Apple sales are up and Asus alone, sells more Linux machines than Apple sells Macs. So clearly the Linux desktop market is booming. I won't be surprised if Apple and Linux combined has 30% of world desktop sales this year.
However, in North America technology is always lagging the rest of the world, so you likely won't notice anything there for the next 5 years.
There have also been a few natural atomic reactors on earth - places with enough fissile material to go critical in the crust and nobody knows what happens closer to the centre of the earth.
Pardon me, but I have to mention Citadel http://citadel.org./ This system is easy to install, zero maintenance, and with BerkeleyDB as the back-end, it scales pretty well. Citadel is a very good system for small to medium size businesses and will probably be able to handle large businesses as well.
The present crop of virus scanners are a really dumb idea, since they don't provide any real protection. Consequently I am all for this kind of competition. Hopefully it will force Microsoft and the AV parasites to create a proper security solution for the MS crapware.
For less than the cost of a SSD, you can give your parents a new Asus Eee PC which has a SSD. The advantage of the Eee PC, is that you will have ZERO support issues. It just works and just keeps right on working.
If you want to get started simply, buy a 24 inch, 24 Volt cooling fan for a stationery motor (something like a caterpillar diesel). Add a large diode, mount it on a tall wooden pole with a wire coming down loosely with an in-line plug (so you can unwrap the cable every few weeks), run it to a 12V battery and you have yourself a simple 12 DC system for a cost of $150 (new) or so.
This type of simple systems are common for powering seaside holiday bungalows.
Farms have been using wind power for centuries.
If you have a bungalow at the sea side with permanent wind, then a simple DIY setup made from a 24V, 24 inch cooling fan for a stationery motor mounted on a post, can easily charge a 12V battery through a single diode to run lights and a small TV and the cost is really minimal if you keep it simple. My father did that for many years, till the grid finally caught up. (You need a diode, else you have a big cooling fan, instead of a charger...)
If you are a geek with serious electricity needs, then you may need two or three of those, but that will still be cheaper than buying a single larger commercial unit.
We all know Linux makes an excellent desktop or laptop system, what with Asus selling millions of little Eee PCs and all that.
To me the question is when Windows will ever catch up? Microsoft's share price keeps going side ways, they keep promising that the next version of Windows will actually work properly and will not be a pig and slow as molasses, but when are they ever going to deliver what they promised?
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Welcome to the 1970s and thermal printers. They self erased too and paper has always been re-usable.
Never? Asus alone, sells more Linux laptops than Apple sells Macs.
ReiserFS is already avoided by the major distributions, not because of the verdict, but because it is unsupported.
Apple sales are up and Asus alone, sells more Linux machines than Apple sells Macs. So clearly the Linux desktop market is booming. I won't be surprised if Apple and Linux combined has 30% of world desktop sales this year.
However, in North America technology is always lagging the rest of the world, so you likely won't notice anything there for the next 5 years.
Norton AV has always had a EULA. The Zeus EULA is nothing new...
There have also been a few natural atomic reactors on earth - places with enough fissile material to go critical in the crust and nobody knows what happens closer to the centre of the earth.
Pardon me, but I have to mention Citadel http://citadel.org./ This system is easy to install, zero maintenance, and with BerkeleyDB as the back-end, it scales pretty well. Citadel is a very good system for small to medium size businesses and will probably be able to handle large businesses as well.
No the prices did not rise much. It is the US Dollar that devalued.
My Grampaw made Moonshine and his still didn't cost $10,000...
The present crop of virus scanners are a really dumb idea, since they don't provide any real protection. Consequently I am all for this kind of competition. Hopefully it will force Microsoft and the AV parasites to create a proper security solution for the MS crapware.
Do you realize that Asus alone, sells more Linux laptops than Apple sells Macs?
Linux of course. There are at least 2 billion Linux devices out there, vs about 600 million Windows device.
In the desktop market segment, MS is still leading, but Linux already sells more desktops and notebooks than Apple and keeps growing hand over fist.
Hmm, a brew of that schtuff will likely result in beer with some cellulose in it which might give Kellogs' All Bran pause.
Yup, there is really nothing special about 0 to 50 Celsius.
I don't see any problem. Under the standard, proprietary extensions are allowed...
Yummmm...
You are what you eat. I don't want to be a vegetable.
Well, obviously lots of people must be downloading the latest Mandriva Linux...
For less than the cost of a SSD, you can give your parents a new Asus Eee PC which has a SSD. The advantage of the Eee PC, is that you will have ZERO support issues. It just works and just keeps right on working.
In Canada, a corporation with more than 50 employees has a duty to accommodate people with disabilities.
The same kind of laws exist in many countries.
Well, unless someone can build a simple habitat to keep an atmosphere, this will remain a moonage daydream oh yeah...
Household chargers can gen up to a kilowatt, if the mast is a few meters above the top of the roof
If you want to get started simply, buy a 24 inch, 24 Volt cooling fan for a stationery motor (something like a caterpillar diesel). Add a large diode, mount it on a tall wooden pole with a wire coming down loosely with an in-line plug (so you can unwrap the cable every few weeks), run it to a 12V battery and you have yourself a simple 12 DC system for a cost of $150 (new) or so.
This type of simple systems are common for powering seaside holiday bungalows.
Farms have been using wind power for centuries. If you have a bungalow at the sea side with permanent wind, then a simple DIY setup made from a 24V, 24 inch cooling fan for a stationery motor mounted on a post, can easily charge a 12V battery through a single diode to run lights and a small TV and the cost is really minimal if you keep it simple. My father did that for many years, till the grid finally caught up. (You need a diode, else you have a big cooling fan, instead of a charger...) If you are a geek with serious electricity needs, then you may need two or three of those, but that will still be cheaper than buying a single larger commercial unit.
We all know Linux makes an excellent desktop or laptop system, what with Asus selling millions of little Eee PCs and all that.
To me the question is when Windows will ever catch up? Microsoft's share price keeps going side ways, they keep promising that the next version of Windows will actually work properly and will not be a pig and slow as molasses, but when are they ever going to deliver what they promised?
The 'click song': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxkiXALQjU I !xiga e lela !xo 'n !xo no!xuane or something like that...