I wonder sometimes if I had stuck with Windows, whether I would understand it in the same depth I understand Unix. In fact, I'm curious as to just how many people there are who do (I haven't met one yet). For instance, can you look at a Windows process listing and be able to explain what every process is and what it's for? Do you have a general idea of how the basic system tools work, such that you could rewrite them yourself in a pinch?
I don't know if this counts but I was a computer technician for 6 years. I mainly worked on windows systems (software aspect) win95,98 winNT 3.51,4. This was not a single enterprise I did contract work for many.
I had no training in this job I taught myself. I no longer do this work since I am back studying.
First you hardly ever look at the process listing. If there is a problem its not usually there. Corrupted or incorrect dll's. Registry or INI stuffups. What basic system tools? You generally use third party ones because windows doesn't have enough tools. I would have written a DOS based registry tool If I had decent programming tools but I didn't.
Also, are there any diagnostic tools? When I'm faced with strange Unix behavior, I usually reach for strace, lsof, tcpdump, gdb, etc. These at least will tell me exactly what the system is doing, and with that I can try to find out where it goes wrong. (And in the long run, they will teach you a lot.) Does Windows have tools that are as useful, and where do I get them?
Notepad Nortons Utilities Ghost Regedit Fdisk and Format sysedit systeminfo
The tools you use depend on the job. Knowing the diagnostic criteria is more important. In most cases reformat and reinstall.
Does Windows log noteworthy events somewhere like the Unix syslog? If so, where is it?
Windows NT can do this, Event Viewer is the log file reader and maintainer. If you see a this service failed dialog on a NT startup this is where you look to find out more
If I do figure out what is going wrong, what do I do about it? Documentation is important here: how do I find which weird check box, which has a name like "Increased Performance (yes/no)," affects the behavior I'm seeing? I need a more complete description of the options. Unix programs sometimes have this; Windows ones rarely do. And if it is a bug, how can I fix it without source code?
Causuality. Every event is caused by something in windows, it can be hard to work this out. Sometimes it is in the manual. Other times you just find out by trial and error. I find the best manuals are old MCP ones (The new ones suck eggs)
So this is what frustrates me, as a Unix user, when I try to deal with Windows. I don't have a good understanding of how the system works underneath, I don't have the tools to figure out exactly what is going on, and I don't know whether I'd be able to fix the problem if I found it. And worst of all, I don't know anyone who does. I'm honestly curious: do you?
You need to have a greater understanding of how computers work. You need to study the history of DOS and windows to see how things have changed. There are two facts that can help.
If Microsoft implemented a function they
A) ripped it off someone else (knowledge of other systems helps)
B) implemented it in the most stupid way possible.
I made a lot of money out of fools and Microsoft I no longer wish to relive those days. I'm writing this post from Slackware. I know enough about how MS works to want them banished to hell forever.
When I want to remove a compiled package I removepkg it. If I want to upgrade it I remove the old one and then checkinstall the new one.
This is useful because I can have a list of currently installed packages in/var/log/packages And I can remove any cruft by removepkg. Most packages compiled from source all removable and listed.
Almost have 400 packages must download and install 7 more.
What I mean is that the entity know as the company does not suddenly dissappear. If someone bailed them out next week they would come back. I don't think it is going to happen but they still will exist (bankrupt or not) until the company is completly dissolved.
No oen file for Chapter 11 unless they really are looking for the defribilators. Previous comments in other/. discussions would seem to naively indicate that its just a casual decision to be made when the wind drifts the wrong way.
That wasn't really my point. My point was that just because they are dying today doesn't mean they will not recover. Everyone always assumes the worst (I do) but that does not make it reality.
. . . \___/ Rats leave a sinking ship. How fast are they doing it today?
This is not some zealot or marketing drone with a narrow view of the issues and/or a vested interest on one side or another.
But he does have a vested interest, and this is why what he says is rubbish. Because he thinks the future is embedded not desktop.
LaM: Where do you think the future ought to lie for desktop Linux?
R: There is none. The future for Linux for anything that isn't a headless server in a back room tirelessly serving out data and services all day long is on the device market, from PDA to phone to watch.
LaM: What's the least-tapped area of desktop development, if there is one > -- a place where there's room for real growth and innovation?
R: Again - not much. The device space is where the interesting stuff is at.:)
Perhaps it's the edge of consumer-friendliness that Windows has over Linux at present that kills it. I mean how much money are these "white box boys" - or anyone else for that matter! - really making on one unit? $50? $30? Less?? You get two support calls and suddenly you have made $0.
Obviously you have never sold a computer system. They do not come with software warranties. Besides a real software support call costs $2 to $5. You don't think it costs the price we charge do you?
The real cost danger is the price of replacing multiple failing components under the warranty. Especially an onsite one. Because you lose an engineer for a greater amount of time. (Travel to and from site twice, removal and installation, packaging and paperwork)
The thing I don't get is why do these circles only appear in crops? Why not in a car park? Why not in a local park? Why not in stone, or bitumen? Why always in such an easy to bend material as crops?
Actually you should just look for the simplest explanation first.
Crop Circles where made by?
a) Aliens b) Humans c) Natural Phenomina
If you are following Empirical science then you should not think about mystical possibilities either. Empirical science does not however rule out aliens because they could be a natural phenomem.
Just remember kids in science if you think you are correct then you are not doing science.
I failed to make my point on that topic clear. If it is US legal, then they could localize it, and sell it here.
Hmm if it isn't legal then why are they spending so much time on it?
There must be something more to it than a simple clone. Perhaps they have done the following: Reverse engineered it so they can have the specs, Make sure there are no backdoors, and can deploy it as they wish Change the language settings to match China better Made it so they can add on to the product And of course made it compatible where it counts
18 Companies and universities is a pretty big punch to do something simple, they must be up to something big.
Debian will probably be the last of the main destros to get to a graphical isntall... oh, it already is!! (this depends on what you consider a main distro =) ).
So Slackware isn't a main distro. Typical Debian blindness.
Certainly we will still have the data just as we now have the equivalent of all those floppies we had. Wether we can read it all or not is unimportant. What is important is wether we can read what we need to. Most such documents are proted across since they are regulary used. The problem will come when some historical documents are needed. As long as they exist somewhere, someone (Historical, Researcher, database programmer) will be able to look them up.
There was an article in Scientific America about bombing records from the Vietnam war stored in a mainframe being recovered to remove the bombs. Where there is a need there will be a way to seek and find the past. We know what the Egyptians ate for breakfast how much more will our anscestors know about us?
Shortly after a computer is turned on or is reset, a small program called a boot loader is executed by the CPU (block 301). The boot loader loads a boot block for a particular operating system. Code in the boot block then loads various drivers and other software components necessary for the operating system to function on the computer. The totality of the boot block and the loaded components make up the identity of the operating system.
The patent only specifies that drivers be secured but what if...
You have a special video card, made from a normal one. When you pay $50 for the latest movie to view on your computer you play it. The system trusts and you view it on your monitor but not before it was passed through the video card which sent the entire output of the movie one frame at a time to another computer which saved it to disk. You do the same with the sound card only easier. Then you upload the file to your P2P network. Oh well bootleg copies of the latest movies will float around the Internet.
A mental illness is right at the heart of what makes up a person. It's just a bad personality trait taken to an extreme. We all know people who are a little paranoid, a little moody, or somewhat impulsive. Just because someone draws an arbitrary line and says, "This is the point at which the trait becomes an illness, which he is clearly past." is hardly a convincing reason to suddenly consider him blameless.
I think you misunderstand, the severity of his condition makes a clear demarcation between his thinking and a normal persons. There is no real continuum here. Not only does he have many thinking errors but also the chemical imbalance in his brain makes him go down those paths. This is the difference between the Mentally ill and those who are not. The mentally ill cannot control the maladaptive thinking, normal people can. Of course if you have never crossed the divide you cannot understand this. So I don't think a normal should dictate what mental illness is without years of study.
To fool a dumbass, you only have to emulate a dumbass. The best way to
fool a dumbass is to say the same stupid things over and over again,
since that's all the dumbass does anyways. And from what I've seen from
your generic IRC chats, 99% of them qualify. And while we're on the subject, lets talk about people who's ego has
outgrown their brain to the point they've driven themselves into
depression over it.
You aren't mentally ill and you don't seem to know what you are talking
about.
I am Social Phobic not bipolar but I can relate to what Wallace says
The author seems pretty bright, but maybe he heard that fact a bit too
many times and believed it a bit too much.
There are theories about gifted and genius being more prone to Mental
illness escpecially BP
Grants aren't always "granted". Sometimes, you just have to give
things time. To say that everyone schemes against you is the paranoid
view. And the reactions of those he detests are well justified. Heck,
even when some of them tried to give him the benefit of the doubt and
give him and his project a good review, he simply turned the compliment
against them. He's a product of his own misery.
From a cognitive point of view it looks like he sees the world from a
specific view. That viewpoint is hard to change, he may not realise it is
unhealthy for him, and even if he does he may be unable to change it.
This is the nature of mental illness.
For instance you say that his those he detests are well justified but I
have to ask justified how. How do you even know that they are not
paranoid of him, if they come from a culture and mindeset that says
mentally ill people are dangerous then they have as big a cognitive
dysfunction as he does.
He seems to think that everyone is against him, this is important to him.
He believes that this is central to life and correct. If he didn't
believe it was important then he would be freed from the maladaptive
thinking. Changeing is not easy first he has to admit that this is the
problem but instead he has fought being mentally ill because society says
it is bad. In reality it is our society that is ill.
So it is ok to hack if you are rich but not if you just do it for fun.
No wonder we never understand politicians.
RIAA can suck my CD's
Why is my post moderated as a troll?
Why is it so wrong to hate the political system when all they want is to shaft you. I suppose the moderator who did this won't be laughing when a RIAA hacking attack goes wrong and trashes his/her box.
Slashdot Mirror
Windows 9X is single user.
Windows NT series is multiuser.
Your'e confused MS went from NT 4 to Windows 2000. Don't compare the two series (NT/95) they where entirley different until they merged them.
I don't know if this counts but I was a computer technician for 6 years. I mainly worked on windows systems (software aspect) win95,98 winNT 3.51,4. This was not a single enterprise I did contract work for many.
I had no training in this job I taught myself. I no longer do this work since I am back studying.
First you hardly ever look at the process listing. If there is a problem its not usually there. Corrupted or incorrect dll's. Registry or INI stuffups. What basic system tools? You generally use third party ones because windows doesn't have enough tools. I would have written a DOS based registry tool If I had decent programming tools but I didn't.
Also, are there any diagnostic tools? When I'm faced with strange Unix behavior, I usually reach for strace, lsof, tcpdump, gdb, etc. These at least will tell me exactly what the system is doing, and with that I can try to find out where it goes wrong. (And in the long run, they will teach you a lot.) Does Windows have tools that are as useful, and where do I get them?
Notepad
Nortons Utilities
Ghost
Regedit
Fdisk and Format
sysedit
systeminfo
The tools you use depend on the job. Knowing the diagnostic criteria is more important. In most cases reformat and reinstall.
Does Windows log noteworthy events somewhere like the Unix syslog? If so, where is it?
Windows NT can do this, Event Viewer is the log file reader and maintainer. If you see a this service failed dialog on a NT startup this is where you look to find out more
If I do figure out what is going wrong, what do I do about it? Documentation is important here: how do I find which weird check box, which has a name like "Increased Performance (yes/no)," affects the behavior I'm seeing? I need a more complete description of the options. Unix programs sometimes have this; Windows ones rarely do. And if it is a bug, how can I fix it without source code?
Causuality. Every event is caused by something in windows, it can be hard to work this out. Sometimes it is in the manual. Other times you just find out by trial and error. I find the best manuals are old MCP ones (The new ones suck eggs)
So this is what frustrates me, as a Unix user, when I try to deal with Windows. I don't have a good understanding of how the system works underneath, I don't have the tools to figure out exactly what is going on, and I don't know whether I'd be able to fix the problem if I found it. And worst of all, I don't know anyone who does. I'm honestly curious: do you?
You need to have a greater understanding of how computers work. You need to study the history of DOS and windows to see how things have changed. There are two facts that can help.
If Microsoft implemented a function they
A) ripped it off someone else (knowledge of other systems helps)
B) implemented it in the most stupid way possible.
I made a lot of money out of fools and Microsoft I no longer wish to relive those days. I'm writing this post from Slackware. I know enough about how MS works to want them banished to hell forever.
When I want to remove a compiled package I removepkg it. If I want to upgrade it I remove the old one and then checkinstall the new one.
This is useful because I can have a list of currently installed packages in /var/log/packages
And I can remove any cruft by removepkg.
Most packages compiled from source all removable and listed.
Almost have 400 packages must download and install 7 more.
What I mean is that the entity know as the company does not suddenly dissappear. If someone bailed them out next week they would come back. I don't think it is going to happen but they still will exist (bankrupt or not) until the company is completly dissolved.
Of course it means you are broke. But it doesn't mean the end of the company. They are two distinct things.
That wasn't really my point. My point was that just because they are dying today doesn't mean they will not recover. Everyone always assumes the worst (I do) but that does not make it reality.
. . . \___/ Rats leave a sinking ship. How fast are they doing it today?
Not all companies that file for bankrupcy go broke. Otherwise no-one would file for it.
AmigaOS
NEXT
Your VCR
Your mobile phone
By your logic these and many more interfaces are geek? BTW Windows interface is like Mac as much as it is like any Linux one. Like is variable.
But he does have a vested interest, and this is why what he says is rubbish. Because he thinks the future is embedded not desktop.
Obviously you have never sold a computer system. They do not come with software warranties. Besides a real software support call costs $2 to $5. You don't think it costs the price we charge do you?
The real cost danger is the price of replacing multiple failing components under the warranty. Especially an onsite one. Because you lose an engineer for a greater amount of time. (Travel to and from site twice, removal and installation, packaging and paperwork)
Reading slashdot will not help that you know?
The thing I don't get is why do these circles only appear in crops? Why not in a car park? Why not in a local park? Why not in stone, or bitumen? Why always in such an easy to bend material as crops?
Actually you should just look for the simplest explanation first.
Crop Circles where made by?
a) Aliens
b) Humans
c) Natural Phenomina
If you are following Empirical science then you should not think about mystical possibilities either. Empirical science does not however rule out aliens because they could be a natural phenomem.
Just remember kids in science if you think you are correct then you are not doing science.
Hmm if it isn't legal then why are they spending so much time on it?
There must be something more to it than a simple clone. Perhaps they have done the following:
Reverse engineered it so they can have the specs, Make sure there are no backdoors, and can deploy it as they wish
Change the language settings to match China better
Made it so they can add on to the product
And of course made it compatible where it counts
18 Companies and universities is a pretty big punch to do something simple, they must be up to something big.
So Slackware isn't a main distro. Typical Debian blindness.
I think you'll find that he is a she.
Certainly we will still have the data just as we now have the equivalent of all those floppies we had. Wether we can read it all or not is unimportant. What is important is wether we can read what we need to. Most such documents are proted across since they are regulary used. The problem will come when some historical documents are needed. As long as they exist somewhere, someone (Historical, Researcher, database programmer) will be able to look them up.
There was an article in Scientific America about bombing records from the Vietnam war stored in a mainframe being recovered to remove the bombs. Where there is a need there will be a way to seek and find the past. We know what the Egyptians ate for breakfast how much more will our anscestors know about us?
It was worth being modded down 2 points just to hear a reply like yours.
If I wanted to look at syndey I wouldn't be living in queensland :)
The patent only specifies that drivers be secured but what if...
You have a special video card, made from a normal one. When you pay $50 for the latest movie to view on your computer you play it. The system trusts and you view it on your monitor but not before it was passed through the video card which sent the entire output of the movie one frame at a time to another computer which saved it to disk. You do the same with the sound card only easier. Then you upload the file to your P2P network. Oh well bootleg copies of the latest movies will float around the Internet.
Microsoft what do you want to pirate today?
I think you misunderstand, the severity of his condition makes a clear demarcation between his thinking and a normal persons. There is no real continuum here. Not only does he have many thinking errors but also the chemical imbalance in his brain makes him go down those paths. This is the difference between the Mentally ill and those who are not. The mentally ill cannot control the maladaptive thinking, normal people can. Of course if you have never crossed the divide you cannot understand this. So I don't think a normal should dictate what mental illness is without years of study.
Yes that is what wallace concluded
To fool a dumbass, you only have to emulate a dumbass. The best way to fool a dumbass is to say the same stupid things over and over again, since that's all the dumbass does anyways. And from what I've seen from your generic IRC chats, 99% of them qualify.
And while we're on the subject, lets talk about people who's ego has outgrown their brain to the point they've driven themselves into depression over it.
You aren't mentally ill and you don't seem to know what you are talking about.
I am Social Phobic not bipolar but I can relate to what Wallace says
The author seems pretty bright, but maybe he heard that fact a bit too many times and believed it a bit too much.
There are theories about gifted and genius being more prone to Mental illness escpecially BP
Grants aren't always "granted". Sometimes, you just have to give things time. To say that everyone schemes against you is the paranoid view. And the reactions of those he detests are well justified. Heck, even when some of them tried to give him the benefit of the doubt and give him and his project a good review, he simply turned the compliment against them. He's a product of his own misery.
From a cognitive point of view it looks like he sees the world from a specific view. That viewpoint is hard to change, he may not realise it is unhealthy for him, and even if he does he may be unable to change it. This is the nature of mental illness.
For instance you say that his those he detests are well justified but I have to ask justified how. How do you even know that they are not paranoid of him, if they come from a culture and mindeset that says mentally ill people are dangerous then they have as big a cognitive dysfunction as he does.
He seems to think that everyone is against him, this is important to him. He believes that this is central to life and correct. If he didn't believe it was important then he would be freed from the maladaptive thinking. Changeing is not easy first he has to admit that this is the problem but instead he has fought being mentally ill because society says it is bad. In reality it is our society that is ill.
Freon Banned
Microsoft not just content with control they need to destroy the whole freezin planet as well.
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