Well if you want to schedule jobs, do batch processing, background processing then Xyplorer is probably what you are looking for. Just an insane amount of control over the entire file system and last I checked their forums had a simple reg file that would let you change out explorer for xyplorer so that when you click on a folder it'll open in xyplorer.
As for why Windows doesn't have no to all? probably because it goes by file name only and they don't want grandma screwing up and losing her pictures because her camera names everything 001,002,003,etc so instead it has the rename all.
Uhhh...I still got old 40Gb drives at the shop, been sitting in a drawer for years...they work just fine. Hell if he's gonna be putting things he actually wants to see more than once he'd be smart to just use RAID 5 and you can buy new 2Tb drives for like $110 now.
The only time that "80X longevity" comes into play is if you've got something you want to just stuff in a safe but still be assured it can be accessed years and years from now, tax records or HIPPA records, not videos you are actually gonna want to sit down and watch with any kind of regularity and certainly not for running BT which will wear the tape drives out faster than the HDD thanks to the constant seeking.
Sorry friend but trying to use tape for what he is asking is about as smart as writing "Dear Slashdot, how do i make a car with square wheels?" because even if you pull it off its stupid, pointless, gonna wear out quicker, and for absolutely zero gains.
All I can figure is he managed to get a tape drive and a bunch of tapes cheap somewhere and now don't want to spend the money on a NAS. if that is the case the answer is simple, 1.-put tape drive and tapes on eBay, 2.-Take money from sale to buy a NAS which is actually made to do what he is fricking wanting! Sheesh.
Easy way to fix that friend, its called "don't use Windows sucky file copy" but instead use something like Extreme Copy or if you want some serious control just get rid of Windows file management for Xyplorer which is crazy powerful and fully customizable to YOUR way of doing things.
That doesn't change the fact that with HDDs falling again it really doesn't make any sense to use tape. I've recently seen several 2Tb externals in the $100-$120 range and the difference in throughput would seem to make HDDs the obvious choice.
If it were me I'd get a cheap NAS box and load it up with drives, probably pick up some of the refurb 1Tb Ecodrives at geeks and just go RAID 5. I've never had any trouble with their refurbs and at $65 a piece for the 1Tb you could throw 4 of them in there in RAID 5 and not have to worry about it. If you are worried about refurbs they have 2Tb WD greens for $110, either way would give him plenty of space and better throughput than he'd get going tape.
But if all he is doing is downloading the distros and putting them up, why not burn them? You sure as hell wouldn't want to try to share on something like BT with a tape, too much seeking would wear out the tapes quick, so the whole thing don't really make much sense to me. Maybe he came across some tapes cheap, who knows. But with drives dropping again it really seems kinda pointless to go tape for what he's wanting to do, tape has always been a long term storage medium, not a day to day access medium.
"I believe the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs, well I believe the puppet on the right has MY interests at heart...hey wait a minute, there's one guy working both puppets!"...Bill Hicks.
I'm sorry but Shentino got it right. remember that movie where you would push a button and get a million, but it would kill a stranger? There is a pretty well known phenomena where our ability to feel empathy goes down the farther the person is from our own inner circle. Its easy to feel for the guy across the hall, but across the state? Not easy at all. We humans are simply not wired to handle large groups and our ability to feel compassion and empathy fades when the size of the group becomes too large.
Which is why I never understood all these people getting worked up over these petitions and voting. Does ANYBODY truly believe that a fricking petition or voting is gonna make a damned bit of difference? They have the guns, the courts, and the ability to buy any law they desire, does anyone think they are gonna go "Ohhh, this makes the peasants unhappy so we should quit even though we are making insane amounts of money doing it"? Fuck no!
For anybody that still believes petitions and voting can change a damned thing I urge you to watch this video, only 16 minutes long, because he spells it out better than I ever could.
Actually Win 8 may end up making them a mint, how? New Coke. Corps and people rush to buy Win 7 to keep from getting "stuck" with win 8, thus boosting their bottom line. After all MSFT was gonna put out a WinTab anyway so it isn't like they would have had to spend a ton sticking the UI they already had for WinTab onto X86, so they get all those that have been sitting on XP to go "ZOMFG if I don't get Win 7 I'm screwed!".
Hell it worked for XP, I saw XP sales go up after the stench that is Vista and we all saw how quickly the OEMs jumped on with "Buy this unit with XP preinstalled!". Seems like a quick if nasty way to get your customers to buy your product, MSFT gets paid either way, no skin off their ass.
Actually I've seen something similar, out walking with my Sandisk E series strapped to my arm I get "Oh what kind of iPod is that?" because to the average joe an MP3 player IS an iPod, its become a generic name like aspirin or vaseline. I never seen anybody tell me I should have something different though, they just assume its some sort of Apple device they haven't seen.
Uhhh...because Apple has NEVER gone for the "race to the bottom" razor thin margins? Ever? If a new iPod costs even $50 for BOM I frankly would be amazed with Cook buying up the parts he needs and locking up his supply chain but the new iPod certainly don't sell for $60 do they?
Lets face it, Cook may not be Jobs but he isn't a dummy and isn't gonna fuck up the "elite" branding that Jobs spent so many years building. Jobs whole spiel was "expensive...but worth it" and as Porsche saw there is no quicker way to piss away an elite branding than by trying to get into the low end market. The new iPad will be $399-$499 which will put it in the high end of that market, Apple will sell a ton of them, and Cook will laugh all the way to the bank.
Win 8 actually 'cheatboots' in that a reboot merely dumps userland while keeping the kernel and drivers which frankly will just make it flakier as it goes along, just another dumb idea brought to you by Ballmer's MSFT.
If you are not a programmer Linux sucks big hairy balls crutchy, sorry but its true. Hell even one of the Red hat Developers says the desktop is suckage and will only continue to get worse, why? because the whole system was designed when the kernel and drivers could fit on a floppy and all the available software could fit on a mini-CD. Now you are looking at billions of lines of code just for the base OS and tens of thousands of packages and drivers...its a mess dude.
Things that work in foo get broken in foo+1 and may not get fixed until Foo+5 if it gets fixed at all, drivers shitting themselves when the system is updated, something windows hasn't done since Win9X, hell I could list all the fail but this page with over a hundred links to obviously show stopping broken bullshit should be proof enough for those that are honest.
In the end MSFT could put out "The Steve Ballmer Goatse Edition" of Windows and it'd sell more than Linux would ever gain. Not because of OEMs, but simply because Linux is a fucking mess and Linus and the other ubernerds LIKE IT that way. Hell did you know that Dell has to run their own damned highly outdated repo, just because they couldn't get enough QA from Canonical to keep ubuntu from shitting itself on update even though they only had less than a dozen units and all with bog standard hardware? Normal folks aren't gonna put up with horseshit like that crutchy, they'll stick with Win 7 or get an Apple before they'll mess with the forum hunts, CLI fixes, and assorted horseshit that it takes just to keep Linux running.
You get plenty of security by simply breaking the machine crutchy, something Torvalds and co are pretty damned good at. Heck if anything starts getting stable Linux devs rip it out and start over, see the DEs or PukeAudio, I used to think that Linux would be ready within 3 years, its now obvious they will ALWAYS be 5 or more years behind, simply because nobody will fix the messes. Makes sense, easier to get programmers to put out new buggy shit than it is to get them to work on buxfixes for free, its the classic "busted shitter" problem in a nutshell. Ask someone to paint you a picture or write you a song for free? Plenty of takers. Ask them to come fix your busted shitter for free? yeah good luck with that. The guts of Linux are the busted shitter, with the only money being spent on the server parts and the desktop just stinking up the joint.
And its GPL V2, which Google has made DAMNED SURE doesn't get contaminated by ANY GPL V3 code, which means they can TiVo the fuck out of it like many including Motorola already do.
I just looooove how the FOSSies cheer Android, it makes me laugh and laugh and laugh, why are they not able to see reality? Hint: H.265. To have H.265 DRM, so your Netflix and and Amazon vids will play you will HAVE to have DRM and there is a good reason why nobody has made FOSS DRM, and that is because its damned near impossible...unless you TiVo the machine.
So mark my words, when H.265 is finished Google WILL lock down Android for "security reasons" and FOSSies will cheer because 'hey Google gave us this code we can't run herpa derp" and i will laugh and laugh. I mean how much of a bitchslapping does it take? The Android team guy tweeting "Android is open...to the OEMs" not a big enough clue?
Google knows that those numbers they are getting aren't from FOSSies, its from normal folks that don't give a shit about Open Source, all they care about is having a nice smartphone cheap. Personally I'm gonna LMAO when the FOSSies, still shaking their little fists at a horribly mismanaged MSFT that can't fucking give away products in the mobile space, suddenly get ran over by Brin taking away the ONE success they've had. When they close Android it'll be no different than TiVo or your average router, just another corp getting suckers to work for free, gotta laugh.
Actually I think the Sega example is a better analogy as like Sega MSFT is notorious from just walking away from products, see Zune, Kin, Sidekick, and from the looks of it anybody who buys a WinPhone 7 won't get the Win 8 update...so why in the hell would you buy a MSFT mobile product? Answer: you shouldn't.
At least with X86 Windows you know to the day when its EOL thanks to the corporate agreements and their own roadmap but with mobile the only way buying a MSFT device would be worth it is if you got it at Woot! firesale prices.
Uhhh...those were under gates, who hasn't been running the show since 1999 and frankly it shows. personally I'd much rather have Gates as he may have been a bastard, but he was a bastard that could build good office OSes.
No dude what we have here is just another chapter in the continuing saga of Steve "I wanna work in Cupertino LOL!" Ballmer, the used car salesman of the corporate world. what we'll get is half assed knockoff that won't work worth a shit and will bomb, simple as that. hell look at the man's track record, Zune, Kin,WinCE, WinPhone, pushing out the X360 with a 2 billion dollar hardware flaw...the man can snatch defeat from victory quicker than the PHB from Dilbert.
So seriously dude, the 90s are over, get over it, okay? windows will stay on X86 which is gonna be like washers and dryers in that nobody will replace until the previous one dies, and if you want someone to be scared of you need to be scared of Brin and Cook, not Ballmer. The days of "the big bad M$" are as gone as the days of "the big bad big blue IBM" are, its over, its done, the fat lady is down the street having a sammich.
Ya wanna know what happens to the OEMs? Here let me break out my crystal ball...Win 8 shits the bed, OEMs demand win 7 downgrade rights and get it, WinTabs end up on Woot! for 80% off as people wait around the block for iPad 5.awesome. Frankly Gabe at Valve will come out with a Steambox and drive another nail in the coffin for MSFT, Ballmer will retire declaring victory based on how many win 8 licenses sold (while ignoring that like Vista its just a DVD sitting in a box that nobody uses) and once fatboy is gone the board will bring in somebody with a brain, maybe lure Allchin or Ozzie back, and MSFT will become the new IBM.
So get over it friend, just let it go. MSFT won the desktop which is flatline and will stay that way, Google will lock down Android and they and Apple will control mobile with an iron hand, meanwhile you'll shake your fist at the old tiger in the corner wheezing and limping along because once upon a time they were actually scary.
Glad to see i'm not the only one going "WTF?" on the Win 8 boot issue. And you are right they are NOT flushing the RAM, they are merely flushing the userland while keeping the kernel and drivers loaded. this is nothing but a cheap "hybrid sleep" style hack only they are claiming you are rebooting while simply reloading the userland and leaving everything else there. At least with hybrid sleep you KNOW it is just sleeping so if things get glitchy you can do a full reboot which from what i can see is damned near impossible to do in win 8 without CLI.
I've had to deal with enough bad RAM cells and random RAM glitches with non ECC memory here at the shop to know that this "new boot" is a BAD fucking idea because if anything is off in the RAM that is affecting the system? Reboot won't help you now. Its gonna make Win 8 that much bigger of a PITA and for frankly damned little benefit since everyone is going to SSDs or hybrids so those few seconds aren't worth the extra hassle of no regular boot.
Uhhh...wasn't those all things that ALRAEDY were Open Source and Apple just threw some money at them? I know webkit was KHTML from the KDE guys and frankly wouldn't be surprised if the others are similarly open source software that Apple found useful and decided to sink some money into.
After all Microsoft is in the top 10 when it comes to contributions to the Linux kernel, that don't make them a friend of Linux.
The EOL is part of corporate contracts which is why they publicize it, so Win 7 will be here until 2020 whether MSFT like it or not. Don't you think they'd love to kill XP support today? Can't do it, they made deals and they'd get sued if they backed out. So like it or not its 2014 for XP, 2017 for Vista, and 2020 for Win 7.
Which is why you should buy AMD which has already said they are gonna use Coreboot over UEFI and since Coreboot is FOSS you'll be able to compile any tweaks you want and slap them into the board.
Whether you are happy with their current roadmap or not (I prefer Thuban and Liano over bulldozer) you have to give AMD credit, when they say they are going FOSS they go whole hog.
Because you don't see what the PHBs are thinking friend, which is 1.-WinPhone won't sell, 2.-WinPhone is doubleplusgood UI so it MUST be the fact that the users aren't used to our new super paradigm so, 3.-Force everyone to use WinPhone Ui so they will "learn" to love doubleplusgood UI paradigm.
In the end its a Hail Mary pass, they know X86 is gonna stay flat, no reason for people to replace that quad desktop or dual laptop until it dies so no constant rollover like with cellphones, so they make one last throw and hope to gain some yards before the clock runs out. Will it work, I doubt it because the truth MSFT doesn't want to accept is that Windows IS X86 and without X86 programs nobody cares about Windows, so instead of accepting their market is mature and spinning off mobile to sink or swim we get a classic MSFT "we'll force you to take our crap" failwhale.
1.-pointless, corps already have their own AV and sure as hell ain't gonna depend on fricking defender to save 'em, 2.-pointless as everyone is going to SSDs or hybrid drives where boot isn't worth worrying about, besides Win 7 has hybrid sleep which is what everyone has been using which is faster than any boot, 3.-pointless as a good AV with sandboxing is gonna do more than UEFI anyway. honestly since the switch away from XP with its retarded "Everybody is an admin!" bullshit the malware has gone WAAAAY down, and with Win 7 the only "malware" I've been seeing is morons that purposely install spyware trying to get some freebie. this isn't a worry in corp because you don't give the workers install rights.
I have plenty of customers that were exactly as you described, i let them play with both, they chose....Windows 7. The LAST thing you want on a corp network is some tweeting twitting FB shitting "social media" OS with a ton of crap constantly updating and distracting the workers and that is Win 8 in a nutshell. Its a fricking cell phone OS and while you might not give a shit if your worker is checking their FB on the bus coming in on their smartphone when they park their asses in the chair you damned well want them working, while Win 8 jumps around like a kid on too much sugar going "Look at me! Play with me! I iz a cell phone LOL!". Its just not worth it.
Let Hairy help ya pal, what you do is run SIW and then bypass the OEMs and get the drivers directly for the hardware from the chip makers. Frankly ALL laptop support is piss poor, you're lucky if you get even a single update for the drivers, but since all the parts are bog standard its easy enough to just bypass.
Another good source is Driverpacks, they have virtually every major hardware driver for Win 7 and their drivers aren't as "picky" as the OEMs. Slap them on a stick or DVD and let it run, when its done you have a fully functional system.
The problem is as a PC builder and seller I can tell you the 3 to 5 year cycle? Doesn't exist anymore. A typical 5 year old PC for my customers is a first gen Core Duo of Phenom X3. Now tell me, what office job can't be done perfectly well on a Core Duo of Phenom X3? None that i can think of. Many of my customers chose to put Win 7 on while keeping the units simply because nothing they were doing was stressing the PCs so wasting hundreds more than the cost of a Win 7 license to replace the system was deemed pointless. This is why I've gotten more and more into HTPCs, more room for growth there.
But you are right about Win 8, the few of my customers that still had any single cores on site got rid of them for Win 7 precisely so they wouldn't have to deal with Win 8. I should probably give MSFT credit for that, been cranking out the triples and quads lately for those that don't want Win 8, its just too much of a boat anchor to productivity for most SMBs and my home users as well, nobody wants the thing.
Thanks crutchy, I so rarely get to use this in a sentence...WHOOSH!
Kinda the point there pal, just like silverlight MSFT just can't ram standards down anyone's throat anymore, the world has moved on and they ain't the 800 pound gorilla they used to be. That would be Google and Apple while MSFT is an old chimp sitting in the corner going "I used to be King Kong dammit! I used to be feared!" while everyone just ignores it as they walk on by.
Dude, have you paid ANY attention to the way Steve "LOL I wanna work at Cupertino!" Ballmer has run the company? Does the words Zune mean anything? Kin? Sidekick? MSFT buying a company is the kiss of death now and I wouldn't be surprised if Skype goes the way of Zune thanks to MSFT mismanagement.
In the end everyone remembers what MSFT did with IE 6 and nobody is gonna want to go down that road again so MSFT can push their proprietary "solution" all day long, its not gonna go anywhere, not against Google. This just shows how badly out of touch the guys at Redmond are, still acting like its 2004 and they have the pull to get away with crap like that now when mobile is booming and desktops are flatline.
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Well if you want to schedule jobs, do batch processing, background processing then Xyplorer is probably what you are looking for. Just an insane amount of control over the entire file system and last I checked their forums had a simple reg file that would let you change out explorer for xyplorer so that when you click on a folder it'll open in xyplorer.
As for why Windows doesn't have no to all? probably because it goes by file name only and they don't want grandma screwing up and losing her pictures because her camera names everything 001,002,003,etc so instead it has the rename all.
Uhhh...I still got old 40Gb drives at the shop, been sitting in a drawer for years...they work just fine. Hell if he's gonna be putting things he actually wants to see more than once he'd be smart to just use RAID 5 and you can buy new 2Tb drives for like $110 now.
The only time that "80X longevity" comes into play is if you've got something you want to just stuff in a safe but still be assured it can be accessed years and years from now, tax records or HIPPA records, not videos you are actually gonna want to sit down and watch with any kind of regularity and certainly not for running BT which will wear the tape drives out faster than the HDD thanks to the constant seeking.
Sorry friend but trying to use tape for what he is asking is about as smart as writing "Dear Slashdot, how do i make a car with square wheels?" because even if you pull it off its stupid, pointless, gonna wear out quicker, and for absolutely zero gains.
All I can figure is he managed to get a tape drive and a bunch of tapes cheap somewhere and now don't want to spend the money on a NAS. if that is the case the answer is simple, 1.-put tape drive and tapes on eBay, 2.-Take money from sale to buy a NAS which is actually made to do what he is fricking wanting! Sheesh.
Easy way to fix that friend, its called "don't use Windows sucky file copy" but instead use something like Extreme Copy or if you want some serious control just get rid of Windows file management for Xyplorer which is crazy powerful and fully customizable to YOUR way of doing things.
That doesn't change the fact that with HDDs falling again it really doesn't make any sense to use tape. I've recently seen several 2Tb externals in the $100-$120 range and the difference in throughput would seem to make HDDs the obvious choice.
If it were me I'd get a cheap NAS box and load it up with drives, probably pick up some of the refurb 1Tb Ecodrives at geeks and just go RAID 5. I've never had any trouble with their refurbs and at $65 a piece for the 1Tb you could throw 4 of them in there in RAID 5 and not have to worry about it. If you are worried about refurbs they have 2Tb WD greens for $110, either way would give him plenty of space and better throughput than he'd get going tape.
But if all he is doing is downloading the distros and putting them up, why not burn them? You sure as hell wouldn't want to try to share on something like BT with a tape, too much seeking would wear out the tapes quick, so the whole thing don't really make much sense to me. Maybe he came across some tapes cheap, who knows. But with drives dropping again it really seems kinda pointless to go tape for what he's wanting to do, tape has always been a long term storage medium, not a day to day access medium.
"I believe the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs, well I believe the puppet on the right has MY interests at heart...hey wait a minute, there's one guy working both puppets!"...Bill Hicks.
I'm sorry but Shentino got it right. remember that movie where you would push a button and get a million, but it would kill a stranger? There is a pretty well known phenomena where our ability to feel empathy goes down the farther the person is from our own inner circle. Its easy to feel for the guy across the hall, but across the state? Not easy at all. We humans are simply not wired to handle large groups and our ability to feel compassion and empathy fades when the size of the group becomes too large.
Which is why I never understood all these people getting worked up over these petitions and voting. Does ANYBODY truly believe that a fricking petition or voting is gonna make a damned bit of difference? They have the guns, the courts, and the ability to buy any law they desire, does anyone think they are gonna go "Ohhh, this makes the peasants unhappy so we should quit even though we are making insane amounts of money doing it"? Fuck no!
For anybody that still believes petitions and voting can change a damned thing I urge you to watch this video, only 16 minutes long, because he spells it out better than I ever could.
Actually Win 8 may end up making them a mint, how? New Coke. Corps and people rush to buy Win 7 to keep from getting "stuck" with win 8, thus boosting their bottom line. After all MSFT was gonna put out a WinTab anyway so it isn't like they would have had to spend a ton sticking the UI they already had for WinTab onto X86, so they get all those that have been sitting on XP to go "ZOMFG if I don't get Win 7 I'm screwed!".
Hell it worked for XP, I saw XP sales go up after the stench that is Vista and we all saw how quickly the OEMs jumped on with "Buy this unit with XP preinstalled!". Seems like a quick if nasty way to get your customers to buy your product, MSFT gets paid either way, no skin off their ass.
Actually I've seen something similar, out walking with my Sandisk E series strapped to my arm I get "Oh what kind of iPod is that?" because to the average joe an MP3 player IS an iPod, its become a generic name like aspirin or vaseline. I never seen anybody tell me I should have something different though, they just assume its some sort of Apple device they haven't seen.
Uhhh...because Apple has NEVER gone for the "race to the bottom" razor thin margins? Ever? If a new iPod costs even $50 for BOM I frankly would be amazed with Cook buying up the parts he needs and locking up his supply chain but the new iPod certainly don't sell for $60 do they?
Lets face it, Cook may not be Jobs but he isn't a dummy and isn't gonna fuck up the "elite" branding that Jobs spent so many years building. Jobs whole spiel was "expensive...but worth it" and as Porsche saw there is no quicker way to piss away an elite branding than by trying to get into the low end market. The new iPad will be $399-$499 which will put it in the high end of that market, Apple will sell a ton of them, and Cook will laugh all the way to the bank.
Win 8 actually 'cheatboots' in that a reboot merely dumps userland while keeping the kernel and drivers which frankly will just make it flakier as it goes along, just another dumb idea brought to you by Ballmer's MSFT.
If you are not a programmer Linux sucks big hairy balls crutchy, sorry but its true. Hell even one of the Red hat Developers says the desktop is suckage and will only continue to get worse, why? because the whole system was designed when the kernel and drivers could fit on a floppy and all the available software could fit on a mini-CD. Now you are looking at billions of lines of code just for the base OS and tens of thousands of packages and drivers...its a mess dude.
Things that work in foo get broken in foo+1 and may not get fixed until Foo+5 if it gets fixed at all, drivers shitting themselves when the system is updated, something windows hasn't done since Win9X, hell I could list all the fail but this page with over a hundred links to obviously show stopping broken bullshit should be proof enough for those that are honest.
In the end MSFT could put out "The Steve Ballmer Goatse Edition" of Windows and it'd sell more than Linux would ever gain. Not because of OEMs, but simply because Linux is a fucking mess and Linus and the other ubernerds LIKE IT that way. Hell did you know that Dell has to run their own damned highly outdated repo, just because they couldn't get enough QA from Canonical to keep ubuntu from shitting itself on update even though they only had less than a dozen units and all with bog standard hardware? Normal folks aren't gonna put up with horseshit like that crutchy, they'll stick with Win 7 or get an Apple before they'll mess with the forum hunts, CLI fixes, and assorted horseshit that it takes just to keep Linux running.
You get plenty of security by simply breaking the machine crutchy, something Torvalds and co are pretty damned good at. Heck if anything starts getting stable Linux devs rip it out and start over, see the DEs or PukeAudio, I used to think that Linux would be ready within 3 years, its now obvious they will ALWAYS be 5 or more years behind, simply because nobody will fix the messes. Makes sense, easier to get programmers to put out new buggy shit than it is to get them to work on buxfixes for free, its the classic "busted shitter" problem in a nutshell. Ask someone to paint you a picture or write you a song for free? Plenty of takers. Ask them to come fix your busted shitter for free? yeah good luck with that. The guts of Linux are the busted shitter, with the only money being spent on the server parts and the desktop just stinking up the joint.
And its GPL V2, which Google has made DAMNED SURE doesn't get contaminated by ANY GPL V3 code, which means they can TiVo the fuck out of it like many including Motorola already do.
I just looooove how the FOSSies cheer Android, it makes me laugh and laugh and laugh, why are they not able to see reality? Hint: H.265. To have H.265 DRM, so your Netflix and and Amazon vids will play you will HAVE to have DRM and there is a good reason why nobody has made FOSS DRM, and that is because its damned near impossible...unless you TiVo the machine.
So mark my words, when H.265 is finished Google WILL lock down Android for "security reasons" and FOSSies will cheer because 'hey Google gave us this code we can't run herpa derp" and i will laugh and laugh. I mean how much of a bitchslapping does it take? The Android team guy tweeting "Android is open...to the OEMs" not a big enough clue?
Google knows that those numbers they are getting aren't from FOSSies, its from normal folks that don't give a shit about Open Source, all they care about is having a nice smartphone cheap. Personally I'm gonna LMAO when the FOSSies, still shaking their little fists at a horribly mismanaged MSFT that can't fucking give away products in the mobile space, suddenly get ran over by Brin taking away the ONE success they've had. When they close Android it'll be no different than TiVo or your average router, just another corp getting suckers to work for free, gotta laugh.
Actually I think the Sega example is a better analogy as like Sega MSFT is notorious from just walking away from products, see Zune, Kin, Sidekick, and from the looks of it anybody who buys a WinPhone 7 won't get the Win 8 update...so why in the hell would you buy a MSFT mobile product? Answer: you shouldn't.
At least with X86 Windows you know to the day when its EOL thanks to the corporate agreements and their own roadmap but with mobile the only way buying a MSFT device would be worth it is if you got it at Woot! firesale prices.
Uhhh...those were under gates, who hasn't been running the show since 1999 and frankly it shows. personally I'd much rather have Gates as he may have been a bastard, but he was a bastard that could build good office OSes.
No dude what we have here is just another chapter in the continuing saga of Steve "I wanna work in Cupertino LOL!" Ballmer, the used car salesman of the corporate world. what we'll get is half assed knockoff that won't work worth a shit and will bomb, simple as that. hell look at the man's track record, Zune, Kin,WinCE, WinPhone, pushing out the X360 with a 2 billion dollar hardware flaw...the man can snatch defeat from victory quicker than the PHB from Dilbert.
So seriously dude, the 90s are over, get over it, okay? windows will stay on X86 which is gonna be like washers and dryers in that nobody will replace until the previous one dies, and if you want someone to be scared of you need to be scared of Brin and Cook, not Ballmer. The days of "the big bad M$" are as gone as the days of "the big bad big blue IBM" are, its over, its done, the fat lady is down the street having a sammich.
Ya wanna know what happens to the OEMs? Here let me break out my crystal ball...Win 8 shits the bed, OEMs demand win 7 downgrade rights and get it, WinTabs end up on Woot! for 80% off as people wait around the block for iPad 5.awesome. Frankly Gabe at Valve will come out with a Steambox and drive another nail in the coffin for MSFT, Ballmer will retire declaring victory based on how many win 8 licenses sold (while ignoring that like Vista its just a DVD sitting in a box that nobody uses) and once fatboy is gone the board will bring in somebody with a brain, maybe lure Allchin or Ozzie back, and MSFT will become the new IBM.
So get over it friend, just let it go. MSFT won the desktop which is flatline and will stay that way, Google will lock down Android and they and Apple will control mobile with an iron hand, meanwhile you'll shake your fist at the old tiger in the corner wheezing and limping along because once upon a time they were actually scary.
Glad to see i'm not the only one going "WTF?" on the Win 8 boot issue. And you are right they are NOT flushing the RAM, they are merely flushing the userland while keeping the kernel and drivers loaded. this is nothing but a cheap "hybrid sleep" style hack only they are claiming you are rebooting while simply reloading the userland and leaving everything else there. At least with hybrid sleep you KNOW it is just sleeping so if things get glitchy you can do a full reboot which from what i can see is damned near impossible to do in win 8 without CLI.
I've had to deal with enough bad RAM cells and random RAM glitches with non ECC memory here at the shop to know that this "new boot" is a BAD fucking idea because if anything is off in the RAM that is affecting the system? Reboot won't help you now. Its gonna make Win 8 that much bigger of a PITA and for frankly damned little benefit since everyone is going to SSDs or hybrids so those few seconds aren't worth the extra hassle of no regular boot.
Uhhh...wasn't those all things that ALRAEDY were Open Source and Apple just threw some money at them? I know webkit was KHTML from the KDE guys and frankly wouldn't be surprised if the others are similarly open source software that Apple found useful and decided to sink some money into.
After all Microsoft is in the top 10 when it comes to contributions to the Linux kernel, that don't make them a friend of Linux.
The EOL is part of corporate contracts which is why they publicize it, so Win 7 will be here until 2020 whether MSFT like it or not. Don't you think they'd love to kill XP support today? Can't do it, they made deals and they'd get sued if they backed out. So like it or not its 2014 for XP, 2017 for Vista, and 2020 for Win 7.
Which is why you should buy AMD which has already said they are gonna use Coreboot over UEFI and since Coreboot is FOSS you'll be able to compile any tweaks you want and slap them into the board.
Whether you are happy with their current roadmap or not (I prefer Thuban and Liano over bulldozer) you have to give AMD credit, when they say they are going FOSS they go whole hog.
Its called classic shell and you're welcome. When the PC gets ya down just make sure old Hairy is around.
Because you don't see what the PHBs are thinking friend, which is 1.-WinPhone won't sell, 2.-WinPhone is doubleplusgood UI so it MUST be the fact that the users aren't used to our new super paradigm so, 3.-Force everyone to use WinPhone Ui so they will "learn" to love doubleplusgood UI paradigm.
In the end its a Hail Mary pass, they know X86 is gonna stay flat, no reason for people to replace that quad desktop or dual laptop until it dies so no constant rollover like with cellphones, so they make one last throw and hope to gain some yards before the clock runs out. Will it work, I doubt it because the truth MSFT doesn't want to accept is that Windows IS X86 and without X86 programs nobody cares about Windows, so instead of accepting their market is mature and spinning off mobile to sink or swim we get a classic MSFT "we'll force you to take our crap" failwhale.
1.-pointless, corps already have their own AV and sure as hell ain't gonna depend on fricking defender to save 'em, 2.-pointless as everyone is going to SSDs or hybrid drives where boot isn't worth worrying about, besides Win 7 has hybrid sleep which is what everyone has been using which is faster than any boot, 3.-pointless as a good AV with sandboxing is gonna do more than UEFI anyway. honestly since the switch away from XP with its retarded "Everybody is an admin!" bullshit the malware has gone WAAAAY down, and with Win 7 the only "malware" I've been seeing is morons that purposely install spyware trying to get some freebie. this isn't a worry in corp because you don't give the workers install rights.
I have plenty of customers that were exactly as you described, i let them play with both, they chose....Windows 7. The LAST thing you want on a corp network is some tweeting twitting FB shitting "social media" OS with a ton of crap constantly updating and distracting the workers and that is Win 8 in a nutshell. Its a fricking cell phone OS and while you might not give a shit if your worker is checking their FB on the bus coming in on their smartphone when they park their asses in the chair you damned well want them working, while Win 8 jumps around like a kid on too much sugar going "Look at me! Play with me! I iz a cell phone LOL!". Its just not worth it.
Let Hairy help ya pal, what you do is run SIW and then bypass the OEMs and get the drivers directly for the hardware from the chip makers. Frankly ALL laptop support is piss poor, you're lucky if you get even a single update for the drivers, but since all the parts are bog standard its easy enough to just bypass.
Another good source is Driverpacks, they have virtually every major hardware driver for Win 7 and their drivers aren't as "picky" as the OEMs. Slap them on a stick or DVD and let it run, when its done you have a fully functional system.
The problem is as a PC builder and seller I can tell you the 3 to 5 year cycle? Doesn't exist anymore. A typical 5 year old PC for my customers is a first gen Core Duo of Phenom X3. Now tell me, what office job can't be done perfectly well on a Core Duo of Phenom X3? None that i can think of. Many of my customers chose to put Win 7 on while keeping the units simply because nothing they were doing was stressing the PCs so wasting hundreds more than the cost of a Win 7 license to replace the system was deemed pointless. This is why I've gotten more and more into HTPCs, more room for growth there.
But you are right about Win 8, the few of my customers that still had any single cores on site got rid of them for Win 7 precisely so they wouldn't have to deal with Win 8. I should probably give MSFT credit for that, been cranking out the triples and quads lately for those that don't want Win 8, its just too much of a boat anchor to productivity for most SMBs and my home users as well, nobody wants the thing.
Thanks crutchy, I so rarely get to use this in a sentence...WHOOSH!
Kinda the point there pal, just like silverlight MSFT just can't ram standards down anyone's throat anymore, the world has moved on and they ain't the 800 pound gorilla they used to be. That would be Google and Apple while MSFT is an old chimp sitting in the corner going "I used to be King Kong dammit! I used to be feared!" while everyone just ignores it as they walk on by.
Dude, have you paid ANY attention to the way Steve "LOL I wanna work at Cupertino!" Ballmer has run the company? Does the words Zune mean anything? Kin? Sidekick? MSFT buying a company is the kiss of death now and I wouldn't be surprised if Skype goes the way of Zune thanks to MSFT mismanagement.
In the end everyone remembers what MSFT did with IE 6 and nobody is gonna want to go down that road again so MSFT can push their proprietary "solution" all day long, its not gonna go anywhere, not against Google. This just shows how badly out of touch the guys at Redmond are, still acting like its 2004 and they have the pull to get away with crap like that now when mobile is booming and desktops are flatline.