"Automatic warnings if any Windows machine on your network has AV or AntiSpyware turned off."
You mean like when you have to turn off "OneCARE" because it won't allow Flight Simulator X to install on Vista. I thought my DVD was bad, but turning off OneCARE fixed it and allowed it to install.
You'd think OneCARE would have at least some smarts on not virus checking an MS DVD.
Stupid Vista. It's now been erased and replaced with Ubunutu 7.0x Feisty.
In 1988, a 12 MHz 80286 Dell was the biz. Eight whole years later, I was on a 80386SX25, no floating point, though that was kinda crappy. Still better than the MCA crap floating around about then.
Yeah, try copying multiple gigs of files, like a big dev tree.
It sucks, (this is on XP), and you just know that it'll hit some weird read only file and ask whether you are sure, like 4 hours later. This kind of stupidity drives me insane compared to occasionally similar but much faster insanity under Linux.
I have now wiped my RC2 Vista install on my 'fast' desktop and installed Ubuntu. Though I really need to start contributing to Ubuntu because I'm still getting 'no matching displays' on boot and having to hand edit xorg.conf. But that said, Ubuntu is pretty good and wayyy less annoying than anything from MS.
Tell that to my mother in law who nearly just had her bank account cleaned out by someone who logged in to it and set up a wire transfer to a fake/genuine account in a neighbouring city.
The bank suspects that a key-logger swiped her bank login details. I'm not surprised, my wife's parents PC has so much spyware and crap on it, I'm surprised it runs at all.
Luckily, the transaction flagged as 'suspicious' and the bank put a hold on it, until she could be contacted.
One of the nice things about OS X is you can just mirror an entire 100 Gigs to an external in about an hour or so, then stash it somewhere safe. This can then be used to boot any same CPU machine, at least my Intel boxes iMac and Mini run off the same image. The iMac crashed one time, probably due to be named the same as the other machine, then was fine after that. It is really really nice to know that in the case of a messed up drive, you can restore and be up and running. Where most people mess up though, is in not practicing this regularly. My Powerbook gets reimaged off it's own backups about every month, just to keep it defragged. I have had to do this for real once, when something got corrupted after using the computer on a very bumpy airplane ride. I just got through reimaging my iMac from its backup, and it's running great.
It seems reasonable to say the OS X has a slower kernel than Linux or Windows. Calls into the OS X kernel get marshalled into a kernel thread, rather than just a straight leap into kernel land as with Windows. This leads to the well documented slower performance in MySQL, Apache etc.
This has some effects on ultimate performance, but it doesn't seem like it has much effect on the average user, unlike say having to run Norton or Symantec.
Yeah, I think we (the GNU/Linux community) need to take this and turn it around.
There's lots of people who *don't* depend on critical Windows-only apps. My own list of apps is mainly cross platform, including WoW, VLC, mplayer, Firefox and a decent compiler and text editor.
Adoption of GNU/Linux is not a coding problem, it's a image and packaging problem.
This beautifully made Powerbook G4 laptop is an example of good taste. It works great, syncs with my Razr, has not crashed in 2 years, and runs 4+ hours on a charge.
Compared with a typical POS PC laptop, it's in a different world. It's the light-sabre of laptops;-)
Seems like Microsoft Windows is just starting to be regarded as a giant, expensive to configure application that runs Office, and a few other corporately vital apps.
As such, it makes complete sense to commoditize it by treating it as an app to run in a virtual machine.
I already have my XP virtualized in Parallels, where it is occasionally fired up to run IE controls. Windows is so delicate, and such a pain to configure, that it makes complete sense to make one image then deploy it using virtualization.
In Houston, I'm seeing pretty decent availability of PS3s. Not hard to find.
On the other hand, local stores that I've asked get a delivery of Wiis and are sold out in minutes. I didn't expect it to stay like this, but it seems to still be pretty hard to find a Wii.
I didn't buy a GameCube in the last generation, and one of the factors in buying a Wii is hooking up with some old games from the N64, and playing some of the GCN games I missed. Really looking forward to that!!
I was just reading through the UK's PCPlus magazine, and their Vista benchmark, even on the CPU benchmarks, showed a solid and consistent 20% loss of performance compared with XP. I will not be keeping my beta Vista install. I will be going back to XP when my license key quits, possibly before.
I keep a Windows machine purely to run Flight Simulator and other games. Anything else can run in Parallels, or has a Mac equivalent.
Yes, that's the conclusion I've come to. My wife won't accept a full server next to the TV, but a Mac Mini will be tolerable. We want photo's, music, HD, iTunes and DVDs, so we really need a proper computer. I finally bit the bullet and ordered an Audio Authority 9A60 ($92) so I can display VGA from the Mini on our (oldish, component only) HDTV.
If it's usable for browsing, then that will be the icing on the cake.
I downloaded the Sugar image and it boots straight up in Parallels, no messing. Comments from some of the people involved say that the software is barely usable, but the basics work, including the graphics and networking. I couldn't get sound to work, though.
Squeak appeared to work, but I'm not sure what kids will make of it.
The biggest disappointment is the lack of consistency in various areas of the UI. Right click in Abiword and you get tiny old style gnome menus which clashes pretty horribly with the big and monochrome theme of much of the rest of the UI.
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"Automatic warnings if any Windows machine on your network has AV or AntiSpyware turned off."
You mean like when you have to turn off "OneCARE" because it won't allow Flight Simulator X to install on Vista. I thought my DVD was bad, but turning off OneCARE fixed it and allowed it to install.
You'd think OneCARE would have at least some smarts on not virus checking an MS DVD.
Stupid Vista. It's now been erased and replaced with Ubunutu 7.0x Feisty.
In 1988, a 12 MHz 80286 Dell was the biz.
Eight whole years later, I was on a 80386SX25, no floating point, though that was kinda crappy. Still better than the MCA crap floating around about then.
They could replace all the album art with sponsored ads !!!!
I can turn my laptop into a portable wireless hairdryer by running warcraft.
Yeah, try copying multiple gigs of files, like a big dev tree.
It sucks, (this is on XP), and you just know that it'll hit some weird read only file and ask whether you are sure, like 4 hours later. This kind of stupidity drives me insane compared to occasionally similar but much faster insanity under Linux.
I have now wiped my RC2 Vista install on my 'fast' desktop and installed Ubuntu. Though I really need to start contributing to Ubuntu because I'm still getting 'no matching displays' on boot and having to hand edit xorg.conf. But that said, Ubuntu is pretty good and wayyy less annoying than anything from MS.
Most secure eh?
Tell that to my mother in law who nearly just had her bank account cleaned out by someone who logged in to it and set up a wire transfer to a fake/genuine account in a neighbouring city.
The bank suspects that a key-logger swiped her bank login details. I'm not surprised, my wife's parents PC has so much spyware and crap on it, I'm surprised it runs at all.
Luckily, the transaction flagged as 'suspicious' and the bank put a hold on it, until she could be contacted.
One of the nice things about OS X is you can just mirror an entire 100 Gigs to an external in about an hour or so, then stash it somewhere safe.
This can then be used to boot any same CPU machine, at least my Intel boxes iMac and Mini run off the same image. The iMac crashed one time, probably due to be named the same as the other machine, then was fine after that.
It is really really nice to know that in the case of a messed up drive, you can restore and be up and running.
Where most people mess up though, is in not practicing this regularly. My Powerbook gets reimaged off it's own backups about every month, just to keep it defragged. I have had to do this for real once, when something got corrupted after using the computer on a very bumpy airplane ride.
I just got through reimaging my iMac from its backup, and it's running great.
It seems reasonable to say the OS X has a slower kernel than Linux or Windows. Calls into the OS X kernel get marshalled into a kernel thread, rather than just a straight leap into kernel land as with Windows. This leads to the well documented slower performance in MySQL, Apache etc.
This has some effects on ultimate performance, but it doesn't seem like it has much effect on the average user, unlike say having to run Norton or Symantec.
Wait! I was in a meeting today, and to a man, we were all balding and wearing thick glasses!
And we don't even work on Linux! *
* apart from the VMWare boxes, and Oracle.
Yeah, I think we (the GNU/Linux community) need to take this and turn it around.
There's lots of people who *don't* depend on critical Windows-only apps. My own list of apps is mainly cross platform, including WoW, VLC, mplayer, Firefox and a decent compiler and text editor.
Adoption of GNU/Linux is not a coding problem, it's a image and packaging problem.
Did anyone else flashback to the Star Trek movie where Spock dies ...
..."
"I have to shut down the server
"Don't do it Spock!"
Spock trudges over to the big Dell and flips the switch before crawling back to the server room window.
This beautifully made Powerbook G4 laptop is an example of good taste. It works great, syncs with my Razr, has not crashed in 2 years, and runs 4+ hours on a charge.
;-)
Compared with a typical POS PC laptop, it's in a different world. It's the light-sabre of laptops
I thought you said she *wasn't* Canadian.
Help m'boab!!!
Jings, ye should hae read the Sunday Post!
Actually, 'pants' is quite a good and clean insult.
Welcome to being a consultant !
My wife works at a CPA. IE7 breaks some of the commercial VB-based apps that do timekeeping and client billing.
Solution: Don't upgrade to IE7.
I work with energy companies. IE7 breaks various web-based training at clients.
Solution: Don't upgrade to IE7.
Same story with other miscellaneous aspects of Vista. I remember similar things when XP came out, but just not this many problems.
Wow, it's similar to HTML.
Seems like Microsoft Windows is just starting to be regarded as a giant, expensive to configure application that runs Office, and a few other corporately vital apps.
As such, it makes complete sense to commoditize it by treating it as an app to run in a virtual machine.
I already have my XP virtualized in Parallels, where it is occasionally fired up to run IE controls. Windows is so delicate, and such a pain to configure, that it makes complete sense to make one image then deploy it using virtualization.
In Houston, I'm seeing pretty decent availability of PS3s. Not hard to find.
On the other hand, local stores that I've asked get a delivery of Wiis and are sold out in minutes. I didn't expect it to stay like this, but it seems to still be pretty hard to find a Wii.
I didn't buy a GameCube in the last generation, and one of the factors in buying a Wii is hooking up with some old games from the N64, and playing some of the GCN games I missed. Really looking forward to that!!
I was just reading through the UK's PCPlus magazine, and their Vista benchmark, even on the CPU benchmarks, showed a solid and consistent 20% loss of performance compared with XP. I will not be keeping my beta Vista install. I will be going back to XP when my license key quits, possibly before.
I keep a Windows machine purely to run Flight Simulator and other games. Anything else can run in Parallels, or has a Mac equivalent.
Yes, that's the conclusion I've come to. My wife won't accept a full server next to the TV, but a Mac Mini will be tolerable. We want photo's, music, HD, iTunes and DVDs, so we really need a proper computer. I finally bit the bullet and ordered an Audio Authority 9A60 ($92) so I can display VGA from the Mini on our (oldish, component only) HDTV.
If it's usable for browsing, then that will be the icing on the cake.
She should be dismissed for surfing porn at school, and someone should give a boot up the ass to the school IT people for not doing a good enough job.
Microsoft Internet Explorer should be convicted and put on Death Row.
This gives me an idea for a new Mac vs PC ad...
... Mac smiles smugly 'I'll visit you in jail'"
"PC gets cuffed, led away protesting innocence
Call security!! And yes, i have interviewed at least one candidate (who lied and kept lying) who made me want to shout this across to my colleagues.
I downloaded the Sugar image and it boots straight up in Parallels, no messing. Comments from some of the people involved say that the software is barely usable, but the basics work, including the graphics and networking. I couldn't get sound to work, though.
Squeak appeared to work, but I'm not sure what kids will make of it.
The biggest disappointment is the lack of consistency in various areas of the UI. Right click in Abiword and you get tiny old style gnome menus which clashes pretty horribly with the big and monochrome theme of much of the rest of the UI.