I will agree on your correction in (2) but not for the rest. DOS was already getting too old and WinME was meant to pave the way for Win2000. The crapware was easy to remove, system restore was better than reinstallation and hibernation did work well. As for general midi emulation of course you wouldn't need it in real-mode DOS if you had a card with wave table synthesizer vs FM.
When you say "it was slower to use than 98SE" you are wrong. In fact one of the most diligent Win9x tinkerers, Axcel216, states that by replacing 700 Win98 system files with their newer WinME versions one would
I had tested both systems as candidates to install on friends who demanded Windows, and Windows Me was better:
1) Boots faster. It has the fastest boot than any other 32bit Microsoft OS. 2) Better interface, less internet explorer buttons on explorer (though still aparent) 3) Comes with a lot of crapware which could be easily be avoided on installation or after installation (98lite etc) 4) System Restore, once Microsoft patched it a few months later, was a nice addition to people having kids messing with the family computer 5) Config.sys and autoexec.bat instructions were no longer executed (save for a few system variable settings) which is a good thing 6) Provided General Midi emulation even in a DOS emulated window. You could play DOS games with general midi music. 7) Hibernation, much faster to Windows 2000.
All in all, Me was a good improvement to Windows 98 although I would still prefer Windows 95 as my system for its freedom from IE. However, anyone bashing Windows Me instead of Windows 98 is simply clueless.
maybe they should move to a system based on shields, cavalry, infantry, and artillery
You obviously come from a wargaming background... But I don't think that would be fun to play in an RPG context. The reason behind healing was to allow PCs to live more, like heroes in novels, while dealing with dangers heroes in novels would not.
Considering this earlier statement of yours "as long as one American is breathing Arabian air we are in the wrong", your position on this obvious show of theocratic fanaticism against an innocent student is well understood as it comes from an Arabophobe.
The story title reads: "Adobe Takes On Microsoft Role In E-book Market" yet the only reference I found on Microsoft, on both linked articles, is this:
Though Adobe may balk at the comparison, its role in the e-book market is similar to Microsoft's in the PC market: a builder of a semi-open ecosystem of partners to whom it sells publishing tools.
So, what does Microsoft have to do with both articles really ?
'But wheah's the necessity? It seems an uncommonly woundabout and hopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anywheahs. Look heah now, I've got the wuhks of the mastahs -- the gweat ahchaeologists of the past. I wigh them against each othah -- balance of the disagweements -- analyze the conflicting statements -- decide which is pwobably cowwect- and come to a conclusion. That is the scientific method. At least' -- patronizingly -- 'as I see it. How insuffewably cwude it would be to go to Ahctuwus, oah to Sol, foah instance, and blundah about, when the old mastahs have covahed the gwound so much moah effectually than we could possibly hope to.'
So, don't run Windows with administrative privileges either. It wasn't easy in the early years of Windows 2000 but it is very easy now and almost all major applications work in restricted user privilege level.
Comodo is not only a firewall but an excellent intrusion prevention system (bundled with a crappy antivirus). It *is* a great product to have for free and it is not comparable to a hardware firewall. The point of Comodo is to prevent new executables from performing malware related activities (such as monitoring the keyboard) or even running without your permission. Of course its also a firewall. But Comodo, unlike the built in Windows Firewall, won't let applications change its rules without user intervention.
I started with a home computer in the 80s. Quite fun but cassettes were slow, so I got a PC with MS DOS 3.3
I upgraded to DOS 5 because of its memory management. I then installed Windows 3.1 upon DOS 5 because of the truetype fonts and word processing. It made me more productive.
(I also started using Linux because it allowed me to have a Unix at home without suffering that asshole sysadmin at the university, but this posting is not about Linux)
I upgraded DOS5+Win3 to Win95OSR because it was more stable and easier to use than 3.1, it had font smoothing, native TCP/IP and it was generally an OS vs DOS and a windowed shell. It made me more productive.
I skipped Win98 and WinMe because they offered nothing new.
I started using Win2000 because it was a real OS, much more stable and secure than Win95. It made me more productive.
I started using XP when nLite matured because I could remove the useless crap and XP is optimized for speed and supports network bridges and, most importantly, cleartype. It made me more productive
I've tried Vista and 7 but they have not made me more productive. I wonder if Microsoft can change that with 8.
I was being sarcastic. Versions 3 of Internet Explorer would create an icon (in windows 95OSR at least) with a globe named "The Internet" and many users thought this was the thing everyone was talking about.
However, in regards to your thinking about poor Netscape I have a very interesting link for you straight from the IETF working group (which IETF dissolved to deal with more serious matters than silly Internet Drafts about FRAMEs):
Bing is OK. I've tested it sometimes and gave me good results, sometimes better than Google. Google is too targeted by SEOs, for examples when searching for reviews one has to skip over a few results to find the meat. There is actually a service called Give my Google back which filters those SEOed sites.
Slashdot Mirror
The best way to help Google improve is to use another search engine. Blacklists don't work.
Making Google understand that good alternatives exist is the only way to force them to improve, for example...
Exercise Bike Clearance
I will agree on your correction in (2) but not for the rest. DOS was already getting too old and WinME was meant to pave the way for Win2000. The crapware was easy to remove, system restore was better than reinstallation and hibernation did work well. As for general midi emulation of course you wouldn't need it in real-mode DOS if you had a card with wave table synthesizer vs FM.
When you say "it was slower to use than 98SE" you are wrong. In fact one of the most diligent Win9x tinkerers, Axcel216, states that by replacing 700 Win98 system files with their newer WinME versions one would
"improve/speed up/fix your Win98 SE(U) GUI, OLE, DDE, GDI, Dial-Up Networking (DUN), TCP/IP, Winsock, LAN/WAN, Multimedia/Audio/Video, Virtual Cache/Memory, USB/FireWire components [and others I don't even recall off of the top of my head :)], without putting up with the notorious WinME annoyances"
The annoyances were the crap which could be removed during installation with 98lite...
I had tested both systems as candidates to install on friends who demanded Windows, and Windows Me was better:
1) Boots faster. It has the fastest boot than any other 32bit Microsoft OS.
2) Better interface, less internet explorer buttons on explorer (though still aparent)
3) Comes with a lot of crapware which could be easily be avoided on installation or after installation (98lite etc)
4) System Restore, once Microsoft patched it a few months later, was a nice addition to people having kids messing with the family computer
5) Config.sys and autoexec.bat instructions were no longer executed (save for a few system variable settings) which is a good thing
6) Provided General Midi emulation even in a DOS emulated window. You could play DOS games with general midi music.
7) Hibernation, much faster to Windows 2000.
All in all, Me was a good improvement to Windows 98 although I would still prefer Windows 95 as my system for its freedom from IE. However, anyone bashing Windows Me instead of Windows 98 is simply clueless.
Yes, typing stuff for other people to see... computers, networks, whatever.
maybe they should move to a system based on shields, cavalry, infantry, and artillery
You obviously come from a wargaming background... But I don't think that would be fun to play in an RPG context. The reason behind healing was to allow PCs to live more, like heroes in novels, while dealing with dangers heroes in novels would not.
Considering this earlier statement of yours "as long as one American is breathing Arabian air we are in the wrong", your position on this obvious show of theocratic fanaticism against an innocent student is well understood as it comes from an Arabophobe.
So, if I collect enough red flags do I get my laptop blown up as well in this so-called Western-civilized state ?
And if I was a real terrorist, would it be in my best interest to collect enough red flags ?
Try a vpn
word!
At the expense of being forced to sell memory chips at higher prices ?
No thanks, I prefer to spend on Defense as well.
The story title reads: "Adobe Takes On Microsoft Role In E-book Market" yet the only reference I found on Microsoft, on both linked articles, is this:
Though Adobe may balk at the comparison, its role in the e-book market is similar to Microsoft's in the PC market: a builder of a semi-open ecosystem of partners to whom it sells publishing tools.
So, what does Microsoft have to do with both articles really ?
No its not.
Just leave it.
You can drink a blessed potion of see invisible or eat an invisible stalker's corpse while invisible.
'But wheah's the necessity? It seems an uncommonly woundabout and hopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anywheahs. Look heah now, I've got the wuhks of the mastahs -- the gweat ahchaeologists of the past. I wigh them against each othah -- balance of the disagweements -- analyze the conflicting statements -- decide which is pwobably cowwect- and come to a conclusion. That is the scientific method. At least' -- patronizingly -- 'as I see it. How insuffewably cwude it would be to go to Ahctuwus, oah to Sol, foah instance, and blundah about, when the old mastahs have covahed the gwound so much moah effectually than we could possibly hope to.'
-- Isaac Asimov, Foundation
So, don't run Windows with administrative privileges either. It wasn't easy in the early years of Windows 2000 but it is very easy now and almost all major applications work in restricted user privilege level.
Yes, that's why data centers are administered by professionals.
Let your average user inside a data center and you'll see what happens.
Did you even read his posting ?
Comodo is not only a firewall but an excellent intrusion prevention system (bundled with a crappy antivirus). It *is* a great product to have for free and it is not comparable to a hardware firewall. The point of Comodo is to prevent new executables from performing malware related activities (such as monitoring the keyboard) or even running without your permission. Of course its also a firewall. But Comodo, unlike the built in Windows Firewall, won't let applications change its rules without user intervention.
Really, modern firewalls are very different products to hardware firewalls... take a look here: http://www.matousec.com/projects/proactive-security-challenge/results.php
I started with a home computer in the 80s. Quite fun but cassettes were slow, so I got a PC with MS DOS 3.3
I upgraded to DOS 5 because of its memory management. I then installed Windows 3.1 upon DOS 5 because of the truetype fonts and word processing. It made me more productive.
(I also started using Linux because it allowed me to have a Unix at home without suffering that asshole sysadmin at the university, but this posting is not about Linux)
I upgraded DOS5+Win3 to Win95OSR because it was more stable and easier to use than 3.1, it had font smoothing, native TCP/IP and it was generally an OS vs DOS and a windowed shell. It made me more productive.
I skipped Win98 and WinMe because they offered nothing new.
I started using Win2000 because it was a real OS, much more stable and secure than Win95. It made me more productive.
I started using XP when nLite matured because I could remove the useless crap and XP is optimized for speed and supports network bridges and, most importantly, cleartype. It made me more productive
I've tried Vista and 7 but they have not made me more productive. I wonder if Microsoft can change that with 8.
Please back that up.
Does the word WANKER have anything to do with WAN latency ?
I was being sarcastic. Versions 3 of Internet Explorer would create an icon (in windows 95OSR at least) with a globe named "The Internet" and many users thought this was the thing everyone was talking about.
However, in regards to your thinking about poor Netscape I have a very interesting link for you straight from the IETF working group (which IETF dissolved to deal with more serious matters than silly Internet Drafts about FRAMEs):
http://www.nyct.net/~aray/htmlwg/
I don't think they would share your feelings on the matter...
You really need to read at least this book
http://nostarch.com/assembly.htm
Before talking about definitions.
HTH
Actually IE was "The Internet".
Bing is OK. I've tested it sometimes and gave me good results, sometimes better than Google. Google is too targeted by SEOs, for examples when searching for reviews one has to skip over a few results to find the meat. There is actually a service called Give my Google back which filters those SEOed sites.
Doing it fairly openly is classic Chinese psychology
What is the classic Chinese psychology ? What do you really know about the Chinese and their psychology ?