You might want to call your lawyer. I think BadAnalogyGuy has a patent on what you just did. =]
Besides, a good Rambo knife has a compass and a compartment in the handle to hold stuff. That might be more analagous to BSD, though. Or maybe like when you're running as a regular knife user, you can only cut plants and animals, and you have to type in your password again if you want to cut people. That's why Rambo knives are inherently more secure.
And since demand can't be eradicated..... what? I'm with the libertarians on this one. You can drink hot molten lead for all I care as long as you're not driving on public roads at the time.
I work for a small business, and we've gone through nas boxes and external hdd's like you wouldn't believe.. here are some of my favorites, but it depends on what you're trying to accomplish. You specified NAS, so I assume you have already determined that's actually what you need and you know why you need it (not necessarily a safe assumption, as true nas isn't always needed).
We're currently using a lot of Buffalo Linkstations (100+ (we put software on them and then sell them)) and I've had a total of 1 go bad, and that was a firmware thing for the embedded linux that failed, so I removed the hard drive (and voided the warranty) and got my data off with no problem. A 500gigger is on newegg right now for $270, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822165021.
These have a few nice features you might like: 1- you can put two of them on a lan together and do some simple replication between them, and 2- you can attach a USB hard drive to it, and have the nas device back itself up to the external hard drive (or expand capacity by adding shares).
If you don't need a NAS device, we also use a lot of Maxtor usb hard drives, and we've only had two failures, one of which was again recoverable by removing the hard drive, but the other was actual data corruption which we did not figure out what caused it, and we had to use recovery software. That could have been Windows, though..
And just what those applications be, I can honestly say that I've not had a single application fail to run in Vista, and I have a fairly extensive collection installed.
I've had similar results, and I'm using x64 just to complicate things. I had problems with a game that used Starforce copy protection, which as I understand it actually installs a "driver" to implement the protection, and of course x64 is picky about drivers. But rather than fight with it, I said to hell with a game company that wants to install a driver on my system just to play a game. Same thing with shareware, a few shareware programs would install but then required administrator to launch the app, so I said nevermind. UAC (and having a better idea of what your machine is actually doing), ftw. I also had some 3rd party app screw up Windows Media Player (wish I knew which one), and it stayed broken for a while (all my usual alternatives worked perfectly, so no biggie), but then WMP just started working again, so I guess Microsoft fixed it.
If they do this with video packets by identifying fingerprints on the fly, I guess I've found someone with deep pockets to sue the next time I download a virus!
If only they would use their powers for good instead of evil.
If those greedy bums are so upset about making all that money just because they could have made a bit more, may they should teach Jobs a lesson and backdate their own shares and sell them to me for what they paid for them. That'll teach Apple a lesson! I tell ya, I know the stock market is more or less working as intended, but the gall of some rich people who live off of interest is astounding. Pigs at the trough, man, pigs at the trough.
Are you a statistician or something? I've read up on the various Condorcet methods, and there seem to be pros and cons, but to my layman understanding it didn't seem excessively complicated, particularly the classic IVR (Shulze?) where the candidate with the fewest votes is removed, and his/her votes removed from the pool, causing anyone who chose that person as their first choice to now elevate their second choice to first position, and run the numbers over and over until someone has 50+1. The confusion seems to be the methods that include an initial round where they do almost a round robin comparison. I wrote a prog to generate random voting patterns and then progress through the repeated elimination stages, and I could not figure out what type of anomaly would have to occur for there to be a problem, aside from a true tie or circular paradox, which doesn't seem any more likely than a tie in a two candidate race. Do you know offhand where I could read up on the specific problems with it?
Machines could make it easier to implement instant run-off voting too. I would love IRV or anything like if it meant getting more than two candidates on the ballot and abandoning primaries. I'm sure IRV can be done by hand too, but a voting machine could lend itself well to it. We just need to get Apple to do the interface. That might actually get out the youth vote for a change.
But the problem with this law is that it requires private citizens to comply with demands that originate wholly from within a government agency without checks and balances.
Exactly. Digging through and ISP's log files is not exactly an instantaneous proposition. I'm quite sure they had time to get a warrant if they had chosen to try. But thanks to these BS NSL's, they don't have to try. Maybe they wouldn't have been able to get the warrant because their case is based entirely on scribblings on a bathroom wall? Who knows, but we'll never know if they don't even have to bother showing up for court. Just go back to doing things via the FISA. From what I've read it sounds like a good and solid system that provides a vast majority of the necessary powers and has very few drawbacks for law enforcement, and most importantly, we stand at least a snowball's chance in hell of keeping people honest.
and why does safari have the Open "safe" files on by default, again? I don't get that.
Why is there even such a setting for anything in the context of a web page? "safe" web files?
Btw, what would happen if the setting were not set that way? Would they be prompted to save it and presumably suffer the same consequences if they run it by hand?
IMHO, that's the best way anyway.. "Once windows is busted, it can't be trusted".. I've cleaned my fair share of infected pc's, but they always get reinfected. So then the question becomes "did I miss something, or did the knucklehead just do it again?".. and of course there is no way to answer the question, but I'm sure there are cases of both.
That may not be 100% across the board, because in my own experience playing world of warcraft on a single core with 1 gig of ram, I could not alt-tab to a browser effectively with aero on due to excessive swapping (or at least chatter, presumably swapping).. Once I upgraded to dual core and 3 gigs of ram, I was able to leave aero on and multitask with impunity. Like most things, ymmv.. If you have time and wouldn't mind locating that review, though, I would love to read it.
I think a lot of the FUD from the news sites is blind prejudice against MS.
You just hit the nail right between the eyes.
Just copied 51,000 files as a test, btw. No burps. The bug may be in Windows, but it's obviously a very obscure bug, and it sounds like MS is going to fix it. Move along, nothing to see here.
I see Vista as a huge improvement over XP. XP must have been one of the most boring, most insecure OS's ever. Absolutely fugly. Doctored grass hills - most users don't even care to change the wallpaper - looking absolutely grossly unnatural. No way that those are real.
Lol, I feel the same way. I absolutely hated XP and still have a grudge against it because of the default theme and the horrible names like "my network places". At least vista butched up and has a decent default theme (better with a black background) and "my computer" is just "computer", and "my network places" is just called "network". The hills with the bloated green start button was an embarassment. Since I still install it occassionally, I still get to be assaulted in the eyes by that terrible background every now and then. I bet I can get back to classic mode without using the mouse in under 10 seconds.
Taken to its logical extreme, though, there still would have to be something akin to a file allocation table to hold start/stop pointers. If every file on the disk were composed of 10000 fragments, wouldn't the fat would have to be huge? And wouldn't that hurt performance? But then the maximum number of fragments would be something like file size divided by cluster size, so reading the fat will still be a small fraction of the total read. Beyond that, I suppose standard defrag would still be an option, right? I guess my question is more academic/theoretical than practical. It seems that if there is a performance hit, it is probably minuscule. The reason I asked in the first place is because I had read that they simple *don't* fragment, which seemed impossible. Just wondering how similarly they behave to a regular disk..
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You might want to call your lawyer. I think BadAnalogyGuy has a patent on what you just did. =]
Besides, a good Rambo knife has a compass and a compartment in the handle to hold stuff. That might be more analagous to BSD, though. Or maybe like when you're running as a regular knife user, you can only cut plants and animals, and you have to type in your password again if you want to cut people. That's why Rambo knives are inherently more secure.
demand AND supply must be eradicated
And since demand can't be eradicated..... what? I'm with the libertarians on this one. You can drink hot molten lead for all I care as long as you're not driving on public roads at the time.
Just go into disk management, delete the 2nd partition, then right click the first partition and choose "expand".
I work for a small business, and we've gone through nas boxes and external hdd's like you wouldn't believe.. here are some of my favorites, but it depends on what you're trying to accomplish. You specified NAS, so I assume you have already determined that's actually what you need and you know why you need it (not necessarily a safe assumption, as true nas isn't always needed).
We're currently using a lot of Buffalo Linkstations (100+ (we put software on them and then sell them)) and I've had a total of 1 go bad, and that was a firmware thing for the embedded linux that failed, so I removed the hard drive (and voided the warranty) and got my data off with no problem. A 500gigger is on newegg right now for $270, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822165021.
These have a few nice features you might like: 1- you can put two of them on a lan together and do some simple replication between them, and 2- you can attach a USB hard drive to it, and have the nas device back itself up to the external hard drive (or expand capacity by adding shares).
If you don't need a NAS device, we also use a lot of Maxtor usb hard drives, and we've only had two failures, one of which was again recoverable by removing the hard drive, but the other was actual data corruption which we did not figure out what caused it, and we had to use recovery software. That could have been Windows, though..
You could also go with a hot swap sata bay like this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817364016 and just buy oem hard drives when you need them.
Then there's this thing, and it has got to be the cutest raid backplane I've ever seen, but I don't know if it would fit your needs: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816119006 ($62) It's a regular hot swap sata enclosure, but it takes 4 laptop hard drives and fits them in an exposed 5 1/4 bay.. Then get 4 of these 160gig hard drives for $90 each http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136071 and a cheap 4 port raid 5 pci card like this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132013 ($35), and there's 480 gigs of raid 5 goodness in a 5.25 bay.
And just what those applications be, I can honestly say that I've not had a single application fail to run in Vista, and I have a fairly extensive collection installed.
I've had similar results, and I'm using x64 just to complicate things. I had problems with a game that used Starforce copy protection, which as I understand it actually installs a "driver" to implement the protection, and of course x64 is picky about drivers. But rather than fight with it, I said to hell with a game company that wants to install a driver on my system just to play a game. Same thing with shareware, a few shareware programs would install but then required administrator to launch the app, so I said nevermind. UAC (and having a better idea of what your machine is actually doing), ftw. I also had some 3rd party app screw up Windows Media Player (wish I knew which one), and it stayed broken for a while (all my usual alternatives worked perfectly, so no biggie), but then WMP just started working again, so I guess Microsoft fixed it.
Now jump forward to Vista and almost without exception everyone that made the jump to vista absolutely detests it.
Count me among the exceptions then. I moved to Vista on my home pc, my work pc, and my laptop. I like it better than XP, and I'm not the only one.
I think there's a substantial bit of mob mentality clouding the issues here.
If they do this with video packets by identifying fingerprints on the fly, I guess I've found someone with deep pockets to sue the next time I download a virus!
If only they would use their powers for good instead of evil.
If those greedy bums are so upset about making all that money just because they could have made a bit more, may they should teach Jobs a lesson and backdate their own shares and sell them to me for what they paid for them. That'll teach Apple a lesson! I tell ya, I know the stock market is more or less working as intended, but the gall of some rich people who live off of interest is astounding. Pigs at the trough, man, pigs at the trough.
Are you a statistician or something? I've read up on the various Condorcet methods, and there seem to be pros and cons, but to my layman understanding it didn't seem excessively complicated, particularly the classic IVR (Shulze?) where the candidate with the fewest votes is removed, and his/her votes removed from the pool, causing anyone who chose that person as their first choice to now elevate their second choice to first position, and run the numbers over and over until someone has 50+1. The confusion seems to be the methods that include an initial round where they do almost a round robin comparison. I wrote a prog to generate random voting patterns and then progress through the repeated elimination stages, and I could not figure out what type of anomaly would have to occur for there to be a problem, aside from a true tie or circular paradox, which doesn't seem any more likely than a tie in a two candidate race. Do you know offhand where I could read up on the specific problems with it?
Machines could make it easier to implement instant run-off voting too. I would love IRV or anything like if it meant getting more than two candidates on the ballot and abandoning primaries. I'm sure IRV can be done by hand too, but a voting machine could lend itself well to it. We just need to get Apple to do the interface. That might actually get out the youth vote for a change.
Ahh, LORD. One of the few things that made good use of Ripterm.
But the problem with this law is that it requires private citizens to comply with demands that originate wholly from within a government agency without checks and balances.
Exactly. Digging through and ISP's log files is not exactly an instantaneous proposition. I'm quite sure they had time to get a warrant if they had chosen to try. But thanks to these BS NSL's, they don't have to try. Maybe they wouldn't have been able to get the warrant because their case is based entirely on scribblings on a bathroom wall? Who knows, but we'll never know if they don't even have to bother showing up for court. Just go back to doing things via the FISA. From what I've read it sounds like a good and solid system that provides a vast majority of the necessary powers and has very few drawbacks for law enforcement, and most importantly, we stand at least a snowball's chance in hell of keeping people honest.
and why does safari have the Open "safe" files on by default, again? I don't get that.
Why is there even such a setting for anything in the context of a web page? "safe" web files?
Btw, what would happen if the setting were not set that way? Would they be prompted to save it and presumably suffer the same consequences if they run it by hand?
IMHO, that's the best way anyway.. "Once windows is busted, it can't be trusted".. I've cleaned my fair share of infected pc's, but they always get reinfected. So then the question becomes "did I miss something, or did the knucklehead just do it again?".. and of course there is no way to answer the question, but I'm sure there are cases of both.
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Reason #25656824871 why the govt should have split Office off to be its own company back when they had the chance.
Now I'm going to take a dog turd, a cat turd, and a goat turd and mash them together into a vaguely upright shape. Look, the leaning tower of pisa!
That may not be 100% across the board, because in my own experience playing world of warcraft on a single core with 1 gig of ram, I could not alt-tab to a browser effectively with aero on due to excessive swapping (or at least chatter, presumably swapping).. Once I upgraded to dual core and 3 gigs of ram, I was able to leave aero on and multitask with impunity. Like most things, ymmv.. If you have time and wouldn't mind locating that review, though, I would love to read it.
I think a lot of the FUD from the news sites is blind prejudice against MS.
You just hit the nail right between the eyes.
Just copied 51,000 files as a test, btw. No burps. The bug may be in Windows, but it's obviously a very obscure bug, and it sounds like MS is going to fix it. Move along, nothing to see here.
Is there any way to make deusex.exe my shell?
Sure, just edit the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell
and put the full path to your exe
I see Vista as a huge improvement over XP. XP must have been one of the most boring, most insecure OS's ever. Absolutely fugly. Doctored grass hills - most users don't even care to change the wallpaper - looking absolutely grossly unnatural. No way that those are real. Lol, I feel the same way. I absolutely hated XP and still have a grudge against it because of the default theme and the horrible names like "my network places". At least vista butched up and has a decent default theme (better with a black background) and "my computer" is just "computer", and "my network places" is just called "network". The hills with the bloated green start button was an embarassment. Since I still install it occassionally, I still get to be assaulted in the eyes by that terrible background every now and then. I bet I can get back to classic mode without using the mouse in under 10 seconds.
Catastrophic pen leakage is no one's idea of a good time.
Well yeah, but how do you *really* feel?
Lol, interesting twist. Maybe "Security through obscurity, done right!" would have prevented the sarcasm-impaired responses.
Taken to its logical extreme, though, there still would have to be something akin to a file allocation table to hold start/stop pointers. If every file on the disk were composed of 10000 fragments, wouldn't the fat would have to be huge? And wouldn't that hurt performance? But then the maximum number of fragments would be something like file size divided by cluster size, so reading the fat will still be a small fraction of the total read. Beyond that, I suppose standard defrag would still be an option, right? I guess my question is more academic/theoretical than practical. It seems that if there is a performance hit, it is probably minuscule. The reason I asked in the first place is because I had read that they simple *don't* fragment, which seemed impossible. Just wondering how similarly they behave to a regular disk..