I once compared WSL and MSYS2 git checkout times. Practically equal. Then I compared Ubuntu in VirtualBox and WSL. The latter 20-fold slower. Until I excluded the folder from Security Essentials scanning..
MSYS2 is the better WSL. No problems with filesystems, does not break Windows update, perfect integration, pacman package manager. No ELF, but never missed it, pacman brings all the good tools.
No need that the scanner runs with LocalSystem rights, it could run standalone with no privileges and could be fed the files to scan by some RPC mechanism.
There are more bad guys looking for security flaws than good guys doing code review.
So, either code review must be done by computers (I don't know how)
or the system must make less errors possible. Will we have to write all system software in Java or Ada?
I know, Microsoft want's to sell Windows 8 licenses, but would it be technically feasible for MS to backport 8.1 kernel to XP, so XP would continue getting all security updates?
OK, languages and english get simpler over time. But, if we go back in time, why were languages more complex?
Latin is more complex than french or spanish. Then, were the ancestors of latin (indogermanic) super-complex? This is odd, as I guess that prehistoric societies were more primitiv and there was no literature, so why would they have had such complex languages?
The cost of commercial software often is not the problem, this often would be negligible.
But company bureaucracy forces you to write a project plan, rentability calculations, get permission of pointy haired bosses and so on.
Why bother with that, if you can use free software?
Sometimes my collegues and me do semi-private projects like setting up a department wiki. This would be impossible without free software and if we had to go through official ways.
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I once compared WSL and MSYS2 git checkout times. Practically equal. ..
Then I compared Ubuntu in VirtualBox and WSL. The latter 20-fold slower. Until I excluded the folder from Security Essentials scanning
and I forgot: does not need Aministrator rights to install.
MSYS2 is the better WSL.
No problems with filesystems, does not break Windows update, perfect integration, pacman package manager.
No ELF, but never missed it, pacman brings all the good tools.
dacapo is at https://sourceforge.net/projec...
I checked with the dacapo bench, Oracle has an about 10% performance advantage. Feel free to repeat the test.
java -jar dacapo-9.12-MR1-bach.jar -C lusearch
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.191-b12, mixed mode)
===== DaCapo 9.12-MR1 lusearch PASSED in 1218 msec =====
===== DaCapo 9.12-MR1 xalan PASSED in 1284 msec =====
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.191-b12, mixed mode)
===== DaCapo 9.12-MR1 lusearch PASSED in 1118 msec =====
===== DaCapo 9.12-MR1 xalan PASSED in 1112 msec =====
Have you thought of writing a book about your career? This would be very interesting history.
> nearly every operating system of note is written in C
z/OS is written in assembler ..
If Firefox runs under a different user, it cannot access your main profile.
C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /user:firefox /savecred "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
Better burn plastic than oil, gas or coal.
Whatsapp web is desktop browser support for Whatsapp. I don't see any more need for desktop message support.
No need that the scanner runs with LocalSystem rights, it could run standalone with no privileges and could be fed the files to scan by some RPC mechanism.
c't fixed it in 2011
https://www.heise.de/ct/artike...
There are more bad guys looking for security flaws than good guys doing code review. So, either code review must be done by computers (I don't know how) or the system must make less errors possible. Will we have to write all system software in Java or Ada?
I know, Microsoft want's to sell Windows 8 licenses, but would it be technically feasible for MS to backport 8.1 kernel to XP, so XP would continue getting all security updates?
OK, languages and english get simpler over time. But, if we go back in time, why were languages more complex?
Latin is more complex than french or spanish. Then, were the ancestors of latin (indogermanic) super-complex? This is odd, as I guess that prehistoric societies were more primitiv and there was no literature, so why would they have had such complex languages?
With Irfanview it's something like select images and do operation on the images. With an off-the-shelf Gimp it's not possible.
see: Bug 173066 - Feature Request: Batch-Processor
And Java is a proven technologie, it is really cross-platform and the next version will be open-sourced.
The cost of commercial software often is not the problem, this often would be negligible.
But company bureaucracy forces you to write a project plan, rentability calculations, get permission of pointy haired bosses and so on.
Why bother with that, if you can use free software?
Sometimes my collegues and me do semi-private projects like setting up a department wiki. This would be impossible without free software and if we had to go through official ways.