Pete's QBASIC Site

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-29T23:37:11-05:00

LOL thanks for straightening me out there!

Looks like fun game too!

Statistics: Posted by burger2227 — Tue Sep 29, 2009 11:37 pm

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-28T21:11:43-05:00

"Don't fear the Penguin." -/.

Tux is a perfectly good mascot. Could lose a little weight though.

Statistics: Posted by Mentat — Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:11 pm

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-28T21:03:47-05:00

Well he should have used his real first name and used Snoopy as his mascot!

Statistics: Posted by burger2227 — Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:03 pm

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-28T19:46:53-05:00

Lynx is a web browser. Linus Torvalds is the guy who wrote the first Linux kernel.

Statistics: Posted by Mentat — Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:46 pm

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-28T19:43:02-05:00

NO WAY! I don't use LINUS and probably never will. It's an OS built for nerds to play with. I don't wanna have to keep up with all of the crap they have to install to even use it. Too experimental for me!

The fact is that 90% of the websites created today are IE compatable. NOT FF compatable and a lot of useful things are still lacking in FF.

So I guess I'm still stuck with Windows. I hope they get Windows 7 working better than XP and Vista or my days programming in DOS are numbered.

Plus I'd have to learn all of those LINUS commands....

Statistics: Posted by burger2227 — Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:43 pm

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-28T19:25:25-05:00

I think burger2227 uses that...

Statistics: Posted by Nodtveidt — Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:25 pm

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-28T19:06:54-05:00

There's always Lynx.

Statistics: Posted by Mentat — Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:06 pm

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-28T19:01:10-05:00

If you're having a problem with Firefox, then your computer sucks. It's that simple. Firefox only lacks where IE-specific zealots live and breed like fork rabbits.

Statistics: Posted by Nodtveidt — Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:01 pm

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-28T08:18:07-05:00

There are a LOT of things Firefox is lacking too! I got rid of it after an update made it worse.

IE still is the preferred web page browser for most sites. It's biggest problem that I have found is that it hogs memory like most other TSR Windows programs. REBOOT, REBOOT, REBOOT!

Ubuntu has been getting really bad in needing to reboot all the time. If feels like every week it keeps on fussing at me about updates needing the system to shut down.

Statistics: Posted by Mentat — Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:18 am

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-27T19:34:00-05:00

There are a LOT of things Firefox is lacking too! I got rid of it after an update made it worse.

IE still is the preferred web page browser for most sites. It's biggest problem that I have found is that it hogs memory like most other TSR Windows programs. REBOOT, REBOOT, REBOOT!

Statistics: Posted by burger2227 — Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:34 pm

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-27T15:43:36-05:00

That's why I stick with Firefox

Statistics: Posted by qbasicfreak — Sun Sep 27, 2009 3:43 pm

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-26T16:05:27-05:00

...like building a good web browser for instance.

They've been at that for years and still can't get it right.

Statistics: Posted by Nodtveidt — Sat Sep 26, 2009 4:05 pm

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-26T15:21:55-05:00

When you get a new car like I just did, the technology is updated and the user does not even notice most of it. From a technical or programming point of view, you need to work with that technology whether it is DOS or 64 bit.

I STILL see no great reason for moving to a 64 bit system! What is the great need? It is more useless at this point than the "old" DOS will ever be. So they created NTVDM and blocked user access to ports and "sensitive" areas of the system. Then the toss us .NET before they even made it compatable with Vista.

Unlike the OS, IE Explorer does not change its name. One would think that better browsers would just evolve! Microsoft does NOT create better anything while it keeps re-writing the rules. So don't expect a better browser any time soon. It doesn't even fix half of the holes from the previous one.

Statistics: Posted by burger2227 — Sat Sep 26, 2009 3:21 pm

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-26T13:33:06-05:00

Microsoft isn't trying to kill QB / DOS, there's just no market for it anymore. Why develop backwards compatibility if only a handful of users are gonna ever use it? They have much bigger fish to fry...like building a good web browser for instance.

Statistics: Posted by Pete — Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:33 pm

Windows Vista and QB45

2009-09-26T10:49:23-05:00

$$$$$$ is the name of the game...

Of course it is. You don't become a multi-billion dollar company by continuing to support "ancient" operating systems and technologies, you can only do it by forcing people to "upgrade" to whatever new toy they come out with. And with each successive release, hardware requirements grow astronomically, and the system gets slower. That's why I've cast my lot with FreeBSD instead...not only is it completely free and can run most Windows programs (with Wine) better than Windows itself, but it gets faster with each subsequent release.

Statistics: Posted by Nodtveidt — Sat Sep 26, 2009 10:49 am