay, Well, let's see here. Serious graphics designers would use 64bit software to make use of the vast memory support of 64bit system, except Photoshop only has 64bit support under Windows... Beyond that? What major software is there on OS X? Well. There is iTunes (which isn't as good as the opensource alternatives by a long shot), iLife, which... I guess the only advantage it has over the Linux equivalents is the movie editor. But don't forget you generally need to pay for all that and I honestly don't know many people who do movies to begin with (including OS X users).
There is no real interest virtualization technologies - beyond running Windows, which is somewhat of a failing in my opinion, the majority of free, opensource office software is not available or terribly broken on OS X. OS X doesn't even have it's own special niche like Linux does in the server market (virtualization, superior performance, enhanced reliability) the desktop market (superior performance, enhanced reliability, next gen features implemented almost immediately - see desktop compositioning, it goes far beyond Windows and OS X now, free, works almost with any hardware - including hardware windows no longer supports).
There are web sites that are specifically known as gay hook-up sites. These web sites were not envisioned as having this purpose originally, but that is what happened. Most of these sites closed down because of this.
Why do so many gay people seem to make it their mission in life to force their sexuality down everyone's throats as though they are some great crusade to change everyone else's morality?
Gay parades were created to show that homosexuality is not a small minority, preventing discrimination against them. Some homosexuals believe they should 'parade' themselves all the time for this reason.
Firstly, in just about every social situation I find myself in, the fact that I am heterosexual is completely irrelevant so I don't bother telling anyone that's the case.
Of course, because hetrosexuality is considered the 'default' sexuality, so you wouldn't need to.
Like one gay colleague of mine who used to insist on trying to tell me about his latest sexual partner in graphic detail where I had not once ever discussed my sex life with him (or with anyone else) at work?
Not really much different from my hetro friends (I wouldn't normally label people as such, but I am doing it for the context of this discussion) telling me about their latest sexual conquest with a girl.
But please don't expect me to be particularly interested, okay?
Again, I don't really see how this is specific to homosexual people. I get the same thing from people talking about politics, cars, religion etc.
A lot of gay people really need to get it into their heads that most of us really don't care about their homosexuality - so just get on with it and stop forcing it down our throats all of the time.
This is a normal human condition. I get it from people telling me about their experiences in the pub I didn't want to know about, their latest sexual conquest (male or female), their religious beliefs, their political views etc.
From the way you write, it seems almost like you're trying to say this is a problem only specific to homosexuals and every homosexual does it - from personal experience, I know well enough this isn't the case.
If you'd read TFA you would see it's all about consumer broadband and UK households, in my world that excludes the enterprise grade accounts from this mandate to filtering.
It's so the Churches can still have access to their CP.
I love the bit where he talks about how can't set stuff on the local settings, ooh the draconian DRM! If only we could right click the folder, go to permissions, take permissions over the folder...
OH WAIT, we can. Just like in Vista. Any novice Windows Administrator would know how to do that. Where is the DRM there?
Much like many others on that article, these comments others have made on that article pretty much are my thoughts on the article:
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Well, first you need to sign up before you can get access to the repository. But other than that, I doubt Windows compiles with GNUmake or the GNU configuration tools.
I have actually. When that happens on one of my Linuxes boxes, a e-mail is fired off, it's shutdown and another server takes over it's operations without interruption to the service.
I'm more impressed by RIP terminal systems on that ran on BBSes which ran on 486s, c64s to be honest. I even still run one.
Non-sense. I've been denying access to mshtml.dll since XP to regular users (left access to SYSTEM, so it could upgrade the dll so it wouldn't break Windows updates).
A port of Microsoft's .net exists for BSD.
I await your sample code doing this and sample code from a average 14 year old doing this too.
Doesn't stop people from using "Facebook" as the name of the sender. So I don't really see the point in DKIM if I have SPF already.
In short, no.
I'm willing to bet it's more to do with the proprietary nVidia drivers (Why nVidia rocks where x.org does not).
Remote desktop, graphical NTFS file permission setting dialogs and so many other "features" don't come with home edition either.
Home is bloody useless for anything beyond running a few games, surfing the net and Microsoft Office.
This is nothing new.
Provided you compiled the binary to be dependent on itself (static), it wouldn't need SFU to be installed on XP from previous experience.
Yes, I've ported quite a few applications with it.
There is a POSIX subsystem in Windows. It's been there since WinNT days.
I generally have kaffiene and Second life running at the same time most of the time. Sometimes I start up left 4 dead too (via Wine) to do some admin related tasks on my l4d server (usually checking if someone is cheating) - this is while Second life and kaffiene are active. I also have a tendency to have vmware running too, which makes excessive use of overlays.
I think that's a pretty good benchmark.
To be honest, the only issue I ever see is when I log off KDE4, you see garbage and artefacts as things are tuning off. Beyond that, I never ever see it, only during log off - to my understanding, that's caused by the compositing window manager being killed before other stuff.
*shrugs* I only used it when it became a default setting in the Linux distros I use (Mandriva, SuSE, Kubuntu) and haven't noticed those issues.
Well here in lies the problem. The purpose of the gay parade is to acknowledge that they're not just a very small niche of people, thus preventing 'bad' laws being exercised against them.
A straight pride parade? Well, I don't really see how any of that is relevant to the issues. They aren't getting persecuted for their sexual orientation, they aren't getting denied jobs, homes etc. over their sexual orientation.
Although to be perfectly honest, I think they need to make promote 'why' they're doing it before. Before studying psychology and in particular, before having had studied related information on gay parades in-depth, I thought it was just people flaunting their bits for no real reason at all.
Of course that's the problem, and that's why this scenario exists in the first place.
Just because you and I happen to be open minded on the matter doesn't mean everyone is.
To put it simply, it isn't.
Signalling is still fucked.
Darwin is not OS X. It's just a few pieces of OS X that isn't of much use at all to anyone like other pieces in OS X would be.
They aren't ignoring it, it's just irrelevant.
Works fine here.
Although, I am using the proprietary nVidia drivers.
Please stop promoting piracy.
You should instead be saying that there is nothing stopping you from updating all your computers to Linux, no law makes it illegal to my knowledge, unlike with OS X.
It took 20 minutes to complete and start using Kubuntu on my HP DV6000. It took me a several hours to do the equivalent with windows and OS X simply wouldn't install for obvious reasons.
My personal opinion is that if your productivity in the end will be superior, then spending a few extra hours on a OS to get it working to that level you need is reasonable. That said, getting all the software and features I need to start working effectively in OS X also takes me hours while it just took 20 minutes with Kubuntu, and that's from the moment I started installing it.
I think it's because Linux has more market share than Apple does and is a threat to Microsoft's and Apple's business models.
Xen, VMware, KDE & Gnome (which includes better-than-windows-alternatives cd burners, media players, text editors), Wine (running windows applications natively on Linux - awesome really. Darwine doesn't even work half the time in comparison), various office suits (OpenOffice.org, staroffice, koffice etc.) Unreal series of games (that's like 9), Doom series of games (three), America's army, Quake wars, Second life, World of goo (and those are just the games at the top of my head).
Now, with the applications mentioned above. I don't really see how they are more buggy or "just suck" compared to their OS X or Windows equivalents. Sure, there are annoyances, but I can find similar annoyances on either platform.
Sure, there is software which is lacking on Linux, and I'll admit that. That said, I find Krita is quite a viable alternative to Photoshop and yes, it supports the common CMYK colour crap that people complain that Gimp is lacking. The video editing tools on Linux are certainly quite crude, but, Linux already has all the libraries and technology for creating a great movie editor - with software like ffmpeg which is used in xine, vlc, mplayer etc. which can play virtually any format and encode to any format, do you really think that iMovie will have a share of daylight the moment it's produced (when you consider the format and codec support)?
I could go on, but, I don't really see the point.
Jesus, have you ever played stuff like Second life under OS X? It's terrible. The majority of games that are available for OS X and Linux, oftend tend to have weird obscure issues in OS X more-so than Linux.
The reason for that is not to do with Linux compatibility, it's actually to do with the fact that OS X has a buggy opengl infrastructure, buggy drivers. Hell, even the developers of crossover games admitted that for EACH and EVERY SINGLE game that they make compatible for crossover games Mac that they have to add specific fixes, because of how buggy it is. While this is not the case for Linux, Solaris (running crossover application in elf compatibility mode), BSD experimental port of the same software.
Major OS X applications like Photoshop.. Okay, Well, let's see here. Serious graphics designers would use 64bit software to make use of the vast memory support of 64bit system, except Photoshop only has 64bit support under Windows... Beyond that? What major software is there on OS X? Well. There is iTunes (which isn't as good as the opensource alternatives by a long shot), iLife, which... I guess the only advantage it has over the Linux equivalents is the movie editor. But don't forget you generally need to pay for all that and I honestly don't know many people who do movies to begin with (including OS X users).
There is no real interest virtualization technologies - beyond running Windows, which is somewhat of a failing in my opinion, the majority of free, opensource office software is not available or terribly broken on OS X. OS X doesn't even have it's own special niche like Linux does in the server market (virtualization, superior performance, enhanced reliability) the desktop market (superior performance, enhanced reliability, next gen features implemented almost immediately - see desktop compositioning, it goes far beyond Windows and OS X now, free, works almost with any hardware - including hardware windows no longer supports).
And you're trying to tell me
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Gay parades were created to show that homosexuality is not a small minority, preventing discrimination against them. Some homosexuals believe they should 'parade' themselves all the time for this reason.
Of course, because hetrosexuality is considered the 'default' sexuality, so you wouldn't need to.
Not really much different from my hetro friends (I wouldn't normally label people as such, but I am doing it for the context of this discussion) telling me about their latest sexual conquest with a girl.
Again, I don't really see how this is specific to homosexual people. I get the same thing from people talking about politics, cars, religion etc.
This is a normal human condition. I get it from people telling me about their experiences in the pub I didn't want to know about, their latest sexual conquest (male or female), their religious beliefs, their political views etc.
From the way you write, it seems almost like you're trying to say this is a problem only specific to homosexuals and every homosexual does it - from personal experience, I know well enough this isn't the case.
I doubt a "Apple Bandai Pippin" v2 would be that popular.
I agree with badself. I endorse it.
It's so the Churches can still have access to their CP.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/16/2259257
I love the bit where he talks about how can't set stuff on the local settings, ooh the draconian DRM! If only we could right click the folder, go to permissions, take permissions over the folder...
OH WAIT, we can. Just like in Vista. Any novice Windows Administrator would know how to do that. Where is the DRM there?
Much like many others on that article, these comments others have made on that article pretty much are my thoughts on the article:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1130241&cid=26903725
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1130241&cid=26899757
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1130241&cid=26890441
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1130241&cid=26888321
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1130241&cid=26884925
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1130241&cid=26884011
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1130241&cid=26883935
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1130241&cid=26883093
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1130241&cid=26882943
Anecdotal evidence proving the previous anecdotal evidence wrong:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1130241&cid=26884857
Obviously that isn't all the related posts I can find, but you likely get my point.