22-25 and 12-14 is a BIG difference in speeds. Has the Windows computer been checked for malware and suspicious services?
Aside from that, I know from personal experience that a lot of Windows software will install a service that will automatically check for software updates. (HP and Google both do this) If any software update, antivirus update, or even a MS update was being downloaded that would account for the speed difference.
I like and use Linux, but I doubt that this is a case of "linux is teh aw3s0me omgz0r!" Most likely there is something on the Windows computer, either malicious or legitimate, using the extra bandwidth.
Part of the problem there is the market for "marginal" $299 computers. People obviously want a cheap computer, but where is the commercial operating system to run on these sub-par machines?
I think this is part of the reasoning behind the multiple variations of Vista. They could have a "basic" version that run with little resources, a "professional" version that run on more advanced hardware and specialized in corporate workloads, an "ultimate" version for gaming, etc. Instead of using this model and delivering a decent product, MS fumbled the ball. Vista is tolerable on new hardware with >=4GB of memory, but anything less then that is going to be slower then XP.
Personally, I think MS could do well with a stripped version of Windows. A $299 home computer really doesn't need all of the services and "advanced" features stuffed into Vista. A light-weight OS that can run email, browse myspace, and play youtube videos is all most home users want.
Linux could do good in this kind of environment, but as was seen with the EeePC people are afraid of using anything that doesn't have the shiny Windows logo on it.
They can predict exploits in their own software. Well paint me yellow and call me a phone directory!
How can a PR team for one of the largest corporations in the US seriously release a statement like this? What kind of company fails so badly that they can only predict 40% of exploits in their own [proprietary] software?
If a major car (or car part) manufacturer "accurately" predicted that 40% of their automobiles would explode and burn their owners alive due to a fuel system defect....would people still buy their cars? Oh right...firestone.
Its nice to see a PC-BSD release based on FreeBSD-7.0.
Personally, I rather like the PBI concept. I got a little frustrated when setting up Firefox v3 on Ubuntu*, due to having to upgrade loads of libraries just to use it, which in turn caused many packages to become unusable unless they were also upgraded. I don't want to do a full OS upgraded just to use a web browser.
With PBI packages, the installation is sandboxed in its own directory, along with the needed libraries. This does take up more space, but in the long run it makes for quite a stable system.
*I like and use Ubuntu. I am not saying PCBSD is better or worse then Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution.
'These computers are so old they don't support all antivirus programs,' Penn says.
The computers are too old to support all antivirus programs? What does that even mean? To be fair, brand new computers do not support all antivirus programs either, since there are incompatibilities between various Windows releases.
Letting an 11y/o provide support and give advice for a network of any importance, regardless of how smart he is, will lead to many critical mistakes. The statement I quoted is a good example of this. The kid went to CompUSA, talked to an employee, and then came back to repeat what the employee told him. This isn't news.
As a CS major myself, I blame our poor education system for the decrease in CS majors.
Our current public school system is not doing its job of educating young people. Public schools have spoon-fed students all their lives and continue to pass students that should very well fail. This leads to a very lazy mind set. As a result, you have a large amount of college-age adults who are too lazy to pursue something that requires work, like a CS degree. These lazy students would rather get a general IT certification and call it a day.
Unlike OSX, running all that crap on Vista or XP (stardock, "myexpose", etc) will significantly slow windows down. You can't bolt on a load of [poorly designed] third party apps and say its more like OSX.
Linux can run IE, that doesn't make it "more like windows."
More then likely the fault lies with Xandros. In any case, the product is still relatively new, give them time to get everything sorted.
I'm not trying to sound negative, but I do find it funny that for the past few years (decades, even) linux fanboys have been crying for a mainstream release of linux for the "average" person. When they get what they wanted, they immediately find fault with it. Don't get me wrong, I'm an avid *nix user myself, I just found it humorous.
I hope they don't get sued anytime soon, I was looking forward to picking up one of these after Christmas.
How valuable will these aircraft be? A price ranging from $30K to $1M is extremely broad. Cars can range from $800 - $4,000,000...but they are significantly different in capabilities. In any case, $30k is more then a lot of officers make in a year anyway. Is the price/value ratio worth it?
So, they're going to take longer to ship products to customers that are less likely to become returning customers? Isn't this oxymoron? They take a group of people that are less likely to be returning customers, and treat them worse then the regular customers.
A good business practice would be to treat all your customers equal. Amazon knows what they're doing though, they don't need those filthy one-time shoppers. Really.
A professional company doesn't need to see your twitty livejournal entries. They don't care who is on your myspace top 10. In a professional environment, what matters is education/training and experience. If you have a good educational background, and quality experience, you shouldn't worry about your "online" alter ego. If you're lacking in credentials, don't grasp at straws.
It is amazingly small until you build a custom OpenBSD install/boot cd with all the available install sets. Then it is about average-sized. http://theowned.org/news.php?item.2.2
Perhaps the problem is not Television, but rather, the quality of the shows catching children's interests. I highly doubt educational tv is causing autism. The content on channels like nickelodeon, disny, and even MTV is highly lacking. The method of constantly changing frames and displaying lots or colors does keep someone watching, but it makes it hard to concentrate. Could this be the cause?
The major players could band together and release a special "n00b Linux" and promote the hell out of it in the mainstream as THE distro to get for beginners. It's easier to get people into something with simplicity. Once you get them in, and they're comfortable, THEN you present them with the myriad of distro choices.
This has been tried before. You might be familiar with the 'Linspire' distribution. The majority of the linux user group shuns linspire for its different way of doing things. I am not saying either side is correct, only that this has been done, and has seemingly failed.
I find it humurous that so many people have posted about the nice ability to play games on a Intel Mac using Windows, when currently there are no windows drivers for the video card. Unless there are a lot of Quake 1/2 and Doom 1/2 fans, maybe we should wait until drivers begin to surface before we put so much stock in gaming in Windows on a Mac.:)
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Why cant MS make some SERIOUS applications that actually get work done.
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You mean like...
Microsoft Office...
Visual Studio...
Visual Source Safe...
Exchange...
Just saying, you know. They have made a little effort to help people be productive.
22-25 and 12-14 is a BIG difference in speeds. Has the Windows computer been checked for malware and suspicious services?
Aside from that, I know from personal experience that a lot of Windows software will install a service that will automatically check for software updates. (HP and Google both do this) If any software update, antivirus update, or even a MS update was being downloaded that would account for the speed difference.
I like and use Linux, but I doubt that this is a case of "linux is teh aw3s0me omgz0r!" Most likely there is something on the Windows computer, either malicious or legitimate, using the extra bandwidth.
Part of the problem there is the market for "marginal" $299 computers. People obviously want a cheap computer, but where is the commercial operating system to run on these sub-par machines?
I think this is part of the reasoning behind the multiple variations of Vista. They could have a "basic" version that run with little resources, a "professional" version that run on more advanced hardware and specialized in corporate workloads, an "ultimate" version for gaming, etc. Instead of using this model and delivering a decent product, MS fumbled the ball. Vista is tolerable on new hardware with >=4GB of memory, but anything less then that is going to be slower then XP.
Personally, I think MS could do well with a stripped version of Windows. A $299 home computer really doesn't need all of the services and "advanced" features stuffed into Vista. A light-weight OS that can run email, browse myspace, and play youtube videos is all most home users want.
Linux could do good in this kind of environment, but as was seen with the EeePC people are afraid of using anything that doesn't have the shiny Windows logo on it.
They can predict exploits in their own software. Well paint me yellow and call me a phone directory!
How can a PR team for one of the largest corporations in the US seriously release a statement like this? What kind of company fails so badly that they can only predict 40% of exploits in their own [proprietary] software?
If a major car (or car part) manufacturer "accurately" predicted that 40% of their automobiles would explode and burn their owners alive due to a fuel system defect....would people still buy their cars? Oh right...firestone.
Its nice to see a PC-BSD release based on FreeBSD-7.0.
Personally, I rather like the PBI concept. I got a little frustrated when setting up Firefox v3 on Ubuntu*, due to having to upgrade loads of libraries just to use it, which in turn caused many packages to become unusable unless they were also upgraded. I don't want to do a full OS upgraded just to use a web browser.
With PBI packages, the installation is sandboxed in its own directory, along with the needed libraries. This does take up more space, but in the long run it makes for quite a stable system.
*I like and use Ubuntu. I am not saying PCBSD is better or worse then Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution.
'These computers are so old they don't support all antivirus programs,' Penn says.
The computers are too old to support all antivirus programs? What does that even mean? To be fair, brand new computers do not support all antivirus programs either, since there are incompatibilities between various Windows releases.
Letting an 11y/o provide support and give advice for a network of any importance, regardless of how smart he is, will lead to many critical mistakes. The statement I quoted is a good example of this. The kid went to CompUSA, talked to an employee, and then came back to repeat what the employee told him. This isn't news.
As a CS major myself, I blame our poor education system for the decrease in CS majors.
Our current public school system is not doing its job of educating young people. Public schools have spoon-fed students all their lives and continue to pass students that should very well fail. This leads to a very lazy mind set. As a result, you have a large amount of college-age adults who are too lazy to pursue something that requires work, like a CS degree. These lazy students would rather get a general IT certification and call it a day.
Unlike OSX, running all that crap on Vista or XP (stardock, "myexpose", etc) will significantly slow windows down. You can't bolt on a load of [poorly designed] third party apps and say its more like OSX.
Linux can run IE, that doesn't make it "more like windows."
More then likely the fault lies with Xandros. In any case, the product is still relatively new, give them time to get everything sorted. I'm not trying to sound negative, but I do find it funny that for the past few years (decades, even) linux fanboys have been crying for a mainstream release of linux for the "average" person. When they get what they wanted, they immediately find fault with it. Don't get me wrong, I'm an avid *nix user myself, I just found it humorous. I hope they don't get sued anytime soon, I was looking forward to picking up one of these after Christmas.
Awesome. :) This must be why they always say not to code whilst drunk.
How valuable will these aircraft be? A price ranging from $30K to $1M is extremely broad. Cars can range from $800 - $4,000,000...but they are significantly different in capabilities. In any case, $30k is more then a lot of officers make in a year anyway. Is the price/value ratio worth it?
So, they're going to take longer to ship products to customers that are less likely to become returning customers? Isn't this oxymoron? They take a group of people that are less likely to be returning customers, and treat them worse then the regular customers. A good business practice would be to treat all your customers equal. Amazon knows what they're doing though, they don't need those filthy one-time shoppers. Really.
A professional company doesn't need to see your twitty livejournal entries. They don't care who is on your myspace top 10. In a professional environment, what matters is education/training and experience. If you have a good educational background, and quality experience, you shouldn't worry about your "online" alter ego. If you're lacking in credentials, don't grasp at straws.
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If a system is that important, and only has a single task, such as communicating with a spacecraft, why would it be accessible from outside sources?
It is amazingly small until you build a custom OpenBSD install/boot cd with all the available install sets. Then it is about average-sized. http://theowned.org/news.php?item.2.2
Perhaps the problem is not Television, but rather, the quality of the shows catching children's interests. I highly doubt educational tv is causing autism. The content on channels like nickelodeon, disny, and even MTV is highly lacking. The method of constantly changing frames and displaying lots or colors does keep someone watching, but it makes it hard to concentrate. Could this be the cause?
Correct me if I am wrong, but would not a standard Debian installation or custom slackware installation serve this purpose, and work better?
The major players could band together and release a special "n00b Linux" and promote the hell out of it in the mainstream as THE distro to get for beginners. It's easier to get people into something with simplicity. Once you get them in, and they're comfortable, THEN you present them with the myriad of distro choices.
This has been tried before. You might be familiar with the 'Linspire' distribution. The majority of the linux user group shuns linspire for its different way of doing things. I am not saying either side is correct, only that this has been done, and has seemingly failed.
I find it humurous that so many people have posted about the nice ability to play games on a Intel Mac using Windows, when currently there are no windows drivers for the video card. Unless there are a lot of Quake 1/2 and Doom 1/2 fans, maybe we should wait until drivers begin to surface before we put so much stock in gaming in Windows on a Mac. :)