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Posted on 12-Feb-2001 19:38 GMT by Christian Kemp64 comments
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Things have been pretty slow behind the scenes at ANN. I still worked most of January 2001 and the past two weeks of February, so my free time was limited. My PC seems to be working okay now, but my dialup has been very unreliable and painfully slow (how many errors are normal in W2k's dialup status window? So far I have 143 for less than 200k transferred...). The DSL line is supposedly being installed "in a few weeks". Sounds oddly familiar. I finally found an Amiga sponsor again, so that my phone costs are almost covered. Thanks also to the individuals who offered donations - sorry I didn't get back to you - but I'm always reluctant to accept individual donations for a number of reasons I won't go into since space is limited. :) To wrap up this MOTD, I'm trying once more to find one or more reliable contributors to do a bit of moderation and article posting. Please apply via email.
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MOTD 12/Feb/2001 : Comment 45 of 64ANN.lu
Posted by christophe on 14-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 39 (Hassan Sultan):
>The emulation was not outsourced, the people in charge of this part of the >code are 20 meters from my office...
I though it was done by insigna and I even saw the name while looking in Windows (I don't remember what file).
So if it was not really outsourced tell them the Dos emulation is the most crapy ever. The Dos 6 is much better. They could have done all the dos commands instead of doing a little part of them.
>Concerning scripting, you have VBScript and JScript with which you can do a >lot of things, call COM objects, play with the registry, send e-mail,...
Every OS that merit this name has a decent shell. Win2K not.
In a big PC park with 2/3 of them unable to run Win2K properly you need to support NT4 that does not come in standard with such additional script interpreters.
We had to remove vbscript interpreter because of the security flaws that make you get all viruses without even opening attachments.
>If you don't know to use them is another problem, everything's here
I know how to use it and I actualy use a third party tools that I had to install on every PC.
Scripting is not standard on every Windows !
So everytime you have to write a little script you have to prepare a scripting tool deployment. This is ridiculous.
Once again a server OS SHOULD HAVE A DECENT SHELL !
I think M$ brainwashed you. Open your eyes.
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