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Windows 10 RTM In 6 Weeks
Billly Gates writes: Ars Technica has the scoop on a new build with less flat icons and a confirmation of a mid July release date. While Microsoft is in a hurry to fix the damage done by the Windows 8 versions of its operating system, the next question is, is ready for prime time? On Neowin there's a list of problems already mentioned by MS and its users with this latest release, including Wi-Fi and sound not working without a reboot, and users complaining about tiles and apps not working in the new start menu.
The beta should go on for at least another year.
Windows might have a couple of years left but unless they release source code under an open/free license there's no way it will continue to be an option.
Linux Mint 13 (Maya) MATE desktop demo
Hail, O Lord who created piss in thine own image.
until it's in version 10.2 early next year.
What's wrong with them? just need some getting used to.
This synopsis is in error. The article linked does NOT confirm the release date, only still says it's a rumor.
They would have to say:
"We will sell ALL wine before it's time!"
Borrowed from a Paul Masson Ad from the 70's!
If this prerelease set goes "to market" within the next six months, it will be Windows Me all over again. A performance worst than Windows 8, they might just go down a little more.
Tiles and Apps don't work? Well, that is at least some good news. Hopefully applications and the start menu work, though.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
I hadn't seen them laid out so clearly before, but now that I have, all I can say about the original Windows 10 icons (middle row) is oh my god.
Seriously, what happened here? When did we go completely off the rails and let pea-brained designers start throwing this kind of bullshit around, calling it "modern" and "clean". No shit it's clean -- that recycle bin probably took all of 30 seconds to draw with the Line tool. No, faster probably, since they were just pulled out of the Windows 1.0 archives.
I look at those three rows of icons and truly cannot fathom why someone would ever choose (especially) the second or third rows. They're low contrast, simpleton drivel that doesn't even do a good job of representing the objects they're trying to depict. Whoever created them should be fired, along with the manager that approved them.
In fact, Microsoft would be well-served by firing the whole damned "UX" group and replacing this new-age cargo-cult mentality of user interface design with a scientific approach of usability studies and research. You know, that thing they used to do. Let Google and Apple waste their time with that hipster crap if they want to -- normal people and business just want to get shit done and you don't get off on the right foot to do that by making all your icons indistinguishable pale pastel blobs.
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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Win ME was awful. Win XP was generally considered serviceable. Vista was a disaster, even had to Microsoft execs complaining about it in public. Win 7 was OK (although no XP). Win 8 is, well, Win 8. The trend was becoming apparent and people expected Win 9 to be acceptable again. So Microsoft decided to skip Win 9 and jump to Win 10 and have a back-to-back disaster with Win 8.
Fewer icons. Not less.
For the Atari ST.
You're just not hipster enough for it.
and be done with it... or better yet, XP.
Listen to your actual customers and not some tween "target group".
It won't co-install on hardware that runs Linux.
Micro-soft should just continue to support XP.
'nuf said.
Most of the SSLVPN software still doesn't work. Cisco AnyConnect SSL, JunOS Pulse, Dell Mobile Connect. There are problems with the functions key on certain units. Windows 10 is as about as usable as Windows 8 at the beginning. A test period should include support for critical applications such as VPN software.
Update DX, update device drivers, fix security issues, and maybe optimize here and there. Stop trying to create a new desktop paradigm, or some kind of kiosk mode where the PC is there as a way to load apps onto your tablet.
Give me a desktop that works and get out of my way. Hi, PC-BSD.
Windows 7 EOLs in 2020. I really hope MS gets their head out of their ass by then and makes a sensible release that doesn't make the user base miserable. We just want the stable productivity back we had on XP/7 please. A lot of us are still working on desktops (and will be in 2020) and, guess what, it is work that we can't do on smartphones.
Left MS Windows for Linux Mint and never looked back!
Vote for Bernie in 2016!
Genuine question here: I've been using Linux for most things for the past 15 years. For exactly 3 programs I still need Windows, so I run XP in a virtual machine. But I've been warned that the next versions of my progs won't support XP anymore, so I'll have to jump to Win10. Since I don't give a shit about any of the 'advancements' that have occured since then, how can I remove all the gimmicks and simplify the Windows user interface to make it like XP, simply ? Is there some Win10 to XP converter to keep me from trudging through endless options and shitty tweaking downloads ?
Non-Linux Penguins ?
Sounds like they're damned near ready to release Windows 10.
My Surface Pro 3 (so not random OEM PoS) often needs a reboot because its sensors crapped out when the thing woke up from sleep. Wi-Fi is a semi-stable solution that could use some serious polishing. The keyboard frequently gets a key logically stuck, which isn't fixable without a reboot and precludes any productivity (try doing *anything* with CTRL held down and you'll see what I mean).
In all seriousness, I hope they decide to polish first, release later for a change
My company has decided to skip Windows 8.x and go to Windows 10, but they want to start testing and rolling out a few months after the RTM lands. If it's still not pretty solid my life is going to become miserable.
I have reported the same bug for win 7 win 8 win 8.1 and it is still not fixed in the preview. Many others have also reported it. Yet no fix is forthcoming.
If you have an mp3 with TXXX tag media player will corrupt it.
I've had some issues upgrading to PC-BSD 10.1.2, but the setup I have currently is fine. Just that I want to update some of my packages, but that comes as a part of the complete system upgrade. Not too enthusiastic about doing a pbi something on the CLI
Is is it?
Slashdot, where editors go to drink coffee and surf the web.
But one can argue that Microsoft does not fully support legacy software. For instance, I have an Adobe Acrobat 6.x that I had bought. It worked fine under XP, but never even installed under Windows 7. The argument is that one has to upgrade to Acrobat 7 or later, but why would one pay new cash for a software that they've already bought, and which works? Just b'cos the new version of the OS no longer can support it?
Those arguments aside, if Microsoft doesn't support all past software, why is it throwing the kitchen sink at legacy support? In Windows 7, they already had the right idea - Virtual PC and XP Mode. Just extend that here in Windows 10. I never saw the reason for Windows 10 to have a 32 bit version at all. There are a lot of old computers that just won't go to Windows 10 - maybe because their motherboards can't have more than 512MB of memory, maybe because their outdated peripherals manufacturers only maintain but no longer support them, etc. So Microsoft could have made Windows 10 a 64-bit only OS, and then installed on it Virtual PC, w/ free VMs for 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000, ME, NT 4.0 and 3.5. That way, people w/ legacy needs can be supported in software, while the main OS itself would allow MS to innovate more. And somewhere down the road, they could even include a Windows 10 VM in the package.
Speaking about 32-bit Windows 10, my Winbook has 2GB of RAM and 32GB of flash storage (C:\), and doesn't come in a configuration w/ 64GB. Having a 64-bit only version would have made them support a 64-bit OS, and at the same time, avoid having any upgrade/support issues. Put the minimum requirement at 4GB of RAM, and make the basic OS recognize up to 64TB, so that manufacturers don't put stupid low limits like 32GB. That way, there would also be no question of the OS being able to upgrade from 8.x to 10. I've seen some Winbooks w/ 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage: those will NOT be upgradable to 10. So why have them, particularly when 8 sucks?
I expect the Linux numbers to go down, thanks to the outcry over systemd. Don't be surprised to see FreeBSD/PC-BSD conquer a lot of this market.
Two failed OS's in a row will not be bode well for their current stock price or their future existence*.
They really need to go back to their core business and leave consumer devices to those with a slightly greater clue.
MS should have sold Azure instead of waste time with Windows 8, Windows Phone, etc.
"Azure in a box" would be a huge hit in the enterprise, ya know MS's actual business.
The only benefit of not selling it is that it helped force MS to open source a few things to get help porting it to Linux since ~20% of Azure customers are running Linux on it.
I am still amazing to me that some businesses are willing to give up some control of their data to a untrustworthy third-party(not just Azure, but any "cloud" provider) to save a few bucks on IT.
*MS won't die obviously, but they are in danger of turning into IBM. Big, slow, bloated and pretty much irrelevant outside certain niches.
if the rumors are true, they're planning to make up for all those free upgrades with a hefty OEM price for new computers (isn't it nice to be able to extract Monopoly rates when you need it). $109 OEM for the home version, $149 for Pro
To the uninitiated:
The New Egg retail price for single copies of Windows 10 in OEM packaging for the "system builder" isn't the dirt cheap wholesale price paid by Dell, HP or Lenovo for the mass-market OEM Windows system install.
It's still Windows 9. The thin-as-gruel excuse that computers would confuse it with Windows 95 or 98 or 98 SE is just that, an EXCUSE. They could have called it "Windows Nine" and avoided any possible confusion. Also, internally, within the software, it's got a version number that's independent of the number associated with it for marketing purposes, Windows 95 was actually Windows 4, (FOUR) etc. They just want to catch up to real operating systems that have higher numbers, like OS X 10 that is nearing 11 already, or any of the Linux distros, many popular ones of which are in the teens.
That's why they're so desperate with the "Surface", and "Windows "Phone"", hahahah... they know as more people do more computing tasks using Unix/Unix-Like OS devices, (like Android, (based upon and wrapped around a Linux kernel,) or on iOS, (which is underpinned by similar architecture as OS X, specifically, BSD) even if they have pretty, fancy interfaces over them, they're all leaving Windows behind, as are their users, formerly trapped in a recurring nightmare from which they could not CTRL-ALT-DEL... WITHOUT THEM. :-)
They want people to ignore the fact that Windows was only ever a compromise slapped over the top of an inferior OS, (DOS) that was a rip-off of CP/M which was itself a slimmed-down, handicapped, even retarded implementation of UNIX, that was only ever necessitated because the IBM PC was too slow, too small, too weak, and too generally sad and pathetic to have a prayer of running a real computer OS like UNIX, (which is what all the big-boy computers were running,) when it came out. Now that even a CELLPHONE is powerful enough to run Unix, or a Unix-like or Unix-descended operating system, we simply don't NEED Windows anymore, and most people old enough to have enough money to sink into something like an expensive system, are also old enough to remember the nightmare, or are smart enough to have learned from those of us who have gone before.
ABORT, RETRY, IGNORE, FAIL?
Fail, Microsoft. Fail.
I can't wait to read about how this (whichever it is,) will be the last version of Microsoft Windows. I think two or three more at the outside, unless they start shooting them out like Firefox updates, and that will be it. What a joyous day it will be.
Things could have been different. NT could have been a Unix, they could have opened things up, but noooo-oo-ooo-ooo-oo...
Some people think computer users don't want to be freed from the hegemony of Microsoft. I think they're too tired, but as they die, or migrate away, they won't be replaced like during the boom-times when Microsoft had the power to hold a monopoly. Now their power is waning, manufacturers of computers and components aren't making locked-down-hardware only in terror that Microsoft will consign them to ash-heaps for supporting or shipping other OS's. Apple and all the Android computer manufacturers are encroaching on Microsoft's turf, as are a few GNU/Linux PC makers, and all together, one glorious day, sometime soon, they will eat Microsoft's lunch, then feast on their corpse.
Bon Appetite!
APK, will you just give it a rest already. Nobody's going to install your shitty software. The world has moved on. You've already been debated point by point on why your system is worse and you couldn't refute any of the rebuttals made without it sounding like you're sticking your fingers in your ears and chanting "la la la".
Give it up already.
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
I just edited my hosts file to block him.
I just got a thing on my Windows 7 desktop systray telling me I could download the 3gb installer right now. Looking at twitter, it looks like tons of others have just gotten this in the last few hours.
I have pc without license (Ubuntu and Windows 10 preview only), so I wonder how much I much I am going to pay, if i want to upgrade to full version of W10, when it comes RTM.
Makes Chromebooks look better and better.
Nothing, I repeat, NOTHING makes Chromebooks look better. Worthless pieces of shit.
I run windows 7, still don't know what pinning stuff to the taskbar actually does - and frankly I don't give a fuck. I can do everything I want to do and my PC looks like Windows 95.
And I like it that way. you nigger.
See subject: From http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ?
Your "DNS lookup" b.s.?
1st: Hosts exceed SLOWER remote DNS lookup (Exploit ridden by Kaminsky redirect flaw & 99.999% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it!) - how?
I avoid DNS putting WHERE I SPEND 95%++ ONLINE TIME @ TOP OF HOSTS via 30 favs!
2nd: AdBlocking gains speed!
BOTH exceed remote DNS lag indexed lookup post query/turnaround on resolution (do the math binary search) over 3++ million records w/ a most efficient blocking format = better load + internal parse & no bloat in hosts cached in LOCAL RAM via 2 kernelmode subsystems (diskcache & ip stack = no usermode context switch overhead like Windows' faulty w/ large hosts files usermode dns cache service) vs. remote DNS for utmost in speed, efficiency + reliability (my program keeps hardcodes current) vs. downed DNS too.
* Hosts = MORE SPEED + EFFICIENCY & ease of maintenance (via http://start64.com/index.php?o...) versus.:
1.) Remote DNS & hosts do so w/ less resource use + added on app complexity/room for breakdown & exploit w/ added CPU & power use w/ a local setup DNS (worse if separate system) + complexity of deny rules vs. hosts simple entries
+ vs.
2.) "Almost ALL Ads Blocked": Hosts are far more efficient doing more w/ less vs. AdBlock's BLOAT & regex complexity vs. hosts simple entries. Addons add overheads layered over slower browsers in usermode increasing messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode (run some addons concurrently see what I mean). Addons do more added I/O operations + consume more memory & create CPU overuse + complexity (regex vs. hosts entries) bolted-on in SLOW usemode vs. hosts in PURE kernelmode via a high cpu serviced layer of ops by IP stack. Addons = easily detected by native browser methods + clarityray shuts 'em down (hosts aren't).
APK
P.S.=> + Hosts != bribed (like AdBlock/ABP NOT DOING THE 1 JOB IT HAD by default)... apk
See subject: From http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ?
Your "DNS lookup" b.s.?
1st: Hosts exceed SLOWER remote DNS lookup (Exploit ridden by Kaminsky redirect flaw & 99.999% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it!) - how?
I avoid DNS putting WHERE I SPEND 95%++ ONLINE TIME @ TOP OF HOSTS via 30 favs!
2nd: AdBlocking gains speed!
BOTH exceed remote DNS lag indexed lookup post query/turnaround on resolution (do the math binary search) over 3++ million records w/ a most efficient blocking format = better load + internal parse & no bloat in hosts cached in LOCAL RAM via 2 kernelmode subsystems (diskcache & ip stack = no usermode context switch overhead like Windows' faulty w/ large hosts files usermode dns cache service) vs. remote DNS for utmost in speed, efficiency + reliability (my program keeps hardcodes current) vs. downed DNS too.
* Hosts = MORE SPEED + EFFICIENCY & ease of maintenance (via http://start64.com/index.php?o...) versus.:
1.) Remote DNS & hosts do so w/ less resource use + added on app complexity/room for breakdown & exploit w/ added CPU & power use w/ a local setup DNS (worse if separate system) + complexity of deny rules vs. hosts simple entries
+ vs.
2.) "Almost ALL Ads Blocked": Hosts are far more efficient doing more w/ less vs. AdBlock's BLOAT & regex complexity vs. hosts simple entries. Addons add overheads layered over slower browsers in usermode increasing messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode (run some addons concurrently see what I mean). Addons do more added I/O operations + consume more memory & create CPU overuse + complexity (regex vs. hosts entries) bolted-on in SLOW usemode vs. hosts in PURE kernelmode via a high cpu serviced layer of ops by IP stack. Addons = easily detected by native browser methods + clarityray shuts 'em down (hosts aren't).
APK
P.S.=> + Hosts != bribed (like AdBlock/ABP NOT DOING THE 1 JOB IT HAD by default)... apk
See subject: From http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ?
Your "DNS lookup" b.s.?
1st: Hosts exceed SLOWER remote DNS lookup (Exploit ridden by Kaminsky redirect flaw & 99.999% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it!) - how?
I avoid DNS putting WHERE I SPEND 95%++ ONLINE TIME @ TOP OF HOSTS via 30 favs!
2nd: AdBlocking gains speed!
BOTH exceed remote DNS lag indexed lookup post query/turnaround on resolution (do the math binary search) over 3++ million records w/ a most efficient blocking format = better load + internal parse & no bloat in hosts cached in LOCAL RAM via 2 kernelmode subsystems (diskcache & ip stack = no usermode context switch overhead like Windows' faulty w/ large hosts files usermode dns cache service) vs. remote DNS for utmost in speed, efficiency + reliability (my program keeps hardcodes current) vs. downed DNS too.
* Hosts = MORE SPEED + EFFICIENCY & ease of maintenance (via http://start64.com/index.php?o...) versus.:
1.) Remote DNS & hosts do so w/ less resource use + added on app complexity/room for breakdown & exploit w/ added CPU & power use w/ a local setup DNS (worse if separate system) + complexity of deny rules vs. hosts simple entries
+ vs.
2.) "Almost ALL Ads Blocked": Hosts are far more efficient doing more w/ less vs. AdBlock's BLOAT & regex complexity vs. hosts simple entries. Addons add overheads layered over slower browsers in usermode increasing messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode (run some addons concurrently see what I mean). Addons do more added I/O operations + consume more memory & create CPU overuse + complexity (regex vs. hosts entries) bolted-on in SLOW usemode vs. hosts in PURE kernelmode via a high cpu serviced layer of ops by IP stack. Addons = easily detected by native browser methods + clarityray shuts 'em down (hosts aren't).
APK
P.S.=> + Hosts != bribed (like AdBlock/ABP NOT DOING THE 1 JOB IT HAD by default)... apk
If I download it in a two months, do I register it then when I download it to get the free upgrade, or do I actually have to activate it on my PC? I doubt I'll want to install it as I've only been using Win 7 for just over a year, but I might want to download it this year and install it at no cost in about 5 years.
The whole reason I got Windows 8 was the $37 introductory pricing. I'm surprised it isn't going to have pricing similar to that for Windows 10 at start. Also compared to the entry level hardware you can buy, it can actually cost more than anything else on the machine! A 3Ghz dual core, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, case, PSU and motherboard for ~$204... +$109 for the OS... WTF!?
It is amazing at how consistently these frosty piss postings occur. Even if someone were paid to do this, they would not be as reliable as "Anonymous Coward" at producing these posts.
After all of these years, I just HAVE to ask: What is the motivation?
"Someone needs to talk to the tree of liberty about its ghoulish drinking problem." by ohnocitizen
See subject: From http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ?
Your "DNS lookup" b.s.?
1st: Hosts exceed SLOWER remote DNS lookup (Exploit ridden by Kaminsky redirect flaw & 99.999% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it!) - how?
I avoid DNS putting WHERE I SPEND 95%++ ONLINE TIME @ TOP OF HOSTS via 30 favs!
2nd: AdBlocking gains speed!
BOTH exceed remote DNS lag indexed lookup post query/turnaround on resolution (do the math binary search) over 3++ million records w/ a most efficient blocking format = better load + internal parse & no bloat in hosts cached in LOCAL RAM via 2 kernelmode subsystems (diskcache & ip stack = no usermode context switch overhead like Windows' faulty w/ large hosts files usermode dns cache service) vs. remote DNS for utmost in speed, efficiency + reliability (my program keeps hardcodes current) vs. downed DNS too.
* Hosts = MORE SPEED + EFFICIENCY & ease of maintenance (via http://start64.com/index.php?o...) versus.:
1.) Remote DNS & hosts do so w/ less resource use + added on app complexity/room for breakdown & exploit w/ added CPU & power use w/ a local setup DNS (worse if separate system) + complexity of deny rules vs. hosts simple entries
+ vs.
2.) "Almost ALL Ads Blocked": Hosts are far more efficient doing more w/ less vs. AdBlock's BLOAT & regex complexity vs. hosts simple entries. Addons add overheads layered over slower browsers in usermode increasing messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode (run some addons concurrently see what I mean). Addons do more added I/O operations + consume more memory & create CPU overuse + complexity (regex vs. hosts entries) bolted-on in SLOW usemode vs. hosts in PURE kernelmode via a high cpu serviced layer of ops by IP stack. Addons = easily detected by native browser methods + clarityray shuts 'em down (hosts aren't).
APK
P.S.=> + Hosts != bribed (like AdBlock/ABP NOT DOING THE 1 JOB IT HAD by default)... apk
See subject: From http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ?
Your "DNS lookup" b.s.?
1st: Hosts exceed SLOWER remote DNS lookup (Exploit ridden by Kaminsky redirect flaw & 99.999% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it!) - how?
I avoid DNS putting WHERE I SPEND 95%++ ONLINE TIME @ TOP OF HOSTS via 30 favs!
2nd: AdBlocking gains speed!
BOTH exceed remote DNS lag indexed lookup post query/turnaround on resolution (do the math binary search) over 3++ million records w/ a most efficient blocking format = better load + internal parse & no bloat in hosts cached in LOCAL RAM via 2 kernelmode subsystems (diskcache & ip stack = no usermode context switch overhead like Windows' faulty w/ large hosts files usermode dns cache service) vs. remote DNS for utmost in speed, efficiency + reliability (my program keeps hardcodes current) vs. downed DNS too.
* Hosts = MORE SPEED + EFFICIENCY & ease of maintenance (via http://start64.com/index.php?o...) versus.:
1.) Remote DNS & hosts do so w/ less resource use + added on app complexity/room for breakdown & exploit w/ added CPU & power use w/ a local setup DNS (worse if separate system) + complexity of deny rules vs. hosts simple entries
+ vs.
2.) "Almost ALL Ads Blocked": Hosts are far more efficient doing more w/ less vs. AdBlock's BLOAT & regex complexity vs. hosts simple entries. Addons add overheads layered over slower browsers in usermode increasing messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode (run some addons concurrently see what I mean). Addons do more added I/O operations + consume more memory & create CPU overuse + complexity (regex vs. hosts entries) bolted-on in SLOW usemode vs. hosts in PURE kernelmode via a high cpu serviced layer of ops by IP stack. Addons = easily detected by native browser methods + clarityray shuts 'em down (hosts aren't).
APK
P.S.=> + Hosts != bribed (like AdBlock/ABP NOT DOING THE 1 JOB IT HAD by default)... apk
See subject: From http://slashdot.org/comments.p... ?
Your "DNS lookup" b.s.?
1st: Hosts exceed SLOWER remote DNS lookup (Exploit ridden by Kaminsky redirect flaw & 99.999% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it!) - how?
I avoid DNS putting WHERE I SPEND 95%++ ONLINE TIME @ TOP OF HOSTS via 30 favs!
2nd: AdBlocking gains speed!
BOTH exceed remote DNS lag indexed lookup post query/turnaround on resolution (do the math binary search) over 3++ million records w/ a most efficient blocking format = better load + internal parse & no bloat in hosts cached in LOCAL RAM via 2 kernelmode subsystems (diskcache & ip stack = no usermode context switch overhead like Windows' faulty w/ large hosts files usermode dns cache service) vs. remote DNS for utmost in speed, efficiency + reliability (my program keeps hardcodes current) vs. downed DNS too.
* Hosts = MORE SPEED + EFFICIENCY & ease of maintenance (via http://start64.com/index.php?o...) versus:
1.) Remote DNS & hosts do so w/ less resource use + added on app complexity/room for breakdown & exploit w/ added CPU & power use w/ a local setup DNS (worse if separate system) + complexity of deny rules vs. hosts simple entries
+ vs.
2.) "Almost ALL Ads Blocked": Hosts are far more efficient doing more w/ less vs. AdBlock's BLOAT & regex complexity vs. hosts simple entries. Addons add overheads layered over slower browsers in usermode increasing messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode (run some addons concurrently see what I mean). Addons do more added I/O operations + consume more memory & create CPU overuse + complexity (regex vs. hosts entries) bolted-on in SLOW usemode vs. hosts in PURE kernelmode via a high cpu serviced layer of ops by IP stack. Addons = easily detected by native browser methods + clarityray shuts 'em down (hosts aren't).
APK
P.S.=> + Hosts != bribed (like AdBlock/ABP NOT DOING THE 1 JOB IT HAD by default)... apk
"You've already been debated point by point on why your system is worse and you couldn't refute any of the rebuttals made" - by Pikoro (844299) on Sunday May 31, 2015 @11:26PM (#49812367) Homepage
Where? Prove it + prove me wrong here http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* Good luck stooge - you need a miracle!
APK
P.S.=> Funny you can't, eh? No more than you can SHOW & PROVE some fool here on /. has validly technically proved ANY of my points on hosts files wrong, stupid - Go for it (can't be done dumbass & you know it)... apk
Can adblock do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. malicious sites/servers (beyond malicious ads: See 2-10 next)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnets + stop communication to C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam
9.) Protect vs. phishing
10.) Protect vs. bandwidth caps
11.) Get you past a dnsbl
12.) Keep you off dns request logs
13.) Speed up websurfing by adblocks & hardcoded fav. sites
14.) Work on ANY webbound app (think stand-alone email programs) multiplatform.
15.) Give you easily texteditor controlled data for the above
16.) Do all that & block ads (better than addons) more efficiently in cpu cycles + memory usage
* ANSWER ="NO" to each above on AdBlock doing it as well or at all!
APK
P.S.=> AdBlock does FAR less than hosts do & FAR less efficiently - hosts do MORE w/ less + Hosts start w/ the IP stack before REDUNDANT inefficient addons BEGIN to operate (as 1st resolver queried):
AdBlock's SLOWER than hosts: http://superuser.com/questions...
AdBlock's 4++gb & 100% CPU usage flooring inefficiency -> https://blog.mozilla.org/nneth... + ClarityRay defeats it + it 'souled-out' & is crippled by default paid off to not do its job http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/... & ABP too http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...
AdBlock adds complexity/room for breakdown/exploit + from a slower mode of operations (usermode = more messagepassing overheads vs. hosts in kernelmode).
For the BEST hosts file?
APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
... apk
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See subject: DNS does use more power, moving parts for exploit & breakdown + it adds complexity too (not only in those more moving parts in programs (vs. a single file in hosts), but also in deny rules tables for it vs. hosts' easy internal format) AND remote queries to DNS ARE SLOWER than locally queried hosts files (with your favorites where you spend MOST OF YOUR TIME ONLINE @ the TOP of hosts) in their resolution turn-around time.
* There's MORE there that make my subject true, but that tiny sampling above will do nicely to make my point there...
APK
P.S.=> You fail again as usual, lol... apk