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Leo Natan

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  1. It's like asking whether a Vista key would work on 7.
  2. The best way to go... What was previously in place was annoying to the power user - you had to stop the SFC, but then all files were at risk. Now you can just change the permissions to a file, modify it and only it, and if need, remove permissions. Much more secure also.
  3. Not true. First you can't rename something you have no write permissions - only TrustedInstaller has the write and modify permissions of system files, so even in Safe Mode, you will still have to take ownership and change permissions; so no point in going to Safe Mode. Also, there is no SXS cache restore. The files in other folders (ie C:\Windows\System32\Notepad.exe) are only hard links to the original files in the SXS store. So, if you rename the hard link and put another file in its stead, Windows will not replace that.
  4. Ignore the above. What I will tell you is true for all files you want to modify. There is no such thing as SFC in Vista and 7, that's a thing of the (very far) past. Right click on the file you want to rename/delete (in your immediate case, C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe) and click properties. Go to the Security tab. Click on Advanced. Go to the Owner tab, and click Edit. Select your user account and click OK on all windows until you are back to the original File Properties dialog. You should be in the Security tab. Click on Edit. Select your user and give it full control. Now you can rename the file, edit it and delete it.
  5. These Longhorn builds have in common with the current Vista code exactly what the Neptune and Odyssey builds had in common with Whistler/XP: Nothing! Now let me remind you what the topic is called: "Windows 98 VS Windows Vista". So let me ask you, what does Offler "know"?
  6. Yep, and I am sure "they" can make an Xbox 360 emulator that would run games at native speed. Yay!
  7. "but once they created whole GUI in .net they have done step which has changed many things" This, again!? "Whole GUI"!? Do you actually consider Minesweeper and Calculator to be the whole GUI?? Or perhaps Minesweeper and Calculator are the "core part" of Windows Vista? If you really believe that, I can see why you don't like Vista and Windows 7. "i am sure that explorer.exe IS based on this platform" = As for Mono not running your Microsoft DirectX applications on Linux, what did you expect? DirectX is software designed for Windows. If you (I mean your company, of course, you just did QA for them ) wanted portability, you should have used an open platform like OpenGL. No one will ever be able to completely create a DirectX wrapper for non-Windows operating systems, as things are just not compatible (for example, shaders). You (again, your company) use Windows-only technologies and then cry "Mono is not equal to .NET". BTW, to tell you a small secret, Managed DX is not part of .NET, it is an external wrapper for DirectX (it is done by Microsoft, but is external to .NET). This is true, but by "officially" you probably mean Microsoft. The user and developer base has really grown over the last few years, and there is always someone to help on almost all issues (as well as regular .NET sources of information, because for the most part Mono is pretty complete in most areas).
  8. Hehe, cheers! BTW, why does every small edit register? Usually edits start getting registered when someone has already posted a comment afterward.
  9. For the most part, C++ and C. ASM is used for the "close to metal" stuff. Like I said above, WPF starts to make its way in, but is currently used for really really small part.
  10. Again insisting on posting incorrect stuff? Or maybe it was the bad English and I didn't understand what you meant. In case you didn't understand my posts above, neither Vista nor 7 are written in C# or .NET. No idea where you got this silly idea, but please stop repeating. Note: Repeating something incorrect doesn't magically make it true. The only parts that are partly developed in .NET (in WPF) are the new games and the new calculator's UI (in 7). And .NET being Windows only? Huh? Education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_%28software%29 After completing a big project in C# and Mono on Linux, that was so silly to read in 2009. On the topic of .NET being good or not, I won't comment. Clearly you have little knowledge of what it is meant to be and it isn't (hey, you claim the OS are written in .NET... ). I will just say this: When compared to the Java platform, .NET is heaps and bounds ahead. C# is currently one of the most advanced languages out there. It doesn't offer the robustness of C++, but it isn't meant to. If you take a look at the proposals for the new C++ standard, you will see that actually some of the C# innovations are making their way in. "common developers dont have such good support as developers working directly in MS" = So again, please, if you want people to take you seriously, please educate yourself in the matters you choose to post about. BTW, I really tried putting all the more smiling smilies, because some felt my previous posts weren't kind enough, but ****, the board has a limit on smilies, so my post will once again be unkind.
  11. Are you sure you installed Home Basic and got full AERO (transparency)? http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/shots_homebasic.asp These are screenshots of the Home Basic version, and as you can see, there is no transparency. You only get the so called Standard option.
  12. Even the RC build (let alone the RTM branch builds and the RTM master build) has been much faster than Vista.
  13. If you are interested in game development (or 3D applications in general), and would like to code in C#, I suggest staying away from Managed DX, as it is fairly outdated and has some compatibility issues. Instead take a look at XNA, which may seem at first like it has been developed solely for games, but it is usable in all fields of 3D application development, and unless very high performance is needed, XNA is perfect for C#. [Let's face it, if very high performance was needed, C# and managed DX would not have been used in the first place.] I'm not sure if you can run the latest version of XNA on Windows 98 (it requires .NET Framework 3.5 and VS2008), but even XNA 2.0 is much better than Managed DX.
  14. Know your history. Managed code has been around for a long time. I know Visual Basic and Java were at the time. Oh I know, managed programming has existed in one form or another from the late 70s, and that's just from what I know, so could be that it has existed even earlier. However at that period (late 90s), programming in general wasn't as popular as it is today. VB, Java and, certainly to a much larger extent, .NET have brought programming to the "mainstream". This is what I was referring to, C# and .NET were only in various early design stages at the time Windows 98 was released.
  15. It is interesting how you guys only comment on my style of posting, which is aggressive, sure, but has all the facts correct. Instead of thinking critically, checking when the guy writes, you cry about attitude. Maybe you guys don't like facts, or the idea of learning something new, or digging for information might seem like huge no-noes to you, but to me these are the most important things. Maybe none of you care about the facts, after all, the dude has posted something that fits your way of thinking, so hey, who cares about the facts or the truth, right? "Right reason", what is that exactly? Getting along with everyone, regardless of what they say? Posting happy smiles after every word? Here you go: :) For me right reasons are correcting misleading information first and foremost. Not being politically correct with a bunch of people I don't even know.
  16. Do I really need to elaborate? Really? Google has all the answers, you know. Do I really have to find and explain how managed code can never be used for complete operating system? Or how managed programming frameworks can almost never keep up with unmanaged programming? There are countless such comparisons on the internets. I may have sounded harsh, but come on! I only waste time finding sources for what I say when it is not as obvious as in this case. But then again, you are using Windows 98 in 2009, you probably haven't heard of managed code, so what he says may indeed seem logical to you. http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/print.php/2197621 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system_development Edit: Bye.
  17. It was in the drain ever since the OP posted it.
  18. Lmao, right from the start you show how much you know about OS development in general and Vista in particular. Then you show how little you know about programming in general. You expect anyone to take you seriously?
  19. I'm not criticizing functionality, only appearance.
  20. Why do those apps looks so much a like? Every time it's some unrelated wallpaper that interferes with the text and is just plain fugly, with dumb buttons on top, put with no taste whatsoever... :roll:
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