Why have we put up with 20 years of Windows virus's for so long?
TWENTY YEARS!
What a complete waste of time. And my time is worth much more that the paltry licence fees I have shelled out over the years!!!
Is there any way to say that this is not an epic fail for the Win16/32 platform? On other platforms (Mac, Linux, other Unix's) the total amount of malware is hardly about 100 items in that time... Even if it is around 1000 (I really don't know) it is insignificant in comparison.
I have had not one malware issue in ten years of hosting Linux servers and five years as a Desktop OS on multiple PC's. My last Windows issue was a false positive: AVG thinking it had found a torjan in hal.dll and "healing" it. Thanks AVG. Several hours of work to restore that machine... (the re-imaging broke).
I agree. I'm not sure it was fully thought through either. For example, when you open one window if defaults to upper left. The next window you open overlaps it offest down and to the right a little.Standard tiling. However this tiling assumes that the close window button is on the right. Otherwise you would tile from the top right to bottom left for left handed close buttons.
I don't know if you follow me here. I just realised that the right-handed-button-ness of the desktop is coded far more deeply than just the physical location of the buttons. Not sure how OS X does it as their buttons are on the left too, but I think the whole "philosophy" of the desktop is more cohesive in the OS X case.
Although GNOME will stay - any fork has to... fork! The fork will have to rename and head off in its own direction. It is somewhat opposite to the KDE example you mentioned. KDE became more free as QT became more free. Considering GNOME was founded to promote a free desktop environment these rumblings of a fork seem set to take it in a less free direction. Which I find surprising when you consider the roots of the project.
Pragmatically speaking it would be impossible to say how many developers would go with them or how much impetus it would take. Probably a slimmed down, Mono free Gnome would initially result - something that might go well will Distro makers seeking space savings!
Scientific truth is a different sort of truth to Mathematical truth. Literary truth is again a different sort of truth. Stories can be true and represent truth in powerful ways. Your life story would be true if you told it? (Even if parts of it were not entirely accurate...)
A new font "Gabriola" is included.[63] There is also Office Open XML and ODF support in WordPad.
If ODF is built into Win 7 at this level then a lot of things change. Admittedly WordPad's new ribbon interface gets higher billing up on the page, but the ODF support is the real gem. And a surprise for me to see it included.
I REALLY want a Netbook like you are describing!!! I already have a EEE PC and I hardly use it, the screen is poor for reading, battery life too, plus it is HOT. I also have a Nokia N810 and use that a lot, despite the tiny screen; it is more comfortable and more portable.(And the good battery life makes a big difference)
Your description of an e-ink Netbook is really the sort of device that I would like now I have had some experience of small devices.
I was interested in some other posts that describe the desirability of reading many small PDF's on an e-ink device. I can see the benefit of an e-book type device in comparison with carrying all the small papers around, as in printed form they are extremely cumbersome. On the other hand for casual reading a paperback book is hard to beat and generally I only need one of them at a time as it takes so long to read comparatively (that was the way "1984" was designed to be read eh?!) But for small papers and research I can see the niche an e-ink Netbook would fill.
Early adoption of these small devices has refined and developed their purpose and that will continue. I will be interested to see if this is the way newspapers will go. Although, I doubt that printed newspapers will vanish in the same way that I doubt that paper books will vanish. After all, I wont want to swat flies or cover the base of the budgie cage with a Netbook.
Interesting point on patents - will contributing to the kernel mean MS will downplay their patent threats? I can imagine them contributing and sueing but the more contributions then the less credence they will gain in court?
The Windows 7 icons make me scared: surely if you turn a folder on it's side like that all the bits will fall out? Is that what will happen to me with Windows? I don't want gravity pulling my bits out!
>..really, the only reason 'IT' companies get away with it is... because we let them.
Perhaps the EU won't let them?
Over-inflating prices is not a great strategy for a previously convicted monopolist and will cost EU businesses millions. This could possibly be the start of another anti-trust case. And (potentially) wonderfully ironic.
I too have switched to Gnome (with great reluctance) over KDE4. I have followed KDE4 from 4.0.0 days to 4.2.x and I have so many problems that it makes me very unproductive. Sound is not working, new plasma networkmanager applet is weird, overcomplex and incomplete all at the same time, Kmail crashes consistently, effects keep going off, knotify uses all the processor, python keeps hanging.I spend all my time in krunner killing off rogue processes.
I was very reluctant to switch to Gnome. I have never felt comfortable with it. BUT it is currently very stable, firefox and thunderbird look at treat on it, my mail is stable, my sound works, my wifi works etc. I will switch back when KDE matures (most likely).
I was getting seriously frustrated with the KDE4 releases. Switching to Gnome made me realise why I love FLOSS as it is rock solid and reliable. (And the windows wobble better!)
I as a user of KDE4 feel very much dis-enfranchised by the current way it is going. I think if they were to actively seek feedback from users (who are not developers) with some form of satisfaction survey they would gain some very valuable knowledge, probably solve the top 10 annoyances and with back a whole lot of goodwill that I fear may be erroded.
Me too. I don't know about all that under the surface stuff but I do know the sound disappears all the time under 4.2. Dragon player too. I am getting quite frustrated with it all. VLC seems to work OK so I use that.
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Perhaps he should follow one other good example (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX) and start the progression towards pi, and hence, perfection?
3.0.0
3.1.0
3.1.4
3.1.41...
You will be Really Impressed with my use of Capitals then! And my confusion with ei and ie! Just wait till you see me write in French!!!
Actually, I was trying to figure out the plural of Unix - is it Unixes or Unices. I figured Unixs would be wring but I guess Unixes is more proper.
Cheers, ;)
Why have we put up with 20 years of Windows virus's for so long?
TWENTY YEARS!
What a complete waste of time. And my time is worth much more that the paltry licence fees I have shelled out over the years!!!
Is there any way to say that this is not an epic fail for the Win16/32 platform? On other platforms (Mac, Linux, other Unix's) the total amount of malware is hardly about 100 items in that time... Even if it is around 1000 (I really don't know) it is insignificant in comparison.
I have had not one malware issue in ten years of hosting Linux servers and five years as a Desktop OS on multiple PC's. My last Windows issue was a false positive: AVG thinking it had found a torjan in hal.dll and "healing" it. Thanks AVG. Several hours of work to restore that machine... (the re-imaging broke).
No Windows on every one of my desktops thanks!
I agree. I'm not sure it was fully thought through either. For example, when you open one window if defaults to upper left. The next window you open overlaps it offest down and to the right a little.Standard tiling. However this tiling assumes that the close window button is on the right. Otherwise you would tile from the top right to bottom left for left handed close buttons.
I don't know if you follow me here. I just realised that the right-handed-button-ness of the desktop is coded far more deeply than just the physical location of the buttons. Not sure how OS X does it as their buttons are on the left too, but I think the whole "philosophy" of the desktop is more cohesive in the OS X case.
WOW did we all share a déja vu moment then?
Must say I like the retro-innovation idea here. Disposable email accounts - it's like an alias to aliases!
I always thought viral marketing was a good thing?
I'm with Telenet in Belgium... I hope that isn't me they're talking about... I thought I had a life!
Tax in Europe varies, but 15% to 21% (Belgium, where I am!) is the ball park. The website does not explain this but I would guess VAT is included.
Delivery is higher too, about 25 euro perhaps?
Although GNOME will stay - any fork has to... fork! The fork will have to rename and head off in its own direction. It is somewhat opposite to the KDE example you mentioned. KDE became more free as QT became more free. Considering GNOME was founded to promote a free desktop environment these rumblings of a fork seem set to take it in a less free direction. Which I find surprising when you consider the roots of the project.
Pragmatically speaking it would be impossible to say how many developers would go with them or how much impetus it would take. Probably a slimmed down, Mono free Gnome would initially result - something that might go well will Distro makers seeking space savings!
Thanks! I can see what you mean!
You tell a great story! I want to hear about the other two now! Go on, spoil us!
The seventies soft-focus effect was achieved with Vaseline - he could try that.
Try squinting?
Well, didn't think of Giger, but Gaudi sprung to mind at once.The Brassica is also impressive in real life.
Scientific truth is a different sort of truth to Mathematical truth. Literary truth is again a different sort of truth. Stories can be true and represent truth in powerful ways. Your life story would be true if you told it? (Even if parts of it were not entirely accurate...)
I was intrigued to see the following tucked away in the "Other Features" section http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7#Other_features:
A new font "Gabriola" is included.[63] There is also Office Open XML and ODF support in WordPad.
If ODF is built into Win 7 at this level then a lot of things change. Admittedly WordPad's new ribbon interface gets higher billing up on the page, but the ODF support is the real gem. And a surprise for me to see it included.
I REALLY want a Netbook like you are describing!!! I already have a EEE PC and I hardly use it, the screen is poor for reading, battery life too, plus it is HOT. I also have a Nokia N810 and use that a lot, despite the tiny screen; it is more comfortable and more portable.(And the good battery life makes a big difference)
Your description of an e-ink Netbook is really the sort of device that I would like now I have had some experience of small devices.
I was interested in some other posts that describe the desirability of reading many small PDF's on an e-ink device. I can see the benefit of an e-book type device in comparison with carrying all the small papers around, as in printed form they are extremely cumbersome. On the other hand for casual reading a paperback book is hard to beat and generally I only need one of them at a time as it takes so long to read comparatively (that was the way "1984" was designed to be read eh?!) But for small papers and research I can see the niche an e-ink Netbook would fill.
Early adoption of these small devices has refined and developed their purpose and that will continue. I will be interested to see if this is the way newspapers will go. Although, I doubt that printed newspapers will vanish in the same way that I doubt that paper books will vanish. After all, I wont want to swat flies or cover the base of the budgie cage with a Netbook.
No, I wouldn't. But I have listened to a friends choice of music on Last.fm.
Interesting point on patents - will contributing to the kernel mean MS will downplay their patent threats? I can imagine them contributing and sueing but the more contributions then the less credence they will gain in court?
The Windows 7 icons make me scared: surely if you turn a folder on it's side like that all the bits will fall out? Is that what will happen to me with Windows? I don't want gravity pulling my bits out!
> ..really, the only reason 'IT' companies get away with it is... because we let them.
Perhaps the EU won't let them?
Over-inflating prices is not a great strategy for a previously convicted monopolist and will cost EU businesses millions. This could possibly be the start of another anti-trust case. And (potentially) wonderfully ironic.
I too have switched to Gnome (with great reluctance) over KDE4. I have followed KDE4 from 4.0.0 days to 4.2.x and I have so many problems that it makes me very unproductive. Sound is not working, new plasma networkmanager applet is weird, overcomplex and incomplete all at the same time, Kmail crashes consistently, effects keep going off, knotify uses all the processor, python keeps hanging.I spend all my time in krunner killing off rogue processes.
I was very reluctant to switch to Gnome. I have never felt comfortable with it. BUT it is currently very stable, firefox and thunderbird look at treat on it, my mail is stable, my sound works, my wifi works etc. I will switch back when KDE matures (most likely).
I was getting seriously frustrated with the KDE4 releases. Switching to Gnome made me realise why I love FLOSS as it is rock solid and reliable. (And the windows wobble better!)
I as a user of KDE4 feel very much dis-enfranchised by the current way it is going. I think if they were to actively seek feedback from users (who are not developers) with some form of satisfaction survey they would gain some very valuable knowledge, probably solve the top 10 annoyances and with back a whole lot of goodwill that I fear may be erroded.
Absolutely, I needed this just the other week.
Personally I wsould take the Alpha right now!
Me too. I don't know about all that under the surface stuff but I do know the sound disappears all the time under 4.2. Dragon player too. I am getting quite frustrated with it all. VLC seems to work OK so I use that.