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But if you have that edition SUA should be available, which should be much better than SFU and should be used instead
Re:Does this do something SFU doesn't?
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Which is correct. Windows Server 2003 R2, Vista Enterprise and higher editions have the successor Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) available as optional install that replaces SFU.
But it doesn't require a lot of bad ones to break the system, and when the system itself rewards sociopathic behaviour, that's not good and does not bode well.
Everyone forgot that analysis because everyone realized it was full of crap and fearmongering.
I have read Guttman's analysis, I even was able to get and read the slides, and it wasn't. Win 7 in fact still have that stuff, and I even argued that it was necessary for Vista and later to support DRM on Blu-Ray and HD DVD. Now Trusted Computing was a different story, in response to the early criticisms they are now I think permoting it for a different purpose that is less harmful.
(months after the 10.0 beta was freely available btw)
I think it came out around the time of Mac OS X DP1.
Yep remember the early days of Carbon (1999-2000)?
As I remember, one of the first Carbon apps was AppleWorks 6.0.
Mac OS 9.0 shipped with CarbonLib 1.0, BTW.
Actually, it was initially still MFM/RLL, but with a different disk controller than the XT (WD1003 series), and the hard disk BIOS was built into the system BIOS of the AT. ESDI and IDE had to be register-compatible with the WD1003, in fact even today's SATA controllers are still register-compatible with the WD1003 in it's compatiblity mode!
Usually you had 1MB minimum memory, up to 16MB (which would cost more than the rest of the computer combined).
Yep, the 286's protected mode, while less useful and compatible than the 386's protected mode (for one thing, there was no way to switch out of it without a reset), still had some OSes made for it, such as OS/2 1.x and Windows 3.x.
And that, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with this country.
I would not go that far. But I have a slashdot submission coming about the problems of "shareholder value" and "agency theory". And yes Google did address that back when it IPOed.
Google is not a public service, it is a publicly traded corporation.
Actually Google is a publicly traded corporation that makes money by providing a public service.
Yep, it was reported that some of the Altair BASIC code by MS that the Open Letter to Hobbyists were about was copied from one of these user groups, creating exactly the situration that the GPL was supposed to prevent.
Well, most of the MySQL problems Monty complained about happened before it was sold to Sun, and the sale to Sun was supposed to make it better but didn't. I wonder if things would have been better if Monty had more control over the original company. Of course I am sure it is not that simple but still.
It came from software. Software sharing was common until people decided that they want to make money from software by stopping it, effectively creating artificial scarcity. One of the first attempts was the Open Letter to Hobbyists, published back in 1975 by Bill Gates. By 1983 it got to the point where Stallman had to start the "free software" movement to get the freedom lost by this back. It was later that the term "open source" was invented.
"are you going to carry a second removable media device with FAT16 or FAT32 around with you and install this patch everywhere you go?" You can partition your flash drive.
But Apple didn't just sit on it, and had HFS ready when they released the 800K floppy drive.
To be more precise, when Apple released the HD20 which was a 20 MB hard drive for the Mac.
HFS needed one major change (with MacOS 8.1) to support hard drives larger than 2 gigabytes
Actually, large volume support was introduced with the PCI Power Macs and the PowerBook 5300 back in 1995. (If you read the developer notes on these machines, you will see that it has a chapter on large volume support.) It was ported back to all 68040 and PowerPC Macs with Mac OS 7.6. But large volume support with HFS was inefficient, as it was done by increasing the cluster size beyond 64 KB, making the problem of slack (which existed in both FAT16 and HFS) even worse.
Indeed the original version of FAT was I heard written by Bill Gates and Marc McDonald back in 1977. Tim Patterson extended it to 12-bit with it's SCP 86-DOS back in 1980, which was sold to Microsoft then licensed to IBM after it's talks with DR failed (another story altogether).
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But if you have that edition SUA should be available, which should be much better than SFU and should be used instead
Which is correct. Windows Server 2003 R2, Vista Enterprise and higher editions have the successor Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) available as optional install that replaces SFU.
Yep, guess what the fundamental problem is here?
But it doesn't require a lot of bad ones to break the system, and when the system itself rewards sociopathic behaviour, that's not good and does not bode well.
Take a look at my slashdot submission on the problems of shareholder value and agency theory: http://slashdot.org/submission/1138906/The-problem-of-shareholder-value-and-agency-theory
Everyone forgot that analysis because everyone realized it was full of crap and fearmongering.
I have read Guttman's analysis, I even was able to get and read the slides, and it wasn't. Win 7 in fact still have that stuff, and I even argued that it was necessary for Vista and later to support DRM on Blu-Ray and HD DVD. Now Trusted Computing was a different story, in response to the early criticisms they are now I think permoting it for a different purpose that is less harmful.
(months after the 10.0 beta was freely available btw)
I think it came out around the time of Mac OS X DP1.
Yep remember the early days of Carbon (1999-2000)?
As I remember, one of the first Carbon apps was AppleWorks 6.0.
Mac OS 9.0 shipped with CarbonLib 1.0, BTW.
Yea, I was going to say it too.
40-80 MB IDE hard drive
Actually, it was initially still MFM/RLL, but with a different disk controller than the XT (WD1003 series), and the hard disk BIOS was built into the system BIOS of the AT. ESDI and IDE had to be register-compatible with the WD1003, in fact even today's SATA controllers are still register-compatible with the WD1003 in it's compatiblity mode!
Usually you had 1MB minimum memory, up to 16MB (which would cost more than the rest of the computer combined).
Yep, the 286's protected mode, while less useful and compatible than the 386's protected mode (for one thing, there was no way to switch out of it without a reset), still had some OSes made for it, such as OS/2 1.x and Windows 3.x.
I plan to post another slashdot submission with more info soon.
Finally it is ready: http://slashdot.org/submission/1138906/The-problem-of-shareholder-value-and-agency-theory
But I have a slashdot submission coming about the problems of "shareholder value" and "agency theory".
Finally it is ready: http://slashdot.org/submission/1138906/The-problem-of-shareholder-value-and-agency-theory
And that, in a nutshell, is what's wrong with this country.
I would not go that far. But I have a slashdot submission coming about the problems of "shareholder value" and "agency theory". And yes Google did address that back when it IPOed.
Google is not a public service, it is a publicly traded corporation.
Actually Google is a publicly traded corporation that makes money by providing a public service.
or are you expecting mod points of the 'Funny' type?
Which this comment did get, and another similar comment too. But seriously, the issue of open standards and vendor lock-in is NOT funny.
Yea, it is on FSF's list of words to avoid or use with care.
Yep, it was reported that some of the Altair BASIC code by MS that the Open Letter to Hobbyists were about was copied from one of these user groups, creating exactly the situration that the GPL was supposed to prevent.
Well, most of the MySQL problems Monty complained about happened before it was sold to Sun, and the sale to Sun was supposed to make it better but didn't. I wonder if things would have been better if Monty had more control over the original company. Of course I am sure it is not that simple but still.
It came from software. Software sharing was common until people decided that they want to make money from software by stopping it, effectively creating artificial scarcity. One of the first attempts was the Open Letter to Hobbyists, published back in 1975 by Bill Gates. By 1983 it got to the point where Stallman had to start the "free software" movement to get the freedom lost by this back. It was later that the term "open source" was invented.
Yea, I know about the fundamental flaws of what I call "old-style" PR. Do you like "interviews" that just broadcast a message?
Yep, NT once was supposed to be a version of OS/2, and the early versions of WIndows NT even supported HPFS filesystems. (Removed in NT 4.0)
Yep, MS is a convicted monopolist, Google is not.
MS is a convicted monopolist, Google is not.
"are you going to carry a second removable media device with FAT16 or FAT32 around with you and install this patch everywhere you go?"
You can partition your flash drive.
But Apple didn't just sit on it, and had HFS ready when they released the 800K floppy drive.
To be more precise, when Apple released the HD20 which was a 20 MB hard drive for the Mac.
HFS needed one major change (with MacOS 8.1) to support hard drives larger than 2 gigabytes
Actually, large volume support was introduced with the PCI Power Macs and the PowerBook 5300 back in 1995. (If you read the developer notes on these machines, you will see that it has a chapter on large volume support.) It was ported back to all 68040 and PowerPC Macs with Mac OS 7.6. But large volume support with HFS was inefficient, as it was done by increasing the cluster size beyond 64 KB, making the problem of slack (which existed in both FAT16 and HFS) even worse.
Indeed the original version of FAT was I heard written by Bill Gates and Marc McDonald back in 1977. Tim Patterson extended it to 12-bit with it's SCP 86-DOS back in 1980, which was sold to Microsoft then licensed to IBM after it's talks with DR failed (another story altogether).
In fact, there is already an open-source read-only driver for exFAT on Linux.