Re:MS-DOS doesn't deserve a fond remembrance
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MS DOS: A Eulogy
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"I think the likely answer here is that Microsoft could have written something better, but they spent a decade trying to beat down MS-DOS and replace it with something else."
And that "something else" sucked! Primitive as it was, I still liked DOS better than any version of Windows!
DOS was an excellent OS for the 8088. It was limited to 640K, but the chip itself couldn't address much more. It couldn't multitask, but neither could the chip. The problem is that M$ didn't update it for later machines. That meant that your new 2Gz Pentium 4 was just an ultra-fast 8088 under DOS. Windows was needed to slow it down to 8088 speeds!
Re:Quick and Dirty Interrupt Handler
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MS DOS: A Eulogy
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At least, when your DOS app crashed, you knew which app blew up. With Windows, it could be any combination of running apps!
Re:Quick and Dirty Interrupt Handler
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Yeah, and M$ could have extended DOS into a 32 bit multitasking OS for the 386. Instead they gave us Doze.
To use your running out of gas scenario: When I get very low on gas a red light comes on on my dashboard. I can still drive quite a ways before dying on the road. When I'm running very low on HD space, there is no such warning. I just keep chugging along until I have this 15 page report that the boss wanted yesterday. I type in the whole thing without saving, then when I have it finished I click save, and get error messages at best, or data corruption at worst.
Stablility isn't the main issue anyway. I use NT4 at work, and it seems as stable as Linux so far. But it needs more horsepower to run well, it locks you in to 1 greedy vendor, it's still a haven for virii, and it just isn't any fun!
"2/29/69 is nice for sites that require you to enter a birthday. Another useful one is 2/29/00."
Website Response: Hi, $your_name, it has come to our attention that you are only 1 years old, which is below the legal age to purchase $your_porn_mag. Therefore we must require either a note from your mother, or an extra $24.99 to ship your copy of $your_porn_mag.
Have a nice day.
Re:Which releases are production stable?
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Linux 2.4.13
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If I were running Linux at work, I'd use the 2.2.19 kernel, unless there was a specific reason to use 2.4. I'd be especially wary of 2.4.10 and higher. Of course, on my home PC I just installed 2.4.13-pre6(just before 2.4.13 released apparently)
"Hey, stop releasing new kernels so fast! I just compiled 2.4.12 yesterday."
Hey, you stole my line!
Re:Subscriptions should add value
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I dropped almost all of the magazines I used to subscribe to BECAUSE they became ad factories with only a couple of crappy articles. I don't object to the existance of ads, but I avoid sites with blinking, moving, "punch-monkey" style ads. My objection to subscriptions is; where will it end. I might be willing to pay a modest fee for a quality site(does/. count?), but I'm NOT willing to pay a seperate amount for each and every website I visit!!
If bin Loser or one of his cohorts wrote a virus INTENDED to crash our computing infrastructure and make us as afraid to use e-mail as we are to use snail-mail, THAT would be terrorism. The "kewl haxor" that defaces websites and writes "lovebugs" is no more a terrorist than the jerkweed burglar that stole my 8088(that was when 8088's actually cost money). Keep it in perspective!
Re:Is RH including proprietary sw these days?
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Red Hat 7.2 Released
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Now that I can get on my bank's website with Mozilla, I don't need Netscape anyway! *sticks out tongue*:)
The OS of 2051 may not be Linux. If it is, it won't look anything like the Linux of 2001. But it's quite possible that today's Linux will evolve into this future OS, just as XP has roots in CP/M(Dos ancestor).
I don't have any sfotware bugs. I do, sometimes have software bugs. One of the biggest problems is, I get a list of requirements and start coding based on that list. 2/3 of the way through, I get an amended list, which blows most of what I've already written out of the water. This usually happens several times, and by the time I release the code I know it's a POS, and I'll be bug-bashing for awhile, but I have to release something, and heck, it almost works!
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"I think the likely answer here is that Microsoft could have written something better, but they spent a decade trying to beat down MS-DOS and replace it with something else."
And that "something else" sucked! Primitive as it was, I still liked DOS better than any version of Windows!
DOS was an excellent OS for the 8088. It was limited to 640K, but the chip itself couldn't address much more. It couldn't multitask, but neither could the chip. The problem is that M$ didn't update it for later machines. That meant that your new 2Gz Pentium 4 was just an ultra-fast 8088 under DOS. Windows was needed to slow it down to 8088 speeds!
At least, when your DOS app crashed, you knew which app blew up. With Windows, it could be any combination of running apps!
Yeah, and M$ could have extended DOS into a 32 bit multitasking OS for the 386. Instead they gave us Doze.
Not that I know anything about S&M!
Isn't the M$ EULA a lot like those S&M slave contracts?
To use your running out of gas scenario: When I get very low on gas a red light comes on on my dashboard. I can still drive quite a ways before dying on the road. When I'm running very low on HD space, there is no such warning. I just keep chugging along until I have this 15 page report that the boss wanted yesterday. I type in the whole thing without saving, then when I have it finished I click save, and get error messages at best, or data corruption at worst.
"It's going to be like a black hole, consuming all of the competition."
You're half right. It will be like a black hole. It will really, really suck!
It's not quality, it's quantity! MSN has more crap than any other website! At least that's what I heard. I can't verify it cause I use Konqueror.
Nonconsensual bondage & pain infliction. Yeah, that sounds like Microsoft!
Stablility isn't the main issue anyway. I use NT4 at work, and it seems as stable as Linux so far. But it needs more horsepower to run well, it locks you in to 1 greedy vendor, it's still a haven for virii, and it just isn't any fun!
I thought he'd given up keeping it stable when he gave us 2.4.10!
"2/29/69 is nice for sites that require you to enter a birthday. Another useful one is 2/29/00."
Website Response: Hi, $your_name, it has come to our attention that you are only 1 years old, which is below the legal age to purchase $your_porn_mag. Therefore we must require either a note from your mother, or an extra $24.99 to ship your copy of $your_porn_mag.
Have a nice day.
If I were running Linux at work, I'd use the 2.2.19 kernel, unless there was a specific reason to use 2.4. I'd be especially wary of 2.4.10 and higher. Of course, on my home PC I just installed 2.4.13-pre6(just before 2.4.13 released apparently)
"Hey, stop releasing new kernels so fast! I just compiled 2.4.12 yesterday."
Hey, you stole my line!
I dropped almost all of the magazines I used to subscribe to BECAUSE they became ad factories with only a couple of crappy articles. I don't object to the existance of ads, but I avoid sites with blinking, moving, "punch-monkey" style ads. My objection to subscriptions is; where will it end. I might be willing to pay a modest fee for a quality site(does /. count?), but I'm NOT willing to pay a seperate amount for each and every website I visit!!
If bin Loser or one of his cohorts wrote a virus INTENDED to crash our computing infrastructure and make us as afraid to use e-mail as we are to use snail-mail, THAT would be terrorism. The "kewl haxor" that defaces websites and writes "lovebugs" is no more a terrorist than the jerkweed burglar that stole my 8088(that was when 8088's actually cost money). Keep it in perspective!
Now that I can get on my bank's website with Mozilla, I don't need Netscape anyway! *sticks out tongue* :)
The OS of 2051 may not be Linux. If it is, it won't look anything like the Linux of 2001. But it's quite possible that today's Linux will evolve into this future OS, just as XP has roots in CP/M(Dos ancestor).
Officially, it will be ready when it's ready. :) I hear rumblings that it will be released this coming Monday, just before Windows Ex-Pee.
No thanks! My computer crashes are bad enough. I don't need car crashes!
I don't have any sfotware bugs. I do, sometimes have software bugs. One of the biggest problems is, I get a list of requirements and start coding based on that list. 2/3 of the way through, I get an amended list, which blows most of what I've already written out of the water. This usually happens several times, and by the time I release the code I know it's a POS, and I'll be bug-bashing for awhile, but I have to release something, and heck, it almost works!
Slackware also uses 2.2.19. Hmmm, I wonder why 2 distros with a rep for stability would use such an old kernel. :)
to release 2.4.13?