Wine will do that job just fine... You only need ReactOS if you *want* to use video/audio/chipset/etc. drivers written for Windows.
Or drivers for some other much more expensive and hard to replace (possibly custom developed) widget. This is the sort of situation that leaves VAX and PDP-11 systems running in production decades after they were discontinued.
Not quite. Windows NT was initially developed for the Intel i860 CPU Architecture and ported to MIPS/i386/Alpha/PowerPC later.
The codename for the i860 XR processor was "N10" or N-Ten.
Microsoft has some great stuff going for it: an awesome Visual Studio IDE that blows away XCode and Eclipse
I have often heard this and I just can't figure out where this whole "Visual Studio is the best IDE ever" stuff comes from or if people are serious when they say it.
I use Visual Studio every day at work. Used it for years. It is *not* the best. In fact, despite its very high price tag, I'd consider it quite basic in many areas. If you buy a copy of ReSharper things get a lot better but most of what it adds is already built into IntelliJ and (perhaps to a lesser extent) Eclipse and NetBeans.
Plus it has no real source control support built in. Just TFS. Don't get me started on TFS. I've encountered plenty of people who think its great too and I can only assume they've never used anything else (except probably SourceSafe, its predecessor and almost certainly the worst source control tool ever written. I'd sooner use RCS than trust my code to that.)
How many people here have in the last couple of years actually tried to type on a Model M? What one day came from my pile of old keyboards has now been used every day on my main computer for at least a year. It took only a few minutes of use before deciding to make the switch and I do not ever plan on switching back. At only 14 years of age my Model M should provide many more years of service.
I do not know how many people here have used one, but I use one every day.
Ive been watching Supreme Commander since the rumours of of a new game started appearing in places like tauniverse.com. So far there has not been a word on Mac or Linux support so I am guessing that it will be a windows-only game.
I still play Total Annihilation at lans a few times per year. For the most part it runs fine on modern computers and with the 3.1 patch and the totala.ini configuration file a unit limit of 500 per player in a 5 player game runs quite nicely.
Supreme Commander is looking like it will be good enough to replace TA but sadly it is still quite along way off and it doesnt seem that there will be much more information on it until E3. About the best I can do while I wait is hover arround SupComUniverse (http://www.supcomuniverse.com/) or the gas powered games forums (http://garage.gaspowered.com/?q=)
Im quite excited about longhorn. i think it will be quite fun watching longhorn fail completly, although i do wish that they were fully implementing their palladium shit. If they were to fully implement it i think not only would microsoft loose billions but they would see alot of windows users migrating to proper operating systems like GNU/Linux.
All up, as longhorn wont contain anything new i would expect microsoft would be unable to sell more than 100 copies, but then look at WindowsNT 5.1, its hardly any diffrent from 5.0 but it did reasonably well. I guess it just shows that microsoft can make money of anything. Just slow down their previous OS, add some "features" no-one uses, put it in a shiny new box, and watch the money roll in.
Just terrible. I have that happen all the time. I now know to make sure that all of the card slots in the back have either a card or a blanking plate, otherwise the mice realy do make a mess
I occasionally patch windows (when i actualy use it) but i find that windows is more of a threat to its self than all the hackers and viruses in the world combined. Windows seems to be suicidal and likes killing its self or doing stupid things that requires it to be reinstalled about once every three weeks(Windows has given every single device in my system IRQ 9 which causes big probs and wont let me change it)
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Wine will do that job just fine... You only need ReactOS if you *want* to use video/audio/chipset/etc. drivers written for Windows.
Or drivers for some other much more expensive and hard to replace (possibly custom developed) widget. This is the sort of situation that leaves VAX and PDP-11 systems running in production decades after they were discontinued.
In case anyone was wondering what NT stood for
V +1 = W M + 1 = N S + 1 = T
Not quite. Windows NT was initially developed for the Intel i860 CPU Architecture and ported to MIPS/i386/Alpha/PowerPC later. The codename for the i860 XR processor was "N10" or N-Ten.
Microsoft has some great stuff going for it: an awesome Visual Studio IDE that blows away XCode and Eclipse
I have often heard this and I just can't figure out where this whole "Visual Studio is the best IDE ever" stuff comes from or if people are serious when they say it.
I use Visual Studio every day at work. Used it for years. It is *not* the best. In fact, despite its very high price tag, I'd consider it quite basic in many areas. If you buy a copy of ReSharper things get a lot better but most of what it adds is already built into IntelliJ and (perhaps to a lesser extent) Eclipse and NetBeans.
Plus it has no real source control support built in. Just TFS. Don't get me started on TFS. I've encountered plenty of people who think its great too and I can only assume they've never used anything else (except probably SourceSafe, its predecessor and almost certainly the worst source control tool ever written. I'd sooner use RCS than trust my code to that.)
Well, here is one guys fairly well constructed opinion (not mine): http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS. html
Ive been watching Supreme Commander since the rumours of of a new game started appearing in places like tauniverse.com. So far there has not been a word on Mac or Linux support so I am guessing that it will be a windows-only game.
I still play Total Annihilation at lans a few times per year. For the most part it runs fine on modern computers and with the 3.1 patch and the totala.ini configuration file a unit limit of 500 per player in a 5 player game runs quite nicely. Supreme Commander is looking like it will be good enough to replace TA but sadly it is still quite along way off and it doesnt seem that there will be much more information on it until E3. About the best I can do while I wait is hover arround SupComUniverse (http://www.supcomuniverse.com/) or the gas powered games forums (http://garage.gaspowered.com/?q=)
Im quite excited about longhorn. i think it will be quite fun watching longhorn fail completly, although i do wish that they were fully implementing their palladium shit. If they were to fully implement it i think not only would microsoft loose billions but they would see alot of windows users migrating to proper operating systems like GNU/Linux. All up, as longhorn wont contain anything new i would expect microsoft would be unable to sell more than 100 copies, but then look at WindowsNT 5.1, its hardly any diffrent from 5.0 but it did reasonably well. I guess it just shows that microsoft can make money of anything. Just slow down their previous OS, add some "features" no-one uses, put it in a shiny new box, and watch the money roll in.
Just terrible. I have that happen all the time. I now know to make sure that all of the card slots in the back have either a card or a blanking plate, otherwise the mice realy do make a mess
I occasionally patch windows (when i actualy use it) but i find that windows is more of a threat to its self than all the hackers and viruses in the world combined. Windows seems to be suicidal and likes killing its self or doing stupid things that requires it to be reinstalled about once every three weeks(Windows has given every single device in my system IRQ 9 which causes big probs and wont let me change it)