The people love Windows XP 10148
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Beowulf TrollsHammer wrote on 4 Aug 2005 07:16:23 -0700
WPA: Probably necessary for commercial software endeavors example), but a PITA all the same, especially since the implied message is "We don't trust you, citizen. Validate your Infrared Security Clearance or we'll cut off access to your malware. Thank you. Have a nice day."
mbuttive incompatibilities with hardware:
I think the issue here is that they rewrote the central driver protocol yet again, and you know what that means: older hardware shutout. I don't know if this is intentional or not, but it's fairly dumb.
idiotic default user interface:
True enough; the doggy and the Teletubby background are fairly ridiculous, as a default. Then again, they have to show *something*. Maybe a nice default blue background would work.
spontaneous reboots:
Believe it or not, this *is* an improvement, at least for servers. Admittedly, it's not clear how much, but tell me which one an IT professional would prefer if he wants a high-availability website, buttuming a loadbalancing solution on the front of this set of machines -- I can't call it a cluster, without more info:
begin oeprotect.scr There are some issues around linux drivers for many wireless cards, though. Ndiswrapper is pretty good, and provides a work-around, but it's not perfect. My understanding...
1 System goes down, displays BSOD and locks. IT is notified and gets out the roller skates, along with a monitor-keyboard-mouse cart.
IMO, the main problem with Windows is that it's too complex. I believe this accounts for the majority of issues with that platform. You have...
2 System goes down, reboots. IT is notified and looks at the logs, then gets out the roller skates if necessary.
Of course there's an even better alternative:
3 System stays up indefinitely. :-)
but even Linux can't quite get there -- though it's probably closer than many monopolistic operating systems.
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