Well, a little-known corollary, nay; an aaxion, er axiom I mean,
Heh, you're slurring. You're still drunk. Nothing you say will be true (or even coherent) until tomorrow morning, when you inevitably vomit on the side of the bed, dress yourself, and return to your thankless job which caused the drinking fit in the first place.
Sorry, but I'm majoring in Computer Engineering, and I can see the ultra-virtualized hell that is Linux. However, who am I to listen further to a moron who doesn't even use HTML in his posts?
So what you are telling me is that an Application can take down the system if the application is "crap"?
Yes. That's exactly the case with RealPlayer, Creative's drivers, and other programs written by overstressed software engineers.
The application isn't crap, the OS is. The entire design of Windows from the registry to the system of dll handling is utter garbage.
Garbage, you say? I saw the Microsoft regional rep delete his NTOSKRNL.EXE off of his laptop. Windows 2000 promptly extracted it from the driver cab back into \WINNT\system32. Also, Windows guards DLLs with its life with the driver signing process (unless, of course, you're sure of the driver's quality [or are willing to take the risk] and you say, "Yes, install this driver). After seeing the demonstration of Win2K's protection of system files, I decided to shun Linux, since you could delete/etc/fstab without any action taken by Linux to correct this.
An application should NEVER modify the system in any way. Period. An application should NEVER overwrite the system files with newer or older versions. Period.
Sorry to tell you this, but as far as overwriting drivers, DLLs and registry entries, sh*t happens. There are two companies notorious for overwriting system resources and effectively wrecking the registry: these two companies are Netscape and Real Networks.
The OS should NEVER allow such activity to occur is it has been proven to cause system instablity.
As I said, some companies (*cough*NETSCAPE*cough*) would do anything to Windows to make Microsoft look bad. It's unfortunate that so many people and companies have succumbed to this BillVengeance. Even/. has this vengeance (as seen by the Gates of Borg picture).
Windows 2000 Server takes forever to load on a K6/2-400 with 64 Megs of RAM. It eats up all my memory before I can even load a program.
I'd hate to tell you this, but your system is not the kind of system designed to handle Windows 2000, and vice versa. The "K-Sucks" series was strictly designed for the consumer market which didn't want to spend money on a truly powerful system (don't bother to argue this; your complaints of sluggish performance only validate my point). My system loves Windows 2000: here are the specs
Intel Pentium III 500
320 MB PC100 SDRAM
GeForce 2 GTS
50 GB total Hard Drive space, etc., etc.
With these specs, I have enough room to open 256MB files, enough to give Quake 3 a 200MB hunk (reminds me, gotta tweak the cvars to do that). Just remember, AMD is not concerned with true performance; they only want to build a processor that does a slapdash job, and they reap the revenue from under your butt cheek (your wallet, you easily offendable Linux gnome).
I can imagine the level of comments going on at TrollTech if the Troll in the name holds true to the Slashdot definition:
5u53 r0ck5!!!
N0 1t d035n't! 51AcK|/|/4R3 r0k5!
5kR00 y0u, 1AM3R!
(and so on, and so on, and so on.)
My opinion is: if you can get the staff/knowledge to run linux to its fullest, then give it a go. Otherwise, Win2K is the way to go. It is much more simpler to learn the many undiscovered features of Win2K as you go along, as opposed to Linux, which never gives you any hint to its hidden butt-savers.
I tried to get Quake 3 running on Linux, but I gave up once I read the readme. The readme stated that a 2.9 kernel is required. The kernel in my system was 2.2.14 (Yes, call me a Linux nerd, I know my kernel version by heart). Sure, Linus has been hinting at a 4.0 kernel, but as far as I've found out, 2.2.16 is the latest stablebuild. Also, the OpenGL code for the Voodoo 2 is messed up seriously, with color abberations during light intensity changes (Come on! Even the Linux coders couldn't get the drivers to the venerable V2 correct? That's PATHETIC!!)
In at least 2 days, I will be re-installing Windows 2000 on my Linux box. I think that when a linux distribution goes gold and STILL has nagging bugs, there's a serious problem. (Yes, it was RedHat 6.2, that may have been part of it, but admit it, Slackware would still have those segmentation faults as well.)
It doesn't? Even the fact that Javascript needs the Microsoft VMs or the Sun Java libraries? I think that you are an unusually motivated anonymous coward. That's why I think that anonymous cowards should never be allowed to moderate.
What the IOC doesn't realize is that these amateur athletes desperately need their sponsors to survive. Sure, Michael Johnson has close to a basketball player's salary with Nike, but I'm talking about the little guys, who compete in the sports that NBC refuses to televise. The competitors in sports like biathlon and sharpshooting need their sponsors, like Remington, Colt, and Smith & Wesson, so they don't starve like dogs in the Olympics.
Also, I think that the IOC has become a group of technopobic Luddites. They fear the Internet in all its forms. The highest form of technology that they wish to have in the Olympics is that camera on a rail parallel to the track, so you can easily see who's ahead in the 100 meter dash.
If the IOC is like this in 2012, I think that the popularity of the Olympics will have degraded to the popularity of Mickey Rooney today.
This is obviously another occurence of a situation that has happened all-too-often on Slashdot: The posting of false stories. Please, Rob, Hemos, timmy, JohnKatz (wherever you are), verify the source of the stories before you post it. If it's too good to be true, it probably is.
Slashdot is supposed to be "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters," not this technical tabloid for all the linux gnomes out there, like we've been seeing for the last six months.
I can't imagine that somebody wouldn't want to try this for PC processor upgrades.
Someone already has.
Evergreen Technologies has the Accelera PCI which takes a Celeron CPU and a PC100 SODIMM on a PCI card. However, this doesn't yield as much gain as the apple upgrades, since PCI wasn't built with the bandwidth necessary to support an extra CPU.
Quality cases go for at least $100. Don't trust those $60 el-cheapo cases; I bought one once, and only two of the slot cover screwholes were actually threaded! Now that case houses my Celeron 466 linux toy, in which the 2 Voodoo2s keep being pushed out of the PCI slot.
1. Slashdot used to be like that cool radio station. (yup.)
2. They got bought by a big multi-website media company. (andover.net)
3. They've gotten lame. (rampant linux gnomes bashing every pro-Microsoft post/story)
4. Now, they're giving away a car. (that fugly P/T cruiser)
Besides that, the car is fscking fugly. I mean REAL fugly. I mean oh-my-lord-aren't-you-embarrassed-to-be-seen-in-th at-thing fugly.
I agree. If it was the Prowler, maybe I'd be interested, but not this attempt to revive Dick Tracy again.
For a minute, I thought he was wrong. But this poses a simple question that defies the current Rambus architecture: Why not widen the bus to 64- or 128-bit? This WDRDRAM would be the fastest (and most expensive) ram on earth. But there's another problem: the packet strategy. Packeting is okay for unreliable connections, like networking. But on a connection that's bound to be up and working all the time (the memory bus), it's redundant and wasteful. How many times has your memory bus failed during operation? (Intel 820 owners, don't answer this one! lol). Chances are, you either never had, or you did the ultimate solution, good ol' reboot. I highly doubt that the Rambus packet structure would do anything beneficial, as its only currently known effect on speed is negative.
Going back to my MWRA analogy, it's like wrapping turds in maxipads and flushing them. It's an unnecessary waste.
I know, that's stating the improbable (if not impossible), but seriously, if Microsoft took out the axe to its retail prices (and to its marketing staff as well), they would look much better in the long run. Here's a sample of my recommended prices:
Windows 98/ME upgrade: $44.99
Windows 98/ME full: $99.99
Windows 2000 Professional: $229.99
Windows 2000 Server 5 Client: $249 upgrade, $499 full
WDM Driver SDK: $44.99
Given Microsoft's MONSTROUS profit margin, I think that this is more than fair.
Then you're in luck. You can buy DVDs in India for $10.00 (no, I haven't verified that, but I do know that DVDs in India are cheap).
Personally, I'm waiting for a DVD player for Windows 2000 that will allow you to do screenshots and sound grabs that are not in excess of 45 seconds. Come on! The code is broken already!
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Heh, you're slurring. You're still drunk. Nothing you say will be true (or even coherent) until tomorrow morning, when you inevitably vomit on the side of the bed, dress yourself, and return to your thankless job which caused the drinking fit in the first place.
Sorry, but I'm majoring in Computer Engineering, and I can see the ultra-virtualized hell that is Linux. However, who am I to listen further to a moron who doesn't even use HTML in his posts?
As for your comment, I think the fact that your drunk and vulgar nullifies all of it.
flamebait. Go back to the old country, wherever it is, and slap the professor who taught you English grammar.
Yes. That's exactly the case with RealPlayer, Creative's drivers, and other programs written by overstressed software engineers.
Garbage, you say? I saw the Microsoft regional rep delete his NTOSKRNL.EXE off of his laptop. Windows 2000 promptly extracted it from the driver cab back into \WINNT\system32. Also, Windows guards DLLs with its life with the driver signing process (unless, of course, you're sure of the driver's quality [or are willing to take the risk] and you say, "Yes, install this driver). After seeing the demonstration of Win2K's protection of system files, I decided to shun Linux, since you could delete /etc/fstab without any action taken by Linux to correct this.
Sorry to tell you this, but as far as overwriting drivers, DLLs and registry entries, sh*t happens. There are two companies notorious for overwriting system resources and effectively wrecking the registry: these two companies are Netscape and Real Networks.
As I said, some companies (*cough*NETSCAPE*cough*) would do anything to Windows to make Microsoft look bad. It's unfortunate that so many people and companies have succumbed to this BillVengeance. Even /. has this vengeance (as seen by the Gates of Borg picture).
...thinking with the organ between his legs instead of the one atop his neck.
If you're so good at Linux, could you be so kind as to recompile libidcin.so into a Winamp-ready input plugin?
I'd hate to tell you this, but your system is not the kind of system designed to handle Windows 2000, and vice versa. The "K-Sucks" series was strictly designed for the consumer market which didn't want to spend money on a truly powerful system (don't bother to argue this; your complaints of sluggish performance only validate my point). My system loves Windows 2000: here are the specs
Intel Pentium III 500
320 MB PC100 SDRAM
GeForce 2 GTS
50 GB total Hard Drive space, etc., etc.
With these specs, I have enough room to open 256MB files, enough to give Quake 3 a 200MB hunk (reminds me, gotta tweak the cvars to do that). Just remember, AMD is not concerned with true performance; they only want to build a processor that does a slapdash job, and they reap the revenue from under your butt cheek (your wallet, you easily offendable Linux gnome).
Good. As I see it, Slashdot can't have anymore downtime as it is (with all the trolls, Linux gnomes, and all).
I can imagine the level of comments going on at TrollTech if the Troll in the name holds true to the Slashdot definition: 5u53 r0ck5!!! N0 1t d035n't! 51AcK|/|/4R3 r0k5! 5kR00 y0u, 1AM3R! (and so on, and so on, and so on.)
My opinion is: if you can get the staff/knowledge to run linux to its fullest, then give it a go. Otherwise, Win2K is the way to go. It is much more simpler to learn the many undiscovered features of Win2K as you go along, as opposed to Linux, which never gives you any hint to its hidden butt-savers.
I tried to get Quake 3 running on Linux, but I gave up once I read the readme. The readme stated that a 2.9 kernel is required. The kernel in my system was 2.2.14 (Yes, call me a Linux nerd, I know my kernel version by heart). Sure, Linus has been hinting at a 4.0 kernel, but as far as I've found out, 2.2.16 is the latest stablebuild. Also, the OpenGL code for the Voodoo 2 is messed up seriously, with color abberations during light intensity changes (Come on! Even the Linux coders couldn't get the drivers to the venerable V2 correct? That's PATHETIC!!)
In at least 2 days, I will be re-installing Windows 2000 on my Linux box. I think that when a linux distribution goes gold and STILL has nagging bugs, there's a serious problem. (Yes, it was RedHat 6.2, that may have been part of it, but admit it, Slackware would still have those segmentation faults as well.)
Like I always say, there's four things that are guaranteed to crash Windows 2000:
Badly written software,
Badly written drivers,
All Netscape products (including AOL),
All RealNetworks products.
I can definetly testify to this, as I have significant experience with Windows 2000.
Please don't say that Rob is upgrading the perl scripts on /. If he does, we'll all be guinea pigs. Oh well, might not be that bad.
It doesn't? Even the fact that Javascript needs the Microsoft VMs or the Sun Java libraries? I think that you are an unusually motivated anonymous coward. That's why I think that anonymous cowards should never be allowed to moderate.
Also, I think that the IOC has become a group of technopobic Luddites. They fear the Internet in all its forms. The highest form of technology that they wish to have in the Olympics is that camera on a rail parallel to the track, so you can easily see who's ahead in the 100 meter dash.
If the IOC is like this in 2012, I think that the popularity of the Olympics will have degraded to the popularity of Mickey Rooney today.
Sorry, but that title was just begging for a Trekkie joke.
Last I heard, the FBI doesn't participate in sodomy as punishment. You sure have some sick ideas.
Slashdot is supposed to be "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters," not this technical tabloid for all the linux gnomes out there, like we've been seeing for the last six months.
Someone already has.
Evergreen Technologies has the Accelera PCI which takes a Celeron CPU and a PC100 SODIMM on a PCI card. However, this doesn't yield as much gain as the apple upgrades, since PCI wasn't built with the bandwidth necessary to support an extra CPU.
Quality cases go for at least $100. Don't trust those $60 el-cheapo cases; I bought one once, and only two of the slot cover screwholes were actually threaded! Now that case houses my Celeron 466 linux toy, in which the 2 Voodoo2s keep being pushed out of the PCI slot.
the server is ponging pings, but no response at all through the browser.
South Park Episode 217: The Underpants Gnomes
1. Slashdot used to be like that cool radio station. (yup.)
2. They got bought by a big multi-website media company. (andover.net) 3. They've gotten lame. (rampant linux gnomes bashing every pro-Microsoft post/story) 4. Now, they're giving away a car. (that fugly P/T cruiser) Besides that, the car is fscking fugly. I mean REAL fugly. I mean oh-my-lord-aren't-you-embarrassed-to-be-seen-in-tGoing back to my MWRA analogy, it's like wrapping turds in maxipads and flushing them. It's an unnecessary waste.
Windows 98/ME upgrade: $44.99
Windows 98/ME full: $99.99
Windows 2000 Professional: $229.99
Windows 2000 Server 5 Client: $249 upgrade, $499 full
WDM Driver SDK: $44.99
Given Microsoft's MONSTROUS profit margin, I think that this is more than fair.
Personally, I'm waiting for a DVD player for Windows 2000 that will allow you to do screenshots and sound grabs that are not in excess of 45 seconds. Come on! The code is broken already!