This sounds nifty, too bad x86 CPUs don't support it (barring AMD's x86-64 offerings). However, doesn't PAE mode result in significant I/O performance degradation?
Too bad m$ didnt write an operating system 10 years ago that uses ring 1 or ring 2 in the cpu. Why? Those 2 rings, introduced with the 386 cpu, was designed to and also includes non-executable pages. Micro$ only uses ring 0 and ring 3: ring 3 was never designed for NX as it was already put in rings 1 and 2.
I was about to purchase a membership, when i noticed that KDE has no run command. Linux, without a run command? How else can i run the programs that i have compiled for the desktop without running the shell and launching it with a "&" at the end of it?
I might as well wait for version 10, where they finally start modifying the kde desktop and make it usable vs modifying the fonts and widget settings and leaving it for the most part a virgin.
M$ gave them a copy of the TCP/IP stack that they have given all the schools over the world. big deal. M$ didnt even write it, it came from FreeBSD in the first place. Where is the progress in this world?;)
true, but you dont even have to go that far. All you have to do is write down your idea, write some really abstract verses of how those 2 ideas will work, and thats a patent. Watchout world: you owe Tokerat money for that idea now.
I feel so safe and comforted that the RIAA is sending automated legal notices to everyone... this case reminds me the florida state election where the ficticious prez got his mandate... where thousands of black people were disqualified to vote because their initials match criminals imprisoned, convited or dead for a couple hundred years...
i was receiving spam from bigpond people, but when i looked into it, the person had renamed their box to bigpond.com.au. When i looked closer, the person was using an aol dialup account.
From what i read here, this article is a non-event.
Friends of mine who have beta tested xp have told me to get it for the eye-candy. Then in the next sentence to disable themes and most other features. In addition to this, i read a news article just last week basically said that microsoft congradulated and recommends purchasing stardock's theme manager, window blinds in addition to using winxp. Contradiction?
Are there any real reasons to spend $200+US for a product that is just a fancy shell ontop of old Win2k code-base? Will microsoft post-pone the release of SP3 for win2k to force people to u/g to winxp in order to get the bug fixes that we really shouldnt need to pay money for?
Why cant i get a licence to print money, but they can ??
z) You shall name your first born son William, failure to do so will void this licence.
Come on! Just some parts of the licence are unenforcable. That provision of the licence just says "You cannot use this form of competitor's products in conjunction with this product, so you must buy more of my products to use it".
I am sure that if the DOJ were to perform a new antitrust case against the mighty M$ that they could use this as an example of anti-competitive practices.
io.sys, instead of loading command.com, loads windows\system\vmm32.vxd. If that file is removed io.sys comes to you with the farmiliar message of "Command.com not found", then you can simply point to whichever command interpreter you use.
DOS is still there, its just been hacked abit by microsoft.
Let history repeat itself. It took car manufactures well over 20 years to start incorporating saftey features into their vechicles, but until that happened, the only people complaining about how unsafe cars were were the people who cleaned up after the accidents (ie Doctors, nurses, etc).
This all changed with the Nadar report - and the publicity it generated in the media and the public eye.
What needs to be done is to increase people's awareness of how bodgy the Micro$ server code is, and how only the micro$ exchange servers were the ones that were affected adversly by the Melissa virus...
I just wonder, what will the big corporations like Compaq, Dell or IBM will pay for this thing to be preinstalled on computers?
$20 US ?
What i think in the end is anyone who will be buying the upgrade version will be subsidising the new computer-preinstall versions of Win2k. Anyone else have the same opinion as me?
This is rediculious. Seeing as billg makes the word processor, hasnt anyone thought that he could have the power to sensor Murdock's newspapers with just afew clicks of his mouse?
And that brings up a new point, what happens when the world moves online, to read electronic news papers? What happens if billg changes the license agreement that comes with ie4/5 so that you can only use it for free if you do not go outside the MSN ?
Looking at what has been happening recently - lobbying budget cuts for DOJ, copying that web traval agency, and now this - you can see that billg has an agenda, and with his wallet buldging out of his pants (he was nervous coz he thought someone would rob him for it) he could do anything he dreams.
At my local collage with all Digital OEM pcs running WinNT4 with SR4 installed, if you change the floppy disks at a normal speed (ie it finished writing to the thing) it crashes the floppy.sys driver!
I swear, i can crash all 50+ computers just by doing that. Now, who said that the floppy disk drive passed the WHQL ??
The day the Distributions of linux start to use that Caldera Lizard installation engine (or some type of clone of it,) is the day that Linux becomes the competitor to Windos that we all say it is.
The only scary thing about the o/s is the installation. After that your home free.
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who would you like to patent this? Microsoft, SCO, or IBM. Whom do you trust more out of the 3 to hold the patent and not use it to sue world + dog?
This sounds nifty, too bad x86 CPUs don't support it (barring AMD's x86-64 offerings). However, doesn't PAE mode result in significant I/O performance degradation?
Too bad m$ didnt write an operating system 10 years ago that uses ring 1 or ring 2 in the cpu. Why? Those 2 rings, introduced with the 386 cpu, was designed to and also includes non-executable pages. Micro$ only uses ring 0 and ring 3: ring 3 was never designed for NX as it was already put in rings 1 and 2.
Security through design?
I was about to purchase a membership, when i noticed that KDE has no run command. Linux, without a run command? How else can i run the programs that i have compiled for the desktop without running the shell and launching it with a "&" at the end of it?
I might as well wait for version 10, where they finally start modifying the kde desktop and make it usable vs modifying the fonts and widget settings and leaving it for the most part a virgin.
No, not the same. If you are referring to an email with a root kit attachment, then your talking about a trojan.
M$ gave them a copy of the TCP/IP stack that they have given all the schools over the world. big deal. M$ didnt even write it, it came from FreeBSD in the first place. Where is the progress in this world? ;)
when will steve balmer come on holiday down here for a couple of days holiday, down in melbourne?
"i was just on my way through from switzerland ski trip..."
I guess people are more interested in creating things that will benefit mankind than bomb another nation in the OPEC region.
I see 100% windows 2000 defacements on the page. Does that mean we are no longer using Linux - and nobody told me!
true, but you dont even have to go that far. All you have to do is write down your idea, write some really abstract verses of how those 2 ideas will work, and thats a patent. Watchout world: you owe Tokerat money for that idea now.
i like his idea of sending radiowaves around trees and mountains by using a set of wires and unpowered antenna better.
I'm glad i wont be living in Atlanta in the year 2880 - that one looks deadly.
Technically what microsoft is giving them isnt even a cd. They are giving a sticker that costs 2c per sheet of 100 to be stuck on all the computers.
They could even go to the extent of giving a single letter (3c?) saying that the organisation now has 1000 licences for winxp.
Who knows, but when you have the ability to print money, then you can give away as much as you like.
I feel so safe and comforted that the RIAA is sending automated legal notices to everyone... this case reminds me the florida state election where the ficticious prez got his mandate... where thousands of black people were disqualified to vote because their initials match criminals imprisoned, convited or dead for a couple hundred years...
i was receiving spam from bigpond people, but when i looked into it, the person had renamed their box to bigpond.com.au. When i looked closer, the person was using an aol dialup account.
Irony under any other name?
From what i read here, this article is a non-event.
Friends of mine who have beta tested xp have told me to get it for the eye-candy. Then in the next sentence to disable themes and most other features. In addition to this, i read a news article just last week basically said that microsoft congradulated and recommends purchasing stardock's theme manager, window blinds in addition to using winxp. Contradiction?
Are there any real reasons to spend $200+US for a product that is just a fancy shell ontop of old Win2k code-base? Will microsoft post-pone the release of SP3 for win2k to force people to u/g to winxp in order to get the bug fixes that we really shouldnt need to pay money for?
Why cant i get a licence to print money, but they can ??
And so was this part:
z) You shall name your first born son William, failure to do so will void this licence.
Come on! Just some parts of the licence are unenforcable. That provision of the licence just says "You cannot use this form of competitor's products in conjunction with this product, so you must buy more of my products to use it".
I am sure that if the DOJ were to perform a new antitrust case against the mighty M$ that they could use this as an example of anti-competitive practices.
io.sys, instead of loading command.com, loads windows\system\vmm32.vxd. If that file is removed io.sys comes to you with the farmiliar message of "Command.com not found", then you can simply point to whichever command interpreter you use.
DOS is still there, its just been hacked abit by microsoft.
if i crack someones computer using a bug in micro$ products, then who is to blame??
Let history repeat itself. It took car manufactures well over 20 years to start incorporating saftey features into their vechicles, but until that happened, the only people complaining about how unsafe cars were were the people who cleaned up after the accidents (ie Doctors, nurses, etc).
This all changed with the Nadar report - and the publicity it generated in the media and the public eye.
What needs to be done is to increase people's awareness of how bodgy the Micro$ server code is, and how only the micro$ exchange servers were the ones that were affected adversly by the Melissa virus...
I just wonder, what will the big corporations like Compaq, Dell or IBM will pay for this thing to be preinstalled on computers?
$20 US ?
What i think in the end is anyone who will be buying the upgrade version will be subsidising the new computer-preinstall versions of Win2k. Anyone else have the same opinion as me?
But the way he looks at things is that if he lets ppl look at his source code, then he will not be able to move the world and control the future.
that is what this is about more than anything, controlling the future.
This is rediculious. Seeing as billg makes the word processor, hasnt anyone thought that he could have the power to sensor Murdock's newspapers with just afew clicks of his mouse?
And that brings up a new point, what happens when the world moves online, to read electronic news papers? What happens if billg changes the license agreement that comes with ie4/5 so that you can only use it for free if you do not go outside the MSN ?
Looking at what has been happening recently - lobbying budget cuts for DOJ, copying that web traval agency, and now this - you can see that billg has an agenda, and with his wallet buldging out of his pants (he was nervous coz he thought someone would rob him for it) he could do anything he dreams.
At my local collage with all Digital OEM pcs running WinNT4 with SR4 installed, if you change the floppy disks at a normal speed (ie it finished writing to the thing) it crashes the floppy.sys driver!
;`(
I swear, i can crash all 50+ computers just by doing that. Now, who said that the floppy disk drive passed the WHQL ??
Me = 1 pi$$ed off dude
The day the Distributions of linux start to use that Caldera Lizard installation engine (or some type of clone of it,) is the day that Linux becomes the competitor to Windos that we all say it is.
The only scary thing about the o/s is the installation. After that your home free.