[jasonraymondson]

Vista isn't that bad, if you have the hardware to run it.

My biggest complaints.

Slow has hell to copy files

Elevated mode to access ipconfig

The built in zip extraction system crashes (ALL THE FOCKING TIME)

Randomly kill programs at night while I sleep

The other night I went to bed and forgot to save a design for a website I am working on, and when I woke up, vista closed the program and I lost all of my work. Didn't shut down, just closed that program.

Now Millennium Edition... that SUCKED

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'V')ista isn't that bad, if you have the hardware to run it.

[da23]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', 'I') have absolutely no rules defined in my iptables, yet a check at grc.com's ShieldsUP! port probe shows my machine to be completely 'stealthed' (i.e. non-accessible for exploit), because I have no web services of any kind running.

An additional 'built-in' defense of Linux is simply the fact that there are so many different versions of it, with an effectively infinite number of configurations available.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'V')ista isn't that bad, if you have the hardware to run it.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'V')ista isn't that bad, if you have the hardware to run it.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('da23', 'T')hat's probably because Stevies' site doesn't use 'exploits' to test your firewall, it checks for open ports and tries to tunnel your firewall. The script was written for windows users to make them happy or sad.
You did great until the end btw agree but! the whole ethos of the linux/gnu thing is the kernel is open, his fly is down
they can sit and wait in your printer if you know machine code like cDc

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'W')hile I love ubuntu, it is not capable. There is no software. I need photoshop, Avid, After Effects, Fireworks, and Illustrator.

and no, GIMP is not a replacement for photoshop.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'W')hile I love ubuntu, it is not capable. There is no software. I need photoshop, Avid, After Effects, Fireworks, and Illustrator.

and no, GIMP is not a replacement for photoshop.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '1')) No there is not and you are wrong fan boy. The industries that pay money, agree!

2) In the world of video production, there is nothing at all in the linux world currently made, that even gets within 2 million miles of after effects! NOTHING!!! If there was, I would have left windows with a smile on my face.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'O')pen office, while nice and free, does not come remotely close to anything in the office suite. Especially the all powerful Excel (calc is a focking joke).

[Arsenal]

jasonraymondson

Please find me a windows system that does the following for under $300 bucks (not including the computer)...

1. Full motion video capture with internet playback capability.

2. Temperature/humidity/solar/wind/barometer/etc logging.

3. Picture gallery that does not get hacked in a heartbeat. While there are sites like Flicker, having ones own pictures on my server is comforting.

4. Network and computer monitoring that will notify you of any failures via text or email.

Those are just a few programs on my Linux system that probably can be run from Windows but would cost an arm and a leg or just plain suck. I know from experience that my camera system is more stable than the $1000 windows capture software that I have used.

While I am not trying to get into a pissing match about Windows vs Linux, there are benefits to both. Windows integration (Active Directory) is far more advanced than Linux and is needed in a corporate environment. Some user programs are better in Windows but cost 500 bucks to get them legally. Did you pay for your Photoshop?? On a server level... Nothing really beats Linux for stability and network throughput. That is why 90% percent of the servers you hit on the internet are Linux...

Everything has its uses.. Quit bashing one and making absolute statements.

[Dezakin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', 'F')rom what I understand Microsoft has teamed up with the Government's TIA (Total Information Awareness) program.



They will be selling Win7 at substantially lower costs than other versions of Windows as the price is offset by the huge government contract they have landed to sell the user data to the Government program. This data will also be packaged and sold to Corporations and Marketing companies or even foreign governments.

The Windows 7 keystroke logger will basically record every tap of the keyboard in to a government database. Furthermore the government will be able to decrypt all encrypted communications given its access to secret key information through keystroke logging.

The TIA office says that with Windows 7 and it's partnership with Google analytics we should see a substantial reduction in terrorist threats.

[dbruning]

Then I hope a ton of people got fired for releasing Vista.

What a piece of crap. And a disaster from a marketing perspective.

You can be sure many think as I do; we will not be upgrading until we are absolutely forced to. Why be a Microsoft beta tester...everything they release seems to be perma-beta these days.

Microsoft is in business to make money...which is fine. But if they release another OS as flawed as Vista, I hope their software empire crumbles around their greedy little feet.

[GoghGoner]

I use Mandriva 2009 at home now. I was using PCLINUXOS until they fell behind the curve a little with the upgrades. At work, I use XP but I have used Red Hat without any major issues.

K9Copy works great shrinking DVDs on my Linux machine. MySQL is a solid database. You have great scientific and math applications (price a SAS license as opposed to an R license). Linux and MACs are also more secure (who cares why) and you don't have to use resources on bloated service packs or anti-virus. If you have older hardware then Linux may be the ONLY way to go.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dbruning', 'M')icrosoft is in business to make money...which is fine. But if they release another OS as flawed as Vista, I hope their software empire crumbles around their greedy little feet.

[GoghGoner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dbruning', 'M')icrosoft is in business to make money...which is fine. But if they release another OS as flawed as Vista, I hope their software empire crumbles around their greedy little feet.

[GoghGoner]

How the world should work.

Microsoft and Dell would be working together to use less resources. Imagine a thin-client setup where monitors are terminals (anybody remember the eighties) and hardly anybody in the office has their own PC. I know some folks have done this with Linux distributions but Microsoft could have implemented this type of environment at the start if the model in which business thrives was somehow different. Not just different, but right. It is wrong to needlessly use more resources to generate more profit. The whole darn system is nuts. I am going to go cut off my ear again.

[Dezakin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dbruning', 'M')icrosoft is in business to make money...which is fine. But if they release another OS as flawed as Vista, I hope their software empire crumbles around their greedy little feet.

[jasonraymondson]

The ultimate goal of the operating enviroment world, is to make everything web based. All everyone will be doing is operating a terminal and all of their data will sit on a server that is open to the government.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'T')he ultimate goal of the operating enviroment world, is to make everything web based. All everyone will be doing is operating a terminal and all of their data will sit on a server that is open to the government.