Hello. . .

[FrOzeN]

Hey everyone, first I'm FrOzeN, probably alot of you already know me. My real name is Mitch and I'm currently 16. I listen to rap/r&b (If you don't like that, I don't give a fuck and I don't want to hear about it.). I know (X)HTML/CSS/VB6 some JavaScript/Php/MySQL and I'm currently learning C/C++ aswell as some Photoshop.

What do you do (school/work)?
School, though currently Holidays until 1st of February.

Where do you work, if applicable?
N/A

Do you have a girl (boy?) friend?
Not ATM.

Are you in any other clans?
Yes, I'm Leader/Founder of Clan AnThRaX.

What are they like (if applicable)?
Mainly gaming clan though lacking members and I haven't got around to do much for it.
I'm going to rebuild once I finish the website for it.

Any friends around here (members or otherwise)?
Hopefully.

Why do you want to join?
Huh, I don't. I though this was just an introduction thingy.

Have you read our rules?
No.

What's your favourite tv show?
TV is old and boring, probably would be the Simpsons for when I get around to watching something.

What's your favourite movie?
Dunno, Eurotrip probably.

What's your favourite band?
Rap doesn't really have 'bands'. I guess D12 is one though.

What's your favourite country?
Australia

What's your favourite continent?
Australia

What's your favourite season?
Winter for soccer.

What's your favourite type of weather?
Sunshower's

What's your favourite subject in school?
Advanced bludging.

What's your favourite chemical?
Whatever 'AnThRaX' is made up off mostly.

What's your favourite food?
Hawaiian Pizza

What's your favourite drink?
Coke

What's your favourite book?
N/A, I hate reading.

What's your favourite author?
N/A

What's your favourite Operating system?
Windows 98SE.
I'm currently running Windows XP Pro which is a piece of shit, and over the next few days when I get around to it I'm partitioning 2 more segments onto my hard-drive to install Linux Slackware and Gentoo. Hopefully they will be more promising.

What's your favourite phone company?
Vodafone

What's your favourite computer brand?
Custom Built

What's your favourite Linux distribution?
ATM Unsure, probably will be either Slackware or Gentoo.

What's your favourite sport?
Soccer

What's your favourite sports team?
Watching sport is boring, I'd rather be playing it.

What's your favourite sporting event?
Erm, Olympics?

What's your favourite game?
StarCraft: BroodWar

What's your favourite style of game (board, rpg, card, etc.)?
Strategy/First-Person

What's your favourite bird?
Toucan

What's your favourite animal?
Our dog Murphy.

What's your favourite pet?
Same as above.

Enough already? Geez.

[GameSnake]

Welcome to the forums, I didnt read everything but you seem like an honost person.

[iago]

Welcome to the forums, I didnt read everything but you seem like an honost person.

Hahaha


But seriously, I guess you aren't "fr0z3n" that I've known for awhile. 

Now that's just confusing!

[Sidoh]

Are you Fr0z3N[xL]?  I haven't seen him in a loooonnnggg time.

Welcome anyway.

[Newby]

He is not the fr0z3n[xL] we used to know and hate and love. He's a differenct Frozen.

Welcome!

[Sidoh]

He is not the fr0z3n[xL] we used to know and hate and love. He's a differenct Frozen.

Welcome!

Oh, good.  I don't like him much.

An even more warm welcome in this case!

[Blaze]

Where do you live?

I think the other frozen (AIM:Dietyofcold or something) lives in my city.

[Sidoh]

Where do you live?

I think the other frozen (AIM:Dietyofcold or something) lives in my city.

I don't remember Fr0z3N being Canadian, but I don't remember him being from the US either

[AntiVirus]

Welcome to the forums.

I'm sure you will enjoy it here.

[iago]

yeah, the xL one lives in Ontario. 

[d&q]

I love you.

[FrOzeN]

Na, I'm not any other FrOzeN's. Except I use the account ()FrOzeN() on StealthBot.net forums.

btw, I live in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
And the only AIM name I've ever had/have is frozen89x.

thanx for the welcomes.

[Sidoh]

Na, I'm not any other FrOzeN's. Except I use the account ()FrOzeN() on StealthBot.net forums.

btw, I live in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
And the only AIM name I've ever had/have is frozen89x.

thanx for the welcomes.

Aussie!

I love Aussies; almost as much as I love Canadians!  (And no, that's not meant to be derogatory)

Missed this last time:

What's your favourite subject in school?
Advanced bludging.

subject != Physics || Calculus.  You fail! ( Just kidding.  MyndFyre and I are the resident math nerds; he knows a lot more than I do, but I still like it. )

What's your favourite book?
N/A, I hate reading.

What's your favourite author?
N/A

What's your favourite Operating system?
Windows 98SE.
I'm currently running Windows XP Pro which is a piece of shit, and over the next few days when I get around to it I'm partitioning 2 more segments onto my hard-drive to install Linux Slackware and Gentoo. Hopefully they will be more promising.

Aw, common!  I don't like reading much either and I still have a favorite book!

I don't know how you think that 98SE is better than XP, but I suppose that's your call.  98 is horribly unstable; so is XP, but it's a lot more stable than 98 from my experience.  98 is disgusting.  XP, on the other hand, just sucks.  I've come to the point where I'd probably be using Linux full time (except for when I'm at school) if I could play WoW and things like that on it.

[FrOzeN]

Aussie!

I love Aussies; almost as much as I love Canadians! (And no, that's not meant to be derogatory)

Aw, common! I don't like reading much either and I still have a favorite book!

I don't even remember the last time I read a book. It must have been sometime before year 5 at least.
I probably should read though I badly lack motivation to open a book.

I don't know how you think that 98SE is better than XP, but I suppose that's your call. 98 is horribly unstable; so is XP, but it's a lot more stable than 98 from my experience. 98 is disgusting. XP, on the other hand, just sucks. I've come to the point where I'd probably be using Linux full time (except for when I'm at school) if I could play WoW and things like that on it.

Well I know Windows 98 is shit, though I used Window 98SE for about 1 year and only ever came accross one minor problem. Since I've been using Windows XP Pro (approximately last 8 months) I've found an excess of 20 annoying glitches/bugs. And although it handles more computing power I still find it very unstable.

[Blaze]

I like WIN98SE better then XP -- just XP looks so much better and so does its Blue screen; which acts like a kid needing attention...

[Sidoh]

Aussie!

I love Aussies; almost as much as I love Canadians! (And no, that's not meant to be derogatory)

Aw, common! I don't like reading much either and I still have a favorite book!

I don't even remember the last time I read a book. It must have been sometime before year 5 at least.
I probably should read though I badly lack motivation to open a book.

I don't know how you think that 98SE is better than XP, but I suppose that's your call. 98 is horribly unstable; so is XP, but it's a lot more stable than 98 from my experience. 98 is disgusting. XP, on the other hand, just sucks. I've come to the point where I'd probably be using Linux full time (except for when I'm at school) if I could play WoW and things like that on it.

Well I know Windows 98 is shit, though I used Window 98SE for about 1 year and only ever came accross one minor problem. Since I've been using Windows XP Pro (approximately last 8 months) I've found an excess of 20 annoying glitches/bugs. And although it handles more computing power I still find it very unstable.

Man, people must do stupid stuff on their computers.  Even using Windows XP, I had a 20 day uptime with no problems until today.  I had to restart after I installed something.

I like WIN98SE better then XP -- just XP looks so much better and so does its Blue screen; which acts like a kid needing attention...

You're crazy.  98SE is FAT32, right?

[Newby]

I thought 98SE added support for NTFS.

Maybe that was ME...

I know one of the 98's supported NTFS. Maybe that was 2000. Geh.

[Blaze]

@Sidoh: Yes, yes (it is/I am).
@Newby: I don't think 98/SE had NTFS. I think it is 2000 too.

[Sidoh]

I thought 98SE added support for NTFS.

Maybe that was ME...

I know one of the 98's supported NTFS. Maybe that was 2000. Geh.

My school still uses 98.  Trust me, it's not NTFS.

@Sidoh: Yes, yes (it is/I am).
@Newby: I don't think 98/SE had NTFS. I think it is 2000 too.

Yuck, yuck, yuck.  It was 2000, my school still uses it too.

[MyndFyre]

I thought 98SE added support for NTFS.

Maybe that was ME...

I know one of the 98's supported NTFS. Maybe that was 2000. Geh.

OMG for a son of a Microsoft employee you are such a newby!

Product line 1: Windows 3.x -> Windows 95 -> 95 OSR2 -> Windows 98 -> 98 SE -> Windows Me
Product line 2: Windows NT 3.1 -> NT 3.51 -> NT 4.0 -> NT 5.0 -> Windows 2000 -> Windows XP -> Windows Vista

NTFS is only supported in line 2.

[Warrior]

Wow anything is better than Windows9x

Windows9x is basically a GUI ontop of Dos and some paging and multitasking.

Reasons not to use Windows9x:
You know why you get lockups while reading from a disk?
Well windows goes into Virtual 8086 mode and uses int 0x13 (Realmode) to read from the disk since they were too lazy to write
a protected mode driver for it. Virtual 8086 is like a bad workaround to not having realmode interrupts (Unless you use it for int 0x10 to switch to VESA)

The kernel in Windows98 is mapped with a User flag in paging not supervisor and it's Readwrite. That means ANY application can overwrite the ENTIRE KERNEL and since the kernel has the global bit on it will overwrite the kernel for EVERY PROCESS crashing EVERY PROCESS at once and effectively killing the kernel. Nice job Microsoft.

FAT32 - FATxx is out of it's time. It fragmentates easily and has no security features like NTFS and ext2(3) do. This FS is basically a linked list of directory entries and some jumps here and there. It's so simple I coded a driver for it in about 20 minutes. (Owned.)
Also it's longname workaround (To allow filenames with more than 8 characters) is the shittiest idea in the existance of filesystems, holy shit they are stupid.

WTFUCK - It treats Page Faults (Yes FAULT) as fatal errors, a page fault is RECOVERABLE which may causes a bunch of crashes for machines with little ram. A pagefault recovery is as easy as swapping out the memory from the swap partition (or file) and invalidating the new pages. Good job.

Reasons why not to use Windows ME:
It has a shitty name and it crashes a lot.


Windows XP:
This seems to be Microsoft's semi well made OS. It follows some dated ideas but overall it was a good improvement dispite what people say. The problem with it is that we're in a new age where there are evil people we like to call hackers and these hackers do things that the people in the matrix did. They get inside your PC and attack you (those hooligans). Microsoft was heavily criticized for not having a secure OS (This lead to SP2 which I don't think fixed anything just gave you a firewall rofl) The GUI is also the ugliest motherfucking UI I have ever seen.

Windows Vista:
This seems to be an OS that's doing some things right. It's a little hardware intensive but it's a new age of PC and most people have good hardware. First off, this OS is going to feature a fully scriptable console (Seems the Linux research labs are paying off :p) and some pretty unique FS features. The overall look+feel is a lot nicer with a lot of transparency, shadows, and what not.

Now Vista is doing some things that werent possible some years ago, they are moving things to user mode. The audiostack and video core has been moved to user land. The advantage over that is that you don't need to communicate with the kernel as much now and when say the GUI crashes it can simply be restarted withought crashing the kernel (Say hello to less kernel crashes). The audio will also perform much faster.

Now back in say 1998 and stuff when DirectX was just a baby, most people used software to render 3D (not good technology :/) and moving the video to the kernel made it more local and made it faster (but suffered a loss in stability). Today we have DirectX 9 and games like Doom 3 and Half-Life2 some of the most graphic intensive games. We CAN move the video to user mode and the speed decrease is almost nothing since all the rendering is now done via hardware. (Go innovation)

Anyway yea this evolved into sorta a rant but who gives a shit.
Welcome to x86.

[Sidoh]

OMG for a son of a Microsoft employee you are such a newby!

Product line 1: Windows 3.x -> Windows 95 -> 95 OSR2 -> Windows 98 -> 98 SE -> Windows Me
Product line 2: Windows NT 3.1 -> NT 3.51 -> NT 4.0 -> NT 5.0 -> Windows 2000 -> Windows XP -> Windows Vista

NTFS is only supported in line 2.

Hahaha.

Wow anything is better than Windows9x

Windows9x is basically a GUI ontop of Dos and some paging and multitasking.

Reasons not to use Windows9x:
You know why you get lockups while reading from a disk?
Well windows goes into Virtual 8086 mode and uses int 0x13 (Realmode) to read from the disk since they were too lazy to write
a protected mode driver for it. Virtual 8086 is like a bad workaround to not having realmode interrupts (Unless you use it for int 0x10 to switch to VESA)

The kernel in Windows98 is mapped with a User flag in paging not supervisor and it's Readwrite. That means ANY application can overwrite the ENTIRE KERNEL and since the kernel has the global bit on it will overwrite the kernel for EVERY PROCESS crashing EVERY PROCESS at once and effectively killing the kernel. Nice job Microsoft.

FAT32 - FATxx is out of it's time. It fragmentates easily and has no security features like NTFS and ext2(3) do. This FS is basically a linked list of directory entries and some jumps here and there. It's so simple I coded a driver for it in about 20 minutes. (Owned.)
Also it's longname workaround (To allow filenames with more than 8 characters) is the shittiest idea in the existance of filesystems, holy shit they are stupid.

WTFUCK - It treats Page Faults (Yes FAULT) as fatal errors, a page fault is RECOVERABLE which may causes a bunch of crashes for machines with little ram. A pagefault recovery is as easy as swapping out the memory from the swap partition (or file) and invalidating the new pages. Good job.

Reasons why not to use Windows ME:
It has a shitty name and it crashes a lot.


Windows XP:
This seems to be Microsoft's semi well made OS. It follows some dated ideas but overall it was a good improvement dispite what people say. The problem with it is that we're in a new age where there are evil people we like to call hackers and these hackers do things that the people in the matrix did. They get inside your PC and attack you (those hooligans). Microsoft was heavily criticized for not having a secure OS (This lead to SP2 which I don't think fixed anything just gave you a firewall rofl) The GUI is also the ugliest motherfucking UI I have ever seen.

Windows Vista:
This seems to be an OS that's doing some things right. It's a little hardware intensive but it's a new age of PC and most people have good hardware. First off, this OS is going to feature a fully scriptable console (Seems the Linux research labs are paying off :p) and some pretty unique FS features. The overall look+feel is a lot nicer with a lot of transparency, shadows, and what not.

Now Vista is doing some things that werent possible some years ago, they are moving things to user mode. The audiostack and video core has been moved to user land. The advantage over that is that you don't need to communicate with the kernel as much now and when say the GUI crashes it can simply be restarted withought crashing the kernel (Say hello to less kernel crashes). The audio will also perform much faster.

Now back in say 1998 and stuff when DirectX was just a baby, most people used software to render 3D (not good technology :/) and moving the video to the kernel made it more local and made it faster (but suffered a loss in stability). Today we have DirectX 9 and games like Doom 3 and Half-Life2 some of the most graphic intensive games. We CAN move the video to user mode and the speed decrease is almost nothing since all the rendering is now done via hardware. (Go innovation)

Anyway yea this evolved into sorta a rant but who gives a shit.
Welcome to x86.

Wow, nice post.

But yes, Windows98 is horrible...

[ZeroX]

I know you 

[Chavo]

OMG for a son of a Microsoft employee you are such a newby!

Product line 1: Windows 3.x -> Windows 95 -> 95 OSR2 -> Windows 98 -> 98 SE -> Windows Me
Product line 2: Windows NT 3.1 -> NT 3.51 -> NT 4.0 -> NT 5.0 -> Windows 2000 -> Windows XP -> Windows Vista

NTFS is only supported in line 2.

Don't forget Windows Server 2003!

[Warrior]

Thats like a version of XP with the theme service turned off and a smarter IE.

[Chavo]

Give them a little credit, it does have some nice server management tools.

[Warrior]

I guess, I liked 2003 more than XP but yea .

[Newby]

OMG for a son of a Microsoft employee you are such a newby!

Hush.

[MyndFyre]

Reasons why not to use Windows ME:
It has a shitty name and it crashes a lot.

As it turns out, the Windows ME underlying architecture was still the same as 98.  Microsoft still called to DOS for things.  The only difference is that ME loaded into protected mode without booting to realmode first, which effectively prevented you from booting to DOS to do repair or recovery.  So, Windows ME was effectively harder to fix.

Their description of it having "removed DOS" simply meant booting win.com instead of command.com.