Redakcja benchmark.pl przygotowała artykuł "Skonfiguruj Windows 7 - 14 przydatnych wskazówek dla początkujących". W odpowiedzi na związany z nim konkurs przygotowałem swoją odpowiedź, czyli poradnik dotyczący partycji NTFS i obsługi dysków w Windows.

Większość moich uwag dotyczy systemów XP/Vista/7, niektóre są związane tylko z tym ostatnim.

W tym artykule nie chciałbym przedstawić zestawu porad typu „należy pobierać wszystkie poprawki bezpieczeństwa, bo to poprawia bezpieczeństwo”, ale raczej zebrać różne ciekawostki i może niekoniecznie znane wszystkim użytkownikom informacje. Będzie to też krótki i stronniczy ;) przegląd tego, co za darmo oferuje Microsoft. Spróbuję również odpowiedzieć na pytanie, czy warto z tego korzystać...

Skazany na sukces ?

W 2007 roku Microsoft wprowadza nowy system. Opinie o nowym systemie są dosyć pozytywne, natomiast negatywne są krytykowane (chociażby raport Petera Gutmanna nt. DRM). Z czasem okazuje się, że system nie zdobył zbytniej popularności, a sam Microsoft przyznaje się do tego, iż nie wszystko było zrobione poprawnie.

Mamy 2009 rok. Wielu użytkowników dalej wykorzystuje Windows XP (można przyjąć, iż jest to przynajmniej wersja z 2004 z Service Packiem 2), który ma już swoje ograniczenia. Czy sytuacja z brakiem akceptacji nowego „dziecka” Microsoftu może się powtórzyć ?

W tym artykule chciałbym wskazać w szczególności na pewne słabości/ciekawostki dotyczące Windows 7 i zastanowić się, jak duży sukces może odnieść.

I’m using various operating systems for making some tasks. In this article I will show, that some solutions used in currently in the most popular or known (in my opinion) operating systems are obsolete. I hope that it will start some discussion here and there…

To be clear: I don’t think, that everything everywhere is wrong. But Windows environment seems to collapse after Windows XP and we still won’t have Linux too popular in desktops (because of some fundamental problems). Details are provided below.

This document contains summary of various disadvantages available in Windows Vista collected from various sources and own experiences. I hope, that this page become popular and somebody from MS decide about eliminating some of described here issues in next Windows version.

Although for some users this system can be good and although author likes some new features inside, generally doesn't recommend this system now.

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Few notes:

gammu.org

Will be payed by me for next year, I will do some wiki updates soon. If you want something else, please let me know. For now you can read various notes about Windows 7 in Articles section.

gammu+

I have moved 0.40.02 tarball to mwiacek.com

In many places you can read about about excellent features of Symbian devices. This article will show some their advantages and disadvantages in normal life on N82 example... In many places I will speak about iPhone and other too...

Battery

The more advanced phone, the shortest battery life. This is how we can describe devices created by Nokia and many other manufacturers. My question is: can't be created and produced for example 1600 mAh batteries (like in PDA) for them ?

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Hi,

In the time, when we have various widely commented things on the world (Olimpic Games in China, ACTA regulations about ending P2P, Microsoft Windows Vista), Gammu history still can continue (although it's difficult - see info here) and continues.

Today there was released new release 0.40 for Gammu+. It brings new important features:

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I would like to speak shortly about differences between Gammu and Gammu+ now. This will be linked from main page. This is my opinion and you don't have to agree with it...

First Gammu - released with GPL2 license is currently lead by Michal. Quite big and supporting many devices. You can have worse support in Windows than earlier and I don't like some things inside, but development goes forward. Michal will give probably also less for Nokia devices than I.

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Gammu+ 0.38 is out. I have added configure script, which can enable Bluez AFTER USER ACTION. You have written many times, that source after patching is GPL2 licensed. Please note, that in my opinion it doesn't break GPL2 - if you will have patched source, you can remove Bluez driver (yes, this can be very easy separated) and release source under other license:

 "If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, 

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Gammu+ 0.37 is ready. What can I say ?

For example: you can make MMS receiving gateway with it now (tested on 6111).

It's very close from the state, where will be rock stable, fast and will have support for all important functions. I estimate, that I will reach it in December.

And what next ? I'm not sure. I have read about Nokia reactions for info about breaking Series 60 security. I'm not sure, if they will love software, which is faster/smaller/better than their own PC Suite.

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And here it goes Gammu+ 0.36. Here is changelog + some my comments:

* added daemon for receiving SMS/MMS to PostgreSQL database (you have new
   --smsmmsd option in CLI, preview in GUI, PHP preview and other...)
   I have tested it on 6230i and received SMS quite good. With MMS there was
   issue - if you try to get info about mms file, when it's received, firmware

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Gammu+ becomes much more complex: I had played last times and worked on adding database support. And here are results: daemon for receiving SMS/MMS. It's working with free PostgreSQL database.

Do you want to put your messages into it and read from www ? Yes, it's already done and will be in 0.36.

If somebody will be interested, I could work on it and add also sending SMS from www (over such daemon)

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very short news from me: I'm working hard on new release. Decoding EMS and some other SMS features already work, I'm testing/writing EMS editor + EMS packing functions. If everything will go fine, Gammu+ will have soon support for such EMS functionalities:

Text formatting: YES
Predefined sounds: YES
User-defined sounds: YES
Predefined animations: YES
Large pictures: YES
Small pictures: YES
Object Distribution Indicator: YES
Variable pictures: YES
User Prompt Indicator: YES
User defined animations: DECODING

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hmmmm, many various notes: