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 May 11 2008, 06:59 AM
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May 21 2008, 12:03 PM
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Vista is making people pose even more faith in MS, I have been computing since the late 60's. Back then a whole OS was on one floppy, the advancements in needs required building bigger and bigger OS's but the bloat and the accompanying problems are just getting to be too much. I have been anti MAC but they are looking very good these days, my feeling is Vista will erode MS's OS base and many will jump off the rickety band wagon!
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May 21 2008, 01:44 PM
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 Senior Member Group: HJT Junior Classmen Posts: 438 Joined: 23-November 07 From: California Member No.: 171,969 |
You, my friend, should first considering getting free Linux. Operates similarly to Mac
-------------------- "If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." - Bertrand Russell
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May 21 2008, 05:42 PM
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 Bleepin' Night Watchman Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,762 Joined: 5-December 05 From: The City of Saint Francis, by the western sea Member No.: 43,307 |
Correction: Mac OS operates similarly to Linux.
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May 21 2008, 05:51 PM
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Senior Member Group: HJT Junior Classmen Posts: 438 Joined: 23-November 07 From: California Member No.: 171,969 |
Is there a difference?
 I mean, there's this law in physics that A touching B is the same as B touching A. Shouldn't that apply here? -------------------- "If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." - Bertrand Russell
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May 21 2008, 11:29 PM
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Bleepin' Night Watchman Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,762 Joined: 5-December 05 From: The City of Saint Francis, by the western sea Member No.: 43,307 |
Linux predates MacOSX.
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May 22 2008, 01:35 AM
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Senior Member Group: HJT Junior Classmen Posts: 438 Joined: 23-November 07 From: California Member No.: 171,969 |
QUOTE(Amazing Andrew @ May 21 2008, 09:29 PM)  Linux predates MacOSX. Dang it. Guess you're right. -------------------- "If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." - Bertrand Russell
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 May 22 2008, 01:56 AM
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 Just enough info to be armed & dangerous... Group: Members Posts: 1,712 Joined: 18-March 06 From: St Kilda, Dunedin. South Island. NZ Member No.: 59,805 |
XP is getting pretty hard to come by over here.
I have Vista Home Basic and Home Premium on 2 machines, but still my XP Pro Media Centre 2005 is by far my favourite. I managed to track down a new copy the other day and it should be here tomorrow. Won't do me much good when support is dropped, but I just feel happier knowing it is sitting in the drawer. -------------------- |
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May 22 2008, 06:23 AM
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 Visiting Alien Group: Members Posts: 3,942 Joined: 20-May 07 From: millenium falcon Member No.: 131,963 |
QUOTE 1969 Summer 1969 Unix was developed. 1969 Linus Torvalds is born. I was taking fortran QUOTE 1991 Linux is introduced by Linus Torvalds, a student in Finland. Who post to the comp.os.minix newsgroup with the words: Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. QUOTE In June of 1978 Apple introduces Apple DOS 3.1, the first operating system for the Apple computers. QUOTE 2001 Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.0 code named Cheetah. Mac roots go back to unix and developement was along parrallel paths to linux developement It all boils down to the gui and open vs closed/propriatry kernels -------------------- |
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May 22 2008, 06:39 AM
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Visiting Alien Group: Members Posts: 3,942 Joined: 20-May 07 From: millenium falcon Member No.: 131,963 |
one further note, back in 98 or 99 the NT kernel was so bad many new server board manufacturers abandoned writting drivers for NT in enterprise enviroments
Bill and redmond started hiring a lot of linux/unix and java programmers -------------------- |
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May 24 2008, 03:53 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 24-May 08 Member No.: 210,790 |
My Ubuntu is more than ready to take the challenge.
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May 25 2008, 12:50 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 25-May 08 Member No.: 210,988 |
So we're stuck with Vista??
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May 25 2008, 12:54 AM
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Senior Member Group: HJT Junior Classmen Posts: 438 Joined: 23-November 07 From: California Member No.: 171,969 |
QUOTE(Lynxx Lancer @ May 24 2008, 10:50 PM) So we're stuck with Vista?? WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! When, where, why, how???? -------------------- "If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." - Bertrand Russell
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May 25 2008, 03:53 AM
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Bleepin' Night Watchman Group: BC Advisor Posts: 1,762 Joined: 5-December 05 From: The City of Saint Francis, by the western sea Member No.: 43,307 |
QUOTE(skyfuser @ May 24 2008, 10:54 PM) QUOTE(Lynxx Lancer @ May 24 2008, 10:50 PM) So we're stuck with Vista?? WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! When, where, why, how???? And in what twisted reality?! -------------------- |
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Jun 2 2008, 05:14 PM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 1-June 08 Member No.: 213,585 |
As I don't mind vista too much after the latest fixes, I think it's dumb they kill off XP, even though it is a 6 year old OS, and you know in the computer world, 2 years is like 10 years. People use it, people like it and they could still sell it for a few more years.
Vista is a work in progress, as was XP when it came out. Back in the day, and I remember this very well, when XP came out most people thought it was a joke (same feeling most people have about vista), then AFTER Sp1 and a ton of updates, people started saying that it was the beta OS Microsoft ever made. It will take time, and after everyone says what they want about it, Microsoft will start doing stuff. I just don't like the overhead that it needs to run and I feel that sp1 was a joke, it didn't make it run better, maybe files transfered a little better but, very disapointed in it. time will tell.... |
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