What you list are not dramatic improvements. They are slow crawl to basic functionality.
My first PC was a Gateway 386 and it came with Windows 3.0 and DOS 5.0. I hated Windows 3.0 with a passion, not due to stability issues but usability issues. DOS, I remember liking, despite the occasional aggravation.
Windows 95 was the single most unstable OS I have ever used. Windows 98 was a for-pay bug fix. I had it crash on installation more than once. ME, I have not used, but according to the bulk of what I have read, it was worse than 95.
Recently, I've noticed that MicroSoft defenders claiming that their Windows 9x machines never BSODed. When did MicroSoft's apologists begin outright lying rather than their traditional logic-contorting excuses?
NT was somewhat more stable, but *only* relative to Windows 9x. I saw countless blue screens on an OS that I paid $300 to acquire and it didn't even come with useful documentation. Its stability was on par with the then current MacOS.
XP, in my experience, is still not very stable. No longer are there Blue Screens of Death, but random reboots. My installation had a bizarre quirk when I log in, I get kicked back to the log in screen. Only the second time I attempt to login does it do so. Wiping the drive and reinstalling did not solve this. Since it gives me no error messages, I have no idea what was happening and thus no way to solve it, assuming that MicroSoft had provided me with the ability to do so in the first place. My computer no longer does these things as I no longer have Windows installed on it. That was the only solution to my problem.
Who charges more for a desktop OS than MicroSoft? Which OS company has more cash than MicroSoft to get things fixed? Whose OS is always the last to acquire basic security and stability all the while costing far more than anyone else's? Microsoft's.
Please don't think I'm flaming you, because I'm not. You come across as wanting to be fair. But I think that so many excuses have been made for MicroSoft over the years, that fairness actually requires that they be openly critized for having charged an arm and a leg for improvements when the problems never should have been there in the first place. Windows 95 should have been at least as stable as XP is now.
On my laptop, ATi's drivers work fine, using the Ubuntu repositories. On this Compaq, with an ATi Xpress 200, anything which exits X (ie. switch to console, restart X or, God forbid, shut down the computer), crashes the machine. For about a year now, their drivers have been doing this on some configurations. Vesa drivers work, of course, and the 'ati' driver works, but not very well (only 640x480). But it is the closed source, binary only blob that crashes the machine.
If you are on Linux, avoid ATi, if possible. I'm not saying that you will experience this, just that you might and if you do, you are are screwed.
Re:You mean like in Crisis on Infinite Earths?
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I object to my post getting modded down. Crisis on Infinte Earths had a big bad guy that had a universe destroying machine, just like in this guy's post. I was simply pointing to one potentially possible solution:)
You mean like in Crisis on Infinite Earths?
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If that is the case, have no fear as Superman, Wonder Woman and the rest of the DC Universe will save us.
Thanks. I'm reading it now. Fixing the config file wasn't much of a problem, but annoying to start up the machine just to read a webpage b/f going to work then the X server won't work, then have to figure out what's wrong, etc....anyhow didn't mean to bitch:) thanks again.
I did not say "yes" to any dialog. It just did it. Having done my apt-get, only one dialog appeared: whether or not to use the framebuffer for X, which I said "no" to.
Hi, my name is Al Gore and I want to be president. For those that don't know me, I am the Creator of all things in the Universe, I am the Alpha and the Omega. I am a very humble man, and I will expound upon my humility at great lengths. If I am elected, I will continue my crusade against everything I don't like, just like I did in 1988. Back then Tipper and I didn't like a record that our daughter had and so we decided that no one should be able to own such a record as W.A.S.P.'s Animal Fuck Like a Beast. Hence we began our self-righteous jihad resulting in record labeling, I.D.ing for records we disapprove of and in far too few cases, records being pulled off the shelves. America, I vow to repeal that vile First Amendment and make what you can read and say subject to my whim.
I also promise to take away your cars, make you ride public transportation regardless if you want to and to stick my nose into every facet of your life. It'll make for a better nation; I know this because you are stupid whereas I am the Supreme Intellect. Thank you.
Out of curiousity, did the Gore Campain buy slashdot while I wasn't looking? It seems that the dear authors of this website seem to post this Gore is God stuff on a rather frequent basis. I do remember one thing that got posted that had a pro-Republican comment and *naturally* the admin who posted it felt obligated to say something about both parties doing this, presumably for the need of balance!
I have Slashdot as my homepage. I am not sure this is going to last much longer.
For well over a year, in both the local paper and the college one, there has been a job listed for a Linux/NT networking person. Naturally, I applied for it but never got a call. A few months after I applied for it, a few people were talking about it on the local LUG mailing list. One of the people actually worked there and said that there is not, nor has there been an available position for this job. The company just wants a lot of resumes so that just in case the job does become open, they will have plenty of people that they can scrutinize for the exact thing they are looking for.
The rules are that a film must first play in a theatre in order to be eligible. I remember seeing this when a movie named Red Rock West came out on video first, THEN hit a few theatres. The Academy said no dice on any nominations since it had gone to video first. This ruling is quite in keeping with the earlier one. If you want to be nominated for an Oscar, then get a film print made and put it in at least one theatre BEFORE you do any other broadcast.
Made for TV movies aren't eligible. Straight to video movies aren't eligible. Movies broadcast first on the Web aren't eligble. To forbid the first two and allow the last would be inconsistent.
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What you list are not dramatic improvements. They are slow crawl to basic functionality.
My first PC was a Gateway 386 and it came with Windows 3.0 and DOS 5.0. I hated Windows 3.0 with a passion, not due to stability issues but usability issues. DOS, I remember liking, despite the occasional aggravation.
Windows 95 was the single most unstable OS I have ever used. Windows 98 was a for-pay bug fix. I had it crash on installation more than once. ME, I have not used, but according to the bulk of what I have read, it was worse than 95.
Recently, I've noticed that MicroSoft defenders claiming that their Windows 9x machines never BSODed. When did MicroSoft's apologists begin outright lying rather than their traditional logic-contorting excuses?
NT was somewhat more stable, but *only* relative to Windows 9x. I saw countless blue screens on an OS that I paid $300 to acquire and it didn't even come with useful documentation. Its stability was on par with the then current MacOS.
XP, in my experience, is still not very stable. No longer are there Blue Screens of Death, but random reboots. My installation had a bizarre quirk when I log in, I get kicked back to the log in screen. Only the second time I attempt to login does it do so. Wiping the drive and reinstalling did not solve this. Since it gives me no error messages, I have no idea what was happening and thus no way to solve it, assuming that MicroSoft had provided me with the ability to do so in the first place. My computer no longer does these things as I no longer have Windows installed on it. That was the only solution to my problem.
Who charges more for a desktop OS than MicroSoft? Which OS company has more cash than MicroSoft to get things fixed? Whose OS is always the last to acquire basic security and stability all the while costing far more than anyone else's? Microsoft's.
Please don't think I'm flaming you, because I'm not. You come across as wanting to be fair. But I think that so many excuses have been made for MicroSoft over the years, that fairness actually requires that they be openly critized for having charged an arm and a leg for improvements when the problems never should have been there in the first place. Windows 95 should have been at least as stable as XP is now.
"patent covers an interface that lets users navigate through a tree of expanding options"
Let me get this straight: Creative got a patent on a menu.
wow. I am in awe of their technical prowess.
"he believes India and China will grow the fastest in this regard."
Well, if they are spending $1 per person this year and next year they increase that to $1.50, that is a whopping 50% increase.
It's still just a buck fifty though.
On my laptop, ATi's drivers work fine, using the Ubuntu repositories. On this Compaq, with an ATi Xpress 200, anything which exits X (ie. switch to console, restart X or, God forbid, shut down the computer), crashes the machine. For about a year now, their drivers have been doing this on some configurations. Vesa drivers work, of course, and the 'ati' driver works, but not very well (only 640x480). But it is the closed source, binary only blob that crashes the machine.
If you are on Linux, avoid ATi, if possible. I'm not saying that you will experience this, just that you might and if you do, you are are screwed.
I object to my post getting modded down. Crisis on Infinte Earths had a big bad guy that had a universe destroying machine, just like in this guy's post. I was simply pointing to one potentially possible solution :)
If that is the case, have no fear as Superman, Wonder Woman and the rest of the DC Universe will save us.
Amazingly what you seemed to do out of stupidity happened to me without so much it even asking!
Thanks. I'm reading it now. Fixing the config file wasn't much of a problem, but annoying to start up the machine just to read a webpage b/f going to work then the X server won't work, then have to figure out what's wrong, etc. ...anyhow didn't mean to bitch :) thanks again.
I did not say "yes" to any dialog. It just did it. Having done my apt-get, only one dialog appeared: whether or not to use the framebuffer for X, which I said "no" to.
I was just cursing out Debian, which is my main OS, because yet again my XF86Config-4 got overwriten by a default. WinXP to the rescue...
I also promise to take away your cars, make you ride public transportation regardless if you want to and to stick my nose into every facet of your life. It'll make for a better nation; I know this because you are stupid whereas I am the Supreme Intellect. Thank you.
I have Slashdot as my homepage. I am not sure this is going to last much longer.
For well over a year, in both the local paper and the college one, there has been a job listed for a Linux/NT networking person. Naturally, I applied for it but never got a call. A few months after I applied for it, a few people were talking about it on the local LUG mailing list. One of the people actually worked there and said that there is not, nor has there been an available position for this job. The company just wants a lot of resumes so that just in case the job does become open, they will have plenty of people that they can scrutinize for the exact thing they are looking for.
Made for TV movies aren't eligible. Straight to video movies aren't eligible. Movies broadcast first on the Web aren't eligble. To forbid the first two and allow the last would be inconsistent.