| Posted on 12-Feb-2001 19:38 GMT by Christian Kemp | 64 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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| Posted by Mark Olsen on 15-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 51 (Hassan Sultan):
> This long thread started after that I quietly told Mark Olsen that
> the problem CK had was not related to Win2k, there was no rant about
It is, you just don't seem to be able to comprehend that.
> the OS or whatever, and then Mr Olsen thought that with absolutely no
> knowledge about operating systems/kernels he could explain to a guy who
> work on this exact OS how much it is crap and buggy, all this with
OK, let's say I have absolutely no knowledge of anything, as you suggest, I don't even know how to use a computer.
So, as an average Joe dumbass(like you), I can see the following things:
Graphics operations are in kernel space(Just look in the task manager when moving windows)
When moving a window/scrolling something/whatever, the kernel CPU usage hits 100%
I move a window, modem lights in Windows flash red, the status window indicated a lot of errors.
Average joe luser sees a connection between moving windows and broken downloads, so he doesn't use the computer while he downloads.
> completely broken arguments.
Sure thing.
Just a note: Keep things out of kernel space, and since you didn't get it last time, I will repeat why:
- You starve other things, not good.
- Broken code BSODs Windows
And another thing, about that VBScript thing...
How useful is that? Not the slightest, except for writing automated LookOut Depress viruses.
How can one run a server without a shell? Or use a workstation effectively?
I have two 486s here running without keyboard and monitor etc.
One thing is thinking of how Win2k would run on a 486@66MHz with 16MB RAM(the one I run OpenBSD on atm) is one thing, but how would I admin it without moving the computers around all the time?
The other one, a 486@100MHz with 44MB RAM running Linux(Again, imagine Win2k on this one) has been running since it was installed 147 days ago! The OpenBSD box has been running since it was installed too. That's 39 days ago. |
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