You mean, you tried to remove some spyware app, but because you couldn't it's therefore IE's fault.
The reason its 'part of the OS' is that the back-end http protocol handlers are reused by every application (well, those that don't want to reinvent the wheel) to connect to the internet. 'Remove' IE (and I guess you don't mean remove 'just the GUI') would cripple a great many programs out there.
Have you tried spyware removal tools? Or even a anti-virus program? Alternatively, just vape all the browser helper objects (search the registry, you'll find them) which sounds like what your problem was all along.
Mind you, I reinstall firefox regularly (every time a new version 'patch' comes out), and every time I re-install it, all my extensions are all there as before. Strange that. I guess if I was hit by some firefox malware then reinstalling it (in the same way you describe you want for IE) would have no effect. I think you'd best stick with IE.
What you wrote there is so underrated, I wish all the people who read this article would hit on your comment and realise that writing good code is more about making it simple and working, than it is to use all the latest, coolest, make-me-seem-clever crap that we have to put up with nowadays.
And, to realise that those consultancies charge a large amount of cash because their developers are crap and produce this over-engineered rubbish. (and is another reason why all those large-scale government projects they produce don't work properly if at all)
The time when Christianity set the laws was during the Medieval period, the Dark Ages refer to the time just after the collapse of the Roman Empire, when most peoples reverted to tribal communities and nobody bothered to write stuff down. Hence 'Dark', as in 'historians are in the dark as to what went on'.
Oh, and Original Sin isn't anythign really do to with anti-woman, its about how eating the apple (and thus gaining self knowledge) suddenly made us responsible for ourselves and no longer like children. We had to leave paradise because we'd 'outgrown' it, not because Eve was naughty.
As for the rest, don't forget that people get scared by change, especially those with vested interests, and bigoted, small-minded idea. Our job as decent people are to help these poor unfortunates come to terms with it.
I'd say that FF has done well because IE is perceived as insecure and full of nagging spyware popups and so forth. Firefox beat it when people started using it and noticed that it was, actually, better.
Acrobat started off as a nice, simple printed-page viewer, it was quick and did its job. Nowadays though, its bloated, nags me constantly to install Atmosphere addons and multimedia nonsense, and takes ages to load. If *anyone* somes out with something that is better, then I think that will start to erode Acrobat market share.
Hopefully the competition will kick Adobe into making Acrobat reader like it used to be. and one day, Metro will be full of bloat too, with 3rd graphics multimedia extensions and the like, and we'll get another (hopefully free) viewer app to replace that.
The lifecycle of software tools.. someone should write a book!:)
XP x64 isn't fully 64bit. One example is Windows Media Player 10, which is still 32bit
Yes, but remember that Media Player most definitely is not, oh no, no way, not at all, move along nothing to see here, couldn't even possibly be, not even in the realms of possibilties be, no not even if we wanted to make it, part of the operating system.
There's no way you can dedicate a CPU to a particular application.. not in any form of pre-emptive OS.
However, you can constrain an application to a particular CPU (in windows at least) - task manager, set affinity. That's a great way of preventing an application from using your other CPU. If you want a CPU to run a game only, you would have to go through the entire process list and set the other processes to CPU 1, (or write an app to do that), and then set your game process to CPU 2.
I think you'll get more performance just by letting the OS handle things though.
I remember the RM Nimbus. Most notable thing about it was it ran the 80186 chip (no, not even the 286), at about 1Khz or something equally poor even by those days standards.
Interesting that you attributed poor performance to Windows though.
but yes, you're right that it is perfectly reasonably that many linux users, who use it for web servers or other non-desktop platforms require stability over all manner of bells and whistles.
Actually, Ghost 9 is fantastic, it now creates incremental backups.. which on my home PC, completes in less than a minute. (ie. I don't really notice when it kicks in).
Add excellent scheduling and I really recommend Ghost 9.
but I believe you can write to some cell phone companies, or whatever, and request that they send you the Linux source code that they use in the phone on a disk. Do the companies fret about this? They don't seem to
Not until someone actually bothers to phone them up and ask for it.. *then* then fret about it. oh yes.
If Bauer's heroism was in his cleverness and creativity while following the rules,
I think you would like many courtroom drama shows, like Law and Order, or the old LA Law. Those shows featured highly skilled lawyers, who'se (unsung) heroism was in twisting, sorry, cleverly and creatively interpreting, the rules (ie the law) to suit their own case.
Fortunatly, 24 is just fantasy TV. NO different from Arnie blowing up bad guys with his gun of unlimited ammo.
you are kidding right? the 'million zombies' are a relatively new addition to the spammer's arsenal. Before then, it was unscrupulous ISPs in the far east who were happy to let you use their systems to spam. Now they're slowly being closed off, and the open SMTP relays slowly shutting, the spammers are turning to new means of delivery.
However, it still looks like the old ways are the most popular: check out the reports on spamcop's website. You can see the number of reports is high in some IP blocks, and the number of spam emails high in others. If the zombie farms you mention were the cause of all spam, you'd expect to see a more evenly spread report.
I'm sure it will move to private boxes sending nearly all spam via zombies, but not just yet. Those zombie have, up to now, only really been used to spread themselves, and launch DDoS attacks.
Forgive me here, but how are open relays and SMTP suddenly microsoft's fault?
I mean, sure, MS has plenty of holes in Outlook Express but none of them are used in relation to spam. That's like saying, I get the odd spam, so it's Thunderbird's (my mail client) broken security model too.
Spam exists because spammers send mail that people click on and actually buy. No security holes required - unless you count badly configured SMTP servers, and the security holes in sendmail for instance. In this case, its much more like security holes in *nux, not Windows - its not like Windows servers are the predominant OS used for mail gateways.
I would prefer all distros to come with the very basics installed, and then.. you can run an add-on installer where you can slap in your choices.
Even better would be a setup that gave you the most common choices. eg. Install a webserver; or install a KDE desktop machine. Even then, the minimum would be installed, if you then wanted (eg) Java support on your webserver, you'd run the add-on installer to get it.
As it is, the setup programs assume you know what the choices are, so when they give you the list of desktops, you musty choose one.. and by implication, you know which one you want. Great if you're some experienced linux user.. absolutely the worst thing you can do to a linux beginner.
except that they don't because you will never get 100% swing to that extreme.
A case in point is China, where there are (according to the BBC the other day, I didn't get the original reference) there are 13% more boys than girls in the current generation. Doesn't sound like the prejudices will die out, and there will still be a massive social problem in the future.
NT 3.51 had that separation of userspace and kernel, and it was completely solid. Of course, it ran the old Windows 3.1 GUI.
NT4 came along and adopted the Win95 GUI, and I guess people at MS thought, lets make this a desktop OS as well as a server one. So, much userspace stuff was merged with the kernel and speed and responsiveness did improve. Of course, this means that the original design is 'broken', but on the other hand, if you consider that NT4s design was that you trade speed for stability, then its not flawed at all.
You can talk about kernel/userspace/rings and design all you like, but all of us live in the real world where real work is done, not in some academic perfect environment where real-life tradeoffs don't need to be considered in an elegant design.
BTW. What about the Linux kernel... not exactly a micrkernel now is it, but no-one's mentioned that. (not that I care - its not what you have, its how you use it that matters to me).
you can't just recompile with 64-bit longs and expect it all to work. For starters, the time() CRT function will not generate a 64-bit value, unless you recompile the CRT, and then how would you get a 64-bit program that requires 32-bit functionality.
No, Windows provides time64(), and time64_t datatypes.
language means what common usage means, not what the original latin translation says it should be. So when you hear people talking about a project methodology, you know they're talking about a process-based method of implementing change or a new system.
Similarly, when you hear them talking about realigning their corporate strategic plan to fully utilise the synergisty within the departmental structure, you know they're talking bollocks.:)
Nonsense, if you're not using the processor you don't want or need it running at full whack. The AMD winchester cores show the benefit of this - 3W at idle, think of the planet, or your electricity bill (compared to Athlon's at 34W idle..).
Still not good enough, ok, what about silent cooling - my PC starts to get noisy when it cranks up, if it didn't require so much cooling it could stay a lot quieter for a lot longer.
That's still not a good enough reason for you I guess, but if you owned a datacentre, with a thousand machines sitting there chewing up electricity, and pumping out heat, and running your aircon full blast to counter... you'd want the machines idling to use next to no power. Your energy saving will be noticeable.
They have no need of an excuse, AMD are doing it, Intel are now doing it, its a good thing.
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You mean, you tried to remove some spyware app, but because you couldn't it's therefore IE's fault.
The reason its 'part of the OS' is that the back-end http protocol handlers are reused by every application (well, those that don't want to reinvent the wheel) to connect to the internet. 'Remove' IE (and I guess you don't mean remove 'just the GUI') would cripple a great many programs out there.
Have you tried spyware removal tools? Or even a anti-virus program? Alternatively, just vape all the browser helper objects (search the registry, you'll find them) which sounds like what your problem was all along.
Mind you, I reinstall firefox regularly (every time a new version 'patch' comes out), and every time I re-install it, all my extensions are all there as before. Strange that. I guess if I was hit by some firefox malware then reinstalling it (in the same way you describe you want for IE) would have no effect. I think you'd best stick with IE.
I would worry, Microsoft lost (well.. sortof) their lawsuits :)
Fortunately, initially spinning a HDD up takes the energy, once spinning it uses up very little (~10W IIRC)
If it did use a lot of power, imagine how long a portable CD player would last on those 2 little batteries.
What you wrote there is so underrated, I wish all the people who read this article would hit on your comment and realise that writing good code is more about making it simple and working, than it is to use all the latest, coolest, make-me-seem-clever crap that we have to put up with nowadays.
:)
And, to realise that those consultancies charge a large amount of cash because their developers are crap and produce this over-engineered rubbish. (and is another reason why all those large-scale government projects they produce don't work properly if at all)
Ah. happy now, time for a lie-down
The time when Christianity set the laws was during the Medieval period, the Dark Ages refer to the time just after the collapse of the Roman Empire, when most peoples reverted to tribal communities and nobody bothered to write stuff down. Hence 'Dark', as in 'historians are in the dark as to what went on'.
Oh, and Original Sin isn't anythign really do to with anti-woman, its about how eating the apple (and thus gaining self knowledge) suddenly made us responsible for ourselves and no longer like children. We had to leave paradise because we'd 'outgrown' it, not because Eve was naughty.
As for the rest, don't forget that people get scared by change, especially those with vested interests, and bigoted, small-minded idea. Our job as decent people are to help these poor unfortunates come to terms with it.
I'd say that FF has done well because IE is perceived as insecure and full of nagging spyware popups and so forth. Firefox beat it when people started using it and noticed that it was, actually, better.
.. someone should write a book! :)
Acrobat started off as a nice, simple printed-page viewer, it was quick and did its job. Nowadays though, its bloated, nags me constantly to install Atmosphere addons and multimedia nonsense, and takes ages to load. If *anyone* somes out with something that is better, then I think that will start to erode Acrobat market share.
Hopefully the competition will kick Adobe into making Acrobat reader like it used to be. and one day, Metro will be full of bloat too, with 3rd graphics multimedia extensions and the like, and we'll get another (hopefully free) viewer app to replace that.
The lifecycle of software tools
XP x64 isn't fully 64bit. One example is Windows Media Player 10, which is still 32bit
:o :~)
Yes, but remember that Media Player most definitely is not, oh no, no way, not at all, move along nothing to see here, couldn't even possibly be, not even in the realms of possibilties be, no not even if we wanted to make it, part of the operating system.
You'll be saying IE is only 32 bit next
There's no way you can dedicate a CPU to a particular application.. not in any form of pre-emptive OS.
However, you can constrain an application to a particular CPU (in windows at least) - task manager, set affinity. That's a great way of preventing an application from using your other CPU. If you want a CPU to run a game only, you would have to go through the entire process list and set the other processes to CPU 1, (or write an app to do that), and then set your game process to CPU 2.
I think you'll get more performance just by letting the OS handle things though.
I remember the RM Nimbus. Most notable thing about it was it ran the 80186 chip (no, not even the 286), at about 1Khz or something equally poor even by those days standards.
Interesting that you attributed poor performance to Windows though.
Remember DirectX is not part of the XP kernel.
but yes, you're right that it is perfectly reasonably that many linux users, who use it for web servers or other non-desktop platforms require stability over all manner of bells and whistles.
Of course I'm sure no one at Microsoft really does anything with the data;
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Actually that's not true. See here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/
for someone who really has had a look through those crashdumps (for fun, I think!) and quite an interesting blog article as well.
Actually, Ghost 9 is fantastic, it now creates incremental backups.. which on my home PC, completes in less than a minute. (ie. I don't really notice when it kicks in).
Add excellent scheduling and I really recommend Ghost 9.
but I believe you can write to some cell phone companies, or whatever, and request that they send you the Linux source code that they use in the phone on a disk. Do the companies fret about this? They don't seem to
Not until someone actually bothers to phone them up and ask for it.. *then* then fret about it. oh yes.
If Bauer's heroism was in his cleverness and creativity while following the rules,
I think you would like many courtroom drama shows, like Law and Order, or the old LA Law. Those shows featured highly skilled lawyers, who'se (unsung) heroism was in twisting, sorry, cleverly and creatively interpreting, the rules (ie the law) to suit their own case.
Fortunatly, 24 is just fantasy TV. NO different from Arnie blowing up bad guys with his gun of unlimited ammo.
Well, Tom Baker has moved on to do the voice-over narration of Little Britain, so yes I'd say so :)
(for the yanks, Little Britain is another radio4 to TV show that has won many many awards. You probably wouldn't get many of the jokes in it though)
you are kidding right? the 'million zombies' are a relatively new addition to the spammer's arsenal. Before then, it was unscrupulous ISPs in the far east who were happy to let you use their systems to spam. Now they're slowly being closed off, and the open SMTP relays slowly shutting, the spammers are turning to new means of delivery.
However, it still looks like the old ways are the most popular: check out the reports on spamcop's website. You can see the number of reports is high in some IP blocks, and the number of spam emails high in others. If the zombie farms you mention were the cause of all spam, you'd expect to see a more evenly spread report.
I'm sure it will move to private boxes sending nearly all spam via zombies, but not just yet. Those zombie have, up to now, only really been used to spread themselves, and launch DDoS attacks.
Forgive me here, but how are open relays and SMTP suddenly microsoft's fault?
I mean, sure, MS has plenty of holes in Outlook Express but none of them are used in relation to spam. That's like saying, I get the odd spam, so it's Thunderbird's (my mail client) broken security model too.
Spam exists because spammers send mail that people click on and actually buy. No security holes required - unless you count badly configured SMTP servers, and the security holes in sendmail for instance. In this case, its much more like security holes in *nux, not Windows - its not like Windows servers are the predominant OS used for mail gateways.
choice is bad if you are forced to choose.
I would prefer all distros to come with the very basics installed, and then.. you can run an add-on installer where you can slap in your choices.
Even better would be a setup that gave you the most common choices. eg. Install a webserver; or install a KDE desktop machine. Even then, the minimum would be installed, if you then wanted (eg) Java support on your webserver, you'd run the add-on installer to get it.
As it is, the setup programs assume you know what the choices are, so when they give you the list of desktops, you musty choose one.. and by implication, you know which one you want. Great if you're some experienced linux user.. absolutely the worst thing you can do to a linux beginner.
except that they don't because you will never get 100% swing to that extreme.
A case in point is China, where there are (according to the BBC the other day, I didn't get the original reference) there are 13% more boys than girls in the current generation. Doesn't sound like the prejudices will die out, and there will still be a massive social problem in the future.
NT 3.51 had that separation of userspace and kernel, and it was completely solid. Of course, it ran the old Windows 3.1 GUI.
NT4 came along and adopted the Win95 GUI, and I guess people at MS thought, lets make this a desktop OS as well as a server one. So, much userspace stuff was merged with the kernel and speed and responsiveness did improve. Of course, this means that the original design is 'broken', but on the other hand, if you consider that NT4s design was that you trade speed for stability, then its not flawed at all.
You can talk about kernel/userspace/rings and design all you like, but all of us live in the real world where real work is done, not in some academic perfect environment where real-life tradeoffs don't need to be considered in an elegant design.
BTW. What about the Linux kernel... not exactly a micrkernel now is it, but no-one's mentioned that. (not that I care - its not what you have, its how you use it that matters to me).
you can't just recompile with 64-bit longs and expect it all to work. For starters, the time() CRT function will not generate a 64-bit value, unless you recompile the CRT, and then how would you get a 64-bit program that requires 32-bit functionality.
No, Windows provides time64(), and time64_t datatypes.
language means what common usage means, not what the original latin translation says it should be. So when you hear people talking about a project methodology, you know they're talking about a process-based method of implementing change or a new system.
:)
Similarly, when you hear them talking about realigning their corporate strategic plan to fully utilise the synergisty within the departmental structure, you know they're talking bollocks.
or a VMWare session with the 'discard changes' option set.
You'd have to keep your home directory on a network or removable drive though, and only install programs when disconnected from the net.
He must be responsible for a different department then, the helpdesk managed by a colleague....
Nonsense, if you're not using the processor you don't want or need it running at full whack. The AMD winchester cores show the benefit of this - 3W at idle, think of the planet, or your electricity bill (compared to Athlon's at 34W idle..).
Still not good enough, ok, what about silent cooling - my PC starts to get noisy when it cranks up, if it didn't require so much cooling it could stay a lot quieter for a lot longer.
That's still not a good enough reason for you I guess, but if you owned a datacentre, with a thousand machines sitting there chewing up electricity, and pumping out heat, and running your aircon full blast to counter... you'd want the machines idling to use next to no power. Your energy saving will be noticeable.
They have no need of an excuse, AMD are doing it, Intel are now doing it, its a good thing.