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."

Comments

In other words...

[joeszilagyi]

...Windows 2005 will be Macintosh 1997.

Re:In other words...

[Quarters]

Only if they go back to cooperative multitasking, drop memory protection, get rid of about 99.99999% of the third party applications on the market, start making their own hardware and nuke all of the big name and beige-box builders, have really expensive peripherals, and charge an arm and a leg for it. Oh...and get a cadre of black turtleneck wearing, angst filled, coffee-house frequenting zealots to crow about it for no other reason than to just crow about it.

Re:In other words...

[cioxx]

in our defense, at least our laptops are thinner.

Re:In other words...

[KilerCris]

From the front page of the site:
upcoming Windows operating system technologies. These exciting products include Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1),

Anyone else disturbed that this guy conciders SP1 to be an "exciting product"/"Windows operating system technology"?

Re:In other words...

[Lord_Slepnir]

I applaud you. Now I just pray that thousands of black turtleneck wearing, angst filled zealots dont' come streaming out of the coffee houses and launch a jihad against you. Latee' burns hurt a lot.

Those in glass houses...

[BoomerSooner]

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.

Re:Retards

[harlows_monkeys]

any of you old-school Linux users remember pulling the plug or hitting power on your Linux box back in the day and immediately screaming "OH SHIT!" when you realize you probably just corrupted a whole slew of data? I do.

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.

Reminds me of:

[Virus1984]

The Microsoft motto: "we're the leaders, wait for us !"

Re:Retards

[coldguy]

See, seems to me that the proper solution to this problem would be to remove your root priveleges...

I can see it now:

[fireboy1919]

Macintosh: I made that stuff back in -
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: ..but I already...
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.

Re:Retards

[Alsee]

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...

At that point I'd just rip the fscking 'P' off your keyboard.

delete /etc/asswd
Error: Unable to delete asswad between chair and keyboard.

Chuckle.

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At what cost?

[simetra]

So, when you save a picture, do you have to fill out a questionaire? I can picture it now:

Clippy: I see that you're trying to save a file. I see that this file has a .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.

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!

IE vs. e.g.

[The Monster]

IE the system crashes

Do you mean 'e.g. the system crashes'?

Oh. I get it now. You just have the order wrong:

IE crashes the system

That makes perfect sense now.