But you can make up an SQL query and search for the results in a regular file system. You wouldn't have to even add anything to the file system. Just make a language spec, a parser, and then read through all the files, and return the results. Also, WTF is your query looking for. You're looking for Documents (MS Word Docs??) that are images (I thought they were documents), and that Sound like (How do Documents or images make sounds?) ohhhyeaahh. Actually, this is probably just the type of query your typical at home windows user would write, and then not understand when it returned no results. Maybe it's a good thing they aren't releasing WinFS.
I use Reiser FS on a daily basis, and let my tell you, you don't need special programs taking advantage of the features to make this a good file system. The journalling is one thing that makes it awesome. No more corrupted files/file system when the power goes or the OS crashes (yes this does happen, no matter how much we want to believe it doens't). Plus the file system is faster. It's nice to have a file system that doesn't get fragmented like crazy, and doesn't have to be defragged every week. ReiserFS offers a lot of features that require no work on the applications programmer to take advantage of. Actually, the applications programmer rarely has to worry about the file system at all. And that's probably the way it should be, as the developer wouldn't want to have to implement special stuff for every FS out there, or start reimplementing everything once the next great file system comes around.
OMG Ponies you are my hero. Seriously though. It would be Nice to see MS just go crazy fixing bugs and making the current system actually work than trying to make new features that may never be released, and if they are, will be filled with bugs. Every time Microsoft seems to fix all the bugs (Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98 SE, Windows XP SP2) they come otu with a new OS, that has a whole new slew of bugs to fix. This is where I think Linux takes the Cake. Because they realize that once something works, they stop, and just stick to maintenance, and don't try to redesign it from scratch, just for the sake of doing so.
Did they pull it off like they pulled off source safe, where half the time it gets corrupted, and you have to be hooked up to the network to do anything useful with it, and uses windows shares to accomplish it's work, which makes it very network hungry. And all the other wonderful things i've heard about working with it?
MP3s which were ripped from your own CDs have good metadata, if the information was put in by the ripping program. If you download them from the internet, well, let's just say there's varying quality. Then there's images with EXIF data that have lots of good meta data like shutter speed, whether or not the flash was used, and when it was taken. Unfortunately, it can't tell you what is in the picture. That is the most important piece of data. I think MetaData is dead on the personal computer, because nobody wants to be a data entry clerk. People just find it easier to put their files in an organized place, so they can find them later. People don't want to spend hours entering data.
I agree. Ever try getting copying retrieving 100 MB of data in SQL Server, or any other database for that matter? It takes much longer than accessing the data from a plain old file system. I'm all for adding features to a file system to actually increase it's speed, but it seems like WinFS is just something that would really slow it down. Ok, maybe searching will be faster, but other than that it's crap. I can find all my files just fine, because I keep them organized. I would rather have my file system be faster and more robust, but this doesn't require a database based file system.
WTF does a file system have to do with networking. The network protocol for file shares should care nothing about the file system. This is why you can access a SAMBA share on a linux machine that formatted as ReiserFS, even though windows doesn't support ReiserFS, or know anything about it. I have no idea how networking comes into the design of a file system. If somebody can explain this to mean, than please let me know. Because I have no idea how networking and file systems even come into the same picture.
You mean they'll finally get rid of their crackerjack database, where your rows can only be 8K, or where you can make a row that can store 10k, 10 rows of varchar 1024, but if you actually try to stuff them full, it will reject you.
I've often wondered why they don't offer file versioning for your entire home dir. Just think, never losing a file, being able to go back in time. It would be awesome. Something based off SVN would probably work. Most files don't change after initial creation. Maybe it could provide some clean up mechanism, for getting rid of old versions you don't want. But it would be nice if there was a layer that handled all this, so you could go back 2 days, to when the files were there, or before you messed up that photo you took, and clicked save instead of save as.
I also know a lot of people who've met more friends over the internet. I know one guy who likes to unicycle, and he met a whole group of people who unicycle over the net. Without the internet, me may have never found these people. I think the internet opens up a lot of possibilities for people to meet people more like themselves. People have lots of different interests, and sometimes it's hard to find people interested in the same things. They is probably why tech geeks love the internet, not because of the technology, but because they can find more tech geeks, and lets face it, there aren't a whole lot of us.
I don't understand where is idea came from of paying a subscription fee to play a game online. Before we were just happy playing 1 on 1 over modem connections, or getting a few of our closest friends together and playing over the network. The guy with the fastest computer got to host the server. I don't really have any desire to play against people halfway around the world. Because of many reasons, Including:
A) A large proportion of the players spend way too much time playing, and are 10x better (by levels or actual skill) than I could ever hope to be.
B) A large proportion of players are jackasses because you don't know them, and can't slap them upside the head for doing so next time you see them.
C) The servers are always way too busy, and you spend more time trying to find a server with enough people to make it fun, but not too many that it's slow, and people in your skill level.
Even without a subscription based service, you can still play against people on the other side of the world. I have no desire to play in a game with 7000 other people. It doesn't make the game any more fun. Actually, it usually makes it less fun.
I use filezilla. I'm not sure how well it compares to Leech ( I remember liking that a lot) but I find that it's good enough. Plus it's still being maintained, which is a big plus.
I'd just recommend that if you know how to use FTP, go for a web hosting service. I pay $7.95 and I have 20 Gigs of space and 1000 GB of transfer. So, I can store tons of stuff, and have lots of other features like a blog and photo galleries. It's much cheaper than these services look, and you don't need any special software installed to access your stuff. Even windows comes with command line FTP.
I have a DVD burner and it has great Buffer under-run support. I select 16x and depending on what i'm doing it burns at anywhere from 5x to 16x, and has no problems burning discs. I've never had it crap out, and the discs can be read by all my DVD drives. Maybe It's because I use DVD+R discs which are supposed to have much better support for stopping and starting again. I'm using a $40 drive I picked up. It's nothing special, and I've pretty much assumed that buffer underruns are a thing of the past. Are other people's experiences different?
Well, it keeps your junk mail around for 1 month, assuming 30 days in a month, you get 43 messages blocked every day. And if you get 5 spam messages in you inbox (15 every 3 days) then I would say that Yahoo isn't doing too good a job. Hotmail on the other hand is much worse. 75% of it gets to your inbox. The only thing even resembling spam that shows up in my yahoo inbox is product announcements that I signed up for a long time ago, and don't bother to unsubscribe from. You will always get spam, but what percentage is filtered out makes a big difference. Just for comparisons sake, I have 1950 messages in my junk box.
Well, the 1x burners took 74 minutes to write a disc, which is 8.8 Megs a minute. Which is.146 Megs a second. That's pretty slow considering. Even just comparing the time to burn one entire disk, this thing blows the 1x burners out of the water.
As far as I know, hotmail has 2 options for filtering your mail. You can either have them filter it with the spam filters, or you can have it set up to only receive mail from people in your address book. I currently use the first option, as I don't like unexpected email going in my junkbox. The result is hundreds of spam messages that get through the filter. I don't know why they can't get it right. My yahoo mail account doesn't use a white list, and blocks 99.9% of spam. I get maybe 1 spam message every 2 weeks. I've also never had it block an email I wanted to receive.
Yes, but you can get the single layer discs for $0.33 each, Which will give you 470 GB for $30 (when bought in lots of 100, Best Buy Price). That price is much better than hard drives, and you can swap stuff with friends easier. I would hesitate about giving a friend a $70 hard drive. I also wouldn't want to tote it back and forth with me everywhere, because that much travel can make them much more failure prone. The new BluRay disks hold 25 Gigs each, so assuming you could get them at the same price (DVDs are as cheap if not cheaper than CDs now) you could get 2.5 TB for $30. Which again, is much cheaper than buying a hard drive.
Not really. We probably never thought that DVDs would reach the same price as CDs since they held so much more. Now DVDs are cheaper than CDs because that's what people are buying. I can get 100 DVD+R for $30 CDN. That's 470 Gigs. The reason the DVDs are even more popular is because people are putting movies on them. With music people would rather just put it in MP3 and leave it on their computer. With DVDs people don't have enough space on their computer to keep them there, and would rather play them on their regular DVD player. Plus encoding a DVD down to fit on a CD takes days on a regular computer, whereas a DVD can be copied in under an hour.
I remember when we were all using 1x burners and we liked it. For the number of times you're going to have to back up 25 Gigs, this should be sufficient. If you want something faster, then back up to tape or hard disk or something.
For a person starting from scratch with an empty hard drive, I think Linux would be much easier to get working. Step through the installation, and everything is done and working. Windows on the other hand, you have to install it, then you have to hunt down the drivers, which depending on your hardware can be quite hard. Ever try finding a soundcard driver for a no-name sound card pre-2000? It's almost impossible. But you are right for those people who don't want to spend time getting their computer to actually work, they'd rather just put up with windows, because it's already there, and it does the job.
No thanks. I'd rather have cheap high speed internet than have to worry about the increased bills due to switching the entire system over at once. That would be extremely expensive. Not to mention they'd piss off a bunch of home users who would have to replace all their equipment (routers and such) with IPV6 hardware. There's probably a lot of people still running OSes that don't support IPV6.
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But you can make up an SQL query and search for the results in a regular file system. You wouldn't have to even add anything to the file system. Just make a language spec, a parser, and then read through all the files, and return the results. Also, WTF is your query looking for. You're looking for Documents (MS Word Docs??) that are images (I thought they were documents), and that Sound like (How do Documents or images make sounds?) ohhhyeaahh. Actually, this is probably just the type of query your typical at home windows user would write, and then not understand when it returned no results. Maybe it's a good thing they aren't releasing WinFS.
I use Reiser FS on a daily basis, and let my tell you, you don't need special programs taking advantage of the features to make this a good file system. The journalling is one thing that makes it awesome. No more corrupted files/file system when the power goes or the OS crashes (yes this does happen, no matter how much we want to believe it doens't). Plus the file system is faster. It's nice to have a file system that doesn't get fragmented like crazy, and doesn't have to be defragged every week. ReiserFS offers a lot of features that require no work on the applications programmer to take advantage of. Actually, the applications programmer rarely has to worry about the file system at all. And that's probably the way it should be, as the developer wouldn't want to have to implement special stuff for every FS out there, or start reimplementing everything once the next great file system comes around.
OMG Ponies you are my hero. Seriously though. It would be Nice to see MS just go crazy fixing bugs and making the current system actually work than trying to make new features that may never be released, and if they are, will be filled with bugs. Every time Microsoft seems to fix all the bugs (Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98 SE, Windows XP SP2) they come otu with a new OS, that has a whole new slew of bugs to fix. This is where I think Linux takes the Cake. Because they realize that once something works, they stop, and just stick to maintenance, and don't try to redesign it from scratch, just for the sake of doing so.
Did they pull it off like they pulled off source safe, where half the time it gets corrupted, and you have to be hooked up to the network to do anything useful with it, and uses windows shares to accomplish it's work, which makes it very network hungry. And all the other wonderful things i've heard about working with it?
MP3s which were ripped from your own CDs have good metadata, if the information was put in by the ripping program. If you download them from the internet, well, let's just say there's varying quality. Then there's images with EXIF data that have lots of good meta data like shutter speed, whether or not the flash was used, and when it was taken. Unfortunately, it can't tell you what is in the picture. That is the most important piece of data. I think MetaData is dead on the personal computer, because nobody wants to be a data entry clerk. People just find it easier to put their files in an organized place, so they can find them later. People don't want to spend hours entering data.
I agree. Ever try getting copying retrieving 100 MB of data in SQL Server, or any other database for that matter? It takes much longer than accessing the data from a plain old file system. I'm all for adding features to a file system to actually increase it's speed, but it seems like WinFS is just something that would really slow it down. Ok, maybe searching will be faster, but other than that it's crap. I can find all my files just fine, because I keep them organized. I would rather have my file system be faster and more robust, but this doesn't require a database based file system.
WTF does a file system have to do with networking. The network protocol for file shares should care nothing about the file system. This is why you can access a SAMBA share on a linux machine that formatted as ReiserFS, even though windows doesn't support ReiserFS, or know anything about it. I have no idea how networking comes into the design of a file system. If somebody can explain this to mean, than please let me know. Because I have no idea how networking and file systems even come into the same picture.
You mean they'll finally get rid of their crackerjack database, where your rows can only be 8K, or where you can make a row that can store 10k, 10 rows of varchar 1024, but if you actually try to stuff them full, it will reject you.
I've often wondered why they don't offer file versioning for your entire home dir. Just think, never losing a file, being able to go back in time. It would be awesome. Something based off SVN would probably work. Most files don't change after initial creation. Maybe it could provide some clean up mechanism, for getting rid of old versions you don't want. But it would be nice if there was a layer that handled all this, so you could go back 2 days, to when the files were there, or before you messed up that photo you took, and clicked save instead of save as.
I also know a lot of people who've met more friends over the internet. I know one guy who likes to unicycle, and he met a whole group of people who unicycle over the net. Without the internet, me may have never found these people. I think the internet opens up a lot of possibilities for people to meet people more like themselves. People have lots of different interests, and sometimes it's hard to find people interested in the same things. They is probably why tech geeks love the internet, not because of the technology, but because they can find more tech geeks, and lets face it, there aren't a whole lot of us.
Of course they have Windows Embedded.
I don't understand where is idea came from of paying a subscription fee to play a game online. Before we were just happy playing 1 on 1 over modem connections, or getting a few of our closest friends together and playing over the network. The guy with the fastest computer got to host the server. I don't really have any desire to play against people halfway around the world. Because of many reasons, Including:
A) A large proportion of the players spend way too much time playing, and are 10x better (by levels or actual skill) than I could ever hope to be.
B) A large proportion of players are jackasses because you don't know them, and can't slap them upside the head for doing so next time you see them.
C) The servers are always way too busy, and you spend more time trying to find a server with enough people to make it fun, but not too many that it's slow, and people in your skill level.
Even without a subscription based service, you can still play against people on the other side of the world. I have no desire to play in a game with 7000 other people. It doesn't make the game any more fun. Actually, it usually makes it less fun.
I use filezilla. I'm not sure how well it compares to Leech ( I remember liking that a lot) but I find that it's good enough. Plus it's still being maintained, which is a big plus.
I'd just recommend that if you know how to use FTP, go for a web hosting service. I pay $7.95 and I have 20 Gigs of space and 1000 GB of transfer. So, I can store tons of stuff, and have lots of other features like a blog and photo galleries. It's much cheaper than these services look, and you don't need any special software installed to access your stuff. Even windows comes with command line FTP.
I have a DVD burner and it has great Buffer under-run support. I select 16x and depending on what i'm doing it burns at anywhere from 5x to 16x, and has no problems burning discs. I've never had it crap out, and the discs can be read by all my DVD drives. Maybe It's because I use DVD+R discs which are supposed to have much better support for stopping and starting again. I'm using a $40 drive I picked up. It's nothing special, and I've pretty much assumed that buffer underruns are a thing of the past. Are other people's experiences different?
I'm sure the new drives come with buffer underrun technology. That stuff is old news now. I haven't had to worry about buffer underruns for years.
Well, it keeps your junk mail around for 1 month, assuming 30 days in a month, you get 43 messages blocked every day. And if you get 5 spam messages in you inbox (15 every 3 days) then I would say that Yahoo isn't doing too good a job. Hotmail on the other hand is much worse. 75% of it gets to your inbox. The only thing even resembling spam that shows up in my yahoo inbox is product announcements that I signed up for a long time ago, and don't bother to unsubscribe from. You will always get spam, but what percentage is filtered out makes a big difference. Just for comparisons sake, I have 1950 messages in my junk box.
Well, the 1x burners took 74 minutes to write a disc, which is 8.8 Megs a minute. Which is .146 Megs a second. That's pretty slow considering. Even just comparing the time to burn one entire disk, this thing blows the 1x burners out of the water.
As far as I know, hotmail has 2 options for filtering your mail. You can either have them filter it with the spam filters, or you can have it set up to only receive mail from people in your address book. I currently use the first option, as I don't like unexpected email going in my junkbox. The result is hundreds of spam messages that get through the filter. I don't know why they can't get it right. My yahoo mail account doesn't use a white list, and blocks 99.9% of spam. I get maybe 1 spam message every 2 weeks. I've also never had it block an email I wanted to receive.
Yes, but you can get the single layer discs for $0.33 each, Which will give you 470 GB for $30 (when bought in lots of 100, Best Buy Price). That price is much better than hard drives, and you can swap stuff with friends easier. I would hesitate about giving a friend a $70 hard drive. I also wouldn't want to tote it back and forth with me everywhere, because that much travel can make them much more failure prone. The new BluRay disks hold 25 Gigs each, so assuming you could get them at the same price (DVDs are as cheap if not cheaper than CDs now) you could get 2.5 TB for $30. Which again, is much cheaper than buying a hard drive.
Not really. We probably never thought that DVDs would reach the same price as CDs since they held so much more. Now DVDs are cheaper than CDs because that's what people are buying. I can get 100 DVD+R for $30 CDN. That's 470 Gigs. The reason the DVDs are even more popular is because people are putting movies on them. With music people would rather just put it in MP3 and leave it on their computer. With DVDs people don't have enough space on their computer to keep them there, and would rather play them on their regular DVD player. Plus encoding a DVD down to fit on a CD takes days on a regular computer, whereas a DVD can be copied in under an hour.
I remember when we were all using 1x burners and we liked it. For the number of times you're going to have to back up 25 Gigs, this should be sufficient. If you want something faster, then back up to tape or hard disk or something.
For a person starting from scratch with an empty hard drive, I think Linux would be much easier to get working. Step through the installation, and everything is done and working. Windows on the other hand, you have to install it, then you have to hunt down the drivers, which depending on your hardware can be quite hard. Ever try finding a soundcard driver for a no-name sound card pre-2000? It's almost impossible. But you are right for those people who don't want to spend time getting their computer to actually work, they'd rather just put up with windows, because it's already there, and it does the job.
No thanks. I'd rather have cheap high speed internet than have to worry about the increased bills due to switching the entire system over at once. That would be extremely expensive. Not to mention they'd piss off a bunch of home users who would have to replace all their equipment (routers and such) with IPV6 hardware. There's probably a lot of people still running OSes that don't support IPV6.
Windows on the desktop also leaves a lot to be desired. I find that it leaves more to be desired than Linux.