Perhaps they admired his undoubted skills as a developer of some very powerful utilities for Windows, and some one who had a very deep understanding of Windows OS internals. After all there is no love lost between Sony and MS, or are you suggesting they bought his company as a reward for him exposing Sony?
That's really just how people have to expect to see disk drives in Windows, there's no technical limitation that prevents you from mounting drives under directories. You can use the Disk Manager control panel applet to configure the drive to mount either as a drive letter, or as a file system attached to a directory on another drive if that's what you want to do. If you come from a UNIX world, it looks strange, but most Windows poeople don't so they carry on working the way they always have.
If anybody actually wants to undrstand what's been going on with Vista file copying, as opposed to making smart ass comments, there's an excellent article from Mark Russinovich's blog at:
Your ignoring a number of issues.
1. Many enterprises are not facing a capacity crunch, they are facing an IOPs crunch where they simply can't get enough I/Os out of disk without deploying large numbers of them with low capacity utilization to get the benefits of multiple spindles.
2. Energy consumption is a big problem in many data centers, the first target to reduce that has been the server farms, but storage is next on the list (probably becomes the number #1 energy consumer in the data center during 2008-2009) Disk is by far the biggest component of overall storage power consumption.
3. There is nothing that can be done with conventional HD technology to impact either (1) or (2)
Ergo, enterprises will have to start looking at alternatives and Flash is the most mature around at the moment. Evidence for this can be seen in EMC's announcement today of flash drives for it's DMX storage arrays.
Hmm, I bought a pretty cheap dual-core Intel system with 2GB of memory a decent ATI graphics card, 300GB drive, and DVD write for about $600 and have it hooked up to my living room system. I cannot hear it even when the room is quiet (i.e. not playing or listening to anything), so I don't buy the "too noisy" argument. he things that hold me back on Netflix video on demand is the lack of integration with MediaCenter in Vista and relatively low quality, if they fixed those issues, I'd start downloading. Meanwhile I'll carry on using it for stuff that I get from torrents which it does an excellent job of playing back at 1080x1920 resolution (and guess what folks, no issues with Vista's DRM when playing back torrented video;-)
FAST is a search engine designed for searching unstructured data files such as word and email folders, it's not really intended for use as web search engine. It's mostly an embedded search-engine used in other products (for example I believe that EMC's Centera uses FAST for the text search capabilities.) As such, I would expect it to become the search-engine embedded in SharePoint, along with some sort of a policy engine to do data classification and management.
Samsung and LG both make combo-BluRay/HD-DVD players, other vendors, particularly budget Chinese made players are expected. As to which is more evil, Sony or MS, that's a purely subjective judgement.
I did buy a BluRay player anyway, but we'll see how it goes. Consumers can still vote with their wallets, and I hope they do.
Yes, I can quite understand why you'd want to support Sony, After all doesn't Sony have a wonderful, spotless reputation as a protector of consumer rights? Oh, no, wait a moment, I seem to remember some incident with root kits installed on audio CDs to stop you ripping them to the hard drive.
Honestly for me, the number of applications that would just stop working or would need to be coaxed to run on Vista that would make it unstable is far more of an administrative headache than I know I'm willing to deal with
And just what those applications be, I can honestly say that I've not had a single application fail to run in Vista, and I have a fairly extensive collection installed.
- Will companies start to think of strategies to let the user tinker the GPL parts (special signing keys for the GPL modules can be ordered from the manufacturer that allow to use modified GPL code in the firmware, while everything else is still restricted) ?
Yes, that's gonna happen, because AT&T, TVIO etc are just dying to have custoomers running god knows what code and still expecting support when the damn thing doesn't work properly;-)
- Will manufacturer start forking project (Apple's forks staying GPLv2, while opensource projects slowly make transition toward GPLv3) ? And which manufacturer will be able to sustain their own fork, or will most of that forking will lead to poorly maintained projects ?
I could see TIVO doing that, TIVO only really needs the kernel, might be more tricky for Apple, I don't know how non-BSD code they have.
- Or will manufacturer simply stop using GPL code at all and slowly switch to more corporate-friendly instead of user-friendly license like BSD ?
I think it quite likely that people will look for code sources not covered by GPL3 for commercial applications, especially startups who often need to show their VCs that they actually control their IP.
- And will Apple try to bribe the FSF by offer free iPhone, please ?
I wish that was true. Good luck installing a random piece of software on Vista. It probably won't work.
Strange, I've been running Vista for about 18 months now, and I've had very little trouble in getting random bits of software to install. Generally, what problems I do run into can be fixed by running the initial install with admin privileges. Granted, I don't run a lot of games which is probably where most of the problems will lie. But graphics, multimedia, office and general productivity apps (both commercial and open source) have all worked without problems.
Google is asking that microsoft provide a way for the user to disable it, so that other competing desktop search programs dont battle each other for system resources and ultimately both slow the computer down.
They arent asking for it to be removed outright
If that's all Google wants, then they could have saved themselves a lot legal fees. Windows Search is a service, it can be stop, started, disabled altogether from the Services management applet, or the command line, and there would be no problem in stopping it as part of an install for Google Desktop Search.
Now a days, when I work with word. Type Type Type...damn, why did it Capitalize that word I did not want in caps? Lowercase the letter. *boink* it capitlalized it. Lower case it. *boink*. Lowercase it again. Ok, it stuck that time. Argh, it just formatted that block of text on its own.... *grumble*... unformat.
More productive? No, its wasting clock cycles to tick me off and slow me down even further.
Agreed, the first thing I do when I install Office is give it a lobotomy and turn of pretty much all the "intelligent formatting" features. But I'm still more productive using Word than I was in 1987 when I was using NROFF and vi to author documents:-) I also tend to write longer documents these days, my job tends to need 50+page reports with graphics, I wouldn't fancy editing them on a 4MB Mac SE from that time period! And frankly, I don't care if Word is a little slower to start, can't say I've noticed it, so the difference must be barely perceptible.
The point of the article is that as computers get faster the software get proportionally slower so you tend to get a 0 net gain in productivity in the common jobs you do on your system now.
The tests completely failed to demonstrate that, just how much more productive can you make a word processor, for most people productivity is governed by how fast they can type and that hasn't change d a whole lot in the intervening period. Regardless of whether individual applications are more productive, it's undeniable that some with a modern PC (or a modern Mac for that matter) is more productive than the same person with a Mac SE in 1987.
Are you serious? Or do you not use windows much. I've had many apps bring down Windows.
Off the top of my head I know that Media Player has done so, and i'm pretty sure an early release of Gran Paradiso did.
Yes, I'm serious, and I use Windows every day (Internet, Office, Media apps mostly), the only thing that's probably atypical is that I don't play games, I also don't install the latest driver du-jour if the existing driver is working fine.
So not sure what they mean but redesigning. What would be nice is to make the windows kernel truly preemptive multitasking. I like how in Linux you can kill -9 a rogue program, but when a program crashes in windows it takes the whole system down. Ctrl-alt-delete (kill process) how often does it really kill the process vs hanging the system.
Anyway, no need to redesign, just fix what they already have.
I don't know which version of Windows you're running (3.1 perhaps), but Vista (and previous versions of the NT kernel) have been truly preemptive from day one and you can kill user level processes from task manager and stop and restart services without bringing the system down. I literally can't remember an application making any of my Windows systems come down.
I think the interesting thing here is the "design center" for OS is changing dramatically, in the past 99% of Windows desktops were uniprocessor and I dare say that they made design choice around that. Now we are moving to a world where 2- and 4-way desktops are common and the number of cores is only going to increase over time. That means you may well start to look at some fundamentally different ways of doing things, perhaps dedicating cores to specific tasks within the OS, for example a core might be dedicated to handling the IP stack while another might handle GDI requests. I'm not saying that this is what will happen, just that widespread use of multi-CPU systems may change the tradeoffs in OS design.
We're talking hundreds of gigabytes per second and no noticeable stalling on concurrent accesses.
In which case you're talking complete rubbish, "hundreds of gigabytes per second" just one GB/sec would need 4x2Gbit FC links all exceeding their peak theoretical throughput:-) Hundreds of MB/sec I can beleive (just about assuming the right access patterns)
I had to do a COBOL project on 80 character punch cards in my first year at college, I think our lecturers did it as a form of aversion therapy, certainly worked for me.
I've programmed hierarchical databases (Intergraph had one of its own on VMS)
I've used non-IP networks (Ethernet-XNS again courtesy of Intergraph)
I've met the chief designer/CTO for ColdFusion who now hangs out in a Boston VC
C was the language most of my programming was done in, I actually wrote a GUI front-end to the UNIX man command that had a lot of the features of a crude HTML. I actually parsed the NROFF page to recognize NROFF tags and use them in a similar fashion to HTML, you click on bolded word and have it link you to a related man page. This was written in the late 80s, damn I wish I'd had a software patent:-)
I've never been certified anything, though there are some who suggested I should have been!
Yes, the visuals are better, but the sound is the exact same from what I can tell. Understand that I had to watch the movies on HDNet and then the DVD later, or first, to make my comparisons. I only have one large screen HD TV with surround sound.
Actually, both BluRay and HD DVD do support substantially better sound options with higher bitrates all the way up to uncompressed, of course you need a receiver designed to handle them or one that has seperate 6-channel analog-in. The reason why the sound seemed much the same when you watched via HDNet is simple, cable and satellite don't offer anything more than Dolby Digital 5.1 support so the soundtrack is going to be the same as a DVD (or worse depending on how much they compress it.)
Can you name a VISTA only format? Perhaps you mean Office 2007. Yes there will be DRM media that needs VISTA for playback, but that's a rather different issue.
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but it goes further (as I understand it) to lock down the whole multi-media system from end to end. Now I understand this, because one could intercept the data from the HD-DVD and use it but it does seem a little more extreme than what is necessary to stop casual piracy.
I think you'll find that the fully protected media path was a requirement for playback on PCs from the AACS spec. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there is something rather similar in Leopard, assuming Apple expects to enable playback of HD and BluRay media. Being Apple though, they are probably working on the principle that people wouldn't bey any happier if they knew and just not talking about the feature.
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Perhaps they admired his undoubted skills as a developer of some very powerful utilities for Windows, and some one who had a very deep understanding of Windows OS internals. After all there is no love lost between Sony and MS, or are you suggesting they bought his company as a reward for him exposing Sony?
That's really just how people have to expect to see disk drives in Windows, there's no technical limitation that prevents you from mounting drives under directories. You can use the Disk Manager control panel applet to configure the drive to mount either as a drive letter, or as a file system attached to a directory on another drive if that's what you want to do. If you come from a UNIX world, it looks strange, but most Windows poeople don't so they carry on working the way they always have.
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/02/04/2826167.aspx
Your ignoring a number of issues. 1. Many enterprises are not facing a capacity crunch, they are facing an IOPs crunch where they simply can't get enough I/Os out of disk without deploying large numbers of them with low capacity utilization to get the benefits of multiple spindles. 2. Energy consumption is a big problem in many data centers, the first target to reduce that has been the server farms, but storage is next on the list (probably becomes the number #1 energy consumer in the data center during 2008-2009) Disk is by far the biggest component of overall storage power consumption. 3. There is nothing that can be done with conventional HD technology to impact either (1) or (2) Ergo, enterprises will have to start looking at alternatives and Flash is the most mature around at the moment. Evidence for this can be seen in EMC's announcement today of flash drives for it's DMX storage arrays.
Hmm, I bought a pretty cheap dual-core Intel system with 2GB of memory a decent ATI graphics card, 300GB drive, and DVD write for about $600 and have it hooked up to my living room system. I cannot hear it even when the room is quiet (i.e. not playing or listening to anything), so I don't buy the "too noisy" argument. he things that hold me back on Netflix video on demand is the lack of integration with MediaCenter in Vista and relatively low quality, if they fixed those issues, I'd start downloading. Meanwhile I'll carry on using it for stuff that I get from torrents which it does an excellent job of playing back at 1080x1920 resolution (and guess what folks, no issues with Vista's DRM when playing back torrented video ;-)
FAST is a search engine designed for searching unstructured data files such as word and email folders, it's not really intended for use as web search engine. It's mostly an embedded search-engine used in other products (for example I believe that EMC's Centera uses FAST for the text search capabilities.) As such, I would expect it to become the search-engine embedded in SharePoint, along with some sort of a policy engine to do data classification and management.
Samsung and LG both make combo-BluRay/HD-DVD players, other vendors, particularly budget Chinese made players are expected. As to which is more evil, Sony or MS, that's a purely subjective judgement.
I don't recall saying MS was perfect, but don't go thinking that a victory for Sony/BluRay will be any sort of victory for the consumer.
And just what those applications be, I can honestly say that I've not had a single application fail to run in Vista, and I have a fairly extensive collection installed.
Yes, that's gonna happen, because AT&T, TVIO etc are just dying to have custoomers running god knows what code and still expecting support when the damn thing doesn't work properly
I could see TIVO doing that, TIVO only really needs the kernel, might be more tricky for Apple, I don't know how non-BSD code they have.
I think it quite likely that people will look for code sources not covered by GPL3 for commercial applications, especially startups who often need to show their VCs that they actually control their IP.
Don't hold your breath
Strange, I've been running Vista for about 18 months now, and I've had very little trouble in getting random bits of software to install. Generally, what problems I do run into can be fixed by running the initial install with admin privileges. Granted, I don't run a lot of games which is probably where most of the problems will lie. But graphics, multimedia, office and general productivity apps (both commercial and open source) have all worked without problems.
perhaps his shift key was broke and he intended to write 77% of new PCs and laptops, and that's figure I'll believe when I see it
Agreed, the first thing I do when I install Office is give it a lobotomy and turn of pretty much all the "intelligent formatting" features. But I'm still more productive using Word than I was in 1987 when I was using NROFF and vi to author documents :-) I also tend to write longer documents these days, my job tends to need 50+page reports with graphics, I wouldn't fancy editing them on a 4MB Mac SE from that time period! And frankly, I don't care if Word is a little slower to start, can't say I've noticed it, so the difference must be barely perceptible.
The tests completely failed to demonstrate that, just how much more productive can you make a word processor, for most people productivity is governed by how fast they can type and that hasn't change d a whole lot in the intervening period. Regardless of whether individual applications are more productive, it's undeniable that some with a modern PC (or a modern Mac for that matter) is more productive than the same person with a Mac SE in 1987.
Yes, I'm serious, and I use Windows every day (Internet, Office, Media apps mostly), the only thing that's probably atypical is that I don't play games, I also don't install the latest driver du-jour if the existing driver is working fine.
I don't know which version of Windows you're running (3.1 perhaps), but Vista (and previous versions of the NT kernel) have been truly preemptive from day one and you can kill user level processes from task manager and stop and restart services without bringing the system down. I literally can't remember an application making any of my Windows systems come down.
I think the interesting thing here is the "design center" for OS is changing dramatically, in the past 99% of Windows desktops were uniprocessor and I dare say that they made design choice around that. Now we are moving to a world where 2- and 4-way desktops are common and the number of cores is only going to increase over time. That means you may well start to look at some fundamentally different ways of doing things, perhaps dedicating cores to specific tasks within the OS, for example a core might be dedicated to handling the IP stack while another might handle GDI requests. I'm not saying that this is what will happen, just that widespread use of multi-CPU systems may change the tradeoffs in OS design.
In which case you're talking complete rubbish, "hundreds of gigabytes per second" just one GB/sec would need 4x2Gbit FC links all exceeding their peak theoretical throughput
I've programmed hierarchical databases (Intergraph had one of its own on VMS)
I've used non-IP networks (Ethernet-XNS again courtesy of Intergraph)
I've met the chief designer/CTO for ColdFusion who now hangs out in a Boston VC
C was the language most of my programming was done in, I actually wrote a GUI front-end to the UNIX man command that had a lot of the features of a crude HTML. I actually parsed the NROFF page to recognize NROFF tags and use them in a similar fashion to HTML, you click on bolded word and have it link you to a related man page. This was written in the late 80s, damn I wish I'd had a software patent :-)
I've never been certified anything, though there are some who suggested I should have been!
Pretty much already have, all the current gen x86/AMD are 64-bit capable
# Will companies upgrade hardware in orer to get the latest version of Windows?
They won't need to anymore than they already do.
# Will this help provide more incentive for a Linux desktop?
Don't see any particular reason why it should.
# Will this increase the amount of lead going into our landfills?
Huh?
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/05/04/intel_anno unces_moorestown/
Can you name a VISTA only format? Perhaps you mean Office 2007. Yes there will be DRM media that needs VISTA for playback, but that's a rather different issue.
I think you'll find that the fully protected media path was a requirement for playback on PCs from the AACS spec. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there is something rather similar in Leopard, assuming Apple expects to enable playback of HD and BluRay media. Being Apple though, they are probably working on the principle that people wouldn't bey any happier if they knew and just not talking about the feature.