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leighsword wrote:

we are able to click the link for download SP2 when installing the indigo,so the Indigo is better than avalon much.(as the twig is bent, so grows the tree')

They're both betas. If you prefer the fact that Indigo gives you an easy link to SP2 wheras Avalon doesn't then file it as a bug report for Avalon. The whole point of trying out pre-release software is to get them to make changes like this while there is still time.

Cairo wrote:

Good tip! Thanks. Arguing with Dell Tech Support is one of our least favorite activities...

Know the feeling, sometimes it can be a trying experience - though on the whole they've always been better than most.

Fortunately we now spend so much money with them that we get preferential service. And if tech support cause any hassle, one call to our rep will get us exactly what we want without question.

There doesn't seem to be an awful lot to Newos at the moment. Syllable on the other hand looks far too unix-y for my liking. Why would anyone writing an OS from scratch use the 9-bit security system? Even *nix systems like Mac OS and Linux are moving towards a more powerful ACL based system so it seems a silly implementation for something which considers not having to have backwards compatability to be one of it's coolest features.

Also - if you've got a fully OO API and a database like filesystem - why limit yourself to Unix style text files for configuration, surely there are better ways of storing that kind of data. It's good, but I don't think it goes far enough, which is a shame because trying out something which took really radical decisions would be more fun and maybe could teach the old boys a thing or two!

I've no real objection to doing it for small numbers of people in the UK. Not being a gazillionaire (yet) I don't really want three thousand odd requests from people wanting archives of C9 sending me bankrupt.

The biggest problem, that I can see, is that the videos page isn't exactly the easiest way to get hold of them as the ordering changes dependent upon when the last comment was posted. So you could all too easily miss one out. A list of video links in the order they were first published would make obtaining it all a bit easier.

W3bbo wrote:

Wouldn't it just be eaiser to run Citrix or Terminal Services to a load of "dumb clients"? Like it used to be back in the 70's

Yes and no.

If you're doing something like word-processing or simple office type task then Terminal Services is probably a better solution.

On the other hand, if you're doing a lot of heavy duty processing, keeping things client side might be a more scalable option. I'm not entirely convinced that diskless booting is necessarily a better solution to this than a push technology like AD or Ghost though - they have much more resilience in the event of a server failure or loss of network connectivity and are less likely to provide a laggy end-user experience.

Happy Birthday Channel9 and a warm welcome to all these newbies - hope you stick around.

Beer28 wrote:

 Gnome/X today is very fast as well

Not on a P133 it won't be. Even the Fedora core specs will admit to that.

And if you read the linked article, you'll notice that they didn't actually stop using Windows 98 for their main systems - they just transferred their existing licences to new desktops (which, given that they were almost certainly OEM licences, is probably not quite as legal as the article makes out)

There isn't any real explanation as to why they felt the need to give up Office either, since they already had Office licences and are only using Knoppix on internet terminals there is no reason not to continue using it if it was good enough feature wise.

manickernel wrote:

As an American, I long for Margaret Thatcher.

By all means have her. She had some daft ideas when she was in charge, but nothing compared to what the crazy old koot comes out with these days...

LarryOsterman wrote:

 An "Expert" can turn off all those features they don't like (like ... the puppy),

You can get rid of the puppy? (me does a quick google)

Gah! How did I not notice that before? Presumably because typing "Turn off that stupid annoying talking dog thing" into Help and Support returns no results.

My life just improved 100%.

Now if only there were a Group Policy to do this across the whole network...

W3bbo wrote:

a) Why does XP Home have less troubleshooting and resolution features than Pro?
b) Wouldn't it be eaiser to sell a single "Windows XP" without triple-tier marketing?
c) Why does the "Pro" edition come with "Blue" Luna and Rover (shudders) enabled by default?

a) Because Joe Public wouldn't know what to do with them anyway. They're more likely to "get a man in" to fix it and chances are they'll already have the tools necessary on a cd or something.

b) Why? You sell Home to Home Users and Pro to everyone else. Most OEMs know who they're targeting with their machines and so will ship the appropriate version.

c) See my above comment about secretaries and so on. The "Pro" version is essentially used by everyone in the business community so it is the version which has to appeal to everyone and not just power users. That's no excuse for the dog though.