I recently skimmed over Wikipedia's Longhorn* article and I got the impression that Vista was not meant to be a huge leap ahead, even though, when compared to XP, it probably is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_%22Vienna%22
*: Yes, 'Longhorn'. 'Longhorn' at least sounds like a solid OS, while I think 'Vista' sounds like a gay bar, but that may just be me**. **: This is not Microsoft-bashing. Really.
Do you, by any chance, have an nVidia card? My box will refuse to go graphic when I use the nVidia drivers and go hypercolour-SOD when I use the nv drivers. Switching to another tty and back solves the problem for about five minutes. When I use an ATI card everything's fine, so if you have one of those lying around...
This is probably going to be considered flamebait, but I think people ought to feel when their computers are used for attacks, when it's relatively easy to keep them secure. ('Secure' in a relative sense: more secure than most people keep them.)
Ballmer:...if there's a bug in Linux, IBM is not the responsible party to fix that. It's whoever in the community. And you know, let's say that person has a death in the family. I'm not saying we're perfect, but at least you can expect appropriate commercial responses out of a commercial entity.
The good point about capitalism is that you don't have to take the evil empire products. If you don't like people putting the value of money and profit above life itself, go to a competitor that doesn't. (Their products are probably cheaper, too.)
There's nothing wrong with capitalism, there's something wrong with being a bunch of obsessive control freaks. DRM only hurts the capitalist system because it hurts competition.
Well, it might just be sensitive data you do not want bug-prone meatbags to handle. Seriously, most forms banks, credit card companies et cetera recieve are handled by machines.
"Does the average user want/need to know how to install video drivers? No, they don't."
My point exactly. I think the average user cares more for just using his software and would rather call his geek nephew to install whatever he wants installed. An example: My mother uses SUSE Desktop 10 w/KDE. She can browse the web by clicking the 'web browser' icon, send e-mail by clicking the 'e-mail' icon, write letters by clicking the 'writer' icon, and so on. If there's anything she wants, she can find an above-average user to use YaST for her.
Open source is not ready for average users. There just isnt enough focus on the learning curve. I believe the main reason for this is because of it being free. Developers of open source projects don't hire graphic artists and average joe testers to make sure that their products look good and are easy to use.
What "open source" are you talking about? Everything the average user would use - stuff like KDE, OpenOffice.org or Mozilla - comes with documentation, as well as a "sane" interface.
From personal experience, the time it takes me to switch to a MS-state-of-mind at our college terminals, I would say Windows' learning curve is much worse.
From TFA: "Among the other data in Symantec's report are new 'time to compromise' figures that try to gauge how long an unpatched, unprotected computer would last before it has snatched by a hacker."
So, no "viruses/worms circulating the internet". Active attackers.
"Windows XP Professional, said Symantec, stays safe just one hour and 12 seconds, while the Windows 2000 Server (with SP4) made it an hour and 17 minutes. An unpatched Windows Server 2003 system lasted somewhat longer.
In contrast, unpatched Linux installations of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and SuSE Linux 9 Desktop were never compromised during their month-and-a-half exposure to attackers."
SuSE comes with 'OOo - Novell Edition'. Even though the only modification I noticed (before running back to clean text editors) was the slash screen, I'd still say it's a custom build.
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Except that that's not Aperture, that's Final Cut Studio.
ext3 has a maximum volume size of 32 TB, so I don't see why RHEL would complain.
I recently skimmed over Wikipedia's Longhorn* article and I got the impression that Vista was not meant to be a huge leap ahead, even though, when compared to XP, it probably is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_%22Vienna%22
*: Yes, 'Longhorn'. 'Longhorn' at least sounds like a solid OS, while I think 'Vista' sounds like a gay bar, but that may just be me**.
**: This is not Microsoft-bashing. Really.
Also: http://tauquil.com/archives/2006/01/06/re-introduc ing-the-real-windows-vista
Do you, by any chance, have an nVidia card? My box will refuse to go graphic when I use the nVidia drivers and go hypercolour-SOD when I use the nv drivers. Switching to another tty and back solves the problem for about five minutes. When I use an ATI card everything's fine, so if you have one of those lying around...
TFA actually includes a nice little picture showing you can adjust these settings.
AMD claims in.tel and the Elvis fanclub calls dibs on heartbreakho.tel.
Just an iFolder? With .Mac you get an entire iDisk.
Er... actually, out of those games, you'll only need Windows for Battle For Middle Earth 2 and Battlefield 2.
This is probably going to be considered flamebait, but I think people ought to feel when their computers are used for attacks, when it's relatively easy to keep them secure. ('Secure' in a relative sense: more secure than most people keep them.)
I think anyone who's laid down two grand for a laptop and wants to keep it will.
Ballmer: ...if there's a bug in Linux, IBM is not the responsible party to fix that. It's whoever in the community. And you know, let's say that person has a death in the family. I'm not saying we're perfect, but at least you can expect appropriate commercial responses out of a commercial entity.
Right... So we can at least see critical flaws patched quickly.
Of course the brain test's not compatible with Macs. Mac users Think Different.
Because it's practically impossible to get a new computer without Windows pre-installed.
The good point about capitalism is that you don't have to take the evil empire products. If you don't like people putting the value of money and profit above life itself, go to a competitor that doesn't. (Their products are probably cheaper, too.)
There's nothing wrong with capitalism, there's something wrong with being a bunch of obsessive control freaks. DRM only hurts the capitalist system because it hurts competition.
Well, it might just be sensitive data you do not want bug-prone meatbags to handle. Seriously, most forms banks, credit card companies et cetera recieve are handled by machines.
"Does the average user want/need to know how to install video drivers? No, they don't."
My point exactly. I think the average user cares more for just using his software and would rather call his geek nephew to install whatever he wants installed.
An example: My mother uses SUSE Desktop 10 w/KDE. She can browse the web by clicking the 'web browser' icon, send e-mail by clicking the 'e-mail' icon, write letters by clicking the 'writer' icon, and so on. If there's anything she wants, she can find an above-average user to use YaST for her.
Open source is not ready for average users. There just isnt enough focus on the learning curve. I believe the main reason for this is because of it being free. Developers of open source projects don't hire graphic artists and average joe testers to make sure that their products look good and are easy to use.
What "open source" are you talking about? Everything the average user would use - stuff like KDE, OpenOffice.org or Mozilla - comes with documentation, as well as a "sane" interface.
From personal experience, the time it takes me to switch to a MS-state-of-mind at our college terminals, I would say Windows' learning curve is much worse.
From TFA: "Among the other data in Symantec's report are new 'time to compromise' figures that try to gauge how long an unpatched, unprotected computer would last before it has snatched by a hacker."
So, no "viruses/worms circulating the internet". Active attackers.
What makes Opera the second browser? Last time I checked, iCab and Konqueror rendered the test correctly as well.
I like the other part of TFA better:
"Windows XP Professional, said Symantec, stays safe just one hour and 12 seconds, while the Windows 2000 Server (with SP4) made it an hour and 17 minutes. An unpatched Windows Server 2003 system lasted somewhat longer.
In contrast, unpatched Linux installations of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and SuSE Linux 9 Desktop were never compromised during their month-and-a-half exposure to attackers."
A 40" sail boat, and 0^-1 Tbit wireless broadband.
What's the big deal? By limiting its potential market share, MS only hurts itself.
SuSE comes with 'OOo - Novell Edition'. Even though the only modification I noticed (before running back to clean text editors) was the slash screen, I'd still say it's a custom build.
I don't use Safari because it doesn't render pages as well as a mozilla based browser
I respectfully disagree.