I think most people who use a Mac now have enough sense not to switch back bcs IE for Mac, the most natoriously buggy any web developer had to ever deal w/, doesn't work on a couple of sites. Between Safari and FF for Mac, you should have every base covered w/ the exception of some pages refusing to load bcs of Javascript browser detects or a propietary ActiveX system. Though isn't MS killing ActiveX too?
Banks just want to cover their asses and insist you only use the browser they "support" or your on your own. But really, most browsers work just fine at most requiring a agent type work around.
I for one am glad I have a good excuse too not have to fix IE Mac bugs anymore guilt free.
But if the swap partition and system partition are on the same logical disk you still run the chance of accidently overwriting the wrong partition space.
Here at Buffalo we have our own distribution of Linux (RH based) that our CIT dept. gives out. Many proffessors use it in the class room for CS. Our large servers are Solaris but we do have a ~75 computer public Linux Lab.
Though when I asked to help on the distro I was pretty much shunned.
I hear this arguement a lot, but remember that when you run a game your not running just one linear process.
You have th OS, it's services, i/o devices interupting etc...
That's fuzzy math.
He has to buy the modem either way so it's more like...
$0 OS + $4 modem + $6 driver (for $0 os) = $10
but seriously, if you're donating them to kids how many wanna really be stuck w/ linux? No snood, aim, kazaa and whatever else they want from download.com or where ever e-kids hang out these days. I know theirs free alternates but do they? Will these kids wanna spend 4 years learning how to use it all properly and not get r00ted in the mean time?
If look at a LED display and shake my head or jump up and down, the numbers don't move but everything around them does. When bright LED's vibrate like behind my dashboard on a bumpy road or like you said someones tail lights it gets very irritating.
There are signs all through out my campus reminding us, "Ignorance of campus policy is no excuse for breaking them". I believe then this should go the other way. Ignorance (or lack of caring to read a 10 page quickstart guide) that you're giving away free access shouldn't warrant sympathy from others.
Hard? No. Legal? No, atleast in the great state of New York and the surrounding New Jersey that I know of so far. There's others right?
Please tell me we're not the only ones w/ bicycle helmet legislation.
Maybe they should just tax people for having no sense of humor. You know that was a joke right? Or it'll cost ya.
Also, seeing as public tranpertation is funded by the state, why would it tax itself?
According to the article, this is also susposed to support hardware nativly. Firewire and USB support is non-existant in PearPC. Ethernet works w/ some hacks. And video drivers are emulated using SDL (depending on the build really). Plus speeds are definantly not 80% of a G4. Altivec builds have just been introduced into the PearPC tree. Don't get me wrong, PearPC is totally awsome but not really usuable for anything but toying. If they are in fact able to get 80% out of a PC, it could be promising. I doubt til i see it but...
I do tech support for an ISP, we don't officially support removing spyware but this is a sure fire way to get the net running again. The dreaded 98/ME that's another story requiring a full TCP/IP&Winsock reinstall. We charge for that great service.
BTW: Winsockxpfix.exe works very well on XP systems too, that's the first thing i d/l from inside safe mode or sometimes if email works but not ie, well you see the picture.
Nice idea for a game utopia, but the boot cd still needs an OS (this case linux) and still needs drivers. Plus there would be a little more overhead actually bcs you have to load all files off of a cd which would be slower then a harddrive.
This is only a convenience to be able to play quake on any pc w/ a bootable cd bios.
Funny that you say that, cracks.am was the last site I was on. But the spyware was definantly not there before. It was pretty obvious bcs the installer started up as a minimized window and a couple of new icons just popped up on the desktop. It doesn't really matter how it got in though, it just shows that we're all vulnerable. Luckily I spotted it in about 5 seconds and since removed it all.
I consider spyware and adware publishers to vandalists. I work at the help desk at my local ISP and I spend more time explaining to people what spyware is and why we can't fix their computers for them then anything else. Sure many times you have to click shady license agreements, but I myself have personally seen how easy it is to be bombarded with illegitimate software. I run spybot and Adaware often and use the immunization features and usually only browse with Firefox yet last week I still got "infected" with 5 different spyware apps simultaneously. They killed my Winsock stack. Luckily I know how to repair XP with my eyes closed but to 99% of the users out there this would send them running to a computer repair shop with their wallets open. Unfortunately, most users are ignorant that spyware even exists and blame their manufacture or worse, their ISP, for their computer slowing to a crawl. They don't understand that a microchip doesn't deteriorate with age, but the software running on it sure can. It's pretty sad when I have to tell a 90 year old woman trying to get her grandkids emails that she has to find someone else to fix her PC for her because she downloaded software to make her IE have pretty skins. Advertising is one thing if you agree to it as a means to keep consumer costs down, but when those ads corrupt a computer to useless that's not very cost effective. My company is thinking about charging to support spyware repairs but you don't want to even know how much that'll cost granny. For now I guess it's just sorry, but we can't support that. (We're not really mean about it, we often spend many hours in Regedit or MSConfig but there's only so much you can tell a novice over the phone plus time is money. We have real network issues to fix first.)
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I think most people who use a Mac now have enough sense not to switch back bcs IE for Mac, the most natoriously buggy any web developer had to ever deal w/, doesn't work on a couple of sites. Between Safari and FF for Mac, you should have every base covered w/ the exception of some pages refusing to load bcs of Javascript browser detects or a propietary ActiveX system. Though isn't MS killing ActiveX too? Banks just want to cover their asses and insist you only use the browser they "support" or your on your own. But really, most browsers work just fine at most requiring a agent type work around. I for one am glad I have a good excuse too not have to fix IE Mac bugs anymore guilt free.
Most "religious" people i know seem to be more just a part of a club though any way.
But if the swap partition and system partition are on the same logical disk you still run the chance of accidently overwriting the wrong partition space.
Replying to a troll, but seriously. If you think SSE2 has anything to do w/ raw number crunching performance then you're posting to the wrong thread.
Here at Buffalo we have our own distribution of Linux (RH based) that our CIT dept. gives out. Many proffessors use it in the class room for CS. Our large servers are Solaris but we do have a ~75 computer public Linux Lab.
Though when I asked to help on the distro I was pretty much shunned.
I hear this arguement a lot, but remember that when you run a game your not running just one linear process.
You have th OS, it's services, i/o devices interupting etc...
That's fuzzy math.
He has to buy the modem either way so it's more like...
$0 OS + $4 modem + $6 driver (for $0 os) = $10
but seriously, if you're donating them to kids how many wanna really be stuck w/ linux? No snood, aim, kazaa and whatever else they want from download.com or where ever e-kids hang out these days. I know theirs free alternates but do they? Will these kids wanna spend 4 years learning how to use it all properly and not get r00ted in the mean time?
... on the May 12th. I'll turn 21, round of drinks for every one. Do Slashdotters party?
If look at a LED display and shake my head or jump up and down, the numbers don't move but everything around them does. When bright LED's vibrate like behind my dashboard on a bumpy road or like you said someones tail lights it gets very irritating.
There are signs all through out my campus reminding us, "Ignorance of campus policy is no excuse for breaking them". I believe then this should go the other way. Ignorance (or lack of caring to read a 10 page quickstart guide) that you're giving away free access shouldn't warrant sympathy from others.
Hard? No. Legal? No, atleast in the great state of New York and the surrounding New Jersey that I know of so far. There's others right? Please tell me we're not the only ones w/ bicycle helmet legislation.
Maybe they should just tax people for having no sense of humor. You know that was a joke right? Or it'll cost ya. Also, seeing as public tranpertation is funded by the state, why would it tax itself?
...can be found here http://www.vx30.com/documents/CherryOS.pdf Looks like the developer wrote this by hand.
According to the article, this is also susposed to support hardware nativly. Firewire and USB support is non-existant in PearPC. Ethernet works w/ some hacks. And video drivers are emulated using SDL (depending on the build really). Plus speeds are definantly not 80% of a G4. Altivec builds have just been introduced into the PearPC tree. Don't get me wrong, PearPC is totally awsome but not really usuable for anything but toying. If they are in fact able to get 80% out of a PC, it could be promising. I doubt til i see it but...
http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=54 If you run linux on that G5 imac.
I do tech support for an ISP, we don't officially support removing spyware but this is a sure fire way to get the net running again. The dreaded 98/ME that's another story requiring a full TCP/IP&Winsock reinstall. We charge for that great service. BTW: Winsockxpfix.exe works very well on XP systems too, that's the first thing i d/l from inside safe mode or sometimes if email works but not ie, well you see the picture.
Possibly that profit is after R&D costs? Unless you have a copy of their financial statment that number is useless.
a patent for passing stupid patents. That'll show em.
Nice idea for a game utopia, but the boot cd still needs an OS (this case linux) and still needs drivers. Plus there would be a little more overhead actually bcs you have to load all files off of a cd which would be slower then a harddrive. This is only a convenience to be able to play quake on any pc w/ a bootable cd bios.
If you're ever gonna be forced to use a GUI, at least it's one as pretty as Aqua. I wanna Mac now :(
Well I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
When they ask me if I know any good techs I drop them the cell number of some one I know... Hey, I'm trying to pay for a CE degree.
Funny that you say that, cracks.am was the last site I was on. But the spyware was definantly not there before. It was pretty obvious bcs the installer started up as a minimized window and a couple of new icons just popped up on the desktop. It doesn't really matter how it got in though, it just shows that we're all vulnerable. Luckily I spotted it in about 5 seconds and since removed it all.
I consider spyware and adware publishers to vandalists. I work at the help desk at my local ISP and I spend more time explaining to people what spyware is and why we can't fix their computers for them then anything else. Sure many times you have to click shady license agreements, but I myself have personally seen how easy it is to be bombarded with illegitimate software. I run spybot and Adaware often and use the immunization features and usually only browse with Firefox yet last week I still got "infected" with 5 different spyware apps simultaneously. They killed my Winsock stack. Luckily I know how to repair XP with my eyes closed but to 99% of the users out there this would send them running to a computer repair shop with their wallets open. Unfortunately, most users are ignorant that spyware even exists and blame their manufacture or worse, their ISP, for their computer slowing to a crawl. They don't understand that a microchip doesn't deteriorate with age, but the software running on it sure can. It's pretty sad when I have to tell a 90 year old woman trying to get her grandkids emails that she has to find someone else to fix her PC for her because she downloaded software to make her IE have pretty skins. Advertising is one thing if you agree to it as a means to keep consumer costs down, but when those ads corrupt a computer to useless that's not very cost effective. My company is thinking about charging to support spyware repairs but you don't want to even know how much that'll cost granny. For now I guess it's just sorry, but we can't support that. (We're not really mean about it, we often spend many hours in Regedit or MSConfig but there's only so much you can tell a novice over the phone plus time is money. We have real network issues to fix first.)
...when you can get a fast single layer one for cheap right now. Then when dual layer comes out just sell it.