Posts by Daniel von Asmuth

Re: W95 was a pineapple

Windows '95 was the Chernobyl desaster of IT. I wonder why Bill Gates was never convicted for genocide. Windows 3.1 was stable as long as you ran no third-party drivers or application programs.

The odd thing is that Microsoft had a half-decent OS, called Windows NT, but it did not catch on, so they cobbled up Windows 4.00 (an extended version of Win32S with the new GUI designed for NT 4.00) in order to stop the growing sales of IBM OS/2 3.00, which was a decent 32-bit OS with 16-bit Windows compatibility.

Re: it ain't json

Has Redmond losts its faith in the holy Registry for configuration settings?

Re: make sure you’re running the latest version...

Updating your software to the latest version could fix an old problem... or introduce a new one. Make sure you stay a few versions behind the majority to others will have encountered any problem you may have.

Re: not the terminal, the punch card

The punch card is getting obsolete, it's the printer that does it. Line printers used to print 136 characters wide, but today we mostly use laser printers and to get that many characters you have to print in landscape orientation, while portrait remains the default.

Re: I'll give it a go...

I think The (Holey) Redmond Empire should be enough. Alternatives: the Patchworks, Mission Incompatible, the Feature Factory, the Industry Standard, Satanic Mill, MoneySpinners, Muggle Stuff, MicroSieve (for their holes), Magic Smoke or Mirrors & Smoke, Mister Satya.

Re: flame on

Not to mention the years before 2000. Instead of advancing CS theory he seems to have worked on Graphical User Interfaces.

Windows 10 why?

This Windows 10X seems to be unable to run many Windows 10 applications, like Vista broke XP software. Who is going to use it?

Re: If FTP is disliked what about TFTP ??

TFTP is rare on the Internets.

It's time for Google to disable those failed protocols HTTP and HTTPS.

Re: Not holding my breath

More likely it would kill ReactOS and Wine would be replaced by the Linux subsystem for Windows:-(

Re: Obi-Bill, you're our only hope

How about a triumvirate?

William Gates III: Windows!

Michael Gorbachev: Glasnost! (transparency)

Barack Obama: Change? Just because ICANN!

Speed of Light??

How about digital radio that travels at the speed of sound?

Let's make SunTools great again

That zucks.

Re: He should have stuck to what he knows

I do not really see his statements as wrong, although the issue is sensitive. Stallman is just the outspoken leader that the Free Software movement needs.

Re: But it is taken

They could always port the GIMP to Windows and christen it WIMP.

http://webglimpse.net/

Re: So, to sum up. . .

Adolf Hitler did not have the autority to suspend parliament. The Reichstag decided that themselves in 1942, but then all the delegates belonged to the nazi party.

Re: Could this be it - Linux on the Desktop ?!

Dell is already selling laptops with Linux preinstalled. What advantage would Google's Chrome offer? Wait a second: the other option is to get Windows 10 preinstalled, which includes a Linux subsystem as well.

Well, you wanted to immigrate to the EU?

The EU is going through a wave of anti-immigration sentiment, which makes one wonder if they'd welcome a load of academics from the UK.

A storm is brewing over Holland

American company Budweiser is planning a massive invasion of the Netherlands, that mostly drink national brands, along with special brews from Belgium. ......

Brexit is not final. but already it's hard to find English/Scottish/Irish beers here.