And Windows NT and Windows 2000 are based on VMS, which is based on RSX/11, which is older than that.
History is sometimes a capricious mistress.
Linux is a fine OS that is currently smacking the crap out of Windows (and rightly so - Windows is just shit at this) in the high-density server arena; it's got a long way to go, however, before it becomes as manageable as Windows 2000 on the desktop.
Horses for courses.
Naturally, for Real Work you need a Real Computer, and that means NOT x86... --
Firstly, the MS Font Smoother is not an antialiaser, and never has been. Secondly, there's no point in smoothing large text, as the aliasing artifacts you're trying to get rid of have a tiny impact on the letterform.
Antialiasing (as practiced by Acrobat, Acorn RISCOS, gv and the like) isn't available for general use on the Windows desktop. This will turn up in XP with the advent of ClearCase - which looked nice, but made my eyes tired surprisingly quickly.
The current Windows font smoothing technology ruins letterforms; a true antialiasing technology preserves *the visual appearance* of letterforms - look at the difference between 12pt bold arial in an Acrobat document (antialiased) and in a Word document (smoothed). --
"NT4 kicks Win2K's ass all over the place on the workstation."
Sure it does. Uh huh. The vastly restricted hardware support, poor support for 16-bit software, shonky DirectX and complete lack of self-healing features truly raise it above the level of W2K, which has all of these problems *fixed*.
"Win2K is easy to admin, but Linux, FreeBSD or Novell are probably best here."
Sounds like you've never used NetWare. Or Windows 2000 Server. W2K is *not* easy to admin; it just *looks* like it is.
"Bullshit. Win95 all the way. Win98 is slower and more unstable, Millenium is significantly slower, and Win2K's OpenGL support is crappy. If you're games run well in OpenGL, then NT4 kicks everything's ass as a game OS."
Eh? Are you running the same operating systems as the rest of us? W2K has *excellent* OpenGL support, and NT4 has so-so. Win95 and derivatives has *poxy* stability. Smart people play their games under W2K. --
Basically, Microsoft has been demonstrably doing bad HCI since Windows 95 first appeared. Don't be fooled into thinking that because you know the Windows 95 Explorer shell, it's in any way *good*. --
"In the end all Atheist beleive in a infinite power whether they liek to admit or not."
Nope. Sorry. I don't believe in an infinite power. Did you miss that part? Here it is again:
I DON'T BELIEVE IN ANY GOD OR GODS OR OMNIPOTENT/OMNIPRESENT/OMNISCIENT ENTITY WHATSOEVER.
I don't claim to know what happens after death (actually, I do - nothing).
Do you REALLY think I'm somehow "apprehensive" on the off chance that some kinda Supreme Dude is gonna get pissed at me for not having given generously of my purse and my soul for three score years and ten?
I think not, sir. I'm gonna strive to make my heaven on earth; to treat my fellow man as I would have him treat me; to recognise the intrinsic value in every human life; and to just be a damn good bloke as far as is possible. --
Atheism is not about proving that God exists or not.
It's about believing that it doesn't matter.
Personally, it makes NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER to me whether your God exists or not. Understand this, and you understand Atheism.
I answer to no higher authority than my fellow man.
If you are so weak and feeble-minded that you need threats of hellfire (in the next life) and fundamentalist religious government (in this one) to keep you on the path of righteousness, then I truly feel for you. --
"Not when the dictionaries are made in institutions controlled by liberals, jews, feminazis, black separatists and masons. That is, so-called "universities"."
Produce evidence for this disgusting and appalling statement, or shut the fuck up. --
Don't you DARE lump us Atheists in with those other groups!
"An Atheist loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist accepts that heaven is something for which we should work now -- here on earth -- for all men together to enjoy. An Atheist accepts that he can get no help through prayer, but that he must find in himself the inner conviction and strength to meet life, to grapple with it, to subdue it and to enjoy it. An Atheist accepts that only in a knowledge of himself and a knowledge of his fellow man can he find the understanding that will help to a life of fulfillment."
Now what's wrong with that? (it's from the opening speeches of Murray v. Curlett, more info from http://www.atheists.org).
Say what you like about merkins, god botherers and ditherers, but us Atheists are nice normal people who want everyone to play nice. --
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And Windows NT and Windows 2000 are based on VMS, which is based on RSX/11, which is older than that.
History is sometimes a capricious mistress.
Linux is a fine OS that is currently smacking the crap out of Windows (and rightly so - Windows is just shit at this) in the high-density server arena; it's got a long way to go, however, before it becomes as manageable as Windows 2000 on the desktop.
Horses for courses.
Naturally, for Real Work you need a Real Computer, and that means NOT x86...
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Yep, domain admins and up only.
Fud isn't funny in EITHER direction.
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Firstly, the MS Font Smoother is not an antialiaser, and never has been. Secondly, there's no point in smoothing large text, as the aliasing artifacts you're trying to get rid of have a tiny impact on the letterform.
Antialiasing (as practiced by Acrobat, Acorn RISCOS, gv and the like) isn't available for general use on the Windows desktop. This will turn up in XP with the advent of ClearCase - which looked nice, but made my eyes tired surprisingly quickly.
The current Windows font smoothing technology ruins letterforms; a true antialiasing technology preserves *the visual appearance* of letterforms - look at the difference between 12pt bold arial in an Acrobat document (antialiased) and in a Word document (smoothed).
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That's because Access does page-level, not row-level locking. Yeah, it sucks.
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This sounds interesting. Anywhere we can read more about this?
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"Windows 2000 runs nicely in 64 megs of RAM on a K6/266 laptop."
Well, on a PII 400 with 64 MB of RAM, Windows 2000 ran like a sack of cack until an additional 64MB RAM was fitted.
I'd dearly love to know how you're getting "nice" performance out of a K6-266/64 box.
FWIW, the *minimum* spec for W2K is a PII300 with 64MB. And we all know how well Windows runs in "minimum" conditions.
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...Windows Whistler does precisely this.
Ick. I have to go and clean my teeth now.
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http://totl.net/STI/
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http://a1556.g.akamai.net/7/1556/2064/OpenOffice60 9/anoncvs.openoffice.org/download/OpenOf fice609/oo_609_src.tar.gz
There you go.
What's *your* problem?
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"NT4 kicks Win2K's ass all over the place on the workstation."
Sure it does. Uh huh. The vastly restricted hardware support, poor support for 16-bit software, shonky DirectX and complete lack of self-healing features truly raise it above the level of W2K, which has all of these problems *fixed*.
"Win2K is easy to admin, but Linux, FreeBSD or Novell are probably best here."
Sounds like you've never used NetWare. Or Windows 2000 Server. W2K is *not* easy to admin; it just *looks* like it is.
"Bullshit. Win95 all the way. Win98 is slower and more unstable, Millenium is significantly slower, and Win2K's OpenGL support is crappy. If you're games run well in OpenGL, then NT4 kicks everything's ass as a game OS."
Eh? Are you running the same operating systems as the rest of us? W2K has *excellent* OpenGL support, and NT4 has so-so. Win95 and derivatives has *poxy* stability. Smart people play their games under W2K.
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Never, every say "No matter what people say".
Especially when you're using it to prefix a sentence that is demonstrably *wrong*.
http://www.iarchitect.com/find95.htm
http://www.iarchitect.com/explore.htm
http://www.iarchitect.com/file95.htm
Basically, Microsoft has been demonstrably doing bad HCI since Windows 95 first appeared. Don't be fooled into thinking that because you know the Windows 95 Explorer shell, it's in any way *good*.
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Film at 11.
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"In the end all Atheist beleive in a infinite power whether they liek to admit or not."
Nope. Sorry. I don't believe in an infinite power. Did you miss that part? Here it is again:
I DON'T BELIEVE IN ANY GOD OR GODS OR OMNIPOTENT/OMNIPRESENT/OMNISCIENT ENTITY WHATSOEVER.
I don't claim to know what happens after death (actually, I do - nothing).
Do you REALLY think I'm somehow "apprehensive" on the off chance that some kinda Supreme Dude is gonna get pissed at me for not having given generously of my purse and my soul for three score years and ten?
I think not, sir. I'm gonna strive to make my heaven on earth; to treat my fellow man as I would have him treat me; to recognise the intrinsic value in every human life; and to just be a damn good bloke as far as is possible.
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Atheism is not about proving that God exists or not.
It's about believing that it doesn't matter.
Personally, it makes NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER to me whether your God exists or not. Understand this, and you understand Atheism.
I answer to no higher authority than my fellow man.
If you are so weak and feeble-minded that you need threats of hellfire (in the next life) and fundamentalist religious government (in this one) to keep you on the path of righteousness, then I truly feel for you.
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No biscuit!
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I guess you have to STFU.
But of course, I'm being trolled.
Hey, it's a slow afternoon.
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"Nobel Prices" ?
Surely you mean "Prizes"?
Or has the Almighty Buck pervaded your consciousness THAT much?
Radix malorum est cupiditas.
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"Not when the dictionaries are made in institutions controlled by liberals, jews, feminazis, black separatists and masons. That is, so-called "universities"."
Produce evidence for this disgusting and appalling statement, or shut the fuck up.
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But you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
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Intel's technology is so very good that they had to recall the 1.13GHz PIII, because it quite simply didn't work.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/12
AMD on the other hand are shipping 1.1GHz Athlons in quantity, and 1.2 GHz Real Soon Now.
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Don't you DARE lump us Atheists in with those other groups!
"An Atheist loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist accepts that heaven is something for which we should work now -- here on earth -- for all men together to enjoy. An Atheist accepts that he can get no help through prayer, but that he must find in himself the inner conviction and strength to meet life, to grapple with it, to subdue it and to enjoy it. An Atheist accepts that only in a knowledge of himself and a knowledge of his fellow man can he find the understanding that will help to a life of fulfillment."
Now what's wrong with that? (it's from the opening speeches of Murray v. Curlett, more info from http://www.atheists.org).
Say what you like about merkins, god botherers and ditherers, but us Atheists are nice normal people who want everyone to play nice.
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If you had PROOF you wouldn't need FAITH.
Damn. I bit.
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/. does have a short memory span, doesn't it?
Don't you remember what happened to K5?
Bleh.
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...that would be "felch".
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*/sbin: statically linked binaries (for when your system is fscked or you have no libraries)
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Frag limits are meaningless... this is a CounterStrike operation.
I'll do 'im with the AWP.
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