I've used a second server for games extensively, Diablo 2 particularly, and I had no stability problems with a Radeon Mobility 7500 (using the DRI drivers) nor a GeForce 3 (classic, using the NVidia drivers, of course). I also used KDE on the first X server in both instances, and a bare X server on the second with no issues, both machines had/have 512 megs of RAM.
Have a look at Eclipse, I've only used it for Java development, but it apparently does most languages. It is quite spectacular for Java though, I must say.
One of the largest problems I have had with coworkers/friends/family when they switch to MS Office is the document format. Sure, it works great on their own computer, and even takes up more space. However, I was phoned at one o'clock in the morning from a Kinko's because someone had to print up a report and the computers there didn't have MS Office.
The problem (IMO) with MS Office is that it saves the documents in its own format by default. Sure, you can't select to save it to any number of formats, but most people just type it a name and check "OK." This leads to many, many problems when it comes time to interact with other computers.
Some might say that having the.doc format be the default will help MS Office get into the mainstream. However, this is faulty logic. The person I talked about above ended switching back to OO.o because she just wanted things to work all the time. Even though she had no previous problems with MS Office, and I explained to her that you _couldn't_ save in.sxw format, she switched anyway. Her words: "I just can't stand being stranded."
I think that the closed source community should really take those words to heart. If closed source wants to grow, developers are going to have to step away from their niche market of people who really care about software being expensive and all that jazz. People just want things to work.
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Rumour has it that the cause of Emacs' new found lightweightedness has to do with the large number of CVS commits from Microsoft programmers recently.
Of course, they digitally signed the commits, so they must be trustworthy.
Don't forget about the changelog. It weighs in at a meaty 1.5 megs this time.
I think Santa really uses a Beowulf cluster of himself to distribute all the presents in time.
In his spare time he compiles Gentoo.
I'd wager that any distro that enables an iptables firewall (that doesn't leave any inbound ports open) stays alive longer than the hardware lasts.
Am I the only one that thinks it looks like a microwave? Though, with a name like that, it should be an expresso maker.
On the other hand, is it digitally signed? If not, how can I trust it?
So what you're saying is that because in Linux you can (not *have* to) do more serious tweaking, that it's not ready for Joe Sixpack? Wow.
I guess a BMW isn't ready for Joe Sixpack either because it can go faster than his Ford.
I've used a second server for games extensively, Diablo 2 particularly, and I had no stability problems with a Radeon Mobility 7500 (using the DRI drivers) nor a GeForce 3 (classic, using the NVidia drivers, of course). I also used KDE on the first X server in both instances, and a bare X server on the second with no issues, both machines had/have 512 megs of RAM.
Have a look at Eclipse, I've only used it for Java development, but it apparently does most languages. It is quite spectacular for Java though, I must say.
Great, but why do I need a digital camera when I can see the rest of my room perfectly well from where I'm sitting?
One of the largest problems I have had with coworkers/friends/family when they switch to MS Office is the document format. Sure, it works great on their own computer, and even takes up more space. However, I was phoned at one o'clock in the morning from a Kinko's because someone had to print up a report and the computers there didn't have MS Office.
.doc format be the default will help MS Office get into the mainstream. However, this is faulty logic. The person I talked about above ended switching back to OO.o because she just wanted things to work all the time. Even though she had no previous problems with MS Office, and I explained to her that you _couldn't_ save in .sxw format, she switched anyway. Her words: "I just can't stand being stranded."
The problem (IMO) with MS Office is that it saves the documents in its own format by default. Sure, you can't select to save it to any number of formats, but most people just type it a name and check "OK." This leads to many, many problems when it comes time to interact with other computers.
Some might say that having the
I think that the closed source community should really take those words to heart. If closed source wants to grow, developers are going to have to step away from their niche market of people who really care about software being expensive and all that jazz. People just want things to work.
Little do they know that I've already patented patents themselves! Muahaha...
...they could make flash not suck, they'd be on to something.
While it might work, the difference likely wouldn't be noticeable in most people, since they weren't used in the first place.