Posted 10/14/2009 at 07:00:01pm

LOL, subscribe and get smarter awesome!

Posted 10/14/2009 at 06:58:49pm

MaximumFAIL

 Gnome, KDE and XFCE aren't Linux Desktop Environments at all. They are WINDOW MANAGERS and can be installed on ANY OS!

There, I am the BIGGEST geek! No Jobs v. Gates q's, no UNIX (MULTICS UNICS) q's??? More like lame anti-C (which still runs the latest OSes btw) OOP loving geek.

Posted 10/07/2009 at 05:42:26pm

I've been using this for years and so have other KDE 4 users. Use Pc-BSD and again, you don't pay, yet you get the features that everyone brags about in Windows 7/Vista.

Posted 10/05/2009 at 08:41:24pm

lol, bragging rights with an x6 for n00bs maybe. I love pimping my "old" dual core FPS's against online whores with Intel C2Qs and still having higher FPS than them ;).

Posted 09/30/2009 at 03:28:14pm

It's per-se.

Posted 09/22/2009 at 11:53:50am

What happens when you connect Vcc to another Vcc and both have different levels of current/voltage? That's right Short circuit and explosion of components. As an electrical engineer, I suggest you beef up your -9V -> ground (Vcc of what part of the PC??? How are filtering/blocking excess Vn from battery?) or pull the project down before people start frying components and themselves (catastrophic failure?? unlikely, but still possible).

EDIT: Ground Loop. This is an improper circuit and is unsafe, I am serious.

Posted 09/17/2009 at 10:12:53pm

Awwww, Candian loving, that touches a special part in my heart.

 You guys shouldn't have!

Posted 08/26/2009 at 12:08:38am

There are quite a few mistakes for the OpenStep -> OSX transition.

Apple implemented A LOT of NexTSTEP/OpenStep into OSX.  Primarily the following:

TCP/IP (don't know why Maximum PC didn't mention this, but TCP/IP was FIRST on OpenSTEP and was the EASIEST to setup)

OpenStep application framework which was designed to operate in the same manner as CORBA (from Sun)

ExtensibleGraphics (images can be drawn almost simultaneously within windows, the FIRST to draw windows in a clipping region, GDI hadn't quite adopted this yet)

The ENTIRE Core of the OS, the kernel, an adoption of the MACH kernel implemented in a monolithic manner and communicating with the user through an API to stitch together BSD and MACH. Events and messages are keywords here and are what make the SMP prowess that lies beneath OSX.

The finder didn't exist in OpenStep, I don't know what crack MaximumPC is smoking but I want some because they are making up a lot of "facts". The finder existed only in MacOS (duh?) and was actually completely rewritten for its use in the new envrionment (OSX...OpenStep).

The interesting thing here is the reason why I don't subscribe. I still get the incorrect information that I used to but for much less money! MaximumPC should be renamed WindowsPC (Total BS). 

Posted 08/25/2009 at 11:57:25pm

..or not. I'm a poor student and I'm stuying computer science and I have a Macbook, and love OSX. OSX is the *BSD that does the hours of tweaking and configuring all in one sinch. It is extremely powerful and the ability for me to dig down and use my usual *BSD CLI tools is incredible.

In fact, how about people who have no idea about how a computer works continue to use whatever is bundled with their machines because that is what happens. "regular" people think of PCs as appliances, no more than the family toaster and no less than the family television. That is just how it is.

Making brash and uneducated generalizations about the said users of operating systems is pointless. I guess I could also point out that at UNIX and Linux meetings, as I look up to the audience rolling in, there is a MAJORITY of Apple laptops gleeming with their glowing Apples. At the pub I find that only a few use OSX as a part-time OS and the others don't see the point since "if it works in OSX it'll generally work in *BSD". I mean what do they know though, right? It's not like their developers or anything. 

Posted 08/23/2009 at 03:45:37pm

Personally I don't like my entire laptop's chassis flexes when I type. I also don't like a heavy, thick and NON-portable laptop that runs hot and has the loudest fans in the world. I am ofcourse talking about my old Toshiba Satellite with a Pentium Dual Core processor. What a terribly build POS. I had many issues connecting to wireless and the like even in Windows, PC-BSD and Solaris. Terrible issues- to the point where my friends would laugh. 

I sprung for a macbook and I'm not turning back soon. The first minute I had a solid wireless connection and was up and running for class. I work so well with OSX that I am more product in class as well; the same goes for gnome/compiz-fusion. Solid build quality, terrific screen, BSD underpinnings, easy updates to newer versions of OSX (Not so with a hackintosh) and increased productivity (portability). 

That said, if any student thinks that a netbook replaces any laptop (macbook or not) they are just wrong. A netbook would not work for students in my program (computer science) as they need multithreading (SMP, costs more),  DirectX 9 capabilities and enough RAM to run Eclipse (though you can use javac/javaw just the same). Not to mention with Windows, most netbooks boot in two minutes and take a minute to shutdown - factoring that in you lose some good not taking time there.

Not to mention that pain of scrolling when debugging code - my word!