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  1. Re:Linus Torvalds and regression? on Linux Kernel Suffering Power Management Regression? · · Score: 0

    Well Microsoft has one for Windows so someone must have one for Linux judging by how many people on /. insist that Linux is better in every way than Windows and that the Linux dev/testing process is miles ahead of the Microsoft one.

  2. Re:Why? on Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor - EWeek · · Score: 1

    I can have a compile going in VS 2010, Security Essential running, a video playing and multiple other monitoring apps running at the same time with no slow down. Sounds like your are either memory constrained or IO limited. "Several tests have confirmed that it is 20 to 50 times slower then a .NET C# app doing the same thing" Without any hint as to what it was doing that is a nearly useless statement.

  3. Re:Why? on Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor - EWeek · · Score: 1

    It is much faster if you disable hybrid sleep. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-hybrid-sleep-mode/

  4. Re:Why? on Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor - EWeek · · Score: 1

    A nearly 2 and a half year old performance benchmark that counts the number of mouse clicks required to install as an important metric?

    man?  As long as it is up to date and they developers have bothered to write it.

    ext3 can get fragmented.

    sudo?  In Explorer shift right click.  In the CLI use runas

    You link to an article about Vista pre SP1 to show hardware requirements?  See modern GNOME / KDE.

  5. Re:Why? on Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor - EWeek · · Score: 1

    "Fix it so POSIX api functions are no longer treated as bastard stepchildren - implement them in the core, and emulate others." Now that is funny.

  6. Re:Why? on Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor - EWeek · · Score: 1

    PowerShell does encrypted remoting by default. IIS? What is so horrible about it? And if you can't figure out how to turn off those screen-edge features then you really should not be using a computer.

  7. Re:Why? on Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor - EWeek · · Score: 1

    Again you don't know.

    You took the time to generate a list of "issues" yet refuse to support a single one of them.

    How about you just address one of them?  Why isn't PowerShell a real shell?

  8. Re:Why? on Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor - EWeek · · Score: 1

    Evey system I have wakes up from sleep in just a few seconds. Perhaps you have hybrid sleep enabled or something else wrong?

  9. Re:Why? on Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor - EWeek · · Score: 1

    So you don't really know.

  10. Re:Why? on Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor - EWeek · · Score: 1

    How do I make it unstable?

    What do you recommend to make it more secure?

    Interoperability?  So broad a term as to be meaningless.

    "real" command shell?  You mean like PowerShell?

  11. Re:Why? on Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor - EWeek · · Score: 2, Informative

    performance - in what way is Windows 7/Server 2k8R2 slow?

    efficient usage of system resources = How does 7/R2 fail to use systems resources in a efficient way?

    stability - I can't seam to get my systems to have stability issues, how do I reproduce this?

    file system - What is wrong with NTFS  as implemented by 7/R2?

    decouple GUI from core - Has already been done.  Server Core

    decouple apps from core - Which apps?

    simple remote access - RDP and other methods are already built in.

    get rid of the sick registry - In what way is it sick?

    customization - In what ways?

    documentation - What needs to be improved?

    adhere to common open standards - Which standards?

    lower hardware requirements - It can run on very expensive systems.  Exactly how low are you talking about?

    better modularization - Explain this please.

    remove unneeded services/bloatware - Which ones are you talking about?

    provide a powerful shell - Powershell

    enhance security/permission features - Example?

  12. Re:Why? on Windows 8 Early Build Hints At Apple, WebOS Competitor - EWeek · · Score: 2

    In what areas do you think the core OS should be improved?

  13. Re:I tried LabView once on Expensify CEO On 'Why We Won't Hire .NET Developers' · · Score: 1

    "In Visual Studio, all I have to do is click this, then click this, and then it's done." Unless they are saving a file I an not sure exactly what you are talking about. Can you flesh that out a little?

  14. Re:worst feature removed yet? on Microsoft Shows Off Radical New UI, Could Be Used In Windows 8 · · Score: 0

    And why is the registry so horrible?

  15. Re:Special situations on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    How is importing CFLs from China which are manufactured using very dirty processes using power generated from some of the most polluting coal fired power plants in the world a net positive?

  16. Re:Special situations on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Are you willing to pay the 30 to 50 times more per led bulb for me? They are a little pricy for an item that is only guaranteed to last 3 to 5 years.

  17. Re:It still needs a lot of work... on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    Watson doesn't know what they other players questions are so such a mistake is understandable.

  18. Re:Naturally. on Microsoft's New Plan For Keeping the Internet Safe · · Score: 1

    How is Vista or Windows 7 a "highly vulnerable operating system"?

  19. Re:Makes me glad I quit Windows years ago on Looking Back At Microsoft's Rocky History In Storage Tech · · Score: 1

    Define "Flexible software RAID" and "logical volume management" so I know exactly what you are referring to.

  20. Re:Makes me glad I quit Windows years ago on Looking Back At Microsoft's Rocky History In Storage Tech · · Score: 1

    2^32 seconds is 136 years 2 months 9 days 10 hours 28 minutes 16 seconds

  21. Re:Makes me glad I quit Windows years ago on Looking Back At Microsoft's Rocky History In Storage Tech · · Score: 1

    What about the registry is so bad?

  22. Re:Makes me glad I quit Windows years ago on Looking Back At Microsoft's Rocky History In Storage Tech · · Score: 1

    What can my Linux boxes do that my Windows Server 2K8 R2 boxes can't?

  23. Re:Senior member of Anonymous? on Anonymous Isn't Anonymous Anymore · · Score: 1

    Be quiet child.

  24. Why GPL? on US Gov't Pushing News Through China's Great Firewall · · Score: 1

    Why is the GPL v3 instead of BSD / public domain?

  25. Re:Investing on New Critical Bug In All Current Windows Versions · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would mod you up but /. hasn't given me mod points for 3 or 4 years.