I must say I'm not too impressed with the picture quality of the plasma- and LCD TV's we can buy here in the Netherlands. Especially if you take the price into account.
Same here. I've looked at many lcd and plasma TVs, but none of them look good enough to justify their cost. I'd rather stick with a CRT for now. Plus the CRT I have (non-HD) doesn't have that annoying high pitch coming from it.
I use Gaim and occasionally over Yahoo I get spambot's contacting me. They all put out the same lines, just with different names. They end up with a link to a webcam site.
I test Safari with Konqueor. I'm aware that Webkit and khtml are slightly different, but I have yet to come across anything they render differently. It's good enough for developing, plus it's what I use as my guide (my editor of choice is Quanta).
When done I test everything on Linux, OS X (with Safari), Windows XP (VMware), Windows 2000 (VMWare), and Windows 98 (VMWare). The main difference I usually see are font issues (each seems to render then differently).
You can slipstream SP2 and all critical updates into a single ISO image that will fit on a 700mb CD. You don't even have to do it manually, as there is a script to do it for you.
Run it's script and it will ask you what versions you want to install (5, 5.5, 6) and it will install it. It also can install Flash 9. This makes things really easy. I have access to three versions of IE on my Linux desktop, Opera, Firefox and Konqueror. For IE7 I have that in VMWare. To my left is my PowerBook with Safari, Firefox, and Opera (though I can test for all of these under Linux).
All of the Firefox and Opera users switched _from_ IE to Firefox by choice.
Not all. I switched to Firefox from Mozilla, which I switched to from Netscape. Never used IE as my primary browser since I got fed up with Win95 and switched to Linux in '96.
He could have a problem with iTunes. I've had a few problems with it erasing the music on the iPod and then copying over that computer's music. iTunes in general doesn't let you use more than one computer per iPod which is why I stopped using it (they may of added the feature, but I really don't give a fuck at this point).
Anyway, I use GTKPod on a few different Linux machines and Yamipod on a few Macs to sync up/trade music with friends (I keep mine HFS+ formatted).
Sound-juicer really does not cut it. I just took a look at it's settings in GConf-editor and it's still far too limited. I'm not asking for much, but it just doesn't cut it. The only one that does what I need is KAudioCreator, but I'd really prefer a Gnome app.
All I really want it something that isn't bitrate based and can just run lame with these options:
lame --replaygain-accurate -q 0 --vbr-new --preset standard -p
I learned years ago to not trust Microsoft. This is why I disable automatic updates and only deploy updates after checking them manually. No machine in my network has "wgatool" installed.
1. Bundling. Try buying a computer a year or two from now without it being preinstalled. People will throw away perfectly good computers when they're "broken" (virus/spyware) and get a Vista computer.
2. DX10. Unlike the past where they ported DX9 to older systems (including 98), DX10 will be Vista-only. In a few years, try getting a new game to work on XP.
Vista will succeed no matter how much it sucks. Besides, I've been using Vista RC1 in VMWare for the last few weeks. It doesn't seem to suck much worse than XP. It's "good enough" and runs the apps the user is familiar with.
It's a pain in the ass to have to swap multiple CDs during an install. Especially when you get to #4 and the drive doesn't want to read a file off of it.
Ubuntu has the right idea on this. The install media is a single CD that contains a usable desktop. Everything else can then be installed over apt (though they really need to make a n00b-friendly alternative to Synaptic). If you want a specific desktop, download the correct CD for it. Ie, Gnome (Ubuntu), KDE (Kubuntu), or XFCE (Xubuntu).
Now, as for TC related activity - there's a lot of nonsense talked about this, and I don't have time to go into it right now. TPMs are neither good nor bad. They are simply a way for the owner of the platform to measure the integrity of his/her platform, and to attest that integrity to a remote verifier.
If you're running Windows, your no longer the owner of the system.
TPM could be a good thing in the hands of, say, a Linux or *BSD developer. That would be nice on a server.
My bank used to use the OS/2-based ATMs, which I really miss. When you selected an option, it would actually do something immediately. Since they switched to (clearly) Windows-based systems, you hit a button and it takes a few seconds to actually do something. It's very annoying as it takes about 3 times longer to get your money now. Also every now and then I go and the atm is out of order. I never ran into that problem when they were using OS/2.
Either Ubuntu or Debian patch Firefox to break the ability to lock or preset configuration, though. This is why I have to disable Ubuntu's built-in Firefox and install the official build (I leave it to have plugins managed by apt). The "firefox.cfg" file doesn't do anything, even though the forums say to use it.
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Same here. I've looked at many lcd and plasma TVs, but none of them look good enough to justify their cost. I'd rather stick with a CRT for now. Plus the CRT I have (non-HD) doesn't have that annoying high pitch coming from it.
I use Gaim and occasionally over Yahoo I get spambot's contacting me. They all put out the same lines, just with different names. They end up with a link to a webcam site.
No, but sound support is rather bad under VMWare. On every machine I've tried it's very choppy.
I test Safari with Konqueor. I'm aware that Webkit and khtml are slightly different, but I have yet to come across anything they render differently. It's good enough for developing, plus it's what I use as my guide (my editor of choice is Quanta).
When done I test everything on Linux, OS X (with Safari), Windows XP (VMware), Windows 2000 (VMWare), and Windows 98 (VMWare). The main difference I usually see are font issues (each seems to render then differently).
Download and give them a copy of Autopacther. Just give them the latest full release (August's is ~250mb) and the update releases.
You can slipstream SP2 and all critical updates into a single ISO image that will fit on a 700mb CD. You don't even have to do it manually, as there is a script to do it for you.
Apparently someone's never heard of XUL...
To most people, the web is "the internet".
IEs4Linux.
Run it's script and it will ask you what versions you want to install (5, 5.5, 6) and it will install it. It also can install Flash 9. This makes things really easy. I have access to three versions of IE on my Linux desktop, Opera, Firefox and Konqueror. For IE7 I have that in VMWare. To my left is my PowerBook with Safari, Firefox, and Opera (though I can test for all of these under Linux).
Not all. I switched to Firefox from Mozilla, which I switched to from Netscape. Never used IE as my primary browser since I got fed up with Win95 and switched to Linux in '96.
He could have a problem with iTunes. I've had a few problems with it erasing the music on the iPod and then copying over that computer's music. iTunes in general doesn't let you use more than one computer per iPod which is why I stopped using it (they may of added the feature, but I really don't give a fuck at this point).
Anyway, I use GTKPod on a few different Linux machines and Yamipod on a few Macs to sync up/trade music with friends (I keep mine HFS+ formatted).
Games. DX10 will be Vista only.
In a few years it will be difficult to buy licenses for anything other than Vista. Unless they make the licenses "downgradable" like with XP->2k.
I'd rather see them at #3, behind Apple.
Sound-juicer really does not cut it. I just took a look at it's settings in GConf-editor and it's still far too limited. I'm not asking for much, but it just doesn't cut it. The only one that does what I need is KAudioCreator, but I'd really prefer a Gnome app.
All I really want it something that isn't bitrate based and can just run lame with these options:
lame --replaygain-accurate -q 0 --vbr-new --preset standard -p
KAudioCreator does, so it wins for me.
Compatibility with Windows apps.
I learned years ago to not trust Microsoft. This is why I disable automatic updates and only deploy updates after checking them manually. No machine in my network has "wgatool" installed.
Two reasons it will succeed:
1. Bundling. Try buying a computer a year or two from now without it being preinstalled. People will throw away perfectly good computers when they're "broken" (virus/spyware) and get a Vista computer.
2. DX10. Unlike the past where they ported DX9 to older systems (including 98), DX10 will be Vista-only. In a few years, try getting a new game to work on XP.
Vista will succeed no matter how much it sucks. Besides, I've been using Vista RC1 in VMWare for the last few weeks. It doesn't seem to suck much worse than XP. It's "good enough" and runs the apps the user is familiar with.
Which is why I use wxWidgets + DialogBlocks ($70/user)...
I'm aware of that, but it is fairly limited. Also it doesn't let you remove anything included in, say, ubuntu-desktop.
It's a pain in the ass to have to swap multiple CDs during an install. Especially when you get to #4 and the drive doesn't want to read a file off of it.
Ubuntu has the right idea on this. The install media is a single CD that contains a usable desktop. Everything else can then be installed over apt (though they really need to make a n00b-friendly alternative to Synaptic). If you want a specific desktop, download the correct CD for it. Ie, Gnome (Ubuntu), KDE (Kubuntu), or XFCE (Xubuntu).
If you're running Windows, your no longer the owner of the system.
TPM could be a good thing in the hands of, say, a Linux or *BSD developer. That would be nice on a server.
My bank used to use the OS/2-based ATMs, which I really miss. When you selected an option, it would actually do something immediately. Since they switched to (clearly) Windows-based systems, you hit a button and it takes a few seconds to actually do something. It's very annoying as it takes about 3 times longer to get your money now. Also every now and then I go and the atm is out of order. I never ran into that problem when they were using OS/2.
The first election I was old enough to vote in, 2000, the place used bubble sheets. I've never seen a lever-based machine.
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Either Ubuntu or Debian patch Firefox to break the ability to lock or preset configuration, though. This is why I have to disable Ubuntu's built-in Firefox and install the official build (I leave it to have plugins managed by apt). The "firefox.cfg" file doesn't do anything, even though the forums say to use it.
Or Trusted Debian, which is now Adamantix.