Re: easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

2011-01-22 Thread Walter Bright
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Google takes email privacy very seriously. Only last week they fired an employee for snooping through someone else's email. http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/google-engineer-spying-fired/ That's good to know. On the other hand, Google keeps information forever. Owne

Re: easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

2011-01-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/22/11 3:03 PM, Walter Bright wrote: retard wrote: Ubuntu doesn't drop support for widely used software. I'd use Google's Calendar instead. I'm really not interested in Google owning my private data. Google takes email privacy very seriously. Only last week they fired an employee for sn

Re: easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

2011-01-22 Thread Walter Bright
retard wrote: Ubuntu doesn't drop support for widely used software. I'd use Google's Calendar instead. I'm really not interested in Google owning my private data.

Re: easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

2011-01-22 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 22.01.2011 17:36, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic: On 1/22/11, Christopher Nicholson-Sauls wrote: If it was possible to do the same with OS X, I would. (Anyone know a little trick for that, using VirtualBox?) No, that is illegal! But you might want to do a google search for *cough* iDeneb *co

Re: easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

2011-01-22 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 1/22/11, Christopher Nicholson-Sauls wrote: > If it was possible to do the same with OS > X, I would. (Anyone know a little trick for that, using VirtualBox?) > No, that is illegal! But you might want to do a google search for *cough* iDeneb *cough* and download vmware player. :p

Re: easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

2011-01-22 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 22.01.2011 13:21, schrieb retard: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:58:59 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: Gour wrote: I'm very seriously considering to put PC-BSD on my desktop and of several others in order to reduce my admin-time required to maint. all those machines. OSX is the only OS (besides DOS) I'v

Re: easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

2011-01-22 Thread Christopher Nicholson-Sauls
On 01/22/11 03:57, spir wrote: > On 01/22/2011 09:58 AM, Walter Bright wrote: >> Gour wrote: >>> I'm very seriously considering to put PC-BSD on my desktop and of >>> several others in order to reduce my admin-time required to maint. all >>> those machines. >> >> OSX is the only OS (besides DOS) I'

Re: easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

2011-01-22 Thread retard
Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:58:59 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > Gour wrote: >> I'm very seriously considering to put PC-BSD on my desktop and of >> several others in order to reduce my admin-time required to maint. all >> those machines. > > OSX is the only OS (besides DOS) I've had that had painless upg

Re: easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

2011-01-22 Thread spir
On 01/22/2011 09:58 AM, Walter Bright wrote: Gour wrote: I'm very seriously considering to put PC-BSD on my desktop and of several others in order to reduce my admin-time required to maint. all those machines. OSX is the only OS (besides DOS) I've had that had painless upgrades. Windows upgrad

Re: easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

2011-01-22 Thread Walter Bright
Gour wrote: I'm very seriously considering to put PC-BSD on my desktop and of several others in order to reduce my admin-time required to maint. all those machines. OSX is the only OS (besides DOS) I've had that had painless upgrades. Windows upgrades never ever work in place (at least not for

easy to upgrade OS (was Re: DVCS)

2011-01-21 Thread Gour
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:35:55 -0800 Walter Bright wrote: Hello Walter, > I finally did do it, but as a clean install. I found an old 160G > drive, wiped it, and installed 10.10 on it. (Amusingly, the "About > Ubuntu" box says it's version 11.04, and /etc/issue says it's 10.10.) in last few days