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New Longhorn Screenshots Leaked
Badgerguy writes "The Supersite for Windows has some shiney-blue looking leaked screenshots of LongHorn. The new screenshots of the 'Aero' interface mainly seem to be concerned with Digital Media integration - which has become deeper still. A new 'SyncManager' screenshot is up there (copying of iSync?) as well as some pictures of LongHorn prototype hardware, which looks like a cross between a desktop PC / Notebook / Tablet PC. "
I remember when screenshots of WindowsXP was released (codenamed Whistler?)...
I *specifically* recall seeing a very Windows XP looking screenshot, but with a GNOME foot in the bottom left corner
Does anyone else remember this? Do they? I've been bringing this up since and people just look at me like i'm nuts.
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The UI won't be CPU-intensive at all. Like OS X, Longhorn is completely 3D. Everything is a textured surface to be rendered by the GPU. However, the requirements for graphics cards in Longhorn were released a while ago, and they're pretty steep. (DirectX 9-compliant devices will be required for most of the better effects; DX7 devices for minimal functionality.)
Nowhere in the article does it say these are actually leaked screenshots. It does say "Here, for the first time, is a gallery of UI prototypes that I believe accurately portrays the "Aero" user interface in Longhorn" I don't think we should qualify this as actual leaked screenshots.
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98 did actually offer many graphical improvements and improvements to many parts of the OS. More stable as in not crashing every day or so which even housewives and gamers care about. Better USB and networking support were added as well, which back then may have not been significant but now is very much so. ME is something we'd all like to forget.
GNOME also has similar HIG specifications which are applied to the core GNOME desktop and increasingly, GTK applications written with GNOME in mind.
Longhorn still includes the classic style. And the sidebar can be turned off easily. So you just have to deal with the new task bar :)
And how would Linux, FreeBSD or even OpenBSD be different in this sense? Do you think that they are secure out of box? No. Install a vanilla RedHat, expose it to the net and you're just asking for trouble. You'll still have to up2date and then "wait for the latest patch and then immediately go and install it" with all the possible ill effects that might bring about.
Microsoft deserves the same treatment in the courts. Its the only true way they will EVER take security seriously.
The fact is that software engineering cannot be compared to nuts-and-bolts engbineering because of its complexity. Your example is thus void.
BOO! TERRO
Being a "good coder" has never been "enough for writing GUI" application, IMHO. The problem has always plagued developers who may be great code gurus, but don't have the time, inclination or perhaps creative bent to even align or equally space out their widgets. The worst UIs I've seen (complete lack of consistency, no sense of the flow of user operation) come from these kinds of developers. Even worse are those applications that refuse to conform to established UI guidelines for the target OS/shell.
Now before someone goes off: I'm an aging developer too, with (I hope) a good sense of UI design, but even I wonder now and then if I should farm out my UI work to someone who is an expert in these matters In fact, I already farm out icon design to someone who can actually use Photoshop like a pro (many graphic artists will design icons/splash screens/gradients for you without making you broke...offer a clear copyright and credit in the splash screen, that works for me).
So, yeah, life is hard for developers, but I really think that's been the case since the GUI took frontstage on the computer screen.
Of course. Because Apple never releases any minor revision, non-free upgrades for OSX.
when I switched to ME my startup time went from a couple of minutes to 40-something seconds so I was instantly pleased
;-> ME has some real bad memory leaks. Depending on how you use it, you can run out of memory in 5 minutes to a few days. Do you shut your computer off every day or leave it on? And that's on top of some numurous and annoying glitches. These problems are real.
Oh, God!! If it took a couple minutes to boot 95/98 then there is seriously sumething wrong with your setup. I have a PII-350 here running '95 and it boots in about 25 secs, though it did take some tweaking. Most should boot at around 45 secs, I think.
for some reason people act like ME is a million times worse than 98/95 and it's just pathetic
95/98 was so bad that maybe it isn't that much worse...
I think so. System Preferences > Dock. Uncheck "Maginification." The Apple menu access to that setting is for convenience. OS X isn't perfect, nothing is perfect. But, that's a bad example.
I like this and it makes sense to me. Plus, when you open System Preferences, every preferences applet is right there in front of you. But, I'm confused as hell by the XP control panel. Everytime I've tried to use it, it seems to throw barriers in fron of me to get at what I want.
Maybe you need to play with a Mac a little more.
"Example - how do you stop the dock from zooming in and out? "Right click" on it? No."
YES!!! Right click (or ctrl-left click for the one-button mouse) on the dock (not an application or file in the dock) and a menu pops up. Click "Turn Magnification Off". Admittedly, it's a bit tricky to click the dock without clicking on an application/file...but it does work just as you described it should work.
"Control panel? Don't think so."
YES!!! That's another way to do it. The Mac equivalent of Control Panel is "System Preferences". Within System Preferences is "Dock". I'm not sure how much more intuitive it can get.
"Try clicking on a broken X11 app link some time. Does it tell you it's broken? No - it just fades in a nice question mark. Of course if you don't know what that means"
It means it's a broken link. I don't think that's very unintuitive...but I guess that's my opinion. Do other OS's give better info in a similar situation aside from that fact that it can't find the linked file?
"There are lots of little things like that, that in my opinion make an OS that is pretty straightforward and predictable"
You may have a different opinion after playing with it a little more. I "switched" about 6 months ago and have been amazed how much more intuitive it is (among other things). Admittedly, some things are different than Windows, but that doesn't make it less intuitive.
The screenshots are really just the tip of the iceberg. What's under the hood may blow OSX out of the water if they can get it stable.
v iew_2003.asp
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/longhorn_pre
Basically:
GDI and GDI+ are replaced by the new DCE (Desktop Composition Engine), which provides full 3D support to the desktop. Everything scales to high DPI. Video flies and flaps. It only does cool stuff on signed drivers.
The XFree86 fork has some catching up to do.
That "stupid thing" in Jurassic Park actually exists, and the system featured was indeed a UNIX system (IRIX). The 3D file manager is File System Navigator, or fsn.
It used color and height to indicate age and size of files and directories.
I don't know if anyone else noticed, but down in the right hand corner of this screenshot the date says May 29th. Perhaps these screen shots are not as new as we think (or Microsoft just didn't bother to set the clock to the right date).
If it helps ...
control.exe [applet name] [optional switch]
or
rundll32.exe [applet name] [optional switch]
will run any applet in question. Maybe next time have your users use the Run box or open a console window.
Shame that we have Microsoft force-feeding us non-customisable interfaces. They seem to mostly get in the way.
Cheers.
Your post is just misinformed...
First, it is normal to have only a public key, w/o a corresponding private key. Windows has had it for some time. Whenever you get a Verisign key, that's a public key. That's how public key encryption works.
You seem to be ranting about Paladium, but you don't seem to understand what you're talking about. In Paladium from the public info it sounds like the user will actually have both the private and public keys, they will just be unable to extract the private key (of course, nor can anyone else - and no one else should have copies of that private key; not Microsoft, or your favorite TLA).
You're certainly correct that Microsoft missed this buffer overflow. But guess what, Samba recently had a buffer overflow that they missed for years. Think about how many people had access to that source code. It happens, and it happens to everyone. I'd hate to let you in on this deep, dark secret, but people NOBODY is perfect, and software is hard. Patch it and move on.
Finally, as for the IE bug, apparently you didn't click on the Technical Details expandy. It goes into pretty great detail about what it fixes (and it even fixes the malformed input tag crash too! Not that people are still posting to newsgroups with that, but it was annoying for a day or two).
Finally, a regular user of Windows (not an administrator) also can't "establish the trust policy for code executed outside of his own shell". The only exception, which also applies to Linux and Solaris, is if there's a vulnerability that escalates privledge. Windows (NT) does have users who have seperate privledges etc... In fact Windows has ACLs for everything: files, threads, reg keys, processes, etc... If you ever think about ACLing it, Windows probably does. So in one sense it has a much more robust security system.
So whatever, you're just wrong.
Short-story:
/etc/fstab: /dev/sdXY /your/desired/camera/folder auto \
/your/desired/camera/folder whenever you plug it in if you don't have autofs set up to detect it. If you have autofs, you can try adding "auto" to the list of options after "user" in that line above.
Install RedHat 9.0
(attach USB device)
Browse automagically mounted drive in Nautilis. (appears on your desktop, hurrah)
Long-story:
Enable {SCSI, SCSI Disks, USB Mass Storage with all options, USB controller, Hotplug, kernel module loading} in your kernel config. Rebuild, according to package direction. Pour, serve.
Attach camera via USB. This is enough to get the drivers loaded. dmesg output should confirm it's attached and detected as a SCSI disk.
Then, make sure you have a line like this in your
defaults,noexec,nodev,user 0 0
The "XY" comes from the output of dmesg after you attach the camera... this is just "sda1" if you don't have any other SCSI shit.
And then you can just mount
This works for cameras, some PDAs and a lot of new MP3 players that let you do a similar trick in Windows. The easiest way to get this working is to use a recent distro of RedHat, Mandrake or SuSe where all this is already taken care of for you.
I don't know of any centralized place online where this process is outlined. There is no "USB camera guide" or tool because, as is the linux way, it's handeled by a bunch of smaller things that by default will work exactly as they should, without trouble, provided you care to find out what might be involved.
USB-storage standard, autofs, recent mount command, and hotplug are the extent of what you need. You might also try googling for "usb mass storage linux" along with those other keywords.
Come on, don't be a fucking pansy.
Love, Rei
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