The OP was complaining about a clean XP install not having WPA support like a modern clean Linux install. That's not a fair comparison. Furthermore, these comments about a 2002-era XP install having problems once brought up-to-date are wholly inaccurate and falacious. In fact, it's far easier than the headless Debian machines I ran for many years. The headache of going through all the config files in/etc and comparing all the changes it did during the upgrade and figuring out what options are no longer required was beyond a joke.
I really don't see the point of upgrading the OS over one to two decades. At some point I'm going to just replace the hardware in one go. How much time do you really want to spend on these things? I've got better things to do with my life. The BSOD problem for Windows largely disappeared after NT4. It'e pretty damn stable these days, and no worse than my experience with Linux on desktop hardware. I ripped out my Linux servers in our colo at work... but our Windows 2000 Servers are still there, and requiring little attention.
Windows Vista is perfectly usable and stable for me and all the people I know who use it day in, day out. The media decided they didn't like it for some reason. You're scrapping the bottom of the barrel if you want to compare a modern Linux distro with a seven to eight year old Windows release. As I've said elsewhere, a slipstreamed XP install is more relevant, Vista and Win 7 even more so, but that's not what the parent was stating.
I do want to go there. Your post seems unrelated, other than to brag about a continuous path of upgrades since '92. Did it support WPA(2) back then? No, of course not...
Windows' release cycle is better than Linux's too... once it's installed, it's stable for years. Linux is far more work. If you don't want to install an old version of Windows, there is Vista too. Slated in the media, it's becoming a whipping bou, but it's not really that bad.
Oh, when I install XP these days, I install it from a XP+SP3 disc. It's fairly easy to create a slipstreamed install disc.
This is the MO of most companies when a new version of Windows comes along. Not only because businesses don't use a new version of Windows, nor do they upgrade their existing installations. Did anybody actually think it would be different this time?
It's how much you trust the moving company, isn't it? I've used movers/removers for both international and in-city moves, and there's a world of difference between them.
Have you been to the UK? 60mph allowed on two-way roads narrower than 4m, with no shoulder (perhaps overhanging hedgerows or stone walls right at the edge of the road)? Having driven in both countries, I can tell you that CA is easier. The UK's fatalities per billion kms is far lower than the US's. How does CA compare with the US average?
I go to a web site and it crashes my browser. I go there again and it crashes a second time. Ok, I won't go there. Probably good as the site is either compromised or actively attacking me. Probably better that my browser crashes than shows a web page that allows me to enter my credit card details as part of a purchase./playing devil's advocate
Blu-ray Disc doesn't require Java. It has HDMV mode which doesn't go anywhere near Java. You're also perfectly free to play the M2TS files (MPEG 2 Transport Streams, that are not limited to MPEG2).
Not all of those objects are marked safe for scripting and/or safe for initialisation (or implement IObjectSafety), and do you think they're all signed? Thus most of them will not load and run automatically. I'm not being cavalier, but it's not as bad as you're trying to paint it.
I haven't ripped a DVD for years, but doesn't DVDShrink do the lot? I seem to remember have DVD Decryptor, and never using it. Why would I want to use the other application layers too? DVD Shrink is about as simple as it gets. Even Mac The Ripper on OS X is more effort because you have to figure out that you need VLC to do the decryption (and nobody seems to want to write that in a an obvious place).
That article was misleading as the BD figures don't include PS3 owners (HD DVD = 11%; PS3 = 9%; Other BD Player = 7%). The PS3 is the gold standard for BD playback and the de facto reference player for the studios. Please don't continue to spread the FUD.
It's by far the best BD player on the market, and was the cheapest for a long time too. The studios use it as the de facto standard that all of their titles must work on.
It might be using Windows copy protocols, but it definitely is not like copy/paste. It's restartable for instance. It's way more reliable.
We have to copy large files to our office in China. FTP always fails. Windows copy via Explorer often fails, but it is also incredibly painful to do when latency is high and one is browsing over the network. Robocopy (depending on system setup) will motor through and is very persistent when there's a connection hiccup. You definitely want restartability if you copy large files are a couple of hundred MB an hour.
I'd say make sure to break the files up in to chunks if they're large. Also, run 2-4 robocopies in parallel if the latency is high as this will give better throughput. It can do funny things to Windows though (maybe other things wait on some network handle and seem to freeze until one of the robocopy processes moves on to the next file).
Also, consider doing it over a Cisco VPN. It seems to add some robustness if there is packet loss. I often had trouble access servers in the US when I was living in China due to packet loss, but no such problem over a VPN (zero packet loss, but very slow instead, which is better).
We know how much the tax is - why the would I want to be reminded about it everytime I buy something?
Perhaps the US has multiple layers of tax on things, whereas most European countries have a single VAT collected by one level of government. Is that true?
The tax rate's gone up, but if consumption has gone down, what is the real cost to average family? Do you really trust a group to be unbiased or accurate whose mission statement starts: "The TaxPayers' Alliance is Britain's independent grassroots campaign for lower taxes."
I lived in Shanghai last year. It's definitely the randomness that's the killer. Some sites would work for me at home, but not in the office, and vice versa. Some sites would be responsive, but then grind to a halt. Latency to sites outside of China was variable, and often incredibly high. Packet loss sometimes became high enough to make some sites inaccessible. I ended up installing Squid on a machine on our corporate network in California and then accessed it over the VPN (which also seems to be more robust when there's packet loss). It had the added advantage of letting me continue to play Scrabble with my friends in Canada.
If water isn't added to the air, relative humidity drops as temperature increases. When it's hot, even 50% can feel stifling. When it's cool, 50% humidity will feel dry.
The funny thing with temperature is how humidity affects it. I work from home, and I didn't have A/C when I was in Melbourne. The temperatures were hitting 47 degrees. Everything in the house was above body temperature - one couldn't even lay in bed for respite because it was hot! Yet with just a fan, I could work without drenching my keyboard in sweat. That I couldn't do in Shanghai last year when it was 15 degrees cooler. Even now in Toronto I'm finding mid-20s a little uncomfortable (rather sticky and damp) after the dryness of Victoria.
Also, the key here is that I have to do a conversion in my head. I use inches, metres and feet interchangeably when discussing lengths, and just recently I've started using kg and lbs interchangeably too - I don't have to think about them.
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The OP was complaining about a clean XP install not having WPA support like a modern clean Linux install. That's not a fair comparison. Furthermore, these comments about a 2002-era XP install having problems once brought up-to-date are wholly inaccurate and falacious. In fact, it's far easier than the headless Debian machines I ran for many years. The headache of going through all the config files in /etc and comparing all the changes it did during the upgrade and figuring out what options are no longer required was beyond a joke.
I really don't see the point of upgrading the OS over one to two decades. At some point I'm going to just replace the hardware in one go. How much time do you really want to spend on these things? I've got better things to do with my life. The BSOD problem for Windows largely disappeared after NT4. It'e pretty damn stable these days, and no worse than my experience with Linux on desktop hardware. I ripped out my Linux servers in our colo at work... but our Windows 2000 Servers are still there, and requiring little attention.
Windows Vista is perfectly usable and stable for me and all the people I know who use it day in, day out. The media decided they didn't like it for some reason. You're scrapping the bottom of the barrel if you want to compare a modern Linux distro with a seven to eight year old Windows release. As I've said elsewhere, a slipstreamed XP install is more relevant, Vista and Win 7 even more so, but that's not what the parent was stating.
I do want to go there. Your post seems unrelated, other than to brag about a continuous path of upgrades since '92. Did it support WPA(2) back then? No, of course not...
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Windows' release cycle is better than Linux's too... once it's installed, it's stable for years. Linux is far more work. If you don't want to install an old version of Windows, there is Vista too. Slated in the media, it's becoming a whipping bou, but it's not really that bad.
Oh, when I install XP these days, I install it from a XP+SP3 disc. It's fairly easy to create a slipstreamed install disc.
When you're comparing it to Linux, you're comparing it to a version of Linux from 2002, right? That's when XP with no updates is from.
This is the MO of most companies when a new version of Windows comes along. Not only because businesses don't use a new version of Windows, nor do they upgrade their existing installations. Did anybody actually think it would be different this time?
It's how much you trust the moving company, isn't it? I've used movers/removers for both international and in-city moves, and there's a world of difference between them.
Have you been to the UK? 60mph allowed on two-way roads narrower than 4m, with no shoulder (perhaps overhanging hedgerows or stone walls right at the edge of the road)? Having driven in both countries, I can tell you that CA is easier. The UK's fatalities per billion kms is far lower than the US's. How does CA compare with the US average?
I go to a web site and it crashes my browser. I go there again and it crashes a second time. Ok, I won't go there. Probably good as the site is either compromised or actively attacking me. Probably better that my browser crashes than shows a web page that allows me to enter my credit card details as part of a purchase. /playing devil's advocate
Blu-ray Disc doesn't require Java. It has HDMV mode which doesn't go anywhere near Java. You're also perfectly free to play the M2TS files (MPEG 2 Transport Streams, that are not limited to MPEG2).
Not all of those objects are marked safe for scripting and/or safe for initialisation (or implement IObjectSafety), and do you think they're all signed? Thus most of them will not load and run automatically. I'm not being cavalier, but it's not as bad as you're trying to paint it.
I haven't ripped a DVD for years, but doesn't DVDShrink do the lot? I seem to remember have DVD Decryptor, and never using it. Why would I want to use the other application layers too? DVD Shrink is about as simple as it gets. Even Mac The Ripper on OS X is more effort because you have to figure out that you need VLC to do the decryption (and nobody seems to want to write that in a an obvious place).
That article was misleading as the BD figures don't include PS3 owners (HD DVD = 11%; PS3 = 9%; Other BD Player = 7%). The PS3 is the gold standard for BD playback and the de facto reference player for the studios. Please don't continue to spread the FUD.
It's by far the best BD player on the market, and was the cheapest for a long time too. The studios use it as the de facto standard that all of their titles must work on.
Wrong. You specify source dir, dest dir and file specification (wildcard, or explicit filename)
It might be using Windows copy protocols, but it definitely is not like copy/paste. It's restartable for instance. It's way more reliable.
We have to copy large files to our office in China. FTP always fails. Windows copy via Explorer often fails, but it is also incredibly painful to do when latency is high and one is browsing over the network. Robocopy (depending on system setup) will motor through and is very persistent when there's a connection hiccup. You definitely want restartability if you copy large files are a couple of hundred MB an hour.
I'd say make sure to break the files up in to chunks if they're large. Also, run 2-4 robocopies in parallel if the latency is high as this will give better throughput. It can do funny things to Windows though (maybe other things wait on some network handle and seem to freeze until one of the robocopy processes moves on to the next file).
Also, consider doing it over a Cisco VPN. It seems to add some robustness if there is packet loss. I often had trouble access servers in the US when I was living in China due to packet loss, but no such problem over a VPN (zero packet loss, but very slow instead, which is better).
Worse surely is that when they find a new job, they might not be covered for a pre-existing condition. That makes it even worse.
We know how much the tax is - why the would I want to be reminded about it everytime I buy something?
Perhaps the US has multiple layers of tax on things, whereas most European countries have a single VAT collected by one level of government. Is that true?
Oxen. Or did you mean "bollocks"?
The tax rate's gone up, but if consumption has gone down, what is the real cost to average family? Do you really trust a group to be unbiased or accurate whose mission statement starts: "The TaxPayers' Alliance is Britain's independent grassroots campaign for lower taxes."
I lived in Shanghai last year. It's definitely the randomness that's the killer. Some sites would work for me at home, but not in the office, and vice versa. Some sites would be responsive, but then grind to a halt. Latency to sites outside of China was variable, and often incredibly high. Packet loss sometimes became high enough to make some sites inaccessible. I ended up installing Squid on a machine on our corporate network in California and then accessed it over the VPN (which also seems to be more robust when there's packet loss). It had the added advantage of letting me continue to play Scrabble with my friends in Canada.
Try a third of a cm. Is there a nice line on your ruler for that? Now try it again with an inch.
If water isn't added to the air, relative humidity drops as temperature increases. When it's hot, even 50% can feel stifling. When it's cool, 50% humidity will feel dry.
The funny thing with temperature is how humidity affects it. I work from home, and I didn't have A/C when I was in Melbourne. The temperatures were hitting 47 degrees. Everything in the house was above body temperature - one couldn't even lay in bed for respite because it was hot! Yet with just a fan, I could work without drenching my keyboard in sweat. That I couldn't do in Shanghai last year when it was 15 degrees cooler. Even now in Toronto I'm finding mid-20s a little uncomfortable (rather sticky and damp) after the dryness of Victoria.
Also, the key here is that I have to do a conversion in my head. I use inches, metres and feet interchangeably when discussing lengths, and just recently I've started using kg and lbs interchangeably too - I don't have to think about them.