Linux can manage to fill all 2gigs of my home server's memory fairly easily. Said server only hosts my blog and the odd other thing. Its basically all cache.
My old Pentium 3 has a standard Intel motherboard which was made ages before XP. None of the above worked.
All of it is pretty standard stuff and all of it was made a long time before XP. AC97 audio, Intel usb controller, Broadcom networking, TNT2, etc...
It got rather interesting with reinstalls since back then it had USB wireless for networking. You have no idea how useful usb flash disks are until you cant use them. Any reinstall required a very long search for the original cd.
Funnily enough ALL the mentioned hardware works out of the box with minimal tinkering on Linux. Yes even the USB wifi.
If Vista's built in drivers are anything like XP's then most computers will have no usb, limited network (e.g. gigabit), no sound, bad video and no support for any non-necessary hardware.
With Linux its the opposite. Most of that will work out of the box.
It would be good if the universal package tree managed source and binary packages side by side as well. That way you could mix and match to a certain extent.
I know Gentoo has the capability to do this but its not used at all.
The documents only need to be decompressed when your opening them.
What the hell are you doing opening 10 million documents at the same time? I think you'd have better things to be worried about than the decompression time if you were doing that.
The vorbis example is a good use of the BSD licence.
Two bad examples are the BSD network stack and giflib (MIT Licence). Both are now in Microsoft Windows with nothing more than a credit line to the original developers buried somewhere.
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Vista only uses 75%? What crappy caching.
Linux can manage to fill all 2gigs of my home server's memory fairly easily. Said server only hosts my blog and the odd other thing.
Its basically all cache.
If I'm paying for the music then I'd be demanding a download server with plenty of bandwidth. Not the right to use p2p.
My old Pentium 3 has a standard Intel motherboard which was made ages before XP.
None of the above worked.
All of it is pretty standard stuff and all of it was made a long time before XP.
AC97 audio, Intel usb controller, Broadcom networking, TNT2, etc...
It got rather interesting with reinstalls since back then it had USB wireless for networking.
You have no idea how useful usb flash disks are until you cant use them.
Any reinstall required a very long search for the original cd.
Funnily enough ALL the mentioned hardware works out of the box with minimal tinkering on Linux.
Yes even the USB wifi.
I'm moving all my domains to my DirectI reseller account. :D
Seems to be reliable and dirt cheap. $6.99.
Just so you know, Currently Enom has your domains. You dont need to pay them a thing by doing what their email says.
You *have* to do what the email says to transfer elsewhere I think anyway.
Until you do so the domains arent associated with any account.
Actually enom has taken over most of the domains for free.
Registerfly was trying to get everyone to transfer back at a discounted price.
I didnt have to pay a cent and the enom staff have been rather helpful.
If Vista's built in drivers are anything like XP's then most computers will have no usb, limited network (e.g. gigabit), no sound, bad video and no support for any non-necessary hardware.
With Linux its the opposite. Most of that will work out of the box.
It would be good if the universal package tree managed source and binary packages side by side as well.
That way you could mix and match to a certain extent.
I know Gentoo has the capability to do this but its not used at all.
MS *is* responsible for the attacks. Remove Microsoft and the attacks wouldnt occur or would be tame in comparison.
Microsoft isnt directly responsible for the attacks however.
What window manager can organize a massive single desktop effectively?
Having two smaller desktops with windows maximized on each is better than trying to get 2 windows arranged efficiently on one big monitor.
Ah so your not opening 10 million documents at the same time.
Whats the problem then?
The documents only need to be decompressed when your opening them.
What the hell are you doing opening 10 million documents at the same time?
I think you'd have better things to be worried about than the decompression time if you were doing that.
The compression causes long tag names to be a benefit instead of a drawback.
You've got it all wrong. Your supposed to put the 'Designed for Windows' stickers on bricks.
Really? Then how did my mum manage to break IE so completely that she's submitted and is now using Firefox? ;)
Getting scared shitless by having to go to court seems enough punishment to me.
What was that? It can stop terrorists?
He's a politician so I'd be leaning towards the latter.
Who cares? Its easy dough for me. :)
That is one of the most stupid things I have ever heard.
If old software is causing the prompts then *yes it is* Vista's fault.
Whats stopping the Zero day flaws?
You know there will always be at least one unpatched zero day flaw active at any time.
The question is whether its nVidia and ATI's fault or if its Microsoft's fault.
You wrote it so you can do anything you want with it.
You can allow your company to use it under a separate licence.
They claim that however we all know how bad MS TCP/IP stacks are. *cough* Windows 9x.
Where did they get their Vista IPv6 stack from?
The vorbis example is a good use of the BSD licence.
Two bad examples are the BSD network stack and giflib (MIT Licence).
Both are now in Microsoft Windows with nothing more than a credit line to the original developers buried somewhere.
Personally all my code will be GPLed.