On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:29:07AM +0000, Mark Evans wrote:
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Gone the way of the dodo. Your `transparent' OS isn't actually transparent at all. The system is undocumented even for developers, and it's impossible to buy any good documentation for the system. I had to buy the MS press `Windows NT Resource Kit' (at considerable expense) as most of the utilities needed for the OS didn't ship with the OS itself; this book is 1300 pages of unadulterated bilge who's only useful function is that of a doorstop.
There probably is useful information in there, just a matter of being able to find it without inducing "brain shutdown"...
I swear that there is so little of any practical use that it beggars belief. Remember that this is a book that cost over 60 quid. There's any amount of garbage about using fancy widgets for monitoring CPU usage and disk i/o but there's nothing about what to do if either hits the roof. Useful stuff about how to add users or kill runaway processes? Nothing. The book's the most shameful excuse for a technical book that I've ever read and perfectly mirrors their software in it's usefulness. I hate to bash on about the paucity of their documentation but it's a fundamental failing of their operating systems. I'd rather have a poor OS well documented than a good OS poorly documented; in their case you get neither, you get a poor OS poorly documented which is why people who are going to use their computers in any kind of professional capacity should avoid them like the plague irrespective of any perceived benefits of their software. -- Frank *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* | Boroughbridge | Tel: 01423 323019 | PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 | *-------*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*-------* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/