I haven't seen Itunes preventing people from burning the content onto CDs however, and iTunes is designed for the iPod, that is quite clear, not for mp3 players.
And I agree with your comment on Microsoft and Apple.
The other problem is that when someone point a flaw, they claim the flaw to be in the name of Linux. Linux enthusiasts like to point out that it isn't Linux (The kernel, which is what all Linux is), but rather a 3rd party application written for Linux. Also a lot of people confuse open-source with Linux which makes these cases worse.
So, heres a interesting question:
Did the Yankee Group claim Linux is something that it is... not?
> Installing Windows is a NIGHTMARE. The vaunted "good default settings" on a modern machine consist of 640x480 graphics, no network or sound card drivers installed, and absolutely zero applications.
Hmm, I do believe that if the hardware was one supported by windows it would use 800x600 (and 800x600 for the VGA support addapter if it didn't), network support yes, if there are drivers for it, sound, yes if there are drivers for it, zero application, well, I'd rather state that Microsoft put too many applications in windows:
- Internet Explorer - Windows Moviemaker - Media Player
And there are others, but not worth mentioning, as they aren't exactly forcing you to have those.
The situation your having is that windows just doesn't have the drivers to support your hardware, in which case you can easilly integrate it with your setup cd using methods from: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?s cid=kb; en-us;314479 and http://unattended.msfn.org/
And to be honest, I haven't seen the simplicity in doing something like that with for example Mandrake or Fedora.
I'm not a Microsoft advocate, and I'm not a Linux advocate, I use them and this is just something I've observed.
And if you really feel you need to make a system that contains drivers etc. It's done easilly, just install your apps etc. then run the free software from microsoft for preparing the os installation for redistribution, don't forget to install your drivers.
Although personally speaking, I don't like grabbing all this stuff, although I do slipstream all the updates into my windows CDs, I still rather get the latest drivers after installing the OS from the manufactorers.
As for software, while at a time I did have openoffice, firefox etc. part of windows image, I found it a pain as the software went quicky out of date.
If windows needs anything, I'd say it needs a nice package manager that allows anyone to create a repository for and allow any user to add repository URLs to it.
Now Mandrake 10x, while I did like it, I do recall still having mess with the graphic card settings (from a standard ATI Raedeon by the way), and having to download larger updates for it than I did for Windows.
I don't think either is fool proof, but windows certainly doesn't have to be as hard as you make it seem.
Pretty much, you're starting up the entire office suite. Now, if you're not using swap memory (paging files), openoffice is pretty fast to open after that. However most people have around 128MB ram, which seems to be extremely unefficient for these kind of things.
"In Microsoft's world customers are confidant that we take responsibility. They know that they will get their upgrades and patches."
They also no it's not fixed in a day, like it is in the opensource community, it's sometimes fixed after months and months of waiting
"There a myth in the market that there are hundreds of thousands of people writing code for the Linux kernel. This is not the case; the number is hundreds, not thousands,"
don't play with words, people say "linux" as in various distributions of linux, not specifically the kernel.
"There are very few of the improvements that come through the wider community. There are more skilled developers writing for the Microsoft platform than for open source."
I wounder how they made this demographic.
"A lot of the percentage growth figures mask the fact that Linux is coming from a very small base. There are more Unix servers than Linux servers in the UK. There are more Windows servers than Linux servers in the UK."
what the hell, there are huge data centers of linux servers which have more computers than the entire of london, and the "a lot" of percentage growth figures come from stuff that Microsoft has sponsored and possibly rigged?
"Most customers look for more than just a product from their vendors. They need a solution that comes with the appropriate levels of support and service. This is where Linux is becoming more challenged as people expect more from Linux."
All buisness linux distributions provide better support for their products and integration with 3rd party products hell of alot better than microsoft's support does.
"Linux is not ready for mission-critical computing. There are fundamental things missing. For example, there is no single development environment for Linux as there is for Microsoft, neither is there a single sign-on system."
Linux is used in mission critical computing in routers, broadcasting, millitary etc.. and there is one standardised development system for linux called LSB (linux standard base). As for windows.. Where is it and what is called?.NET? The thing microsoft keeps promoting their pants off at? The base that requires you to download some stupid runtime, where using 1.0 versions of software on the 1.1 runtime will cause calculation errors because it adds decimals suddenly to calculations when the program was never written to handle that etc.. ?
I ran it.. grabs just a bunch of filetypes and a few filenames for p2p.. I tested it by making a empty 0byte file called kazaa.exe it screamed "SPYWARE" at me.
After when attempting to close it, I got this popup dialog:
[Warning] [x]
You are now exiting the program completely
[OK]
I imagine it expects parents to keep the program on at all the times and stare at the results.
Open office is not a word proccessor, it's a office suite.
If you don't use the other stuff, don't install it, the entire package will startup faster, because the only thing in the package then is the word proccessor.
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You can basically do the same on windows so I don't see the issue.
Sales for who? The company or the spammers?
I haven't seen Itunes preventing people from burning the content onto CDs however, and iTunes is designed for the iPod, that is quite clear, not for mp3 players.
And I agree with your comment on Microsoft and Apple.
The other problem is that when someone point a flaw, they claim the flaw to be in the name of Linux. Linux enthusiasts like to point out that it isn't Linux (The kernel, which is what all Linux is), but rather a 3rd party application written for Linux. Also a lot of people confuse open-source with Linux which makes these cases worse. So, heres a interesting question: Did the Yankee Group claim Linux is something that it is... not?
> Installing Windows is a NIGHTMARE. The vaunted "good default settings" on a modern machine consist of 640x480 graphics, no network or sound card drivers installed, and absolutely zero applications.
s cid=kb; en-us;314479
Hmm, I do believe that if the hardware was one supported by windows it would use 800x600 (and 800x600 for the VGA support addapter if it didn't), network support yes, if there are drivers for it, sound, yes if there are drivers for it, zero application, well, I'd rather state that Microsoft put too many applications in windows:
- Internet Explorer
- Windows Moviemaker
- Media Player
And there are others, but not worth mentioning, as they aren't exactly forcing you to have those.
The situation your having is that windows just doesn't have the drivers to support your hardware, in which case you can easilly integrate it with your setup cd using methods from:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
and
http://unattended.msfn.org/
And to be honest, I haven't seen the simplicity in doing something like that with for example Mandrake or Fedora.
I'm not a Microsoft advocate, and I'm not a Linux advocate, I use them and this is just something I've observed.
You need to learn how to slipstream the fixes.
And if you really feel you need to make a system that contains drivers etc. It's done easilly, just install your apps etc. then run the free software from microsoft for preparing the os installation for redistribution, don't forget to install your drivers.
Although personally speaking, I don't like grabbing all this stuff, although I do slipstream all the updates into my windows CDs, I still rather get the latest drivers after installing the OS from the manufactorers.
As for software, while at a time I did have openoffice, firefox etc. part of windows image, I found it a pain as the software went quicky out of date.
If windows needs anything, I'd say it needs a nice package manager that allows anyone to create a repository for and allow any user to add repository URLs to it.
Now Mandrake 10x, while I did like it, I do recall still having mess with the graphic card settings (from a standard ATI Raedeon by the way), and having to download larger updates for it than I did for Windows.
I don't think either is fool proof, but windows certainly doesn't have to be as hard as you make it seem.
According to Neon Genesis Evangelion you have 6 minutes at most without the power cord.
Answer: 1) Burn to cd 2) Use Itunes to copy the songs off the CD and shove it into the ipod 3) ??? 4) Profit!
I make mine for minidisks ;)
There is interoperability, the iPod supports mp3s, so just serve the music in mp3 format. ;)
I don't see why they can't add who they want when they want, they own their service.
If they're really that unreliable, people won't use it.
Remember, MAPS is a optional system, you don't have to use it.
If enough people complain to the system administrators of those servers that they can't get their e-mail through, they'll do something about it.
Well, I personally found that RBLs work great for me.
I have one e-mail account that used to get litterally around a few hundred e-mails a day of spam, since I've been using RBLs, it's one or two.
And only ONCE has someone complained they couldn't contact me.
justin12345 I'd like to hear a current working solution that works just as well, because I haven't seen any.
Resistance is futile, you will be assimulated.
Can't say I've had the same expirences with machines that run at those speeds.
Right, firefox is not faster than IE...
I can give a example of where FireFox is faster than IE.
When you got a 2x2 gif pixel, with two pixels which are transparent set as a background for a table. My God IE is slow.
Any simple kind of simple effects you try todo with images for maximum compatability with all browsers causes IE to run horribly slow.
Imagine what would happen when you actually do complex effects.
Another example is just dealing with transparency effects in CSS etc... IE is hell for these things.
Why do you need car kits when you got bluetooth enabled devices availible for your car that more or less the exact same thing?
I prefer that to having some stupid car kit that becomes useless the day I replace the mobile.
Pretty much, you're starting up the entire office suite. Now, if you're not using swap memory (paging files), openoffice is pretty fast to open after that. However most people have around 128MB ram, which seems to be extremely unefficient for these kind of things.
Unfortunately, I don't see how this is a security risk.
All my users run under "limited" accounts, not administrator accounts, in other words...
Have no access to write such things in that part of the registry.
Much like linux's magical root, which can override all.
"In Microsoft's world customers are confidant that we take responsibility. They know that they will get their upgrades and patches."
.NET? The thing microsoft keeps promoting their pants off at? The base that requires you to download some stupid runtime, where using 1.0 versions of software on the 1.1 runtime will cause calculation errors because it adds decimals suddenly to calculations when the program was never written to handle that etc.. ?
They also no it's not fixed in a day, like it is in the opensource community, it's sometimes fixed after months and months of waiting
"There a myth in the market that there are hundreds of thousands of people writing code for the Linux kernel. This is not the case; the number is hundreds, not thousands,"
don't play with words, people say "linux" as in various distributions of linux, not specifically the kernel.
"There are very few of the improvements that come through the wider community. There are more skilled developers writing for the Microsoft platform than for open source."
I wounder how they made this demographic.
"A lot of the percentage growth figures mask the fact that Linux is coming from a very small base. There are more Unix servers than Linux servers in the UK. There are more Windows servers than Linux servers in the UK."
what the hell, there are huge data centers of linux servers which have more computers than the entire of london, and the "a lot" of percentage growth figures come from stuff that Microsoft has sponsored and possibly rigged?
"Most customers look for more than just a product from their vendors. They need a solution that comes with the appropriate levels of support and service. This is where Linux is becoming more challenged as people expect more from Linux."
All buisness linux distributions provide better support for their products and integration with 3rd party products hell of alot better than microsoft's support does.
"Linux is not ready for mission-critical computing. There are fundamental things missing. For example, there is no single development environment for Linux as there is for Microsoft, neither is there a single sign-on system."
Linux is used in mission critical computing in routers, broadcasting, millitary etc.. and there is one standardised development system for linux called LSB (linux standard base). As for windows.. Where is it and what is called?
Apple charges insane prices on their RAM, HDS, CD/DVD ram/roms/writers. Which is a really good reason why it would cost alot less.
Use linux.
Instead of isync, you use the linux kernel modules.
I ran it.. grabs just a bunch of filetypes and a few filenames for p2p.. I tested it by making a empty 0byte file called kazaa.exe it screamed "SPYWARE" at me.
After when attempting to close it, I got this popup dialog:
[Warning] [x]
You are now exiting the program completely
[OK]
I imagine it expects parents to keep the program on at all the times and stare at the results.
Uninstall all the other crap except openoffice write if you only use the word proccessor.
Open office is not a word proccessor, it's a office suite.
If you don't use the other stuff, don't install it, the entire package will startup faster, because the only thing in the package then is the word proccessor.