As for the interface comparison, that power settings panel looks and works EXACTLY the same on Win XP as it does in 98, ME, 2K, etc. XP just made everything gaudy, in addition to its ineffectiveness.
Strangely enough, the Mac dialog box seems to be verbatim from the Windows 2000 one! Except for the fact that Apple Photoshopped out the system standby and system hibernates combo boxes.
Umm, that's in all versions of NT, including 2000 and XP. (Not sure about 3.51 though.)
The reason for that is to keep your password secure. Let's say someone is running a "fake" login dialog box that will capture your username/password. Well, they can't because ctrl-alt-del is written into the keyboard driver, WinNT always intercepts it, so NT's dialog box will be the only program that can be activated by ctrl-alt-del. Make sense?
Macs (not this BSD-based OSX crap, I'm talking about Classic MacOS) were the least hacked OS when it came to web serving. Ask yourself why the US Army switched to MacOS/WebSTAR from IIS and not to Unix? Cause Unix, believe it or not, is just as bad as Windows when it comes to security. I don't think a Mac web server has ever been hacked, defaced, etc, and I also believe there was a contest with a cash prize for the first person to do so.
You are a moron. They didn't "steal" any TCP/IP stack. When NT was first being written, they needed a TCP/IP stack, so they purchased a third party stack. Of course, that turned out to be the BSD stack. Well, soon after that MS wrote their own TCP/IP stack from scratch, and replaced the BSD stack with it.
What's that attribution in the Windows release notes to Berkeley, you say? That's for utilities like ftp, telnet, nslookup, etc -- the legacy console Unix tools that are still in heavy use in NT, taken from BSD code to ensure compatibility with Unix users.
Why don't you shut your cake hole when you don't know what you're talking about, and quit spreading FUD? No wonder you're on my freaks list... afraid of the truth, are we, Mr. Zealot sir?
Hardly. It takes, I believe, 7 hardware changes for the need to re-activate. Of course if so, a quick 5 minute call to MS will solve this problem (the majority of the time is actually not spent on hold, but rather them reading a 50-character key over the phone to you.)
Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon VE QY (rev 0). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=8. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0000000 [0xf7ffffff]. I/O at 0xec00 [0xecff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xff9f0000 [0xff9fffff].
Are ATI's drivers as notoriously bad as the nVidia binaries?
Also consider the fact that most people use windows servers as a single user single tasking operating system (which is the only responsible thing to do given the stability of windows).
Um, no. This isn't MacOS 6. Next question!
So a shop may have a exchange server, an SQL server, a PDC, a SDC, a file server etc. You could easily eliminate 5 or 6 servers by switching to unix.
You obviously have never designed or even remotely seen a well-designed network. In the ideal world, everything has its own box. Why would you want to run something else (i.e., file server) on an Exchange box? Have you ever heard of a company cramming Lotus Domino onto a heavily used fileserver? NO. It's a no-no.
The big rule of thumb is to place all database servers on their own box. This is good both for stability, security, and a whole other bunch of things. If you run SQLServer, Oracle, or anything else on the same box as your webserver, you'd better not be doing anything more than storing a 1-table address book on there.
Now, for the next one. You've probably never used an NT server in your life. How do I know. The whole point of a BDC is to take over the logins when the PDC goes down!!!! This is akin to saying "I have a backup web server running on port 81 of the same box, just in case the box goes down." Does that not sound stupid or what?
A PDC might be to what is referred to as a "NIS master" in the *nix world.
File servers by themselves? Sure! It's called load-balancing. Move all the logins to the PDC, and have the files distributed across different file servers. Again, you've never seen a big network before.
In our company the Powers that be put DNS into it's own compaq server which costs over $5K.
Oh really? Maybe they have brains. So if you cram DNS onto a box with another service, and when that box goes down, your 5,000 network users can still resolve hostnames like yahoo.com on the Internet.
Sorry, bud, but by running your own Linux server at home doesn't exactly give you a PhD in Computer Science and the right to go blabbing like you know everything.
Yeah, Ctrl-S -- that's what's supposed to happen, stupid. Ctrl-Q to get it unstuck. It's called SCROLL LOCK, and just because Windows doesn't have this feature it doesn't mean you have to be so ignorant to assume it crashes.
Um, no. Who's calling who ignorant here? I'm talking virtual console switching while at the XDM logon screen. Switch to any text console, you're OK, switch to console 7 (X) and the console freezes, keyboard, screen, the whole kit'n'kaboodle. I haven't tried yet to see if you can't ssh into the box, but I'm telling you now, I'm not about to find another desktop workstation to do this from, hitting the power switch is a lot easier and quicker. Plus the box is dead till you reboot. Although that f**ks over all the other users that happen to be sshed into that box at that time.
And by the way, I can't imagine having no decent command line to do admin stuff on. Graphical tools are OK, but there's nothing like breaking out on a command line to quickly do your stuff, then writing scripts to do it all for you. Of course you have know what your doing, but if someone was hired as a sysadmin let's hope he'd know more than you.
There are powerful scripting tools available for the Windows platform. Of course, to know about them, and use them, you'd have to be more knowledgeable than say... you.
Win2K is much faster and much more stable than Windows XP. Yes, WinXP does bring up your desktop sooner, but is the syetm actually able to run your programs any sooner? No. They've just changed the order of some of the startup routines.
Actually, IIRC, there is a reserved area of the filesystem located at the beginning of the disk that is inaccessible to normal users unless you know the special API to access it. It caches pertinent information needed for boot there on the previous shutdown, and just loads it up on boot. That's why it boots so fast.
As for the Win2K > WXP argument, YMMV. I been accustomed to most of the handy new features, and can't live without some of them.
This means nothing IMHO. Let's say that 31 percent of the 225 companies, each with 500 NT servers, were replacing 1 IIS intranet box with an Apache box. That still counts as replacing, doesn't it?
This reminds me of a good Letterman quote:
"USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population."
Can you really imagine WinXP as a workstation tool?
Yes! By all means. Most Linux fanatics just don't understand how configurable XP is. You can disable all themeing quite easily. It looks just like Windows 2000 in every respect. It's more stable as well.
This is akin to saying "Can you really imagine GNOME as a workstation tool? Or... KDE as a workstation tool?" Get with the program, buddy, graphical is where technology is going. Just cause something doesn't boot to piss-poor console doesn't mean it's incapable.
In fact, I find my WinXP box more stable than our Linux programming labs at school. No bullshitting, either. I can thoroughly freeze the console in our Linux labs with not so much as a keypress. XP has yet to crash on me (and so had Windows 2000 yet to, before I switched).
I think we'll also see a lot more Linux-loving fags openly declaring their love for other men's bowels.
Thanks for the compliment, anti-Microsoft troll. (Hey moron, what does Microsoft have to do with this anyway?) Turning off automatic services only disables phoning-home while RealOne is not running (i.e., when you boot/logon and so forth). evntsvc.exe will run on RealOne startup and shutdown. It's actually a scheduler applet that triggers the phoning home. Don't believe me? Try watching your process list next time you launch/shut down RealOne. Genius. (That's the correct spelling, BTW).
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Don't tell me you work in a box factory!
As for the interface comparison, that power settings panel looks and works EXACTLY the same on Win XP as it does in 98, ME, 2K, etc. XP just made everything gaudy, in addition to its ineffectiveness.
Strangely enough, the Mac dialog box seems to be verbatim from the Windows 2000 one! Except for the fact that Apple Photoshopped out the system standby and system hibernates combo boxes.
Office let's you choose whether you want MDI or not; it's in the options, I forget where, look for it.
Umm, that's in all versions of NT, including 2000 and XP. (Not sure about 3.51 though.)
The reason for that is to keep your password secure. Let's say someone is running a "fake" login dialog box that will capture your username/password. Well, they can't because ctrl-alt-del is written into the keyboard driver, WinNT always intercepts it, so NT's dialog box will be the only program that can be activated by ctrl-alt-del. Make sense?
Macs (not this BSD-based OSX crap, I'm talking about Classic MacOS) were the least hacked OS when it came to web serving. Ask yourself why the US Army switched to MacOS/WebSTAR from IIS and not to Unix? Cause Unix, believe it or not, is just as bad as Windows when it comes to security. I don't think a Mac web server has ever been hacked, defaced, etc, and I also believe there was a contest with a cash prize for the first person to do so.
Palladium involves new security components to be built into Windows, but it also depends heavily on hardware makers--including Intel and AMD--building in Palladium functionality to their products.
I was joking. ;) Does it still come with the "Jigsaw Puzzle" game?
Do you think they'll be porting chess, checkers, or solitaire to the Mac? I can't wait!
If games like TuxRacer could so easily be ported to DirectX, I don't see why it could'nt be ported to Mac OSX... oh wait, it has!
You are a moron. They didn't "steal" any TCP/IP stack. When NT was first being written, they needed a TCP/IP stack, so they purchased a third party stack. Of course, that turned out to be the BSD stack. Well, soon after that MS wrote their own TCP/IP stack from scratch, and replaced the BSD stack with it.
What's that attribution in the Windows release notes to Berkeley, you say? That's for utilities like ftp, telnet, nslookup, etc -- the legacy console Unix tools that are still in heavy use in NT, taken from BSD code to ensure compatibility with Unix users.
Why don't you shut your cake hole when you don't know what you're talking about, and quit spreading FUD? No wonder you're on my freaks list... afraid of the truth, are we, Mr. Zealot sir?
They claim the vehicle uses 12 standard car batteries, so the invention appears to relate to recharging the batteries."
Of course there is a flux capacitor to store charge and recharge the batteries, amongst other things, such as powering the radio.
Realize that back in those days, all TV was live; this was before video recorders, y'know.
So... let me get this straight. If your TV ran Linux would you spend more time watching TV? ;)
Spending so much time in front of the computer is baaad. Watch some TV, get some culture, it'll be good for ya.
Hardly. It takes, I believe, 7 hardware changes for the need to re-activate. Of course if so, a quick 5 minute call to MS will solve this problem (the majority of the time is actually not spent on hold, but rather them reading a 50-character key over the phone to you.)
Hey, guess what, you're um... wrong!
snprintf is NOT in the ANSI standard, no matter how much you may think this to be the case.
That's why it's offered here, and that's why some commercial compilers don't ship with a snprintf function.
That certificate bug he mentions was fixed the same day the buy was announced. Oh, "oops" forgot to mention that, huh?
Go spread your propaganda elsewhere, k?
Hi,
Do you have any clue about what you're saying?
Also consider the fact that most people use windows servers as a single user single tasking operating system (which is the only responsible thing to do given the stability of windows).
Um, no. This isn't MacOS 6. Next question!
So a shop may have a exchange server, an SQL server, a PDC, a SDC, a file server etc. You could easily eliminate 5 or 6 servers by switching to unix.
You obviously have never designed or even remotely seen a well-designed network. In the ideal world, everything has its own box. Why would you want to run something else (i.e., file server) on an Exchange box? Have you ever heard of a company cramming Lotus Domino onto a heavily used fileserver? NO. It's a no-no.
The big rule of thumb is to place all database servers on their own box. This is good both for stability, security, and a whole other bunch of things. If you run SQLServer, Oracle, or anything else on the same box as your webserver, you'd better not be doing anything more than storing a 1-table address book on there.
Now, for the next one. You've probably never used an NT server in your life. How do I know. The whole point of a BDC is to take over the logins when the PDC goes down!!!! This is akin to saying "I have a backup web server running on port 81 of the same box, just in case the box goes down." Does that not sound stupid or what?
A PDC might be to what is referred to as a "NIS master" in the *nix world.
File servers by themselves? Sure! It's called load-balancing. Move all the logins to the PDC, and have the files distributed across different file servers. Again, you've never seen a big network before.
In our company the Powers that be put DNS into it's own compaq server which costs over $5K.
Oh really? Maybe they have brains. So if you cram DNS onto a box with another service, and when that box goes down, your 5,000 network users can still resolve hostnames like yahoo.com on the Internet.
Sorry, bud, but by running your own Linux server at home doesn't exactly give you a PhD in Computer Science and the right to go blabbing like you know everything.
Yeah, Ctrl-S -- that's what's supposed to happen, stupid. Ctrl-Q to get it unstuck. It's called SCROLL LOCK, and just because Windows doesn't have this feature it doesn't mean you have to be so ignorant to assume it crashes.
Um, no. Who's calling who ignorant here? I'm talking virtual console switching while at the XDM logon screen. Switch to any text console, you're OK, switch to console 7 (X) and the console freezes, keyboard, screen, the whole kit'n'kaboodle. I haven't tried yet to see if you can't ssh into the box, but I'm telling you now, I'm not about to find another desktop workstation to do this from, hitting the power switch is a lot easier and quicker. Plus the box is dead till you reboot. Although that f**ks over all the other users that happen to be sshed into that box at that time.
And by the way, I can't imagine having no decent command line to do admin stuff on. Graphical tools are OK, but there's nothing like breaking out on a command line to quickly do your stuff, then writing scripts to do it all for you. Of course you have know what your doing, but if someone was hired as a sysadmin let's hope he'd know more than you.
There are powerful scripting tools available for the Windows platform. Of course, to know about them, and use them, you'd have to be more knowledgeable than say... you.
Win2K is much faster and much more stable than Windows XP. Yes, WinXP does bring up your desktop sooner, but is the syetm actually able to run your programs any sooner? No. They've just changed the order of some of the startup routines.
Actually, IIRC, there is a reserved area of the filesystem located at the beginning of the disk that is inaccessible to normal users unless you know the special API to access it. It caches pertinent information needed for boot there on the previous shutdown, and just loads it up on boot. That's why it boots so fast.
As for the Win2K > WXP argument, YMMV. I been accustomed to most of the handy new features, and can't live without some of them.
WORD... I'd like to see more hardcore numbers.
31 percent were replacing Windows systems,
This means nothing IMHO. Let's say that 31 percent of the 225 companies, each with 500 NT servers, were replacing 1 IIS intranet box with an Apache box. That still counts as replacing, doesn't it?
This reminds me of a good Letterman quote:
"USA Today has come out with a new survey:
Apparently three out of four people make
up 75 percent of the population."
Can you really imagine WinXP as a workstation tool?
... KDE as a workstation tool?" Get with the program, buddy, graphical is where technology is going. Just cause something doesn't boot to piss-poor console doesn't mean it's incapable.
Yes! By all means. Most Linux fanatics just don't understand how configurable XP is. You can disable all themeing quite easily. It looks just like Windows 2000 in every respect. It's more stable as well.
This is akin to saying "Can you really imagine GNOME as a workstation tool? Or
In fact, I find my WinXP box more stable than our Linux programming labs at school. No bullshitting, either. I can thoroughly freeze the console in our Linux labs with not so much as a keypress. XP has yet to crash on me (and so had Windows 2000 yet to, before I switched).
I think we'll also see a lot more Linux-loving fags openly declaring their love for other men's bowels.
Hmm, don't know about that one. IHBT.
Thanks for the compliment, anti-Microsoft troll. (Hey moron, what does Microsoft have to do with this anyway?) Turning off automatic services only disables phoning-home while RealOne is not running (i.e., when you boot/logon and so forth). evntsvc.exe will run on RealOne startup and shutdown. It's actually a scheduler applet that triggers the phoning home. Don't believe me? Try watching your process list next time you launch/shut down RealOne. Genius. (That's the correct spelling, BTW).
Actually I've heard that if you delete the following reg key:
u rr entVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\C
Key Name: TkBellExe
Value: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\evntsvc.exe -osboot
And then delete evntsvc.exe, RealOne won't complain, but like I said I replaced mine with a non-spyware version I compiled myself.