Posted on 10/04/2009 5:41:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I like SUSE Linux w/KDE (10.2 64 bit.) The only problem I’ve had is with some Windows games, everything else has been fantastic. Linuxiso.org is a great place to DL live evals or the installs. Its never crashed, had a virus or failed in any way for me. To be fair its on a dual boot pc with 32 bit XP that’s worked great too except for a virus or two. Both have been running for about a year.
Never made it to Vista.
Apple products are great but expensive.
I use Freenx for remote desktop to my Linux systems at the office. Few people understand the true potential of the NX technology - I believe it could shake the technology world.
Expensive once.
Like a wise man once told me:
Yeah, a cheap tool is the most expensive thing you can buy.
That’s because Vista is shit. Never had more blue screens in 15 years until “Fixit”.
aaaaaanddd..... memory dump
Good point. I have limped along for 25 years.
Competition and a system that isn’t closed has helped. The PC has gotten a lot better over the years. It is pretty stable now.
Linux and other third party software have helped make MS more honest, too.
With all of that, I have never been able to justify the added cost of an Apple computer.
I have owned a few of their MP3 players. Glad to see that someone finally produced a decent music player. DRM issues included.
And Congress cannot be exempt from any law they pass.
And if applicable, they have to be the first ones affected by the law.
Shift-Command-3 will capture your entire screen.
Shift-Command-4 will capture a selected area of the screen. When you press that key combination the pointer cursor changes into a cross hair with screen coordinates... click where you want to start and drag to enclose the area you want to capture and release the mouse.
Shift-Command-4 tap spacebar will change the cursor into a camera icon and you can snap an entire window. Just click on the window you want.
Esc releases all of the last three to cancel.
The captures are saved on the desktop as png files with the name "Screen Shot 2009-10-05 at 01.45.08 AM.png" Double clicking them opens them in Preview where you can save them out as a JPG file for the internet if you like.
W7 looks like Vista because it IS Vista! Just a new name, new box, and another giant marketing blitz by MS and their partners in crime, namely Dell, HP, and Best Buy.
Just like Vista, W7 will not be adopted by the business world, as there is not a compelling business case, and XP Pro works just fine, thank you very much.
W7’s supposed ability to run non-compatible XP programs is a sick joke. You have to do a full install of a fully licensed copy of XP into MS’s Virtual PC 7 program, and have new hardware and BIOS which is capable of virtualization support. Then you run your XP application in the Virtual PC, which is clunky and communicates clunkily with the Internet and with the host W7 operating system.
(For those of you not familiar with virtual operating systems, think of a standard gauge railroad which has flatbed cars carrying train cars designed for a narrow gauge track, and then carrying the cargo in the piggybacked cars. Now think of the engineer in the piggybacked engine shouting orders to speed up or slow down to the engineer in the standard gauge engine. Now think of the fun in loading and unloading the piggybacked cars.)
As with Vista, the consumer public will be the only ones that “buy” W7, as Best Buy and the like won’t give them any choice, and they’ll be forced to cart home the latest crap from Microsoft sold to them by pimply faced sales dorks. The hapless consumer public will then find out this initial version of W7 is buggy as crap, wait a year for SP1, another year for SP2, find out W7 then works only a little better, then Microsoft announces Windows 2010, rinse, wash, repeat cycle. This is what happens when you own a monopoly. At a minimum, Microsoft needs to be broken up into three companies: an OS company, an application company, and the rest. In the mean time, I really wish the gullible public would wise up and quit falling for Microsoft’s operating system scam, and boycott buying a new computer from Worst Buy or anyone else unless they have a choice of operating systems.
I think I’ll stick with Linux. The ONLY reason I’m even running Win7 is because iTunes doesn’t support W2K, and I’m only running Win7 in a VirtualBox just to sync the iPhone.
After all of the problems I’ve seen people have with VISTA they should send you all free copies along with a gift certificate for being so patient!
Thanks for the info I’m still running leopard but was thinking about upgrading, I will wait!
A warehouse full of Jack Daniel’s couldn’t make me forget about Vista.
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