People talk about Microsoft making all these radical changes like it's easy-peasy. I used to think kind of that way before I worked there for a while. Hell, I can design an operating system! They can just write a whole new OS from scratch and chuck all that el-crap-o code. Yeah, and write it all again? It's just not that easy to build all the parts and have every single company in the world know how to write crappy drivers for it:-)
My parents used to be in this category. "We don't NEED broadband -- it's already plenty fast enough for us at it is!" Then they tried it, now they love it.
When you use the Kernel debugger, pretty much everything windows does becomes pretty transparent. Especially when you connect with a Firewire computer and freeze it in Kernel Mode. It's all in Inside Windows 2000, etc.
Thanks. I tried #1, but it doesn't work with Microsoft's 1.1 format exported from Outlook 2007:-) It would be trivial to write a little XSLT, but I'm on Windows and don't want to write yet another commandline XML to XSLT processor in C#:-) Thanks tho.
Having used to work at Microsoft, I find a lot of the Microsoft blogs pretty interesting to read in Outlook 2007.:-) I know - lame. But no other blog seems to make sense to read, and all the other RSS software sucks to me relative to just using the browser. This is like being on internal mailing lists back at MS.
Meh, jesus christ, is it so freaking hard to put an OPML to HTML converter up on the web where I can find it? Here, have some raw formatting...
<opml version="1.1"><head><title>Feeds</title></head><body><outline text="A View from Elsewhere" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="ascend slowly, breathing normally" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/karinm/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="BCL Team Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="bharry's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Convert your Windows Server 2008 to a Workstation!" xmlUrl="http://www.win2008workstation.com/wordpress/feed/" type="rss"/><outline text="Douglas Purdy" xmlUrl="http://douglaspurdy.com/feed/" type="rss"/><outline text="Eric Fleegal's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericflee/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Geoffrey Vandiest WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogsrss.skynet.be/g/geoffrey-vandiest/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/coolthingoftheday" type="rss"/><outline text="I'm not a Klingon" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnste/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Jason Zander's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Jeff Beehler's Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Kim Hamilton" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/kimhamil/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet" xmlUrl="http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/rss2.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="Microsoft Source Analysis for C#" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/sourceanalysis/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Microsoft SQL Server Development Customer Advisory Team" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Microsoft Windows SDK Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="MSDN Blogs" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/MainFeed.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="MSDN: United States" xmlUrl="http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/MSDN/globalfeeds/en-us/Global-MSDN-en-us.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="MSDN: Visual Studio" xmlUrl="http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/MSDN/en-us/vsts2008/products/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Not Northwind" xmlUrl="http://www.codeplex.com/notnorthwind/Project/ProjectRss.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="Pedram Rezaei's Ramblings" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/pedram/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="rdoherty's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScottHanselman" type="rss"/><outline text="Scott Holden's Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/scottholden/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="ScottGu's Blog" xmlUrl="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/rss.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="ShankuN's Blog" xmlUrl="http://www.shankun.com/Services/Rss.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="shell: revealed" xmlUrl="http://shellrevealed.com/blogs/MainFeed.aspx?GroupID=-1&Type=BlogsOnly" type="rss"/><outline text="Somasegar's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Sorting it all Out" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="SQL Server Storage Engine" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="SQLCAT.com" xmlUrl="http://sql
On Windows machines,.NET is hugely predictable:-) Microsoft is "not bad" for actually getting stuff done. In the last few years, I've done SQL server, Oracle, and lastly DB/2 running on an AS/400, all from C# using pretty much the same techniques. It gets the job done, enterprise-wise.
I don't know if they've rewritten it, but when I was there in 2002, the Windows Server 2003 Boot Sector and program loader said Copyright IBM, OS/2 1.0 and I think the date was 1987. It had a couple of updates along the way to boot off CD but was very ancient code.
I think it was very silly for Yahoo to ask for so much money, and to tell all their employees they would load them up with all kinds of bonuses if Microsoft took over. Bad for the shareholders. Basically Yang and the crew have their money and just don't want to admit they lost. They're done, and they're willing to destroy the company rather than admit Microsoft just won.
No, there were some pretty significant kernel-level changes in Whistler. Just read the MSDN library for features that require a specific SDK version to see what XP had that 2000 didn't.
"Forking" (launching) a process is much more expensive on Windows than it is on Linux. Windows NT is architected after VMS (in part because of Dave Cutler). Processes are expensive on windows.
I'm one of those 4 people. It should have been 6 movies and every single nuance should have been added, and eight million other nuances (which were 100% faithful to the "canon") could have been worked in to keep people interesting.
The interesting thing about LOTR was the internal cohesion of the world. It was never "great literature."
Remember Hailstorm? The plan was to expand Passport to first include calendar, todo, and some other web services, and then to provide an ActiveDirectory back-end for auth and ultimately to include all these kinds of services (including payroll and AR/AP data) in a massive cloud.
Privacy experts freaked out, but Microsoft never cancels anything.
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People talk about Microsoft making all these radical changes like it's easy-peasy. I used to think kind of that way before I worked there for a while. Hell, I can design an operating system! They can just write a whole new OS from scratch and chuck all that el-crap-o code. Yeah, and write it all again? It's just not that easy to build all the parts and have every single company in the world know how to write crappy drivers for it :-)
My parents used to be in this category. "We don't NEED broadband -- it's already plenty fast enough for us at it is!" Then they tried it, now they love it.
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Haven't read the article, but that sounds like Microsoft's Profile Guided Optimizations.
Soylent Green is made of People!!!! They said they were going to change it, but they didn't! It's still people!!
Offtopic, but it's the end of day here at work...
What language is that in? :-)
-10 coolpoints for writing legal VB.NET and getting the comment style wrong...
When you use the Kernel debugger, pretty much everything windows does becomes pretty transparent. Especially when you connect with a Firewire computer and freeze it in Kernel Mode. It's all in Inside Windows 2000, etc.
Thanks. I tried #1, but it doesn't work with Microsoft's 1.1 format exported from Outlook 2007 :-) It would be trivial to write a little XSLT, but I'm on Windows and don't want to write yet another commandline XML to XSLT processor in C# :-) Thanks tho.
Having used to work at Microsoft, I find a lot of the Microsoft blogs pretty interesting to read in Outlook 2007. :-) I know - lame. But no other blog seems to make sense to read, and all the other RSS software sucks to me relative to just using the browser. This is like being on internal mailing lists back at MS.
Meh, jesus christ, is it so freaking hard to put an OPML to HTML converter up on the web where I can find it? Here, have some raw formatting...
<opml version="1.1"><head><title>Feeds</title></head><body><outline text="A View from Elsewhere" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="ascend slowly, breathing normally" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/karinm/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="BCL Team Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="bharry's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Convert your Windows Server 2008 to a Workstation!" xmlUrl="http://www.win2008workstation.com/wordpress/feed/" type="rss"/><outline text="Douglas Purdy" xmlUrl="http://douglaspurdy.com/feed/" type="rss"/><outline text="Eric Fleegal's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/ericflee/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Geoffrey Vandiest WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogsrss.skynet.be/g/geoffrey-vandiest/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/coolthingoftheday" type="rss"/><outline text="I'm not a Klingon" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnste/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Jason Zander's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Jeff Beehler's Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Kim Hamilton" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/kimhamil/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet" xmlUrl="http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/rss2.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="Microsoft Source Analysis for C#" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/sourceanalysis/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Microsoft SQL Server Development Customer Advisory Team" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlcat/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Microsoft Windows SDK Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="MSDN Blogs" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/MainFeed.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="MSDN: United States" xmlUrl="http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/MSDN/globalfeeds/en-us/Global-MSDN-en-us.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="MSDN: Visual Studio" xmlUrl="http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/MSDN/en-us/vsts2008/products/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Not Northwind" xmlUrl="http://www.codeplex.com/notnorthwind/Project/ProjectRss.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="Pedram Rezaei's Ramblings" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/pedram/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="rdoherty's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScottHanselman" type="rss"/><outline text="Scott Holden's Blog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/scottholden/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="ScottGu's Blog" xmlUrl="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/rss.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="ShankuN's Blog" xmlUrl="http://www.shankun.com/Services/Rss.aspx" type="rss"/><outline text="shell: revealed" xmlUrl="http://shellrevealed.com/blogs/MainFeed.aspx?GroupID=-1&Type=BlogsOnly" type="rss"/><outline text="Somasegar's WebLog" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="Sorting it all Out" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="SQL Server Storage Engine" xmlUrl="http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/rss.xml" type="rss"/><outline text="SQLCAT.com" xmlUrl="http://sql
I have heard many Java developers complain that applets in browsers fail in different JVMs.
On Windows machines, .NET is hugely predictable :-) Microsoft is "not bad" for actually getting stuff done. In the last few years, I've done SQL server, Oracle, and lastly DB/2 running on an AS/400, all from C# using pretty much the same techniques. It gets the job done, enterprise-wise.
I agree. Hey you kids, get off my lawn!
I wish I could remember this account's password:
http://ask.slashdot.org/~DireWolf
#9626.
He's the guy I created first, before I came back a few months later.
I don't know if they've rewritten it, but when I was there in 2002, the Windows Server 2003 Boot Sector and program loader said Copyright IBM, OS/2 1.0 and I think the date was 1987. It had a couple of updates along the way to boot off CD but was very ancient code.
I think it was very silly for Yahoo to ask for so much money, and to tell all their employees they would load them up with all kinds of bonuses if Microsoft took over. Bad for the shareholders. Basically Yang and the crew have their money and just don't want to admit they lost. They're done, and they're willing to destroy the company rather than admit Microsoft just won.
Yahoo will simply go out of business.
Dammit, I scanned the comments to see if it had been done. Duh.
http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20080331.html
http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20080401.html
I just upgraded to Server 2008 Enterprise this weekend. It's very much like XP (most of the "crap" isn't on). It's nice! Give it a try.
Who writes Java Virtual Machines?
Why not just call them IE and Firefox? Why beat around the bush?
Step 1b: Guy writes post outlining steps 1-6, nothing changes.
No, there were some pretty significant kernel-level changes in Whistler. Just read the MSDN library for features that require a specific SDK version to see what XP had that 2000 didn't.
"Forking" (launching) a process is much more expensive on Windows than it is on Linux. Windows NT is architected after VMS (in part because of Dave Cutler). Processes are expensive on windows.
I'm one of those 4 people. It should have been 6 movies and every single nuance should have been added, and eight million other nuances (which were 100% faithful to the "canon") could have been worked in to keep people interesting.
The interesting thing about LOTR was the internal cohesion of the world. It was never "great literature."
Remember Hailstorm? The plan was to expand Passport to first include calendar, todo, and some other web services, and then to provide an ActiveDirectory back-end for auth and ultimately to include all these kinds of services (including payroll and AR/AP data) in a massive cloud.
Privacy experts freaked out, but Microsoft never cancels anything.