Linux-Advocacy Digest #428, Volume #30 Sun, 26 Nov 00 03:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Of course, there is a down side... ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Of course, there is a down side... ("Erik Funkenbusch")
Re: A Microsoft exodus! ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Of course, there is a down side... ("Erik Funkenbusch")
Re: Why is MS copying Sun??? ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: The Sixth Sense ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: The Sixth Sense ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Uptime -- where is NT? ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Linux 2.4 mired in delays as Compaq warns of lack of momentum ("Les Mikesell")
Re: Uptime -- where is NT? ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: A Microsoft exodus! (mark)
Re: Windoze 2000 - just as shitty as ever ("Les Mikesell")
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Of course, there is a down side...
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 02:04:02 -0500
Chad Mulligan wrote:
>
> "mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Curtis wrote:
> > >Les Mikesell wrote...
> > >> Indeed, quite a lot of functionality has been withheld from those
> computer
> > >> users and they don't even know what they are missing. I'll bet if
> they
> > >> have a huge list of names in
> > >> Last, First
> > >> format and wanted
> > >> First Last
> > >> they would retype the whole thing since they don't have:
> > >> :%s/\(.*\), \(.*\)/\2 \1/
> > >> or any reasonable equivalent. Their loss. And it would be
> > >> mine if that is all I had.
> > >
> > >Actually, what I do in Win2k here is fire up my TextPad, open the search
> > >and replace tool, enable regex's and for the search expression:
> > >^\([[:word:]]+\), \([[:word:]]+\) or
> > >I could use your expression to be less precise
> > >\(.*\), (.*\)
> > >and the replacement expression
> > >\2, \1
> > >I hit 'replace all' and I'm done. If I feel I have to do this on more
> > >occasions, I just create a macro to do it with one programmable shortcut.
> > >
> >
> > Whereas I go to the pub and buy a pint with the money that I didn't give
> > to Microsoft :)
> >
>
> To bad you wouldn't have the time, what with all the arcane tasks needed to
> keep a UNIX healthy.
Um...every morning....remove, label, and store last night's backup tape.
Every afternoon...insert new backup tape in tape drive.
I think that about covers it.
[Clue for the fucking clueless...the daily, weekly, and monthly
maintenance is all taken care of automagically by the cron
facility...which runs any program you want according to any
schedule you want]
>
> > Mark
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Of course, there is a down side...
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 01:07:48 -0600
"Les Mikesell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:_y1U5.24883$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:pJST5.5581$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > >
> > > > > The nice thing about Unix is that the defaults are relatively
safe,
> > > > > and offer NO opportunity for one person to remove another's files.
> > > >
> > > > Interestingly, it's a nice thing that windows (on NTFS) can do as
> well.
> > >
> > > Unix had this from the Very Start.
> > >
> > > Why did it take Microsoft over 15 years to come up with similar
> > functionality?
> > >
> >
> > Because in the bad old days, none of the systems were connected to
others
> > nor were they connected to the outside world, such functionality was not
> > needed.
>
> I just love historical revisionism. Windows for WorkGroups didn't
> really exist, nobody ever used DOS or Windows on top of Netware,
> Windows95 didn't really offer to share files, Windows98 didn't offer
> to share files.
You do realize that NT 3.1 was released at the same time as WfWG 3.1. NT
3.1 had NTFS file protections.
Dos or Windows on Netware didn't allow peer connections, it was only a
connection to the server.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Microsoft exodus!
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 02:06:11 -0500
Stefan Ohlsson wrote:
>
> Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> >On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 15:10:19 +0100, Tore Lund wrote:
> >>Are they? Alternatives like jkl;
> >Not much different to hjkl. Also a reasonable choice, I guess. The only
> >concern is this -- do all keyboards put ; in the same place ?
> >
> No, Swedish and Norwegian (at least) keyboard layouts puts the ; below
> k and l.
>
> >>or ji,l
> >Nope, you really want them all in a line. If they're in a line, you can move
> >around without having to move or contort your hand.
> >
> But why not j,i,k,l? Then the layout is much like the arrow-keys, but in
> the main keyboard area, and unlike ji,l no contortions are needed.
Because i stands for "insert"....and h doesn't.
>
> /Stefan
> --
> [ Stefan Ohlsson ] � There will always be survivors - Robert A. Heinlein � []
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Of course, there is a down side...
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 01:09:42 -0600
"Les Mikesell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:CE1U5.24894$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > And the historical reason that 3rd party apps had to overwrite these
> > > DLLS would be?
> >
> > None. They didn't have to if the lazy programmers either: a> Checked
the
> > dates before copying or B> Wrote their programs to the published Windows
> API
> > correctly.
>
> And you are positive that there has never been a case where the newer
> MS DLL broke another vendor's previously working program?
Of course there are. But those programs have typically not followed the API
and relied on undocumented side effects that went away when the DLL changed.
When an upgraded DLL does legitimately break applications, MS fixes it, like
they did when SP6 broke Notes.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why is MS copying Sun???
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 02:10:59 -0500
The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Aaron R. Kulkis
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote
> on Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:29:09 -0500
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >Andres Soolo wrote:
> >>
> >> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> [about LF vs. CR-LF as newline separator]
> >> > Yes, Simon think it is quit normal for Gates to ignore a standard that
> >> > had been in place for a full decade.
> >> Well ... actually, MS followed there a standard. An old standard from
> >> about the same era as EBCDIC's roots. The teletypes needed two separate
> >> commands to scroll the paper and to move the print head back to the
> >> left end of the page.
> >
> >Please explain the logic benefit of using EBCDIC standards
> >on ASCII machines....
>
> Who knows? dd still has EBCDIC <-> ASCII conversion capability.
> I suspect someone out there is still using it, but I can't say
> I've seen an awful lot of EBCDIC tapes out there lately. :-)
That's because IBM mainframe equipment still runs on EBCDIC.
Consider if you upgraded your IBM mainframes...and then had to
also change in each of multi-million dollar 100-page/second printers.
...AND all of your applications.
>
> And yet, that doesn't mean there aren't any. "Mostly harmless." :-)
> (Hell, *I've* still got an old 1/2" reel mag tape. Can I read it?
> Dunno. I'd probably have to scrounge now. Even 1/4" cartridge tapes
> are "weird stuff".)
>
> [.sigsnip]
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- insert random weird stuff here
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Sixth Sense
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 02:13:51 -0500
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
> >
> > Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> > >
> > > Duh, I sure am dumb.
> >
> > Yes, we know.
>
> You vicious bastard <grin>. At least I don't
> have the preamble to the American Constitution
> for a signature! <grin grin grin>
Of course not. My sig is MUCH longer.
Compare:
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/constitution/constitution.html
National Archives and Records Administration
Constitution of the United States of America
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more
perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare,
and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our
Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the
United States of America.
Article. I.
Section. 1.
....
>
> Chris "Duhhhhhhhhh" Ahlstrom
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Sixth Sense
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 02:17:08 -0500
Giuliano Colla wrote:
>
> Ayende Rahien wrote:
> >
> > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > > The NT4.x and 9x EULAs specifically prohibit ANY customer statement
> > > which is damaging to Microsoft in any way.
> >
> > Can you point me out to where those statement are?
> > I can't see how this is true, because when ME came out (and 95/98 too, for
> > that matter) a lot of magazines said something like: "You buy a new
> > computer, get it, otherwise, keep your own OS" Which is clearly damaging MS
> > http://www.iarchitect.com/shame.htm is taking apart several of MS
> > application.
> >
> > Two examples out of the millions I could've given.
>
> EULA binds customers, not journalists or net sites, hopefully!
But most journalists are ALSO MS customers.
Catch-22.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Uptime -- where is NT?
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 02:21:54 -0500
Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>
> "mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >Grow a clue. uptime.exe works over the network. And it reports accurate
> > >uptimes, even on NT4.
>
> > What period does this addon work over (ie., how many days before
> > it rolls over to zero)?
>
> It works on all periods and does not ever roll over to 0. The reason is
> that it works by reading the event log for a startup message then subtracts
> the time entry of that startup message from the current time of day.
You would be surprised.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Les Mikesell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 mired in delays as Compaq warns of lack of momentum
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:24:39 GMT
"Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:xQbT5.5239$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> > > > > Linux, ext2fs... the limit is built-in because the designers
weren't
> > > > > smart enough to do what several other OSes have successfully been
> > > > > able to do.
> > > >
> > > > You mean Microsoft? The company that only sold systems
> > > > with 32 Meg DRIVE limits back when Linus came up with
> > > > the 2Gig file limit design?
> > >
> > > What year was that? I was using a DOS 3.2 that exceeded that limit in
> > 1986.
> >
> > It must have been an OEM version, probably Compaq's. Other
> > companies added the ability to have multiple partitions before
> > the stock MS version had them. I've forgotten the sordid details
> > of which long overdue feature was added to DOS in which decade.
> >
>
> Very good, it was Compaq's, but that didn't stop it running on other
> systems. I didn't think Linux was around back then though.
No, it was Novell that was providing most people the functionality
that MS couldn't. I used AT&T unix myself back then, with something
very similar to samba that they called the 'Starlan DOS Server' and
through an assortment of upgrades this evolved to 'StarGroup' and
was a WFG/Win95 compatible netbios-over-tcp server - but it
never had to deal with the 32Meg partition limits. Everything
migrated transparently to Linux/samba eventually. I recall one of
my friends trying to install the MS LanMan server back then and
it couldn't deal with a 9 gig SCSI drive that he had been using under
Netware. Great server design...
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Uptime -- where is NT?
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 02:25:43 -0500
Stuart Fox wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > I was rather unaware that collecting uptime information from the
> > > network was a requirement of an OS. The uptime tool reports
> accurate
> > > information, but I can't see how MS having a 49.7 day limit or Linux
> > > having a 497 day limit on information gathered from the network is a
> > > fundamental design flaw.
> >
> > Even with a BETA-TEST KERNAL, Purdue's Gould PN-9080 machines
> > stayed up for 60+ days in 1985-1986.
> >
> > Face it. Microsoft NT (Neutered Technology) STILL is not ready
> > for prime time.
> >
>
> Are you being deliberately stupid, or is a serious mental condition?
>
> Here's a clue: Uptime reported via the network is not accurate, so the
> uptimes reported are wrong. Incorrect uptime does not mean the machine
> does not stay up.
Yes, but the experience of real-life NT admins DOES mean that
the machines don't stay up.
Here's a clue:
A fellow contractor told of helping with an inventory...
there was a Sun box which had been overlooked in the last
inventory, and had gone 13 months without any sort of
maintenance.....everyone had completely FORGOTTEN about
this machine's existance....because it was performing
ALL of its functions flawlessly.
If this were, instead, a LoseNT machine, would such a situation
even be possible?
for 5 weeks...maybe. 13 months? Not on your life.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mark)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: A Microsoft exodus!
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:22:14 +0000
In article <8vplo7$5eu5a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ayende Rahien wrote:
>
>"Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> mark wrote:
>
>> > This is a high price to pay for Microsoft's attempts to copy the
>>
>> It' not so much the attempt, but the INABILITY to do it properly
>> which is the problem.
>>
>>
>> > functionality of the Mac finder.
>> >
>> > Mark
>>
>
>Interestingly enough, Mac OS X seems a lot like windows.
>Who is copying whom?
>
>
Mac OS X will seem a lot like windows to a windows user
because Microsoft have been trying to copy the Mac finder
for years and years. Each release of Windows gets a bit
closer to the Mac.
It will, however, act a lot more like unix because it's
a unix like kernel and OS underneath the GUI bits.
You can take a look at an early Mac (eg., a classic,
as I have here) and you'll see many things which windows
has been designed to emulate (functionality, not binary).
Mark
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From: "Les Mikesell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Windoze 2000 - just as shitty as ever
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:44:50 GMT
"Ayende Rahien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8vploe$5eu5a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> > No - this is not working for me. Are you saying that the master
> > boot record was corrupted? If so, that will affect any OS at all.
> > That is not a linux issue. It is *certainly* not an ext2 issue.
> > Even if that did happen, it is *extremely* unlikely that, armed
> > with a rescue disk, the ext2 partitions would not be fully
> > recoverable. I don't think you've any experience of this at
> > all.
>
> Read what I said, it won't mount on other systems.
> I tried the rescue disk method, and it failed.
What did e2fsck say about it? I've seen partitions that would
it would not fix in automatic mode, but none that would not
come back when you ran in manual mode and answered yes
to all the fixes.
> > >FAT & NTFS are indeed more robust than ext2 in this regard.
> >
> > FAT certainly is not.
>
> FAT has yet to take all my files away from a system crush or power down.
It just doesn't bother to tell you about the corruption in the files.
> You weren't paying attention.
> The whole FS vanished.
This sounds like a partition table problem.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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