Re: OT: hard drive limits Q

On a sunny day (Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:43:21 -0800) it happened "Joel Kolstad"
<JKolstad71HatesSpam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in <12p5j6s4hm42bd2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Eye candy? :-) Some usability improvements in the desktop?

Sure, I have heard it looks nice, but have not used it myself so I dunno.
Impress your friends 'hey i have Vista!'.

Hey, I know guys who still use Windows 2000, thinking that the added
"features" in XP weren't worth it; I can see how you feel. Nevertheless,
Microsoft will undoubtedly sell millions of copies of Vista this coming year,
if only to the hardware manufacturers who are bundling the OEM version.

True, they are selling vouchers now to upgrade to Vista with new PCs.


The more you buy those products the more you revoke your own rights!

Microsoft is just complicit in revoking your rights; junk like the DMCA that
our duly-elected representatives passed is what really revoked them. It's
more interesting to contemplate *why* Microsoft buys into all the DRM stuff,
when they themselves don't own much in the way of, e.g., music stores (like
iTunes), movie production studios, etc.

That company (MS) is too big.
The shareholders want 2 digit growth every year.
So they try and try and try and try new things.
Many of those thing flip or flop... like the Zune mp3 player seems to be a flop
(I have read).
This frantically looking for an opportunity to invest the cash they make, leads
to strange relationships, and illogical decisions.
For example they rejected Blu-Ray, and supported that other HD DVD format.
The way it looks now, or _is_ rather, you can buy Blu-Ray writers here now, but
not the other format, same for the disks.
From a technical POV Blu-Ray is better......
The press is flooded with announcements of new projects from MS Balmer... very
few seem to ever make a profit.
Perhaps it is simply not possible, or there is not enough new stuff to invest in.
Very difficult situation for them, because if Vista flops, people start moving
away to other OSses or delay buying, and shares start falling, you get a big
sellout
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=microsoft
select 'max' in the graph, it is not as high as in 1999, but not doing bad either.

They are so big they have much political influence, the US needs the money they
bring in.

What many people fail to see is that it is just an operating system.
There is nothing special in it, but they link in every application they see anyone
make, destroying other companies, but then 'MS search' is a flop too, and the new
build in virus scanner ? I dunno.
Probably if those virus scan companies lose market share they will have virueses
written that Vista can not handle.....
Can you blame them?

I see some problems with Linux too, now there is a bad kernel bug (data corruption) see
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116550778700006&r=1&w=2
And yesterday I had this:
Code: 93 68 01 00 00 b8 43 00 00 00 5b 5e 5f 5d ba 00 00 00 00 0f 44 c2 c3
57 89 c7 83 3d 18 fd c4 d8 00 56 53 8b 42 74 89 d3 8b 40 28 <8b> 70 0c 74
11 68 d4 97 c4 d8 68 14 a7 c4 d8 e8 d1 11 4d e7 59
EIP: [<d8c46279>] dvb_frontend_release+0x14/0x47 [dvb_core] SS:ESP 0068:cc231b04
<1>Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I have not rebooted, recorded Lord of the Rings for 3 hours from that USB interface
after that, and the server is still up.....
It is a paging problem it seems, but hey, all is backuped, let's see what happens.







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