I have two filesystem partitions, / and/home. Under/, I have not just the default Ubuntu, but dozens of extra software, including the full Ultimate Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, Quake 1, Quake 2, and Quake 3 game data files. Clearly a lot more usability (and games, too) can be fit in Linux in just over 3 gigabytes than Vista manages to do in 20GB.
I would argue that the New York Times is better qualified to write an OS than Microsoft is...
The "7" refers to nothing in particular
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Actually it stands for Windows NT 7.0. Here's a quick run-down: NT 3.1 NT 3.5 NT 3.51 NT 4.0 NT 5.0 (aka Windows 2000) NT 5.1 (aka Windows XP) NT 5.2 (aka Windows 2003) NT 6.0 (aka Windows Vista/2008)
They can try all they want, but no matter what... the Wii will be "broken". As long as the system exists and someone has the means to test exploits on it, there will be workarounds.
> Dude, SVN is ***EIGHT YEARS*** old. It is hardly the craze of the week. It was more of a response to the parent, than the article. I use SVN myself for a few projects... even started off a new repository on SVN.
> True. But what if it sucks, why keep telling yourself that it is really great? Because that's the problem with CVS: it really isn't all that great. I never said to keep telling {my|your}self that CVS is really great, but I said *if it's good enough*. Unless there's really a mission-critical feature in the newer SCMs, there's hardly a reason to switch.
> Oh well, if *Theo* said that then it is ok... Actually, it was Ray Lai.
I never got the (recent?) craze over using the latest SCM of the week myself. If one system works good enough for you right now, why switch? Unless there's some critical feature of SVN/git that CVS has, is it worth the risk of using various conversion scripts (which can and do lose some data in the repository)?
I mean, OpenBSD has stated in the past that CVS works well enough for them, and the risk of converting the repository is not worth it just for some newer system. In fact, it's partially behind the motivation to develop OpenCVS....
On the contrary, sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with Scouting. What they do hate, however, is using the Boy Scouts name and/or image while promoting sexual activities (doesn't matter weather it's gay or straight (and you'll surely be kicked out of the organization no matter which one it is)).
As for religion, the Scouts probably do emphasize Christianity a bit much, but there is a strong tolerance in the organization, and they do not dismiss anybody with no faith or another faith; it promotes diversity and respect for each other.
Being a Boy Scout is not just a fun little thing to do, it's about building up strong (physically and morally) and decent human beings. Bad press coverage notwithstanding, they do a very good job at this.
The virus can't encrypt the files stored on a DVD-R:)
Although since I use Linux, I'm still too lazy/dumb to follow the backup advice (and trust me, I've been hit badly before simply for having no recent backups, no lectures needed).
I agree. While I haven't ever thought about using Windows as a primary OS for many years, Windows NT 4 still seems like it was the best Microsoft had ever performed. No needless IE integration or special effects to slow it down (Windows 2000), instead a nice, slim, interface like Windows 95, without most of the instability or a crappy filesystem. NT4 had few UI hinderences and usually it was just enough, and perfect.
After Windows NT 4, Microsoft developed the atrocity that is Windows 98; latter slapped that UI onto Windows NT, called it Windows 2000, and it was all downhill from there. Visuals (and often performance) took priority over security, functionality, and stability.
I've heard that it's possible to unbrick a Wii through a hardware ROM flasher (means opening up your Wii, voiding warranties), and only if you've backed up the Wii before it was bricked (so 99.999% of bricked Wiis can't be fixed).
Version number schemes vary between different software, and you'll have to ask WineHQ specifically what they mean to be at 1.0.
In the FOSS world, though, usually version 1.0 is a pretty big milestone showing that the software is complete, with few bugs known and little or no features missing. Some projects gone on for years in the 0.x numbers before ever getting to 1.0 (if ever). Wine itself started just naming it on the date (eg, Wine 20020314), but a couple years ago or so they started calling it 0.9.0 and so on.
Usually the big number in a version number represents important steps, though this can of course vary. For example, OpenBSD doesn't bother with making a fuss about what the number on the left means and they just increment by 0.1 always (after 3.9 came 4.0, and so on). GNU Emacs decided a long time ago that no complete rewrite would ever happen, and so they constantly increment the big number for large changes (they're at version 22.0 now). Hell, Netscape even decided to skip an entire number (4.7 -> 6.0) after the original company died and the new versions were based on the Mozilla project.
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$ df -h / /dev/sda2 10G 3.2G 6.3G 34% /
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I have two filesystem partitions, / and /home. Under /, I have not just the default Ubuntu, but dozens of extra software, including the full Ultimate Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, Quake 1, Quake 2, and Quake 3 game data files. Clearly a lot more usability (and games, too) can be fit in Linux in just over 3 gigabytes than Vista manages to do in 20GB.
If I remember correctly, the ones labelled Windows/286 and Windows/386 are just different versions of Windows 2.0.
Windows 1.x/2.x/3.x/95/98/Me have no code in common with Windows NT
I would argue that the New York Times is better qualified to write an OS than Microsoft is...
Actually it stands for Windows NT 7.0. Here's a quick run-down:
NT 3.1
NT 3.5
NT 3.51
NT 4.0
NT 5.0 (aka Windows 2000)
NT 5.1 (aka Windows XP)
NT 5.2 (aka Windows 2003)
NT 6.0 (aka Windows Vista/2008)
Yeah, I knew someone would come back with that technicality before I even typed the message, but it was in humour, thus the smiley face.
Actually, if you notice, OpenBSD already has a zero-clause license :)
They can try all they want, but no matter what... the Wii will be "broken". As long as the system exists and someone has the means to test exploits on it, there will be workarounds.
Sony's PlayStation 3 encourages you to run custom software on it, but it's not helping their case very much :P
> Dude, SVN is ***EIGHT YEARS*** old. It is hardly the craze of the week.
It was more of a response to the parent, than the article. I use SVN myself for a few projects... even started off a new repository on SVN.
> True. But what if it sucks, why keep telling yourself that it is really great? Because that's the problem with CVS: it really isn't all that great.
I never said to keep telling {my|your}self that CVS is really great, but I said *if it's good enough*. Unless there's really a mission-critical feature in the newer SCMs, there's hardly a reason to switch.
> Oh well, if *Theo* said that then it is ok...
Actually, it was Ray Lai.
I never got the (recent?) craze over using the latest SCM of the week myself. If one system works good enough for you right now, why switch? Unless there's some critical feature of SVN/git that CVS has, is it worth the risk of using various conversion scripts (which can and do lose some data in the repository)?
I mean, OpenBSD has stated in the past that CVS works well enough for them, and the risk of converting the repository is not worth it just for some newer system. In fact, it's partially behind the motivation to develop OpenCVS....
(the original series, that is)
Would make kind of a fun retro-future thing.
It's no wonder why the BSOD displayed in the wrong colors....
On the contrary, sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with Scouting. What they do hate, however, is using the Boy Scouts name and/or image while promoting sexual activities (doesn't matter weather it's gay or straight (and you'll surely be kicked out of the organization no matter which one it is)).
As for religion, the Scouts probably do emphasize Christianity a bit much, but there is a strong tolerance in the organization, and they do not dismiss anybody with no faith or another faith; it promotes diversity and respect for each other.
Being a Boy Scout is not just a fun little thing to do, it's about building up strong (physically and morally) and decent human beings. Bad press coverage notwithstanding, they do a very good job at this.
The virus can't encrypt the files stored on a DVD-R :)
Although since I use Linux, I'm still too lazy/dumb to follow the backup advice (and trust me, I've been hit badly before simply for having no recent backups, no lectures needed).
I doubt it, I have Javascript disabled; makes for a more pleasent web experience.
And it costs only a few dollars to order OpenOffice.org on CD-ROM; or zero dollars to download the application. Who has unfair prices now?
Quite an excellent "Page not found" source you have there :)
I agree. While I haven't ever thought about using Windows as a primary OS for many years, Windows NT 4 still seems like it was the best Microsoft had ever performed. No needless IE integration or special effects to slow it down (Windows 2000), instead a nice, slim, interface like Windows 95, without most of the instability or a crappy filesystem. NT4 had few UI hinderences and usually it was just enough, and perfect.
After Windows NT 4, Microsoft developed the atrocity that is Windows 98; latter slapped that UI onto Windows NT, called it Windows 2000, and it was all downhill from there. Visuals (and often performance) took priority over security, functionality, and stability.
I don't see any technical reason it wouldn't be possible, but I suppose it's up to someone to port Xine and libdvdcss2 to the Wii.
I've heard that it's possible to unbrick a Wii through a hardware ROM flasher (means opening up your Wii, voiding warranties), and only if you've backed up the Wii before it was bricked (so 99.999% of bricked Wiis can't be fixed).
Well the original Doom (and engines like Chocolate Doom...) have a hard-coded 30fps limit.
But it BSOD'd at the wrong time!
> On second thoughts, disregard that... I just remembered that Emacs has a Vi emultation mode!
I thought you said decent, not shoddy.
Version number schemes vary between different software, and you'll have to ask WineHQ specifically what they mean to be at 1.0.
In the FOSS world, though, usually version 1.0 is a pretty big milestone showing that the software is complete, with few bugs known and little or no features missing. Some projects gone on for years in the 0.x numbers before ever getting to 1.0 (if ever). Wine itself started just naming it on the date (eg, Wine 20020314), but a couple years ago or so they started calling it 0.9.0 and so on.
Usually the big number in a version number represents important steps, though this can of course vary. For example, OpenBSD doesn't bother with making a fuss about what the number on the left means and they just increment by 0.1 always (after 3.9 came 4.0, and so on). GNU Emacs decided a long time ago that no complete rewrite would ever happen, and so they constantly increment the big number for large changes (they're at version 22.0 now). Hell, Netscape even decided to skip an entire number (4.7 -> 6.0) after the original company died and the new versions were based on the Mozilla project.