I'm going to try Sidewiki on my home system as well
in reference to: Google Sidewiki (view on Google Sidewiki)Thursday, October 29, 2009
Monday, October 27, 2008
Teasing PC users
You know, I just love the fact that my wife had to run a defrag on her PC running Windows XP Home and it still didn't complete defrag the drive. Why is that? I have never had to or intend to defrag a linux install. There is no need because the filesystem is just that well created. It is by default a much more security OS as well.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Fat, fatter, fattest
This is an excellent article on the mentality of Microsoft. As hardware gets faster and better, Windows/Office has gobbled up every bit of it and keeps asking for more. If the stories of Windows 7 are true ( and I hope they are ) it might be enough to turn things around. In the meantime Linux and MacOSX have continued to optimize, improve and fill the holes. If the programmers and users of Linux can get together and create an interface that is both easy to use and advanced with automated features; combining the light resource load of XFC, advanced features of GNOME and easy to use interface of KDE; that would be the knockout punch.
Judging by this article the tipping point was Office XP with Windows XP SP1, after that the scales really started tipping down. Adding more code for security to patch holes that should not have existed to begin with. More code added to Office, bigger memory requirements. When Vista was released the hardware requirements were drastically increased by 25% more that previous versions. Seven years is a long time to update an OS. Windows is incredibly bloated. In seven years KDE has updated itself to KDE3 and release five major update, GNOME has pushed itself up to 2.18 and the kernel itself has put out a major update 2.6 and release 20 updates. Mandriva has gone from Mandrake 10 to Mandriva 2008.1 with 7 updates inbetween. Even Debian with it's long dev/testing cycle has managed to release two versions, Sarge and Etch.
What Microsoft added to Vista? DRM, Aero, security, search? Not all that much when you look at it seriously. Apple has consistently evolved their OS. OSX 10 through 10.4; four major updates, increased security, better features; all without increasing the load on the computer itself. I can't say much about it since I don't use a Mac. Linux is releasing new/update version on a more or less six month release schedule. New features added since 2001: udev, compiz, journalling file systems, virtualization, easy to use package management, security features; innovation is coming from the opensource community at an ever increasing pace. Looking at distros from 2001 and today are like night and day.
Judging by this article the tipping point was Office XP with Windows XP SP1, after that the scales really started tipping down. Adding more code for security to patch holes that should not have existed to begin with. More code added to Office, bigger memory requirements. When Vista was released the hardware requirements were drastically increased by 25% more that previous versions. Seven years is a long time to update an OS. Windows is incredibly bloated. In seven years KDE has updated itself to KDE3 and release five major update, GNOME has pushed itself up to 2.18 and the kernel itself has put out a major update 2.6 and release 20 updates. Mandriva has gone from Mandrake 10 to Mandriva 2008.1 with 7 updates inbetween. Even Debian with it's long dev/testing cycle has managed to release two versions, Sarge and Etch.
What Microsoft added to Vista? DRM, Aero, security, search? Not all that much when you look at it seriously. Apple has consistently evolved their OS. OSX 10 through 10.4; four major updates, increased security, better features; all without increasing the load on the computer itself. I can't say much about it since I don't use a Mac. Linux is releasing new/update version on a more or less six month release schedule. New features added since 2001: udev, compiz, journalling file systems, virtualization, easy to use package management, security features; innovation is coming from the opensource community at an ever increasing pace. Looking at distros from 2001 and today are like night and day.
"Sulphur" smells sweet
I recently upgraded to the latest Fedora, "Sulphur". This version/distro of linux really shines. It's worth the download to get the "Everything" edition which is three DVDs. This way you can create a local repository that has everything you could need that isn't bolted down by liscences. The list of features include the latest KDE 4.0.3 and Gnome 2.22 desktops. Improvements have been made to a host of other features including a surprising newcomer the system-config-dhcp. A GUI tool for configuring the dhcp server. Openoffice upgraded to version 2.4, the latest XServer 1.5 beta and Firefox 3 beta 5. This is as cutting edge as you can find. Some might say too close to the edge, I say if the graphic card vendors would provide open-source drivers we wouldn't have a problem. Another welcome sight is the inclusion on Ruby-on-Rails in the package rubygems-rails. Some of the other inclusions include drupal, turbogears, eclipse, gcc 4.3.
As long as Fedora keeps going in this direction I will keep using it.
As long as Fedora keeps going in this direction I will keep using it.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Fat, fatter, fattest
This is an excellent article on the mentality of Microsoft. As hardware gets faster and better, Windows/Office has gobbled up every bit of it and keeps asking for more. If the stories of Windows 7 are true ( and I hope they are ) it might be enough to turn things around. In the meantime Linux and MacOSX have continued to optimize, improve and fill the holes. If the programmers and users of Linux can get together and create an interface that is both easy to use and advanced with automated features; combining the light resource load of XFC, advanced features of GNOME and easy to use interface of KDE; that would be the knockout punch.
Judging by this article the tipping point was Office XP with Windows XP SP1, after that the scales really started tipping down. Adding more code for security to patch holes that should not have existed to begin with. More code added to Office, bigger memory requirements. When Vista was released the hardware requirements were drastically increased by 25% more that previous versions. Seven years is a long time to update an OS. Windows is incredibly bloated. In seven years KDE has updated itself to KDE3 and release five major update, GNOME has pushed itself up to 2.18 and the kernel itself has put out a major update 2.6 and release 20 updates. Mandriva has gone from Mandrake 10 to Mandriva 2008.1 with 7 updates inbetween. Even Debian with it's long dev/testing cycle has managed to release two versions, Sarge and Etch.
What Microsoft added to Vista? DRM, Aero, security, search? Not all that much when you look at it seriously. Apple has consistently evolved their OS. OSX 10 through 10.4; four major updates, increased security, better features; all without increasing the load on the computer itself. I can't say much about it since I don't use a Mac. Linux is releasing new/update version on a more or less six month release schedule. New features added since 2001: udev, compiz, journalling file systems, virtualization, easy to use package management, security features; innovation is coming from the opensource community at an ever increasing pace. Looking at distros from 2001 and today are like night and day.
Judging by this article the tipping point was Office XP with Windows XP SP1, after that the scales really started tipping down. Adding more code for security to patch holes that should not have existed to begin with. More code added to Office, bigger memory requirements. When Vista was released the hardware requirements were drastically increased by 25% more that previous versions. Seven years is a long time to update an OS. Windows is incredibly bloated. In seven years KDE has updated itself to KDE3 and release five major update, GNOME has pushed itself up to 2.18 and the kernel itself has put out a major update 2.6 and release 20 updates. Mandriva has gone from Mandrake 10 to Mandriva 2008.1 with 7 updates inbetween. Even Debian with it's long dev/testing cycle has managed to release two versions, Sarge and Etch.
What Microsoft added to Vista? DRM, Aero, security, search? Not all that much when you look at it seriously. Apple has consistently evolved their OS. OSX 10 through 10.4; four major updates, increased security, better features; all without increasing the load on the computer itself. I can't say much about it since I don't use a Mac. Linux is releasing new/update version on a more or less six month release schedule. New features added since 2001: udev, compiz, journalling file systems, virtualization, easy to use package management, security features; innovation is coming from the opensource community at an ever increasing pace. Looking at distros from 2001 and today are like night and day.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Website Resume or Job Search Engine
Anyone have any recommendations to either creating a website that has my resume such as: My Resume or keeping my online resumes up to date. Both are good ideas of course and you should always keep up your Monster, Career Builder and Dice resumes up, but is there any real benefit to maintaining another website? What I see as help is on your personal website you build links to projects you have completed, post your transcripts and other documents useful to prospective employers.
Hm...I guess I answered my own question, do both and keep them all up.
Fedora 8
I am so liking linux ever more each day. Vista and XP just can't compare with the the amount of software, the ease of installing and the visual effects. I know eye candy doesn't add to the functionality but if you have never used transparent windows to type and look stuff up then you don't know what you're missing.
I downloaded and installed the Fedora 8 Everything DVDs and have thousands of packages to choose from: blender 3d modeling, scribus desktop publishing, openoffice.org office suite, inkscape, compiz, multiple im clients and browsers. The best part is that it is all free!
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