The boot cache seems like a neat idea. Read-ahead caching is normally predictive but the predictions are just guesses. But if there's a sequence of events that goes the same way every time, yeah, I guess it makes sense to log it and use that info for reading ahead next time.
Long story short, MS has many built in baises for starting up their applications which most applications are not able to benefit from.
Sorry sparky, but that's bullshit.
Case in point: Mozilla 1.7 now has *some* of the necessary changes to its makefile for win32 to make it load fast on Windows *WITHOUT* QuickLaunch.
Try running it without QuickLaunch, with the flag/nosplash . You'll find that the latest builds load nearly as fast as IE. There's only a couple more things they have to do and it will load as fast as IE.
It all comes down to knowing your target platforms, and actually targetting your target platforms.
So what systems used the term "windows" in a generic sense refering to a computer graphical user interface prior to 1985?
The first release of X was in 1984. Macintosh was also released in 1984. It shouldn't be too hard to document that the term "windows" was used generically in those systems prior to 1985
Windows 1.0 was announced in 1983. And that's the starting date for trademarks.
You can put up a Wind turbine in 2 years, including 1 year to determine the area's potential. Add planning and siting for a nuclear plant, and you're looking at least 5 years.... and the community downwind has to worry about the noise caused by it for decades.
There was a community in Washington State being deafened by the low frequency noise from the wind farm 15 miles away, just because of the beat frequencies and acoustic interference pattern downwind from the turbines.
All you need to do is figure out the A width of the leftmost character and adjust accordingly. The question is whether or not it is correct to do so. For some characters, probably not.
This is why things like Adobe PageMill now do optical kerning; it's not a simple matter of just "fixing it in the new fonts" - and it's not something you can easily automate.
Then I come along and decide that I don't like you all, for whatever reason. So I build a transmitter that operates on the WiFi band, but spews noise with 2000 watts of power through a massive antenna. Suddenly your WiFi is worthless. However there's nothing you can do, since there's no regulation. What I'm doing is legal, though assinie.
You know, you've described in a nutshell exactly what happens every time the phone rings in one of the other apartments in the apartment complex I live in.
WiFi and cordless phones sharing the same bandwidth but with no common protocol to ensure that they don't tread on each others' toes is the number one reason why regulation is necessary.
They would not be doing it if it did not help them in one or both of those areas (and directly as opposed to indirectly, if at all possible)
Microsoft is not a charity. Even when they do give money to charity, they have reasons that have nothing to do with simple kindness.
You're wrong. Sometimes they do things just because.
However, in this instance, they have MSN, Hotmail and Outlook. It'd be nice to have all of those services and apps spam free - it'd make their customers (who are complaining loudly about spam to them) happy.
How many ways are there do define fragmented files? If I can read the file starting from the byte address of the first byte of the file sequentially all the way to the EOF, it isn't fragmented. Otherwise, every time I have to jump to a non-sequential byte address, that's another fragment. Am I missing something?
As an example, look up the docs on ext2. Note that file fragments are not necessarily the same as fragmented files. Also note that people use the "file fragment" number as an indicator of how fragmented their ext2 partition is - which is wrong.
This is a very arcane procedure in XP. I shall try to explain, but only a professional should attempt this.
1. Right click on drive icon, select properties 2. Select Tools tab and click on "Defragment Now" 3. Click on "Analyze" 4. When analysis finishes, click on "View Report"
This shows two list windows, one containing general properties of the disk such as volume size, free space, total fragmentation, file fragmentation and free space fragmentation. The second list shows all fragmented files and how badly they are fragmented.
If you're not using the same tool to measure fragmentation on each OS, how do you know that they're using the same semantics to decide what a fragmented file is?
IIRC, the Linux tools use a different metric to calculate fragmentation than the NT ones.
I'm an Opera zealot if there ever was one. The issue with MSN was absolutely infuriating. For those who didn't RTFA: MSN.com sent a different style sheet to any browser that specifically identified itself as Opera. The style sheet had less content, and broke the layout of the page. It was one of the most asinine things I've ever seen, because it could only have been done intentionally.
Yes. It was done intentionally.
When you access MSN with an unknown browser, it defaults to Netscape 4.7-compatible layout mode.
Try it for yourself - put a random piece of text as your browser ID string in Mozilla, and see which files you get back.
Guess what? You get the Netscape 4.7 stuff.
Which doesn't render right in Opera.
This isn't particularly suprising - Netscape 4.7 was the fallback browser, because at the time it was still the 2nd most popular browser in the world.
""Now that we know what can happen, we've realized how to bring the system back quickly," Petty Officer 1st Class Phillip Cramer said. "All we have to do is change the zero to any number, and everything comes right back up.""
Back in May 1997, the US fitted the USS YORKTOWN (http://www.yorktown.navy.mil/ ) with NT and it had disastrous results (http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/july13/cov2. htm ) . The ship went DIW (dead in the water) for a few hours. This is the worst case scenario for any ship's captain (and their career)...
Funnily enough, both the commanding office and the officer in charge of that project went on the record to state that the problem was not with NT.
How many OS crashes do you know which can be fixed by - and I quote - "replacing the value in one of the fields with something other than zero"?
If the OS had crashed, you would not be able to replace the value in the field.
God you slashdot guys are sheep. Don't you ever check the veracity of the crap that you spread?
does anyone else feel like MS is simply releasing these fairly-trivial items to the "open source community" in an attempt to try and appease the geeks out there? This seems like nothing more than a token gesture - they are still able to lock people in with Windows and Office.
No... I think they're releasing an exceptionally useful library for use by Windows developers.
There are a lot of GPL GUIs out there, I recommend using them rather than Microsoft's. First off, most of them are cross platform. Secondly, I have never known Microsoft to not have an agenda for anything they did. If you use this toolkit, you may want to beware as to what rights Microsoft may try to claim over it at a later date. Whether the claims were founded or not, I would not want to fight MS in court.
Oh please. Stop being such an ass. I've been using WTL since 2001, and have even released COMMERCIAL software with it - with no problems whatsoever.
It's another tool in the toolkit. It's only you OSS wankers who try to put restrictive and ambiguously worded licenses on your libraries (GPL, anyone?).
At least it's not as bad as the EMP in Seattle - which, depending on how you look at it, looks like either a big crumpled bag of Doritos, or a large pile of garbage gently glinting in the city.
You can have interesting architecture without it being a completely formless asymmetrical structure.
I don't know many composers who can ignore melody or rhythym and end up with anything other than noise. Once you have noise, you have nothing - you may as well have a chimp writing the score by bashing keys on a piano with a banana... the same applies to architecture.
It's an ugly mess that looks like it was made by a cartoonist on acid.
That may well be the case... but at least it looks better than the EMP in Seattle, which looks like either an empty bag of Doritos or just a plain pile of trash depending on which way the sun is glinting off it.
I'm all for interesting looking buildings... but come on... you can have interesting architecture that doesn't look like an eyesore that was sketched out by someone on hard drugs.
I installed the CA AV that came free with the CDs of updates that MS is now shipping for free. With everything enabled and with the latest pattern file, it didn't catch a Netsky variant that came in by email, until I went to save the file to the HD. Given that the home network is sitting behind a NAT box, and that most information flows in and out through the router, the greatest vector for attack is email. If the AV can't pick this up on the way in I'm not interested. AVG had no problems.
If you want it to scan your email, you buy the add on to scan your email. That way if you need that false veneer of protection, you can pay extra for it if you want it.
The virus is ONLY dangerous once it gets saved to the HD. It's not dangerous sitting as a MIME encoded packet in your inbox.
And, honestly, I wouldn't run CA AV software if you put a gun to my head. FAXServe and ARCserve are some of the worst pieces of software I've ever had the misfortune to use. If someone whose opinion on such things mattered to me suggested it, I might look at it. But I'd be very skeptical.
Well I don't know if this counts for anything but CA's AV software is what Microsoft uses internally.
Hell, I run several layers of AV protection that checks for updates hourly, and twice I've gotten hit by viruses before the updated signatures were available.
Why not use one really good AV instead of "several layers" - which can interact with one another and cause files to be locked when they're scanned?
Use realtime file checking, and you won't need to scan hourly.
I'd recomment EZ-Antivirus from Computer Associates. They have 3 teams around the globe working 24/7 to produce updates as the viruses happen.
That's a different argument from the one you originally made. Do you admit your first one was wrong? Now you say that one should pay for things according to the terms set by the author. This comment costs 10$ to read. Will you pay me? Why not? Have you not read it?
A rather idiotic argument you've got there. You can't charge people to read your comments on slashdot. Posting to a public forum means that you intended to distribute it for free. Selling a game in a store means that they intended to sell it for a price.
Notice the difference?
And no, you do not deserve to be entertained. That is not a right or privilege.
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The boot cache seems like a neat idea. Read-ahead caching is normally predictive but the predictions are just guesses. But if there's a sequence of events that goes the same way every time, yeah, I guess it makes sense to log it and use that info for reading ahead next time.
Unfortunately, it's a neat idea taken directly from Windows XP.
Long story short, MS has many built in baises for starting up their applications which most applications are not able to benefit from.
/nosplash . You'll find that the latest builds load nearly as fast as IE. There's only a couple more things they have to do and it will load as fast as IE.
Sorry sparky, but that's bullshit.
Case in point: Mozilla 1.7 now has *some* of the necessary changes to its makefile for win32 to make it load fast on Windows *WITHOUT* QuickLaunch.
Try running it without QuickLaunch, with the flag
It all comes down to knowing your target platforms, and actually targetting your target platforms.
Wasnt there something called "XWindows" or "Windows X" on Unix years before M$ coined their Windows?
No, Windows was coined in 1983.
So what systems used the term "windows" in a generic sense refering to a computer graphical user interface prior to 1985?
The first release of X was in 1984. Macintosh was also released in 1984. It shouldn't be too hard to document that the term "windows" was used generically in those systems prior to 1985
Windows 1.0 was announced in 1983. And that's the starting date for trademarks.
You can put up a Wind turbine in 2 years, including 1 year to determine the area's potential. Add planning and siting for a nuclear plant, and you're looking at least 5 years. ... and the community downwind has to worry about the noise caused by it for decades.
There was a community in Washington State being deafened by the low frequency noise from the wind farm 15 miles away, just because of the beat frequencies and acoustic interference pattern downwind from the turbines.
All you need to do is figure out the A width of the leftmost character and adjust accordingly. The question is whether or not it is correct to do so. For some characters, probably not.
This is why things like Adobe PageMill now do optical kerning; it's not a simple matter of just "fixing it in the new fonts" - and it's not something you can easily automate.
Then I come along and decide that I don't like you all, for whatever reason. So I build a transmitter that operates on the WiFi band, but spews noise with 2000 watts of power through a massive antenna. Suddenly your WiFi is worthless. However there's nothing you can do, since there's no regulation. What I'm doing is legal, though assinie.
You know, you've described in a nutshell exactly what happens every time the phone rings in one of the other apartments in the apartment complex I live in.
WiFi and cordless phones sharing the same bandwidth but with no common protocol to ensure that they don't tread on each others' toes is the number one reason why regulation is necessary.
Either in terms of money or market share?
They would not be doing it if it did not help them in one or both of those areas (and directly as opposed to indirectly, if at all possible)
Microsoft is not a charity. Even when they do give money to charity, they have reasons that have nothing to do with simple kindness.
You're wrong. Sometimes they do things just because.
However, in this instance, they have MSN, Hotmail and Outlook. It'd be nice to have all of those services and apps spam free - it'd make their customers (who are complaining loudly about spam to them) happy.
How many ways are there do define fragmented files? If I can read the file starting from the byte address of the first byte of the file sequentially all the way to the EOF, it isn't fragmented. Otherwise, every time I have to jump to a non-sequential byte address, that's another fragment. Am I missing something?
As an example, look up the docs on ext2. Note that file fragments are not necessarily the same as fragmented files. Also note that people use the "file fragment" number as an indicator of how fragmented their ext2 partition is - which is wrong.
This is a very arcane procedure in XP. I shall try to explain, but only a professional should attempt this.
1. Right click on drive icon, select properties
2. Select Tools tab and click on "Defragment Now"
3. Click on "Analyze"
4. When analysis finishes, click on "View Report"
This shows two list windows, one containing general properties of the disk such as volume size, free space, total fragmentation, file fragmentation and free space fragmentation. The second list shows all fragmented files and how badly they are fragmented.
If you're not using the same tool to measure fragmentation on each OS, how do you know that they're using the same semantics to decide what a fragmented file is?
IIRC, the Linux tools use a different metric to calculate fragmentation than the NT ones.
If what you are saying is true, then why do user agent "Opera" and user agent "Oprah" get different files?
Presumably because the code is something like this:
if (string.Contains("Opera"))
{
return netscape4.7stylesheet;
}
else if (string.Contains("MSIE 6.0")
{
return IE6stylesheet;
}
Remember: Opera 6 works fine with MSN. It was only the new Opera 7 - which had different rendering behavior - which has the problem.
Presumably Opera 6 was Netscape 4.7 compatible, whereas Opera 7 is not.
I'm an Opera zealot if there ever was one. The issue with MSN was absolutely infuriating. For those who didn't RTFA: MSN.com sent a different style sheet to any browser that specifically identified itself as Opera. The style sheet had less content, and broke the layout of the page. It was one of the most asinine things I've ever seen, because it could only have been done intentionally.
Yes. It was done intentionally.
When you access MSN with an unknown browser, it defaults to Netscape 4.7-compatible layout mode.
Try it for yourself - put a random piece of text as your browser ID string in Mozilla, and see which files you get back.
Guess what? You get the Netscape 4.7 stuff.
Which doesn't render right in Opera.
This isn't particularly suprising - Netscape 4.7 was the fallback browser, because at the time it was still the 2nd most popular browser in the world.
See? No conspiracy theory needed.
http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/november9/6.h tm
""Now that we know what can happen, we've realized how to bring the
system back quickly," Petty Officer 1st Class Phillip Cramer said. "All
we have to do is change the zero to any number, and everything comes
right back up.""
Back in May 1997, the US fitted the USS YORKTOWN (http://www.yorktown.navy.mil/ ) with NT and it had disastrous results (http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/july13/cov2. htm ) . The ship went DIW (dead in the water) for a few hours. This is the worst case scenario for any ship's captain (and their career)...
Funnily enough, both the commanding office and the officer in charge of that project went on the record to state that the problem was not with NT.
How many OS crashes do you know which can be fixed by - and I quote - "replacing the value in one of the fields with something other than zero"?
If the OS had crashed, you would not be able to replace the value in the field.
God you slashdot guys are sheep. Don't you ever check the veracity of the crap that you spread?
Uhhh, giving out header files doesn't make something open source. All the header files give you is the API.
The header files ARE the API, dumbass. WTL is a template library - all of the code lives in the header files.
does anyone else feel like MS is simply releasing these fairly-trivial items to the "open source community" in an attempt to try and appease the geeks out there? This seems like nothing more than a token gesture - they are still able to lock people in with Windows and Office.
No... I think they're releasing an exceptionally useful library for use by Windows developers.
If you don't like it, lump it.
There are a lot of GPL GUIs out there, I recommend using them rather than Microsoft's. First off, most of them are cross platform. Secondly, I have never known Microsoft to not have an agenda for anything they did. If you use this toolkit, you may want to beware as to what rights Microsoft may try to claim over it at a later date. Whether the claims were founded or not, I would not want to fight MS in court.
Oh please. Stop being such an ass. I've been using WTL since 2001, and have even released COMMERCIAL software with it - with no problems whatsoever.
It's another tool in the toolkit. It's only you OSS wankers who try to put restrictive and ambiguously worded licenses on your libraries (GPL, anyone?).
Never mind... I actually RTFA :) Sorry about that.
That'll teach me to post before I wake up.
Actually it's 2.6 days per year.
5 working days per week.
52 weeks per year.
Do the math.
At least it's not as bad as the EMP in Seattle - which, depending on how you look at it, looks like either a big crumpled bag of Doritos, or a large pile of garbage gently glinting in the city.
You can have interesting architecture without it being a completely formless asymmetrical structure.
I don't know many composers who can ignore melody or rhythym and end up with anything other than noise. Once you have noise, you have nothing - you may as well have a chimp writing the score by bashing keys on a piano with a banana... the same applies to architecture.
Sheesh.
It's an ugly mess that looks like it was made by a cartoonist on acid.
That may well be the case... but at least it looks better than the EMP in Seattle, which looks like either an empty bag of Doritos or just a plain pile of trash depending on which way the sun is glinting off it.
I'm all for interesting looking buildings... but come on... you can have interesting architecture that doesn't look like an eyesore that was sketched out by someone on hard drugs.
I installed the CA AV that came free with the CDs of updates that MS is now shipping for free. With everything enabled and with the latest pattern file, it didn't catch a Netsky variant that came in by email, until I went to save the file to the HD. Given that the home network is sitting behind a NAT box, and that most information flows in and out through the router, the greatest vector for attack is email. If the AV can't pick this up on the way in I'm not interested. AVG had no problems.
If you want it to scan your email, you buy the add on to scan your email. That way if you need that false veneer of protection, you can pay extra for it if you want it.
The virus is ONLY dangerous once it gets saved to the HD. It's not dangerous sitting as a MIME encoded packet in your inbox.
And, honestly, I wouldn't run CA AV software if you put a gun to my head. FAXServe and ARCserve are some of the worst pieces of software I've ever had the misfortune to use. If someone whose opinion on such things mattered to me suggested it, I might look at it. But I'd be very skeptical.
Well I don't know if this counts for anything but CA's AV software is what Microsoft uses internally.
Hell, I run several layers of AV protection that checks for updates hourly, and twice I've gotten hit by viruses before the updated signatures were available.
Why not use one really good AV instead of "several layers" - which can interact with one another and cause files to be locked when they're scanned?
Use realtime file checking, and you won't need to scan hourly.
I'd recomment EZ-Antivirus from Computer Associates. They have 3 teams around the globe working 24/7 to produce updates as the viruses happen.
That's a different argument from the one you originally made. Do you admit your first one was wrong? Now you say that one should pay for things according to the terms set by the author. This comment costs 10$ to read. Will you pay me? Why not? Have you not read it?
A rather idiotic argument you've got there. You can't charge people to read your comments on slashdot. Posting to a public forum means that you intended to distribute it for free. Selling a game in a store means that they intended to sell it for a price.
Notice the difference?
And no, you do not deserve to be entertained. That is not a right or privilege.