On 11/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mustafa Ozkaynak</b> <<a href="mailto:mozkaynak@gmail.com">mozkaynak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br>I just received an email from a friend (Actually he is a windows lover). He attended a session organized by Microsoft to introduce the most recent OS.<br>Some of the shining stuff he mentioned about the Vista is as follows:
</blockquote><div><br>OK, let's see what we currently have. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">1. Advance sleeping mode. computer can switch mode in 1 second and come back in 2 seconds
</blockquote><div><br>Probably replacing the hibernate icon in gnome-session with a shutdown icon.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2. GPO, you can schedule your computer so it switches on automatically at a specified time.</blockquote><div><br>Tell your mom to remind you to switch on your computer at a specified time. <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
3. Superfetch: softwares can work at background and when they are needed they come back to foreground in very short time. so there is almost no loading time.
</blockquote><div><br>Vista require massive minimal requirements for RAM (512MB), so if you have like it, try this.<br><br>swapoff /dev/hda5 #swap<br>sysctl -w vm.min_free_kbytes=128000 #give the system at least 128mb of memory limit.
<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">4. USB drivers can be use as an extention to RAM</blockquote><div><br>dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/usbdisk/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536
<br>mkswap /media/usbdisk/swapfile 65536<br>swapon /media/usbdisk/swapfile <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">5. BitLocker security system. The data in the system is encrypted with a BIOS information so the Harddisk can not be read on any other computer.
</blockquote><br><a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encrypted-Root-Filesystem-HOWTO/">Encrypted Root Filesystem</a><br><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
6. Built in advance "getting image of HD software" such as ghost.
</blockquote><div><br>cat /dev/hda1 > hdimage.img<br>dd if=hdimage.img of=/dev/hda2 bs=<partition size in kbytes><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
7. XPS Document Printer. Iexplorer can show all kinds of documents without any extra software (e.g. you can see pdf files without Acrobat).</blockquote><div><br>Microsoft Anti-Trust +1<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
8. Advance search engine for the harddisk</blockquote><div><br>beagle <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">9. Advance recovery system (Windows Recovery Environment)
</blockquote><div><br>No need to do this in Linux </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">10 You can define some specific events and copy these events to another computer easily (Mac does this for a while with automator).
</blockquote><div><br>They got DOS, we got bash and friends to do scripting.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">What do you guys think about those. I am happy with my OS (Dappler Drake) but these features look pretty promising
</blockquote><div><br>Those features are possible in Linux 10 years ago.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><span class="sg">
-- <br>Mustafa Ozkaynak<br><br>><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º>¸.<br>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º>
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