WTF happened to Windows 95?
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Or you can use xmonad if you want to sit at the cool kids' table.
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the cool kids have an assigned table now? lame.
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xmonad with what?
It's a WM, not a DE like Gnome/KDE/XFCE.
Are you using it with the G* applications, the K* applications, the lightweight ones or are you are full-on console fanatic?
I personally enjoy using awesome with the KDE applications.
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time, that's so tedious and it's too easy to make typos. I prefer the Windows 8 Way: Press the special key that only ships on Windows keyboards, then type the command you want or the program name you wanted to execute. SO much better than this command-line bullshit."
I think there are three things that the start menu/screen does better than tab completion:- Immediate and constant feedback. There's no "unless the tab doesn't work, in which case I tap tab twice, figure out how many more I need to type from the list of suggestions, and type that much, followed by a tab", and by the constant feedback it reduces the chance that you think you know the prefix you need because it's worked a lot in the past but now you have added a new file so tab doesn't complete what you expect but you don't notice for a second and run the wrong command or whatever. (I don't know this happens to others, but it happens to me.)
- Substring searches; you don't have to start at the beginning. For instance, suppose I want to start OpenOffice Writer. If I'm doing it from the cli, is it
oo-writer
oroowriter
? Or maybe I have LibreOffice instead; do they use the same executable names for compat. or do they uselo-writer
orlowriter
? (Incidentally, I forgot about the OO/LO distinction, so that was the order I checked commands: and the correct one is the last of the four I tried.) With a start screen/menu-type search, you don't have to worry about any of this: you just type "writer" (or whatever prefix of that is enough to get unique). - More search-in opportunities: you can search for more than just the executable name. For example, you can search for "LibreOffice Writer" (or "Microsoft Word") even though the command line won't know what the heck you're talking about: you wouldn't need to use a prefix of
lowriter
orwinword
even if #2 wasn't true.
As a result of these -- particularly #3 -- I personally find
a lot of programs that don't name themselves anything sensible on the start menu
to be much less of a problem on Windows than on Linux.Or put themselves on the start menu (PuTTY anyone?)
I'm not 100% sure, but I think if you download the Putty installer it will put itself in the start menu. If you just download the individual EXE it very reasonably (IMO) doesn't.Or you can use xmonad if you want to sit at the cool kids' table
Or Awesome if you want to sit at the table for people who are both cool and have a sense of taste. ;-) (I kid because I like both. But I like awesome more.)
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xmonad with what?
It's a WM, not a DE like Gnome/KDE/XFCE.
Are you using it with the G* applications, the K* applications, the lightweight ones or are you are full-on console fanatic?
I personally enjoy using awesome with the KDE applications.I've used it in the past with XFCE, but I use KDE these days. I've been meaning to switch to Enlightenment, but it's not included in Slackware any more and I CBA to build it.
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Windows users be like: "I could never switch to Linux, you have to drop to a command line and TYPE all the time, that's so tedious and it's too easy to make typos. I prefer the Windows 8 Way: Press the special key that only ships on Windows keyboards, then type the command you want or the program name you wanted to execute. SO much better than this command-line bullshit."
That was a long way to go to get to that joke. Still funny though.
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Or Awesome if you want to sit at the table for people who are both cool and have a sense of taste. (I kid because I like both. But I like awesome more.)
+1 for Awesome. Really love the Lua scripting integration.
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think if you download the Putty installer it will put itself in the start menu. If you just download the individual EXE it very reasonably (IMO) doesn't.
This is very reasonable. Why should something you didn't actually install appear on the Start menu?
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if you want, but vagrant is the name of a software thingie: https://www.vagrantup.com/
but if you would prefer i call it a migrant worker i guess i can do that too.
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http://i.imgur.com/uRav0WB.png
Inb4 pedantic dickweeds: yes, it was just a rumor anyway.
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I have Ubuntu mini in a headless virtual machine. I use GMail's "you are also logged in from this IP address" feature to determine the address to connect to when I'm not at home.
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@blakeyrat where does it say this is deprecated?
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I have Ubuntu mini in a headless virtual machine. I use GMail's "you are also logged in from this IP address" feature to determine the address to connect to when I'm not at home.
This is where I'd reccomend DynDNS, but now they've started charging...
(thinkpad.dontexist.com still works though.. At work. )
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This is where I'd reccomend DynDNS, but now they've started charging...
i use No-Ip myself. they'll charge you if you want your own fancy domain($15/yr and that includes the domain registration fee), but their it works but it ain't pretty domains are still free.
They are the registrant and DNS provider for my website staradept.com which i really have to get around to giving an overhaul, or at least changing from the default wordpress theme...
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I use GMail's "you are also logged in from this IP address" feature to determine the address to connect to when I'm not at home.
That is fucking genius. Simple genius.
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I have Ubuntu mini in a headless virtual machine. I use GMail's "you are also logged in from this IP address" feature to determine the address to connect to when I'm not at home.
I fork out another $5 a month for a static IP. PROBLEM SOLVED.
But if I didn't, this would be a good solution. +1.
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I do also, because my home is actually on a Comcast business plan. But before I upgraded, if the IP changed (almost always because of a power outage), then I was screwed until I could get back home. This little hack would have helped out on more than one occasion.
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I fork out another $5 a month for a static IP.
http://milwaukeepc.com/Services/Internet/DSL/Images/Body.jpg
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Sucks to be you
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Boy, they really screw you on the static IP price.
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Oh wow:
https://future.milwaukeepc.com/default.aspxHow did DuckDuckGo find that?
It doesn't seem to fully be live yet.
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Que?
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https://future.milwaukeepc.com/OurServices/Internet.aspx
HOLY FUCK THEY FIGURED OUT HOW TO PUT TEXT ON A WEBSITE
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If I'm reading that page right, they apparently offer 6Mbit dialup now.
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Yes, we already know you have the worst ISP in the country.
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There are worse ISPs in other countries?
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I don't know; I was giving them the benefit of the doubt. It's possible an ISP in some civil war-torn, ebola ridden African dictatorship could be worse, maybe.
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http://www.yokozunanet.mn/mn/content/7
From what I understand that's an ISP in Mongolia. Had to look for a while to find something worse.
Edit: Although, to be fair, the price seems to be on-par with what you pay (2Mbit is like 12 USD/month, according to google).
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That works out to $16.23 for 2 Mbit.
My ISP is $25+($5 * log2(speed/1.5Mbit)) which works out to $27.10.
My ISP is worse than an ISP in a third world country.
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I'm currently in England... with fucking AOL as my ISP (not my choice)... I get 8mbit down if I'm very very lucky and maybe 1mbit up if I don't breathe in its general direction.
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I double checked and nobody in my family is using the internet other than me for this speed test:
That's a nice 6Mbit right there.
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That's only marginally slower downloading than I get - and that's almost the same upload speed I usually get.
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You should move to Mongolia.
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You should move to Mongolia.
WTF would I want to do that?
Professor Elemental - I'm British (Dir: Moog Gravett) – 03:19
— Rapscallion And Chums
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I'm British
Here's a speedtest from one of my British friends. He's paying £22 per month, which is the same as I'm paying.
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Firstly... that's quite possibly cable (as opposed to ADSL), secondly did I already mention fucking AOL? And thirdly, the house I'm in has shitty copper rolled out to the local exchange, and no cable so no chance of anything better... in fact pretty much anywhere in this entire town is shafted, but I have no plans to move since I don't need faster nets.
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Ok so this isn't the thread where people were discussing the merits of start menu searching, and it isn't in the other windows thread either, so whatever. Here's an example of why I think Cortana will be 10's killer feature:
(Edited so that the initial guess (bottom) is on the same screen as the correct result.)
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Ok, this is a bit late to the discussion but ...
Windows ME is ... not based on DOS?
I think someone might be lying.
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Windows ME is ... not based on DOS?I think someone might be lying.
Windows 95 and 98 were not based on DOS either. (but this page is wrong either way, so...)
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Firstly... that's quite possibly cable
Quite. Upload seems a little low for that download though.I have 60Mb/sec at home. It costs me £1.50/month.
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Windows 95 and 98 were not based on DOS
Depending on what you mean by "based on", you could make a good case that even the Windows 3.x series isn't based on DOS. In that case, it would be that Windows itself provides substantial OS kernel capabilities on top of DOS. [insert some other Old New Thing link here]
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Given that Win9x could quite happily boot just to DOS 7.0 and never so much as touch GUI... that's a complicated argument to get into.
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Given that Win9x could quite happily boot just to DOS 7.0 and never so much as touch GUI... that's a complicated argument to get into.
Well, that's what I meant by "based on." But considering that even-pre-95 Windows, not DOS, provided multitasking (well beyond just TSR programs), protected memory, etc., I think that saying "Windows itself provides substantial OS kernel capabilities beyond DOS" ("beyond" works better than "on top of" I think) is pretty easy to justify.Here's one good Old New Thing link on 3.11: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2010/05/17/10013609.aspx
It's kind of stunning to realize that Enhanced mode Windows was really a completely new operating system with multiple virtual machines, pre-emptively multi-tasked with virtual memory.
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Wait... is that a different version of Windows to what I remember using since 'pre-emptive' is certainly not how I remember Windows 3 (or even, really, Win9x) handling multi-tasking.
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Wait... is that a different version of Windows to what I remember using since 'pre-emptive' is certainly not how I remember Windows 3 (or even, really, Win9x) handling multi-tasking.
The situation was a bit complicated (it's Windows; what do you expect), but here is what Wikipedia says:The earliest version of Windows to support a limited form of preemptive multitasking was Windows 2.1x, which used the Intel 80386's Virtual 8086 mode to run DOS applications in virtual 8086 machines—commonly known as "DOS boxes"—which could be preempted. In Windows 95, 98, and Me, 32-bit applications were made preemptive by running each one in a separate address space, but 16 bit applications remained cooperative for backward compatibility.
Here is the primary source: http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/117567Of course, things aren't quite that clean because of a couple caveats explained at the MS support link; e.g. 32-bit programs can make calls that internally get routed to some 16-bit code which, if there's a hung 16-bit program, will wait indefinitely. [I also don't like the confusion in the Wikipedia description between preemption and multiple address spaces.]
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Wait... is that a different version of Windows to what I remember using since 'pre-emptive' is certainly not how I remember Windows 3 (or even, really, Win9x) handling multi-tasking.
I think it's meant to apply on a lower level than the stuff running inside of one of those VMs, one of which would be windows.
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So fake pre-emptive multitasking, that isn't a fat lot better than co-op in plenty of cases... that sounds like I remember it.
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Cortana on my phone is the best. First "voice assistant" program I've actually been using.
It's still dumb in a lot of ways, but so smart compared to the Google one.
"How long will it take to get to work?" "It will take 41 minutes." "How long will it take to get to work if I use highway 99?" "DERP!"
Come on, MS, that shouldn't be TOO tough to program.