I'm a sysadmin for a place that uses a lot of XP machines and several Apples. I use a Linux distro at home, and VMWare WinXP when I have to.
I don't experience the frequent crashes in XP that GGP speaks of - but I wish it would because the longer it's up the worse and worse it runs. In 2 years my work desktop has shat down its own throat twice (not that surprising for a sysadmins desktop, they're like mechanic's cars) and been reinstalled. I would confidently wager that you could walk up to it (while it's on but gone to sleep), unlock it, start outlook, and print the first email you see inside of five minutes. I know because I tried exactly this yesterday. An XP machine can never keep up with me, and always leaves me with time to do a crossword / work on the Mac next to it while I wait for it to do things as stupid as populate the "All programs" submenu.
Exactly. More than enough reason not to bother with it and buy the book (if Harry Potter is your thing, that is).
I mean, what does the book cost? More than ten quid? I doubt it, and if I was interested enough in the story I'd be more than ten quid interested in getting it unfettered.
Apparently not, Zonk has now edited the heading to something completely different.
Oh well, at least it's proof that slashdot 'editors' don't just copy and paste.
Years ago I entertained myself with a program called Vista on my Amiga, it was a scenery generator, and quite a good one for the time, too. Well worth putting an extra half-megabyte in the machine for;)
Pretty interesting analasys.
I wonder how many people had cameras thirty years ago versus how many had some means of a digital retrieval system aside from the light-switches in their house.
You're absolutely right, but now it's time for me to be truthful.
My comment was based on my experience earlier this week on Monday, only the second time I've been close enough to be able to identify a Vista install, and the very first time I'd used it. It had just been installed (as well as Office 2007) by one of my colleagues on a brand new HP laptop. No, didn't get asked to Allow or Cancel anything, but what I did experience didn't surprise me in the least.
From the instant I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete (and this is after waiting for the machine to finish choking itself) it was the same familiar Windows experience - watching the HDD LED as if it's going to give some sort of indication as to when it might be safe to go on to the next step as the machine crawls through the login procedure - totally unresponsive for the majority of the time.
People bag Windows about insecurity, DRM and UAC all the time - they're not the things I have problems with. I play the game, keep machines patched, AV installed if the shareholders demand it, and so on. My only real gripe with Windows it simply that I habitually find small sub-tasks to do like clip my fingernails or organise desk-drawers while waiting for countless delays my Windows box gives me. Screwed if I'm going to spend a month of my life waiting for start menus to render.
Where with a different OS, I'd start the kettle boiling and check my email while that's going on, in Windows I launch outlook and then go and see to the kettle, because I know which will make me wait longer.
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I don't experience the frequent crashes in XP that GGP speaks of - but I wish it would because the longer it's up the worse and worse it runs. In 2 years my work desktop has shat down its own throat twice (not that surprising for a sysadmins desktop, they're like mechanic's cars) and been reinstalled. I would confidently wager that you could walk up to it (while it's on but gone to sleep), unlock it, start outlook, and print the first email you see inside of five minutes. I know because I tried exactly this yesterday. An XP machine can never keep up with me, and always leaves me with time to do a crossword / work on the Mac next to it while I wait for it to do things as stupid as populate the "All programs" submenu.
Wow! Maybe you just bumped into your SO on /.
Exactly. More than enough reason not to bother with it and buy the book (if Harry Potter is your thing, that is).
I mean, what does the book cost? More than ten quid? I doubt it, and if I was interested enough in the story I'd be more than ten quid interested in getting it unfettered.
But does it match my patent for using the other hand so it feels like someone else?
That's how it works in New Zealand, ever since someone abused CID to access voicemail they shouldn't have that authenticated based on incoming CID.
Well, in the "real" EFTPOS the "O" stands for "of" as well!
That's Extensive Field Targetting and Penetration Of Sheep for those not in the know.
(and yes, I'm a Kiwi too)
If your life absolutely depends on your electrical supply (and it shouldn't), you pay the effing bill, as if your life depended on that
Little bit of prior art there, mate.
Just like federal pounding.
Apparently not, Zonk has now edited the heading to something completely different.
Oh well, at least it's proof that slashdot 'editors' don't just copy and paste.
Years ago I entertained myself with a program called Vista on my Amiga, it was a scenery generator, and quite a good one for the time, too. Well worth putting an extra half-megabyte in the machine for ;)
Pretty interesting analasys.
I wonder how many people had cameras thirty years ago versus how many had some means of a digital retrieval system aside from the light-switches in their house.
640GB ought to be enough for anybody.
My comment was based on my experience earlier this week on Monday, only the second time I've been close enough to be able to identify a Vista install, and the very first time I'd used it. It had just been installed (as well as Office 2007) by one of my colleagues on a brand new HP laptop. No, didn't get asked to Allow or Cancel anything, but what I did experience didn't surprise me in the least.
From the instant I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete (and this is after waiting for the machine to finish choking itself) it was the same familiar Windows experience - watching the HDD LED as if it's going to give some sort of indication as to when it might be safe to go on to the next step as the machine crawls through the login procedure - totally unresponsive for the majority of the time.
People bag Windows about insecurity, DRM and UAC all the time - they're not the things I have problems with. I play the game, keep machines patched, AV installed if the shareholders demand it, and so on. My only real gripe with Windows it simply that I habitually find small sub-tasks to do like clip my fingernails or organise desk-drawers while waiting for countless delays my Windows box gives me. Screwed if I'm going to spend a month of my life waiting for start menus to render.
Where with a different OS, I'd start the kettle boiling and check my email while that's going on, in Windows I launch outlook and then go and see to the kettle, because I know which will make me wait longer.
It's almost done logging me in, in fact.
A lot of gear in photographic labs has this feature, for reasons I hope are obvious.
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
Your comment is at odds with the 09 F9 in your .sig
ICQ number buy you?
Whoosh!
It's called a murder. A group of sysadmins is called a murder.
"that's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft."
I guess you don't know how Steve B came to work for Microsoft.