How about a dedicated antivirus board? I'm on a Mac so I dunno, but everyone around me is constantly complaining about the CPU load for antivirus software.
Apparently everyone around you is using Norton or McAfee. Point them over to AVG if it's a personal machine. If it's a business then point them to F-Prot. F-Prot is a good scanner and has very cheap volume licensing.
Really, though, you can run Windows without a virus scanner. You just have to have some common sense. Use a non-admin account. Use a firewall, preferably hardware (or a dedicated Linux/*BSD box). Don't use Internet Explorer. Don't download and install random programs from all over the place, especially if it's cursors/screensavers/fire sharing/etc. Also be very suspicious of "free" software if it's not Free Software/Open Source.
Unless there's some new type of link, they work in Envice. Both navigation links and links to websites. I have those in some eBooks I've bought, along PDFs I've got from some online classes I had.
You shouldn't have to go though something like that. When I was using Fedora x86_64 I could choose the architecture of the apps. Most of everything was 64 bit, except for Firefox, Flash, mplayer (I need w32codecs) and the dependencies. It worked fine and didn't have to bother with having a
I'm now using 32bit Ubuntu since FC5 pissed me off for the last time and I didn't want to have to deal with chroots. I do miss the extra speed I was getting running 64 bit, though. Especially since I heavily use VMWare. When Edgy Eft is released I'm going to give it's mixed architecture support a try.
My 4th gen 60gb iPod came HFS+ formatted and I've kept it that way, even though I rarely use it on my Mac. The only thing I had to do to get Linux to work properly with it was disable journaling on it. No problems at all. I also use it as a USB drive for transferring stuff to/from work or to/from my PowerBook.
Did you disable journaling? It should work fine after that.
Or getting caught taking a piss on a bush/wall/tree/etc.
This whole "registered sex offender" hysteria is getting out of hand, at least here in Florida. Many cities keep trying to ban them and one of the candidates for Governor (Charlie Crist) keeps bragging about it in his ads.
On the same subject, does anyone know when this will be fixed in Abiword? Other than that it's a decent word processor. E ver yt hing jus tlook s ver y un profe ssion al.
Still, KOffice isn't really an option for me since it's not cross platform. I'll have to stick with OpenOffice for now. Hopefully with KDE 4 and KOffice 2 they'll add support for MacOSX (please, no X11) and Windows.
Grub isn't very difficult to adjust to. I also held out on learning it for a while, but it actually is kinda nice. The thing I really like about it is after making a change (new kernel, boot option, etc) it isn't necessary to reinstall it to the mbr. Just edit menu.lst and it's done.
You're expecting Vista to act differently than every other Windows version since at least 95? Every one of the damn things overwrite the MBR.
This is why on multiboot systems I install Grub into the partition rather than the MBR. This way you can keep the Windows MBR and just set the Linux partition as bootable and it works as it's supposed to.
I used to use ReiserFS3 and had too many problems with it. Several times I have files just disappear. Other times I had files and folders that not even root could delete. I had many files get mysteriously corrupted. The second hard drive developed some bad sectors and I ended up losing everything on that drive.
What I use now is EXT3 (with dir_index) for / and XFS for/home and also file directories for my servers. I have not had any issues with corruption nor any problems with files disappearing.
This was a while ago, though, when it was recently added to the kernel. The problems I encountered may have been fixed since then.
Also, I store my audio as flac, not because I can hear the difference between 256 kbps M4A, but because i lose/scratch the CD, I still want to have a way to get a perfect copy back. I store my music as mp3 encoded with LAME's "standard" preset. Most of the files are ~224 bit and sound excellent. The file size is much smaller than a flac, which is important when your music collections gets pretty large.
For losing cds, though, you should try what I do as it saves lots of space. When you buy a cd, rip it and make copy directly from the wavs. Take the original and store it somewhere safe. Only carry around the copy. That way if you lose it or it gets scratched, you still have the original to make another copy from.
I've been doing videos of my band and am working on a DVD. What I've been doing is using Avidemux2 for the editing saving it all in huvyuv (lossless video codec). When I'm ready to encode it to MPEG2 I use Avidemux2 to save it as an uncompressed AVI (fucking huge, btw) and then load it up in TMPGEnc under Wine and use it's excellent multipass encoder to create the final file (progressive 23.976fps w/ "3:2 Pulldown when playback"). I've tried all of the open source mpeg2 encoders but TMPGEnc does a significantly better job and the price isn't bad. The downside is when running under Wine your only option is uncompressed video as the source.
I highly doubt the kind of people that would get Vista Home will be running a Quad Opteron. Most likely they'll be be running crippled hardware like Celerons and Semprons.
I believe that you're thinking of Parallels. BootCamp, AFAIK, simply lets Windows run natively on a Mac. Just like dual booting Linux and Windows on a PC. Parallels is for virtualization.
I don't care how big something is to download (who still uses dial-up?), just how instrusive it is to update the darn thing when the inevitable patch(es) come(s) out.
Updates will be through Windows Update as always. Whether or not the user wants to use IE7 or not, they will have to download all the updates for it.
There are still many people on dialup, too. I'm one as I live in a rural area (and I hate it, btw, just stuck here currently).
This is irrelevant, though. When Vista is released and someone buys a new computer to replace the "broken" (spyware-infested) machine, IE7 will be preloaded. They will not have to download it. They will have to download Firefox (though RC1's 5.62mb isn't bad). IE7 will once again crush it's competition since it's "good enough" and default.
My first question would be what the source was? Because if the source was non-HD, then certainly no advantage will be evident. My second question is where you checked them out. Usually, in the stores, either the sales staff doesn't know how to set the picture, or they set it on "nuclear" to make it pop.
I don't know about the source. The only ones I've seen have been in stores (Best Lie, Circuit Shitty, etc). None of them look impressive and those areas of the stores have an anoying high pitch coming from all of the TVs, which I'm apparently the only one that can hear it (which is suprising due to the number of concerts I've been to before I started using earplugs). I've never looked at seriously buying one, though, I just occasonally walk through the section when buying CDs. If my TV died I probably wouldn't even waste money on a new one, I'd just get a caputure card for my computer.
I'd add that CRT TVs of the same screen size as your typical plasmas (42"-50") are HUUUUUGE. Definitely not an option for those living in smaller houses/apartments.
I really do not care about having a 42" screen. I have a 19" CRT and am fine with it. The thing I care more about is audio quality.
I rarely watch TV other than South Park, Family Guy, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, It's Always Sunny in Philedalphia, and Stargate. When I watch tv or movies, I'm usually working on my computer or practicing my guitar and am not focusing on the TV. The few times I do, it's usually a DVD on my 21" CRT second head.
As for whether it's worth it...certainly that's up to you, as they are more expensive.
For me it's in no way worth it, though for other people it may be.
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Try the Flash 9 beta. Finally I can watch flash videos under Linux and have sound that actually works properly.
Apparently everyone around you is using Norton or McAfee. Point them over to AVG if it's a personal machine. If it's a business then point them to F-Prot. F-Prot is a good scanner and has very cheap volume licensing.
Really, though, you can run Windows without a virus scanner. You just have to have some common sense. Use a non-admin account. Use a firewall, preferably hardware (or a dedicated Linux/*BSD box). Don't use Internet Explorer. Don't download and install random programs from all over the place, especially if it's cursors/screensavers/fire sharing/etc. Also be very suspicious of "free" software if it's not Free Software/Open Source.
Unless there's some new type of link, they work in Envice. Both navigation links and links to websites. I have those in some eBooks I've bought, along PDFs I've got from some online classes I had.
You shouldn't have to go though something like that. When I was using Fedora x86_64 I could choose the architecture of the apps. Most of everything was 64 bit, except for Firefox, Flash, mplayer (I need w32codecs) and the dependencies. It worked fine and didn't have to bother with having a
I'm now using 32bit Ubuntu since FC5 pissed me off for the last time and I didn't want to have to deal with chroots. I do miss the extra speed I was getting running 64 bit, though. Especially since I heavily use VMWare. When Edgy Eft is released I'm going to give it's mixed architecture support a try.
Flash 8 and 9 have been usable on Linux for a while, though not in an ideal setup. The Windows version of Firefox and Flash work under Wine.
This comic is very true:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
My 4th gen 60gb iPod came HFS+ formatted and I've kept it that way, even though I rarely use it on my Mac. The only thing I had to do to get Linux to work properly with it was disable journaling on it. No problems at all. I also use it as a USB drive for transferring stuff to/from work or to/from my PowerBook.
Did you disable journaling? It should work fine after that.
Or getting caught taking a piss on a bush/wall/tree/etc.
This whole "registered sex offender" hysteria is getting out of hand, at least here in Florida. Many cities keep trying to ban them and one of the candidates for Governor (Charlie Crist) keeps bragging about it in his ads.
Please name some.
The only decent one I know for Windows is Foxit Reader, but it doesn't support printing to network printers making it nearly useless.
On the same subject, does anyone know when this will be fixed in Abiword? Other than that it's a decent word processor. E ver yt hing jus tlook s ver y un profe ssion al.
Still, KOffice isn't really an option for me since it's not cross platform. I'll have to stick with OpenOffice for now. Hopefully with KDE 4 and KOffice 2 they'll add support for MacOSX (please, no X11) and Windows.
Ubuntu (Dapper at least) installs the binary-only nVidia driver by default. It's part of the linux-restricted-modules package.
Grub isn't very difficult to adjust to. I also held out on learning it for a while, but it actually is kinda nice. The thing I really like about it is after making a change (new kernel, boot option, etc) it isn't necessary to reinstall it to the mbr. Just edit menu.lst and it's done.
Take the 5 minutes to learn it.
You're expecting Vista to act differently than every other Windows version since at least 95? Every one of the damn things overwrite the MBR.
This is why on multiboot systems I install Grub into the partition rather than the MBR. This way you can keep the Windows MBR and just set the Linux partition as bootable and it works as it's supposed to.
It wasn't Brazil. It was Kyle.
I used to use ReiserFS3 and had too many problems with it. Several times I have files just disappear. Other times I had files and folders that not even root could delete. I had many files get mysteriously corrupted. The second hard drive developed some bad sectors and I ended up losing everything on that drive.
/home and also file directories for my servers. I have not had any issues with corruption nor any problems with files disappearing.
What I use now is EXT3 (with dir_index) for / and XFS for
This was a while ago, though, when it was recently added to the kernel. The problems I encountered may have been fixed since then.
I've been doing videos of my band and am working on a DVD. What I've been doing is using Avidemux2 for the editing saving it all in huvyuv (lossless video codec). When I'm ready to encode it to MPEG2 I use Avidemux2 to save it as an uncompressed AVI (fucking huge, btw) and then load it up in TMPGEnc under Wine and use it's excellent multipass encoder to create the final file (progressive 23.976fps w/ "3:2 Pulldown when playback"). I've tried all of the open source mpeg2 encoders but TMPGEnc does a significantly better job and the price isn't bad. The downside is when running under Wine your only option is uncompressed video as the source.
I highly doubt the kind of people that would get Vista Home will be running a Quad Opteron. Most likely they'll be be running crippled hardware like Celerons and Semprons.
Don't encourage copyright infringement. Encourage alternatives like OS X and Linux.
I believe that you're thinking of Parallels. BootCamp, AFAIK, simply lets Windows run natively on a Mac. Just like dual booting Linux and Windows on a PC. Parallels is for virtualization.
Updates will be through Windows Update as always. Whether or not the user wants to use IE7 or not, they will have to download all the updates for it.
There are still many people on dialup, too. I'm one as I live in a rural area (and I hate it, btw, just stuck here currently).
$ ls -l IE7RC1-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 shawn shawn 15302448 2006-08-23 03:36 IE7RC1-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe
It's 15,302,448 bytes. or 14.59mb.
This is irrelevant, though. When Vista is released and someone buys a new computer to replace the "broken" (spyware-infested) machine, IE7 will be preloaded. They will not have to download it. They will have to download Firefox (though RC1's 5.62mb isn't bad). IE7 will once again crush it's competition since it's "good enough" and default.
I don't know about the source. The only ones I've seen have been in stores (Best Lie, Circuit Shitty, etc). None of them look impressive and those areas of the stores have an anoying high pitch coming from all of the TVs, which I'm apparently the only one that can hear it (which is suprising due to the number of concerts I've been to before I started using earplugs). I've never looked at seriously buying one, though, I just occasonally walk through the section when buying CDs. If my TV died I probably wouldn't even waste money on a new one, I'd just get a caputure card for my computer.
I really do not care about having a 42" screen. I have a 19" CRT and am fine with it. The thing I care more about is audio quality.
I rarely watch TV other than South Park, Family Guy, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, It's Always Sunny in Philedalphia, and Stargate. When I watch tv or movies, I'm usually working on my computer or practicing my guitar and am not focusing on the TV. The few times I do, it's usually a DVD on my 21" CRT second head.
For me it's in no way worth it, though for other people it may be.