I'm still waiting for the drive you can embed under your skin to store super-secret data. If Jason Bourne can have one, then why not me!? That'd be way more secure than these poxy little things, cause you actually have to perform a surgical operation to access the data.
I have found that Windows server 2008 runs very well on a ~ 3 year old Dell 610 notebook, even when the system is locked into maximum battery life (and minimum performance) mode. It has a ~ 2GHz processor and 2 GBytes of RAM.
I can see two reasons for this:
No Aero, creating a nicer UI and less bloat
Less pointless throw-ins, such as Readyboost, UAC (?), Anytime Upgrade and all that carp
This is generally true of most OSes - the server version has lower hardware requirements than the client version. Spookily.
Keeps pressing the spacebar to get text centred in Word
Insists on capitalising APPLEMAC, and spelling it all as one word, and saying that they're rubbish in comparison to Windows because there isn't as much software
Asks "what's a linux?" and thinks Tux is vermin
Thinks "sudo" is the command to launch the Sudoku game
Actually believes M$'s and IBM's marketing rubbish and reads IBM's 'CIO thought leadership pieces' every night before going to bed
Constantly sends you E-mails saying "omg bill gates will send u $1000000 if u pass this message to 85000 of ur friends in the next 10 seconds!!!!! omg omg lolz"
Fails to find lolcats funny
Thinks Whose Line Is It Anyway is a high-stakes dramatic game show
Believes having defragged your hard drive once is a qualification to become CIO
Are the nemeses of these characters 'Evil Dr Torvalds' and 'The Jobs Bandit', who are intent on overtaking the world with their clone armies of penguins, platypuses and scary Finder icons?
It's said that professional tools are only so big because then it takes ages for people to grep for easter eggs in them. When they could be doing something far more productive.
Wikileaks is an interesting website, and I can see no reason why anyone would want to take a site hosting confidential leaked documents from governments and big business offline...
Speaking seriously here, I wouldn't doubt it being a corporate or political DDoS attack, considering the confidentiality of the documents, and how damaging they could be to said companies/governments' reputations. Not a bad thing in my opinion, but they would think otherwise.
So we're going back to the age of 'an eye for an eye' then? The objection here is that patent trolling is wrong, whoever is the aggressor and whoever is the victim.
This is exactly the problem with companies trying to make their machines 'cool'. They seem to think that by making it look like something from Star Trek it's automatically going to be cool. The reason iPods, iMacs and iPhones are so pretty is because of their simplicity. Plate of glass, wide screen, aluminium backplate. That's all. No delta badges. No flares.
The proliferation of black plastic computer casing (the new beige, in a way) needs to stop, too. That's awful.
Breaking news: software patch causes errors on some systems. Slashdotters say "Vista sucks".
While Vista does, indeed, suck, errors from patches/upgrades are no new thing. They've been around for donkey's years - and, yes, they appear on OS X and Linux too.
Remember that it is only a miniscule minority of children causing the trouble. Why should 99% of the population suffer for something that the minority of 1% does? Most teens can usually find something to do, rather than causing trouble. See browsing the Internet. Going to the library. Watching television. Playing on a games console. Going to the shops in town, contributing to the local economy. Doing homework/coursework. Many even run their own websites. It's a great shame to see so many people (most of them, seemingly, Daily Mail readers) claiming that all children are happy-slapping, hoodie-wearing (what exactly is wrong with an item of clothing!?) smoking, drinking, ASBO-bearing, joy-riding pea-brains with no GCSEs, no A-levels, no job, and their evil iPods (all stolen from the local Dixons, which, by the way, has now been forced to redo all its signage in Polish because of the 400,000,000 immigrants flooding into this country every day) turned up to a ridiculous volume.
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No, IT books do go out of date. It happens when no real IT gets done with the technology, and only the abovementioned hobbyists and fanatics care about it. X Windows isn't there yet (and may even stage a comeback in the embedded/appliance world). But QBasic definitely is. And if you don't believe that, perhaps you'd like to buy all my old "data processing" textbooks, with their up-to-the-minute discussion of punched-card management.
However, while people are still using them, whilst there may not be a market for them, they may still be in use. It's a bit like, say, the abacus. Millions in existence, and still in use, but no market.
With the way electronic voting is going, you may actually be able to dust off those punchcard books again.
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But X is speedy and X works. And there'd need to be an awful lot of programs ported to get X's successor to catch on.
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As long as the program lives on (even as abandonware), so does the technology and the potential for manuals and other HOWTO material. People still buy QBasic By Example (and blogs still rave about it) even though it was unbundled from Windows in Vista (maybe even XP, I'm not sure) and most people (myself included) haven't written a proper program in it for coming up on a decade.
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I'm still waiting for the drive you can embed under your skin to store super-secret data. If Jason Bourne can have one, then why not me!? That'd be way more secure than these poxy little things, cause you actually have to perform a surgical operation to access the data.
I have found that Windows server 2008 runs very well on a ~ 3 year old Dell 610 notebook, even when the system is locked into maximum battery life (and minimum performance) mode. It has a ~ 2GHz processor and 2 GBytes of RAM.
I can see two reasons for this:This is generally true of most OSes - the server version has lower hardware requirements than the client version. Spookily.
On older keyboards it's command+left / command+right. Alt+left/right goes between words.
I think the newer keyboards do have end/home keys, as well as an fn key and better-labelled page up, down and command keys.
The UK is only clamping down on ISPs who don't stop illegal downloading of commercial music and films. It doesn't target P2P directly.
I must admin, the first thing I thought when I saw the keyboard can be summed up in a single word. Blockbusters .
does it blend?
Thanks for telling us where the server is - I think I might take a daytrip there now! I'd better start preparing a picnic!
Catch a train. Or take a boat.
You'll know it's worked when the 28-daily cron job which empties her cache fails to execute.
But surely Time Machine backups won't go as far back as 2006?
OMG PONIES!
Let me guess.
Are the nemeses of these characters 'Evil Dr Torvalds' and 'The Jobs Bandit', who are intent on overtaking the world with their clone armies of penguins, platypuses and scary Finder icons?
It's said that professional tools are only so big because then it takes ages for people to grep for easter eggs in them. When they could be doing something far more productive.
OK then. -17.6%?
Handsome geek, 6'0", would like to meet woman made of antimatter for friendship, exciting chemical reactions+. Box 09F9.
Wikileaks is an interesting website, and I can see no reason why anyone would want to take a site hosting confidential leaked documents from governments and big business offline...
Speaking seriously here, I wouldn't doubt it being a corporate or political DDoS attack, considering the confidentiality of the documents, and how damaging they could be to said companies/governments' reputations. Not a bad thing in my opinion, but they would think otherwise.
So we're going back to the age of 'an eye for an eye' then? The objection here is that patent trolling is wrong, whoever is the aggressor and whoever is the victim.
This is exactly the problem with companies trying to make their machines 'cool'. They seem to think that by making it look like something from Star Trek it's automatically going to be cool. The reason iPods, iMacs and iPhones are so pretty is because of their simplicity. Plate of glass, wide screen, aluminium backplate. That's all. No delta badges. No flares.
The proliferation of black plastic computer casing (the new beige, in a way) needs to stop, too. That's awful.
And I heard Mike Huckabee uses a word processor on a ZX81.
Breaking news: software patch causes errors on some systems. Slashdotters say "Vista sucks".
While Vista does, indeed, suck, errors from patches/upgrades are no new thing. They've been around for donkey's years - and, yes, they appear on OS X and Linux too.
Remember that it is only a miniscule minority of children causing the trouble. Why should 99% of the population suffer for something that the minority of 1% does? Most teens can usually find something to do, rather than causing trouble. See browsing the Internet. Going to the library. Watching television. Playing on a games console. Going to the shops in town, contributing to the local economy. Doing homework/coursework. Many even run their own websites. It's a great shame to see so many people (most of them, seemingly, Daily Mail readers) claiming that all children are happy-slapping, hoodie-wearing (what exactly is wrong with an item of clothing!?) smoking, drinking, ASBO-bearing, joy-riding pea-brains with no GCSEs, no A-levels, no job, and their evil iPods (all stolen from the local Dixons, which, by the way, has now been forced to redo all its signage in Polish because of the 400,000,000 immigrants flooding into this country every day) turned up to a ridiculous volume.
However, while people are still using them, whilst there may not be a market for them, they may still be in use. It's a bit like, say, the abacus. Millions in existence, and still in use, but no market.
With the way electronic voting is going, you may actually be able to dust off those punchcard books again.
But X is speedy and X works. And there'd need to be an awful lot of programs ported to get X's successor to catch on.
As long as the program lives on (even as abandonware), so does the technology and the potential for manuals and other HOWTO material. People still buy QBasic By Example (and blogs still rave about it) even though it was unbundled from Windows in Vista (maybe even XP, I'm not sure) and most people (myself included) haven't written a proper program in it for coming up on a decade.
They'll be making films next...