I didn’t really know what pfister means first, and when I looked up wikipedia it said that pfister is a surname and gave me alist of people whose names ended with Pfister. And when I searched further on google, I found Price Pfister, a store that sells taps and faucets. Well, whats the difference between a Tap and a Faucet? You will find taps in cheaper homes who cannot afford to make their homes look beautiful and turn their guests green with envy, while you will find facuets in homes where they dont want to turn their guests green with sick.
Category: Linux
When you search the internet for home based jobs or something, with which you think you could keep your wife occupied when she is bored during the day at home, dont use the google search, but use google’s blog search, as that is the only place that is not yet contaminated with spam. There are plenty of women who are writing about working online in their blogs, and following that would definitely produce good results, instead of going for those fake data entry jobs, where you get the work to do, but no money. I know that people dont want to do it for money, but for what ever work you do, if you get a little money it is a good thing isnt it? Well, Never go out for any of those stupid data entry sites.
There are a lot of things that you can do online. You can be a moderator for some forum, and get paid on a monthly basis or share the ad revenues from that forum, be an email list moderator, and if you dont like a moderators job, you can always do some writing, start a blog write and traffic will come rushing to your site, and you can earn with advertisments.
Its about a month’s wait for Hardy LTS to be out. I didnt try the Alpha or the Beta, but have been reading reviews here and there and I think it should be cool.
Some people say that the desktop effects are cooler than Leopard
It comes with a unified VM Manager that supports almost everything. Virtual Box ofcourse comes with its own manager.
Increased OpenGL stablity gives you better performance for your compiz and beyrl.
Gimp is Photoshop
Blend is Maya
Firefox is there for Browsing
Pidgin is there for message
OpenOffice is there for Office. It now has 3 D effects for presentations.
Evolution and Thunderbird for Mails.
Microsoft is for people who believe they are not geeks, and linux is supposed to be for Geeks. Mac exploits the luxury computing market and dominates design.
Trust me, Linux is not geeky anymore. It has no bugs to start with, and has the least amount of troubleshooting to be done by the end user compared to windows or Mac. And, above all, its opensource, and its free. And if you are good enough, you can contribute to the development of the OS. Create manuals, bug reports, knowledgebases and even customize the desktop.
Can you do that for Windows or Mac? Nop.
The computer industry can be a scary place. Products try to evolve carefully, but get caught in the publicity machine and quickly grow out of control. This year’s poster child for too-fast growth is Linux. While many network managers have found Linux to be more stable and reliable than Windows 2000, they also have begun to worry about whether the hype machine will destabilize Linux. Into this picture steps Linux’s lesser-known cousins, the Berkeley Software Distribution-based operating systems – FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and BSDI.
The BSDs have been around for a long time – longer than Linux. But they have received much less attention than Linux in the press because they have fewer noisy supporters. Nevertheless, they continue to thrive, because of their similarities to, and differences from, Linux. Like Linux, the BSDs are free, fast and have a variety of software available for them. In addition, BSD kernels tend to be more stable than Linux kernels, BSDs run on a wider variety of hardware and have fewer security issues.
But where the BSDs tend to really shine is in networking. TCP/IP speed tests run on identical hardware often show the BSDs to be faster than Linux. While the Linux community has focused on enabling Linux to use more esoteric hardware, the BSD community has worked on making the network infrastructure faster and easier to extend. This has caused a number of network hardware vendors to use customized versions of BSDs, particularly NetBSD, as the internal operating systems of their commercial products.
As the lesser-known players in the free operating system market, the BSD development groups have had more opportunity to work on the core of their products. FreeBSD has the largest market of the BSDs and gets the most development interest. NetBSD runs on an incredible variety of CPUs, including some systems that leave even the fastest Intel chips in the dust. OpenBSD’s main focus is security, and it attracts developers for whom that is the main concern. BSDI is the commercially supported member of the gang, with fewer features but a well-established reputation for rock-solid products.
This year, some large hardware companies such as IBM and Dell have started shipping Linux preinstalled for customers who request it. None of the BSDs have gotten this type of attention. However, it is well known that many large Internet service providers use one of the BSDs (FreeBSD) to run their production mail and Web servers. It is common to find BSD-based Internet servers that have not crashed or been rebooted in years.
This is not to say that Linux shouldn’t be considered for serious network tasks. But any shop that is considering Linux should also take a look at the BSDs, particularly if they want stability and less excitement in their operating system.