Vista is a beta which generally meansfeature complete but buggy. Dozens of changes to UAP now means that it wasn't properly thought out when implented. I appauld the effort of windows developers, but they are doing far less with far more people than any other OS project.
The whole point of the 7 step deletion was that there was an shortcut that was on the users desktop which didn't belong to the user. So do you think MSFT patched the home directory creation for users to properly change everything to said user or just hacked a patch for that icon? In MSFT's case I could very well believe either.
If Active X requires to be locked down that hard in order to secure a system why bother keeping it? Toss the crap. Toss the crude. Build fresh. With Vista MSFT had a chance to wipe out all the old, buggy, insecure API's that they had been piling on the windows codebase and do a fresh start. Then using a customized VPC/winxp layer to run old apps provide their customers with an easy way to transition customers to the new API over 5-6 year time frame.(ala mac OS 9 to OS X 10.4 which still includes the OS 9 classic layer as an extra)
Instead they are porting the old libraries directly bugs and all. It's why Vista has already had a virus for it. As instead of rewriting an image library they just ported it.
no MSFT bypasses windows hosts file when calling home. This is known. On one side it's a good thing, as windows update will always point to a MSFT based server allowing for clean updates. (can you imagine the problems if every infected windows machine couldn't get a patch)
On the other side is that MSFT could solve a lot of their problems just be creating an easy, basic way to enforce security. Unix did that years ago on Unix you have basic file system level defaults seperating users. Then you can use other programs to create an ultra fine grained control.
Under Windows all you have is a very complicated fine grain control system that a massive percentage of the apps break if you use it.
Kill off Active X and add a simple yet effective file seperating on the Filesystem layer and the majority of windows viruses problem will vanish. It won't solve all things. it won't solve stupid users installing things they shouldn't, but It would stop most of those problems instantly.
It's also the one thing MSFT won't do. Not even with Vista. They are keeping activeX and while they are trying to use their fine grained permissions control as a basic level they are finding that it doesn't work well. (just look at all the reviews on the vista Beta, 7 steps to delete an icon?)
What's worse is that ELF was released as an Open Standard by Novell and Santa cruz. Anyone can implente it as well as other "Unix" features as part of the POSIX Spec's.
Caldera(SCOX) is claiming now that Novell didn't have the right to do that after Caldera bought it from Novell, long after Novell released it openly. is a delay tatic and nothing more.
Even though I know it won't happen, I still hope that the Judge fines them just once. Just to put them into place.
take a look at the US cell phone market. Where each provider is locking consumers into their own service, and confusing the customer so to charge them more. They make features like $2 a pop for a 30 second ring tone, or a $5 game and have the phones all but autodownload them and charge the customer.
That's tiered internet Were you the customer get's charged $9.95 by your ISP because you downloaded the latest ubunto iso, and ubunto doesn't have an agreement in place to pay your ISP for every download of theirs that crosses their network.
Netware 3.X runs 24x7 365. in the 5 years I have worked there the machine has had the HD replaced, and the Power Supply. It doesn't even have a surge surpressor let alone a UPS. The server serves 9 terminals with only 48mb of ram and a P150 processor. All applications are stored on the server and run remotely. All 9 terminals can access the everything at the same time(barring locked files, the locking can cause problems but usually is resolved in seconds)
the Windows machines need weekly to daily reboots to keep going. Which isn't a problemas you can shut them down at night.
Why should we upgrade? i say we save up and wait for everything to die.
My work uses only win98 and win95 because newer versions of windows won't connect to the server. We don't have the $30-40 thousand dollars to blow on a new windows or linux setup.(while the server software is available for linux the front end software require windows).
Firefox is the only browser that we can use safely. it's not like we can trust IE. with the firewall I have kempt viruses to a minimum and spyware is an occasional hassle.
So there's a dozen machines for you. Why because they haven't had hardware failures. Personally I have never used XP for anything longer than 5 minutes. I never trusted it.
How can I let win95 and win98 float around work. easy all viruses are written for tech that's in win2k and above. and while there are security holes all around nobody's using it anymore.
So why should we spend money we don't have, to upgrade to virus filled software and complex licensing?
Yes it is. XPDF, KPDF, and a host of other Open Source applications use PDF daily withot fees. Rumour has it that Apple is using PDF free as well though I do believe Apple slid a little something Adobe's way to be kind. (I don't have proof either way)
Go back and carefully read the study. Windows doesn't have 20% more uptime, Windows has increased their uptime by 20% while Linux was increased by (insert some random number here)
So if windows servers were available 90% of the time htey have now hit 95% but the linux servers were already at 97-99% uptime so they could only increase by a small margin.
Whenever didio writes you have to learn to read in between the sentences. She throws fud around(finding Linux documentation online, when you could simply call Red Hat and ask???? especially for RHEL 4.)
What she wrote was while techincally true, was so twisted as to be a lie. Notice how she refuses to post hard numbers,or other hard data so you can judge for yourself.
Yep and I personally know of a 100 million dollars worth of presses that will only rip from PDF.
If XPS is going to be worth anything, it needs to operate on more than just vista. Otherwise it's useless to those presses.
So what's worth more several billion dollars for the printing industry who have for years used PDF to it's fullest or forcing that entire industry to change to something that isn't available to anyone other than MSFT. (hint the printing industry utilizes lot's of macs as well as windows machines)
He could of been more expressive but that's not the point. the Nano's screen is a new design. It wasn't a tested plastic for consumer electronics. Apple innovates because they don't choose to use the exact same plastic as dell does, or the exact same LCD's, or hinge suppliers.
A year or so after Apple successfully(failures seldom make it) uses a new type of screen, or other componet you can see it showing up in other competitiors products.
By the way I know of one Nano user(m brother) who drops his nano, puts it in a jacket pocket and snow boards down hills, has seen it go flying face down across ice, and it has less scratches on it than most others. But that's my only personal point of reference on the topic.
Ask 5 pilots to fly in a formation. They can figure it out just as easily as 5 people on the ground. It requires a bit more skill as you have a third dimension plus speed to work out but every military trained pilot can do it.
We just haven't developed the software and hardware to analize the required data fast enough. When we do projects like Bush's anti-ICBM missle defense shield will actually work reliably.
No MSFT's formt is a Binary XML, with binary data encased by XML tags. Images are stored directly in the file unlike ODF which is a zipfile, with a subdirectory for images.
In other words if you don't have an ODF appilication all you have to do is unzip it( a feature found in most OS's these days) and extract the data by hand.
If you don't have MSFT Word of version x you can never open MSFT's formats. Patents will prevent third parties from implenting it. Defeating the entire point of having a standard.
For desktop use I completely agree but i hate two buttons on ym work laptop, one is always int he way of the other and it's hard to get comfortable with. besides you aren't power using a "small"laptop
to right lick it's control click,it's just as fast and you can use both hands to do it that way.
Now when my powerbook is on my desk I have a 3 buttons mouse plus a scroll wheel, and I even pack a 3 button mouse portable mouse in my pack just in case I need to do some editing. At first that doesn't make sense but then again a track pad isn't as something to use as a standard mouse is. It takes two to three pass with the track pad to go across a 1024x768 screen with a mouse you can just push it all the way there.
So does IBM. IBM sees that Linux's strength lies not with anyone company but the tens of thousands of supporters who do all the beta testing for the big box retailers(Novell, Red Hat, Lycoris, Linspire)
Take Nokia. Nokia knew it would be a lot to develop an entire OS, and software. They really didn't want to Pay MSFT royalties. So they created Maemo.org and only developed and ehanced a version of Linux for the 770. Literally in 6 months since the project has been in development hundreds of projects have been/are being converted for and tested on the 770's.
This kid of response doesn't happen when you get a new WinCE machine, or Palm Machine. It takes time for the less experienced developers to get the tools for those. With Linx they already have them.
No it's like saying my parents house was too old and out of date when it was 5 years old, and still not finished. (note they never did finish it even though we lived in it for almost 20 years)
The ISS can't be finished. it needs the shuttle to finish it and the shuttle will be phased out long before the ISS is finished.
What the ISS has taught us and no one has figured out is that we need a vaible method for getting small things up to orbit easily. Progress shuttles from Russia don't count. those haven't changed a lot since the 70's. And all the budgets for such craft keep getting cancled.
With proper naming done for those images it's not hard at all. I even have scripts that add to the begining and end of filenames(before ext's) so I can name them all quickly and then move them to the mass storage directory.
A gui is faster for some items, but a commandline is faster for most tasks. With KDE I usually create a transparent Konsole window the half the size of the desktop for running those commands. With OS X I have a hotkey toggling iTerm to either open or close a terminal window.
If memory serves Lesuire suit larry had a text based command input system. It might be able to be ported to a PDA with a keyboard but not a cell phone.
You had to tell Larry what to do. Open Door, walk left, Screw the hooker, put ice on your face, pay cabbie.
Of course I was 12 at that time and I didn't play those kinds of games, or hid them on my fathers computer where he couldn't find them. I didn't have specially designed boot disks to load up specfic games with advanced memory requirements.
considering that their click-n-run store launches apt-get, and you can manually change the cpt-get repositories to something other than Linspire's I would say yes it is.
Why not Windows is finally (hopefully?) getting on par with features that Unix enforced 15 years ago.
And before anyone goes to say NTFS has had those features for years , if that was really true then why can i easily delete files on any windows machine. Why is it that malware can hide in any system directory? because MSFT never enforced those standards.
Well I wouldn't want to game with my 12" Powerbook with it on my lap. Surfing the web and other minor tasks don't heat things up much. apple slows things down. big deal you get greater battery life, and lower heat. Two things much needed for laptops.
And that Lady who sued Mcdonalds she lost on Appeal.
That doesn't work. Eloas, this guy, Burst are all Patent trolls. less than 5 men companies with lawyers who smell Money.
MSFT routinely pays out hundreds of millions of dollars per case. You want easy money. patent something stupid and sue msft for it. Chances are you will not only win money but enough to cover your time and expenses for the couple of years your in court.
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Vista is a beta which generally meansfeature complete but buggy. Dozens of changes to UAP now means that it wasn't properly thought out when implented. I appauld the effort of windows developers, but they are doing far less with far more people than any other OS project.
The whole point of the 7 step deletion was that there was an shortcut that was on the users desktop which didn't belong to the user. So do you think MSFT patched the home directory creation for users to properly change everything to said user or just hacked a patch for that icon? In MSFT's case I could very well believe either.
If Active X requires to be locked down that hard in order to secure a system why bother keeping it? Toss the crap. Toss the crude. Build fresh. With Vista MSFT had a chance to wipe out all the old, buggy, insecure API's that they had been piling on the windows codebase and do a fresh start. Then using a customized VPC/winxp layer to run old apps provide their customers with an easy way to transition customers to the new API over 5-6 year time frame.(ala mac OS 9 to OS X 10.4 which still includes the OS 9 classic layer as an extra)
Instead they are porting the old libraries directly bugs and all. It's why Vista has already had a virus for it. As instead of rewriting an image library they just ported it.
no MSFT bypasses windows hosts file when calling home. This is known. On one side it's a good thing, as windows update will always point to a MSFT based server allowing for clean updates. (can you imagine the problems if every infected windows machine couldn't get a patch)
On the other side is that MSFT could solve a lot of their problems just be creating an easy, basic way to enforce security. Unix did that years ago on Unix you have basic file system level defaults seperating users. Then you can use other programs to create an ultra fine grained control.
Under Windows all you have is a very complicated fine grain control system that a massive percentage of the apps break if you use it.
Kill off Active X and add a simple yet effective file seperating on the Filesystem layer and the majority of windows viruses problem will vanish. It won't solve all things. it won't solve stupid users installing things they shouldn't, but It would stop most of those problems instantly.
It's also the one thing MSFT won't do. Not even with Vista. They are keeping activeX and while they are trying to use their fine grained permissions control as a basic level they are finding that it doesn't work well. (just look at all the reviews on the vista Beta, 7 steps to delete an icon?)
What's worse is that ELF was released as an Open Standard by Novell and Santa cruz. Anyone can implente it as well as other "Unix" features as part of the POSIX Spec's.
Caldera(SCOX) is claiming now that Novell didn't have the right to do that after Caldera bought it from Novell, long after Novell released it openly. is a delay tatic and nothing more.
Even though I know it won't happen, I still hope that the Judge fines them just once. Just to put them into place.
take a look at the US cell phone market. Where each provider is locking consumers into their own service, and confusing the customer so to charge them more. They make features like $2 a pop for a 30 second ring tone, or a $5 game and have the phones all but autodownload them and charge the customer.
That's tiered internet Were you the customer get's charged $9.95 by your ISP because you downloaded the latest ubunto iso, and ubunto doesn't have an agreement in place to pay your ISP for every download of theirs that crosses their network.
Good guess. I wish i could both mod and reply.
Netware 3.X runs 24x7 365. in the 5 years I have worked there the machine has had the HD replaced, and the Power Supply. It doesn't even have a surge surpressor let alone a UPS. The server serves 9 terminals with only 48mb of ram and a P150 processor. All applications are stored on the server and run remotely. All 9 terminals can access the everything at the same time(barring locked files, the locking can cause problems but usually is resolved in seconds)
the Windows machines need weekly to daily reboots to keep going. Which isn't a problemas you can shut them down at night.
Why should we upgrade? i say we save up and wait for everything to die.
My work uses only win98 and win95 because newer versions of windows won't connect to the server. We don't have the $30-40 thousand dollars to blow on a new windows or linux setup.(while the server software is available for linux the front end software require windows).
Firefox is the only browser that we can use safely. it's not like we can trust IE. with the firewall I have kempt viruses to a minimum and spyware is an occasional hassle.
So there's a dozen machines for you. Why because they haven't had hardware failures. Personally I have never used XP for anything longer than 5 minutes. I never trusted it.
How can I let win95 and win98 float around work. easy all viruses are written for tech that's in win2k and above. and while there are security holes all around nobody's using it anymore.
So why should we spend money we don't have, to upgrade to virus filled software and complex licensing?
Yes it is. XPDF, KPDF, and a host of other Open Source applications use PDF daily withot fees. Rumour has it that Apple is using PDF free as well though I do believe Apple slid a little something Adobe's way to be kind. (I don't have proof either way)
Go back and carefully read the study. Windows doesn't have 20% more uptime, Windows has increased their uptime by 20% while Linux was increased by (insert some random number here)
So if windows servers were available 90% of the time htey have now hit 95% but the linux servers were already at 97-99% uptime so they could only increase by a small margin.
Whenever didio writes you have to learn to read in between the sentences. She throws fud around(finding Linux documentation online, when you could simply call Red Hat and ask???? especially for RHEL 4.)
What she wrote was while techincally true, was so twisted as to be a lie. Notice how she refuses to post hard numbers,or other hard data so you can judge for yourself.
Yep and I personally know of a 100 million dollars worth of presses that will only rip from PDF.
If XPS is going to be worth anything, it needs to operate on more than just vista. Otherwise it's useless to those presses.
So what's worth more several billion dollars for the printing industry who have for years used PDF to it's fullest or forcing that entire industry to change to something that isn't available to anyone other than MSFT. (hint the printing industry utilizes lot's of macs as well as windows machines)
He could of been more expressive but that's not the point. the Nano's screen is a new design. It wasn't a tested plastic for consumer electronics. Apple innovates because they don't choose to use the exact same plastic as dell does, or the exact same LCD's, or hinge suppliers.
A year or so after Apple successfully(failures seldom make it) uses a new type of screen, or other componet you can see it showing up in other competitiors products.
By the way I know of one Nano user(m brother) who drops his nano, puts it in a jacket pocket and snow boards down hills, has seen it go flying face down across ice, and it has less scratches on it than most others. But that's my only personal point of reference on the topic.
Ask 5 pilots to fly in a formation. They can figure it out just as easily as 5 people on the ground. It requires a bit more skill as you have a third dimension plus speed to work out but every military trained pilot can do it.
We just haven't developed the software and hardware to analize the required data fast enough. When we do projects like Bush's anti-ICBM missle defense shield will actually work reliably.
No MSFT's formt is a Binary XML, with binary data encased by XML tags. Images are stored directly in the file unlike ODF which is a zipfile, with a subdirectory for images.
In other words if you don't have an ODF appilication all you have to do is unzip it( a feature found in most OS's these days) and extract the data by hand.
If you don't have MSFT Word of version x you can never open MSFT's formats. Patents will prevent third parties from implenting it. Defeating the entire point of having a standard.
Um It's not the bandwidth, but the pile.
Which is easier to repair and inspect. A modern skyscraper or a 1000 small homes in a suburb?
given the same number of people in each team which do you think would done first and with a higher quality?
Which is easier for the less trained to be brought up to speed on?
For desktop use I completely agree but i hate two buttons on ym work laptop, one is always int he way of the other and it's hard to get comfortable with. besides you aren't power using a "small"laptop
to right lick it's control click,it's just as fast and you can use both hands to do it that way.
Now when my powerbook is on my desk I have a 3 buttons mouse plus a scroll wheel, and I even pack a 3 button mouse portable mouse in my pack just in case I need to do some editing. At first that doesn't make sense but then again a track pad isn't as something to use as a standard mouse is. It takes two to three pass with the track pad to go across a 1024x768 screen with a mouse you can just push it all the way there.
So does IBM. IBM sees that Linux's strength lies not with anyone company but the tens of thousands of supporters who do all the beta testing for the big box retailers(Novell, Red Hat, Lycoris, Linspire)
Take Nokia. Nokia knew it would be a lot to develop an entire OS, and software. They really didn't want to Pay MSFT royalties. So they created Maemo.org and only developed and ehanced a version of Linux for the 770. Literally in 6 months since the project has been in development hundreds of projects have been/are being converted for and tested on the 770's.
This kid of response doesn't happen when you get a new WinCE machine, or Palm Machine. It takes time for the less experienced developers to get the tools for those. With Linx they already have them.
No it's like saying my parents house was too old and out of date when it was 5 years old, and still not finished. (note they never did finish it even though we lived in it for almost 20 years)
The ISS can't be finished. it needs the shuttle to finish it and the shuttle will be phased out long before the ISS is finished.
What the ISS has taught us and no one has figured out is that we need a vaible method for getting small things up to orbit easily. Progress shuttles from Russia don't count. those haven't changed a lot since the 70's. And all the budgets for such craft keep getting cancled.
With proper naming done for those images it's not hard at all. I even have scripts that add to the begining and end of filenames(before ext's) so I can name them all quickly and then move them to the mass storage directory.
A gui is faster for some items, but a commandline is faster for most tasks. With KDE I usually create a transparent Konsole window the half the size of the desktop for running those commands. With OS X I have a hotkey toggling iTerm to either open or close a terminal window.
Wait!! Your on Slashdot, your not supposed to have childern!!!
Sorry I couldn't help myself.
If memory serves Lesuire suit larry had a text based command input system. It might be able to be ported to a PDA with a keyboard but not a cell phone.
You had to tell Larry what to do. Open Door, walk left, Screw the hooker, put ice on your face, pay cabbie.
Of course I was 12 at that time and I didn't play those kinds of games, or hid them on my fathers computer where he couldn't find them. I didn't have specially designed boot disks to load up specfic games with advanced memory requirements.
While Apple can be bad that way.
This tech is for video conferencing. Instead of having to look at a camera you can look at the screen to whom your talking to.
My personal favorite is looking for the dupe tag. One day there was 5 or 6 on the front page.
considering that their click-n-run store launches apt-get, and you can manually change the cpt-get repositories to something other than Linspire's I would say yes it is.
Why not Windows is finally (hopefully?) getting on par with features that Unix enforced 15 years ago.
And before anyone goes to say NTFS has had those features for years , if that was really true then why can i easily delete files on any windows machine. Why is it that malware can hide in any system directory? because MSFT never enforced those standards.
Well I wouldn't want to game with my 12" Powerbook with it on my lap. Surfing the web and other minor tasks don't heat things up much. apple slows things down. big deal you get greater battery life, and lower heat. Two things much needed for laptops.
And that Lady who sued Mcdonalds she lost on Appeal.
That doesn't work. Eloas, this guy, Burst are all Patent trolls. less than 5 men companies with lawyers who smell Money.
MSFT routinely pays out hundreds of millions of dollars per case. You want easy money. patent something stupid and sue msft for it. Chances are you will not only win money but enough to cover your time and expenses for the couple of years your in court.