Over in Australia, there was a case where Optus was retransmitting broadcasts to their mobile telephones on the claim of 'time shift'.
The ruling is that while it is not illegal for an individual to do this for his own benefit, it is illegal for a company to do it to onsell the service.
Unix and REXX grew up based on things that people actually needed, rather than dictated ex citidel. To this end, once one has a UI (in the form of STDIO), it's easy to write stream filters. I write quickies for this in REXX. Strongly typing means that you can only treat a file name as a file name, rather than say, a string. It also means that you can't add 1 and 1..
Still, those of us who have lives in the real world do fine-tune things with a spanner etc, such as to give some more gain to the victa or level the fridge. So the notion of a spanner and screw-driver for configure (ie adjust), has still some sense. Also, there's the delightful phrase 'spanner in the works'. This is just the dandy place to do it (i recall one girl changing all of the window furniture to blue, and then wondered why she couldn't see anything!).
One should remember that the hard disk icon is sometimes shown as a stack of platters, and sometines as a grey box, but in one instance, the hard drive is not the volume, and secondly, not many people would pick out the fixed disks in a beige box. It's also interesting to see what people would think of floppy-disk icons when floppies aren't allowed at work.
Still, there are steam engines used to show level crossings, because of all things railway, the steam engine is perfectly recognisable.
As to the rabbit ears on the tele, that's about the most distinct thing about it, and even TiVo uses it in their logo.
Many interesting sounds come from the C20 that have long diasppeared (here). Continious weld rail have taken the clickety-clack out of train travel.
I used to have a real teletype behind me at work, to do queries. The thing would chug into life every now and then with the answer to some command entered into a computer. One would type in a card line (rather like command options in the cobol style), and it would send back a string of lines.
The joys of the card punch and the tape punch. These chug away, likewise mounted so that their vibrations would not do some damage.
The sound of bells relaying messages, when BEL actually rang a bell. Of course there (was) the telephone system i saw my brother use, to ring up control at roma, consists of a party-line system, where one rings long-long-long etc.
Here (australia), it was the custom to play the national anthem (god save the queen), at the end of every show (cinema, live, television close). In the seventies, they changed it to some other thing (advance australia fair). One day not too long ago, i was listening to a disk of national anthems, and found that i was standing when GSTQ was played. So ingrained. (They used GSTQ to get the beatles out of an adelaide theatre: the beatles made their exit as the audience stood at attention to higher things).
Real money. not a sound, but the cash registers and so forth were generally mechanical things where one might press the money in and pull a lever. Australia abandoned currency on 14 feb 1966, when we got these decimal beads in.
The real thing with e-mail etc is that one ought treat it as an electronic inbox, and not something to dance to every beck and call.
One works on a variety of tasks, rifling the inbox for the next task. It's the same with inbox stuff. You might assess incoming tasks for urgency and importance, but if you jumped to every task as it hits the desk, ye'd never get nothing done.
It should be remembered that efficency and effectiveness generally are unrelated.
Efficiency is something that can be measured: responces to calls, forms processed, etc, the sort of thing you can count. It's pretty easy to do this sort of thing, and often the PHBs will take some metric and use it as a measure of activity. Because of this, one often sees things like proformance indicators, and the process and often salary, becomes connected to the indicator. The industry stops being what it is and starts producing 'red beans' for the bean counters. The indicator changes, and one produces blue beans.
Effect is something that is about getting the right job done, both for the customer and for the system. It's not even about what the customer wants, since this supposes that it is the role of the customer to diagnose the problem and the solution, and simply ask for the solution to happen. One needs to think of what happened with the system that responded to cyclone Katrina in New Orleans, which the responce was based on customer wants, rather than pre-assessment by those who should have done this. A call for help is an indicator to a problem, not a proposed solution.
Of course, even though an indicator might be proportional to effect in the wild, when it is proportional to money, the indicator becomes more important to the effect. A doctor, who might have an indicator on consultations, will split several illnesses to several consultations. On a help desk, one is more intent on creating calls, then on providing effect. A call that seeks three problems would be terminated at the first, and new calls needed for the second and third. Also, the process might be extended to several calls to create extra indicator traffic.
In the main, help desk traffic is not a really good indicator of effect, since there are things that effect this. Response time, time to fix, etc, all serve to alter traffic, in some cases, it might be better served by the section guru rather than the help desk. The effectiveness of the guru's solutions may well impede the help desk's overall issues, since it might make matters worse.
One should also note that recording the help calls is also an impediment. It serves no effect, and in many cases, might take as much to make happen as the call does in nature. One might answer say, 90% of the calls first up, yet spend more than 50% of the times making the necessary beans for the counter. A good deal of issues can be condensed into a few batch files (yes, i did this: system configuration is a good candidate for script files), so that while the call is terminated relatively fast, the actual recording might be tedious.
My experience of help desk is that particularly Microsoft rograms (eg Word, Access, Windows), use common names, which makes them very hard to grep for in the system. This reduces the effectiveness of any sort of 'search the job tables' for help. To this end, i used Wart, Abcess, Windoze, much to the annoyances of the PHBs.
I make use of style sheets as much as possible. This allows for example, either block or first-line indent. With a style-sheet set down to character-level, one can use single or double-spaces freely at the end of a sentence. The markup language I wrote (KML, see, eg http://www.os2fan2.com/ makes use of a chacter-level style sheet that replaces eg `t and `T by th,TH or , respectively, eg 'the polygloss' vs 'the polygloss as nature intended', both derive from the same source KML file.
One uses also two kinds of paragraph (p) and (pp), to create leading vs following paragraph. The pp-style paragraph can have either first-line indent (traditional) vs blank-line block style.
Don Knuth described Literate Programming in which the program is embedded in comments, one using a preprocessor to write the program. The preprocessor runs as a command processor, using the source as a batch file. One gets a properly sorted batch file as output. Because of this, one can overcome limitations of the programming language, use pre-processor variables etc, and produce several linked files etc.
Documentation is relatively straight forward, since one writes what one wants to get, limitations, API and examples by way of a wish-list, and then create the routines that make this happen. You can write a tight section like "File I/O", for fileopen() and fileclose() along with getline(), putline(), etc, without exposing the filenames to all of the subroutines. I've written a program to write Web pages in it, for example, http:\\www.os2fan2.com\pgloss\index.html and its attendent pages. It's pretty elegant really.
The temptation of LP is to use it to solve a problem per source, a note that Jon Bentley (Pearls of Programming) noted. LP is about sorting problems: however, the sort of problems that Knuth sought to solve are complete things in an educational setting, not bits of problems in the real world. None the less, I use it to write terse batch files etc, where the LP source is the help file too.
Two tricks i use to hide passwords is to use short forms, eg "A7" might expand as "ABD968017", and a general "salt and pepper" table. These are all unrelated to what is typically discussed. Note also that a7 expands to "abd968017", so some case can be preserved.
In a salt and pepper table, one uses an intermediate table that is easy to recall, but no need to be written, and not common knowledge. An example might be "husbands and wives", so a password displayed as "John" might be entered as "Yoko". Another kind of table might be "middle names", so "John" would elicit the response of "Winston". Note eg, jOhn gives yOko or wInston, so you can hide case in here too.
The less obvious you make the salt and pepper table, or the more unobvious the abbreviations, the more secure the table, even if the reminders are kept in plain text (plain text in an unobvious application also deters automatic gathering. Who would look for something like a.DOC file, might have some fun when the downloaded document is a multimate doc!
It's interesting that the bulk of the SxS stuff is Microsoft stuff, not third party stuff.
I recall that when Win95 first came out, and that they were replacing the Win16 stuff with Win32 stuff. Someone remarked that there would be incompatibilities, and that it was for the vendor to rewrite the apps to meet the new APIs. That calling some DLL by name would of course these incompatibilities.
I thought how silly. Inviting third parties to use routines in your DLL is pretty much a kind of contract of support. This is the nature of the operating system, really. If you create a DLL like VBRUN100 for some set of apps to call, then the App expects it to run in that way, and if your new version of VBRUN would cause incompatibility, you should give it a different name, like VBRUN200.
Last time i looked, routines like VBRUN100, BWCC etc, comes to about 9 MB. (There's a download that ye can add to your OS to give these as preinstalled.
Where the problem comes is when some sort of obvious name gets used for different DLLs (eg the three different versions of THREED.VXD that different applications were loading under Win31), or the MFC3xx DLLs where the source code was given to vendors to allow them to add their own functions. (good lord). Even so, Microsoft continues to release DLLs like MSVCRT and MFC40, updated to their latest operating system / compiler.
I don't think anyone else uses such nonsense as SxS or DLL hell: OS/2 VREXX.DLL or EMXRT do the right thing: preserve existing functions, and have a test for version-level.
I think it's another re-run of OS/2 1,x PM virtualisation under NT 4. When you install this package, the program launcher still lives in the host system, and any commands to start an application visits the host, and then switches to the virtualisation.
Compare OS/2's virtualisation of Windows 3.x. OS/2 still launches the app, but it does not do a graphic repaint of the current host screen to do this.
I suppose that any of the simpler approximations of pi (like 22/7, or 1521/484 (both squares), or even 7^7/8^6 or 3:17 [twelfty] don't rate a mention.
Still, i don't rate pi in the same regard as e or the fsh (137.0359996), since pi is a matter of how it is defined, whereas e and fsh come as a single value.
The current thinking of the circle constant, usually taken at pi, from high dimensions, is that pi/2 serves better, and for physics, 2pi might be better. pi/4 and pi/6 have also been mooted, as the content of a unit circle and sphere. (of diameter of unity).
People in other industries are paid for preparing cloths and machines for work, and also paid for in some cases, cleaning themselves after work.
Either they should be expected to find the machine booted before they start work, or should count the logging in of a machine as work (in much the same way as filing forms is work.
The thing with any procedure (like computers), one can not just take the good without the bad. The machines save in retrieving and distributing modified data, but take longer to boot.
You can teach yourself to see in four dimensions, by using analogy and other things.
To begin, consider that a 2d picture can either be a picture (things can fall), or a map (things don't fall). Since the corresponding 3d thing is a picture/map of four dimensions, we can build objects like houses, furniture, etc from plan and views.
Not all seems to be aimple. A knife cuts: literally, it makes a surface by motion, and is therefore tipped by a space of N-2 dimensions. Rivers can be either "latrous" (1d) or "hedrous" (2d). A fault lake is 2d (since faults are a break of surface).
Holes come in two types, although these are topologically the same. One can have a "bridge" or "tunnel" kind of hole: in 3d, these are the same, in 4d they are different.
The planet rotates on clifford motion. This makes every point of the 4-sphere go around the centre. One sees this by equality of energy in modes of rotation.
None the same, there can be seasons. If the sun does not follow in the year-circle any of the circles of the earth rotating, then there will be seasons. You don't just have hemispheres in summer vs winter, but season-zones to match the time-zones. That is, for example, Christmas (normally in summer), can fall in early spring, or late winter.
The poles are replaced by circles of extreme climate. One has a "equator circle", and a "polar" circle. At the tropics (a singular torus-shape thing), the sun becomes to the zenith once a year. At the artic torus, the sun hugs the horizon for the equate of the shortest day.
Because the sun is relatively still in the sky, there is no variation in the number of hours. What makes the seasons is that the the sun is lower in the horizon, even at midday.
Here in Australia, we pay something like $50 to $100 more in royalties simply because we are not the US.
For example, the HP 35s calculator i am looking at, costs in the US $50. Over here, it's $120, which means that we are paying $70 more simply because we are not the US.
The same situation exists in Europe.
Part of the investigations is largely because the US is in reciept of large unfair trade advantage (in that they can charge different royalties for different markets). Wonder when the market says enough is enough?
If microsoft stated in their trial that earlier versions of windows were their main competition, then are they not trying to control this competition by removing it. I never could figure this one out.
Georgia, Candara, Constantia and Corbel use lower-case (hanging) numbers. These are preferable for using in running text. It seems that since the beta, more hanging numbers fonts disappeared. 3,4,5,7,9 have descenders, like g, and 6,8 have ascenders, like h. 0,1,2 are x-height characters.
I have been partial to hanging numbers, becausing writing numbers in block form is like writing words in capitals. Candara and Corbel are sans serif fonts, a welcome addition, while Constantia and Georgia remain serif hanging-digit fonts.
None of the fonts are 'old-style'. These are recognisable by a half-width e. Still, some of the c-fonts do add interesting variations to what is already there.
DOS based: 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11 relies on previously installed DOS
DOS 7+ based: relies on inbuilt DOS, but this can be replaced: dos 7.0: win 95, dos 7.1 win 95 OSR2.x win 98, win98se. dos 8.0 winme. You can to varying degrees replace the DOS in these windows with similar or higher versions.
VMS/OS2 based: Windows NT 3.10, 3.50, 3.51 (1057), 4.0 (1381), Win2K 5.0 (2195), WinXP 5.1 (2600), Win2k3 5.2 (3790), and vista 6.0 (6000). In side branches lies Neptune 5.0 (5000, 5111) = Win2k home beta.
If Windows for DOS is a 'thing on a thing', then so is Windows NT. Neither the character-mode installs or recovery consoles for DOS or Windows NT will run Win32 apps, or even a subset. Unlike, say OS/2 or linux, the WinNT character-boot will not run programs that run in the console, and the DOS proggies are just that: dos programs running in a VM, like they do in OS/2 or DosEMU.
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QBasic was 'upgraded' in DOS 6.x (to version 1.1), and it was included in all DOS 5 derivitives until Windows 2K. It's in Windows NT4 and earlier, and it comes with the cd version of Windows 9x.
Interestingly, i tested some VBA code in qbasic, so it was useful that way, and with helpmake, it is possible to rewrite help.hlp to get your own help code. I kept my notes in this form after Word 6.x decided it was going to do the microsoft thing.
Microsoft said in their trials, that Windows, Office etc, had as their biggest competitors, previous versions of these systems.
Is not then microsoft interfering with competition by withdrawing / overpricing previous versions? One should recall in the past that DOS 3 successfully competed with DOS 4.
REG.EXE is supplied in the Win2k support tools (on the Win2k cd-rom), or in the base install of Windows XP and later.
The reg_x86.exe is actually a winzip file (it can be opened in any zip utility), the relevant file contains reg.exe, along with a readme file (suggesting the file goes to c:\reskitnt). I have been incliding reg.exe in the various update files etc.
I made a service pack 7 for Windows NT some while ago, but it is still in late alpha. When this installs, it does so as "Revised service pack 6A". Still, i use one further patch file to deliver updates, like the 2k3 NTLOADER / NTDETECT.COM, sol.exe and cmd.exe from Windows 2000, and a few other "fixes".
There are, none the same, a number of useful projects to slipstream fixes etc into both OS/2 and Windows.
One might for OS/2, try UPDCD, and compare this with the various Windows versions: NLITE, HFSLIP, and USP5 for Win2k. The UPDCD, NLITE and HFSLIP projects are multi-versions, while USP5 is for 2000 only.
Windows 3.1 did not check any files, and one has always been able to update the stuff. I managed to add all of the fixes to PC-DOS 6.31, once one gets a hold of compress.exe v 1.0.
It is worth the note that the WIM install is not like "ghost", or even the OEM rebuild diskettes. It's more akin to unzipping an archive and post-configuration.
Firstly, you can install vista on any partition. It does not have to go to c: drive. For this to work, (and its dodgy new bootloader), it has to diddle the c:\ drive in any case. It creates a directory "boot", and moves ntldr and ntdetect.com there, and puts its own boot manager in there.
Secondly, it is not preconfigured for any given hardware or partition. So the WIM simply delivers a windows ready to be configured: the OOBE (out of the box exploit) does this. OEMs have been delivering what is called "unsealed" installs for a while in this manner.
What makes WIM a nuisance is that it can only run from a vista boot (ie you can't do the setup from Windows NT4 (like i have done several XP installs). The image files can be modified, but only from a running installed Vista. That is, even the WinPE that installs it can not make the WIM files.
On the other hand, if you get everything to work, you can get a nice little fast-booting Windows repair disk. The setup WIM is actually a full-blown WinPE which has been hobbled to run setup. Kind of like making Windows XP and hobbling it by putting "shell=edlin.exe".
BTW, OS/2 has been used to run specific applications via "shell=", as has Windows 2.x and 3.x. Windows Runtime was nothing more than Windows with "sol.exe" as shell.
I gave vista something like 16 gb in some drive like J: on partition 1.
I had a look at the beta build 5112.
WIM is by no means new. Both the technology and the name of the exe (XIMAGE), first made their debut with Compaq restore disks. The process is different to, say, GHOST, and is more akin to a giant RAR file or something. OS/2 has been doing something along the line with PACK and PACK2 files from way back.
The two WIM files represent respectively, a version of WinPE, and the installation. With a slight edit of the WinPE, you can change the shell to cmd.exe, and add your own utilities to it. It then becomes a boot Windows diskette that lives in RAM.
After WinPE boots, it runs its default shell, like the eCom station version, is setup. Unlike the OS/2 version [which is about 5 years old], you can't do anything other than install the OS. Oh, well, still 5 years behind the edge.
What you can't do with WIM, is to install it from a different version of Windows. Basically, the setup does the rego check etc before it bothers to process the data.WIM.
It does "install" faster, largely because most of the files are in one archive. On the other hand, those of you who had to deal with a faulty file on a cdrom....
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The ruling is that while it is not illegal for an individual to do this for his own benefit, it is illegal for a company to do it to onsell the service.
I looked at PowerShell. It makes me no sense.
Unix and REXX grew up based on things that people actually needed, rather than dictated ex citidel. To this end, once one has a UI (in the form of STDIO), it's easy to write stream filters. I write quickies for this in REXX. Strongly typing means that you can only treat a file name as a file name, rather than say, a string. It also means that you can't add 1 and 1..
Still, those of us who have lives in the real world do fine-tune things with a spanner etc, such as to give some more gain to the victa or level the fridge. So the notion of a spanner and screw-driver for configure (ie adjust), has still some sense. Also, there's the delightful phrase 'spanner in the works'. This is just the dandy place to do it (i recall one girl changing all of the window furniture to blue, and then wondered why she couldn't see anything!).
One should remember that the hard disk icon is sometimes shown as a stack of platters, and sometines as a grey box, but in one instance, the hard drive is not the volume, and secondly, not many people would pick out the fixed disks in a beige box. It's also interesting to see what people would think of floppy-disk icons when floppies aren't allowed at work.
Still, there are steam engines used to show level crossings, because of all things railway, the steam engine is perfectly recognisable.
As to the rabbit ears on the tele, that's about the most distinct thing about it, and even TiVo uses it in their logo.
I used to have a real teletype behind me at work, to do queries. The thing would chug into life every now and then with the answer to some command entered into a computer. One would type in a card line (rather like command options in the cobol style), and it would send back a string of lines.
The joys of the card punch and the tape punch. These chug away, likewise mounted so that their vibrations would not do some damage.
The sound of bells relaying messages, when BEL actually rang a bell. Of course there (was) the telephone system i saw my brother use, to ring up control at roma, consists of a party-line system, where one rings long-long-long etc.
Here (australia), it was the custom to play the national anthem (god save the queen), at the end of every show (cinema, live, television close). In the seventies, they changed it to some other thing (advance australia fair). One day not too long ago, i was listening to a disk of national anthems, and found that i was standing when GSTQ was played. So ingrained. (They used GSTQ to get the beatles out of an adelaide theatre: the beatles made their exit as the audience stood at attention to higher things).
Real money. not a sound, but the cash registers and so forth were generally mechanical things where one might press the money in and pull a lever. Australia abandoned currency on 14 feb 1966, when we got these decimal beads in.
The real thing with e-mail etc is that one ought treat it as an electronic inbox, and not something to dance to every beck and call.
One works on a variety of tasks, rifling the inbox for the next task. It's the same with inbox stuff. You might assess incoming tasks for urgency and importance, but if you jumped to every task as it hits the desk, ye'd never get nothing done.
It should be remembered that efficency and effectiveness generally are unrelated.
Efficiency is something that can be measured: responces to calls, forms processed, etc, the sort of thing you can count. It's pretty easy to do this sort of thing, and often the PHBs will take some metric and use it as a measure of activity. Because of this, one often sees things like proformance indicators, and the process and often salary, becomes connected to the indicator. The industry stops being what it is and starts producing 'red beans' for the bean counters. The indicator changes, and one produces blue beans.
Effect is something that is about getting the right job done, both for the customer and for the system. It's not even about what the customer wants, since this supposes that it is the role of the customer to diagnose the problem and the solution, and simply ask for the solution to happen. One needs to think of what happened with the system that responded to cyclone Katrina in New Orleans, which the responce was based on customer wants, rather than pre-assessment by those who should have done this. A call for help is an indicator to a problem, not a proposed solution.
Of course, even though an indicator might be proportional to effect in the wild, when it is proportional to money, the indicator becomes more important to the effect. A doctor, who might have an indicator on consultations, will split several illnesses to several consultations. On a help desk, one is more intent on creating calls, then on providing effect. A call that seeks three problems would be terminated at the first, and new calls needed for the second and third. Also, the process might be extended to several calls to create extra indicator traffic.
In the main, help desk traffic is not a really good indicator of effect, since there are things that effect this. Response time, time to fix, etc, all serve to alter traffic, in some cases, it might be better served by the section guru rather than the help desk. The effectiveness of the guru's solutions may well impede the help desk's overall issues, since it might make matters worse.
One should also note that recording the help calls is also an impediment. It serves no effect, and in many cases, might take as much to make happen as the call does in nature. One might answer say, 90% of the calls first up, yet spend more than 50% of the times making the necessary beans for the counter. A good deal of issues can be condensed into a few batch files (yes, i did this: system configuration is a good candidate for script files), so that while the call is terminated relatively fast, the actual recording might be tedious.
My experience of help desk is that particularly Microsoft rograms (eg Word, Access, Windows), use common names, which makes them very hard to grep for in the system. This reduces the effectiveness of any sort of 'search the job tables' for help. To this end, i used Wart, Abcess, Windoze, much to the annoyances of the PHBs.
I have a pair of drawers http://www.crazypc.com/products/8180B.html , I mean, ye can really put money into the computer now.
I make use of style sheets as much as possible. This allows for example, either block or first-line indent. With a style-sheet set down to character-level, one can use single or double-spaces freely at the end of a sentence. The markup language I wrote (KML, see, eg http://www.os2fan2.com/ makes use of a chacter-level style sheet that replaces eg `t and `T by th,TH or , respectively, eg 'the polygloss' vs 'the polygloss as nature intended', both derive from the same source KML file.
One uses also two kinds of paragraph (p) and (pp), to create leading vs following paragraph. The pp-style paragraph can have either first-line indent (traditional) vs blank-line block style.
Don Knuth described Literate Programming in which the program is embedded in comments, one using a preprocessor to write the program. The preprocessor runs as a command processor, using the source as a batch file. One gets a properly sorted batch file as output. Because of this, one can overcome limitations of the programming language, use pre-processor variables etc, and produce several linked files etc.
Documentation is relatively straight forward, since one writes what one wants to get, limitations, API and examples by way of a wish-list, and then create the routines that make this happen. You can write a tight section like "File I/O", for fileopen() and fileclose() along with getline(), putline(), etc, without exposing the filenames to all of the subroutines. I've written a program to write Web pages in it, for example, http:\\www.os2fan2.com\pgloss\index.html and its attendent pages. It's pretty elegant really.
The temptation of LP is to use it to solve a problem per source, a note that Jon Bentley (Pearls of Programming) noted. LP is about sorting problems: however, the sort of problems that Knuth sought to solve are complete things in an educational setting, not bits of problems in the real world. None the less, I use it to write terse batch files etc, where the LP source is the help file too.
Two tricks i use to hide passwords is to use short forms, eg "A7" might expand as "ABD968017", and a general "salt and pepper" table. These are all unrelated to what is typically discussed. Note also that a7 expands to "abd968017", so some case can be preserved.
In a salt and pepper table, one uses an intermediate table that is easy to recall, but no need to be written, and not common knowledge. An example might be "husbands and wives", so a password displayed as "John" might be entered as "Yoko". Another kind of table might be "middle names", so "John" would elicit the response of "Winston". Note eg, jOhn gives yOko or wInston, so you can hide case in here too.
The less obvious you make the salt and pepper table, or the more unobvious the abbreviations, the more secure the table, even if the reminders are kept in plain text (plain text in an unobvious application also deters automatic gathering. Who would look for something like a .DOC file, might have some fun when the downloaded document is a multimate doc!
It's interesting that the bulk of the SxS stuff is Microsoft stuff, not third party stuff.
I recall that when Win95 first came out, and that they were replacing the Win16 stuff with Win32 stuff. Someone remarked that there would be incompatibilities, and that it was for the vendor to rewrite the apps to meet the new APIs. That calling some DLL by name would of course these incompatibilities.
I thought how silly. Inviting third parties to use routines in your DLL is pretty much a kind of contract of support. This is the nature of the operating system, really. If you create a DLL like VBRUN100 for some set of apps to call, then the App expects it to run in that way, and if your new version of VBRUN would cause incompatibility, you should give it a different name, like VBRUN200.
Last time i looked, routines like VBRUN100, BWCC etc, comes to about 9 MB. (There's a download that ye can add to your OS to give these as preinstalled.
Where the problem comes is when some sort of obvious name gets used for different DLLs (eg the three different versions of THREED.VXD that different applications were loading under Win31), or the MFC3xx DLLs where the source code was given to vendors to allow them to add their own functions. (good lord). Even so, Microsoft continues to release DLLs like MSVCRT and MFC40, updated to their latest operating system / compiler.
I don't think anyone else uses such nonsense as SxS or DLL hell: OS/2 VREXX.DLL or EMXRT do the right thing: preserve existing functions, and have a test for version-level.
Compare OS/2's virtualisation of Windows 3.x. OS/2 still launches the app, but it does not do a graphic repaint of the current host screen to do this.
Still, i don't rate pi in the same regard as e or the fsh (137.0359996), since pi is a matter of how it is defined, whereas e and fsh come as a single value.
The current thinking of the circle constant, usually taken at pi, from high dimensions, is that pi/2 serves better, and for physics, 2pi might be better. pi/4 and pi/6 have also been mooted, as the content of a unit circle and sphere. (of diameter of unity).
Either they should be expected to find the machine booted before they start work, or should count the logging in of a machine as work (in much the same way as filing forms is work.
The thing with any procedure (like computers), one can not just take the good without the bad. The machines save in retrieving and distributing modified data, but take longer to boot.
To begin, consider that a 2d picture can either be a picture (things can fall), or a map (things don't fall). Since the corresponding 3d thing is a picture/map of four dimensions, we can build objects like houses, furniture, etc from plan and views.
Not all seems to be aimple. A knife cuts: literally, it makes a surface by motion, and is therefore tipped by a space of N-2 dimensions. Rivers can be either "latrous" (1d) or "hedrous" (2d). A fault lake is 2d (since faults are a break of surface).
Holes come in two types, although these are topologically the same. One can have a "bridge" or "tunnel" kind of hole: in 3d, these are the same, in 4d they are different.
The planet rotates on clifford motion. This makes every point of the 4-sphere go around the centre. One sees this by equality of energy in modes of rotation.
None the same, there can be seasons. If the sun does not follow in the year-circle any of the circles of the earth rotating, then there will be seasons. You don't just have hemispheres in summer vs winter, but season-zones to match the time-zones. That is, for example, Christmas (normally in summer), can fall in early spring, or late winter.
The poles are replaced by circles of extreme climate. One has a "equator circle", and a "polar" circle. At the tropics (a singular torus-shape thing), the sun becomes to the zenith once a year. At the artic torus, the sun hugs the horizon for the equate of the shortest day.
Because the sun is relatively still in the sky, there is no variation in the number of hours. What makes the seasons is that the the sun is lower in the horizon, even at midday.
See, eg my site http://www.geocities.com/os2fan2/gloss/index.html
For example, the HP 35s calculator i am looking at, costs in the US $50. Over here, it's $120, which means that we are paying $70 more simply because we are not the US.
The same situation exists in Europe.
Part of the investigations is largely because the US is in reciept of large unfair trade advantage (in that they can charge different royalties for different markets). Wonder when the market says enough is enough?
If microsoft stated in their trial that earlier versions of windows were their main competition, then are they not trying to control this competition by removing it. I never could figure this one out.
I have been partial to hanging numbers, becausing writing numbers in block form is like writing words in capitals. Candara and Corbel are sans serif fonts, a welcome addition, while Constantia and Georgia remain serif hanging-digit fonts.
None of the fonts are 'old-style'. These are recognisable by a half-width e. Still, some of the c-fonts do add interesting variations to what is already there.
DOS based: 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, 3.11 relies on previously installed DOS
DOS 7+ based: relies on inbuilt DOS, but this can be replaced: dos 7.0: win 95, dos 7.1 win 95 OSR2.x win 98, win98se. dos 8.0 winme. You can to varying degrees replace the DOS in these windows with similar or higher versions.
VMS/OS2 based: Windows NT 3.10, 3.50, 3.51 (1057), 4.0 (1381), Win2K 5.0 (2195), WinXP 5.1 (2600), Win2k3 5.2 (3790), and vista 6.0 (6000). In side branches lies Neptune 5.0 (5000, 5111) = Win2k home beta.
If Windows for DOS is a 'thing on a thing', then so is Windows NT. Neither the character-mode installs or recovery consoles for DOS or Windows NT will run Win32 apps, or even a subset. Unlike, say OS/2 or linux, the WinNT character-boot will not run programs that run in the console, and the DOS proggies are just that: dos programs running in a VM, like they do in OS/2 or DosEMU.
QBasic was 'upgraded' in DOS 6.x (to version 1.1), and it was included in all DOS 5 derivitives until Windows 2K. It's in Windows NT4 and earlier, and it comes with the cd version of Windows 9x.
Interestingly, i tested some VBA code in qbasic, so it was useful that way, and with helpmake, it is possible to rewrite help.hlp to get your own help code. I kept my notes in this form after Word 6.x decided it was going to do the microsoft thing.
Is not then microsoft interfering with competition by withdrawing / overpricing previous versions? One should recall in the past that DOS 3 successfully competed with DOS 4.
The reg_x86.exe is actually a winzip file (it can be opened in any zip utility), the relevant file contains reg.exe, along with a readme file (suggesting the file goes to c:\reskitnt). I have been incliding reg.exe in the various update files etc.
I made a service pack 7 for Windows NT some while ago, but it is still in late alpha. When this installs, it does so as "Revised service pack 6A". Still, i use one further patch file to deliver updates, like the 2k3 NTLOADER / NTDETECT.COM, sol.exe and cmd.exe from Windows 2000, and a few other "fixes".
There are, none the same, a number of useful projects to slipstream fixes etc into both OS/2 and Windows.
One might for OS/2, try UPDCD, and compare this with the various Windows versions: NLITE, HFSLIP, and USP5 for Win2k. The UPDCD, NLITE and HFSLIP projects are multi-versions, while USP5 is for 2000 only.
Windows 3.1 did not check any files, and one has always been able to update the stuff. I managed to add all of the fixes to PC-DOS 6.31, once one gets a hold of compress.exe v 1.0.
Firstly, you can install vista on any partition. It does not have to go to c: drive. For this to work, (and its dodgy new bootloader), it has to diddle the c:\ drive in any case. It creates a directory "boot", and moves ntldr and ntdetect.com there, and puts its own boot manager in there.
Secondly, it is not preconfigured for any given hardware or partition. So the WIM simply delivers a windows ready to be configured: the OOBE (out of the box exploit) does this. OEMs have been delivering what is called "unsealed" installs for a while in this manner.
What makes WIM a nuisance is that it can only run from a vista boot (ie you can't do the setup from Windows NT4 (like i have done several XP installs). The image files can be modified, but only from a running installed Vista. That is, even the WinPE that installs it can not make the WIM files.
On the other hand, if you get everything to work, you can get a nice little fast-booting Windows repair disk. The setup WIM is actually a full-blown WinPE which has been hobbled to run setup. Kind of like making Windows XP and hobbling it by putting "shell=edlin.exe".
BTW, OS/2 has been used to run specific applications via "shell=", as has Windows 2.x and 3.x. Windows Runtime was nothing more than Windows with "sol.exe" as shell.
I gave vista something like 16 gb in some drive like J: on partition 1.
I had a look at the beta build 5112. WIM is by no means new. Both the technology and the name of the exe (XIMAGE), first made their debut with Compaq restore disks. The process is different to, say, GHOST, and is more akin to a giant RAR file or something. OS/2 has been doing something along the line with PACK and PACK2 files from way back. The two WIM files represent respectively, a version of WinPE, and the installation. With a slight edit of the WinPE, you can change the shell to cmd.exe, and add your own utilities to it. It then becomes a boot Windows diskette that lives in RAM. After WinPE boots, it runs its default shell, like the eCom station version, is setup. Unlike the OS/2 version [which is about 5 years old], you can't do anything other than install the OS. Oh, well, still 5 years behind the edge. What you can't do with WIM, is to install it from a different version of Windows. Basically, the setup does the rego check etc before it bothers to process the data .WIM.
It does "install" faster, largely because most of the files are in one archive. On the other hand, those of you who had to deal with a faulty file on a cdrom....
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