Who carez that Microsoft is the company you're depending on when writing ASP pages. You're depending on Sun while writing Java. That's not a problem at all. I build n-tier webapplications for a living and some layers are ASP code, others are VB/C++ code, others are T-SQL code. All microsoft. Because my customers think the same I don't have to preach to them to tell them the stuff works. The same with linux developers who work for linux-minded customers.
It's however sad to see still people think by writing ASP pages you seem to have an above average risk to catch all kinds of silly virusses: server/internet development isn't easy sometimes and you need knowledge to write and setup solid systems. That's true on all platforms.
I only use interdev for the intellisense in asp code (no other editor has that, otherwise I'd have switched already).
We'll all miss the installer-technology *sniff*
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No Solaris 9 for x86
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What a pity. The advanced installer Sun used to setup Solaris 8 on x86 will truely be missed. So modern, so flexible, so truely up to its task to adapt to the hardware and harddisk partition tables.
*sniff*. Now no-one will ever experience the true joy of installing Solaris on x86 using this 22nd century technology...
Prove me wrong. Name one PC activity that cannot be performed with any Mac application.
- Running a VB application
- Compiling C# programs
- Developing software with tools like Visual Studio, with features like Intellisense and real time syntax checking
- Looking at your SQL server installation from your MMC snapin, while administrating the rest of the network/applications
(Should I go on?)
I can do all that from a 800$ box with win2k on it. (or winxp home edition, if you find win2k too expensive).
What RC5 ONLY shows is executing code from cache using a very small inner loop. What RC5 DOESN'T show, is real life code execution: fetching, decoding, executing, prediction, cache misses, etc etc. _THAT_ makes applications slow. A 100mhz fsb then definitely doesn't help, especially with a RISC cpu.
But you're free to bark about how your 6xx mhz risc cpu beats a 1600mhz athlon any time:)
..because they don't port their programs to x86 but instead use an emulayer. So what you're testing is not the raw speed of a dual 1ghz system but the speed of the emulayer. Which is pretty bad.
Do you really think a dual 1ghz p3 system is 50% slower than a 733mhz G4? LOL:)
The fonts are resized to a larger size in the screenshots, but the gdi objects don't scale with the resized font. XP does this for you. So people who resize their fonts are back into windows 95's GDI.
The icon's in the Outlook tree are not alphablended, the transparent parts are black. This and other things in the Office gui that isn't rendered correctly, but rendered as if it's office95 on a win95 box.
I also don't see the point of this OS. Migration some people say. I don't think so: first you have to migrate your, say 1000, desktops from windows to lindows (does it use profiles? policies?), and then, later, from lindows to Linux? Why? If you want linux, why not just migrate from windows to linux? You still have to pay for lindows!
10 baht coins look like 2 Euro (for machines)
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The Euro
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The funny thing with the new Euro coins is: the thailand coin of 10 baht is almost the same in size and weight as the 2 euro coin. So when a cigarettemachine accepts 2 Euro coins, it most definitely will also accept 10-baht coins and will recognize them as 2 Euro. 10 Baht is roughly 20 eurocent in value, so it's very worth it.
It's so odd that they came up with a design of a coin that looks so similar to a foreign coin with so little value compared to the eurocoin.
My largest problem with MS is not that they do not produce low-cost or even free software, but rather they that produce high-cost low-quality software. Yadda Yadda!. So they produce low quality software? Which titles? MS Excel? SQL Server? Excel is a top notch program, which is by far the most usable and bugless application in the MS Office suit.
A good example of where the quality of open source software overrides the lack of support is with GCC. GCC is commonly used in production environments over other Unix compilers because it is such a better compiler than most other compilers. This one really made me laugh:) Ask the KDE guys how great the C++ compiler is in GCC. True, it's free and fully functional, but please... so much better? Oh, don't feel obligated to provide facts to proof your point!
It's perhaps not that wise to link directly to a forum, since most of these systems are not optimized to handle a lot of/. visitors:). You could have copy/pasted the whole message.
But I hardly think that's the case. Most MS-bashers are just following a loud-mouth because it makes them belong to some group, be popular in some weird way.
For the people who got bullied by MS, agreed, you have a point, for the rest of them (imho a majority): they should grow up.
MS is creating an environment to let bright people work with other bright people. Yes these smart people get a lot of money for that. But, if these smart people were not into the concept of 'working and getting payed for it', would they accept a job at Microsoft Research? Probably! You know why? Because there are no limits, plus other bright people work there too. The budgets are high, while at universities they're (much) lower, the paychecks make it possible to live a life without moneyproblems and you can work at all the new stuff and toys you can think about.
Cooking up new technology that will be used by millions is another plus. Why is this a bad thing? Because YOU tend to HATE microsoft? Get a life.
Let's all stop superior technology like the WMA format because it belongs to a company that is a big player in some other area than soundformat technology.
Like the world is gaining anything with that. Why is it so hard for some people to realize sometimes actually something good and usable is created by that 5 billion $$$ research budget.
They've just ended: http://www.worldcybergames.com, held in South Korea, with competitions in Counterstrike among other games with competitors from 37 countries. I think, with a pricemoney of $300,000.- , the WCG is a more important game event than the CPL.
A country which has a president who wants to install secret military tribunals shouldn't be worrying about if Oracle is able to access data inside governmental databases, but should be worrying about what the difference between the USA WITH secret tribunals and a 3rd world country with a dictator and secret tribunals really is.
Imagine all those soaps and shows where people only work with iMac's instead of real computers... they all have to upgrade to avoid to look dated! Sell WB stock now!
An exchange connector is a library with a familiar interface that will handle all connections with the exchange server. Now, this Exchange connector for Evolution is not GPL-ed software but proprietry closed source software. Because afaik in memory linking is also prohibited, how is Ximian going to solve any GPL conflicts? Or is the GPL not able to force its license on the connector?
Today it's more of a combined event: lots of gamers, and a small group of us, demosceners. The demoscene is not what it used to be... more and more people are into gaming than into demos, so when organising such an event, it's obvious you get 80% gamers and 20% sceners. It's not that much fun, agreed, but a fact of life...
Sorry to rub it in, but here in the Netherlands I can only laugh about the 'news' CNN is showing 24/7 when it comes to the tragedy of 11th of sept/binladen/afganistan etc. It's from 1 single POV: the patriotic USA-first government. When I compare it to our dutch news-agencies people in the USA miss a hell of a lot of information which is IMHO VITAL for making the right judgement about what's right and what's wrong.
For starters: the secret tribunals where pres. Bush will pick who's on trial and who's not is similar to every 3rd world dictatorship out there, yet I have to see 1 single message from mainstream USA newsstations critizising this IMHO shocking development. Thankfully the EU isn't co-operating with Bush on this: f.e. spain is not handing over al-quaida suspects.
I just installed it on my Win2k box with ATi Radeon 32MB DDR and v3276 drivers and it runs very smooth, the windows are draggable with content at full speed on 1600x1200x32bpp. A year ago, some registry hacking tool did this too, but then all drivers were software rendering the alphablended windows and it was dogslow. However making Internet Explorer semi transparent isn't that fast. I guess (but do not know for sure) IE is redrawing the complete page every time something changes in the window (like typing in an edit box).
The installment you refer to doesn't listen to a TCP/IP port, you have to configure that yourself in the registry. Therefor these installments are not vulnerable.
As an owner of a lovely IBM 75GXP hdd, I can say Win2k fixes corrupted files on NTFS pretty well. NT4 is perhaps a different ballgame, there you have the chance to indeed get stuck with files which are not recoverable at all.
So? It's the games that make a console great
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XBox Netplay Already
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Even if MS sold only 300K units, they will be selling an aweful lot next year. You know why? Because the average game targeted at the XBox is much greater than the average nintendo game. At least for people older than 12 years. (which is also the target audience for the PS2). Nintendo lives because of the pokemon hype. So buying a gamecube will limit your choice in games. I think a lot of people will understand that soon:)
Microsoft, allthough they're a member of the ARB, has > 90% of the desktop market, and is moving forward with a rapid speed towards the heavy workstation market. With this situation comes the fact that DirectX is THE platform to target when it comes to 3D accelerated code.
What's another issue is that Microsoft, up till now, has refused to distribute an updated opengl32.dll with their Operating Systems. The current version is the old OpenGL v1.1 compatible version. SGI has said it has distributed a v1.2 version to Microsoft, but for whatever reason, it's not distributed further to the clients. This widens the gap between a non-uniform OpenGL platform still on v1.1, forcing you to use non-standard stuff like vendor-specific extensions and vendor specific opengl loading on one side and the DirectX API on the other. Without Microsoft's help, OpenGL will never be in the front seat again on Windows systems and because they're gaining a lot of marketshare in the workstation market, also not in that typical OpenGL area.
Re:Hilarious: EMM386 stop error
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MS DOS: A Eulogy
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Which one do you recommend?:) I haven't tried the dev drivers 21.88 yet, but all the others are having this bug (even the WHQL ones (21.83)).
Hilarious: EMM386 stop error
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MS DOS: A Eulogy
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What I always found funny was that when a certain DOS program went bezerk, EMM386 thought to jump in and save your ass with... that's right, shutting down the computer before you could save _ANYTHING_, showing words similar to:
"EMM386 has shutdown your computer to prevent loss of data".
Thankfully these days are over... o wait, nv_disp.dll just went into a stop 0xea
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Who carez that Microsoft is the company you're depending on when writing ASP pages. You're depending on Sun while writing Java. That's not a problem at all. I build n-tier webapplications for a living and some layers are ASP code, others are VB/C++ code, others are T-SQL code. All microsoft. Because my customers think the same I don't have to preach to them to tell them the stuff works. The same with linux developers who work for linux-minded customers.
It's however sad to see still people think by writing ASP pages you seem to have an above average risk to catch all kinds of silly virusses: server/internet development isn't easy sometimes and you need knowledge to write and setup solid systems. That's true on all platforms.
I only use interdev for the intellisense in asp code (no other editor has that, otherwise I'd have switched already).
What a pity. The advanced installer Sun used to setup Solaris 8 on x86 will truely be missed. So modern, so flexible, so truely up to its task to adapt to the hardware and harddisk partition tables.
*sniff*. Now no-one will ever experience the true joy of installing Solaris on x86 using this 22nd century technology...
Prove me wrong. Name one PC activity that cannot be performed with any Mac application.
:)
- Running a VB application
- Compiling C# programs
- Developing software with tools like Visual Studio, with features like Intellisense and real time syntax checking
- Looking at your SQL server installation from your MMC snapin, while administrating the rest of the network/applications
(Should I go on?)
I can do all that from a 800$ box with win2k on it. (or winxp home edition, if you find win2k too expensive).
What RC5 ONLY shows is executing code from cache using a very small inner loop. What RC5 DOESN'T show, is real life code execution: fetching, decoding, executing, prediction, cache misses, etc etc. _THAT_ makes applications slow. A 100mhz fsb then definitely doesn't help, especially with a RISC cpu.
But you're free to bark about how your 6xx mhz risc cpu beats a 1600mhz athlon any time
..because they don't port their programs to x86 but instead use an emulayer. So what you're testing is not the raw speed of a dual 1ghz system but the speed of the emulayer. Which is pretty bad.
:)
Do you really think a dual 1ghz p3 system is 50% slower than a 733mhz G4? LOL
The fonts are resized to a larger size in the screenshots, but the gdi objects don't scale with the resized font. XP does this for you. So people who resize their fonts are back into windows 95's GDI.
The icon's in the Outlook tree are not alphablended, the transparent parts are black. This and other things in the Office gui that isn't rendered correctly, but rendered as if it's office95 on a win95 box.
I also don't see the point of this OS. Migration some people say. I don't think so: first you have to migrate your, say 1000, desktops from windows to lindows (does it use profiles? policies?), and then, later, from lindows to Linux? Why? If you want linux, why not just migrate from windows to linux? You still have to pay for lindows!
The funny thing with the new Euro coins is: the thailand coin of 10 baht is almost the same in size and weight as the 2 euro coin. So when a cigarettemachine accepts 2 Euro coins, it most definitely will also accept 10-baht coins and will recognize them as 2 Euro. 10 Baht is roughly 20 eurocent in value, so it's very worth it.
:)
It's so odd that they came up with a design of a coin that looks so similar to a foreign coin with so little value compared to the eurocoin.
Anyone's planning a trip to Thailand soon?
Let's burn some of my karma foopies on this...
:) Ask the KDE guys how great the C++ compiler is in GCC. True, it's free and fully functional, but please... so much better? Oh, don't feel obligated to provide facts to proof your point!
My largest problem with MS is not that they do not produce low-cost or even free software, but rather they that produce high-cost low-quality software.
Yadda Yadda!. So they produce low quality software? Which titles? MS Excel? SQL Server? Excel is a top notch program, which is by far the most usable and bugless application in the MS Office suit.
A good example of where the quality of open source software overrides the lack of support is with GCC. GCC is commonly used in production environments over other Unix compilers because it is such a better compiler than most other compilers.
This one really made me laugh
It's perhaps not that wise to link directly to a forum, since most of these systems are not optimized to handle a lot of /. visitors :). You could have copy/pasted the whole message.
But I hardly think that's the case. Most MS-bashers are just following a loud-mouth because it makes them belong to some group, be popular in some weird way.
For the people who got bullied by MS, agreed, you have a point, for the rest of them (imho a majority): they should grow up.
MS is creating an environment to let bright people work with other bright people. Yes these smart people get a lot of money for that. But, if these smart people were not into the concept of 'working and getting payed for it', would they accept a job at Microsoft Research? Probably! You know why? Because there are no limits, plus other bright people work there too. The budgets are high, while at universities they're (much) lower, the paychecks make it possible to live a life without moneyproblems and you can work at all the new stuff and toys you can think about.
Cooking up new technology that will be used by millions is another plus. Why is this a bad thing? Because YOU tend to HATE microsoft? Get a life.
Let's all stop superior technology like the WMA format because it belongs to a company that is a big player in some other area than soundformat technology.
Like the world is gaining anything with that. Why is it so hard for some people to realize sometimes actually something good and usable is created by that 5 billion $$$ research budget.
They've just ended: http://www.worldcybergames.com, held in South Korea, with competitions in Counterstrike among other games with competitors from 37 countries. I think, with a pricemoney of $300,000.- , the WCG is a more important game event than the CPL.
A country which has a president who wants to install secret military tribunals shouldn't be worrying about if Oracle is able to access data inside governmental databases, but should be worrying about what the difference between the USA WITH secret tribunals and a 3rd world country with a dictator and secret tribunals really is.
Imagine all those soaps and shows where people only work with iMac's instead of real computers... they all have to upgrade to avoid to look dated! Sell WB stock now!
An exchange connector is a library with a familiar interface that will handle all connections with the exchange server. Now, this Exchange connector for Evolution is not GPL-ed software but proprietry closed source software. Because afaik in memory linking is also prohibited, how is Ximian going to solve any GPL conflicts? Or is the GPL not able to force its license on the connector?
Anyone who has tried to install Solaris 8 on Intel will cry tears of joy by seeing any Debian installer ANY time.
Today it's more of a combined event: lots of gamers, and a small group of us, demosceners. The demoscene is not what it used to be... more and more people are into gaming than into demos, so when organising such an event, it's obvious you get 80% gamers and 20% sceners. It's not that much fun, agreed, but a fact of life...
Otis/Infuse Project, coder DemoGL http://www.demogl.com
Sorry to rub it in, but here in the Netherlands I can only laugh about the 'news' CNN is showing 24/7 when it comes to the tragedy of 11th of sept/binladen/afganistan etc. It's from 1 single POV: the patriotic USA-first government. When I compare it to our dutch news-agencies people in the USA miss a hell of a lot of information which is IMHO VITAL for making the right judgement about what's right and what's wrong.
For starters: the secret tribunals where pres. Bush will pick who's on trial and who's not is similar to every 3rd world dictatorship out there, yet I have to see 1 single message from mainstream USA newsstations critizising this IMHO shocking development. Thankfully the EU isn't co-operating with Bush on this: f.e. spain is not handing over al-quaida suspects.
I just installed it on my Win2k box with ATi Radeon 32MB DDR and v3276 drivers and it runs very smooth, the windows are draggable with content at full speed on 1600x1200x32bpp. A year ago, some registry hacking tool did this too, but then all drivers were software rendering the alphablended windows and it was dogslow. However making Internet Explorer semi transparent isn't that fast. I guess (but do not know for sure) IE is redrawing the complete page every time something changes in the window (like typing in an edit box).
The installment you refer to doesn't listen to a TCP/IP port, you have to configure that yourself in the registry. Therefor these installments are not vulnerable.
As an owner of a lovely IBM 75GXP hdd, I can say Win2k fixes corrupted files on NTFS pretty well. NT4 is perhaps a different ballgame, there you have the chance to indeed get stuck with files which are not recoverable at all.
Even if MS sold only 300K units, they will be selling an aweful lot next year. You know why? Because the average game targeted at the XBox is much greater than the average nintendo game. At least for people older than 12 years. (which is also the target audience for the PS2). Nintendo lives because of the pokemon hype. So buying a gamecube will limit your choice in games. I think a lot of people will understand that soon :)
Microsoft, allthough they're a member of the ARB, has > 90% of the desktop market, and is moving forward with a rapid speed towards the heavy workstation market. With this situation comes the fact that DirectX is THE platform to target when it comes to 3D accelerated code.
What's another issue is that Microsoft, up till now, has refused to distribute an updated opengl32.dll with their Operating Systems. The current version is the old OpenGL v1.1 compatible version. SGI has said it has distributed a v1.2 version to Microsoft, but for whatever reason, it's not distributed further to the clients. This widens the gap between a non-uniform OpenGL platform still on v1.1, forcing you to use non-standard stuff like vendor-specific extensions and vendor specific opengl loading on one side and the DirectX API on the other. Without Microsoft's help, OpenGL will never be in the front seat again on Windows systems and because they're gaining a lot of marketshare in the workstation market, also not in that typical OpenGL area.
Which one do you recommend? :) I haven't tried the dev drivers 21.88 yet, but all the others are having this bug (even the WHQL ones (21.83)).
What I always found funny was that when a certain DOS program went bezerk, EMM386 thought to jump in and save your ass with... that's right, shutting down the computer before you could save _ANYTHING_, showing words similar to:
"EMM386 has shutdown your computer to prevent loss of data".
Thankfully these days are over... o wait, nv_disp.dll just went into a stop 0xea