What you're talking about is NetBIOS name resolution versus TCP/IP hostname resolution. This was done with WINS or LMHOSTS in NT4. That's gone in Win2k. It's all straight DNS or DDNS. I'd think/.'ers would be happy about MS dropping the entire WINS architecture.
Since when is MS in the business of shipping computers?
Preinstalled NT on HCL compliant hardware almost always runs damned good. IBM does it for our workstations, and we never have a problem with them. Duh.
First of all, a major problem with email (just as with snail-mail) is that it is unreliable. You send an email out and in the general case you have no clue whether it reached its destination or some host on the way folded, spindled and mutilated it, and then discarded it.
I saw a lot of businesses using it for engineering purposes (CAD type stuff) on *very* high end hardware (RAID 5 with Cheetah drives, 3d mice, blah blah blah). $40,000 workstations. Just too expensive to get that much of a market share.
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Every single Microsoft hotfix contains a readme and has an associated knowledge base article. Don't spew if you don't know what you're talking about.
I doubt all you're running is Exchange, Outlook and IE. And you don't know what the HCL is yet you claim your drivers are fine.
95% of blue screens are due to hardware, either the equipment itself or the drivers. When I started using NT I stared at blue screens all the time, and couldn't figure out shit. MS has some resources for debugging them, but not much. Then I started using hardware only on the HCL from vendors with solid drivers (like Matrox for video, and Intel for NiCs, etc). All of a sudden, no more blue screens...
I really doubt that this is the prevailing attitude in the industry. Yes, a lot of gaming companies are in a lot of financial trouble, but I'd shift most of the blame to the companies themselves, not their distributors. Look at Ion Storm, for example.
If this *were* the prevailing attitude, I'd think you'd see a mass exodus from the industry.
i suppose mindcraft proved IIS is better than um, samba or zeus on a 4 processor system, but IIS has 'known issues' like having to reboot 9 times a day for stupid things like 'message buffer full'
The tests were redone with support from both sides by PC Magazine. Don't write off the results as Mindcraft bias.
Oh, by the way, do you think the Dell commerce site gets rebooted 9 times a day?
To answer some of your concerns, broter: 1) Proper permissions can manually be set. Win2k has an automatic tightening procedure that addresses this. There is also a utility in the WinNT Reskit that can do this. NT Server, of course, allows full access to everyone on the whole drive (via NTFS permissions). This is because users should not be allowed to log on locally to NT Server(and aren't by default).
2) What do you mean by "a process is gone"? Are you talking about processes listed in task manager that aren't visible to you? That's just the opposite, it SHOULD be gone, but NT is telling you that it really isn't. IE seems to occasionally do this. Outlook does this if you close it while it's checking/downloading/uploading mail.
3) Ownership is meaningless in NTFS permissions. Administrators can take full control of any object that has an ACL (unlike Netware, which does allow administrative lockouts). A regular user without explicit permissions on a file cannot take it over...I'm not sure why you're seeing this. Permission has to be given somewhere...it could be on a higher level directory if the permissions are inherited onto the object they're attempting to take over.
Memory leaks don't equate to crashes. Competent administrators are notified when resource use reaches critical levels and problems are solved before they are unrecoverable.
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What you're talking about is NetBIOS name resolution versus TCP/IP hostname resolution. This was done with WINS or LMHOSTS in NT4. That's gone in Win2k. It's all straight DNS or DDNS. I'd think /.'ers would be happy about MS dropping the entire WINS architecture.
-witz
I wish you people would learn wtf you're talking about before you spew. DDNS has been around for quite a while and is even implemented in Bind 8.x.
-witz
\\WITZ has been up for: 71 day(s), 7 hour(s), 10 minute(s), 17 second(s)
My config?
Service Pack 5
MDAC 2.1 SP1
IE 5
Office 97 SR2
Winroute 3.5
Hell, it even runs the Lotus Notes client. Y2k compliant. I play Half-life and Quake 2 on it as well. Unstable my ass.
-witz
Since when is MS in the business of shipping computers?
Preinstalled NT on HCL compliant hardware almost always runs damned good. IBM does it for our workstations, and we never have a problem with them. Duh.
First of all, a major problem with email (just as with snail-mail) is that it is unreliable. You send an email out and in the general case you have no clue whether it reached its destination or some host on the way folded, spindled and mutilated it, and then discarded it.
The same could be said of snail mail, no?
-witz
I saw a lot of businesses using it for engineering purposes (CAD type stuff) on *very* high end hardware (RAID 5 with Cheetah drives, 3d mice, blah blah blah). $40,000 workstations. Just too expensive to get that much of a market share.
-witz
Every single Microsoft hotfix contains a readme and has an associated knowledge base article. Don't spew if you don't know what you're talking about.
-witz
V330? Notoriously shitty drivers.
Up to 75% faster in some cases (extremely large maps, huge textures). I'd love to see it in action myself.
I doubt all you're running is Exchange, Outlook and IE. And you don't know what the HCL is yet you claim your drivers are fine.
95% of blue screens are due to hardware, either the equipment itself or the drivers. When I started using NT I stared at blue screens all the time, and couldn't figure out shit. MS has some resources for debugging them, but not much. Then I started using hardware only on the HCL from vendors with solid drivers (like Matrox for video, and Intel for NiCs, etc). All of a sudden, no more blue screens...
-witz
Too bad Quake doesn't utilize SMP.
-witz
I prefer ZDTV myself as well...although you really can't compare MSNBC to ZDTV, different focus for each channel.
-witz
You gotta be kidding. Anyone who poisons their soul by watching an AOL channel deserves what they get.
Just think about it...24 hours of AOLspeak per day. BAK TO THE ROOMSAQ FOR JAQ, TOSSAQ.
-witz
More mindless elitism. Nice "community".
-witz
That isn't going to happen. It will still be a supported, standard solution.
-witz
I really doubt that this is the prevailing attitude in the industry. Yes, a lot of gaming companies are in a lot of financial trouble, but I'd shift most of the blame to the companies themselves, not their distributors. Look at Ion Storm, for example.
If this *were* the prevailing attitude, I'd think you'd see a mass exodus from the industry.
-witz
i suppose mindcraft proved IIS is better than um, samba or zeus on a 4 processor system, but IIS has 'known issues' like having to reboot 9 times a day for stupid things like 'message buffer full'
The tests were redone with support from both sides by PC Magazine. Don't write off the results as Mindcraft bias.
Oh, by the way, do you think the Dell commerce site gets rebooted 9 times a day?
Since when is BeOS an operating system intended for webserving?
Mindless elitism.
That's why I use the command line kill. Nice and clean kill, no dialog boxes :)
-witz
Matrox does rock. Good performance, absolutely solid drivers.
3dfx is dead. Everything's going the way of OpenGL and DX.
To answer some of your concerns, broter:
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1) Proper permissions can manually be set. Win2k has an automatic tightening procedure that addresses this. There is also a utility in the WinNT Reskit that can do this. NT Server, of course, allows full access to everyone on the whole drive (via NTFS permissions). This is because users should not be allowed to log on locally to NT Server(and aren't by default).
2) What do you mean by "a process is gone"? Are you talking about processes listed in task manager that aren't visible to you? That's just the opposite, it SHOULD be gone, but NT is telling you that it really isn't. IE seems to occasionally do this. Outlook does this if you close it while it's checking/downloading/uploading mail.
3) Ownership is meaningless in NTFS permissions. Administrators can take full control of any object that has an ACL (unlike Netware, which does allow administrative lockouts). A regular user without explicit permissions on a file cannot take it over...I'm not sure why you're seeing this. Permission has to be given somewhere...it could be on a higher level directory if the permissions are inherited onto the object they're attempting to take over.
Maybe I just confused you more
Memory leaks don't equate to crashes. Competent administrators are notified when resource use reaches critical levels and problems are solved before they are unrecoverable.
Users don't see anything...they corrupt a file or delete it, can't be salvaged, so a LAN admin restores it.
It isn't very different at all, I think you're confusing administration and end use. The UI isn't any different.