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Down to the bottom line... If you want a perfect OS, start writing it. If you pull it off, you'd be the first in the world to do so. Of course, other people that use it would probably say it has flaws too!  Vista will undoubtedly fail to meet your standards, as well as it's successors. But, as professionals, we learn to accept what we're given for tools and make the best of them. We even write our little extensions to them to improve them ourselves, but in the end, no OS is going to be perfect for everyone who uses it.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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I think that you are misjudging me.
I don't think that XP is a bad OS, actually I think it's great (otherwise I wound't use it!).
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Vista will undoubtedly fail to meet your standards, as well as it's successors.
You don't even know my standards!
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: But, as professionals, we learn to accept what we're given for tools and make the best of them.
Not kite. I can't say that I accept what is being given to me, I choose XP for several reasons, not just "acceptance". Don't you think that the ones using Linux or Max OS (or any other) think the same way? Different OSs offer different functionality, you are to choose. Off course "the perfect OS" does not exist (probably, never will), but, as a user, I think I have the right and the duty to claim "Something is wrong! I don't like or it doesn't work well." with the OS I have chosen. Otherwise OSs would improve a lot slower.
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: We even write our little extensions to them to improve them ourselves, but in the end, no OS is going to be perfect for everyone who uses it.
Not XP nor any other. But by pointing out some flaws we can help making it better.
hint_54
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hint_54 wrote: You don't even know my standards!
No, I don't. But you've given us quite the insight into how stringent your standards are.
hint_54 wrote: Don't you think that the ones using Linux or Max OS (or any other) think the same way? Different OSs offer different functionality, you are to choose.
No, I don't get to choose. In most companies, the choice is made for me. I just have to deal with it.
hint_54 wrote: Not XP nor any other. But by pointing out some flaws we can help making it better
You've picked the wrong forum to post your gripes in. You're preaching to the chior here. If you wanted to make the OS better, send the feedback to Microsoft.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: No, I don't. But you've given us quite the insight into how stringent your standards are.
No, I haven't. I've only pointed a few things out. I'm not saying XP sucks because of those... Actually, the "problems" i've pointed out are very superfluous and futile, I could have pointed some others, but I do like XP and can't see anything serious to point out but only a few small things.
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: No, I don't get to choose. In most companies, the choice is made for me. I just have to deal with it.
I meant personal usage. Use the same OS at home? Right now I use XP only, but I've had dual boot before.
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: You've picked the wrong forum to post your gripes in
Isn't this forum about OSs and SysAdmin? I'm talking about an OS. Why is it not allowed to talk about this kind of stuff here?
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: If you wanted to make the OS better, send the feedback to Microsoft.
Yeah.. Dream on! Why should they even read it? And else, there are (only) coders on this community, why shouldn't those (us all) improve the OS in such a maner?
I can tell that you are being very inflexible with this and defending XP at all cost. Just notice XP is not being attacked.
regards
hint_54
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hint_54 wrote: I'm not saying XP sucks
Remember your subject line for these posts??? Or did I miss something? By using that line, you implied that you didn't like XP for such-and-such reasons.
hint_54 wrote: Actually, the "problems" i've pointed out are very superfluous and futile
If they're so superfluous, why bitch about them here?
hint_54 wrote: Isn't this forum about OSs and SysAdmin? I'm talking about an OS.
I didn't say that. I said this wasn't the forum to post your gripes about thing you want improved. Microsoft has their own forums and channels for that.
hint_54 wrote: Yeah.. Dream on! Why should they even read it?
Actually, MS does listen. It just takes a while for anything to happen because it has to fit into the grander scheme of things.
hint_54 wrote: why shouldn't those (us all) improve the OS in such a maner?
Didn't I just say that a little while back?? "We even write our little extensions to them to improve them ourselves"...
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Remember your subject line for these posts??? Or did I miss something? By using that line, you implied that you didn't like XP for such-and-such reasons.
Yes, I do remember. But that only means I don't like a few things on XP and I gave some examples. That doesn't mean I don't like it as a whole.
Dave Kreskowiak wrote:
If they're so superfluous, why bitch about them here?
For as minor as they can be, it's always worthwhile to mention them. For instance, I've learned that XP is actually more dependent on DOS then what I though (that "aux", "ltp1" thing). As I believe that Microsoft has announced before, XP was supposed to be more independent from DOS. But I understand it is for compatibility. Another example could be that Windows Audio thing: I saw it on a magazine, so Magazines talk about this!
I agree with the rest.
Regards.
hint_54
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: 1) You can't disable the messages unless the applications your installed that put those icons there expose some option to turn them off. Consult the application's documentation. Not XP's fault.
Indeed I was right. Please, see http://www.winbookcorp.com/_technote/WBTA20000902.htm
Regards
hint_54
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Hi Guys! Im trying to use a dll in my Project in VB.NET. But the problem is that when i run the program in debug mode, i get an error saying that the source files of the dll are not present in the path where they were when the dll was created. How do i rectify this error. It asks me for the new path which i have to give everytime i debug my Program. Please tell me how i can change the source file path of the dll to the path where i have the source files. Thanx. Waiting for an Answer Soon. Bye!!
Devraj Raut!!!
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Remove DLL or your "dll source" from reference, and add your "dll source".
I hope this works.
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I made the mistake of installing MS DirectX 9 on a laptop whose video drivers do not support it (an HP Pavilion ze4420us). The result was BSODs at 20-minute
intervals, under Win2K Pro SP4. There appears to be no backout or uninstall for DirectX; when I try to reinstall DirectX 8.1, the installer reports success very quickly but doesn't actually change anything. I've had to turn off hardware accelleration entirely, and as a result cannot play DVDs any more...
Any ideas about hoe to downgrade DirectX? Any registry hacks to allow the reinstall of the earlier version? TIA!!!
--Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy@omsys.com>
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DirectX has no installation and cannot be downgraded using an older installation. There are 3rd party tools out there that can remove DirectX entirely, but I've never used them so I can't make a recommendation. You'll just have to Google for "remove DirectX" yourself and see what's got some good reviews.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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I had a simular problem with DirectX 9 with nvidia on older video cards. When i click run and tpyed DxDiag->Display->Test Direct 3D. Then my screen goes black and reset. But i have found a solution. I instaleld an older video drivers from nvidia and it worked normal with DirectX 9
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I would like to ask if anyone knows a workaround to our problem. The problem is bad performance due to a problem with Opportunistic Locking in some Windows versions, and is documented in this knowledge base article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306981
Whilst not on the list, we verified that this problem persists on Windows 2000 Server SP4 as well.
The problem is that our ISAM database driver uses LockFileEx to lock parts of the database index files, which in effect will mark this file as "non-oplockable" as soon as the first concurrent access occurs. I understand that this LockFileEx call is probably unavoidable because the files are opened in shared mode to allow write access for concurrent clients to the same database.
We are already trying to get our hands on an improved ISAM database driver, but if LockFileEx is unavoidable this would provide no benefit for us. Accessing the database files locally is also out of question, unfortunately.
Are there any fixes or workarounds to this problem? Do you know any Microsoft Windows Server versions which aren't affected?
Any help would be appreciated.
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There's no "fix" for this and only your testing on each version of the server is going to find any possible versions that are not affected. Also, your ISAM driver could render the results of this testing invalid.
I personally never use shared access to files. It's way too flaky and entirely dependent on the server's file system and network clients working perfectly (yeah, right! ). This can change from file server vendor to vendor (Novell Netware, Unix, Samba, Windows Networking, ...). Completely unsupportable...
If shared data is behind the application, I always go with SQL Server. It's simply the right tool for the job!
Now, I also realize that it's a very LARGE tool and is overkill for some applications. You CAN get away with a kind of file-sharing, without sharing the file. I've done this once before, by using a server-side singleton object that wraps the access to the file and maintains the database for the applications. This class library exposes methods that the clients call to get and set the data that they need while completely insulating the clients from the database.
The really nice part about this is that you can have multiple application types (Windows Forms, ASP.NET Web Apps, and mobile devices) all using the same database wrapper at the same time without knowning a damn thing about the database itself and without re-writing the datbase code for each platform!
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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How to set a program to autostart at the start up of Windows XP?
thanks.
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There are many way to do it such as:
- Copy the shortcur of your program and place it in the start up folder.
- Use Scheduled Tasks to schedule your application to start while you log on to the system.
- Define logon script in group policies (wink2/xp) to start an application.
- Design an application as windows services (win2k/xp).
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Go to the following given path in your Registry by typing REGEDIT at your start|run prompt.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN
make a new entry and copy your program shortcut at the right side of table and thats it!!!
Any query related to VB.NET+Network Programming
email: sharma.hariomprakash@gmail.com
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Hello,
Iam developing an application, wherein i am trying to map a remote network drive. I did this using "Net Use" command of Windows Xp. (i created the command line and executed it.). The drive mapping was successful. After i read and write from the mapped network drive, when i try to disconnect the network drive(again using... Net Use Driveleter /DELETE /YES), windows says that the drive is in use, but there are no open sessions of the mapped drive.
Can someone help me in this regard, or can anyone throw light on how to use VC++ features for mapping and disconnecting the network drive??
I have to complete it very soon..  )
So please help me in this regard.
Thnx,
KAB
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Since you're mapping a drive to a network share, I take it you're also opening files on that drive. Are you absolutely sure you closed all the files you have open on that drive? The error message says you didn't.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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Hello Dave Kreskowiak and Roath Kanel,
Yes, iam are reading files from the mapped network drive. But i have checked that we have closed all the files. i still did not understand why it is saying so. And the error was not consistent always..
Anyways i found some work around to solve. I got some VB code made it is as an exe and then executed it thru command line.. and it worked well also )
not i great dea i suppose, but my problem got solved.. )
Thanks a lot for replying to it so quickly.
thanks a lot.
thnx,
KAB
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In .NET assembly I need many times load an unmanaged dll library and call it's method. This library do not know about existence of the function free, so it leaves garbage. How I can easier load this library so that the garbage will be deleted after it's unloading?
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Find out where the programme lives, send him some RAM and ask him if that "reminds him of something". Then send another letter, asking him to fix the bug.
Worked fine for me...
Cheers,
Sebastian
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Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.
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Hi all,
I have a port monitor which in its WritePort does some compression, now everything works fine and the WritePort exits with a return TRUE and sets the bytes written pointer to the number of bytes wirtten in my port buffer.
Now the problem is, that the spooler calls writeport again with the same data endlessly. Even when I try with different printer drivers and applications this problem still persists.
The whole soluton functions with a windows terminal Service. But I dont think that this could be causing the trouble as it is the spooler on the clients side that keeps repeating calls to writeport and not ending with an enddoc.
I will appriciate any help or suggestions
Thanks very much.
Neoadam2000
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