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See subject and prove what you stated here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1633414&cid=32040320 because I'd like to see proof that it was this apk person you have clearly libeled, trolled (through 3 different threads this past week), and lied about.

The ironically funniest part was how You clone54321 were shot down in your desperate attempt to discredit him, and you hilariously picked Jeremy Reimer from arstechnica who was busted with police being called on him for death threats to apk on Reimer's very website you used, which resulted in his forums having large tracts removed of that material and libel of apk (and his henchman below had 2 whole websites removed by CrystalTech.com), also for email harassing that apk fellow Reimer's ISP put him on a tracking ticket which made Reimer cease and desist the email harassment, impersonating him on his forums and when asked nicely to remove it?

Reimer then pursued apk to Windows IT Pro magazine with a "henchman" in a fat pig named Jay Little who said he was "an expert on Microsoft Exchange" where apk shot that down and Jay Little that obese hog with it, with proof from Microsoft themselves, using their own tty/console mode clearmem.exe app to show that due to memory fragmentation, Exchange servers are KNOWN to stall and what stops it? Memory Optimization programs. He also corrected 'the great russinovich''s work no less, a PHD, who hardcoded paths in his apps (a rookie move) and he ended up thanking apk for it, and lastly, apk predicted VISTA would fail, due to memory and caching (which it did on file copies and the fix? Alter caching in the memmgt section of the registry, here -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920739 ).

So much for PHD's, because as was said in "the serpent and the rainbow'? Mozart could give any Harvard PhD a run for his money. Not only did apk give Dr. Mark Russinovich a "run for his money", he outright floored him in the end there. Did you really think you could outthink and outfox that person?

You tried to on firefox 3.6's bug where Germany said to avoid firefox like they did for IE earlier, but never for opera, and you said they did, lying. Unbelievable. Then, ff issued 3.62 to cover that, & oddly the mods on this forums closed that thread 2-5 or so days earlier than usual. Why? I suspect because the last day that thread was open, firefox turned up yet another unpatched security vulnerability, which would have iced you totally (even more than you were already being dusted there already) by showing that apk is correct that ff gets a lot more bugs than Opera ever does, and takes longer to patch them typically also.

So the usual result from you, is libel and name calling as you are doing here with your insinuations as you did here, you did there. You are too predictable troll (clone54321), and because of that, very simple to out think and out maneuver.

So all that aside after I read through all of this, I had to sound off here on it because you have done the same to me clone54321 you dirty troll. So, show us where apk said that please. It wouldn't really matter if he did because you did indeed libel him here on many accounts like calling him a spyware maker which I also would be steamed about were I he too, and much more, many more times. Once MIGHT be excusable, as you were misinformed by that moron Thor Schrock, but apk told you he called CA's Greg Jensen and passed their 21 point test for malware removal, and though they did not remove his single app (of 50 or so online)? They had to downrate it to zero threat levels. Call him yourself, Mr. Informative (for what? self-modding himself up to +5 "informative" via alternate registered user account logons here? Clone's the type that does that because no way would 1 sentence above be a +5 on any sane forums, quite obviously). Fact is, he probably has a $200,000 libel suit possibility like he said because not only did CA do th

See subject and prove what you stated here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1633414&cid=32040320 because I'd like to see proof that it was this apk person you have clearly libeled, trolled (through 3 different threads this past week), and lied about.

The ironically funniest part was how You clone54321 were shot down in your desperate attempt to discredit him, and you hilariously picked Jeremy Reimer from arstechnica who was busted with police being called on him for death threats to apk on Reimer's very website you used, which resulted in his forums having large tracts removed of that material and libel of apk (and his henchman below had 2 whole websites removed by CrystalTech.com), also for email harassing that apk fellow Reimer's ISP put him on a tracking ticket which made Reimer cease and desist the email harassment, impersonating him on his forums and when asked nicely to remove it?

Reimer then pursued apk to Windows IT Pro magazine with a "henchman" in a fat pig named Jay Little who said he was "an expert on Microsoft Exchange" where apk shot that down and Jay Little that obese hog with it, with proof from Microsoft themselves, using their own tty/console mode clearmem.exe app to show that due to memory fragmentation, Exchange servers are KNOWN to stall and what stops it? Memory Optimization programs. He also corrected 'the great russinovich''s work no less, a PHD, who hardcoded paths in his apps (a rookie move) and he ended up thanking apk for it, and lastly, apk predicted VISTA would fail, due to memory and caching (which it did on file copies and the fix? Alter caching in the memmgt section of the registry, here -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920739 ).

So much for PHD's, because as was said in "the serpent and the rainbow'? Mozart could give any Harvard PhD a run for his money. Not only did apk give Dr. Mark Russinovich a "run for his money", he outright floored him in the end there. Did you really think you could outthink and outfox that person?

You tried to on firefox 3.6's bug where Germany said to avoid firefox like they did for IE earlier, but never for opera, and you said they did, lying. Unbelievable. Then, ff issued 3.62 to cover that, & oddly the mods on this forums closed that thread 2-5 or so days earlier than usual. Why? I suspect because the last day that thread was open, firefox turned up yet another unpatched security vulnerability, which would have iced you totally (even more than you were already being dusted there already) by showing that apk is correct that ff gets a lot more bugs than Opera ever does, and takes longer to patch them typically also.

So the usual result from you, is libel and name calling as you are doing here with your insinuations as you did here, you did there. You are too predictable troll (clone54321), and because of that, very simple to out think and out maneuver.

So all that aside after I read through all of this, I had to sound off here on it because you have done the same to me clone54321 you dirty troll. So, show us where apk said that please. It wouldn't really matter if he did because you did indeed libel him here on many accounts like calling him a spyware maker which I also would be steamed about were I he too, and much more, many more times.

Show us where apk said what I quote above. I get the feeling troll, er, I mean clone, will not do so (and he called others and apk crazy? Well lets see if clone's having his usual "convenient truths and hallucinations" shall we?).

However we'll see. If he can't put up, he ought to shut up and quit while he is behind already. He looks quite the fool with others calling him a douchenozzle here already, lol!

See subject and prove what you stated here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1633414&cid=32040320 because I'd like to see proof that it was this apk person you have clearly libeled, trolled (through 3 different threads this past week), and lied about.

The ironically funniest part was how You clone54321 were shot down in your desperate attempt to discredit him, and you hilariously picked Jeremy Reimer from arstechnica who was busted with police being called on him for death threats to apk on Reimer's very website you used, which resulted in his forums having large tracts removed of that material and libel of apk (and his henchman below had 2 whole websites removed by CrystalTech.com), also for email harassing that apk fellow Reimer's ISP put him on a tracking ticket which made Reimer cease and desist the email harassment, impersonating him on his forums and when asked nicely to remove it?

Reimer then pursued apk to Windows IT Pro magazine with a "henchman" in a fat pig named Jay Little who said he was "an expert on Microsoft Exchange" where apk shot that down and Jay Little that obese hog with it, with proof from Microsoft themselves, using their own tty/console mode clearmem.exe app to show that due to memory fragmentation, Exchange servers are KNOWN to stall and what stops it? Memory Optimization programs. He also corrected 'the great russinovich''s work no less, a PHD, who hardcoded paths in his apps (a rookie move) and he ended up thanking apk for it, and lastly, apk predicted VISTA would fail, due to memory and caching (which it did on file copies and the fix? Alter caching in the memmgt section of the registry, here -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920739 ).

So much for PHD's, because as was said in "the serpent and the rainbow'? Mozart could give any Harvard PhD a run for his money. Not only did apk give Dr. Mark Russinovich a "run for his money", he outright floored him in the end there. Did you really think you could outthink and outfox that person?

You tried to on firefox 3.6's bug where Germany said to avoid firefox like they did for IE earlier, but never for opera, and you said they did, lying. Unbelievable. Then, ff issued 3.62 to cover that, & oddly the mods on this forums closed that thread 2-5 or so days earlier than usual. Why? I suspect because the last day that thread was open, firefox turned up yet another unpatched security vulnerability, which would have iced you totally (even more than you were already being dusted there already) by showing that apk is correct that ff gets a lot more bugs than Opera ever does, and takes longer to patch them typically also.

So the usual result from you, is libel and name calling as you are doing here with your insinuations as you did here, you did there. You are too predictable troll (clone54321), and because of that, very simple to out think and out maneuver.

So all that aside after I read through all of this, I had to sound off here on it because you have done the same to me clone54321 you dirty troll. So, show us where apk said that please. It wouldn't really matter if he did because you did indeed libel him here on many accounts like calling him a spyware maker which I also would be steamed about were I he too, and much more, many more times.

Show us where apk said what I quote above. I get the feeling troll, er, I mean clone, will not do so (and he called others and apk crazy? Well lets see if clone's having his usual "convenient truths and hallucinations" shall we?).

However we'll see. If he can't put up, he ought to shut up and quit while he is behind already. He looks quite the fool with others calling him a douchenozzle here already, lol!

See subject and prove what you stated here http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1633414&cid=32040320 because I'd like to see proof that it was this apk person you have clearly libeled, trolled (through 3 different threads this past week), and lied about.

The ironically funniest part was how You clone54321 were shot down in your desperate attempt to discredit him, and you hilariously picked Jeremy Reimer from arstechnica who was busted with police being called on him for death threats to apk on Reimer's very website you used, which resulted in his forums having large tracts removed of that material and libel of apk (and his henchman below had 2 whole websites removed by CrystalTech.com), also for email harassing that apk fellow Reimer's ISP put him on a tracking ticket which made Reimer cease and desist the email harassment, impersonating him on his forums and when asked nicely to remove it?

Reimer then pursued apk to Windows IT Pro magazine with a "henchman" in a fat pig named Jay Little who said he was "an expert on Microsoft Exchange" where apk shot that down and Jay Little that obese hog with it, with proof from Microsoft themselves, using their own tty/console mode clearmem.exe app to show that due to memory fragmentation, Exchange servers are KNOWN to stall and what stops it? Memory Optimization programs. He also corrected 'the great russinovich''s work no less, a PHD, who hardcoded paths in his apps (a rookie move) and he ended up thanking apk for it, and lastly, apk predicted VISTA would fail, due to memory and caching (which it did on file copies and the fix? Alter caching in the memmgt section of the registry, here -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920739 ). So much for PHD's, because as was said in "the serpent and the rainbow'? Mozart could give any Harvard PhD a run for his money. Not only did apk give Dr. Mark Russinovich a "run for his money", he outright floored him in the end there.

Did you really think you could outthink and outfox that person?

You tried to on firefox 3.6's bug where Germany said to avoid firefox like they did for IE earlier, but never for opera, and you said they did, lying. Unbelievable. Then, ff issued 3.62 to cover that, & oddly the mods on this forums closed that thread 2-5 or so days earlier than usual. Why? I suspect because the last day that thread was open, firefox turned up yet another unpatched security vulnerability, which would have iced you totally (even more than you were already being dusted there already) by showing that apk is correct that ff gets a lot more bugs than Opera ever does, and takes longer to patch them typically also.

So the usual result from you, is libel and name calling as you are doing here with your insinuations as you did here, you did there. You are too predictable troll (clone54321), and because of that, very simple to out think and out maneuver.

So all that aside after I read through all of this, I had to sound off here on it because you have done the same to me clone54321 you dirty troll. So, show us where apk said that please. It wouldn't really matter if he did because you did indeed libel him here on many accounts like calling him a spyware maker which I also would be steamed about were I he too, and much more, many more times.

Show us where apk said what I quote above. I get the feeling troll, er, I mean clone, will not do so. However we'll see. If he can't put up, he ought to shut up and quit while he is behind already. He looks quite the fool with others calling him a douchenozzle here already, lol!

> I have to buy Windows to code for Windows Mobile

But nobody tells you what hardware to buy. Or how how *old* your OS must be. I just finished coughing up money to upgrade OSX so that I could compile an app for an iPad, something impossible on the current version of OSX from just 6 months ago.

What, you mean the $29 dollars for the Snow Leopard CD? Cry me a river.

Regardless, you will have to make comparable upgrades to develop for Windows Phone 7. From the article on Windows 7:

Windows Phone 7 application development will be based on Silverlight, XNA, and .NET. The .NET Compact Framework will no longer be supported. The primary tools used for development will be Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend. More details about app development for Windows Phone 7 were released at the MIX10 conference on March 15, 2010.

While Visual Studio 2010 RC installs on Windows XP, the site says it is only supported on Vista or Windows 7 — and how much is that upgrade? The memory requirements for Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend are similar to those for Xcode for iPad development, and the Microsoft products may actually have higher video card and processor speed requirements than the Apple product.

So, yeah. Microsoft does tell you what hardware you have to buy, and how old your OS can be.

> I have to buy Windows to code for Windows Mobile

But nobody tells you what hardware to buy. Or how how *old* your OS must be. I just finished coughing up money to upgrade OSX so that I could compile an app for an iPad, something impossible on the current version of OSX from just 6 months ago.

What, you mean the $29 dollars for the Snow Leopard CD? Cry me a river.

Regardless, you will have to make comparable upgrades to develop for Windows Phone 7. From the article on Windows 7:

Windows Phone 7 application development will be based on Silverlight, XNA, and .NET. The .NET Compact Framework will no longer be supported. The primary tools used for development will be Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend. More details about app development for Windows Phone 7 were released at the MIX10 conference on March 15, 2010.

While Visual Studio 2010 RC installs on Windows XP, the site says it is only supported on Vista or Windows 7 — and how much is that upgrade? The memory requirements for Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend are similar to those for Xcode for iPad development, and the Microsoft products may actually have higher video card and processor speed requirements than the Apple product.

So, yeah. Microsoft does tell you what hardware you have to buy, and how old your OS can be.

That's what I thought about Surface, but you too can own one if you have $12,000($15,000 for the dev model) if you have a company tax ID.

I'm hoping that Microsoft will keep it going, making it available for consumer use and not screwing it up like Apple did the iPad.

There will be no change to how Internet Explorer 6 is supported. The following operating systems have Internet Explorer 6 installed and will follow the lifecycle of the operating system: Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack
That article mentions that support for IE6 on XP SP2 will follow the lifecycle for that product but says nothing (positive or negative) about support for IE6 on XP SP3. From the tone of the article I would guess it was written around the time of the IE7 release (which was before the SP3 release) and hasn't been updated since (though it has apparently been "checked").

According to http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps/ for IE6 on SP3.

"Support ends 24 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle, whichever comes first. For more information, please see the service pack policy at http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/#ServicePackSupport ."

It's very unlikely that XP will see another service pack so support for IE6 on XP will most likely end at the EOL for XP which is in 2014.

There will be no change to how Internet Explorer 6 is supported. The following operating systems have Internet Explorer 6 installed and will follow the lifecycle of the operating system: Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack
That article mentions that support for IE6 on XP SP2 will follow the lifecycle for that product but says nothing (positive or negative) about support for IE6 on XP SP3. From the tone of the article I would guess it was written around the time of the IE7 release (which was before the SP3 release) and hasn't been updated since (though it has apparently been "checked").

According to http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps/ for IE6 on SP3.

"Support ends 24 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle, whichever comes first. For more information, please see the service pack policy at http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/#ServicePackSupport ."

It's very unlikely that XP will see another service pack so support for IE6 on XP will most likely end at the EOL for XP which is in 2014.

Support for IE6

There will be no change to how Internet Explorer 6 is supported. The following operating systems have Internet Explorer 6 installed and will follow the lifecycle of the operating system: Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1.

WinXP SP2 Support

The support for your product will end July 13, 2010! To ensure that you will receive all important security updates for Windows after that date you need to upgrade to Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3) or later versions such as Windows 7.

So my claim of anymore was hasty, but not (in the future) incorrect.

Support for IE6

There will be no change to how Internet Explorer 6 is supported. The following operating systems have Internet Explorer 6 installed and will follow the lifecycle of the operating system: Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1.

WinXP SP2 Support

The support for your product will end July 13, 2010! To ensure that you will receive all important security updates for Windows after that date you need to upgrade to Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3) or later versions such as Windows 7.

So my claim of anymore was hasty, but not (in the future) incorrect.

All options are a pathetic joke. Just get Windows or a Mac already so you can run the best.

Well, tools aren't a big problem.

I can think of three off the top of my head that I know work fine, and I'm pretty sure I could add Eclipse and Anjuta to the list.

Incosistent implementation is an issue, but jQuery fixes a lot of that. I only had to add two or three functions to my 'compatibility.js' file I use with everything to get IE in line (the rest of the stuff is things I think JS is missing in the default).

Granted, I'd still rather be programming in Python, C or even Java with a good UI library, but for the purposes of web development, it's not bad, and it takes some display related logic off of my servers, without having a huge client side hit.

Does the copy to CD feature in XP create an ISO-9660 compatible CD file system, or even Joliet? I thought it was some weird packet writing format.

No special formats, it writes standard ISO-9660 with Joliet extensions. I've used it plenty of times when I needed to copy data off a computer.

I'm not bashing PDF, but just pointing out that PDF writers are rare. Windows doesn't have default printer drivers that write to PDF, Word doesn't have a save-as-PDF option that I can find.

Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS. It is a free download.

Myself, I use a simple format saved in HTML. Everything, including my old Atari, can read it.

I think you got the whole FUD dilemma wrong. Or maybe I do.

The pattern with the HTC/Android case is the same as with the Novell situation. MS and HTC make a deal on whatever they think is beneficial to their businesses. In the light of the deal a MS-rep claims MS patents are being violated and they won't go after HTC or their customers.

These press releases leave an impression in people like me, that are evaluating the rollout of Linux and/or Android deployments, that if it's not being done with products being covered by an agreement like the above, MS is gonna come after them. Some now might be too scared of using Linux and either buy the MS-sanctioned products or go with something else entirely. I for one think, this is just saber-rattling; MS legal department doing the job of their marketing department. Microsoft is a company like every other. They have to report to their shareholders/owners and noone else (apart from legal entities). Since their agreement with Novell in 2006 they didn't do a thing to enforce their right they'd be entitled to. They could have made a fortune in court by suing commercial linux customers in the US or at least doing business with entities based in the US.

The reality is, that they didn't. It's 3 1/2 years and Microsoft didn't enforce their claims a single time. 2009 was a good year for them, but in 2008 they would defenitely have needed to make their shareholders a little happier than it did. I don't know why they didn't go after commercial linux customers, but a few scenarios come to my mind: a) Microsoft fears that after a first strike a patent war might evolve and they might face a confrontation with IBM. b) They make more money with their OSS partners than they ever thought was possible. c) Their patent claim is, apart from a few minor things like the double-click being implemented in the major window managers, nothing but FUD

Seeing how Canonical and Red Hat didn't buy in their initial claim and how Intel and Nokia are about to roll out their joint Linux stack without having an IP licence agreement with MS makes me opt for c). Also, patents are not secret. Everyone can find them in the US Patent and Trademark Office's database. Given that there's no report of anyone with more insight in the Linux code than I have has found a single case of infringement in ~40 months strengthens my claim.

The reality is, mind me not using caps lock, so far Microsoft's patent claim has been nothing but sabre rattling. The reality is that all of the companies that have made an IP licence agreement with Microsoft are all affiliated with them in one way or another. Alltogether their agreements rather look like a tactical positioning to me than to enforce violated IP.

The reality is, we all pay MS tax one way or another, but not because Torvalds and friends ignored MS' patent portfolio and, to quote you, bury their heads in the sand. We pay that tax, because MS seeks allies for a possible future IP war. We pay the MS tax to fund a strong lobby for stronger IP laws. We pay the MS tax, but only if we buy products and services from MS or their Allies. (on a 2nd thought we might better call them the Axis)

originates from here.

I hope this helps your lawsuits from DDOS.

Yours In St. Petersburg,
Kilgore Trout

Your facts are wrong. Microsoft makes lots and lots of money from other things. Is server products are a cash cow by any measure, most notably SQL Server, SharePoint, and Exchange. In fact, these products made about $1.25 billion in the last 3 months. This "small" piece of Microsoft's business is far larger than 99.9% of the technology companies out there, and is even 50% of the size of the entirety of Google.

In Windows, you can't print to a USB printer through an RDP session by default. For that, you need to follow Microsoft's KB 302361 article to enable it via registry. It's really simple. Below is the link.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302361

Their RDP "download" link goes here to a 3 year old version of the RDP client for XP. Given the massive improvements between v5.1 and the current version in Windows 7 (v7) it makes me wonder about the validity of their testing if they really used that version and the validity of their writers if they didn't.

Just an FYI for anyone out there stuck supporting Windows systems...

Including the disk driver packs seems to have disabled Microsoft's (unsupported, but invaluable) fix for booting with a different IDE controller than was present during the system install: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082

There are extensions that substitutes WinXP HAL with something else to achieve hard real time. I don't know how well it works or why it would be the best choice for a project, but it does exists.

Take a look at it: Hard Real-Time with Venturcom RTX on Microsoft Windows XP and Windows XP Embedded.

The articles cites some possible reasons.

.... uhm start using limited accounts, maybe? you know, just maybe? http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/usercpl_overview.mspx still doesn't fix adobe reader flash nor java zero days, but goes a long damn ways.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

Firstly, it's not my choice.

Wait, is it "not your choice" or is your policy to only fix "absolute brokens" (whatever those are)?

Secondly, I do not understand what all these "performance" comments are lately. I havnt' seen any browser that had bad performance on a modern machine. What are you doing, playing networked quake???

No, I'm not playing games, I'm writing large-scale online service applications. You know, the same sort of Javascript-powered applications that Google produces (Maps, Gmail, Docs, etc).

Here's an example. This is a Javascript benchmark for several recent browsers. You can see that IE8 is an order of magnitude slower than everything else:

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/benchmarks/SunSpider/Default.html

Also notice that IE9 is there, it's faster than Firefox 3.7. Notice also what's missing from that graph: IE6 and IE7. If you look at that graph and think that IE8 is pretty far behind, take a look at this:

http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-performance-rundown/

The first graph on that page shows IE7. While IE8 on that graph is 2x slower than the next slowest, IE7 is nearly 4x slower than IE8. IE7 is more than 10x slower than the fastest browser in that graph.

And I'm just talking about IE7 here. IE7 was an improvement over IE6, so you can imagine where IE6 would place there. In fact, IE6 is both so old and so bad that I'm having a hard time even finding benchmarks which include it.

But hey, since you clearly have access to IE6, go ahead and take the test yourself:

http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html

Keep in mind that lower is better because it's a measure of time, and that Microsoft is reporting a score for Opera 10.5 at about 300ms. I just ran the test here on my POS laptop with Opera 10.5 with 12 other tabs open, and it completed the test in 1126ms. You go ahead and run that test with IE6 and, assuming it's even able to finish it, then maybe you'll understand what all this "performance" talk is about.

I havnt' seen any browser that had bad performance on a modern machine.

No, I disagree, I think that you haven't seen a browser which had good performance on a modern machine, and you don't even realize there's an alternative to the only thing you know.

That's pretty sweet then!

I've settled with 4 VM's myself, one for each version of IE. It seems like a pretty stupid setup, but it's actually what Microsoft recommends.

Once the crappy internal web applications for managing some forms have been duct-taped together by a student worker, nodody dares to touch a single thing. You can only get burned.

It's not only student workers, but also companies who have been led to believe that there was real security support for IE6 until 2014.

This is the same dynamic that has Apple as the number four (sometimes number five) PC maker in the US, even with only around an 8% market share. Further, Apple is number one in terms of profits. In other words, HP and Dell would rather trade places with Apple, than the other way round.

as it implies that a majority of apples profits are from the PC which as anyone knows is completely off base. Apple would have gone off and died in the early 2000s if not for the iPod, and would be losing money today. In fact, according to apple's most recent (Q2) earnings report, http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q210data_sum.pdf Apple makes only 27% off of it's PC sales. So comparing a computer OEM manufacturer to Apple is like comparing Apples and Jupiter (Pardon the pun.) As far as being the number 1 profitable company, I would like to see the data that backs that up. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/04/20results.html indicates 15B in sales, yet after expenses, net profit is only 3B (20% profit.) Microsoft hands down CRUSHES apple in that front http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/fy10/earn_rel_q2_10.mspx#income with 19B in revenue and 6.6B in net profit (34% profit). I'm no fan of MS, simply because they are so closed and..... anti-consumer..... wait.... that sounds like another tech giant.

or, it's just a case of statistics being a bitch. given the number of updates that have to be pushed through the system, it's only a matter of time before the process lets a faulty one through

"Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). The Svchost.exe file is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services part of the registry to construct a list of services that it must load." A description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP Professional Edition

Your chances of bricking Win XP when you quarantine svchost approach 100%.

blue screen of death.

Enjoy.

Yours In Isfahan,
Kilgore Trout

I don't buy the "journaling kills flash drive" either since there are tens of millions of flash drives formatted with HFS+ Journaled happily working for years.

The real flash drive killer in NTFS is the last accessed date stamp. The NTFS Change Journal is only updated when you make changes to the files on the disk. The last accessed date stamp is updated every time a file or folder is accessed for any purpose. This means that data is constantly being written to the MFT and the folder entry for a file every time it's handles are closed. The last accessed stamp can also only be It can only turned off globally via the system registry.

Most of the time when you are using your MP3 player or phone it's not changing any of the files, so the change journal is not being written very much either. Bits of data that does change (like song play count or ratings) can be flushed at one time to keep flash writes low. That's why journalled HFS+ is not a big problem. NTFS would write data to the file system every time those files are opened, which is a lot of additional wear.

Completely different issue. CDROMs don't use the FAT filesystem.

Correct, but didja know that, by default, NTFS stores both long and short file names?

And yes, that Windows still smells of DOS after all these years, is considered a feature.

MICROSOFT:

bbbbbaaaaaaarrrrrrrrfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff.

Yours In Novosibirsk,
Nick Haflinger

The Co-Op a huge grocery retail chain in the UK use XP based tills. I only noticed them because the customer facing part of them often displays Win errors :)

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000001958

Also I know of a large Radiography company whose X-Ray machines all had Dell workstations running XP inside..now that's scary.

Windows XP is running on 80% of the PC's and has 32 pixel icons that demand a lo-res display.

Actually, stock XP application icons come in varieties up to 48x48. And the OS itself supports up to 256x256 (though it won't handle PNG, and most Vista icons of that size come in PNG format - but you can have them uncompressed if you want back-compat - and they will still work in Vista).

Furthermore, this doesn't affect developers, since no-one stops them from providing larger icon sizes for their applications. Indeed, Vista UI guidelines suggest providing up to 256x256 - all stock apps coming with it out of the box do that, and many third-party apps are following suit.

XP just ignores the sizes that it can't handle, and will fall back to the smallest one that it understands, so it's all perfectly backwards-compatible. Anyway, as noted above, you can have XP draw icons up to 256x256 if desired.

As you noted, OSes do a bad job of it. Windows 7 is the best I've seen so far and it still need works, not to mention that many, perhaps even most, apps don't deal with it since they don't use the new APIs.

The irony is that the new APIs aren't needed to be DPI-independent - all you ever needed was GetDeviceCaps function to retrieve the physical size of the screen in millimeters, compute the DPI from there, and resize your UI accordingly. Note that this function has been supported since Windows 95 and NT 3.11 (MSDN articles don't list unsupported OSes).

As well, font sizes specified in points (rather than pixels) were always properly scaled to DPI by the OS itself. And if one used resource-driven Win32 dialogs, then all sizes there would be specified in "dialog units", which are also DPI-aware - so, again, you didn't have to do anything to get auto-scaling UI there.

Really, the fact that, despite all this, so many applications written up until a few years ago were broken by any DPI setting other than the default one is a testament to how ignorant many developers are about usability issues.

But they did release the source code to MechCommander some years ago. What with that being a "real-time tactics" game, that's probably a much better place to start if you wanted to do a turn-based MechWarrior.

The article criticizing the dashboard has already been slashdotted but (oh irony) it was in my chrome cache.

The group also said that the Dashboard, though useful, is not easy to find.

“If they want people to use this, why isn’t there a direct link from the home page?” asked Simpson. “In other contexts Google likes to say competition is one click away. They’ve buried the Dashboard. The extra password verification is a good security measure, but why can’t you get there with one click from a Dashboard link on the home page?”

The google dashboard is cleverly "buried" at google.com/dashboard

Navigating to it requires the user to select the "Settings => Google Account settings" dropdown at the top right of the page when you're logged in. Maybe I've been around computers for more than a few minutes and that gives me an advantage, but that felt like a pretty natural way to find this.

I agree that Google needs to take more steps to make user behavior anonymous, but at least they're honest about that and have a means for providing dashboard feedback.

And FWIW I don't see anything in the Microsoft Online Privacy Statement about giving users a way to control their data. Nor in the Yahoo Privacy Center.

Maybe it's just too hard to find.

It’s [having an untrusted admin] a huge problem with any system.

A principal that is broadly agreed, and yet Cloud Computing exists ..

That's funny, I get an authentication prompt from IE to view the folder, then opening a file gives me another prompt because Word does not share IE's authenticated session. I always complained about IE not using the normal download-and-ShellExecute() method, then found out via Microsoft's KB that it's WebDAV asking for the additional authentication.

When looking for the article to include here, I instead found this, "Authentication and security in the WebDAV environment" from the "Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Administrator's Guide". I didn't read much but it looks helpful.

http://www.microsoft.com/HK/mac/itpros/default.mspx?CTT=PageView&clr=99-15-0&target=38cbe923-418b-4e4f-92ff-0fcd06f8c40b1033&srcid=5c028854-8df7-4257-aee0-891eeffb66ac1033&ep=7&app=15

I don't think you and I are thinking of the same thing. 1) I wasn't kidding. 2) It looks similar to this one.

Process Explorer does a nice job of showing what services are hosted by each instance of svchost.exe:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Depends on which OS. Windows, for example, has APIs for setting process CPU affinity, as well as thread CPU affinity. Other threading systems may have something similar.

Depends on which OS. Windows, for example, has APIs for setting process CPU affinity, as well as thread CPU affinity. Other threading systems may have something similar.

NT was written as a portable OS from grounds up (remember that it had a working MIPS build before x86 build!), and much of that legacy still remains today in OS architectural design, so porting the OS itself shouldn't be hard. The toolchain (compiler etc) is already there to target ARM for CE.

Drivers (third-party ones specifically) might be trickier, though they're still mostly written in C, so for the most part it should be a straightforward recompile.

This very much reminds me of:

Composing contracts: an adventure in financial engineering

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/financial-contracts/contracts-icfp.htm

by Simon Peyton Jones.

It also reminds me of machine executable contracts in the form of computer programs being traded around in some sci-fi I have read recently...either Vinge ("Deepness in the sky", "A Fire Upon The Deep") or it may have been Stross ("Accelerando"), I don't recall which. They are both same genre and fascinating to me.

"c:\Documents and Settings" is just stupid

of course, you should never directly refer to that directory, making its stupidity irrelevant.

you should always call SHGetKnownFolderPath to refer to special locations.

Every single word will generate a popup or link to some ad or other non sequiter .

It's pity that they used Python while Haskell has more formal semantics and an implementation that already used in financial sphere.

There is a free implementation of Composing Contracts code.