I think the only thing anyone uses the GetTickCount() function (at least the only one I've ever used), is to get a decent random seed. So it's a good thing that it counts quickly and rolls over frequently. But I don't think any app worth anything would use this function for anything critical (Except maybe IIS!).
There are other, better ways of dealing ith time in the Win32 api. For example the DateTime ActiveX object, which provides all the functionality you'd need for dates and times.
Until people realised that it translated directly from marketese to
"It's just this side of broken".
I personally am glad the OS is win2k. I've never had an unrecoverable crash on my machine (well, once, using pre-release drivers from Gravis), since I bought it a week after it was released (over a year ago).
My Windows 2000 machine "just works" (your definition, not mine).
I expect the uptime of the XboX to be measured in weeks, as long as the system is kept cool. After all, you don't switch off your VCR after you're done with it do you? Nor do you switch off your webserver. The XboX is somewhere in between.
On the other hand, this could be great for Codeweavers, Transvirtual, and the Wine project in general.
Or even ReactOS could get a bigger market share.
[problems with the PS2]are resolved with updated drivers that can be put on a memory card
Yes, right there in black and white. So let me get this straight, so I don't miss anything important. You're saying that Sony, do/can/have/has already updated their drivers for their console? Am I the only one who thinks there's something wrong with this picture?
Maybe I did miss something. I'll try again. So you're saying Sony, the company that makes the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2, have had to issue service packs for their console. And you're Okay with that? Bearing in mind that this is not Microsoft we're talking about.
Why was this not on Slashdot? After all, the slightest thing that goes wrong with the XboX, which remember, isn't even released yet, gets the front page and >600 comments regarding how bad Microsoft is, and how they'll be issuing bug-fixes.
And yet Sony have already done this?
Am I the only one who thinks there's something wrong here?
The Dreamcaat actually has a water-based refigeration system! Open it up and you'll see the pipes.
And PS2's were notorious for melting if you left them on overnight. I don't know if that't been sorted out or not.
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By the time this project is complete, no one is going to care about a Windows NT 4 replacement
You could probably have said the exact same thing about Linux about five years ago. In fact, I think Andrew Tanenbaum did!
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Umm, I've actually patented the idea of using patents as a primary revenue stream. This patent itself is my primary revenue stream. So give me money. Lots of it.
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Let' ssee who innovated here, in order
1: Point and click : Xerox PARC.
2: CDROMs : ISO standard 9660, with Joliet (ie long filename) extensions by Microsoft.
3: USB : A working group headed by Intel
4: Firewire : IEEE standard 1394, also called iLink by Sony (who make the camcorders).
The only thing Apple can possibly claim to have innovated is the colour of their boxes. And you can't innovate a colour.
As for Microsoft being scary with their web services - what do you think iTools is (other than a piece of shit that crashes your machine)?
Apple scare me because they are able to convince their users that they invented the world. Microsoft don't.
So, you think the US invaded Vietnam to get bin Laden? You're stupider than I thought.
I said the US pushes it's weight around all over the world, and cited numerous wars the US has started. And you took it to mean that Vietnam had anything to do with Al Quiada. Who exactly is stupid here?
good enough to get both the French and the Russians aboard
And you believe unquestionably that the US is right to bomb the hell out of third-world nation because of this? There are many reasons other countries are getting behind the US.
1) To appear supportive after the tragedy.
2) To appear to be doing something against terrorism
3) Fear that they will be attacked by terrorists
4) Fear that the US will accuse them of 'harbouring' terorists, and have the shit bombed out of them. Pakistan is the one country which has decided to remain neutral. How long did it take for the media to decide that they were in league with Al Quiada?
I just reread your original post before replying...
So, genius boy, who attacked the US? Let me guess: you think it was the Israelis, right?
So let me get this right. I suggested that there was not enough evidence (fingerprints, dna, video tapes - ie real evidence not a mile long text) for any court since the 16th century to take seriously. And you accuse me of being racist. You accuse me of thinking "the Israelis" attacked the US. Now why would I think that? Could it be that you can only conceive that only middle-eastern countries would want to attack the US? It's either the Afghans or the Israelis. No possibility of any other group, even within the US itself (remember Oklahoma). It must be them. Idiot.
Your thought experiment proves one thing : that you believe that violence solves everything.
The most likely explanation is that the people who got Anthrax bought some dodgy cocaine
I heard on the news that they got Anthrax from a 'white poweder'. I jumped to a conclusion. My bad. Sorry.
The US has been doing NOTHING for nearly 10 years in response to attacks by bin Laden
This is at best innacurate, and at worst, a lie. I'd say it rates as mindless reiteration of propaganda. The US has been doing everything it can to get it's own way, from Vietnam to Russia, Ira[n|q], Serbia, and now Afghanistan. They arm their nations against their enemies, and when they bite the hand that feeds, they act the innocent victim.
There is, as yet, no evidence on who destroyed the WTC. Nor is there any eveidence on who is mailing Anthrax (although a disgruntled postal worker strings to mind - not an accusation, just a thought). Nor is there any evidence that these events are even related.
If I were a terrorist, I could do a lot worse than mailing Anthrax to six people who work in television. Considering I could destroy a major landmark without any weaponry and kill thousands, infecting six people with a disease that isn't even very infectious (you have to breathe it or come in contact with it for several hours to get infected) seems a little pointless.
I don't hate the US. Their government just scares me a helluva lot more than a sicko sending anthrax. Unfortunately, here in Britain, our government does anything the US says. We are living in the 51st state, except we don't get to vote.
In your ideal fantasy world, do criminals roam free, lest harm is done to them?
In my ideal world, the evidence would be gathered before declaring war on an unarmed nation. The perptrators would be put before a UN trial. If found guilty, they'd be afforded the maximum punishment available for war crime.
But people like you are too gung-ho in your bloodlust to let anything like reality get in the way of what your beloved (unelected) son-of-Star-Wars says to do. Believing that your government is not lying to you is the first step to totalitarianism, which the US seems now desperately bent upon (and, like a dog following it's master into a burning building, the UK will do so too).
Doing nothing was just encouragment to the killers
Yes, by sitting here doing nothing, I am encouraging someone to kill thousands of people. Great logic.
You also claim that the death toll makes it alright. What about the millions deaths the US has caused every time it has interefered in the affairs of another nation? In the Gulf, the US killed more British troops than Iraqui.
Gene Roddenberry was right - arm someone to defend themselves, and they'll only fight back harder.
No matter how much you and your fellow chickens try to appease Bin Laden, he's going to try to kill you and destroy your society. Luckily, the vast majority of people in the US know what the right thing is to do and cowards like you aren't going to divert us.
You know, when you say that, you sound just like a certain extremist I know.
The FAQ also says it doesn't emulate the environment. Twit.
Can you not understand this simple statement - reimplementaion is not the same as emulation. You might as well say Linux is a Unix emulator, or that Mono is a.Net emulator, or that Classpath is a Java emulator, or that Konqueror is a Netscape emulator. Wine is an api. Not an emulator. It lets win32 programs run, not by interpreting their system calls, or fooling them that they're running on Windows, but by simply providing the libraries that would be there. This isn't the same as emulating an environment.
The wine FAQ says it isn't an emulator. And you are arguing that that proves it is?
Emulation usually means instruction interpretation - eg interpreting Z80 code on an x86. This isn't happening here. It could also mean that - eg VMWare - the hardware environment presented to a piece of code is not the actual hardware environment the code is running in.
There is nothing actually being emulated in wine. It consists of an executable loader - like the native linux loader, but works with win32 code -, and a shared library - which is a reimplementation of something that already exists.
No instructions are being interpreted. If a piece of win32 code calls a function cabbage() in the win32 api, then under wine it calls the function cabbage() in the wine library. This is no different from a native linux app calling a function, say cheesecake(), in a library called libcheesecake.so.
Has it occurred to you that the dictionary definition might be wrong? Of course not, you probably think that theirs only one 'i' in the word 'aluminium'.
Wine.
Is.
Not.
(an)
Emulator.
It's a win32 api. The Microsoft Windows API is another win32 api. You could probably write a win32 api for the Mac. The only problem is, without instruction interpretation (which I think most people will agree, is the true meaning of 'emulation'), the api would be useless, unless you recompiled the application.
As someone else said, you can implement the POSIX api, without being a POSIX emulator. Windows NT is not a POSIX emulator. Nor is it a Win9x emulator. It just has both apis.
Wine is no different from any native Linux api. If Linus had decided to implement win32 calls instead of POSIX, wine would never have existed. We might have had a POSIX implementation later on (like wine), but it wouldn't be called an emulator. It would be a reimplementation of win32, with a POSIX api.
Reverse the roles to what we have now, and Linux is getting a new api set. That's all.
Fact 1: A few people got diagnosed with Anthrax.
Fact 2: One of them opened a letter.
And so suddenly it's a worldwide conspiracy by Emmanuel Goldstein^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HUsama Bin Laden and Eastasia^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe Taleban. Who actually believes this shit? You might as well blame CJD on Saddam Hussein or Gulf War syndrome on the CIA. Ermm...
Fact 3: Noone in the US postal service contracted Anthrax.
The most likely explanation is that the people who got Anthrax bought some dodgy cocaine. Maybe if the.gov.us (it should NOT EVER BE.gov - the US dosn't run the world (although it tries hard)) used it as propaganda against drugs, then noone would take them. If only they would stop tripping out on their own holier-than-thou attitude, they would stop supplying weaponry to known terrorists. Maybe they'd eliminate the debt they and the world bank are pushing onto most of Africa. Maybe if they'd stop trying to police the rest of the world and cram their 'American Way' down the throat of people who really don't want to have anything to do with America, this whole sorry mess of crap would never have happened.
I just wish the.gov.us and their bitches would quit their hardon for the US and let everyone get on with lives, without having to listen to their bullshit, being spied on, or having advanced weaponry raining on their heads.
I am not a troll (braces for a karma plummet). It's just that the US scares me far more than a handful of middle-east extremists who
1) were given weapons by the US
2) were never proven to have attacked the US (read the so-called evidence yourself. There is not a single statement which could not have been falsified. Nor which proves Bin Laden ordered the suicide attacks.)
3) don't have the resources necessary to defend themselves against even one storming by the SAS. And yet are said to have chemical weapons. Right. Let's see those satellite pictures of where Goldstein is hiding. Which one of those caves has the chemical weapons plant?
Offtopic? Whatever - I'm far more worried about security in email than snail mail. I use GPG, but if the US outlaw it, that will make me a terrorist. Thanks US. I can sleep easier now.
it's got a happy, friendly, push big rainbow colored buttons, don't-cut-yourself safety-scissors interface
Really? Can't say I've ever much looked at the AOL interface.
And yet I'm using AOL now.
Not because of some notion that AOL have decent content. Nor because it is allegedly easy to use. It's because here in the UK, our comms network is so arcane (BT owning everything!) that it still costs to use a dialup. Unmetered 0800 (freephone) ISPs are few and far between, and AOL is one of them. It's also the cheapest (£14.99 pm), since I don't have to pay for BT Smurftime (£14.99pm) on top of that. The total cost for something like Freeserve is twice that of AOL.
So yes, I admit it. I use AOL. I used AOL to download Mandrake. So now I can connect to my freephone ISP with Mandrake.
Actually, the write.exe binary (from windows 9x onwards) just opens wordpad.exe, passing the parameters it received. It's there for compatibility with win16 apps which expect write.exe to be in every installation.
Of course, if you were to take actual binary from Windows 3.1, it would still run, even on Windows XP. Gotta love backwards compatibility.
It's in the Control Panel (Folder Options, from Win2k onwards). Where it should be. And also accessible from Windows Explorer - where you would be when you realised you needed to change a file type. How can that possibly be bad UI design?
I tried to point out reasons why Apple are a monopoly, without repeating something someone else posted. So I still have to come up with my own arguments then? Ok, then...
You can run Linux, [Open|Net|Free]BSD, BeOS, AtheOS, Solaris (yes, Solaris), Darwin and God-knows how many other OSen on an Intel box. Yet Microsoft are still the monopoly?
You can run Linux or NetBSD on a Mac. You can't run BeOS on it any more. Why? Because Apple stopped them. Isn't that monopolistic?
Apple control everything from the number of buttons on the mice, to the colour of the buttons on screen (Aqua Blue or Graphite - thats all folks!). They won't allow anyone else to manufacture compatible hardware, and (Linux and NetBSD notwithstanding, since they are open source) won't allow any operating system other than their own to run on said hardware. They tried to trademark the GUI! They did trademark the colours of the iMac. They lie about performance. They make SMP machines without an SMP-capable OS (this was before OSX). They try to make pure java programs run only on OSX. They have learned a bit from Microsoft too. They include apps to do everything in their OS. Quicktime, iTunes, burning CDs from Finder, and so on.
But, more than anything else, they copy ideas from elsewhere and convince their lusers that they invernted it. The most well-known example being the Wimp environment they stole/bought/begged from XeroX parc. DVD recording, USB (created by a working group headed by Intel) and Firewire (aka iLink, invented by Sony) were all allegedly invented by Apple.
(Unless you yourself didn't realise that Windows does all this. In which case you'd be an idiot and a troll. I think I'll give you the benefit of the doubt...)
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I think the only thing anyone uses the GetTickCount() function (at least the only one I've ever used), is to get a decent random seed. So it's a good thing that it counts quickly and rolls over frequently. But I don't think any app worth anything would use this function for anything critical (Except maybe IIS!).
There are other, better ways of dealing ith time in the Win32 api. For example the DateTime ActiveX object, which provides all the functionality you'd need for dates and times.
"It just works" - wasn't that a slogan of Apple?
Until people realised that it translated directly from marketese to
"It's just this side of broken".
I personally am glad the OS is win2k. I've never had an unrecoverable crash on my machine (well, once, using pre-release drivers from Gravis), since I bought it a week after it was released (over a year ago).
My Windows 2000 machine "just works" (your definition, not mine).
I expect the uptime of the XboX to be measured in weeks, as long as the system is kept cool. After all, you don't switch off your VCR after you're done with it do you? Nor do you switch off your webserver. The XboX is somewhere in between.
On the other hand, this could be great for Codeweavers, Transvirtual, and the Wine project in general.
Or even ReactOS could get a bigger market share.
Yes, right there in black and white. So let me get this straight, so I don't miss anything important. You're saying that Sony, do/can/have/has already updated their drivers for their console? Am I the only one who thinks there's something wrong with this picture?
Maybe I did miss something. I'll try again. So you're saying Sony, the company that makes the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2, have had to issue service packs for their console. And you're Okay with that? Bearing in mind that this is not Microsoft we're talking about.
Why was this not on Slashdot? After all, the slightest thing that goes wrong with the XboX, which remember, isn't even released yet, gets the front page and >600 comments regarding how bad Microsoft is, and how they'll be issuing bug-fixes.
And yet Sony have already done this?
Am I the only one who thinks there's something wrong here?
The Dreamcaat actually has a water-based refigeration system! Open it up and you'll see the pipes.
And PS2's were notorious for melting if you left them on overnight. I don't know if that't been sorted out or not.
By the time this project is complete, no one is going to care about a Windows NT 4 replacement
You could probably have said the exact same thing about Linux about five years ago. In fact, I think Andrew Tanenbaum did!
Umm, I've actually patented the idea of using patents as a primary revenue stream. This patent itself is my primary revenue stream. So give me money. Lots of it.
That one was on UK Gold last night!
Let' ssee who innovated here, in order
1: Point and click : Xerox PARC.
2: CDROMs : ISO standard 9660, with Joliet (ie long filename) extensions by Microsoft.
3: USB : A working group headed by Intel
4: Firewire : IEEE standard 1394, also called iLink by Sony (who make the camcorders).
The only thing Apple can possibly claim to have innovated is the colour of their boxes. And you can't innovate a colour.
As for Microsoft being scary with their web services - what do you think iTools is (other than a piece of shit that crashes your machine)?
Apple scare me because they are able to convince their users that they invented the world. Microsoft don't.
So, you think the US invaded Vietnam to get bin Laden? You're stupider than I thought.
I said the US pushes it's weight around all over the world, and cited numerous wars the US has started. And you took it to mean that Vietnam had anything to do with Al Quiada. Who exactly is stupid here?
good enough to get both the French and the Russians aboard
And you believe unquestionably that the US is right to bomb the hell out of third-world nation because of this? There are many reasons other countries are getting behind the US.
1) To appear supportive after the tragedy.
2) To appear to be doing something against terrorism
3) Fear that they will be attacked by terrorists
4) Fear that the US will accuse them of 'harbouring' terorists, and have the shit bombed out of them. Pakistan is the one country which has decided to remain neutral. How long did it take for the media to decide that they were in league with Al Quiada?
I just reread your original post before replying...
So, genius boy, who attacked the US? Let me guess: you think it was the Israelis, right?
So let me get this right. I suggested that there was not enough evidence (fingerprints, dna, video tapes - ie real evidence not a mile long text) for any court since the 16th century to take seriously. And you accuse me of being racist. You accuse me of thinking "the Israelis" attacked the US. Now why would I think that? Could it be that you can only conceive that only middle-eastern countries would want to attack the US? It's either the Afghans or the Israelis. No possibility of any other group, even within the US itself (remember Oklahoma). It must be them. Idiot.
Your thought experiment proves one thing : that you believe that violence solves everything.
The most likely explanation is that the people who got Anthrax bought some dodgy cocaine
I heard on the news that they got Anthrax from a 'white poweder'. I jumped to a conclusion. My bad. Sorry.
The US has been doing NOTHING for nearly 10 years in response to attacks by bin Laden
This is at best innacurate, and at worst, a lie. I'd say it rates as mindless reiteration of propaganda. The US has been doing everything it can to get it's own way, from Vietnam to Russia, Ira[n|q], Serbia, and now Afghanistan. They arm their nations against their enemies, and when they bite the hand that feeds, they act the innocent victim.
There is, as yet, no evidence on who destroyed the WTC. Nor is there any eveidence on who is mailing Anthrax (although a disgruntled postal worker strings to mind - not an accusation, just a thought). Nor is there any evidence that these events are even related.
If I were a terrorist, I could do a lot worse than mailing Anthrax to six people who work in television. Considering I could destroy a major landmark without any weaponry and kill thousands, infecting six people with a disease that isn't even very infectious (you have to breathe it or come in contact with it for several hours to get infected) seems a little pointless.
I don't hate the US. Their government just scares me a helluva lot more than a sicko sending anthrax. Unfortunately, here in Britain, our government does anything the US says. We are living in the 51st state, except we don't get to vote.
In your ideal fantasy world, do criminals roam free, lest harm is done to them?
In my ideal world, the evidence would be gathered before declaring war on an unarmed nation. The perptrators would be put before a UN trial. If found guilty, they'd be afforded the maximum punishment available for war crime.
But people like you are too gung-ho in your bloodlust to let anything like reality get in the way of what your beloved (unelected) son-of-Star-Wars says to do. Believing that your government is not lying to you is the first step to totalitarianism, which the US seems now desperately bent upon (and, like a dog following it's master into a burning building, the UK will do so too).
Doing nothing was just encouragment to the killers
Yes, by sitting here doing nothing, I am encouraging someone to kill thousands of people. Great logic.
You also claim that the death toll makes it alright. What about the millions deaths the US has caused every time it has interefered in the affairs of another nation? In the Gulf, the US killed more British troops than Iraqui.
Gene Roddenberry was right - arm someone to defend themselves, and they'll only fight back harder.
No matter how much you and your fellow chickens try to appease Bin Laden, he's going to try to kill you and destroy your society. Luckily, the vast majority of people in the US know what the right thing is to do and cowards like you aren't going to divert us.
You know, when you say that, you sound just like a certain extremist I know.
Oops. s/theirs/there's/
The FAQ also says it doesn't emulate the environment. Twit.
.Net emulator, or that Classpath is a Java emulator, or that Konqueror is a Netscape emulator. Wine is an api. Not an emulator. It lets win32 programs run, not by interpreting their system calls, or fooling them that they're running on Windows, but by simply providing the libraries that would be there. This isn't the same as emulating an environment.
Can you not understand this simple statement - reimplementaion is not the same as emulation. You might as well say Linux is a Unix emulator, or that Mono is a
The wine FAQ says it isn't an emulator. And you are arguing that that proves it is?
Emulation usually means instruction interpretation - eg interpreting Z80 code on an x86. This isn't happening here. It could also mean that - eg VMWare - the hardware environment presented to a piece of code is not the actual hardware environment the code is running in.
There is nothing actually being emulated in wine. It consists of an executable loader - like the native linux loader, but works with win32 code -, and a shared library - which is a reimplementation of something that already exists.
No instructions are being interpreted. If a piece of win32 code calls a function cabbage() in the win32 api, then under wine it calls the function cabbage() in the wine library. This is no different from a native linux app calling a function, say cheesecake(), in a library called libcheesecake.so.
Again, I say, We Is Not Emulating.
Has it occurred to you that the dictionary definition might be wrong? Of course not, you probably think that theirs only one 'i' in the word 'aluminium'.
Wine.
Is.
Not.
(an)
Emulator.
It's a win32 api. The Microsoft Windows API is another win32 api. You could probably write a win32 api for the Mac. The only problem is, without instruction interpretation (which I think most people will agree, is the true meaning of 'emulation'), the api would be useless, unless you recompiled the application.
As someone else said, you can implement the POSIX api, without being a POSIX emulator. Windows NT is not a POSIX emulator. Nor is it a Win9x emulator. It just has both apis.
Wine is no different from any native Linux api. If Linus had decided to implement win32 calls instead of POSIX, wine would never have existed. We might have had a POSIX implementation later on (like wine), but it wouldn't be called an emulator. It would be a reimplementation of win32, with a POSIX api.
Reverse the roles to what we have now, and Linux is getting a new api set. That's all.
We Is Not Emulating.
Fact 1: A few people got diagnosed with Anthrax.
.gov.us (it should NOT EVER BE .gov - the US dosn't run the world (although it tries hard)) used it as propaganda against drugs, then noone would take them. If only they would stop tripping out on their own holier-than-thou attitude, they would stop supplying weaponry to known terrorists. Maybe they'd eliminate the debt they and the world bank are pushing onto most of Africa. Maybe if they'd stop trying to police the rest of the world and cram their 'American Way' down the throat of people who really don't want to have anything to do with America, this whole sorry mess of crap would never have happened.
.gov.us and their bitches would quit their hardon for the US and let everyone get on with lives, without having to listen to their bullshit, being spied on, or having advanced weaponry raining on their heads.
Fact 2: One of them opened a letter.
And so suddenly it's a worldwide conspiracy by Emmanuel Goldstein^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HUsama Bin Laden and Eastasia^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe Taleban. Who actually believes this shit? You might as well blame CJD on Saddam Hussein or Gulf War syndrome on the CIA. Ermm...
Fact 3: Noone in the US postal service contracted Anthrax.
The most likely explanation is that the people who got Anthrax bought some dodgy cocaine. Maybe if the
I just wish the
I am not a troll (braces for a karma plummet). It's just that the US scares me far more than a handful of middle-east extremists who
1) were given weapons by the US
2) were never proven to have attacked the US (read the so-called evidence yourself. There is not a single statement which could not have been falsified. Nor which proves Bin Laden ordered the suicide attacks.)
3) don't have the resources necessary to defend themselves against even one storming by the SAS. And yet are said to have chemical weapons. Right. Let's see those satellite pictures of where Goldstein is hiding. Which one of those caves has the chemical weapons plant?
Offtopic? Whatever - I'm far more worried about security in email than snail mail. I use GPG, but if the US outlaw it, that will make me a terrorist. Thanks US. I can sleep easier now.
it's got a happy, friendly, push big rainbow colored buttons, don't-cut-yourself safety-scissors interface
Really? Can't say I've ever much looked at the AOL interface.
And yet I'm using AOL now.
Not because of some notion that AOL have decent content. Nor because it is allegedly easy to use. It's because here in the UK, our comms network is so arcane (BT owning everything!) that it still costs to use a dialup. Unmetered 0800 (freephone) ISPs are few and far between, and AOL is one of them. It's also the cheapest (£14.99 pm), since I don't have to pay for BT Smurftime (£14.99pm) on top of that. The total cost for something like Freeserve is twice that of AOL.
So yes, I admit it. I use AOL. I used AOL to download Mandrake. So now I can connect to my freephone ISP with Mandrake.
Actually, the write.exe binary (from windows 9x onwards) just opens wordpad.exe, passing the parameters it received. It's there for compatibility with win16 apps which expect write.exe to be in every installation.
Of course, if you were to take actual binary from Windows 3.1, it would still run, even on Windows XP. Gotta love backwards compatibility.
Speaking of attacking Mac users...
... (laughs maniacally...)
Write a Mac worm. Call it porn.html and give it the Icon for IE. Watch them double-click to their hearts content.
And you thought stupid users were confined to Windows
Does MS still supply manuals?
It's called the F1 key. On newer keyboards (including the one I'm typing with right now), it's even marked "Help".
As Linux users say, RTFM. Except that F1 is a lot easier than "man cabbage"
It's in the Control Panel (Folder Options, from Win2k onwards). Where it should be. And also accessible from Windows Explorer - where you would be when you realised you needed to change a file type. How can that possibly be bad UI design?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghh hhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I tried to point out reasons why Apple are a monopoly, without repeating something someone else posted. So I still have to come up with my own arguments then? Ok, then...
You can run Linux, [Open|Net|Free]BSD, BeOS, AtheOS, Solaris (yes, Solaris), Darwin and God-knows how many other OSen on an Intel box. Yet Microsoft are still the monopoly?
You can run Linux or NetBSD on a Mac. You can't run BeOS on it any more. Why? Because Apple stopped them. Isn't that monopolistic?
Apple control everything from the number of buttons on the mice, to the colour of the buttons on screen (Aqua Blue or Graphite - thats all folks!). They won't allow anyone else to manufacture compatible hardware, and (Linux and NetBSD notwithstanding, since they are open source) won't allow any operating system other than their own to run on said hardware. They tried to trademark the GUI! They did trademark the colours of the iMac. They lie about performance. They make SMP machines without an SMP-capable OS (this was before OSX). They try to make pure java programs run only on OSX. They have learned a bit from Microsoft too. They include apps to do everything in their OS. Quicktime, iTunes, burning CDs from Finder, and so on.
But, more than anything else, they copy ideas from elsewhere and convince their lusers that they invernted it. The most well-known example being the Wimp environment they stole/bought/begged from XeroX parc. DVD recording, USB (created by a working group headed by Intel) and Firewire (aka iLink, invented by Sony) were all allegedly invented by Apple.
Does this sound monopolistic?
I think that may be a touch too subtle for /.
(Unless you yourself didn't realise that Windows does all this. In which case you'd be an idiot and a troll. I think I'll give you the benefit of the doubt...)
All I can say in reply is:
read another reply to the post to which I was replying (or something?)