For example, how many of your regular tasks have you offloaded onto the Windows Scripting host? Unix users all have their favourite scripting language, and Apple users are always blathering about how wonderful AppleScript is, but Windows has just the same functionality,..
You know, maybe that's the case because Microsoft doesn't really push WSH? I mean, on my Linux systems Perl, Python and Bash scripts are everywhere, on my Windows systems I haven't seen a single usefull script. When you go exploring a UNIX system you will quickly find them.
If you browse Linux and Mac sites you will hit scripting guides eventually, probably within minutes if you are in the need for something that can be automated. For Windows I never hit such things, well.. sometimes on some MVP site (kudos to them!).
On Mac and Linux systems the script language documentation is installed together with the interpreter/JIT-compiler, so it's available at any time. On windows, I need to navigate through the webbased MSDN Knowledge Base, which is quite challenging most of the time due to the (per page changing) non standard website conform way of displaying info; Or the docs are just being written in a way that's it incomprehensible if you don't know the onderlying Windows API (and no links to API walkthoughs).
You could let your grandma/sister/neighbour use the app and watch the datastream that it send across the network. That is if by "Google Video Uploader" you mean the program.
That wouldn't work on journaled filesystems (like Ext3, ReiserFS and NTFS). Shred works on individual files. Those filesystems will first write data to a new block which then replaces the one previously pointed to by the file. Only the pointer is overwritten. The original data block is still on disk (untill this, now free, block is overwritten again).
Uhm, just as if Intel doesn't make shitty stuff from time to time. My only 'pure Intel' system is the system that I have the most driver trouble with, both on Windows and Linux. Okay, it has Broadcom WiFi, but the rest is Intel (yes I know, no native Broadcom WiFi drivers under Linux, I'm just talking about Intel parts).
Especially the on-board graphics gives odd problems on Windows ("Could not start device" -> 640x480 with 16 colors, once every few days) and Linux (broken BIOS so driver won't go above 800x600).
And the most ironic of all, this a Tablet PC. This means that the manufacterer had access to quite a few resources at Microsoft to get it working just right both hardware and software wise.
Whow, nice use of the Wikipedia taxonomy (just a simple form of ontology, with only classes/classifications). They probably let part of the sentence ("Who is..") trigger certain categories (aka: Category:People). Then they do a lookup for the subject of your query within these categories.
In my opinion the Asus Pundit isn't that great. The video driver doesn't give a vsync signal to the software, so playback is stuttering sometimes. Plus you need to use deinterlacing on the Pundit due to the tv-out encoder. And no vsync also means that MythTV can't do bobdeinterlace, which means you only have 1/2 the framerate (25Hz on PAL and 30Hz on NTSC).
GPL is great, but it can make any code you create on top of it open source if you are not careful.
Then you need to form your software development strategy in a way that people pay you to get to get the software you make up and running on their systems. Explain your potentential customers that "Open Source" will mean added benefits for them, other people and companies might add or improve features, source is always available, etc.
Be the best to implement your software in other businesses.
To my taste Windows XP already prepages to much. It's not fun when your browser needs to swap back in when there is still 600MB RAM left of the 1 GB you have..:-/
I've mentioned it elsewhere already. But try PageDefrag and Buzzsaw.
The first one will defragment your Windows pagefile on each boot. And Buzzsaw will defragment recently accessed files in the background, much less intrusive than Diskkeeper. Both are freeware tools.
Paging has been proposed by researchers in Manchester, England, in 1961. People began to use it relatively soon because they wanted to put so "much" stuff in new OS kernels that they wouldn't fit in main memory (which wasn't all that big back in those days).
It explains what a paging file is and lists the differences between a swapfile and a paging file.
There is no difference.. He says that swapfiles would swap whole processes. I beg you pardon? Working on whole processes hasn't been the case since 'multiprogramming' on third generation computers (around 1965-1980).
btw, a good program to defrag your Windows page file is PageDefrag
Together with Dirms & Buzzsaw, you can keep your disk defragmented for free. Especially Buzzsaw is nice since it will defragment recently accessed files in the background.
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There have been even earlier programs, for a historic list see:
http://myhome.hanafos.com/~soonjp/vchx.html
Then there are also some that were better than RealAudio, like ECIP that used forward error correction over UDP:
http://www.ecip.com/
In 1995 the processor with the highest clockrates were the ones used in the Cray-4 running at 1GHz.
;-)
But then you should also remark that Cray at that time didn't build computers but only very good airconditioners.
Should become
Crashme still exist: http://people.delphiforums.com/gjc/crashme.html
Synli, could you give us a link or an explanation on where to enable this in stock Windows XP Gold/SP1/SP2?
In the mean time I'd like to point to Buzzsaw, a program that actually does do on-the-fly defragmentation on any Windows NT based system.
Together with boot time defragmentation by PageDefrag this keeps even Microsoft Windows systems defragmented.
* Files in multiple folders simultaneously
OMG. They have reinvented hard links and symbolic links!
Actually they have implemented a GUI on top of something that has been in NTFS for some time.
For example, how many of your regular tasks have you offloaded onto the Windows Scripting host? Unix users all have their favourite scripting language, and Apple users are always blathering about how wonderful AppleScript is, but Windows has just the same functionality,..
You know, maybe that's the case because Microsoft doesn't really push WSH? I mean, on my Linux systems Perl, Python and Bash scripts are everywhere, on my Windows systems I haven't seen a single usefull script. When you go exploring a UNIX system you will quickly find them.
If you browse Linux and Mac sites you will hit scripting guides eventually, probably within minutes if you are in the need for something that can be automated. For Windows I never hit such things, well.. sometimes on some MVP site (kudos to them!).
On Mac and Linux systems the script language documentation is installed together with the interpreter/JIT-compiler, so it's available at any time. On windows, I need to navigate through the webbased MSDN Knowledge Base, which is quite challenging most of the time due to the (per page changing) non standard website conform way of displaying info; Or the docs are just being written in a way that's it incomprehensible if you don't know the onderlying Windows API (and no links to API walkthoughs).
Just my 0.02 EUR.
You could let your grandma/sister/neighbour use the app and watch the datastream that it send across the network. That is if by "Google Video Uploader" you mean the program.
That wouldn't work on journaled filesystems (like Ext3, ReiserFS and NTFS). Shred works on individual files. Those filesystems will first write data to a new block which then replaces the one previously pointed to by the file. Only the pointer is overwritten. The original data block is still on disk (untill this, now free, block is overwritten again).
Uhm, just as if Intel doesn't make shitty stuff from time to time. My only 'pure Intel' system is the system that I have the most driver trouble with, both on Windows and Linux. Okay, it has Broadcom WiFi, but the rest is Intel (yes I know, no native Broadcom WiFi drivers under Linux, I'm just talking about Intel parts).
Especially the on-board graphics gives odd problems on Windows ("Could not start device" -> 640x480 with 16 colors, once every few days) and Linux (broken BIOS so driver won't go above 800x600).
And the most ironic of all, this a Tablet PC. This means that the manufacterer had access to quite a few resources at Microsoft to get it working just right both hardware and software wise.
The secret to any educational system is to provide the social structure wherein the talented can work together over a long period of time.
Thank you for that quote. IMHO the learning environment (in The Netherlands) is mostly far to solopsistic. Things should change.
Probably too late for the discussion, but..
Whow, nice use of the Wikipedia taxonomy (just a simple form of ontology, with only classes/classifications). They probably let part of the sentence ("Who is..") trigger certain categories (aka: Category:People). Then they do a lookup for the subject of your query within these categories.
In my opinion the Asus Pundit isn't that great. The video driver doesn't give a vsync signal to the software, so playback is stuttering sometimes. Plus you need to use deinterlacing on the Pundit due to the tv-out encoder. And no vsync also means that MythTV can't do bobdeinterlace, which means you only have 1/2 the framerate (25Hz on PAL and 30Hz on NTSC).
Ehm, when did MythTV get MPEG2 software recording? On my system it only does MJPEG and MPEG4.
..and 3 priviledge escalation bugs found already. ;)
GPL is great, but it can make any code you create on top of it open source if you are not careful.
Then you need to form your software development strategy in a way that people pay you to get to get the software you make up and running on their systems. Explain your potentential customers that "Open Source" will mean added benefits for them, other people and companies might add or improve features, source is always available, etc.
Be the best to implement your software in other businesses.
This could be a glibc problem they had this week.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85555
These Aero buttons look so small, they seem difficult to hit to me.
To my taste Windows XP already prepages to much. It's not fun when your browser needs to swap back in when there is still 600MB RAM left of the 1 GB you have.. :-/
I've mentioned it elsewhere already. But try PageDefrag and Buzzsaw.
The first one will defragment your Windows pagefile on each boot. And Buzzsaw will defragment recently accessed files in the background, much less intrusive than Diskkeeper. Both are freeware tools.
Paging has been proposed by researchers in Manchester, England, in 1961. People began to use it relatively soon because they wanted to put so "much" stuff in new OS kernels that they wouldn't fit in main memory (which wasn't all that big back in those days).
It explains what a paging file is and lists the differences between a swapfile and a paging file.
There is no difference.. He says that swapfiles would swap whole processes. I beg you pardon? Working on whole processes hasn't been the case since 'multiprogramming' on third generation computers (around 1965-1980).
btw, a good program to defrag your Windows page file is PageDefrag
Together with Dirms & Buzzsaw, you can keep your disk defragmented for free. Especially Buzzsaw is nice since it will defragment recently accessed files in the background.
They are not talking about the APIs that IE exposes, but the ones that IE uses.
That's a big difference.
It is available now.