This is because Vista is being bought with new PCs. Many of these people that I have talked to were not overly excited about buying Vista, instead they were forced/tricked into it.
And, I would like to bet that some of these users are now pirating Windows XP.
Java's default UI is still ugly If you are running windows, swing will use your windows theme (by default).
And, as of jre 1.6.0 swing can also be set up to use gtk themes as well
I wish steve jobs made that iPhone keynote a little more dramatic, by saying:
"iPhone runs Solaris 10"
Featuring core stability, and java!
um, linux, windows and osx aren't the only operating systems out there. i thought you dumbasses should know.
True, but who is going to be running AIX on their home pc?
anyway, having a subset of features running without windows is likely to be a miserable failure. Most consumers probably turn on their PCs about once per day, and once it is booted, all of their applications are available for use. Why would these people then want to reboot, to get a subset of these applications (or vica versa, rebooting to open some pdf/flash file that the bios rom doesn't have a reader for, etc)?
If these people wanted to be useful, they would push companies like microsoft (or make a driver) to make a ram image of a freshly booted copy of windows xp (or whatever) upon first boot/after hardware changes, and then continue using that image after every boot.(hell, even store that on some solid state memory provided by phoenix, etc)
Sure, there may be drive consistency issues, network state/etc, but issues like that can be fixed. It would probably be a lot simpler than loading a little operating system onto a cmos chip.
The analysis on the google stats is flawed as well.
RHEL is not highly marketed to desktop PCs (the ones that would be searching google/browsing the net), and people are less likely to pay for that expensive service contract if they are not going to be running a datacenter, or at least a few mission critical servers.
f it comes with an install CD with all of the necessary drivers included... awesome!
Even with imaging WinXP, you'll need the drivers. You'll have to find the drivers. Somewhere. And build your image with them.
This isn't WinXP here. The type of hardware that ends up in server boxes usually has complete support in any recent kernel release.
And, companies like RedHat make sure all the kernel modules for HBA cards are compiled too.
"Windows Server also supports a standardized, patterned approach to building systems. ..for example, for most of our major applications, we can build and distribute across the entire company a standard disk image without having to set up systems individually."
--Adam Vazquez, Senior IT Manager, AMD
Partner yum with kickstart, and your application server can be built on your watch, without even laying fingers on a keyboard (simple %pre and %post targets allow a system administrator to script non packaged parts of the install). This offers a much less interactive solution than one would get with 3rd party windows products like norton ghost.
How can "free" be this expensive?
Red Hat's business is based on annual subscriptions for OS support--you pay a subscription for every server, every year. And, if you want 24/7 support, you'll pay more.
Did you know?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced costs $2,499 per server per year without add-on features, like an application server and clustering.
It is a good deal compared to (the lack of) Microsoft support. People who want support comparable to what is offered by Microsoft can download CentOS (fully redhat compatible) or some other completely free distribution.
Red Hat includes the Yum update tool to help you download packages and software updates, but doesn't address IT professionals' broader needs--managing applications and workloads, like mail and collaboration, database and business applications.
Thats funny, because I have built rpms for my own applications. and I use custom yum repositories to keep track of, and distribute new versions of this software.
I hope they are not trying to compare this to the customization built into windows update.
The intention of access point owner must be known to the user ahead of time. If the network is completely unsecured, it should be assumed that it's public access.
In fact, it's easy to have an Operating System like windows make this assumption too (it is a single check box).
The thing they really need to work on now is freeing allocated memory.
I find that firefox keeps about the same memory footprint up until the very last window is closed, and that really shouldn't be the case.
Maybe they are just getting priority because the rest of their time on the net is browsing, Comcast could have detected your large downloads and enabled their special boost mode service: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/75298
It is still possible to encode data into small variations in the audio stream. Since they have 2-3 minutes of data, there is plenty of parity to fix any minor transcoding blemishes. Unless you want to lower the quality of the music a whole bunch, your data will still be there.
Methods like this have been used on every other media format, and are available for audio also. Here is just one of the hits returned at the top of google for "mp3 watermark": http://www.musictrace.de/technologies/technologies .en.htm
thats actually not true....
They ship a small diagnostic cd with an outdated linux kernel and xorg with their poweredge servers to configure the little lcd display, read logs, run checks, etc. They don't even offer a windows version of most of this.
to get this cd log into dell support and get the systems management cd iso.
Open this configuration in support: PowerEdge->2850->windows2003, and it will give you a link:)
The top router can only handle 6 outbound connections at 1 bit per second (total 6 bits per second).
The second rank of routers can handle TEN outbound connections at 1 bit per second (total 10 bits per second). I think you are off by several orders of magnatude.
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This is because Vista is being bought with new PCs. Many of these people that I have talked to were not overly excited about buying Vista, instead they were forced/tricked into it.
And, I would like to bet that some of these users are now pirating Windows XP.
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I'm no doctor, but it can't be good to flood your eyes with infrared light.
http://www.google.com/search?q=infrared+light+damage+eyes
And, as of jre 1.6.0 swing can also be set up to use gtk themes as well
I wish steve jobs made that iPhone keynote a little more dramatic, by saying:
"iPhone runs Solaris 10"
Featuring core stability, and java!
True, but who is going to be running AIX on their home pc?
anyway, having a subset of features running without windows is likely to be a miserable failure. Most consumers probably turn on their PCs about once per day, and once it is booted, all of their applications are available for use. Why would these people then want to reboot, to get a subset of these applications (or vica versa, rebooting to open some pdf/flash file that the bios rom doesn't have a reader for, etc)?
If these people wanted to be useful, they would push companies like microsoft (or make a driver) to make a ram image of a freshly booted copy of windows xp (or whatever) upon first boot/after hardware changes, and then continue using that image after every boot.(hell, even store that on some solid state memory provided by phoenix, etc)
Sure, there may be drive consistency issues, network state/etc, but issues like that can be fixed. It would probably be a lot simpler than loading a little operating system onto a cmos chip.
The analysis on the google stats is flawed as well.
RHEL is not highly marketed to desktop PCs (the ones that would be searching google/browsing the net), and people are less likely to pay for that expensive service contract if they are not going to be running a datacenter, or at least a few mission critical servers.
I'm envisioning something more like the robot pilot in the "Star Tours" theme park ride at Disneyland.
.....but won't calculate a user's total bandwidth per month for "privacy reasons."hmm
This wouldn't be a problem if companies like Dell(?) didn't preinstall RealPlayer on computers.
Even with imaging WinXP, you'll need the drivers. You'll have to find the drivers. Somewhere. And build your image with them.
This isn't WinXP here. The type of hardware that ends up in server boxes usually has complete support in any recent kernel release.
And, companies like RedHat make sure all the kernel modules for HBA cards are compiled too.
Firmware can't fix everything.
Partner yum with kickstart, and your application server can be built on your watch, without even laying fingers on a keyboard (simple %pre and %post targets allow a system administrator to script non packaged parts of the install). This offers a much less interactive solution than one would get with 3rd party windows products like norton ghost.
Did you know? Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced costs $2,499 per server per year without add-on features, like an application server and clustering.
It is a good deal compared to (the lack of) Microsoft support. People who want support comparable to what is offered by Microsoft can download CentOS (fully redhat compatible) or some other completely free distribution.
Red Hat includes the Yum update tool to help you download packages and software updates, but doesn't address IT professionals' broader needs--managing applications and workloads, like mail and collaboration, database and business applications.
Thats funny, because I have built rpms for my own applications. and I use custom yum repositories to keep track of, and distribute new versions of this software.
I hope they are not trying to compare this to the customization built into windows update.
In fact, it's easy to have an Operating System like windows make this assumption too (it is a single check box).
Red Hat developers contribute to various open source projects and make almost half the patches to the kernel.
Ubuntu on the other hand doesn't even make their own packages: They repackage debian ones in most cases.
If you want to get phone support Canonical also charges money, but very little of that goes to bettering open source projects.
they may be selling 15%, but they don't have the huge market share. It's not strange: Think about all the legacy machines out on the net
Yup......
The thing they really need to work on now is freeing allocated memory.
I find that firefox keeps about the same memory footprint up until the very last window is closed, and that really shouldn't be the case.
ahh, the battle of the iPhones
Pretty? This one even spells out IOCCC.
http://www0.us.ioccc.org/2004/newbern.c
What version of KDE are you running?
Maybe they are just getting priority because the rest of their time on the net is browsing, Comcast could have detected your large downloads and enabled their special boost mode service:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/75298
It is still possible to encode data into small variations in the audio stream. Since they have 2-3 minutes of data, there is plenty of parity to fix any minor transcoding blemishes. Unless you want to lower the quality of the music a whole bunch, your data will still be there.
s .en.htm
Methods like this have been used on every other media format, and are available for audio also. Here is just one of the hits returned at the top of google for "mp3 watermark": http://www.musictrace.de/technologies/technologie
thats actually not true.... :)
- 20040302-Jayakumar.pdf
They ship a small diagnostic cd with an outdated linux kernel and xorg with their poweredge servers to configure the little lcd display, read logs, run checks, etc. They don't even offer a windows version of most of this.
to get this cd log into dell support and get the systems management cd iso.
Open this configuration in support: PowerEdge->2850->windows2003, and it will give you a link
Searching google also found this:
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps3q05
They know how to make the support, they are just not being serious about linux support on the desktop.
make the move to VIM. You won't regret it :)