First of all, let's review what an operating system is. An operating system is not a simple program that you could run on a computer; an operating system is basically the brain of the computer. It is what runs all your videos, games, word documents, it stores all your information on your hard drive, and it is the key for accessing everything in your computer. If you are still having problem understanding what an operating is, just imagine if your brain is an operating system and your body is the hardware. All the knowledge, memories, and skills you know are just something that you installed on our brain, your body could freely access your knowledge, memories, and skill through your brain. This is just like what an operating system could do for your computer. Example of popular operating system will be Windows, Mac, and Linux. Those three operating system will be what we are going to be focus on today.
Windows is the most widely used operating system in the world. The world's 90% computer user uses Windows as their primary operating system. Windows has been around for a while; it is famous for its speed and its compatibility. On Windows you could run almost any kind of game out there as long as you have a good computer hardware, also on Windows you could boost up your computer speed to what your computer were not design for, which is call the turbo mode. Beside the fun part of Windows, it is also made for business and it has the largest software library dude to its compatibility. One other thing about Windows is that it provide good amount of security against viruses and hackers attack.
Mac, on the other hand doesn't not have the compatibility like Windows. You could only run Mac on an Apple computer, which is why you could rarely see a Mac OS(operating system) running under PC(personal computer, commanly refer to Windows). Only 5% of the world's computer uses Mac as their primary operating system. However, this percentage is changing in a positive rate. On the early 2000, Mac only covers around 2% of the computer user. Although Mac could not run heavy games like Windows could, Mac is known for its stability, its graphic, and its ability to edit music and video. Under Mac fancy look, it also provides a very strong security and this is one of the reason why people choose Mac, I am remember few years ago people claim that if you uses Mac, you will never have trouble against viruses, that is how secure Mac is. Apple spend a lot of money and afford on designing the Mac graphic, it is design to be every convenience so that the user will have best experience when using a Mac.
Finally, here is Linux. Linux is the operating system that most of the people have no experience with, you could rarely see a Linux install on a public computer. Learning Linux takes time the command on Linux itself takes year to get familiar with. This is probably why only 1% of the world's computer user uses Linux. However, Linux is a very powerful operating system, it is faster and more secure than Windows and Mac, basically what you could do on a Windows and Mac you could also do it on Linux. The only downside of Linux beside its hardness is it could not run games like Window, it is even worse than a Mac. The only games that Linux could run will probably be the programmer self-design game or the default game Hearts and Minesweeper. Linux is also highly portable; you could run a Linux on almost any computers. The best thing about a Linux is that it is totally free, anyone could download Linux off the Internet to use it edit it and even to sell it.
Windows, Mac and Linux there have been many debates on which one is better than which one. In my opinion they all have their upsides and downsides. Personally I would prefer Linux; everyone should try out Linux if they have the chance. However, it takes a little time to learn how to use Linux and it takes time to get use to its graphic. Secondly I would recommend Mac, even know I do not own a Mac but it has the coolest outfit for a computer ever. And finally there is PC, I strongly recommend PC for gamers. On other operating system could beat a PC on gaming.
Work Cited for this 14 days project:
1. "A History of Windows." Windows Home - Microsoft Windows. Web. 24 Mar. 2011.
2. "What Is Linux?" WiseGEEK: Clear Answers for Common Questions. Web. 24 Mar. 2011.
3. "What Is Unix? - Knowledge Base." Home - Knowledge Base. Web. 24 Mar. 2011.
4. Sigh, Amit. "A Brief History of Mac OS X." Mac OS X Internals: The Book. Dec. 2003. Web. 24. 2011.
2011年3月24日 星期四
Linux
Linux. Most people when they hear Linux, they will ask what is Linux. Linux is UNIX like operating system, it is free and open source. Some people will ask isn't all the operating system free? The answer is no, when you buy your PC or Mac the operating system is pre-installed on your computer already. However, it does not mean that it is free, you actually have to pay a license fee, which is included when you purchase your computer. But Linux is free, if you have the way to get a UNIX CD you could just install it on your computer, or you could just download it of the Internet. Another question is what is open source? open source means that anyone are allow to modify Linux, after you modify it you could even sell it.
Linux could pretty much do anything you want to do with a computer, but there is also a down side to that, if you are a gamer, you probably will not want to use Linux. Linux does not support many fancy games. But overall Linux is a operating system worth checking out.
UNIX
UNIX was created in the late 1960's by Bell Labs. When UNIX first came out it is very simple and small, it was build to run on mini-computers. UNIX is like a huge machine, you have to have an account to log in, it is not like Windows and Mac where you could just log into your computer, when you run UNIX you have to use the terminal to log into UNIX system. When you logged into Unix it might seem like you are the only one that is using the operating system, but it's not many user are online using Unix at the same time, Unix manage it memory very well so it seems like you are on the only one that is using it. It is like the operating system they use on the matrix. There is nothing much to explain about Unix, it cannot run some games that could be run on Windows, it could not edited videos like Mac. However, there are a lot of advantages by using UNIX.
1. UNIX is very good at multi-tasking. If you try to multi-task on a PC or a Mac, you computer will slightly lag when you are trying to open to program, but on UNIX it could multi-task with no delay.
2. Very small and light, could run on almost any machine. It is the most portable operating system out there.
Disadvantages:
1. User have to learn codes and command lines in able to understand Unix. Design for programmers not for casual users.
2. Everything is done by typing, no mouse is needed. So a little typo will have unexpected result.
1. UNIX is very good at multi-tasking. If you try to multi-task on a PC or a Mac, you computer will slightly lag when you are trying to open to program, but on UNIX it could multi-task with no delay.
2. Very small and light, could run on almost any machine. It is the most portable operating system out there.
Disadvantages:
1. User have to learn codes and command lines in able to understand Unix. Design for programmers not for casual users.
2. Everything is done by typing, no mouse is needed. So a little typo will have unexpected result.
2011年3月17日 星期四
IWA #5
After reading the about the Zoot Suit Riot case, it starts to make me wonder are we really free in this country? Back then people are not free to express themselves, nor through their action or through their clothing; The Zoot suit is a very good example. However, today people are still not totally free to express themselves also. We cannot wear or act how we want to act, and it is not because it is against the law, because it is against the people.
I remember during the junior year of my high school, one summer I went back to Taiwan and bought a lot of puck and preppy cloth, and I went to get a hair get that looks like this, haft shaved plus I bleached my hair to bright blue. After the hair cut, personally I felt like it was pretty good. However, after later on my parents saw my hair style and they were mad. They wanted me to dye my hair back to black; they said this hair style and the way I dress make me look like a bad kid. I was disappointed, because I thought they would accept the new fashion for the kids now days, but they did not enjoy my new hair cut very well. However, before I got force to dye my hair back I came to America. The high school that I went to was a private Adventist school, and unfortunately they do not like the way I dress and the new hair cut that I had either. They gave me a warning and it says that I have to dye my hair back to my nature color. They think having a hair color other then your natural hair color is against God's well. But I do not understand why the school thinks that way; it is not like God thinks everyone that has blue hair is sinner. The only reason that I can think of is that the school assume that all Asian should be cute and polite. The teachers back in my high school never saw a Asian with blue hair, so when I bleached my hair to blue it is against their traditional images about a typical Asian. And they do not want to accept that the world is changing, or I should say the fashion is changing. I believe, if they see a punk with a blue hair they probably wouldn't say anything about it. Our society today makes people think that we have to change the way people act if they are not normal, this reminds me of the video I watched on the Jay Smooth's blog about the extremism, Jesus get executed because he is not normal, Martin Luther King Jr. got into the jail because he is not normal. For my peers, a lot of my friends like my hair style, they think it is cool and fashion. However, some of my peers do not like my hair style too; they wanted me to change back to my normal hair style.
This make me think of a question, why can't we be who ever we want to be. People are judging each other base on their appearance. If you are not following what other people are doing then you are weird. However, there are still some people out there that are resisting the public, they dress up as what they want to dress but most of the time people will not accept their style, just like people did not accept Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus. This society are telling us that everyone has to be normal, if you are not normal you will be isolated, the result of this is everyone in this world are doing that the public think is "standard". No one gets to be themselves anymore. Because of this, I started to think that am I really a weird person? I remember every night when I was in the shower, I will turn on the hot water stood there for half an hour try to wash off my blue hair. Slowly, my hair becomes a mixer of white and blond and it wasn't every appealing. Finally, people convinced me, I believe that with this hair color I am not normal. I dyed my hair back few weeks later, and everything went back to "normal".
I remember during the junior year of my high school, one summer I went back to Taiwan and bought a lot of puck and preppy cloth, and I went to get a hair get that looks like this, haft shaved plus I bleached my hair to bright blue. After the hair cut, personally I felt like it was pretty good. However, after later on my parents saw my hair style and they were mad. They wanted me to dye my hair back to black; they said this hair style and the way I dress make me look like a bad kid. I was disappointed, because I thought they would accept the new fashion for the kids now days, but they did not enjoy my new hair cut very well. However, before I got force to dye my hair back I came to America. The high school that I went to was a private Adventist school, and unfortunately they do not like the way I dress and the new hair cut that I had either. They gave me a warning and it says that I have to dye my hair back to my nature color. They think having a hair color other then your natural hair color is against God's well. But I do not understand why the school thinks that way; it is not like God thinks everyone that has blue hair is sinner. The only reason that I can think of is that the school assume that all Asian should be cute and polite. The teachers back in my high school never saw a Asian with blue hair, so when I bleached my hair to blue it is against their traditional images about a typical Asian. And they do not want to accept that the world is changing, or I should say the fashion is changing. I believe, if they see a punk with a blue hair they probably wouldn't say anything about it. Our society today makes people think that we have to change the way people act if they are not normal, this reminds me of the video I watched on the Jay Smooth's blog about the extremism, Jesus get executed because he is not normal, Martin Luther King Jr. got into the jail because he is not normal. For my peers, a lot of my friends like my hair style, they think it is cool and fashion. However, some of my peers do not like my hair style too; they wanted me to change back to my normal hair style.
This make me think of a question, why can't we be who ever we want to be. People are judging each other base on their appearance. If you are not following what other people are doing then you are weird. However, there are still some people out there that are resisting the public, they dress up as what they want to dress but most of the time people will not accept their style, just like people did not accept Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus. This society are telling us that everyone has to be normal, if you are not normal you will be isolated, the result of this is everyone in this world are doing that the public think is "standard". No one gets to be themselves anymore. Because of this, I started to think that am I really a weird person? I remember every night when I was in the shower, I will turn on the hot water stood there for half an hour try to wash off my blue hair. Slowly, my hair becomes a mixer of white and blond and it wasn't every appealing. Finally, people convinced me, I believe that with this hair color I am not normal. I dyed my hair back few weeks later, and everything went back to "normal".
2011年3月3日 星期四
Informal Writing 4
In the Illdoctrine blog, Jay Smooth have some very interesting video on it. Jay Smooth is speaking from the hip-hop perspective, one can tell from watching his video he talk like a hip-hop person, and in some videos he actually made his own hip-hop music to describe what he is trying to say. In his blog, he not only grab the attention form the people that are hip-pop fan, but also the peopel to are not hip-pop fan. Mostly, he talk about what is going on in the hip-hop world, racism or something about politc.
The first video that I watched is the "Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." on Extremism. Obviously, this clip is about extremism. In the video, he talks about different kind of extremism, how sometimes extremism is no less righteous than moderation. Martin Luther King Jr. was clam to be an extremism, at first he wasn't happy about people calling him an extremism. However, after he think about the term extremism he realize that it's not about to be an extremism, like Jesus is an extremism, an extremism of love. But people think extremism is not good because extremism are different then them, and they will punish the extremism, and want to change the extremism not so extreme. I think he is trying to say that people can act however they want to act, don't let people change you because they are different then you.
The second video I watched is the "Why am I afraid of Christine O'Donnell". This video is about qualification, everyone are qualify at what they are good at doing. Just because you are not good at studying for example, it doesn't mean that you are not qualify for other stuff. Christine O'Donnell clams in her video that she is just like everyone of us. However, Jay Smooth points out an very interesting point. I will not vote myself if I am running for politician, if you want people to vote for you, you better be good at doing whatever politician are suppose to do. People are born to do different stuff, just like the movie Matrix Neo are born to save the world, that is why Morpheus spend all his life time searching for the one, because if you are not the one you are not qualify to save the world. However, you might be qualify for doing something else.
The third video that I watched is the " T-Pain and Know Nothing Know-it-All". This is a very interesting video, and it's about telling people that if you don't know something don't act like you have it all figure out. Because it will make you look stupid. This reminds me of some experience that I have, sometime when people ask me what I think of something I will act like I know what he is talking about, when I really don't. But this doesn't mean that I want act like I know what he is talking about, it's because I want to make him feel like I care about what he is telling me. Anyways, back the T-Pain video. First, T-pain was ask to say something about politic when he doesn't really know about politic, however, he wants to act like he is cool and all that so he said something that is completely different. Later on when he found out about his he didn't apologize for is lack of knowledge, instead he say that who cares about politician, the world won't change without them. He is very arrogant about is mistake, and he doesn't want to admit that he is wrong. Which made him look very stupid. We should not comment about the stuff that we don't know, because it might mislead other people. If you only know a little about the truth then you shouldn't talk about it, knowing little is very dangerous because you might twists the truth, and it is better to just admit that you don't know anything about the subject.
The last video that I watched on the Jay Smooth blog was the "How To Tell People They Sound Racist". In this video he teaches us what to focus on when you are talking about racism. He suggest that we should start our conversation with a races person by what they said and what they did, not what they are. He also gives an example to illastrate his point, if someone stole your wallet you are going to chase him down and get your wallet back and punish them, you are not going to chase them down and tell them they are a theif. Threat people that are races like the person that stole your wallet, if you focus on what they are, you are letting them off easy.
The first video that I watched is the "Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." on Extremism. Obviously, this clip is about extremism. In the video, he talks about different kind of extremism, how sometimes extremism is no less righteous than moderation. Martin Luther King Jr. was clam to be an extremism, at first he wasn't happy about people calling him an extremism. However, after he think about the term extremism he realize that it's not about to be an extremism, like Jesus is an extremism, an extremism of love. But people think extremism is not good because extremism are different then them, and they will punish the extremism, and want to change the extremism not so extreme. I think he is trying to say that people can act however they want to act, don't let people change you because they are different then you.
The second video I watched is the "Why am I afraid of Christine O'Donnell". This video is about qualification, everyone are qualify at what they are good at doing. Just because you are not good at studying for example, it doesn't mean that you are not qualify for other stuff. Christine O'Donnell clams in her video that she is just like everyone of us. However, Jay Smooth points out an very interesting point. I will not vote myself if I am running for politician, if you want people to vote for you, you better be good at doing whatever politician are suppose to do. People are born to do different stuff, just like the movie Matrix Neo are born to save the world, that is why Morpheus spend all his life time searching for the one, because if you are not the one you are not qualify to save the world. However, you might be qualify for doing something else.
The third video that I watched is the " T-Pain and Know Nothing Know-it-All". This is a very interesting video, and it's about telling people that if you don't know something don't act like you have it all figure out. Because it will make you look stupid. This reminds me of some experience that I have, sometime when people ask me what I think of something I will act like I know what he is talking about, when I really don't. But this doesn't mean that I want act like I know what he is talking about, it's because I want to make him feel like I care about what he is telling me. Anyways, back the T-Pain video. First, T-pain was ask to say something about politic when he doesn't really know about politic, however, he wants to act like he is cool and all that so he said something that is completely different. Later on when he found out about his he didn't apologize for is lack of knowledge, instead he say that who cares about politician, the world won't change without them. He is very arrogant about is mistake, and he doesn't want to admit that he is wrong. Which made him look very stupid. We should not comment about the stuff that we don't know, because it might mislead other people. If you only know a little about the truth then you shouldn't talk about it, knowing little is very dangerous because you might twists the truth, and it is better to just admit that you don't know anything about the subject.
The last video that I watched on the Jay Smooth blog was the "How To Tell People They Sound Racist". In this video he teaches us what to focus on when you are talking about racism. He suggest that we should start our conversation with a races person by what they said and what they did, not what they are. He also gives an example to illastrate his point, if someone stole your wallet you are going to chase him down and get your wallet back and punish them, you are not going to chase them down and tell them they are a theif. Threat people that are races like the person that stole your wallet, if you focus on what they are, you are letting them off easy.
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