Comment Re:Cost of ownership? (Score 1) 172
I see you've never had to provide tech support for macs.
Comment Re:+Troll (Score 1) 781
but as for my computer, uh, let me know when i can play simcity 4 on it.
Sadly, I don't own the game so I can't verify, but a current version of WINE might be worth a shot. Judging by the reports you should expect at least some slight graphical glitching.
Comment Re:These clones suck (Score 1) 648
I bought a Power Computing clone and it was fine at first, right up until it was time to start updating the system.
Funny, that sounds a lot like my experience with genuine Apple computers - don't bother getting one unless you can afford to replace it every two years or so.
Comment Re:Industrial espionage (Score 1) 278
I think it is funny how irate people get over political correctness, without realizing the irony of it all.
Yeah, with all these negative reactions I think we need to devise a new, less direct term for it to keep people from taking offense.
Comment Re:ATI (Score 5, Informative) 176
You might be interested to know that ATI's equivalent was also revealed a short while ago.
Remote Access Policies 178
Samalie writes "My company is considering implementing a formal remote access policy (and agreement for staff to sign) for users who access our network from home via VPN. Does anyone out there have any suggestions as to what this policy/agreement should contain? Anyone have their own corporate policy that I can borrow from? This is the first time I've come across anyone wanting a formal policy for this & online searches haven't been very helpful."
Is Windows 7 Faster Or Just Smarter? 619
Barence writes "The Windows 7 unveiling garnered largely positive coverage, with many hands-on testers praising it for being faster than Vista. But is it actually? To find out, this blogger ran a suite of benchmarks to see just how much quicker Windows 7 really is — and the results weren't quite what he expected. 'The actual performance gap between Vista and Windows 7 is ... nada. Absolutely nothing. Our Office benchmarks and video encoding tests complete in precisely the same time regardless of which OS is installed. [...] It's tempting to see this as a bit of a con. They've sped up the front end so it feels like you're getting more done, but in terms of real productivity it's no better than Vista."
Comment Re:At last! (Score 1) 369
While Ubuntu goes a long way to improving the user experience with Linux, even to get it to a 'standard' setup, I needed to use the console no less than 5 times. That's *needed* to, there was no GUI way to do what I was trying to do. While I personally have no problem doing that, I shudder at the idea of talking someone like my father through it.
That's pretty good, honestly. Console commands are at least straightforward to dictate. If I had to talk my sister through everything I did to get 64-bit Vista to a usable state on her laptop I'd not only shudder like an elephant on a rack lift but would probably be pulling off sizeable bits of hair less than halfway through. And I'm bald.
Comment Re:I never knew that command (Score 1) 2362
It also means that they've had more time to improve on both usability and their writing conventions. Not exactly something to be proud of in light of the respective results.
Comment Re:No surprise here... (Score 1) 272
This may be true, but which OS is handicapped by it?
Before or after the vendor loses interest and wants me to buy their latest line?
Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old 377
raguirre writes "An article on Physorg.org reports that a newly found star may be as old as the universe itself. Recent studies have concluded that the Big Bang occurred somewhere in the neighborhood of 13.7 Billion years ago. The star, a heavy-elements laden fossil labeled HE 1523-0901 on charts was probably born right around the same time; approximately 13.2 Billion years ago. 'Today, astronomer Anna Frebel of the the University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory and her colleagues have deduced the star's age based on the amounts of radioactive elements it contains compared to certain other "anchor" elements, specifically europium, osmium and iridium.'"
Submission + - The Pirate Bay Gets Hacked
An anonymous reader writes: A group of hackers has stolen a list of all 1.6 million usernames and passwords for registered users of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.
Computer Sweden reports that the sensitive information was accessed by a group calling itself Angry Young Hackers (Arga Unga Hackare — AUH).
Source: http://www.thelocal.se/7280/20070511/
Submission + - recommend Linux and get fired ..
rs232 writes: "The Bexley school district announced May 8 that it acted on the recommendations of a recently released technology audit and fired 11-year district Network Manager Curtis Mason'
Linux was my idea, Mason said."
Linux was my idea, Mason said."
Submission + - Adding a web interface to a C++ application
An anonymous reader writes: One thing that is always sort of a pain is setting up a graphical user interface. This is especially true if you are making an embedded application or something that functions more as a system service or daemon. In this case you probably end up creating some simple network protocol which you use to control your application via some other remote piece of software or just telnet if you are feeling especially lazy. Another option is to create a web interface and this article shows via a simple example how you can do that in C++ in just a few lines of code.
Submission + - Net neutrality in Canada now in serious risk.
Oshawapilot writes: "A editorial piece in todays Toronto Star newspaper points towards some disturbing movements on the Net Neutrality front in Canada.
With a Minister Of Industry making such troubling statements as "[Maxime] Bernier believes that consumers are best served by giving the dominant telecom companies maximum regulatory freedom" along with several questionable decisions on the Internet front, one must wonder if this government minister either fails to grasp what he is dealing with, or is in the pockets of big-telecom in Canada.
With 84% of the internet connections in Canada being controlled by only a few companies, this should concern Canadians, and be a wakeup call to all those who concern themselves with Net Neutrality.
With some ISP's in Canada already subjecting their customers to content or application discrimination, is a full blown attack on Net Neutrality that far away on this side of the border?
Does the government care? Or even understand?"
With a Minister Of Industry making such troubling statements as "[Maxime] Bernier believes that consumers are best served by giving the dominant telecom companies maximum regulatory freedom" along with several questionable decisions on the Internet front, one must wonder if this government minister either fails to grasp what he is dealing with, or is in the pockets of big-telecom in Canada.
With 84% of the internet connections in Canada being controlled by only a few companies, this should concern Canadians, and be a wakeup call to all those who concern themselves with Net Neutrality.
With some ISP's in Canada already subjecting their customers to content or application discrimination, is a full blown attack on Net Neutrality that far away on this side of the border?
Does the government care? Or even understand?"
