Way back in the IE4 days, I used a mixture of the zone system (Trusted Sites for those few where I wanted Javascript)
It of course still exists in IE 8, though often overlooked, and MS even made that the default in server versions of Windows starting with Server 2003. It was called something like the IE Enhanced Security Configuration.
Yea, on one hand, it would distribute rather than centralize the data. But on the other hand, the companies that the data would be distributed across can vary.
But one must also note that some things actually were better on older times. When you ordered a pizza, you knew it would be baked for you with love and it would be delicious to eat. Now someone justs sends me a pizza gift on Facebook. Thanks for the mockery, I say.
Yep, the rise of industrial food production and processing, which not only was less personal, it also reduced food quality. Weston A Price Foundation has a lot of article on it's problems, like this one:
http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/dirty-secrets.html
Yea, when Jimbo Wales decreed to go Ogg-only for Wikipedia back in 2004, there was many people saying something along the line of this. The support of Ogg in browsers for them is very good news, as it eliminated a lot of the pain that had existed for years.
The software "DEP" is not literally "data execution prevention", it involves blocking the use of exceptions which aren't registered in a global table, or something along those lines.
Yep, that is called SafeSEH. OS support for using the SafeSEH table was introduced in Windows Server 2003 and XP SP2, and compiler support for generating this table was introduced in Visual C++ 2003.
IIRC it got to somewhere in the X11R6.3-X11R6.5 range.
I think it got up to X11R6.6.
Then XFree86 took over, ramping up some innovation, though still slower than many liked. After that X.Org took over
Which was a different story altogether that started with a licensing change that made it GPL-incompatible. I think it was the adding of a BSD-style attribution clause. GPLv3 finally fixed this incompatiblity, but by then it was too late, though XFree86 4.7 was released soon after GPLv3 was released.
Yep, remember MITS Altair? The S-100 bus? How Altair BASIC pricing was reduced if bought with it's memory card? How that card had problems, forcing pricing to be reduced? Tiny BASIC?
"They would have to almost completely change company personality to get out of their rut, much like IBM did when they decided that services, not hardware, were going to be their thing. But IBM had to have it's face shoved into the boiling calderon of death before it realized it had to start over. MS is still a ways from that point."
Interesting press release by CodeWeavers:
http://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/press/20090724/
OS/2 actually was initially a MS-IBM alliance, then MS management themselves chose Windows instead of OS/2 despite the fact that the latter was far better, and that killed that alliance. MS aggressively attacked OS/2 afterwards, but that was a different story.
On the matter of this topic, Kildall said in the May 25, 1981 issue of InfoWorld that "we don't need to get greedy; we have plenty of business providing the software tools. "
Now consider the fact that the only reason MS got into the OS business was that DR refused to license CP/M-86 to IBM.
"If anything, it was the anti-trust suits in the US and Europe that really "broke" Microsoft at least in the sense that they forced it to become more bureaucratic and more sluggish in terms of its ability to adjust to sudden shifts in the market."
Really, was that really significant in making MS more bureaucratic?
On the other hand, the decision to go Ogg-only for Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, has been painful for years, but nowadays finally web browsers are supporting it natively.
I never did unfortunately, I must admit. But now you don't necessarily have to. In case you didn't notice, links to request hotfix online are now at top of many KB articles having a hotfix, making requesting hotfix much easier than before. I use that a lot nowadays.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I know, I discussed this before, and I now have some more links on the flaws of "shareholder value":
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/599009962631/m/750009712041
http://www.aom.pace.edu/amle/AMLEVolume4Issue1pp75-91.pdf
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~christ/vfecon_asee2008.pdf
Way back in the IE4 days, I used a mixture of the zone system (Trusted Sites for those few where I wanted Javascript)
It of course still exists in IE 8, though often overlooked, and MS even made that the default in server versions of Windows starting with Server 2003. It was called something like the IE Enhanced Security Configuration.
Yea, on one hand, it would distribute rather than centralize the data. But on the other hand, the companies that the data would be distributed across can vary.
But one must also note that some things actually were better on older times. When you ordered a pizza, you knew it would be baked for you with love and it would be delicious to eat. Now someone justs sends me a pizza gift on Facebook. Thanks for the mockery, I say.
Yep, the rise of industrial food production and processing, which not only was less personal, it also reduced food quality. Weston A Price Foundation has a lot of article on it's problems, like this one: http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/dirty-secrets.html
Yea, when Jimbo Wales decreed to go Ogg-only for Wikipedia back in 2004, there was many people saying something along the line of this. The support of Ogg in browsers for them is very good news, as it eliminated a lot of the pain that had existed for years.
Even worse, not the only time. Remember Google's design patent on it's home page?
Because next time it might be a Google employee that finds a bug in Microsoft's products.
Which has happened already, look at the Acknowledgments section of say MS09-058.
Yea, I know. It is old news by now, the problem is how to fix it. Any suggestions?
Don't forget the segmentation that was introduced with the 286's protected mode was influenced by Multics as well.
Unless, of course, the DRM restricted version is the only one that is available.
Which is how authors would actually use the DRM option, not giving users a choice like just mentioned.
That is NOT what they mean, the word "users" should have been "authors".
More importantly, Apple themselves moved (or should I say downgraded?) from the 64-bit iMac G5 to the 32-bit iMac Core Duo.
The software "DEP" is not literally "data execution prevention", it involves blocking the use of exceptions which aren't registered in a global table, or something along those lines.
Yep, that is called SafeSEH. OS support for using the SafeSEH table was introduced in Windows Server 2003 and XP SP2, and compiler support for generating this table was introduced in Visual C++ 2003.
Except that this boot.ini way to disable DEP disable DEP for ALL APPLICATIONS!
IIRC it got to somewhere in the X11R6.3-X11R6.5 range.
I think it got up to X11R6.6.
Then XFree86 took over, ramping up some innovation, though still slower than many liked. After that X.Org took over
Which was a different story altogether that started with a licensing change that made it GPL-incompatible. I think it was the adding of a BSD-style attribution clause. GPLv3 finally fixed this incompatiblity, but by then it was too late, though XFree86 4.7 was released soon after GPLv3 was released.
BTW, I also have a laptop based on the ALi CyberALADDIN-T integrated graphic chipset from 2001 with basically the same problems.
Yep, this year the Voodoo graphic driver got updated: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzA4Nw
Yep, remember MITS Altair? The S-100 bus? How Altair BASIC pricing was reduced if bought with it's memory card? How that card had problems, forcing pricing to be reduced? Tiny BASIC?
Oops, wrong formatting:
http://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/press/20090724/
"They would have to almost completely change company personality to get out of their rut, much like IBM did when they decided that services, not hardware, were going to be their thing. But IBM had to have it's face shoved into the boiling calderon of death before it realized it had to start over. MS is still a ways from that point." /20090724/
Interesting press release by CodeWeavers: http://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/press
OS/2 actually was initially a MS-IBM alliance, then MS management themselves chose Windows instead of OS/2 despite the fact that the latter was far better, and that killed that alliance. MS aggressively attacked OS/2 afterwards, but that was a different story.
On the matter of this topic, Kildall said in the May 25, 1981 issue of InfoWorld that "we don't need to get greedy; we have plenty of business providing the software tools. " Now consider the fact that the only reason MS got into the OS business was that DR refused to license CP/M-86 to IBM.
"If anything, it was the anti-trust suits in the US and Europe that really "broke" Microsoft at least in the sense that they forced it to become more bureaucratic and more sluggish in terms of its ability to adjust to sudden shifts in the market." Really, was that really significant in making MS more bureaucratic?
On the other hand, the decision to go Ogg-only for Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, has been painful for years, but nowadays finally web browsers are supporting it natively.
I never did unfortunately, I must admit. But now you don't necessarily have to. In case you didn't notice, links to request hotfix online are now at top of many KB articles having a hotfix, making requesting hotfix much easier than before. I use that a lot nowadays.