Sorry, but just yesterday I installed MS Services for Unix on my work XP laptop to try to access some NFS mounts. Every time I try to map a share, I get a BSOD quickly followed by a hard reboot.
I agree with most of what you say, but XP is as different from 95 as 95 was from 3.11. At the base level, the kernel, it was even more different. Until they bite the bullet and do a complete re-write, XP SP2 is as good as Windows will ever get.
Great, you made me stick up for Windows. Now I have to run to the Church of Apple and pray to His Steveness to forgive my blasphemy...
I see you mentioned Zelazny - the Amber series is one of my all-time favorites. I would highly recommend another in that vein, the Elric series by Michael Moorcock. You might have read it already, but if not I would highly recommend it! Along with these two, the "Incarnation of Immortality" by Piers Anthony are easily my three favorite series of all time.
Visualize if you will, a shit load of people with their mouths hanging wide open, thinking, "WTF??? We all voted against that abortion, how the fuck did it pass???"
Kinda like the last two presidential elections here in the US.
I'll never forget figuring out how to create a ram drive to make more use of the massive 4MB of memory on my 286 (1MB onboard, 3 full-length, full-height ISA cards with 1 MB each), copy the files over from C:, and running the game from there. Man, it flew!
Luckily, the memory of the original was good enough to survive the ordeal of the unpatched installer in the late 90's remake.
The presenter said it was the full version, and if we already had a lower version installed we could just use the key and upgrade it to Ultimate via the control panel.
You might be a sysadmin, but real work is more than maintaining windows pcs. Lots of companies are involved with businesses that heavily rely upon analyzing large amounts of information. If you aren't aware of any reason to have more than 4 gigs of ram, you are simply ignorant of what really goes on in the modern economy.
He was describing typical desktop usage. You are describing a server/workstation function, to which I say use a real server/workstation OS. Or even Windows "Server"/Vista if you absolutely must.
Unfortunately compatibility with the 9x line was a huge consideration, and the NT line still carried 16-bit code for quite some time and is still hindered to this day with maintaining that compatibility.
Apple made a clean break with the old code base by utilizing "Classic" emulation for several years to facilitate the change-over. Even as a Mac fanboy though, I realize that such a move when you are around 5% market share and when you are around 90% are two completely different things.
According to a presentation from MS I was at yesterday, Vista is based on Server 2008, which was a major re-write. He specifically said that 2K8 was not based on 2K3 code.
One major change I remember is that prior to Vista, all writes went to either ring 4 (userland) or ring 0 (kernel). On Vista/2K8 both ring 2 (services) and ring 3 (admin) are now used also. And ring 0 is now "read-only" (technically, it's regularly polled and any unsigned changes are overwritten).
Just yesterday we had a presentation from a MS rep on Windows Server 2008 (command line based server! - now I have to find a new catchphrase at work instead of the usual "Real servers don't have mice"). At one point he asked who in the room was using Vista. Out of 20 people, 12 haven't even tried it, 7 installed and used it for a while before going back to XP, and one was still using it and liked it.
Of course at the end of the presentation when he started handing out Vista Ultimate discs, we all jumped on it. Now I just have to see if I still remember my eBay password.
while it's true that there are less attacks against Macs, that's only because Macs are in the minority and thus attackers don't bother to spend any time learning to hack them
First off, let me apologize if you were being sarcastic.
This argument never ceases to amaze me. Don't you think OS X has quite a bit more market share than OS9 did? And OS9 had tons of viruses and exploits. OS X, with its Mach/BSD underpinnings, is a much more secure architecture.
And what malware author wouldn't love to be the first to create a common and effective exploit, putting those haughty Mac snobs in their place? Just like any OS, it's not perfectly secure, but it's much better than a single user desktop OS wearing ill-fitting big boy pants.
But please, go install OSX 10.5 on a G4 mac and let me know how it performs. Vista runs fine on my computer which has a amd x2 3800+, released in 2005.
Actually, I also noticed a performance increase when I upgraded to 10.5 on my early-2004 G4 PowerBook laptop. There are PowerMacs (G4/867 Quicksilver) that meet the minimum OS X 10.5 requirements that were made in 2001.
I can vouch for the keyboards. I have used the Natural series for many years and love them. I no longer have a Windows system in my house (a used PS2 took over the occasional gaming duty), but I still have a MS wireless multimedia keyboard for my Mac Mini.
As a jew, I am forced to say yes... along with his Jedi powers of turning water into wine and healing as well.::smirks::
Last I checked, Jesus was Jewish...
I think his point is that as a Jew, implying that Jesus' miracles were "mind-tricks" at best and total BS at worst beats the alternative that they actually killed the Messiah.
For 99.9% of people, buying very high-end stuff is a lot like buying a ferrari. Sure, it looks nice, but what practical use are you going to find for it?
At least the Ferrari will get you laid. When I show girls my bitchin' SLI rig, all I get is, "umm, okay..."
This is pure spin. Look at how this article takes Microsoft's huge jump in profits and manages to turn it into somehow Microsoft is failing and covering up their failure. Of course sales of Vista fell compared to the first few months it was being sold!
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They said the same thing about DirectX 9-only games.
True, but DirectX 9 didn't require an OS upgrade (using the word "upgrade" very loosely here).
"I haven't even watched the movies I have at home due to the Olympics."
:)
Watching or competing?
I just got through watching the gymnastics, and man, my arm is tired.
(apologies to Henny Youngman)
there's an online keygen thing that issues you with a valid CD key
Link?
Sorry, but just yesterday I installed MS Services for Unix on my work XP laptop to try to access some NFS mounts. Every time I try to map a share, I get a BSOD quickly followed by a hard reboot.
I live in Korea, where every computer runs Windows
Don't they know they can run StarCraft on OS X?
Windows XP is just 95 with a retooled engine
I agree with most of what you say, but XP is as different from 95 as 95 was from 3.11. At the base level, the kernel, it was even more different. Until they bite the bullet and do a complete re-write, XP SP2 is as good as Windows will ever get.
Great, you made me stick up for Windows. Now I have to run to the Church of Apple and pray to His Steveness to forgive my blasphemy...
Not that I have enough time to read... :(
I know that feeling, buy I try to keep in mind the following quote:
No matter how busy you may think you are,
you must find time for reading,
or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Confucius
I see you mentioned Zelazny - the Amber series is one of my all-time favorites. I would highly recommend another in that vein, the Elric series by Michael Moorcock. You might have read it already, but if not I would highly recommend it! Along with these two, the "Incarnation of Immortality" by Piers Anthony are easily my three favorite series of all time.
Visualize if you will, a shit load of people with their mouths hanging wide open, thinking, "WTF??? We all voted against that abortion, how the fuck did it pass???"
Kinda like the last two presidential elections here in the US.
More like TB p/s
...of incoming exploits.
Do they also block http://www.mozilla.com/ ?
I'll never forget figuring out how to create a ram drive to make more use of the massive 4MB of memory on my 286 (1MB onboard, 3 full-length, full-height ISA cards with 1 MB each), copy the files over from C:, and running the game from there. Man, it flew!
Luckily, the memory of the original was good enough to survive the ordeal of the unpatched installer in the late 90's remake.
The presenter said it was the full version, and if we already had a lower version installed we could just use the key and upgrade it to Ultimate via the control panel.
You might be a sysadmin, but real work is more than maintaining windows pcs. Lots of companies are involved with businesses that heavily rely upon analyzing large amounts of information. If you aren't aware of any reason to have more than 4 gigs of ram, you are simply ignorant of what really goes on in the modern economy.
He was describing typical desktop usage. You are describing a server/workstation function, to which I say use a real server/workstation OS. Or even Windows "Server"/Vista if you absolutely must.
Unfortunately compatibility with the 9x line was a huge consideration, and the NT line still carried 16-bit code for quite some time and is still hindered to this day with maintaining that compatibility.
Apple made a clean break with the old code base by utilizing "Classic" emulation for several years to facilitate the change-over. Even as a Mac fanboy though, I realize that such a move when you are around 5% market share and when you are around 90% are two completely different things.
According to a presentation from MS I was at yesterday, Vista is based on Server 2008, which was a major re-write. He specifically said that 2K8 was not based on 2K3 code.
One major change I remember is that prior to Vista, all writes went to either ring 4 (userland) or ring 0 (kernel). On Vista/2K8 both ring 2 (services) and ring 3 (admin) are now used also. And ring 0 is now "read-only" (technically, it's regularly polled and any unsigned changes are overwritten).
I'm pretty sure listening to your customer is an important part of creating, marketing and selling a succesful product.
Nah, forget that pansy-ass light side. Come to the dark side, vendor lock-in!
Just yesterday we had a presentation from a MS rep on Windows Server 2008 (command line based server! - now I have to find a new catchphrase at work instead of the usual "Real servers don't have mice"). At one point he asked who in the room was using Vista. Out of 20 people, 12 haven't even tried it, 7 installed and used it for a while before going back to XP, and one was still using it and liked it.
Of course at the end of the presentation when he started handing out Vista Ultimate discs, we all jumped on it. Now I just have to see if I still remember my eBay password.
while it's true that there are less attacks against Macs, that's only because Macs are in the minority and thus attackers don't bother to spend any time learning to hack them
First off, let me apologize if you were being sarcastic.
This argument never ceases to amaze me. Don't you think OS X has quite a bit more market share than OS9 did? And OS9 had tons of viruses and exploits. OS X, with its Mach/BSD underpinnings, is a much more secure architecture.
And what malware author wouldn't love to be the first to create a common and effective exploit, putting those haughty Mac snobs in their place? Just like any OS, it's not perfectly secure, but it's much better than a single user desktop OS wearing ill-fitting big boy pants.
But please, go install OSX 10.5 on a G4 mac and let me know how it performs. Vista runs fine on my computer which has a amd x2 3800+, released in 2005.
Actually, I also noticed a performance increase when I upgraded to 10.5 on my early-2004 G4 PowerBook laptop. There are PowerMacs (G4/867 Quicksilver) that meet the minimum OS X 10.5 requirements that were made in 2001.
I can vouch for the keyboards. I have used the Natural series for many years and love them. I no longer have a Windows system in my house (a used PS2 took over the occasional gaming duty), but I still have a MS wireless multimedia keyboard for my Mac Mini.
As a jew, I am forced to say yes... along with his Jedi powers of turning water into wine and healing as well. ::smirks::
Last I checked, Jesus was Jewish...
I think his point is that as a Jew, implying that Jesus' miracles were "mind-tricks" at best and total BS at worst beats the alternative that they actually killed the Messiah.
Even if Google grows to dominance and eats some of Mcrosoft's lunch, as Microsoft did to IBM, that does not spell the end of Microsoft.
Yeah, but a guy can still dream...
For 99.9% of people, buying very high-end stuff is a lot like buying a ferrari. Sure, it looks nice, but what practical use are you going to find for it?
At least the Ferrari will get you laid. When I show girls my bitchin' SLI rig, all I get is, "umm, okay..."
This is pure spin. Look at how this article takes Microsoft's huge jump in profits and manages to turn it into somehow Microsoft is failing and covering up their failure. Of course sales of Vista fell compared to the first few months it was being sold!
You have been found guilty of defending MS (factuality is no defense of this heinous crime). Please relinquish your 5-digit ID at the door.