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Looking at Longhorn
ShinyPlasticBag writes "Paul Thurrott has an excellent preview of Longhorn milestone five over at his Supersite for Windows. It looks like this may be Microsoft's equivalent to OS X -- the next version of Windows will have a 3D accelerated desktop and other graphical goodies. In addition to this, it will include a journaling file system, so us mere mortals can enjoy what Linux Geeks have had for years."
...Windows 2005 will be Macintosh 1997.
Dude, where's my packet?
You pull the plug on your linux box and corrupt a "slew of data" and someone else is a "retard".
Move out of your glass house before throwing stones.
Sometimes it is nice to NOT have journalling. 1982. Caltech High Energy Physics VAX. Sunday morning. I am working on a program that has a config file in /etc. I want to delete the config file. Out of habit, I automatically type "passwd" after "/etc/". Oops.
Solution: run to the VAX, and hit the power switch. I caught it in time! /etc/passwd was still there after the fsck. :-)
Alas...the next time, I didn't run fast enough, and lost the file, so had to restore it from backup.
The next time after that, the other sys admin got tired of that, and so made a hard link to /etc/passwd so that we could just link it back after I'd remove it. That was fine until I accidently copied something to /etc/passwd instead of rm'ing /etc/passwd. :-)
So, finally they made a cron job that checked /etc/passwd every few minutes, and if it was good, made a backup, and if it was missing or appeared to be trashed, restored it.
The Microsoft motto: "we're the leaders, wait for us !"
Don't forget to think different.
So how much money does Microsoft pay Fisher Price to design there GUI?
From the article, underneath a screen shot:
.NET managed code application, but it crashes frequently.
Explorer.exe is now a
Well it's good to know that Windows hasn't changed that much. (yes, I know it's an alpha, but explore.exe crashes have happened to me in every final version of windows that I have used.)
You're only as smart as your brain.
10 make_faster_cpus(intel)
20 introduce_more_useless_features(microsoft)
30 goto 10
its a conspiracy!!! =)
Gyrate Dot Org - "Where high-tech meets low-life"
See, seems to me that the proper solution to this problem would be to remove your root priveleges...
Macintosh: I made that stuff back in - ..but I already...
Windows:
Now slow, I say, slow down there just a second, boy, and lemme talk a little sense into ya! (If that boy don't stop talkin' he's gonna sunburn his tongue.)
Macintosh:
Windows: Whoa there boy! (Nice kid, but he's about as thick as a whale omelette.) You can't, I say, you can't just take credit for things that ya didn't do! (This boy's about as sharp as a pound o' wet liver.) You can't just keep crowin' on about how young you feel and how hard you work. You just gotta start bein' the best boy you can be and show those folks you can do it just as good as them!
Now go on, I say, go on boy, an' show 'em what you're made of! Now git!
Macintosh: Ah..yeah. Later.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
In their quest to show as little information as possible into as much screen real-estate as possible, Microsoft has set a new record.
"Oh! I have an idea!" said one Microsoft senior engineer to his underling, "Lets make all the fonts and icons bigger so we can ditch that accessibility control panel and replace it with a "My Yet Another Other Stuff" folder. "Oh yes!" shouted the underling, "and that way we can perhaps hide how painfully slow we make a super-computer crawl."
Hey, soon this SuperSite will provide links to gnu.org Go go go Thurrott...
3D accelerated desktop
bah, that's all about using more and more computing resources to present less and less information about what is going on inside the system to a clueless end user. Well, they don't fool me.
Too many zeros, not enough ones
When I tested Longhorn a couple of months ago with M2 (i think it was), shortly after booting I noticed that it was consuming 306 out of the 320 megabytes of RAM in my computer. With no programs running besides whatever happened to load on startup with the default configuration.
I don't care how good or bad the shell is if I am only left with 14 megabytes of RAM to run my programs after booting.
Why would they call it "piles".. am I the only person that always associates that word with this?
In one of the captions: "The taskbar, Start Menu, and sidebar are almost infinitely configurable. " Where infinity is approximately equal to four. -- The Gecko of Mysteries
Snarfle.
At least for me the problem is being able to use the same data from both operating systems. I have to use Fat32 for most of my data so I can cross between linux and windows XP. I wouldn't even have XP installed right now if there was no file system that both Windows and Linux could read. I'd never even be able to give Windows a fair try for my desktop if i couldn't access my school work, mail, bookmarks, etc.
delete the config file. Out of habit, I automatically type "passwd"... the next time... The next time after that... fine until I accidently copied something to /etc/passwd instead of rm'ing /etc/passwd...
/etc/asswd
At that point I'd just rip the fscking 'P' off your keyboard.
delete
Error: Unable to delete asswad between chair and keyboard.
Chuckle.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Seriously, the colors are cool but strong colors effect productivity. Light hues or grays which the standard Windows desktop is modeled after is actually designed to make you productive. Just ask any physcologist or go to any modern school. Dark gui's however do excite emotions which Microsoft wants so people buy more of their products. Amazing!
I wonder how modifiable the gui is.
http://saveie6.com/
So, when you save a picture, do you have to fill out a questionaire? I can picture it now:
.jpg extention. This must be a picture. If you're not comfortable with extentions, I can hide these for you in the future. Please take a moment to fill out this questionaire in order to save your file.
Clippy: I see that you're trying to save a file. I see that this file has a
1. Is this a photo? yes no
2. Did you take this photo? yes no
3. If you didn't take this photo, do you have the legal right to save this file to your hard-drive? yes no
4. If you didn't take this photo, please type in the Name and Social Security Number of whoever did take this photo. (No information is being sent to Microsoft at this time).:
5. If you're ready to save this, please click Yes. If not, please click No. If you'd like some time to think about it, click Later. If you'd like more information about Microsoft's revolutionary new file system, click Help.
OK. Please stand by as the information about this file is verified with Microsoft (note: you need an internet connection to proceed. Click Set Up My Internet Now to commit to a 12-month subscription to Microsoft Windows (formerly MSN) and to activate access to your hard-drive.). Once we've verified your legal right to save this file to your hard-drive, you'll be given a short (5-7 minute) questionaire to provide further details about this file to make finding it easier the next time you plan to view it with Microsoft Photo Monkey. Thank you for choosing Microsoft!
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Am I the only one who thinks there's nothing lower on the food chain than a Windows fanatic? Like the guy on that webpage, or the creepy wind-bags in PC Magazine? As a Linux Geek, at least I have a clue as to how and why things work; rather than a boner from the latest cute icons and wallpapers.
Cripes.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
hahaha, once again linux users proud of a feature even os/2 had before them.
pigfukr
Oh. I get it now. You just have the order wrong:
That makes perfect sense now.[100% ISO 646 Compliant]
SVM, ERGO MONSTRO.
have a 3d BSOD!!
3d accelerated desktop ? much fun... but does longhorn have any "must have" features like an inproved default word program or at least a new version of that patiance game. why am i only reading about "look and feel" and not about the "great new progs"?