Many people are still having Microsoft Windows Vista Problems and are waiting patiently for something to replace it. But perhaps for now you should find another Microsoft Windows application that could improve the situation.
Cluttered Mac OS X Desktop has Mac, Windows and Linux Applications running at once
Image taken on 2006-04-09 16:18:12 by Major Clanger.
Categories: Linux Tags: Applications, Clanger, Cluttered, Desktop, Desktop Applications, Desktop Mac, Image, Linux, Linux Applications, Mac Desktop, Mac Linux, Mac Os X, Mac Windows, once, Os X, Running, Windows, Windows Linux
Chrome, Firefox steal more market share from IE
According to new figures from Net Applications, both Firefox and Google Chrome continue to wrestle away market share from long time leader Internet Explorer, with Chrome seeing the strongest growth.
Chrome saw over 10 percent growth to reach 3.58 percent market share, while Firefox continued its ascent moving to 24.07 percent. Apple’s Safari still remains in third at 4.42 percent share, mainly due to increased Mac sales.
Net Applications says given Chrome’s growth and recent beta release of Chrome 4, the browser will likely surpass Safari, and the 5 percent mark, by February of next year.
Also interestingly was the numbers behind Internet Explorer, which although still the clear market leader at 64.64 percent, is a far cry from the 93 percent share it owned in 2003. Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft’s most recent update to the browser, had 18.1 percent share, moving it to within days of surpassing Internet Explorer 7 at 18.2. The eight-year-old and extremely inefficient Internet Explorer 6 remained the leader for the pack, at 23.2 percent.
IE6 remains the leader despite Microsoft’s plea for users to stop using the browser, if they have the choice. Many corporate users are not so lucky.
Categories: After Dawn Tags: Apple, Applications, Ascent, Beta Release, Browser, Corporate Users, Far Cry, Firefox, Google, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, Long Time, Mac Sales, Market Leader, Market Share, Microsoft, Moving, Plea, Safari, Time Leader
μTorrent v2.0 to add ‘game changing’ μTP protocol
Earlier this month, BitTorrent, the company behind the popular torrent clients μTorrent and BitTorrent posted that they were getting ready to “change the game” with the introduction of a new protocol dubbed μTP (micro-Transport Protocol).
The protocol will be available with the launch of uTorrent 2.0 and BitTorrent 7.0.
Says the post:
“The fact is that our BitTorrent clients have become incredibly popular with users downloading large files over the internet. So much so that some observers claim that BitTorrent traffic accounts for 30%, 50%, or even more of all Internet traffic. Regardless of the actual numbers (which we have no way of knowing), it is clear that the popularity of BitTorrent is putting such a burden on ISP networks that they sometimes react by slowing down or interfering with that traffic.
Now there is a whole “net neutrality” debate, partly about whether ISPs should be allowed to interfere with internet traffic from one particular app simply because it is “too popular” – some argue that perhaps ISPs could invest more so that supply meets demand – but this debate is not the focus here. At BitTorrent we like to be a bit more pragmatic, to assert that there is responsibility on the part of both the ISPs and authors of popular applications like BitTorrent to make sure that the internet scales smoothly to meet demand.
Which brings us back to μTP:
News of μTP started to leak to the public late last year with some wild and totally untrue reporting that we were trying to make BitTorrent more greedy and were somehow “declaring war” on users of other applications. In fact completely the opposite is true, as was subsequently acknowledged by the initial author’s follow-up article.
μTP is a completely new implementation of the BitTorrent protocol with a major new design objective – μTP is designed to be network friendly – to not swamp network connections when there are other apps trying to send and receive – and to resolve the key problem that ISPs use to justify interference with BitTorrent traffic.
If BitTorrent traffic volume is so great that it overwhelms end-users’ connections (leading to service calls from consumers whose internet doesn’t work), then μTP eliminates this problem by being better at only using bandwidth when there is no other traffic competing, and automatically slowing or stopping BitTorrent transfers before network connections seize up.
Legacy BitTorrent traffic uses the standard internet “TCP” protocol to govern when it tries to go faster or slow down. The problem with TCP is that it can only detect a problem by waiting to see if packets are dropped. Unfortunately, by the time packets are being lost, the problem is already acute and the consumers connection has already drastically slowed or stopped. TCP is a lot like trying to drive with your eyes closed. You only notice something’s wrong when you hit something.
μTP is like driving with your eyes *open* – μTP is able to see problems coming and make much more modest adjustments to ensure the problems don’t cause a car wreck. It does this by being able to detect congestion on a network based on how long a packet takes to be sent from one peer to the next. If things start to take longer, then μTP adjusts the rate of sending accordingly.
As it happens, this trick has required some very deep engineering work – the way the client talks to other clients has had to be completely re-built. As a side effect, because the new protocol so different, it is practically invisible to some of the nasty traffic shaping techniques that some ISPs have been using. We doubt whether this happy result will last for long, and nor is it the point of the technology. The point is to reduce the need for such gear rather than to evade it.
Overall, when we get μTP stable, we’re excited about the potential benefits that this could bring to ISPs by reducing the effective burdens on their networks. Although we stand to gain nothing financially from them for implementing it, we hope to maintain the lead enjoyed by μTorrent and BitTorrent Mainline software as the most popular BitTorrent clients, and hopefully demonstrate how innovation from responsible stakeholders on a neutral internet can lead to winning outcomes all-around.”
Categories: After Dawn Tags: Applications, Bittorrent Clients, Declaring War, Design Objective, Game, Implementation, Internet Traffic, Isp Networks, Launch, Net Neutrality, Network Connections, Observers, Popularity, Scales, Torrent Clients, Transport Protocol
Many Trials and Troubles of Windows Vista
When you think of Microsoft what is the first thing that pops into your head? Are they all negative thoughts? Are you one of the millions of users who always has problems with the products that they make? Now think of one of the worst programs that they have made recently. Does Windows Vista come to mind? You are not alone in this thinking.
Ever since its conception consumers have been complaining about the problems that it has. This and the fact that Microsoft has never gotten around to truly working out these problems is enough to throw some people over the edge and into a complete frenzy.
Right now I have a computer that uses Windows Vista and have not had any problems ? but it took me awhile to warm up to it. Last year I bought a brand new desktop. This new computer had Vista programmed right into it and there was nothing I could do about it.
At first it impressed me. The graphics were amazing and the layout was smooth. The first negative I spotted was the nagging! It?s one thing to have your partner nagging at you all day to pick up after yourself or not too forget to take out the garbage. But for your computer to nag as well? That?s just downright annoying.
It seemed that every move I made was analyzed by the program and had to make sure that I really wanted to go through with it. This is a protection measure that Microsoft thought people would love. It turned out to be one of the things that people hated most about it. Other problems existed in the specially designed driver that Microsoft thought would work well with the operating system. But this became another problem for millions of users. That and the applications were not all able to work the way they should.
It is true that some things about Vista have been fixed ? but there are still Vista problems that people have. Yet, that doesn?t always stop them from buying it. In fact I think over time Vista has become more popular. I suppose we all love a little trouble and danger.
Categories: Vista Tags: Applications, Consumers, Frenzy, Garbage, graphics, Little Trouble, Many, Many People, Microsoft, Negative Thoughts, New Computer, One Of The Millions, Operating System, Protection Measure, Trials, Troubles, Vista, Windows, Windows Vista
Top Ten Reasons to Learn Damn Small Linux – Number 2, Lots of Free Applications
Just to set the record straight, we must tell you that Microsoft Windows comes with plenty of free applications. The most widely used freebie is Internet Explorer. To find most of the others go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, and start clicking. Why don’t you take a look right now? Outside of Internet Explorer how many free Windows applications do you actually use? When you feel like word processing do you fire up Notepad, Word Pad, or Microsoft Word? Guess which two of these word processors are free.
Equipping an office with the standard Windows applications is an expensive activity. Some Microsoft applications make you purchase the software itself and then pay additional licensing fees when you connect your Microsoft client computer to a Microsoft server computer.
Damn Small Linux applications are free. Some of them are included with the initial download while others have to be downloaded and installed subsequently. There are several reasons for this seemingly intricate procedure. Not everybody wants to use the same applications. Furthermore, the very strict selection of the applications in its base package helps the Damn Small Linux distribution to respect the hard to believe 50 Megabyte limit. Once you have installed Damn Small Linux you can download Open Source (free) versions of Office and run them under Linux. Please note that you can download and run these programs under Microsoft Windows as well.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Well Jack doesn’t have to worry if he’s running Damn Small Linux. It comes with lots of free games. Somehow we have the impresssion that you will not need any tutorials to get the games running.
Some Linux applications are not only free but are actually superior when compared to the corresponding Windows applications. For example, have you ever heard of an e-mail client called Sylpheed? This application is part of the basic Damn Small Linux distribution. It has several advantages over those extremely popular (perhaps we should say unpopular) Microsoft e-mail offerings, Outlook and Outlook Express. Sylpheed handles spam much better than do its Windows counterparts. And Sypheed allows you to process threads of e-mail messages. For example, you correspond with several people about wholesale wine purchases. Sypheed makes it easy to process those messages while ignoring unrelated ones.
Since we’re talking about email, what about it’s cousin the Internet? That will be the subject of our next article in this series.
Once upon a time Levi Reiss wrote ten computer and Internet books either alone or with a co-author. Now he has moved on to building websites, including global wine (www.theworldwidewine.com), Italian wine, Italian travel, and health and nutritional aspects of wine. He has taught various and sundry computer courses including Linux and Windows operating systems at an Ontario French-language community college for decades. His new website http://www.linux4windows.com will get you to run Linux even on that outdated Windows computer in your basement but first you must remove the dust bunnies.
Categories: Linux Tags: Applications, Damn, Damn Small Linux, Dull Boy, E Mail, Free, Free Applications, Free Games, Free Versions, Free Windows Applications, Internet Explorer, Learn, Linu, Linux, Linux Applications, Lots, Mail Client, Megabyte Limit, Microsoft Applications, Microsoft Client, Microsoft Server, Number, Reasons, Server Computer, Small, Small Linux Distribution, Strict Selection, Word Pad, Word Processors
Windows Vista is Even the Ultimate Version Really the Ultimate Os?: Exclusive Product Review
So Vista has been released, or unleashed on the world. However you want to look at it. It has several different options. Microsoft has made 5 editions of its new operating system. They are trying to fit into every person’s needs. There are Ultimate, Home Premium, Home Basic, Business, and Enterprise available for your purchase in both 32 and 64bit versions.
What’s the difference? Well they are all the same basic thing with each having different added features depending on your application. Ultimate has every possible option while the rest have stripped out the options Microsoft thinks you will not need for your purpose. Over at Extremetech.com they wrote a good article “Which edition is right for you?“, be sure and check that out if you want to know which edition you should purchase.
So you know what edition would fill your needs? Now do you use 32bit or 64bit? The answer is, that depends. It depends on if your system has a 64bit capable processor. If not then surely you will want to go with 32bit. However, if you have a 64bit processor you have some choices.
The primary benefits of going with a 64bit edition is that 64bit applications will be taken advantage of and if you have or plan on having 4gigs of ram or more. Generally if you install 4gigs of ram into a system with a 32bit operating system you will notice that it only recognizes 3gigs or ram. This is because of limitations of the 32 bit architecture. I will not go into the technical details of it but if you want more than 3gigs of memory you are going to need a 64bit operating system.
The major downfall of 64bit operating systems is driver availability. 64bit operating systems are pretty new at the consumer level and with that many manufactures are just developing drivers to support it. That means that some hardware may not have a 64bit compatible driver available. Mainstream hardware manufactures are just now getting caught up with 64bit drivers, so in time everything will be 64bit capable, and if you buy a new computer with Vista 64bit installed it will have compatible hardware.
Now that we have chosen which edition and version to use I will tell you about Vista.
Vista installs easily, they have adapted a new method for installs to make them easier. However, Vista takes quite a while to install because of its size. With all of the good looks and new features comes added size. The added size for Vista is quite substantial when compared to Windows XP. Vista could be considered bloated. Sure it has all these nice new features and looks pretty good; but its size makes it too bulky to perform as fast as XP has.
Being that XP is faster doesn’t mean it is necessarily better. Many users will never know the difference in speed. Performance junkies and pc enthusiasts will definitely see a difference but after time will probably accept it as it isn’t too great of difference. One complaint I do have about performance is laptop battery life. With Vista being more demanding on hardware I notice a decrease in battery life when compared to XP.
Giving up some speed, you gain a lot of new security features and a great Visual interface. I think Microsoft was trying to copy OSX in security and looks. OSX has always been way more secure than Windows and looks better while doing it. The new security features are good and will help keep your computer safer from malicious intent. I say safer because nothing will ever be totally secure. Given time anything can be exploited. So the new security is definitely a step in the right direction and a good reason to have Vista installed on your PC.
As far as looks go, Microsoft did do some pretty cool stuff with Vista. Aero Glass is a transparent skin to make things not in use opaque. It looks really cool, and is something new to look at so that is something to look forward to when using Vista. However, if you get Vista Home Basic or Enterprise, Aero Glass will not be available.
So now you know what I feel are the Goods and Bad of Vista. I hope it helps even though you will eventually end up with Vista if you want it or not when buying a new Windows based PC. Make sure you know what edition is right for you when buying that next PC to make it the best experience possible. Vista is the future, get accustomed to it now.
Picture thanks to Microsoft.com
Article from www.exclusiveview.net
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