What happened the Poseidon author?

[Trev]

Twenty years later and the scene still rules the platform. Fortunately, you don't need the scene to enjoy your hobby. Eff 'em and move on. Chris is obviously talented, and unfortunately, the most talented among us often don't have the capacity to cope with confrontational social situations.

[Trev]

@PAB

I wrote, that in real live it seems not to have a dramatic impact.

Even if that were the case--and without knowing your test methods, I can't see how you arrived at that conclusion--not everything has to be beneficial to everyone 100% of the time. Even if Chris' project weren't meant for general purpose use, it would still certainly have value in cases with high memory allocation/deallocation incidence rates.

Anyhow, both you and Chris are being silly. And I'm being silly by commenting about it. And all of us are being silly for supporting a dead platform. But for better or worse, Amigas are fun.

[Trev]

Are you sure about those licensing costs? I know Apple (FireWire), Sony (i.LINK), and others charge licensing fees for their reference implementations and trademarks, but I was under the impression that IEEE-1394 and it's derivatives were open standards. I believe the same may be true of Bluetooth; however, to advertise your product as Bluetooth-compatiable, you'd have to license the name.

[Trev]

Speaking of doing nothing, why is it that when my PC is just sitting there - doing nothing.. no apps running, not touching the thing at all -- I can observe the HD light flashing AND the network LEDs flashing? What is it doing? This happens on my Linux box, but mostly I see this on Windows installs. This doesn't happen on my Amiga.

It's probably the indexing service. If you're not using indexing service search dialects, e.g. $contents some phrase, when you search for things in Explorer, you can disable the service. Of course, actually using the indexing service properly increases search performance dramatically, but Microsoft hasn't gone to great lengths to educate users on usage.

Trev

[Trev]

That truly has more to do with user habits than the OS itself. There's nothing in a pitsol or rifle (short of a safety) to prevent the user from killing someone, and there's nothing in a cigarette to prevent the user from getting cancer. Still, I suppose it's Microsoft's responsibility to protect us from ourselves, right? Ummm, no. :-P

Trev