Inside the Windows Vista Kernel, Part 2 290
BuR4N writes "Mark Russinovich takes a look at the Windows Kernel and the changes made in Vista. In this second part he describes the workings of the features SuperFetch, ReadyBoost, ReadyBoot, and ReadyDrive and how they improve system performance."
Lol Irony (Score:1, Funny)
Why 'Ready'? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why 'Ready'? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why 'Ready'? (Score:4, Funny)
Well, they Microsoft was gonna go with 'Hyper', but after frequent crashes, one employee, a Star Wars fan, put on a clip from Empire Strikes Back.
"Prepare to make the jump to lightspeed. If Lando's people fixed the HyperDrive."
"Punch it!"
*cough*sputter*cack*hack*pzzzsst*
"That can't be. They told me they fixed it! It's not my fault!"
and Ballmers personal favourites (Score:1, Funny)
bah same old (Score:5, Funny)
Tom
Inside the kerne;l (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why 'Ready'? - More Absorbed IP (Score:4, Funny)
Poke 53280,0
Poke 53281,0
Ready.
Inside the Windows Vista Kernel ... (Score:4, Funny)
Inside the Windows Vista kernel... (Score:5, Funny)
int main() {
uac_alert("You are attempting to initialize variables. Cancel or allow?");
int i;
uac_alert("You are attempting to enter a loop. Cancel or allow?");
for (i = 0; i 100; i++) {
uac_alert("You are attempting to iterate a loop. Cancel or allow?");
i++;
}
uac_alert("You are attempting to exit program. Cancel or allow?");
return 0;
}
Re:Where's the Beef? (Score:3, Funny)
Of course not. That's why they're called SuperFetch, ReadyBoost, ReadyBoot, and ReadyDrive.
My motherboard for example, comes with: BuzzFree, LifePro, PowerPro, SpeedStar, and ActiveArmor. I'm pretty sure all that means is that it, by now, obsolete.
If these features were of any use besides being marketing snakeoil and/or painfully obvious, they'd be called "the hvuk__k() tweak" or "deloop_64" or "-O3" or something.
Re:Why 'Ready'? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Inside the Windows Vista kernel... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I think I will be ReadyNever (Score:2, Funny)
*Yawn* Let me know when they get some REAL developers over in Redmond.
Re:WTF (Score:4, Funny)
If you have between 512 and 700 MB of memory, Vista tears a rift in the space-time continuum. IMPORTANT: whatever you do, DO NOT install Vista on a computer with between 512 and 700 MB of RAM.
Re:Inside the Windows Vista kernel... (Score:1, Funny)
uac_alert("You are attempting to show a UAC alert. Cancel or allow?");
_show_uac_alert(prompt);
}
Re:Inside the kerne;l (Score:4, Funny)