well, compared to
*click*
*click*
*go away and make a cup of tea while an entirely preconfigured package installs itself*
quite a lot is wrong with fiddly commandline crap. Not a troll, not even a Windows-only user, just someone who is fed up of zealots who want to keep us in the dark ages of blinking text prompts and teletype screens
You may be aware of this already, but try FreeSBIE
It's a FreeBSD Unix LiveCD with a desktop environment (XFCE I think). It doesn't work properly on my nForce2 PC (no network and consequently no internet) but it certainly works.
I doubt there's much money to be made in selling Operating Systems. As I understand it, Microsoft's bottom line is largely generated by their consumer and professional software, not their OS. Redhat's profits come from support contracts.
I can't see Solaris OS being majorly profitable for Sun either - they sell hardware too and if an open-source Solaris led to more end-user interest in their hardware it's easy to see it leading to an increase in revenue for Sun.
Even if it didn't, more Unix code in the wild would mean better performance for all OSS operating systems, once the predictable legal/licensing issues had been sorted out, (preferably by the assassination of Mr D.McBride and all his staff).
I can't see a GPL'd Solaris being harmful to Sun. They probably couldn't re-licence enough of the code to make competing distributions appear anyway.
I'm the helpdesk for a medium-sized enterprise and I look after the MIMEsweeper and Exchange boxes
Since about 3 months ago we have been receiving an infected email approximately every other second, mainly during office hours
It's mainly Netsky, or similar and the balance of versions is leaning heavily toward the new 69 and 70kb versions, meaning a lot of people are getting "upgraded" to the latest release. The timing suggests it's mainly office PCs
We're frantically telling all our group companies and contractors to virus-check, and calling-in our laptops, but it is still flooding in.
I'm starting to make a case for using Linux on every PC that doesn't require a Win32 application, as all the usual hassles of managing a linux roll-out pale into insignificance compared to the virus danger our systems are currently under.
I think you'll find that the sex industry was at the head of every single communications technology breakthrough - lithography, daguerrotype, magic lantern, cinematography, telephony, internet, video-phone and more...
They are the ultimate early adopter
In 1990 I wrote software for realtime encoding and decoding of morse code using Amstrad CPC464 microcomputers, and hardware for connecting them (audio port to joystick port)
Describing this 10 years later to a British computer mag gave me letter-of-the-month status, winning myself a Taxan 19-inch monitor
At the time iTunes for Windows was launched, I went to the suggestions page at apple.com and suggested a WMA importer for iTunes, and suggested on/. that others do the same, as a malrge number of users have ripped all their music to WMA and therefore couldn't play it in iTunes.
I am glad Apple were listening - it's really pleasing to see a major company release a tool which will reduce the number of Windows Media files in existence in the world.
I'd imagine, being a services-based app, it wouldn't be easy to make it run under Wine. Good luck though. (I think Quicktime runs under Crossover plugin so there's a chance)
Heh, I was just looking for that link on BBC
Interestingly, all UK Public libraries are meant to have internet access but it doesn't seem to be halting the slide.
The legend of the Ark is not solely a Christian tradition! Refer to Surah 11 of the Qu'ran
011.040 (Thus it was) till, when Our commandment came to pass and the oven gushed forth water, We said: Load therein two of every kind, a pair (the male and female), and thy household, save him against whom the word hath gone forth already, and those who believe. And but a few were they who believed with him.
011.041 And he said: Embark therein! In the name of Allah be its course and its mooring. Lo! my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful.
011.042 And it sailed with them amid waves like mountains, and Noah cried unto his son - and he was standing aloof - O my son! Come ride with us, and be not with the disbelievers.
011.043 He said: I shall betake me to some mountain that will save me from the water. (Noah) said: This day there is none that saveth from the commandment of Allah save him on whom He hath had mercy. And the wave came in between them, so he was among the drowned.
011.044 And it was said: O earth! Swallow thy water and, O sky! be cleared of clouds! And the water was made to subside. And the commandment was fulfilled. And it (the ship) came to rest upon (the mount) Al-Judi and it was said: A far removal for wrongdoing folk!
IRC may be ugly, but like Windows, it's here because everybody uses it.
Its massively cross-platform-available and easy to integrate into messaging apps.. That's worth a lot more than the costs incurred by its kludged technology
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Speaking as a Brit I'd happily give up TiVo in favour of iTMS.
It seems most TiVo services are pretty restricted in what they'll do and likely only to get more so as advert-skipping is widely suppressed already....
If I won't let me upload files to my PC, what's the point? might as well just use KaZaAlite for free.
MSI installation on windows is a huge step up from the old setup.exe situation, but it isn't that often used.
I guess you're thinking in terms of home software and games then. The PCs I set up for our office network have very few apps that aren't MSI-based... AV, Office, accounting software, image editor, PCAnywhere all use the Windows Installer.
The only real problem with MSI is when a PC crashes during an install and after reboot you can't use the installer because it believes it's already doing an installation. Not a common problem but I've seen it happen.
is there any Free software capable of exploiting the general computing power of modern video cards?
I expect that once it suddenly becomes clear that the GPU in a modern video card has serious processing power, that someone will release a version of the SETI@Home client which can use the rendering engine as a processor.
Bearing in mind that most computers use their GPU's for a very small percentage of their logged-in life, I suspect there is real potential for using it for analysing on distributed computing projects.
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well, compared to *click* *click* *go away and make a cup of tea while an entirely preconfigured package installs itself*
quite a lot is wrong with fiddly commandline crap.
Not a troll, not even a Windows-only user, just someone who is fed up of zealots who want to keep us in the dark ages of blinking text prompts and teletype screens
"1. Sun would have to replace all of the UNIX code. They can't put that under the GPL, period (unless SCO and Novell agree it's ok ;-)"
Novell being a big Linux vendor now (SuSE), they have some motivation to allow Solaris to be opensourced, after all Linux would immediately benefit.
You may be aware of this already, but try FreeSBIE
It's a FreeBSD Unix LiveCD with a desktop environment (XFCE I think). It doesn't work properly on my nForce2 PC (no network and consequently no internet) but it certainly works.
I doubt there's much money to be made in selling Operating Systems. As I understand it, Microsoft's bottom line is largely generated by their consumer and professional software, not their OS. Redhat's profits come from support contracts.
I can't see Solaris OS being majorly profitable for Sun either - they sell hardware too and if an open-source Solaris led to more end-user interest in their hardware it's easy to see it leading to an increase in revenue for Sun.
Even if it didn't, more Unix code in the wild would mean better performance for all OSS operating systems, once the predictable legal/licensing issues had been sorted out, (preferably by the assassination of Mr D.McBride and all his staff).
I can't see a GPL'd Solaris being harmful to Sun. They probably couldn't re-licence enough of the code to make competing distributions appear anyway.
I'm the helpdesk for a medium-sized enterprise and I look after the MIMEsweeper and Exchange boxes
Since about 3 months ago we have been receiving an infected email approximately every other second, mainly during office hours
It's mainly Netsky, or similar and the balance of versions is leaning heavily toward the new 69 and 70kb versions, meaning a lot of people are getting "upgraded" to the latest release. The timing suggests it's mainly office PCs
We're frantically telling all our group companies and contractors to virus-check, and calling-in our laptops, but it is still flooding in.
I'm starting to make a case for using Linux on every PC that doesn't require a Win32 application, as all the usual hassles of managing a linux roll-out pale into insignificance compared to the virus danger our systems are currently under.
I think you'll find that the sex industry was at the head of every single communications technology breakthrough - lithography, daguerrotype, magic lantern, cinematography, telephony, internet, video-phone and more...
They are the ultimate early adopter
In 1990 I wrote software for realtime encoding and decoding of morse code using Amstrad CPC464 microcomputers, and hardware for connecting them (audio port to joystick port)
Describing this 10 years later to a British computer mag gave me letter-of-the-month status, winning myself a Taxan 19-inch monitor
So, thanks.
At the time iTunes for Windows was launched, I went to the suggestions page at apple.com and suggested a WMA importer for iTunes, and suggested on /. that others do the same, as a malrge number of users have ripped all their music to WMA and therefore couldn't play it in iTunes.
I am glad Apple were listening - it's really pleasing to see a major company release a tool which will reduce the number of Windows Media files in existence in the world.
I'd imagine, being a services-based app, it wouldn't be easy to make it run under Wine. Good luck though. (I think Quicktime runs under Crossover plugin so there's a chance)
Some regular poster on /. - I forget who - has a link in their sig to a new Geolocation project, which can be found at Hostip.info
Might be of interest if the authors of NETI or similar projects are reading this.
Heh, I was just looking for that link on BBC
Interestingly, all UK Public libraries are meant to have internet access but it doesn't seem to be halting the slide.
In the Qu'ran, Surah 11, it is stated that Noah's Ark made landfall on Mount al-Judi in the Mountains of Ararat.
I made a longer post on this earlier, but here's the link to the text, in English Islam.tc
For the record, al-Judi is a peak in the Ararat Range, in the present-day republic of Turkey. It is not Mount Ararat.
The legend of the Ark is not solely a Christian tradition! Refer to Surah 11 of the Qu'ran
011.040 (Thus it was) till, when Our commandment came to pass and the oven gushed forth water, We said: Load therein two of every kind, a pair (the male and female), and thy household, save him against whom the word hath gone forth already, and those who believe. And but a few were they who believed with him.
011.041 And he said: Embark therein! In the name of Allah be its course and its mooring. Lo! my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful.
011.042 And it sailed with them amid waves like mountains, and Noah cried unto his son - and he was standing aloof - O my son! Come ride with us, and be not with the disbelievers.
011.043 He said: I shall betake me to some mountain that will save me from the water. (Noah) said: This day there is none that saveth from the commandment of Allah save him on whom He hath had mercy. And the wave came in between them, so he was among the drowned.
011.044 And it was said: O earth! Swallow thy water and, O sky! be cleared of clouds! And the water was made to subside. And the commandment was fulfilled. And it (the ship) came to rest upon (the mount) Al-Judi and it was said: A far removal for wrongdoing folk!
Link for further reading: Surah 11 at Islam.tc
I'm working on underclocking my ..err.. clock, so I can get more time into a day.
On my office server I blocked the entire Spanish (.es) TLD a very long time ago....
Ridiculous amounts of spam, wasn't worth trying to fiter out the worthwhile stuff.
There's some sort of karma in the fact that you downloaded that cartoon to make the point...
IRC may be ugly, but like Windows, it's here because everybody uses it.
Its massively cross-platform-available and easy to integrate into messaging apps.. That's worth a lot more than the costs incurred by its kludged technology
Speaking as a Brit I'd happily give up TiVo in favour of iTMS.
It seems most TiVo services are pretty restricted in what they'll do and likely only to get more so as advert-skipping is widely suppressed already....
If I won't let me upload files to my PC, what's the point? might as well just use KaZaAlite for free.
It's my experience as a geek that technology will not lead you to pussy
Refer to my sig to see an example of coping mechanisms in action.
Unless I've changed it since
Orca - you culd have a whale of a time making killer jokes about that
oh.. wait...
MSI installation on windows is a huge step up from the old setup.exe situation, but it isn't that often used.
I guess you're thinking in terms of home software and games then. The PCs I set up for our office network have very few apps that aren't MSI-based... AV, Office, accounting software, image editor, PCAnywhere all use the Windows Installer.
The only real problem with MSI is when a PC crashes during an install and after reboot you can't use the installer because it believes it's already doing an installation. Not a common problem but I've seen it happen.
is there any Free software capable of exploiting the general computing power of modern video cards?
I expect that once it suddenly becomes clear that the GPU in a modern video card has serious processing power, that someone will release a version of the SETI@Home client which can use the rendering engine as a processor. Bearing in mind that most computers use their GPU's for a very small percentage of their logged-in life, I suspect there is real potential for using it for analysing on distributed computing projects.
to tomreagan
Google the name of the guy you just called insane - then come back and apologise.... (yes, it is him...)