The author tells us how WinXP is evil and furthering MS's monopoly on (among other things) file extensions. How come I can right click on ANY FILE in my copy of Windows XP, and either...
Select the "Open With" dialog box and be treated to a list of all the programs on my system registered to handle that file type (for instance: *.doc gives me Word, IE, and Notepad. *.mp3 gives me Winamp and Media Player. *jpg gives me Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, Paint, Macromedia Flash, IE, and Paint Shop Pro!)
If I want, I can further select "Choose Program..." and I'm given the choice of every installed program on my computer, and whether I want to just use it this time, or make it my new default viewer.
I could additionally add programs to my "Send To" dialog, which will give you the same effect as "Open With" but will show for every file on the system (good for compressing files, sending email, etc)
As far as I can remember no other OS I've ever used has given me this much control, and made it so simple (certainly not Linux:)
In all fairness the US (or atleast the American media) doesn't seem to concerned about the loss of life in Palastine/Isreal either. Loss of life perpertrated with American money, arms, and international clout.
I meant that apps under XP are much faster than their linux equivelents.
And it's been up for 3 days cause I've only had it for 3 days.
And yes, it does boot nearly instantly, and literally stuts down instantly as well (definately much faster than Linux, which takes quite a while to boot for me.. but then again I'm not using whatever crazy filesystem you probably are).
And no, I've never been able to keep Linux up for more than a few hours (I'm talking with KDE and some actual applications, not the command line you probably use to judge uptime by:)
And yes, I mean the foot by G... and Gnome, in my experience, is much buggier than KDE.
It's done now (has been for over a week). They're just testing and releasing to OEM's to 'customize'. And there are no obvious bugs from what I can tell, it's run ever piece of software I've thrown at it (except ICQ, which isn't suprising considering what a sloppy POS it is).
I don't know who's pulling the strings over at Microsoft these days but XP is far and away the best piece of MS software (and probably the best piece of software period) I have even used (yes, I'm using a bootleg:). Win2000/9x and Linux don't even compare (OSX looks nice, but awfully confusing and slow as hell). Anyways, XP is incredibly stable (I've been install software, hardware, messing with everything, and it hasn't crashed or slowed down a bit in 3 days). It's also incredibly fast, definitely a big improvement over 9x and Linux... apps are much faster, and games are faster and definitely much smoother. It's stunningly beautiful (fade effects, transparency, etc.) but in no way slow or skippy. Multi user support is the best there is. The tasked-based approach is a bit half assed but definitely better than anything else out there (no more digging through 4 layers of 'start' 'k' or 'g' panels to find the apps I use).
An upgraded OS with tonnes of new features that's 1. Faster and 2. More stable than the previous version... has this ever happened before... EVER!?!:)
Does it make up for the shit they've been selling us all these years? I don't know, but it's a long way towards getting there. As for the annoying security features, if you wrote something this good you probably wouldn't want people stealing it either (and if you're really determined you still can: I did).
I read in Popular Mechanics (I think) that the US army's new main tank is from Canada. Their switching from thoes huge ass billion dollar ones to little fast ones with wheels or something.
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The author tells us how WinXP is evil and furthering MS's monopoly on (among other things) file extensions. How come I can right click on ANY FILE in my copy of Windows XP, and either...
Select the "Open With" dialog box and be treated to a list of all the programs on my system registered to handle that file type (for instance: *.doc gives me Word, IE, and Notepad. *.mp3 gives me Winamp and Media Player. *jpg gives me Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, Paint, Macromedia Flash, IE, and Paint Shop Pro!)
If I want, I can further select "Choose Program..." and I'm given the choice of every installed program on my computer, and whether I want to just use it this time, or make it my new default viewer.
I could additionally add programs to my "Send To" dialog, which will give you the same effect as "Open With" but will show for every file on the system (good for compressing files, sending email, etc)
As far as I can remember no other OS I've ever used has given me this much control, and made it so simple (certainly not Linux :)
works under XP fine for me (with a Geeforce)
In all fairness the US (or atleast the American media) doesn't seem to concerned about the loss of life in Palastine/Isreal either. Loss of life perpertrated with American money, arms, and international clout.
I meant that apps under XP are much faster than their linux equivelents.
:)
And it's been up for 3 days cause I've only had it for 3 days.
And yes, it does boot nearly instantly, and literally stuts down instantly as well (definately much faster than Linux, which takes quite a while to boot for me.. but then again I'm not using whatever crazy filesystem you probably are).
And no, I've never been able to keep Linux up for more than a few hours (I'm talking with KDE and some actual applications, not the command line you probably use to judge uptime by
And yes, I mean the foot by G... and Gnome, in my experience, is much buggier than KDE.
It's done now (has been for over a week). They're just testing and releasing to OEM's to 'customize'. And there are no obvious bugs from what I can tell, it's run ever piece of software I've thrown at it (except ICQ, which isn't suprising considering what a sloppy POS it is).
I don't know who's pulling the strings over at Microsoft these days but XP is far and away the best piece of MS software (and probably the best piece of software period) I have even used (yes, I'm using a bootleg :). Win2000/9x and Linux don't even compare (OSX looks nice, but awfully confusing and slow as hell). Anyways, XP is incredibly stable (I've been install software, hardware, messing with everything, and it hasn't crashed or slowed down a bit in 3 days). It's also incredibly fast, definitely a big improvement over 9x and Linux... apps are much faster, and games are faster and definitely much smoother. It's stunningly beautiful (fade effects, transparency, etc.) but in no way slow or skippy. Multi user support is the best there is. The tasked-based approach is a bit half assed but definitely better than anything else out there (no more digging through 4 layers of 'start' 'k' or 'g' panels to find the apps I use).
An upgraded OS with tonnes of new features that's 1. Faster and 2. More stable than the previous version... has this ever happened before... EVER!?! :)
Does it make up for the shit they've been selling us all these years? I don't know, but it's a long way towards getting there. As for the annoying security features, if you wrote something this good you probably wouldn't want people stealing it either (and if you're really determined you still can: I did).
LOL!!!
I read in Popular Mechanics (I think) that the US army's new main tank is from Canada. Their switching from thoes huge ass billion dollar ones to little fast ones with wheels or something.