It was back in 10.1 I think, I can't be assed to Google it and shift through the billion issues OS X had back then.
There have been plenty of famous and significant data loss bugs in Windows' history, like the Windows 98SE shutdown bug
That was not a win98 bug, that was harddrive manufacturers building faulty harddrives that said "yes, I've written everything", when it was still in the harddrive caches, so Windows would power off the machine and the data would never end up written to disk - Harddrive manufacturers fixed this and don't do that anymore. But hey, if I stuck such a harddrive in to a OS X machine, the same thing would very likely happen.
the Windows 2000 ATA bug
Also another bit of hardware retardness, the IDE storage driver stack incorrectly accesses registers that are required for a software reset causing data loss.
Not similar at all, this is by design for preinstalling. The only scenario where this would crop up is with OEMs not imaging disks correctly when they build their preinstalls, this is not a XP bug.
So, so far you've found hardware bugs that aren't the fault of the OS and some badly installed version of Windows that wouldn't normally occur.
Then there's the infamous Mozilla bug that wiped out the entire Program Files directory on Windows
That's not an OS bug.
It's not just user-level software development, either. Just look at Intel's repeated data loss bugs in their SSDs.
I'm honestly not interested in hardware bugs, 3rd party app bugs. The discussion is about the operating systems losing user files under normal operation without extraordinary circumstances (ie: hardware issues, some idiot purposely breaking the install). So far the evidence you have provided hasn't shown Windows to have done this at all.
XP is going out of support. It's time to upgrade right away! (link to Mac ad)
You know, I've seen quite a few bad Windows flaws, but to be honest, I can't think of any that top the recent flaw OS X had where logging into the guest account on the system would erase the contents of your home folder... I really can't think of any Windows flaws that were that destructive or even came close to it.
Worst hilarious part is: This is the second time this flaw occurred on OS X.
Not really, I could have listed at least 30 various news sites that had nothing to do with news papers. Thus, I believe the 'etc' was correct.
With so many industries merging and the formation of conglomerations has been essentially for the worse for consumers.
Perhaps, perhaps not. There is evidence that supports both sides. On one hand, consumers can get access to a vast amount of services, cheaper and get proper integration with certain content. On the other hand, a smaller amount of providers may cause a monopoly position or reduce the amount of choice etc.
But with things like information and news, this could be terrible.
Considering how biased most news services are, I'm not really seeing how this can get worse - it's already bad.
And regardless, fewer sources reporting is a bad and potentially disastrous thing.
With what is being reported now on major media, I don't see any proper reports on "real stuff", thus the concept of "fewer sources" is not a concern since in my opinion, it has already reached zero.
I think you make too many assumptions that major media still tries to do proper reporting making the reports worth watching, reading etc. The quality of most major news outlets has already reached a all time low, losing some mediums, corporations that aren't providing anything decent is of no concern to myself.
While Iuse Firefox 99.99% of the time, I still use SeaMonkey for accessing sites that may be less 'safe'. That way I KNOW that my cookies, passwords and other info is protected, and I can quickly erase the cache and history of me ever visiting these unsafe sites.
WPA-PSK (TKIP) is still far, far better than WEP by many order of magintude, but WPA2-PSK is better, and if all you wireless devices support it (in particular the Nintendo DS DOES NOT, The DSi does, but not for DS games), then that preferred.
The first time that it was posted an attack on TKIP was even possible I switched everything to AES at work. I guess the big deal is IT admins who keep their heads in the sand and -dont- go for the (currently) unhackable technology.
Would have made more sense to me if you had used ipsec.
However, the trick to counter this little menace is to block the anti_adblock js-file.
Webmasters could embed it into their page and wrap javascript tags around the website content in such a way that if javascript was disabled, you wouldn't be able to see the content. Rather simple to do, really.
Right now, sure. Most papers make their content available for free in hopes their site will make money one day. Their paper still makes money. So what happens when their paper doesn't make money and they can't put their news up for free any longer?
BBC, CNN, Fox news etc websites will still be around when they die.
I subscribed to them a few years ago for about 6 months for the Monday-Friday delivery service, because I genuinely like reading a physical paper in the morning...
Amusingly, the majority of crashes are caused by the C++ runtime according to eventvwr.msc.
Absolutely. Unusuable. Linux is only fit to be installed as a system where you will likely never need to mess with it's software ever again after you have it running.
Don't use a Linux for the insane distribution then.
I love anti-Linux circle jerks on slashdot articles and zealots saying how Windows is so superior yet Windows lacks even a modicum of finesse that Kubuntu Linux has. Kubuntu Linux hands down beats any OS I've used including the several large editions of Windows I've used (Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate). It works, has almost no driver problems so things Just Work (TM), and is god damn stable. It's better than any Linux OS ever released. The new UI while played down as "nothing major" by you Microsoft zealots makes the workflow of Kubuntu Linux much faster and more intuitive than OS X or Windows is currently capable of. Not only that, the potential that software devs have is enormous with being able to integrate jumplists and stuff right into their taskbar icons and start menu. Have any of you anti-Linux zealots even used Linux since Redhat 4.0? Live in the now, man.
I love how that fit perfectly on the other-side of the spectrum too.
Windows 7 and Windows XP both BSOD for the same reason: bad drivers. That is not a fault of the OS itself.
According to eventvwr.msc it was caused by the ipv6 stack and I know how to replicate the crash - so yes, I blame 7.
Research, maybe try it next time.
Indeed, you should try it some time.
Either way, the original claim was "windows 7 is infinitly more stable that xp ever was." and "not to mention that 7 runs faster and does everything just plain better that windows XP." - in my scenario, it was not the case, period.
It boggles my mind that people find Vista unstable.
My biggest problem with Vista is that it's scheduler is piss poor. Run a few intensive things like Second life, three virtual machines in vmware and media player and the thing just struggles like hell. This problem did not occur on previous versions of Windows on the same hardware.
With regards to stability, it seems pretty stable just not very usable. Especially when you have only Winamp running, the screensaver activates and it some how can't handle doing smooth playback and does a lot of jittering for the moment a very basic screensaver activates.
Well, it is a little different considering that when you buy World of Goo directly from the developers, you get a download link for Windows, Linux, and OS X versions of the game
For example, l4d costs now about 15$ if bought together with the still unreleased l4d2.
I already have l4d, I don't want to purchase it again and I am not buying l4d2 because I spent a pretty penny already for l4d and got a underwhelming experience.
In my opinion the l4d2 stuff hasn't really worked out as well as VALVe planned with some of their hardcore players.
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It was back in 10.1 I think, I can't be assed to Google it and shift through the billion issues OS X had back then.
That was not a win98 bug, that was harddrive manufacturers building faulty harddrives that said "yes, I've written everything", when it was still in the harddrive caches, so Windows would power off the machine and the data would never end up written to disk - Harddrive manufacturers fixed this and don't do that anymore. But hey, if I stuck such a harddrive in to a OS X machine, the same thing would very likely happen.
Also another bit of hardware retardness, the IDE storage driver stack incorrectly accesses registers that are required for a software reset causing data loss.
Not similar at all, this is by design for preinstalling. The only scenario where this would crop up is with OEMs not imaging disks correctly when they build their preinstalls, this is not a XP bug.
So, so far you've found hardware bugs that aren't the fault of the OS and some badly installed version of Windows that wouldn't normally occur.
That's not an OS bug.
I'm honestly not interested in hardware bugs, 3rd party app bugs. The discussion is about the operating systems losing user files under normal operation without extraordinary circumstances (ie: hardware issues, some idiot purposely breaking the install). So far the evidence you have provided hasn't shown Windows to have done this at all.
You know, I've seen quite a few bad Windows flaws, but to be honest, I can't think of any that top the recent flaw OS X had where logging into the guest account on the system would erase the contents of your home folder... I really can't think of any Windows flaws that were that destructive or even came close to it.
Worst hilarious part is: This is the second time this flaw occurred on OS X.
Not really, I could have listed at least 30 various news sites that had nothing to do with news papers. Thus, I believe the 'etc' was correct.
Perhaps, perhaps not. There is evidence that supports both sides. On one hand, consumers can get access to a vast amount of services, cheaper and get proper integration with certain content. On the other hand, a smaller amount of providers may cause a monopoly position or reduce the amount of choice etc.
Considering how biased most news services are, I'm not really seeing how this can get worse - it's already bad.
With what is being reported now on major media, I don't see any proper reports on "real stuff", thus the concept of "fewer sources" is not a concern since in my opinion, it has already reached zero.
I think you make too many assumptions that major media still tries to do proper reporting making the reports worth watching, reading etc. The quality of most major news outlets has already reached a all time low, losing some mediums, corporations that aren't providing anything decent is of no concern to myself.
1) Insert into blu-ray player. ...
2) Click play.
3) Enjoy movie.
4)
5) Profit!
Seems simple enough and convenient to me.
From their website:
You forgot in Europe the prices are much higher.
Last I checked, Sweden was not in the States.
In other words, it's his porn browser.
Shame my Nintendo DS doesn't support it.
Would have made more sense to me if you had used ipsec.
I included this little gem in my sentence known as "etc":
etc. and so forth: continuing in the same way.
Webmasters could embed it into their page and wrap javascript tags around the website content in such a way that if javascript was disabled, you wouldn't be able to see the content. Rather simple to do, really.
Can't really see myself buying it, honestly.
BBC, CNN, Fox news etc websites will still be around when they die.
Apple is killing newspapers!
Pretty much every other PC OS uses optical discs for installation by default.
I don't know where you get that from, but I am pretty capable of making things crash on Windows 7 without even trying.
Amusingly, the majority of crashes are caused by the C++ runtime according to eventvwr.msc.
Don't use a Linux for the insane distribution then.
I love anti-Linux circle jerks on slashdot articles and zealots saying how Windows is so superior yet Windows lacks even a modicum of finesse that Kubuntu Linux has. Kubuntu Linux hands down beats any OS I've used including the several large editions of Windows I've used (Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate). It works, has almost no driver problems so things Just Work (TM), and is god damn stable. It's better than any Linux OS ever released. The new UI while played down as "nothing major" by you Microsoft zealots makes the workflow of Kubuntu Linux much faster and more intuitive than OS X or Windows is currently capable of. Not only that, the potential that software devs have is enormous with being able to integrate jumplists and stuff right into their taskbar icons and start menu. Have any of you anti-Linux zealots even used Linux since Redhat 4.0? Live in the now, man.
I love how that fit perfectly on the other-side of the spectrum too.
According to eventvwr.msc it was caused by the ipv6 stack and I know how to replicate the crash - so yes, I blame 7.
Indeed, you should try it some time.
Either way, the original claim was "windows 7 is infinitly more stable that xp ever was." and "not to mention that 7 runs faster and does everything just plain better that windows XP." - in my scenario, it was not the case, period.
My biggest problem with Vista is that it's scheduler is piss poor. Run a few intensive things like Second life, three virtual machines in vmware and media player and the thing just struggles like hell. This problem did not occur on previous versions of Windows on the same hardware.
With regards to stability, it seems pretty stable just not very usable. Especially when you have only Winamp running, the screensaver activates and it some how can't handle doing smooth playback and does a lot of jittering for the moment a very basic screensaver activates.
Windows 7 RTM has done a BSOD on me 11 times acording to eventvwr.msc.
My XP system has yet to BSOD.
My XP system does not randomly have issues with software I run.
Like displaying animated gifs in the image preview program? Oh wait...
Like running 16bit applications? Oh wait...
Like running DOS applications? Oh wait...
Looks like you weren't telling the truth. Next time you'll want to backup those statements with something.
You must be new here.
With regards to "belief", the US.
Shame you didn't ask about the reality.
No, this is the cost of doing buisness in Europe, for any company. Be it American, African, Asian, European etc.
Happy days.
I already have l4d, I don't want to purchase it again and I am not buying l4d2 because I spent a pretty penny already for l4d and got a underwhelming experience.
In my opinion the l4d2 stuff hasn't really worked out as well as VALVe planned with some of their hardcore players.