Not really, you can released a forked BSD, you just may not use BSD's logo/name for this, unless they give you permission.
Same for Linux, too, Linus can prevent people from using Linux's name.
Every time the computer boot? No, it will be just one time activation.
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Forget speed & keyboard navigation for a moment.
What do you *mean*, you can't move files around.
It's not a file manager, then, it's a file viewer, at best.
(One of the reasons I don't like most of linux's GUI programs is that you often have to resort to the mouse to use the GUI, which sucks)
Actually, Netscape's track record is much worse, but I just choose several random ones.
I don't know where netscape keeps its bugs database, but I'm sure you would find a lot of security problems with Netscape.
They are less heard off because Netscape lost so much mind & market share.
It's somehow MS obligation to inform every user?
Okay, how do you suggest they would do this?
Oh, I know, how about posting a warning in their website.
You don't purpose that MS should phone or email every windows user, right?
If so, the first thing you should do is to give MS your phone or email adress.
They did what they should do, what more do you expect from them?
BTW, ordinary corporate user shouldn't, the IT stuff would.
You use IE all the time.
There are two parts of IE, the bigger one is the rendering engine, the other is the UI.
Since Windows use IE rendering for a lot of things, (help, explorer's side bar, active desktop, customized folders, programs, etc).
What prevents you from using another browser? And when & how does IE cause unrelated 3rd party apps to crash.
Service is what you would call a daemon.
I'd several systems that use non english windows systems.
Usually, the english patches work.
I disagree about code reuse. It's the 100 - 200 lines of code where it's not worth reusing code, it's easier to write more specialize code for this.
You seem to think that it's wrong to use specilaize applications instead of one, all-encompasing, application.
This goes against everything *nix belives in (small, specilaize tools, for single task) but beyond this, a general application may not always be a good thing. It wouldn't be able to give the extra touch that a specialize application can.
Take MSDN, frex. The online version versus the installed version, I know what I prefer.
(msdn.microsoft.com, if you don't have msdn installed, check windows help, same theme)
What they did in IE, is to make one part that does all the rendering, and another that does the IE UI.
So, frex, if I want to build a browser, that would use Moxila's XUL and IE's rendering, I can do it quite easily.
BTW, if we talking about code reuse, do you program all your functions on you own?
I mean, if it's *wrong* to reuse long code, so why would you use stdio.h, or iostream.h, what about std::string ?
In here, (isreal), they are doing it.
Not MS itself, but BSA (or something like it) an organization publish in the radio "one phonecall from your emploers and you are caught" about pirate software.
What type of service are we talking about?
I assume that you meant service in NT's meaning, a background process.
Why use HTML other then in browsers?
Help files, both windows & gnome use it.
There are plenty of uses.
There is a bug in the code, cheel out! it's not the end of the world.
It's fixed, too.
I'm saying that it's good that you can reuse code.
Every software has bugs, when they are found, they are fixed, end of story.
About Opera, I don't know if you can reuse their rendering engine, and how.
But if they allows you to do so (both legally and programatically) I don't see a reason why not do it.
What? You want to tell me that you don't know?
Didn't you know that MS make such fine products that whenever there is a (rarely) discovered bug, we must all raid Redmond and find out who did this?
After all, who will keep MS' high quality but us?
Imagine, for a second, a world where buggy OS are the norm, they are found on any desktop, and computers crashes are not something to stop you dead.
Do you think you could bear living in such a world?
As you noted, it's used extensively by a lot of applications. If you would remove it, you would lose a lot of functionality.
Think about it like a installing KDE API on GNOME desktop, you need the API for the applications to run.
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Not really, you can released a forked BSD, you just may not use BSD's logo/name for this, unless they give you permission.
Same for Linux, too, Linus can prevent people from using Linux's name.
How many changes do you think you can make in an OS *kernel* to make a better desktop?
Every time the computer boot? No, it will be just one time activation.
Forget speed & keyboard navigation for a moment.
What do you *mean*, you can't move files around.
It's not a file manager, then, it's a file viewer, at best.
(One of the reasons I don't like most of linux's GUI programs is that you often have to resort to the mouse to use the GUI, which sucks)
wuftpd?
I don't like it, but anyone who want to hack my computer would surely love to have me running it.
1> about the jpg thumbnailing, Explorer (on NTFS) thumbnail the image once, and store it in a ADS, so it's very fast. Can you do the same on Linux?
I think Medusa is like Index Server in Windows, not the half ass attempt that Find Fast was.
Actually, Netscape's track record is much worse, but I just choose several random ones.
I don't know where netscape keeps its bugs database, but I'm sure you would find a lot of security problems with Netscape.
They are less heard off because Netscape lost so much mind & market share.
That is... extremely strange.
I wonder how it's done.
There were free browser long before Netscape.
You can use another browser, and not use IE at all.
That is good to know.
When did Mozila did it?
Can't you replace the DLLs themselves?
Write a COM object that does everything IE does (hint, Netscape doesn't come near to it), and do it.
It's somehow MS obligation to inform every user?
Okay, how do you suggest they would do this?
Oh, I know, how about posting a warning in their website.
You don't purpose that MS should phone or email every windows user, right?
If so, the first thing you should do is to give MS your phone or email adress.
They did what they should do, what more do you expect from them?
BTW, ordinary corporate user shouldn't, the IT stuff would.
You use IE all the time.
There are two parts of IE, the bigger one is the rendering engine, the other is the UI.
Since Windows use IE rendering for a lot of things, (help, explorer's side bar, active desktop, customized folders, programs, etc).
What prevents you from using another browser? And when & how does IE cause unrelated 3rd party apps to crash.
Service is what you would call a daemon.
I'd several systems that use non english windows systems.
Usually, the english patches work.
I disagree about code reuse. It's the 100 - 200 lines of code where it's not worth reusing code, it's easier to write more specialize code for this.
You seem to think that it's wrong to use specilaize applications instead of one, all-encompasing, application.
This goes against everything *nix belives in (small, specilaize tools, for single task) but beyond this, a general application may not always be a good thing. It wouldn't be able to give the extra touch that a specialize application can.
Take MSDN, frex. The online version versus the installed version, I know what I prefer.
(msdn.microsoft.com, if you don't have msdn installed, check windows help, same theme)
What they did in IE, is to make one part that does all the rendering, and another that does the IE UI.
So, frex, if I want to build a browser, that would use Moxila's XUL and IE's rendering, I can do it quite easily.
BTW, if we talking about code reuse, do you program all your functions on you own?
I mean, if it's *wrong* to reuse long code, so why would you use stdio.h, or iostream.h, what about std::string ?
What was the last time that you downloaded a security update for NT's kernel.
What was the last time you downloaded a security fix for an application in Linux?
Don't compare things that aren't the same.
Linux kernel is *way* samller than all the applications on a 2K CD, you can't compare them.
A better way would be to compare the number of fixes of a distribution.
Got this from debian.org
[13 Mar 2001] DSA-044 mailx - buffer overflow
[09 Mar 2001] DSA-043 zope - remote exploit
[09 Mar 2001] DSA-042 gnuserv - buffer overflow, weak security
[09 Mar 2001] DSA-041 joe - local exploit
[09 Mar 2001] DSA-040 slrn - buffer overflow
[08 Mar 2001] DSA-039 glibc - local file overwrite
[08 Mar 2001] DSA-038 sgml-tools - insecure tempfiles
[07 Mar 2001] DSA-037 Athena Widget replacement libraries - insecure tempfile handling
[07 Mar 2001] DSA-036 Midnight Commander - arbitrary program execution
[07 Mar 2001] DSA-035 man2html - remote denial of service
You copy the software from the media to memory in order to run it, though.
What do you do if the bank require proof that you paid your bills, and you lost the recipe?
In here, (isreal), they are doing it.
Not MS itself, but BSA (or something like it) an organization publish in the radio "one phonecall from your emploers and you are caught" about pirate software.
Really?
Less than 10% of the western population are farmers, pre-Industrial Revolution times, less than 10% of the population are not farmers.
Land fighting is going to be *ugly*.
And you might find staring at the back end of a mull slightly boring.
Hm, that is unfair comparision.
If you won't download Linux App's security updates, bad things happen too.
A more correct comparision is downloading a new kernel and downloading new components to Windows.
Not really.
For an early beta, however, this is a good uptime.
What type of service are we talking about?
I assume that you meant service in NT's meaning, a background process.
Why use HTML other then in browsers?
Help files, both windows & gnome use it.
There are plenty of uses.
There is a bug in the code, cheel out! it's not the end of the world.
It's fixed, too.
I'm saying that it's good that you can reuse code.
Every software has bugs, when they are found, they are fixed, end of story.
About Opera, I don't know if you can reuse their rendering engine, and how.
But if they allows you to do so (both legally and programatically) I don't see a reason why not do it.
What? You want to tell me that you don't know?
Didn't you know that MS make such fine products that whenever there is a (rarely) discovered bug, we must all raid Redmond and find out who did this?
After all, who will keep MS' high quality but us?
Imagine, for a second, a world where buggy OS are the norm, they are found on any desktop, and computers crashes are not something to stop you dead.
Do you think you could bear living in such a world?
Why would you want to uninstall IE?
As you noted, it's used extensively by a lot of applications. If you would remove it, you would lose a lot of functionality.
Think about it like a installing KDE API on GNOME desktop, you need the API for the applications to run.