MOO3, along with most games, is proprietary too. So either be consistent and not play proprietary games, or get down from your high horse and quit whinging about WineX. It works well, and it's cheap.
And no, it doesn't require authentic windows dlls to run.
I started blocking off all Asian Pacific networks about 6 months ago.
Yes! What a brilliant idea! Block of all of oceania while you're at it too - oh sorry, you ALREADY ARE. Why don't you block off europe too, that would be brilliant for reducing the amount of spam you get! Oh, and while you're at it block those dang south americans sending all that spam.
In case you couldn't tell what I was insinuating, anyone who follows your "brilliant idea" is block off all of Australia and New Zealand, countries not reknown for the amount of spam they produce. Your "ultra keen" viewpoint is quite frankly stupid and a burden to free speech and equal communications on the internet.
Linus was right that Microkernels tend to be overdesigned, give up speed, and are less practical than monolithic. This is the living proof.
Making such a broad generalisation about microkernels is just that, a generalisation. The two other major OSes on the market today, Windows NT (2K, XP, whatever) and MacOS X are both based on a microkernel architecture. Sure, they may have bastardised the "textbook way" slightly, but they are still microkernels.
"...but we might change out the whole kernel from time to time when things aren't looking so good."
Sorry, but that is just propaganda. The hurd uses a microkernel, not a monolithic kernel - so in saying "the whole kernel" you are actually only talking about a rather small part of the system in comparison to, say, Linux, where the kernel performs a rather large array of tasks.
Having to replace "the whole kernel" is not as huge of a task as you make it out to be, that in itself is one of the advantages of a microkernel based design. The main problem that the hurd suffers from is a lack of developers * time. Nobody gets paid to work on the hurd, AFAIK.
My bank's website works with whatever browser I've tried - that's IE, Netscape, Mozilla and Galeon. I haven't tried any others so I can't vouch for them. So long as the browser supports the necessary encryption, why not? The menu system on their main site has pretty cascading menus (similar to the Windows "Start menu") if you use IE, and you can navigate it in other ways if you don't. I'm glad they took that into consideration.
ASB Bank was the first bank in New Zealand to offer online banking, and with the amount of stuff you can do online there I seldom need to go to a branch. No, I don't work for them - I am just impressed with their service.
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Watch our high performance webserver get slashdotted, in real time!
How long until it melts? Let's see if those aftermarket heatsinks really paid off.
There are 3 registered and 1643 anonymous users currently online. Current bandwidth usage: 1215.81 kbit/s
Yes, in fact I have seen a regular person with Linux. My girlfriend. Admittedly, she's pretty smart, but she figured it out with minimum of help.
She sat down in front of it, commented on how pretty it looked (Gnome2 + Aqua themes;), and I showed her the apps she wanted to use - a web browser (galeon), aol instant messenger client (gaim), limewire to download mp3s, and xmms. I told her that there were no "drives", the cd was/cdrom, and basically told her what the/home directory structure was as far as she was concerned.
Well what did she do? She fired up gaim to start chatting with her friends, checked her yahoo mail with galeon, downloaded a couple of songs she was looking for with limewire, loaded up nautilus and played the mp3s. It is NOT hard to do normal, everyday stuff with the modern linux desktop environments. Anyone who claims otherwise is a whinger that hasn't really thought through these things.
Admittedly, there are many places that need quite a bit of work - most notably, the application integration side of things. And they are improving incredibly quickly. There are two real reasons people aren't switching to linux:
1. They are quite happy with Windows and don't want to learn another way to do the same things, even if the paradigms are mostly the same.
2. You *cannot* buy off the shelf software for Linux. The reasons my girlfriend doesn't use Linux is basically because she can't go and buy "You don't know Jack - the video game" from best buy and then pop the CD in the drive and play it without wondering if it will work or not, or the sound will be screwed up, or having to check transgaming.com to see if the game is supported. Obviously this isn't the fault of the FS/OSS community, but it is a major hitch none-the-less.
Oh, and configuring the X window system is another big headache. Sure, if it is automatically configured that is OK, but having to edit a text file to change screen resolution is pretty stone age. ctrl-alt-+/- just don't cut it as far as I'm concerned. Sure, editing a text file is okay for a web server, but joe user isn't going to be doing that...
Oh, and screw caffeine too. Go for the placebo effect, drink Green Tea. Sure, it doesn't stimulate your body quite like caffeine, but it does purge all the unsavouries out of your body. Full of antioxidants.
Oh, and if you're used to drinking coffee, savour that placebo effect;) The hot liquid in my mouth still triggers my body to be alert - although not as much as caffeine, unfortunately.
The pluses are you're healthy and you don't have to pee all the time. Maybe you care about your body, or maybe you're just a stereotypical computer gaming junkie, willing to live off coke and doritos...
I'm a New Zealander and my girlfriend is half Icelandic - well, no idea about Iceland, but NZ isn't particularly great at the moment.
We don't have all that sueing business going on, but DMCA-like laws have been passed and so has a you-must-give-the-police-your-password-if-asked law to help with "investigation" and preventing "terrorism" (ie, paving the way for the police state of the future).
A bench power supply is also a generally useful thing. I use this supply all the time when I'm building and testing things, or when I just feel like setting fire to a pencil.
I bet he used to set fire to ants with magnifying glasses too. Not that I'd ever do anything like that. No-sireee. Stop looking at me!
Well I figured *somebody* would say something about the prices mentioned in the article. You may have noticed it is ".co.nz", not ".com". The dollars are New Zealand dollars, roughly 2 1/2 to every $1US.
I'm not sure exactly *how* it buggers with the machine's IP stack, but I can tell you this:
My girlfriend's Windows 98 PC kept on coming up with an Illegal Operation every time she turned it on. I tracked it down to the DLL it was (it turned out to be a new.net DLL), so I uninstalled New.net from control panel, doing ye olde add/remove programs. No, I didn't muck around with the registry, or try anything clever. Well, guess what happened once I rebooted her PC? TCP/IP didn't work! I ended up having to download Kazaa again from my laptop, and copying it across to her PC to install new.net again. Didn't have a Windows 98 disk around to reinstall the network components to completely get rid of new.net, so that was the solution.
New.net can't write a stable program that even uninstalls itself properly without breaking your system, so screw them. We need a new term for these products. "Sneak-ware".
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That is the funniest thing I've ever seen on slashdot. I wish it could be modded up past 5!
And no, it doesn't require authentic windows dlls to run.
Maybe next century...
Western governments haven't been for the people for a loooong time now.
Yes! What a brilliant idea! Block of all of oceania while you're at it too - oh sorry, you ALREADY ARE. Why don't you block off europe too, that would be brilliant for reducing the amount of spam you get! Oh, and while you're at it block those dang south americans sending all that spam.
In case you couldn't tell what I was insinuating, anyone who follows your "brilliant idea" is block off all of Australia and New Zealand, countries not reknown for the amount of spam they produce. Your "ultra keen" viewpoint is quite frankly stupid and a burden to free speech and equal communications on the internet.
You're hilarious, I've never laughed so hard at a slashdot comment, I literally rolled around.
I take extreme offense at that, I am a New Zealander and my girlfriend does not slashdot sites.
Actually, duck tape is a rather popular brand of duct tape.
Making such a broad generalisation about microkernels is just that, a generalisation. The two other major OSes on the market today, Windows NT (2K, XP, whatever) and MacOS X are both based on a microkernel architecture. Sure, they may have bastardised the "textbook way" slightly, but they are still microkernels.
e) CowboyNeal gets a girlfriend
Sorry, but that is just propaganda. The hurd uses a microkernel, not a monolithic kernel - so in saying "the whole kernel" you are actually only talking about a rather small part of the system in comparison to, say, Linux, where the kernel performs a rather large array of tasks. Having to replace "the whole kernel" is not as huge of a task as you make it out to be, that in itself is one of the advantages of a microkernel based design. The main problem that the hurd suffers from is a lack of developers * time.
Nobody gets paid to work on the hurd, AFAIK.
ASB Bank was the first bank in New Zealand to offer online banking, and with the amount of stuff you can do online there I seldom need to go to a branch. No, I don't work for them - I am just impressed with their service.
Watch our high performance webserver get slashdotted, in real time!
How long until it melts? Let's see if those aftermarket heatsinks really paid off.
There are 3 registered and 1643 anonymous users currently online. Current bandwidth usage: 1215.81 kbit/s
Newsflash at 10:
Linus later left, a bad smell emenating from the bathroom. Critics have been proved wrong and it was in fact number two.
She sat down in front of it, commented on how pretty it looked (Gnome2 + Aqua themes ;), and I showed her the apps she wanted to use - a web browser (galeon), aol instant messenger client (gaim), limewire to download mp3s, and xmms. I told her that there were no "drives", the cd was /cdrom, and basically told her what the /home directory structure was as far as she was concerned.
Well what did she do? She fired up gaim to start chatting with her friends, checked her yahoo mail with galeon, downloaded a couple of songs she was looking for with limewire, loaded up nautilus and played the mp3s. It is NOT hard to do normal, everyday stuff with the modern linux desktop environments. Anyone who claims otherwise is a whinger that hasn't really thought through these things.
Admittedly, there are many places that need quite a bit of work - most notably, the application integration side of things. And they are improving incredibly quickly. There are two real reasons people aren't switching to linux:
1. They are quite happy with Windows and don't want to learn another way to do the same things, even if the paradigms are mostly the same.
2. You *cannot* buy off the shelf software for Linux. The reasons my girlfriend doesn't use Linux is basically because she can't go and buy "You don't know Jack - the video game" from best buy and then pop the CD in the drive and play it without wondering if it will work or not, or the sound will be screwed up, or having to check transgaming.com to see if the game is supported. Obviously this isn't the fault of the FS/OSS community, but it is a major hitch none-the-less.
Oh, and configuring the X window system is another big headache. Sure, if it is automatically configured that is OK, but having to edit a text file to change screen resolution is pretty stone age. ctrl-alt-+/- just don't cut it as far as I'm concerned. Sure, editing a text file is okay for a web server, but joe user isn't going to be doing that...
Does this mean we can start measuring the slashdot effect on the richter scale?
Oh, and if you're used to drinking coffee, savour that placebo effect ;) The hot liquid in my mouth still triggers my body to be alert - although not as much as caffeine, unfortunately.
The pluses are you're healthy and you don't have to pee all the time. Maybe you care about your body, or maybe you're just a stereotypical computer gaming junkie, willing to live off coke and doritos...
You need a new psychic.
I'm a New Zealander and my girlfriend is half Icelandic - well, no idea about Iceland, but NZ isn't particularly great at the moment.
We don't have all that sueing business going on, but DMCA-like laws have been passed and so has a you-must-give-the-police-your-password-if-asked law to help with "investigation" and preventing "terrorism" (ie, paving the way for the police state of the future).
NZ does whatever the USA tell them to.
I bet he used to set fire to ants with magnifying glasses too. Not that I'd ever do anything like that. No-sireee. Stop looking at me!
Like I haven't been using this in galeon and mozilla for months.
Good idea! Bake some hash brownies. They named a word processor after an ant, they *must* be on something...
Hey, guess what? You just made no sense whatsoever. MS Word *is* winword.
Well I figured *somebody* would say something about the prices mentioned in the article. You may have noticed it is ".co.nz", not ".com". The dollars are New Zealand dollars, roughly 2 1/2 to every $1US.
My girlfriend's Windows 98 PC kept on coming up with an Illegal Operation every time she turned it on. I tracked it down to the DLL it was (it turned out to be a new.net DLL), so I uninstalled New.net from control panel, doing ye olde add/remove programs. No, I didn't muck around with the registry, or try anything clever. Well, guess what happened once I rebooted her PC? TCP/IP didn't work! I ended up having to download Kazaa again from my laptop, and copying it across to her PC to install new.net again. Didn't have a Windows 98 disk around to reinstall the network components to completely get rid of new.net, so that was the solution.
New.net can't write a stable program that even uninstalls itself properly without breaking your system, so screw them. We need a new term for these products. "Sneak-ware".