Get a plasma screen with a SCART port and no TV tuner. You can still watch your DVDs and pay no licence fee. Or how about getting a 21" monitor and playing them in your DVD-ROM?
I think most of us europeans have realised that your president is texan and therefore every new law under his term in office must be texan-style... Not neccissarily correct, but thats how some of my fellow europeans seem to think.
It wont stop you from playing music through the desktop speakers. Just unplug the speakers from the computer and plug them into the headphone jack on the ipod. Not difficult.
Red Hat and Suse Linux are free, in the sense that you can buy one copy or borrow a copy and make as many installs as you wish, I'm sure if you looked hard enough, you would be able to find the.iso images available for download somewhere. All of this 'copying' is perfectly fine and legal in the linux world.
And TCO? Take a government department with 1500 PC's. Suse linux: buy Suse 9.1 Proffessional for $89.95 and install on all PC's. Windows: Volume licencing for XP is around about $100 per unit. That makes $150000. Plus Windows Server licencing, MS Office licencing, etc. Of course you probably have to pay your Linux admin staff more than your Windows MSCE staff, but I doubt you would pay them an extra $10000 each (assuming 10-15 staff) more.
Could you image what would happen if all the code controlling military hardware was freely downloadable?
Any security flaw could turn into a terroist incident! If someone found a flaw in a missle guidance/control system for example, we could have missles attacking friendly targets even more often... But it would give the DoD someone to blame 'friendly fire' on...
Well they managed to get MacOS applications to run on a UNIX OS on A/UX back in the 680x0 days... Why couldn't they have managed that sort of thing with X?
Actually, 'High' blocks virtually all (in my experiance) spam, but does not require you to whitelist. 'Exclusive' filtering only allows emails from whitelisted addys through.
I thought CD drives did stream directly to the speakers... Whenever I have opened one of my PC's there is always a cable directly from the CD drive to the sound card, and pressing the 'play' button on the CD drive on these machines works even if nothing else does. ie even when the system doesnt even boot...
I do a similar thing on my Windows boxes, except I use Mozilla. But my main windows box is shared, it only takes one uneducated user to click 'yes' once and the machine will eventually be flooded.
I often have 'clear up sessions' on the computer where I run AdAware, update the virus scanner, check out anything suspicious, etc. Last time I did one was when my MOZILLA home page was hijacked.
Now I have a program called 'DNSKong' that blocks ads and spyware accociated sites system-wide, by being acting as a DNS proxy which simply returns that the site does not exist if it is on the block list. Havn't had a problem since I installed it, but I inevitably will, considering the stuff my brother installs. At least IE hijacks and the like have convinced him to use Mozilla...
Interesting... I use AntiVir on my windows system, and it has got rid of some items I would class as spyware (IE hijacks mostly) calling them 'trojans', which is exactly what they are, especially since they usually have an automatic internet 'update' mechanism for installing even more crap.
Ok, I have a dual boot Windows XP (Home) and Fedora Core 1.
1) Linux is *much* more stable. I can count the amount of times I have needed to cold reboot it on one hand. Windows BSODs quite often, usually when switching users. It can also get into a state where one program is using so many resources that Alt-Ctrl-Del takes *ages* to display the task manager.
2) Linux appears more secure, probably because there are no viruses, trojans, spyware, etc. Windows is forever being taken over by spyware/adware. I have to run web filtering software just to keep the machine running ok. Security through obscurity is still security...
3) What extra aggrivation? The only thing I have a major problem with is USB mass storage. On Linux, more work may be done to set things up, but on Windows I seem to spend all my time chasing Spyware/Adware/Viruses. Linux therefore requires far less maintanence, but maybe a bit more set-up. That's fine by me.
Performance: Linux beats Windows by miles, no exact benchmarks, but things feel far more responsive, which is what people really mean when they feel that their computer is slow.
Oh yes and you would get more that 3 times the speed out of it. Proccessor frequency is not the only thing involved in the speed of the computer. P4 will be faster that P3 at the same MHz, and I bet the P4 has more RAM and a faster hard disk, what about the video card?
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Get a plasma screen with a SCART port and no TV tuner. You can still watch your DVDs and pay no licence fee.
Or how about getting a 21" monitor and playing them in your DVD-ROM?
I think most of us europeans have realised that your president is texan and therefore every new law under his term in office must be texan-style... Not neccissarily correct, but thats how some of my fellow europeans seem to think.
It wont stop you from playing music through the desktop speakers. Just unplug the speakers from the computer and plug them into the headphone jack on the ipod. Not difficult.
Were these "independant" studies funded by Microsoft?
We all know that "independant" studies always agree with the entity that funds them...
FrontPage extensions for Linux/Apache are already available here.
and ASP for linux is available (in a limited form) here.
Red Hat and Suse Linux are free, in the sense that you can buy one copy or borrow a copy and make as many installs as you wish, I'm sure if you looked hard enough, you would be able to find the .iso images available for download somewhere. All of this 'copying' is perfectly fine and legal in the linux world.
And TCO? Take a government department with 1500 PC's. Suse linux: buy Suse 9.1 Proffessional for $89.95 and install on all PC's.
Windows: Volume licencing for XP is around about $100 per unit. That makes $150000. Plus Windows Server licencing, MS Office licencing, etc.
Of course you probably have to pay your Linux admin staff more than your Windows MSCE staff, but I doubt you would pay them an extra $10000 each (assuming 10-15 staff) more.
Could you image what would happen if all the code controlling military hardware was freely downloadable?
Any security flaw could turn into a terroist incident! If someone found a flaw in a missle guidance/control system for example, we could have missles attacking friendly targets even more often... But it would give the DoD someone to blame 'friendly fire' on...
Well, in my physics class we always use V. E is too abigous. It could easily mean (E)lectircal current or (E)lectrical resistance or (E)nergy...
No, it's a physics principle. Resistance (R) in ohms = Voltage (V) (volts) / Current (I) (Amps)
Is that identicle as in tentacle... sounds like a new apple computer accessory...
O great, so now I wont be able to print because my printer drivers only work for admin users. It's the only reason I use an admin account as it is...
I've seen one too, so I disabled .xpi installs. One checkbox, causes no problems. Unlike trying to secure IE without breaking websites...
Well they managed to get MacOS applications to run on a UNIX OS on A/UX back in the 680x0 days... Why couldn't they have managed that sort of thing with X?
Well, my household stopped using IE when some spyware bugger hosed it for non-administrator users...
Actually, 'High' blocks virtually all (in my experiance) spam, but does not require you to whitelist.
'Exclusive' filtering only allows emails from whitelisted addys through.
I thought CD drives did stream directly to the speakers...
Whenever I have opened one of my PC's there is always a cable directly from the CD drive to the sound card, and pressing the 'play' button on the CD drive on these machines works even if nothing else does.
ie even when the system doesnt even boot...
I think that was the parent's point...
I do a similar thing on my Windows boxes, except I use Mozilla. But my main windows box is shared, it only takes one uneducated user to click 'yes' once and the machine will eventually be flooded.
I often have 'clear up sessions' on the computer where I run AdAware, update the virus scanner, check out anything suspicious, etc. Last time I did one was when my MOZILLA home page was hijacked.
Now I have a program called 'DNSKong' that blocks ads and spyware accociated sites system-wide, by being acting as a DNS proxy which simply returns that the site does not exist if it is on the block list. Havn't had a problem since I installed it, but I inevitably will, considering the stuff my brother installs. At least IE hijacks and the like have convinced him to use Mozilla...
Interesting... I use AntiVir on my windows system, and it has got rid of some items I would class as spyware (IE hijacks mostly) calling them 'trojans', which is exactly what they are, especially since they usually have an automatic internet 'update' mechanism for installing even more crap.
Well seeing as you can already run a full Linux distro on the XBox, i assume FF will run...
Secure? With the RPC port open? Right...
I have an old (1994) pc that has that... I think it was known as the 'WinBIOS', because it looked like Windows, not because it had any MS code in it.
So what do your Windows programs require then? The only major thing I know that won't run on that is Office 2003...
Ok, I have a dual boot Windows XP (Home) and Fedora Core 1.
1) Linux is *much* more stable. I can count the amount of times I have needed to cold reboot it on one hand. Windows BSODs quite often, usually when switching users. It can also get into a state where one program is using so many resources that Alt-Ctrl-Del takes *ages* to display the task manager.
2) Linux appears more secure, probably because there are no viruses, trojans, spyware, etc. Windows is forever being taken over by spyware/adware. I have to run web filtering software just to keep the machine running ok. Security through obscurity is still security...
3) What extra aggrivation? The only thing I have a major problem with is USB mass storage. On Linux, more work may be done to set things up, but on Windows I seem to spend all my time chasing Spyware/Adware/Viruses. Linux therefore requires far less maintanence, but maybe a bit more set-up. That's fine by me.
Performance: Linux beats Windows by miles, no exact benchmarks, but things feel far more responsive, which is what people really mean when they feel that their computer is slow.
Oh yes and you would get more that 3 times the speed out of it. Proccessor frequency is not the only thing involved in the speed of the computer. P4 will be faster that P3 at the same MHz, and I bet the P4 has more RAM and a faster hard disk, what about the video card?
My 1.4.1 works fine...
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