My install of 98 is connected to a network, but have no malware on it. That poor woman I talked about is using Vista, the Win98 box is my P133 laptop. WinXP runs on it, but do not support the widescreen monitor.
If you honestly believe that all Win98 boxes that are connected to the internet have malware on it, then you've fallen for FUD. Learn about firewalls, open ports and attack vectors.
Nope. I've come to rely on dictionary.com for my English needs; the 16-Bit app is in my native tongue. I've tried to find a more modern equivalent, but it's always "almost but not quite."
I have never configured a Linux lab, nor do I consider myself competent enough to do so. I see no reason not to run Max OS X as a server (Sure it might not have the performance and securety levels of Linux/BSP, but that's not always of any significans). I don't know or care what the stock market, bank, airline, runs as long as it's stable and secure.
But at home I run Windows 98 and Vista, right now, and their stable and pleasant to use. I've tried Linux and found it to be a nice OS.
You're FUDing because you claim that Windows users have to spend a lot of time configuring/fixing their environment. I don't know what you do with your operation systems, but the last time I installed Windows I only had to change the color scheme to pink (since she wanted it), and I've not touched that computer since.
The computer I'm running right now is pretty much default Vista. I've changed the power button to "turn off", changed the wallpaper, and installed my prefered applications, but that's about it.
However by 2014 (when the next MS OS gets out;) I probably stopped caring about my beloved 16-Bit apps anyhow.
But it still feels like progress for the sake of progress. I use several older applications because they have the feature I need, start up fast, and use memory in the single digit megabytes.
Take PSP 4.12, for instance. The install directory take 6 MB total, and while running I can keep several images open without bothering my other memory hungry apps. PSP 9 running clean eats up more memory then PSP 4.12 consume in harddrive and memory totaled with several images opened.
Hell, a simple text editor written in.net consume 10 Megabytes of memory and take more than a split second to start up. Hurray for progress.
But running an emulator just for a quick game of Missile Command, Asteroids, Centipede, Battlezone, tempest, Tetris, etc, etc, is annoying.
The other day I put Win 3.11 up against Windows Vista at Chess. Just to clarify I played Chess Titans up against Chess.exe from the Microsoft Entertainment pack, at expert level.
With Vista being the newcomer Titan's got to play first. After about 30 seconds of thinking, Vista made it's _first_ move, in which chess.exe responded to immediately. From there a furious battle across the board started, with chess.exe taking more and more time to think along the way.
After about a half an hour of playtime the game ended with Windows 3.11 crashing, In some sort of ironic twist, one move from checkmating.. Vista.
Heh.
Chess.exe might have had an advantage in that it is thinking on the opponents turn, but I'm still surprised Chess Titans was beat out by a fifteen year old program made for a computer a thousand times slower. Go Microsoft!
Linux, *BSP, etc, etc, are happy to support 32-Bit/64-Bit at the same time. I tried out the 64-Bit version of Windows Vista in VMWare (which can run 64-Bit Vista on top of 32-Bit Vista) and the only "benefit" I got was that my old 16-Bit apps stopped running. (Got several great 16-Bit games, and a 16-Bit dictionary.)
What can the newfangled 64-Bit future Windows do that won't be feasible with a 32-Bit version lurking around?
Now you're FUDing. IME the Macs crash a lot (especially when doing large jobs) that's a lot of lost time! I've seen an entire Linux lab go down almost simultaneously, that's lost time (granted this must have been a bug, as the problem was fixed by the next version).
In other words, Mac OS X/Linux/BeOS/etc, are not immune to taking up your time. Are they better than Windows? I doubt it. My XP installs can go for years without me tinkering with them, hell I had a four year old Win95 install going strong before the comp crashed to the floor.
Windows has its problems but simply ain't that bad.
Anyway, while anecdotes are fun, they don't prove much of anything. I got an anecdote myself, I've only been troubled by malware twice. One when my mom installed it just when it became popular, and twice when I deliberately installed it myself to see what the fuzz was about.
What conclusions can I draw from this? Nothing.
As for Norton Internet Security, that program is undiluted evil (From my anecdotal experience). You can't just disable it; it has to be uninstalled... preferable with holy water.
These days most computer problems (in my anecdotal experience) resolve around crappy access points that's so cheep the manufacturer can't afford a website, but at the same time can't be replaced because it's supplied by the telco. Crud. That and small children ripping out cables.
It's still surprises me when people who can fix cars and leads troops can't plug in a USB cable. Sigh. Sincerely doubt going Linux/OS X will help with those issues.
As for feeling smug. If using Mac/Linux/whatever make you feel smug, then perhaps you're on to something. Whatever works I say. I don't feel smug about using Vista or XP, though Win 3.0 give me a nostalgia kick Oh yeah!
It should be possible to delete your own posts, or at least moderate them down. I apologize for losing my cool.
I just wanted to say it amuses me when people get emotional over operation systems. This is true for both Windows and non-windows users alike; I recall several Winlots being on cloud 9 when that Mac scripting error deleted a bunch of files.
I'm probably also guilty of being amused by others misery at one time or another.
Mac OS X open source? Snorts again. Sure, the kernel is open source but only Apple maintains it anyway.
Being 'the computer guy' I've been pulled along for free tech support more often than I would like, and I know that Linux, Windows and even the glorious Mac OS X all have their issues. One thing I can say with absolute certainty is that if I owned, say, a PowerMac and a real deal Windows vulnerability cropped up I would _not_ feel smug about it.
What is humorous is people like you, feeling good because you use an alternate OS. You're treating operation systems like religions. Not that having an OS as a religion is any less stupid than being religious. *ducks*
I'm sitting here on Windows chuckling over so called geeks that don't understand the issue at hand. If a computer is compromised, then the software firewall can be disabled. The BITS stream that comes out of the comp can be emulated by software on Linux and Mac OS, to the same effect as Windows.
The "news" here is that there is software capable of doing this, not that it can't be done. True, BITS is a protocol created to work around firewalls, but it is hardly the only protocol engineered to do that.
Oh, and Mac's suck because they crash all the time. *ducks*
We Norwegians love to get attention, and we welcome any nukes with open arms. That won't only put us in the news, but also put us in the history books! Go for it! Our current plan of becoming the best nation to live in isn't working, apparently historians doesn't care about statistical jiggery:>(
It's almost like we're in the eighties again. Nintendo is no longer the snobish monopolist with kiddy games, like they were in the nineties, but back to having the first choice console for families.
MS is a bit like Sega, trying to be hip but falling at it. While Sony is NeoGeo, first choice for the gaming snobs.
The only one missing is Atari: the clueless blundering money-grubbing fools with a few good ideas.
A lot of people click on any link with "Apple" in it. Even idle speculation draws page hits! Just think of it as one of the warts of capitalism, and "keep moving forward".
I agree that cmd.exe is clunky. In Vista you can no longer put it in full screen either. Win+R, cmd.exe, alt+enter, alt+enter was an excellent way of resetting the video driver whenever it fucks up.
The problem with MS seems to be that they overlook 'worse case scenarios'. Shell extensions are nice, for instance, but how do you remove a faulty one? What do you do when the Add/Remove panel crashes or when the video card decides 2048x1600@85Hz is a nice display mode on your 1280@60Hz display?
On Linux the answer is to dive into text/xml files, perhaps outright delete the offending one, not pretty but it works. On Windows you have to figure out where the app stores it data, the format, and what can safely be removed/altered. (And there's no helpful comments in the registery!)
Microsoft always seem to do better this quarter, than the last. I'm starting to wonder if they're tinkering with statistics here. You know the saying... lies, damn lies and.....
Reminds me a bit on how unemployment always seems to go down in Britain, no matter what.
I cringe at the thought of that character. I agree with your assessment of VIII, it was unplayable - yet at the same time the best selling of the series. THE INJUSTISE OF IT ALL!
If I am to rank the series, it goes like this:
FF1: The music hurts your ears, but the game is good.
FF4: The heroic character deaths/coming back to life gets old fast.
FF9: Quenya drags the whole thing down.
FF6: Best music of the series
FF7: Great music, but was I the only one who cheered when the girl died?
FF5: Too boring to be worthwhile
FF10: Somewhat decent, but failed to hold my interest
FF8: Oh God in heaven no!
FF10-2: Oh God in heaven no, redux!
As for FF12, from the few minutes I played it I have to say the main character looks like a dork.
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My install of 98 is connected to a network, but have no malware on it. That poor woman I talked about is using Vista, the Win98 box is my P133 laptop. WinXP runs on it, but do not support the widescreen monitor.
If you honestly believe that all Win98 boxes that are connected to the internet have malware on it, then you've fallen for FUD. Learn about firewalls, open ports and attack vectors.
Nope. I've come to rely on dictionary.com for my English needs; the 16-Bit app is in my native tongue. I've tried to find a more modern equivalent, but it's always "almost but not quite."
I have never configured a Linux lab, nor do I consider myself competent enough to do so. I see no reason not to run Max OS X as a server (Sure it might not have the performance and securety levels of Linux/BSP, but that's not always of any significans). I don't know or care what the stock market, bank, airline, runs as long as it's stable and secure.
But at home I run Windows 98 and Vista, right now, and their stable and pleasant to use. I've tried Linux and found it to be a nice OS.
You're FUDing because you claim that Windows users have to spend a lot of time configuring/fixing their environment. I don't know what you do with your operation systems, but the last time I installed Windows I only had to change the color scheme to pink (since she wanted it), and I've not touched that computer since.
The computer I'm running right now is pretty much default Vista. I've changed the power button to "turn off", changed the wallpaper, and installed my prefered applications, but that's about it.
The hardware that runs it does! Typical Intel, trying to shift the blame.
:)
However by 2014 (when the next MS OS gets out ;) I probably stopped caring about my beloved 16-Bit apps anyhow.
.net consume 10 Megabytes of memory and take more than a split second to start up. Hurray for progress.
But it still feels like progress for the sake of progress. I use several older applications because they have the feature I need, start up fast, and use memory in the single digit megabytes.
Take PSP 4.12, for instance. The install directory take 6 MB total, and while running I can keep several images open without bothering my other memory hungry apps. PSP 9 running clean eats up more memory then PSP 4.12 consume in harddrive and memory totaled with several images opened.
Hell, a simple text editor written in
But running an emulator just for a quick game of Missile Command, Asteroids, Centipede, Battlezone, tempest, Tetris, etc, etc, is annoying.
The other day I put Win 3.11 up against Windows Vista at Chess. Just to clarify I played Chess Titans up against Chess.exe from the Microsoft Entertainment pack, at expert level.
With Vista being the newcomer Titan's got to play first. After about 30 seconds of thinking, Vista made it's _first_ move, in which chess.exe responded to immediately. From there a furious battle across the board started, with chess.exe taking more and more time to think along the way.
After about a half an hour of playtime the game ended with Windows 3.11 crashing, In some sort of ironic twist, one move from checkmating.. Vista.
Heh.
Chess.exe might have had an advantage in that it is thinking on the opponents turn, but I'm still surprised Chess Titans was beat out by a fifteen year old program made for a computer a thousand times slower. Go Microsoft!
Linux, *BSP, etc, etc, are happy to support 32-Bit/64-Bit at the same time. I tried out the 64-Bit version of Windows Vista in VMWare (which can run 64-Bit Vista on top of 32-Bit Vista) and the only "benefit" I got was that my old 16-Bit apps stopped running. (Got several great 16-Bit games, and a 16-Bit dictionary.) What can the newfangled 64-Bit future Windows do that won't be feasible with a 32-Bit version lurking around?
Now you're FUDing. IME the Macs crash a lot (especially when doing large jobs) that's a lot of lost time! I've seen an entire Linux lab go down almost simultaneously, that's lost time (granted this must have been a bug, as the problem was fixed by the next version).
In other words, Mac OS X/Linux/BeOS/etc, are not immune to taking up your time. Are they better than Windows? I doubt it. My XP installs can go for years without me tinkering with them, hell I had a four year old Win95 install going strong before the comp crashed to the floor.
Windows has its problems but simply ain't that bad.
Cheers
My God, that's the root of all evil.
Anyway, while anecdotes are fun, they don't prove much of anything. I got an anecdote myself, I've only been troubled by malware twice. One when my mom installed it just when it became popular, and twice when I deliberately installed it myself to see what the fuzz was about.
What conclusions can I draw from this? Nothing.
As for Norton Internet Security, that program is undiluted evil (From my anecdotal experience). You can't just disable it; it has to be uninstalled... preferable with holy water.
These days most computer problems (in my anecdotal experience) resolve around crappy access points that's so cheep the manufacturer can't afford a website, but at the same time can't be replaced because it's supplied by the telco. Crud. That and small children ripping out cables.
It's still surprises me when people who can fix cars and leads troops can't plug in a USB cable. Sigh. Sincerely doubt going Linux/OS X will help with those issues.
As for feeling smug. If using Mac/Linux/whatever make you feel smug, then perhaps you're on to something. Whatever works I say. I don't feel smug about using Vista or XP, though Win 3.0 give me a nostalgia kick Oh yeah!
It should be possible to delete your own posts, or at least moderate them down. I apologize for losing my cool.
I just wanted to say it amuses me when people get emotional over operation systems. This is true for both Windows and non-windows users alike; I recall several Winlots being on cloud 9 when that Mac scripting error deleted a bunch of files.
I'm probably also guilty of being amused by others misery at one time or another.
Mac OS X open source? Snorts again. Sure, the kernel is open source but only Apple maintains it anyway.
Being 'the computer guy' I've been pulled along for free tech support more often than I would like, and I know that Linux, Windows and even the glorious Mac OS X all have their issues. One thing I can say with absolute certainty is that if I owned, say, a PowerMac and a real deal Windows vulnerability cropped up I would _not_ feel smug about it.
What is humorous is people like you, feeling good because you use an alternate OS. You're treating operation systems like religions. Not that having an OS as a religion is any less stupid than being religious. *ducks*
I'm sitting here on Windows chuckling over so called geeks that don't understand the issue at hand. If a computer is compromised, then the software firewall can be disabled. The BITS stream that comes out of the comp can be emulated by software on Linux and Mac OS, to the same effect as Windows.
The "news" here is that there is software capable of doing this, not that it can't be done. True, BITS is a protocol created to work around firewalls, but it is hardly the only protocol engineered to do that.
Oh, and Mac's suck because they crash all the time. *ducks*
We Norwegians love to get attention, and we welcome any nukes with open arms. That won't only put us in the news, but also put us in the history books! Go for it! Our current plan of becoming the best nation to live in isn't working, apparently historians doesn't care about statistical jiggery :>(
And laugh in Microsoft's face!
waaay to difficult to pick up category for me. I only managed to drive around, until I got tired of it and skipped to the next game.
It's almost like we're in the eighties again. Nintendo is no longer the snobish monopolist with kiddy games, like they were in the nineties, but back to having the first choice console for families.
MS is a bit like Sega, trying to be hip but falling at it. While Sony is NeoGeo, first choice for the gaming snobs.
The only one missing is Atari: the clueless blundering money-grubbing fools with a few good ideas.
MS throws out a bunch of patches every month, and have been at it for years. It must be a regular event by now, right?
Must be one of the earliest (if 1990 can be called early) Internet phenomena, like "All your base" today.
Mono is a byte compiled language, not interpreted. Even so, PHP is still beaten quite badly by Perl. (In those benchmarks)
Not to mention, it will be the year of Linux on the desktop. Hurd is finished. And Vladimir Putin goes out of office!
A lot of people click on any link with "Apple" in it. Even idle speculation draws page hits! Just think of it as one of the warts of capitalism, and "keep moving forward".
But how are you getting the PS1 on the net?
I agree that cmd.exe is clunky. In Vista you can no longer put it in full screen either. Win+R, cmd.exe, alt+enter, alt+enter was an excellent way of resetting the video driver whenever it fucks up.
The problem with MS seems to be that they overlook 'worse case scenarios'. Shell extensions are nice, for instance, but how do you remove a faulty one? What do you do when the Add/Remove panel crashes or when the video card decides 2048x1600@85Hz is a nice display mode on your 1280@60Hz display?
On Linux the answer is to dive into text/xml files, perhaps outright delete the offending one, not pretty but it works. On Windows you have to figure out where the app stores it data, the format, and what can safely be removed/altered. (And there's no helpful comments in the registery!)
Microsoft always seem to do better this quarter, than the last. I'm starting to wonder if they're tinkering with statistics here. You know the saying... lies, damn lies and .....
Reminds me a bit on how unemployment always seems to go down in Britain, no matter what.
If I am to rank the series, it goes like this:
- FF1: The music hurts your ears, but the game is good.
- FF4: The heroic character deaths/coming back to life gets old fast.
- FF9: Quenya drags the whole thing down.
- FF6: Best music of the series
- FF7: Great music, but was I the only one who cheered when the girl died?
- FF5: Too boring to be worthwhile
- FF10: Somewhat decent, but failed to hold my interest
- FF8: Oh God in heaven no!
- FF10-2: Oh God in heaven no, redux!
As for FF12, from the few minutes I played it I have to say the main character looks like a dork.Cheers