According the to the Comparison of file systems article on Wikipedia, the 16EiB "..is the limit of the on-disc structures. The NTFS driver for Windows NT limits the volume size that it can handle to 256TiB and the file size to 16TiB respectively."
So it looks like Microsoft may have put in place some sensible software constraints on what they think Windows can handle.
I'm using gentoo amd64 atm and the only complaint I have is there is no easy way to get many browser plugins working with the firefox-bin or opera (32-bit) packages.
The last attempt I had at installing Ubuntu Breezy was a disaster, the partitioning situation was pretty poor (I already had 3 primary partitions, 1 windows, 1 freebsd and 1 extended and the Ubuntu installer couldn't seem to cope with it) and then after the thing was installed it refused to boot (just hung).
Things for me 'just work' just fine with Gentoo, my question is: *what am I missing* by not using Ubuntu?
...that other reasonably polished Gnome distributions don't?
I'm really curious. All the 'why I use Ubuntu' type opinions i've read seem to be focused at the n00b. What's in it for a the more experienced Linux user (but not a mad bash hacking pro)?
Their corporate client-server antivirus product isn't really that bad from a resource perspective. The workstation client works great as a home desktop solution.
How would open sourcing OS X make an epic battle with Linux? If anything, asuming the license was favourable, it would only benefit Linux and projects like KDE and Gnome, wouldn't it?
Well I dual boot with 64bit Gentoo Linux and having native 64 bit compiled applications does bring a certain amountof geeky satisfaction. On the other hand it brings annoyances when packages are unstable or unuseable on AMD64.
It's upto application developers to release 64 bit builds, but for most apps it just isnt necessary or bring any performance benefits. That said, off the top of my head there are 64 bit builds of 7zip and SmartFTP.
If you look it that way then no operating system in existance has had much going on for decades. More modern software is about getting what you want to do done quickly and more easily, and thats exactly what Vista claims will allow us to do.
Personally I could live with Windows 2000 but use XP x64 because, well... I just got sick of some of the minor differences. XP has improvements. In Explorer we have the tile and thumbnail folder views, icon grouping by file type or name etc, the ability to hide tray icons (and choose which ones to hide).
Personally i'm hoping Vista will do something like Gnome with the Start Menu where my applications are listed by purpose and not under a useless 'Programs' submenu. I'm sick of applications just dumping themselves into the Programs folder on installation and messing up my carefully organised menu's and uninstalling an app only to find the shortcuts aren't removed (because I moved them).
Virtual folders might be interesting. Although so far I agree with you in that I am not enthusiastic about Vista. Now if only nVidia would put out a Vista x64 driver for the nForce 430 chipset so I could test it myself.
Interesting. Offtopic, I am pleased that the WG demo's all work in the latest build of Opera 9. The example the date-time type in Opera is beautifully done but sadly in Firefox 1.5 it renders as a text field:(
This is one of the reasons I said "Opera's recent offerings", I tried Opera back in version 5 and was for reasons I can't remember, hated it. I guess i'll have to reinstall Opera5 at some point to investiage;D
Technical as in 'as a geek i'm not impressed'. I didn't start using Opera (or Firefox, I use both almost equally depending on mood) because of tabs. Infact I was damn right defiant thats tabs didn't do alot for me until I learnt mouse gestures and such in Opera.
Sure, but maybe Load and Save suck and MS thought they had a better idea. That was my point. I haven't read up on either XMLHttpRequest or Load and Save so I can't make a comparison myself.
I'm really sick of people attacking IE. Sure, IE has always introduced alot of proprietary features, but the black fact is when IE6 came out back in 2001 it was the most powerful browser in existance on the Windows platform. If not for Firefox extensions or Opera's recent offerings it would, IMHO, still be so...sorry tabbed interfaces just don't cut it from a technical standpoint for me.
There are lots of little gems in IE. Microsoft introduced the XMLHttpRequest object and XML data islands. Mozilla have done *alot* for the actual browser as an application, but when was the last time Mozilla was bold and invented and introduced something new and exciting into actual (X)HTML rendering or ECMAScript(JavaScript)?
I'm all for standards from the W3C but some people do not like or are very nervous about the way XHTML2 for example is leading the web.
When the XMLHttpRequest JS interface was seen to be 'approved' in use by Google and given a nice buzzword, or just perhaps considered slightly useful, it was soon picked up by all the other major browsers in existance as an adhoc standard.
All i'm trying to say is, don't fear proprietary experimentation and mindlessly adopt *just* the standards. You may now resume hammering MS for not updating their web standards support in so long.
Well let's see... Gold is at about $600 an ounce atm (Source: on the news a day or so ago) and the average sale price from the summary is about $500,000 so I guess the answer is...
(500,000/600) ounces = 23.62 Kg
Of course we haven't taken into account the millions and millions of domains sold for $8...so bah sod it you do the math.
Odd, I thought we wouldn't see that until atleast Firefox 3. I hope they plan to do enough regressional testing, although (here it comes) Opera 9 will probably beat it to the punch having already passed the test in weekly builds for some time now.
I have a free legitimate license for XP Professional through university, yet use XP x64 Edition (excellent btw, noticeably smoother than XP) illegitimately with a public cdkey. I've never had a problem with Genuine Advantage or Activation.
Microsoft could have chosen to have every single system update, no matter how small, check for legitimacy as well as making the Windows Update service accessible only to registered users. This wouldn't stop piracy, but having no one click update solution, having to manually download cracked updates, would make life tedious.
I don't see how anybody can argue Microsoft should offer services like Windows Update to thieves (except the 'for the good health of the network' argument). The NOD32 antivirus program for example is difficult to pirate, because AV definitions are only available to subscribers and protected by username and password.
On Window's there is so much software out there for each and every task that even hardened geeks sometimes install crapware just to see if it's worthy.
My advice is install Total Uninstall, an install monitor that scans your system both before and after and install and allows you to reverse ALL the changes....then experiment with all the software you like, use your judgement, go on it's fun.
You might like to checkout websites like Pricelessware and similar pages (the top 4 are good) for freeware. Also remember alot of Linux favourites (like GIMP and Inkscape) are available for Windows.
Personally i'm a fan of Notepad2 from Flo's Freeware. It's wonderfully simple notepad, with smart syntax highlighting. No tabs though...but come on do we have to tab everything!?
Linking the system help files and the IE engine (using a HTML like format for help files) makes perfect sense.
The help files are linked together in a complex way, not just a hierarchical manner. Navigation of help documents would be a total pain without hyperlinks, just think about having to read a passage and then figure out the document it refers to and then navigate to find it. Nobody would ever use help.
Personally I don't like any webpage that has a 'slashotted' link to the The Digg Effect on Wikipedia! No Digg!...oh... wait..i mean... move along nothing to see here.
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According the to the Comparison of file systems article on Wikipedia, the 16EiB "..is the limit of the on-disc structures. The NTFS driver for Windows NT limits the volume size that it can handle to 256TiB and the file size to 16TiB respectively."
So it looks like Microsoft may have put in place some sensible software constraints on what they think Windows can handle.
I made your post 1223 bytes and 649 bytes gzipped (excluding the gzip header). Congrats, you're 46.9% redundant, but you did make a good point :)
Choosing not to front page this story on Slashdot because it may effect Digg readership and favour /. would also be biased news reporting.
I'm using gentoo amd64 atm and the only complaint I have is there is no easy way to get many browser plugins working with the firefox-bin or opera (32-bit) packages.
The last attempt I had at installing Ubuntu Breezy was a disaster, the partitioning situation was pretty poor (I already had 3 primary partitions, 1 windows, 1 freebsd and 1 extended and the Ubuntu installer couldn't seem to cope with it) and then after the thing was installed it refused to boot (just hung).
Things for me 'just work' just fine with Gentoo, my question is: *what am I missing* by not using Ubuntu?
...that other reasonably polished Gnome distributions don't?
I'm really curious. All the 'why I use Ubuntu' type opinions i've read seem to be focused at the n00b. What's in it for a the more experienced Linux user (but not a mad bash hacking pro)?
*waits for porn database guy to make an appearance*
The answer is no, RTFA. This the exact perception that it lays to waste.
Their corporate client-server antivirus product isn't really that bad from a resource perspective. The workstation client works great as a home desktop solution.
How would open sourcing OS X make an epic battle with Linux? If anything, asuming the license was favourable, it would only benefit Linux and projects like KDE and Gnome, wouldn't it?
Well I dual boot with 64bit Gentoo Linux and having native 64 bit compiled applications does bring a certain amountof geeky satisfaction. On the other hand it brings annoyances when packages are unstable or unuseable on AMD64.
It's upto application developers to release 64 bit builds, but for most apps it just isnt necessary or bring any performance benefits. That said, off the top of my head there are 64 bit builds of 7zip and SmartFTP.
If you look it that way then no operating system in existance has had much going on for decades. More modern software is about getting what you want to do done quickly and more easily, and thats exactly what Vista claims will allow us to do.
Personally I could live with Windows 2000 but use XP x64 because, well... I just got sick of some of the minor differences. XP has improvements. In Explorer we have the tile and thumbnail folder views, icon grouping by file type or name etc, the ability to hide tray icons (and choose which ones to hide).
Personally i'm hoping Vista will do something like Gnome with the Start Menu where my applications are listed by purpose and not under a useless 'Programs' submenu. I'm sick of applications just dumping themselves into the Programs folder on installation and messing up my carefully organised menu's and uninstalling an app only to find the shortcuts aren't removed (because I moved them).
Virtual folders might be interesting. Although so far I agree with you in that I am not enthusiastic about Vista. Now if only nVidia would put out a Vista x64 driver for the nForce 430 chipset so I could test it myself.
Application support? Most applications I use all work fine on XP x64. What one's do you have trouble with?
Antiviral apps are the only problem i'm aware of along with apps that modify shell context menu's (which is not too difficult to fix)
Interesting. Offtopic, I am pleased that the WG demo's all work in the latest build of Opera 9. The example the date-time type in Opera is beautifully done but sadly in Firefox 1.5 it renders as a text field :(
This is one of the reasons I said "Opera's recent offerings", I tried Opera back in version 5 and was for reasons I can't remember, hated it. I guess i'll have to reinstall Opera5 at some point to investiage ;D
Technical as in 'as a geek i'm not impressed'. I didn't start using Opera (or Firefox, I use both almost equally depending on mood) because of tabs. Infact I was damn right defiant thats tabs didn't do alot for me until I learnt mouse gestures and such in Opera.
Sure, but maybe Load and Save suck and MS thought they had a better idea. That was my point. I haven't read up on either XMLHttpRequest or Load and Save so I can't make a comparison myself.
Something like General-Purpose computation on GPU's?
Yes on both counts.
I'm really sick of people attacking IE. Sure, IE has always introduced alot of proprietary features, but the black fact is when IE6 came out back in 2001 it was the most powerful browser in existance on the Windows platform. If not for Firefox extensions or Opera's recent offerings it would, IMHO, still be so...sorry tabbed interfaces just don't cut it from a technical standpoint for me.
There are lots of little gems in IE. Microsoft introduced the XMLHttpRequest object and XML data islands. Mozilla have done *alot* for the actual browser as an application, but when was the last time Mozilla was bold and invented and introduced something new and exciting into actual (X)HTML rendering or ECMAScript(JavaScript)?
I'm all for standards from the W3C but some people do not like or are very nervous about the way XHTML2 for example is leading the web.
When the XMLHttpRequest JS interface was seen to be 'approved' in use by Google and given a nice buzzword, or just perhaps considered slightly useful, it was soon picked up by all the other major browsers in existance as an adhoc standard.
All i'm trying to say is, don't fear proprietary experimentation and mindlessly adopt *just* the standards. You may now resume hammering MS for not updating their web standards support in so long.
Well let's see... Gold is at about $600 an ounce atm (Source: on the news a day or so ago) and the average sale price from the summary is about $500,000 so I guess the answer is...
(500,000/600) ounces = 23.62 Kg
Of course we haven't taken into account the millions and millions of domains sold for $8...so bah sod it you do the math.
Odd, I thought we wouldn't see that until atleast Firefox 3. I hope they plan to do enough regressional testing, although (here it comes) Opera 9 will probably beat it to the punch having already passed the test in weekly builds for some time now.
Not really, Windows Activation is a joke.
I have a free legitimate license for XP Professional through university, yet use XP x64 Edition (excellent btw, noticeably smoother than XP) illegitimately with a public cdkey. I've never had a problem with Genuine Advantage or Activation.
Microsoft could have chosen to have every single system update, no matter how small, check for legitimacy as well as making the Windows Update service accessible only to registered users. This wouldn't stop piracy, but having no one click update solution, having to manually download cracked updates, would make life tedious.
I don't see how anybody can argue Microsoft should offer services like Windows Update to thieves (except the 'for the good health of the network' argument). The NOD32 antivirus program for example is difficult to pirate, because AV definitions are only available to subscribers and protected by username and password.
On Window's there is so much software out there for each and every task that even hardened geeks sometimes install crapware just to see if it's worthy.
...then experiment with all the software you like, use your judgement, go on it's fun.
My advice is install Total Uninstall, an install monitor that scans your system both before and after and install and allows you to reverse ALL the changes.
You might like to checkout websites like Pricelessware and similar pages (the top 4 are good) for freeware. Also remember alot of Linux favourites (like GIMP and Inkscape) are available for Windows.
Personally i'm a fan of Notepad2 from Flo's Freeware. It's wonderfully simple notepad, with smart syntax highlighting. No tabs though...but come on do we have to tab everything!?
Linking the system help files and the IE engine (using a HTML like format for help files) makes perfect sense.
The help files are linked together in a complex way, not just a hierarchical manner. Navigation of help documents would be a total pain without hyperlinks, just think about having to read a passage and then figure out the document it refers to and then navigate to find it. Nobody would ever use help.
Personally I don't like any webpage that has a 'slashotted' link to the The Digg Effect on Wikipedia! No Digg!...oh... wait..i mean... move along nothing to see here.