Well, both actually. Lundis Energi should have been testing Vista back in its early alpha release stages to ensure compatibility with their Linux based server system.
Did the author already forget that Vista was almost a different OS until Beta 1, and especially Beta 2...? Testing it under the Longhorn Alpha would hardly have gave them anything interesting. It was very, very different, and very very bugged. That was behind the delay of Vista too -- Microsoft scrapped large parts of the Longhorn client code when they moved to beta. And the time period between beta and RTM for Vista was probably shorter than necessary, again likely rushed since Microsoft had messed up during the development so much that they badly needed the OS out at some point soon. Which we're now paying for in the form of incompatibilities and poor performance until maybe SP1 the next year at the earliest.
I don't really understand the part about having to preserve ancient hardware from the 70's to communicate with them.
Isn't it just based on pretty simple technology, and a quite simple communications protocol?
How complex can a software to communicate with the Voyager probes be, and can't it be ported?
Sure, the hw it runs on over at NASA won't be the same, but the end requirement simply has to be to communicate with radio waves over high latencies, and they have plenty of modern hardware for that, or...?
If there's a skill Paris has perfected outside the bed, it has to be maintaining that look and angle of her face. I bet there are as few people having seen the other side of her face, as there people having seen the other side of the moon...
OK, so the conclusions in the article may be a bit off, although I'm not really surprised if women are more common bloggers. If I go beyond the geeky tech blogs, based on what I'm seeing here on e.g. Swedish blog community sites, there's an ocean of blogs out there and a whole lot seem to be ran by women. It's not exactly the gender ratio you see on sites like this one.:-p
vista really chews the memory up, I hope they fix that first off..
Here's my unofficial mini-service pack for Vista.:-p
1. Type services.msc in the start menu search box and go there. 2. Open and set "Windows Search" to "Inactive" as its start mode and stop the service, unless you use Vista's search facilities and not a third party tool like Total Commander or Directory Opus, etc. 3. Open and disable "Superfetch" in the same way, unless you trust it to actually make things run faster and predict your usage behavior. Keep in mind that it'll keep caching data to RAM in its "prediction" process. Even data files, not just executables and DLL's. This can be especially nasty when it starts caching 100 MB-sized files you have downloaded with P2P apps because it think you'll run them soon, or something. 4. Try putting in a ReadyBoost-compatible (you probably won't know if it is until you've tried:-p) USB memory stick and have Vista manage it as extra RAM. It's not really RAM-fast or anything (but it doesn't seem to make things worse at least), but especially seeemed to cut a bit on hard drive access. I'm not sure, but it's possible it relocates some of its swap file to it as ReadyBoost kicks in. 5. If you haven't got these installed (you'll notice if it tells you they can't be installed on your OS), download and install these Vista hotfixes performance and reliability and compatibility and reliability. Among other things included is fixes to the Vista memory manager and many users have reported both cut memory usage directly after boot up, and better 3D benchmark scores. It also fixes the infamous "slow file copy" bug of Vista.
Now try use it for a day or so, and hopefully your hard drive access has been cut. As long as you don't use the Vista desktop search, no disabled services above really impact the ability of Vista to function as normal, and you can always enable them again if you notice no improvement. Something else that access your drive a lot at a few times is the System Restore feature that also runs as a service, but I don't recommend disabling that one since it'll also disable your ability to restore your OS state to an earlier date if, say, an application or driver install would go horribly wrong.
The service pack is said to improve performance and stability, not to add features. I hope it'll add a few bugs too. I don't want using this OS start feeling completely alien.:-/
Yes, you do as it's a gradual disease. Before you've totally lost it, you'll be aware and often very depressed from it too. Not to mention how sad it is for the relatives to see someone's personality go away like this.
For XP to support DX10 would require literally nothing more than compatible hardware with functional drivers supporting the DX10 API.
They would still just run on XP's driver model, and Microsoft is reluctant to backporting it from Vista to XP which I can understand from an effort standpoint. Vista's driver model was largely rebuilt in order to facilitate better scalability as a lot of cruft had collected over the years basically since Windows NT4.
Well... Yes, it has, because the OS changed
I think what he meant was that the driver model has changed, not the interaction with the OS. Obviously that will always change. But a new driver model doesn't necessarily have to be written just because a new OS is released -- actually, Vista is the first to have a major revision here since NT4. Vista tries to run much more in user mode now for example, in order to have driver bugs be less likely to cause BSOD's and instead be able to recover through through e.g. a TDR process.
If you're sending up space shuttle Discovery, I doubt there's a lot of wasted costs on putting a lightsabre in there.:-p
You could look at it in another way too -- without publicity for the masses (and not just space geeks), theye will lose interest in it. This seems like a very effort free way of raising publicity, and quite different on truly having their wrong focus by launching satellites for fun.
I think the point of solar power isn't really to replace all of the world's power plants, but in the first case minimize the amount of power households and corporations needs. I guess there's a very large share of the pie there, and not really at the rather few nuclear power plants there is.
Similarly, we'll be hard pressed to find an energy source with zero cost on the environment, and a geek could draw a parallel to an archiver with 100% compression. We still need to construct them from something.
Allofmp3 has supported themselves with that they're treated as "broadcasting" music and therefore has to pay neglible fees compared to otherwise, so I think it's just about the IP laws not equalling the US laws. That's also in part why US is trying to block Russia from entering the WTO. They have to "fix" their copyright laws first.
The spammers are arsonists, but Microsoft are the company that keeps building the houses out of gasoline-soaked balsa wood and flash paper.
OK, since you used the word "keeps building", I assume this is about more like Vista than Windows 95.
But if a trojan in Vista asks you to elevate its privilegies (due to UAC) to run administrative tasks such as installing itself in the system, and the user clicks yes, what should happen instead? This would be equivalent to a Linux user getting an email telling he needs to run some shady software under root privilegies, and the user saying "yes please, do that now".
Slashdot Mirror
Did you type that on a typewriter and sent your message via a courier to Slashdot? :-)
LOL wait a minute, I see now that was exactly the page's title... Haha...
Well, it's only the Slashdot summary that's misleading, then.
Exactly -- I kept looking for the Visual Studio screens and side-by-side comparisons. Nothing. :-S
It's more like Introduction to Eclipse for Visual Studio developers.
Did the author already forget that Vista was almost a different OS until Beta 1, and especially Beta 2...? Testing it under the Longhorn Alpha would hardly have gave them anything interesting. It was very, very different, and very very bugged. That was behind the delay of Vista too -- Microsoft scrapped large parts of the Longhorn client code when they moved to beta. And the time period between beta and RTM for Vista was probably shorter than necessary, again likely rushed since Microsoft had messed up during the development so much that they badly needed the OS out at some point soon. Which we're now paying for in the form of incompatibilities and poor performance until maybe SP1 the next year at the earliest.
I don't really understand the part about having to preserve ancient hardware from the 70's to communicate with them.
Isn't it just based on pretty simple technology, and a quite simple communications protocol?
How complex can a software to communicate with the Voyager probes be, and can't it be ported?
Sure, the hw it runs on over at NASA won't be the same, but the end requirement simply has to be to communicate with radio waves over high latencies, and they have plenty of modern hardware for that, or...?
Heh, the flamebait that'd be modded Insightful solely depending on the OS. ;)
And I think we should be happy for that; the whole place might implode, akin to how antimatter annihilates matter. :-p
... Who's the most geeky -- the geek, or the geek who follows him?
I'm not sure I even want to know the background of that picture... *shakes head*
If there's a skill Paris has perfected outside the bed, it has to be maintaining that look and angle of her face. I bet there are as few people having seen the other side of her face, as there people having seen the other side of the moon...
Oh, I just noticed I was being very sloppy in that comment.
:-)
Thanks for not bashing me too much.
Obviously, with "OSS", I meant "F/OSS", and with "binaries", I meant "license-incompatible binaries".
OK, so the conclusions in the article may be a bit off, although I'm not really surprised if women are more common bloggers. If I go beyond the geeky tech blogs, based on what I'm seeing here on e.g. Swedish blog community sites, there's an ocean of blogs out there and a whole lot seem to be ran by women. It's not exactly the gender ratio you see on sites like this one. :-p
vista really chews the memory up, I hope they fix that first off..
:-p
:-p) USB memory stick and have Vista manage it as extra RAM. It's not really RAM-fast or anything (but it doesn't seem to make things worse at least), but especially seeemed to cut a bit on hard drive access. I'm not sure, but it's possible it relocates some of its swap file to it as ReadyBoost kicks in.
Here's my unofficial mini-service pack for Vista.
1. Type services.msc in the start menu search box and go there.
2. Open and set "Windows Search" to "Inactive" as its start mode and stop the service, unless you use Vista's search facilities and not a third party tool like Total Commander or Directory Opus, etc.
3. Open and disable "Superfetch" in the same way, unless you trust it to actually make things run faster and predict your usage behavior. Keep in mind that it'll keep caching data to RAM in its "prediction" process. Even data files, not just executables and DLL's. This can be especially nasty when it starts caching 100 MB-sized files you have downloaded with P2P apps because it think you'll run them soon, or something.
4. Try putting in a ReadyBoost-compatible (you probably won't know if it is until you've tried
5. If you haven't got these installed (you'll notice if it tells you they can't be installed on your OS), download and install these Vista hotfixes performance and reliability and compatibility and reliability. Among other things included is fixes to the Vista memory manager and many users have reported both cut memory usage directly after boot up, and better 3D benchmark scores. It also fixes the infamous "slow file copy" bug of Vista.
Now try use it for a day or so, and hopefully your hard drive access has been cut. As long as you don't use the Vista desktop search, no disabled services above really impact the ability of Vista to function as normal, and you can always enable them again if you notice no improvement. Something else that access your drive a lot at a few times is the System Restore feature that also runs as a service, but I don't recommend disabling that one since it'll also disable your ability to restore your OS state to an earlier date if, say, an application or driver install would go horribly wrong.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/service packs.mspx
It's planned for 1JHCKY 2008...
SP3 for Windows XP Professional is currently planned for 1H CY2008
I hate being a pessimist, but packaging OSS in binaries without mentioning it is probably being incredibly common.
Yes, you do as it's a gradual disease. Before you've totally lost it, you'll be aware and often very depressed from it too. Not to mention how sad it is for the relatives to see someone's personality go away like this.
Nice to have - if you're still on Windows, that is.
;) Sometimes I wonder if some of you live in some sort of alternate universe, because you sure make it sound like it. :)
By far most are.
For XP to support DX10 would require literally nothing more than compatible hardware with functional drivers supporting the DX10 API.
They would still just run on XP's driver model, and Microsoft is reluctant to backporting it from Vista to XP which I can understand from an effort standpoint. Vista's driver model was largely rebuilt in order to facilitate better scalability as a lot of cruft had collected over the years basically since Windows NT4.
Well... Yes, it has, because the OS changed
I think what he meant was that the driver model has changed, not the interaction with the OS. Obviously that will always change. But a new driver model doesn't necessarily have to be written just because a new OS is released -- actually, Vista is the first to have a major revision here since NT4. Vista tries to run much more in user mode now for example, in order to have driver bugs be less likely to cause BSOD's and instead be able to recover through through e.g. a TDR process.
If you're sending up space shuttle Discovery, I doubt there's a lot of wasted costs on putting a lightsabre in there. :-p
You could look at it in another way too -- without publicity for the masses (and not just space geeks), theye will lose interest in it. This seems like a very effort free way of raising publicity, and quite different on truly having their wrong focus by launching satellites for fun.
I think the point of solar power isn't really to replace all of the world's power plants, but in the first case minimize the amount of power households and corporations needs. I guess there's a very large share of the pie there, and not really at the rather few nuclear power plants there is.
Similarly, we'll be hard pressed to find an energy source with zero cost on the environment, and a geek could draw a parallel to an archiver with 100% compression. We still need to construct them from something.
Allofmp3 has supported themselves with that they're treated as "broadcasting" music and therefore has to pay neglible fees compared to otherwise, so I think it's just about the IP laws not equalling the US laws. That's also in part why US is trying to block Russia from entering the WTO. They have to "fix" their copyright laws first.
Or... People just keep using TPB, Mininova, Demonoid, IsoHunt, or the newly reborn SuprNova.
:-p
There's not exactly a shortage.
I assumed it's as usual in many public environments, with something like just a flat panel and some custom panel with buttons. :-)
And not many places to connect USB devices, keyboards, and stuff?
Apparently they believe an almost 90% drop in networking performance is 'slight,'
Huh?? When? Surely not here if playing music anyway. That sounds like a bug, but is it a driver problem or exactly what?
The spammers are arsonists, but Microsoft are the company that keeps building the houses out of gasoline-soaked balsa wood and flash paper.
OK, since you used the word "keeps building", I assume this is about more like Vista than Windows 95.
But if a trojan in Vista asks you to elevate its privilegies (due to UAC) to run administrative tasks such as installing itself in the system, and the user clicks yes, what should happen instead? This would be equivalent to a Linux user getting an email telling he needs to run some shady software under root privilegies, and the user saying "yes please, do that now".