Oh... You mean using Silverlight for intranet applications without a browser...

That's an interesting idea. Allow me not to take part on it.

You're allowed. I'm also allowed to not be held hostage by a "standards committee" that never gets anything done.

Wouldn't you say HTML is at least partially done?

You know you are hostage of a company that may discontinue the technology you depend on any moment they want, right?

I prefer being hostage to Microsoft rather than Apple, the Gnome team or the KDE team. Outside of building your own OS and your own user interface, you only have slightly more of a degree of freedom with 'nix.

At least my master gives me a 'created-date' field on every file. Gosh, that makes sense. I'd have to write my own file-system or use some outdated, unsupported crap to have that on 'nix.

It can happen with Apple, if you rely on a proprietary technology they control, but it cannot happen with Gnome or KDE because, if you don't like what they do, you can always roll out your own.

I see you are unfamiliar with modern *nix OSs. Mine gives me both creation time and access time:

  rbanffy@computer:~$ ls -l --time=atime a.out
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 rbanffy rbanffy 8378 2011-11-10 15:24 a.out
  rbanffy@computer:~$ ls -l --time=ctime a.out
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 rbanffy rbanffy 8378 2011-10-22 19:31 a.out

ctime is change time, not creation time.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20460/how-do-i-do-a-... "Note that the ctime (ls -lc) is not the file creation time, it's the inode change time."

So, like I said...yes you do have to roll your own to get it. Enjoy that.

Interesting. In this case, the creation time and i-node change time are the same - the file was written as new.

I see where you are going. I guess I'll have to move to FreeBSD to get file "birth time" support (or look into POSIX extended attributes). It's more or less a painless change. FreeBSD also has ZFS support, which is the filesystem to rule'em all. Either way, I don't expect Silverlight or WPF to run on FreeBSD.