They fixed any serious vulnerabilities immediately, and left the relatively minor ones a few weeks.. On the other hand, even the non serious ones were fixed in the CVS and nightly builds pretty quickly, so atleast you can get a fixed version if you want.
But the extensions are optional, people will install a diverse set of extensions depending on their requirements so you won't get a single static target like you do with IE..
Ctrl+ESC will access the start menu too, that was the recommended way before they started putting windows keys on keyboards.. It would have been much smarter to use the key as a modifier for cut+paste etc, like macos does.. So that cut+pasting can be consistent between apps, instead of working differently in text based apps like the current windows kludge does.
Windowmaker works well, i switch between my multiple workspaces usually using the keyboard, and arrange my apps appropriately.. I have no need for a taskbar since i effectively have 10 screens i can access quickly..
It always happens, windows gets slower and more unstable as it gets older.. Thus by the time the next version comes out, the old one looks a lot crappier than it did when it was new.. Conversely, the new version looks a lot better than the old one you already have.. Hence the incentive to upgrade.
It requires 8mb to install, but once installed you can drop it down to 4mb.. it's uselessly slow tho, win3.11 on the other hand runs really well with 8mb, you can even turn swap off and it gets a lot quicker.
A 1.4ghz athlon with 768mb is way too new to run win98.. For one thing, win98 won't support more than 512mb of memory, whereas xp will.. Also, by the time such machines came about, drivers for win98 were considered low priority so most likely the xp machine had much better drivers for most of your hardware..
Actually, IE3 contained more mosaic code and less microsoft code... Products they buy often get less secure and less stable as more ms home-grown code is added, just look at NT3.5.
But they overclocked very nicely to 233.. The overdrive on the other hand, was a P2 based chip that went into a pentium pro socket.. and ran at 300mhz or so.. Perhaps he meant a regular P233, since those did run at 233 and are more likely to be present in a workstation system.
Well, you could try running it under dosemu or bochs, bochs is incredibly slow which would suit you just fine, and i think these programs have options designed to slow them down further.
Not a free DVD, because that would have additional content not available in the 8-track.. But i believe they should make the music you bought on 8-track available to you today in an equivalent format for the cost of distribution (media, or free for downloads) if you legitimately purchased the original 8-track.. It would cost nothing to let you download a copy of the song to replace your original 8-track if it got damaged, or your player got damaged and you couldn't source another one.. Similarly it would be possible to provide a CD for the cost of media and shipping..
However long ago you bought it, you paid for the right to listen to those tracks indefinitely.
This becomes an even more important aspect if DRM technologies make it hard to keep a backup, currently the law lets you make a backup for personal use, primarily so that if you damage the copy you can make another one..
Transferring the whole of your memory space from disk only works well if your fully-booted os is actually using all of that ram, in many cases your system will have lots of free ram once booted (ready for your apps) and it could actually take longer to read in that unused ram than it does to boot the os normally..
Active directory requires a lot of other services than just LDAP to run, thus increasing your footprint for potential security holes. Plus an LDAP server on a unix machine can run as an unprivileged user, unlike the ldap implementation of active directory.
Actually, linux has better support for ACPI (the intel specification), windows has better support for microsoft-acpi, a modified version of the intel spec which isn't completely compatible and not so well documented.. typical embrace and extend stuff.. more details can be found at: http://users.pandora.be/PrittyFlemishPages/linux/a spire1800_3.html
Basically linux and the intel dsdt compiler (dsdt being a part of the acpi spec) follow the intel specifications, whereas the microsoft compiler (and the windows implementation of acpi) are very forgiving of errors.. many systems ship with dsdt's compiled with the microsoft compiler, that won't compile with the intel compiler due to errors, and thus don't function correctly with linux.
Apple certainly didn't pave the way for png transparency support, mozilla supported it before safari even existed, and safari got support from konqueror which has also supported it for a long time.. png transparency is still being held back tho, because the most commonly used browser is still the only one that doesn't support it properly.
Itanium gets no respect mostly because of the attitude of HP... Forcing their customers to drop Alpha or PA-RISC for itanium, which can be a costly transition... And expecting Alpha users to migrate to HP-UX which lacks many of the features Tru64 had.. Had HP put money in to developing the Alpha instead of itanium, then the alpha would be at 2-3 ghz nowadays, and would still be beating the power chips from ibm in raw performance..
Then why don't microsoft believe that OEM's should give their customers the opportunity to dual-boot? surely it's their choice.. Also, why won't ms let me run a windows machine without IE, or outlook express? I don't have complete control if theres software there that i can't remove.
A denial of service is the last thing someone wants if they're trying to break in to your system.. if the service goes down, it's likely that the people responsible for the system will notice and have their attention drawn to it.. If it's a service theyre not using (and shouldnt have been running anyway) then it will just go down, and the attacker wont be able to attack it again. The more diversity we have, the more likely that an attacker's first attack won't succeed, and if the service dies he cant try brute-forcing the correct addresses.. But this relies on different systems from different vendors, not one dominant os which always comes from the same place compiled in the same way and with the same memory layout..
GCC doesnt have it by default, you need to patch it in.. i agree it should be integrated into the mainline.. Most people are simply too lazy to add the patch or even to use it if their os includes it.. gentoo has a useflag for bounds checking, but it's not turned on by default..
Actually, DEC's C Compiler for Digital UNIX (also ported to linux/alpha and i'm sure for VMS too) has had compiletime and runtime bounds checking for many years, and there are patches for gcc (tho i dont think it's in the mainline code yet) microsoft's compilers were actually one of the last to get bounds checking support, and it doesn't work as well as DEC's did either.
Just like microsoft are holding on to proprietary software, hopefully the same thing will happen, and both hardware and software will become completely commoditized... As much as i like SGI machines, it would much rather have a choice of vendors to buy my hardware from and the low prices / high performance that results from a competitive market..
Well, people go for cheaper and more open (in that you can buy from multiple vendors, and your not locked in) which is why x86 succeeded when so many superior architectures failed.. It's this same drive towards cheapness and vendor choice which is eating away at microsoft right now, so atleast some good will come of it in the end... (it also made microsoft what they are, but only because microsoft were the cheapest compared to the high end unix vendors) On the other hand, once opensource becomes dominant it will reduce the need for hardware backwards compatibility and make it easier for hardware companies to develop and market new innovative architectures.
Well if you were porting software *AWAY* from HP-UX machines, then it's unlikely you would have had the most modern hardware to do it on.. The slower and crappier the hardware is, the more incentive to port the app away from it.
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They fixed any serious vulnerabilities immediately, and left the relatively minor ones a few weeks..
On the other hand, even the non serious ones were fixed in the CVS and nightly builds pretty quickly, so atleast you can get a fixed version if you want.
But the extensions are optional, people will install a diverse set of extensions depending on their requirements so you won't get a single static target like you do with IE..
Wordperfect used to be really good.. I haven't tried the latest versions, but around version 8 or so it was the best application of it's kind around..
Ctrl+ESC will access the start menu too, that was the recommended way before they started putting windows keys on keyboards..
It would have been much smarter to use the key as a modifier for cut+paste etc, like macos does.. So that cut+pasting can be consistent between apps, instead of working differently in text based apps like the current windows kludge does.
Windowmaker works well, i switch between my multiple workspaces usually using the keyboard, and arrange my apps appropriately.. I have no need for a taskbar since i effectively have 10 screens i can access quickly..
It always happens, windows gets slower and more unstable as it gets older.. Thus by the time the next version comes out, the old one looks a lot crappier than it did when it was new.. Conversely, the new version looks a lot better than the old one you already have..
Hence the incentive to upgrade.
It requires 8mb to install, but once installed you can drop it down to 4mb.. it's uselessly slow tho, win3.11 on the other hand runs really well with 8mb, you can even turn swap off and it gets a lot quicker.
A 1.4ghz athlon with 768mb is way too new to run win98..
For one thing, win98 won't support more than 512mb of memory, whereas xp will..
Also, by the time such machines came about, drivers for win98 were considered low priority so most likely the xp machine had much better drivers for most of your hardware..
Actually, IE3 contained more mosaic code and less microsoft code... Products they buy often get less secure and less stable as more ms home-grown code is added, just look at NT3.5.
But they overclocked very nicely to 233..
The overdrive on the other hand, was a P2 based chip that went into a pentium pro socket.. and ran at 300mhz or so..
Perhaps he meant a regular P233, since those did run at 233 and are more likely to be present in a workstation system.
Well, you could try running it under dosemu or bochs, bochs is incredibly slow which would suit you just fine, and i think these programs have options designed to slow them down further.
Not a free DVD, because that would have additional content not available in the 8-track..
But i believe they should make the music you bought on 8-track available to you today in an equivalent format for the cost of distribution (media, or free for downloads) if you legitimately purchased the original 8-track..
It would cost nothing to let you download a copy of the song to replace your original 8-track if it got damaged, or your player got damaged and you couldn't source another one.. Similarly it would be possible to provide a CD for the cost of media and shipping..
However long ago you bought it, you paid for the right to listen to those tracks indefinitely.
This becomes an even more important aspect if DRM technologies make it hard to keep a backup, currently the law lets you make a backup for personal use, primarily so that if you damage the copy you can make another one..
Transferring the whole of your memory space from disk only works well if your fully-booted os is actually using all of that ram, in many cases your system will have lots of free ram once booted (ready for your apps) and it could actually take longer to read in that unused ram than it does to boot the os normally..
Active directory requires a lot of other services than just LDAP to run, thus increasing your footprint for potential security holes. Plus an LDAP server on a unix machine can run as an unprivileged user, unlike the ldap implementation of active directory.
Actually, linux has better support for ACPI (the intel specification), windows has better support for microsoft-acpi, a modified version of the intel spec which isn't completely compatible and not so well documented.. typical embrace and extend stuff.. more details can be found at:a spire1800_3.html
http://users.pandora.be/PrittyFlemishPages/linux/
Basically linux and the intel dsdt compiler (dsdt being a part of the acpi spec) follow the intel specifications, whereas the microsoft compiler (and the windows implementation of acpi) are very forgiving of errors.. many systems ship with dsdt's compiled with the microsoft compiler, that won't compile with the intel compiler due to errors, and thus don't function correctly with linux.
Apple certainly didn't pave the way for png transparency support, mozilla supported it before safari even existed, and safari got support from konqueror which has also supported it for a long time..
png transparency is still being held back tho, because the most commonly used browser is still the only one that doesn't support it properly.
Itanium gets no respect mostly because of the attitude of HP...
Forcing their customers to drop Alpha or PA-RISC for itanium, which can be a costly transition... And expecting Alpha users to migrate to HP-UX which lacks many of the features Tru64 had..
Had HP put money in to developing the Alpha instead of itanium, then the alpha would be at 2-3 ghz nowadays, and would still be beating the power chips from ibm in raw performance..
Then why don't microsoft believe that OEM's should give their customers the opportunity to dual-boot? surely it's their choice..
Also, why won't ms let me run a windows machine without IE, or outlook express? I don't have complete control if theres software there that i can't remove.
A denial of service is the last thing someone wants if they're trying to break in to your system.. if the service goes down, it's likely that the people responsible for the system will notice and have their attention drawn to it..
If it's a service theyre not using (and shouldnt have been running anyway) then it will just go down, and the attacker wont be able to attack it again.
The more diversity we have, the more likely that an attacker's first attack won't succeed, and if the service dies he cant try brute-forcing the correct addresses.. But this relies on different systems from different vendors, not one dominant os which always comes from the same place compiled in the same way and with the same memory layout..
GCC doesnt have it by default, you need to patch it in.. i agree it should be integrated into the mainline..
Most people are simply too lazy to add the patch or even to use it if their os includes it..
gentoo has a useflag for bounds checking, but it's not turned on by default..
Actually, DEC's C Compiler for Digital UNIX (also ported to linux/alpha and i'm sure for VMS too) has had compiletime and runtime bounds checking for many years, and there are patches for gcc (tho i dont think it's in the mainline code yet)
microsoft's compilers were actually one of the last to get bounds checking support, and it doesn't work as well as DEC's did either.
Just like microsoft are holding on to proprietary software, hopefully the same thing will happen, and both hardware and software will become completely commoditized...
As much as i like SGI machines, it would much rather have a choice of vendors to buy my hardware from and the low prices / high performance that results from a competitive market..
Well, people go for cheaper and more open (in that you can buy from multiple vendors, and your not locked in) which is why x86 succeeded when so many superior architectures failed..
It's this same drive towards cheapness and vendor choice which is eating away at microsoft right now, so atleast some good will come of it in the end... (it also made microsoft what they are, but only because microsoft were the cheapest compared to the high end unix vendors)
On the other hand, once opensource becomes dominant it will reduce the need for hardware backwards compatibility and make it easier for hardware companies to develop and market new innovative architectures.
Well if you were porting software *AWAY* from HP-UX machines, then it's unlikely you would have had the most modern hardware to do it on.. The slower and crappier the hardware is, the more incentive to port the app away from it.
Well, my indy failed on me a while ago.. was a nice machine, very nippy considering it's specs.. but my octanes and indigo2 just keep on running.