Optical discs as a storage medium suck. They're fragile, slow to read in non-sequential order and make the machines noisy and more prone to failure. They can't die fast enough.
I always find it a bit sad that game consoles have almost entirely gone from the switch it on and play instantly to the PC's wait-half-an-eternity-to-install-and-patch routine (I'm looking at the PS3 in particular).
I use AVG8 Free fairly stripped down but this hasn't happened to me. Did you install SafeSurf/SafeSearch? I found those features useless and annoying you couldn't deselect them at install.
/REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf/REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch as a command switch to the installer will remove those two features.
I'll agree that AVG8 Free by default is pretty annoying and memory hog-ish, but if you get rid of the silly Internet Security features you're left with a reasonable on-access scanner with a UI better than Avast!'s IMO.
That's a fair point actually. JAXA's SELENE lunar probe had a HDTV camera on board and it produced some stunning imagery. I can understand that a Mars lander will have greater constraints on what you can bolt on though.
Zune shortcomings aside, just look at RoughlyDrafted's other articles. All pro-Apple. Is it a surprise that this guy claims that the Zune is a failure? Personally, the fact that Microsoft don't even try to compete outside the USA speaks volumes about their confidence at this point.
Like other posters have mentioned, MS could implement complete ODF support easily (open format!) but doing so means users are no longer tied to MS Office. Yes OOo and others can import.doc but I find that in all but the simplest documents it tends to go quite wrong (closed format!).
If ODF picks up steam it seems possible that computer makers will bundle OOo or similar with PCs instead of that horrid Microsoft Works suite. In any case, it will put pressure on Microsoft like what Firefox did for IE.
Actually I think the parent has a point. I've used (and still use) Windows Mobile devices, and while they work fine for the most part, they do look and feel more like Windows 9x than Vista in terms of stability and UI prettiness. I'm still waiting for Microsoft to throw out the old CE codebase and come up with something more akin to Windows XP than ME.
I think this might make sense where kids have already had exposure to PCs (running Windows no doubt) say at school, but they and their families can't afford to buy their own PCs. The Sugar GUI can be pretty baffling to those used to a more contemporary UI - at least it was to me looking at some of the reviews on the web.
I agree with earlier posters about the potential for viruses roaming free across the mesh network though. A network that's always on even when the computer is off sounds pretty scary from a security point of view.
My experience of Vista is limited, but from what I can tell a lot of the incompatibilities come from developers getting used to the slack security and expecting things like Administrator priviledges, write access in to \Windows, acccess to HK_Local_Machine etc. There was some breakage going from Windows XP SP1 to SP2 as well, and since I use a User account on XP, it's sometimes been a struggle to get some apps (and some parts of XP itself) to work right.
While I suppose MS could have made compatability better by having real virtualization of an older Windows or what have you, if this makes apps behave better overall then maybe it's for the best.
Vista has proven itself to be as big a mistake as Windows ME. It's still early days for Vista - no need to jump to such conclusions yet. I remember looking at a computer running XP when it was first released and thinking "ugh, that's horrible". I eventually put it on a dual boot with Windows 2000 and slowly but surely XP improved (ignoring WGA for a minute) with better driver support, new software for XP and bugfixes. SP2 is stable and well supported now it's been around for a while.
Something which is on the back of my mind though is that if MS do bring out Vienna quickly (2009?), then Vista might end up like ME - a transitional phase quickly abandonded with improvements being rolled into Vienna rather than Vista.
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Optical discs as a storage medium suck. They're fragile, slow to read in non-sequential order and make the machines noisy and more prone to failure. They can't die fast enough.
I always find it a bit sad that game consoles have almost entirely gone from the switch it on and play instantly to the PC's wait-half-an-eternity-to-install-and-patch routine (I'm looking at the PS3 in particular).
SD-Audio uses CPRM (the SD DRM), although as far as I know is only available in Japan at the moment.
I use AVG8 Free fairly stripped down but this hasn't happened to me. Did you install SafeSurf/SafeSearch? I found those features useless and annoying you couldn't deselect them at install.
/REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch as a command switch to the installer will remove those two features.
I'll agree that AVG8 Free by default is pretty annoying and memory hog-ish, but if you get rid of the silly Internet Security features you're left with a reasonable on-access scanner with a UI better than Avast!'s IMO.
That's a fair point actually. JAXA's SELENE lunar probe had a HDTV camera on board and it produced some stunning imagery. I can understand that a Mars lander will have greater constraints on what you can bolt on though.
You need to run ssh-keygen to update the keys ssh uses. I just updated my Debian box and ran the following as root:
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -N '' -t rsa /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -N '' -t dsa
ssh-keygen -f
ssh-keygen -f
This is for SSH2 only. I got the warning of a key change when I tried logging into it again over ssh, so I guess it worked.
Zune shortcomings aside, just look at RoughlyDrafted's other articles. All pro-Apple. Is it a surprise that this guy claims that the Zune is a failure? Personally, the fact that Microsoft don't even try to compete outside the USA speaks volumes about their confidence at this point.
If you use Windows Live Hotmail there is a "Mark as read" button - just select the messages and right click.
Like other posters have mentioned, MS could implement complete ODF support easily (open format!) but doing so means users are no longer tied to MS Office. Yes OOo and others can import .doc but I find that in all but the simplest documents it tends to go quite wrong (closed format!).
If ODF picks up steam it seems possible that computer makers will bundle OOo or similar with PCs instead of that horrid Microsoft Works suite. In any case, it will put pressure on Microsoft like what Firefox did for IE.
Actually I think the parent has a point. I've used (and still use) Windows Mobile devices, and while they work fine for the most part, they do look and feel more like Windows 9x than Vista in terms of stability and UI prettiness. I'm still waiting for Microsoft to throw out the old CE codebase and come up with something more akin to Windows XP than ME.
One can only hope.
I think this might make sense where kids have already had exposure to PCs (running Windows no doubt) say at school, but they and their families can't afford to buy their own PCs. The Sugar GUI can be pretty baffling to those used to a more contemporary UI - at least it was to me looking at some of the reviews on the web.
I agree with earlier posters about the potential for viruses roaming free across the mesh network though. A network that's always on even when the computer is off sounds pretty scary from a security point of view.My experience of Vista is limited, but from what I can tell a lot of the incompatibilities come from developers getting used to the slack security and expecting things like Administrator priviledges, write access in to \Windows, acccess to HK_Local_Machine etc. There was some breakage going from Windows XP SP1 to SP2 as well, and since I use a User account on XP, it's sometimes been a struggle to get some apps (and some parts of XP itself) to work right. While I suppose MS could have made compatability better by having real virtualization of an older Windows or what have you, if this makes apps behave better overall then maybe it's for the best.