Thank you for the links. I found one of your comments particularly interesting;
>This leaves the lower left and upper right hand corner mostly ignored. This makes them ideal for placement of say menu's
This partly explains Microsoft's bizarre 'Start' menu operation. In every operating system which I had used prior to starting in my curent workplace, menus had cascaded DOWN from the cursor location.
But on NT 4.0 (and everything else based on the Chicago UI) I found that the Start menu, one of the most-used facilities on the desktop, by default rises vertically upwards from the cursor position. I tried to get used to this converse way of operating, but eventually I just hauled the taskbar to the top of the screen so that when I hit the Windows key it folds down.
They appear to have painted themselves into a corner with this upwards-opening menu. It must have been realised that the Programs option off the menu would also have to open upwards if it was the first (i.e. bottom) option on the Start menu. So they put it at the top of the menu and have it cascade downwards, despite having just opened its parent menu upwards. I despair.
Now, if the Start menu was a little-used system facility I might understand its default bottom-left position. But this button was the focus of most of MS's advertising campaign for Chicago, therefore underlining it's importance as part of the UI. So why place it in the area of the screen least frequently scanned by the user and then have to make it operate in a less-than-intuitive manner?
So how does this integrate into a new security regime? As I understand it NT4 curently won't let anyone but the Admin group configure new hardware; this is a sensible precaution.
So how does Win2k prevent me, as a user, fom inserting a PCI modem and having it configured automagically by PnP? Does it configure the hardware but instigate some form of ACL protection to prevent users from accessing the hardware until the Admin adds them to the access list?
Does this hold true for USB devices as well? Can I just plug a scanner or mass-storage drive into the port and have it instantly recognised and enabled?
Sorry if these are naive questions, but I don't administer Windows in any environment.
I agree that Solaris x86 'rocks' on the desktop, but my main problem with Sol 7 it is that Sun dropped official laptop support with Sol 2.6, so that it is almost impossible to find a reasonably modern laptop which has a video chipset supported under out-of-the-box Solaris.
That means that I am tied to the desktop; I use apps on the desktop that I really need in the field, and it looks like I'll have to install *BSD or Linux on the laptop and then go and purchase the Motif library and recompile everything.
Is anyone aware of improved laptop support under Solaris 8?
Slashdot Mirror
OK, I started looking around at Cooper's work and I navigate to www.cooper.com. Due to bandwidth limitations, I usually surf with images off.
What do I get at the website? The phrase "Directly offer enough information for the user to avoid mistakes" on a white page.
11 unloaded linked-images.
No standard text-links.
Mr Cooper, I am disappointed at your UI design. But, in your parlance, I am a Survivor. So I'll navigate your site by some means.
Thank you for the links. I found one of your comments particularly interesting;
>This leaves the lower left and upper right hand corner mostly ignored. This makes them ideal for placement of say menu's
This partly explains Microsoft's bizarre 'Start' menu operation. In every operating system which I had used prior to starting in my curent workplace, menus had cascaded DOWN from the cursor location.
But on NT 4.0 (and everything else based on the Chicago UI) I found that the Start menu, one of the most-used facilities on the desktop, by default rises vertically upwards from the cursor position. I tried to get used to this converse way of operating, but eventually I just hauled the taskbar to the top of the screen so that when I hit the Windows key it folds down.
They appear to have painted themselves into a corner with this upwards-opening menu. It must have been realised that the Programs option off the menu would also have to open upwards if it was the first (i.e. bottom) option on the Start menu. So they put it at the top of the menu and have it cascade downwards, despite having just opened its parent menu upwards. I despair.
Now, if the Start menu was a little-used system facility I might understand its default bottom-left position. But this button was the focus of most of MS's advertising campaign for Chicago, therefore underlining it's importance as part of the UI. So why place it in the area of the screen least frequently scanned by the user and then have to make it operate in a less-than-intuitive manner?
Thanks.
>plug and play is FINALLY here!
So how does this integrate into a new security regime? As I understand it NT4 curently won't let anyone but the Admin group configure new hardware; this is a sensible precaution.
So how does Win2k prevent me, as a user, fom inserting a PCI modem and having it configured automagically by PnP? Does it configure the hardware but instigate some form of ACL protection to prevent users from accessing the hardware until the Admin adds them to the access list?
Does this hold true for USB devices as well? Can I just plug a scanner or mass-storage drive into the port and have it instantly recognised and enabled?
Sorry if these are naive questions, but I don't administer Windows in any environment.
Thanks.
I agree that Solaris x86 'rocks' on the desktop, but my main problem with Sol 7 it is that Sun dropped official laptop support with Sol 2.6, so that it is almost impossible to find a reasonably modern laptop which has a video chipset supported under out-of-the-box Solaris.
That means that I am tied to the desktop; I use apps on the desktop that I really need in the field, and it looks like I'll have to install *BSD or Linux on the laptop and then go and purchase the Motif library and recompile everything.
Is anyone aware of improved laptop support under Solaris 8?