He has a valid point in his "Subversion is awful for detached work" comment. However, that's not SVN's fault. You'll run into that problem with *ANY* CVCS.
To condense the lesson: CVCS's are inappropriate where communications with a central server are required to do checkins and roll back operations.
Sounds like this permits sharing of those items over SMB?
So, if you're not "sharing" anything on that server, then you can turn this off, yes?
Also, I wonder if this service's interaction w/ the SMB Browsers would cause any adverse affects WRT browsing "Network Neighborhood" from a machine with this service disabled.
You'll only get instability and crashes if your FS driver code sucks. Windows is crummy for a lot of reasons, but "randomly crashes for no goddamn reason even though all the bits were being twiddled correctly" isn't one of them.
Take a look at this: linux 2.2.x or better! I repeat: LINUX 2.2.X OR BETTER!
*blink*
Protip: Including a screenshot (or video) of the app in question alongside a terminal that displays the results of running date && uname -a is usually a much better argument than simply shouting.
Most DOS applications, including games, run just fine in this environment.
When I last checked (five, eight years ago) Bullfrog's Magic Carpet fails to run in Windows XP Pro SP2's environment. There are *many* DOS apps that fail to run under NTVDM. (My employer has several DOS binaries that have required extensive hex-editing to function under NTVDM.:D)
A good example of this is Sim City.
Yes. If your app is a pretty high-profile one [1], MSFT's back-compat team will put their (admittedly formidable) skills to work and produce the best OS shim that they can for your buggy-ass code. Many internal apps don't have such a high profile. Also, there's only so much that the back-compat team can do... sometimes even their best efforts result in a quirky program.
Don't get me wrong. MSFT has taken on a monumental task. All things considered, they're not doing a very bad job of it. IMNSHO, this is a task that they should not have undertaken.
[1] Where high-profile can be determined by either number of users, or monies paid to MSFT.
Nice, but your Quake has statically linked libraries,
Most binary packages of big-name Linux software that doesn't target a specific distro does this sort of thing. It's a pretty common practice.
(Hell, most big-name Windows software either keeps local copies of the DLLs that it needs to run, or installs them in your System directory. [Assuming that they're not there, of course.])
A whitelist styled friends list fixes that. * Only permit comms between people who have friended each other. * Allow people to remove others from their own friends list. * To prevent gold farmers from spamming with friends requests, don't announce when people friend you.
is it really that complex to play the game in fullscreen windowed mode with an IM client running in the background and changing focus to it whenever you want to talk to them?
No. It's not that complex. However, -in the spirit of reductio ad absurdum- why have in-game chat at all? Blizzard should have distributed mIRC with each WoW client and set up a chan on EFNet to do all in-game chatting.:D
Your UI point is solid, and one that I am aware of. I was addressing PP's technology comment.
IMO, inter-server chat could make use of something like the Steam Community Overlay. (Press a key combo, get a translucent overlay that provides access to your Flists and "IM" windows.)
The fact that Mozilla decided to expend effort to allow people to go back to the old location bar in Firefox 3.5.
a) Cite? b) 3.5?!? [1] Today, we're talking about the new release of a 3.1 beta. If we assume that this isn't a typo on your part, the Moz devs don't seem to be really concerned about the AwesomeBar.
There are like 10 million people on WoW. You don't expect Blizzard to reinvent the Internet just so your dwarf can chat with your friend's orc, do you?
Actually.... yes. (And, they wouldn't have to reinvent the Internet... They could use a stripped down IM implementation behind the scenes.) You don't have to have inter-server *Instant* Messaging. You could have inter-server comms that are slower than real-time; it'd still be better that the situation that the PP relates.
As for forgetting POSIX... it's the basis of all unix cross-platform code. It's what allows code to run on linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOS X, embedded platforms, etc...
_Awww! My Hero!_:D
...it's the API that most programs not written for windows are written to.
Whenever I write Windows code for work, I try to adhere as closely to POSIX as the OS and project specification allow. Srsly, doing this saves *sooo* much trouble in the long run... even if you never leave the Windows world!
in Windows, if the system asks you to download / update some strange piece of software that you don't recognize,
What's this "Security Update to.NET 3.0 KB4823904832" that Windows Update is trying to get me to install? What's a KB4823904832? I have no idea what this is! I'mma not gonna install it.
They ramble on about what language it is programmed in, or other nonsense, that users don't care about in the least.
*Some* users (like me) care about what language a package is written in.:) If Synaptic doesn't already allow this, one should be able to search through package descriptions for keywords and phrases.
They ought to be transparent, and we should tolerate nothing less.
You're looking for an appliance, rather than a personal computer. "They" sell those too. Look at Smartphones, portable music players, fancy GPS devices, etc.
That coupled with the group structures in LDAP are used to set environment variables that dictate everything a user can access.
And -if you don't trust your users-, look into the auditing and system control that things like PaX, Grsecurity, and SELinux give you. (PaX and Grsecurity are used by Hardened Gentoo. Quite frankly, they rock.)
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From what I've heard, Suse is the DoDIIS recommended Linux distro. IDK if this happened before or after the MSFT/Novell deal.
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/core/dodiis.htm
I've seen perma-hangs when using the official Adobe Flash plugin under Linux. Changing to the Gnash plugin eliminated the hangs.
He has a valid point in his "Subversion is awful for detached work" comment. However, that's not SVN's fault. You'll run into that problem with *ANY* CVCS.
To condense the lesson:
CVCS's are inappropriate where communications with a central server are required to do checkins and roll back operations.
Gee, I wonder why?
:rolleyes:
Sounds like this permits sharing of those items over SMB?
So, if you're not "sharing" anything on that server, then you can turn this off, yes?
Also, I wonder if this service's interaction w/ the SMB Browsers would cause any adverse affects WRT browsing "Network Neighborhood" from a machine with this service disabled.
If they change to something like EXT3, then Windows users cannot use the Tom Tom without an additional driver
See this:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1159141&cid=27177423
*blink*
You'll only get instability and crashes if your FS driver code sucks. Windows is crummy for a lot of reasons, but "randomly crashes for no goddamn reason even though all the bits were being twiddled correctly" isn't one of them.
Take a look at this: linux 2.2.x or better! I repeat: LINUX 2.2.X OR BETTER!
*blink*
Protip:
Including a screenshot (or video) of the app in question alongside a terminal that displays the results of running date && uname -a is usually a much better argument than simply shouting.
Most DOS applications, including games, run just fine in this environment.
When I last checked (five, eight years ago) Bullfrog's Magic Carpet fails to run in Windows XP Pro SP2's environment. There are *many* DOS apps that fail to run under NTVDM. (My employer has several DOS binaries that have required extensive hex-editing to function under NTVDM. :D)
A good example of this is Sim City.
Yes. If your app is a pretty high-profile one [1], MSFT's back-compat team will put their (admittedly formidable) skills to work and produce the best OS shim that they can for your buggy-ass code. Many internal apps don't have such a high profile. Also, there's only so much that the back-compat team can do... sometimes even their best efforts result in a quirky program.
Don't get me wrong. MSFT has taken on a monumental task. All things considered, they're not doing a very bad job of it. IMNSHO, this is a task that they should not have undertaken.
[1] Where high-profile can be determined by either number of users, or monies paid to MSFT.
Nice, but your Quake has statically linked libraries,
Most binary packages of big-name Linux software that doesn't target a specific distro does this sort of thing. It's a pretty common practice.
(Hell, most big-name Windows software either keeps local copies of the DLLs that it needs to run, or installs them in your System directory. [Assuming that they're not there, of course.])
Did you know....
that you can donate one or more of your vital organs to the Aperture Science Self-esteem Fund for Girls?
It's true!
IMHO, if it takes more than ten minutes of dev time to increment the minor version number, they're doing it wrong.
OTOH, the art effort could be significant. *shrug* Whatever keeps a decent, hard-working, starving artist employed is fine by me.
Why? So gold spammers can spam you more easily?
A whitelist styled friends list fixes that.
* Only permit comms between people who have friended each other.
* Allow people to remove others from their own friends list.
* To prevent gold farmers from spamming with friends requests, don't announce when people friend you.
is it really that complex to play the game in fullscreen windowed mode with an IM client running in the background and changing focus to it whenever you want to talk to them?
No. It's not that complex. However, -in the spirit of reductio ad absurdum- why have in-game chat at all? Blizzard should have distributed mIRC with each WoW client and set up a chan on EFNet to do all in-game chatting. :D
Ah!
I stand corrected! Thanks for the information!
How do *you* think that one goes about "preemptively" threading something?
Your UI point is solid, and one that I am aware of. I was addressing PP's technology comment.
IMO, inter-server chat could make use of something like the Steam Community Overlay. (Press a key combo, get a translucent overlay that provides access to your Flists and "IM" windows.)
The fact that Mozilla decided to expend effort to allow people to go back to the old location bar in Firefox 3.5.
a) Cite?
b) 3.5?!? [1] Today, we're talking about the new release of a 3.1 beta. If we assume that this isn't a typo on your part, the Moz devs don't seem to be really concerned about the AwesomeBar.
[1] Be impressed, you made me break out the bold
There are like 10 million people on WoW. You don't expect Blizzard to reinvent the Internet just so your dwarf can chat with your friend's orc, do you?
Actually.... yes. (And, they wouldn't have to reinvent the Internet... They could use a stripped down IM implementation behind the scenes.)
You don't have to have inter-server *Instant* Messaging. You could have inter-server comms that are slower than real-time; it'd still be better that the situation that the PP relates.
As for forgetting POSIX... it's the basis of all unix cross-platform code. It's what allows code to run on linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOS X, embedded platforms, etc...
_Awww! My Hero!_ :D
...it's the API that most programs not written for windows are written to.
Whenever I write Windows code for work, I try to adhere as closely to POSIX as the OS and project specification allow. Srsly, doing this saves *sooo* much trouble in the long run... even if you never leave the Windows world!
What version of Amarok were you using?
Is this a known issue? If not, has there been a bug filed against it?
Cheers!
Maaaaaaaan. I *really* wish that Sierra/Vivendi would have released one last rev of T2 that didn't attempt to contact the update servers upon startup.
*doesn't wanna be bound to LAN matches for the rest of his life*
in Windows, if the system asks you to download / update some strange piece of software that you don't recognize,
What's this "Security Update to .NET 3.0 KB4823904832" that Windows Update is trying to get me to install? What's a KB4823904832? I have no idea what this is! I'mma not gonna install it.
They ramble on about what language it is programmed in, or other nonsense, that users don't care about in the least.
*Some* users (like me) care about what language a package is written in. :)
If Synaptic doesn't already allow this, one should be able to search through package descriptions for keywords and phrases.
They ought to be transparent, and we should tolerate nothing less.
You're looking for an appliance, rather than a personal computer.
"They" sell those too. Look at Smartphones, portable music players, fancy GPS devices, etc.
That coupled with the group structures in LDAP are used to set environment variables that dictate everything a user can access.
And -if you don't trust your users-, look into the auditing and system control that things like PaX, Grsecurity, and SELinux give you. (PaX and Grsecurity are used by Hardened Gentoo. Quite frankly, they rock.)