I only ask because quite often digg will link to a video on youtube and on you tube there is a count of how many people have played the video. Quite often this will be a number of around 2,500. certainly low 1000's seems common with a world wide audience shouldnt more people be looking at the video links from digg.
And the number of ads multiplies like mutated bird flu.
The most overused button on a browser these days is the back button as soon as most people realise they have fallen for yet another ad filled and information free page. I can live with some ads, but they are far too cheap if advertisers were forced to pay a little more then perhaps they would spend on effective advertising. maybe even on good product information. I choose hardware carefully now if it hasn't got good linux support I will look for something that has. its hard to see a difference between spam and ad laden pages that are designed to interfere with users searches.
I think it's kind of how I got into open source software over free software because 90% of the time it wasn't free just another crippleware program or something to serve ads.
I do not like this association, I understand it from reals point of view, most people who know, loath real these same people are fond of firefox and recomend it.
now those people we recommend firefox to will think real is good because we say firefox is good.
its shitty to do this, it's kinda like the people that you got to know through a friend and now keeps turning up although you wish they wouldn't.
yeah I know this post is kinda redundant but maybe the firefox devs will get the message this is an association which is good for real, all its done for mozilla is drag the mozilla foundations reputation down. mozilla is like an old friend who's just puked on my carpet. I will let it go once make it a habit and its bye bye time.
what makes this worse is there has been no discussion about this, surely there would have been a story posted on slashdot if this was being discussed on the mozilla forums. Someone would have leaked this if it wasn't being confined to a small group of people. who knew about this and did the deal. Did the lead developers know about this plan?
maybe slashdot should just do a poll and just let us show how many of us here approve or disapprove of this association.
how do you know its got an asbo? when your arrested for breaking no laws or perhaps when you commence your 6 month sentence or perhaps start to pay your £5000 fine.
If there was anything to be said for asbo's it was that they generally went to the truely deserving. now it is anyone and anywhere and it is too much.
And if you think thats bad just look where else its being reported and discussed. Gives you an idea who reads the Daily Mail thou...
* Web Server: Apache 2.0
* Database Server: MySQL 5.0
* Mail Server: Postfix
* DNS Server: BIND9
* FTP Server: proftpd
* POP3/IMAP: I will use Maildir format and therefore install Courier-POP3/Courier-IMAP.
* Webalizer for web site statistics
toshiba E740 probably E750 as well has a small clip on expansion pack which gives vga output and a usb port mainly i use the usb port to give me a serial port for my gps but it works ok for keyboards. I ought to try it for my 350 gb usb hd it would probably work too as a mass storage device.
"The President says he thinks that ECS research constitutes the taking of a human life ("murder"). If that's true then why doesn't he work to outlaw all ECS research ("murder"), instead of letting it happen with private funding? He's caught between his own rhetoric and a hard place."
This world of ours is seriously fucked up. ECS is murder, blowing up and shooting 'civilians' isn't quotes because its unacceptable to kill people full stop. I really have to question why do we put these psychopaths in power? why do we accept that political killing is acceptable by that I mean death by order of a politician thats fine, death by neglect of the vunerable in our society that is all accepted, lets cut a budget here so a pensioner freezes to death not a problem.
Is there a corollation between Political leaders and thier believe in God and the amount of deaths they cause? which countrys do not participate in regular bouts of political murder and manslaughter?
I am tempted to believe that the proffessed religious belief of our leaders is fraudulant. If it isn't then thats the only way they can sleep at night, Do they really believe that God absolves them from the slaughter of the innocent?
How many deaths could you live with being responsible for? 2 10 a 1000 only a psychopath would be capable of living with the responsibility of causing the deaths of 1000's of people.
I am being careful here not to differentiate between leaderships of different countrys because this is a world wide epidemic. somehow as a species we have evolved a system that condones and causes mass suffering and murder.
Whats it going to take to bring forth leaders that are not going to kill innocent people for political reasons.
I was talking with a nurse the other day and we were talking about dementia and I asked her what percentage of people will suffer from this condition and she reckoned around 80% of people who reach thier 70's and 80's. Does intelligence make a difference I asked, no she replied but most of them just do not realise they suffer from it.
If thats anywhere near accurate then chances are, if you live long enough, you will slowly decline into that state. Now if stem cells can repair the brain and stop that decline perhaps we should be supporting the research.
on the otherhand I have often wondered how people cope with thier upcoming death, how do you cope knowing that its almost certain you will be dead in the next 5 - 10 years. Perhaps dementia removes that burden from you.
I would be interested to hear from any citizen of any country where thier leaders are managing to avoid killing random innocent people. It would be nice to see if there is a society which doesn't see the taking of innocent lives as a necessity and doesn't use god as an excuse.
why elaborate marketing, surely everyone who downloads the beta is a potential customer, now microsoft can contact all these people and say
Thankyou for your important contribution to our beta test program. Your feedback has been invaluble to us. We would like to reward your contribution by offering you the chance to upgrade to the full release version for the low low price of....
This offer is only available to members of microsofts official beta test program.
it's not much different here either, except perhaps the ASBO or antisocial behaviour order. These didn't seem to bad as they were applied to individuals, well some were farcical asbo to stop someone with tourets swearing. asbo to stop someone going in thier garden in a bikini. perfect for every niggling little nieghbor dispute...
now whats the big deal, well for one it gives police the powers to arrest anyone within that area for anything - you do not need to break any law. If they think you might break a law at a later point its enough, more than enough to satisfy the conditions of the asbo order. To be honest there is no restriction on the police at all because legal illegal it doesn't matter, since enter the asbo controlled area and you could be fined £5000 or go to prison for 6 months. It all depends on the individual police officer.
saving britain for decent folk thats the excuse
now how more 1984 do you get than that, when there are no criminals you make them. what is even more alarming is that this is just not being reported. The skegness standard is not widely read even in skegness. This is a complete change in the rule of law and no one appears to give a damn everybody assumes it will not apply to them but they don't see that before the difference was they broke the law and you didnt. now that distinction doesn't apply.
"What? It's precisely because it can't be codified globally that it's pointless to do anything about it here. Do you honestly think that anyone outside the US is going to voluntarily conform to this law? Do you think anyone inside the US can't get around it by moving their content outside the US?"
David Carruthers (a scot probably a british citizen) was arrested in florida for breaking american laws. in costa rica and the uk he wasn't guilty of breaking these countrys laws.
looks like travelling through american territory can get you held and arrested.
Extradited gary mckinnon broke usa laws by 'hacking' us military computers. There are british laws against this sort of thing however I am not convinced that britain for example would not hand over anyone to the american legal system even if it wasn't the case. If the death penalty is involved I believe britain has/had problems with that (rotting in a jail cell isn't a problem).
The order gives police the power to disperse two or more people from the designated area. It also allows the police to take home unaccompanied youngsters under the age of 16 found in the area after 9pm.
"If they fail to comply they are likely to be arrested and could face six months' imprisonment and/or a fine of up to £5,000."
so now being in a public area and a police officer or a community police officer (not a police officer just somebody allowed to dress in a police uniform and act unpaid as if they are a police officer) can subject someone not guilty of any crime to a fine or prison sentence! for any reason, no reason, what so ever!
can i recomend the hp compaq nx6110 an extremely compatable laptop (runs xp osx and ubuntu either at the same time or seperately) and can be bought retail for around £400. HP really got it right with this one.
Interoperability is what the AC should have stuck with and yes it does have interesting possibilitys.
maybe soon we will see that vonage and skype customers can talk to each other without having to subscribe to both (add any number of other service providers to this too) maybe your own ISP might do a voip deal thats cheaper than skype. who knows. (vonage just used as an example) millions of people currently use skype now billions don't. If the protocol is open then its no longer a choice of who has the most users but who has the best rates.
course the lawyers now will have a feeding frenzy and hopefully the winners will be the consumers -actually win or lose skype will lose. Customers are free to go elsewhere at anytime if their interests, lower prices and greater interoperability are not met, many will desert skype.
Mergers will be made Deals will be struck between other telecommunications companys sharing a common protocol. skype may or may not be included.
most washer dryers will dry about half of what they can wash. so take out half the load and you should find they will be dry in less than an hour then repeat for the other half. the tumble in a tummble dryer is important without it there is no air flow and little moisture removal.
I would also hazard a guess voice command could work as well in some circumstances, what ever method you do choose please discuss the alternatives with the user. they have to be comfortable with what ever solution you go with.
ok fair enough if gaming is what you want to do a virtual PC of any type isn't going to get you the best performance out of any given hardware, There is some 3d support in vmware but it's for specific hardware which chances are will not be in your laptop.
I was trying to post about the relative merits of virtual PC v VMware and I obviously upset a few people. As yours is the only intelligent reply I will try to clarify my points here as I am sure I will be modded down again.
For x86 Mac's there is parallels and virtualPC version 7 for ppc macs -these are not free. there isnt a vmware version for Mac's yet... The parent post was misleading.
Another post for this article referenced a page giving a comprehensive list of virtual operating systems under virtal PC for ubuntu 6.06 it said "Boot into "Safe Graphics Mode" and install normally" http://vpc.visualwin.com/
anyway you are free to try both virtual Pc and vmware and make your own decisions, I think you can use the same image file.
and a whole raft of spyware and viri that all windows users need to guard against.
However I do have a windows habit, there are programs I use on a regular basis which will run only on windows. so the alternatives are a seperate windows box a dual boot and virtualisation. I personally use all three options but I am finding that a native install of ubuntu with a vmware installation of XP Pro suits me, I don't play games much on PC, I'll admit to owning a PS1 and an XBox(with xebian) for when I do want to play games.
I am interested in multiuser systems something which can be achieved with remote desktop to a limited extent with XP Pro (3 seats maximum) and also with linux (generally without sound) RDP in windows uses a virtual soundcard which automatically gets used in windows media player and has to be specified to be used with winAmp(another topic).
virtual Pc and vmware are not really targeted at homeusers anyway but for a homeuser vmware makes financial sense over virtualpc.
Incidentally I did actually ask someone from vmware which was faster on a given set of hardware vmware under windows or Vmware under linux and he said it was vmware under Linux. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=187943&cid= 15499387
finally I would like to point out I am not disparaging virtualPc itself. but a)The Security of a MS host operating system b)The Cost of a microsoft Os to host the virtual PC (XPhome is generally preinstalled not xp pro) c)The limited number of concurrent users. d)The performance overhead of using Vista as a guest OS
these are my personal reasons for choosing vmware over virtual PC.
Does virtual pc support usb2 (vmware gives usb 1.1 support)? is it capable of using the underlying gpu making gaming in a vm practical? I'd be interested to hear of virtual PC's merits. I agree with the parent that gaming in a VM sux and rebooting is a pta.
Virtual PC 2004 SP1 runs on: Windows 2000 Professional SP4, Windows XP Professional or later, and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or later.
I see no mention of a Mac operating system as a host. personally I see no value in Virtual PC,
1) you need to run basically 2000 pro or XP pro (excludes 2003 server) so you need a licience of an insecure OS that in the case of XP phones home everyday and apparently may or maynot decide to turn off with the genuine advantage program.
2)nice that the enterprise version (that would be the most expensive version of vista) now gives you four liciences for your virtual vista installs. however does that include cals to actually do any thing with this virtual os. as for resources surely vista as the most resource hungry os on x86 isnt going to be a good choice to run anything.
vmware on the otherhand runs on linux which is free and secure. The VM doesnt need admin rights to run. you run what you want in the VM and you can choose a virtual os that isn't taking most of the resources just running the OS. The point of a Virtual OS isn't running an Os but an Application(s) in a Secure sandboxed environment.
vmware runs on windows too but why would you want to?
I would recommend it as an interesting backgrounder it was written around 1990, and covers a lot of ground that older readers may remember and younger should find informative.
funny how so much has changed and somethings haven't.
Macrovision isnt hard to defeat, My DVR has no problems with me playing a DVD on my DVD player and recording it no macrovision problems there.
When I do have Macrovision problems it is with VHS tapes so I bought a Time Base Corrector (less than $40) and with that inline I don't have a problem with Macrovision either, without it thou the DVR refuses to record hopefully I will find a firmware update that will improve the DVD recorder software. There are DVR's which can deal with macrovision in software.
guess it won't be long before DVR's like mine will not exist.
s "Umm thats the nugget of the debate. Having NO drivers versus proprietary ones - which is better?"
Actually it isn't, The choice is between buying hardware with open driver support or without.
As individuals, we should be letting manufacturers know that we want open source drivers and that its a deal breaker for us. Thank the companies that do supply them, Encourage the companies that don't to do so. Sales matter to them.
What is really needed is a Hardware site which lists manufacturers and products and the support they give to open source drivers, and which products they open source drivers for.
I think also a distinction should be made between reverse engineered drivers and drivers that have been developed with input from the manufacturers.
Nobody is forced to develop code based on prior work released under GPL.
The Shuttle sounds like a good idea but why bother with a monitor, presumably you have your laptop with you just remote in with that. a wireless G card and a carrying strap screwed to the top of the shuttle and your good to go.
"Direct Report Corporation d/b/a Shareholder.com v. CCBN, Inc.. et al., D. Mass. We represent Direct Report Corporation with respect to claims that the defendants' employees infiltrated the plaintiff's computer network and acquired commercially sensitive, proprietary information."
now this isn't proof of anything but it sure makes me wonder if this SCO announcement is genuine.
me niether however http://www.myspace.com/chamillionaire and you can listen to a few.. well three tracks of his they look to be complete tracks as well.
very generic and wasn't worth the time googling for imho however thanks to file sharing i know to avoid chamillionaire, da vinci code- do i look like an idiot photoshop - what do i need photoshop for does it run on ubuntu?
what files are we supposed to be busy file sharing again, rather than buying ?
one point though, when it comes to sharing files the point isn't RIAA=Good music. its I like this and will share with my friends without regard for RIAA representation or not.
Lets just say RIAA gets perfect DRM its impossible to play a RIAA members track without buying it. would P2P stop or would people just share what they could?
explains this quite well however the final paragraph from this page state's (refering to raising the question = begging the question)
"The meaning you give is the newest. It is gaining ground, and one or two recent dictionaries claim that it is now acceptable--the New Oxford Dictionary of English, for example, says it is "widely accepted in modern standard English". I wouldn't go so far myself. Because of possible confusion over what you actually mean, and inevitable condemnation from people who have taken the trouble to find out what it once did mean, it's better avoided altogether."
I would have to agree if you mean "raising the question" then in an international forum its better to use plain English.
on a slightly more off topic note would the original poster care to state his or her prefered programing language.
"Whole droves of teenagers are listening to something with the nonce-words "Numa, Numa" in it, and buying it on ITMS as well."
sorry this bugs me a little, I think your refering to love under the linden tree's by ozone. The songs in rumanian and Numa roughly translates as "not have" in the third person singular (he/she/it) I don't think calling it a nonce word just because its not English is appropriate.
Personally I like the idea that English speaking teenagers can enjoy a song written in a different language and not be constrained to listening to the RIAA's idea of what people should be listening too.
seems to suggest that aluminium has no proven effect either way, many other articles seem to go with the traditional alumium causes alzheimers desease. many state scientists disagree.
however it seems aluminium is unavoidable and that since we are all universally exposed the incidence of alzheimers should be higher. Maybe i will try to avoid aluminium when I have lost a significant amount of weight and have quit smoking.
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I only ask because quite often digg will link to a video on youtube and on you tube there is a count of how many people have played the video. Quite often this will be a number of around 2,500. certainly low 1000's seems common with a world wide audience shouldnt more people be looking at the video links from digg.
And the number of ads multiplies like mutated bird flu.
The most overused button on a browser these days is the back button as soon as most people realise they have fallen for yet another ad filled and information free page.
I can live with some ads, but they are far too cheap if advertisers were forced to pay a little more then perhaps they would spend on effective advertising. maybe even on good product information. I choose hardware carefully now if it hasn't got good linux support I will look for something that has. its hard to see a difference between spam and ad laden pages that are designed to interfere with users searches.
I think it's kind of how I got into open source software over free software because 90% of the time it wasn't free just another crippleware program or something to serve ads.
I do not like this association, I understand it from reals point of view, most people who know, loath real
these same people are fond of firefox and recomend it.
now those people we recommend firefox to will think real is good because we say firefox is good.
its shitty to do this, it's kinda like the people that you got to know through a friend and now keeps turning up although you wish they wouldn't.
yeah I know this post is kinda redundant but maybe the firefox devs will get the message this is an association which is good for real, all its done for mozilla is drag the mozilla foundations reputation down. mozilla is like an old friend who's just puked on my carpet. I will let it go once make it a habit and its bye bye time.
what makes this worse is there has been no discussion about this, surely there would have been a story posted on slashdot if this was being discussed on the mozilla forums. Someone would have leaked this if it wasn't being confined to a small group of people. who knew about this and did the deal. Did the lead developers know about this plan?
maybe slashdot should just do a poll and just let us show how many of us here approve or disapprove of this association.
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http://skegnesstoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?Sect
how do you know its got an asbo? when your arrested for breaking no laws or perhaps when you commence your 6 month sentence or perhaps start to pay your £5000 fine.
If there was anything to be said for asbo's it was that they generally went to the truely deserving. now it is anyone and anywhere and it is too much.
And if you think thats bad just look where else its being reported and discussed.
Gives you an idea who reads the Daily Mail thou...
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=
even white supremists have thier doubts about children being arrested for climbing tree's...
while ubuntu does give you a cd with an automatic lamp install
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it might be of interest how to do it manually.
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_6.
* Web Server: Apache 2.0
* Database Server: MySQL 5.0
* Mail Server: Postfix
* DNS Server: BIND9
* FTP Server: proftpd
* POP3/IMAP: I will use Maildir format and therefore install Courier-POP3/Courier-IMAP.
* Webalizer for web site statistics
one to book mark for later i think.
toshiba E740 probably E750 as well has a small clip on expansion pack which gives vga output and a usb port
mainly i use the usb port to give me a serial port for my gps but it works ok for keyboards. I ought to try it for my 350 gb usb hd it would probably work too as a mass storage device.
"The President says he thinks that ECS research constitutes the taking of a human life ("murder"). If that's true then why doesn't he work to outlaw all ECS research ("murder"), instead of letting it happen with private funding? He's caught between his own rhetoric and a hard place."
This world of ours is seriously fucked up. ECS is murder, blowing up and shooting 'civilians' isn't quotes because its unacceptable to kill people full stop. I really have to question why do we put these psychopaths in power? why do we accept that political killing is acceptable by that I mean death by order of a politician thats fine, death by neglect of the vunerable in our society that is all accepted, lets cut a budget here so a pensioner freezes to death not a problem.
Is there a corollation between Political leaders and thier believe in God and the amount of deaths they cause?
which countrys do not participate in regular bouts of political murder and manslaughter?
I am tempted to believe that the proffessed religious belief of our leaders is fraudulant.
If it isn't then thats the only way they can sleep at night, Do they really believe that God absolves them from the slaughter of the innocent?
How many deaths could you live with being responsible for? 2 10 a 1000 only a psychopath would be capable of living with the responsibility of causing the deaths of 1000's of people.
I am being careful here not to differentiate between leaderships of different countrys because this is a world wide epidemic. somehow as a species we have evolved a system that condones and causes mass suffering and murder.
Whats it going to take to bring forth leaders that are not going to kill innocent people for political reasons.
I was talking with a nurse the other day and we were talking about dementia and I asked her what percentage of people will suffer from this condition and she reckoned around 80% of people who reach thier 70's and 80's. Does intelligence make a difference I asked, no she replied but most of them just do not realise they suffer from it.
If thats anywhere near accurate then chances are, if you live long enough, you will slowly decline into that state. Now if stem cells can repair the brain and stop that decline perhaps we should be supporting the research.
on the otherhand I have often wondered how people cope with thier upcoming death, how do you cope knowing that its almost certain you will be dead in the next 5 - 10 years. Perhaps dementia removes that burden from you.
I would be interested to hear from any citizen of any country where thier leaders are managing to avoid killing random innocent people. It would be nice to see if there is a society which doesn't see the taking of innocent lives as a necessity and doesn't use god as an excuse.
why elaborate marketing, surely everyone who downloads the beta is a potential customer, now microsoft can contact all these people and say
Thankyou for your important contribution to our beta test program. Your feedback has been invaluble to us. We would like to reward your contribution by offering you the chance to upgrade to the full release version for the low low price of....
This offer is only available to members of microsofts official beta test program.
it's not much different here either, except perhaps the ASBO or antisocial behaviour order. These didn't seem to bad as they were applied to individuals, well some were farcical asbo to stop someone with tourets swearing. asbo to stop someone going in thier garden in a bikini. perfect for every niggling little nieghbor dispute...
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however there is another side to the asbo, the asbo that gets applied to an area
I bring you skegness's asbo
http://skegnesstoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?Sect
now whats the big deal, well for one it gives police the powers to arrest anyone within that area for anything - you do not need to break any law. If they think you might break a law at a later point its enough, more than enough to satisfy the conditions of the asbo order. To be honest there is no restriction on the police at all because legal illegal it doesn't matter, since enter the asbo controlled area and you could be fined £5000 or go to prison for 6 months. It all depends on the individual police officer.
saving britain for decent folk thats the excuse
now how more 1984 do you get than that, when there are no criminals you make them. what is even more alarming is that this is just not being reported. The skegness standard is not widely read even in skegness. This is a complete change in the rule of law and no one appears to give a damn everybody assumes it will not apply to them but they don't see that before the difference was they broke the law and you didnt. now that distinction doesn't apply.
"What? It's precisely because it can't be codified globally that it's pointless to do anything about it here. Do you honestly think that anyone outside the US is going to voluntarily conform to this law? Do you think anyone inside the US can't get around it by moving their content outside the US?"
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http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/business.cfm
David Carruthers (a scot probably a british citizen) was arrested in florida for breaking american laws. in costa rica and the uk he wasn't guilty of breaking these countrys laws.
looks like travelling through american territory can get you held and arrested.
Extradited gary mckinnon broke usa laws by 'hacking' us military computers. There are british laws against this sort of thing however I am not convinced that britain for example would not hand over anyone to the american legal system even if it wasn't the case. If the death penalty is involved I believe britain has/had problems with that (rotting in a jail cell isn't a problem).
however just to show you how law doesnt matter anymore in the uk check this out
http://skegnesstoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?Sect
Skegness a uk seaside resort has been given an ASBO.
The order gives police the power to disperse two or more people from the designated area.
It also allows the police to take home unaccompanied youngsters under the age of 16 found in the area after 9pm.
"If they fail to comply they are likely to be arrested and could face six months' imprisonment and/or a fine of up to £5,000."
so now being in a public area and a police officer or a community police officer (not a police officer just somebody allowed to dress in a police uniform and act unpaid as if they are a police officer) can subject someone not guilty of any crime to a fine or prison sentence! for any reason, no reason, what so ever!
can i recomend the hp compaq nx6110 an extremely compatable laptop (runs xp osx and ubuntu either at the same time or seperately) and can be bought retail for around £400. HP really got it right with this one.
Interoperability is what the AC should have stuck with and yes it does have interesting possibilitys.
maybe soon we will see that vonage and skype customers can talk to each other without having to subscribe to both
(add any number of other service providers to this too) maybe your own ISP might do a voip deal thats cheaper than skype. who knows. (vonage just used as an example)
millions of people currently use skype now billions don't. If the protocol is open then its no longer a choice of who has the most users but who has the best rates.
course the lawyers now will have a feeding frenzy and hopefully the winners will be the consumers -actually win or lose skype will lose. Customers are free to go elsewhere at anytime if their interests, lower prices and greater interoperability are not met, many will desert skype.
Mergers will be made Deals will be struck between other telecommunications companys sharing a common protocol.
skype may or may not be included.
most washer dryers will dry about half of what they can wash.
so take out half the load and you should find they will be dry in less than an hour then repeat for the other half.
the tumble in a tummble dryer is important without it there is no air flow and little moisture removal.
there are a number of alternative methods on this site but this foot mouse could be useful.
http://www.abilityhub.com/mouse/foot.htm
I would also hazard a guess voice command could work as well in some circumstances, what ever method you do choose please discuss the alternatives with the user. they have to be comfortable with what ever solution you go with.
ok fair enough if gaming is what you want to do a virtual PC of any type isn't going to get you the best performance out of any given hardware, There is some 3d support in vmware but it's for specific hardware which chances are will not be in your laptop.
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I was trying to post about the relative merits of virtual PC v VMware and I obviously upset a few people. As yours is the only intelligent reply I will try to clarify my points here as I am sure I will be modded down again.
For x86 Mac's there is parallels and virtualPC version 7 for ppc macs -these are not free. there isnt a vmware version for Mac's yet... The parent post was misleading.
Another post for this article referenced a page giving a comprehensive list of virtual operating systems under virtal PC for ubuntu 6.06 it said "Boot into "Safe Graphics Mode" and install normally" http://vpc.visualwin.com/
anyway you are free to try both virtual Pc and vmware and make your own decisions, I think you can use the same image file.
I think I should state my position I have used windows for years and I want the freedom to use my computers how I want. I am pessimistic about DRM restrictions within VISTA and the more limited restrictions existing within XP
I do not want to suffer from rootkit installations such as employed by
SONY http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/31/20
game company spyware such as
Warden http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/1
and a whole raft of spyware and viri that all windows users need to guard against.
However I do have a windows habit, there are programs I use on a regular basis which will run only on windows.
so the alternatives are a seperate windows box a dual boot and virtualisation.
I personally use all three options but I am finding that a native install of ubuntu with a vmware installation of XP Pro suits me, I don't play games much on PC, I'll admit to owning a PS1 and an XBox(with xebian) for when I do want to play games.
I am interested in multiuser systems something which can be achieved with remote desktop to a limited extent with XP Pro (3 seats maximum) and also with linux (generally without sound) RDP in windows uses a virtual soundcard which automatically gets used in windows media player and has to be specified to be used with winAmp(another topic).
virtual Pc and vmware are not really targeted at homeusers anyway but for a homeuser vmware makes financial sense over virtualpc.
Incidentally I did actually ask someone from vmware which was faster on a given set of hardware vmware under windows or Vmware under linux and he said it was vmware under Linux.
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=187943&cid
finally I would like to point out I am not disparaging virtualPc itself.
but
a)The Security of a MS host operating system
b)The Cost of a microsoft Os to host the virtual PC (XPhome is generally preinstalled not xp pro)
c)The limited number of concurrent users.
d)The performance overhead of using Vista as a guest OS
these are my personal reasons for choosing vmware over virtual PC.
Does virtual pc support usb2 (vmware gives usb 1.1 support)?
is it capable of using the underlying gpu making gaming in a vm practical?
I'd be interested to hear of virtual PC's merits. I agree with the parent that gaming in a VM sux and rebooting is a pta.
"or for Mac users to run a Windows-only app and is exactly like running Windows on an actual PC."
a ds/sp1.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/downlo
Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Systems Requirements
Virtual PC 2004 SP1 runs on: Windows 2000 Professional SP4, Windows XP Professional or later, and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or later.
I see no mention of a Mac operating system as a host.
personally I see no value in Virtual PC,
1) you need to run basically 2000 pro or XP pro (excludes 2003 server)
so you need a licience of an insecure OS that in the case of XP phones home everyday and apparently may or maynot decide to turn off with the genuine advantage program.
2)nice that the enterprise version (that would be the most expensive version of vista) now gives you four liciences for your virtual vista installs. however does that include cals to actually do any thing with this virtual os. as for resources surely vista as the most resource hungry os on x86 isnt going to be a good choice to run anything.
vmware on the otherhand runs on linux which is free and secure. The VM doesnt need admin rights to run.
you run what you want in the VM and you can choose a virtual os that isn't taking most of the resources just running the OS. The point of a Virtual OS isn't running an Os but an Application(s) in a Secure sandboxed environment.
vmware runs on windows too but why would you want to?
funny I should see this story after spending the morning reading this
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http://www.chriswaltrip.com/sterling/hackcrck.htm
I would recommend it as an interesting backgrounder it was written around 1990, and covers a lot of ground that older readers may remember and younger should find informative.
funny how so much has changed and somethings haven't.
Macrovision isnt hard to defeat,
My DVR has no problems with me playing a DVD on my DVD player and recording it no macrovision problems there.
When I do have Macrovision problems it is with VHS tapes so I bought a Time Base Corrector (less than $40) and with that inline I don't have a problem with Macrovision either, without it thou the DVR refuses to record hopefully I will find a firmware update that will improve the DVD recorder software. There are DVR's which can deal with macrovision in software.
guess it won't be long before DVR's like mine will not exist.
s "Umm thats the nugget of the debate. Having NO drivers versus proprietary ones - which is better?"
Actually it isn't, The choice is between buying hardware with open driver support or without.
As individuals, we should be letting manufacturers know that we want open source drivers and that its a deal breaker for us. Thank the companies that do supply them, Encourage the companies that don't to do so.
Sales matter to them.
What is really needed is a Hardware site which lists manufacturers and products and the support they give to open source drivers, and which products they open source drivers for.
I think also a distinction should be made between reverse engineered drivers and drivers that have been developed with input from the manufacturers.
Nobody is forced to develop code based on prior work released under GPL.
The Shuttle sounds like a good idea but why bother with a monitor, presumably you have your laptop with you just remote in with that. a wireless G card and a carrying strap screwed to the top of the shuttle and your good to go.
ok looking at the page source we have app.shareholder.com and whois tells us this
c tual_property_litigation/index.asp
Domain Name: SHAREHOLDER.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/
Name Server: NS2.SHAREHOLDER.COM
Name Server: NS1.SHAREHOLDER.COM
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
EPP Status: clientUpdateProhibited
EPP Status: clientTransferProhibited
EPP Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Updated Date: 15-Nov-2005
Creation Date: 28-Nov-1994
Expiration Date: 27-Nov-2011
Registrant:
Direct Report Corporation
12 Clock Tower Place
Maynard, MA 01754
US
Domain Name: SHAREHOLDER.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Direct Report Corporation netops@SHAREHOLDER.COM
12 Clock Tower Place
Maynard, MA 01754
US
999 999 9999 fax: 999 999 9999
Record expires on 30-Nov-2010.
Record created on 29-Nov-1994.
Database last updated on 17-Jun-2006 23:46:57 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS2.SHAREHOLDER.COM 170.224.5.50
NS1.SHAREHOLDER.COM 206.17.96.209
ok so who is direct report corperation?
http://www.choate.com/practice/litigation/intelle
"Direct Report Corporation d/b/a Shareholder.com v. CCBN, Inc.. et al., D. Mass. We represent Direct Report Corporation with respect to claims that the defendants' employees infiltrated the plaintiff's computer network and acquired commercially sensitive, proprietary information."
now this isn't proof of anything but it sure makes me wonder if this SCO announcement is genuine.
me niether however
http://www.myspace.com/chamillionaire and you can listen to a few.. well three tracks of his they look to be complete tracks as well.
very generic and wasn't worth the time googling for imho however thanks to file sharing i know to avoid chamillionaire,
da vinci code- do i look like an idiot
photoshop - what do i need photoshop for does it run on ubuntu?
what files are we supposed to be busy file sharing again, rather than buying ?
one point though, when it comes to sharing files the point isn't RIAA=Good music. its I like this and will share with my friends without regard for RIAA representation or not.
Lets just say RIAA gets perfect DRM its impossible to play a RIAA members track without buying it. would P2P stop or would people just share what they could?
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-beg1.htm
explains this quite well however the final paragraph from this page state's (refering to raising the question = begging the question)
"The meaning you give is the newest. It is gaining ground, and one or two recent dictionaries claim that it is now acceptable--the New Oxford Dictionary of English, for example, says it is "widely accepted in modern standard English". I wouldn't go so far myself. Because of possible confusion over what you actually mean, and inevitable condemnation from people who have taken the trouble to find out what it once did mean, it's better avoided altogether."
I would have to agree if you mean "raising the question" then in an international forum its better to use plain English.
on a slightly more off topic note would the original poster care to state his or her prefered programing language.
"Whole droves of teenagers are listening to something with the nonce-words "Numa, Numa" in it, and buying it on ITMS as well."
sorry this bugs me a little, I think your refering to love under the linden tree's by ozone. The songs in rumanian and Numa roughly translates as "not have" in the third person singular (he/she/it) I don't think calling it a nonce word just because its not English is appropriate.
Personally I like the idea that English speaking teenagers can enjoy a song written in a different language and not be constrained to listening to the RIAA's idea of what people should be listening too.
thats got to be a good thing.
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articl eID=0000FCD2-AA88-1C71-9EB7809EC588F2D7&catID=3
seems to suggest that aluminium has no proven effect either way, many other articles seem to go with the traditional alumium causes alzheimers desease. many state scientists disagree.
however it seems aluminium is unavoidable and that since we are all universally exposed the incidence of alzheimers should be higher. Maybe i will try to avoid aluminium when I have lost a significant amount of weight and have quit smoking.