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I was thinking of this as requiring an extension to HTML. Doing it using existing JavaScript technology would be tricky as it would mean running JavaScript inside the target page. Even if you find a way to do this, you cannot be sure that someone at Mozilla or Microsoft woun't see it as a security problem and close the hole.

I don't think it would be possible with AJAX unless the target document is on the same server, this is a restriction of XMLHttpRequest. (This where I would like to link to the "Security Alert" near the bottom).

That said, it might be possible to do this using a frameset. You link to a frameset on yout own server with the extra info passed as arguments. The frameset parses the arguments, loads the target page into a frame, then it scans the page for the text and then scrolls the frame.

Alternatively you could serve the target page via your own server inserting an anchor.

Actually, with the release of XNA Express the SDK and compiler are free for the XBox 360. There's talk of a fee to enable distribution, but it was low, $99 per year.

Actually, if you look at microsoft's site, they are going to release IE7 as a high priority windows update. Lord knows I'm not defending their atrocious practices in their web browser forays, but a more standards compliant IE will probably reach a decently wide audiance (I believe that high priority installs stuff on your computer without your permission which is its own bag of ethical dillemas).

"Does anyone know if there is a way to move scroll bars to the left side of a window in Microsoft Windows XP Pro?""

Learn Arabic.

The snipped out part of the announcement seems to me to leave a bad impression. Given this is /., I can almost hear everybody filling the blanks with "and it's still is slow, because MS sucks" or the like, which is not the opinion or intent of the comment actually quoted.

If you read the whole comment, you will see that in fact, the CLR implementation does very well, the designer is now at MS working on the CLR, and all in all, IronPython is a decent Python implementation.

Given this work and the F# compiler work http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/fsharp.aspx, I think CLR is done quite well as a language independent platform. Also, given the excellent work of the Mono and Portable .Net groups, I think it is also reasonably portable as well.

What? I don't understand what you're saying, but I think you're trying to counter my sig.
Yes, I was:) For the record, the "royal you" means not you specifically but all of "us". BS meant bullshit. Just clearing it up in case any of our non-native english speaking readers have an issue trying to identify that acronym.

At any rate, I completely agree with you that a non-trivial amount of reboots are directly related to bad drivers, bad software, funky hardware or a good combination of them. No argument there. I do, however, disagree that the OSs in question are stable once hardware, software and drivers are controlled for.

To illustrate my point, I did this google query:

site:support.microsoft.com workaround reboot

And of the responses I got in the first few pages (of 7,480 total), I got the following links:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315753
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838691/en-us?spid= 1444&sid=232
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916279
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904161/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb% 3Ben-us%3B823942
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841027/>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842397
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837869/en-us?spid= 6790&sid=global
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812175/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322175/

Every single one of those is a WinXP,2k or 2k3. (The third one is Wince, which affects me directly, having to reboot to get my bluetooth working all of the time).

Every single one of these has something to do, directly, with the OS or other MS software (One is MS games, another is MS IE5.01).

All of them have the single workaround of "reboot".

I found "Host Name Resolution Does Not Work After One Year When You Use a Hosts File" especially entertaining. It seems like MS would have to code something like that on purpose to introduce that bug. The hosts file just doesn't work anymore after 365 days.

So, you can argue all you want that you don't personally need to reboot your machines, but that doesn't make up for the fact that Windows has lots of bugs which prevent uptime in general.

What? I don't understand what you're saying, but I think you're trying to counter my sig.
Yes, I was:) For the record, the "royal you" means not you specifically but all of "us". BS meant bullshit. Just clearing it up in case any of our non-native english speaking readers have an issue trying to identify that acronym.

At any rate, I completely agree with you that a non-trivial amount of reboots are directly related to bad drivers, bad software, funky hardware or a good combination of them. No argument there. I do, however, disagree that the OSs in question are stable once hardware, software and drivers are controlled for.

To illustrate my point, I did this google query:

site:support.microsoft.com workaround reboot

And of the responses I got in the first few pages (of 7,480 total), I got the following links:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315753
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838691/en-us?spid= 1444&sid=232
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916279
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904161/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb% 3Ben-us%3B823942
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841027/>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842397
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837869/en-us?spid= 6790&sid=global
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812175/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322175/

Every single one of those is a WinXP,2k or 2k3. (The third one is Wince, which affects me directly, having to reboot to get my bluetooth working all of the time).

Every single one of these has something to do, directly, with the OS or other MS software (One is MS games, another is MS IE5.01).

All of them have the single workaround of "reboot".

I found "Host Name Resolution Does Not Work After One Year When You Use a Hosts File" especially entertaining. It seems like MS would have to code something like that on purpose to introduce that bug. The hosts file just doesn't work anymore after 365 days.

So, you can argue all you want that you don't personally need to reboot your machines, but that doesn't make up for the fact that Windows has lots of bugs which prevent uptime in general.

What? I don't understand what you're saying, but I think you're trying to counter my sig.
Yes, I was:) For the record, the "royal you" means not you specifically but all of "us". BS meant bullshit. Just clearing it up in case any of our non-native english speaking readers have an issue trying to identify that acronym.

At any rate, I completely agree with you that a non-trivial amount of reboots are directly related to bad drivers, bad software, funky hardware or a good combination of them. No argument there. I do, however, disagree that the OSs in question are stable once hardware, software and drivers are controlled for.

To illustrate my point, I did this google query:

site:support.microsoft.com workaround reboot

And of the responses I got in the first few pages (of 7,480 total), I got the following links:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315753
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838691/en-us?spid= 1444&sid=232
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916279
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904161/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb% 3Ben-us%3B823942
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841027/>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842397
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837869/en-us?spid= 6790&sid=global
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812175/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322175/

Every single one of those is a WinXP,2k or 2k3. (The third one is Wince, which affects me directly, having to reboot to get my bluetooth working all of the time).

Every single one of these has something to do, directly, with the OS or other MS software (One is MS games, another is MS IE5.01).

All of them have the single workaround of "reboot".

I found "Host Name Resolution Does Not Work After One Year When You Use a Hosts File" especially entertaining. It seems like MS would have to code something like that on purpose to introduce that bug. The hosts file just doesn't work anymore after 365 days.

So, you can argue all you want that you don't personally need to reboot your machines, but that doesn't make up for the fact that Windows has lots of bugs which prevent uptime in general.

What? I don't understand what you're saying, but I think you're trying to counter my sig.
Yes, I was:) For the record, the "royal you" means not you specifically but all of "us". BS meant bullshit. Just clearing it up in case any of our non-native english speaking readers have an issue trying to identify that acronym.

At any rate, I completely agree with you that a non-trivial amount of reboots are directly related to bad drivers, bad software, funky hardware or a good combination of them. No argument there. I do, however, disagree that the OSs in question are stable once hardware, software and drivers are controlled for.

To illustrate my point, I did this google query:

site:support.microsoft.com workaround reboot

And of the responses I got in the first few pages (of 7,480 total), I got the following links:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315753
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838691/en-us?spid= 1444&sid=232
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916279
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904161/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb% 3Ben-us%3B823942
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841027/>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842397
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837869/en-us?spid= 6790&sid=global
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812175/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322175/

Every single one of those is a WinXP,2k or 2k3. (The third one is Wince, which affects me directly, having to reboot to get my bluetooth working all of the time).

Every single one of these has something to do, directly, with the OS or other MS software (One is MS games, another is MS IE5.01).

All of them have the single workaround of "reboot".

I found "Host Name Resolution Does Not Work After One Year When You Use a Hosts File" especially entertaining. It seems like MS would have to code something like that on purpose to introduce that bug. The hosts file just doesn't work anymore after 365 days.

So, you can argue all you want that you don't personally need to reboot your machines, but that doesn't make up for the fact that Windows has lots of bugs which prevent uptime in general.

What? I don't understand what you're saying, but I think you're trying to counter my sig.
Yes, I was:) For the record, the "royal you" means not you specifically but all of "us". BS meant bullshit. Just clearing it up in case any of our non-native english speaking readers have an issue trying to identify that acronym.

At any rate, I completely agree with you that a non-trivial amount of reboots are directly related to bad drivers, bad software, funky hardware or a good combination of them. No argument there. I do, however, disagree that the OSs in question are stable once hardware, software and drivers are controlled for.

To illustrate my point, I did this google query:

site:support.microsoft.com workaround reboot

And of the responses I got in the first few pages (of 7,480 total), I got the following links:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315753
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838691/en-us?spid= 1444&sid=232
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916279
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904161/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb% 3Ben-us%3B823942
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841027/>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842397
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837869/en-us?spid= 6790&sid=global
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812175/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322175/

Every single one of those is a WinXP,2k or 2k3. (The third one is Wince, which affects me directly, having to reboot to get my bluetooth working all of the time).

Every single one of these has something to do, directly, with the OS or other MS software (One is MS games, another is MS IE5.01).

All of them have the single workaround of "reboot".

I found "Host Name Resolution Does Not Work After One Year When You Use a Hosts File" especially entertaining. It seems like MS would have to code something like that on purpose to introduce that bug. The hosts file just doesn't work anymore after 365 days.

So, you can argue all you want that you don't personally need to reboot your machines, but that doesn't make up for the fact that Windows has lots of bugs which prevent uptime in general.

What? I don't understand what you're saying, but I think you're trying to counter my sig.
Yes, I was:) For the record, the "royal you" means not you specifically but all of "us". BS meant bullshit. Just clearing it up in case any of our non-native english speaking readers have an issue trying to identify that acronym.

At any rate, I completely agree with you that a non-trivial amount of reboots are directly related to bad drivers, bad software, funky hardware or a good combination of them. No argument there. I do, however, disagree that the OSs in question are stable once hardware, software and drivers are controlled for.

To illustrate my point, I did this google query:

site:support.microsoft.com workaround reboot

And of the responses I got in the first few pages (of 7,480 total), I got the following links:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315753
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838691/en-us?spid= 1444&sid=232
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916279
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904161/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb% 3Ben-us%3B823942
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841027/>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842397
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837869/en-us?spid= 6790&sid=global
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812175/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322175/

Every single one of those is a WinXP,2k or 2k3. (The third one is Wince, which affects me directly, having to reboot to get my bluetooth working all of the time).

Every single one of these has something to do, directly, with the OS or other MS software (One is MS games, another is MS IE5.01).

All of them have the single workaround of "reboot".

I found "Host Name Resolution Does Not Work After One Year When You Use a Hosts File" especially entertaining. It seems like MS would have to code something like that on purpose to introduce that bug. The hosts file just doesn't work anymore after 365 days.

So, you can argue all you want that you don't personally need to reboot your machines, but that doesn't make up for the fact that Windows has lots of bugs which prevent uptime in general.

What? I don't understand what you're saying, but I think you're trying to counter my sig.
Yes, I was:) For the record, the "royal you" means not you specifically but all of "us". BS meant bullshit. Just clearing it up in case any of our non-native english speaking readers have an issue trying to identify that acronym.

At any rate, I completely agree with you that a non-trivial amount of reboots are directly related to bad drivers, bad software, funky hardware or a good combination of them. No argument there. I do, however, disagree that the OSs in question are stable once hardware, software and drivers are controlled for.

To illustrate my point, I did this google query:

site:support.microsoft.com workaround reboot

And of the responses I got in the first few pages (of 7,480 total), I got the following links:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315753
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838691/en-us?spid= 1444&sid=232
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916279
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904161/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb% 3Ben-us%3B823942
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841027/>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842397
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837869/en-us?spid= 6790&sid=global
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812175/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322175/

Every single one of those is a WinXP,2k or 2k3. (The third one is Wince, which affects me directly, having to reboot to get my bluetooth working all of the time).

Every single one of these has something to do, directly, with the OS or other MS software (One is MS games, another is MS IE5.01).

All of them have the single workaround of "reboot".

I found "Host Name Resolution Does Not Work After One Year When You Use a Hosts File" especially entertaining. It seems like MS would have to code something like that on purpose to introduce that bug. The hosts file just doesn't work anymore after 365 days.

So, you can argue all you want that you don't personally need to reboot your machines, but that doesn't make up for the fact that Windows has lots of bugs which prevent uptime in general.

What? I don't understand what you're saying, but I think you're trying to counter my sig.
Yes, I was:) For the record, the "royal you" means not you specifically but all of "us". BS meant bullshit. Just clearing it up in case any of our non-native english speaking readers have an issue trying to identify that acronym.

At any rate, I completely agree with you that a non-trivial amount of reboots are directly related to bad drivers, bad software, funky hardware or a good combination of them. No argument there. I do, however, disagree that the OSs in question are stable once hardware, software and drivers are controlled for.

To illustrate my point, I did this google query:

site:support.microsoft.com workaround reboot

And of the responses I got in the first few pages (of 7,480 total), I got the following links:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315753
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838691/en-us?spid= 1444&sid=232
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916279
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904161/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb% 3Ben-us%3B823942
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841027/>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842397
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837869/en-us?spid= 6790&sid=global
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812175/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322175/

Every single one of those is a WinXP,2k or 2k3. (The third one is Wince, which affects me directly, having to reboot to get my bluetooth working all of the time).

Every single one of these has something to do, directly, with the OS or other MS software (One is MS games, another is MS IE5.01).

All of them have the single workaround of "reboot".

I found "Host Name Resolution Does Not Work After One Year When You Use a Hosts File" especially entertaining. It seems like MS would have to code something like that on purpose to introduce that bug. The hosts file just doesn't work anymore after 365 days.

So, you can argue all you want that you don't personally need to reboot your machines, but that doesn't make up for the fact that Windows has lots of bugs which prevent uptime in general.

What? I don't understand what you're saying, but I think you're trying to counter my sig.
Yes, I was:) For the record, the "royal you" means not you specifically but all of "us". BS meant bullshit. Just clearing it up in case any of our non-native english speaking readers have an issue trying to identify that acronym.

At any rate, I completely agree with you that a non-trivial amount of reboots are directly related to bad drivers, bad software, funky hardware or a good combination of them. No argument there. I do, however, disagree that the OSs in question are stable once hardware, software and drivers are controlled for.

To illustrate my point, I did this google query:

site:support.microsoft.com workaround reboot

And of the responses I got in the first few pages (of 7,480 total), I got the following links:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315753
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838691/en-us?spid= 1444&sid=232
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916279
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904161/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb% 3Ben-us%3B823942
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841027/>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842397
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837869/en-us?spid= 6790&sid=global
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812175/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322175/

Every single one of those is a WinXP,2k or 2k3. (The third one is Wince, which affects me directly, having to reboot to get my bluetooth working all of the time).

Every single one of these has something to do, directly, with the OS or other MS software (One is MS games, another is MS IE5.01).

All of them have the single workaround of "reboot".

I found "Host Name Resolution Does Not Work After One Year When You Use a Hosts File" especially entertaining. It seems like MS would have to code something like that on purpose to introduce that bug. The hosts file just doesn't work anymore after 365 days.

So, you can argue all you want that you don't personally need to reboot your machines, but that doesn't make up for the fact that Windows has lots of bugs which prevent uptime in general.

What? I don't understand what you're saying, but I think you're trying to counter my sig.
Yes, I was:) For the record, the "royal you" means not you specifically but all of "us". BS meant bullshit. Just clearing it up in case any of our non-native english speaking readers have an issue trying to identify that acronym.

At any rate, I completely agree with you that a non-trivial amount of reboots are directly related to bad drivers, bad software, funky hardware or a good combination of them. No argument there. I do, however, disagree that the OSs in question are stable once hardware, software and drivers are controlled for.

To illustrate my point, I did this google query:

site:support.microsoft.com workaround reboot

And of the responses I got in the first few pages (of 7,480 total), I got the following links:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315753
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838691/en-us?spid= 1444&sid=232
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916279
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904161/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb% 3Ben-us%3B823942
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841027/>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842397
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837869/en-us?spid= 6790&sid=global
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812175/
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322175/

Every single one of those is a WinXP,2k or 2k3. (The third one is Wince, which affects me directly, having to reboot to get my bluetooth working all of the time).

Every single one of these has something to do, directly, with the OS or other MS software (One is MS games, another is MS IE5.01).

All of them have the single workaround of "reboot".

I found "Host Name Resolution Does Not Work After One Year When You Use a Hosts File" especially entertaining. It seems like MS would have to code something like that on purpose to introduce that bug. The hosts file just doesn't work anymore after 365 days.

So, you can argue all you want that you don't personally need to reboot your machines, but that doesn't make up for the fact that Windows has lots of bugs which prevent uptime in general.

What may occur is a separate box consisting of the GFX card, Physics Card, AI card, PSU for the above along with supporting memory modules just to power existing games.

How to turn off the Windows Update feature in Windows XP

You receive one or more error messages when the system administrator disables Windows Update or Microsoft Update

How to turn off the Windows Update feature in Windows XP

You receive one or more error messages when the system administrator disables Windows Update or Microsoft Update

Wouldn't it make more sense for Microsoft to work to change the current totally broken patent system?

Yes. But until and unless there is actual change in the system, they have to play the game the way the rules are written.

Verbix supports a total of, and I quote, "Total: 389 languages."

Windows XP supports 92 languages (had to count) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292246/. Do we really want a company like Microsoft patenting this so-called method?

Right. I did this:

Ran IE.
Tools >> Windows Update
    I get the page with the choice of Express or Custom buttons.
I replace: http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/defau lt.aspx?ln=en-us
    With: http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/defau lt.aspx?ln=en-us&Hash=6VJPCR9
Then I press Enter.
    I get the page with the choice of Express or Custom buttons.
I press the Custom button or the Express button.
    I get the page with the yellow/orange Genuine Windows Validation header.
I press the continue button.
    I get page asking me to buy a key.
Result: Doesn't work.

I also did this:

Ran IE.
Copied and pasted link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyId=94E5BF41-2907-4415-8F72-DA7C2C2ACE09&displa ylang=en&Hash=6VJPCR9
Pressed Enter.
    Successfully downloaded IE7 RC1 file.
Ran file.
    IE7 installation wants to validate.
Result: Doesn't work.

So, if I can't view the page that shows which updates I need and, for the one file (IE7 RC1 install) I do know the name and location of, it ends up wanting to validate on its own anyway, what the bleeping use is any of this to begin with?

Right. I did this:

Ran IE.
Tools >> Windows Update
    I get the page with the choice of Express or Custom buttons.
I replace: http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/defau lt.aspx?ln=en-us
    With: http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/defau lt.aspx?ln=en-us&Hash=6VJPCR9
Then I press Enter.
    I get the page with the choice of Express or Custom buttons.
I press the Custom button or the Express button.
    I get the page with the yellow/orange Genuine Windows Validation header.
I press the continue button.
    I get page asking me to buy a key.
Result: Doesn't work.

I also did this:

Ran IE.
Copied and pasted link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyId=94E5BF41-2907-4415-8F72-DA7C2C2ACE09&displa ylang=en&Hash=6VJPCR9
Pressed Enter.
    Successfully downloaded IE7 RC1 file.
Ran file.
    IE7 installation wants to validate.
Result: Doesn't work.

So, if I can't view the page that shows which updates I need and, for the one file (IE7 RC1 install) I do know the name and location of, it ends up wanting to validate on its own anyway, what the bleeping use is any of this to begin with?

Right. I did this:

Ran IE.
Tools >> Windows Update
    I get the page with the choice of Express or Custom buttons.
I replace: http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/defau lt.aspx?ln=en-us
    With: http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/defau lt.aspx?ln=en-us&Hash=6VJPCR9
Then I press Enter.
    I get the page with the choice of Express or Custom buttons.
I press the Custom button or the Express button.
    I get the page with the yellow/orange Genuine Windows Validation header.
I press the continue button.
    I get page asking me to buy a key.
Result: Doesn't work.

I also did this:

Ran IE.
Copied and pasted link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyId=94E5BF41-2907-4415-8F72-DA7C2C2ACE09&displa ylang=en&Hash=6VJPCR9
Pressed Enter.
    Successfully downloaded IE7 RC1 file.
Ran file.
    IE7 installation wants to validate.
Result: Doesn't work.

So, if I can't view the page that shows which updates I need and, for the one file (IE7 RC1 install) I do know the name and location of, it ends up wanting to validate on its own anyway, what the bleeping use is any of this to begin with?

I prefer this method: go to AutoPatcher and choose your OS (Win2K, XP, 64, or 2k3). Benefit here is that they do have some nice registry tweaks and/or installers (TweakUI for example) all rolled in for you. Wonderful to bring a new install "up to speed" in as few clicks as possible and keep the file size requirements to a minimum.

Don't trust somebody other than Microsoft themselves? (I can even write that with a straight face :)

Go to: Microsoft Downloads and Search in the Windows sub-section. Search for "iso-9660". Be amazed. Problem with this is these downloads are huge (not that I mind on a 10Mbit synchronous pipe :) -- they cover the same Windows families, but to get one you have to download it ALL. This is, of course, good for multi-flavored environments...

Me, myself, and I? I prefer to click on the Apple and choose "Software Update..." (or softwareupdate -ia from the command line). Of course on the servers a good 'ol fashioned "yum update" does the trick. But hey, that's just me. Microsoft is making this WAY TOO HARD -- and I've begrudgingly paid for each and every one of my Windows installs (personal and/or corporate).

When you want to download a file from Microsoft a WGA (windows genuine advantage) check is performed. Microsoft installs a small piece of software on your computer that contacts the Microsoft server and checks for validity. If the test fails you will not be able to download the file(s). The following method gives you the ability to download every file from Microsoft without a WGA check.

All you need is the tool mgadiag.exe and the download url of the file that you want to download. Mgadiag.exe is the Microsoft Genuine Advantage Diagnostic Tool. Start this tool and check the value of the Download Center Code, this should be seven chars consisting of upper case letters and numbers. Remember that code and open the website of the file that you want to download.

A download page looks similar to this one for Internet Explorer 7. All you need to do is append the following value to the url and you will be able to download the file without a WGA check.

Hash=download center code

Replace the download center code with the code that you looked up in the mgadiag.exe tool. This code changes frequently, make sure you have the correct code before starting the downloads.

To sum it up for the lazy ones:

1. download mgadiag.exe
2. start mgadiag.exe and look at the download center code
3. visit a download page at microsoft.com
4. append Hash=download center code to the url (example Hash=6VJPCR9), no quotation marks needed
5. Hit enter

Microsoft is probably going to fix this soon, it is working nevertheless at the moment.

Update: I created two images to show you the difference that the hash= entry makes:

When you want to download a file from Microsoft a WGA (windows genuine advantage) check is performed. Microsoft installs a small piece of software on your computer that contacts the Microsoft server and checks for validity. If the test fails you will not be able to download the file(s). The following method gives you the ability to download every file from Microsoft without a WGA check.

All you need is the tool mgadiag.exe and the download url of the file that you want to download. Mgadiag.exe is the Microsoft Genuine Advantage Diagnostic Tool. Start this tool and check the value of the Download Center Code, this should be seven chars consisting of upper case letters and numbers. Remember that code and open the website of the file that you want to download.

A download page looks similar to this one for Internet Explorer 7. All you need to do is append the following value to the url and you will be able to download the file without a WGA check.

Hash=download center code

Replace the download center code with the code that you looked up in the mgadiag.exe tool. This code changes frequently, make sure you have the correct code before starting the downloads.

To sum it up for the lazy ones:

1. download mgadiag.exe
2. start mgadiag.exe and look at the download center code
3. visit a download page at microsoft.com
4. append Hash=download center code to the url (example Hash=6VJPCR9), no quotation marks needed
5. Hit enter

Microsoft is probably going to fix this soon, it is working nevertheless at the moment.

Update: I created two images to show you the difference that the hash= entry makes:

mgadiag.exe still 'phones home' to verify your windows and to obtain the download code (being a diagnostic tool, it also displays some additional license information).

it's no different than running the manual verification using the 'alternate tool' (i.e. the method, still available, that firefox users had to use before microsoft released a netscape/firefox plugin version of the activex checker). http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=50344 (genuinecheck.exe at microsoft.com)

the only thing this will bypass is the installation of the verification activex (or plugin)... so you're still being subject to the 'body cavity search' -- the only difference is that you get to choose when you drop your drawers...

I'm a CS major in college, I knew how to use DOS when I was 4 and I learned my first programming language when I was 8. Most of my Windows programming is in .NET but I have had decent experience with native Win32 code as well. I think I know what I'm talking about.

I have not seen ANY Windows thread recover in the way you say it should, under 3.1, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2K, XP, or Vista. They just crash. .NET is a different story, but Windows Explorer is not written in .NET.

Windows Explorer's job is not to recover gracefully from errors.... that's part of .NET's job. Explorer's job is to provide a basic interface for interacting with Windows and your computer and your applications.

Microsoft WAS going to recode Explorer in .NET, but that got scrapped along with WinFX and everything else when they started panicking about time constraints. Eventually we might have Windows Explorer.NET, but until then plugins that access null pointers or divide by zero or overflow their memory allocations are going to crash the host program. There is no way around it. I'm still not ruling out Microsoft's fault in DivX crashing, but I find it far more likely DivX is at fault, and at the very least you can't just ignore the posibility.

Unmanaged Microsoft VS6 C++ does have some exception handling support, but from what I can see it appear to only work when triggered manually with a throw statement. It can't catch null pointers or memory overflows like .NET can (because it's UNMANAGED). Thus even in one of these blocks a program can easily crash.

I guess it technically isn't re-writing, since they lifted the majority of the stack from BSD in the first place, but hey, did this wheel really need to be reinvented?

I guess it technically isn't re-writing, since they lifted the majority of the stack from BSD in the first place, but hey, did this wheel really need to be reinvented?

Microsoft do produce a utility that will help with the situation, however it's only available for enterprise or datacentre versions of Server 2003. It does exactly what the asker wants to do, but since the version of Windows he uses in the render farm is not specified, he may have to pay a premium to get this.

Windows System Resource Manager

This is a sore point for me.

I've got an XP box with 1.5GB RAM. Just checking Process Manager, I've got ~900MB RAM free - and less than 500MB of apps using RAM. Windows' default paging algorithm aggressively swaps LRU blocks, so regardless of whether I'm using all of my RAM (or more than 30%) I can count on windows swapping for a good amount of time during my work day - especially if I've had an application open and unused for a few hours.

Your suggestion about disabling SWAP works - application access is rather like a rocket. Good show! Except for the fact that when swap is disabled, hibernation no longer works. In fact, I have to use a RAM defragger to keep Windows from blue screening when I hibernate. I call it "hibernation roulette."

So, with windows, I have to choose whether I swap during the day, or whether I have to shut down and restart all of my applications every day. Ick.

Any suggestions about how to be able to avoid swap *and* hibernate?
FWIW, upgrading to SP2 and applying http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?am p;displaylang=en&familyid=4cbc68d2-09e1-4511-af14- 03f357180135&displaylang=en
didn't help.....

There is also an API called IsHungAppWindow that can be used to test whether a program is "not responding" in the task manager sense of not having pumped a message for five seconds.

You can read more details in the MSR article. The paper (to appear at OSDI) is here: http://research.microsoft.com/research/shield/pape rs/bshield.pdf

You can read more details in the MSR article. The paper (to appear at OSDI) is here: http://research.microsoft.com/research/shield/pape rs/bshield.pdf

http://research.microsoft.com/research/shield/pape rs/bshield.pdf

Also, this work will appear in OSDI (an operating systems conference) in November.

Rewrite: http:///Vista-Ultimate_i64%5Bcracked%5D.torrent with http://www.microsoft.com/purchase/

You are an ignorant troll not really worth my time. But as I am a forgiving person, I'll repeat it just for you one last time before I leave you to your lonely trolling:

Water-mark attacks are feasible on any product that does not randomly heavily relocate sectors on each write. GBDE can be watermarked by traffic analysis as easy as any other disk encryption software.

Here are the default cluster sizes for NTFS:
          512 MB or less 512 bytes 1
          513 MB - 1,024 MB (1 GB) 1,024 bytes (1 KB) 2
      1,025 MB - 2,048 MB (2 GB) 2,048 bytes (2 KB) 4
      2,049 MB and larger 4,096 bytes (4 KB) 8

Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314878/

(For FAT32 the default clusters are even larger -- do your homework and look it up).

So as you can see, any volume over 1GB is vulnerable, because the attacker can easily force you to write a crafted sequence of sectors (in case of 2GB and larger volumes you rewrite 8 sectors in fixed sequence!) So wake up. Wide-block modes do not prevent this kind of attack, nor does GDBE and sector tags. The only thing you can do is relocation of sectors which rules out real-time transparent disk encryption.

So instead of this dangerous page which will try to install malware we'll get a cleaned-up and safe version

I'm sure glad MS is out to make the interweb a better place for everyone.

I searched a bit. There's a better article here. From that artcle:

BrowserShield's suggested solution to nefarious forces who try to hijack your computer for personal gain is to comb through a Web page for JavaScript or Visual Basic® script and encapsulate it with associated logic that is executed at run time on the user's computer.

Also there is a pdf of a paper they have written

From the abstract of that (I haven't read the whole thing):

The key challenge in filtering dynamic HTML is that it is undecidable to statically determine whether an embedded script will exploit the browser at run-time. We avoid this undecidability problem by rewriting web pages and any embedded scripts into safe equivalents, inserting checks so that the filtering is done at run-time. The rewritten pages contain logic for recursively applying run-time checks to dynamically generated or modified web content, based on known vulnerabilities.

So it looks like what this does is execute scripts that generate HTML and then check the HTML for known vunerabilities.

I searched a bit. There's a better article here. From that artcle:

BrowserShield's suggested solution to nefarious forces who try to hijack your computer for personal gain is to comb through a Web page for JavaScript or Visual Basic® script and encapsulate it with associated logic that is executed at run time on the user's computer.

Also there is a pdf of a paper they have written

From the abstract of that (I haven't read the whole thing):

The key challenge in filtering dynamic HTML is that it is undecidable to statically determine whether an embedded script will exploit the browser at run-time. We avoid this undecidability problem by rewriting web pages and any embedded scripts into safe equivalents, inserting checks so that the filtering is done at run-time. The rewritten pages contain logic for recursively applying run-time checks to dynamically generated or modified web content, based on known vulnerabilities.

So it looks like what this does is execute scripts that generate HTML and then check the HTML for known vunerabilities.

ATLAS also automates AJAX development.

The last part of this video shows an asp.net web page being AJAX enables (although ATLAS is not asp.net specific).

Umm... something having a bug isn't an incredible claim. Sure, it's not a good thing but it happens to everyone. It's nothing to be ashamed about. Just get the bastard fixed and stop dicking about.

This isn't about a perpetual motion machine or an entropy reducing device, or even P vs. NP or Riemann's Hypothesis. This is code. This isn't world changing. Bugs happen, then they get fixed. If they want to stay silent to dodge liability let them. If there is a bug it'll be patched, if there isn't they'll fade into obscurity.

Two main things to remember here: Dom Inspector and the Web Developer Toolbar. Dom Inspector to find where what you're looking for lives in the code, and the Web Developer extension (for Firefox) to edit the CSS and see changes reflected in realtime, as well as way, way more stuff than I could possibly mention here, including "view generated source".

For IE, you should look at the IE Developer Toolbar. It does for IE much of what Firefox's DOM Inspector and Web Developer Toolbar can do. Works with IE6 and IE7.

Yes, I know, IE is "teh evil", but sometimes you have to work with IE-only pages, or pages that do things in different ways for IE and Firefox. It's nice to have a tool in your toolbox that will let you inspect things in IE just as you would in Firefox.

... Browzar's developers say they are examining the feedback but strongly deny that it is adware. ...

If it meets the criteria for spyware: (excerpt)
Five evaluation criteria

Microsoft researchers use the following categories to determine whether to add a program to the definition library for detection, and what classification type, risk level, and recommendation to give it.

Deceptive behaviors. Runs processes or programs on the user's computer without notifying the user and getting the user's consent. Prevents users from controlling the actions taken by the program while it runs on the computer. Prevents users from uninstalling or removing the program.
Privacy. Collects, uses, or communicates the user's personal information and behaviors (such as Web browsing habits) without explicit consent.
Security. Attempts to circumvent or disable the security features on the user's computer, or otherwise compromises the computer's security.
Performance. Undermines performance, reliability, and quality of the user's computing experience with slow computer speed, reduced productivity, or corruption of the operating system.
Industry and consumer opinion. Considers the input from software industry and individual users as a key factor to help identify new behaviors and programs that might present risks to the user's computing experience.

Then it is spyware/adware no matter how strongly the vendor denies it.

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NOBODY is stupid enough to propose such a thing. I think it’s a better guess that the tech in question is to be used to run ad-supported VOIP or similar.

I don’t know who those Faultline people are, but either they or El Reg (and now Slashdot) have been trolled. HAND

I'm not sure LAOJ works out cheaper than MIMN. Oracle 10i is $15k/processor vs $5.7k/processor for MSSQL 2005. If you're developing for a typical MS corporate environment, that's quite a difference!

Agreed though, "Whatever tool fits the job". If scalability requirements are lower and the deployment environment is flexible/OSS/outsourced, then LAMP will do a great job.

Hello, I am a very old lady that reads Slashdot most days. I have trouble reading the small print in phone contracts,old eyes, so my way round this is to sign the contract in front of young person...but I cross out the section that say I agree with the small print. Then I photograph the contract with my magic camera before they take it off me, I get away with this every time...so far :-)

Lyndsay Williams
SenseCam
http://research.microsoft.com/users/lyn/

Buried: Creature House Expression 3, Mac/Win Software.
The SW (Mac) says Beta, it's not, just re-branded

http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/gr aphic_designer/previous/expression3_home.aspx

DL

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Goodies:

http://www.studioe3.com/lessons/index.asp

http://www.graphicxtras.com/products/express.htm

Get it while you can, 'cause after this ... it's (probably) gonna be gone.

My Anniversary present to you.