People always report these sorts of problems, but I have yet to experience any of them. And, yes, I've used Windows XP, Vista and Mac OS X recently. As always, I guess, YMMV.
Of course, with the virtualization aspect, you can do the same thing with a Linux box, cheaper. Throw up Ubuntu (which, like Mac OS X, just works (TM) -- most of the time, anyway), install VirtualBox, load that puppy up with enough RAM and you'll be able to run Windows, Linux and OS X all at the same time.
All kidding aside, there are a few of us. It's not a matter of whether people believe you're a girl as much as whether they will automatically dismiss your abilities because of being a girl.
Nonsense. One of the best coders I ever met was a girl. I did, however, question her taste in desktop themes.;)
Also, their FAQ site mentions that Linux'es do not have a capable emulation layer, that is why x64 version comes first for linux. Like.. when will that day come, when flash animation will require more than 4GB of RAM?
Additionally, he'd insist on attaching the sandwich's recipe to the sandwich, with a note saying that others who followed this recipe to make their own sandwich who did not do likewise were going to burn in hell.
Furthermore, he wouldn't use a 'black bottle' of sauce, instead, he'd insist on making the sauce himself from raw ingredients, even if the homemade sauce didn't taste anywhere near as good as the sauce in the black bottle.
Finally, he'd insist on calling it a GNU/Sandwich.
Before RMS spoke about it most of you were for Cloud Computing now you are against it. You're a bunch of sheep.
Your sig: I don't know about the rest of/. mindset crowd, but I'm neither 'for' nor 'against' any technology really. I've always said that people should use what works.
You are ignorant and wrong. Software up to 1979 was not copyrighted (it was an "innovative" use of copyright by Bill Gates at the time that started this trend).
No, but be fair: there were various software programs protected as trade secrets. And I'm not entirely sure if Gates' use of copyright protection for software was a first or not.
If anything, the involvement of for-profit corporations using closed-source has crippled the progress of software, as you would expect exponential progress in a field such as software, but arguably software progress has slowed down since 1979.
Not really so much, I don't think. It's just that we've arrived at some fairly mature and stable ideas about software that just aren't likely to be changed. Foremost among those is the concept, design, and philosophy of Unix.
Actually if the avionics software for the F-22 was written by a government agency such as the Department of Defense, then it is public domain, not proprietary.
Well, you better erase that Linux distro off your hard drive if you'll only use software that doesn't use trademarked names. No, no, you can't use Debian either, because the name Linux is trademarked, too.
That, of course, doesn't make the problem less anoying to distro makers
Pot? Hello, Kettle! The distro makers are all doing the same thing. You can take the source code to Fedora Core and make your own Fedora-like distro, but you can't use the the trademark 'Fedora Core' nor can you use the Fedora logo or any other trademarks.
I was actually demonstrating a point, the point being that other forms of life we cannot or have not imagined are kind of pointless to speculate about, and hence that's the reason why scientists tend to focus on life 'as we know it' -- because those forms of life have been directly observed and can be proven to exist, unlike other forms of life that we can only speculate and conjecture about.
While I tend to agree with you -- there are many, many cars with extremely similar mileage to the Prius and if you really do the math, you'll find that you save either $0 or very close to $0 buying a Prius over other cars with similar gas mileage (not counting the tax credit, which many people may not even be able to take advatnage of), I highly doubt that you're getting 38 MPG on the highway with an unmodified 205 HP V6 engine of any make.
I'm not saying that you're lying, but I think that maybe you're not calculating your actual fuel economy correctly. If you do an advanced search at fueleconomy.gov for cars getting greater fuel economy than 30 MPG for model years 1994-2009 with at least 6 cylinders, you'll find that there aren't any from any manufacturer that get more than 33 mpg.
Okay, so there are serious issues with wireless in 8.10 because one kind of WiFi chipset from one manufacturer doesn't work well? *blink, blink*
By that definition, there aren't any operating systems without serious wireless issues. We wireless users might as well just give up all hope! All the OSes have horrible wireless! Oh noes!!
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People always report these sorts of problems, but I have yet to experience any of them. And, yes, I've used Windows XP, Vista and Mac OS X recently. As always, I guess, YMMV.
I keep hoping that someone will come up with a better replacement, but CIFS/SMB will continue to work until that day comes.
It's called NFS v4. Kerberos for authentication, encrypted traffic, lower overhead, no passwords or password hashes sent -- ever.
Of course, with the virtualization aspect, you can do the same thing with a Linux box, cheaper. Throw up Ubuntu (which, like Mac OS X, just works (TM) -- most of the time, anyway), install VirtualBox, load that puppy up with enough RAM and you'll be able to run Windows, Linux and OS X all at the same time.
Damn. I guess it is time to replace the ol' Connectix QuickCam....
I mean, they didn't even know about humans before Q launched the Enterprise D into Borg space.
That's no longer true once you consider First Contact. Don't you just love retcons? ;)
All kidding aside, there are a few of us. It's not a matter of whether people believe you're a girl as much as whether they will automatically dismiss your abilities because of being a girl.
Nonsense. One of the best coders I ever met was a girl. I did, however, question her taste in desktop themes. ;)
Also, their FAQ site mentions that Linux'es do not have a capable emulation layer, that is why x64 version comes first for linux. Like.. when will that day come, when flash animation will require more than 4GB of RAM?
I take it you haven't been to YouTube lately? ;)
Might I suggest open standards so anyone who cares can implement their own?
You mean like this one? Yes, good idea. ;)
What would rms do if I passed myself off as rms, or supplied copies of any GNU software that was inferior product masquerading as the original?
A) Insist that you call yourself GNU/rms? ;) *ducking*
B) That depends. Ehat happened to the egcs people?
You missed my point entirely. %s/Fedora Core/Firefox//g and then you'll get it.
No, CentOS is based on the SRPMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (which is in turn based on various versions of Fedora core), not on Fedora Core itself.
Additionally, he'd insist on attaching the sandwich's recipe to the sandwich, with a note saying that others who followed this recipe to make their own sandwich who did not do likewise were going to burn in hell.
Furthermore, he wouldn't use a 'black bottle' of sauce, instead, he'd insist on making the sauce himself from raw ingredients, even if the homemade sauce didn't taste anywhere near as good as the sauce in the black bottle.
Finally, he'd insist on calling it a GNU/Sandwich.
Before RMS spoke about it most of you were for Cloud Computing now you are against it. You're a bunch of sheep.
Your sig: I don't know about the rest of /. mindset crowd, but I'm neither 'for' nor 'against' any technology really. I've always said that people should use what works.
You are ignorant and wrong. Software up to 1979 was not copyrighted (it was an "innovative" use of copyright by Bill Gates at the time that started this trend).
No, but be fair: there were various software programs protected as trade secrets. And I'm not entirely sure if Gates' use of copyright protection for software was a first or not.
If anything, the involvement of for-profit corporations using closed-source has crippled the progress of software, as you would expect exponential progress in a field such as software, but arguably software progress has slowed down since 1979.
Not really so much, I don't think. It's just that we've arrived at some fairly mature and stable ideas about software that just aren't likely to be changed. Foremost among those is the concept, design, and philosophy of Unix.
Actually if the avionics software for the F-22 was written by a government agency such as the Department of Defense, then it is public domain, not proprietary.
Well, you better erase that Linux distro off your hard drive if you'll only use software that doesn't use trademarked names. No, no, you can't use Debian either, because the name Linux is trademarked, too.
That, of course, doesn't make the problem less anoying to distro makers
Pot? Hello, Kettle! The distro makers are all doing the same thing. You can take the source code to Fedora Core and make your own Fedora-like distro, but you can't use the the trademark 'Fedora Core' nor can you use the Fedora logo or any other trademarks.
I was actually demonstrating a point, the point being that other forms of life we cannot or have not imagined are kind of pointless to speculate about, and hence that's the reason why scientists tend to focus on life 'as we know it' -- because those forms of life have been directly observed and can be proven to exist, unlike other forms of life that we can only speculate and conjecture about.
While I tend to agree with you -- there are many, many cars with extremely similar mileage to the Prius and if you really do the math, you'll find that you save either $0 or very close to $0 buying a Prius over other cars with similar gas mileage (not counting the tax credit, which many people may not even be able to take advatnage of), I highly doubt that you're getting 38 MPG on the highway with an unmodified 205 HP V6 engine of any make.
I'm not saying that you're lying, but I think that maybe you're not calculating your actual fuel economy correctly. If you do an advanced search at fueleconomy.gov for cars getting greater fuel economy than 30 MPG for model years 1994-2009 with at least 6 cylinders, you'll find that there aren't any from any manufacturer that get more than 33 mpg.
I prefer my own Maniacal Egocentric Bastard Principle: I created the Universe, you guys are all just figments of my imagination. Muahahahahah!
Hmmm....*hooks up brain-USB interface*
$ cd
$ ls -al TASKMAN.EXE
-rwxrw-rw- 1 morgan users 15360 2001-08-23 08:00 TASKMAN.EXE
Hmmmm...very curious. This one appears to be from Windows XP...
Explains a lot I suppose...
Okay, so there are serious issues with wireless in 8.10 because one kind of WiFi chipset from one manufacturer doesn't work well? *blink, blink*
By that definition, there aren't any operating systems without serious wireless issues. We wireless users might as well just give up all hope! All the OSes have horrible wireless! Oh noes!!
I've not had one lick of trouble with Xubuntu 8.10 and wireless on my Dell Latitude D610 (old, I know, but it does have 802.11g). Not one lick.
Seriously.
How is Intel a 'partner'? They aren't an OEM, they're a component maker. Intel should no more be a Microsoft partner than, say, Seagate or nVidia.
Did anyone doubt that Microsoft and Intel are in cahoots? I mean, seriously, what cave have these people been hiding in for the last 20 years?