| Re: Windows/Microsoft has pulled the last straw!!! [message #234709 is a reply to message #234695] |
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xptek
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I suppose it's only fair that you get to have your opinion, although some elaboration would be nice.
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Lack of any decent permissions system, permissions added as an afterthought, proprietary shit that takes Microsoft too long to patch, etc.
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It's rather unfair to compare internet servers with personal computers.
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My point is that *nix computers are the target of attacks more than Windows computers.
cause = time
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| Re: Windows/Microsoft has pulled the last straw!!! [message #237628 is a reply to message #218048] |
Sat, 06 January 2007 15:40 |
3663Nixon
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Registered: October 2006
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first off windows is very unstable and crashes often, poeple can say this never happens but that is because they don't push like i do.
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If you have powerful enough hardware, correct drivers, good configuration and stable software there will be no problems. Your "pushing" implies that somehow you are hitting a software bottleneck. Id love to know what that is.
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i have overclocked the proccessor to the max and it over heats regulary. i have enough spyware to give tell the whole us when i go to the toilet.
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First off, overclocking your CPU will cause all sorts of problems if you do not do it properly. How can you expect any OS to run on dodgy hardware? It cannot. If you have spyware then that's your fault. I hav eWindows installed here and it is not riddled with spyware.
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I was wondering if there is a way to get rengaurd working with cedega. i was wondering if i run cedega twice once to run Game.exe and the second to run Game2.exe?
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Havent heard of a way but if you find a way please let us know. I too run openSUSE. Of course I have Windows too because of Rengaurd.
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cedega runs renegade very well.
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does anybody have problems with windows?
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It all depends what people are after in an OS. Sure I have problems and they are generally around lack of built in programs that I require. For example, *nix has the ability to chain commands together. For example if I want to see how many Apache (httpd) processes I am running, I can tell *nix to find all of the running processes, find all of the httpd ones, then do a line count. Output is simply the number. How do I do that in Windows? I have no idea. I would probably have to script it.
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in suse linux if anything like that happens like the white screen it starts a crash handler that stops it *IMMEDIETLY* not it ten minits or an hour.
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The kernel is different... and events are different. You can tune this in Windows but its not great by any means.
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also the multitasking on suse linux is incredible, nothing windows could match. although i need windows for 3dsmax i can use Vmware which is good and windows seems to be more stable running in it.
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Really? Both are multitasking and both do it diffently. Mute point really. If your Windows is running better in a VM it does rather point to dodgy windows drivers when you run it natively.
Give it time and I am sure you will have equal fustrations with Suse. The point I am making is that each OS is different however they both require management on the user's part. It is impossible to say which is "better" or more "secure". Obviously this arguement is nothing new. However, if suse meets your requirements more than Windows does then great.
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hehe, not only that people want STABILITY which windows lacks. you need STABILITY in a server.
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I run Windows and Solaris servers. To be honest Solaris has more uptime. Why? Well to be perfectly honest its always (to date) a hardware problem. The HP servers that run Windows are nearly always failing with NIC problems. They have dual nics, but they are built in to the motherboard. This means we have to take down the server and replace the mobo. So far, Sun hardware hasnt been a problem. As far as the OS goes, no problems so far.
I just checked the services bounce stats and they are fairly even. Windows is slightly higher but thats because they are running IBM WebSphere which seems to have a habit of getting java.exe to do crazy memory things. So all in all, OS-wise they are pretty even.
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| Re: Windows/Microsoft has pulled the last straw!!! [message #237650 is a reply to message #218048] |
Sat, 06 January 2007 18:18 |
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jnz
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the last thing i forgot to add.
windows lacks hardware support. i know this is an issue because of hardware, thats why my comp works so well with Suse. what i ment by multitasking is suse handles it better, for one: it can detect a crash and end it. 2 if there is a crash and everything is locked up you can switch to the kernel and end the offender. 3 everything just seems to work better, what i found was. i could burn 2 disks at once while running loads of "Konquers" loads of Terminals installing stuff. i could switch between each one without a problem. windows however, if a program get stuck in a loop (in the code) the program locks up. i found with suse however it doesn't, and after about 30 secs KDE ends it anyway. can you do that with windows? the answer is yes, but instead of ending it instantly it tries to end it by "virtualy" clicking the "X" symble, how stupid is that? you have to end its process manualy before it will close. as soon as i sort this computer out again im going to move over to suse. and not run rengard, i don't use it atm anyway because "i have a currupt always.dat". i have bought the game so i should be able to play soon.
im sure the reason rengaurd wont run with cedega is because it is missing dependancys. you need that service, whatever it is called. it should work with the new rengaurd update.
one last thing, because linux doesn't support .NET or active X it is not possible to get viruses of just browsing the net. i have also found you cant get them in music files, documents or pictures. you would have to download one and INSTALL it before it would do anything. and then, most of the things you download for linux have a checksum so you know it doesn't have virusus embedded. unless of course the developer has put some in the program.
linux has 2 flaws though:
1) its not very user freindly as in you would have to learn SH to use the terminal.
2) at the moment, not many programs are being developed for it. although there are emulators, if someone decided to bring out a game for linux i would buy it 
3) installing some programs is hard, some dependancys are a really tuffy to find, and some of them need dependancys.
but thats all i don't like about it.
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