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| Tindo@heart - May 19, 2003 |
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Tindo@heart | May 19, 2003 | |
| http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1007528.html... <_< Bill Gates is the AntiChrist.  He won't stop until he has your souls!Burn in hell® All levels and tempertures of hell are copyright ©2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. but they are giving a glance at their purdy new OS codenamed "Longhorn" http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=...story... with all the bells and whistles of the spyware known as "Palladium" Bend over and grab your ankles everyone. | |||
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Curtis | May 19, 2003 | |
Pfft - just what everyone needs. A user friendly Unix.  | |||
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gameboy900 | May 19, 2003 | ||
I don't know what you're doing but I have yet to crash XP once. (Well that's not true it did crash once but that was due to the very buggy beta drivers I was using for my capture card) And just so you know I use this machine to dev in C++ and have on many occasions had code that behaved badly (memory leaks, infinite loops, etc) and each time I just go into task manager, kill my program and everything is fine. Keep this in mind. Windows is aimed at the 90% of users who will NEVER need any of the advanced features that are "hidden" in it. The 10% of advanced users can quite easily find how to gain access to them with a little searching on MSKB or the internet. Give Microsoft some credit. They have to make a complex piece of software that runs on billions of possible hardware configurations, has to run millions of (often horribly buggy) programs from over 20 years and is used but everyone from complete morons to uber geeks. It's not easy to do (as anyone trying to use slightly non-mainstream hardware on linux will tell you). | ||||
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Taelon | May 19, 2003 | |
| Ah, but you're just proving my point. He was less than experienced/familiar with Windows and didn't know where to FIND the option to show all extensions. He had to be walked through every little thing to get there. That's exactly what I was saying, MS makes these simple things a pain in the arse for those who aren't power users like you and me. EDIT: My response above was to racketboy. As for gameboy: I don't know what you read into my words but I don't recall complaining about my system crashing... it's extremely stable, thankyouverymuch.  Also, I agree with your argument of Windows running on zillions of configurations, but you completely missed my point - which was about hiding the simple things like the option to show extensions away from users who don't know where to find it. | |||
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ExCyber | May 19, 2003 | |
| This appears to be little more than a FUD move -- remniscient, no less, of the traditional computer-related FUD example: where IBM said "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". MS is apparently trying to say "nobody ever got sued for deploying Windows". SCO seems to be getting little sympathy from anyone else, though - attacking a loved thing makes you hated, and it's not helping that SCO is not Bell Labs, not to mention that they took their sweet time coming up with a lawsuit that could presumably have been brought a couple years ago during 2.3.x development. SCO clearly doesn't actually care about any actual infringement, only how they can play it to their strategic advantage. Otherwise Linux contributors would have gotten C&D letters (or -- shock and horror -- reasonable discussion on a plan to migrate away from infringing code) by now. | |||
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antime | May 20, 2003 | |
| I recall reading that the SCO directors had already cashed in after the lawsuit raised their stock - which as far as anyone can tell was the plan from the beginning. (Can't provide references, my net connection is b0rked.) | |||
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Tindo@heart | May 20, 2003 | |
| Curtis, unix already has a user friendly interface. ... it's called "OSX" Taelon, I wish I were there. I would have him open a dos box from the explorer window that contains the file. Tada, you are in a DOS window in the same directory as the file and with a few DOS commands it's done in seconds. 'dir *.img' should show the file's DOS name that you need changed. Then 'ren ???.img ???.bin' is it. Then 'exit' Oh yeah, 'WINDOWS KEY+R' opens a run command, and then you can type 'command' or 'cmd' for NT based systems. Though I'm sure you all know that. I'm always resorting to the command line for the GUI's shortcomings.  though I turn off "hide extensions for known filetypes" off on all of my Win installs. Only advanced users, .. or novices doing advanced things , need to change extentions anyways.windows make some fine software, but it's horrible for the advancement of computers if Microsoft owns them all. We need competition to keep improvements advancing. I'm sure MS didn't purchase Unix so it could implement it, it was just to own that competition. | |||
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gameboy900 | May 20, 2003 | |
| I wanted to see just what it would take for an idiot to find out how to turn on file extensions so I kinda did that. Anyway here goes. 1. Click on help in the start menu (I have mine turned off so I had to press F1 after clicking on the Desktop). 2. Type in "show file extensions" in the search box of the help center and click search. 3. 6 items show up. After a few minutes of reading option 4 "Common Tasks: Folder Options" has the line "Show hidden files and file name extensions" in it. 4. Click the + icon beside that to expand and notice description mentions what I want to do. 5. Click the Step by Step link in the topic. 6. Follow instructions to unhide extensions. You see not that hard to find this info. The problems is that most of these users don't want to read instructions to do stuff and expect it to just be where THEY think it should be (obviously this is an impossible task to do). With a little reading anyone could find this info quite easily. And yes the Windows manual does in fact explain how to use the help center to find answers to these questions. One of the reasons I like the acronym RTFM so much. | |||
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tsumake | May 20, 2003 | ||
I don't know what you're doing but I have yet to crash XP once. (Well that's not true it did crash once but that was due to the very buggy beta drivers I was using for my capture card) And just so you know I use this machine to dev in C++ and have on many occasions had code that behaved badly (memory leaks, infinite loops, etc) and each time I just go into task manager, kill my program and everything is fine. Keep this in mind. Windows is aimed at the 90% of users who will NEVER need any of the advanced features that are "hidden" in it. The 10% of advanced users can quite easily find how to gain access to them with a little searching on MSKB or the internet. Give Microsoft some credit. They have to make a complex piece of software that runs on billions of possible hardware configurations, has to run millions of (often horribly buggy) programs from over 20 years and is used but everyone from complete morons to uber geeks. It's not easy to do (as anyone trying to use slightly non-mainstream hardware on linux will tell you). [/b][/quote] www.fuckmicrosoft.com... Hey, I use XP too. But after reading this site, I know a little more about what's up with MS. | ||||
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Taelon | May 20, 2003 | |
| But what if said person didn't even know there WAS such a think as extensions - precisely because Windows doesn't show them by default - and got confused being told to change a file's extension? In any case, I think we're all just nitpicking on details here now though certainly there's some truth to RTFM, I give you that... Still, someone who never encountered "file extensions" before might not know they're just "the three characters after the dot." | |||
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gameboy900 | May 20, 2003 | |
| Well at least it's still easier than trying to do it on a Mac. The problem is that many people want to do advanced things without first learning the basics. A good example is digital editing. People want to do amazing things with digital photos but they don't take the time to first learn how to properly use PhotoShop or what all the things in it do. | |||
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antime | May 20, 2003 | |
| Thus, Fark. | |||
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Taelon | May 21, 2003 | ||
You're right. But software companies and their marketing/advertising divisions also make it all look much too easy. I often cringe when I see computers portrayed on TV in ads or shows that "just work" when, to experienced PC users, it's obvious that what they put on the screens is all faked (and overly flashy at that). Anyone know what I mean? :smash | ||||
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Daniel Eriksson | May 21, 2003 | |
| This totally sucks! Microsoft can´t just buy the rights to Unix like that. It must be against some anti-monopoly law. (I do hope so.). As for XP, it crashes a lot. It might look good (Like Workbench did in 1997) and might work ok when using no advanced stuff (well, if you limit yourself to notepad and paint) but when you want to play a simple DOS-game it crashes immediately (if it even starts it). I say like this, The Amiga Os Workbench is both user-friendly and never crashes. That is the right way! | |||
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Pyrite | May 21, 2003 | |
| :agree Yes AmigaOS was great and indeed never crashed the good ol´days. Just look at DOS then at Workbench | |||
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Curtis | May 21, 2003 | |
| AmigaOS crashes all the time - don't you remember those weird arse "guru" error messages? As for XP not playing DOS games - how can you be surprised? It's like getting MacOS to play DOS games - they are completely different technologies. However, with the VDMSound utility you get quite good compatibility... | |||
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ExCyber | May 21, 2003 | |
| AFAICT, Microsoft is not buying the rights, just a license to use the Unix patents. | |||
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Pyrite | May 22, 2003 | ||
Who can´t forget those blinking red guru messages It only happened to me when floppy disks had bad sectors and didn´t boot, HD applications rarelly crashed at least I can´t remember but of course we can´t compare it to the Windows of today since its more complex. I really want to try other OS than Windos tho. | ||||
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