Maybe. I think there's a thread of truth in there, but one thing I can say for sure: Microsoft hates software piracy and they will never -- at least officially -- admit that that version was leaked on purpose. And maybe even it wasn't.
Relax. Your poast was probably not totally trollish, but definitely flamebait. (Yes, I distinguish the two.) Basically you came off as a yet another Linux zealot beating on Microsoft about Vista and Windows 7.
Keep in mind that while Linux distros may run fine with 1 GB of RAM or less, start adding stuff that runs all the time you'll be needing more just like on Vista.
While I'm a bit of Linux fanboy myself, I do tend to take a more ecumenical approach and I do realize that there are folks on here that need or prefer to use Windows. (And even as a fanboy, I admit there are things I need Windows -- for instance, some of the software I write needs to be able to run on Windows and POSIX platforms equally well.) And that's okay. Life is full of choices. Just because someone might not agree with your choices doesn't mean they're stupid.
True. But just bear this in mind about governments, in particular, republics: Winston Churchill once said that those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Agreed. I seem to remember reading something about the Secret Service already doing something along these lines with the decoy signals and specialized phone routing through private phone networks owned by the federal government.
Anyway, if you want to know where POTUS is, turn on CNN. It's not hard.
Isn't it true that most current 32-bit apps will run on 64-bit Vista, but that 16-bit Windows apps (a practically dead breed), 32-bit drivers, and some older 32-bit apps won't? I definitely wouldn't expect 32-bit drivers, so if you need to a device that doesn't have a 64-bit driver, you're a bit screwed, but other than that, you should be fine, right?
I don't know exactly how it works, but COA/OEM licenses of Windows may not be allowed to be installed in a VM.
I don't know about the EULAs for OEM VLK licenses, but if you have an OEM licensed copy from a manufacturer like Dell, the product key is tied to and stored in the BIOS. Meaning that the OEM copy will not work in a VM.
Corporate edition CDs work just fine. Its an open question whether or not a legitmately licensed copy of XP or Vista from Dell can be run with, say, a corporate license key, running in a VM on the same machine the OS is licensed for. I don't know what the legalities are, but this is exactly what I do and Microsoft can go fsck themselves they think I'm going to purchase a retail copy just to run an OS I already legitimately paid for in a VM on the physical machine that it was purchased for.
That'll change. 64-bit OSes are now mainstream -- and even VMs are becoming mainstream -- so it's only a matter of time before chipset and mobo manufacturers push the limits of more and more of their consumer-grade commodity stuff beyond the previous '4GB barrier'.
That anyone even has to ask this is a perfect example of what is wrong with the country. The answer is, first of all that Democracy requires the people to be educated. And then, this educated electorate is supposed to think about who would be the best person for the office, rather than the person they'd vote for in an actual contest of "popularity".
Thanks for that. I started to say all that in my post, but then I figured "Nah, this is Slashdot. These guys know all that. An oblique reference will do just fine."
Yeah, I know. I must be new here.
Anyway, to add to what you're saying and tie everything I said and you said back together: most people in this country aren't educated enough to vote for a president. A lot of people voted for Barack Obama simply because he's black or a because he's hipster. *(see below) There are many people who actually still think that Obama is a Muslim and many who are equally unaware of his Harvard education. On the flip side of that coin, there are many people who think John McCain has always taken a hard-line neo-con stance, completely unaware of his previous record as a centrist and a party maverick.
Most people don't pay attention enough to elect a president. They vote based on superficial BS.
* Note: I voted for Barack Obama, not because he was black, but because I thought his level of education and background as a community organizer actually made him the most qualified candidate for the position.
I agree. And you can even suspend/hibernate/resume and both OSes will retain their state. This is what I did for my wife's laptop. She occasionally needs Windows for a few things (like loading/converting other people's Microsoft Publisher or Visio files), and it works great. Just make sure you buy lots of RAM.
Correct. In fact, it seems to me that the purpose of the electoral college -- as framed in the Constitution with each elector picking two candidates -- was so that the electors would never end up be able to pick a clear winner. It's like they were almost hoping for a deadlock so that the vote would go to Congress most of the time.
The presidential election has become a popularity contest today, and removing the electoral college would just make it even more so.
1. Someone posts something that's funny because it involves shared cultural reference and experience for that community. 2. It gets modded up +5 funny. 3. ??? 4. Profit!
I'm not so sure about that. I mean I know on a theoretical level it should be that way, but in reality it's just not the case. I live in a place with good roads now, but I grew up in Detroit where one day I was driving down the pothole and *bam* there was the road! Anyway, I've had the exact same truck here and there and I haven't noticed any significant difference in gas mileage -- and I track it using my trip odometer. Maybe that's due to other factors (weather being one of them) but for all intents and purposes the mileage is the same.
No, I'm pretty sure they'd work in Detroit, too. Especially since I grew up there and drove on those roads for almost 35 years. Let me tell you: if this works half as well as they say in Boston, it'll probably cut your hybrid gas mileage in half.
Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration. But it makes a good glass of lemonade!
Now in the Tampa Bay area where I live now? Probably not so good. Every now and then I hit a pothole and I'm *shocked*.
In fact, if you think about it, the greater the number of different functions a filesystem driver uses, the less functionality it needs to have within itself. I also don't think the number of external calls is a significant measure of anything related to the size or performance, really. It all depends on what calls are being made and for what purpose.
If anything, as you imply, it's a measure of complexity. But even that might not really be the case if you stop and think about it. As more stuff is abstracted out, the less code goes into the filesystem code, the simpler, really, not more complex that filesystem driver becomes.
I think this was a really poor choice of metric and that almost renders this entire article moot.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Like all encyclopediae, it cannot be taken as a primary source of information. Der Spiegel is not a scholarly journal, either. It also cannot be taken as a primary source of information.
Bottom line: If you want to do real research, you need to go to primary sources. Calling something from Der Spiegel an authoritative citation is like calling something from The National Enquirer or Vogue an authoritative citation. Maybe the problem is that the Wikipedia editors think Der Spiegel is an authoritative source.
IF I were creating a national distribution and I wanted it to be "Red Hat-compatible" or "Red Hat-like" I would choose CentOS as my starting point, personally.
If you're worried about having the most open source packages available and easily installable, then I would pick either Debian or one of the Debian-like distros such as Ubuntu as my starting point.
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Maybe. I think there's a thread of truth in there, but one thing I can say for sure: Microsoft hates software piracy and they will never -- at least officially -- admit that that version was leaked on purpose. And maybe even it wasn't.
The beancounters! ;)
Relax. Your poast was probably not totally trollish, but definitely flamebait. (Yes, I distinguish the two.) Basically you came off as a yet another Linux zealot beating on Microsoft about Vista and Windows 7.
Keep in mind that while Linux distros may run fine with 1 GB of RAM or less, start adding stuff that runs all the time you'll be needing more just like on Vista.
While I'm a bit of Linux fanboy myself, I do tend to take a more ecumenical approach and I do realize that there are folks on here that need or prefer to use Windows. (And even as a fanboy, I admit there are things I need Windows -- for instance, some of the software I write needs to be able to run on Windows and POSIX platforms equally well.) And that's okay. Life is full of choices. Just because someone might not agree with your choices doesn't mean they're stupid.
True. But just bear this in mind about governments, in particular, republics: Winston Churchill once said that those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
He was more right than he knew. ;)
Agreed. I seem to remember reading something about the Secret Service already doing something along these lines with the decoy signals and specialized phone routing through private phone networks owned by the federal government.
Anyway, if you want to know where POTUS is, turn on CNN. It's not hard.
Even if it happens to be in the form of a really big sledgehammer with the word "OFF" emblazoned on it?
Isn't it true that most current 32-bit apps will run on 64-bit Vista, but that 16-bit Windows apps (a practically dead breed), 32-bit drivers, and some older 32-bit apps won't? I definitely wouldn't expect 32-bit drivers, so if you need to a device that doesn't have a 64-bit driver, you're a bit screwed, but other than that, you should be fine, right?
I don't know exactly how it works, but COA/OEM licenses of Windows may not be allowed to be installed in a VM.
I don't know about the EULAs for OEM VLK licenses, but if you have an OEM licensed copy from a manufacturer like Dell, the product key is tied to and stored in the BIOS. Meaning that the OEM copy will not work in a VM.
Corporate edition CDs work just fine. Its an open question whether or not a legitmately licensed copy of XP or Vista from Dell can be run with, say, a corporate license key, running in a VM on the same machine the OS is licensed for. I don't know what the legalities are, but this is exactly what I do and Microsoft can go fsck themselves they think I'm going to purchase a retail copy just to run an OS I already legitimately paid for in a VM on the physical machine that it was purchased for.
That'll change. 64-bit OSes are now mainstream -- and even VMs are becoming mainstream -- so it's only a matter of time before chipset and mobo manufacturers push the limits of more and more of their consumer-grade commodity stuff beyond the previous '4GB barrier'.
That anyone even has to ask this is a perfect example of what is wrong with the country. The
answer is, first of all that Democracy requires the people to be educated. And then, this educated
electorate is supposed to think about who would be the best person for the office, rather than the person they'd vote for in an actual contest of "popularity".
Thanks for that. I started to say all that in my post, but then I figured "Nah, this is Slashdot. These guys know all that. An oblique reference will do just fine."
Yeah, I know. I must be new here.
Anyway, to add to what you're saying and tie everything I said and you said back together: most people in this country aren't educated enough to vote for a president. A lot of people voted for Barack Obama simply because he's black or a because he's hipster. *(see below) There are many people who actually still think that Obama is a Muslim and many who are equally unaware of his Harvard education. On the flip side of that coin, there are many people who think John McCain has always taken a hard-line neo-con stance, completely unaware of his previous record as a centrist and a party maverick.
Most people don't pay attention enough to elect a president. They vote based on superficial BS.
* Note: I voted for Barack Obama, not because he was black, but because I thought his level of education and background as a community organizer actually made him the most qualified candidate for the position.
25 reasons to read Linus' blog:
1. Because you get bored really easily.
I agree. And you can even suspend/hibernate/resume and both OSes will retain their state. This is what I did for my wife's laptop. She occasionally needs Windows for a few things (like loading/converting other people's Microsoft Publisher or Visio files), and it works great. Just make sure you buy lots of RAM.
Correct. In fact, it seems to me that the purpose of the electoral college -- as framed in the Constitution with each elector picking two candidates -- was so that the electors would never end up be able to pick a clear winner. It's like they were almost hoping for a deadlock so that the vote would go to Congress most of the time.
The presidential election has become a popularity contest today, and removing the electoral college would just make it even more so.
1. Someone posts something that's funny because it involves shared cultural reference and experience for that community.
2. It gets modded up +5 funny.
3. ???
4. Profit!
I'm not so sure about that. I mean I know on a theoretical level it should be that way, but in reality it's just not the case. I live in a place with good roads now, but I grew up in Detroit where one day I was driving down the pothole and *bam* there was the road! Anyway, I've had the exact same truck here and there and I haven't noticed any significant difference in gas mileage -- and I track it using my trip odometer. Maybe that's due to other factors (weather being one of them) but for all intents and purposes the mileage is the same.
No, I'm pretty sure they'd work in Detroit, too. Especially since I grew up there and drove on those roads for almost 35 years. Let me tell you: if this works half as well as they say in Boston, it'll probably cut your hybrid gas mileage in half.
Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration. But it makes a good glass of lemonade!
Now in the Tampa Bay area where I live now? Probably not so good. Every now and then I hit a pothole and I'm *shocked*.
In fact, if you think about it, the greater the number of different functions a filesystem driver uses, the less functionality it needs to have within itself. I also don't think the number of external calls is a significant measure of anything related to the size or performance, really. It all depends on what calls are being made and for what purpose.
If anything, as you imply, it's a measure of complexity. But even that might not really be the case if you stop and think about it. As more stuff is abstracted out, the less code goes into the filesystem code, the simpler, really, not more complex that filesystem driver becomes.
I think this was a really poor choice of metric and that almost renders this entire article moot.
So, um, what grade do you suppose you'll get in my class?
You two need to get out more. Really.
If you need Google to figure that out for you, you need to go back to the 2nd grade.
Here we go again.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Like all encyclopediae, it cannot be taken as a primary source of information. Der Spiegel is not a scholarly journal, either. It also cannot be taken as a primary source of information.
Bottom line: If you want to do real research, you need to go to primary sources. Calling something from Der Spiegel an authoritative citation is like calling something from The National Enquirer or Vogue an authoritative citation. Maybe the problem is that the Wikipedia editors think Der Spiegel is an authoritative source.
So, which are you? ;)
No, but this is. IOW, if you want Qedit, you know where to find it. :)
Easy. I just did.
IF I were creating a national distribution and I wanted it to be "Red Hat-compatible" or "Red Hat-like" I would choose CentOS as my starting point, personally.
If you're worried about having the most open source packages available and easily installable, then I would pick either Debian or one of the Debian-like distros such as Ubuntu as my starting point.
Or, you could always start from scratch (LFS).