As to your base question, what is the Killer app in Vista? I'd say their isn't one, and that it isn't a compelling upgrade unless its time to buy a whole new computer anyway. But having said that, what was the killer app for XP from 2000? I don't remember one.
The main one that I can think of is the Compatibility Wizard / Compatibility tab in a program's properties. That and XP had a cheaper Home version (2000 only came in Professional, Server, Advanced Server, Cluster Server, and Datacenter editions iirc).
I think a journal I remember reading a few months ago put it best: Vista's eye candy is limited to things people might find useful rather than just being there for the sake of being there. Compiz/Beryl/XGl/whatever have a lot of things that are there just for the sake of being there, such as: 1. Jiggly windows 2. scatterball icons 3. windows that can be partly on two different sides of the cube 4. video as a background 5. the slow minimize/restore effects show in video 1 and that's just to name a few.
Personally, I think they have some useful features as well, most notably the cube, the ability to drag windows to different sides of the cube, running multiple videos at once (maybe, too many would get distracting), etc...
Oh, and the second video? Why not just save the trouble and get a Mac?
I'm pretty sure that they actually wrote the BASIC interpreter for the Altair. Heck, Paul Allen apparently wrote the bootloader on the plane trip out to Altair's HQ because Bill Gates forgot to write one.
Oh, wait, were you referring to DOS? See the reply above mine.
Things like this are why all the domains I've bought in the past have been bought directly from a Registrar.
Hosts going out of business is not the only danger with domains. There's also the practice of hosts keeping the domain if you ever choose to switch hosts.
As for registrars, the only advice I can give is to avoid GoDaddy, as they cave to big corporate interests.
I think it's more a case of Opera being pissed that it's not funded with Google money like Mozilla Firefox is. Up-and-coming? I think Opera's time has long passed.
Fun fact: Opera is free now because of the money they get from Google. It's not as much as Mozilla gets, but then again, Opera has a significantly smaller userbase.
Disclaimer: I use Opera as my primary browser, although I keep an up-to-date copy of Firefox 2.x around with a number of plugins.
One of my biggest UI concerns with Opera is that there is no option to put a button for the per-domain settings on the toolbar. I can put all my global options on a toolbar, but not the per-domain ones. >:/
The per-domain settings are accessed through the menus: Tools -> Quick Preferences (F12) -> Edit site preferences..., or by right-clicking on a blank spot and choosing Edit site preferences...
Personally, I tolerate ads and only block the ones that really annoy me. Thus, the content blocker works fairly well for me. Particularly combined with the site preferences pane, which allows me to disable/enable things on a per-site basis, such as Plugins (read: Flash).
Do you think that if Windows didn't come with IE that anyone would voluntarily pick IE?
Back in the old days, yes. Internet Explorer 4 (and 5) were several orders of magnitude better than Netscape 4.
Sadly, IE5.5 and 6.0 were pretty much the same as 5 but with additional proprietary crap. Not surprisingly, all the other browser programmers used the last decade or so to implement the standards better than Microsoft did.
That's not even addressing IE7, which didn't even fix all the bugs IE6 had.
2. [...] Just IIS logs are a challenge without trying to parse another ~650GB of firewall logs.
That's a non-argument. I use iptables without the LOG target; why would i want to log packets before dropping them? This would make no sense to me. If i want a NIDS, i'll install a NIDS.
IIS is a web server, thus those are web server logs, which can be parsed to get statistics about page views, errors, etc...
Miguel is a Mono developer. Mono is linked to GNOME in the sense that some GNOME tools use it, but it's about as accurate to paint him as a GNOME developer as it would be to paint GCC developers the same way.
...except that Miguel was one of the founders of GNOME. Hence why people refer to him as a GNOME developer.
Windows has always used a Heisenburg unmount strategy (i.e. you don't know whether the drive is unmounted until you try accessing it).
Yes, and the 'doze also freezes the whole frickin' desktop for a painful few seconds any time a new CD is 'detected' until it is identified and explorer has a chance to fiddle with it. It's one of the really annoying things about the 'doze. I have looked long and hard for any way of disabling this auto-mount 'feature' but it seems to be a bug deeply planted in explorer. I suppose a whole manual 'mount' mechanism would have to replace it.
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Here's a quick list of the PS3 models available in North America and their PS2 compatibility: 20GB, 60GB - PS2 hardware 80GB - PS2 software emulated 40GB - No support for PS2 games
And don't forget - Wikipedia may actually contain original information from time to time and that's worth to consider. Just because some abuses the tool doesn't mean that the tool is useless. On the contrary - it means that the tool is actually useful enough to draw the interest of abusers. The only catch is to identify the abusers.
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This is true in most modern OSes. Check the output from free on a Linux system some time.
Of course, Linux does have a separate item showing the amount of RAM remaining after subtracting the buffers and cache...
I haven't used Vista, but I've heard that win16 support was only pulled from the 64-bit version of Vista (and replaced with win32 support).
The main one that I can think of is the Compatibility Wizard / Compatibility tab in a program's properties. That and XP had a cheaper Home version (2000 only came in Professional, Server, Advanced Server, Cluster Server, and Datacenter editions iirc).
I think a journal I remember reading a few months ago put it best: Vista's eye candy is limited to things people might find useful rather than just being there for the sake of being there. Compiz/Beryl/XGl/whatever have a lot of things that are there just for the sake of being there, such as:
1. Jiggly windows
2. scatterball icons
3. windows that can be partly on two different sides of the cube
4. video as a background
5. the slow minimize/restore effects show in video 1
and that's just to name a few.
Personally, I think they have some useful features as well, most notably the cube, the ability to drag windows to different sides of the cube, running multiple videos at once (maybe, too many would get distracting), etc...
Oh, and the second video? Why not just save the trouble and get a Mac?
No console runs World of Warcraft (yet). However, Macs can run World of Warcraft natively, and Linux users can run it via WINE.
I'm pretty sure that they actually wrote the BASIC interpreter for the Altair. Heck, Paul Allen apparently wrote the bootloader on the plane trip out to Altair's HQ because Bill Gates forgot to write one.
Oh, wait, were you referring to DOS? See the reply above mine.
Disclaimer: I don't currently own any domains.
Things like this are why all the domains I've bought in the past have been bought directly from a Registrar.
Hosts going out of business is not the only danger with domains. There's also the practice of hosts keeping the domain if you ever choose to switch hosts.
As for registrars, the only advice I can give is to avoid GoDaddy, as they cave to big corporate interests.
Fun fact: Opera is free now because of the money they get from Google. It's not as much as Mozilla gets, but then again, Opera has a significantly smaller userbase.
Disclaimer: I use Opera as my primary browser, although I keep an up-to-date copy of Firefox 2.x around with a number of plugins.
One of my biggest UI concerns with Opera is that there is no option to put a button for the per-domain settings on the toolbar. I can put all my global options on a toolbar, but not the per-domain ones. >:/
The per-domain settings are accessed through the menus: Tools -> Quick Preferences (F12) -> Edit site preferences..., or by right-clicking on a blank spot and choosing Edit site preferences...
Personally, I tolerate ads and only block the ones that really annoy me. Thus, the content blocker works fairly well for me. Particularly combined with the site preferences pane, which allows me to disable/enable things on a per-site basis, such as Plugins (read: Flash).
As for the google thing, I can't help you there.
Back in the old days, yes. Internet Explorer 4 (and 5) were several orders of magnitude better than Netscape 4.
Sadly, IE5.5 and 6.0 were pretty much the same as 5 but with additional proprietary crap. Not surprisingly, all the other browser programmers used the last decade or so to implement the standards better than Microsoft did.
That's not even addressing IE7, which didn't even fix all the bugs IE6 had.
The Four Ecks book was (appropriately) named The Last Continent.
IIS is a web server, thus those are web server logs, which can be parsed to get statistics about page views, errors, etc...
You forgot Metroid Fusion, which not only held your hand, but routinely locked you in areas until you got the item you were after.
Too bad I don't have any mod points, this needs Insightful mods.
(I was going to post asking the same question... I guess I'm a few minutes too late.)
Disabling autorun doesn't fix that?
Here's a quick list of the PS3 models available in North America and their PS2 compatibility:
20GB, 60GB - PS2 hardware
80GB - PS2 software emulated
40GB - No support for PS2 games
No, he's referring to the "but I've got to ask this question:" that I put.
He has a point. I changed part of it without going back and correcting the first part.
See, I should have just tacked "WTF?" at the end.
I'm not that familiar with either framework (I've tried both for short periods), but I've got to ask this question:
3. You complain that frameworks copy Rails, but when the GP says Django doesn't do that, you then ask if it has Rails features?
Please make up your mind whether copying Rails is a good thing or a bad thing.
In other news, Steve Ballmer thinks Students 'Should Use' Windows.
Wikipedia policy is to not contain original information, so you shouldn't be looking for it there.
Actually, it is "Square Enix" (or more accurately "SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.") according to their own website.
I dunno... I prefer Hill Top Zone.
;)
Hey, I didn't even have to plug the site in this article! It's always nice when someone else does it for me.
You mention David Wise, but not Robin Beanland or Graeme Norgate? Traitor!
I agree, music is a matter of personal taste.
I like game music in general. One thing I've noticed about game music that I like best is that it evokes memories of the games I like.
Not that I don't like certain tracks just because they sound good, it's just that my favorites are those that evoke memories.