Its 2010 and I browse the net. Yes I can do that. I see people 'with liberal arts majors' that 'are using computers for too long' and people that use 'top of the line' benchmark tools, all that agree as such:
"64bit will provide you with the ability to access more memory, but the speed of your systems will be the same!".
Maybe I went to the wrong engineering school. I was taught that 64bit cpu, will fetch in one cpu cycle, twice the data than a 32bit cpu. The motherboards I designed with the first 64bit cpu (ok boards) were doing exactly that. Also the reason that I (only once) liked morotola -68000- was that the data bus and the address bus were fetching individually at their cycles without the need of a latch switch. I programmed longwords and quadrowords on vaxes (now they probably have xecto or octowords :-) ) knowing data bus limitations and sometimes counting on the 'executor' to parse during unexpected shutdowns or even power-offs. We were counting ticks (1/32 of a second) for the program's response (scada apps)
Now the internet is buzzing that there is no difference in speed using 32 or 64 bit operating system. Something is rotten in the kingdom of 'Denmark'.
I read on /. an article that there are no hard core technicians and programmers any more. everybody learned ONE high? level language and everybody is accessing systems so far away from the core shell that have actually lost reality. I've seen that with some of my colleagues/ trainees that never snapped out. That is major problem in computing, if you dont mind me saying so, Computer Science is totally irrelevant with Computer Engineering and it reminds me of a stock market short selling technique. Its gonna blow, big, and it'll be tooooo late.
At least we got an explanation for the existence of bloatware. The rest we blame on unoptimized linkers?
I have a problem with bad designed s/w, and the market does not punish the maker/ publisher/ marketeer.
17.4.10
M$ security essential is a bless
and that's probably the only time you'll hear me saying something is good from microsoft.
since 1982 I was wondering the reason that an "operating system" was open to viruses. Along came the windows products and at that time I was blaming m$ for not having any protection. Companies formed to do the job that the poor product was unable to handle for itself. Until 2009 (then I discovered) the FREE security essentials. The main reason is the 'free' part. When I provide a client with something thats broken, I'm required to fix it with no extra cost. MSE falls to that category. Its a fix that mrt nor defender had been able to provide. For this small market of mine, I got users that are happy now that this product has kept them virus (trouble) free compared to expensive other products that to prove themselves considered a must to claim all memory, cpu, huge chunks of disk space and your attention with spruce popups and end up with an infection anyway.
M$ application named windows, longing to be Aqua without accepting defeat and use bsd for base system, has come a long way. Its only bet is that L-users are so attached to branding that they'll keep their prominent place in the market, as with every hopeless release with a new office product vs openoffice. Still they slipped a full blown office product for FREE, in ultimate, named it WORKS - to save face - charged Ultimate as gold, prayed that users never find out and buy office extra, but limited the chance of lusers downloading openoffice. Also eliminating outlook express and using live (see previous post), cannot ensure that lusers are not gonna be using Thunderbird. If you gonna be a faceless aqua for the techie, why not install ubuntu? that beats aero and other graphic option by a parsec.
Considering all the above, having Q+emu or even a port (like theftright as copyleft) of WINE could be the next release of m$, that would boost computing 300 years to the future. Their trial -still in baby diapers- I believe, is XP-mode. I'm virtualizing daily, consolidating servers too, having a plethora of options with remote desktops as terminals (apps + servers). Its an one way street.
ps: windows 7 stink as bad as vista. its one and the same.
since 1982 I was wondering the reason that an "operating system" was open to viruses. Along came the windows products and at that time I was blaming m$ for not having any protection. Companies formed to do the job that the poor product was unable to handle for itself. Until 2009 (then I discovered) the FREE security essentials. The main reason is the 'free' part. When I provide a client with something thats broken, I'm required to fix it with no extra cost. MSE falls to that category. Its a fix that mrt nor defender had been able to provide. For this small market of mine, I got users that are happy now that this product has kept them virus (trouble) free compared to expensive other products that to prove themselves considered a must to claim all memory, cpu, huge chunks of disk space and your attention with spruce popups and end up with an infection anyway.
M$ application named windows, longing to be Aqua without accepting defeat and use bsd for base system, has come a long way. Its only bet is that L-users are so attached to branding that they'll keep their prominent place in the market, as with every hopeless release with a new office product vs openoffice. Still they slipped a full blown office product for FREE, in ultimate, named it WORKS - to save face - charged Ultimate as gold, prayed that users never find out and buy office extra, but limited the chance of lusers downloading openoffice. Also eliminating outlook express and using live (see previous post), cannot ensure that lusers are not gonna be using Thunderbird. If you gonna be a faceless aqua for the techie, why not install ubuntu? that beats aero and other graphic option by a parsec.
Considering all the above, having Q+emu or even a port (like theftright as copyleft) of WINE could be the next release of m$, that would boost computing 300 years to the future. Their trial -still in baby diapers- I believe, is XP-mode. I'm virtualizing daily, consolidating servers too, having a plethora of options with remote desktops as terminals (apps + servers). Its an one way street.
ps: windows 7 stink as bad as vista. its one and the same.
3.4.10
Windows7 - the tumbstone / the nightmare / the watsamacallit
I want to get brief, but doesn't seem like it. So here goes (power just went down, lets see if I finish this before my ups quits)
Windows 7 is the dark ages of system management and administration. Hopefully, you install once for the L-user and if something happens, you use the restore image. If you get paid for installing again, its fine.
It seems that the files, application settings, the stuff we used to copy from 'local settings' is simply renamed to something else, formatted to something else, integrated to some -more obscure than ever- registry entries and are protecting the L-user from mal-doing. [power is back, ups lasted, I'm still typing]
Windows7 again, is not an operating system, is an application, or please explain me 'how is it possible that I got different file listing under windows explorer and a different one in admin mode command line?'. thats also easy to figure since I'm using 2 diff languages. Greek for the interface (cause premium does not let me change it) and English at the command prompt !!! It translates for the user interface, to the local language, a filename that's in translation, and not actual. THATS AN OPERATING SYSTEM?
I'll get back very soon on this, cause I found some very disturbing signs on this so called O.S.
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I'm back..
I am using computers since 1981. I have used many operating systems. I liked only VMS, but since its only available at nasa and the shuttle, I had to use something ... I used M$ cause I believed at a time that it was the only O.S. available for small/ mini systems and after I found Ubuntu, its my distro of choice along with a freebsd mac. I got a server (still) on win2k, my other servers are linux, a laptop with XP, my other laptops are linux and a few days ago got that new laptop with win7. I new that I was getting 7, it just seems that the 7s I was using in my virtualbox (ultimate) were different than the premium 64bit.
Diff memory wise, speed? maybe, structure? ... something. Now I got the real deal, with this real nice thinkpad, but it seems that I'm gonna be using it for a base system running my operating systems in Virtual. Got to strip the system down from all the extras really, almost done it anyway and just use the 64bit machine for what it is. I can do that installing ubuntu x64 too. The vdi's can be copied whenever I decide to switch though.
Now... the win7 might look perfect for L-users. But if they mess something, the only choice is format. I have spend enormous amount of hours, actually "knitting" to restore a broken 3.11, w95, w98, NT, 2000, XP including servers. Now I'll do what people do. Restore the original image, or whatever the user has and charge extra for any minute spent.
Windows 7 is the dark ages of system management and administration. Hopefully, you install once for the L-user and if something happens, you use the restore image. If you get paid for installing again, its fine.
It seems that the files, application settings, the stuff we used to copy from 'local settings' is simply renamed to something else, formatted to something else, integrated to some -more obscure than ever- registry entries and are protecting the L-user from mal-doing. [power is back, ups lasted, I'm still typing]
Windows7 again, is not an operating system, is an application, or please explain me 'how is it possible that I got different file listing under windows explorer and a different one in admin mode command line?'. thats also easy to figure since I'm using 2 diff languages. Greek for the interface (cause premium does not let me change it) and English at the command prompt !!! It translates for the user interface, to the local language, a filename that's in translation, and not actual. THATS AN OPERATING SYSTEM?
I'll get back very soon on this, cause I found some very disturbing signs on this so called O.S.
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I'm back..
I am using computers since 1981. I have used many operating systems. I liked only VMS, but since its only available at nasa and the shuttle, I had to use something ... I used M$ cause I believed at a time that it was the only O.S. available for small/ mini systems and after I found Ubuntu, its my distro of choice along with a freebsd mac. I got a server (still) on win2k, my other servers are linux, a laptop with XP, my other laptops are linux and a few days ago got that new laptop with win7. I new that I was getting 7, it just seems that the 7s I was using in my virtualbox (ultimate) were different than the premium 64bit.
Diff memory wise, speed? maybe, structure? ... something. Now I got the real deal, with this real nice thinkpad, but it seems that I'm gonna be using it for a base system running my operating systems in Virtual. Got to strip the system down from all the extras really, almost done it anyway and just use the 64bit machine for what it is. I can do that installing ubuntu x64 too. The vdi's can be copied whenever I decide to switch though.
Now... the win7 might look perfect for L-users. But if they mess something, the only choice is format. I have spend enormous amount of hours, actually "knitting" to restore a broken 3.11, w95, w98, NT, 2000, XP including servers. Now I'll do what people do. Restore the original image, or whatever the user has and charge extra for any minute spent.
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