James Banogon

Guidelines in building a Hollywood operating system

Posted on January 10, 2010 in Humor

1. Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function.

2. Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds. In the movies, modems transmit data at two gigabytes per second.

3. When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.

4. If you display a file on the screen and someone deletes the file, it also disappears from the screen. There are no ways to copy a backup file — and there are no undelete utilities. Corollary: Deleting a file instantly removes all copies of said file from disks, memory, frame buffers and caches across all computers in the universe.

5. If a disk has got encrypted files, you are automatically asked for a password when you try to access it.

6. No matter what kind of computer disk it is, it’ll be readable by any system you put it into. All application software is usable by all computer platforms.

7. The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has. However, everyone must have been highly trained, because the buttons aren’t labeled.

8. Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying three-dimensional, real-time, photo-realistic animated graphics capability.

9. Laptops, for some strange reason, always seem to have amazing real-time video phone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY.

10. Whenever a character looks at a terminal, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face.
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Microsoft is afraid of Linux

Posted on August 5, 2009 in Technology

Microsoft has long taken too lightly Linux as a desktop challenger. But the latest filing with the Security and Exchange Commission has the company acknowledging for the first time that Linux signifies a major threat to Windows.

News indicate that in Microsoft’s latest yearly filing with the SEC, it listed for the first time Ubuntu’s producer Canonical, and Linux distributor Red Hat as competitors to its Client division, which makes most of Windows. In the past, Red Hat was listed but merely as a competitor to its Business and Server & Tools divisions. Read the rest of this entry »

Windows 7 XP Mode is now a Release Candidate

Posted on August 5, 2009 in Technology

Microsoft has declared that the status of the XP Mode add-on of Windows 7 that will permit end users with the appropriate hardware to run a virtual adaptation of Windows XP inside Windows 7 is at this moment a Release Candidate.

There are quite a few latest features in XP Mode Release Candidate. XP Mode applications currently present users a jump list of the most recently opened files with that application. This brings one of Windows 7′s additional helpful productivity features into play with older applications that would not otherwise cover it. As a result, not only will you be capable of directly running your most recently used XP Mode applications from the Windows 7 taskbar, but you will also be able to open particular files from the Windows 7 taskbar, too. You can now make use of USB devices in XP Mode without having to make it full screen, straight from the Windows 7 taskbar. Read the rest of this entry »