Clearly, it's broken from an end-user perspective, no matter how efficient the source code looks.
You couldn't be more wrong. Blue Screens have two main culprits. Faulty hardware or Buggy Drivers. I've been using Vista since September of 2007 for both Business and Personal use. I have not had a single blue screen. Prior to that, using Windows XP I might have had 1, but I had used that machine so long I can't even remember when I put it into service. I experienced a hardware failure on a second drive and changed video cards. Number of times Windows was installed? Only once.
Bottom line is, you are wrong, or you're trolling/lying.
Telling Aunt Mildred "you have the source, so fix it yourself" isn't going to fly.
...and thus we understand why the zealots are so horribly out of touch. Aunt Mildred will be listening to Metallica before she uses Linux as her operating system.
Funny, except for the "features" that are bug fixes, none of them are what I asked for.
Why the hell are you asking for anything? You've made it abundantly clear you aren't even a customer to being with. You're just one little Linux troll bitching on Slashdot. Anybody with a business knows that one customer. That one asshole who just isn't happy with anything. Period.
No company should deal with people like you, because in a strictly financial sense, you aren't worth it.
I'd rather have an open system a few years behind cutting edge
That's why you don't see the problem. You are happy obsolete hardware. A large majority of customers don't agree. That was the point in the article, and why projects like OpenMoko are a dud. It's striving to satisfy a market that isn't there.
Roll onto what, the hype? The OpenMoko ("Hello Moto") is a software platform. That's it. Not even a very good one at that. It's intended for someone like you to polish this turd into something really cool.
Problem is, the only hardware that supports OpenMoko is a limp dick compared to the iPhone, and can't hold a candle to phones like the ones mentioned in the article.
Two things to hate about the OpenMoko. The name itself is a blatant rip-off of Motorola's "Hello Moto" slogan. There is no real excuse for that, and it perpetuates the idea that Open Source Software lacks originality. (though indeed some of it does)
Second. Have you seen a demo of the phone? If you had to make an emergency 911 call and the phone was off, well... I hope you're wearing clean underwear like your mother told you.
Linuxes major flaws are not apparent, while its advantages (Free, faster) are.
No. God damn it, NO! I'm tired of this "Linux if faster" crap. It's wrong and dishonest. Linux is not faster. I can say that because on more than for years I have tested it myself and was always disapointed.
I believe this is yet another "rumor" disgusied as fact. Who made it? Probally knuckleheads running a Windows machine with 20 programs loaded at startup who wiped there machine, installed Linux and said, "Wow! It's so much faster!" Never mind the fact that Linux is only running faster because it's running less processes. That would require logical reasoning. These are the same brain dead idiots that think deleting cookies has any measurable impact on speed. The kind of people that don't have any knowledge they acquired by their own efforts. Instead they just regurgitate every factoid every fanboy or zealot has fed them.
Take Ubuntu, the most popular distro. In both a virtual machine and real hardware, Windows XP blows Ubuntu out of the water in every way. Booting up, shutting down, loading programs, moving windows. Everything. Even after gutting some of the worthless shit Ubuntu loads by default like Bluetooth and Alarm Clocks didn't help it catch up.
Yes, if you wanna be hardcore you can craft your very own Linux version that boots and loads programs 3 times faster than windows. Congratulations, you just made your own multi-tasking version of DOS. Knock yourself out.
QQ is indeed an instant messaging service like AIM, MSN, or Yahoo. Just like those sites, each user is given a "homepage" where account owners can post pictures, leave messages, ect.
QQ isn't nearly as bad as depicted on the sometimes untrustworthy Wikipedia. Don't like the built in ADs? Use Tencent Massager, which offers less features but doesn't display an AD window (think AIM)
Tencent Messanger 2008 is what I'm using currently. It actually has a smaller memory footprint that any of the "big 3".
You might also check out the new QQ 2009 Beta, which uses the same streamlined interface. They also, to my dismay, offer a Mac and Linux client as well.
For the same reason they will label headphones or speaker systems as being "MP3 Compatible". The capability was always there, but marketing it looks nice on the package.
While Nvidia's drivers sucking is not under Microsoft's direct control, the certification program that signs the drivers for use in Vista is. Were those drivers signed?
Drivers are checked for stability, not speed. What do you expect Microsoft to do? Tell Nvidia, "Good try guys, but we want you to push for 20 more FPS on Crysis".
Well that sounds like a very poor design decision, synchronously calling into 3rd party code to see if it's okay to remove such code.
You didn't understand my explanation. The 3rd party control panel applets are a separate animal from the "add/remove" program entries. Because the description of your problem was a little vague, I covered both ends of what could be the problem.
A fraction of two hours is still too long to wait for something that should be instantaneous.
My bad, I should have given you a realistic example. My system takes 6 seconds to parse 161 programs. That beats the time it takes to open up the package manager on my Ubuntu install.
Oh yeah, good strategy, point me to yet another clueless system utility, where any change is likely to break the whole system, and with no undo ability.
I'm not going to spend the time to educate clueless users on how to use the registry, which has been a part of windows for a very long time. A change isn't likely to break the whole system unless you are an idiot and start mashing keys like a 4 year old. Not only will system restore make a full backup of registry changes, but you can even save individual keys manually.
That's the only explanation I can think of why the disks whir for like two hours before this control panel lists anything.
Looking at your whole post, I'm not really sure if you're referring to the the slowness of opening the control panel itself, or waiting for the list of installed programs to load. Problems opening the control panel can often be due to poorly written 3rd party control panel applets (.cpl files). My control panel would frequently lock up or open very slowly. The problem ended up being a craptastic Broadcom Wireless utility. Never trust a program who's icon looks like it was made in MSPaint. When removed, it restored the control panel back to full speed.
If you are talking about the time taken to list installed programs, this was sped up considerably with Vista, which begins to show installed programs instantly and populates the list in a fraction of the time XP uses for the same task.
You click on some of them and get an immediate "no uninstaller found" or even more cryptic messages, and no way to remove these useless entries. This control panel is a classic fail
This seems more like "Classic Troll" to me. Are you sure you aren't ripping the programs out manually in a fit of rage and then surprised to find that Windows can't find the uninstaller? You are clearly exadurating here.
Entires can be removed by deleting the appropriate registry keys located in:
They require third-party apps to be run in order to use the hardware, frequently install "quick start" or other memory hog applications to be run always in the background
Frequent for Printers and Webcams perhaps, but even so, not always required.
Take my Logitech Webcam (Communicate STX) for example. Yes, it installs a tray utility and a Windows Service, both of which can be disabled and the camera functions perfectly. In Linux? Dead as a doornail.
Seriously, I love Ubuntu. My license plate says "UBUNTU".
I once knew a guy with a Red Hat bumper sticker that got his windows smashed twice. I can't imagine what they must (or should) do to your ride, ha ha ha.
What if you simply change it, say, to something bogus?
Though he probably wouldn't admit it, he still cares about his image, so he's not going to fill it with bogus information. Rather, he wants to exert some power over Facebook by saying to them, "Ha ha, I can keep secrets from you. I win!"
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...how many BSODs we get in a month.
Clearly, it's broken from an end-user perspective, no matter how efficient the source code looks.
You couldn't be more wrong. Blue Screens have two main culprits. Faulty hardware or Buggy Drivers. I've been using Vista since September of 2007 for both Business and Personal use. I have not had a single blue screen. Prior to that, using Windows XP I might have had 1, but I had used that machine so long I can't even remember when I put it into service. I experienced a hardware failure on a second drive and changed video cards. Number of times Windows was installed? Only once.
Bottom line is, you are wrong, or you're trolling/lying.
Linux games.
All 12 of them?
Telling Aunt Mildred "you have the source, so fix it yourself" isn't going to fly.
...and thus we understand why the zealots are so horribly out of touch. Aunt Mildred will be listening to Metallica before she uses Linux as her operating system.
My Amiga 1000 (512KB, with 68881 co-processor!)
For real? You purchased a math co-processor without a ram expansion?
For the same reason we get news from people who aren't journalists?
You trolled about trolling. I like it!
It happened to Bush in his 2004 re-election campaign when he was asked by the "Orleans" to stop playing their 1976 hit "Still the One".
70% you say? You might want to notify the CDC. Their numbers are way off.
Funny, except for the "features" that are bug fixes, none of them are what I asked for.
Why the hell are you asking for anything? You've made it abundantly clear you aren't even a customer to being with. You're just one little Linux troll bitching on Slashdot. Anybody with a business knows that one customer. That one asshole who just isn't happy with anything. Period.
No company should deal with people like you, because in a strictly financial sense, you aren't worth it.
I'd rather have an open system a few years behind cutting edge
That's why you don't see the problem. You are happy obsolete hardware. A large majority of customers don't agree. That was the point in the article, and why projects like OpenMoko are a dud. It's striving to satisfy a market that isn't there.
Roll on OpenMoko.
Roll onto what, the hype? The OpenMoko ("Hello Moto") is a software platform. That's it. Not even a very good one at that. It's intended for someone like you to polish this turd into something really cool.
Problem is, the only hardware that supports OpenMoko is a limp dick compared to the iPhone, and can't hold a candle to phones like the ones mentioned in the article.
Screw it.
Two things to hate about the OpenMoko. The name itself is a blatant rip-off of Motorola's "Hello Moto" slogan. There is no real excuse for that, and it perpetuates the idea that Open Source Software lacks originality. (though indeed some of it does)
Second. Have you seen a demo of the phone? If you had to make an emergency 911 call and the phone was off, well... I hope you're wearing clean underwear like your mother told you.
Linuxes major flaws are not apparent, while its advantages (Free, faster) are.
No. God damn it, NO! I'm tired of this "Linux if faster" crap. It's wrong and dishonest. Linux is not faster. I can say that because on more than for years I have tested it myself and was always disapointed.
I believe this is yet another "rumor" disgusied as fact. Who made it? Probally knuckleheads running a Windows machine with 20 programs loaded at startup who wiped there machine, installed Linux and said, "Wow! It's so much faster!" Never mind the fact that Linux is only running faster because it's running less processes. That would require logical reasoning. These are the same brain dead idiots that think deleting cookies has any measurable impact on speed. The kind of people that don't have any knowledge they acquired by their own efforts. Instead they just regurgitate every factoid every fanboy or zealot has fed them.
Take Ubuntu, the most popular distro. In both a virtual machine and real hardware, Windows XP blows Ubuntu out of the water in every way. Booting up, shutting down, loading programs, moving windows. Everything. Even after gutting some of the worthless shit Ubuntu loads by default like Bluetooth and Alarm Clocks didn't help it catch up.
Yes, if you wanna be hardcore you can craft your very own Linux version that boots and loads programs 3 times faster than windows. Congratulations, you just made your own multi-tasking version of DOS. Knock yourself out.
This really isn't that hard.
QQ is indeed an instant messaging service like AIM, MSN, or Yahoo. Just like those sites, each user is given a "homepage" where account owners can post pictures, leave messages, ect.
QQ isn't nearly as bad as depicted on the sometimes untrustworthy Wikipedia. Don't like the built in ADs? Use Tencent Massager, which offers less features but doesn't display an AD window (think AIM)
Tencent Messanger 2008 is what I'm using currently. It actually has a smaller memory footprint that any of the "big 3".
You might also check out the new QQ 2009 Beta, which uses the same streamlined interface. They also, to my dismay, offer a Mac and Linux client as well.
For the same reason they will label headphones or speaker systems as being "MP3 Compatible". The capability was always there, but marketing it looks nice on the package.
While Nvidia's drivers sucking is not under Microsoft's direct control, the certification program that signs the drivers for use in Vista is. Were those drivers signed?
Drivers are checked for stability, not speed. What do you expect Microsoft to do? Tell Nvidia, "Good try guys, but we want you to push for 20 more FPS on Crysis".
Well that sounds like a very poor design decision, synchronously calling into 3rd party code to see if it's okay to remove such code.
You didn't understand my explanation. The 3rd party control panel applets are a separate animal from the "add/remove" program entries. Because the description of your problem was a little vague, I covered both ends of what could be the problem.
A fraction of two hours is still too long to wait for something that should be instantaneous.
My bad, I should have given you a realistic example. My system takes 6 seconds to parse 161 programs. That beats the time it takes to open up the package manager on my Ubuntu install.
Oh yeah, good strategy, point me to yet another clueless system utility, where any change is likely to break the whole system, and with no undo ability.
I'm not going to spend the time to educate clueless users on how to use the registry, which has been a part of windows for a very long time. A change isn't likely to break the whole system unless you are an idiot and start mashing keys like a 4 year old. Not only will system restore make a full backup of registry changes, but you can even save individual keys manually.
That's the only explanation I can think of why the disks whir for like two hours before this control panel lists anything.
Looking at your whole post, I'm not really sure if you're referring to the the slowness of opening the control panel itself, or waiting for the list of installed programs to load. Problems opening the control panel can often be due to poorly written 3rd party control panel applets (.cpl files). My control panel would frequently lock up or open very slowly. The problem ended up being a craptastic Broadcom Wireless utility. Never trust a program who's icon looks like it was made in MSPaint. When removed, it restored the control panel back to full speed.
If you are talking about the time taken to list installed programs, this was sped up considerably with Vista, which begins to show installed programs instantly and populates the list in a fraction of the time XP uses for the same task.
You click on some of them and get an immediate "no uninstaller found" or even more cryptic messages, and no way to remove these useless entries. This control panel is a classic fail
This seems more like "Classic Troll" to me. Are you sure you aren't ripping the programs out manually in a fit of rage and then surprised to find that Windows can't find the uninstaller? You are clearly exadurating here.
Entires can be removed by deleting the appropriate registry keys located in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
You would still be safe with "open source" if you placed the call to or from an Analog Telephone. Wrapping the handset in aluminum foil also helps.
I would have enjoyed reading your rant against Animated GIFs 15 years ago.
No, it's best to keep him here where he can do less damage. We wouldn't want him to fill an editorial position at Fox News.
I use Opera.
They require third-party apps to be run in order to use the hardware, frequently install "quick start" or other memory hog applications to be run always in the background
Frequent for Printers and Webcams perhaps, but even so, not always required.
Take my Logitech Webcam (Communicate STX) for example. Yes, it installs a tray utility and a Windows Service, both of which can be disabled and the camera functions perfectly. In Linux? Dead as a doornail.
Seriously, I love Ubuntu. My license plate says "UBUNTU".
I once knew a guy with a Red Hat bumper sticker that got his windows smashed twice. I can't imagine what they must (or should) do to your ride, ha ha ha.
What if you simply change it, say, to something bogus?
Though he probably wouldn't admit it, he still cares about his image, so he's not going to fill it with bogus information. Rather, he wants to exert some power over Facebook by saying to them, "Ha ha, I can keep secrets from you. I win!"