An improvement, is an improvement. A gain, however small, is a gain. Nuff said on that account and thanks for seconding it along with its other users noted on its downloads page here
If I paint my car in Teflon to reduce its air resistance, but discover that the decrease in friction is some tiny fraction of a percent, it probably wasn't worth the effort of doing in the first place.
What does this mean?
It means that you are worthless.
you wont even answer if you are jewish or not, I wonder why that is.
Are you for real? This has nothing to do with anything. The fact that you even brought it up makes no sense whatsoever. I'm not going to answer your question because it's irrelevant and you are a tool.
You lose, APK. Again. But you're used to that, aren't you?
As you have committed the final step in your own self-degradation and abasement, I have nothing left to say to you, having successfully exposed you as human filth. Have a great life!
I've been busy, but ultimately I couldn't miss out on the potential for lulz.
Briefly, however:
Is this a savings/improvement, or not? Yes it is.
Do you know what the word "negligible" means? That is the kind of improvement your program produces. It is not at all noticeable by the user. There is no change in responsiveness or boot time. Everything is exactly as fast as it was before, for all intents and purposes.
Now - Can you gain anybody that much in a program you wrote that needed NO ALTERATION TO RUN ON Windows 9.x, Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003, all the way since the date of its birth back as far as 1997??
Uh, well. Sure. I could write something that looks for unnecessary system services and other things that don't strictly need to run (yes, I know there is no such thing as "services" on Win9x), and turns them off. That would actually be an order of magnitude better than your program. But, see, I know how to use Microsoft Management Console (and how to configure my Mac, and my Linux machine), so I don't need to do that. Because I'm not stupid. The way you are. See?
(In that it cleans up tracks of apps and installers that should not have been left behind and were after uninstalls or programs I used to use and still do, leaving entries of things they accessed that no longer exist on disk - another benefit it offers, albeit in security AND ONE BENEFIT YOU MISSED TOTALLY (so much for your analysis, alleged student)).... how does this have ANYTHING to do with system security? So much for your rebuttal, alleged person-with-an-IQ-greater-than-75.
I'm kind of sad you didn't try anything else to justify the existence of your stupidly-designed, horribly-written application, because it would have been fun to shoot it down, too.
What a schlemiel this APK is! Truly a shandah for the goyim.
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Oh. My. God. I can't even tell you how hard I laughed after reading these two insane screeds of yours. Either one of two things is going on here:
1) You're kidding around and trolling, which would be funny all by itself because it REALLY seems like you're serious 2) YOU'RE ACTUALLY SERIOUS, which is possibly the most lol thing I can imagine
You have managed to singlehandedly wipe out any credibility you've ever had, alllll by yourself. And you have the nerve to call ME "paranoid" simply for calling you out on your little case of multiple personality disorder? As a philosopher from the late 40's might say (Daffy Duck, of course), "It is to laugh!" Wow. What are you going to do for your next trick, Alex? Start quoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
Hey, if nothing else, Jews are hot. Come on, APK! Embrace your inner bagel nosh!
"Okay, seriously. Let's drop the act. Okay? Yes? Let's quit pretending. I am quite male. I only said I was female to mess with your head." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 02, @08:18PM (#18581257)
We've been over this. Why does it matter again? Why do you keep coming back to this? Are you THAT freaked out by being unable to determine someone's gender online? Recall that YOU were the one who originally suggested I might be female, I just went along with it. You poor, poor insecure little boy stuck in a balding 47-year-old's body.
Are you proud of this, in your being caught as a liar with your own words and also turning up a TOTAL blowhard?
Yes. In fact, Mommy put this entire exchange on her refrigerator!
You also did this kind of critique with no merits and lies towards myspace.com as well, you outright disgusting liar.... are you, like, a MySpace investor or something? They haven't changed one whit since 2002. The developers have been cruising on their existing codebase for 5 years. The social networking features don't work -- as anyone who looks at anyone else's profile and sees "so and so is in your 'Extended Network'" can attest to. The site is in desperate need of a redesign. For an example of social networking done CORRECTLY, see Facebook. Why do you care so much about one offhanded comment about MySpace?
Lol, you cry like a beyotch.
Lol, when did I lol cry like an lol beyotch lol?
you with no accomplishments in this field of good note or repute online period, lol
lol absence of evidence is not evidence of absence lol. Look up the definitions of "necessary condition" and "sufficient condition," then come back and try again.
You started this all up Yes? don't try to bullshit anyone reading here I'm not? The only people who have read any of this are you and me, APK, with the exception of whoever modded me down like... three weeks ago. You were also caught lying as well. About something that doesn't matter? Why do you care? How does me fucking around with you by saying I'm female have anything to do with... anything? Did you major in non sequiturs at LeMoyne or what?
Where apk was modded up +4, and you got a lol, -1 for trolling & flaming (which means nothing)
T,FTFY
Now. Let me educate you a little bit on why your "Registry Cleaning Engine" is what we in the computer science industry like to call "fucking worthless."
The Windows Registry, as I hope to God you know since you've written software that edits it, is organized in a tree data structure. Now, even assuming that Windows needed to search through the registry file every time it needed to look something up, the time complexity (i.e., the order of magnitude of how long it takes) of searching through a tree is approximately equal to log(n), where n is the number of entries in the tree. This is VERY, VERY FAST. Linear (n) scans of things are very fast already. log(n) is even faster. Your "Registry Cleaning Engine" removed 300-some-odd entries (on my test box, since I wouldn't put your software on a machine that mattered if my life depended on it) from a file that contains TENS OF THOUSANDS of items. This means that it reduced search time by log(300something). This is maybe a couple clock cycles. MAYBE.
Now, let's get out of the realm of the theoretical and get into real life. The Registry is NOT searched through every time Windows needs information from it. Instead, it is read from the file once, at boot, and loaded into memory into a static data structure which is a hybrid of a tree and an array. Windows keeps index pointers to important information and can do search through the tree for anything it doesn't have pointers to (naturally, the higher the branching factor at any level, the faster the search is). This means your "Engine" is even MORE worthless, because anything impor
Alex, I want you to take a moment to think, here. Just construct a thought experiment in your head.
You probably recall that a couple weeks ago I said "goodbye" and you stopped posting in response to me, yes? It could have been finished there, but you chose to resume your silly comments a week later.
Now, ask yourself this: Why would I or anybody else actually believe that a third party could be so profoundly invested in a random, stupid flamewar between two strangers on SLASHDOT of all places that they would actually start attacking ME over me trolling YOU? Why would some random person who "happened" to "stumble" across all these ridiculous conversations take so much of their own time to engage in your usual copy-and-paste rant sessions? Why would random individuals online care SO MUCH about what either you or I said to each other on Slashdot?
Answer: They wouldn't. That, combined with your inability to disguise your writing due to profound mental retardation, is why I know alllll of this has only been you shouting at me and me laughing at you.
That does not change the fact you lied about being a woman, by admitting you did lie starkruzr, you nimwit. A liar is a liar once you are branded as one and you did that to yourself.
The sky is red. I AM A LIAR FOREVER OMG
What a dipshit you are. What does the inside of your own asshole smell like, APK? You are the only person I know who would know since you constantly have your head shoved up your ass.
Anyway. What kind of beer should I get for my birthday party on Friday? Just about every hot undergrad chick I know is coming, so, you know, I want to purchase to impress. The ladies do love their lambics, but the damn things are so bloody expensive. Thoughts?
Oh, and you appear to still be banninated from TPU. LOLZ.
I knew that when I said goodbye to you and you disappeared it must have been too good to be true. Just can't bear to let anyone have the last word, can you APK?
(Also, "I said X to mess with your head" does rather a piss-poor job of painting someone as a "liar," but I suppose that ship sailed several millenia ago.)
I think I hear your daddy calling, Alex. Better run back downstairs.
on all points. Even though I was just playing the same game the troll was for fun.:p I love my C2D MBP and run Windows on it only very irregularly. Don't really need it except to play exactly one game and interface with my phone.
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An improvement, is an improvement. A gain, however small, is a gain. Nuff said on that account and thanks for seconding it along with its other users noted on its downloads page here
If I paint my car in Teflon to reduce its air resistance, but discover that the decrease in friction is some tiny fraction of a percent, it probably wasn't worth the effort of doing in the first place.
What does this mean?
It means that you are worthless.
you wont even answer if you are jewish or not, I wonder why that is.
Are you for real? This has nothing to do with anything. The fact that you even brought it up makes no sense whatsoever. I'm not going to answer your question because it's irrelevant and you are a tool.
You lose, APK. Again. But you're used to that, aren't you?
As you have committed the final step in your own self-degradation and abasement, I have nothing left to say to you, having successfully exposed you as human filth. Have a great life!
"Jews are hot? Yea, when they get tossed into ovens, this is certain (humor)."
I think pointing this out is all I have to say about that.
Sincerely,
StarKruzr DeMalleystein
I've been busy, but ultimately I couldn't miss out on the potential for lulz.
... how does this have ANYTHING to do with system security? So much for your rebuttal, alleged person-with-an-IQ-greater-than-75.
Briefly, however:
Is this a savings/improvement, or not? Yes it is.
Do you know what the word "negligible" means? That is the kind of improvement your program produces. It is not at all noticeable by the user. There is no change in responsiveness or boot time. Everything is exactly as fast as it was before, for all intents and purposes.
Now - Can you gain anybody that much in a program you wrote that needed NO ALTERATION TO RUN ON Windows 9.x, Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003, all the way since the date of its birth back as far as 1997??
Uh, well. Sure. I could write something that looks for unnecessary system services and other things that don't strictly need to run (yes, I know there is no such thing as "services" on Win9x), and turns them off. That would actually be an order of magnitude better than your program. But, see, I know how to use Microsoft Management Console (and how to configure my Mac, and my Linux machine), so I don't need to do that. Because I'm not stupid. The way you are. See?
(In that it cleans up tracks of apps and installers that should not have been left behind and were after uninstalls or programs I used to use and still do, leaving entries of things they accessed that no longer exist on disk - another benefit it offers, albeit in security AND ONE BENEFIT YOU MISSED TOTALLY (so much for your analysis, alleged student)).
I'm kind of sad you didn't try anything else to justify the existence of your stupidly-designed, horribly-written application, because it would have been fun to shoot it down, too.
What a schlemiel this APK is! Truly a shandah for the goyim.
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Oh. My. God. I can't even tell you how hard I laughed after reading these two insane screeds of yours. Either one of two things is going on here:
1) You're kidding around and trolling, which would be funny all by itself because it REALLY seems like you're serious
2) YOU'RE ACTUALLY SERIOUS, which is possibly the most lol thing I can imagine
You have managed to singlehandedly wipe out any credibility you've ever had, alllll by yourself. And you have the nerve to call ME "paranoid" simply for calling you out on your little case of multiple personality disorder? As a philosopher from the late 40's might say (Daffy Duck, of course), "It is to laugh!" Wow. What are you going to do for your next trick, Alex? Start quoting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
Hey, if nothing else, Jews are hot. Come on, APK! Embrace your inner bagel nosh!
Sincerely,
StarKruzr McRubenstein
Maybe it's because you're a massive antisemite?
You're not fooling anybody, crackbaby.
Welcome to the late 80s, APK.
Have you tried dying of AIDS? Maybe you should!
I don't expect anyone to listen to me at all. And no one is. No one is paying any attention to any of this other than you.
Fail, APK. Massive, massive fail.
OK, Alex, here we go:
... are you, like, a MySpace investor or something? They haven't changed one whit since 2002. The developers have been cruising on their existing codebase for 5 years. The social networking features don't work -- as anyone who looks at anyone else's profile and sees "so and so is in your 'Extended Network'" can attest to. The site is in desperate need of a redesign. For an example of social networking done CORRECTLY, see Facebook. Why do you care so much about one offhanded comment about MySpace?
"Okay, seriously. Let's drop the act. Okay? Yes? Let's quit pretending. I am quite male. I only said I was female to mess with your head." - by StarKruzr (74642) on Monday April 02, @08:18PM (#18581257)
We've been over this. Why does it matter again? Why do you keep coming back to this? Are you THAT freaked out by being unable to determine someone's gender online? Recall that YOU were the one who originally suggested I might be female, I just went along with it. You poor, poor insecure little boy stuck in a balding 47-year-old's body.
Are you proud of this, in your being caught as a liar with your own words and also turning up a TOTAL blowhard?
Yes. In fact, Mommy put this entire exchange on her refrigerator!
You also did this kind of critique with no merits and lies towards myspace.com as well, you outright disgusting liar.
Lol, you cry like a beyotch.
Lol, when did I lol cry like an lol beyotch lol?
you with no accomplishments in this field of good note or repute online period, lol
lol absence of evidence is not evidence of absence lol. Look up the definitions of "necessary condition" and "sufficient condition," then come back and try again.
You started this all up Yes? don't try to bullshit anyone reading here I'm not? The only people who have read any of this are you and me, APK, with the exception of whoever modded me down like... three weeks ago. You were also caught lying as well. About something that doesn't matter? Why do you care? How does me fucking around with you by saying I'm female have anything to do with... anything? Did you major in non sequiturs at LeMoyne or what?
Where apk was modded up +4, and you got a lol, -1 for trolling & flaming (which means nothing)
T,FTFY
Now. Let me educate you a little bit on why your "Registry Cleaning Engine" is what we in the computer science industry like to call "fucking worthless."
The Windows Registry, as I hope to God you know since you've written software that edits it, is organized in a tree data structure. Now, even assuming that Windows needed to search through the registry file every time it needed to look something up, the time complexity (i.e., the order of magnitude of how long it takes) of searching through a tree is approximately equal to log(n), where n is the number of entries in the tree. This is VERY, VERY FAST. Linear (n) scans of things are very fast already. log(n) is even faster. Your "Registry Cleaning Engine" removed 300-some-odd entries (on my test box, since I wouldn't put your software on a machine that mattered if my life depended on it) from a file that contains TENS OF THOUSANDS of items. This means that it reduced search time by log(300something). This is maybe a couple clock cycles. MAYBE.
Now, let's get out of the realm of the theoretical and get into real life. The Registry is NOT searched through every time Windows needs information from it. Instead, it is read from the file once, at boot, and loaded into memory into a static data structure which is a hybrid of a tree and an array. Windows keeps index pointers to important information and can do search through the tree for anything it doesn't have pointers to (naturally, the higher the branching factor at any level, the faster the search is). This means your "Engine" is even MORE worthless, because anything impor
You failed to address anything I said, because you know I'm right.
You lose AGAIN, APK. This must be getting enormously frustrating for you.
You are.
Alex, I want you to take a moment to think, here. Just construct a thought experiment in your head.
You probably recall that a couple weeks ago I said "goodbye" and you stopped posting in response to me, yes? It could have been finished there, but you chose to resume your silly comments a week later.
Now, ask yourself this: Why would I or anybody else actually believe that a third party could be so profoundly invested in a random, stupid flamewar between two strangers on SLASHDOT of all places that they would actually start attacking ME over me trolling YOU? Why would some random person who "happened" to "stumble" across all these ridiculous conversations take so much of their own time to engage in your usual copy-and-paste rant sessions? Why would random individuals online care SO MUCH about what either you or I said to each other on Slashdot?
Answer: They wouldn't. That, combined with your inability to disguise your writing due to profound mental retardation, is why I know alllll of this has only been you shouting at me and me laughing at you.
You lose again, APK. Checkmate.
X GETS THE SQUARE!!!!!!111eleventyfive!!~
especially consistently. See also "APK."
You haven't managed to do anything at all to me yet, APK. What are you going to do? Send threatening letters to MY ISP?
I love how upset I can make you simply by not taking you as seriously as you take yourself. Truly, this is the ultimate in trolling.
BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!!!!! APK IS A GIANT LOSER WHO EATS TOO MANY POP TARTS AND LIVES WITH HIS DAD! LOLZ!
Ubuntu 7.04 was released yesterday!
I'm psyched. I think I might totally blow away XP on this machine and stick it on there. I wonder if it has Beryl enabled by default. Hmmm.
Oh, also, you're an idiot. No one thinks I'm a "liar" other than you.
but you're still banned from everywhere you've ever posted. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh, and you're pushing 50 and still live with your dad.
I know that as a narcissist you have no sense of humor, but please at least try to be funny, or I'll have to stop replying to what you say entirely.
That does not change the fact you lied about being a woman, by admitting you did lie starkruzr, you nimwit. A liar is a liar once you are branded as one and you did that to yourself.
The sky is red. I AM A LIAR FOREVER OMG
What a dipshit you are. What does the inside of your own asshole smell like, APK? You are the only person I know who would know since you constantly have your head shoved up your ass.
Anyway. What kind of beer should I get for my birthday party on Friday? Just about every hot undergrad chick I know is coming, so, you know, I want to purchase to impress. The ladies do love their lambics, but the damn things are so bloody expensive. Thoughts?
Oh, and you appear to still be banninated from TPU. LOLZ.
Not a threat. Really. I think you should give dying in a fire a try.
Die in a fire, APK.
I knew that when I said goodbye to you and you disappeared it must have been too good to be true. Just can't bear to let anyone have the last word, can you APK?
(Also, "I said X to mess with your head" does rather a piss-poor job of painting someone as a "liar," but I suppose that ship sailed several millenia ago.)
I think I hear your daddy calling, Alex. Better run back downstairs.
on all points. Even though I was just playing the same game the troll was for fun. :p I love my C2D MBP and run Windows on it only very irregularly. Don't really need it except to play exactly one game and interface with my phone.
Developers are the business users. Mac users are the consumers.
This is the reason why this really IS an MS swipe at Apple.
Fuck it right in the ear.
There's a new game in town, greasy emo kid. It's called UNIX. We're here to stay, and no amount of wrist-slicing is going to change that.
Specifically, Mac users. That's what I was driving at.
Who are the consumer-level users who want virtualization going to be?
Go ahead, you can take as much time as you want to think about it.