Hmm, close
I actually like the retro looks, but Windows Mobile rules it out.
Shame really.
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Actually, FOSS saves lives, and may well be involved in tree planting, poverty eradication, water cleaning etc. IT is useful - FOSS means that usefulness is available to anyone with a 10-year-old PC, an internet connection and some time to learn.
Do some googling. FOSS made itself very useful in the aftermath of the December 2004 Asian Tsunami. See also Schoolnet Namibia and countless other examples.
"any form of content embedded and run inside a single web page. According to Eolas, the second patent in question - '985, awarded by the USPTO this month - is a continuation of '906 that "allows websites to add fully-interactive embedded applications to their online offerings through the use of plug-in and AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) web development techniques"
Content! Embedded! In a web page! Interactive!
Great stuff, it's only fair we pay these innovators for their contribution. Did the idea just occur to them while reading the HTML standard, or what?
“To build a sustainable competitive advantage, companies must ultimately do two things - increase productivity and find ways to deliver new value to customers.”
Counterexample: Microsoft; decades undeniably in the lead, virtually no new value delivered to customers.
Thrifty customer here, sticking with the Penguin and the Puffer fish.
Hear hear! I've read a lot of FOSS code and I have nothing but respect for the people who worked on it. If you find a problem, stop gurning and fix it, and thank the people that laid the foundations even if they left off a bit of polish.
As for these 'open source bloatware' allegations - well, I haven't seen it. Most of my machines are sub 1GHz Pentium 3 or below and clipping along just fine. A good few are not even Windows XP capable, let alone Vista / 7, but on Linux they're years from retirement and still doing useful work and running up to date code.
1.7 To what degree have netbooks started to be deployed as a fully supported piece of kit?
Extensive deployment
Some deployment
Little or no deployment
1.8 To what degree have netbooks started to be deployed as a fully supported piece of kit?
Already happening quite a bit
A few users are doing this
Not aware of any significant activity
"I am soo glad that I haven't taken the plunge into running Apache on a Linux box.
I assume this is a Linux ftp privilege that was abused."
No, it was "careless administrators who allowed their root passwords to be sniffed". What do *you* run Apache on? MacOS?
Also, "Servers need to have their security patches applied !" - applying patches won't keep out someone with the root password. Sure, when your system is vulnerable, you should patch it, but patching for its own sake does more harm than good.
Group by > Ascending (from the context menu in the screenshot in the article). What does that mean?
(OK, obviously I know - but it's still typical nonsensical garbage).
I have one token toaster, running XP; a 733MHz PIII with 512Mb of core. I refuse to waste a real machine on Windows, so I have no option but to stick with XP.
This is just bloated, overpriced junk as usual.
This is a country where an innocent bystander can get shot in the face repeatedly at point blank range in broad daylight in a crowded location by the police. They were just discharging their duties too.
Back on topic, I believe there's a blot on my credit record also where a finance company decided to automatically advance me credit for a vehicle insurance policy renewal I didn't ask for and then decided that despite having no signature or equivalent proof of an agreement with me, they were going to shit on my credit record for not paying. As far as I know the black mark is still there and there's not a lot I can do about it.
And by the way - what is *wrong* with the Blair family? What a shower of contemptible shits.
This doesn't tally with my experience at all. 1.x to 2.x was a very worthwhile upgrade, and 3.x seems like another nice upgrade so far from my own experience of using it. It starts in less than half a second from cold on my 2-year-old machine running Ubuntu and runs very quickly. I've had no stability issues. It even manages to perform OK on the Windows XP machine I use for work, and my own token toaster (Windows XP on an 833MHz P3 with 512Mb of RAM).
I've not been hugely impressed by recent mockups of future versions, but I haven't tried them yet to see how the new UI works in practice, and anyway I'm sure FF will retain its legendary flexibility so I can tweak it until I like it.
I tried Opera, but it ran a good bit slower on my machine so I went back to FF. I don't really think there's a reasonable competitor on my platform. Fortunately I'm very happy with Firefox.
Oracle and MS SQL aren't exactly comparable though. A more sensible comparison might be between Oracle and Postgres.
@Kevin Bailey: Sybase Adaptive Server is a less bloated, portable RDBMS that is *relatively* easy to port to from MS SQL Server, given that it also speaks T-SQL. No accident of course; MS SQL Server is Sybase with added platform lock-in in the first place.
Microsoft have been duct-taping on features to Office for a long time now. Based on the tangled heap of special cases that is OOXML, the code base is now crippled by years of neglect and abuse and is probably far too labyrinthine and backward for anyone to really have a sound understanding of it.
Eventually, if you focus exclusively on progressive changes that affect the user experience and neglect the necessary anti-regressive and invisible stuff (what's the incentive if nobody can legally see what a mess it is anyway?), any code base will collapse under the weight of the accumulation of WTFs, hacks and voodoo code holding it together.
If Office is not a twitching, decomposing zombie, it should be possible to find the most potentially dangerous areas and put a bit of time into cleaning them up. Maybe the next release could be exactly like the current one, less 20% of the bloat and 80% of the serious security holes.
If, on the other hand, it's now so degenerate it needs to be permanently quarantined in its own rubber cell, maybe it's time to pull the plug on it.
Some businesses do still have magic spreadsheets performing business-critical functions, but no system lasts forever and keeping MS Office for the sake of a gruesomely unmaintainable Office-based 'application' is only delaying the inevitable.
Obviously MS are going to keep flogging their dead cash-cow as long as at all possible, but only MS are going to benefit if people keep trying to actually use it.
"when people moan that Linux doesn't perform so well running on Hyper-V compared to VMWare"
I don't think you'll find many people would care. As another commenter already mentioned, sane people run Windows VMs on Linux anyway, not the other way round.
Aside from working around the after-effects of dealing with a monopolist, I can't see any reason to run Windows at all any more. A few Windows XP (or 2003 Server) VMs should cover most peoples' unportable legacy systems long enough for them to be replaced.
Also, @AC, first post; the term 'freetard' isn't really appropriate here. The 'tard' suffix would imply that us 'freetards' are in some way making a mistake or missing out on something because of our unwillingness to part with cash. I for one just prefer to spend a few extra notes on the hardware and run a stable, flexible, secure and convenient operating system on it. Nothing very 'tarded about that as far as I can see.
> However, if you take a look at the number of drivers the Linux kernel still needs on hardware here, you'll see just how far Linux lags Windows on some basic plug-and-play functionality
Nope, we'll see nothing of the sort, without a similar list for Windows (i.e. a list of hardware devices for which no driver is supplied with the OS).