I certainly don't trust them either. You can't trust anyone who can lie with a straight face each and every time it suits them. But just as an exercise, check out how many programs from 10 and 20 years ago still run on the latest Windows. Anything new you learn now will not be entirely obsolete in another 10 years. Whatever amount of changing and extending they do, they don't like to break backward compatibility. They leave it up to third party developers to do that.
I too never hesitate to point out shortcomings in Linux and other software that's commonly run on it. People hate unwanted surprises. No convert ever gets Linux running how they want it without going through some serious frustration and lots and lots of googling. I haven't gotten into too many face to face Windows vs Linux arguments, so it's doubtful that I've lead many to switch to Linux.
I converted to Linux without high expectations in the way of desktop usability. I knew I needed cross platform experience, especially Linux experience, and figured that since I use Windows at work, I should use Linux at home. Microsoft hastened my conversion by stepping up their war on open source in 2003 with SCO funding and Get the Facts. Since then I haven't paid MS a dime. It took another year and a half before I could run OpenGL programs on this hardware (i845GV) without crashing my system.
At work I will only consider what's best for the business though. If I knowingly gave biased advice, I'd deserve to be fired. Still, we haven't bought much from MS lately. Most of our servers run Linux, and XP Home as preinstalled works better than expected, though we plan to upgrade if Home ever becomes a burden.
Configuring Ubuntu to be usable went far beyond what one can expect of most users, most of it listed at ubuntuguide.org. Just to play a dvd required editing/etc/hdparm.conf to enable dma on/dev/hdc so that it could read and play simultaneously. Otherwise it's a great distribution.
We'll just classify the rest as nothing more than gigantic rocks orbiting the sun. We will no doubt find dozens more rocks out there a that are a lot like Pluto.
They're exercising their freedom of expression, and I don't like what they have to say! We just can't let this go on any further! We must protest, lobby, and sue until Rockstar is silenced!!!
I don't think it was nearly so old, maybe 2002. The big problem was that the Linux setup was running with mostly the default "safe" settings, on specific hardware it was known to have performance problems on, while the windows setup got several undocumented tweaks and had some expensive features disabled which could easily be disabled on the Linux setup but were not, such as short file name support and case insensitivity.
Microsoft has long offered Services for Unix free for download to provide a unix-like environment on Windows. I've seen rumors and speculation that SFU will be included by default in Windows Vista, with some GPL'd portions replaced or rewritten to maintain compliance. If it's true, what level of functionality and compatibility can we expect?
Here you cripple one system, and everyone just uses pen and paper. Employees get paid, orders get taken, processed, and shipped, parts get purchased, etc. I swear, it's like they all know how to do their own jobs or something.
That said, it would cause some serious anger and frustration if I rebooted the servers at 3pm. Maybe they'd decide to hire a real IT guy and let me focus on development.
// planned to fix something here, but now can't remember
So far I've just been using comments as reminders to myself. Sometimes I don't use any comments at all, and have almost entirely single letter variable names, and the thing works on the first compile. If I do use a lot of comments, it'll be to create a skeleton of something before I fill in the code.
Don't forget Red Hat v. SCO, where they actually sued SCO rather than SCO suing them. While you're at it, you may as well buy a new car or a new IBM server, whichever's cheaper.
That's what UTF-8 is used for, and even without that, you can still specify unicode characters in html with &;. That way the language isn't doing constant ascii/unicode conversions to screw thing up and slow things down. If I want to build up a string of raw binary and send it, other languages will destroy it in the conversion. If I read an ascii text file in other languages, they'll remap all the extended characters to different values depending on the locale, again, royally screwing things up. 1 byte character strings are efficient and predictable.
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I certainly don't trust them either. You can't trust anyone who can lie with a straight face each and every time it suits them. But just as an exercise, check out how many programs from 10 and 20 years ago still run on the latest Windows. Anything new you learn now will not be entirely obsolete in another 10 years. Whatever amount of changing and extending they do, they don't like to break backward compatibility. They leave it up to third party developers to do that.
I too never hesitate to point out shortcomings in Linux and other software that's commonly run on it. People hate unwanted surprises. No convert ever gets Linux running how they want it without going through some serious frustration and lots and lots of googling. I haven't gotten into too many face to face Windows vs Linux arguments, so it's doubtful that I've lead many to switch to Linux.
I converted to Linux without high expectations in the way of desktop usability. I knew I needed cross platform experience, especially Linux experience, and figured that since I use Windows at work, I should use Linux at home. Microsoft hastened my conversion by stepping up their war on open source in 2003 with SCO funding and Get the Facts. Since then I haven't paid MS a dime. It took another year and a half before I could run OpenGL programs on this hardware (i845GV) without crashing my system.
At work I will only consider what's best for the business though. If I knowingly gave biased advice, I'd deserve to be fired. Still, we haven't bought much from MS lately. Most of our servers run Linux, and XP Home as preinstalled works better than expected, though we plan to upgrade if Home ever becomes a burden.
I wonder if Wal-Mart had him sign an NDA.
Certainly you must have experimented with some of the BSD's.
Configuring Ubuntu to be usable went far beyond what one can expect of most users, most of it listed at ubuntuguide.org. Just to play a dvd required editing /etc/hdparm.conf to enable dma on /dev/hdc so that it could read and play simultaneously. Otherwise it's a great distribution.
Here's the non-Apple version:= 05/08/05/127222
http://ilovemicrosoft.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid
I'm not so sure that most people would consider "Windows Vista Tool Targeted By Virus Writers" to be pro-MS.
"most of the people developing Linux probably sit at night writing up malicious code for windows!"
This guy really must not like open source developers.
We'll just classify the rest as nothing more than gigantic rocks orbiting the sun. We will no doubt find dozens more rocks out there a that are a lot like Pluto.
They're exercising their freedom of expression, and I don't like what they have to say! We just can't let this go on any further! We must protest, lobby, and sue until Rockstar is silenced!!!
And 10% of them die of cancer?
But is it actually news?
I just heard (from a not so reliable source) they planned to replace the GPL'd portions and guessed at why.
Haven't tried either of these but:
. htm
Appears to be a driver:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd
Standalone file explorer:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs
I don't think it was nearly so old, maybe 2002. The big problem was that the Linux setup was running with mostly the default "safe" settings, on specific hardware it was known to have performance problems on, while the windows setup got several undocumented tweaks and had some expensive features disabled which could easily be disabled on the Linux setup but were not, such as short file name support and case insensitivity.
Can an unladen swallow really fly backwards at 24mph?
Microsoft has long offered Services for Unix free for download to provide a unix-like environment on Windows. I've seen rumors and speculation that SFU will be included by default in Windows Vista, with some GPL'd portions replaced or rewritten to maintain compliance. If it's true, what level of functionality and compatibility can we expect?
Here you cripple one system, and everyone just uses pen and paper. Employees get paid, orders get taken, processed, and shipped, parts get purchased, etc. I swear, it's like they all know how to do their own jobs or something.
That said, it would cause some serious anger and frustration if I rebooted the servers at 3pm. Maybe they'd decide to hire a real IT guy and let me focus on development.
// how not to do it
// planned to fix something here, but now can't remember
So far I've just been using comments as reminders to myself. Sometimes I don't use any comments at all, and have almost entirely single letter variable names, and the thing works on the first compile. If I do use a lot of comments, it'll be to create a skeleton of something before I fill in the code.
More likely the advertising that got preinstalled paid for the Windows that got preinstalled, both of which you've removed by now.
In a week we'll hear of the anonymous sale of a red stapler for $50 million, saving the company from otherwise certain bankruptcy.
Don't forget Red Hat v. SCO, where they actually sued SCO rather than SCO suing them. While you're at it, you may as well buy a new car or a new IBM server, whichever's cheaper.
Doubt it'll happen though.
That's what UTF-8 is used for, and even without that, you can still specify unicode characters in html with &;. That way the language isn't doing constant ascii/unicode conversions to screw thing up and slow things down. If I want to build up a string of raw binary and send it, other languages will destroy it in the conversion. If I read an ascii text file in other languages, they'll remap all the extended characters to different values depending on the locale, again, royally screwing things up. 1 byte character strings are efficient and predictable.
Too bad Java wasn't cross platform enough.