What are you doing using Windows 98 for any serious work? Win98 is for games and not much else (maybe DOS apps!). Use NT4 (or Win2K now) for serious work. It's a lot more stable and like 30% faster! NTFS is built to last from the ground up, FATxx is old shit from the DOS days.
Search the web for "TTFGasp" for Windows, a small freeware program that enables antialiasing for 10pt and smaller fonts. I beleive it works but has a few limitations or bugs and is only recommended for advanced users. I personally haven't tried it but did read quite a bit about it.
The site is very bogged down right now, but try http://grc.com and his Shields UP! online share tester. It'll tell you right online if your shares are open or not! Check back in a few days if it's too busy right now. No charge!
Actually to be clear, www.orbs.org is ORBS which is seperate from the MAPS RBL at http://maps.vix.com/rbl/. ORBS seems to be mail-relay centric while http://maps.vix.com hosts a number of services including RBL (which is a last resort type service).
Having extra DLLs in your system directory rarely, if ever, causes BSOD crashes. They are user space programs and it is very difficult to BSOD cause of user space. Kernel drivers (which could cause BSOD) do not use your comdlg32.ocx or your comctl32.dll that can get version conflicted by being overwritten. It just doesn't happen.
And, the problems of apps leaving those DLLs in the system dir, is FAR LESS WORSE than if they blindly DELETED them from the system dir upon program uninstallation, hoping that no other program was dependent on them!!! There are a LOT more chances that a program will work with two different versions of a DLL, than those of a program working with the DLL deleted altogether!
And there are myriad of tools to tell which dll is linked by an app at runtime. I prefer PEsx at http://www.jps.at/ in his Win32 Tools. You might also try Dependency Viewer "depends.exe" in the NT Resource Kit and also in the Platform SDK (and any other SDK like the default one with Visual C++).
Wow this guy has laid it out!! If anyone can argue or disprove what the above post has said (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/11/21/2357 232&cid=219), email me at tookycat@bigfoot.com and we'll discuss.
I don't expect to hear from any of you!
Unless you want to complain that you are "forced" to use Windows because the software you like runs on Windows. Well, choose one or the other!! You can't have your cake and eat it, too!
PS: Moderators, please moderate the above one up! Even died-in-the-wool Linux zealots would have a hard time arguing.
Yeah man, and copying shareware and cracking it is 100% ok, too. I mean, if those shareware authors did not want it cracked then they wouldn't have made their binaries available to the public for download in the first place.
Actually, even #Quake is a "barren wasteland of spammers and idiots". Sure, there are a handful of people who know what they are doing, and are normal Homo Sapiens, but everyone else will only discuss issues such as goat sex and llamas and all other nonsense that makes you think twice about ever bothering to think that a channel "#quake" would actually talk about Quake, or even games at all.
I agree totally with the original poster's entire statement. Try to find one channel that doesn't have power-tripping 13 year olds as ops being total bastards. I should think it could be renamed IRB - Internet Relay Banter, since it is nothing but - banter.
Yeah you're right. No OS should have 90% because it would be too easy for apps to be written once, and run everywhere. Kind of like Windows is now. I can write an app and take it to work, my friends house, or my girlfriend's house adn it runs 100% of the time, I dont have to recompile any libraries and I dont have to download anything most times. (Certainly if it is a Java app with VM req's or certain MSVCRT DLLs but I wrote code that runs on base Windows 95).
But hell, screw that. Who cares about actually running the apps, when it is clear that allowing many big corporations to remain profitable is the priority.
You want a choice eh? Well, choose anything other than windows, and all the apps you list (your husbands graphics, kids games, blah blah blah) - it all won't run because its not Windows. So what the hell do you want to happen? No one can pull miracles out of their ass. I hate it more than anything when people complain about OS choice but all they really want is Windows and the Windows Apps they are currently using. MAKE UP YOUR MIND! A Windows binary-compatible alternative OS won't happen since Windows = Microsoft! OBVIOUSLY. If you want to have another OS, you WILL have to SUFFER with the consequences of switching all your current windows comfort to brand new, "uncharted territory", if you will. You had to learn Windows in the first place, I'm sure you can learn Linux in the second place.
PS: You're quite the coward to post anonymously such a post as you did. Come on, give us your email address, or are you afraid of the big net boogeyman?
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No kidding. Even worse, at my school even merely wearing glasses made you a "nerd". I think someone needs to jumpstart them with a kick in the ass out of the 1970's or something. The big football player jerks still get the girls hanging on them.
Check out a beta yourself, it's in there, under Storage management. Its pretty damn awesome. You make a blank directory just like in Linux then set the mount point to it and then it has your drives files!!!
>my servers have uptimes exceeding 100 days, and in a few cases, 180 days. Our test NT servers never made it past 7 days.
I have to question your credibility if you could only get NT to run for 7 days. I have logged onto a friend's NT server in his college dorm (remotely I might add, something people say isn't possible from NT's command line), to witness that it's been up for over 63 days in a row without problem.. Unattended even! And it's running a handful of hard core internet game servers. This guy is somewhat of a bozo (otherwise I would not have been able to log on his machine in the first place but that's another story..) and he managed to get it to run for months. You could only get 7 days? Please, tell me what the name of your company is so I can be sure never to go anywhere near it or its products.
It works just fine on Windows NT4 and 2000... Not as fine-grained of detail as on Windows 98 but it works. It's not perfect but that's why I help at http://beta.windowsupdate.com to fix some of the bugs.
I agree totally!! And with #119. I hear these people whine all the time about how unstable NT is and how you cant use it for 1 day with out it giving a BSOD.... What a load! I run NT as long as I want until I decide to turn the machine off for a needed reboot to update device drivers (you gotta do the same to recompile the linux kernel) or if I want the noise level down. Once I do get BSOD problems it is because I am reconfiguring a piece of hardware and need to set it up. Once it's setup right - no more BSODs. I too used a low class P133 NT server running heavy IIS development and filesharing, and SQL server 6.5, and it ran for over 30 days in a row till the scheduled monthly maintenance had it taken down.
I think the people who have it crash all the time must be using like Packard Bell motherboards with integrated Aztech sound cards and Winmodems or something!! Because folks, I'm as competent as #119 (see top of this post) and we both certainly dont see all these BSODs you are talking about. So thank you, please drive through and come back again! (when you have some real facts to state, instead of a bunch of linux-biased FUD).
Maybe it has something to do with the holy jocks at schools, who are so highly regarded, who ridiculed me when I raised my hand but had a "stupid question". They were insecure themselves, obviously thats why they needed to put me down to feel big. Enough people laughing and ridiculing you when you try to speak, is enough to make anyone not want to talk to people again. It only makes sense, that when you talk in public, if you get ridiculed, that you should just not talk in public anymore and then you wont get ridiculed. So that's what I did. Sorry to all those jerks that I wasnt as "cool" as them and my parents didnt tell me exactly how many points Joe Schmoe scored in his lifetime career and my dad didnt sit on his ass and drink beer and watch the game every sunday while my mom bitched... So I didnt know those useless facts. I was too busy being a "nerd" playing with that weird computer thing... talking about these "modems". Oh yeah, I'm sure you all know by now that they all have computers with modems too now, all like 8 times as fast as the stuff they used to ridicule me for using.
Too many damn rude people feeling insecure about themselves that need to step on the shoulders of the meek, to make themselves feel big. Well the meek get used to it when they are too young to know better and that's how they end up.
And I am not even a doctor or anything. Imagine I could come up with this all on my own. How nice.
Maybe you should do what they pay you the big bucks for, instead of cry-babying about how your job is going to be harder. Because YOU dont want to have YOUR network-administrator job become harder, which is what they pay you for in the first place, you are having everyone in the company who works on documents experience tripled delays for disk access to their documents? I think the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. And backing up only YOUR workstations is a load of shit and that proves it. It shows that you realize as well as everyone else that it is very preferable to have the customizations/etc backed up, rather than dicking around on company time restoring them and "getting back up to speed" once they are lost.
PS: I'm probably a better network admin than an employee, although my employee-bias probably makes me appear otherwise.
I agree 100% with all the points you made!! I can't stand that type of mass-media bullshit where people catch it and act like now they know what they're doing with computers and stuff. Anyone who claims to be a hacker or "populating cyberspace" or anything, probably isnt.
It is called "Run As User..." and allows regular Users to run Administrative tools on a per-launch basis, allowing them to run Disk Administrator, for instance.
This raises a question i've been wondering forever. Free software proponents always claim if there is a bug, you can fix it because you have the source. For most moderately useful programs, there is almost no way in hell you are going to open up the source and be able to comprehend the entire programs operation just to fix a bug!! The source is good if you are developing a similar product and want to see how it was done, but it just is not practical to expect people to use it to "customize" for their personal preference. And waht do you do when the next version comes out??
While nearly this whole post was BullShit, he made a point that I have heard in many places before that I want to point out.
I can't belive some of the crap I'm reading. You "understand" the killer's feelings? Give me a break... they are murderers... case CLOSED. I can't belive how many people are justifying what they did. People are dead... DEAD... as in never coming back.
Hello? You think the murderers are those weird people that no one knows, only in movies? NOPE! They are you and me, normal people. These particular ones were normal people like you and I, except they got pushed to the limit and probably had some influences elsewhere too. Understand the murderers? Hell yeah, they probably had the same problems we do. So the fact that they are murderers DOESNT mean they are some type of imbeciles that we should dismiss as having bizzare mentalities. Its important to recognize what made these RUN-OF-THE-MILL KIDS go berserk and shoot their classmates.
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What are you doing using Windows 98 for any serious work? Win98 is for games and not much else (maybe DOS apps!). Use NT4 (or Win2K now) for serious work. It's a lot more stable and like 30% faster! NTFS is built to last from the ground up, FATxx is old shit from the DOS days.
Search the web for "TTFGasp" for Windows, a small freeware program that enables antialiasing for 10pt and smaller fonts. I beleive it works but has a few limitations or bugs and is only recommended for advanced users. I personally haven't tried it but did read quite a bit about it.
The site is very bogged down right now, but try http://grc.com and his Shields UP! online share tester. It'll tell you right online if your shares are open or not! Check back in a few days if it's too busy right now. No charge!
Actually to be clear, www.orbs.org is ORBS which is seperate from the MAPS RBL at http://maps.vix.com/rbl/. ORBS seems to be mail-relay centric while http://maps.vix.com hosts a number of services including RBL (which is a last resort type service).
Calling people "fag"s? Yeah, I know I would moderate it up.
Having extra DLLs in your system directory rarely, if ever, causes BSOD crashes. They are user space programs and it is very difficult to BSOD cause of user space. Kernel drivers (which could cause BSOD) do not use your comdlg32.ocx or your comctl32.dll that can get version conflicted by being overwritten. It just doesn't happen.
And, the problems of apps leaving those DLLs in the system dir, is FAR LESS WORSE than if they blindly DELETED them from the system dir upon program uninstallation, hoping that no other program was dependent on them!!! There are a LOT more chances that a program will work with two different versions of a DLL, than those of a program working with the DLL deleted altogether!
And there are myriad of tools to tell which dll is linked by an app at runtime. I prefer PEsx at http://www.jps.at/ in his Win32 Tools. You might also try Dependency Viewer "depends.exe" in the NT Resource Kit and also in the Platform SDK (and any other SDK like the default one with Visual C++).
Josh Straub
tookycat@bigfoot.com
Wow this guy has laid it out!! If anyone can argue or disprove what the above post has said (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/11/21/2357 232&cid=219), email me at tookycat@bigfoot.com and we'll discuss.
I don't expect to hear from any of you!
Unless you want to complain that you are "forced" to use Windows because the software you like runs on Windows. Well, choose one or the other!! You can't have your cake and eat it, too!
PS: Moderators, please moderate the above one up! Even died-in-the-wool Linux zealots would have a hard time arguing.
Yeah man, and copying shareware and cracking it is 100% ok, too. I mean, if those shareware authors did not want it cracked then they wouldn't have made their binaries available to the public for download in the first place.
Right??
(ya freakin moron!!)
Actually, even #Quake is a "barren wasteland of spammers and idiots". Sure, there are a handful of people who know what they are doing, and are normal Homo Sapiens, but everyone else will only discuss issues such as goat sex and llamas and all other nonsense that makes you think twice about ever bothering to think that a channel "#quake" would actually talk about Quake, or even games at all.
I agree totally with the original poster's entire statement. Try to find one channel that doesn't have power-tripping 13 year olds as ops being total bastards. I should think it could be renamed IRB - Internet Relay Banter, since it is nothing but - banter.
Yeah you're right. No OS should have 90% because it would be too easy for apps to be written once, and run everywhere. Kind of like Windows is now. I can write an app and take it to work, my friends house, or my girlfriend's house adn it runs 100% of the time, I dont have to recompile any libraries and I dont have to download anything most times. (Certainly if it is a Java app with VM req's or certain MSVCRT DLLs but I wrote code that runs on base Windows 95).
But hell, screw that. Who cares about actually running the apps, when it is clear that allowing many big corporations to remain profitable is the priority.
You want a choice eh? Well, choose anything other than windows, and all the apps you list (your husbands graphics, kids games, blah blah blah) - it all won't run because its not Windows. So what the hell do you want to happen? No one can pull miracles out of their ass. I hate it more than anything when people complain about OS choice but all they really want is Windows and the Windows Apps they are currently using. MAKE UP YOUR MIND! A Windows binary-compatible alternative OS won't happen since Windows = Microsoft! OBVIOUSLY. If you want to have another OS, you WILL have to SUFFER with the consequences of switching all your current windows comfort to brand new, "uncharted territory", if you will. You had to learn Windows in the first place, I'm sure you can learn Linux in the second place.
PS: You're quite the coward to post anonymously such a post as you did. Come on, give us your email address, or are you afraid of the big net boogeyman?
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No kidding. Even worse, at my school even merely wearing glasses made you a "nerd". I think someone needs to jumpstart them with a kick in the ass out of the 1970's or something. The big football player jerks still get the girls hanging on them.
Check out a beta yourself, it's in there, under Storage management. Its pretty damn awesome. You make a blank directory just like in Linux then set the mount point to it and then it has your drives files!!!
Yeah, what a bunch 'a shit!!! Your post lost a point as well!
Uh Oh! A reasonable MS post! No linux zealotry! Quick moderate it down!
>my servers have uptimes exceeding 100 days, and in a few cases, 180 days. Our test NT servers never made it past 7 days.
I have to question your credibility if you could only get NT to run for 7 days. I have logged onto a friend's NT server in his college dorm (remotely I might add, something people say isn't possible from NT's command line), to witness that it's been up for over 63 days in a row without problem.. Unattended even! And it's running a handful of hard core internet game servers. This guy is somewhat of a bozo (otherwise I would not have been able to log on his machine in the first place but that's another story..) and he managed to get it to run for months. You could only get 7 days? Please, tell me what the name of your company is so I can be sure never to go anywhere near it or its products.
It works just fine on Windows NT4 and 2000... Not as fine-grained of detail as on Windows 98 but it works. It's not perfect but that's why I help at http://beta.windowsupdate.com to fix some of the bugs.
I agree totally!! And with #119. I hear these people whine all the time about how unstable NT is and how you cant use it for 1 day with out it giving a BSOD.... What a load! I run NT as long as I want until I decide to turn the machine off for a needed reboot to update device drivers (you gotta do the same to recompile the linux kernel) or if I want the noise level down. Once I do get BSOD problems it is because I am reconfiguring a piece of hardware and need to set it up. Once it's setup right - no more BSODs. I too used a low class P133 NT server running heavy IIS development and filesharing, and SQL server 6.5, and it ran for over 30 days in a row till the scheduled monthly maintenance had it taken down.
I think the people who have it crash all the time must be using like Packard Bell motherboards with integrated Aztech sound cards and Winmodems or something!! Because folks, I'm as competent as #119 (see top of this post) and we both certainly dont see all these BSODs you are talking about. So thank you, please drive through and come back again! (when you have some real facts to state, instead of a bunch of linux-biased FUD).
Maybe it has something to do with the holy jocks at schools, who are so highly regarded, who ridiculed me when I raised my hand but had a "stupid question". They were insecure themselves, obviously thats why they needed to put me down to feel big. Enough people laughing and ridiculing you when you try to speak, is enough to make anyone not want to talk to people again. It only makes sense, that when you talk in public, if you get ridiculed, that you should just not talk in public anymore and then you wont get ridiculed. So that's what I did. Sorry to all those jerks that I wasnt as "cool" as them and my parents didnt tell me exactly how many points Joe Schmoe scored in his lifetime career and my dad didnt sit on his ass and drink beer and watch the game every sunday while my mom bitched... So I didnt know those useless facts. I was too busy being a "nerd" playing with that weird computer thing... talking about these "modems". Oh yeah, I'm sure you all know by now that they all have computers with modems too now, all like 8 times as fast as the stuff they used to ridicule me for using.
Too many damn rude people feeling insecure about themselves that need to step on the shoulders of the meek, to make themselves feel big. Well the meek get used to it when they are too young to know better and that's how they end up.
And I am not even a doctor or anything. Imagine I could come up with this all on my own. How nice.
TookyCat
tookycat@bigfoot.com
Maybe you should do what they pay you the big bucks for, instead of cry-babying about how your job is going to be harder. Because YOU dont want to have YOUR network-administrator job become harder, which is what they pay you for in the first place, you are having everyone in the company who works on documents experience tripled delays for disk access to their documents? I think the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. And backing up only YOUR workstations is a load of shit and that proves it. It shows that you realize as well as everyone else that it is very preferable to have the customizations/etc backed up, rather than dicking around on company time restoring them and "getting back up to speed" once they are lost.
PS: I'm probably a better network admin than an employee, although my employee-bias probably makes me appear otherwise.
I agree 100% with all the points you made!! I can't stand that type of mass-media bullshit where people catch it and act like now they know what they're doing with computers and stuff. Anyone who claims to be a hacker or "populating cyberspace" or anything, probably isnt.
It is called "Run As User..." and allows regular Users to run Administrative tools on a per-launch basis, allowing them to run Disk Administrator, for instance.
Josh Straub
tookycat@bigfoot.com
This raises a question i've been wondering forever. Free software proponents always claim if there is a bug, you can fix it because you have the source. For most moderately useful programs, there is almost no way in hell you are going to open up the source and be able to comprehend the entire programs operation just to fix a bug!! The source is good if you are developing a similar product and want to see how it was done, but it just is not practical to expect people to use it to "customize" for their personal preference. And waht do you do when the next version comes out??
While nearly this whole post was BullShit, he made a point that I have heard in many places before that I want to point out.
I can't belive some of the crap I'm reading. You "understand" the killer's feelings? Give me a break... they are murderers... case CLOSED. I can't belive how many people are justifying what they did. People are dead... DEAD... as in never coming back.
Hello? You think the murderers are those weird people that no one knows, only in movies? NOPE! They are you and me, normal people. These particular ones were normal people like you and I, except they got pushed to the limit and probably had some influences elsewhere too. Understand the murderers? Hell yeah, they probably had the same problems we do. So the fact that they are murderers DOESNT mean they are some type of imbeciles that we should dismiss as having bizzare mentalities. Its important to recognize what made these RUN-OF-THE-MILL KIDS go berserk and shoot their classmates.
TookyCat
tookycat@bigfoot.com