I can upgrade to the latest version of Linux (the kernel) without being required to get some bloated UI along with it. Can I get XP and still fit it in the same disk space as Windows 98. Can I get better memory management in Windows without getting a less intuitive UI?
I can upgrade the Kernel in just about any other OS on the planet without having to put up with other shit that I don't need. Being required to get a boatload of things I don't need just so I can have better memory management or security is not an "Improvement" as far as I'm concerned.
For the target audience finding 'how do i get the bubble message thingy to talk to my daughter?' or the call to the resident geek 'i just heard about a nasty microsoft bug. can you come down and install the patch?' takes far more time and energy to solve either of these problems.
I don't live in the US. If someone breaks into my computer, they're breaking the law and they'll pay for it. Of course, nobody's going to break into my computer;-)
Windows XP is less user friendly than Windows 2000 or KDE, to someone who's used it for a year. Continuously messing things around doesn't make it easy to use.
Access is the only thing that MS ever made that gets The_Dougster's Stamp of Approval. Access is a very lightweight database with a shitload of features.
I'd agree with that.
It is so feature heavy it makes other apps seem like toys.
Actually, as far as useful features go, Access sucks compared to other database systems. It's a toy database, for storing things like your mum's video collection titles in, or a small company's customers' addresses.
As long as you don't make Access serve for more than a couple dozen people, it is pretty amazing.
With the whole purpose of a database system being to serve data to lots of clients, being limited to a very small amount of users is a huge drawback, and a showstopper for lots of people.
The IIS webserver has a similar scalability problem. I know of Universities with IIS web server that fall over if there are more than 30 concurrent users.
Word, Excel, Powerpoint... feh. Nothing new here, but man Access is so intense when you use all the VBA stuffings.
Ah, yeah, I can see that Access might be good from a VB programmer's point of view. It's not so good for anyone wanting to do serious amounts of complex searching.
If I was Oracle, I'd steal whoever it was that made Access.
Oracle is extremely scalable. Oracle can do stuff like this - Access can't. Even MS SQL server (a far better product than Access) can't. It's in a completely different league.
IMHO, Access is the only MS product ever that is worth its weight. It really is an innovative thing. The rest is pretty much bad copies.
Access is innovative. It makes databases easy for beginners and people who aren't expecting much ability to handle complexity from the system.
It's got all the useful parts of Visual Studio.Net that I've noticed (Folding code, syntax highlighting, "Go to definition" on the context menu), some things that VS doesn't have - like a button to jump to the start or end of the current code block, and is integrated with CVS (which we use for source control at work).
Unfortnately, I can't get it to run on Solaris, and I think that Linux's debugging tools are not quite as good as Solaris's (Anjuta integrates with GDB just like Visual Studio integrates with MS's debugger).
Windows XP has blue-screened for me perhaps twice since it was released, well... over a year ago
RedHat has never hung doe to software on my PC, since I switched to it from Mandrake about two years ago. The only reason my computer's hung is due to a faulty motherboard. It's getting replaced soon.
It's on more or less constantly, and has been since I got it. I use it for about 8 to 10 hours a day (includes working from home) except at weekends when I have more time for going out.
Since I consider productivity important, anything that crashes is not particularly suitable for me (unless of course it was because I had some spare time and checked out a beta, pre-release, or CVS copy of something).
I have one of those with a proprietery Sun connector rather than USB at my parents' house. Never used it much though. I can't remember what was on the useless bit of plastic, but it sounds familiar.
My right shift key is smaller, and the backslash is to the right or it, allowing me to have a sensible sized enter key. Tilde is to the left of '1', and all the double and single quotes are on the same key. It's a "Mouse Systems" keyboard, bought at some small US computer store.
I've moved from Ayrshire to Edinburgh last September. Was your `last email' an HTML one? I filter those out. I've not seen an advertisement in a Blueyonder/Telewest email yet.
Before anyone asks, I think the US keyboard layout resembles the useful variations between standard UK and the Sinclair QL keyboard layout (which I grew up with) - that's why I have one at home.
I was about to say that ` is on the same key as ~, but remembered that I have a US-layout keyboard at home. Still, I use the ` key a lot anyway, so I agree it's not useless.
It all depends on whether you live in a city or in the wildernedd I guess. I lived in the Middle Of Nowhere untill September last year, and had to put up with a 56k modem. Most of my friends, whether through univeristy accommodation, or buying the connection themselves, have 512kbps or greater.
I've got a dual AMD Athlon MP 1600 on a 512k cable connection. At work I have a Sun Blade with some sort of high-speed connection. I've not that up on the details of it though.
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I can upgrade to the latest version of Linux (the kernel) without being required to get some bloated UI along with it. Can I get XP and still fit it in the same disk space as Windows 98. Can I get better memory management in Windows without getting a less intuitive UI?
I can upgrade the Kernel in just about any other OS on the planet without having to put up with other shit that I don't need. Being required to get a boatload of things I don't need just so I can have better memory management or security is not an "Improvement" as far as I'm concerned.
For the target audience finding 'how do i get the bubble message thingy to talk to my daughter?' or the call to the resident geek 'i just heard about a nasty microsoft bug. can you come down and install the patch?' takes far more time and energy to solve either of these problems.
These people should be using a Mac then.
Yes.
I don't live in the US. If someone breaks into my computer, they're breaking the law and they'll pay for it. Of course, nobody's going to break into my computer ;-)
Windows XP is less user friendly than Windows 2000 or KDE, to someone who's used it for a year. Continuously messing things around doesn't make it easy to use.
Let's pour hot grits down her pants then!
Access is the only thing that MS ever made that gets The_Dougster's Stamp of Approval. Access is a very lightweight database with a shitload of features.
I'd agree with that.
It is so feature heavy it makes other apps seem like toys.
Actually, as far as useful features go, Access sucks compared to other database systems. It's a toy database, for storing things like your mum's video collection titles in, or a small company's customers' addresses.
As long as you don't make Access serve for more than a couple dozen people, it is pretty amazing.
With the whole purpose of a database system being to serve data to lots of clients, being limited to a very small amount of users is a huge drawback, and a showstopper for lots of people.
The IIS webserver has a similar scalability problem. I know of Universities with IIS web server that fall over if there are more than 30 concurrent users.
Word, Excel, Powerpoint
Ah, yeah, I can see that Access might be good from a VB programmer's point of view. It's not so good for anyone wanting to do serious amounts of complex searching.
If I was Oracle, I'd steal whoever it was that made Access.
Oracle is extremely scalable. Oracle can do stuff like this - Access can't. Even MS SQL server (a far better product than Access) can't. It's in a completely different league.
IMHO, Access is the only MS product ever that is worth its weight. It really is an innovative thing. The rest is pretty much bad copies.
Access is innovative. It makes databases easy for beginners and people who aren't expecting much ability to handle complexity from the system.
It's a step towards being more compatible with other software systems. Of course they'll get away with it!
I agree it's silly.
I use Anjuta.
It's got all the useful parts of Visual Studio.Net that I've noticed (Folding code, syntax highlighting, "Go to definition" on the context menu), some things that VS doesn't have - like a button to jump to the start or end of the current code block, and is integrated with CVS (which we use for source control at work).
Unfortnately, I can't get it to run on Solaris, and I think that Linux's debugging tools are not quite as good as Solaris's (Anjuta integrates with GDB just like Visual Studio integrates with MS's debugger).
From Websters:
Cracker
5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. --Bartlett.
Wordnet says's it's synonymous with Redneck. How is that not caucasian (A member of any of the white races of mankind)?
The secret is the code word is bush.
That's more confusing in English than it would be in C:
secret = code_word = bush;
I don't mind seeing that in C, but I do wish people would write the full verison of it in English.
Windows XP has blue-screened for me perhaps twice since it was released, well... over a year ago
RedHat has never hung doe to software on my PC, since I switched to it from Mandrake about two years ago. The only reason my computer's hung is due to a faulty motherboard. It's getting replaced soon.
It's on more or less constantly, and has been since I got it. I use it for about 8 to 10 hours a day (includes working from home) except at weekends when I have more time for going out.
Since I consider productivity important, anything that crashes is not particularly suitable for me (unless of course it was because I had some spare time and checked out a beta, pre-release, or CVS copy of something).
We've got a few of these TLDs, like: .co.uk .ac.uk .gov.uk .org.uk
....
I think you'll find that we aren't the only country who have adopted a sensible hierarchical domain name system of
The "country code" is a ccTLD, and the Internet would appear slightly more organized if everyone chose to use it.
I have one of those with a proprietery Sun connector rather than USB at my parents' house. Never used it much though. I can't remember what was on the useless bit of plastic, but it sounds familiar.
My right shift key is smaller, and the backslash is to the right or it, allowing me to have a sensible sized enter key. Tilde is to the left of '1', and all the double and single quotes are on the same key. It's a "Mouse Systems" keyboard, bought at some small US computer store.
My US kayboard has a large reversed-L shape enter key.
Okay, so I would be the US version for home, but I have the \ next to the Z at work, since that's where UK keyboards have it.
I'm drunk enough now to just laugh! :-)
Hehe
yeah, I guess a lot of the UK's internet sucks, but it's not to bad from where I[m sitting.
I've moved from Ayrshire to Edinburgh last September. Was your `last email' an HTML one? I filter those out. I've not seen an advertisement in a Blueyonder/Telewest email yet.
Before anyone asks, I think the US keyboard layout resembles the useful variations between standard UK and the Sinclair QL keyboard layout (which I grew up with) - that's why I have one at home.
I was about to say that ` is on the same key as ~, but remembered that I have a US-layout keyboard at home. Still, I use the ` key a lot anyway, so I agree it's not useless.
My preferred keyboard has things like cut, copy, paste, home, end, undo, help. I find it quite useful.
It all depends on whether you live in a city or in the wildernedd I guess. I lived in the Middle Of Nowhere untill September last year, and had to put up with a 56k modem. Most of my friends, whether through univeristy accommodation, or buying the connection themselves, have 512kbps or greater.
If you're going to be like that...
I've got a dual AMD Athlon MP 1600 on a 512k cable connection. At work I have a Sun Blade with some sort of high-speed connection. I've not that up on the details of it though.