Well, I don't think it's difficult to administer linux networks with redudancy, network logons, network installed applications and all the other bells and whistles. Usually if you pay for an expert you'll end up with a better functioning and secure network.
I've found administering Windows clients is more difficult as Windows is seriously lacking in support for a lot of stuff.
And it's not like windows is always easy to manage and never requires you to use the command prompt. I've had to do that on several occasions in Windows for different tasks, or edit stuff in regedit which is a lot less intuitive than editing config files in/etc.
There was a very interesting research article about DenseAP, which tries to solve this problem, in the latest issue of;login:. Unfortunately it's still subscribers only. But for Usenix members it's on the link below, and other might find something on google:)
IE7, quicker than Firefox? In every test I've read Firefox is a lot faster both at rendering and executing javascript. And it's really a pain using IE7 as even on a modern computer opening a new tab takes forever (at least compared to firefox).
(snip) I also sometimes find it awkward that metric doesn't promote any natural measure between about 1 cm and 1 m. I hate explaining distances using feet, but for distances or lengths that fall into a certain category, it's often just simpler to say 1 foot than 30 centimetres or 0.3 metres.
At least in Sweden we use 1 dm for that (10 cm). Here dl, cl and hg are also common units.
Well, it could be used for versioning at least and backup in case you delete or screw up by mistake. So there is some use for it, but of course no use in case of hardware failure, theft, fire...
I've had about 10 die on me. Probably around a third have died before they've been replaced because they were too small. That is during the last 20 years though.
So I wouldn't exactly call them reliable. I don't store anything important on just a single HD any more. But I don't think I'd do that with a SSD either.
If it's just a small evolution of the existing kernel, shouldn't it be Windows 6.2 instead of Windows 7?
On the other hand Microsoft has never been logical with version numbers, Word 2 -> 5 -> 97 -> XP -> 2007. Exponential growth seems to be what they're aiming for.
yeah, but I think that was related to the qt3 licensing for windows. And that when the qt4 koffice port is finished there will be a free kexi version for windows.
IANAL, especially not on Indic law. But couldn't it be if they didn't comply that the police would just get a search warrant and search through the servers themselves? At least if some of them are located in India.
but I wish they had at least stated that 4.0 was a developer release and that users should not switch until 4.1 - it would make things much smoother in my opinion.
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# KDE 4.0 is only expected to be used by early adopters, not every KDE 3.5 user (and IMHO KDE 4.0 shouldn't be pushed onto other user types like planned for Kubuntu ShipIt [btw said to have only 6 months support for its packages]).
# KDE 4.1 development will not require the same amount of time as the big technology jump 4.0, expect 4.1 later this year.
In our first week in computer science in university we had classes in how to use emacs. I however prefer vi. So at least in Sweden they don't teach any windows stuff in computer science at the universities.
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Well, I don't think it's difficult to administer linux networks with redudancy, network logons, network installed applications and all the other bells and whistles. Usually if you pay for an expert you'll end up with a better functioning and secure network.
I've found administering Windows clients is more difficult as Windows is seriously lacking in support for a lot of stuff.
And it's not like windows is always easy to manage and never requires you to use the command prompt. I've had to do that on several occasions in Windows for different tasks, or edit stuff in regedit which is a lot less intuitive than editing config files in /etc.
Sorry for the self reply, but I could find the whole paper here:
http://www.usenix.com/events/nsdi08/tech/full_papers/murty/murty_html/denseap.html
There was a very interesting research article about DenseAP, which tries to solve this problem, in the latest issue of ;login:. Unfortunately it's still subscribers only. But for Usenix members it's on the link below, and other might find something on google :)
http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2008-08/index.html
Well, IMO amateurs shouldn't be sysadmins.
Last time I checked that I had to use SSL to connect to gtalk. Perhaps it's possible without now, but it definitely works with SSL.
Sure, that's funny. But according to the statistics linked in this comment IE7 is among the slowest browsers around:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=621353&cid=24285613
I also tried opening 10 tabs in FF3 and IE7 on an Athlon XP 3200+ with 1.5GB ram. In FF3 it took 2 seconds, in IE7 it took 27 seconds.
Funny huh?
IE7, quicker than Firefox? In every test I've read Firefox is a lot faster both at rendering and executing javascript. And it's really a pain using IE7 as even on a modern computer opening a new tab takes forever (at least compared to firefox).
At least in Sweden we use 1 dm for that (10 cm). Here dl, cl and hg are also common units.
Umm, you have to have three people verify your ID and/or passport. So I assume you have one that says you are Lord God then?
What, you mean other than as a gaming OS?
There, fixed that for you.
Use a second of buffering?
VLC has no problem doing that from a file, and I suspect other decent player can as well.
Well, it could be used for versioning at least and backup in case you delete or screw up by mistake. So there is some use for it, but of course no use in case of hardware failure, theft, fire...
Yeah, I agree somewhat, but that was the crew from the rescue mission which was also shot down.
Quote: To this date the remains of only five of the eight-man crew have been found.
The biggest problem is probably like with 64-bit Windows: drivers.
Linux can just recompile them and Apple only supports hardware they distribute, so that makes it easier.
I've had about 10 die on me. Probably around a third have died before they've been replaced because they were too small. That is during the last 20 years though.
So I wouldn't exactly call them reliable. I don't store anything important on just a single HD any more. But I don't think I'd do that with a SSD either.
If it's just a small evolution of the existing kernel, shouldn't it be Windows 6.2 instead of Windows 7?
On the other hand Microsoft has never been logical with version numbers, Word 2 -> 5 -> 97 -> XP -> 2007. Exponential growth seems to be what they're aiming for.
well, it's here in an alpha version already:
http://windows.kde.org/news.php#itemFirstKOfficeAlphaReleaseonWindows
yeah, but I think that was related to the qt3 licensing for windows. And that when the qt4 koffice port is finished there will be a free kexi version for windows.
Kexi should be able to hande that pretty easily, and can even create a nice form for the data entry:
http://www.kexi-project.org/
IANAL, especially not on Indic law. But couldn't it be if they didn't comply that the police would just get a search warrant and search through the servers themselves? At least if some of them are located in India.
Here's a shot of MSIE 8 Beta with the ACID3 test:
http://www.nada.kth.se/~edalen/msie8beta1-acid3.png
It shows some really strange stuff during the load and warns you that the page wants to run the MSXML Add On.
In Firefox 2 a lot of it is actually because of fragmentation in memory, not just memory leaks.
KDE developers did state that.
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# KDE 4.0 is only expected to be used by early adopters, not every KDE 3.5 user (and IMHO KDE 4.0 shouldn't be pushed onto other user types like planned for Kubuntu ShipIt [btw said to have only 6 months support for its packages]).
# KDE 4.1 development will not require the same amount of time as the big technology jump 4.0, expect 4.1 later this year.
In our first week in computer science in university we had classes in how to use emacs. I however prefer vi. So at least in Sweden they don't teach any windows stuff in computer science at the universities.