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VISTA advancements with quite some salt

 

The Advancement of Windows: Narayanan Ganapathy - Windows Vista IO

From the kernel to the shell, Windows Vista is a very different OS than XPSP2. How so? Here, Charles interviews Architect Narayanan Ganapathy whose team of highly skilled engineers write the Windows IO system, driver frameworks and related technologies. So, what, exactly, is new in Windows Vista with regard to IO? What does it mean, exactly, to users and developers? Tune in. Learn.

Always the eager one to learn, I cannot deny that this video has a certain potential to annoying me. I'm not of particular naivete  but still do believe that

1. video is a sub-optimal medium for providing in depth technical information
2. Techie staff should not be getting into marketing the same way I would not feel really 100% comfortable, should know-it-all(-better) Microsoft marketing department decide to indulge in driver development in the near future.

I'll try to explain more in depth what it is precisely, that I find so annoying. This essentially boils down the fact that the whole Vista team seems to be in a state of denial or how else would you describe the official Mantra "most advanced OS, most secure OS", etc. Sorry for shortening the actual quotes but you've most likely heard them ad nauseam and probably half the way back :-)

Don't get me wrong though. I'd like to state very clearly that I'm running Vista on my machines after being in the Vista beta programme for more than a year. I'm still in the Server 2008 beta and without disclosing anything I'd like to say that I really like Vista as well as Server 2008. But that should not make blind towards complaints. I'll name a few that surface on the internet regularily but hardly ever (in case of driver behaviour or architecture) get proper attention. Just to name a couple

1. What's really that advanced with an IO subsystem which can be abused that easily to get the machine to a grinding halt. Don't believe it? Just subscribe to 200 RSS feeds using the MS feed store, wait for the msfeedsync service to start updating your feeds, lean back and enjoy. There will not be very much more you're going to be be able to do for the next 10-15 minutes). msfeedsync is only one example for IO intensive software that hogs down the whole machine, thereby introducing this Windows 98 feeling of helplessness that we all thought, would be gone for good.    This was run and measured on my dual core Pentium E4300 machine with 2GB RAM.
2. Also got a 2GB machine? Even 4GB? Try that one. Disable all autostart stuff you do not really, really need start outlook, word and excel. Start task manager (best use the sysinternals one), take pencil and paper (or write a short program) to check on allocated virtual memory. Remember the fact that virtual mem is mapped via page table entries to physical memory or marked as not present, in which case the processor generates a page fault exception, the OS traps, it loads the page in question from non-volatile storage (usually a hard disk) and restarts the offending operation. Any idea why this scenario still introduces heavy paging activity with 2GB
3. A proliferating "fox and grapes" mentality, withdrawing behind (sometimes only perceived) authority instead of getting back in touch with reality.

I certainly admire the MS Kernel development team(s) and Vista is an impressive piece of software engineering. But it still shares one attribute with all other non-trivial software in the known universe: it's not perfect and that's good news in fact because face it guys, would it be perfect, you'd loose your jobs. And anyway, please try to re-introduce the variable 'usability' into your equations for "technical advancedness" calculation - even fellow developers might mainly be interested in what actually reaches them and not so much in the big theore

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BBC E-mail: Hamas told to axe children's show

Hamas told to axe children's show
The Palestinian government urges a Hamas TV station to pull a children's show with a political agenda. They are using Disney created cartoon heroes to already install their ignorance and hatred in the childrens sub-conscience

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/6643291.stm

Would it not bve for the few courageous secular Fatah members who still keep speaking up they'd not be worth very much more than a thermonuclear bomb. What means inhuman - THEY don't get tired to tell us how much they prefer death to live. Cultural respect mandates to take them seriously and put to good use the advanced technical resources of Western civilization to make that process slightly more efficient.

Just try to imagine the reactions of these halfbrains, should something like that, ridiculing them or simply correctly diagnosing their pre-intellectual disorders be part of a European TV show. We'd all be deaf from their inisistent whining. Why on earth do we still put up with them?

[[Get em to the railway station, put em on a train]]

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DRUDGE REPORT- Man cuts off HIS in penis in pizzeria

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2007®

DEEP PAIN PIZZA: MAN 'CUT OFF HIS OWN PENIS IN RESTAURANT'
Mon Apr 23 2007 20:01:12 ET

A man chopped off his penis with a knife in front of horrified diners at a busy restaurant.

Police were called to Zizzi, in The Strand, London, at 9pm on Sunday after reports of a man in possession of a knife.

Sales rep Stuart McMahon, who was eating at the restaurant with his girlfriend, told the SUN:

"This guy came running in then charged into the kitchen, got a massive knife and started waving it about.

"Everyone was screaming and running out as he jumped on a table, dropped his trousers and popped his penis out.

"Then he cut it off. I couldn't believe it."

A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said a man aged between 30-40 was the only person injured and that his injuries were self-inflicted.

She said he was taken to a south London hospital where his condition was today described as stable.

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Pizza seems to have left the guy hungry. To date still unknown is if he ordered some ciabatta to go with his stocked up supply of presumably tasty fresh meat, probably to fix himself a hot dog (or was it a hot rod) or if he'd rather would have a professional cook to use it as a special topping for a second pizza.

Enjoy....

In an insane world,who is supposed to deal with the real loonies??

slideshare - check it out

 Leisa, whereever and whoever you are, you made my day.

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oh my, those smart web pages

Ever tried to use an alternative browser, say Opera 9.x, as your system default? If so, you might agree that one of the most annoying things you'll encounter with nauseating frequency is what I call the 'smart ass website' phenomenon. This type of mostly absolutely moronic sites keeps telling you that your browser would be incompatible to render it, thank you very much, and whether you'd like to download IE or Firefox instead.

Dear site creators: this is bullshit

Have you ever tried this out or are you simply relying on conventinal wisdom? Personally I know of no single page, which Firefox 2.x (software, which I quite extensively use and very much like myself) could render and Oprea could not. So why the f... do plenty of sites, starting with Google Desktop and not ending with the Web.de Web.de CLUB page creator keep telling this nonsense? Anybody has an explanation? Besides ignorance, that is...

Dear web site 'programmers', please let us choose our tools, just let your sites load in whichever browser we see fit and, let me very confidentially add this, should the site abc really not load (correctly) in browser xyz, so we are most likely gonna notice and just reload in another one. Life can be that easy if u start using the organ between your ears...

no holiday on ice...

gerade aus Österreich und BRD zurück in homely A'dam. No snow in Linz, Germany nice and dry, no ice in Holland. Erderwärmung, gut und schön, aber bitte doch nicht im Winter. Und im nächsten Jahr: wir malen eine weiße Weihnacht - der preiswerte Spaß für die ganze Familie.