Really? Because I have 4 PC's in my house at the moment running windows Vista, 1x Home Premium 64, 2x Ultimate 64 and one Ultimate 32. In the last month of near-constant use for everything from 3D rendering applications, heavy gaming, casual use and more there has been a grand total of 0 crashes between all 4 PCs.
One of the PC's started having problems, but that turned out to be related to the NVidia 8500 drivers, using the onboard ATI HD3200 it runs smooth and stable pretty much around the clock.
You can throw around your certifications all you like, although expecting them to earn you anything more than cursory mod points on slashdot is rather just e-penis inflation. What applications were crashing? How are you able to say beyond question that these crashes were the fault of Vista? So your computer crashes on an application and your first method of troubleshooting is to install a new operating system? Srsly?
At least you weren't modded all the way to insightful, but if you want to come out sounding like anything more than just someone bashing Vista like everyone else on/. then I'd like some form of intelligent support behind your claims.
Or this, I'm a certified Linux user, I bash Windows on public forums all the time, I even have a penguin sticker on my car! I use linux all day, every day. However, when I went to install the newest distro of Bandwagon 0.8, certain things would crash. (Did I forget to mention that I've got internet access, which lets me download imaginary credentials?) Anyway, since something didn't work, I decided to turn the monitor upside down and install Bandwagon in a different language. Still doesn't work....
I could keep going, but it stops being funny and becomes sad rather quickly in this context. All you provided was a set of credentials which describe probably a good 75% of the users of this forum, and a REALLY pointless story that shows me nothing except your absolutely horrid reasoning skills. (And I'm even being generous and assuming that before reformatting your OS you were intelligent enough to check the application's website to ensure compatability with 64-bit Vista). I mean, there are so many things WRONG with your reasoning that I can't stop myself from typing. Did you try using compatability modes? Did you take ownership of the application? I give up, but I hope you feel better about having earned your vista-bashing certifications on/.
Why is it that the *nix users seem to have BSOD issues on an infinitely higher rate than the rest of the world?
I've got 4 computers and if I see one BSOD a year, it is usually fixed by a reboot or tightening the RAM/PCI devices/etc. Yet the *nix people are like 'well, my windows computer BSOD'd on me 7 times again today, blah blah blah rant rave blah'.
Not to mention the fact the most of the time, BSOD errors are caused by faulty third party device driver applications or faulty hardware, neither of which are really MS's fault, imo.
While the flood of bitter and jaded experience has been overwhelming, I appreciate the occasional individual that has taken the time here to actually answer the question.
I think what the majority of posters fail to realize is that I am not looking to do this as a full time business. I want to learn to do this, because I believe that learning new things is fun and rewarding. I want to do this because I DO have a niche market, as well as people that are already willing to pay me to learn this and do it for them. I already have several dozen people that want me to do this on their behalf, so I'm not worried about struggling to find customers, find my place, etc. I just want to be able to give a couple dozen people their own websites under my domain with some preconfigured options to make it easier for them.
My apologies, let me attempt to restate my question.
Let's say I get www.myname.com. That site then becomes a basic directory of sites and games within a given genre. One of the sites that I list then comes to me and says, I would like to sign up and use customer1.myname.com as my site.
If i wanted to give them a basic index page with a subdirectory, provide a forum, photo gallery, their own updatable news/info page, etc.
I'm not talking so much about web hosting as pre-built packages to allow them their own site within my existing one.
I loved tech support. People call in that actually need the skills I've spent my entire life acquiring. I fix those problems or direct them to where the solutions can be found. Once in a while you get a bad seed, but I would LOVE a L1 tech support job. Even at 10-15 an hour it would make me a ridiculously happy person these days. Using my skills, making people happy, fixing problems - I don't see why people hate it so much.
I think we all know that the less history remembers of George W Bush's term as president of the free world, the better off we will look in our children's eyes. If he gets lucky he might get off easy with a 'worst president to ever hold the office' footnote.
I find it hard to believe that the example applications I used would run in Wine without some degree of noticable loss of performance.
I didn't say go out, buy a camera, come home, search for files, dig through the crap that is search results, install package. I'm talking out-of-box support
Didn't know the 360 media connect worked with linux, thanks.
point is, if they had to call comcast then they wouldn't be the kind of person who can googleshoot their own network problems. Besides, if the internet isn't working, how do they google it?
Crysis is the new benchmark of gaming, my PC has dual-SLI 8800GT cards with 8 Gigs of RAM, so as a gamer I'm not likely going to settle for anything that doesn't give me the full value for my horsepower.
Sims 2 was the series I had in mind, being as it is one of the largest selling games of all time. And while it may be possible to run on Linux, neither the core game or the 12 expansions I have bought for it would run on Linux out of the boxes I bought.
I rarely ever have problems with any of the 5 gaming PC's in my room, the Vista Ultimate actually is my favorite, although granted it has the most power by far. They don't crash, and the only slowing down comes from when I use poorly coded open-source java-based programs.
Please, cite for me a real-world example where the average user would EVER need to install 50 programs at once?
Probably, since Pulse Audio runs on win32 systems, too.
Yes. They are called themes.
Who backs up settings? Linux users? Guess what the vast majority of us don't care about doing? That's right, back up our settings.
This is where it sucks to be you, I don't have to preach the Windows gospel, my friends and family already have their own bible.
Since Windows Me was released, MS's share price has gone down the drain and MS is depleting its one famous cash reserves (in aimless attempts to control some field, any field) like if there is no tomorrow.
MS Stock Price after release of ME - 25.59. Today's Stock Price for MS - 29.11. During the time between their stock has traded as high as 36.55.
As for their cash reserves, I'm curious what inside information you have, the last I heard arrangements have not been agreed upon, and a cash vs stock deal hasn't been determined. As of December 07, they still have 21 billion in cash reserves. Even if they blew their wad on Yahoo, they generated 17.6 billion dollars of cash last year, and could easily replenish those reserves by scaling back acquisitions and dividend payouts.
Your fiscal witchcraft is a fail, and since the entirity of your comment is built around a fact that you pulled out of some random orifice, your entire comment gets an F. No gold star for you.
You can tell me that Linux is a competitor when a significant percentage of 'must have' PC software runs natively on a Linux installation without jumping through hoops.
Will AutoCad run on Linux? Will Photoshop run on Linux? Is desktop media creation simple and streamlined on Linux? Will my 25$ generic webcam from Wal-Mart work on Linux? If I call Comcast because I can't connect to the internet, will they troubleshoot for Linux? Can I connect my Xbox 360 to Linux? Can I play Crysis on Linux? How about the Sims?
Come back with your 'viable competitor' talk when you can answer half of those basic usage questions with a 'yes'.
For how many years have slashdot 'experts' been predicting the 'downfall' of windows? For 23 years they have not just controlled, the word is 'dominated' the desktop environment. For the majority of computer users, the words 'Windows' and 'Computer' are borderline synonymous.
And you're proof? Because some users believe that 'Vista sucks' blah blah blah. How many people started ringing the bells for Microsoft after Windows ME? We saw how that worked out...
In my house I run Windows XP Media Edition, 2x Windows XP Pro, and Vista Ultimate 64. Hands down Vista is my favorite OS to use. Granted, early versions were harder to swallow, as I have been using Vista since early Beta.
However, the major problems I had initially have been addressed. Driver compatibility, Stability and Memory usage - since SP1 at least, all of these problems have gone away for me, most of them long before SP1.
While Vista may not be the best choice for everyone, I use it for Office 2007, Photoshop, Video Encoding, and Gaming (Crysis/2142) and have nothing but praises to sing for those uses.
Of course, I realize gamers that use basic photo editing software and office applications are in the minority....
If you bothered to read the article he says that after trying open source options they did not meet the needs of his network as efficiently as the non-OS alternatives.
Until the Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia vs Heller and establishes a definitive precedent on which interpretation of the 2nd amendment is relevant to those protections, I don't really see how they could be expected to defend second amendment. I personally have never taken towards the 'it means we can have guns' interpretation. As far as I can see, the purpose of the second amendment is that citizens have the rights to bear arms in defense of a free state, which does not include shooting someone for stealing your iPod.
The problem for M$ is that we have all learned the same lesson and are sick of it. Speak for yourself, I don't have problems with Windows, I run XP Pro, XP Media Center, and Vista Ultimate, love them, with Vista being my favorite (yay crysis).
People are not going to just go along with things. They are not going to throw their hardware out again for another buggy version of Windows. I built a new computer just to run Vista, dual core 3.7ghz cpu with 8 gigs of ram, x-fi sound card and sli 8600 video cards - installed OS, updated drivers, have been running with no real compatability issues for any of my games or applications (photoshop, office 2007, Sims 2 + 13 expansions, BF2, Crysis and TF2.
Free software works all of it better now, so Windows 7 is just as dead in the water as Vista was. The industry is losing money, and their trust in M$ is gone. Oooooh wait, is this the long-awaited year when Linux will rear its mighty head and amaze consumers, crushing Microsoft beneath its heel like so much dirt? Losing money? Who is? Vista sold 40 million copies within its first 3 months of availability, and as of last october had sold more than 88 million copies. Vista sales have done nothing but increase since it became available, and MS had almost 14 billion dollars of revenue in the first quarter of 2008 alone.
Update As i was reading up on Microsoft's impending financial ruin, I discovered that Vista sales have topped 100 million copies sold, and that is just retail, not including volume licensing deals. I WISH that i was losing money like that!
Anyway, sarcasm aside, thanks for giving me something to laugh at. It just isn't a day of reading slashdot without laughing at some pathetic open-source fanboy who preaches the oncoming collapse of windows like some impoverished village doomsayer.
Yeah, I downloaded it and listened to it....I think at best, the politest statement I can make is that he is certainly entertaining some creative remix/edit possibilities for this in the future. If I'd paid 300 bucks for this, I think i'd be somewhat upset:P
A lot of people have mentioned it here, such as it is just for speculative resale or wealthy patrons, etc. The 300$ option is the only available option that included the vinyls of these tracks. I mean seriously, I would imagine that there are DJ's that still use vinyl for clubs and that of these, some work enough high profile venues that being one of the 'few' owners of these vinyl discs would be a 'duh' choice had he charged 3 times as much for them.
Actually, no, I'd rather not have a CD key at all, but that's why I run Linux at home.
That may be one of the most pathetic endorsements for Linux I've ever seen pushed on slashdot. I suppose you would rather use the open source alternatives for every program that requires a cd key or activation to operate or function. Hell, why even bother supporting software development at all. We have all seen the unheralded success of open source alternatives to their commercial brethren. Remember when Adobe went bankrupt? Or back when Microsoft gave in, lamenting that had they only found an alternative to asking users to authenticate their software they might still be struggling to hold a minority share of desktop usage. Oh, if only.
One great unknown thus far is how the servers come to be infected.
So as long as it defends your precious *nix community, and lays potential blame at the door of MS, it is perfectly acceptable practice to make accusatory conclusions with no evidence or proof. This kind of MS bashing just makes the *nix community look like desperate hypocrites, and only furthers my resolve to continue supporting the MS platform for another 15 years of satisfied usage.
Why can't you just accept the fact that everyone knows that every platform is vulnerable to some extent, and probably 90% of users don't give a shit.
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space elevator ftw! :P
Medievia, Toril/Sojourn, Duris, and Waterdeep, among many others
Really? Because I have 4 PC's in my house at the moment running windows Vista, 1x Home Premium 64, 2x Ultimate 64 and one Ultimate 32. In the last month of near-constant use for everything from 3D rendering applications, heavy gaming, casual use and more there has been a grand total of 0 crashes between all 4 PCs.
One of the PC's started having problems, but that turned out to be related to the NVidia 8500 drivers, using the onboard ATI HD3200 it runs smooth and stable pretty much around the clock.
You can throw around your certifications all you like, although expecting them to earn you anything more than cursory mod points on slashdot is rather just e-penis inflation. What applications were crashing? How are you able to say beyond question that these crashes were the fault of Vista? So your computer crashes on an application and your first method of troubleshooting is to install a new operating system? Srsly?
At least you weren't modded all the way to insightful, but if you want to come out sounding like anything more than just someone bashing Vista like everyone else on /. then I'd like some form of intelligent support behind your claims.
Or this, I'm a certified Linux user, I bash Windows on public forums all the time, I even have a penguin sticker on my car! I use linux all day, every day. However, when I went to install the newest distro of Bandwagon 0.8, certain things would crash. (Did I forget to mention that I've got internet access, which lets me download imaginary credentials?) Anyway, since something didn't work, I decided to turn the monitor upside down and install Bandwagon in a different language. Still doesn't work....
I could keep going, but it stops being funny and becomes sad rather quickly in this context. All you provided was a set of credentials which describe probably a good 75% of the users of this forum, and a REALLY pointless story that shows me nothing except your absolutely horrid reasoning skills. (And I'm even being generous and assuming that before reformatting your OS you were intelligent enough to check the application's website to ensure compatability with 64-bit Vista). I mean, there are so many things WRONG with your reasoning that I can't stop myself from typing. Did you try using compatability modes? Did you take ownership of the application? I give up, but I hope you feel better about having earned your vista-bashing certifications on /.
did we watch the same movie? i fail to see how any debate about who portrayed the joker better could actually exist except on a slashdot forum.
i didn't even realize win2k was still supported, i run both of those under windows xp x64 and have yet to see it crash my system.
and best yet, they'll never have any games to play on it! :P
Why is it that the *nix users seem to have BSOD issues on an infinitely higher rate than the rest of the world?
I've got 4 computers and if I see one BSOD a year, it is usually fixed by a reboot or tightening the RAM/PCI devices/etc. Yet the *nix people are like 'well, my windows computer BSOD'd on me 7 times again today, blah blah blah rant rave blah'.
Not to mention the fact the most of the time, BSOD errors are caused by faulty third party device driver applications or faulty hardware, neither of which are really MS's fault, imo.
In the computer world, there is no such thing as 'ridiculously overpowered'.
:P lol
Can your servers run Crysis on max settings?
While the flood of bitter and jaded experience has been overwhelming, I appreciate the occasional individual that has taken the time here to actually answer the question.
:)
I think what the majority of posters fail to realize is that I am not looking to do this as a full time business. I want to learn to do this, because I believe that learning new things is fun and rewarding. I want to do this because I DO have a niche market, as well as people that are already willing to pay me to learn this and do it for them. I already have several dozen people that want me to do this on their behalf, so I'm not worried about struggling to find customers, find my place, etc. I just want to be able to give a couple dozen people their own websites under my domain with some preconfigured options to make it easier for them.
Thanks
My apologies, let me attempt to restate my question.
Let's say I get www.myname.com. That site then becomes a basic directory of sites and games within a given genre. One of the sites that I list then comes to me and says, I would like to sign up and use customer1.myname.com as my site.
If i wanted to give them a basic index page with a subdirectory, provide a forum, photo gallery, their own updatable news/info page, etc.
I'm not talking so much about web hosting as pre-built packages to allow them their own site within my existing one.
I loved tech support. People call in that actually need the skills I've spent my entire life acquiring. I fix those problems or direct them to where the solutions can be found. Once in a while you get a bad seed, but I would LOVE a L1 tech support job. Even at 10-15 an hour it would make me a ridiculously happy person these days. Using my skills, making people happy, fixing problems - I don't see why people hate it so much.
The author did not imply those were the ONLY two methods to render the software worthless, merely the first two options at hand I'd imagine.
I think we all know that the less history remembers of George W Bush's term as president of the free world, the better off we will look in our children's eyes. If he gets lucky he might get off easy with a 'worst president to ever hold the office' footnote.
I find it hard to believe that the example applications I used would run in Wine without some degree of noticable loss of performance.
I didn't say go out, buy a camera, come home, search for files, dig through the crap that is search results, install package. I'm talking out-of-box support
Didn't know the 360 media connect worked with linux, thanks.
point is, if they had to call comcast then they wouldn't be the kind of person who can googleshoot their own network problems. Besides, if the internet isn't working, how do they google it?
Crysis is the new benchmark of gaming, my PC has dual-SLI 8800GT cards with 8 Gigs of RAM, so as a gamer I'm not likely going to settle for anything that doesn't give me the full value for my horsepower.
Sims 2 was the series I had in mind, being as it is one of the largest selling games of all time. And while it may be possible to run on Linux, neither the core game or the 12 expansions I have bought for it would run on Linux out of the boxes I bought.
I rarely ever have problems with any of the 5 gaming PC's in my room, the Vista Ultimate actually is my favorite, although granted it has the most power by far. They don't crash, and the only slowing down comes from when I use poorly coded open-source java-based programs.
Please, cite for me a real-world example where the average user would EVER need to install 50 programs at once?
Probably, since Pulse Audio runs on win32 systems, too.
Yes. They are called themes.
Who backs up settings? Linux users? Guess what the vast majority of us don't care about doing? That's right, back up our settings.
This is where it sucks to be you, I don't have to preach the Windows gospel, my friends and family already have their own bible.
MS Stock Price after release of ME - 25.59. Today's Stock Price for MS - 29.11. During the time between their stock has traded as high as 36.55.
As for their cash reserves, I'm curious what inside information you have, the last I heard arrangements have not been agreed upon, and a cash vs stock deal hasn't been determined. As of December 07, they still have 21 billion in cash reserves. Even if they blew their wad on Yahoo, they generated 17.6 billion dollars of cash last year, and could easily replenish those reserves by scaling back acquisitions and dividend payouts.
Your fiscal witchcraft is a fail, and since the entirity of your comment is built around a fact that you pulled out of some random orifice, your entire comment gets an F. No gold star for you.
You can tell me that Linux is a competitor when a significant percentage of 'must have' PC software runs natively on a Linux installation without jumping through hoops.
Will AutoCad run on Linux? Will Photoshop run on Linux? Is desktop media creation simple and streamlined on Linux? Will my 25$ generic webcam from Wal-Mart work on Linux? If I call Comcast because I can't connect to the internet, will they troubleshoot for Linux? Can I connect my Xbox 360 to Linux? Can I play Crysis on Linux? How about the Sims?
Come back with your 'viable competitor' talk when you can answer half of those basic usage questions with a 'yes'.
For how many years have slashdot 'experts' been predicting the 'downfall' of windows? For 23 years they have not just controlled, the word is 'dominated' the desktop environment. For the majority of computer users, the words 'Windows' and 'Computer' are borderline synonymous.
And you're proof? Because some users believe that 'Vista sucks' blah blah blah. How many people started ringing the bells for Microsoft after Windows ME? We saw how that worked out...
In my house I run Windows XP Media Edition, 2x Windows XP Pro, and Vista Ultimate 64. Hands down Vista is my favorite OS to use. Granted, early versions were harder to swallow, as I have been using Vista since early Beta.
However, the major problems I had initially have been addressed. Driver compatibility, Stability and Memory usage - since SP1 at least, all of these problems have gone away for me, most of them long before SP1.
While Vista may not be the best choice for everyone, I use it for Office 2007, Photoshop, Video Encoding, and Gaming (Crysis/2142) and have nothing but praises to sing for those uses.
Of course, I realize gamers that use basic photo editing software and office applications are in the minority....
If you bothered to read the article he says that after trying open source options they did not meet the needs of his network as efficiently as the non-OS alternatives.
Until the Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia vs Heller and establishes a definitive precedent on which interpretation of the 2nd amendment is relevant to those protections, I don't really see how they could be expected to defend second amendment. I personally have never taken towards the 'it means we can have guns' interpretation. As far as I can see, the purpose of the second amendment is that citizens have the rights to bear arms in defense of a free state, which does not include shooting someone for stealing your iPod.
Yeah, I downloaded it and listened to it....I think at best, the politest statement I can make is that he is certainly entertaining some creative remix/edit possibilities for this in the future. If I'd paid 300 bucks for this, I think i'd be somewhat upset :P
A lot of people have mentioned it here, such as it is just for speculative resale or wealthy patrons, etc. The 300$ option is the only available option that included the vinyls of these tracks. I mean seriously, I would imagine that there are DJ's that still use vinyl for clubs and that of these, some work enough high profile venues that being one of the 'few' owners of these vinyl discs would be a 'duh' choice had he charged 3 times as much for them.
That may be one of the most pathetic endorsements for Linux I've ever seen pushed on slashdot. I suppose you would rather use the open source alternatives for every program that requires a cd key or activation to operate or function. Hell, why even bother supporting software development at all. We have all seen the unheralded success of open source alternatives to their commercial brethren. Remember when Adobe went bankrupt? Or back when Microsoft gave in, lamenting that had they only found an alternative to asking users to authenticate their software they might still be struggling to hold a minority share of desktop usage. Oh, if only.
So as long as it defends your precious *nix community, and lays potential blame at the door of MS, it is perfectly acceptable practice to make accusatory conclusions with no evidence or proof. This kind of MS bashing just makes the *nix community look like desperate hypocrites, and only furthers my resolve to continue supporting the MS platform for another 15 years of satisfied usage.
Why can't you just accept the fact that everyone knows that every platform is vulnerable to some extent, and probably 90% of users don't give a shit.