Windows NT had a "sort of" Microkernel - which theoretically made it more secure, but in practice it was not really a Microkernel and so was not as secure as it could be...
Why Minix is supposedly better than Windows or Linux is because it has a Microkernel, so it is harder for anything to kill or confuse the Kernel, and so the Kernel can always reload and recover the rest of the system if something bad happens... it is however slower (but only slightly)
Note the security of Minix is really stability and the Kernel is inviolate and so it is more difficult to hack and tunnel under, this is what makes it secure....
Singularity - Started 2003 (According to their website) - 2008 = 6 years to get to v1.0... and it is just a command line interface, still experimental, and still not officially released except as a research operating system
I agree this is not really comparable... but they are still using most of the Kernel of Windows NT - The main change is the Network system?
Did Microsoft really not have any developers capable of writing a new operating system when they decided to write Windows NT? If so why did they buy in a complete team of people well known for writing an operating system and set them to work designing an operating system with many similarities?
He is right there is no fix.... however the workarounds are pretty good...
If you are booting, then load the boot software at a random location, like they do with other programs once the system is running, and this hack will be *much* more difficult
It's just that, as he says, Windows 7 assumes that during the boot process no user program can change things and it has complete control....
If you are running in a virtual machine you *never* have complete control and so this will always work on any OS, but you can make it difficult....
The paperless office might actually happen now you can take the document with you and read it elsewhere, the reason people print everything out is because they could not take the document with them, read it on the train and scribble notes on it.... now they can so they are slowing stopping printing things out...
Cities will disperse when people no longer need to travel, telepresence is not up to it... yet, call back when 3D interactive TV actually works properly...
Classrooms will be obsolete either when no-one cares about the life experience of going to college anymore (the real reason for the value of your degree, not what was learnt), virtual system are so goo you cannot tell the difference...
The two things colleges do that on-line learning cannot - interaction with a teacher who actually understands the subject, equipment to practice on
On-line learning will produce students with no practical experience at all...
If you have ever been asked if you have a degree, but they are not really bothered what in, it is because going to college means learning to work in a group, learning to work on your own without constant supervision and being spoon-fed, and having some life experience outside school, this is why having a degree is still useful even after the knowledge you learnt is out of date and obsolete, you are there to learn how to learn, and how to work, as well as to learn the material....
That's because the Kernel was written by a proper programmer, Dave Cutler (and his team) they stole from DEC, it was so good they are still using it 20 years later...
Meanwhile Microsoft's own developers have spent the last 10 years trying to write a new kernel, and have barely got it to boot....
If it can run on a Netbook, and anyone would want to run it on a netbook... there is almost certainly a native app for Linux already...
The most run apps are likely to be Web Browser, Email Client, Spreadsheet, Document editor - all of which there are native apps for Linux that work in a familiar way to Windows users...
Or are you talking familiarity like the familiar interface of Office 2007 to Office 2003/XP/2000/97 users i.e. not familiar at all...
They should not use a companies known faulty list to block access - it blocks sites that are legitimate, and does not block some that are definately not....
They should either get a human to regulate internet access, or whitelist the site they want their students to access....
They do not need internet access *in school* *provided by the school* outside what they need for classwork
They do not need books *in school* or *provide by the school* outside of what they need for classwork
What they do at home is up to their parents, and under the control of their parents
The school should either, not block anything - unlikely, or whitelist websites that the child needs to access and block everything else
Blocking a list provided by an outside company, does not work and cannot work... it will block legitimate sites as per the article, and will also allow site the school and the parents would not like the child to see...
Video - TV does this very well already ?! Animation - See above Interactivity - Why use flash?
There are much much simpler lighter solutions than flash.... it is used on PC's now mostly for Video simply as container/player not for it's advanced interactive features....
Perhaps they should sell something that cannot be copied, and people attach real value to?
Live performance.... treat the music as an advert for the concert and the problem disappears, the band still makes money, and the record company can stop hounding the bands fans....
Buy support from Microsoft, complain about a driver , they will refer you to the manufacturer and wash their hands of it, why would you expect someone else to do any different?
The people who in an office would on Linux use the command line and Sed/awk are the same people use the command line, edit the registry etc on Windows, they are called network admins or developers?
The people who actually use the computer, use a word Processor, spreadsheet, email, web-browser and various other apps, the operating system is largely irrelevant to them, and the technical parts, are often too technical for them no matter what operating system is underneath
The problem is that the AP produce newspapers, which are physical objects and so can be sold and are too cheaply produced in bulk to be worth copying, now they are trying to get money for producing on-line content and do not seem to know how the internet works, and how to make money from it
So their solution is to try and sue people, and get the government to protect their flawed business model...
Try buying a PC from Microsoft... you can't they don't sell them
Try buying MacOSX for non Apple hardware, or running another operating system on a Mac.. I wouldn't bother it will be very difficult if you can get it to work at all...
Try buying a PC from Linux... well since there is no Linux company you can't
Apple sell hardware to run their software on, and Software to run on their hardware, and certify the hardware will run the software, and the software will run the hardware... it's a package, you can upgrade either but you have to buy both from Apple, this is why they have always said "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware" and that is what they have always done
Microsoft do not sell PC hardware (excepting a few odd items like keyboards, mice) you might buy a PC pre-installed with Windows but the PC has nothing to do with Microsoft
Linux is pure software there is no company to buy hardware from....
So Vista/7 is incompatible with some older hardware...
UAC breaks well written Windows Logo Certified software : some versions of the Windows Certified program required you to write to the C:\Program Files\Appname folder, required you to write to the registry, required you to do lots of things UAC will either warn you about or fudge around... Try Office 97....
64bit... well there is a 32bit version as well...
IE6/ActiveX as promoted by Microsoft....
So they have broken compatability with their own recommended way of doing things, what a surprise that people want to stick with XP which they work on, and they get to keep the hardware rather than needing a new machine, or at least more memory...
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...and the IMDB article is ripped directly from a review, and the review is based on the Movie companies website, etc ....
Windows NT had a "sort of" Microkernel - which theoretically made it more secure, but in practice it was not really a Microkernel and so was not as secure as it could be ...
Why Minix is supposedly better than Windows or Linux is because it has a Microkernel, so it is harder for anything to kill or confuse the Kernel, and so the Kernel can always reload and recover the rest of the system if something bad happens ... it is however slower (but only slightly)
Note the security of Minix is really stability and the Kernel is inviolate and so it is more difficult to hack and tunnel under, this is what makes it secure ....
...really on all those browsers designed more than a year ago on phones, PDA's, Playstations, most PC's etc ...
Code to a standard and it will always be accessible, code to the cutting edge and only the cutting edge will see it properly ...
Singularity - Started 2003 (According to their website) - 2008 = 6 years to get to v1.0 ... and it is just a command line interface, still experimental, and still not officially released except as a research operating system
I agree this is not really comparable ... but they are still using most of the Kernel of Windows NT - The main change is the Network system?
Did Microsoft really not have any developers capable of writing a new operating system when they decided to write Windows NT? If so why did they buy in a complete team of people well known for writing an operating system and set them to work designing an operating system with many similarities?
He is right there is no fix .... however the workarounds are pretty good ...
If you are booting, then load the boot software at a random location, like they do with other programs once the system is running, and this hack will be *much* more difficult
It's just that, as he says, Windows 7 assumes that during the boot process no user program can change things and it has complete control....
If you are running in a virtual machine you *never* have complete control and so this will always work on any OS, but you can make it difficult ....
Personally I prefer Wikipedia where I know it might be wrong, to another single source that might be wrong but most people assume is correct ....
It means I do what everyone should, check the facts with at least one other independent source ...
Free internet chess server - source GPL'd
"http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86389"
You didn't look very hard ...?
Once it's GPL it's free forever you cannot close source it ... you can only close source newer versions...
...and the player who buys the MS-DOS property wins the game every time ....
"One is the regular B.C. operating system and the other is a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on"
That could describe Windows and .... err Windows with a command prompt ....
So using a command prompt is suspicious activity, time to install Ubuntu
Why are they surprised that a company that uses Suns Software, tools, and hardware extensively, bought Sun, rather than one of their rivals?
The paperless office might actually happen now you can take the document with you and read it elsewhere, the reason people print everything out is because they could not take the document with them, read it on the train and scribble notes on it .... now they can so they are slowing stopping printing things out ...
Cities will disperse when people no longer need to travel, telepresence is not up to it ... yet, call back when 3D interactive TV actually works properly ...
Classrooms will be obsolete either when no-one cares about the life experience of going to college anymore (the real reason for the value of your degree, not what was learnt), virtual system are so goo you cannot tell the difference...
The two things colleges do that on-line learning cannot - interaction with a teacher who actually understands the subject, equipment to practice on
On-line learning will produce students with no practical experience at all...
If you have ever been asked if you have a degree, but they are not really bothered what in, it is because going to college means learning to work in a group, learning to work on your own without constant supervision and being spoon-fed, and having some life experience outside school, this is why having a degree is still useful even after the knowledge you learnt is out of date and obsolete, you are there to learn how to learn, and how to work, as well as to learn the material ....
The one app will most likely be Firefox as well .....
That's because the Kernel was written by a proper programmer, Dave Cutler (and his team) they stole from DEC, it was so good they are still using it 20 years later...
Meanwhile Microsoft's own developers have spent the last 10 years trying to write a new kernel, and have barely got it to boot ....
If it can run on a Netbook, and anyone would want to run it on a netbook ... there is almost certainly a native app for Linux already ...
The most run apps are likely to be Web Browser, Email Client, Spreadsheet, Document editor - all of which there are native apps for Linux that work in a familiar way to Windows users ...
Or are you talking familiarity like the familiar interface of Office 2007 to Office 2003/XP/2000/97 users i.e. not familiar at all ...
The constitution applies to everyone ....
They should not use a companies known faulty list to block access - it blocks sites that are legitimate, and does not block some that are definately not ....
They should either get a human to regulate internet access, or whitelist the site they want their students to access ....
They do not need internet access *in school* *provided by the school* outside what they need for classwork
They do not need books *in school* or *provide by the school* outside of what they need for classwork
What they do at home is up to their parents, and under the control of their parents
The school should either, not block anything - unlikely, or whitelist websites that the child needs to access and block everything else
Blocking a list provided by an outside company, does not work and cannot work ... it will block legitimate sites as per the article, and will also allow site the school and the parents would not like the child to see ...
Flash - Why?
Video - TV does this very well already ?!
Animation - See above
Interactivity - Why use flash?
There are much much simpler lighter solutions than flash .... it is used on PC's now mostly for Video simply as container/player not for it's advanced interactive features ....
No country is purely capitalist : They turn into a dictatorship very quickly
No country is purely socialist : They turn into a dictatorship very quickly
"Piracy" is not a crime that is punished in some countries simply because they do not have copyright
Copyright is a limited monopoly to encourage innovation in a capitalist system, it makes no sense in a purely socialist country
Perhaps they should sell something that cannot be copied, and people attach real value to?
Live performance.... treat the music as an advert for the concert and the problem disappears, the band still makes money, and the record company can stop hounding the bands fans ....
Buy support from Microsoft, complain about a driver , they will refer you to the manufacturer and wash their hands of it, why would you expect someone else to do any different?
The people who in an office would on Linux use the command line and Sed/awk are the same people use the command line, edit the registry etc on Windows, they are called network admins or developers?
The people who actually use the computer, use a word Processor, spreadsheet, email, web-browser and various other apps, the operating system is largely irrelevant to them, and the technical parts, are often too technical for them no matter what operating system is underneath
The problem is that the AP produce newspapers, which are physical objects and so can be sold and are too cheaply produced in bulk to be worth copying, now they are trying to get money for producing on-line content and do not seem to know how the internet works, and how to make money from it
So their solution is to try and sue people, and get the government to protect their flawed business model ...
Try buying a PC from Microsoft ... you can't they don't sell them
Try buying MacOSX for non Apple hardware, or running another operating system on a Mac.. I wouldn't bother it will be very difficult if you can get it to work at all ...
Try buying a PC from Linux ... well since there is no Linux company you can't
Apple sell hardware to run their software on, and Software to run on their hardware, and certify the hardware will run the software, and the software will run the hardware ... it's a package, you can upgrade either but you have to buy both from Apple, this is why they have always said "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware" and that is what they have always done
Microsoft do not sell PC hardware (excepting a few odd items like keyboards, mice) you might buy a PC pre-installed with Windows but the PC has nothing to do with Microsoft
Linux is pure software there is no company to buy hardware from ....
So Vista/7 is incompatible with some older hardware ...
UAC breaks well written Windows Logo Certified software : some versions of the Windows Certified program required you to write to the C:\Program Files\Appname folder, required you to write to the registry, required you to do lots of things UAC will either warn you about or fudge around ... Try Office 97 ....
64bit ... well there is a 32bit version as well ...
IE6/ActiveX as promoted by Microsoft ....
So they have broken compatability with their own recommended way of doing things, what a surprise that people want to stick with XP which they work on, and they get to keep the hardware rather than needing a new machine, or at least more memory ...