What happened the Poseidon author?

[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.

[whose]

@Piru:

A proposal for you: Just sit down for, say, two hours, measure the speed gain using IBrowse for this time and make it public here and elsewhere. This way we get this nonsense talk about the difference of _your_ real live usage and _others_ real live usage (besides the nonsense argument of "nobody's booting his Amiga every 5 minutes") of their Amiga out of it. If this task should be too heavy for you, I gladly will help out with this.

This would be btw. much more helpful than discussing this "protest reason PAB" to death without coming to any solution for the real reason.

Greetz

[AndrewBell]

stopthegop wrote:
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.  

Depends which windows you're running, but there's more to Windows than the desktop. XP has loads of services which run in the background. Also, memory might be paged. What seems like nothing running to you may actually be a couple of dozen processes.
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[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

[ChrisH]

It's probably just as likely to be some adware/spyware doing it's thing, given how badly infected the majority of Windows computers are...  (I forget the figure but something ridiculous like 1/3 or 1/2 of all PCs are infected by something.)

[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

[Donar]

Piru wrote:

Not everyone is rebooting every 5 minutes.

whose wrote:

...(besides the nonsense argument of "nobody's booting his Amiga every 5 minutes")

Discussion & Quoting Amiga style...  :crazy: