Unless the company has a site license (which small companies usually don't) to use XP virtually, they will still need to buy an XP license to stay legal. If they bought machines with OEM licenses and switch to Macs they are going to have to buy XP licenses. I am not sure if they would if they switch the OS to Linux on the same hardware. It is still on the same hardware, but I am not a license expert.
Home lines are different then business lines. The Business lines (latitude and otiplex desktops and precision) have free downgrade to XP Pro. The home line inspirion and dimension and xps charge.
The Xandros has crossover installed and running on it. Which lets regular people (read non geeky people) install those applications that they so love. Does it work with everything, Most likely not. But it does let the regular person use a linus OS and install office (2003 yes not sure of 2007 haven't tried 2007).
There were some issues getting wine to run office on Ubuntu. Then after office was working (office was a deal breaker open office not an option for them) a few days later then complained because they couldn't install some other windows app (I forget what it was it wasn't work related). Configuring wine for every app was not something they wanted to do. So I tried xandros. It let them, the regular user, install their windows app. They did wonder why it was asking for the root password on install but that was about it. They could use it and not have major issues. Ubuntu worked until they wanted another windows app. They want the app they are used to, not something close to it. In that reguard xandros worked. also this is a non profit place. Buying one copy of xandros was cheaper then 40 copies of crossover for Ubuntu. I did email and got a reply about the 40 installs for the non profit. Xandros people had no issue with buying one and installing it over and over.
If you look back at why unions starter (1920s, 1930s) you will see that most of those reasons (child labor, very unsafe working conditions, no 'fair' pay i.e. working for a 5 cents a day when a day was 18 hours long) have been taken care of by laws.
What does a union get you today? The union set our pay give you more money? If you notice, the more you make the more your union dues are. Have you ever actually been to a union negotiation? The union person and the company person agree to the new contract in under an hour. Then the script is made. The union guys says you will not give us this so I will walk out and we will have a walk out/strike for a two days. Then we will come back and sign. All this over a really nice lunch/dinner. I asked the 7 negotiators that I know on both sides Teamsters, and the business side (three different companies that have each been around for more then 70 years) it was very similar stories. They usually get the contract made in 1-2 hours. Then depending on who got more (workers/the company) they kill time or start the script. Remember the union itself always wins. the workers who pay the union may get a crappy contract. Then the next contract might be better.
The biggest hurdle is the vote. If you don't know, you are told by the union to vote yes or no to a contract. If the union says vote yes and enough workers vote no, that causes a problem. That can happen but usually doesn't. My brother (who works for the telephone company) is being told by the union right now how to vote on his contract.
I find that very odd that the union says vote yes or no. Shouldn't the workers decide that for themselves?
Most unions today are not needed and should go away. I would say all but I do not know about every union. There may be a few that are actually helping the workers. So far, the unions I have seen have all made sure that they (the union) gets paid. Sometimes at the cost of the company, usually at the cost of the workers they are supposed to be helping.
I remember getting a security audit. These people came in to 'hack' (just get root access) to the systems. Once they had that they stopped. They really just ran password guessing programs on the machines. I had a DB server that was not part of the domain only used DB accounts no domain accounts were used. So the domain accounts and passwords didn't work. At the end of the week they never got into that machine. The rest of the windows, sun, VAX, I forget about the mainframe were cracked. My boss was wondering why that one windows box was not cracked, and so did the company. I never told the company I just said they failed to get into my DB machine. They left and my boss and a few VPs wanted to know how I did it.
The password was: ThisIsThePasswordForMachineDelta
They never went past 15 characters in their password program. I was surprised that it wasn't guessed since it was all letters but it worked. And a new 30+ password systems was set in place. I did get a few threatening emails after the new password policy was put in place though. This was also 1997 too, so it most likely would not work today.
So the best people to rule would be those who have no desire to rule? The people who would go in try to fix things the best they could and get out? Ever here the saying: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely
I am not saying that the US Pres has absolute power. But there is a lot of power at the fingertips of the person in that office. I would love to see someone run for office, actually do what they said they were going to do while running. If they finished their goals before the term was up, they actually leave office. They did what they said they were going to do. It'll never happen (maybe in the movies) but it would be nice to see.
Again it is the power corrupts thing with the 'Poor countries'. Those in charge care more about getting rich then the well being of the people they rule over.
Someone said in this thread said that all countries should stop trading with each other. If that was to happen, WWIII would not be very far behind. To many countries need things (food/ medicine/ building materials/ etc.) from other countries and would goto war to get them. Stopping all trade would be a very bad thing to do.
Think of a chip with the CPU, GPU, 2-4GB of DDR5 (or more like DDR20 when it happens) cache on it.
Someone more informed could say what the speed of the cache is. I just know that it is fast. If there was a chip with a few gig of this fast cache on it, it could make a nice system. Then again, it all depends on how it is implemented.
Better idea. pull the asteroid into a near Earth orbit. Then mine it for useful materials. When mined out,, "pull" it into a Jupiter or Sun crossing orbit. Pull next asteroid into near Earth orbit.
Now to tell which asteroids have stuff we want in them. Think of the global warming when Jupiter becomes the second start in our solar system after enough mass (the asteroids) is dumped into it for ignition.
I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 6But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."
Crap he/she can see what is done in secret!? I don't think reward is what I will be receiving.
It is a post to an online web forum. If anything the people running that forum should be the ones being sued. If the comments were that far out of line they should have been removed by the people running that forum.
People in general need to grow up and realize that not everyone in the world is going to agree with you or like you. Many will even hate you for what ever their reason. That is life, get used to it.
If an online forum can trash your chances of getting your career going, then that speak volumes for society. And not in a good way.
Well time to add AT&T internet to the list of do not use. I really feel for those who have no choice but to use AT&T internet. There are many valid legal reason to use P2P. Getting Linux ISOs, getting that engineering software, etc. Not all uses of P2P are for music and movies.
microsoft is going to release the next few version fast. It wants to get to version called windows X. Seeing as how OSX did so well for Apple. Even endnote (citation program) is keeping the X in there name. They are up to endnote X2 now. Maybe microsoft thinks that an 'X' in the release name will be good?
most people here will call that version windows XXX
The "crash" jokes may be old, but depending on usage patterns, Windows XP still requires a healthy regimen of "reinstall and start fresh" for long-term use.
In my XP usage lately, I have been unamused at how my torrent client starts throwing "insufficient resources" errors, and the entire XP windowing system starts failing to draw windows correctly, even though there's absolutely no lack of free RAM or hard drive space. Looks like it's time for me to dig that XP disk out again...
Maybe your torrent client has a few leaks or you downloaded some 'extra' stuff with those torrents.
I have an old win2000 machine running my torrent downloads. It was up for 11 months (when I started it). If the power didn't go out from those storms it would have been up for over a year. I know this is nothing in time. Just stating that if you do set things up correctly you can get good uptime even with a windows box. This machine is my file server and torrent box. Nothing more (it is a PIII 500 with 512 MB ram not a fast/big machine). It is running the torrent program as a non admin user. Not all torrent programs like non admin either on windows.
Everyone's machine setup is different. The hardware I am using is old but very stable. Every OS that I have installed on it has not had hardware related crashes. Driver related, yes. Getting the correct driver fixed the issue. I wish people would check the hardware to make sure the drivers are there before they install the OS. It could save you some headaches in the long run.
Or start working out in your early teens (13,14) and never stop. I love the bowflex ads showing people in great shape who most likely were always in great shape. Yes they were hand picked for the ad but it is very misleading. Can someone go from looking like Tony Soprano to looking like that guy in the ad using that home gym? Yes, in about 5 years at 20 minutes a day, if your lucky.
If we could just put a little effort into nuclear tech instead of wasting time with bullshit faggy environmentally clean energy, maybe we could all have little breeder reactors in our homes.
I thought people already have breeder reactors in their homes. (it usually takes about 9 months)
Iceland was named that to keep people away (long time ago, also the name of Greenland it is all ice very little green, well more grren now with global warming).
Iceland sits on the mid Atlantic ridge (mountain range) and it is a divergence zone. Iceland is actually getting bigger (I think it is 1-6 inches) a year. In a few million years Iceland will be a continent.
back on topic: All that volcanic activity helps Iceland generate a lot of it's own energy needs. I thought I read that Iceland was going to go all hydrogen fuel for all of its engines (car/boat).
...On top of that, name/brand recognition goes a long way in semi-First World countries like those in Europe...
I'm glad the EU is only the biggest and strongest economy in the World right now, with the best Education and Health systems.. Maybe one day we'll be a "full" First-World country like the US, you know with a 482 billion dollars deficit, poverty everywhere and people unable to cure themselves. Please show us the way, you, young, brash, adventurous, immortal, wise and powerful nation...
A semi-first-world European.
If people were able to cure themselves, they would not have a need for a health care system.
At least on Dell (can't speak of HP or others) they often have their own Dell bios even on video cards. I tried to reuse some video cards (this was in the PIII era) on other machines and the machine would onlt get min video resolution. The reason: The dell video card knew it wasn't in a dell motherboard. I have a few Dell T3400 machines which are Intel X38 based motherboards. I have to load the Dell bios, tried flashing using the Intel bios no good.
Didn't Gigabyte buy Asus or Asus buy Gigabyte? So they are, for the most part, two brands of the same company now?
I usually look up reviews on boards to see how other people liked the board. I am not on the newest board, but I am tired of being a tester for companies.
Fundamental public services should not be privatized they should be public and operating in a fully transparent manner. Roads, Schools, Libraries, Utilities, and Health Care.
Not sure if health care should be included in that list. Unless you going to say this public health care stops at certain level. Everything beyond is up to the person getting that care to pay for. The cost of the health care is huge. And making the common people pay for service that they are not getting is not going to fly. Include eye exams, general health care (flu test/shots, broken arms or legs, common cold stuff) I have no problem. Those apply to 99.9999% of everyone. As soon as you go into the cancers, brain operations, body part replacement, the bigger more expansive things I don't agree. Those things should be up to the person getting them to pay for. For the simple reason that not everyone gets cancer, needs a brain operation, looses a limb. Not everyone breaks an arm or leg either, but those are things that can happen to everyone and are not usually very expansive. The more active one is, the more likely that they may break a bone.
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Unless the company has a site license (which small companies usually don't) to use XP virtually, they will still need to buy an XP license to stay legal. If they bought machines with OEM licenses and switch to Macs they are going to have to buy XP licenses. I am not sure if they would if they switch the OS to Linux on the same hardware. It is still on the same hardware, but I am not a license expert.
Home lines are different then business lines. The Business lines (latitude and otiplex desktops and precision) have free downgrade to XP Pro. The home line inspirion and dimension and xps charge.
The Xandros has crossover installed and running on it. Which lets regular people (read non geeky people) install those applications that they so love. Does it work with everything, Most likely not. But it does let the regular person use a linus OS and install office (2003 yes not sure of 2007 haven't tried 2007).
There were some issues getting wine to run office on Ubuntu. Then after office was working (office was a deal breaker open office not an option for them) a few days later then complained because they couldn't install some other windows app (I forget what it was it wasn't work related). Configuring wine for every app was not something they wanted to do. So I tried xandros. It let them, the regular user, install their windows app. They did wonder why it was asking for the root password on install but that was about it. They could use it and not have major issues. Ubuntu worked until they wanted another windows app. They want the app they are used to, not something close to it. In that reguard xandros worked. also this is a non profit place. Buying one copy of xandros was cheaper then 40 copies of crossover for Ubuntu. I did email and got a reply about the 40 installs for the non profit. Xandros people had no issue with buying one and installing it over and over.
If you look back at why unions starter (1920s, 1930s) you will see that most of those reasons (child labor, very unsafe working conditions, no 'fair' pay i.e. working for a 5 cents a day when a day was 18 hours long) have been taken care of by laws.
What does a union get you today? The union set our pay give you more money? If you notice, the more you make the more your union dues are. Have you ever actually been to a union negotiation? The union person and the company person agree to the new contract in under an hour. Then the script is made. The union guys says you will not give us this so I will walk out and we will have a walk out/strike for a two days. Then we will come back and sign. All this over a really nice lunch/dinner. I asked the 7 negotiators that I know on both sides Teamsters, and the business side (three different companies that have each been around for more then 70 years) it was very similar stories. They usually get the contract made in 1-2 hours. Then depending on who got more (workers/the company) they kill time or start the script. Remember the union itself always wins. the workers who pay the union may get a crappy contract. Then the next contract might be better.
The biggest hurdle is the vote. If you don't know, you are told by the union to vote yes or no to a contract. If the union says vote yes and enough workers vote no, that causes a problem. That can happen but usually doesn't. My brother (who works for the telephone company) is being told by the union right now how to vote on his contract.
I find that very odd that the union says vote yes or no. Shouldn't the workers decide that for themselves?
Most unions today are not needed and should go away. I would say all but I do not know about every union. There may be a few that are actually helping the workers. So far, the unions I have seen have all made sure that they (the union) gets paid. Sometimes at the cost of the company, usually at the cost of the workers they are supposed to be helping.
I remember getting a security audit. These people came in to 'hack' (just get root access) to the systems. Once they had that they stopped. They really just ran password guessing programs on the machines. I had a DB server that was not part of the domain only used DB accounts no domain accounts were used. So the domain accounts and passwords didn't work. At the end of the week they never got into that machine. The rest of the windows, sun, VAX, I forget about the mainframe were cracked. My boss was wondering why that one windows box was not cracked, and so did the company. I never told the company I just said they failed to get into my DB machine. They left and my boss and a few VPs wanted to know how I did it.
The password was: ThisIsThePasswordForMachineDelta
They never went past 15 characters in their password program. I was surprised that it wasn't guessed since it was all letters but it worked. And a new 30+ password systems was set in place. I did get a few threatening emails after the new password policy was put in place though. This was also 1997 too, so it most likely would not work today.
So the best people to rule would be those who have no desire to rule? The people who would go in try to fix things the best they could and get out? Ever here the saying:
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely
I am not saying that the US Pres has absolute power. But there is a lot of power at the fingertips of the person in that office. I would love to see someone run for office, actually do what they said they were going to do while running. If they finished their goals before the term was up, they actually leave office. They did what they said they were going to do. It'll never happen (maybe in the movies) but it would be nice to see.
Again it is the power corrupts thing with the 'Poor countries'. Those in charge care more about getting rich then the well being of the people they rule over.
Someone said in this thread said that all countries should stop trading with each other. If that was to happen, WWIII would not be very far behind. To many countries need things (food/ medicine/ building materials/ etc.) from other countries and would goto war to get them. Stopping all trade would be a very bad thing to do.
Maybe a chip with a huge amount of cache on it?
Think of a chip with the CPU, GPU, 2-4GB of DDR5 (or more like DDR20 when it happens) cache on it.
Someone more informed could say what the speed of the cache is. I just know that it is fast. If there was a chip with a few gig of this fast cache on it, it could make a nice system. Then again, it all depends on how it is implemented.
Better idea. pull the asteroid into a near Earth orbit. Then mine it for useful materials. When mined out,, "pull" it into a Jupiter or Sun crossing orbit. Pull next asteroid into near Earth orbit.
Now to tell which asteroids have stuff we want in them. Think of the global warming when Jupiter becomes the second start in our solar system after enough mass (the asteroids) is dumped into it for ignition.
Ah Nukes, the redneck answer to all questions regarding earth crossing asteroids AND rouge terrorists/nation states.
And those cold winter nights....
I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 6But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."
Crap he/she can see what is done in secret!? I don't think reward is what I will be receiving.
To quote that song from the '80s:
"..When I die I expect to find him laughing"
Stop feeding the troll!
If someone doesn't feed them. They will die. Think of the smell from all the dead trolls.
It is a post to an online web forum. If anything the people running that forum should be the ones being sued. If the comments were that far out of line they should have been removed by the people running that forum.
People in general need to grow up and realize that not everyone in the world is going to agree with you or like you. Many will even hate you for what ever their reason. That is life, get used to it.
If an online forum can trash your chances of getting your career going, then that speak volumes for society. And not in a good way.
Flame away.
Well time to add AT&T internet to the list of do not use. I really feel for those who have no choice but to use AT&T internet. There are many valid legal reason to use P2P. Getting Linux ISOs, getting that engineering software, etc. Not all uses of P2P are for music and movies.
microsoft is going to release the next few version fast. It wants to get to version called windows X. Seeing as how OSX did so well for Apple. Even endnote (citation program) is keeping the X in there name. They are up to endnote X2 now. Maybe microsoft thinks that an 'X' in the release name will be good?
most people here will call that version windows XXX
The "crash" jokes may be old, but depending on usage patterns, Windows XP still requires a healthy regimen of "reinstall and start fresh" for long-term use.
In my XP usage lately, I have been unamused at how my torrent client starts throwing "insufficient resources" errors, and the entire XP windowing system starts failing to draw windows correctly, even though there's absolutely no lack of free RAM or hard drive space. Looks like it's time for me to dig that XP disk out again...
Maybe your torrent client has a few leaks or you downloaded some 'extra' stuff with those torrents.
I have an old win2000 machine running my torrent downloads. It was up for 11 months (when I started it). If the power didn't go out from those storms it would have been up for over a year. I know this is nothing in time. Just stating that if you do set things up correctly you can get good uptime even with a windows box. This machine is my file server and torrent box. Nothing more (it is a PIII 500 with 512 MB ram not a fast/big machine). It is running the torrent program as a non admin user. Not all torrent programs like non admin either on windows.
Everyone's machine setup is different. The hardware I am using is old but very stable. Every OS that I have installed on it has not had hardware related crashes. Driver related, yes. Getting the correct driver fixed the issue. I wish people would check the hardware to make sure the drivers are there before they install the OS. It could save you some headaches in the long run.
Or start working out in your early teens (13,14) and never stop. I love the bowflex ads showing people in great shape who most likely were always in great shape. Yes they were hand picked for the ad but it is very misleading. Can someone go from looking like Tony Soprano to looking like that guy in the ad using that home gym? Yes, in about 5 years at 20 minutes a day, if your lucky.
If we could just put a little effort into nuclear tech instead of wasting time with bullshit faggy environmentally clean energy, maybe we could all have little breeder reactors in our homes.
I thought people already have breeder reactors in their homes. (it usually takes about 9 months)
Iceland was named that to keep people away (long time ago, also the name of Greenland it is all ice very little green, well more grren now with global warming).
Iceland sits on the mid Atlantic ridge (mountain range) and it is a divergence zone. Iceland is actually getting bigger (I think it is 1-6 inches) a year. In a few million years Iceland will be a continent.
back on topic: All that volcanic activity helps Iceland generate a lot of it's own energy needs. I thought I read that Iceland was going to go all hydrogen fuel for all of its engines (car/boat).
I wonder if it would be worth the trip. Come to the US, buy a bunch of software. Go back to the EU and sell it.
There are most likely laws against this but someone has to be doing it.
...On top of that, name/brand recognition goes a long way in semi-First World countries like those in Europe...
I'm glad the EU is only the biggest and strongest economy in the World right now, with the best Education and Health systems.. Maybe one day we'll be a "full" First-World country like the US, you know with a 482 billion dollars deficit, poverty everywhere and people unable to cure themselves. Please show us the way, you, young, brash, adventurous, immortal, wise and powerful nation...
A semi-first-world European.
If people were able to cure themselves, they would not have a need for a health care system.
Or the Prof assigns the book he/she wrote.
At least on Dell (can't speak of HP or others) they often have their own Dell bios even on video cards. I tried to reuse some video cards (this was in the PIII era) on other machines and the machine would onlt get min video resolution. The reason: The dell video card knew it wasn't in a dell motherboard. I have a few Dell T3400 machines which are Intel X38 based motherboards. I have to load the Dell bios, tried flashing using the Intel bios no good.
Didn't Gigabyte buy Asus or Asus buy Gigabyte? So they are, for the most part, two brands of the same company now?
I usually look up reviews on boards to see how other people liked the board. I am not on the newest board, but I am tired of being a tester for companies.
Similarly, if I were to say "oh, fuck this" while writing code, it doesn't really mean I want to go and have angry sex with it.
Are you sure?
Fundamental public services should not be privatized they should be public and operating in a fully transparent manner. Roads, Schools, Libraries, Utilities, and Health Care.
Not sure if health care should be included in that list. Unless you going to say this public health care stops at certain level. Everything beyond is up to the person getting that care to pay for. The cost of the health care is huge. And making the common people pay for service that they are not getting is not going to fly. Include eye exams, general health care (flu test/shots, broken arms or legs, common cold stuff) I have no problem. Those apply to 99.9999% of everyone. As soon as you go into the cancers, brain operations, body part replacement, the bigger more expansive things I don't agree. Those things should be up to the person getting them to pay for. For the simple reason that not everyone gets cancer, needs a brain operation, looses a limb. Not everyone breaks an arm or leg either, but those are things that can happen to everyone and are not usually very expansive. The more active one is, the more likely that they may break a bone.