Besides all of the new 'media' enhancements to XP, this is not the primary cause of it's larger size. One of the biggest contributors is Windows File Protection or WFP. WFP keeps a second copy of all important operating system files, especially dll's, and is prepared to replace and important files that are replaced by other programs. Hopefully this will do a lot to solve dll hell. Secondly, XP keeps a copy of the driver cache so you don't have to locate the CD to install new hardware. This will also help to make the system truly plug and play, which I think is very important for things like digital cameras ect. Drive space is really a non-issue with 40gig drives selling for less than $100
Overall, XP is a really nice OS. You can't pass off the interface as 'fisher-price' because after a quick retraining period, I find it much faster. As far as the article itself, the only flaw I could suggest is a driver issue in the hardware tested. I barely noticed any speed differences between 2000 and Xp to even make it an issue. While some may scoff(sp?) at the passport idea, I believe many people will will benefit from it over 3rd-party products in the arena of purchasing photo prints ect. You can argue that 3rd-party tools are available but from my experience with the normal computer user, they won't even bother. One thing that impresses me the most partly because I'm biased, is the benchmarks results for SMP systems. This sort of SMP performance seems to be a real plus for SMP systems as a whole (which is probably where we should be headed).
Overall, I think it's a wonderful OS compared to 98, and if there are performance issues, they will be resolved considering the enormous similiarity of 2000 and XP. Contrary to popular/. belief, XP is an issue to linux...
It's really really funny, they have a drop down list of phrases like 'good game' to choose from but no real chat. You can't get to know the person, only choose from a list of predefined responses.
I can't believe you are aguing that linux/etc is easier to configure than the windows registry. It may be just that you don't have enough experience with the registry. On the other hand,/etc is the largest monstrocity I've ever seen. Can't they at least agree on a standard format for the files. You must reverse engineer a million different ideas on the perfect configuration syntax. In the end it's a lot worse.
So really, why buy WinXP? It's just Win2K with phone home and some more GUI knobs and whistles that slow it down (that you'll immediately turn off if you're bothered about performance).
Because there are more drivers in XP than 2000 and it's main purpose is to move people from 98 to the NT base. Why buy 2000 now when XP has been released? As far as performance, it performs just as well on my machine. Besides games, performance is not an issue like it used to be. It's $100 for the upgrade, I remember paying that amount before...
It was coined by the french postmodernist Jean Baudrillard in his infamous book Simulation and Simulacra. This book also shows up in the matrix; it's the book with the minidisc inside that neo hands to the guy on mescaline. Also, 'welcome to the valley of the real' is another one of his quotes. Anyway, it's an interesting perspective of the media in the present age, though thick in wording.
As if the lack of applications weren't enough of an obstacle, self-inflicted public relations problems - in the form of bad behavior by vocal Linux proponents - are casting a dark shadow over Linux. Eric Raymond, agree with him or not, is a thoughtful representative of the Linux movement. So is Linus Torvalds, and the top contributors to his kernel project, and many Linux business leaders as well. Unfortunately, the mass Linux culture is infected with a nastiness that creeps past contentiousness and toward the demeaning and dehumanizing whenever anyone criticizes Linux.
The problem has caused even Rob Malda, the founder of Slashdot, to sound the alarm. Malda, known by his nom de net, CmdrTaco, can get down and dirty himself. So when CmdrTaco's own troops provoke his disgust, you know there's a serious problem.
"Why Linux Won't Ever Be Mainstream" is the name of the controversial article he posted on Slashdot in July. It attracted more than 1,300 comments in a matter of hours. His two major points: Computer companies have shown little interest in helping Linux succeed in the consumer market; and, that's due in no small part to the bad attitude of the in-your-face Linux subculture.
Malda's rant recounts his attempt to find a USB device driver on the Web that would link his new HP scanner with Linux. In the process, he made a "shocking discovery": People were posting nasty messages aimed at HP. The messages, he said, were "just plain mean. HP employees are called bastards and assholes." One especially delightful post: "HP seems to be smeeling &##91;sic ] Gates' asshole rather than coming out of it. Beware, HP, Linux is going strong and unless you recognize that and properly support your hardware under Linux, your are going to Piss in your pants one day." This is not an isolated case. "I see it on Slashdot all the time," Malda wrote.
Most open source veterans take rabid flaming in stride. But that's not necessarily the case among the legions of open source volunteers showing up fresh from companies like IBM, HP, SGI, Motorola, and Compaq - not to mention their bosses, many of whom reserve judgment on the very idea of open source software. Which is why Alan Cox - effectively the COO for the Linux kernel development project and the man Torvalds refers to as his alter ego - wants the business community to know that the kernel team is a small and separate group with little if any real connection to the ideologues and the flamers. "There is actually very little overlap between the people doing software development and... the Slashdot people, the people saying, 'You suck, you should give us a free driver,'" says Cox. "We take these vendors as responsible business people."
though it would probably be a little less popular. As for your example, I think it's biased. Besides, IDS problems can be solved with a work around from a trusted set of individuals or some other solution.
...they overflow a buffer and run some code; it is just as useful to list the consequences of the exploit without posting the exploit itself. Perhaps eventually it might be ethical to release the exploit, but otherwise 99% of the people who use the code 'exploit' it.
What you need to check is the cache miss rate, I think this can be done in windows under the performance module or whatever. Believe it or not, most people only need 256k of cache and most can get by with 128k, this is why people could get away with celerons even though people laughed at them for their puny cache. Some multimedia apps need more cache (rare), hence the xeon chip. Increasing the cache beyond this point usually is futile since most data which falls outside the range is seemingly placed in a random part of memory, and sram is very expensive. I may be wrong on a couple points but I'm pretty sure the average hit rate looks similiar the graph of log(x)+ e.
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It's nice, I really like it. It has a nice clean layout if you use msft's sites, and it's essentially explorer with less clutter. This is the direction programs need to be heading, less configuration, more automation. By the way, I suffered with netscape 4.x on linux for years, and when mozilla didn't deliver, no more linux desktop for me. It just wasn't happening and I was missing out.
If I remember correctly, the code-red patch had been out since june. The problem is the admins, and not so much the OS. Most of the recent viruses had a patch before they hit.
This is the question I have been pondering for a long time now. There is no doubt that msft hurts other companies by integrating the best ideas in to the OS itself, but that must be a plus for the consumer. Yes, they will pay more for things they do 'not' need but I have found myself using most of the features in XP and I know I don't want to give them up. Integration with the OS is the key to their success, and you can not argue that you can do less with windows now than in the past. Anything that is gaining momentum towards universal acceptance like music and web browing belongs in the OS so the functionality can be extended across the board. Just look at all the places embedded ie is showing up for instance. Maybe they have put a lot of companies out of buisness, and maybe they need to open up more of their interfaces to spurt new ideas, but a breakup? I would be pissed. Despite what anyone says about microsoft stealing ideas, the best artists steal. In fact, linux is a unix clone. There is no reason not to use a good idea, in fact it should be the norm. It might even help the linux crowd after examining each programmers idea of the perfect interface. I don't think I could imagine something other than a monopoly controlling the operating system market. We don't need two or three different logic systems, one is complex enough.
PS: I did use linux for four years on the desktop and have given up hope in that arena.
How about this, good ideas are obvious to everyone and it's hard to try to come up with a subpar system when you know there is a better idea that exists. Of course you steal it, you steal it without thinking about it. It's a solution found, no reason to reinvent the wheel here.
Besides the facts or legitimacy of these letters, video tapes ect, MSFT knows how to create public opinion. Sometimes they get caught churing out simulacra but they sure know how to create an aura about themselves. It's a company of the future if you ask me.
Windows 2000 has an automated network install and a cmd line switch to do an automated install, totally unattended. And how long does it take linux to reboot, a couple minutes depending on the machine? Why is that one action a total waste of your time and not the amount of time to copy the binaries off the cd. I just don't understand this mentality.
What a bunch of windows FUD. I've been using linux for four years and windows a little longer, and I have spent countless hours on linux configuring it, tweaking it ect. I only know the system so well because all effort required to get it to do what you want. Sure, it's very extensible whatever, but I'm not even sure most people could understand the terminology in the install. Now you might say windows is just as bad, but looking back at the amount of time spent to make my computer do what I want it too, linux takes top honors, no comparison. Now I haven't tried RH 7.1 but I doubt THAT MUCH has changed. When it comes to usability, MSFT is king, that is unless you have a CS degree.
PS: As far as rebooting goes, who cares, it does it on its own and post Win2k rarely needs to reboot after the install. It tells you nothing about the usability, only more geek stats.
Perhaps, just perhaps our present day way of life restricts us of our primal desires. It would explain popular television, and the Romans, and animals...ect ect
Mediaplayer automatically converts my mp3's to 64kbps (I'm very impressed with wma) for transferring to my ipaq. The only downside is that it doesnt cache the conversion so its twofold whenever you want to do a transfer. Also on the mediaplayer front, I heard the wm8 beta does all its recordings at 64kbps instead of 96 with no appreciable quality loss. Once mediaplayer is peoples default audio software for buring cd's, creating video and the like, I have a feeling its going to become extremly popular. Now I know what the replies are going to be, wma at 64kbps sucks, I encode all my mp3's at 256kbps. I really don't care to play the audiophile, I just want twice the music on my portable device. Besides, I still can't tell the difference. Lets see Ogg get that kind of quality from so little...
I'm sure they will have a slim web version of word but that was not the point. The point was syncronized information, like a central online repository of documents. This allows you to do some work at the office, stop at a terminal and use the web version for a while and finally finishing up on word at home. The point of.NET is not online apps, its online information syncronized everywhere. I'm sure this is the future, but its good even for linux. The API is network based, not OS based and a linux app could conform to the calender interface that every other windows/mac calender program conforms to. This way, you log on to any computer and use any program but its still the same information. Information is the key, not which program a user uses to interface with the information. They might need to use the web calender program for a while but get the real work done in the office, or perhaps their mobile, whatever. I actually can't wait...
Where do these statistics come from? Most people I know diagnosed with ADD have ADD. I have questions about a few but most are clear cases. So clear it's scary sometimes. I have severe ADD combined with a great deal of smarts and if it wasn't for my adderall (dextroamphetamine -- JFK brand speed) I couldn't survive. School was a joke for me but work is completly different. I think most mental diseases are a joke, ADD is just the current target. People get all worked up over the same as cocaine classification. Drugs arn't good or bad, they just are. If the shoe fits...deal with it.
I've always wondered in what stage of the process the films cinematography transcends phony to the surreal image we see on the screen. I'm sure slashdot can answer...
I'm not so sure unix is tamable anymore, and open source wars only make things all the worse. Just look at emacs and vi and their syntax influence extended poorly in many mixed programs in unix./etc is an absolute mess, with every developer trying to attain a perfect configuration syntax ends up causing hell for everyone. And now gnome and kde are going through stages similiar to MSFT and their early stab at componant software. It was hell at first but it finally starting to pay off. I'm just afraid what linux needs would no longer make it linux. Well, who would say its popularity has peaked. Just looking at the stock prices convince me I'm way behind the times but then again, I read slashdot.
Gnome and KDE are crap compared to these interfaces, the only good features they have they stole. They are handicapped by strong direction and lack of interface testing. UI is VERY VERY hard, you don't just slap together whatever comes to mind and expect it to be usable to the general public. All gnome and kde amount to are extremly complex interfaces built by COMPUTER EXPERTS that try to be beginner interfaces at the same time and fail miserably. You can argue that gnome and kde are great, but you allready know and understand the concepts behind them. From the outside, it's pretty much worthless. Plus they are discovering all the problems msft discovered during the early phases of its switch to componant software. MSFT took the plunge and now they are coming back in a big way after working out all the problems. Gnome and KDE have just begun their journey.
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He does have a valid point, but the transition is harder.
Besides all of the new 'media' enhancements to XP, this is not the primary cause of it's larger size. One of the biggest contributors is Windows File Protection or WFP. WFP keeps a second copy of all important operating system files, especially dll's, and is prepared to replace and important files that are replaced by other programs. Hopefully this will do a lot to solve dll hell. Secondly, XP keeps a copy of the driver cache so you don't have to locate the CD to install new hardware. This will also help to make the system truly plug and play, which I think is very important for things like digital cameras ect. Drive space is really a non-issue with 40gig drives selling for less than $100
Overall, XP is a really nice OS. You can't pass off the interface as 'fisher-price' because after a quick retraining period, I find it much faster. As far as the article itself, the only flaw I could suggest is a driver issue in the hardware tested. I barely noticed any speed differences between 2000 and Xp to even make it an issue. While some may scoff(sp?) at the passport idea, I believe many people will will benefit from it over 3rd-party products in the arena of purchasing photo prints ect. You can argue that 3rd-party tools are available but from my experience with the normal computer user, they won't even bother. One thing that impresses me the most partly because I'm biased, is the benchmarks results for SMP systems. This sort of SMP performance seems to be a real plus for SMP systems as a whole (which is probably where we should be headed).
Overall, I think it's a wonderful OS compared to 98, and if there are performance issues, they will be resolved considering the enormous similiarity of 2000 and XP. Contrary to popular /. belief, XP is an issue to linux...
It's really really funny, they have a drop down list of phrases like 'good game' to choose from but no real chat. You can't get to know the person, only choose from a list of predefined responses.
That was a little while ago considering 64megs is now selling for $1 (pc133). Hell, just get 512 for $40 or 256 for $15.
I can't believe you are aguing that linux /etc is easier to configure than the windows registry. It may be just that you don't have enough experience with the registry. On the other hand, /etc is the largest monstrocity I've ever seen. Can't they at least agree on a standard format for the files. You must reverse engineer a million different ideas on the perfect configuration syntax. In the end it's a lot worse.
So really, why buy WinXP? It's just Win2K with phone home and some more GUI knobs and whistles that slow it down (that you'll immediately turn off if you're bothered about performance).
Because there are more drivers in XP than 2000 and it's main purpose is to move people from 98 to the NT base. Why buy 2000 now when XP has been released? As far as performance, it performs just as well on my machine. Besides games, performance is not an issue like it used to be. It's $100 for the upgrade, I remember paying that amount before...
It was coined by the french postmodernist Jean Baudrillard in his infamous book Simulation and Simulacra. This book also shows up in the matrix; it's the book with the minidisc inside that neo hands to the guy on mescaline. Also, 'welcome to the valley of the real' is another one of his quotes. Anyway, it's an interesting perspective of the media in the present age, though thick in wording.
Matrix fans should love it...
The problem has caused even Rob Malda, the founder of Slashdot, to sound the alarm. Malda, known by his nom de net, CmdrTaco, can get down and dirty himself. So when CmdrTaco's own troops provoke his disgust, you know there's a serious problem.
"Why Linux Won't Ever Be Mainstream" is the name of the controversial article he posted on Slashdot in July. It attracted more than 1,300 comments in a matter of hours. His two major points: Computer companies have shown little interest in helping Linux succeed in the consumer market; and, that's due in no small part to the bad attitude of the in-your-face Linux subculture.
Malda's rant recounts his attempt to find a USB device driver on the Web that would link his new HP scanner with Linux. In the process, he made a "shocking discovery": People were posting nasty messages aimed at HP. The messages, he said, were "just plain mean. HP employees are called bastards and assholes." One especially delightful post: "HP seems to be smeeling &##91;sic ] Gates' asshole rather than coming out of it. Beware, HP, Linux is going strong and unless you recognize that and properly support your hardware under Linux, your are going to Piss in your pants one day." This is not an isolated case. "I see it on Slashdot all the time," Malda wrote.
Most open source veterans take rabid flaming in stride. But that's not necessarily the case among the legions of open source volunteers showing up fresh from companies like IBM, HP, SGI, Motorola, and Compaq - not to mention their bosses, many of whom reserve judgment on the very idea of open source software. Which is why Alan Cox - effectively the COO for the Linux kernel development project and the man Torvalds refers to as his alter ego - wants the business community to know that the kernel team is a small and separate group with little if any real connection to the ideologues and the flamers. "There is actually very little overlap between the people doing software development and
though it would probably be a little less popular. As for your example, I think it's biased. Besides, IDS problems can be solved with a work around from a trusted set of individuals or some other solution.
...they overflow a buffer and run some code; it is just as useful to list the consequences of the exploit without posting the exploit itself. Perhaps eventually it might be ethical to release the exploit, but otherwise 99% of the people who use the code 'exploit' it.
What you need to check is the cache miss rate, I think this can be done in windows under the performance module or whatever. Believe it or not, most people only need 256k of cache and most can get by with 128k, this is why people could get away with celerons even though people laughed at them for their puny cache. Some multimedia apps need more cache (rare), hence the xeon chip. Increasing the cache beyond this point usually is futile since most data which falls outside the range is seemingly placed in a random part of memory, and sram is very expensive. I may be wrong on a couple points but I'm pretty sure the average hit rate looks similiar the graph of log(x)+ e.
It's nice, I really like it. It has a nice clean layout if you use msft's sites, and it's essentially explorer with less clutter. This is the direction programs need to be heading, less configuration, more automation. By the way, I suffered with netscape 4.x on linux for years, and when mozilla didn't deliver, no more linux desktop for me. It just wasn't happening and I was missing out.
If I remember correctly, the code-red patch had been out since june. The problem is the admins, and not so much the OS. Most of the recent viruses had a patch before they hit.
This is the question I have been pondering for a long time now. There is no doubt that msft hurts other companies by integrating the best ideas in to the OS itself, but that must be a plus for the consumer. Yes, they will pay more for things they do 'not' need but I have found myself using most of the features in XP and I know I don't want to give them up. Integration with the OS is the key to their success, and you can not argue that you can do less with windows now than in the past. Anything that is gaining momentum towards universal acceptance like music and web browing belongs in the OS so the functionality can be extended across the board. Just look at all the places embedded ie is showing up for instance. Maybe they have put a lot of companies out of buisness, and maybe they need to open up more of their interfaces to spurt new ideas, but a breakup? I would be pissed. Despite what anyone says about microsoft stealing ideas, the best artists steal. In fact, linux is a unix clone. There is no reason not to use a good idea, in fact it should be the norm. It might even help the linux crowd after examining each programmers idea of the perfect interface. I don't think I could imagine something other than a monopoly controlling the operating system market. We don't need two or three different logic systems, one is complex enough.
PS: I did use linux for four years on the desktop and have given up hope in that arena.
How about this, good ideas are obvious to everyone and it's hard to try to come up with a subpar system when you know there is a better idea that exists. Of course you steal it, you steal it without thinking about it. It's a solution found, no reason to reinvent the wheel here.
Besides the facts or legitimacy of these letters, video tapes ect, MSFT knows how to create public opinion. Sometimes they get caught churing out simulacra but they sure know how to create an aura about themselves. It's a company of the future if you ask me.
Windows 2000 has an automated network install and a cmd line switch to do an automated install, totally unattended. And how long does it take linux to reboot, a couple minutes depending on the machine? Why is that one action a total waste of your time and not the amount of time to copy the binaries off the cd. I just don't understand this mentality.
What a bunch of windows FUD. I've been using linux for four years and windows a little longer, and I have spent countless hours on linux configuring it, tweaking it ect. I only know the system so well because all effort required to get it to do what you want. Sure, it's very extensible whatever, but I'm not even sure most people could understand the terminology in the install. Now you might say windows is just as bad, but looking back at the amount of time spent to make my computer do what I want it too, linux takes top honors, no comparison. Now I haven't tried RH 7.1 but I doubt THAT MUCH has changed. When it comes to usability, MSFT is king, that is unless you have a CS degree. PS: As far as rebooting goes, who cares, it does it on its own and post Win2k rarely needs to reboot after the install. It tells you nothing about the usability, only more geek stats.
Perhaps, just perhaps our present day way of life restricts us of our primal desires. It would explain popular television, and the Romans, and animals...ect ect
Mediaplayer automatically converts my mp3's to 64kbps (I'm very impressed with wma) for transferring to my ipaq. The only downside is that it doesnt cache the conversion so its twofold whenever you want to do a transfer. Also on the mediaplayer front, I heard the wm8 beta does all its recordings at 64kbps instead of 96 with no appreciable quality loss. Once mediaplayer is peoples default audio software for buring cd's, creating video and the like, I have a feeling its going to become extremly popular. Now I know what the replies are going to be, wma at 64kbps sucks, I encode all my mp3's at 256kbps. I really don't care to play the audiophile, I just want twice the music on my portable device. Besides, I still can't tell the difference. Lets see Ogg get that kind of quality from so little...
I'm sure they will have a slim web version of word but that was not the point. The point was syncronized information, like a central online repository of documents. This allows you to do some work at the office, stop at a terminal and use the web version for a while and finally finishing up on word at home. The point of .NET is not online apps, its online information syncronized everywhere. I'm sure this is the future, but its good even for linux. The API is network based, not OS based and a linux app could conform to the calender interface that every other windows/mac calender program conforms to. This way, you log on to any computer and use any program but its still the same information. Information is the key, not which program a user uses to interface with the information. They might need to use the web calender program for a while but get the real work done in the office, or perhaps their mobile, whatever. I actually can't wait...
Where do these statistics come from? Most people I know diagnosed with ADD have ADD. I have questions about a few but most are clear cases. So clear it's scary sometimes. I have severe ADD combined with a great deal of smarts and if it wasn't for my adderall (dextroamphetamine -- JFK brand speed) I couldn't survive. School was a joke for me but work is completly different. I think most mental diseases are a joke, ADD is just the current target. People get all worked up over the same as cocaine classification. Drugs arn't good or bad, they just are. If the shoe fits...deal with it.
I've always wondered in what stage of the process the films cinematography transcends phony to the surreal image we see on the screen. I'm sure slashdot can answer...
I'm not so sure unix is tamable anymore, and open source wars only make things all the worse. Just look at emacs and vi and their syntax influence extended poorly in many mixed programs in unix.
Gnome and KDE are crap compared to these interfaces, the only good features they have they stole. They are handicapped by strong direction and lack of interface testing. UI is VERY VERY hard, you don't just slap together whatever comes to mind and expect it to be usable to the general public. All gnome and kde amount to are extremly complex interfaces built by COMPUTER EXPERTS that try to be beginner interfaces at the same time and fail miserably. You can argue that gnome and kde are great, but you allready know and understand the concepts behind them. From the outside, it's pretty much worthless. Plus they are discovering all the problems msft discovered during the early phases of its switch to componant software. MSFT took the plunge and now they are coming back in a big way after working out all the problems. Gnome and KDE have just begun their journey.