Yes, a service can SEND the CTRL+ALT+DEL, but WinLogon is still the only system process that can actually respond to that call and present a login dialog. That is the point... only the system's GINA can respond to the keypress, regardless of where it comes from (the GINA is usually MSGINA unless you are using the Novell client.)
Just so everyone knows, the parent to my post claims that Hermione dies in the next Harry Potter book (Order of the Phoenix). A nice jab and subtle way to stick a spoiler in, but alas - it is not true. (A character does die, but it is not her.)
Well, yes and no. It is in some ways, with the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), and other features. But it doesn't strictly follow the microkernel methodology since components can run in kernel-space (namely kernel mode drivers. those are typically only the very essential items like filesystem and whatnot.)
Sorta like Linux isn't really monolithic, since you can load kernel modules.
The NT kernel is extremely stable. Typically, drivers are what bring a 2K/XP/server system down. In fact, that is all I've ever seen bring a system down. QNX is unique in that it can restart any system component that has failed, and it isolates everything a lot more. Make no mistake - that is slower than having drivers run in kernel space, but it has its benefits. The microkernel can axe drivers and restart them in realtime, something that cannot be done for NT's kernel mode drivers (although programs and other drivers can be dynamically loaded and unloaded.)
And yes, the display driver was also moved into kernel land for NT4 and higher. Trust me - you would NOT be happy with 3d game performance or GUI performance if it were not (although some may argue for the server version that would be a better idea, but honestly my servers run headless so I don't care.)
Not really. NASA has already launched test probes that use Ion drives to great success. But the electricity was derived from their existing processes, so I guess you are correct in that this is the first attempt to marry the capability to generate lots of energy (nuclear) to much larger Ion drives.
Yes, his was a nice try as opposed to your troll which is a very very poor try.
First, you are intermixing processor hogging and I/O hogging, both of which Windows 2k/XP handle just fine. Deleting a large file is the same thing as deleting a small file: marking it as deleted in the journal & the MFT. Perhaps you mean that you have explorer's previewing feature turned on, and when you click on a large movie file, it cannot be deleted until explorer stops loading it to show you the preview? If so, turn off the previewing function. Besides, if you only have a single IDE hard disk, it is trivial to lock up the disk with lots of I/O, and this works for any OS.... unless the OS is willing to preempt and greatly slow the high I/O process to make room for other stuff. Of course you could just give that process a priority of "Low" and that would help.
However, there are some SCSI situations for XP that were fixed in SP1a, as well as some driver bugs (OMG!) that could cause systems under heavy load to start crawling. Why, sounds just like some Linux drivers I know. For shame!
You must have a really crappy system then, because my WinXP workstation goes from power-on to logon in about 20 seconds total. That's a far cry from the 3 minute bootups of yesteryear.
And FYI: you can build a reasonably fast system for less than $1,000, whereas a decently fast system in 1993 ran more like $1,500 - 2,000.
You can build a more top of the line system for $2-4k these days, whereas a top of the line system in 1993 ran more like $3-6k.
Computer people suffer from "The Good Old Days" syndrome just as much as everyone else.
Is it fair to yank addresses out from under those who are already using them? I don't think so.
If we want to go by the countries that will most utilize IPs, then the USA and Japan probably top the list.
The bottom line is that IPv4 doesn't have enough addresses. We need to transition to IPv6. I suggest the all-powerful, all-loving, wonderful and joyous Chinese government, greatest in all the world bringing happiness and prosperity to all its people, concentrate on transitioning its backbones and systems to IPv6, and just gateway IPv4 to the rest of the world.
Release the DVDs earlier, and people will buy them instead of downloading. And those who still download probably wouldn't have bought a DVD anyway - for them the choice was a) don't have it or b) pirate it. They were not open to choice c) 'buy it' in the first place. That is the fallacy that the MPAA/RIAA rely on when citing "piracy concerns" - they assume that everyone who has Item X would have paid for it if it were not available in pirated form; that is a faulty assumption.
The fact that large-scale movie piracy (and indeed, any piracy) is happening is an indicator that people are largely unsatisfied with the current prices and/or distribution methods.
Bose sells cheap crap made in china... Paper cones, inferior woofers, etc. They are selling moderate home theater gear at high prices, all based on some gee-whiz marketing and most folks don't know any better.
I promise you, $3,000 spent could get you something much better than the same money spent on a Bose system.
P.S. that little microphone gimmick is just that, without reference grade microphones to run the measurements with.
think I'm full of it? Go post on some of the pro audio newsgroups, or check the forums at www.prosoundworld.com. Heck, even ask around on some of the home theater groups. Or ask the folks at FOH magazine. People that make their bread & butter dealing with sound. People who have real equipment that can accurately measure system response. People who do real research.
All of them will tell you that Bose is overpriced mediocre gear. Most people buy Bose and think bose is cool because of the marketing. They wouldn't know dbspl from dbv if you knocked them upside the head with an audio textbook.
save up all track charges and bill them in a single statement once per month, or set a limit like $10 - each time the user charges up that amount in their account, the account is debited the money. Any number of ways to work around the problem.
Itanium and the IA-64 instruction set depends very very very heavily on a good compiler to draw parallelism out of the code.
The reality is we may never get compilers that are that good, and we may never have many applications where much parallelism can be drawn out anyway... at least not enough to make it worthwhile.
EPIC is a huge gamble... one that may not pay off in the long run. I'm no fan of x86 per-se, but it seems that AMD has tried to bring it up to speed with x86-64... more registers (always the biggest complaint), dropping some of the cruft. I just have to wonder... with the major increase in die size and cost over the Opteron, the Itanium 2 sure doesn't bring that big of a performance lead to the table, and the Opteron still has lots of room to grow.
I think this latest effort is just Intel finally admitting that their x86 emulation strategy was a total failure (partial hardware emulation), so they are abandoning it and starting over with a software emulation layer. You cay pay through the nose for an IT2 system and get 1.5 Xeon MP performance. Well whoopity-do.
Is anyone else having flashbacks to the book/movie "The Time Machine"?
So who gets to live underground and who gets to be food?
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One of Open Source's greatest strengths, and a reason I participate in it, contribute to it, etc even though I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Microsoft man, is that OS excels at making technology work for "good".
In other words, MP3 has serious licensing issues? OS creates Ogg Vorbis.
Microsoft not forthcoming about SMB? Samba in your face.
With DRM, palladium, etc OS can make a strength out of it... embed support for the crypto assist processor into the system, then have your P2P apps sign and encrypt transmissions... or have it do encryption of your email. I'm sure there are plenty of other uses.
As for code signing, here's another opportunity to take something that could be used in an "evil" way and make some good use out of it instead.
How can a product that has never ever had a release date set be considered vaporware? 3D Realms has said many times over that they have not and will not set a releast date AND they will take as long as necessary, even years and years, to deliver a great game. It's not like they are promising a gaming revolution on date X, then push it back to Y, to Z, etc never releasing a product.
Half-Life 2 can't be considered vaporware either. All Valve has said about it was yes, they were working on it.
Since when has vaporware meant "a product that isn't released as soon as I think it should have been released" ???
I always thought it was a product that is marketed way before it is ready or near completion. Neither of the two games I have mentioned are in this category.
The only reason we subscribe to the local paper is because I like to read the comics. If I could subscribe to a delivered paper that was nothing but comics (two or three times as many strips as the local paper prints, also printed larger) I'd pay as much as I do right now for the entire paper.
Unfortunately, nothing like that exists that I know of. Are there any online services that I can join which provide tons of (current) syndicated comics for a low fee?
You only have two ears. It is entirely possible to simulate full surround sound with nothing more than a pair of headphones and a properly mastered track.
The issue is whether or not a theater wishes to issue headphones to all its patrons. The problem becomes that two speakers cannot accurately reproduce the stereo field, and certainly not for many people listening at once. Same thing with a home theater... are you going to have all your family members don headphones? I think not.
Plus the fact that DVDs are usually mastered such that the 2-channel track is nothing more than plain stereo and is not designed to reproduce surround sound with headphones. The only way to get the surround sound feel as it was meant to be heard is to have a receiver and system capable of using the Dolby Digital or DTS track.
Since when have we EVER stopped research in a scientific field to check out health concerns first?
Give me a break...
For the record, I think we need to have a clear understanding of the basics in any specific field before we can even think about doing research on environmental and health issues. Imagine trying to determine the effect of internal combustion engine on the environment before you've actually built one. Kinda hard, no?
I wouldn't point to Amazon as a bastion of integrity if I were you; many former staff members have confirmed that they edit reviews to be more positive. You can also find users who have gone back later to find their comments edited to say something completely different. The thing is, most users don't go back and look at the same items they've bought a month after to see if their review text was changed, so many don't even know that their name is attatched to completely different words.
So take the Amazon reviews with a grain of salt here... you don't know if the review is legit or not, or how much it has been edited.
When Plug and Play was introduced, mostly at the absolute insistence of Microsoft (and Intel once MS convinced them it was necessary), NO ONE had Plug and Play hardware. For the first few years, it was more like Plug & Pray. But now? Just stick the hardware in and go.
This could be the same way. Standardize on a format, then start including it in all new DVD players. Sure, many won't have the capability with their old sets, but at least you can get the ball rolling sooner rather than later.
Oh, and the HDTV problem? We have a widescreen 43" projection HDTV (quite nice... projection TVs of today are absolutely nothing like the ones of yesteryear). The real issue is that the local cable company doesn't offer ANY HDTV programming, and the only over-air station we can get is 2 hours away and we'd need a huge antenna to get it. (Oh and $300 for a simple MPEG decoder, which is crazy considering DVD players can be had for $69 and are more complicated and expensive to produce).
HDTV won't really take off until more people can sign up for the service with their local cable company.
I wouldn't be holding up Sun as a bastion of openness if I were you. As I understand it, Microsoft submitted the.NET CLR (runtime) and C# to the ECMA standards body.
Sun has yet to let anyone besides Sun itself have any say over Java.
It is no secret that HP has been building some of their printers in ways so they don't last as long, and they are also making a KILLING on ink.
Personally, I bought a Canon BJC-8200, which has six colors (Black, Dark Cyan, Dark Magenta, Yellow, Light Cyan, and Light Magenta) and uses individually replacable ink tanks. It has proven to be quite reliable and the ink is cheap. The additional colors make for much better photo prints.
Personally, I don't plan on buying another HP printer ever. (Or lexmark for that matter, with the recent DMCA nonsense).
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Yes, a service can SEND the CTRL+ALT+DEL, but WinLogon is still the only system process that can actually respond to that call and present a login dialog. That is the point... only the system's GINA can respond to the keypress, regardless of where it comes from (the GINA is usually MSGINA unless you are using the Novell client.)
Just so everyone knows, the parent to my post claims that Hermione dies in the next Harry Potter book (Order of the Phoenix). A nice jab and subtle way to stick a spoiler in, but alas - it is not true. (A character does die, but it is not her.)
Well, yes and no. It is in some ways, with the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), and other features. But it doesn't strictly follow the microkernel methodology since components can run in kernel-space (namely kernel mode drivers. those are typically only the very essential items like filesystem and whatnot.)
Sorta like Linux isn't really monolithic, since you can load kernel modules.
The NT kernel is extremely stable. Typically, drivers are what bring a 2K/XP/server system down. In fact, that is all I've ever seen bring a system down. QNX is unique in that it can restart any system component that has failed, and it isolates everything a lot more. Make no mistake - that is slower than having drivers run in kernel space, but it has its benefits. The microkernel can axe drivers and restart them in realtime, something that cannot be done for NT's kernel mode drivers (although programs and other drivers can be dynamically loaded and unloaded.)
And yes, the display driver was also moved into kernel land for NT4 and higher. Trust me - you would NOT be happy with 3d game performance or GUI performance if it were not (although some may argue for the server version that would be a better idea, but honestly my servers run headless so I don't care.)
Not really. NASA has already launched test probes that use Ion drives to great success. But the electricity was derived from their existing processes, so I guess you are correct in that this is the first attempt to marry the capability to generate lots of energy (nuclear) to much larger Ion drives.
Yes, his was a nice try as opposed to your troll which is a very very poor try.
First, you are intermixing processor hogging and I/O hogging, both of which Windows 2k/XP handle just fine. Deleting a large file is the same thing as deleting a small file: marking it as deleted in the journal & the MFT. Perhaps you mean that you have explorer's previewing feature turned on, and when you click on a large movie file, it cannot be deleted until explorer stops loading it to show you the preview? If so, turn off the previewing function. Besides, if you only have a single IDE hard disk, it is trivial to lock up the disk with lots of I/O, and this works for any OS.... unless the OS is willing to preempt and greatly slow the high I/O process to make room for other stuff. Of course you could just give that process a priority of "Low" and that would help.
However, there are some SCSI situations for XP that were fixed in SP1a, as well as some driver bugs (OMG!) that could cause systems under heavy load to start crawling. Why, sounds just like some Linux drivers I know. For shame!
You must have a really crappy system then, because my WinXP workstation goes from power-on to logon in about 20 seconds total. That's a far cry from the 3 minute bootups of yesteryear.
And FYI: you can build a reasonably fast system for less than $1,000, whereas a decently fast system in 1993 ran more like $1,500 - 2,000.
You can build a more top of the line system for $2-4k these days, whereas a top of the line system in 1993 ran more like $3-6k.
Computer people suffer from "The Good Old Days" syndrome just as much as everyone else.
Is it fair to yank addresses out from under those who are already using them? I don't think so.
If we want to go by the countries that will most utilize IPs, then the USA and Japan probably top the list.
The bottom line is that IPv4 doesn't have enough addresses. We need to transition to IPv6. I suggest the all-powerful, all-loving, wonderful and joyous Chinese government, greatest in all the world bringing happiness and prosperity to all its people, concentrate on transitioning its backbones and systems to IPv6, and just gateway IPv4 to the rest of the world.
Release the DVDs earlier, and people will buy them instead of downloading. And those who still download probably wouldn't have bought a DVD anyway - for them the choice was a) don't have it or b) pirate it. They were not open to choice c) 'buy it' in the first place. That is the fallacy that the MPAA/RIAA rely on when citing "piracy concerns" - they assume that everyone who has Item X would have paid for it if it were not available in pirated form; that is a faulty assumption.
The fact that large-scale movie piracy (and indeed, any piracy) is happening is an indicator that people are largely unsatisfied with the current prices and/or distribution methods.
It is illegal for those minors to have guns. What exactly should we do? Make it illegal twice?
The vast majority of gun crimes in the U.S. are comitted with guns obtained illegally or on the black market.
The problem runs much deeper than the symptoms you are trying to blame them on. Hint: the problem is a human one.
Bose sells cheap crap made in china... Paper cones, inferior woofers, etc. They are selling moderate home theater gear at high prices, all based on some gee-whiz marketing and most folks don't know any better.
I promise you, $3,000 spent could get you something much better than the same money spent on a Bose system.
P.S. that little microphone gimmick is just that, without reference grade microphones to run the measurements with.
think I'm full of it? Go post on some of the pro audio newsgroups, or check the forums at www.prosoundworld.com. Heck, even ask around on some of the home theater groups. Or ask the folks at FOH magazine. People that make their bread & butter dealing with sound. People who have real equipment that can accurately measure system response. People who do real research.
All of them will tell you that Bose is overpriced mediocre gear. Most people buy Bose and think bose is cool because of the marketing. They wouldn't know dbspl from dbv if you knocked them upside the head with an audio textbook.
Another hack that is too little too late. I already have my DVD burner, and it already burns 4.7 GB discs.
No thanks!
save up all track charges and bill them in a single statement once per month, or set a limit like $10 - each time the user charges up that amount in their account, the account is debited the money. Any number of ways to work around the problem.
Itanium and the IA-64 instruction set depends very very very heavily on a good compiler to draw parallelism out of the code.
The reality is we may never get compilers that are that good, and we may never have many applications where much parallelism can be drawn out anyway... at least not enough to make it worthwhile.
EPIC is a huge gamble... one that may not pay off in the long run. I'm no fan of x86 per-se, but it seems that AMD has tried to bring it up to speed with x86-64... more registers (always the biggest complaint), dropping some of the cruft. I just have to wonder... with the major increase in die size and cost over the Opteron, the Itanium 2 sure doesn't bring that big of a performance lead to the table, and the Opteron still has lots of room to grow.
I think this latest effort is just Intel finally admitting that their x86 emulation strategy was a total failure (partial hardware emulation), so they are abandoning it and starting over with a software emulation layer. You cay pay through the nose for an IT2 system and get 1.5 Xeon MP performance. Well whoopity-do.
Is anyone else having flashbacks to the book/movie "The Time Machine"?
So who gets to live underground and who gets to be food?
One of Open Source's greatest strengths, and a reason I participate in it, contribute to it, etc even though I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Microsoft man, is that OS excels at making technology work for "good".
In other words, MP3 has serious licensing issues? OS creates Ogg Vorbis.
Microsoft not forthcoming about SMB? Samba in your face.
With DRM, palladium, etc OS can make a strength out of it... embed support for the crypto assist processor into the system, then have your P2P apps sign and encrypt transmissions... or have it do encryption of your email. I'm sure there are plenty of other uses.
As for code signing, here's another opportunity to take something that could be used in an "evil" way and make some good use out of it instead.
How can a product that has never ever had a release date set be considered vaporware? 3D Realms has said many times over that they have not and will not set a releast date AND they will take as long as necessary, even years and years, to deliver a great game. It's not like they are promising a gaming revolution on date X, then push it back to Y, to Z, etc never releasing a product.
Half-Life 2 can't be considered vaporware either. All Valve has said about it was yes, they were working on it.
Since when has vaporware meant "a product that isn't released as soon as I think it should have been released" ???
I always thought it was a product that is marketed way before it is ready or near completion. Neither of the two games I have mentioned are in this category.
The only reason we subscribe to the local paper is because I like to read the comics. If I could subscribe to a delivered paper that was nothing but comics (two or three times as many strips as the local paper prints, also printed larger) I'd pay as much as I do right now for the entire paper.
Unfortunately, nothing like that exists that I know of. Are there any online services that I can join which provide tons of (current) syndicated comics for a low fee?
You only have two ears. It is entirely possible to simulate full surround sound with nothing more than a pair of headphones and a properly mastered track.
The issue is whether or not a theater wishes to issue headphones to all its patrons. The problem becomes that two speakers cannot accurately reproduce the stereo field, and certainly not for many people listening at once. Same thing with a home theater... are you going to have all your family members don headphones? I think not.
Plus the fact that DVDs are usually mastered such that the 2-channel track is nothing more than plain stereo and is not designed to reproduce surround sound with headphones. The only way to get the surround sound feel as it was meant to be heard is to have a receiver and system capable of using the Dolby Digital or DTS track.
Since when have we EVER stopped research in a scientific field to check out health concerns first?
Give me a break...
For the record, I think we need to have a clear understanding of the basics in any specific field before we can even think about doing research on environmental and health issues. Imagine trying to determine the effect of internal combustion engine on the environment before you've actually built one. Kinda hard, no?
Just wait until some drunken researcher runs the whole thing through un-zip and finds a hidden video from God.
On a more serious note, is anyone shocked to learn that our genetic code is compressed? Seems more efficient to me.
I wouldn't point to Amazon as a bastion of integrity if I were you; many former staff members have confirmed that they edit reviews to be more positive. You can also find users who have gone back later to find their comments edited to say something completely different. The thing is, most users don't go back and look at the same items they've bought a month after to see if their review text was changed, so many don't even know that their name is attatched to completely different words.
So take the Amazon reviews with a grain of salt here... you don't know if the review is legit or not, or how much it has been edited.
Yarrrrr matey! We be the pirates o' the seven operatin' systems!
*wink-wink* *nudge-nudge*
When Plug and Play was introduced, mostly at the absolute insistence of Microsoft (and Intel once MS convinced them it was necessary), NO ONE had Plug and Play hardware. For the first few years, it was more like Plug & Pray. But now? Just stick the hardware in and go.
This could be the same way. Standardize on a format, then start including it in all new DVD players. Sure, many won't have the capability with their old sets, but at least you can get the ball rolling sooner rather than later.
Oh, and the HDTV problem? We have a widescreen 43" projection HDTV (quite nice... projection TVs of today are absolutely nothing like the ones of yesteryear). The real issue is that the local cable company doesn't offer ANY HDTV programming, and the only over-air station we can get is 2 hours away and we'd need a huge antenna to get it. (Oh and $300 for a simple MPEG decoder, which is crazy considering DVD players can be had for $69 and are more complicated and expensive to produce).
HDTV won't really take off until more people can sign up for the service with their local cable company.
I wouldn't be holding up Sun as a bastion of openness if I were you. As I understand it, Microsoft submitted the .NET CLR (runtime) and C# to the ECMA standards body.
Sun has yet to let anyone besides Sun itself have any say over Java.
Who is being more open?
It is no secret that HP has been building some of their printers in ways so they don't last as long, and they are also making a KILLING on ink.
Personally, I bought a Canon BJC-8200, which has six colors (Black, Dark Cyan, Dark Magenta, Yellow, Light Cyan, and Light Magenta) and uses individually replacable ink tanks. It has proven to be quite reliable and the ink is cheap. The additional colors make for much better photo prints.
Personally, I don't plan on buying another HP printer ever. (Or lexmark for that matter, with the recent DMCA nonsense).