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And that link was the follow-up article. Matt Pietrek's first column on this topic was in MSJ in 1996.

Of course competent programmers do not need trash collection, but it sure makes life easier, and can cut down on programming hours.

As someone coming from C++ and is just starting to port over to C#, I actually find the GC more of a hindrance than a help a lot of the time. Sure, being able to new something without having to think about when to delete later may seem useful at first, but I spend more time fighting against the GC trying to convince it to clean up and avoid fragmentation in the Large Object Heap, handle COM reference counts safely without waiting for the GC to clean up C++ side objects (it proxies through the RCW which holds a single reference until someone forcibly releases it in an unsafe manner or waits for the GC to clear the RCW) or just be able to throw away a collection and create a new one without worrying about allocation failures as a result of the GC not being aggressive enough. A smart pointer that deletes when going out of scope or reference count going to zero isn't that difficult to learn in C++ and gives more control when you want to try to do something fancy.

Of course competent programmers do not need trash collection, but it sure makes life easier, and can cut down on programming hours.

As someone coming from C++ and is just starting to port over to C#, I actually find the GC more of a hindrance than a help a lot of the time. Sure, being able to new something without having to think about when to delete later may seem useful at first, but I spend more time fighting against the GC trying to convince it to clean up and avoid fragmentation in the Large Object Heap, handle COM reference counts safely without waiting for the GC to clean up C++ side objects (it proxies through the RCW which holds a single reference until someone forcibly releases it in an unsafe manner or waits for the GC to clear the RCW) or just be able to throw away a collection and create a new one without worrying about allocation failures as a result of the GC not being aggressive enough. A smart pointer that deletes when going out of scope or reference count going to zero isn't that difficult to learn in C++ and gives more control when you want to try to do something fancy.

I actually had a chance to talk with one of the guys behind Wirtual PC (including the one that powers Virtual XP Mode) a few months back. His answer was that when MS started work on the Windows Virtual PC (WVPC, the current version) 3 years ago (roughly when VPC2k7 shipped), they contacted Intel and AMD and asked if they were going to offer hardware virtualization on all models going forward. Both companies answered Yes, so to save development and testing costs, the (large block of tricky) code that enabled vitrualization on CPUs without hardware support was cut from WVPC. Skip forward a couple years to WVPC getting ready for release, and... still a lot of Intel CPUs without support for virtualization. At that point it was too late to add the feature without delaying shipping, so they didn't.

I asked whether they would add it in later, and he said they weren't planning to but might change their mainds if it became clear that this was a problem for enough of their customers. In the meantime, they were telling Intel to get its shit together the way it had said it would three years earlier, and he personally recommended going with AMD chips.

On a side note, I didn't hear anything at all about it requiring x64. According to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx, it works just fine on x86.

Indeed, this is very old news, it's been done many times before. I recall reading and applying this article for Windows many years ago:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301696.aspx

there's also: http://www.ntcore.com/files/SmallAppWiz.htm and http://www.phreedom.org/solar/code/tinype/ (again for windows) and many more.

The ones on the preview page. From what I understood, MS was saying that JS performance is not the entire story for Browser performance, and a couple of their tests make it abundantly clear. I ran the "Flying images" test, and IE whipped chrome by rendering the animation about 20 times faster, even when I increased the number of objects to ridiculous amounts.

It doesn't matter how fast your Javascript engine is if your renderer is old and busted. A faster renderer should improve page load times as well as animations. It'll be interesting to see some of the real-world based tests on this new engine.

I have to say, the linked article is the best article on security that I have ever read; and, for that matter, just about the first one that ever considers the radical concept that the user's time is of value.

"Third, the claimed benefits are not based on evidence:
we have a real scarcity of data on the frequency and
severity of attacks."

This is a very good point. What fraction of attacks are frustrated by making users change their passwords from one which is chosen from a set of 1E12 possible passwords, to one which is one of 1E20 possible passwords? How much safer do they get if you then say they have to have a symbol as well?

When they make me jump through hoops, I'd like to know what exactly I'm gaining.

It's not entirely clear but it is looking very likely that IE9 will not even run on XP.

Which definitely sucks for us web developers and really the entire world as we can certainly shelve any idea we had about developing cool HTML5 apps for the general public where 90+% of browsers have to be supported.

Warning: this troll is illegal, do not read it

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of co

Warning: this troll is illegal, do not read it

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of co

Warning: this troll is illegal, do not read it

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of co

From http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ in Firefox with NoScript :P

of the Waldac botnet starts to electrocute drivers.

Yours In Perm,
Kilgore Trout

What happens if they cut-and-paste OS into their commercial products?

They get busted and have to release their formerly closed source product into OS.

Problem solved.

MS is visibly arrogant and arguably evil, but stupid? Nyet. Count on their legal eagles making DAMN sure the little fiasco outlined in the linked article never happens again. They may be inclined to do anything they think they can get away with, but this is something they understand they can't get away with.

Apple is there.
Microsoft is not.

Microsoft's site was registered sometime in the early 90's, as a test site for the Windows TCP/IP stack. Back in the days when you had to use Trumpet Winsock to connect, prior to Windows 95 (which came with Microsoft's Winsock stack). Of course, it had to be prepped for Win95's launch, but until then, it was really just test servers. It only went "live" after another Microsoft employee testing TCP/IP found it was live and traced it down the hall.

http://www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_flshbk.htm

But it does seem to be foolproof if you start from a known clean machine.

That’s the whole point of his system: to scan from a machine that isn’t known to be clean.

The standard way to scan from a “known clean machine” is one of the following:

1) Use a known-clean boot CD. This ensures that the system RAM is clean. Once booted into the clean system, scan the possibly-infected secondary storage devices.

2) Use a separate known-clean computer. Its system RAM is clean. Attach the possibly-infected secondary storage devices from the first computer to the known-clean computer and scan them.

The 3rd way, which is not foolproof, is to attempt to avoid a boot CD or second computer by scanning the system RAM. Once the system RAM is known to be clean, you can proceed from there as in either 1 or 2 above. However, there is no foolproof way to ensure that the RAM of a running system is clean.

He proposed a “foolproof” way to ensure that the RAM of a system is clean (without shutting it down and booting it from a clean boot device). That’s the only thing that makes his suggestion useful.

However, it isn’t foolproof, and even you see that.

FWIW, RootkitRevealer uses exactly the same method, so it’s not like this guy came up with anything novel. In fact, RootkitRevealer even has the disclaimer:

note: RootkitRevealer is not intended to detect rootkits like Fu that don't attempt to hide their files or registry keys

It only finds things that are trying to hide. If they aren’t trying to hide, you have to scan them conventionally.

is this botnet.

I hope this helps your work in securing your computers and networks.

Yours In Ufa,
Kilgore Trout

Just wanted to add info if anyone was interested on how the control messages work:

Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124307(EXCHG.65).aspx?ppud=4

An event is generated in a user's Exchange account when a new message arrives. This event causes a Short Message Service (SMS) notification to be sent to the user's device. The device synchronizes in the background. The user data is updated to the most current information, with no intervention on the part of the user.

The notification is sent as an SMS control message to the device. It is different from a regular SMS notification, because it does not appear as an SMS message in the Inbox. The SMS router and Exchange ActiveSync on the device process the notification. The notification itself does not carry any sensitive data.

Notifications can be sent from Exchange Server 2003 directly to the SMS address of the device, or through an aggregator (for example, a corporate service provider) configured by the Exchange administrator. For notifications to be sent to the SMS address of the device, the administrator must create an SMTP carrier in Exchange System Manager.

Microsoft is not going to run a BES.

It may come as a surprise, but you're actually wrong there http://www.microsoft.com/online/mobility/blackberry.mspx.

Also, I'm surprised that nobody seems to have mentioned that obvious reason for iPhone use in Microsoft. This is a company filled with tech geeks and the iPhone is one of the most iconic gadgets of the past couple of years. I would be surprised if a healthy chunk of employees didn't have one.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-006.mspx

That's a month ago. Took about two minutes of searching - like I said, it was a month ago so I didn't have to look backwards very far.

Remote code execution on Server 2k3 (all versions), Windows 7, and Server 2k8. Of course, this presupposes that Windows has SMB (hint: yes)

Or do you not consider remote code execution a security issue?

Look. I don't despise Microsoft like most people around here - just a lukewarm pain-in-my-assness. But let's not go pretending that they don't have more holes than Swiss cheese. If you do, you're either too ignorant to comment, or being delibrately obtuse.

Perhaps we could compare to phones instead, you know, the market where Symbian runs on 250 million devices, Windows Mobile runs on 50 million - and Apple are where, remind me? (It's 42 million, for the curious.)

Actually, the iPhone OS runs on 70 Million + devices (iPhone's + iPod Touch).

All of those Windows Mobile devices aren't phones either....

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/devices/verticals/default.mspx

Hearing this news saddened me at first, then it angered me into action. I've setup an online donation fund here. With a small $50 weekly donation from 30 or 40 million of you, Bill can continue to live the kind of life he's used to. Won't somebody think of Bill Gate's children!

Too late. Bill has already set up an online donation fund for that very purpose here.

Okay guys, here's where you two are talking past each other:

Vista and 7 don't execute Autorun.exe by default.

So yes, the default option on the modeless dialog prompt is essentially autorun, and in one parsing of the sentence, you can validly say that yes, the default is to execute autorun. So clone53421 has a bit of a point.

However I'm pretty much certain that what that sentence actually means is that the Vista and 7 do not just execute autorun without you touching it. The default referred to here is to throw up the dialog instead of to run autorun. That dialog has a default of autorun. In that sense, gparent is right.

The problem is that we have two levels of the word default.

Can we have peace now?

The "user clicks okay", to be pedantic, was wrong on both sides, because the dialog looks like this, with no OK button: http://htstechtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/vista-autoplay-dialog-box.jpg or http://i.technet.microsoft.com/cc137730.fig01(en-us).gif etc.. XP had an okay button, but that's not what either of you were talking about.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

...I pretty much stick with Malwarebytes, CCleaner, SpywareBlaster, and MSE.

Actually, I got this tip off another /. post...researched each (non-MS) application, determined for myself that they were legit, and have not looked back. In fact, I just spent a few minutes last night eradicating the trojan "Microsoft" Antivirus 2010 on a friend's computer using the Malwarebytes app on a USB. Worked like a charm.

But don't take my word for it...do your own evaluation. I think you'll like what you find.

Now, this ain't bulletproof but it's a start.

1) Download autoruns, run it, take a look at what it finds.
2) Think something is suspicious? Upload to Virus Total.
3) Act accordingly

It's anything but foolproof and there are a LOT of things that will slip past, but it's a good way to start without having to know anything about software.

This should not be marked informative. As others point out below, that is precisely the situation for which Microsoft provides SBS (Small Business Server), and has done so for over a decade. According to this page it's $1,089 for SBS Standard Edition with 5 CALs, and $1,540 for an additional 20 CALs. Less than $3,000 to get your 25 user office up and running, and you don't need a huge investment in hardware because it's designed to run on one server.

(And why did you call out the Enterprise version of Windows Server? It'd be a fairly unusual small company that needs that kind of horsepower. Even most true enterprises run Standard Server on most of their machines and only put Enterprise on the ones that really need it. I think you're trying to troll...)

And you're pretending there are all these extra licensing costs when there aren't. You'll get all that and more with SBS 2008 Standard: http://www.microsoft.com/sbs/en/us/editions-overview.aspx

Better yet, also customize autorun.inf and set a custom icon and drive label. If you don't see it, you know your drive's been infected.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776823(VS.85).aspx#AutoRun_Commands

Don't really need FatWallet...even Microsoft has information on where students can find discounted pricing (information here). If that doesn't work, a Google search reveals TONS of information.

If are going to engage in FUD... you could at least *try* to be accurate or support your arguments with... something.

>Windows 7 only allows signed drivers,

On x64 Win 7 that is correct... but not for x86 versions.

>and the only way to get a signed driver is to pay Microsoft a lot of money.

Incorrect, to quote a whitepaper on the subject:

Obtain an SPC from a commercial CA that issues digital certificates for signing kernel-mode code. The list of CAs who provide SPCs (or code-signing certificates) that can be used for kernel-mode code signing is available at the “Microsoft Cross-certificates for Windows Vista Kernel Mode Code Signing” Web page listed in “Resource” at the end of this paper.

The section in question points you to this site with a whole list of certificate providers.

One name (Microsoft) seems to be missing from that list.

If are going to engage in FUD... you could at least *try* to be accurate or support your arguments with... something.

>Windows 7 only allows signed drivers,

On x64 Win 7 that is correct... but not for x86 versions.

>and the only way to get a signed driver is to pay Microsoft a lot of money.

Incorrect, to quote a whitepaper on the subject:

Obtain an SPC from a commercial CA that issues digital certificates for signing kernel-mode code. The list of CAs who provide SPCs (or code-signing certificates) that can be used for kernel-mode code signing is available at the “Microsoft Cross-certificates for Windows Vista Kernel Mode Code Signing” Web page listed in “Resource” at the end of this paper.

The section in question points you to this site with a whole list of certificate providers.

One name (Microsoft) seems to be missing from that list.

POSIX compliance is what actually matters?

Correct.

So Windows NT and up can be UNIX - I did not know that.

No. Quoting MS themselves:

There is no support for POSIX or OS/2 programs in Microsoft Windows XP-based or in Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based operating systems.

Windows NT 3.5 & 4 were (poorly) certified against an ancient POSIX spec to satisfy certain US govt procurement requirements.

If Windows 7 was POSIX:2008 certified, it would probably be more a capable unix than GNU/linux or OS X.... but it's not.

Was this a Windows 7 Reduced Functionality for Netbooks (TM) version?

Yes, and I have to wonder WTF Microsoft was thinking when they developed this. If they think I'll "upgrade" to a $200 OS to run a $200 computer they have rocks in their heads. As it is, they have me thinking "Windows 7 is the shittiest OS I ever used." (As an aside to the mods, go ahead and mod me down here, too, just like you modded my GP comment. If an honest and polite opinion is "flamebait" you must have a dog in the fight, and not have much faith in your own stuff. Glad I'm not you. Mod away, my karma is excellent).

Windows 7 Enterprise is better than XP

One would expact it to be, but then again Windows 7 professional upgrade costs more than the netbook itself (From $299.99 according to Microsoft's web site). I'll be putting Mandriva on it. Had Microsoft not given me a crippled OS I might have actually bough a copy for a homebrew desktop. As it is, I'll be sticking to Linux.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

• MS Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
• MS Optical Desktop Pro (Mouse and Keyboard)

• MS Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
• MS Optical Desktop Pro (Mouse and Keyboard)

is Steve Ballmer.

Enjoy.

Yous In Redmond,
KT

Yup, from the way they phrased it, it almost sounds like you can't identify as cisgender, which is awfully odd.

It just reinforces the fact that most companies have no idea what "gender identity" means, even when it's part of their equal opportunity employment statement. (hint: sex, gender, and orientation are completely different things)

This is why Microsoft is able to have a product to verify that Windows drivers don't hang, even though doing so for any program in general is impossible.

Microsoft is historically LGBT-friendly, though that has focused more on internal staff policies in the past. Here is some more information on that.

Because in May 2005, Lisa Brummel became the Senior Vice President of Human Resources. She's openly lesbian.

> Finally, if at all possible, make sure your DHCP server sends ACK using unicast where possible. AFAIK, every major OS should be able to handle this

Windows Vista by default (stupidly/evilly pick one) sets the broadcast flag for DHCP, so it requires broadcast responses. While it can handle unicast replies if configured accordingly, by default it doesn't ask for unicast replies and thus should not be getting unicast replies.

See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233

Windows 7 probably handles it better: http://blogs.technet.com/teamdhcp/archive/2009/02/12/dhcp-broadcast-flag-handling-in-windows-7.aspx

That said, "default Vista" is OK with "broadcast replies" which are are unicast layer 2 (dest= mac address of vista machine) but broadcast layer 3 (dest=255.255.255.255). This may or may not be RFC compliant (in my reading the RFC is not very specific on this), but it works.

How I know this? Because in my previous workplace (which supplied "expensive hotel/airport internet") I wrote a dhcp server which was somewhat RFC compliant (and did work with Vista unlike some other dhcp servers ;) ), but I had to deal with a scenario where some network devices between the client and server were not forwarding layer 2 broadcast frames (they were supposed to) - so the dhcp replies never reached the vista clients. Fixing the devices in time was not possible, so I worked around it by doing the above.

If 802.11 broadcasts are that expensive (I can see why it would be different from unicast but are there any decent articles on that? ), then it looks like that feature would be useful in this scenario too - since you then send a 802.11 unicast but have the dest IP = 255.255.255.255. :)

Not sure if some patent troll has patented that already - to me it's just an obvious solution.

I don't see a good technical reason why Vista (or other DHCP client) should use broadcasts by default though.

And I wonder though how many laptop users are actually using Vista and sticking with it, instead of moving to Windows 7?

Does this look like a mere buzzword? I am not a .NET developer, but after reading this whitepaper i seriously consider catching up on this C#/ASP.NET/VS thing. Why is this knee-jerk negative reaction every time cloud computing is mentioned on Slashdot? Is this that IT technicians are afraid they'll be soon out of servers to maintain?

Microsoft has a free version of Visual Studio for download (their "Express" edition). It's not as fancy as the full fledged version, but it's not bad at all. You can write XNA apps and most anything else with it.

Nothing wrong with that. SL will work on FF, IE or Safari, and on Windows or Mac.

For now!
I remember the ever behind IE4.5 and IE5 for the Mac. Eventually they pulled support because IE6 was Windows only.

Plus its a great way to use all those MS devs out there, who (like me) don't know Flash.

Imagine what would happen if people like you learn SL and never Flash. Flash will one day be as obscure as RealPlayer for everything except ads. MS will soon say the don't want FF, Linux and Mac users getting around without owning a current IEWIntel system.

MS already leverages "unstuck on Windows-only" policy for Windows Media Player (defunct on Macs at versions 7 and 9 depending on MacOS release.) DirectX 10 requires Vista and above, IE9 won't work on XP but will be OK on Vista. Any free only as in beer version could be discontinued, and as history has taught us in all these cases for MS, the backward compatibility just ignored.