Well, I'm sorta serious... in the original thread, Ben mentions that the Windows APIs are "kinda impoverished" and they wound up doing a lot of work that the higher-level widget toolkits (like GTK+, Qt, MFC or.NET) would do. Maybe they should have just used Xlib/Xt instead and duplicated everything they did for Windows, especially if they want a completely consistent cross-platform look and feel, BUT don't want to be hamstrung by any single UI library's way of doing things.
I guess it's subjective, because I've found quite the opposite - Sirius stations like The Vault (16) and Jam_ON (17) play lots of obscure tracks. There's definitely some overlap between the two, but in many cases channels are unique to one or the other, so I think they'll be able to find a way to save money by combining certain stations while keeping the unique ones.
Linux, like all POSIX OSes, is designed not to allow a process which is blocked on I/O to be killed except by rebooting the system. However, it doesn't prevent you from using the rest of the system, dropping to a shell, using X, etc. When Windows gets screwed up, it can be very hard to kill certain processes which are not allowed to be killed just by virtue of what they are (CSRSS, winlogon, and certain services which can only be seen as svchost.exe or services.exe but which can take up 99% CPU all the same). These are critical system processes, but they are running in user mode, not kernel mode, so they should not take the system down, but they effectively do. Hopefully this will improve in Vista.
Access can't store images? I remember storing images in an Access database like 10 years ago, as an OLE Bitmap field or something. Unfortunately because the OLE column was in the same table as lots of other data, and because the image was stored as a JPEG, each time the user changed something in the field, the picture would lose quality...:) I should dig it out and send it to thedailywtf.com!
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There's also a wnck bug that prevents the application icons from showing up in the pager unless the window is maximized. I can't believe people can work just seeing empty windows in each pager!!! I'm not necessarily going to have my Web browser in the desktop labeled "web", having the application icon in there allwos one to immediately see which app is where, and is a much easier way to work than searching the taskbar all the time.
enlightenment 17's desktop pager does this -- why can't gnome's?
But put themselves in your position: do YOU really want to do work? I hate work, like whazzisname in Office Space. Well, I don't HATE it actually, i kind of like it.. but then again I spent 3/5 days administrating Unix/Linux servers, and only 2/5 doing Windows.:)
in any case if i won the lottery i'd still never go to work. Everyone working at these game companies must feel the same way..
It helps if you just don't think of.NET as a cross-platform framework, but rather a bunch of convenient wrappers around Win32 that make it a lot easier to use. The best thing about VB6 was that it made writing Windows applications (including everything from fat clients to small backend DLLs for websites) easy, not that it ran in a VM and could in theory be cross-platform (except for whenever a VB6 program uses a 3rd party control or Win32 call, which is almost all the time).
I guess MS was pushing it like that in the beginning -- I suppose if Mono has a real effect than that was stupid for MS to do, and if Mono turns out not to matter then it was smart.
Yes, I came up with this word myself when I was about 14. Strangely, I don't seem to have strayed (if one can) from my apatheism. Religion just doesn't get me off like... oh, music does... mmm... a nice Phish jam...
Hey, I've been compiling kernels since 1.2.10. This is the first time in my illustrious career that I've ever hosed a system in that way -- it was inside of a build script's cleanup function that didn't test to see if the string it read in was empty before passing it to rm, NOT entered from the command line -- and I was surprised at how much of the system was still usable even with no 'ls', etc. I _COULD_ have repaired the system, but I really just didn't feel like downloading the fedora CDs and I didn't have that much time either. Believe me, I dont run strange build scripts as root on my servers...:)
I recently destroyed me FC4 box (I was using a script to build E17 and I accidentally directed it to start doing 'rm -rf/'... I quickly CTRL+C'd but it was too late!), and since I'd upgraded it over yum I didn't have the 4 CD's or 1 DVD to fix it. So when I get around to it I'm going to try using gentoo, not because I'm not really happy with fedora, but because I want the ability to easily and quickly update to the latest release without having to wait for a core release.
You need to put the directory containing python.exe in your PATH. In NT/2K/XP you must do a serious of tedious clicking steps... right click over my computer, properties, advanced, environment variables, edit system env var for path.
I believe it was the end of season 9 (or 8) -- the last episode I found very very funny was the "simpsons spin-off spectacular", which was the same episode that Troy McClure said the show would end "when it stops being profitable". I thought he was joking at the time...
A nice solution is to set up a VPN for the company (the Windows built-in PPTP client works fine with Windows' built-in PPTP server, if that's all that matters), and then he can use the internal IP of the mail server everywhere, along with getting access to his files, internal websites, etc. I hate the port-blocking too.
Holy crap dude. Thanks for the warning! No mod points right now, but I'd love to find their "official position" on bugs like these in the KnowledgeBase (support.microsoft.com) but that probably won't happen until it's been "fixed".
How secure will that information be if the people who want it so much capture you and torture you to get it out of you? I'm reminded of that early episode of the Sopranos Paulie Walnuts and Pussy are beating up this Jewish husband who won't give his wife the get, and he just won't give in, until they threaten to give him an extra circumcision...:)
While it is true that I don't play games on my flashy 3GHz home PC, I _do_ play interactive fiction games on my Palm Zire, with its non-backlit screen and 16MHz processor, on the subway to and from work each day. I can play everything from the original ADVENTURE to the newest games, including the 2003 IF Competition entries. Try it!:)
That's why we're still running critical business practices on it.:) Actually we really should get them off onto new hardware, but these suckers are reliable!
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can't they just grep through it for all references to the SYSID and see what decisions are based upon it? i wish it was as simple as this...
But is there really any reason to rename Add/Remove Programs to Programs and Features?
Well, I'm sorta serious... in the original thread, Ben mentions that the Windows APIs are "kinda impoverished" and they wound up doing a lot of work that the higher-level widget toolkits (like GTK+, Qt, MFC or .NET) would do. Maybe they should have just used Xlib/Xt instead and duplicated everything they did for Windows, especially if they want a completely consistent cross-platform look and feel, BUT don't want to be hamstrung by any single UI library's way of doing things.
oh, if only i had mod points... this was a great, very insightful post. even more so if you read it high. :)
I guess it's subjective, because I've found quite the opposite - Sirius stations like The Vault (16) and Jam_ON (17) play lots of obscure tracks. There's definitely some overlap between the two, but in many cases channels are unique to one or the other, so I think they'll be able to find a way to save money by combining certain stations while keeping the unique ones.
Linux, like all POSIX OSes, is designed not to allow a process which is blocked on I/O to be killed except by rebooting the system. However, it doesn't prevent you from using the rest of the system, dropping to a shell, using X, etc. When Windows gets screwed up, it can be very hard to kill certain processes which are not allowed to be killed just by virtue of what they are (CSRSS, winlogon, and certain services which can only be seen as svchost.exe or services.exe but which can take up 99% CPU all the same). These are critical system processes, but they are running in user mode, not kernel mode, so they should not take the system down, but they effectively do. Hopefully this will improve in Vista.
Access can't store images? I remember storing images in an Access database like 10 years ago, as an OLE Bitmap field or something. Unfortunately because the OLE column was in the same table as lots of other data, and because the image was stored as a JPEG, each time the user changed something in the field, the picture would lose quality... :) I should dig it out and send it to thedailywtf.com!
There's also a wnck bug that prevents the application icons from showing up in the pager unless the window is maximized. I can't believe people can work just seeing empty windows in each pager!!! I'm not necessarily going to have my Web browser in the desktop labeled "web", having the application icon in there allwos one to immediately see which app is where, and is a much easier way to work than searching the taskbar all the time.
enlightenment 17's desktop pager does this -- why can't gnome's?
But put themselves in your position: do YOU really want to do work? I hate work, like whazzisname in Office Space. Well, I don't HATE it actually, i kind of like it.. but then again I spent 3/5 days administrating Unix/Linux servers, and only 2/5 doing Windows. :)
in any case if i won the lottery i'd still never go to work. Everyone working at these game companies must feel the same way..
like that scene in cryptonomicon...
yes, it is time to break out the guns, like in cryptonomicon...
It helps if you just don't think of .NET as a cross-platform framework, but rather a bunch of convenient wrappers around Win32 that make it a lot easier to use. The best thing about VB6 was that it made writing Windows applications (including everything from fat clients to small backend DLLs for websites) easy, not that it ran in a VM and could in theory be cross-platform (except for whenever a VB6 program uses a 3rd party control or Win32 call, which is almost all the time).
I guess MS was pushing it like that in the beginning -- I suppose if Mono has a real effect than that was stupid for MS to do, and if Mono turns out not to matter then it was smart.
Yes, I came up with this word myself when I was about 14. Strangely, I don't seem to have strayed (if one can) from my apatheism. Religion just doesn't get me off like... oh, music does... mmm... a nice Phish jam...
Hey, I've been compiling kernels since 1.2.10. This is the first time in my illustrious career that I've ever hosed a system in that way -- it was inside of a build script's cleanup function that didn't test to see if the string it read in was empty before passing it to rm, NOT entered from the command line -- and I was surprised at how much of the system was still usable even with no 'ls', etc. I _COULD_ have repaired the system, but I really just didn't feel like downloading the fedora CDs and I didn't have that much time either. Believe me, I dont run strange build scripts as root on my servers... :)
I recently destroyed me FC4 box (I was using a script to build E17 and I accidentally directed it to start doing 'rm -rf /'... I quickly CTRL+C'd but it was too late!), and since I'd upgraded it over yum I didn't have the 4 CD's or 1 DVD to fix it. So when I get around to it I'm going to try using gentoo, not because I'm not really happy with fedora, but because I want the ability to easily and quickly update to the latest release without having to wait for a core release.
I guess if we keep the platform the same... but still, this is why backwards compatibility is a GOOD thing!
You need to put the directory containing python.exe in your PATH. In NT/2K/XP you must do a serious of tedious clicking steps... right click over my computer, properties, advanced, environment variables, edit system env var for path.
I believe it was the end of season 9 (or 8) -- the last episode I found very very funny was the "simpsons spin-off spectacular", which was the same episode that Troy McClure said the show would end "when it stops being profitable". I thought he was joking at the time...
A nice solution is to set up a VPN for the company (the Windows built-in PPTP client works fine with Windows' built-in PPTP server, if that's all that matters), and then he can use the internal IP of the mail server everywhere, along with getting access to his files, internal websites, etc. I hate the port-blocking too.
Holy crap dude. Thanks for the warning! No mod points right now, but I'd love to find their "official position" on bugs like these in the KnowledgeBase (support.microsoft.com) but that probably won't happen until it's been "fixed".
How secure will that information be if the people who want it so much capture you and torture you to get it out of you? I'm reminded of that early episode of the Sopranos Paulie Walnuts and Pussy are beating up this Jewish husband who won't give his wife the get, and he just won't give in, until they threaten to give him an extra circumcision... :)
While it is true that I don't play games on my flashy 3GHz home PC, I _do_ play interactive fiction games on my Palm Zire, with its non-backlit screen and 16MHz processor, on the subway to and from work each day. I can play everything from the original ADVENTURE to the newest games, including the 2003 IF Competition entries. Try it! :)
Pretty, but godawful slow. A big 'ls' in 24-bit anti-aliased xterm would be faster than the same command in console mode! But it is pretty. :)
There are still (I think) a couple of xterms in the library on Busch Campus. :)
That's why we're still running critical business practices on it. :) Actually we really should get them off onto new hardware, but these suckers are reliable!