Thread: OSs

**Cuallito** · Sep 1st, 2001, 10:42 PM

Is there a windows-compatible OS out there that will run my DX accelerated games with hardware acceleration? All I'm looking for is stability, compatibilty, and speed. I can be perfectly happy with a little C: prompt.

**aknisely** · Sep 1st, 2001, 11:28 PM

Windows?

**parksie** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 09:32 AM

Originally posted by aknisely
Windows?

Haha

**Cuallito** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 10:02 AM

One that's not made by M$.

**JungleMan** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 10:08 AM

Originally posted by Cuallito
One that's not made by M$.

You can't do that, you're just biting off your nose despite your face (or something like that)

STOP WITH THE ****EN ANTI MS STUFF

MS MAKES SOME GREAT PRODUCTS

**aknisely** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 12:31 PM

Originally posted by jpbtennisman
MS MAKES SOME GREAT PRODUCTS

HAHAHA newb. j/k

**scsa20** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 12:41 PM

actly, MS does makes some good products like Office 2000 (neverd tryed XP yet) and other stuff

**JungleMan** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:15 PM

Originally posted by aknisely
HAHAHA newb. j/k

Just because a product might be a little overpriced doesn't mean it's great. no IIS is not the greatest web server, and windows me is not the greatest OS. But, being as closed minded as you are, you probably haven't looked at Windows 2000, Office XP (which btw is great and, for a change, is actually FASTER than 2k was).

**parksie** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:18 PM

Microsoft have made some good stuff. Visual C++ springs instantly to mind

Loads of people have a go at MS about Outlook and security. Why do people exploit the flaws in it? Because it's heavily used! You cannot blame MS (morally, or legally - look at the licence agreement

) for your own stupidity in opening random attachments.

**aknisely** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:19 PM

Originally posted by jpbtennisman
Just because a product might be a little overpriced doesn't mean it's great. no IIS is not the greatest web server, and windows me is not the greatest OS. But, being as closed minded as you are, you probably haven't looked at Windows 2000, Office XP (which btw is great and, for a change, is actually FASTER than 2k was).

LOL, settle down, mate. The "j/k

" was to show what side of the debate I'm on

. Incidentally, IIS is the best Web server (if you do it right). It's newbie MCSE's who are making the rest of us look bad. Oh well.

**JungleMan** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:20 PM

ok

my mind is a bit crazy so:

"MS Sucks" + Linux Icon = Crazed Anti-MS person

**parksie** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:21 PM

Incidentally, IIS is the best Web server

No server is the "best" server. It's fairly widely known that Apache is the best general purpose server, but IIS is a lot easier to set up. Servers like Xitami have a performance advantage over Apache and IIS.

Also, IIS is much better if you HAVE to use NT - and I think a combination of IIS and BackOffice is pretty hefty

**aknisely** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:21 PM

Loads of people have a go at MS about Outlook and security. Why do people exploit the flaws in it? Because it's heavily used!

It's like terrorists. Are you going to bomb a small Indian tribe in the middle of the Amazon, or the middle of traffic in New York City to get your message across?

That, and VBA makes it a lot easier to spread viruses. But VBA does far more good than harm.

**aknisely** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:23 PM

"MS Sucks" + Linux Icon = Crazed Anti-MS person

Notice how he has evil red eyes (to exemplify his evilness) and 666 written on him (to show his relation to satan, further exemplification of evilness).

**parksie** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:24 PM

But VBA does far more good than harm.

I couldn't agree more

Every technology has the potential for harm, so a modicum of user intelligence is required. I mean, if I run a .vbs file without looking inside it first, then it's my fault if it does something nasty.

**aknisely** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:26 PM

No server is the "best" server.

Fair enough. For my purposes, it's the best server, how's that?

It's fairly widely known that Apache is the best general purpose server, but IIS is a lot easier to set up. Servers like Xitami have a performance advantage over Apache and IIS.

Yes, but for performance you often sacrifice simplicity and functionality; very few Web sites can be run just with client-side processing.

**parksie** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:30 PM

Xitami supports CGI, that enough for you?

For my purposes, it's the best server, how's that?

That's fine - with things like this I try and move away from an absolute "this is the best" to a relative "this is the best for my purposes" argument. I don't use IIS because I don't want to jam up my other PC, and plus Apache is what my target server uses, therefore I develop with that. If the target used IIS I'd set that up.

**aknisely** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:31 PM

Xiami supports CGI, that enough for you?

CGI is old pizza, mate. Just don't taste right.

**parksie** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:34 PM

Originally posted by aknisely
CGI is old pizza, mate. Just don't taste right.

Why not? Write your back end in C++ - much faster and a lot easier on the server

Although:

IIS - ASP is natively handled: faster than PHP
Apache/mod_php&mod_perl - Perl/PHP natively handled: faster than ChiliASP (ASP interpreted via CGI execution)

And JSP is a bit of a strange beast...

**aknisely** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:39 PM

I'd tend to avoid ASP, PHP, and CGI as much as I can, because they are still compiled at run time which makes them inherently slow.

**parksie** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:42 PM

CGI is an interface. If you use Perl for it, then yes it will be interpreted. If you use Assembler it will be run like any other program. That's what it's for

You don't have to worry about language - it all appears in the same way, you just have to know how to get at it from your language.

**aknisely** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:45 PM

It... you.... was.... heathen!!!

**parksie** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:48 PM

Originally posted by aknisely
It... you.... was.... heathen!!!

You what?

**aknisely** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:49 PM

Death!!

**parksie** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:51 PM

I don't follow...

**aknisely** · Sep 2nd, 2001, 01:52 PM

Is mommy going to be okay?

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