Re: XP SP3 Details?
- From: student <guest@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:23:09 -0500
Why the warning when adding/updating a new driver that the driver
is "not microsoft signed"?? why should the os care whether the
vendor's drive has the ms signature & what is the purpose of
the ms signature?
As the file was on the windows server, the printout was done with
another computer. The user gave up for the day & shutdown his
computer; interestingly, after bootup the next day, he tried to
print the same file & it got printed ok.....
On 2007-08-15, Unknown <unknown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You need to get some facts straightened out. Windows is an Operating System,.
not a printer driver. You appear to be emotional rather than objective.
Could very well have been a virus? What was the solution?
"student" <guest@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It would depend on the "few" bugs wouldn't it? like a report that
doesn't get printed because garbage was coming out of the printer
for that person on the lan printer? especially the report was for
the supervisor.....
ms support say reload the driver which was already done; ms support
say that there is a virus; user say text only files can get printed
just word docs produce garbage. ms suport say call you back later
& is never here from again.
A few bugs? I do hope windows isn't ever used on planes or control
equipment in hospitals. The os isn't ready to do the things that
ms claims if bugs & unreliability are acceptable.
I now shudder that I heard in the news that it is intended to
have windows running some stuff in cars.......the "accidents"
happened, be reasonable, there are million lines of code in
windows, whats a few bugs...
On 2007-08-14, Unknown <unknown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If indeed you were a programmer particularly a micro-programmer then you
should have enough experience to recognize the complexity of an operating
system plus all the micro-code that operates the hardware. If you were
in
development you would know that regardless of the amount of testing some
bugs will show up after release. How can you possibly be so critical of a
few bugs? Compare today's PC's with those of just a few years ago. Be
objective not emotional.
"HEMI-Powered" <none@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Unknown added these comments in the current discussion du jour
...
Wed at the hips----------???? Supposing you wrote the OS. How
would you control it and/or keep your customers happy. Many
companies write programs to run with XP (the OS) and when a
problem occurs, MS is immediately blamed. Be objective.
Let's just say that I've been around MS more than long enough,
all the way back to the original PC that didn't even have DOS,
that came in with the XT, to understand them pretty well. I don't
mean to be vindictively critical, but surely you will admit they
have less than a stellar record of their own releases, they have
a rep for hiding key parts of their various APIs even from those
who buy their development packages all the way back to the SDK,
reverse engineering of several versions of the major components
of MS Office have been found to contain fairly large percentages
of commands and API calls that seem not to be documented, and MS
like all commercial companies reserves the rights to control its
copyrighted software and give "guidance" to developers.
I didn't say, BTW, that all problems are MS, I am not at all that
naive and not at all an anti-MS bigot to believe that. Rogue and
misbehaving applications, especially systems utilities of all
kinds, are rampant throughout the 25 years since the first PC,
they suffer from their own bugs, side-effects bugs, and the rush
to bring new versions to market no matter what. This super
competitiveness all the way around makes for not only strange
bedfellows but interlocking dependencies that can make full
diagnosis of major or even minor systems issue deceptively
difficult.
I hung up my programmer clothes circa 1995 or so, thus I am more
than a little out-of-date for direct knowledge of whence I speak,
but in monitoring this and many other NGs, I see no real signs of
improvement, if anything, I think the situation is deteriorating.
I'm sorry if you feel I am not being objective, let's just say
that I am a pragmatist and always suspicious of extravagent
claims from ANY developer on either side of problems. Thanks for
listening.
"HEMI-Powered" <none@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Unknown added these comments in the current discussion du
jour ...
Look closely at all the postings in this group. You'll be
amazed that most problems are not caused by MS but by Non MS
programs, reg cleaners, and virus detect/scan protection?
programs.
That may well be true, but the major developers are wed at
the hips body and soul to the God of Microsoft because they
must play ball or risk losing their certification. But, it is
certainly true that reg cleaners in the hands of the novices
will wreck an otherwise good system and are more harm than
good most of the time.
--
HP, aka Jerry
--
HP, aka Jerry
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