Vista's 'Next Gen' TCP/IP Stack

boyko.at.netqos writes "Microsoft's new Vista TCP/IP stack might be beneficial to businesses looking to increase use of their IT infrastructure... if they did it right. Ted Romer at Network Performance Daily writes: '[Vista] now allows us to throttle outbound traffic at a client or server. For example, you can throttle the bandwidth of a particular subnet to a particular server, giving some departments more access to the servers that they need. You can even restrict outgoing bandwidth for certain peer-to-peer applications like bit torrent. This shaping can also be handy when applied to servers, allowing less bandwidth for certain users/departments, and more for others. While consumers may debate whether Vista is a worthwhile upgrade, I believe it to be important for enterprise customers who will best be able to put Vista's capabilities to their fullest potential. Of course, I'm getting it for DirectX 10 games, but that's just me.'"

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-1 Linux Zealot (well... in slashdot might be +5)

[xtracto]

"easier to use" means "requires less knowledge", then Linux might not be "easier to use". But if "easier to use" means "consistently behaves the way a knowledgable person expects", then Linux is much "easier to use".

Just read at what you just wrote, "consistently behaves the way a knowledgable person expects", WTF is a "knowedgable person"? one that knows how to use the system? if that is, then both systems are "easier to use" to the people that already know how to use it DOH!!

On the other side, just to backup what the other poster said, and as a proof of the "easiesterst" of use of Linux, see the difference in "easiability of use" between Linux (Ubunut 6.10) and Windows (XP SP2) when wanting to connect a PSX Dance Mat using a PSX 2 Parallel port adapter [I *tried* to do this some weeks ago and gave up and installed it in my girlfriends Windows XP machine):

Windows XP:
- Download PSXPAD program
- Run program
- Click NEXT button until it changes to "Finish" button
- Click Finish button.
- Go into the Control Panel/Joysticks/PSXPAD/Properties window and select the option to treat axis as buttons

Ubuntu Linux[via http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/psx_adaptor/ps x_adaptor_en.php>googled web page]:
- Open console (woah! 80% of the users would have installed Windows by then)
If the gamecon driver is compliled in your kernel (head explodes):
    # modprobe gamecon gc=0,7,0,0,0,0 [ Note that, after several head explosions and hours of google search you realize that you should write 8 instead of 7 to enable "dance mat" compatilibity there]

If you have a rescent kernel, try this instead:
# modprobe gamecon map=0,7,0,0,0,0

If the module does not exist, you will have to compile it yourself. When you configure your kernel, select the ... [Yeah, good luck downloading ./config ./make ./make install, by now my girlfriend was asking me when were we going to play the darn thing ]

Then of course you connect the dance mat [wireless] and it does not work, it just sits there, i tried mod probing enabling disabling and what not without sucess.

In summary, I use Linux for everything [I use Fedora Core at work, and Ubuntu at home and ssh -Y quite often to a RHEL server) but for the love of god leave those blatant lies to comp.linux.advocacy fanbois