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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.'"
"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".
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... [Yeah, good luck downloading ./config ./make ./make install, by now my girlfriend was asking me when were we going to play the darn thing ]
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/p
- 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
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
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Did you miss the point of the post you responded to? Let me repeat it:
...but for the love of god, IT IS NOT AS EASY TO USE AS WINDOWS.
If "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".
and that is definitely a point!
WHY the FUCK is it SOOOOOO cumbersome to connect and use a dance mat in Linux while in Windows XP [which does NOT support the hardware and you have to download a THIRD PARTY DRIVER] is as easy as [lots of things] double click, next next next, finish.
Let me counter with: WHY the FUCK does my dance mat just freeze up in the middle of a step and I cannot fix it any way except by reloading the driver in XP? Don't tell me this is not happening in XP, I just yesterday talked one of my clients through troubleshooting and, as a last resort, reloading the printer driver that had been running on her machine for 2 years! Why? Only God and Microsoft know, neither one is talking.
This is a common occurence under ANY flavor of Windows. I ceratinly don't expect it to change in Vista. Under *BSD/linux I have NEVER had to reload anything to get it to work again. Sure, sometimes I have had to kill/restart a process that froze, but I have never seen something that was proven to work just quit and then have to be reloaded.
The amount of time I have spent getting everything I ever tried under *BSD/Linux working is dwarfed, orders of magnitude DWARFED, by the amount of time I have spent keeping running Windows boxen... well, running. Guess it depends on your definition of "easier to use" and THAT was the point of parent poster!