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EightBall
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2012 Mar 29, 10:42pm
Wow, the talent in your area must be different from South Florida. Here any Windows Admin would be using PowerShell scripts. No black command prompt, it's blue.
PowerShell is awesome. No wasting time parsing text. Instead of a text pipeline, you have an object pipeline. You talk native CLR objects. It's way better than any text scripting language.
Blue or black is all the same to the majority of sysadmins - they have to use the keyboard which is painful when you don't even know how to type properly. They type faster on their iphone than they do on their computer.
Something as simple as executing a remote command in powershell made this one guy look like the character from "The Gods Must Be Crazy" a few months back - I find that a lot of programmers feel that any scripting is "beneath" them and sysadmins would rather test the power line with their tongue than write script. Someone that can operate in both worlds is priceless.
"Linux is fine until you want to install software, then it's a major pain in the ass. Until Linux developers start making their installs as simple and easy as on Windows, Linux is not going to be a mainstream operating system no matter how loved it is by a subset of geeks."
What on earth are you on about? Its as simple as browsing through one of the many software stores now available EG .ubuntu software centre .Installing software has become a simple pick/click/ install .From the free open source stuff to paid proprietary software that can purchased.
So What if that dam developer is making me download a .deb instead ??A quick double click and that .deb file will open in the software centre or gdebi and install itself. Is that any harder than windows .Compiling a program from source is only 4 simple steps. Installing from the command line even easier with a simple sudo apt-get install (program name) all dependencies gathered and installed for you. .
Native Steam is coming to linux,unity 4 game engine is coming to linux,unigene game engine is already here.We are also finally getting some Professional video editing software from light works. Your entire statement that software is to hard to install on linux is simply WRONG and guess what we even have skype.
Tenpoundbass
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2012 Oct 11, 1:28am
One thing Windows 7 has going for it is I can go anywhere on the internet and it not kill my computer by installing malware. In fact it's such a pain the balls, that many applications fail to install even when you run as administrator because other related processes, not directly called from the MSI package, in the install process can be unsuccessful.
That being said, there are a ton of things that made the PC the choice platform for most users, are now non existent.
Such as the lack of IO on newer laptops, such as card slots, and firewire ports. Cards that aren't compatible in Win7 box towers, and there aren't even comparable solutions.
Such as Audio and Video production, Gerbil plotter devices ect.
These devices always upgraded to previous versions of Windows.
Now even if they do install, using those devices result in the bluescreen of death.
Otherwise the Platform is stable and never bluescreens under usage with out peripherals.
If Windows continues this trend then I don't see Windows surviving.
It's like Windows went from a huge erector set where almost any configuration was possible as well as available, to Windows being a closed device that is nothing more and never will be, than what you got.
It's why tablets and smart phones are gaining so much in the market.
If your PC is nothing more than over sized glorified Tablet, then what's the point?
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Preferably, use an older version of Skype like 4.2.
Yep, they are wiretapping your conversations. The way a messaging client is supposed to work is that when Alice wants to call Bob the process goes:
1. Alice calls up the directory service (WLM, Skype, etc.) and gets Bob's address.
2. Alice calls Bob.
3. Bob answers and a socket connection is established between Alice and Bob. No third party is involved.
Windows Live Messenger takes extra effort to send all of Alice's and all of Bob's messages back to the MS servers. That's right, Microsoft went out of its way to spy on you and violate wire tapping laws. And this is why Windows Live Messenger sucks.