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. Btw, NT can run other subsystems than just Win32 - posix, for instance. And iirc there was some OS/2 support as well?As opposed to a sane process of keeping your app and config files to your own directory structure, no, it is not.Ho humm, I still think the registry is a better idea than <whatever> config file format. There should have been better/easier hive-file support though, so you could place the hivefile next to the application for portable apps.
(OS/2 and XP are cousins you know... maybe brothers even)I'd say a bit more distant than cousins - it's true that Microsoft worked along on OS/2, ditched it, and then went off to do NT, pulling in Dave Cutler of VMS fame... but it wasn't like MS just grabbed the OS/2 code and ran, and based NT on that
Currently, my biggest problem with XP is that freaking registry. What a f*ed concept that is.... Bloatware is #2 on the "windows things that suck" list.The registry is a good idea (as opposed to a zillion different config file formats placed a zillion different locations), it's just heavily mis-used.
no one's time is free, right?True, but then we could go into a "what is most time consuming?" discussion. And that isn't just about windows having more familiarity, really - it's about windows being more polished. If something requires a couple of clicks on windows but you end up having to google or use support forums on linux, linux loses.
developing naturally ties you to a platformYes, but I was (once again) referring to the GPL virus. It's hard to do very much on a linux platform unless you either A) reinvent the wheel or B) use GPL components and thus have to release your own stuff under GPL. This isn't as big an issue when developing for windows.
insecure software doesn't reach the kernel level in LinuxOh, it has done so every now and then... my point was more that if you say "linux is secure", you have to say "NT is secure" as well. The NT kernel actually offers better and more granular security than the linux kernel... although things are slowly getting better for linux. But normal distros still use root-and-restoftheworld instead of ACLs.
and the Ubuntu forums provide unparalleled support, and have helped me solve a few problems unrelated to Ubuntu since I don't use it.That's great, but I still have the sense of having had to google or user forums/whatever for things on linux that just should have worked out of the box. Like the multi-monitor thing. I specifically picked Ubuntu since it' supposedly targeted at regular users and tries to be friendly and easy to use etc.
By funneling so many new apps through the browser, you seem to be using it for things it was never setup to do, much like using a car when you really need a pickup truck.Yuppers. But there's so much interest vetted in Teh IntarwebTM, books written about the subjects, people trying to promote themselves etc. that it doesn't really matter if the peg is square and the hole is round - they'll make it fit!
It’s free.Only if your time is free.
You’re free.Not if you're a developer :]
It’s secure.Only if you're not running insecure software on it...
It’s easy.Unless you want to do something slightly poweruser-ish, then you have to drop to a shell and edit arcane configuration files. Last time I played with Ubuntu, getting support for multiple monitors was a poweruser-ish thing.
Someone asked me once on how to delete an icon on the desktop. and this is probably not the silliest question he has ever asked me, its the only one i can think of.To be fair, not all icons on the desktop can be deleted normally but have to be disabled from some not-so-easy-to-find configuration locations-techidave (March 13, 2008, 05:44 AM)
Is the browser becoming more important than the OS?For some people, perhaps.
Hear ye, hear ye!I'm not sure why I would search microsoft or amazon through google instead of going to the site and using the site's own search - which usually has structured search adapted to that site's content and is going to be better.-iphigenie (March 12, 2008, 03:14 PM)
Because Microsoft's internal search is horrible at locating its own information. Google does a much better job.-Veign (March 12, 2008, 06:22 PM)
FLAC can easily be converted to any other format. FLAC is as good as having the digital masters.Not if the digital masters are in 96KHz 24bit multichannel format and the flac is 44.1KHz 16bit stereo...-tinjaw
- but yes, FLAC is lossless, so it's even better than digital CD audio, which isn't as lossless it should be.So, is the album any good? I'm not really into NIN, mostly because I listened to few songs byI like it. It's instrumental & different, but I've been enjoying listening to it when biking to/from work, and while working. I think it would be a good backdrop while programming, too. I just need to fix up track metadata so the tracks show up in order on my Sansa e280 media player... it got pretty confused since there's 9 tracks called Ghosts I, 9 tracks called Ghosts II, 9 tracks called Ghosts III, and 9 tracks called Ghosts IV. Since the sansa orders by metadata and not filesystem hierarchy, well...themhim-Lashiec
you can either go through the advanced search page, or you can directly enter, for instance, "service pack download site:microsoft.com" as a search query.