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macOS / Lion's Shitty Memory Management - or- This Cat is a Dog
« Last Post by hm_murdock on 6 May 2012, 03:00 »
SHITTAY.

http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-deeply-broken-in-os-x-memory-management

Good thing I haven't had to get one of those Intel monstrosities yet. They look like they suck ass. But hey, at least the integer performance is a-ok!

But it seems that Lion is really over-aggressive in its disk caching and pages out based on a FIFO basis. Uh...

WTF

Do current releases of Darwin do this too?
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The Lounge / Re: Invasion by cats, or maybe just one
« Last Post by Laukev7 on 31 March 2012, 01:03 »
Welcome to the forums, Gravity Cat.

I graduated from Concordia in December and since last week work as a server backend software developer. I use Linux Mint at work, and both Windows 7 and Mint at home. I find Linux to be a better environment for programming, but Windows still beats it for my gaming needs so I still use it.  I like to play with other OSes as well.
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The Lounge / Invasion by cats, or maybe just one
« Last Post by Gravity Cat on 26 March 2012, 11:44 »
Hi all, let me introduce myself.
I'm Gravity Cat, 19 years old and currently electrical engineering student at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences in Zwolle, The Netherlands.

I have been using Windows all my life, Windows is basically the OS that conquered the market, so what are you gonna do about it as a little 6-year-old when your parents buy their first computer with Windows 98? In fact, I didn't know what Linux was until I saw Knoppix for the first time at one of my parents' friends house. Lately, I have developed quite a few opinions about Windows, Linux, Mac and everything around it. I'm an advanced Windows user and a mediocre/average GNU/Linux user. I hope to reboot this forum by sharing my thoughts and especially rants. Who doesn't love a good rant about a certain topic?

Anyway, I hope to see some people here, and hear their thoughts, and let's have a good ol' fashioned discussion together as if we're in the pub drinking the hell out of ourselves!

Gravity Cat
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Microsoft as a Company / Re: Microsoft is branching out into the food industry
« Last Post by bedouin on 16 March 2012, 05:51 »
It is Arabic.  I found it in an Egyptian corner store.
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Microsoft as a Company / Re: Microsoft is branching out into the food industry
« Last Post by reactosguy on 16 March 2012, 05:37 »
The text is probably in Arabic, which probably means that this kind of food is geared towards developing nations.

Microsoft® and their money®.
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Microsoft as a Company / Microsoft is branching out into the food industry
« Last Post by bedouin on 14 March 2012, 18:09 »
Introducing Windows™ Cheese Doodles.

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Microsoft as a Company / Re: Start button disappears from Windows 8 preview
« Last Post by Refalm on 11 February 2012, 11:45 »
Most people will use the registry hack anyways to disable metro.
For people who don't know how, they have to pin all applications to the right side of the metro interface, just like you could with Microsoft BOB.

I'm running the developer preview in VirtualBox. I think I can get it for free when it comes out since my laptop included a Windows 7 license, and I can get it through school.
In which case, I'll do a review (from within a virtual machine of course).
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Microsoft as a Company / Start button disappears from Windows 8 preview
« Last Post by reactosguy on 11 February 2012, 03:13 »
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2097575/Windows-8-Microsoft-removes-Start-button.html

Pretty interesting move by Microsoft. It's still supposed to be there, but as a hot corner instead of an orb-like button.

Quote
'Fear not though, the Start button functionality isn't as dead as it seems,' reports The Verge.
Although the button itself might be absent, the functions are still there, just accessed via a 'hot corner' designed to work equally well with touchscreens or computer mice.
'We have confirmed with sources close to Microsoft's Windows 8 development that a hot corner has replaced the Start button orb,' says The Verge.


Windows 3.1 with the Program Manager shell


The Metro design language defines Windows 8's GUI
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Microsoft as a Company / Re: Microsoft tries to downplay Gmail to promote Hotmail
« Last Post by reactosguy on 11 February 2012, 01:11 »
Quote from: Refalm on 10 February 2012, 09:49
Just look at Hotmail. Before Gmail arrived, you had 2 MB space, and you had to pay for IMAP. It was only when people started to go elsewhere when they changed that.

Yeah, Gmail set the standard for free webmail. When Hotmail has like 250MB of storage, now comes this cleaner-looking Gmail with 1GB of storage, greater speed and security, and comes from Google, a name we are more familiar with.

That's when Hotmail upgraded its guns.

Hotmail is still trash though.
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Microsoft as a Company / Re: Microsoft tries to downplay Gmail to promote Hotmail
« Last Post by Refalm on 10 February 2012, 09:49 »
The same idiot sysops that still used Internet Explorer for everything now don't know that Microsoft has cloud services, so they think of Microsoft as old.

Microsoft just copied Amazon with their Azure platform, and copied Google with Office 365. I actually trialed both, and they aren't as good as they think they are. They basically don't offer solutions, but spew out random products, without offering interoperability.

Just look at Hotmail. Before Gmail arrived, you had 2 MB space, and you had to pay for IMAP. It was only when people started to go elsewhere when they changed that.
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