On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:04:58 +0300 Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 May 2010 01:17, Micha Feigin <mi...@post.tau.ac.il> wrote: > > Lets start with the problem that Microsoft encourages all users to be set as > > administrators by default. It's almost impossible to be a regular user > > usually > > and just switch momentary to administrator for small administration tasks > > ... > > > > I thought that the last two versions of Windows corrected that. > > My personal feeling is that the correct terminology is improved, not corrected. I never worked much with Vista (tried a couple of times on other people machines and was horrified, an experience that may have been degraded farther by the fact that the first time I ran into it it was screaming errors at me in spanish). Windows 7 is a bit better than XP, asks for permissions for some stuff and it's harder to access c: but I still don't fill safe with it. Possibly due to history, will be happy to be proven wrong. I do still have quite a few qualms with it though on other regards. I'm deep into GPU computing at the moment (Cuda) and what Windows vista and 7 did to the graphics driver model is a classic example of Microsoft's approach for world domination. The operating system is actually managing a virtual memory on the graphics card behind the graphics driver back. although designed to assure the DWM can always have enough memory, this causes a bunch of unexpected and uncontrolled performance and feature issues. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
