"SYMPTOMS If Windows XP restarts because of a serious error, the Windows Error Reporting tool prompts you to report the problem to Microsoft for troubleshooting purposes. Windows may begin prompting you to report this information every time you restart the computer, even if no error occurred during the previous session. After this problem begins to occur, you are prompted to send the information after every restart, even if you choose not to send the information."
So after running a stress test on a shipping version of the product, after killing off the running processes, could you then go on to run it as a Server for a couple of months? Or would you have to reboot it just to get back in a workable state?
Is it the OS thats crashing the applications? Or is it MS applications that are crashing on the OS? 50% of application crashed are Microsoft code, that includes Office. What do most business users use all day long?
Are you saying that you can't do the same thing in Windows?
You can unplug the mouse and plug it in again or You can uninstall the driver in device manager and it will be redetected and reinstalled for you. Why would you need to reboot the computer?
Sure the system can be stable just after installation, but once you start adding a sound cards drivers and software suite, (Creative are bad at trying to take over your machine), a CD Burner and suite (eg packet writing software), a Graphics card and suite, eg ATI all-in-wonder, a scanner and suite, printer driver suite, etc, you get lots of drivers all trying to control the same resources.
Each manufacturer seems to insist on writing their own hardware drivers rather than using the MS class drivers.
eg. My CD burning software added an extra driver to my removeable USB2 CD-R device that stopped it being hot plugable.
Oh and the USB issue, every time you plug a device into a different port it is reregistered as a new device and the drivers are reinstalled. I know about the DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES trick that helps to clean up the mess but why is it hidden by default? I looked at my unles machine earlier today and he had at least 20 mice listed, and 5 copies each of his scanner and cd-burner.
"These tests make the system unusable, as it would with any system, but it didn't crash until it just couldn't allocate one more drop of memory"
Sorry if I misunderstand something here but doesn't that indicate a memory/resource leak somewhere? Its still a bug even if it doesn't bring the system to it's knees for days.
I thought that when usermode process terminates the OS should clean up any remaining memory allocations, GDI handles etc? Provided the kernel itself isn't leaking resources the OS should never become unusable.
I think MS should set up a LAB where testers install lots of third party hardware and software for a couple of weeks, and then see where the instabilities come from and report them to the manufacturers. Try hot plugging USB storage devices, network devices, sound and video controllers all day and see where the instabilities come from. With 40 billion in the bank they ought to be able to get it right.
The newest widcomm stack + applications 1.3.2.7 and 1.4.1 support the headset profiles. Widcomm ships with a variety of usb dongles from different manufacturers as well as a few CF Bluetooth adapters and PCMCIA cards. Widcomm has the best integration with windows and the widest profile support.
There will be an AMD64 port of Windows before Longhorn. It is expected early 2004. Also an IA64 and AMD64 version of the.NET CLR and Libraries so existing.Net applications can be ported with minimal changes if any.
Built In Faxing
Add/Remove Programs -> Add/Remove Windows Components -> Fax Services
Hardware accelerated user interface
Coming in Longhorn Quartz Extreme available in OSX 10.2 Jaguar released late August 2002, just coming up to one year now. Only useable on the latest hardware at the time. Apple having tighter control of the hardware can bring these things in sooner. The windows version must support a wider variety of display adaptors and configurations. It was also desparately needed as well since the software-only displayPDF was so slow.
The storage is called UMD,
and is similar to a MiniDisc in that it is in a Caddy and so won't be subject to scratches. I hope it takes off as it would be a great replacement for floppies. Sometimes CD-R, DVD-R is too big and fragile, and USB key drives are too expensive and flash cards require a reader. UMD will be a good solution. UMD = UltraMiniDisc?
The HP TC1000 does have a keyboard built in. The keyboard is detachable. You can use it with the keyboard as a notebook, with the keyboard folded underneath as a tablet, and with the keyboard detached as a slate. Its a great form factor.
But if you never tell anyone about it you can't make any money from it.
The options seem to be: 1) Keep invention a secret
Its all very well to be able to go around thinking "I know something you don't know." But the only way to benefit from that knowledge is to produce a product or service based on it. Once it is available on the open market someone is bound to reverse-engineer it and try to undercut you. Without the protection of a patent you are powerless to prevent someone else from making all the big bucks from your ideas.
2) Give information away freely
The BSD statergy. You make money by providing your expertise and possibly gain a cult following a la Linus. As long as you don't mind a bunch of other people getting rich off your work it's fine but you loose control over the implications of your creation.
3) Get a patent
For a limited time (unless you buy an extension) you get to say where and how your idea is used. You are protected if you want to develop and market your own products or you can charge as much or as little as you like for other people to develop them. You remain in control and have a legally recognised ownership of the ideas. In the end when the patent expires your knowledge becomes public domain.
So is there a way to horde(sp?) intellectual property?
I reckon explorer.exe the shell from windows XP does something similar. It always seems to freeze up and restart itself for no apparent reason. I'm sure theres a cover up somewhere in it. A case of too many Inproc Servers, Shell Extentions, Thumbnail Views etc..
Just like an E:FC Global-Link? http://www.jjambproductions.com/hero props3.html
With mobile phones getting ever smaller but with more PDA, camera and video features a fold out/roll up screen is just what we need.
It's the size of a phone, you hold it up to your ear, put it in your pocket.
A video call comes in, you extend the screen to 4" and see the other person.
You want to look stuff up on the net, read a map, take a note? Extend the screen to 10" and write on it like a tablet pc. Then fold it up again and stick it in your pocket.
There features are already part of the DVD spec. The original X-Men DVD allowed you to watch the deleted scenes as part of the whole movie. It didn't work very well as there were jumps and pauses and repeated shots. The final fantasy DVD allowed you to re-edit one of the scenes by putting the camera shots in any order you wanted. I'm not sure exactly how that was implemented but it seemed to work very well. I think the DVD spec caters for a lot more features than we see in most current DVD titles. Hopefully someone will come up with more interactive movie type products. I've yet to see the multiple camera angles feature be used effectively.
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Ever used windows XP? "Your system has recovered from a serious error","Would you like to send a report to Microsoft?"
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Even that doesn't work all the time.
"SYMPTOMS
If Windows XP restarts because of a serious error, the Windows Error Reporting tool prompts you to report the problem to Microsoft for troubleshooting purposes. Windows may begin prompting you to report this information every time you restart the computer, even if no error occurred during the previous session. After this problem begins to occur, you are prompted to send the information after every restart, even if you choose not to send the information."
Of course that was fixed in XP SP1
So after running a stress test on a shipping version of the product, after killing off the running processes, could you then go on to run it as a Server for a couple of months? Or would you have to reboot it just to get back in a workable state?
Is it the OS thats crashing the applications?
Or is it MS applications that are crashing on the OS? 50% of application crashed are Microsoft code, that includes Office. What do most business users use all day long?
Are you saying that you can't do the same thing in Windows?
You can unplug the mouse and plug it in again
or
You can uninstall the driver in device manager and it will be redetected and reinstalled for you.
Why would you need to reboot the computer?
I think MS probably contributes about 70% code on a typical desktop. 1.5GB Windows XP, 500MB office.
Maybe lotus notes or adobe photoshop or something, but typical office desktops are mostly MS.
Well good.. keep at it.
Sure the system can be stable just after installation, but once you start adding a sound cards drivers and software suite, (Creative are bad at trying to take over your machine), a CD Burner and suite (eg packet writing software), a Graphics card and suite, eg ATI all-in-wonder, a scanner and suite, printer driver suite, etc, you get lots of drivers all trying to control the same resources.
Each manufacturer seems to insist on writing their own hardware drivers rather than using the MS class drivers.
eg. My CD burning software added an extra driver to my removeable USB2 CD-R device that stopped it being hot plugable.
Oh and the USB issue, every time you plug a device into a different port it is reregistered as a new device and the drivers are reinstalled.
I know about the DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES trick that helps to clean up the mess but why is it hidden by default? I looked at my unles machine earlier today and he had at least 20 mice listed, and 5 copies each of his scanner and cd-burner.
"These tests make the system unusable, as it would with any system, but it didn't crash until it just couldn't allocate one more drop of memory"
Sorry if I misunderstand something here but doesn't that indicate a memory/resource leak somewhere?
Its still a bug even if it doesn't bring the system to it's knees for days.
I thought that when usermode process terminates the OS should clean up any remaining memory allocations, GDI handles etc?
Provided the kernel itself isn't leaking resources the OS should never become unusable.
I think MS should set up a LAB where testers install lots of third party hardware and software for a couple of weeks, and then see where the instabilities come from and report them to the manufacturers. Try hot plugging USB storage devices, network devices, sound and video controllers all day and see where the instabilities come from. With 40 billion in the bank they ought to be able to get it right.
Wasn't it just a reference to Demolition Man?
The newest widcomm stack + applications 1.3.2.7 and 1.4.1 support the headset profiles. Widcomm ships with a variety of usb dongles from different manufacturers as well as a few CF Bluetooth adapters and PCMCIA cards. Widcomm has the best integration with windows and the widest profile support.
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Ah no, my first negative moderation. I'm so ashamed.
So I just need to get me some of that dark matter, that radiates dark enery/anti gravity field, and then I can build myself my flying car. Cool
Actually its only $32, but I get the point.
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What is the cost of the License?
The promotional fee for the client (desktop) license is $199.
The promotional fees for server licenses are:
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Promotional License Fee
The promotional license fee for embedded devices is $32 per device.
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There will be an AMD64 port of Windows before Longhorn. It is expected early 2004. Also an IA64 and AMD64 version of the .NET CLR and Libraries so existing .Net applications can be ported with minimal changes if any.
Journaling File System
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NTFS
Expose
CTRL-Click programs on taskbar
Right Click -> Tile Horizontally
Alt-Tab Replacement Powertoy
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/
Font Book
Control Panel -> Fonts
Built In Faxing
Add/Remove Programs -> Add/Remove Windows Components -> Fax Services
Hardware accelerated user interface
Coming in Longhorn
Quartz Extreme available in OSX 10.2 Jaguar released late August 2002, just coming up to one year now. Only useable on the latest hardware at the time. Apple having tighter control of the hardware can bring these things in sooner. The windows version must support a wider variety of display adaptors and configurations.
It was also desparately needed as well since the software-only displayPDF was so slow.
OS level HWR software
XP Tablet PC Edition
The storage is called UMD, and is similar to a MiniDisc in that it is in a Caddy and so won't be subject to scratches. I hope it takes off as it would be a great replacement for floppies. Sometimes CD-R, DVD-R is too big and fragile, and USB key drives are too expensive and flash cards require a reader. UMD will be a good solution. UMD = UltraMiniDisc?
Sounds like my comments here
+1 Funny
The HP TC1000 does have a keyboard built in. The keyboard is detachable. You can use it with the keyboard as a notebook, with the keyboard folded underneath as a tablet, and with the keyboard detached as a slate. Its a great form factor.
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thanks, I wasn't sure so I copied the parent
Sounds a bit like this guy here, HalfBakery.com AI Personality Mirror Maybe he ought to claim prior art.
But if you never tell anyone about it you can't make any money from it.
The options seem to be:
1) Keep invention a secret
Its all very well to be able to go around thinking "I know something you don't know." But the only way to benefit from that knowledge is to produce a product or service based on it. Once it is available on the open market someone is bound to reverse-engineer it and try to undercut you. Without the protection of a patent you are powerless to prevent someone else from making all the big bucks from your ideas.
2) Give information away freely
The BSD statergy. You make money by providing your expertise and possibly gain a cult following a la Linus. As long as you don't mind a bunch of other people getting rich off your work it's fine but you loose control over the implications of your creation.
3) Get a patent
For a limited time (unless you buy an extension) you get to say where and how your idea is used. You are protected if you want to develop and market your own products or you can charge as much or as little as you like for other people to develop them. You remain in control and have a legally recognised ownership of the ideas. In the end when the patent expires your knowledge becomes public domain.
So is there a way to horde(sp?) intellectual property?
I reckon explorer.exe the shell from windows XP does something similar. It always seems to freeze up and restart itself for no apparent reason. I'm sure theres a cover up somewhere in it. A case of too many Inproc Servers, Shell Extentions, Thumbnail Views etc..
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With mobile phones getting ever smaller but with more PDA, camera and video features a fold out/roll up screen is just what we need.
It's the size of a phone, you hold it up to your ear, put it in your pocket.
A video call comes in, you extend the screen to 4" and see the other person.
You want to look stuff up on the net, read a map, take a note? Extend the screen to 10" and write on it like a tablet pc. Then fold it up again and stick it in your pocket.
I can't wait
There features are already part of the DVD spec. The original X-Men DVD allowed you to watch the deleted scenes as part of the whole movie. It didn't work very well as there were jumps and pauses and repeated shots. The final fantasy DVD allowed you to re-edit one of the scenes by putting the camera shots in any order you wanted. I'm not sure exactly how that was implemented but it seemed to work very well. I think the DVD spec caters for a lot more features than we see in most current DVD titles. Hopefully someone will come up with more interactive movie type products. I've yet to see the multiple camera angles feature be used effectively.