Comments on: Why I choose not to live in a Windows World… http://codingo.net/blog/2006/03/24/why-i-choose-not-to-live-in-a-windows-world%e2%80%a6/ A tech blog covering a range of subjects from security to development Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:32:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: progressive die stamping http://codingo.net/blog/2006/03/24/why-i-choose-not-to-live-in-a-windows-world%e2%80%a6/#comment-113807 Wed, 26 May 2010 16:22:57 +0000 http://codingo.net/blog/2006/03/24/why-i-choose-not-to-live-in-a-windows-world%e2%80%a6/#comment-113807 Thanks for making the effort to make clear the terminlogy towards the beginners! Thanks for making the effort to make clear the terminlogy towards the beginners!

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]]> by: Gijs http://codingo.net/blog/2006/03/24/why-i-choose-not-to-live-in-a-windows-world%e2%80%a6/#comment-24 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:21:42 +0000 http://codingo.net/blog/2006/03/24/why-i-choose-not-to-live-in-a-windows-world%e2%80%a6/#comment-24 Just had a "nice" experience with Windows while trying to troubleshoot a friend's computer. The box in question wouldn't boot normally anymore, and instead showed a bluescreen when booted without safemode. Well, I say showed, it was more like flashing it, and then rebooting immediately. There's an option to disable the reboot immediately bit. It's hidden somewhere in the System part of the control panel, so I went there (in safemode) and unticked the checkbox in question, and clicked OK expecting this would be fine and dandy. I expected/guessed wrong. You see, the Alerter service was really necessary to make this change. Or so Windows said. It gave me detailed instructions on how to start this service (why the hell didn't it just do it for me? Even Linux has the courtesy to do that most of the time!). In an Alert box, so not really userfriendly, but anyway. I went to the services part of the control panel (note: I didn't really need the instructions to know how to start a service, but let's for the sake of the argument pretend I did). I told it to start the Alerter service. Hang on, Windows said. You can't start the Alerter service in safemode! So here we are. To figure out the problem with booting normally, I need to read the BSOD. To read the BSOD, I need to set an option to something other than its default value. To set this option, I need to start some service. To start this service, I need to boot normally. Does this sound like the "There's a hole in my bucket" Boy Scout song to anyone else? Just had a “nice” experience with Windows while trying to troubleshoot a friend’s computer. The box in question wouldn’t boot normally anymore, and instead showed a bluescreen when booted without safemode. Well, I say showed, it was more like flashing it, and then rebooting immediately.
There’s an option to disable the reboot immediately bit. It’s hidden somewhere in the System part of the control panel, so I went there (in safemode) and unticked the checkbox in question, and clicked OK expecting this would be fine and dandy.

I expected/guessed wrong. You see, the Alerter service was really necessary to make this change. Or so Windows said. It gave me detailed instructions on how to start this service (why the hell didn’t it just do it for me? Even Linux has the courtesy to do that most of the time!). In an Alert box, so not really userfriendly, but anyway. I went to the services part of the control panel (note: I didn’t really need the instructions to know how to start a service, but let’s for the sake of the argument pretend I did). I told it to start the Alerter service. Hang on, Windows said. You can’t start the Alerter service in safemode!

So here we are. To figure out the problem with booting normally, I need to read the BSOD. To read the BSOD, I need to set an option to something other than its default value. To set this option, I need to start some service. To start this service, I need to boot normally. Does this sound like the “There’s a hole in my bucket” Boy Scout song to anyone else?

]]> by: Lake Denman http://codingo.net/blog/2006/03/24/why-i-choose-not-to-live-in-a-windows-world%e2%80%a6/#comment-18 Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:13:44 +0000 http://codingo.net/blog/2006/03/24/why-i-choose-not-to-live-in-a-windows-world%e2%80%a6/#comment-18 Good Read! I really liked everything you pointed out and fully agree. I don't have an argument, so I will leave it at that. Great job. -Lake Denman Good Read!
I really liked everything you pointed out and fully agree.
I don’t have an argument, so I will leave it at that.
Great job.

-Lake Denman

]]> by: Benjamin http://codingo.net/blog/2006/03/24/why-i-choose-not-to-live-in-a-windows-world%e2%80%a6/#comment-17 Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:11:18 +0000 http://codingo.net/blog/2006/03/24/why-i-choose-not-to-live-in-a-windows-world%e2%80%a6/#comment-17 I have been a windows users for a while, then changed because of the obvoise reasons security and reliabity to using a mac, i have been using it for about 2.5 yrs and have never turned back since!. The thing about choosing the right OS/systen you want to use has to be for what you need it to do. I 've been top collage and do assigments etc was one of the main things the mac ibook i got can do i I surf the net , check emails with no popups etc virus infection to my laptop..i'm happy and not frustrated and have peace of mine. While on the other hand my poor dad who is always used to using a winodws would curse! his pc because somthing just disappears or the system crashes...losing alot of information/time trying to figure out what is wrong or what he did wrong? Now to my knowlegde that is a system that is unreliable! Next he would get alot of spyware on his pc as it get very slow and take ages to open application ect. After a spyware scan i it come up at least 10 spyware found etc. Viurs take only missing an update to infect the pc and again sometime he has ti reinstall to make sure he has a clean system..again to my knowledge that is unsecure! Let us not agure anymore as Simon said... but let oneself decide! what is best for him/her use what you are comfortable using but bear in mind the main issues such as reliablity and security more which this "artlicle"is trying to point out. I have been a windows users for a while, then changed because of the obvoise reasons security and reliabity to using a mac, i have been using it for about 2.5 yrs and have never turned back since!.
The thing about choosing the right OS/systen you want to use has to be for what you need it to do. I ‘ve been top collage and do assigments etc was one of the main things the mac ibook i got can do i
I surf the net , check emails with no popups etc virus infection to my laptop..i’m happy and not frustrated and have peace of mine.

While on the other hand my poor dad who is always used to using a winodws would curse! his pc because somthing just disappears or the system crashes…losing alot of information/time trying to figure out what is wrong or what he did wrong? Now to my knowlegde that is a system that is unreliable!
Next he would get alot of spyware on his pc as it get very slow and take ages to open application ect. After a spyware scan i it come up at least 10 spyware found etc. Viurs take only missing an update to infect the pc and again sometime he has ti reinstall to make sure he has a clean system..again to my knowledge that is unsecure!

Let us not agure anymore as Simon said… but let oneself decide! what is best for him/her use what you are comfortable using but bear in mind the main issues such as reliablity and security more which this “artlicle”is trying to point out.

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