But you can finetune the level of bloat. You can cut out rotten parts or replace them with alternate solution. And if any part crashes, it does not bring everything else down in flames because the dependencies are sane and logical.
The only Linux crashes I've had in recent years have been because of ATI (closed binary crap) and Atheros WLAN (in part closed binary crap). See the trend?
it kicked ass on 4 MB computers with broken hardware back in 95. It ushered process isolation many years before Macs got it. It ushered a reasonably good UI many years before Linux got it. Plug & Play, ugly as it was, brought the end to fiddling with jumpers which is something that 99 percent of the population doesn't know how to do. It ran all your DOS and Win 3.1 stuff.
I did not HAVE "DOS and Win3.1 stuff", I had been using Linux on my first PC (4M RAM) for 18 months. Win95 absolutely, positively sucked. It did not shut down properly. The file system was an ugly kludge. The mem protection was good on paper, the thing crashed all the time.
My sound card and ethernet card used ISA, and were not plug-and-pray. During the period of PnP getting more popular it was more hassle than it was worth - instead of making things easier it COMPLICATED things.
Win95 did not have good parallel port support or good floppy support. SCSI support was abysmal, the machine usually crashed half way between burning CDs. I had to use cdrecord under Linux (and my drive did not support DAO writing at the time).
What else... oh I know! Win95 had the habit of fucking up partition tables if it encountered partitions with unknown signatures (Amiga ones, for example).
Just a matter of time.
Vista will flop. XP is crap. 2000 was kinda ok for a sucky closed OS, but soon no longer supported. M$ is the one who will have to adapt. No reason to work with them, they're soon a non-entity.
What universe do you live in? No-one here uses Windows CE devices. Most use fancy Nokia stuff or real laptops (and increasingly those laptops are OS X).
Gates kicks ass. He'd be the perfect role model if it weren't for some of his less savoury feats.
Like, taking the computer industry back 10 years by saturating the market with bullshit with broken APIs and convenient deviations from standards?
He made a lot of money. That metric alone is only appreciated by very few people. Count the wasted time and effort and frustration. I'd smack him in the face given the chance.
Commodores had M$ basic but that was it.
It was the C64 that drove the prices down and the amount of memory up.
Gates was the greatest villain for 20 years if we look into individuals and not political parties or organizations.
He was responsible for more lost work and lost data than anyone ever. The burning of the library of Alexandria was a feeble effort to pre-emptively top mr Gates' effort.
Not to mention wasted time, or cause for alcoholism and broken keyboards.
When handling directory entries NTFS is so slow it's not even funny. Maybe with some extra glue the drive head trashing related to NTFS metadata handling overhead could be targeted -> flash... -> profit. Or something.
Try this: http://www.fs-driver.org/
Then try mirroring a big directory structure to/from NTFS... and to/from ext2/ext3 using this driver. The performance difference is enlightening.
Windows 95 was marketed, at least in Finland, agressively with big ads showing pills and packaging. "No more headaches" was the slogan. The elderly were heard asking for this new "Windows 95" in drugstores.
Sadly, I couldn't google image any pics in this hurry - this WAS 11 years ago.
For years, I wished someone would sue the bastards for false advertising. Win95 was a cause of headache, not cure.
I grew with 'jed' in emacs mode, since it was much faster on 486, but nowadays more and more often just launch vi/vim. 0 seconds vs 2 seconds is still a big difference for those one line edits.
My 250MHz, 64M RAM Linux RISC machine outdoes wintel boxes in many areas. For example, checking RSS feeds and reading eBooks while taking a dump at work. 770 rules. My TI-84 outdid 3GHz wintel boxes for doing quick calcs (1 second boot time).
I buy the books I like. To find out, what I like, I warezzz them in eBook form and read them on my nokia770 while taking a dump at work.
Who really cares? Books are niche. Most people do not read books anymore, they watch the idiot box (which in 2 years I will not have since Finland is forced into digital era and I do not want to pay for crap I never watch). Easier to dload TV series from the net, see if I like it, and it I do, order the DVD's. Except that I do not, since DVD is a DRM hindered evil format.
Phuh... where were we.. oh yeah. I like books. I read books. Digital media is bullshit, except for preview:-)PS: Just read the two Kevin Mitnick books halfway through at work using nokia 770 - and just ordered the REAL versions from amazone. Amazing.
Paying for digital crap is not buying anything.. it's a short-term license to get buttfucked.
Yes it is. It's great for when you need to edit photos SOMETIMES but not often enough to get a Photoshop license. Many departments at my place of work have installed it on winblows boxes, and I've seen it in the wild in surprising places. These people of course use it because it's free as in beer, not because it would "rock", or be nice to use, or approach Photoshop's functionality, but still - it's popular. At least if you compare to the number of legal Photoshop installations.
I have had Nokia 770 for a month or so, and it's just about the best portable I've come across. It does not crash, battery life is good, it connects fine with various brands of WLAN access points. The screen is excellent (almost 3x the resolution of PSP) and the thing really fits in pocket.
It's easy to modify since it's Linux-based. Putting a swap file on mem card is easy.
Plus it's the best platform for old Lucasarts games, desktop computers included (scummvm;-)
If the contract lets them do this, well, fsck em.
Change ISP. I myself want unrestricted net.
For most, in Finland at least, that is no longer possible. Outbound port 25 for example is mostly blocked except to the ISP's smtp servers (which, without exception, are SLOW today because they all have stupid filters and antivirus checkers), which sucks ass when you test mail server settings and such.
We have WINBLOWS to thank for all this nonsense. Fsck it too.
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The only Linux crashes I've had in recent years have been because of ATI (closed binary crap) and Atheros WLAN (in part closed binary crap). See the trend?
You have to realize, dual-booting to DOS (and dosemu) were options even back then. Win95 was absolutely unnecessary.
Ö, ä, ü etc are not a good idea in passwords when logging in remotely.
I did not HAVE "DOS and Win3.1 stuff", I had been using Linux on my first PC (4M RAM) for 18 months. Win95 absolutely, positively sucked. It did not shut down properly. The file system was an ugly kludge. The mem protection was good on paper, the thing crashed all the time.
My sound card and ethernet card used ISA, and were not plug-and-pray. During the period of PnP getting more popular it was more hassle than it was worth - instead of making things easier it COMPLICATED things.
Win95 did not have good parallel port support or good floppy support. SCSI support was abysmal, the machine usually crashed half way between burning CDs. I had to use cdrecord under Linux (and my drive did not support DAO writing at the time).
What else... oh I know! Win95 had the habit of fucking up partition tables if it encountered partitions with unknown signatures (Amiga ones, for example).
It was hell. Win95 had no redeeming qualities.
So it has perl, python, ruby, compilers, multiple shells and tons of command line utilities for every task imaginable?
Just a matter of time. Vista will flop. XP is crap. 2000 was kinda ok for a sucky closed OS, but soon no longer supported. M$ is the one who will have to adapt. No reason to work with them, they're soon a non-entity.
http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/tutorials/Maemo _tutorial.html#overview
We need this plugin for Office 2000, XP etc too. No-one is going to upgrade to 2007's DRM hell to read ODF.
What universe do you live in? No-one here uses Windows CE devices. Most use fancy Nokia stuff or real laptops (and increasingly those laptops are OS X).
Like, taking the computer industry back 10 years by saturating the market with bullshit with broken APIs and convenient deviations from standards?
He made a lot of money. That metric alone is only appreciated by very few people. Count the wasted time and effort and frustration. I'd smack him in the face given the chance.
Commodores had M$ basic but that was it. It was the C64 that drove the prices down and the amount of memory up.
Gates was the greatest villain for 20 years if we look into individuals and not political parties or organizations.
He was responsible for more lost work and lost data than anyone ever. The burning of the library of Alexandria was a feeble effort to pre-emptively top mr Gates' effort.
Not to mention wasted time, or cause for alcoholism and broken keyboards.
When handling directory entries NTFS is so slow it's not even funny. Maybe with some extra glue the drive head trashing related to NTFS metadata handling overhead could be targeted -> flash ... -> profit. Or something.
Try this: http://www.fs-driver.org/
Then try mirroring a big directory structure to/from NTFS ... and to/from ext2/ext3 using this driver. The performance difference is enlightening.
Looks better than before, and speed is fine. No crash either. The Nokia browser in 770 is based on some old Opera version.
Sadly, I couldn't google image any pics in this hurry - this WAS 11 years ago.
For years, I wished someone would sue the bastards for false advertising. Win95 was a cause of headache, not cure.
Hentai gurus are amongst the most incentive.
I grew with 'jed' in emacs mode, since it was much faster on 486, but nowadays more and more often just launch vi/vim. 0 seconds vs 2 seconds is still a big difference for those one line edits.
My 250MHz, 64M RAM Linux RISC machine outdoes wintel boxes in many areas. For example, checking RSS feeds and reading eBooks while taking a dump at work. 770 rules. My TI-84 outdid 3GHz wintel boxes for doing quick calcs (1 second boot time).
Text links should be underlined. That's the convention.
Who really cares? Books are niche. Most people do not read books anymore, they watch the idiot box (which in 2 years I will not have since Finland is forced into digital era and I do not want to pay for crap I never watch). Easier to dload TV series from the net, see if I like it, and it I do, order the DVD's. Except that I do not, since DVD is a DRM hindered evil format.
Phuh... where were we.. oh yeah. I like books. I read books. Digital media is bullshit, except for preview :-)PS: Just read the two Kevin Mitnick books halfway through at work using nokia 770 - and just ordered the REAL versions from amazone. Amazing.
Paying for digital crap is not buying anything.. it's a short-term license to get buttfucked.
It's easy to modify since it's Linux-based. Putting a swap file on mem card is easy.
Plus it's the best platform for old Lucasarts games, desktop computers included (scummvm ;-)
If the contract lets them do this, well, fsck em. Change ISP. I myself want unrestricted net.
For most, in Finland at least, that is no longer possible. Outbound port 25 for example is mostly blocked except to the ISP's smtp servers (which, without exception, are SLOW today because they all have stupid filters and antivirus checkers), which sucks ass when you test mail server settings and such.
We have WINBLOWS to thank for all this nonsense. Fsck it too.
Sounds like systems designed for carriers.
cygwin, process explorer, tcpview, hijackthis, filemon, putty.
Actually, it's only the software that sucks in HP Officejet. It's quite capable little beast (the 714X models, 72XX models suck ass).