Future OS?

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BerryTheWest wrote:Oh that is easy... just steal the boot loader from Linux since they're open source. :)
exactly ;)

TO THE OPEN SOURCE!!!! *points at screen, breaks hole in it*

........i just learned that monitors have electricity in them. lol


nyway, exactly, just have it load CMD to start with first (and maybe find a way to edit CMD to continue booting normally / interact with flash drives / blah blah blah other stuff?
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Well you'll just have to change the Linux structure, but this task is no easy task. But you did raise some interesting idea that I'll attempt to try this.

Oh and Windows Vista only took me 2 seconds to boot up on a laptop. ^_^
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BerryTheWest wrote:Well you'll just have to change the Linux structure, but this task is no easy task. But you did raise some interesting idea that I'll attempt to try this.

Oh and Windows Vista only took me 2 seconds to boot up on a laptop. ^_^
lol yea, but your laptop must be pretty good :P

that and....i hate to sound like a lot of noobs out there but vista, to me, well, frankly, sucks compared to XP. (yes I'm not stupid, I've actually tried vista and liked XP better.)
everything takes more disk space on vista and generally requires a higher end machine :/


but anyway, it's not that much of a matter of changing the linux structure completely, as much as finding the file that calls the boot, and changing it a bit (but yea, good luck with that)
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Mmm 1 million lines of code and only 3000 lines of code are actually code instead of comments.
(Slashdot)
That will be a lot of reading.
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yea i know ><
mayhaps you can find a way to stop it from displaying while you edit the actual code?

I wouldn't know, i, sadly, don't run linux :(
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Allosentient wrote:I am not sure how the core systems are going to change, but I can imagine a lot of the conventional paradigms that have been around such as files, folders, and desktops are going to undergo an overhaul in the next 10-15 years. I think that directory trees are very lacking in the way that information can be organized, and perhaps even files as well.
Not likely.

Files and directory trees are ideal as far as representing data goes. They're proven winners and have been around since the sixties.

I don't anticipate any significant changes in operating systems, technically speaking, as time goes on.
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I would suggest you guy to change the file path directory divider so that you can improve your own security. It work for me pretty well.
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yea, but it's not what i would call a good security, but i suppose it would raise it a bit :S
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Preventing user's stupid mistake by executing a malware with file location specific since people tent to use "static" path where it located in C drive and your system folder.
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yea, but then you have the smart cookies who use every possible path (eg searches one path, attempts to perform action, then switches to next letter :S)
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Well usually they just grab the driver list and return the available drivers. :)
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lol that would be a little easier :S
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Say, what is the origin of calling the main drive "C"? I mean really, why not K or G or...bob!
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well, they used the alphabet.

C must've been the third drive named, since A is the floppy drive normally and B, iunno, card reader?
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