Comments on: Failure is not an option

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:59:02 +0000

By: Give me a gawd damn break

Give me a gawd damn break — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:22:49 +0000

As a Mac user, I want to testify that I DO run games on my computer, but it’s hardly something I think is worth focusing on. Lets see how well your computer runs after a few years of casual internet usage. . . Every Windows system I’ve ever owned has ground to a halt after three years or so, no matter how hefty the hardware.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:12:12 +0000

Evident that you’re still the same person.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:09:37 +0000

My laptop used to have Vista, all personalized and happy.
Drove me insane. Switched back shortly, even though I had learned all the functions of the Vista.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:08:23 +0000

It does, he’s right. Playstation 3?
I’m not going to even TOUCH that argument.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:03:27 +0000

He will. The fact that he uses improper grammar doesn’t invalidate his opinion, merely makes it true that no one here wants to listen to it anymore. My order goes Linux (Ubuntu, mostly) Windows, Mac from favorite to least favorite.

By: Zan

Zan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:00:13 +0000

And you seem to be too stupid to use proper grammar, spelling, or punctuation. Have fun on your Windows box.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:26:21 +0000

Do you like games following Norse Mythology, Seth?
And do you have any other gaming consoles?

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:19:47 +0000

Right. Although, I believe WoW runs fine under WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator, though it is, really) But that is why I have my computer set up to dual boot. The only thing I use Windows for anymore is to play games, lol!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:05:08 +0000

Alright, thanks
Also- so, games like WoW, etc, won’t run on Ubuntu/Linux systems right?

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:33:50 +0000

That’s why you set it up to dual boot. You can usually find a free replacement in Linux for anything except games (though there are some good free games out there, too, like Battle for Wesnoth) But if you can’t find a replacement, you can just reboot into Windows to do Windows only stuff.

You can also use WINE to run Windows programs under Linux, but not all programs will run right. And Linux will read and write to your Windows partitions easily, so you can, say, listen to MP3 files stored on your Windows partition while using Linux. Now, Windows can’t read Linux file systems, so you will need to save stuff you want to use in both operating systems to your Windows partition, but that shouldn’t be a problem.

You should be able to find some books on Linux at your local library, and as I mentioned, there are plenty of forums online where you can get help. But Ubuntu is very similar to Windows, it shouldn’t be that hard to figure out. Of course, the real guts of Linux is the command line, and that can be tricky, but once you get the hang of it, the awesome power of the command line makes it all worthwhile.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:24:07 +0000

-dribbles-
That sounds awesome.
I’m on my half-sister’s father’s laptop (the one he used before he passed away), and he seems to have a LOT of the same tastes/preferences I did. He’s got a gaming mouse, advanced cooler, and some VERY nice memory in here (don’t remember exactly, not going to take it apart to find out ) So I already have a fair bit of things like Openoffice, GIMP, Firefox, etc. XD
But still… that sounds SWEET. Only problem/complaint I’ve ever heard about Ubuntu and Linux is that Microsoft and Apple don’t generally make their programs and the files stored on them as easy to use with other, free OSes… And that a lot of times, since the vast majority of people don’t even KNOW about Linux (or very much about it), it can be a bit frustrating. What do they do about that?

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:01:10 +0000

Interested in computers, Tyler? Have you ever downloaded Ubuntu and tried it? You can easily set up a Windows computer to dual-boot into Linux and Windows using Ubuntu. Then you can try out Linux, but still keep Windows around. You get SO many tools for free! You get a whole office suite (Open Office), a great photo editor (GIMP), Firefox, and a ton of programming tools. You can learn any programming language you want to, for free, using Linux. And there are plenty of forums where a smart, polite young man such as yourself can get all the help he needs.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:39:16 +0000

… Will you teach me this stuff?

By: IBM mainframe bigot

IBM mainframe bigot — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:37:57 +0000

*hands you IBM z/Architecture Principles of Operation manual*

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:36:30 +0000

most of the people I’ve met***

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:35:11 +0000

Really?
Almost everyone I know hates Macs, but I hang out with a bunch of kids who take computer courses in college (I mean they leave our high school to go take the course), and generally, most of the people who’re *really* advanced with computers use Linux or an alternate OS.

By: Old timer + curmudgeon

Old timer + curmudgeon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:33:58 +0000

Funny, Vista still runs slow on my new hardware, which was “designed” for Vista. It’s also x64, and M$ really screwed up in implementing Windows on x64 (both Vista and XP).

Mojave Experiment = M$ marketing putting lipstick on a pig. If you throw 3.4Ghz 8-core Xeon + 8GB core + RAID array quality disks at Vista, sure it will work well. But most people and small businesses can’t afford that level of hardware.

By: Old timer + curmudgeon

Old timer + curmudgeon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:29:21 +0000

It’s called object-oriented programming and encapsulation. The C stack architecture + OO means that a significant percentage of the CPU processing and memory (and subsequent paging) is dedicated to maintaining the program state rather than actually doing the work. IMHO, once molecular physics barriers are reached, there will be a sudden interest in optimization, similar to the sudden interest in Windows in multi-threading…both concepts that have been around in IBM mainframes since the 1960s. (Along with virtual machines…VMWare just didn’t pull the concept out of their ass 10 years ago.)

By: George Santyana

George Santyana — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:25:42 +0000

You do know that the Original Lisa computer from Apple had windows even before Windows 1.0 was a concept in Gates’ brain? And the original windows software on an IBM PC was Desqview?

The windows concept originated at Xerox’ SPARC labs, as did the mouse and touchpad (called a “cat”). Lots of neat shit came out of there, stuff you are using today that is taken for granted.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:19:13 +0000

We had computers 10 years ago that could go on the net and do the basic functions that most folks need, why is it then that a 5 year old or even 3 year old computer can’t do that according to you. Maybe some folks don’t want to buy into the idea of a computer being useless after a short time. Why can’t software be properly optimised these days? I’ll stop ranting now.

By: Dude

Dude — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:32:38 +0000

the reason unix is so “secure” is because no one writes viruses/worms/Trojans for them because no one uses them for anything important because they cant DO anything important. there not a versatile as a PC with windows. sure if you just want to look at pictures and watch movies all day that’s fine but if you want to DO something then I’m sorry to inform you, you’re an idiot for thinking unix is better.

ps: if you build your computer right, windows will do better with pictures, music and movies too. you just have to RTFM you NK!

By: Dude

Dude — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:06:38 +0000

Macs now have an operating system that has windows that you can open, minimize and close – an idea “Borrowed” from… WINDOWS.

you do know Apple paid Gates to help them write some of their OS right?

By: Dude

Dude — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:46:40 +0000

your post fails. there has been studies about people talking bad about Vista and never using it (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mojave-experiment/) and the people who complain are the people who download anything and everything they don’t need because they are stupid so it doesn’t even matter what OS they use. Most of the time an OS is only as good as the user but advanced users tend to like Windows more. I know Vista can be a little slow but that’s usually if you are working with aged hardware. Windows 7 is going to take care of that for people who don’t know how to upgrade

By: shukov

shukov — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:35:05 +0000

I used Vista for 7 or 8 months until I could not stand it anymore, I put on a copy of XP and am now back to curseless happy computing. Here is the Windows Pattern — 3.11 good – 95 clunker – 98 good – ME clunker – XP good – Vista clunker – 7 ???

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:44:35 +0000

Tell that to all the people who can’t install Vista SP1 because it breaks their internet connections (dialup and broadband) so bad they can’t use anything that requires connectivity. Like my sis for example.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:41:30 +0000

Ok wise guy; let’s see you get Windoze Vista running on one of my SparcStations without a re-compile (oh and about 2Gig more RAM to deal with all the resource hogs).

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:37:26 +0000

Mickeysh@ft fanboy in dah house folks!!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:34:53 +0000

This would be why people are buying Sonys with Vista, and retro-fitting them with XP, would it?

By: Dr.Death

Dr.Death — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:08:48 +0000

you would be surprised how easily a mac will fail that why they hide everything from thier users because thier users are stupid and would delete things they shouldnt

By: Dr.Death

Dr.Death — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:03:54 +0000

you can run osx or windows or linix or what ever you want on a computer because their all the same inside

By: Dr.Death

Dr.Death — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:01:20 +0000

first of all its called side bar and its not borrowed its completley differant but you would know that if you didnt have your head up your mac loving ass

By: Dr.Death

Dr.Death — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:59:04 +0000

becase your to stupid to use a pc

By: Dr.Death

Dr.Death — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:57:35 +0000

thats because your using hp hardware put vista on a good machine like a sony and its fine

By: jzbass5

jzbass5 — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:38:21 +0000

OSX never fails

By: IBM mainframe bigot

IBM mainframe bigot — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:56:33 +0000

You should really get out more. I have many horror stories about my Vista Ulticrap x64 on my dual core 4GB 1.9Ghz AMD 64 2 x 120GB laptop. Including:

>50% of 120GB C drive is Windows binaries (crap implementation of dual addressing-mode support)

Paging algorithm and implementation is I/O heavy, and it seems that the more the installed core memory, the worse the performance

Had to wipe/reload twice (so far) after driver updates (not automatic, either); HP’s “backup” program is major FAIL, so they get some of the blame here

“ReadyBoost” doesn’t, even with a 4GB SD card (sure, let’s waste CPU by compressing the cached data)

Although the logon screen comes up in 1 minute (not the 30 seconds Ballmer promised), I won’t log on for at least 15 minutes because something called “TrustedInstaller”, which I believe is part of Defendless, sits there and scans every effin’ Windoze binary (see above comment on size of binaries). The HDD access light is solid during this time.

I’m a software developer (although on real computers, not toy ones), not a “use the Internets only”. I’ve been developing software since before you were born (probably). And I have the experience to say Windows Sucks. (XP SP2 is the first example of a Windows OS that seems to be relatively stable, IMHO.)

IMNSHO, *n*x operating systems are only now approaching the stability of medium- and mainframe OSes, like z/OS, z/VSE, z/VM, z/TPF, BS2000/OSD, (Open)VMS, MPE, OS2200, GCOS, MCP (no, there really is an MCP, well before the movie Tron came out)…I could go on and on. Windoze will never get there, mainly because of its complete dependence on the C language memory model with storing variables on the stack (can anyone say “buffer overrun”).

And Linux on z = fantastic.

And get off my lawn!

By: JonR1138

JonR1138 — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:26:19 +0000

Apple went to the Intel chipset because Motorola decided not to make chips for Apple. Apple had to do something.
As far as which OS is better. I use XP and Vista. I’ve used Ubuntu and other Linux Distros. I’m wanting a Mac. Each OS has is pros and cons. Windows has the games, Mac OS X has the graphic design, Linux has the “What else can I do?” people.

By: perpetual

perpetual — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:05:29 +0000

i’m also very satisfied with windows 7.. it’s very responsive, extremly fast, it interacts great with all kinds of devices.. but still there are things in graphical interface and security that they could “learn” from linux..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:10:11 +0000

That may be true, but windows 7 is made of win!

By: perpetual

perpetual — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:51:14 +0000

it’s just stupid to say windows is a fail.. since windows has done so much innovations in the past.. i saw a comment above that said all windows versions were a fail.. so not true.. there where some versions that had many problems.. true.. but still windows 95 where very good for their time.. win XP rocked.. vista had some new features but lacked speed and it wasn’t ready to be a whole new OS.. Windows 7 are very good.. stable, though it’s still beta, but close to final release.. i also run Ubuntu very much.. i enjoy Ubuntu and i think windows could learn many things from linux but that doesn’t mean windows suck.. that’s just what narrow-minded people say about OS that they dont like.. about Mac OS i cant say anything since i havent use any mac pc for over 5 minutes.. but as far as i know it has some incredible features, but is lacks in some basic stuff..

By: mamamamama

mamamamama — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:00:10 +0000

life fail ^^

By: thatguy

thatguy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:58:28 +0000

They accidently put a picture of Bill Gates there. It should be a picture of Steve Jobs. And they also spelled Mac wrong.

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:40:00 +0000

Windows is bad. Vista is still Windows, that’s all.
Vista is a good deal better than XP in many significant ways.

..still nowhere near the quality, efficiency, and security of real unix(like) operating systems.

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:38:42 +0000

comment fail

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:35:16 +0000

Linux is close enough. Same advantages.

..That always happens to a good rant somehow. Don’t feel bad.

I gave up gaming to escape Windows. I’d rather have a platform that does what I need it to do than one that happens to have an ecosystem conduscive to wasting time.

By: Zartocle

Zartocle — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:21:20 +0000

I suppose it’s not just a matter of “geekness”, if you consider that many companies explicitly asked for new XP licences. They don’t want to migrate to Vista because advantages are ridiculous if compared with troubles and costs for the upgrade. And so did most private users. That’s the market and even the giant Microsoft has to conform to its rules.

By: wowzers

wowzers — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:30:10 +0000

I like how windows is the best type of computer and probably all the people who have commented use windows

By: Dehnus

Dehnus — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:36:35 +0000

Actually it does, just not the released versions. The Kernel of Windows is designed to be easily portable with other hardware. MS just simply doesnt rlease it . Which is too bad, but the 360 (also Power PC) also runs a version of Windows

By: valkyrie

valkyrie — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:20:02 +0000

well, I use computers all the time, can run them fine, mostly mapping software, but I still dislike vistaids. But you are correct, it isn’t that bad.

By: Forge

Forge — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:36:28 +0000

Meh, XP is serviceable enough. Vista sucks yeah all right, but pfft, skip it and wait for 7, like someone else said.