Stack working in MACOS, not in Windows.

Jim Bufalini jim at visitrieve.com
Fri Feb 19 18:36:40 EST 2010


Bob Sneidar wrote:

> ...One thing they did without really saying much about it, is they put a
> virtual bridge between the OS and the LAN connection. Sure they can
> control network traffic better, but unbeknownst to me until recently,
> there are certain devices that can interfere with bridges on networks,
> one of which is the Spanning Tree Protocol, which uses bridging to
> accomplish some of it's magic. That cause our Vista machines network
> connections to mysteriously fail, and nothing I could do would fix
> them...

OK... I'll amend my statement to say, "...*many* of the *more common* end
user and programmers complaints..." 

IT departments had a myriad of other reasons for not wanting to move from XP
to Vista and, in general, the most common complaint amongst ordinary end
users was the intrusive UAC, no matter what flavor it came in.

Airports huh? Then I'm sure you are familiar with the old joke that, if
airplanes were like PCs, you would hear from your pilot in mid-flight,
"Please fasten your seatbelt while we shutdown out engines and reboot." ;-)

Actually, one of the things they "did" fix in Vista was partitioning memory
in such a way that crashing a single "application" program didn't require
rebooting the entire machine. As to what you refer to, that's a whole other
animal. 

I'm not defending Vista and will be very happy when it (and XP) goes away
and is replaced by Windows 7. I was just addressing the question of a test
bed for testing Rev apps on PC and pointing out a little known fact as
reason to why the test bed might need to be expanded.

Aloha from Hawaii,

Jim Bufalini








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