This may not be the case any more, but in my experience Windows has better instrumentation. Since MS wasn't going to let you look at the source code they built in a lot more diagnosability. So there's ETW, Concurrency Visualizer, xperf, Process Explorer, Process Monitor, etc. For helping out remote family members there's Remote Assistance.
I love using PowerShell. Tab completion to find commands and parameters is awesome. I also use it to try out a few lines of code I'm curious about. Don't need to modify a program just to run something simple. Three or four statements in PowerShell and my question about an API behavior is generally answered.
Windows Media Center is dead simple to setup, use and maintain.
I'm confused, VS 2010 doesn't have any flashy animations or anything. Plus, I find it to be faster than VS 2005/8. Now if you want to know why it might feel like it's getting slow after a while, it's because it's written by people who concider themselves to be the developers of developers. Programming Gods who can't be bothered with silly things like "memory leaks". So they allow for known legacy memory leaks to exist from one version to the next because they're afraid to break something if they fix them.
I've been using IE 64-bit as my primary IE for the last two years. Sure there are plugins which don't run in it, but that tended to make a better browsing experience anyway.
If by folder redirection you mean 'sending an email to a folder different than the inbox' they called that 'sweep' (probably to help lay persons) and it's in the main menu bar inbetween junk and mark as.
I agree. Then I watch Tron and realize that the evil MPC was a resource management/permissions system and our hero's were basicly virus's that wanted access to everything on the system. I still agree with your sentiment, but it makes it harder to decide who to cheer for when watching Tron.
I've been running with a Windows standard user account seperate from my Windows Admin account for three years now and I have no problem at all using a browser. The only reason you would be getting UAC prompts is because an application is requesting permissions to make system impacting changes. The only reasons this would be happening in a browser is that your browser has the worlds worst plugins loaded, or you're visiting websites which are trying to exploit security holes in your browser to install malware.
If they didn't move things around and change some layout, most customers would look at the new OS, not see anything different and say "why should I upgrade?" Regardless of the amount of change made to the core (performance, security, etc), if the shell doesn't change the majority of users will have zero inclination to upgrade.
I know that no one here is will to say a good thing about the proposed Windows 8 secure boot "feature", but isn't this rootkit scenario the one it's trying to prevent? Would the secure boot prevent a user from booting into Windows if rootkit like this was on the computer?
If I wanted to, I could rig GCC and the like to do that too: That's the wonderful thing about command-line tools and piping, you can munge things together any way you want.
What I find useful about Roslyn is that it'll be running as part of Visual Studio, allowing for extensions access to the sytnax tree. My VS extension no longer needs to make guesses based off of the text in the file. The extension can actually see the structure of the code and make the changes I want it to in the IDE. I don't see how piping in the command line will help with the IDE experience.
It happened in Ventura County one day about ten years back. A construction worker had hit something and all cell service was down in the county for the afternoon. One of the reason I remember it so clearly was that I got ran over by a car while on my bike and learned about it in the ambulance ride to the hospital. The ambulance system had moved over to primarily using cell phones, but they had backup walkie talkies. But the backup system was overloaded due to a sharp spike in crashes which occured that afternoon and my ambulance didn't get their turn on the channel to tell the hospital we were coming. We ended up showing up at the hospital unannounced.
Any email that has to deal with my job go to my inbox. Emails from internal DL's that aren't related to the position I'm hired to, go to folders. But if it's an email that's related to my position, my team, etc. all go to my inbox. Any status emails that happen more than once a day go to their own folder as well. I have search folders setup to quickly find items that I do search for.
I find this solution to be the best in keeping me in touch with the things I work on. Hundred's of emails a day and it's not overwhelming.
True, but just like how an iPad is focused on certain tasks and doesn't do everything a laptop can do, the Kindle Fire is an even greater subset of that. So if what you would want from an iPad gets satisfied by a Fire you'll buy a Fire instead of an iPad.
This is why I'm still on Windows XP; I like the Start Menu and being able to group my applications by purpose in a *menu*.
I don't want them littered over the desktop or in silly toolbars.
I keep about three or four icons on my desktop (and never really use them). Until two months ago I didn't pin any programs to my Win 7 task bar either. But when I noticed that the same 6-8 programs running all of the time anyway, I decided to pin them. Now they're easier to find, and they're not taking up any additional space because they'd be taking up the space anyway when running.
I'm sorry you feel that your applications can only be limited to one group.
Am I the only one who actually spends the time to keep my Start menu organized?
Yes, yes you are. Ever since Vista all you need to is type in the name of the program in the search box in the start menu and hit enter. Why spend the effort looking for a program when the computer can do it for you.
Last week I tried (over the phone) to get my parents to launch a program they normally don't use on their XP computer. With at least three columns worth of folders they gave up looking for it and I was able to get them to launch it from Run (not an easy task either).
The huge undertaking is Windows 8 Metro mode. Applications list out the resources they need on install and they don't get any more than that.
Personally I don't see your idea working to the granularity you're proposing. If I want to run an application and the application says it needs more resources, as long as it isn't admin perms, I'm going to be giving it those resources. I want the application to run. What good does it do me to have a program and then not let it run? The end result is that everyone will approve everything for every application and you'll be right back to the state of the world that we're in today.
I suspect (I don't know) that the scenario that's trying to be "fixed" is the opening scene of Ghost in the Wires. What happens is Kevin Mitnick gets himself into a building, find the Domain Admin's computer, shut's it down, boots the computer off of a USB key, and install's a key logger onto the system. The computer boots back up, with a key logger now installed, OS security completely bypassed.
Is there another solution to this scenario?
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This may not be the case any more, but in my experience Windows has better instrumentation. Since MS wasn't going to let you look at the source code they built in a lot more diagnosability. So there's ETW, Concurrency Visualizer, xperf, Process Explorer, Process Monitor, etc. For helping out remote family members there's Remote Assistance. I love using PowerShell. Tab completion to find commands and parameters is awesome. I also use it to try out a few lines of code I'm curious about. Don't need to modify a program just to run something simple. Three or four statements in PowerShell and my question about an API behavior is generally answered. Windows Media Center is dead simple to setup, use and maintain.
I'm confused, VS 2010 doesn't have any flashy animations or anything. Plus, I find it to be faster than VS 2005/8. Now if you want to know why it might feel like it's getting slow after a while, it's because it's written by people who concider themselves to be the developers of developers. Programming Gods who can't be bothered with silly things like "memory leaks". So they allow for known legacy memory leaks to exist from one version to the next because they're afraid to break something if they fix them.
I've been using IE 64-bit as my primary IE for the last two years. Sure there are plugins which don't run in it, but that tended to make a better browsing experience anyway.
8.0, the one that is supposed to finally be available in a 64-bit compile for Windows? Come on, even Flash player beat you to it!
Don't you mean "Come on, even IE beat you to it!"
And yet the traffic engineers won't have permissions to the database to do better traffic flow analysis studies.
If by folder redirection you mean 'sending an email to a folder different than the inbox' they called that 'sweep' (probably to help lay persons) and it's in the main menu bar inbetween junk and mark as.
I agree. Then I watch Tron and realize that the evil MPC was a resource management/permissions system and our hero's were basicly virus's that wanted access to everything on the system. I still agree with your sentiment, but it makes it harder to decide who to cheer for when watching Tron.
You get UAC prompts for when a program is trying to make system impacting changes. So unless you're installing/uninstalling a program deny the prompt.
I've been running with a Windows standard user account seperate from my Windows Admin account for three years now and I have no problem at all using a browser. The only reason you would be getting UAC prompts is because an application is requesting permissions to make system impacting changes. The only reasons this would be happening in a browser is that your browser has the worlds worst plugins loaded, or you're visiting websites which are trying to exploit security holes in your browser to install malware.
If they didn't move things around and change some layout, most customers would look at the new OS, not see anything different and say "why should I upgrade?" Regardless of the amount of change made to the core (performance, security, etc), if the shell doesn't change the majority of users will have zero inclination to upgrade.
I know that no one here is will to say a good thing about the proposed Windows 8 secure boot "feature", but isn't this rootkit scenario the one it's trying to prevent? Would the secure boot prevent a user from booting into Windows if rootkit like this was on the computer?
If I wanted to, I could rig GCC and the like to do that too: That's the wonderful thing about command-line tools and piping, you can munge things together any way you want.
What I find useful about Roslyn is that it'll be running as part of Visual Studio, allowing for extensions access to the sytnax tree. My VS extension no longer needs to make guesses based off of the text in the file. The extension can actually see the structure of the code and make the changes I want it to in the IDE. I don't see how piping in the command line will help with the IDE experience.
Sounds like LLVM.
Eric Lippert's responce to that suggestion is "absolutely not". http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/10/19/the-roslyn-preview-is-now-available.aspx
It happened in Ventura County one day about ten years back. A construction worker had hit something and all cell service was down in the county for the afternoon. One of the reason I remember it so clearly was that I got ran over by a car while on my bike and learned about it in the ambulance ride to the hospital. The ambulance system had moved over to primarily using cell phones, but they had backup walkie talkies. But the backup system was overloaded due to a sharp spike in crashes which occured that afternoon and my ambulance didn't get their turn on the channel to tell the hospital we were coming. We ended up showing up at the hospital unannounced.
Don't most people expect that most of YouTube is somebody posting others works? I know I do.
Get 'em on Exchange 2010. It's dirt cheap to run a Dag and give everyone 8+ GB mailboxes.
Any email that has to deal with my job go to my inbox. Emails from internal DL's that aren't related to the position I'm hired to, go to folders. But if it's an email that's related to my position, my team, etc. all go to my inbox. Any status emails that happen more than once a day go to their own folder as well. I have search folders setup to quickly find items that I do search for. I find this solution to be the best in keeping me in touch with the things I work on. Hundred's of emails a day and it's not overwhelming.
True, but just like how an iPad is focused on certain tasks and doesn't do everything a laptop can do, the Kindle Fire is an even greater subset of that. So if what you would want from an iPad gets satisfied by a Fire you'll buy a Fire instead of an iPad.
I think Amazon pulled it off with the $200 Fire.
How does it compare against ETW?
This is why I'm still on Windows XP; I like the Start Menu and being able to group my applications by purpose in a *menu*. I don't want them littered over the desktop or in silly toolbars.
I keep about three or four icons on my desktop (and never really use them). Until two months ago I didn't pin any programs to my Win 7 task bar either. But when I noticed that the same 6-8 programs running all of the time anyway, I decided to pin them. Now they're easier to find, and they're not taking up any additional space because they'd be taking up the space anyway when running. I'm sorry you feel that your applications can only be limited to one group.
Am I the only one who actually spends the time to keep my Start menu organized?
Yes, yes you are. Ever since Vista all you need to is type in the name of the program in the search box in the start menu and hit enter. Why spend the effort looking for a program when the computer can do it for you. Last week I tried (over the phone) to get my parents to launch a program they normally don't use on their XP computer. With at least three columns worth of folders they gave up looking for it and I was able to get them to launch it from Run (not an easy task either).
The huge undertaking is Windows 8 Metro mode. Applications list out the resources they need on install and they don't get any more than that. Personally I don't see your idea working to the granularity you're proposing. If I want to run an application and the application says it needs more resources, as long as it isn't admin perms, I'm going to be giving it those resources. I want the application to run. What good does it do me to have a program and then not let it run? The end result is that everyone will approve everything for every application and you'll be right back to the state of the world that we're in today.
If I'm hacking in at the BIOS level wouldn't I just modify they key as part of my hack?
I suspect (I don't know) that the scenario that's trying to be "fixed" is the opening scene of Ghost in the Wires. What happens is Kevin Mitnick gets himself into a building, find the Domain Admin's computer, shut's it down, boots the computer off of a USB key, and install's a key logger onto the system. The computer boots back up, with a key logger now installed, OS security completely bypassed. Is there another solution to this scenario?