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  2. Snow Leopard Is A Pale Imitation Of Windows 7

    in Tech Rumors, Updates, & Alerts

    Posted

    wow..

    let see the PC world article is just wrong.. all of those features were there, and why boot into a 32bit kernel first.. lets see, the first intel macs have a 32bit EFI and while that can boot a 64bit kernel the Driver translations need to be all 64bit, which is not there yet.. but you can boot 64 bit with a keypress at boot time.. something windows can not do.

    the rest goes on and on about features that were improved (expose has been around since tiger, long before vista was released) so they are written by people with no clue or have never used the system.. sad

    but let me share this..

    Windows 7 is just a service pack to vista.. most of the new features are just changes to what was already there.. I know this because my neighbor is on the windows 7 development team.. they will not advertise this as they feel windows 7 is a curse word.. they even changed all the division names to not have vista in them.. even though until server 2009, NT was still in a lot of division names..

    here is my take on Snow Leopard

    Cost.. cheep $25 at Micro Center

    I took it home and upgraded my tiger macbook with no issues.. I say again I upgraded my 32bit Tiger system not wipe and reload, put disk in and upgraded.. Windows 7 will not upgrade your XP, its a reload.. Windows 7 will not upgrade Vista 32bit to Windows 7 64bit... no.. matter of fact you can not upgrade vista 64bit business to windows 7 64bit ultimate

    after the upgrade I have 7.5gigs more harddrive space than when I started.. (real space not space counted at 1 gig = 1000meg)

    what I got more disk space back at an upgrade not a wipe..

    the system is faster on the new iwork package.. noticeable faster.. must be that new memory structure and new way to do paging..

    I can now connect to my works exchange server.. you can do this in windows.. only after you buy office with outlook, as our exchange servers will not connect to outlook express.

    so all in all well worth the money..

    now Vista 64 bit and Windows 7.. sound on my Dell E6500 quits after 30 min.. it says its putting out sound.. but its not.. Dell blames MS, MS blames Intel and Intel shows that the same driver works under Linux 64bit with zero issues..

    Vista and windows 7 can not find my USB mouse.. every time I plug one it it says its a browser mouse and loads the wrong driver.. leaving me to fix it.. it only takes two min to fix.. but every time...

    features Windows dose not have that I got with Snow Leopard

    Time machine (not in Tiger)

    Face Recognition in Iphoto

    More diskspace than I started with (on upgrade)

    Exchange support (with out Office Windows Gives no corporate exchange support)

    all well worth the $25.. Hell I spent $45 on Spore.. and what did that give me.. except less time..

  3. Snow Leppard Goodness

    in Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod

    Posted

    Ok I updated my Macbook running Tiger to Snow Leppard..

    no issue strait upgrade.. no whip and install just upgrade.. now if only MS would let you upgrade to 64bit not whip and install.

    its a little faster.. depending on the app some are really fast, other are not at all.

    but I got back 7.5 gigs of hard drive space..

    so far the wireless has stopped dropping out.. will test more..

  6. Free Open-source Web 2.0 Development Resources

    in Web

    Posted

    Web 2.0 just means Web as a platform..

    from wiki (a web 2.0 ideal)

    "Web 2.0" refers to the second generation of web development and web design. It is characterized as facilitating communication, information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. It has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and web applications. Examples include social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies.

    The term is now closely associated with Tim O'Reilly because of the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but rather to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users utilize the Web. According to Tim O'Reilly:

    so you have Ruby on rails, wordpress, wikipedia, facebook,

    which is it you wanted information on?

  7. Not One But Two New Os X Malware

    in Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod

    Posted

    still have to enter a password..

    this is news to let people know that you can install something and it can do bad things.. Word is a perfect example of this.. it keeps locking up my Mac like the great denial of service app it is..

    I get tired of the see you can be hacked, you just need to install this app, enter your admin password and we own you.. Duh....

    but dumb people do it,, and it keeps me getting paid.. so let them.. its computer natural selection

    there is no software that can protect you from this.. so the only cure is to teach people how to use the internet...

  8. Ubuntu Update/upgrade

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted

    if anyone is having problems updating or upgrading ubuntu and are getting the error hash mismatch try running this at the command line

    sudo aptitude update -o Acquire::http::No-Cache=True

    this seams to force a download of the headers and not time out or use old information.

    This has been a big problem for me since we are behind a Proxies at work..

    good luck

  12. Screwy Ubuntu 9.04

    in Linux & Unix

    Posted

    yes, Did not say you did not earn it.. I just don't have money for new systems (I have 3 kids.. and a Motorcycle.. ) Motorcycles are expensive..

    at work we have in my lab hp bl460 with dual quad processors and 128 gigs of ram.. (16 per blade center X2)

    but I don't use them for games.

    X windows can be tough for advanced graphics.. good luck..

    your console screen means something is wrong with the xconfig.. the command I gave you should fix.. it

    good luck.

  14. Celeron D 2.5 Vs P4 1.8ghz

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    with a file server (depending on what the base OS) anything over a gig will show no real performance increase. if you are using windows as a base.. well that may change but I see no difference in performance for that task in the two processors you propose.. I would get the cheaper one.

    your network will have a much bigger effect on performance of a file server..

    With FreeNAS I have a 350 Pentium and 256 megs of ram. I am not using the ISCSI which would need some ram. I moved it to an AMD 2500 to see if there was a difference.. nope.. bench marks came out the same and real world worked out the same.. the only difference is I could use a modern raid controller on the AMD board, which did speed things up and made me feel better doing a raid 10.

  16. Six Months On, Macs Still Plagued By Critical Java Vuln

    in Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod

    Posted

    oh..

    Security researchers say that Mac OS X users are vulnerable to a critical, 6-month-old, remote vulnerability in Java, a component that is enabled by default in Web browsers on this platform. Julien Tinnes notes that this vulnerability differs from typical Java security flaws in that it is 'a pure Java vulnerability' and doesn't involve any native code. It affected not only Sun's Java but other implementations such as OpenJDK, on multiple platforms, including Linux and Windows. 'This means you can write a 100% reliable exploit in pure Java. This exploit will work on all the platforms, all the architectures and all the browsers,' Julien wrote. This bug was demonstrated during the Pwn2own security challenge this year at CanSecWest, but the details were not made public at that time. Tinnes recommends that Mac OS X users disable Java in their browsers until Apple releases a security update."

    important part:

    on multiple platforms, including Linux and Windows

    so all systems

  17. Yet Another Reason Why Macs Need Security

    in Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod

    Posted

    I am confused..

    So Apple, and Linux distributions tell people that there are issues and release patches, and are said to have more security holes based on this number.. so the only thing you need to be secure is to not tell people of the issues, like some companies do.

    the number of published bugs, shows that they care more about security because they will let you know when they find them, and not hide them to protect their image.

  19. Remote Access Question

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    you can turn in Remote Desktop in the Vista and under accessories you Microsoft Remote Desktop.. over the internet I would add a VPN for all connects so you need to work that one out. but If I was administering the system.. I would give here a limited user account.

    you have to set some permission for MS Remote Desktop to work (Microsoft set permissions and registry keys to keep it from running, but its there and installed.) This is why I do not like MS Vista and Windows 7 strategy.. Sell the same product and make more money..

    http://portal.tonychan.org/Default.aspx?ta...amp;EntryID=123

  24. 15 Easy Fixes For Mac Security Risks

    in Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod

    Posted

    the best one.. Firmware password.. do not do this.. at most it makes it so the Mac is unusable by some one else but does nothing to protect your data.. just pull the drive and put it in another machine.. data mine

    These are good to look at, but are old (leopard), and most are what not to turn on.. not what to turn off.

    the Virus software is the next best.. and no you never need 24/7 virus protection.. only when you do things that could introduce a virus.

  25. Americans Told To Wear Masks As Swine Flu Spreads Round Globe:::

    in On The Web

    Posted

    I agree for fine particles but since the flue is transmitted from "Snot" and that does not get small enough to pass though the mask.. but sine they are not waring gloves as soon as they itch their nose they just negated having the mask so I say try this

    44113.gif

    or this

    MOPP

    I say People should be at MOPP 4 at all times :)

    Plus it protects their computers from most viruses.. since they can not type in those gloves.. they cant use it. give the malware guys a break for couple days.