iLife (doesn't lock me in, but it has 'locked' some people I know in -- even though they hate OS X)
Hardware (often not fully supported on other OSes)
Proprietary file formats, that prevent you from migrating things over (e-mail databases? music labellings [couldn't just use id3 with mp3s for storing all the information that is possible]?)
This is the XP version of UAC , win2k is much the same but is slightly different to activate Create a shortcut for an exe file right click and select properties click advanced check the run with different credentials close all the windows run the shortcut
Doesn't work with explorer (trying to run explorer as a different user). Doesn't also automatically appear when a application needs administrative privileges, sorry.
You also forgot to mention how to run control panel items as administrator, but you see -- I've been doing this far back and I'll help you.
You need to create shortcuts to 'control.exe something.cpl' (like desk.cpl), and exactly as you said 'run with different credentials'.
DirectX 10 is a marketing gimic to force people to upgrade, Directx 9.0c works fine for World of Warcraft, from what friends have told me, DirectX 10 is unstable while playing WoW so that's a good number of people that won't be upgrading.
There will be DirectX 10 only stuff coming out, either way, give me a way to play on Win2k rather than just telling me that WoW (which I don't play) runs on DX9.
I want a solution for DX10 and UAC, not excuses why not to get Vista, nor workarounds that don't work.
This isn't the same, the hardware we're talking about is CAPABLE of playing it
If you don't have the hardware/software to play a given media
Yes, because THEY are NOT providing the software.
then it really doesn't matter to me if you like the DRM it sports.
Ah, is this your way of saying, "I don't want to hear anything you say lalalalala everything is okay, everything is fine!" ?
blah blah blah not as good as vinyl.
I don't mind music that's been encoded once, but encoded multiple times at the same bitrate? Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE can hear the blups and blips in the audio stream then.
On the other hand, if you're happy with the obvious blups and blips in the audio stream -- Well, more power to you.
When most moved to CSS, and left tables behind, a ew stood by tables and Im more than sure a seperate group eventually just stopped doing web design altogether.
I get so fedup with every browser rendering CSS boxes differently that I just use tables now, it's hell of a lot easier.
I hate bad DRM as much as the next person. But Apple's DRM is just fine by me.
Not for me, does not work on Linux
I'm able to listen to what I want on any device I want (I can burn a CD, after all).
What about the movies?
You also must know that reencoding a file at similar bitrates over and over will introduce horrible noticeable artifacts right?
So, let's say you want to listen to said music on another mp3 player:
1) Burn music to CD 2) Rip CD to mp3 3) Listen to music with artifacts 4)... 5) Profit.
But I'll continue buying good DRM media - because I believe in reasonable precautions against piracy - which to me means non-intrusive.
I don't think it's reasonable. I can't even play iTunes crap on any of my modern devices here.
I've tried to help people with cases where after a iTunes upgrade, people just couldn't play their old iTunes files anymore -- How do you deal with that? Of course you can't not upgrade, because eventually Apple will upgrade their services to only support only new iTunes software for validation. Ontop of that new files you buy off iTunes will only work on the latest iTunes.
Don't you see the problem?
Out of the cases of said issue happening, only one person (out of five) ever got it working again (worked after another update). Apple wasn't helpful at all.
Okay, I use Linux myself (Kubuntu Edgy and Feisty on separate computers), but comments like this really piss me off. How the hell do you apt-get install anything without network access?
Other than that... Most people are able to connect temporarily via ethernet to their router (many home wireless&ADSL routers usually come with one free LAN cable).
Again, this is my privelidge, adn the failure of the linux community to realize that most people are like me is why linux on the user desktop is roughly, rounded off, zero (the inability of thelinux community to provide an answer that is satisfactory to me and others like me as to how to deal with the problem of office doc and xls file compatibility is also big)
What compatability issues? OpenOffice is more compatible with Microsoft's own file documents than Microsoft is? Have you even tried opening Microsoft Word documents from older versions of Word in new versions? Guess what -- It doesn't work. But it works in OpenOffice. Not only that, but I can open the later Office documents in OpenOffice too.
Macro support? OpenOffice.org has had the support of the majority uses of Macros for ages now.
What are you rambling on about?
I'm not interested - that is my priviledge, and since linux is stuck at zero on the desktop, it is fair to ask if 90%of th epeople in the world care, and i thing the answer is no.
Seeing that about 20% of unique vistors who visit some of my websites are using Linux, that isn't zero
if linux doesn't recognize the stuff i have, what is it doing for me - rather then get defensive, and call me names, answer that question on my terms.
If Linux is not recognizing your 'stuff', what is it doing? It's not recognizing your 'stuff'. Whatever that may be. I don't get the point of the circular logic question you're asking.
sorry, linux has to do something i care about - simple graphical installs with a nice desktop are a minimum, not something to be proud of , a minimum for a good os.
Which it does already, infact I find some Linux installers easier than Windows's installers (particularly Kubuntu's).
you can ask, why am i here bashing linux ??
You're bashing it because you're making assumptions that aren't true about Linux. I am not going to go out of my way to enlighten someone who is unable to spend less than half a second of his life to type two extra letters for words and ontop of that demand I go out of my way and write up a proper answer to what you want to know exactly.
you don't do anything i care that much about, and linux seems to be a pain
You've already made your assumptions before trying it. Stay with Windows and ignore everything else, you will find yourself much happier.
and you are forked intoa 100 branches (google psychology of choice to see why this is bad) and and and..
I personally find the benefits outweigh the costs.
do something new an dusefull that I care about, and linux will sweep ms away in a moment. keep focusing on garbagge like pipes and awk, you'll never get anywhere
No, Linux being better than Microsoft's software will not sweep MS away alone (there are certainly many instances of where Linux can do things better than Windows can and vice versa). Microsoft software is sold with most brand new systems, a lot of software is written purely for Windows. Until shops start selling purely Linux with brand new computers, like they do with Windows. It is unlikely Linux systems will just 'sweep ms away'.
And I'll raise another point, the OS installed on computers by default doesn't have to be good at all -- said OS will sweep them away anyway.
r u joking ? stupid lazy people like me are not going to do that
Stupid lazy people like me aren't going to tell you to click the K button, then goto the system category etc. I only give you the terminal command because it's easier for me. You can do this all graphically if you want.
which brings us to the real question: if (a) you respect other peoples desires
Yes, if you don't want to try Linux, don't. Stop wasting my time.
(b) i don't care about cpu threads or security or file systems, but do care about ease of use, which means the os recognizing the printer i already have, what advantage does linux give me ? untill linux can answer that question, it will be marginal on the desktop
You've been on Slashdot for so long and you don't know the advantages of Linux?
I even just Googled on it right now and found the advantages. I'm sorry, but I don't think you're capable of installing Windows. So I suggest you buy a pre-installed Linux system from a vendor like System76, as I don't think you can install Windows from scratch either.
According to some usenet posts, it's supported fine by CUPS
and pcmicia wireless card
My PCMCIA wireless cards (broadcom, atheros chipsets) all work fine under Linux, I did have to install one package (bcm43xx-firmware) for broadcom before it work though. Just 'apt-get install bcm43xx-firmware' (nothing else).
I cannot say if any of that would work under Debian stable. I haven't used stable in years.
Not only that, but a lot of useful things he wrote like documentation on native APIs (which Microsoft seem to hide) just mysteriously disappeared soon after.
No it does not interfere with your fair use rights.
Yes it does when there are other (abusive) laws that deny the right to circumvent any protections for any reason, conflicting directly with fair rights.
Fair use rights do not guarantee the right to make exact digital copies of copyrighted media.
My argument against quality was not about fair rights, but about the quality of reripping crap -- The ideas people keep spouting about getting around Apple's DRM seems kind of unusable which is what my point was in this case.
Which increases the file size of a DRMed 4mb AAC to what? After burning to a CD (which made the music now a slightly lower quality), and then ripping and using FLAC format -- getting something like a 24MB file?
You can always burn your iTunes to disc and then re-rip them on a new PC. That effectively bypasses DRM in iTunes.
Once you encode something in a format like mp3, aac, wma, etc. It introduces numerous artifacts which cause the produced audio to be difficult to recompress -- At a similar bitrate, it would sound horrible (as you can hear the artifacts quite clearly).
Oh yes, and how exactly do I rip movies downloaded off iTunes store again?
My point is that DRM in itself is not evil. It's when DRM interferes with the user experience.
Agreed. Also when it infringes on other rights like fair use.
In a market economy such as the United States, a content owner has the right to distribute the content as they please as long as it's not ilegal, in the sense it becomes fraud, false advertising or some other crime.
In a way.
If DRM was truly a consumer nightmare, the demand would decrease to the point of bankrupting Apple.
Most people don't know what's going on, so no. That wouldn't be the case. The problem is, Apple's DRM is evil, because it infringes on fair rights, lock-ins etc.
Users would choose "open" sources of music. OK, I can see the point that "open" sources of music don't exist, since the RIAA owns most all content. However, you could choose "indie" music much like you choose Linux over Microsoft Windows. Most indie music is open because it's becoming established.
Guess what? I haven't bought DRMed music or movies ever. Nor do I intend to either -- I have better things to worry about than if something will play on my system, media player or if someone may decide to revoke my rights to play something I bought.
I used to run a free webhosting provider some time ago. Our servers used to get hammered badly on the hour, every hour because of RSS feeds that users used to have on their sites. RSS is not as bandwith friendly as sending out a single e-mail to each user when there is a update.
The stable tree is so old as to be impractical for anything but the most mundane uses, as I pointed out, which you'd know if you'd tried to use it in a production environment (especially for software development - lack of up to date libraries can be maddening).
Was fine for my MUD software and ported BBS doors.
It's a very old and tired argument, everyone knows the deal with Debian's Stable. It's largely why we have Unbuntu now (with it's ~6 month cycles). Of course, dispite the name, 'Stable' has the same problems too (leading to complete borkage). It just happens more often in the other trees.
I use Kubuntu, but mostly because I like a upto date and stable modern desktop -- Before that I was using Mandriva/Mandrake with the SoS repositories (provided latest stables of KDE etc).
How many times have you had vendor supplied Windows, Mac OS or Solaris patches render your system non-functioning and non-bootable? vs. How many times have you had that happen on various Linux distributions or BSD variants do the same?
OS X - 7 (I don't really get how updating things like quicktime caused the system to attempt Haraki on boot after) Windows - 600+ (deployed a dcom patch that seemed okay to a lot of workstations that utterly borked them after causing them to all BSOD on boot, requiring a complete reinstall of all systems) Linux - 0 (Biggest thing I've ever had broken in a update on Linux: xorg, but another update was released within a hour that fixed it.) FreeBSD - 1 (I don't remember what it was, only that I had such issues trying to retrieve my information off it using a Linux livecd)
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I don't use StarOffice, but I have used the Russian OpenOffice.org suite has always worked very well for me. And yes, there is a Russian Firefox available too.
At least this software doesn't get random 'updates' that suddenly break part of the dialogs so they appear in English and Russian partially.
But Microsoft's Zen software doesn't work on Vista yet...
You also forgot to mention how to run control panel items as administrator, but you see -- I've been doing this far back and I'll help you.
You need to create shortcuts to 'control.exe something.cpl' (like desk.cpl), and exactly as you said 'run with different credentials'. There will be DirectX 10 only stuff coming out, either way, give me a way to play on Win2k rather than just telling me that WoW (which I don't play) runs on DX9.
I want a solution for DX10 and UAC, not excuses why not to get Vista, nor workarounds that don't work.
On the other hand, if you're happy with the obvious blups and blips in the audio stream -- Well, more power to you.
You also must know that reencoding a file at similar bitrates over and over will introduce horrible noticeable artifacts right?
So, let's say you want to listen to said music on another mp3 player:
1) Burn music to CD
2) Rip CD to mp3
3) Listen to music with artifacts
4)
5) Profit. I don't think it's reasonable. I can't even play iTunes crap on any of my modern devices here.
I've tried to help people with cases where after a iTunes upgrade, people just couldn't play their old iTunes files anymore -- How do you deal with that? Of course you can't not upgrade, because eventually Apple will upgrade their services to only support only new iTunes software for validation. Ontop of that new files you buy off iTunes will only work on the latest iTunes.
Don't you see the problem?
Out of the cases of said issue happening, only one person (out of five) ever got it working again (worked after another update). Apple wasn't helpful at all.
Of course some distributions like Debian/Ubuntu/Mandriva let you build the packages if you really want to.
With Debian/Ubuntu it's easily done with apt-build. Mandriva on the other hand, things get a bit more complicated.
Copy it onto a cd/disk whatever and either double click it in the GUI to start a package manager or Other than that... Most people are able to connect temporarily via ethernet to their router (many home wireless&ADSL routers usually come with one free LAN cable).
Macro support? OpenOffice.org has had the support of the majority uses of Macros for ages now.
What are you rambling on about? Seeing that about 20% of unique vistors who visit some of my websites are using Linux, that isn't zero If Linux is not recognizing your 'stuff', what is it doing? It's not recognizing your 'stuff'. Whatever that may be. I don't get the point of the circular logic question you're asking. Which it does already, infact I find some Linux installers easier than Windows's installers (particularly Kubuntu's). You're bashing it because you're making assumptions that aren't true about Linux. I am not going to go out of my way to enlighten someone who is unable to spend less than half a second of his life to type two extra letters for words and ontop of that demand I go out of my way and write up a proper answer to what you want to know exactly. You've already made your assumptions before trying it. Stay with Windows and ignore everything else, you will find yourself much happier. I personally find the benefits outweigh the costs. No, Linux being better than Microsoft's software will not sweep MS away alone (there are certainly many instances of where Linux can do things better than Windows can and vice versa). Microsoft software is sold with most brand new systems, a lot of software is written purely for Windows. Until shops start selling purely Linux with brand new computers, like they do with Windows. It is unlikely Linux systems will just 'sweep ms away'.
And I'll raise another point, the OS installed on computers by default doesn't have to be good at all -- said OS will sweep them away anyway.
I even just Googled on it right now and found the advantages. I'm sorry, but I don't think you're capable of installing Windows. So I suggest you buy a pre-installed Linux system from a vendor like System76, as I don't think you can install Windows from scratch either.
It looks better/worse depending on the display (CRT/LCD).
I cannot say if any of that would work under Debian stable. I haven't used stable in years.
I can run Wine under Windows just fine. I used to-do it to get Windows XP only applications running under Windows 2000.
Not only that, but a lot of useful things he wrote like documentation on native APIs (which Microsoft seem to hide) just mysteriously disappeared soon after.
Just tell them it's another type of shortcut.
Which increases the file size of a DRMed 4mb AAC to what? After burning to a CD (which made the music now a slightly lower quality), and then ripping and using FLAC format -- getting something like a 24MB file?
I see a problem with this, don't you?
Oh yes, and how exactly do I rip movies downloaded off iTunes store again?
I used to run a free webhosting provider some time ago. Our servers used to get hammered badly on the hour, every hour because of RSS feeds that users used to have on their sites. RSS is not as bandwith friendly as sending out a single e-mail to each user when there is a update.
OS X - 7 (I don't really get how updating things like quicktime caused the system to attempt Haraki on boot after)
Windows - 600+ (deployed a dcom patch that seemed okay to a lot of workstations that utterly borked them after causing them to all BSOD on boot, requiring a complete reinstall of all systems)
Linux - 0 (Biggest thing I've ever had broken in a update on Linux: xorg, but another update was released within a hour that fixed it.)
FreeBSD - 1 (I don't remember what it was, only that I had such issues trying to retrieve my information off it using a Linux livecd)