If I had mod points, I would mod you up! Just because the number isn't incrementing to astronomical levels with each release doesn't mean that considerable changes aren't being made.
On another note:
Windows 2000 - Version 5.0
Windows XP - Version 5.1
Windows 2003 - Version 5.2
Hmm, seems like somebody was barking up the wrong tree...
Except for the OS X upgrades from Tiger (10.4) to Leopard (10.5). Most people felt a speed improvement (mostly perceived) from upgrading their OS X install. (Assuming they had a multi-core/multi-cpu machine)
This came from Apple's investment of time into their Cocoa APIs making them more multi-threaded, so those multi-core and multi-cpu machines would spent more time processing rather than waiting on UI to compute.
Case in point, I have a C2D Q6600 on a DFI Mobo with Intel X38 chipset. I have had the hardest time getting Windows (Vista) to run in IDE hard drive mode reliably, I cannot even get it to boot in ACPI mode. Linux works great with ACPI, but refuses to boot with IDE mode.
I have built over 20 AMD based machines and 3 Intel machines. All of which have run Windows and Linux (and some Solaris), the Intel setups are the ones that I put together, fiddled with until they started working and have been afraid to touch for fear of them stopping to work again. My AMD machines (with the exception of 1 screwed up motherboard) have all worked flawlessly for years and weren't that hard to setup and install.
AMD has also been doing much better in Database performance with regard to MySQL and a very specific workload. Intel Core 2 Quad was choking on the data where AMD would just hum along without issue. This is primarily an email data storage and email access back-end using MySQL. The MySQL engineers were even involved in this research.
I agree, there is a big difference between perceived speed and actual speed. The speed that sells product is the perceived kind.
As a tech minded group, we tend to focus on the underpinnings and structure of a product rather than the value added by making somebody more productive. It may not make YOU more productive, but it does help out Joe Six Pack.
Mainly because Cocoa is still an API at the lower levels of C and Objective-C. Its not like this newfangled.NET or Java stuff that requires you to load <exageration>8 billion megs</exageration> of code to run Hello World!
We bailed out these CEOs and corporations with Corporate welfare, where-then is the incentive for them not to do the same thing again in the future. Especially since the govt has demonstrated there are no consequences for large enough corporations.
I'd happily recommend getting one with Vista -- as long as the person I'm recommending it to is willing to put in the effort to learn something new.
I'd rather recommend they buy a Mac or install Linux, because at this point they need to learn a new interface, they may as well opt for something much better.
Yeah, have them drive iTunes out of business and then they can crank up the DRM schemes which take more control out of the consumer's hands and into RIAA's.
I appreciate that Apple doesn't license it's DRM, it helps keep DRM from spreading to everything and everyone. As soon as Apple loses their bargaining chips, RIAA will start going to other vendors who don't have a problem with increasing DRM limits.
Apple has helped one RIAA label realize DRM-free is the way to go. I would trust Apple W-A-Y before I would ever trust anything coming from RIAA/MPAA/etc.
I think they have been sneaking these LEDs into newer cars, my 2004 Acura TL has a blue LED in the part of the console where the map light are, pointed at the shifter. I always thought it was just enough light to see where your cup of coffee was...
Because that password is needed to send email using GMail's SMTP service, which requires SMTP AUTH. The 'debugging' code connected to Gmail SMTP/SSL, Authenticated, then sent the email using the developer's credentials...
Because deleting your messages, or file corruption, or somebody hacking your account - GETS REPLICATED ACROSS ALL THE SERVERS.
So you have redundant deleted messages, data corruption and malicious changes...
It is kind of like having a RAID-1 drive configuration and the NTFS partition information being corrupted and replicated to both disks, rendering the system un-bootable, even though you had redundant drives...
But if you have all the content in HTML, then use Javascript to hide part of the content, then Google would still see all the content, normal users wouldn't see it unless if they turned off Javascript.
So, it appears to be the same as your Free TV at home (if you have a good antenna) - you know, the Ad supported kind. You watch some digital stream that has Ads, how is it unreasonable to assume that it is not ad supported and free to the public?
In the end, it all boils down to, you make something public on the internet, users assume if there is not a login, it is free. If you don't want something free on the internet, make sure you protect your URLs. How is that so hard to understand and legislate - it isn't stealing because the content provider still has their content. The only thing consumed is bandwidth and server resources, which are always provided for free on publicly accessible URLs.
If you do not want people to leech anything from your servers, you need to ensure that your PUBLIC FACING ON THE INTERNET servers protect their content.
I was having issues with permissions on my C:\ drive, so I just added the 'Everybody' to the permissions and gave it 'Full Permissions' - Now I don't have to worry about permissions!
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If I had mod points, I would mod you up! Just because the number isn't incrementing to astronomical levels with each release doesn't mean that considerable changes aren't being made.
On another note:
Windows 2000 - Version 5.0
Windows XP - Version 5.1
Windows 2003 - Version 5.2
Hmm, seems like somebody was barking up the wrong tree...
Except for the OS X upgrades from Tiger (10.4) to Leopard (10.5). Most people felt a speed improvement (mostly perceived) from upgrading their OS X install. (Assuming they had a multi-core/multi-cpu machine)
This came from Apple's investment of time into their Cocoa APIs making them more multi-threaded, so those multi-core and multi-cpu machines would spent more time processing rather than waiting on UI to compute.
Defect from godaddy.com, use namecheap.com
Hmm, that completely sounds fishy to me.
Case in point, I have a C2D Q6600 on a DFI Mobo with Intel X38 chipset. I have had the hardest time getting Windows (Vista) to run in IDE hard drive mode reliably, I cannot even get it to boot in ACPI mode. Linux works great with ACPI, but refuses to boot with IDE mode.
I have built over 20 AMD based machines and 3 Intel machines. All of which have run Windows and Linux (and some Solaris), the Intel setups are the ones that I put together, fiddled with until they started working and have been afraid to touch for fear of them stopping to work again. My AMD machines (with the exception of 1 screwed up motherboard) have all worked flawlessly for years and weren't that hard to setup and install.
AMD has also been doing much better in Database performance with regard to MySQL and a very specific workload. Intel Core 2 Quad was choking on the data where AMD would just hum along without issue. This is primarily an email data storage and email access back-end using MySQL. The MySQL engineers were even involved in this research.
Netcraft confirms it!
I agree, there is a big difference between perceived speed and actual speed. The speed that sells product is the perceived kind.
As a tech minded group, we tend to focus on the underpinnings and structure of a product rather than the value added by making somebody more productive. It may not make YOU more productive, but it does help out Joe Six Pack.
Mainly because Cocoa is still an API at the lower levels of C and Objective-C. Its not like this newfangled .NET or Java stuff that requires you to load <exageration>8 billion megs</exageration> of code to run Hello World!
You forget sed and awk
Also, typically binding a service to ip 0.0.0.0 connects it to all available interfaces on the machine.
i.e: starting a development server for a django app on all interfaces (instead of the default 127.0.0.1)
python manage.py -runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
XP is more popular because it fits on a CD ~ 700MB, instead of having to download 4+ GB of data for Vista's DVDs.
If I have to get a machine up and running, will I download XP in 2 hours or download Vista over 2 days?
I second this motion. (aka, Yes it is.)
We bailed out these CEOs and corporations with Corporate welfare, where-then is the incentive for them not to do the same thing again in the future. Especially since the govt has demonstrated there are no consequences for large enough corporations.
AX is insanely complex (and a 'black box', don't let the X++ fool you), its stability reminds me of Windows Me. It also makes DBAs cry.
So, this must be what that hidden NSAKEY/KEY2 encryption key is for...
_NSAKEY
People use Microsoft Windows Server all the time.
I'd happily recommend getting one with Vista -- as long as the person I'm recommending it to is willing to put in the effort to learn something new.
I'd rather recommend they buy a Mac or install Linux, because at this point they need to learn a new interface, they may as well opt for something much better.
Yeah, have them drive iTunes out of business and then they can crank up the DRM schemes which take more control out of the consumer's hands and into RIAA's.
I appreciate that Apple doesn't license it's DRM, it helps keep DRM from spreading to everything and everyone. As soon as Apple loses their bargaining chips, RIAA will start going to other vendors who don't have a problem with increasing DRM limits.
Apple has helped one RIAA label realize DRM-free is the way to go. I would trust Apple W-A-Y before I would ever trust anything coming from RIAA/MPAA/etc.
I think they have been sneaking these LEDs into newer cars, my 2004 Acura TL has a blue LED in the part of the console where the map light are, pointed at the shifter. I always thought it was just enough light to see where your cup of coffee was...
Because that password is needed to send email using GMail's SMTP service, which requires SMTP AUTH. The 'debugging' code connected to Gmail SMTP/SSL, Authenticated, then sent the email using the developer's credentials...
Because deleting your messages, or file corruption, or somebody hacking your account - GETS REPLICATED ACROSS ALL THE SERVERS.
So you have redundant deleted messages, data corruption and malicious changes...
It is kind of like having a RAID-1 drive configuration and the NTFS partition information being corrupted and replicated to both disks, rendering the system un-bootable, even though you had redundant drives...
But if you have all the content in HTML, then use Javascript to hide part of the content, then Google would still see all the content, normal users wouldn't see it unless if they turned off Javascript.
So, it appears to be the same as your Free TV at home (if you have a good antenna) - you know, the Ad supported kind. You watch some digital stream that has Ads, how is it unreasonable to assume that it is not ad supported and free to the public?
In the end, it all boils down to, you make something public on the internet, users assume if there is not a login, it is free. If you don't want something free on the internet, make sure you protect your URLs. How is that so hard to understand and legislate - it isn't stealing because the content provider still has their content. The only thing consumed is bandwidth and server resources, which are always provided for free on publicly accessible URLs.
If you do not want people to leech anything from your servers, you need to ensure that your PUBLIC FACING ON THE INTERNET servers protect their content.
We the people of the Open world have something called IEEE.
Microsoft has something called MEEE - Microsoft Embrace Extend Extinguish.
Who says they don't comply with standards? Just because they choose to travel the 'higher' road of the MEEE?
I was having issues with permissions on my C:\ drive, so I just added the 'Everybody' to the permissions and gave it 'Full Permissions' - Now I don't have to worry about permissions!