Microsoft announced Microsoft Mouse Genuine Advantage (MMGA), as a mandatory update that benefits users of genuine Microsoft mice. If mouse is found to be non-genuine, MMGA will replace X and Y coordinates in mouse driver, and subtly notify user.
13 updates within a day of release. NVIDIA drivers can't be installed without tweaking (OS drivers don't support resolutions above SXGA, and my monitor is UXGA)
Yes, it works well for installing any package that are part of repository. Package not on repository? Tough luck - no native rpm support, no RPM builds for Ubuntu. Good example of this case is Acrobat Reader, or IBM Java RPMs.
So yes, Ubuntu might work well in many cases, but it doesn't work well in all.
I have such system, I bought it month or so before Core 2 Duo was available. And I made that decision believing that when 64-bit is worth my time, I will be on a different machine.
Core Duo is great 32-bit CPU. So is Core 2 Duo. Is it great 64-bit CPU? I don't think so. Intel's implementation of AMD64 is more like emulation - AMD wrote AMD64 to work together with its architecture, not with Intel's. There are benchmarks on AnandTech that confirm that Intel's performance advantage is gone in 64-bit mode.
Will not go very well, at least in beginning. This enhanced security won't sell it. There won't be drivers for some existing stuff ever. Seems that MS wants to push this version and keep 32-bit as legacy, but in the end when end user can't make it work as well as 32-bit, it is just going to slip and create confusion.
In long run it may pay off, when systems and components are designed for 64-bit, until then, 32-bit will be preference. I wonder if any of corporate users are going to put 64-bit on employeees workstations in upcoming months -it seems as a big risk without much gain.
First, the shipped kernel had to be updated right away to allow other modules such as video drivers or ndiswrapper to work.
Second, kudos for FC/ RH team for putting the dmraid in boot time, allowing FC5 to be first and only distro with support for most motherboard fakeRAIDs, that are widely present today. However, dmraid booting was broken as soon as you get first kernel update (original kernel was useless).
Then there were daily updates. I can't keep it up-to-date no matter why: it takes 10 minutes just to resolve dependencies, while Ubuntu updates its own system in that time.
For example, I had KDE 3.5 and I decided to get the Kile package. Peace of cake it should be. The file itself on Debian systems (Ubuntu) is about 4MB. In FC5 - it took 100MB of downloads to get it running. And when I was done, I checked for updates, and there were another 500MB of minor updates waiting to be resolved and then updated. And system was up-to-date day before.
This quick FC6 release just tells me it is going to be same story. Sorry, but I'm not going to try it, although I've tried releases 2 to 5 and RHEL - Ubuntu just works, and it works FAST.
Windows will be insecure while it has such market share. Security issues and viruses and such are natural phenomenon, they don't depend much of operating system. So far, Windows was perfect target. If Linux had such market share, 'malicious' people would make badware for it. And with source code being openly available, weaknesses are not too difficult to find.
Very doubtful that it is anywhere near Raptor or high end SCSI drives when it comes to performance. At some point, the access time of 7200rpm of that drive is bottleneck.
...are not related. Real-time operating systems have shadulers that sort tasks per various priorities. Which mean that task admitted with low priority isn't going to have quick response.
Firefox runs many myspace pages like crap. Reason is total lack of any standard on those. It is not rare that CPU utilization goes as high as 100% when one of many bad designed (in a lack of better word; sorry for calling it that way) profiles is opened.
Next, many of pages work properly only on I.E., Firefox usually strugles with backgrounds and text. The excuses for human beings using them never heard of anything else.
To summarize, myspace is for them others, and is as good website as I am good carpenter and cook.
Some manufacturers already put warnings and web interfaces that tell you whether your WiFi network is "secure".
Why they all can't just randomly generate WEP key, enable WEP, and explain user how to use it to authenticate to network. It is just one step more. Might be one that is most difficult, but it prevents unathorized access for common Windows user.
Score 5 for this comment? Windows can't live without swap memory. 0 is automatically ignored (and other small values), and Windows decides to use as much as it wants. This is easily verified by running DirectX Siagnostic Tool, dxdiag.exe.
In Windows 2000/XP you can't disable swap memory- plain and simple. Swap size can be reduced, that's all, but Windows will only follow your seeting until need arises (and that won't be when Windows has ran out of RAM, as other have explained).
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There's student Windows XP corp key that can be used on zillions of machines :) and it passes WGA and such.
Microsoft announced Microsoft Mouse Genuine Advantage (MMGA), as a mandatory update that benefits users of genuine Microsoft mice. If mouse is found to be non-genuine, MMGA will replace X and Y coordinates in mouse driver, and subtly notify user.
13 updates within a day of release.
NVIDIA drivers can't be installed without tweaking (OS drivers don't support resolutions above SXGA, and my monitor is UXGA)
Yes, it works well for installing any package that are part of repository. Package not on repository? Tough luck - no native rpm support, no RPM builds for Ubuntu. Good example of this case is Acrobat Reader, or IBM Java RPMs.
So yes, Ubuntu might work well in many cases, but it doesn't work well in all.
I have such system, I bought it month or so before Core 2 Duo was available. And I made that decision believing that when 64-bit is worth my time, I will be on a different machine.
Core Duo is great 32-bit CPU. So is Core 2 Duo. Is it great 64-bit CPU? I don't think so. Intel's implementation of AMD64 is more like emulation - AMD wrote AMD64 to work together with its architecture, not with Intel's. There are benchmarks on AnandTech that confirm that Intel's performance advantage is gone in 64-bit mode.
Will not go very well, at least in beginning. This enhanced security won't sell it. There won't be drivers for some existing stuff ever. Seems that MS wants to push this version and keep 32-bit as legacy, but in the end when end user can't make it work as well as 32-bit, it is just going to slip and create confusion. In long run it may pay off, when systems and components are designed for 64-bit, until then, 32-bit will be preference. I wonder if any of corporate users are going to put 64-bit on employeees workstations in upcoming months -it seems as a big risk without much gain.
and still is.
First, the shipped kernel had to be updated right away to allow other modules such as video drivers or ndiswrapper to work.
Second, kudos for FC/ RH team for putting the dmraid in boot time, allowing FC5 to be first and only distro with support for most motherboard fakeRAIDs, that are widely present today. However, dmraid booting was broken as soon as you get first kernel update (original kernel was useless).
Then there were daily updates. I can't keep it up-to-date no matter why: it takes 10 minutes just to resolve dependencies, while Ubuntu updates its own system in that time.
For example, I had KDE 3.5 and I decided to get the Kile package. Peace of cake it should be. The file itself on Debian systems (Ubuntu) is about 4MB. In FC5 - it took 100MB of downloads to get it running. And when I was done, I checked for updates, and there were another 500MB of minor updates waiting to be resolved and then updated. And system was up-to-date day before.
This quick FC6 release just tells me it is going to be same story. Sorry, but I'm not going to try it, although I've tried releases 2 to 5 and RHEL - Ubuntu just works, and it works FAST.
Windows will be insecure while it has such market share. Security issues and viruses and such are natural phenomenon, they don't depend much of operating system. So far, Windows was perfect target. If Linux had such market share, 'malicious' people would make badware for it. And with source code being openly available, weaknesses are not too difficult to find.
go ahead, ./ers, spam the spamers: their contact.php script is a sad effort. There's no check whether fields are valid.
http://www.e360insight.com/contact.php
Very doubtful that it is anywhere near Raptor or high end SCSI drives when it comes to performance. At some point, the access time of 7200rpm of that drive is bottleneck.
Well, then enjoy intel software sold as $2/pc hardware.
Correct answer is AOL:
http://television.aol.com/in2tv/babylon_5_tv
What web portal lets you watch all five seasons of Babylon 5?
Yes, and -1 kudos to all Dell bashers! Truth is slow, but eventually arrives.
http://www.aolsearchdatabase.com/search.php?page=1 &textfield=&textfield2=cancel%20aol
And how exactly you figure out your private data is available to whole world if not searching for it?
That Firefox is direct competition to Symantec (Anti)Virus and their internet suite.
If there were no enough bugs in Firefox, they would made up some. Because they got solution for all IE bugs, and then some.
And mods, this is not flamebait, thank you for understanding.
...are not related. Real-time operating systems have shadulers that sort tasks per various priorities. Which mean that task admitted with low priority isn't going to have quick response.
Firefox runs many myspace pages like crap. Reason is total lack of any standard on those. It is not rare that CPU utilization goes as high as 100% when one of many bad designed (in a lack of better word; sorry for calling it that way) profiles is opened. Next, many of pages work properly only on I.E., Firefox usually strugles with backgrounds and text. The excuses for human beings using them never heard of anything else. To summarize, myspace is for them others, and is as good website as I am good carpenter and cook.
selling "few" programs for mere $20 Mil?
What do you think how much effort it would take to make $20Mil from GPL software?
GPL is hardly a serious answer.
Looks as bad as ever. Is there a single 'power' user that likes Nautilus?
It is not customizeable -can't change single thing on the toolbar.
Default view is useful for home directory only.
Location bar (can be changed) is annoying with buttons instead of link.
Some manufacturers already put warnings and web interfaces that tell you whether your WiFi network is "secure".
Why they all can't just randomly generate WEP key, enable WEP, and explain user how to use it to authenticate to network. It is just one step more. Might be one that is most difficult, but it prevents unathorized access for common Windows user.
actual site is http://www.zcodec.com/therms.html. You are right about "Therms". Definitely not of western origin.
PF usage in task manager still shows that page file is being used. So does the dxdiag.
Score 5 for this comment? Windows can't live without swap memory. 0 is automatically ignored (and other small values), and Windows decides to use as much as it wants. This is easily verified by running DirectX Siagnostic Tool, dxdiag.exe.
In Windows 2000/XP you can't disable swap memory- plain and simple. Swap size can be reduced, that's all, but Windows will only follow your seeting until need arises (and that won't be when Windows has ran out of RAM, as other have explained).