This is just shy of the Canadian border, in my home town. Quite a site to see, there are turbines as far as the eye can see. This site says they built 100; the other company they mention must have doubled that. I counted 100 in a 5 square mile section, and they go on for over 20 square miles.
You speak in the context of an individual user here on Slashdot looking for personal AV software. My reason for browsing these comments is not for my own AV needs, but for those of the companies my IT firm manages. I have been researching alternatives to Symantec AV, because the PCs out in the field we have to manage do get infected by uninformed users, and we have do deal with it. One of the companies we manage has some 300 individual PCs across the nation in small physical therapy offices. When the PC has a problem, we remote in and deal with it. If spyware/malware takes more than two hours to clean, we ship a replacement PC. So far, AVG has been our best defense for after the fact infections (along with SmitFraudFix and VundoFix). Symantec never seems to catch anything. So, up until now, I had been considering replacing Symantec with AVG. I am disappointed that I'd have to start looking elsewhere.
As an aside, I have also developed a ghost-like linux-based solution that will allow us to restore PCs to our factory state, while backing up user data, if infection is bad enough to warrant it. This will help us save the cost of shipping out replacement boxes. It's a pretty great application of various software (kubuntu, ntfsclone, cp, and a short bash script) that could have numerous uses, and I hope to have it posted on the net sometime soon.
Here's FF3 with 10 tabs open and 3 windows, a few with flash video. Haven't closed if for ~6 days, have had as many as 5 windows open, as many as, say, 30 tabs at once in that time frame. Looks pretty good to me.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
20331 user 20 0 569m 224m 19m S 13 11.1 8285:26 firefox
Vast improvement over 6-9 months ago when it used to hit 1200MB after a few days.
Or maybe people would rather work on OS development and desktop software than improve systems to sell ads.
Awe, that seems kind of short-sighted to me. There are lots of reasons I want to work for Google, and none of them have to do with advertising. I watched a tutorial on implementing the Google Calendar API, and the presenter, who helped develop the API, was very enthusiastic about the system. I am, too. It'd be a great set of tools to develop and use IMO. I think it would be fun to port Picasa and Earth using Wine libs as well. I'm sure there are many more projects I'd enjoy working on.
It seems to me, for every developer of OS/software at Apple, there must be three engineers developing the latest hardware. Would be a fun job as well, but unfortunately not the path I took. And I must say, I personally am not at all enthusiastic about software development at Apple, but those reasons are of course mine alone.
However, Transgaming is considering allowing wine versions to be installed via the Cedega UI; this is being voted on currently in the polls. The UI allows one to choose which version of Cedega will run the selected game. Adding the ability to do this with various wine versions could be very helpful in working around regressions, or tracking them down. Right now, I use a separate WINEPREFIX for any apps that I don't want to get screwed up in a default ~/.wine. I also have a wine with patches specifically for Joost that resides in/opt and won't be touched by wine upgrades.
In response to the above, there is still a fair amount of code sharing going back and forth between the two projects. Some of the licensing restrictions in commercial Cedega are from the proprietary third-party CD Copy Protection code. I'm not saying the two projects could ever merge, but I am kind of glad to have them both around. Both dev teams are doing great work.:)
PHP did not need to be configured to work with MySQL in my apt-get'd install. It just worked (TM):) I was up and running with a testbed server in no time.
I set up a web server for testing a few days ago in VirtualBox using Kubuntu 7.0.4, Apache2, PHP 5, and MySQL 5. I had the testbed up and running in under 2 hours, including server and software installation. I didn't need to edit any configuration files. I installed PHPMyAdmin for a bit of graphical database configuration, then installed and started researching Drupal. A very pleasant experience. I understand that.Net may be easier than PHP, however I do not know this from experience. My platform of choice for development would at the moment be Ruby on Rails. RadRails and Eclipse are great IDEs for development there.
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This is my firefox with 13 tabs currently open, been running for about a day (or maybe it's 18 hours 31 mins..;), i didn't do heavy browsing today, but did yesterday. i don't have any extensions. i regularly leave it running for a few days, and when i do shut it off i kill it so i can restore open tabs.
VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 374m 228m 28m S....0...11.3..18:31.11 firefox-bin
You read half my post:) Sure my teachers only view my work, but the Kitchen manager and restaurant owner both work on the same sheets. The kitchen manager is doing his work in OpenOffice. The restaraunt owner is doing his work in MSO. On the same sheet, off the same data stick. The kitchen manager works on the same sheet in a different OO or MSO, depending on his physical location. The prefabbed purchased excel sheets always do their job. This isn't real time collaboration, but that was never the point of my post, as well I am not saying that very high levels of document sharing and collaboration are going to work. I would have never assumed so. Thanks for clarifying your point.
Perhaps you should have explained yourself more; from my point of view, OpenOffice is compatible with MSO. I have been sending my teachers Word and Excel documents created in OpenOffice for a year and a half, which they view in MSO. They have never docked me points for formatting or formula errors. I have a number of customers in school and in business who use OpenOffice daily to communicate documents to others using MSO. A few of my customers in the restaurant business use purchased spreadsheets for labor, inventory and gross sales. There is no problem using these complicated Excel sheets in OpenOffice. For these reasons I see OpenOffice as very compatible.
The general populace cannot properly build a PC. I have experienced firsthand the results of someone trying to build their own PC, time and time again. There are just too many things that can go wrong. But they should not have to settle for Dell if they do not want. That makes it my job to select quality brand name parts and assemble a quality PC, and if a person wants a $300 PC, then that's what I will build for them. If they want a $600 PC, ok. The more you pay, the more power.
Of course, the other great choice to be offered is Linux, or Windows, or both? Dual boot, VMWare Player, or both? I have now 250 customers, many local, a few not, who enjoy their linux PC and receive tech support and software updates from me, free for the first year, or longer if they wish (for extra $$).
Right now many of my customers are enjoying their new 3D accelerated desktops (video!), and hopefully everyone will have this by christmas. Flash player 9 is also going on select customer desktops, those who are comfortable trying out new software which is not official. All of my customers recieve emails describing services from rhapsody.com, emusic.com, abc.com, new features from KDE and related software (amarok!), and other news of interest.
The main theme here is support. It should not be as difficult as it is with Dell. I think it should be more personal, and that is what i hope to offer. That and, of course, a better quality PC than can be found elsewhere. That, above all, is why I entered this business.. working on Dell, Gateway and Compaq etc PCs for years left me wanting something more for my customers, like quality name brand parts, painless and inexpensive hardware and software updates, and of course, personalized tech support.
On the other hand, my brother bought Morrowind for PC because the XBox wasn't cutting it. Constantly crashing, Xbox overheating, not reading the disc..
But then, another difference was the PC not running Windows..
As far as #1 goes, my tool of choice is a knoppix bootdisc. I use it for many things, including recovering data from any sort of partition. Wonders of dd and netcat is a great article including info on cloning drives over a network.
I do use freedos in the event I need to do a BIOS update on a machine, and no other method is available.
Even Windows won't play 100% of your games 100% of the time. Oh, and Cedega does give code back to Wine. If I can find a specific example, I'll post it. I play 5 or 6 games with Cedega, mostly World of Warcraft, but also Battlefield 2, Prey, Half Life 2 and CounterStrike:Source, Anarchy Online, Eve Online, and Oblivion. I am grateful for Transgaming's software.
unlike the simpsons? how about lisa becoming a vegetarian in season 7; apu getting married, later having kids, then cheating on his wife and going to marriage counseling (this story spanned 4 seasons). or barney going sober in season 11, and not relapsing till season 14? cripes, maud died in season 11 or so, and flanders spent the next year getting over it and then started dating. there is tons of progression happening in the show, its one of the things that makes the simpsons world so great. there is story, depth, history.
Apparently Honda's fuelling stations located in California are completely independent of fossil fuels, relying instead on solar energy to provide the electricity to extract hydrogen from water. The cars are going for a million dollars right now, but Honda is offering year long test drives to select owners. http://world.honda.com/news/2001/c010710.html
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This is just shy of the Canadian border, in my home town. Quite a site to see, there are turbines as far as the eye can see. This site says they built 100; the other company they mention must have doubled that. I counted 100 in a 5 square mile section, and they go on for over 20 square miles.
Here's another band along the same theme, been around for some time. Caught them on their last tour: http://www.capturedbyrobots.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zvU165DEYc. Great stage show, interesting theme.
You speak in the context of an individual user here on Slashdot looking for personal AV software. My reason for browsing these comments is not for my own AV needs, but for those of the companies my IT firm manages. I have been researching alternatives to Symantec AV, because the PCs out in the field we have to manage do get infected by uninformed users, and we have do deal with it. One of the companies we manage has some 300 individual PCs across the nation in small physical therapy offices. When the PC has a problem, we remote in and deal with it. If spyware/malware takes more than two hours to clean, we ship a replacement PC. So far, AVG has been our best defense for after the fact infections (along with SmitFraudFix and VundoFix). Symantec never seems to catch anything. So, up until now, I had been considering replacing Symantec with AVG. I am disappointed that I'd have to start looking elsewhere.
As an aside, I have also developed a ghost-like linux-based solution that will allow us to restore PCs to our factory state, while backing up user data, if infection is bad enough to warrant it. This will help us save the cost of shipping out replacement boxes. It's a pretty great application of various software (kubuntu, ntfsclone, cp, and a short bash script) that could have numerous uses, and I hope to have it posted on the net sometime soon.
As stated above, running Windows in a VM requires a Windows license. That's all fine and dandy, unless you don't have one and/or don't want one :)
Here's FF3 with 10 tabs open and 3 windows, a few with flash video. Haven't closed if for ~6 days, have had as many as 5 windows open, as many as, say, 30 tabs at once in that time frame. Looks pretty good to me.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
20331 user 20 0 569m 224m 19m S 13 11.1 8285:26 firefox
Vast improvement over 6-9 months ago when it used to hit 1200MB after a few days.
Awe, that seems kind of short-sighted to me. There are lots of reasons I want to work for Google, and none of them have to do with advertising. I watched a tutorial on implementing the Google Calendar API, and the presenter, who helped develop the API, was very enthusiastic about the system. I am, too. It'd be a great set of tools to develop and use IMO. I think it would be fun to port Picasa and Earth using Wine libs as well. I'm sure there are many more projects I'd enjoy working on.
It seems to me, for every developer of OS/software at Apple, there must be three engineers developing the latest hardware. Would be a fun job as well, but unfortunately not the path I took. And I must say, I personally am not at all enthusiastic about software development at Apple, but those reasons are of course mine alone.
However, Transgaming is considering allowing wine versions to be installed via the Cedega UI; this is being voted on currently in the polls. The UI allows one to choose which version of Cedega will run the selected game. Adding the ability to do this with various wine versions could be very helpful in working around regressions, or tracking them down. Right now, I use a separate WINEPREFIX for any apps that I don't want to get screwed up in a default ~/.wine. I also have a wine with patches specifically for Joost that resides in /opt and won't be touched by wine upgrades.
In response to the above, there is still a fair amount of code sharing going back and forth between the two projects. Some of the licensing restrictions in commercial Cedega are from the proprietary third-party CD Copy Protection code. I'm not saying the two projects could ever merge, but I am kind of glad to have them both around. Both dev teams are doing great work. :)
PHP did not need to be configured to work with MySQL in my apt-get'd install. It just worked (TM) :) I was up and running with a testbed server in no time.
I set up a web server for testing a few days ago in VirtualBox using Kubuntu 7.0.4, Apache2, PHP 5, and MySQL 5. I had the testbed up and running in under 2 hours, including server and software installation. I didn't need to edit any configuration files. I installed PHPMyAdmin for a bit of graphical database configuration, then installed and started researching Drupal. A very pleasant experience. I understand that .Net may be easier than PHP, however I do not know this from experience. My platform of choice for development would at the moment be Ruby on Rails. RadRails and Eclipse are great IDEs for development there.
This is my firefox with 13 tabs currently open, been running for about a day (or maybe it's 18 hours 31 mins.. ;), i didn't do heavy browsing today, but did yesterday. i don't have any extensions. i regularly leave it running for a few days, and when i do shut it off i kill it so i can restore open tabs.
....0 ...11.3 ..18:31.11 firefox-bin
VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
374m 228m 28m S
You read half my post :) Sure my teachers only view my work, but the Kitchen manager and restaurant owner both work on the same sheets. The kitchen manager is doing his work in OpenOffice. The restaraunt owner is doing his work in MSO. On the same sheet, off the same data stick. The kitchen manager works on the same sheet in a different OO or MSO, depending on his physical location. The prefabbed purchased excel sheets always do their job. This isn't real time collaboration, but that was never the point of my post, as well I am not saying that very high levels of document sharing and collaboration are going to work. I would have never assumed so. Thanks for clarifying your point.
Perhaps you should have explained yourself more; from my point of view, OpenOffice is compatible with MSO. I have been sending my teachers Word and Excel documents created in OpenOffice for a year and a half, which they view in MSO. They have never docked me points for formatting or formula errors. I have a number of customers in school and in business who use OpenOffice daily to communicate documents to others using MSO. A few of my customers in the restaurant business use purchased spreadsheets for labor, inventory and gross sales. There is no problem using these complicated Excel sheets in OpenOffice. For these reasons I see OpenOffice as very compatible.
actually something that kills iPod wannabe's would be stated as "Ipod-wannabe killer". type wannabe three times, and it starts to look kinda silly.
The general populace cannot properly build a PC. I have experienced firsthand the results of someone trying to build their own PC, time and time again. There are just too many things that can go wrong. But they should not have to settle for Dell if they do not want. That makes it my job to select quality brand name parts and assemble a quality PC, and if a person wants a $300 PC, then that's what I will build for them. If they want a $600 PC, ok. The more you pay, the more power.
Of course, the other great choice to be offered is Linux, or Windows, or both? Dual boot, VMWare Player, or both? I have now 250 customers, many local, a few not, who enjoy their linux PC and receive tech support and software updates from me, free for the first year, or longer if they wish (for extra $$).
Right now many of my customers are enjoying their new 3D accelerated desktops (video!), and hopefully everyone will have this by christmas. Flash player 9 is also going on select customer desktops, those who are comfortable trying out new software which is not official. All of my customers recieve emails describing services from rhapsody.com, emusic.com, abc.com, new features from KDE and related software (amarok!), and other news of interest.
The main theme here is support. It should not be as difficult as it is with Dell. I think it should be more personal, and that is what i hope to offer. That and, of course, a better quality PC than can be found elsewhere. That, above all, is why I entered this business.. working on Dell, Gateway and Compaq etc PCs for years left me wanting something more for my customers, like quality name brand parts, painless and inexpensive hardware and software updates, and of course, personalized tech support.
I imagine they meant to say AM2 X2, which does start at ~$152
On the other hand, my brother bought Morrowind for PC because the XBox wasn't cutting it. Constantly crashing, Xbox overheating, not reading the disc.. But then, another difference was the PC not running Windows..
As far as #1 goes, my tool of choice is a knoppix bootdisc. I use it for many things, including recovering data from any sort of partition. Wonders of dd and netcat is a great article including info on cloning drives over a network. I do use freedos in the event I need to do a BIOS update on a machine, and no other method is available.
Even Windows won't play 100% of your games 100% of the time. Oh, and Cedega does give code back to Wine. If I can find a specific example, I'll post it. I play 5 or 6 games with Cedega, mostly World of Warcraft, but also Battlefield 2, Prey, Half Life 2 and CounterStrike:Source, Anarchy Online, Eve Online, and Oblivion. I am grateful for Transgaming's software.
unlike the simpsons? how about lisa becoming a vegetarian in season 7; apu getting married, later having kids, then cheating on his wife and going to marriage counseling (this story spanned 4 seasons). or barney going sober in season 11, and not relapsing till season 14? cripes, maud died in season 11 or so, and flanders spent the next year getting over it and then started dating. there is tons of progression happening in the show, its one of the things that makes the simpsons world so great. there is story, depth, history.
I upgrade my free/open source software because new features are added to extend funtionality, and to take advantage of ever improving hardware.
As long as LSB95 and LSBXP don't follow :)
Apparently Honda's fuelling stations located in California are completely independent of fossil fuels, relying instead on solar energy to provide the electricity to extract hydrogen from water. The cars are going for a million dollars right now, but Honda is offering year long test drives to select owners. http://world.honda.com/news/2001/c010710.html
i just like to play video games..
Not to mention hiring on gaim's main developer, Sean, as he posted here http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ on October 12.