EXACTLY! I mean honestly its heresay whether MS even logs the IP's of the people sending the data or not. Who cares. I'm sure by simply reading TFA that very news website logged your ip, browser, etc also, just like ANY website does. Why dont people sit here and get all pissy about that? I mean in all reality Netscape was the first app to do this that I could recall, sending back crash information when it crashed; brilliant. This expands on the idea somewhat seeing what are the most common features used, as well as their reliabilty and performance. Also if you are really worried about the cpu time it will use to do this then you aren't really that bright or you are still using a 486, I mean seriously its essentially negligible. It will only be time before some of the big Linux distros follow suit-- but of course everyone will praise them for doing exactly the same thing... Oh well.
He isnt talking about recording from his eye-- he is saying that if the video is never displayable how is he going to watch it, and if it is how are they going to protect it?
I have the same issue with my Comcast DVR -- its the motorolla one with DVI out (cant remember the model # right now) -- anyways constantly locking up, lagging, and doing everything you described. My friend also has another box just the same at his house, witht he same issues. I saw this article thinking they were finally moving us to something else, oh well guess not. (I am in UT)
It can, XP's licensing works the same way, up to two sockets. It doesn't count actual cores, just sockets. This is how you can get dual core/HT to work with HP home. I haven't ever personally ran xp with 8 procs, but I have seen it with 4, I would think it would also support 8, so long as it was across a max of 2 sockets.
There are actually cell phones for the blind. Really any blind person can use any normal cell phone with a little bit of training (where the important buttons are), at least for voice calls. It's a little trickier for texting but for some of the newer symbian os based phones there is an app called mobile speak which works a lot jaws for windows, if you have ever used that, which is screenreader software.
None of you have obviously ever installed vista... Sure it uses 10gb but there is a 2gb swap file, and a 2gb hibernation file (My laptop has 2gb OF ram.) Bam theres about half that space accounted for.
HD MPEG 4 could probably be done on 750KB a sec, but Comcast uses MPEG2, and their HD streams are anywhere from ~18-35 Mbit. If you have a newer Comcast DVR box with firewire you can rip the streams right off the box and it will tell you the resolution and exact data rate.
I have always wanted to ditch the ehadunit in my car and go to a car PC. There have always been a few issues to overcome.
-Automated sleep/wake/hibernate/similar (there are some good solutions for this now)
-Loss of FM radio when you ditch the headunit
This is exactly the type of device I have wanted. I want it to support RDS (which is broadcasted here) and if it also had some 'PVR' like functionality that would be a huge plus. SOmething ~open so that you could write your own apps or something would be real nice too.
When I finally build this I hope to include GPS and a hard link to the car's OBD port (which can be used for ALL SORTS of stuff in a modern VW)
I think he meant that queueing up incoming request forever while the host is busy would make you more vulnerable to DoS attacks. Not the 2 connection limit.
Boy it would be nice if people understood MS does this to prevent piracy. If you have a retail windows license you can call them up and get your activations reset every 90 days, and they are pretty lienient.
No... you arent slowing yourself down you still need to make the same number of connections whether you do it 2 at a time or 10 at a time. You still send the exact same amount of bits across the pipe, you are just getting it all done with at once instead of doing each thing one at a time.
MS isnt to blame here, it is your admin to blame. It is part of the EULA that SBS needs to be a DC. Throwing software on a server without even understanding things like that will get you in situations like that. It really doesnt matter who the vendor of the software here is.
I use VMWare daily for work, and I can tell ya that v5.5+ is amazingly fast. It sure feels as fast as running native. Previous versions of VMWare (5.0 and below) had some noticeable lag. I do support for LANDesk, so I need to have ~6-8 VM's running on a box at a time, usually 1-2 clients are XP Pro and the rest 2003s running a LANDesk core and MSSQL database. This stuff can really bring a modern day pc to its knees quickly. So far what I have found is that disk I/O FAR outweighs the CPU as a bottleneck in most cases. Multicore machines really shine here, and Hyperthreading is really nice too (not quite as nice as a real dual core but still way better than nothing), but any machine ~p4 3ghz range does nicely. I currently use a p4 3.0, 3gb ram, with a single hd for most of my vm's, I used to have a dual 2.8 xeon's with 2gb of ram but 3x5K scsi drives striped, it was WAY faster heh. I got some of the old intel dev boxes we had laying around (2.4ghz conroes) to play with next.:)
Probably because Office isnt a free product, and brings them revenue. IE is free, and does not. MS is a business, and the only reason a business exists, is to make money.
Why do people compare MS to the Open Source community? Can't be done. Simple fact is, MS is a business, the Open Source community is eactly that, a community. The only reason businesses exist, is to make money.
You know -- I have wondered about this. Why does the government want to monitor everything?
China -- no free speech, the govt wants to be able to match an anti govt blog with an actual person.
US -- free speech is part of the basis of this country. The only other thing they could do it use it for anti criminal activity.. I mean this entire country would CRUMBLE immediatly if free speech were taken away so thats never going to happen.
Let me make a disclaimer and say that I do NOT support bush, and am not a fan of any of this terrorism bs, I was just thinking about this and honestly not that sure...
I'd like to see some stuff like repair manuals for cars, exloded parts drawings, etc. That stuff can be hard to find sometimes, as its always copywrited. How would this work though, if they buy copywrited material is it just OK for them to post it up for free for everyone?
So how is an on the road sales guy supposed to work? I would say in most cases ANY employees email inbox is considered confidential by default. In fact most of the stuff many on the road guys will have on their laptops IS confidential, and they NEED those laptops in order to do business. I dont think there is an excuse these days. We have plenty of CPU power available so doing the encryption/decryption in realtime shouldnt be that bad. I mean where I work everyone has a company laptop, and everyone is going to have confidential info on there. Theres no way to avoid that.
Exactly -- Vista allows user mode drivers also -- this is talking about kernel mode drivers, you really only need that stuff for I/O and whatnot. A sound driver for example would be fine running in user mode, where say a SCSI driver would not.
And dont forget you can press F8 when booting and select the option to allow unsigned drivers.
They really arent trying to lock people out -- they allow an easy way to get around it, but they make the user actually have to put some effort into it. This makes it so your average joe cant just download something that goes ahead and installs a driver into the system and then could wreak havok and do anything. $500 a year is not very expensive either, I mean this does require MS to test the driver and whatnot so they arent just raking in money for nothing, and that $500 a year is per company, not per products, so a company like Adaptec or Creative would only need to pay for it once. Hell you can go out to dinner with sales guys and spend more than that on just one meal!
You know.. MS does NOT make an AV program.. so if you got a message saying your AV was out of date during a slide show then it was some other companies software doing it. Period. Ever noticed actual MS apps? (for example like MSN Messenger) WILL disable any notifications when running full screen applications.
Oh yeah say apple has great useability, sure they might have a couple things up on MS, but yeah check out their SUPER multi monitor support...
Yes, VMWare 5.5 is very quick, but I find it easier to just keep a snapshot of the 'clean' state and then you can go back whever. I use a VM like for for going to web pages or running apps I am a little bit suspicious of.
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EXACTLY! I mean honestly its heresay whether MS even logs the IP's of the people sending the data or not. Who cares. I'm sure by simply reading TFA that very news website logged your ip, browser, etc also, just like ANY website does. Why dont people sit here and get all pissy about that? I mean in all reality Netscape was the first app to do this that I could recall, sending back crash information when it crashed; brilliant. This expands on the idea somewhat seeing what are the most common features used, as well as their reliabilty and performance. Also if you are really worried about the cpu time it will use to do this then you aren't really that bright or you are still using a 486, I mean seriously its essentially negligible. It will only be time before some of the big Linux distros follow suit-- but of course everyone will praise them for doing exactly the same thing... Oh well.
He isnt talking about recording from his eye-- he is saying that if the video is never displayable how is he going to watch it, and if it is how are they going to protect it?
I have the same issue with my Comcast DVR -- its the motorolla one with DVI out (cant remember the model # right now) -- anyways constantly locking up, lagging, and doing everything you described. My friend also has another box just the same at his house, witht he same issues. I saw this article thinking they were finally moving us to something else, oh well guess not. (I am in UT)
It can, XP's licensing works the same way, up to two sockets. It doesn't count actual cores, just sockets. This is how you can get dual core/HT to work with HP home. I haven't ever personally ran xp with 8 procs, but I have seen it with 4, I would think it would also support 8, so long as it was across a max of 2 sockets.
There are actually cell phones for the blind. Really any blind person can use any normal cell phone with a little bit of training (where the important buttons are), at least for voice calls. It's a little trickier for texting but for some of the newer symbian os based phones there is an app called mobile speak which works a lot jaws for windows, if you have ever used that, which is screenreader software.
None of you have obviously ever installed vista... Sure it uses 10gb but there is a 2gb swap file, and a 2gb hibernation file (My laptop has 2gb OF ram.) Bam theres about half that space accounted for.
Yeah because aero glass automatically turns off when you run a 3d game or fullscreen app and leaves you with your whole video card...
HD MPEG 4 could probably be done on 750KB a sec, but Comcast uses MPEG2, and their HD streams are anywhere from ~18-35 Mbit. If you have a newer Comcast DVR box with firewire you can rip the streams right off the box and it will tell you the resolution and exact data rate.
I have always wanted to ditch the ehadunit in my car and go to a car PC. There have always been a few issues to overcome. -Automated sleep/wake/hibernate/similar (there are some good solutions for this now) -Loss of FM radio when you ditch the headunit This is exactly the type of device I have wanted. I want it to support RDS (which is broadcasted here) and if it also had some 'PVR' like functionality that would be a huge plus. SOmething ~open so that you could write your own apps or something would be real nice too. When I finally build this I hope to include GPS and a hard link to the car's OBD port (which can be used for ALL SORTS of stuff in a modern VW)
I think he meant that queueing up incoming request forever while the host is busy would make you more vulnerable to DoS attacks. Not the 2 connection limit.
Boy it would be nice if people understood MS does this to prevent piracy. If you have a retail windows license you can call them up and get your activations reset every 90 days, and they are pretty lienient.
No... you arent slowing yourself down you still need to make the same number of connections whether you do it 2 at a time or 10 at a time. You still send the exact same amount of bits across the pipe, you are just getting it all done with at once instead of doing each thing one at a time.
MS isnt to blame here, it is your admin to blame. It is part of the EULA that SBS needs to be a DC. Throwing software on a server without even understanding things like that will get you in situations like that. It really doesnt matter who the vendor of the software here is.
Yeah I often use this method myself when fast forwarding through stuff on my DVR.
Maybe you didnt notice the URL the spoof is at http://www.myspace.com/login_home_index_html
I use VMWare daily for work, and I can tell ya that v5.5+ is amazingly fast. It sure feels as fast as running native. Previous versions of VMWare (5.0 and below) had some noticeable lag. I do support for LANDesk, so I need to have ~6-8 VM's running on a box at a time, usually 1-2 clients are XP Pro and the rest 2003s running a LANDesk core and MSSQL database. This stuff can really bring a modern day pc to its knees quickly. So far what I have found is that disk I/O FAR outweighs the CPU as a bottleneck in most cases. Multicore machines really shine here, and Hyperthreading is really nice too (not quite as nice as a real dual core but still way better than nothing), but any machine ~p4 3ghz range does nicely. I currently use a p4 3.0, 3gb ram, with a single hd for most of my vm's, I used to have a dual 2.8 xeon's with 2gb of ram but 3x5K scsi drives striped, it was WAY faster heh. I got some of the old intel dev boxes we had laying around (2.4ghz conroes) to play with next. :)
Probably because Office isnt a free product, and brings them revenue. IE is free, and does not. MS is a business, and the only reason a business exists, is to make money.
Why do people compare MS to the Open Source community? Can't be done. Simple fact is, MS is a business, the Open Source community is eactly that, a community. The only reason businesses exist, is to make money.
You know -- I have wondered about this. Why does the government want to monitor everything?
China -- no free speech, the govt wants to be able to match an anti govt blog with an actual person.
US -- free speech is part of the basis of this country. The only other thing they could do it use it for anti criminal activity.. I mean this entire country would CRUMBLE immediatly if free speech were taken away so thats never going to happen.
Let me make a disclaimer and say that I do NOT support bush, and am not a fan of any of this terrorism bs, I was just thinking about this and honestly not that sure...
I'd like to see some stuff like repair manuals for cars, exloded parts drawings, etc. That stuff can be hard to find sometimes, as its always copywrited. How would this work though, if they buy copywrited material is it just OK for them to post it up for free for everyone?
So how is an on the road sales guy supposed to work? I would say in most cases ANY employees email inbox is considered confidential by default. In fact most of the stuff many on the road guys will have on their laptops IS confidential, and they NEED those laptops in order to do business. I dont think there is an excuse these days. We have plenty of CPU power available so doing the encryption/decryption in realtime shouldnt be that bad. I mean where I work everyone has a company laptop, and everyone is going to have confidential info on there. Theres no way to avoid that.
Exactly -- Vista allows user mode drivers also -- this is talking about kernel mode drivers, you really only need that stuff for I/O and whatnot. A sound driver for example would be fine running in user mode, where say a SCSI driver would not. And dont forget you can press F8 when booting and select the option to allow unsigned drivers. They really arent trying to lock people out -- they allow an easy way to get around it, but they make the user actually have to put some effort into it. This makes it so your average joe cant just download something that goes ahead and installs a driver into the system and then could wreak havok and do anything. $500 a year is not very expensive either, I mean this does require MS to test the driver and whatnot so they arent just raking in money for nothing, and that $500 a year is per company, not per products, so a company like Adaptec or Creative would only need to pay for it once. Hell you can go out to dinner with sales guys and spend more than that on just one meal!
They actually already do
You know .. MS does NOT make an AV program .. so if you got a message saying your AV was out of date during a slide show then it was some other companies software doing it. Period. Ever noticed actual MS apps? (for example like MSN Messenger) WILL disable any notifications when running full screen applications.
Oh yeah say apple has great useability, sure they might have a couple things up on MS, but yeah check out their SUPER multi monitor support...
Yes, VMWare 5.5 is very quick, but I find it easier to just keep a snapshot of the 'clean' state and then you can go back whever. I use a VM like for for going to web pages or running apps I am a little bit suspicious of.