Vista has no services implemented in.NET and Windows Explorer does not host the runtime, which means that the Vista desktop shell is not based on the.NET runtime.
Why would Microsoft want to slow Windows down any further? Ask Linus why he isn't using the JVM inside the kernel. Ask the KDE team why every call doesn't go through the JVM. Its a stupid assumption that any Vista program would run under the.Net runtime.
A better question would be to ask Microsoft why they won't allow anyone to publish program benchmarks for Java vs.Net runtimes.
I'm just tired of hearing all of this, "Oh yeah, it's ready," hype when... it's just not. And I'm not even your average user...
Maybe this is a stupid question, and I'm not trying to start a fight. What are your faults with any Linux desktop? Gnome I understand, KDE I don't. XFCE/Blackbox/Enlightenment etc. cover the power users. What is "just not" ready for the Linux desktop? I'm curious.
"Since its peak sales year in 1999, there has been a steady deterioration in the number of physical CDs sold and shipped. The most immediate blame is typically placed on piracy,
I only buy CD's. But there is a few problems. I've never downloaded a CD/DVD, but I have grabbed two MP3s from the usenet because you couldn't buy the original albumns anywhere (Frankie Smith, Johnny Rivers) at the time.
1) There is nothing I want to listen too. No AC/DC, No Led Zepplin, No Van Halen etc. The last CD I bought was Alien Ant Farm. Doesn't anyone from Generation 2.0/3.0 know how to rock?
2) Overpriced at the music store. $17 US is way too much to spend when you can get it on Amazon for $9.99. Music stores will go the way of the dinosaur.
3) Im transferring my Cassette and Album collection (over 500 albums) to MP3 myself. Thanks RIAA for offering me no option/help with a 10cent per song mp3 download, They could have made money on resales of albums I already own. Thanks Audacity team for a great program. Ronnie James Dio is restored and resides on CD now. Joe Walsh and Cheap Trick (Live) send thier regards. Queen, Bad Company, and Santana will all say Thank You later.
Just my opinon on why CD sales sucks. BTW, if some music lover cares to do a detailed book on how Audacity works, I'd buy it. I still suck at choosing the right filter.
He said no such thing... He/She actually did. Did you not read the whole thread?
Then, please... don't try to convince "average users" that Linux is ready for the desktop. Doing so and then telling anyone who disagrees to "go away" is disgraceful.
I didn't tell "anyone to go away". I said maybe he/she should stick to Windows in an non-offensive manner. The parent poster qualified thier Linux opinon, and I responded to some errors. Can you refute?
I also didn't try to convince anyone to switch to Linux. There were/are flaws in the parent posters arguments, I merely stated that others feel differently, myself included. You obviously disagree that KDE/Gnome/XFCE is for you. Thats your choice. There is no reason for a hatefull response.
People are moving to Linux. Whether you want them to or not is out of your control.
Your entitled to your opinion, but please don't inform the rest of us who have been using desktop Linux that we shouldn't because it isn't ready. Maybe you should stick to Windows and leave Linux for the rest of us?
And the genuine advantage is a relatively new program, in the grand scheme of things. I don't agree with it's tenets, and think it's a poor idea.
Tell that to my son who bought Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with his birthday money. We tried two different Nvidia (PCI/AGP) cards along with a newer ATI AGP card. All give the same Directx3D error. Atari says see Microsoft, Microsoft says let us scan your computer to see if your a thief. Screw that, I have more than 10 purchased copies of Windows (3.x, 95, 98, 2000, XP etc.) with holograms/licences. I'm not a thief (except when playing D&D) and I don't appreciate being called one.
I just think that until we can get Suse (or any distro) in a shiny box, on the counter, next to other compatible software, along side MS, with some sort of recognizable image, Where I live, Lindows/SuSE/RedHat are stocked on the shelf right beside Windows XP in CompUSA and Best Buy. Where I just bought my wife's new Naked PC (I'm a thief according to Microsoft) at the Mom and Pop Computer shop, they offered to put SuSE on it for me (I declined of course). What counter are you talking about?
in association with some ease of use, Linux on the average home desktop is a long way off. Yeah, us Mac and OS/2 users said the same thing in August of 1995 about Microsoft. Ease of use is in the eye of the beholder. Who said windows was ever ready for the desktop? My neophyte wife has no problems using KDE over Linux. She scans/prints/emails/surfs with no problems. Even her new Christmas HP Photo printer works without any problems. My kids don't care what the interface is, they just use the computer, Gnome/KDE/BlackBox/XP/Nintendo with whatever interface is available. They just use the computer (IM/Quake2/Doom/Diablo/Wesnoth/ etc.) for what it was supposed to be for... Running programs.
Just a difference of opinion, we can debate all night long (I'd rather not). Enjoy,
Most "experienced" computer users would probably be lost in it (I know my wife hates it). Interestingly, my kids very quickly learned how to use it. They seem to be equally comfortable in my "personal" desktop environment as in Gnome or Windows XP.
Same situation here, only I'm using XFCE4. Kids dont care, they are comfortable with Gnome/KDE/98/XP etc. I think its because they have no pre-conceived notions on what a computer should be. My wife ended up using KDE because that was what she was comfortable using.
Microsoft makes many things automated. Want OS updates? Go to windowsupdate.com, or click on the "Windows Update" icon. Want driver updates? Go to manufacturer, get drivers for 2000/xp OR 98/ME. No pointing to mirrors, no compilation, no source, no RPM, no Yum, just "Do It Now!", wait for the icon to appear, double click, make a sandwich, reboot.
That's what Linux is lacking. Does anyone realize this?
You really need to check out Ubuntu or SuSE 10 if thats what you want. Don't call Linux lacking because you weren't aware of alternate distributions.
As far as Windows Update, your not getting anything new from Microsoft without the blessing from GenuineCheck.exe. Go try and update DirectX9b with DirectX9c. You can't without a warrentless system search from Microsoft.
It is true that 95% of users don't use GPG, but I'd regard that as a flaw in and of itself. Mind you, most e-mail programs (including, IIRC, thunderbird) don't support GPG, although some do support a limited range of digital certificates.
I agree. But again, the way I read the alert, isn't this a "Man In the Middle" attack? Does it affect routers or the infrastructure of the Internet? Only insofar as domain registrars never validate change requests properly. A carefully-crafted attack could use this to append a change-of-IP request to some ISP's routine request to a registrar, which means an attacker could create a phony DNS server for the express purpose of polluting the DNS namespace. If the registrar uses GPG's validation as proof of a legit request (and some are quite happy with a fax with no proof of origin at all) then it could have an impact.
If your able to effect routers on an ISP infrastructure then were not talking script kiddies. We all know DNS hijacking. To do what your talking about requires leet skillz. Maybe I could, you possibly could, but how many others? How secure is GPG against an amatuer?
BTW: my parent post is marked as Troll. Some idiot has moderator points.
Shouldn't this read Security Flaw Discovered for users of GPG ?
I'm guessing, but 95% of computing world doesn't use GPG. And isn't this a "Man In the Middle" attack? How many routers have been compromised that I need to worry about this?
Are my GPG encrypted messages to the kremlin, CIA, or FBI less secure? Are my "lovey-dovey, are you naked" messages to my wife compromised? Thats about all I use GPG for.
Advertising MS software != not advertising non-MS software. Your references don't back up your claim.
My references work just fine, your interpretation of my post is wrong.
Microsoft is not going to give you (as an OEM) marketing funds for non-Microsoft approved logos/software etc. If you (as an OEM) advertise a system as Linux and XP compatible, you will not qualify for reimbursement from Microsofts marketing fund.
So why did Dell refuse -- no matter how we tried to word the question -- to admit that they really had moved a bit further toward offering Linux on the desktop?
Or, better still, why doesn't Dell just start offering one Linux distribution as an option on their complete desktop line?
The reason is that, when push comes to shove, "Dell recommends the use of Windows XP Professional" on its desktops.
So I, for one, think that the real reason Dell keeps the Linux desktop at arm's reach is that it doesn't want to tick off Microsoft.
The reason is that Dell and others won't receive the kickbacks, oops, marketing funds provided by Microsoft if they advertise Linux or provide other non-Microsoft software on a Windows desktop (Firefox, openoffice, winamp etc.).
From the article here: ahref=http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f205700/20575 1.htmrel=url2html-6618http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cas es/f205700/205751.htm> Pursuant to the MDA, Microsoft provides marketing funds -- in the form of discounts on the price the OEM pays for each copy of Windows -- to OEMs whose print advertisements and websites promote Microsoft's operating systems in a manner specified by Microsoft.
From Microsoft, http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/sales_and_mark eting/partner_initiatives/marketing-fund/ From the 1 February 2006 you may qualify for an important new benefit from Microsoft: the System Builder Cooperative Marketing Fund. If you qualify you can accrue funds that can be used to reimburse eligible marketing activities. This flexible funding is offered to Microsoft Partners for every Windows® XP System Builder licence you buy for: Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional 64-bit, and Windows XP Home Edition.
So I disconnected myself from the network physically and ran the file, expecting the AV programs to catch it at that point. They didn't and so my search began.
Next time, run it through a disassembler first. strings can also be your friend. You also may want to try the free f-prot A/V, it uses heuristics as well as signature detection.
Not that these suggestions will do you any good at the moment:)
They can't win: if they include Windows Media Player with their OS they get sued, if they don't include it they get hundreds of thousands of complaints from users and even more Microsoft bashing than before. If they include Active Directory with their OS they get sued, if the don't include it they get thousands of complaints from administrators and even more Microsoft bashing than before.
Digital Research, OS/2, Apple, etc. have all bundled extra-software with the purchase of an O/S. The big difference between them and Microsoft is that the extra-software was always optional. Microsoft doesn't give you any choices with their bundling.
The DOJ really should require MS ship any software outside of the kernel/system libraries on a 2nd Windows CD. This would make the EU/US States and everyone else but Hollyweird happy.
Sure, 8 new versions of Windows, but erhm, how many different flavors of Linux are there based on the same kernel?:)
Are you trolling on purpose? You should be asking as a Linux user, "when can't I update my Linux kernel to any version".
And since when is there a Linux Light edition or Linux for Loosers? Is there a Linux distribution that will limit your choices or network connections yet?
People choose a different Linux distributions based on what thier comfortable with. Nobody forces them to make a choice. What level of limitations would you like with your eight new versions of Vista?
*Wrong*. I don't think so. And to tell the truth, I never had version 2, 3 or 4 lockups. I guess I wasn't running the same bad program that everyone else was.
SET PM_ASYNC_FOCUS_CHANGE=ON in the CONFIG.SYS file to fix the single input queue problem. The OS/2 solution detects misbehaved applications that cause system hangs in what is often incorrectly attributed to OS/2 as the Single Input Queue (SIQ) problem. The fix is implemented at the system level as a separate OS/2 thread that monitors the status of the input queue. No modifications of applications are necessary.
Was it? I was a Warp 4 beta tester and even after the final release, I still had PM lockups.
SET PM_ASYNC_FOCUS_CHANGE=ON in the CONFIG.SYS file to fix the single input queue problem. The OS/2 solution detects misbehaved applications that cause system hangs in what is often incorrectly attributed to OS/2 as the Single Input Queue (SIQ) problem. The fix is implemented at the system level as a separate OS/2 thread that monitors the status of the input queue. No modifications of applications are necessary.
My question is - does anyone know how I can make a perfect hard disc image that I can restore from if the Rickety 2Gb Segate in the box fails? Any advice greatly appreciated.
Take the drive and slave it on a Linux box. dd if=/dev/hda2 of=what-ever-image-you-want-to-call-it. If you have hpfs support in your kernel, you could mount it and copy the files that way (mount/dev/hda2/mnt -t hpfs).
I developed for OS/2 for about 7 years. Yes the kernel had threads and a solid multitasking support but the flawed design of Presentation Manager (PM) caused a single rogue app to lock up the desktop and making it useless. The single message queue that IBM designed in PM, was one of the worst technical design decisions ever made. There added many workarounds to kill rogue apps but the results were pretty unreliable.
It was fixed in 1996 with the release of version 4. Microsoft owns the copyright on PM, not IBM.
I'd rather have my money back from my one purchase of Windows 95 for $80. I'd also like back my $300 purchase of Windows NT4. Microsoft owes me $160 on the two Windows 98 CDs I purchased, along with the $84 dollar Windows 98SE I bought which wiped out my OS/2 partition. I do have Windows 2000 PRO which I bought online for $120. Its OK for development, but it sucks at playing games.
I bought for $40, Windows 3.0. I have two original copies (twelve+ disks each) of Windows 3.11 at $45 apiece. When I had an ARCNET network here at home, I spent another $45 on Windows for Workgroups. I also own, all the original MS DOS floppys from 3.3 which I purchased legally (but I can't remember the price).
I spent $300 dollars on my copy of Office 6, and purchased the Office95 upgrade for $100. Now its worthless because you have changed the office formats.
Bill, Im not buying XP/Vista because I shouldn't have to ask your permission to install software I buy off the store shelf.
I'd like my money back. Stop giving prizes and give us what we paid for.
The very same argument could be used from Microsoft's point of view. We're never going to release Windows [Microsoft's trademark operating system], we're not going to release things like that, because to release them would ruin them. If you release how you do the operating system internals, suddenly every hacker in the world screws up the code and Windows becomes useless. We don't want to do that.
So your comparing a search algorithm to that of a software layer that allows access to the devices on a generic PC? Others have released software stacks that allow access to the generic PC (IBM, BSD, Linus etc.), who else has invented a good WWW search algorithm?
ANSI C/C++; If your a.Net developer, don't use Microsoft C++ extensions/managed VM, But of course most c/c++ programmers know that already. Microsoft could/should call thier.Net VS5 hybrids something else besides C++. I'm suprised Bjarne Stroustrup hasn't said anything yet.
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Vista has no services implemented in .NET and Windows Explorer does not host the runtime, which means that the Vista desktop shell is not based on the .NET runtime.
.Net runtime.
.Net runtimes.
Why would Microsoft want to slow Windows down any further?
Ask Linus why he isn't using the JVM inside the kernel. Ask the KDE team why every call doesn't go through the JVM. Its a stupid assumption that any Vista program would run under the
A better question would be to ask Microsoft why they won't allow anyone to publish program benchmarks for Java vs
Enjoy,
I'm just tired of hearing all of this, "Oh yeah, it's ready," hype when... it's just not. And I'm not even your average user...
Maybe this is a stupid question, and I'm not trying to start a fight. What
are your faults with any Linux desktop? Gnome I understand, KDE I don't. XFCE/Blackbox/Enlightenment etc. cover the power users. What is "just not" ready for the Linux desktop? I'm curious.
Thanks, and enjoy.
"Since its peak sales year in 1999, there has been a steady deterioration in the number of physical CDs sold and shipped. The most immediate blame is typically placed on piracy,
I only buy CD's. But there is a few problems. I've never downloaded a CD/DVD, but I have grabbed two MP3s from the usenet because you couldn't buy the original albumns anywhere (Frankie Smith, Johnny Rivers) at the time.
1) There is nothing I want to listen too. No AC/DC, No Led Zepplin, No Van Halen etc. The last CD I bought was Alien Ant Farm. Doesn't anyone from Generation 2.0/3.0 know how to rock?
2) Overpriced at the music store. $17 US is way too much to spend when you can get it on Amazon for $9.99. Music stores will go the way of the dinosaur.
3) Im transferring my Cassette and Album collection (over 500 albums) to MP3 myself. Thanks RIAA for offering me no option/help with a 10cent per song mp3 download, They could have made money on resales of albums I already own. Thanks Audacity team for a great program. Ronnie James Dio is restored and resides on CD now. Joe Walsh and Cheap Trick (Live) send thier regards. Queen, Bad Company, and Santana will all say Thank You later.
Just my opinon on why CD sales sucks. BTW, if some music lover cares to do a detailed book on how Audacity works, I'd buy it. I still suck at choosing the right filter.
Enjoy,
He said no such thing...
He/She actually did. Did you not read the whole thread?
Then, please... don't try to convince "average users" that Linux is ready for the desktop. Doing so and then telling anyone who disagrees to "go away" is disgraceful.
I didn't tell "anyone to go away". I said maybe he/she should stick to Windows in an non-offensive manner. The parent poster qualified thier Linux opinon, and I responded to some errors. Can you refute?
I also didn't try to convince anyone to switch to Linux. There were/are flaws in the parent posters arguments, I merely stated that others feel differently, myself included. You obviously disagree that KDE/Gnome/XFCE is for you. Thats your choice. There is no reason for a hatefull response.
People are moving to Linux. Whether you want them to or not is out of your control.
Enjoy,
Your entitled to your opinion, but please don't inform the rest of us who have been using desktop Linux that we shouldn't because it isn't ready. Maybe you should stick to Windows and leave Linux for the rest of us?
And the genuine advantage is a relatively new program, in the grand scheme of things. I don't agree with it's tenets, and think it's a poor idea.
Tell that to my son who bought Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with his birthday money. We tried two different Nvidia (PCI/AGP) cards along with a newer ATI AGP card. All give the same Directx3D error. Atari says see Microsoft, Microsoft says let us scan your computer to see if your a thief. Screw that, I have more than 10 purchased copies of Windows (3.x, 95, 98, 2000, XP etc.) with holograms/licences. I'm not a thief (except when playing D&D) and I don't appreciate being called one.
I just think that until we can get Suse (or any distro) in a shiny box, on the counter, next to other compatible software, along side MS, with some sort of recognizable image,
Where I live, Lindows/SuSE/RedHat are stocked on the shelf right beside Windows XP in CompUSA and Best Buy. Where I just bought my wife's new Naked PC (I'm a thief according to Microsoft) at the Mom and Pop Computer shop, they offered to put SuSE on it for me (I declined of course). What counter are you talking about?
in association with some ease of use, Linux on the average home desktop is a long way off.
Yeah, us Mac and OS/2 users said the same thing in August of 1995 about Microsoft. Ease of use is in the eye of the beholder. Who said windows was ever ready for the desktop? My neophyte wife has no problems using KDE over Linux. She scans/prints/emails/surfs with no problems. Even her new Christmas HP Photo printer works without any problems. My kids don't care what the interface is, they just use the computer, Gnome/KDE/BlackBox/XP/Nintendo with whatever interface is available. They just use the computer (IM/Quake2/Doom/Diablo/Wesnoth/ etc.) for what it was supposed to be for... Running programs.
Just a difference of opinion, we can debate all night long (I'd rather not).
Enjoy,
Most "experienced" computer users would probably be lost in it (I know my wife hates it). Interestingly, my kids very quickly learned how to use it. They seem to be equally comfortable in my "personal" desktop environment as in Gnome or Windows XP.
Same situation here, only I'm using XFCE4. Kids dont care, they are comfortable with Gnome/KDE/98/XP etc. I think its because they have no pre-conceived notions on what a computer should be. My wife ended up using KDE because that was what she was comfortable using.
Enjoy.
Microsoft makes many things automated. Want OS updates? Go to windowsupdate.com, or click on the "Windows Update" icon. Want driver updates? Go to manufacturer, get drivers for 2000/xp OR 98/ME. No pointing to mirrors, no compilation, no source, no RPM, no Yum, just "Do It Now!", wait for the icon to appear, double click, make a sandwich, reboot.
That's what Linux is lacking. Does anyone realize this?
You really need to check out Ubuntu or SuSE 10 if thats what you want. Don't call Linux lacking because you weren't aware of alternate distributions.
As far as Windows Update, your not getting anything new from Microsoft without the blessing from GenuineCheck.exe. Go try and update DirectX9b with DirectX9c. You can't without a warrentless system search from Microsoft.
Enjoy,
I don't know about you, but all the kernel source I've downloaded uses MD5 (which in itself has flaws). What source do you download that uses PGP?
Enjoy,
It is true that 95% of users don't use GPG, but I'd regard that as a flaw in and of itself. Mind you, most e-mail programs (including, IIRC, thunderbird) don't support GPG, although some do support a limited range of digital certificates.
I agree. But again, the way I read the alert, isn't this a "Man In the Middle" attack?
Does it affect routers or the infrastructure of the Internet? Only insofar as domain registrars never validate change requests properly. A carefully-crafted attack could use this to append a change-of-IP request to some ISP's routine request to a registrar, which means an attacker could create a phony DNS server for the express purpose of polluting the DNS namespace. If the registrar uses GPG's validation as proof of a legit request (and some are quite happy with a fax with no proof of origin at all) then it could have an impact.
If your able to effect routers on an ISP infrastructure then were not talking script kiddies. We all know DNS hijacking. To do what your talking about requires leet skillz. Maybe I could, you possibly could, but how many others? How secure is GPG against an amatuer?
BTW: my parent post is marked as Troll. Some idiot has moderator points.
Thanks for the response.
Enjoy.
Shouldn't this read Security Flaw Discovered for users of GPG ?
I'm guessing, but 95% of computing world doesn't use GPG. And isn't this a "Man In the Middle" attack? How many routers have been compromised that I need to worry about this?
Are my GPG encrypted messages to the kremlin, CIA, or FBI less secure? Are my "lovey-dovey, are you naked" messages to my wife compromised? Thats about all I use GPG for.
Enjoy.
Advertising MS software != not advertising non-MS software. Your references don't back up your claim.
My references work just fine, your interpretation of my post is wrong.
Microsoft is not going to give you (as an OEM) marketing funds for non-Microsoft approved logos/software etc. If you (as an OEM) advertise a system as Linux and XP compatible, you will not qualify for reimbursement from Microsofts marketing fund.
Did you not read the the links?
Enjoy,
So why did Dell refuse -- no matter how we tried to word the question -- to admit that they really had moved a bit further toward offering Linux on the desktop?
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k eting/partner_initiatives/marketing-fund/
Or, better still, why doesn't Dell just start offering one Linux distribution as an option on their complete desktop line?
The reason is that, when push comes to shove, "Dell recommends the use of Windows XP Professional" on its desktops.
So I, for one, think that the real reason Dell keeps the Linux desktop at arm's reach is that it doesn't want to tick off Microsoft.
The reason is that Dell and others won't receive the kickbacks, oops, marketing funds provided by Microsoft if they advertise Linux or provide other non-Microsoft software on a Windows desktop (Firefox, openoffice, winamp etc.).
From the article here: ahref=http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f205700/2057
Pursuant to the MDA, Microsoft provides marketing funds -- in the form of discounts on the price the OEM pays for each copy of Windows -- to OEMs whose print advertisements and websites promote Microsoft's operating systems in a manner specified by Microsoft.
From Microsoft, http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/sales_and_mar
From the 1 February 2006 you may qualify for an important new benefit from Microsoft: the System Builder Cooperative Marketing Fund. If you qualify you can accrue funds that can be used to reimburse eligible marketing activities. This flexible funding is offered to Microsoft Partners for every Windows® XP System Builder licence you buy for: Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional 64-bit, and Windows XP Home Edition.
Enjoy,
So I disconnected myself from the network physically and ran the file, expecting the AV programs to catch it at that point. They didn't and so my search began.
:)
Next time, run it through a disassembler first. strings can also be your friend. You also may want to try the free f-prot A/V, it uses heuristics as well as signature detection.
Not that these suggestions will do you any good at the moment
Enjoy.
They can't win: if they include Windows Media Player with their OS they get sued, if they don't include it they get hundreds of thousands of complaints from users and even more Microsoft bashing than before. If they include Active Directory with their OS they get sued, if the don't include it they get thousands of complaints from administrators and even more Microsoft bashing than before.
Digital Research, OS/2, Apple, etc. have all bundled extra-software with the purchase of an O/S. The big difference between them and Microsoft is that the extra-software was always optional. Microsoft doesn't give you any choices with their bundling.
The DOJ really should require MS ship any software outside of the kernel/system libraries on a 2nd Windows CD. This would make the EU/US States and everyone else but Hollyweird happy.
Enjoy.
Sure, 8 new versions of Windows, but erhm, how many different flavors of Linux are there based on the same kernel? :)
Are you trolling on purpose? You should be asking as a Linux user, "when can't I update my Linux kernel to any version".
And since when is there a Linux Light edition or Linux for Loosers? Is there a Linux distribution that will limit your choices or network connections yet?
People choose a different Linux distributions based on what thier comfortable with. Nobody forces them to make a choice. What level of limitations would you like with your eight new versions of Vista?
Enjoy,
*Wrong*.
I don't think so. And to tell the truth, I never had version 2, 3 or 4 lockups. I guess I wasn't running the same bad program that everyone else was.
SET PM_ASYNC_FOCUS_CHANGE=ON in the CONFIG.SYS file to fix the single input queue problem. The OS/2 solution detects misbehaved applications that cause system hangs in what is often incorrectly attributed to OS/2 as the Single Input Queue (SIQ) problem. The fix is implemented at the system level as a separate OS/2 thread that monitors the status of the input queue. No modifications of applications are necessary.
From the article here: http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n12/warp4.htm
Enjoy,
Was it? I was a Warp 4 beta tester and even after the final release, I still had PM lockups.
SET PM_ASYNC_FOCUS_CHANGE=ON in the CONFIG.SYS file to fix the single input queue problem. The OS/2 solution detects misbehaved applications that cause system hangs in what is often incorrectly attributed to OS/2 as the Single Input Queue (SIQ) problem. The fix is implemented at the system level as a separate OS/2 thread that monitors the status of the input queue. No modifications of applications are necessary.
From here: http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n12/warp4.htm
Enjoy,
My question is - does anyone know how I can make a perfect hard disc image that I can restore from if the Rickety 2Gb Segate in the box fails? Any advice greatly appreciated.
/dev/hda2 /mnt -t hpfs).
Take the drive and slave it on a Linux box. dd if=/dev/hda2 of=what-ever-image-you-want-to-call-it. If you have hpfs support in your kernel, you could mount it and copy the files that way (mount
Enjoy.
Linux and Windows will never have useful REXX support
Regina has been around on linux since the mid-90's.
http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_8860.html
Enjoy,
I developed for OS/2 for about 7 years. Yes the kernel had threads and a solid multitasking support but the flawed design of Presentation Manager (PM) caused a single rogue app to lock up the desktop and making it useless. The single message queue that IBM designed in PM, was one of the worst technical design decisions ever made. There added many workarounds to kill rogue apps but the results were pretty unreliable.
It was fixed in 1996 with the release of version 4. Microsoft owns the copyright on PM, not IBM.
Enjoy,
Dear Bill,
I'd rather have my money back from my one purchase of Windows 95 for $80. I'd also like back my $300 purchase of Windows NT4. Microsoft owes me $160 on the two Windows 98 CDs I purchased, along with the $84 dollar Windows 98SE I bought which wiped out my OS/2 partition. I do have Windows 2000 PRO which I bought online for $120. Its OK for development, but it sucks at playing games.
I bought for $40, Windows 3.0. I have two original copies (twelve+ disks each) of Windows 3.11 at $45 apiece. When I had an ARCNET network here at home, I spent another $45 on Windows for Workgroups. I also own, all the original MS DOS floppys from 3.3 which I purchased legally (but I can't remember the price).
I spent $300 dollars on my copy of Office 6, and purchased the Office95 upgrade for $100. Now its worthless because you have changed the office formats.
Bill, Im not buying XP/Vista because I shouldn't have to ask your permission to install software I buy off the store shelf.
I'd like my money back. Stop giving prizes and give us what we paid for.
Enjoy,
Sounds more like the linux crowd patting itself on its back again.
No, this is how OSS does its marketing. We don't have much of a TV advertising budget.
Enjoy,
The very same argument could be used from Microsoft's point of view. We're never going to release Windows [Microsoft's trademark operating system], we're not going to release things like that, because to release them would ruin them. If you release how you do the operating system internals, suddenly every hacker in the world screws up the code and Windows becomes useless. We don't want to do that.
So your comparing a search algorithm to that of a software layer that allows access to the devices on a generic PC? Others have released software stacks that allow access to the generic PC (IBM, BSD, Linus etc.), who else has invented a good WWW search algorithm?
I think your analogy needs some more work.
Enjoy.
Moderated as Funny? Case point for /, going to the stupid people.
ANSI C/C++; If your a .Net developer, don't use Microsoft C++ extensions/managed VM, But of course most c/c++ programmers know that already. Microsoft could/should call thier .Net VS5 hybrids something else besides C++. I'm suprised Bjarne Stroustrup hasn't said anything yet.
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