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Inside the Windows Vista Kernel
Reader trparky recommends an article on Technet (which, be warned, is rather chaotically formatted). Mark Russinovich, whose company Winternals Software was recently bought by Microsoft, has published the first of a series of articles on what's new in the Vista kernel. Russinovich writes: "In this issue, I'll look at changes in the areas of processes and threads, and in I/O. Future installments will cover memory management, startup and shutdown, reliability and recovery, and security. The scope of this article comprises changes to the Windows Vista kernel only, specifically Ntoskrnl.exe and its closely associated components. Please remember that there are many other significant changes in Windows Vista that fall outside the kernel proper and therefore won't be covered."
Isnt this like entering the belly of the beast? I will save you some time in reading the article.
:-)
Proper care for your Vista "Beast"
1) Feed it plenty of CPU cycles. Preferrably multiple cores.
2) Give it obsene amounts of memory. 2.5G preferable.
3) This one seems to really enjoy Video Ram as wll, probably it tastes better. 256M advised.
4) Keep feeding it a constant supply of disk space. Interestingly enough, this version seems to consume HD space simply with doing nothing.
Thats the basics folks. Give your Vista beast what it needs and you should have a kind of good experience. At least for at least 6 months or so... Then you must slay the beast and re-install..
They actually have a screenshot of what it looks like inside the Vista kernel.
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
The subject line made me think instantly of the old Adventure game,
"you are in a maze of twisty passages all alike"
sent a shiver up the spine.
What, you don't find outrageous articles based on misinformation and speculation, full of FUD and pure lies, written by people who know nothing about what an OS consists of besides window decorations and shiny progress bars, interesting?
What are still you doing here?
written by people who know nothing about what an OS consists of besides window decorations and shiny progress bars
Are you kidding? You think that the design staff at Microsoft writes most of the Vista articles posted on Slashdot?
Yeah, because system calls like creat() are just sooooo 21st century.
Is it true that every line in the source contains comments like this?
; Hah! Take that user!
; Oh nice try but we thought of that!
; Clearly they are trying to steal this.
; Thief! Thief!
; MP3s have no DRM. Refuse to play.
; Block association away from Windows Media Player
; SONY rootkit plugs in here
; Powered up. Now lets get today's authorization.
Does anyone else find it amusing that Wikipedia's page on soft links is a redirect?
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