VISTA

Awhile back, I think I figured out what makes Bill Gates run. No way to know for sure, but here's my take: He never expected his lead to last.

After all, the history of industry leaders in this industry is pretty short. Witness the decline of relative giants like MITS, Imsai, Cromemco, Digital Research, Tandy, Commodore, etc., etc. I suspect that Bill thought the domination of Microsoft Basic, then MSDOS, then Windows, would suffer a similar fate.

By the standards of those other companies, Bill has had an incredibly good run.

Jack

Good point. I just ordered a system based on the Propeller chip. For those not familiar with it, it has 8 processors running independently of each other. Many folks use one to do I/O stuff, another to do disk stuff, another to deal with sensors and actuators, etc.

Jack

Op Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:41:56 +0100 schreef Mark Borgerson :

Or run through inetd. Oh wait, Microsoft doesn't have inetd...

And probably only one of those processes is actually part of Windows ... if indeed any of them are. My Windows box has 31 processes running and not one of them has "sched" or "update" in the name. Windows OS update process is called "wuauserv", the BackOffice update process has another name but just now I'm not near a server to double check what it is.

Windows has "svchost" which is nearly the same thing. You can run almost any program as a service using a utility called "srvany" ... if the program is command line driven and needs no terminal it might even work.

George

Op Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:02:53 +0100 schreef George Neuner :

I don't want to run programs all the time, I want them when they are needed only, so that I don't need excessive amounts of RAM. That's what inetd does.

Srvany seems to be present in the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools. Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows XP.

From the help: "SrvAny only runs on the Windows Server 2003 operating system"

The Windows XP Professional Resource Kit, exists too, but that is a book.

srvany has existed since NT 4.0 (I had it from the Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit book and CD). There may be different versions, with more recent versions being limited to newer Windows - I'm sure you'll find them all with Google (though I don't know the license details).

But as you say, srvany (useful though it sometimes is) is not really equivalent to inetd. If you want inetd functionality on Windows, I believe your only choice is cygwin inetd.

"Radionutz" wrote in news:lA2dl.611$ snipped-for-privacy@nwrddc02.gnilink.net:

Hello everyone,

I will start off by appolagising for responding to an old thread and for not reading all the posts.

My experience with Vista was the result of needing to abruptly replace a notebook running XP. It seamed that the transition to Vista was just one of those things that I would work through. Too many things did not work, and replements were not available or at full price. Downgrading to XP, or converting to Linux, was not an option due to lack of drivers. The laptop was sold at a loss to a family member.

A new desktop was purchased. KDE 4 on Fedora was almost as bad as Vista. Given that Fedora only maintaines a release for 13 months, prior releases had almost no support left.

Where I ended up is running CentOS at home, and an older Fedora at work, as a host operating system for virtual machines. Virtual machines running XP, win98se, and Ubuntu are run from a USB hard drime that travels with me.

There has been no problem getting old programs that use the serial and parallel ports to run on the XP VM. Cad programs seam to do fine on the XP VM.

The win98se VM boots much faster than XP. XNews runs without the display problems that come with wine or crossover. Parts&Vendors, a Misrosoft Access based progran, runs nicely. Given the lack of vires protection, caution is excersied.

The Ubuntu VM provides a current Linux environment.

The host environment shares the USB drive to each of the guests. An effort is made to use storage that is outside the virtual machines. The USB drive is backed up using Unison at both home and office.

With luck, Vista is not in my future. Windows 7 will probably be treated the same.

Have a good day, Robert