Virtual PC has supported Linux as a guest for ages already, long before Microsoft bought them out. What would be more interesting is if they brought back support for OS/2 as a host OS, a feature which they immediately removed after buying the company out. Of course I'd expect nothing else from Microsoft, but oh well, maybe Microsoft still feels threatened by OS/2?
Doesn't say if they fixed the lack of MP3 support.
There's nothing to "fix" from a technology perspective, it's a legal/IP issue. AFAIK, the paid version includes such things out of the box, and the download version does not.
To someone not familiar with X11 programs, this might seem like a bug, but it certainly is not. As anyone who is familar with X11 programs knows, to copy something, all you need to do is highlight it. This means that if Firefox did auto-highlight the url every time you type in an address, you'd have your clipboard contents stolen from you. This is the reason that Konqueror includes a "Clear Location Bar" widget beside the location bar which does exactly what you want: clears the location bar, sets focus to it, and doesn't mangle your clipboard. There is a similar feature for Firefox if you install the extension for it.
That's the whole purpose of Wine, to provide an open implementation of the entire Win32 API for *nix, so that unmodified Win32 binaries can run on *nix without emulation.
Personally, I make extensive use of Konqueror's keywords, the defaults it comes with are excellent. Whenever I sit down at a 'doze machine, I always get upset when ggi:stuff doesn't search google images for stuff, the same for imdb:stuff with IMDB and dict:stuff with dictionary.com, and so on and so forth.
I see a lot of people such things now, but I think you may have a rude awakening if you go back and use Win95 and Netscape 3.x for a day or two.
Most of us, as geeks, constantly jump on new technology, and most of the improvements seem incremental at the time, but when you lump 10 years worth of incremental improvements together, they are much more than we think they are now.
'What will Windows (and the Google Browser) of 2015 look like?'
Assuming that Windows is still around in 2015. To be honest, I don't think it will be at the rate it's going. Then again, that may just be wishful thinking on my part.
* Approximate figures based on CD-quality WMA (64 Kbps)
I call BS... 64 Kbps isn't even close to CD quality. Even with a top notch encoder such as LAME, 128 is the bare minimum for something you can consider CD-quality.
You can set hard limits on the amount of RAM a user may consume, in addition to how many processes they can spawn, as well as a number of other useful things with a trivial amount of effort in Linux, have a look at/etc/security/limits.conf.
Too hard to set up. Doesn't work with our hardware. Doesn't work with our software. Too difficult to configure correctly. Too difficult to secure.
Your complaints about configuration are largely subjective and I won't bother arguing arguing those points, regardless of whether they're closer to "right" or "wrong". And honestly, I can understand that Linux isn't perfect for everything, and I realize that there is some very weird hardware that probably won't ever be supported under Linux and such problems really outweigh the benefits... But "Too difficult to secure." leads me to believe that you're either assuming nobody will read this post because it's several replies down, that you haven't considered Linux at all, or both.
Whether it's security from local users or security from remote attacks (even though your cash registers shouldn't be exposed to the internet directly...), I find it difficult to believe that Windows is easier to secure. Through the years, I have used a number of Windows computers that have been "protected" in a myriad of ways from malicious users, but I have yet to find a system that isn't trivially easy to circumvent, top honours going to Deep Freeze which doesn't do anything in of itself to prevent you from messing with the computer, but simply restores the entire drive image upon every reboot, with the obvious effect of having a fresh system every time.
Being a security minded individual and running Linux on all of my computers, I would make the guess that setting up a secure cash register that uses Linux would be exponentially easier than the same task under Windows. To just have a barebones install of Linux that simply fires up an empty X11 session with no WM/DE and immediately runs the cash register app you're using is trivially easy, run that session with a nobody user that has write access to nothing and use the database of your choice to control data access, throw on a firewall for paranoia, note that you're running exactly 0 services, hardware concerns aside (boot from a floppy, etc, none of which have anything to do with the OS), and you're all set. With Windows, you're stuck with the majority of it whether you like it or not (IE in particular, but there are many other offenders in this respect), unless you'd like to spend several days attempting to clean things up, and perhaps getting mediocre results (I thought this was about ease in the first place?) I don't see how Windows even comes close to Linux in terms of security.
Selling D2 items is more profitable than you might think...
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I was looking through the kernel source the other day, and in init/main.c found this nugget:
/* * This is one of the first.c files built. Error out early * if we have compiler trouble.. */ #if __GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 96 #ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER #error This compiler cannot compile correctly with frame pointers enabled #endif #endif
From what I've seen, ICC is still ahead of GCC, but Intel has actually been putting a fair bit of work into GCC, and this is showing in the newer releases of GCC (mostly with Intel processors however, who would have guessed?), mostly compile time related, but also some optimizations for runtime speed. I'd provide hard numbers, but I don't have ICC or the articles that mentioned such handy.
No idea about MSVC, it doesn't build very good Linux binaries though anyways.
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Isn't any developer insane? Just the good ones...
Virtual PC has supported Linux as a guest for ages already, long before Microsoft bought them out. What would be more interesting is if they brought back support for OS/2 as a host OS, a feature which they immediately removed after buying the company out. Of course I'd expect nothing else from Microsoft, but oh well, maybe Microsoft still feels threatened by OS/2?
There's nothing to "fix" from a technology perspective, it's a legal/IP issue. AFAIK, the paid version includes such things out of the box, and the download version does not.
Are you referring to dmix? Just enable OSS emulation in ALSA and have OSS applications speak to that, works like a charm.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing though?
OS X didn't have OpenGL before? That would seem like a glaring error if true...
A beta Microsoft product for backing up all of my critical data! Where do I sign up?
To someone not familiar with X11 programs, this might seem like a bug, but it certainly is not. As anyone who is familar with X11 programs knows, to copy something, all you need to do is highlight it. This means that if Firefox did auto-highlight the url every time you type in an address, you'd have your clipboard contents stolen from you. This is the reason that Konqueror includes a "Clear Location Bar" widget beside the location bar which does exactly what you want: clears the location bar, sets focus to it, and doesn't mangle your clipboard. There is a similar feature for Firefox if you install the extension for it.
That would also mean any patent filed by Microsoft would quickly become "-1 Troll"... Are you trying to say that that would be a bad thing?
Except he bought the software separately from the campus Bookstore, it didn't come with his laptop.
Then you may be interested to know that World of Warcraft works quite well in Wine.
In the end, everybody felt stupid when they realized you could get around the copy protection simply by holding down the shift key while scanning.
That's the whole purpose of Wine, to provide an open implementation of the entire Win32 API for *nix, so that unmodified Win32 binaries can run on *nix without emulation.
Personally, I make extensive use of Konqueror's keywords, the defaults it comes with are excellent. Whenever I sit down at a 'doze machine, I always get upset when ggi:stuff doesn't search google images for stuff, the same for imdb:stuff with IMDB and dict:stuff with dictionary.com, and so on and so forth.
Most of us, as geeks, constantly jump on new technology, and most of the improvements seem incremental at the time, but when you lump 10 years worth of incremental improvements together, they are much more than we think they are now.
Assuming that Windows is still around in 2015. To be honest, I don't think it will be at the rate it's going. Then again, that may just be wishful thinking on my part.
Perhaps SCO is just testing the waters to see how far they can go before the courts (hopefully) will slap them silly.
* Approximate figures based on CD-quality WMA (64 Kbps) I call BS... 64 Kbps isn't even close to CD quality. Even with a top notch encoder such as LAME, 128 is the bare minimum for something you can consider CD-quality.
You can set hard limits on the amount of RAM a user may consume, in addition to how many processes they can spawn, as well as a number of other useful things with a trivial amount of effort in Linux, have a look at /etc/security/limits.conf.
Your complaints about configuration are largely subjective and I won't bother arguing arguing those points, regardless of whether they're closer to "right" or "wrong". And honestly, I can understand that Linux isn't perfect for everything, and I realize that there is some very weird hardware that probably won't ever be supported under Linux and such problems really outweigh the benefits... But "Too difficult to secure." leads me to believe that you're either assuming nobody will read this post because it's several replies down, that you haven't considered Linux at all, or both.
Whether it's security from local users or security from remote attacks (even though your cash registers shouldn't be exposed to the internet directly...), I find it difficult to believe that Windows is easier to secure. Through the years, I have used a number of Windows computers that have been "protected" in a myriad of ways from malicious users, but I have yet to find a system that isn't trivially easy to circumvent, top honours going to Deep Freeze which doesn't do anything in of itself to prevent you from messing with the computer, but simply restores the entire drive image upon every reboot, with the obvious effect of having a fresh system every time.
Being a security minded individual and running Linux on all of my computers, I would make the guess that setting up a secure cash register that uses Linux would be exponentially easier than the same task under Windows. To just have a barebones install of Linux that simply fires up an empty X11 session with no WM/DE and immediately runs the cash register app you're using is trivially easy, run that session with a nobody user that has write access to nothing and use the database of your choice to control data access, throw on a firewall for paranoia, note that you're running exactly 0 services, hardware concerns aside (boot from a floppy, etc, none of which have anything to do with the OS), and you're all set. With Windows, you're stuck with the majority of it whether you like it or not (IE in particular, but there are many other offenders in this respect), unless you'd like to spend several days attempting to clean things up, and perhaps getting mediocre results (I thought this was about ease in the first place?) I don't see how Windows even comes close to Linux in terms of security.
Selling D2 items is more profitable than you might think...
No idea about MSVC, it doesn't build very good Linux binaries though anyways.
Well, it's not GCC, but here's Vim for Women (TM). Note that you can't actually edit anything...