Putting all eggs in one basket has always been a recipe for problems, if that one company goes bust / has problems / downtime then everything goes down. Even the likes of Google and Amazon get it wrong. Its funny when you see many different services effected by one companies down time. I personally prefer to separate out business critical services if I can.
Well, if thats the case... surely for all these 'nude patches' that can be added to the sims - the same principle should apply.
Imo its silly - games creators have code that is inaccessible - instead of remove it, just stop the software ver getting to it.
Surely, as adults (as the game is rated 18 over here) then we know about sex and there shouldn't be a problem - its all these parents that buy rated games for their kids. These things are rated for a reason.
www.horde.org - I use it on my server and for a company who's network I manage. Between the users, there are some tech savy and some not - they can all manage with it.
Horde itself (version 3.0) can do all sorts - with the framework installed, you add on various modules to perform the functionality needed.
There is a 'filemanager' which allows basic and advanced FTP abilities from a simple web page.
..adverts weren't so much 'in your face'? Then we might not need to block them. I don't mind 'adsense' adverts - they're not very intrusive and they can look like part of the page.
The problem is pop-ups, pop-unders and alsorts of other 'get in the way' type adverts that force you to 'close' them before you can see the content.
Also, flash and Linux don't mix very well - a few pages I know of make heavy use of flash adverts all over them - this grinds the browser to a crawl.
Now I have a nice set of regular expressions for squid that hide most annoying adverts from view.
Raid will improve disk accessing performance but... theres always a but, you might want to take note that AGP is for graphics only, you'll have fun finding an AGP RAID Card.
Just cos we expose them to diversity with somethings... IT is very different - partially to the Microsoft Monopoly. At school ages, everything IT evolves around Microsoft and their software (in most cases). As you grow up you find out more and what not. IMO its not so much of a problem with the students as they'll use whatever they can - new software isn't as much of a strage thing, its more the staff that the problem is with.
Thats exactly it, you've got to go at it with the right approach - to cnovince school users at the moment, i suspect Linux would have to be made to look as like XP as possible.
OpenOffice is very similar but again... its that whole name issue - I bet Microsoft wouldn't look too kindly on a linux distro emulating names as well to be like their products.
As you saw, once the hurdle has been crossed... things do progress, but at the moment i feel we're at a brick wall more than a hurdle.
Could be just me and those I worked with, but change was something they didn't like (Even Office 97 to 2k was too much)
Yes it might be true about saving money and all that lot. But there is one large problem with going to Opensource - staff and not so much students are very fixed in their M$ ways. If its not Microsoft they don't want to know type of attitude. I've it that hurdle in working myself.
Look at all those people with something as simlpe Firefox instead of IE - but its got a funny icon, it looks slightly different, its not called "internet explorer" etc.
Same will happen with OpenSource / Linux etc until it gets going - its going to be hard to get it going.
Seen various - the latest being 1Ghz, 256MB ram and i'm betting 3GB+ disk space. This seems reasonable bearing in mind current PC equipment levels, any higher than this I'd have said was a bit overkill requirements wise (bloatware anybody?)
Thats a good Q, I keep seeing more stuff being removed, wheres the insentive for users to upgrade?
I assume mainstream support for XP will be pulled shortly after the launch (like happneed with 2k recently - anything bar major security fixes i think it was) which will force users to upgrade if they want the security fixes.
From teh screenshots of the latest beta I've seen, i can't say i'm overly impressed - it looks like XP with a grey skin. I know theres stuff going on behind the scenes, but still its not going to be the 'big thing' that Microsoft are tryiing to portray. Thats what i think anyway.
Biggest problem i've had when moving people to OSS solutions is the fact of "its different" or "but its not Microsoft....". Once they've used the software a little its not as much of a problem once they're used to the new name / icon etc.
The only problem with all this inovation is the OS itself gets bigger and bigger and far more tied into the core, meaning more problems if theres a security 'blip', which we know will happen. No software is ever 100% secure.
Its certainly something that happens a bit around this country (UK) with certain ISPs. Had problems due to it myself when updating domains.
I also remember having fun in my planetarion days, when we did DNS updates, some places around the world had to acces the game or portal etc via IP for weeks after changes were made.
Annoying yes, pointless... probably. Not like DNS traffic is large or anything. Suppose its down to saving every little bite of traffic though as bandwidth costs.
A combination of high expectations and hardware being 'cheap and cheerful'.
I've had 3 diff drives go over the past 2 months, all different manufactureres ones too. Tis annoying but what can you do about it - goods aren't being made now as well as they were even only a few years ago. The quad speed drive still worked, we just got rid of it cos it was slow (XP install from a quad speed cd... youch! 24x is bad enough)
PC Games already take long enought to load from harddisk... on removeable media they'll be horribly slow to load.
Another problem with PC games on a CD, how do you install drivers and what not due to no 2 pcs being identical hardware wise. Easiest answer... force everyone to have the same hardware (thus a console)
PC games are good at what they're good at, imo booting from CD isn't going to be one of those.
probably a lot, I've found teh windows firewall to be practically useless. it works on incoming only, most of the problems are outgoing.
Plus, even with a firewall, theres no point when people (n00bs) don't know how to use them, "i dunno what this is... ok, lets allow it and see what happens" - seen enough pcs done over by that.
More differences between browsers... that won't be good. Its already a nuciance with standards not being fully supported as is across the different browsers.
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Putting all eggs in one basket has always been a recipe for problems, if that one company goes bust / has problems / downtime then everything goes down. Even the likes of Google and Amazon get it wrong. Its funny when you see many different services effected by one companies down time. I personally prefer to separate out business critical services if I can.
Well, if thats the case... surely for all these 'nude patches' that can be added to the sims - the same principle should apply.
Imo its silly - games creators have code that is inaccessible - instead of remove it, just stop the software ver getting to it.
Surely, as adults (as the game is rated 18 over here) then we know about sex and there shouldn't be a problem - its all these parents that buy rated games for their kids. These things are rated for a reason.
www.horde.org - I use it on my server and for a company who's network I manage. Between the users, there are some tech savy and some not - they can all manage with it. Horde itself (version 3.0) can do all sorts - with the framework installed, you add on various modules to perform the functionality needed. There is a 'filemanager' which allows basic and advanced FTP abilities from a simple web page.
..adverts weren't so much 'in your face'? Then we might not need to block them. I don't mind 'adsense' adverts - they're not very intrusive and they can look like part of the page.
The problem is pop-ups, pop-unders and alsorts of other 'get in the way' type adverts that force you to 'close' them before you can see the content.
Also, flash and Linux don't mix very well - a few pages I know of make heavy use of flash adverts all over them - this grinds the browser to a crawl.
Now I have a nice set of regular expressions for squid that hide most annoying adverts from view.
Do show me as i've never seen anything other than graphics for AGP (Accelerated GRAPHICS Port)
I'm a UK graduate in Comp Sci. and I'm finding theres lots of jobs in IT, but nothing thats useful for a graduate - all asking too much.
I've been applying now since November to find a graduate job starting in July.
All well and good.
Raid will improve disk accessing performance but... theres always a but, you might want to take note that AGP is for graphics only, you'll have fun finding an AGP RAID Card.
Just cos we expose them to diversity with somethings ... IT is very different - partially to the Microsoft Monopoly. At school ages, everything IT evolves around Microsoft and their software (in most cases). As you grow up you find out more and what not. IMO its not so much of a problem with the students as they'll use whatever they can - new software isn't as much of a strage thing, its more the staff that the problem is with.
Thats exactly it, you've got to go at it with the right approach - to cnovince school users at the moment, i suspect Linux would have to be made to look as like XP as possible.
OpenOffice is very similar but again... its that whole name issue - I bet Microsoft wouldn't look too kindly on a linux distro emulating names as well to be like their products.
As you saw, once the hurdle has been crossed... things do progress, but at the moment i feel we're at a brick wall more than a hurdle.
Could be just me and those I worked with, but change was something they didn't like (Even Office 97 to 2k was too much)
Yes it might be true about saving money and all that lot. But there is one large problem with going to Opensource - staff and not so much students are very fixed in their M$ ways. If its not Microsoft they don't want to know type of attitude. I've it that hurdle in working myself.
Look at all those people with something as simlpe Firefox instead of IE - but its got a funny icon, it looks slightly different, its not called "internet explorer" etc.
Same will happen with OpenSource / Linux etc until it gets going - its going to be hard to get it going.
Seen various - the latest being 1Ghz, 256MB ram and i'm betting 3GB+ disk space. This seems reasonable bearing in mind current PC equipment levels, any higher than this I'd have said was a bit overkill requirements wise (bloatware anybody?)
Thats a good Q, I keep seeing more stuff being removed, wheres the insentive for users to upgrade? I assume mainstream support for XP will be pulled shortly after the launch (like happneed with 2k recently - anything bar major security fixes i think it was) which will force users to upgrade if they want the security fixes. From teh screenshots of the latest beta I've seen, i can't say i'm overly impressed - it looks like XP with a grey skin. I know theres stuff going on behind the scenes, but still its not going to be the 'big thing' that Microsoft are tryiing to portray. Thats what i think anyway.
Biggest problem i've had when moving people to OSS solutions is the fact of "its different" or "but its not Microsoft ....". Once they've used the software a little its not as much of a problem once they're used to the new name / icon etc.
The only problem with all this inovation is the OS itself gets bigger and bigger and far more tied into the core, meaning more problems if theres a security 'blip', which we know will happen. No software is ever 100% secure.
Its certainly something that happens a bit around this country (UK) with certain ISPs. Had problems due to it myself when updating domains. I also remember having fun in my planetarion days, when we did DNS updates, some places around the world had to acces the game or portal etc via IP for weeks after changes were made. Annoying yes, pointless... probably. Not like DNS traffic is large or anything. Suppose its down to saving every little bite of traffic though as bandwidth costs.
A combination of high expectations and hardware being 'cheap and cheerful'.
I've had 3 diff drives go over the past 2 months, all different manufactureres ones too. Tis annoying but what can you do about it - goods aren't being made now as well as they were even only a few years ago. The quad speed drive still worked, we just got rid of it cos it was slow (XP install from a quad speed cd... youch! 24x is bad enough)
PC Games already take long enought to load from harddisk... on removeable media they'll be horribly slow to load. Another problem with PC games on a CD, how do you install drivers and what not due to no 2 pcs being identical hardware wise. Easiest answer... force everyone to have the same hardware (thus a console) PC games are good at what they're good at, imo booting from CD isn't going to be one of those.
probably a lot, I've found teh windows firewall to be practically useless. it works on incoming only, most of the problems are outgoing. Plus, even with a firewall, theres no point when people (n00bs) don't know how to use them, "i dunno what this is... ok, lets allow it and see what happens" - seen enough pcs done over by that.
More differences between browsers... that won't be good. Its already a nuciance with standards not being fully supported as is across the different browsers.
Sounds scary really... lets hope no-one predicts a 'day after tomorrow' type event next :o