Forgive me, but I don't think Microsoft Windows in it's current state could be called 'thin, small, and unobtrusive'.
Though I get your point. You probably wanted to say that an Operating System should become a commodity feature. It should basicly be there, and that's it. Open Source operating systems could let that happen. Everybody may use the OS, and people who want to tinker with it to make it better, may tinker at will.
The trouble is, Microsoft won't let that happen, Windows is still too much of a cash cow for them. Microsofts current push for.NET might look a bit odd in this light. You could more or less swap the OS under your application (I am aware that this is in practice rather difficult). It makes your appliction 'OS agnostic'. But pushing along this road is basicly their only chance of getting a safer Windows, due to less buffer overflows.
I think a modern Linux desktop system with plenty of RAM needs at least half the amount of RAM as swap, to accomodate hibernating. With swsusp2 moving into the kernel 'soon' there is no need to shutdown your programs even if you shutdown your machine.
And even with 1GB of RAM you will need some swap, I happen to fill 600MB swap with a system with 512MB RAM. Just some browser apps, email and from time to time th Eclipse Java IDE.
Second, on a lower level, I doubt Microsoft would be up for offering deals to poorer economies, lock-in or not. If they offer WinXP Pro to Uraguay for $50 a license, the American businesses that got the "Special Business License" for $75 would start whining. That's just something they don't need to deal with.
This has already happened. Have you seen businesses whining?
I don't even know what the sport is. I read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, so I do have a vague idea about balls, 'hammers'(?) and poles and such, but...
And I don't think I know people here in the Netherlands, Germany or Belgium that play or view cricket.
...is that the directories seen in the homedir view changed quite remarkably. The installation directories (sources, specops) are not there, and some wine-20040408 dir shows up in Konqueror. Just as if it is a totaly different user or something.
Ah well, 'even if' this is a fake, but at least it put some attention on Wine (and derivatives) in the sense that 'they can run Microsoft Office for ages already'.
Of course yes, this fits in well into the vision some people at Microsoft have, to make the computer 'smarter' so it can help you find stuff better. Whouldn't you like being able to ask your PC about some PDF you saw and the internet? Who/what else would know about it? Such features, if reality, might even make me switch back from Linux. Unless they don't fix the pathethic performance and UI responsiveness of Windows.
The thing is that a lot of programmers today have grown NOT to respect the need for performance - they just assume that the upcoming systems would have really fast processors and infinite amounts of RAM and diskspace, and write shitty code.
Not only that, but they are teached that this is the case. Which is IMHO rather odd, as since the average consumer PC is 1-2y old.
Maybe a SUS server with a heavily firewalled connection that is only plugged (or switched on) in when your SUS server needs to download patches? Only let it have acces to the Microsoft servers it needs to cache the the patches.
But yeah, there is your 'hole', but like the parent said, so are CD-ROMs and Zip drives used to transport documents and other files from and to home...
Don't install this on non-english versions of Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition. I don't think it will really break anything, but at least you will get mixed languages all over the place.
On the other hand, this isn't news, the guy has made previous versions available for some time now.
The ehm... 'interesting' thing is that this expected behaviour. I once filed a bug for it, not too long ago, and the GAIM devs dropped it because of that 'fact'.
btw, from KDE 3.2 works quite nice I must say, especialy with the universal sidebar hack installed. No need to wait for Microsoft Longhorn when Linux already has it.
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English and German Windows XP SP2
It's publicly available from Microsoft now. English and German Windows XP:
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx
That's why I'm currently putting a nice 'switch on automatic updates' message on all big forums I regular.
Honey, I'll warm you something in the microwave!
Noooo...
[Beep] rebooting... grmbl...
I think those can only be believed if they come form actual listening statistics. Like from Last.fm / Audioscrobbler.com
Yeah, modded funny. There are loads of 'computer people' who say this. And people believe them.
Forgive me, but I don't think Microsoft Windows in it's current state could be called 'thin, small, and unobtrusive'.
.NET might look a bit odd in this light. You could more or less swap the OS under your application (I am aware that this is in practice rather difficult). It makes your appliction 'OS agnostic'. But pushing along this road is basicly their only chance of getting a safer Windows, due to less buffer overflows.
Though I get your point. You probably wanted to say that an Operating System should become a commodity feature. It should basicly be there, and that's it. Open Source operating systems could let that happen. Everybody may use the OS, and people who want to tinker with it to make it better, may tinker at will.
The trouble is, Microsoft won't let that happen, Windows is still too much of a cash cow for them. Microsofts current push for
Give to the emperor what belongs to the emperor
See picture at the bottom left.
You'd guess that Paul Allen would know better...
I've used Eclipse the past few weeks under Solaris, Linux and Windows XP to write a plugin with a team, and it is instability horror.
:-/
Call me a troll if you like, but it really wasn't funny
Eclipse GEF documentation is quite minimal too.
The problem is the Rabobank application need acces to your modem, AFAIK.
Have you tried the swsusp2 patches? It uses gzip compression or the faster LZF for writing the hibernation image to swap.
They can be found here:
http://swsusp.sf.net/
Not to be a smart ass or something, but...
I think a modern Linux desktop system with plenty of RAM needs at least half the amount of RAM as swap, to accomodate hibernating. With swsusp2 moving into the kernel 'soon' there is no need to shutdown your programs even if you shutdown your machine.
And even with 1GB of RAM you will need some swap, I happen to fill 600MB swap with a system with 512MB RAM. Just some browser apps, email and from time to time th Eclipse Java IDE.
The One must return to the source.
Who is the One?
Look here: hdmahrxpqxxhp @ mailinator.com mailbox
It's a mail from some guy who set up a GoogleAd on the contest keyword.
Second, on a lower level, I doubt Microsoft would be up for offering deals to poorer economies, lock-in or not. If they offer WinXP Pro to Uraguay for $50 a license, the American businesses that got the "Special Business License" for $75 would start whining. That's just something they don't need to deal with.
This has already happened. Have you seen businesses whining?
I don't even know what the sport is. I read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, so I do have a vague idea about balls, 'hammers'(?) and poles and such, but...
And I don't think I know people here in the Netherlands, Germany or Belgium that play or view cricket.
...is that the directories seen in the homedir view changed quite remarkably. The installation directories (sources, specops) are not there, and some wine-20040408 dir shows up in Konqueror. Just as if it is a totaly different user or something.
Ah well, 'even if' this is a fake, but at least it put some attention on Wine (and derivatives) in the sense that 'they can run Microsoft Office for ages already'.
Of course yes, this fits in well into the vision some people at Microsoft have, to make the computer 'smarter' so it can help you find stuff better. Whouldn't you like being able to ask your PC about some PDF you saw and the internet? Who/what else would know about it? Such features, if reality, might even make me switch back from Linux. Unless they don't fix the pathethic performance and UI responsiveness of Windows.
The thing is that a lot of programmers today have grown NOT to respect the need for performance - they just assume that the upcoming systems would have really fast processors and infinite amounts of RAM and diskspace, and write shitty code.
Not only that, but they are teached that this is the case. Which is IMHO rather odd, as since the average consumer PC is 1-2y old.
If it was, it is not anymore, see their site:a d/alter nates/
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/downlo
Only the Flash player (v6) is available for Linux.
Maybe a SUS server with a heavily firewalled connection that is only plugged (or switched on) in when your SUS server needs to download patches? Only let it have acces to the Microsoft servers it needs to cache the the patches.
But yeah, there is your 'hole', but like the parent said, so are CD-ROMs and Zip drives used to transport documents and other files from and to home...
They fixed that some months ago.
Don't install this on non-english versions of Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition. I don't think it will really break anything, but at least you will get mixed languages all over the place.
On the other hand, this isn't news, the guy has made previous versions available for some time now.
Don't these worm writers learn anything?
The ehm... 'interesting' thing is that this expected behaviour. I once filed a bug for it, not too long ago, and the GAIM devs dropped it because of that 'fact'.
btw, from KDE 3.2 works quite nice I must say, especialy with the universal sidebar hack installed. No need to wait for Microsoft Longhorn when Linux already has it.