Not knowing what exactly "COSA" was, I did the sensible thing and wiki'd it.
Much to my surprise, it redirected me to an article on Sex Addicts Anonymous (I kid you not, try it yourself: wiki COSA).
Upon seeing this, I can't see how it will help computing at all. Hardcore programmers aren't supposed to get laid at all, let alone get laid so much it becomes a problem. But then maybe that IS the problem, maybe all the REAL programmers are off bonking so much, they don't have time to write a decent C++ library for perfect multithreading....
I think they did move it to user level, but nvidia apparently had a hand in a lot of the original Vista problems thanks to their dodgy drivers, so it hasn't completely worked.
Are they specifically parts of the Kernel, though?
UAC can be disabled from running a simple command line, so it can't be buried THAT tightly into the Kernel, same for the "DRM".
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure you're mistaken about the DRM in vista - it has EXTRA DRM to cope with things like Blu-ray and HD-DVD's AACS, but it doesn't prevent you from copying files and stuff. You're saying it's slower because it's constantly performing these DRM checks, but some people actually claim Vista SP1 is faster than XP, so what gives?
If you're just going to re-hash the same Vista-bashing crap we've seen on slashdot for years, don't bother - I'd like a genuinely INFORMED opinion about the core KERNEL of the OS, not the OS itself.
Is there anything actually wrong with the NT6.1 Kernel? I mean, Vista has it's problems, granted, but can any informed person here state what's so bad about the Kernel itself, since that's what's causing all the fuss??
My friends and I go to Alton Towers all the time (We have season tickets), the staff there are generally very helpful and friendly, so I doubt they're going to change that policy just to make families feel a bit better, there's a good chance it's more of a tongue-in-cheek sort of thing to help Dad relax on his day off rather than to cause real distress.
I highly doubt they're going to kick up a fuss or cause an argument for the sake of it, they'll more than likely go to the kids and be all "hey kids, tell daddy to put the phone away! I'll even take it off his hands and put it in a safe place, how about that?!". As cheesy as it sounds, it might ACTUALLY work.
I hope you realise I just spent a good 2mins googling around for an explanation of a for loop with 4 parts to it instead of the 3 I was used to seeing. I genuinely thought it was some special, relatively unknown and underused part of the C spec that I'd just not seen before. Then I realised it was just the HTML screwing up a less-than symbol. Then I felt a bit silly. Then I just had to tell someone....
Well that's a fair enough comment I suppose. I'm not much of a fan of singing in films, either and I do agree it's the film's weakest attribute, but at least for me it didn't detract from the rest of it. Incidentally, it's what I hate most about family guy these days (don't get me wrong, I AM a fan, it's just a gripe I have), Seth McFarlane blatantly wants to sing for a career and uses any excuse to burst into song...
Come on, the Aqua teen film was beyond BAD, it was terrible, more terrible than words to describe. And why get so upset at someone for not having the same tastes as you? It's not like it matters, he didn't like the film, you did, who cares? Personally I agree, the film was all right, but it wasn't as good as normal futurama episodes have been. The Simpsons film was ok as well, but it wasn't as good as the first 10 seasons of the show. The south park film I really liked, I don't know anyone that liked the show but didn't like the film. Same for bevis and butt-head. But you know what? It doesn't matter, it's not like someone's going to come out to your house and berate you because your taste doesn't match up with the vast majority or something.
Actually this was the EXACT thing I had in mind when I was saying about the odd file AV's can detect but just not bloody delete. I found the easiest way to get rid of that one (Because all the 3rd party tools to do it simply didn't work) was to bite the bullet and install unlocker. This piece of software is without a doubt my favourite utility for windows and one of the first things I install (when I'm running 32bit, that is, no 64bit support yet:(). It does EXACTLY what you describe - it tells you what processes have locked a file and lets you FORCE a delete of it. So when Vundo gets locked into your system, you can still delete it without much trouble (Explorer will crash, but a restart makes it as right as rain). Why AV's can't do this, I don't know...
Actually... Since when the fuck has bittorrent ever been devoid of viruses and trojans? It's P2P, by definition P2P is chocked full of that sort of crap. Perhaps I was too subtle for you, but "porn" is a just another way of saying Warez. Perhaps I should have said "Thanks to all the LINUX ISO SITES my FRIEND goes on..." but I fear that might have started an entirely different flame war... Either way, the point is there's only so much noscript (Which I do run, thankyouverymuch) can stop, the second you go near P2P or anything even vaguely unscrupulous, you're always likely to get a virus or a trojan. It's why I run AV, to be safe, it's why I laugh at all those people going "lol I dun need AV, I'm smart" because unless they're either running something like AmigaOS, or do everything through a VM, they're at risk of getting infected all the same.
Well now come on, there's been embedded versions of windows for quite some time now, I believe there was an image floating around of an Embedded XP that was about 50Mb or so, so it's not entirely infeasible. Not to mention Minwin, if Microsoft really does pull off a minimalist, modular version of windows, then it's just begging to be stuck on a ROM on a motherboard. Plus, what better way to lock down a system than to have the OS as part of the hardware itself?
Thanks to all the porn sites my FRIEND goes on, it's not uncommon for my AV to pick up a virus every now and then. Usually it's able to kill the thing, but every now and then one comes along that's just a pig to get rid of. Norton (keep in mind, last time I used it was half a decade ago, if not more) had a great habit of going "HEY! YOU'VE GOT A VIRUS!" but when you actually tell it to delete the bloody thing, it refused to do anything. What was annoying was that often you could delete it simply by killing the process, but I digress. Every other AV I've used has been able to handle most, but to this day, every now and then a virus will come along that whatever AV I try simply can't shift, forcing me to do the ol' safe-mode delete trick (or sometimes having to boot into a different OS entirely). I don't understand why these AV's don't pop up saying "we've found a virus, unfortunately it's going to be a pain to remove, so I can't do it for you, instead here's some instructions on what to do to get rid of it..." instead of just repeatedly popping up that the Virus is there and refusing to do anything about it....
I would imagine the main purpose is to fix any broken OS you install afterwards, instead of digging out that old copy of Knoppix you have lying around or whatever. True, there's a bit of a security risk, but as you said it's burned to a ROM, meaning you can't install any applications, so what IS the risk, really?
Interesting. So 300million linux devices per year, 1% of those are servers/desktops, that makes 3million a year, right? That's not as much as I thought it would be, these motherboards should certainly boost that figure. I wonder how long before Microsoft start shipping an embedded Windows version....
How many people "switch" to Linux every month? I mean, if anyone has such a statistic, I'd be interested in seeing just how much this figure could potentially impact that (I know, chances are 99% of the people using these motherboards will still boot windows, but satisfy my curiosity =P).
Well, over the years I've tried to give it a go in various respects. Going back to Mandriva before it was even called Mandriva, every time I tried to install it, there was always ONE vital component that it simply didn't support. Wireless card comes to mind, SATA drivers, etc. Every time it was always a different driver, so installing didn't work. Then I discovered live CD's (Knoppix) and that was great!...except it wasn't entirely useful to me, I'd need to install applications to use it properly (and installing applications? I'm sure it's INCREDIBLY simple with this app-get thing I've heard so much about, but I'll be damned if I could find the bloody thing) so the LiveCD wasn't really useful for anything other than playing around going "ooo, !Windows!". Then Ubuntu came along and I almost managed to use it, except it took me nearly half an hour to figure out how to mount a drive, then I found out it only had Read-NTFS support, which was a tad useless to me (Sorry, I know I shouldn't be using that filesystem, but on windows it's a choice between that or FAT32...) so I invariably ended up rebooting back into Windows. I've had a few other brushes with Linux, we had to use SuSe Linux for a Uni application and much fun was had trying to simply swap a file onto a USB drive (It recognised it fine, in fact the plug-and-play system worked better than I could have imagined, it just point blank refused to copy any files off of it, regardless of the filesystem used), plus the sheer differences with Linux confused me, such as how double clicking the application bar made it disappear instead of maximising it (I know, this is my fault for not getting used to a new UI and there are probably ways to make it act more like windows, but deadlines were approaching and it caused much frustration, putting me off of Linux a bit more). Then came PS2Linux. I don't know if it was just our setup, but it occasionally just plain liked to screw up, to the point where it seemed to crash everything except the command line. Ahh, the command line, probably Linux's greatest asset, but by God I had no idea where to even begin with that one. I will get around to Linux SOME day, I don't feel anything compelling me to use windows for everyday stuff (except gaming), but despite the fact that I know my way around a windows system quite well, I feel like a complete n00b any time I touch Linux and that's what's putting me off the most. Next time I give it a go, I'll probably do it through a Virtual PC until I get confident enough to properly install it. I've got plenty of partitions set up and ready for the time that does actually happen.
Apologies for the length, but I hope that's answered your question.
Yeah, it's funny that...they probably think I'm some big FOSS advocate that hates windows and everything about it, when in reality I've never managed to grasp Linux and actually use Vista...
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Cloud computing is already here, Valve invented it this morning!
On another note, an unknown company is bringing out a sewing application that promises to push multithreading to it's limits.
Not knowing what exactly "COSA" was, I did the sensible thing and wiki'd it.
Much to my surprise, it redirected me to an article on Sex Addicts Anonymous (I kid you not, try it yourself: wiki COSA).
Upon seeing this, I can't see how it will help computing at all. Hardcore programmers aren't supposed to get laid at all, let alone get laid so much it becomes a problem. But then maybe that IS the problem, maybe all the REAL programmers are off bonking so much, they don't have time to write a decent C++ library for perfect multithreading....
I think they did move it to user level, but nvidia apparently had a hand in a lot of the original Vista problems thanks to their dodgy drivers, so it hasn't completely worked.
Are they specifically parts of the Kernel, though?
UAC can be disabled from running a simple command line, so it can't be buried THAT tightly into the Kernel, same for the "DRM".
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure you're mistaken about the DRM in vista - it has EXTRA DRM to cope with things like Blu-ray and HD-DVD's AACS, but it doesn't prevent you from copying files and stuff. You're saying it's slower because it's constantly performing these DRM checks, but some people actually claim Vista SP1 is faster than XP, so what gives?
If you're just going to re-hash the same Vista-bashing crap we've seen on slashdot for years, don't bother - I'd like a genuinely INFORMED opinion about the core KERNEL of the OS, not the OS itself.
Is there anything actually wrong with the NT6.1 Kernel?
I mean, Vista has it's problems, granted, but can any informed person here state what's so bad about the Kernel itself, since that's what's causing all the fuss??
My friends and I go to Alton Towers all the time (We have season tickets), the staff there are generally very helpful and friendly, so I doubt they're going to change that policy just to make families feel a bit better, there's a good chance it's more of a tongue-in-cheek sort of thing to help Dad relax on his day off rather than to cause real distress.
I highly doubt they're going to kick up a fuss or cause an argument for the sake of it, they'll more than likely go to the kids and be all "hey kids, tell daddy to put the phone away! I'll even take it off his hands and put it in a safe place, how about that?!". As cheesy as it sounds, it might ACTUALLY work.
They're allowed to connect now because Vista has been installed on all of their systems, so security is no longer an issue.
NOTE: I kid, I kid! (Because someone will think this is flamebait).
I hope you realise I just spent a good 2mins googling around for an explanation of a for loop with 4 parts to it instead of the 3 I was used to seeing. I genuinely thought it was some special, relatively unknown and underused part of the C spec that I'd just not seen before.
Then I realised it was just the HTML screwing up a less-than symbol. Then I felt a bit silly.
Then I just had to tell someone....
Well that's a fair enough comment I suppose. I'm not much of a fan of singing in films, either and I do agree it's the film's weakest attribute, but at least for me it didn't detract from the rest of it.
Incidentally, it's what I hate most about family guy these days (don't get me wrong, I AM a fan, it's just a gripe I have), Seth McFarlane blatantly wants to sing for a career and uses any excuse to burst into song...
Come on, the Aqua teen film was beyond BAD, it was terrible, more terrible than words to describe. And why get so upset at someone for not having the same tastes as you? It's not like it matters, he didn't like the film, you did, who cares?
Personally I agree, the film was all right, but it wasn't as good as normal futurama episodes have been. The Simpsons film was ok as well, but it wasn't as good as the first 10 seasons of the show.
The south park film I really liked, I don't know anyone that liked the show but didn't like the film. Same for bevis and butt-head. But you know what? It doesn't matter, it's not like someone's going to come out to your house and berate you because your taste doesn't match up with the vast majority or something.
Obviously Mars is colder, it hasn't been hit by global warming. Yet.
Actually this was the EXACT thing I had in mind when I was saying about the odd file AV's can detect but just not bloody delete. :(). It does EXACTLY what you describe - it tells you what processes have locked a file and lets you FORCE a delete of it.
I found the easiest way to get rid of that one (Because all the 3rd party tools to do it simply didn't work) was to bite the bullet and install unlocker. This piece of software is without a doubt my favourite utility for windows and one of the first things I install (when I'm running 32bit, that is, no 64bit support yet
So when Vundo gets locked into your system, you can still delete it without much trouble (Explorer will crash, but a restart makes it as right as rain). Why AV's can't do this, I don't know...
There's probably no mention of it running windows because of the defining amount of jokes that would be made about your car crashing...
Actually...
Since when the fuck has bittorrent ever been devoid of viruses and trojans?
It's P2P, by definition P2P is chocked full of that sort of crap.
Perhaps I was too subtle for you, but "porn" is a just another way of saying Warez. Perhaps I should have said "Thanks to all the LINUX ISO SITES my FRIEND goes on..." but I fear that might have started an entirely different flame war...
Either way, the point is there's only so much noscript (Which I do run, thankyouverymuch) can stop, the second you go near P2P or anything even vaguely unscrupulous, you're always likely to get a virus or a trojan. It's why I run AV, to be safe, it's why I laugh at all those people going "lol I dun need AV, I'm smart" because unless they're either running something like AmigaOS, or do everything through a VM, they're at risk of getting infected all the same.
When MY FRIEND looks at porn, HE goes bareback.
Well now come on, there's been embedded versions of windows for quite some time now, I believe there was an image floating around of an Embedded XP that was about 50Mb or so, so it's not entirely infeasible.
Not to mention Minwin, if Microsoft really does pull off a minimalist, modular version of windows, then it's just begging to be stuck on a ROM on a motherboard.
Plus, what better way to lock down a system than to have the OS as part of the hardware itself?
Thanks to all the porn sites my FRIEND goes on, it's not uncommon for my AV to pick up a virus every now and then. Usually it's able to kill the thing, but every now and then one comes along that's just a pig to get rid of.
Norton (keep in mind, last time I used it was half a decade ago, if not more) had a great habit of going "HEY! YOU'VE GOT A VIRUS!" but when you actually tell it to delete the bloody thing, it refused to do anything. What was annoying was that often you could delete it simply by killing the process, but I digress.
Every other AV I've used has been able to handle most, but to this day, every now and then a virus will come along that whatever AV I try simply can't shift, forcing me to do the ol' safe-mode delete trick (or sometimes having to boot into a different OS entirely).
I don't understand why these AV's don't pop up saying "we've found a virus, unfortunately it's going to be a pain to remove, so I can't do it for you, instead here's some instructions on what to do to get rid of it..." instead of just repeatedly popping up that the Virus is there and refusing to do anything about it....
I would imagine the main purpose is to fix any broken OS you install afterwards, instead of digging out that old copy of Knoppix you have lying around or whatever.
True, there's a bit of a security risk, but as you said it's burned to a ROM, meaning you can't install any applications, so what IS the risk, really?
Interesting. So 300million linux devices per year, 1% of those are servers/desktops, that makes 3million a year, right?
That's not as much as I thought it would be, these motherboards should certainly boost that figure.
I wonder how long before Microsoft start shipping an embedded Windows version....
How many people "switch" to Linux every month? I mean, if anyone has such a statistic, I'd be interested in seeing just how much this figure could potentially impact that (I know, chances are 99% of the people using these motherboards will still boot windows, but satisfy my curiosity =P).
The truth really IS out there...and in an easy to read digital format, too!
Well, over the years I've tried to give it a go in various respects. Going back to Mandriva before it was even called Mandriva, every time I tried to install it, there was always ONE vital component that it simply didn't support.
Wireless card comes to mind, SATA drivers, etc.
Every time it was always a different driver, so installing didn't work. Then I discovered live CD's (Knoppix) and that was great!...except it wasn't entirely useful to me, I'd need to install applications to use it properly (and installing applications? I'm sure it's INCREDIBLY simple with this app-get thing I've heard so much about, but I'll be damned if I could find the bloody thing) so the LiveCD wasn't really useful for anything other than playing around going "ooo, !Windows!".
Then Ubuntu came along and I almost managed to use it, except it took me nearly half an hour to figure out how to mount a drive, then I found out it only had Read-NTFS support, which was a tad useless to me (Sorry, I know I shouldn't be using that filesystem, but on windows it's a choice between that or FAT32...) so I invariably ended up rebooting back into Windows.
I've had a few other brushes with Linux, we had to use SuSe Linux for a Uni application and much fun was had trying to simply swap a file onto a USB drive (It recognised it fine, in fact the plug-and-play system worked better than I could have imagined, it just point blank refused to copy any files off of it, regardless of the filesystem used), plus the sheer differences with Linux confused me, such as how double clicking the application bar made it disappear instead of maximising it (I know, this is my fault for not getting used to a new UI and there are probably ways to make it act more like windows, but deadlines were approaching and it caused much frustration, putting me off of Linux a bit more).
Then came PS2Linux. I don't know if it was just our setup, but it occasionally just plain liked to screw up, to the point where it seemed to crash everything except the command line. Ahh, the command line, probably Linux's greatest asset, but by God I had no idea where to even begin with that one.
I will get around to Linux SOME day, I don't feel anything compelling me to use windows for everyday stuff (except gaming), but despite the fact that I know my way around a windows system quite well, I feel like a complete n00b any time I touch Linux and that's what's putting me off the most.
Next time I give it a go, I'll probably do it through a Virtual PC until I get confident enough to properly install it. I've got plenty of partitions set up and ready for the time that does actually happen.
Apologies for the length, but I hope that's answered your question.
Yeah, it's funny that...they probably think I'm some big FOSS advocate that hates windows and everything about it, when in reality I've never managed to grasp Linux and actually use Vista...
I meant the source to windows.
That's easy, release the source.