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Going Deep Inside Vista's Kernel Architecture
bariswheel wrote to mention an episode of 'Going Deep' on Channel 9 which takes a hard look at the architecture of Windows Vista. From the post: "Rob Short is the corporate vice president in charge of the team that architects the foundation of Windows Vista. This is a fascinating conversation with the kernel architecture team. It's our Christmas present to all of the Niners out there who've stuck with us day after day. This is a very candid interview." Topics discussed include the history of the Windows Registry, and the security/reliability of Microsoft's upcoming operating system.
HA!
Not flame, genuine curiosity from a 45 year old veteren: OK, am I the only one who has grown weary of the "oh well, another month, another insane death toll" state of mind in which US Senators and Concgessmen seem to be willing to accept? Why do people just accept this, I understand a few deaths, and maybe a SINGLE large scale slaughter in something as commonplace as War, but this crap is just outright crazy now-a-days. Republicans would never accept this kind of slaughter from, for example, progessives, moderates, and so on, so why do they "just take" this seeminly half-assed planned war from neo-cons with glee?
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Holy crap! As bloated as the .NET frameworks are, they don't even include something analogous to NSUserPrefsController?
Are you kidding me?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
The Debian package manager is hardly a nice format or easy to install. With 15000+ package it's a nightmare to figure out what packages you need to install if you want X application. Oftentimes you have to figure out the package name, and with many packages with similar names, it's hardly trivial. Package management in Debian, and for that matter in most Linux distros, is stupid. Instead of breaking everything down into little packages, there should just be names of programs like in Windows or MacOS. I don't need to or want to know that I need to install libPNG so that program XYZ can display its splash screen.
Also, the current package management system and the unnecessary granularity of packages and libraries has resulted in massive version problems. Version 8 of crapsoft requires version 5 of libcraptk+ which requires version 2 of libothercrap, ad nauseum...
No mystery there, but I doubt it's news for nerds or stuff that matters. What M$ has to say about their non free crap-olla is about as useful as a Communist tour of Tiennemen Square.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.