Comment Re:A better question: (Score 1) 162
Go look at the number of comments under this or most of his stories, and you will have found your answer.
Go look at the number of comments under this or most of his stories, and you will have found your answer.
I also believe that 99.99% of U.S. cops are honest.
I bet you also expect a visit from the Easter Bunny here shortly.
For a good long time, he dropped in here at fairly regular intervals for about a week each time. My theory was that he was slow getting some meds refilled and dropped by when he was out.
I bet you're a real hit at parties.
the latter's hybrids seem to be doing quite well at the moment (in Formula 1)
I wouldn't call KERS a 'hybrid' in the same sense of the word as used in context with the Prius.
Nor would I consider much F1 tech to be relevant to street driven autos.
But XP? Not so simple. XP has lower system requirements, it works well on systems that are dog slow under 7. It's STILL BEING SOLD for that very reason, and the machines that ship with it will generally not work with other versions, either from lack of resources, lack of drivers, or both.
I'm aware you can still get XP discs second-hand or ex-stock here in the UK - Amazon lists several versions, although some look suspiciously like they may be OEM versions that are tied to specific brand/model PCs. I'm not aware of any PC maker here in the UK offering an XP options, though - maybe Windows 7, for business systems and workstations.
Ultimately I will probably just put Slackware on the machine that's running XP now but if ReactOS were a little more mature I might use it instead.
I recently wiped my old (2003 vintage) laptop, which originally came with XP, and installed Linux Mint - considering the machine's specs, it works fairly well.
I've read about ReactOS, but given the slow pace of progress I regard it as curiosity rather than a viable alternative.
Seriously. I remember trying out the preview version on my then-XP-running PC back in 2009, and being blown away by a) how much easier it was to install and get going, b) how well it ran all my existing software, c) how it let me finally use all of the memory installed in my machine, d) how much better it was than Vista. I pre-ordered a copy soon after, and the rest is history. Now, on my Mac, I have my Windows 7 VM for running various applications I still use.
Installing Windows XP today is not nearly as fun as you might think, particularly if you've got a pre-SP2 copy. When I tried it, I had to manually install some patches just to get Windows Update working, then some more before I could install IE8, and some more before I could install MSE. And then all the patches to bring the whole lot up-to-date - that took hours and hours to finish. I'd only recommend trying it if you're installing onto a machine that you don't actually need to use for a good while.
As for the 'but it's tried and tested" argument for hanging onto XP, I would point to the number of flaws that are still being uncovered in the Windows codebase, many of which are also in XP. Yes, you can mitigate against some by hardening your system, running only as a standard user, etc. - but for most current XP installs that will probably mean extra aggravation caused by third-party software written back in the Bad Old Days that expects to run with full admin privileges.
The only excuse for continuing with XP, to my mind, other than sheer obstinacy, is where you've got systems that absolutely, positively require XP running on physical hardware - specialised hardware or software that won't work via a VM because they need direct access through physical ports. Such systems should be segregated from local networks and the Internet as much as possible.
In an unrelated story, there are no guilty men in jail.
If you were ambiguous, you could rewrite the Morissey classic to refer to Tuesday.
Barbara's real life impeded on life on Slashdot. Somewhere on Facebook, I've got an update from her from a couple of months ago.
Regarding APK, previously, I thought he was a mentally damaged troll. But tonight I've been wondering if the person(s) posting as apk on
Tom, apk will go away when he finds another target. He bugged me for a few weeks. My only complaint is that the message notifications on
Again confirming the postulate that being a vegan makes you an asshole.
Concentrate on the elephant in the room
That would need one heck of a lot of marinade...
That's why he said to concentrate it.
What if you end up in the control group?
If done properly, he won't know.
That's news?
Damn it
They are relatively good but absolutely terrible. -- Alan Kay, commenting on Apollos
