Vmware, virtualpc would still have the same issue as they do on other systems... It won't handle games well (simply slow, or emulating really old graphic cards). Dual booting windows for this pupose is a good idea.
Reminds me of the fact you can disable such features in real player, yet people cry about real player still (once it's been disabled in the preferences, it does not submit that information).
The interesting thing is... Microsoft has found their 'activation' for windows extremely helpful in piracy... Perhaps the best means to prevent piracy is making it hell for most people who use the pirated software.
I remember one of the main selling points for getting a playstation in Poland originally, was the fact, you could pirate games on it for the cost of the CD. Which caused a wide addoptions of the Playstation here.
> Charge a fair price for stable software with good tech support and consistent upgrades and patches. Users pay for the support now and in the future. They pay for the official version to protect against viruses and spyware.
Most users will not do support, many users will ask co workers/friends and NEVER ask support. I can also garentee you that if one grabs a cracked pirate copy of half life 2. It will not contain spyware/adware such as "Steam" in it.
When was the last time anyone you knew, who had a valid copy of Microsoft Office, ever called up Microsoft tech support for help with *any* issue they had related to the suite? I still have yet to see that in my lifetime.
I like how you get estimation bars like 30 minutes etc. with valve games. Especially when starting a single player game.. Even though you just wanted to play the game on your break or something.
Strangely enough, I noticed most of the time when I needed to restart XP, was not because of some OS critical vulnerability but because of a internet explorer update...
When was the last time you downloaded a file from a DNS server? I have been known to put up files in text records in MIME format, to 'lookup' later in restrictive networks:)
I recall a event when there was a security issue with a major OSX related exploit, which affected all OSX versions. Apple had to "consider" (there were a few slashdot articles on it) patching various OSX versions and such, and then after doing it, told us that they may not do anything like this in the future if it happens again. It took about two weeks if I recall correctly for the decision to be made...
While technically it may be faster to 'solve', it doesn't appear that way with the beaucracy.
If you're having issues, spending days and such.. Are you sure you had the propper training for using Linux?
I mean for example with SuSE Linux, theres the CLP and the CLE certifications...
I tend to often hear all these issues from people who have gone without training or have had training long ago in a quite different system, so, I'm quite curious if this is the case here.
Those are easilly supported with VESA, ndiswrapper etc. etc.
It's when you want to have all the specialized features for your hardware, that your hardware manufactorer didn't provide the drivers/kernel modules for is when I see people generally start having problems. And some of those that do, don't keep it upto date as much as they should.
In this case, I see no real difference in hardware support from windows. Many people install the manufactorer's drivers or such on windows rather than using the generic drivers to handle it (Although windows does actually lack a lot more in generic driver support, so in some cases it's a absolute must). If your manufactorer doesn't provide drivers/kernel modules for your OS to support the hardware, don't assume that's because it just works on the platform.
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If they did that, Mozilla's theme page would be empty.
If only MS would optimize windows's shutdown crap. Shutting down a domain controller takes AGES.
Wern't there old windows NT 3.9 versions that could run on PPC systems?
Vmware, virtualpc would still have the same issue as they do on other systems... It won't handle games well (simply slow, or emulating really old graphic cards). Dual booting windows for this pupose is a good idea.
Hm, Windows running on Apple hardware, that's not a bad idea.
Reminds me of the fact you can disable such features in real player, yet people cry about real player still (once it's been disabled in the preferences, it does not submit that information).
I've got windows xp sp2 running on a Pentium 266 Mhz laptop system with 96MB of RAM with a 801.11G PCMCIA networkcard.
I have Firefox, thunderbird, GAIM and VLC running on it, it seems to work fine.
Note: That I did tweak the OS a little, like disabling the theming system, removing various components, disabling shadow effects that I can't stand.
Or they'll just play it on VLC.
The interesting thing is... Microsoft has found their 'activation' for windows extremely helpful in piracy... Perhaps the best means to prevent piracy is making it hell for most people who use the pirated software.
Evidence that such things have happened in the past with software companies?
I remember one of the main selling points for getting a playstation in Poland originally, was the fact, you could pirate games on it for the cost of the CD. Which caused a wide addoptions of the Playstation here.
Piracy often leads to ups and downs it seems.
> Charge a fair price for stable software with good tech support and consistent upgrades and patches. Users pay for the support now and in the future. They pay for the official version to protect against viruses and spyware.
Most users will not do support, many users will ask co workers/friends and NEVER ask support. I can also garentee you that if one grabs a cracked pirate copy of half life 2. It will not contain spyware/adware such as "Steam" in it.
When was the last time anyone you knew, who had a valid copy of Microsoft Office, ever called up Microsoft tech support for help with *any* issue they had related to the suite? I still have yet to see that in my lifetime.
I like how you get estimation bars like 30 minutes etc. with valve games. Especially when starting a single player game.. Even though you just wanted to play the game on your break or something.
I just got a fortune cookie, it said, "Google's stock will raise ever higher".
Refering to the domain name.
Mozilla, FireFox and Thunderbird do now.
Strangely enough, I noticed most of the time when I needed to restart XP, was not because of some OS critical vulnerability but because of a internet explorer update...
I tend to install my patches one by one.
When was the last time you downloaded a file from a DNS server? :)
I have been known to put up files in text records in MIME format, to 'lookup' later in restrictive networks
Because stereotypes always apply, no matter what.
Exactly, now please let us not have internet explorer installed by default.
I recall a event when there was a security issue with a major OSX related exploit, which affected all OSX versions. Apple had to "consider" (there were a few slashdot articles on it) patching various OSX versions and such, and then after doing it, told us that they may not do anything like this in the future if it happens again. It took about two weeks if I recall correctly for the decision to be made...
While technically it may be faster to 'solve', it doesn't appear that way with the beaucracy.
Or just run it under a limited user.
You might want to take a look at MacOSX, some consider it being somewhat the best of both windows and *nix operating systems.
(The large amount of hardware support availible of MacOSX and the ability of the POSIX-like enviroments).
If you're having issues, spending days and such.. Are you sure you had the propper training for using Linux?
I mean for example with SuSE Linux, theres the CLP and the CLE certifications...
I tend to often hear all these issues from people who have gone without training or have had training long ago in a quite different system, so, I'm quite curious if this is the case here.
Generic hardware isn't the issue.
Those are easilly supported with VESA, ndiswrapper etc. etc.
It's when you want to have all the specialized features for your hardware, that your hardware manufactorer didn't provide the drivers/kernel modules for is when I see people generally start having problems. And some of those that do, don't keep it upto date as much as they should.
In this case, I see no real difference in hardware support from windows. Many people install the manufactorer's drivers or such on windows rather than using the generic drivers to handle it (Although windows does actually lack a lot more in generic driver support, so in some cases it's a absolute must). If your manufactorer doesn't provide drivers/kernel modules for your OS to support the hardware, don't assume that's because it just works on the platform.