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Could you please correct your post because it's full of errors.First of all, 480mghz (mega-giga-Hertz ?) does not exist, the only I might make of this is 480Mbps which is the maximum transfer speed of a USB2.0 port.Second, afaik it's impossible to put a swap file on a removable device under windows and even if it'd be possible it would be dangerous when the device gets removed (sometimes this happens when windows returns from standby).

That might be a bit of a problem since almost every hosting pack comes with MySQL instead of DB2. So you'll either have to convert your whole database to MySQL or find a DB2 host (or host your own DB2 server).

Wouldn't be a problem, I've already used several operating systems in Virtualbox, both on a windows and a linux host and none of them gave a problem with the adapters provided with Virtualbox (there are 5 different network adapters you can choose from, there's always at least one that works by default as it's drivers are included in the guest operating system by default).

Seven will definitly come with the IE-core since the OS itself uses this core for other features (like online help). The only difference is that you'll now get the option to download other browsers and set them as default.

It's true that self written is better, IF you have a lot of time (especialy for implementing security features).I've so far worked with Joomla 1.0 and 1.5, e107 0.7, Drupal, phpnuke, geeklog and some other, smaller CMS systems and I've also created templates for Joomla 1.0 and 1.5 and for e107.My experience is that Joomla is the best cms to work with, it's easy to use, easy to expand, easy to customize yet very powerfull and usefull.e107 has a somewhat confusing admin area in the beginning which gets better once you get used to it, but there are too many options in too many submenus making it harder to find that one setting you realy need to change.I haven't worked a lot with Drupal, found it too confusing in the beginning tough it appears to be very powerfull.phpnuke, geeklog and the other cms's is too long ago that I've used them, tough I did like them back then because those were hardcore cms's that realy required some knowledge (compared to Joomla, which almost everybody can install).My final verdict: Joomla !

I wouldn't know why I'd use this because it misses the most important advantage offered by other browsers like Firefox and Opera: safe browsing. It also seem to suffer from some serious button cluttering... too much buttons. I'll stick with Opera which has btw a nice button to turn on or off images instantly ! Don't know what all the fuss is about this function because it's a default Opera feature for many years now

The only thing is that not enough energy is generated to charge a device. It's good for powering some LEDs, but to power bigger devices, you need bigger generators, making it harder to walk. Same with solar panels, I have a small battery/solarpanel device to recharge mobile phones, mp3 players, ... but it's too small to be usefull. After 5 days of sunshine it's still not fully charged (and a fully charged battery isn't enough to fully recharge my iPaq). It's better to invest in larger scale power resources, like big solar panels, wind mills and those tube thing that get energy out of the waves.

I don't have a Yahoo e-mail account, but I think it'll be hard to beat Gmail. It has all features you could probably imagine and the amount and size of the advertisments is such that you hardly notice it (unlike in live mail, where the ads can be flashy and very noticeable).The Gmail spam filter is probably on of the best currently available, live mail still misses some spam messages which I've marked as spam over a hunderd times !The only downside about Gmail is that it's Googlle's (privacy issues) and that sometimes it doesn't work in Opera, but those probabems are usualy fixed in less than an hour.

Now it is: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ You only have to install it yourself

Go study and you'll get a lot of free microsoft software

Why does nobody even think about first using checkdisk before thinking about breaking open a brand new external disk ?

Indeed, "free" is rather relative in this case because hosting a video hosting site requires a LOT of cpu usage and a LOT of bandwidth. You're better of hosting your video's on websites like Youtube, Vimeo, ... They have lots of advertisement contracts to cover the costs of hosting several servers at different locations with a lot of bandwith available.Btw, €1000 is a lot, with a little bit of scripting and mencoder you could probably do it for a lot less

First thing I'd like to say, in Opera, when I browse to http://www.stamford.edu/, I get a "The page you are looking for wasn't found on our server.", in Firefox the page redirects to http://www.stamford.edu/en (I used this link for both FF and Opera). openSuse 11.0 with Opera 9.64 Non-Cached: 4s066 Cached: 2s586 openSuse 11.0 with Firefox 3.5.1 Non-cached: 7s124 Cached: 2s117 Country: Belgium Your internet link speed: 4Mbps ps. you might check the "page not found" page, the banner image is takes a while to load, you might want to use jpg which has much better compression ratios for images.

Not having an ISO burning feature won't be a problem once Windows Seven becomes available, it has a built-in ISO burning tool.

I must admit it's a nice things Opera created, especialy because it makes computers available with dynamic IP-adresses and/or are behind a router, tough I still believe that an apache/iis, mysql/mssql, mediatomb/jinzora/... server is beter. It's maybe a bit more complex, but has more advanced features, more control and it doesn't require Opera to be running all the time (read: have low powered, headless server).

What the hell is it installing that it requires 270Mb ? CDBurnerXP is also a basic cd/dvd burner, it's also free and it only needs 7Mb, quite a difference . I think I'm going to stick with what I have now, it does the trick so no need to change that //EDIT: oops, double post, didn't notice it because internet connection was acting up again *sigh*

What the hell is it installing that it requires 270Mb ? CDBurnerXP is also a basic cd/dvd burner, it's also free and it only needs 7Mb, quite a difference . I think I'm going to stick with what I have now, it does the trick so no need to change that

1. Don't use frames, they're deprecipated. 2. scr: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/frames.html

Could you rephrase that ? Because I don't quite understand what you're trying to say. First of all, ChromeOS will be a linux based operating systems especialy designed for netbooks, so when you buy one it either comes with Chrome OS or Windows, not both of them. Second, instead of fixing registry entries, you'll now find yourself digging in a lot of system files, scattered around the disk just to fix that one tiny little problem .

On windows I always use µTorrent, simply because it does what it's supposed to do and nothing else but that. No frills, no fancy thingies, no useless features, just hardcore torrenting . On Linux I use ktorrent simply because I don't bother finding another torrent client than the one installed with KDE (okay, not true, I first used kget with it's torrent plug-in but it miserably failed downloading a 170Mb file by wasting half an our getting the last 256kb of the file ... 5 minutes later Ktorrent finished the whole file )

There seems to be some confusion, Xisto isn't using the old 4.1.22 version of MySQL, it's using MySQL version 5.0.67-community (at least that's the on on gamma). Thing is that upgrading isn't always as easy as it sounds (especialy when going from 4.1 to 5.1). Upgrading an application on your computer isn't such a big problem because if something stops working after the upgrade, you could either revert the changes or look for a solution.On a (web)server, things are a little bit different. If you upgrade something and this new version is not 100% downwards compatible, you'll break a lot of websites that do depend on this (older) application. To make thing worse clients will start calling the support and sening e-mails and maybe even get mad or break the contract because you failed to comply to the SLA.

I totaly agree on that one, you shouldn't give away all your data to someone or something, that's not realy a safe thing to do. The thing is, cloud os'es aren't forcing you to put your data online because there'll always be the internal hdd on which you can store data and if that isn't enough you can always plug-in a 16Gb USB-stick or something. Tough, the most important thing is that you have to place it in the right context and a netbooks (which is ideal for running a cloud os) it's context lies closest to that of a smartphone. Nobody would ever think about putting his entire photo and music collection on a smartphone, so why would you want it on a netbook ? Same goes for other data, you don't need all of it all the time, just make sure you have the most important stuff on it (or on a flash memory device). And if you think about it, a cloud os is nothing more but a simple os that centralises a lot of the things you can find on the internet which you probably already use. Think about all the online e-mail services (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo), networking services (Facebook, Netlog, Live, Hi5), IM-clients (WLM, Yahoo), VOIP (Skype, Ekiga), online storage (SkyDrive, Rapidshare, ...), online application (Adobe Live, Google Docs, Office Live, ...), ... The most important thing about Chrome OS is that it'll be based on linux, thus you're absolutely not limited to all those online stuff. You can install openOffice.org, the GIMP, Pidgin, ... on it and continue working offline . Btw, I've just tried Android-live and it makes perfectly sense that Google is developing another operating system for netbooks. It's maybe a little bit too lightweight and definitly needs a touchscreen .

Now that's very obvious If prefer wired lan. It uses less energy, is more responsive and more secure than wireless lan. Wireless lan can be secure too, but then you even have to sacrifice even more speed and responsiveness .

Chrome OS will be made for netbooks, those are small, lower powerd devices with very limited storage capacity and their main goal is to allow you to go online everywhere. There's nothing wrong with Google building an OS that does exactly what notebooks are initialy made for. Tough, fear not. It'll be just another linux os meaning you can easily extend it and customize it to your likings. You also have to look at the bright side. Google is spending a lot of money in linux and probably also in hardware support in linux, which means that Google is actualy improving almost every linux distribution available atm. And if you still aren't convinced, Chrome OS will probably be cheaper than Windows XP / Seven, thus you get a cheaper netbook on which you can instill every other linux distribution (or a copy of xp that you aren't using anymore). More netbook for your money :(And if this doesn't convice you, you are bloody stubborn and you should search the internet for ARM-based netbooks on which can run nothing but linux !

I'm now using Safari at work and I must say that it works very fast (not a surprise since it's a QuadCore with 3Gb of memory ).It looks very neat, but there is one BIG problem... memory leaks. Somehow they can't seem to get rid of them and it has already caused other programs to crash (java based app that ran out of memory).Even tough it's good, I miss my Opera mouse gestures and I'll probably never switch to safari as my main browser.