Yes, Windows 2000 was the first 32-bit general consumer windows that did not rely on a 16-bit core from DOS. (someone who reads machine code verified this for a friend of mine in win98)
WinNT was a 32-bit os (even on 64-bit chips-alpha), but it was used for 'servers' and 'workstations' and was pretty expensive, and I am assuming by both apple's use and the articles use they mean "generally consumer available" when they say desktop.
Windows 3.1 was not even an Operating System, any more than X-Windows on *nix is an Operating System. The operating system was MSDOS (most likely version 6.22) (or could be DRDOS, with incorrect error messages). This also includes windows 95 (and possibly 98). (See the Caldera-Microsoft lawsuit for some of the details, or at least those published)
Windows IA-64 is the first 64-bit windows, and as another poster posted, it lacks a heck of a lot of features from x86 windows. So I suspect that x86-64 will be highly problematical in terms of support for a long time.
1) I WAS NOT the one setting up the Windows 2k domain. This was someone who was supposedly one of the better people for setting up computers in one of the support departments. And I do agree that it was likely misconfiguration, but here is the thing, this person was highly familiar with Windows and reportedly had set up several domains before (W2k).
2) For all of Window's touted "Ease-of-use" the samba box was much easier to setup. (admittedly this did not tie into ldap, but there are tools that can have it setup after you configure certain settings (domain, and a couple of ldap settings, (mostly just naming, but if you want you can tweak it.)) and have it up and running faster than windows.
If you feel that I am a "heads-down *nix guy", then fine, but before you go off about us *nix guys, have the windows guys get their shit together! (And this misconfiguration was IMO likely caused by the GUI, nor was this an isolated even when I have been dealing with Windows advocates. Not that some of the Linux advocates are that much better.)
I apologize, what I meant was adding a samba machine to a Win2k AD domain.
Btw, a plug for my own scripts, which frankly I need someone else to use and test (the script has been 100% brake-free for anything on my setup, and it includes an easy setup wizard (which unfortunately requres some things)) sloppyadm
and I need helpers:).
Have to maintain seperate logins: No, there are various solutions to this including ldap (openldap + pam_ldap + nss_ldap) Kerberos5 (krb5) or NIS (yptools) which are very easy to setup under a distro such as redhat. ('setup' -> authentication configuration (or just 'authconfig') It is (after the ldap/kerberos server is up) as easy as adding windows boxes to a domain.
As for adding a machine to a domain: it should be quite easy (though I must admit I have never had to do it, because 2 people (me, and a windows person) setup domains (the w2k server took weeks and did not work, until one day I spent about 4 hours to setup a samba PDC, which just worked, a week or more after it, he got it working (and it was much slower)).
However all you should need to do (from mem) smbclient -J $DOMAIN -r $PDC
Here is a url that discribes it: http://www.sugoi.org/bits/index.php?bit_id=10
Makes me wonder if the/. quote system should get a +100 Insightful, it really is a joke (unlikely), or it truncated it with the second part: "...if it was a joke"
Then use IE (auto redirect to MSN search, unless disabled)
personally, I just autocomplete (have to type it right the first time, and the first couple of letters...I know it's hard), or have it bookmarked...
I will agree that some of this was knee-jerk, but implementing this for everyone without anyone else's input was definatly the wrong way to go about it.
um, yes broken, unsupported, and you have to specifically enable it... just to have it broken.
Mplayer g1 will never support dvdnav properly. That is part of the reason for mplayer-g2 (which eventually will)
But, the point is that it *was* used as a major point of "Why?". In fact, the CIA in a prior instance made him take it out of a speech in Cleaveland(sp, sorry, I am tired). Before the speech, someone (I forget his name) called the CIA twice and would not take no for an answer, so the "the British said..." while technically correct, completely ignored the fact that the CIA found no evidence for it. There was a study of it ordered by the VP, or someone high up in his office, which found nothing, and was returned to the Office of the Vice President, prior to this speech.
We can debate if the reasons were enough (and why the hell we don't interfere in Other countries with longer lists (and little oil)), but the fact that a statement by people known to have been advised that it was from the perspective of the CIA at best a rumor, and at worst a discredited lie.
Oh, and where was the rest (chemical and biological) WMD that were the other part of why we had to go to non-declared War with Iraq right now, as opposed to other countries with as bad a government?
I am not arguing that he (and esp one of his sons) were very bad, but that this is differential treatment of Iraq makes you wonder why the president('s administration) would resort to that level of underhandedness to get their way.
I know it runs on some different systems (some early turbochannel DECs come to mind.
I do kind of enjoy annoying people who make absolutist statements in general. Nothing in particular, except, I would like to know if NetBSD does run (shouldn't be difficult to port for someone with the right background, because it is almost all documented and open (the stupid sd/mmc being the exception)
About lacking support, that is highly variable with which distribution you use. (I have/am run(ing) linux on x86, alpha, sparc, sparc64, armv4l) Debian does a pretty good job on most. I am trying to get Gentoo (which is ok) to be somewhat easier. Other distros, such as OpenZaurus are very good on the PDA/Embedded.
There wouldn't be a competing project if sun hadn't made it that way... Solaris on the desktop is not very common except for very specific instances, and the cost is the reason. This just attempts to get a bit of money out of the people buying the cheaper PC hardware.
Konqueror will go to a url by middle clicking in a html windows. If you need to paste the url and modify it, there is a button (black) looking something like X> before the location bar which clears it, then middle click in the location bar. If other browsers fail to do this then that is a usability issue and should be repored (IMO) as a bug.
2) as other posters have noted some of the NT ATMs use email to distribute patches
I am pretty sure that you will agree that is a stupid way to do things:)
I'm so sick of anti-Windows FUD. A lot of Linux users do exactly what they preach against.
I would agree with that, and I will note that it is easier to update a system as a whole on linux than it is on windows, when dealing with a single box, or multiple boxes, because of the package managers and the lack of point and click to launch a custom install program.
Back to the topic of ATMs, they shouldn't have any of these problems, because frankly they should be isolated from any hostile system, and should have patches available via a dedicated method.
Mplayer is a place that has an "automatic answer: RTFM" and generally when someone asks a question that is rather obvious they get the answer, along with a It's in the manual/man page, which is very good, generally. Some people when they do this, provide section, and paragraph where it can be found. Even with this when Animatrix wouldn't play there were many, many people who asked about it, many multiple times, which tends to foster an attitude of "RTFM, I just answered the same question 6 hours ago, and twice the day before!"
And if someone wants to tell me that mplayer isn't userfriendly, then fine, but frankly, most people will help with what they know well (I for example will answer questions on Zauruses (usually not on mplayer's list, on a different list) and video capture, and I try to spend time on IRC answering people's questions (hell I was on #gentoo for several hours today doing this)
I may not be the world's best programmer, but I do help where I can, and I know a lot about common problems, so I do help when I have time.
When in all actuality, uptime and overall accesibility of a site are all that a lot of webmasters care about.
Ha, tell that to all the webmasters with non-compliant HTML out there.
I just thought of a good idea, a web page upload form or something which scans the webpages which gives a nice little dialog about a webpage being non compliant, and may not display correctly in many browsers:) Now to get ANY ISP to implement it... HA!
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Actually things like this have been done (re-optimizing compilers) for binary programs. Please note that this is not run-system optimization (as is the case for the c# compile on install, or something like gentoo) this is run-time optimization, which produces faster code. I know of experements on alphas (based on what fx!32 did (which is interpretive emulator+translator+run-time optimization (might be where more jits try to go, and may be considered a very early, and very very advanced jitc.) and in production (as I recall) on pa-risc. This is nice for all the byte-code languages with jit's but under those run-time optimiziation of the code, (and the ability to store it to disk permanantly, vs when the jit loads, or changes (admittedly may be never)) pretty much always found that the c and other binary generating languages would be faster in the beginning, and end.
Essentially: all languages have a lot of maturation to go through, and more optimizing.:) Hell, I will be impressed when a language runs well on EPIC, with it's lack of hardware support for things most procs do in hardware, as a design idea.
Ummm... that's nearly all of the big planes, and all but one USA AF Jet.
I think Airbus is 100% fly-by-wire, and that most Boeing jets have very limited if any backup (non-fly-by-wire). Though the fbw systems are backed up by several computers, as I recall.
At the risk of being modded as a troll for this one, I would say that if UNIX had the marketshare instead of MS, then we'd see a ton of UNIX based worms/viruses. Or Mac for that matter. MS, who I agree has awful business practices, is just an easy target for rhetoric for those two reasons.
Care to explain a reason WHY? How many linux worms have there been? And of the very very few, they were all targeted at Apache (which is not part of the OS), and if we include IIS in the windows category (which has a HELL of a lot LESS market share then apache) then any comparision will yield a result very bad for Microsoft. Not to mention that many Bug counts for Linux are agregate numbers (and not distro-specific) so the numbers are multipied several times.
This also does not include the fact that Windows is very often a single-vendor solution. Windows (WS & Server), Exchange, Office, IE, IIS, etc. This amounts to a very homogenous environment, because there isn't another easy way to use Exchange with something else for the most part, or Outlook with a different server (I know projects that can (Evolution & Suse's open exchange (title?)) however, you have to be looking for an alternative. On Linux how many people use kmail, evolution, mutt, pine, webmail-type, etc etc? OpenOffice is pretty much a standard but even then we have Abiword, KOffice, LaTEX, etc etc, and afaik there is no OpenOffice email client. Desktop environments in general: CDE, GNOME, KDE, and a host of small projects. Not to mention UNIX systems (and linux systems) have a variety: RedHat Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, FreeBSD, Suse Linux, Compaq Tru64, etc. And processor arch: x86 (the majority), ppc, alpha, sparc, sparc64, mips, arm, ia-64, etc
Linux/UNIX are not vulnerable to many of the same exploits as each other. How many.0x% of linux users got hit by an exploit in apache?
Send me a virus: I will read it on an alpha in kmail, or on a sparc via mutt, etc. A worm/virus may hit a tiny percent of linux users, but how many have a setup compatible enough with the worm to actually get hit.
It's called diversity, and you might want to look at biological models. The next windows worm that tells a computer to format it's hd if it's before a patch from microsoft may mean that a heck of a lot of windows computers die. Say a virus that has a timer of a day (give it time to replicate) then kills the host? Only those who have good firewalls won't die, which is, unfortunately, not the case with windows (as seen by the recent rpc bugs.) Black ICE for example doesn't block messenger by default, does it block anything else?
A killer virus/worm could cripple most windows users, but would only kill a small percentage of linux users, unless the author very creative, and new a whole bunch of security holes in many different programs.
I have both intentionally and unintentionally hot-swapped PCI cards in not-rated-for-hot-swap motherboards. Result: like as not the damned things work once plugged in, and not a single one ruined. (this for current stuff all the way back to 1997 era stuff)
AGP on the other hand... zap zap zap (ruined a GF2 that way, it wasn't quite all the way in)
Think of the profit opportunities for Microsoft...
The attack on P2P stuff needs to define what the hell they think p2p is... because peer2peer has been in use for about as long as any network aside from one consisting of a computer and many terminals...
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Now that was a good use of a 'bronze age' axe if I ever saw one! :)
WinNT was a 32-bit os (even on 64-bit chips-alpha), but it was used for 'servers' and 'workstations' and was pretty expensive, and I am assuming by both apple's use and the articles use they mean "generally consumer available" when they say desktop.
Windows 3.1 was not even an Operating System, any more than X-Windows on *nix is an Operating System. The operating system was MSDOS (most likely version 6.22) (or could be DRDOS, with incorrect error messages). This also includes windows 95 (and possibly 98). (See the Caldera-Microsoft lawsuit for some of the details, or at least those published)
Windows IA-64 is the first 64-bit windows, and as another poster posted, it lacks a heck of a lot of features from x86 windows. So I suspect that x86-64 will be highly problematical in terms of support for a long time.
Mine was $50 w/19" huge nice monitor.
Now I just need to get another creator3d for my ultra1... broken pins suck
1) I WAS NOT the one setting up the Windows 2k domain. This was someone who was supposedly one of the better people for setting up computers in one of the support departments. And I do agree that it was likely misconfiguration, but here is the thing, this person was highly familiar with Windows and reportedly had set up several domains before (W2k).
2) For all of Window's touted "Ease-of-use" the samba box was much easier to setup. (admittedly this did not tie into ldap, but there are tools that can have it setup after you configure certain settings (domain, and a couple of ldap settings, (mostly just naming, but if you want you can tweak it.)) and have it up and running faster than windows.
If you feel that I am a "heads-down *nix guy", then fine, but before you go off about us *nix guys, have the windows guys get their shit together!
(And this misconfiguration was IMO likely caused by the GUI, nor was this an isolated even when I have been dealing with Windows advocates. Not that some of the Linux advocates are that much better.)
Btw, a plug for my own scripts, which frankly I need someone else to use and test (the script has been 100% brake-free for anything on my setup, and it includes an easy setup wizard (which unfortunately requres some things)) sloppyadm :).
and I need helpers
As for adding a machine to a domain: it should be quite easy (though I must admit I have never had to do it, because 2 people (me, and a windows person) setup domains (the w2k server took weeks and did not work, until one day I spent about 4 hours to setup a samba PDC, which just worked, a week or more after it, he got it working (and it was much slower)).
However all you should need to do (from mem) smbclient -J $DOMAIN -r $PDC
Here is a url that discribes it: http://www.sugoi.org/bits/index.php?bit_id=10
Makes me wonder if the /. quote system should get a +100 Insightful, it really is a joke (unlikely), or it truncated it with the second part: "...if it was a joke"
personally, I just autocomplete (have to type it right the first time, and the first couple of letters...I know it's hard), or have it bookmarked...
I will agree that some of this was knee-jerk, but implementing this for everyone without anyone else's input was definatly the wrong way to go about it.
um, yes broken, unsupported, and you have to specifically enable it... just to have it broken. Mplayer g1 will never support dvdnav properly. That is part of the reason for mplayer-g2 (which eventually will)
We can debate if the reasons were enough (and why the hell we don't interfere in Other countries with longer lists (and little oil)), but the fact that a statement by people known to have been advised that it was from the perspective of the CIA at best a rumor, and at worst a discredited lie.
Oh, and where was the rest (chemical and biological) WMD that were the other part of why we had to go to non-declared War with Iraq right now, as opposed to other countries with as bad a government?
I am not arguing that he (and esp one of his sons) were very bad, but that this is differential treatment of Iraq makes you wonder why the president('s administration) would resort to that level of underhandedness to get their way.
I do kind of enjoy annoying people who make absolutist statements in general. Nothing in particular, except, I would like to know if NetBSD does run (shouldn't be difficult to port for someone with the right background, because it is almost all documented and open (the stupid sd/mmc being the exception)
About lacking support, that is highly variable with which distribution you use. (I have/am run(ing) linux on x86, alpha, sparc, sparc64, armv4l) Debian does a pretty good job on most. I am trying to get Gentoo (which is ok) to be somewhat easier. Other distros, such as OpenZaurus are very good on the PDA/Embedded.
Care to show it running on a Sharp Zaurus?
I asked some netBSD people at LinuxTag, but they didn't know of any support for it (other than arm/strongarm in general)
Linux runs on it, does NetBSD? If so, please post a link.
There wouldn't be a competing project if sun hadn't made it that way... Solaris on the desktop is not very common except for very specific instances, and the cost is the reason. This just attempts to get a bit of money out of the people buying the cheaper PC hardware.
Konqueror will go to a url by middle clicking in a html windows. If you need to paste the url and modify it, there is a button (black) looking something like X> before the location bar which clears it, then middle click in the location bar. If other browsers fail to do this then that is a usability issue and should be repored (IMO) as a bug.
2) as other posters have noted some of the NT ATMs use email to distribute patches
I am pretty sure that you will agree that is a stupid way to do things :)
I'm so sick of anti-Windows FUD. A lot of Linux users do exactly what they preach against.
I would agree with that, and I will note that it is easier to update a system as a whole on linux than it is on windows, when dealing with a single box, or multiple boxes, because of the package managers and the lack of point and click to launch a custom install program.
Back to the topic of ATMs, they shouldn't have any of these problems, because frankly they should be isolated from any hostile system, and should have patches available via a dedicated method.
And if someone wants to tell me that mplayer isn't userfriendly, then fine, but frankly, most people will help with what they know well (I for example will answer questions on Zauruses (usually not on mplayer's list, on a different list) and video capture, and I try to spend time on IRC answering people's questions (hell I was on #gentoo for several hours today doing this)
I may not be the world's best programmer, but I do help where I can, and I know a lot about common problems, so I do help when I have time.
FX!32 would do this as it ran, and would run the apps you used most fastest. I may have to dig out a copy of NT for Alpha to experement with it some.
I am an alpha-geek! Long live alpha!
If that was DEC's alpha, I can't wait until the beta!
Ha, tell that to all the webmasters with non-compliant HTML out there.
I just thought of a good idea, a web page upload form or something which scans the webpages which gives a nice little dialog about a webpage being non compliant, and may not display correctly in many browsers :) Now to get ANY ISP to implement it... HA!
Essentially: all languages have a lot of maturation to go through, and more optimizing. :) Hell, I will be impressed when a language runs well on EPIC, with it's lack of hardware support for things most procs do in hardware, as a design idea.
I look foreward to a reply.
You have watched Babylon 5 lately :)
I think Airbus is 100% fly-by-wire, and that most Boeing jets have very limited if any backup (non-fly-by-wire). Though the fbw systems are backed up by several computers, as I recall.
Care to explain a reason WHY? How many linux worms have there been? And of the very very few, they were all targeted at Apache (which is not part of the OS), and if we include IIS in the windows category (which has a HELL of a lot LESS market share then apache) then any comparision will yield a result very bad for Microsoft. Not to mention that many Bug counts for Linux are agregate numbers (and not distro-specific) so the numbers are multipied several times.
This also does not include the fact that Windows is very often a single-vendor solution. Windows (WS & Server), Exchange, Office, IE, IIS, etc. This amounts to a very homogenous environment, because there isn't another easy way to use Exchange with something else for the most part, or Outlook with a different server (I know projects that can (Evolution & Suse's open exchange (title?)) however, you have to be looking for an alternative. On Linux how many people use kmail, evolution, mutt, pine, webmail-type, etc etc? OpenOffice is pretty much a standard but even then we have Abiword, KOffice, LaTEX, etc etc, and afaik there is no OpenOffice email client. Desktop environments in general: CDE, GNOME, KDE, and a host of small projects. Not to mention UNIX systems (and linux systems) have a variety: RedHat Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, FreeBSD, Suse Linux, Compaq Tru64, etc. And processor arch: x86 (the majority), ppc, alpha, sparc, sparc64, mips, arm, ia-64, etc
Linux/UNIX are not vulnerable to many of the same exploits as each other. How many .0x% of linux users got hit by an exploit in apache?
Send me a virus: I will read it on an alpha in kmail, or on a sparc via mutt, etc. A worm/virus may hit a tiny percent of linux users, but how many have a setup compatible enough with the worm to actually get hit.
It's called diversity, and you might want to look at biological models. The next windows worm that tells a computer to format it's hd if it's before a patch from microsoft may mean that a heck of a lot of windows computers die. Say a virus that has a timer of a day (give it time to replicate) then kills the host? Only those who have good firewalls won't die, which is, unfortunately, not the case with windows (as seen by the recent rpc bugs.) Black ICE for example doesn't block messenger by default, does it block anything else?
A killer virus/worm could cripple most windows users, but would only kill a small percentage of linux users, unless the author very creative, and new a whole bunch of security holes in many different programs.
Diversity. Diversity. Diversity.
AGP on the other hand... zap zap zap (ruined a GF2 that way, it wasn't quite all the way in)
Admittedly not for web sites, but for all (local) network stuff.
How else is this better/worse than kerberos?
The attack on P2P stuff needs to define what the hell they think p2p is... because peer2peer has been in use for about as long as any network aside from one consisting of a computer and many terminals...