I didn't try it on 32, so I don't know, but I suspect it has the same issue. The installer attempts to write to c:\boot.ini and/or do something with bcdedit.exe. I made a shortcut to debian.exe and set it to admin+xpsp2 compatibility and copied a boot.ini from an xp machine. The install ran and asked me to reboot, and it did modify the boot.ini I copied over, but of course the real startup files were not modified.
Here's what it did, in case anyone knows how to replicate this by hand using bcdedit.exe (it added the last line):
[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"/noexecute=optin/fastdetect C:\g2ldr.mbr="Debian Installer"
I'd monkey with it, but not on this machine.
Also, it says during install that once you reboot it will ask you if you want to format your hdd or resize it, but I thought from reading the thread here that it would create a few gig file on the c: and use it as a virtual drive. I just ran it again to make sure I got my verbiage right, and there is no indication that it will run directly off of the ntfs. Am I reading it wrong?
I wouldn't use the goodbye-windows.com installer from their web page because for all I know it's malware.
Heh, that would be quite apropos, given the name, and quite teh funnay imho.
I think I'll get started on deleteyourwindows.com and put some flash banners on it with an unexplained download link and hype it up to be the greatest thing since jarred cheese.. and the d'l will simply wipe the partition table and reboot. Oh man, I can already see the dollars rolling in as I "free" people from windows. Heh.
So here's what you are suggesting: 1) That it is impossible to judge the menace of any particular person at any particular time because they may not give signs of their badness at the moment they are monitored 2) That bad people associate with bad people 3) That it is possible to decide who is bad by monitoring them and monitoring those who associate with them.
And you are suggesting: 1) assume the position, 2) bite down on something, 3) etc.. If you want the long penii of the law probing your nether regions, that's your choice. I suggest shoving a firecracker up your butt and farting on a police dog. But to decide that for 300 million freedom loving Americans strikes me as arrogant.
I hope you see the circular reasoning in step 3. Likewise, I hope you understand that bad people also interact with good people, especially with the knowledge spelled out in 1.
Ideally, since step 1 includes monitoring, there is (or should be) an implied warrant involved, which means there has been some groundwork established to decide that the person is worth monitoring. The only people you're likely to miss are individuals who decide to become terrorists completely independent of outside influence and networking, which I would tend to suspect is a minuscule minority.
How can you behaviorally profile everyone without first monitoring everyone?
This usually takes place in person at public places like airports or in front of embassies, and in those cases, a human really does just scan the crowd, but that's completely OT since TFA is about eavesdropping. You don't need a warrant to stand in the street and read faces.
The answer is that you either make selections based on non-behavioral traits or you randomly pick someone to monitor until they do something bad (aha! a bad guy) or you give up any chance of catching them do something bad (bummer! probably a good guy). Do you think that the random harassment of a few citizens is better than constant monitoring of all the citizens?
Nice false dichotomy there.. The answer is (at least in the US) to 1) use the FISA courts, 2) follow the bad guys and money to find more bad guys and money, 3) make arrests, 4) prosecute, preferably using the UNTAINTED EVIDENCE gathered in 1 and 2. A few random citizens will be bothered due to accidentally associating with bad guys. But they will not be harassed, and under no circumstances is monitoring of ALL citizens either 1) allowed, 2) useful, 3) necessary, 4) warranted, 5) legal, 6) etc..
Our system of checks and balances and courts and warrants and whatnot was developed and matured under people much wiser than Bush. Every now and then some special case will come along, and the ground pounders will think to themselves "you know, if we were only able to monitor everybody in the country, we could have stopped this".. that guy should go back to flipping burgers. Tragedies will happen, but in this case a perfectly efficient system would be too ripe for abuse. We need inefficiency and oversight.
Sorry about the novel, but I'm just astounded at the growing support for the growing authoritarianism in the country that should be the gold standard for freedom and liberty.
Wow, all this time I thought Microsoft either won the case or at least scared them into changing the name. Instead MS paid them $24 million to change their name! The lols are insufficient.
We can only speculate, but I suspect the two servers aren't really part of the infrastructure, per se, and are merely hanging out as test boxes for the few windows clients they support, or maybe they run some legacy app that is rarely used. Without details we'll never know, but it sounds like all the heavy authentication and heavy traffic servers got migrated.
Though, the thing I'm still wondering about is what is so different about migrating a bunch of Windows servers onto a consolidated Xen infrastructure compared to migrating Windows application and infrastructure components onto Linux servers that may have been born into the Xen infrastructure? Seems like 6 of one, half dozen of the other to me. I also don't recall the article saying that 50 physical boxes were replaced by 50 virtual servers. Was there service consolidation as well, or just hardware consolidation?
Regarding proof, yeah, more details would be nice. But it's also possible that as a relatively small shop, they don't have hordes of beancounters to identify where every last penny went, and the CEO or owner simply knows that profits have been getting bigger, and revenue isn't really up, which means costs must be down. The alternative is that the guy is actually *lying* which I doubt. Maybe a bit self-serving, as yall mentioned, but still true. Useless, but true.
My favorite old memory was when 95 or 98 was still shipping with sharing turned on, and I forget the name of the app, maybe searchtree like you said, but I specifically went looking for shared printers and printed out helpful messages for them. The driver network install didn't work, so sometimes it was a bit of work helping these people. I'd usually leave a link to a security app in their startup, but I figure these knuckleheads probably needed the hardcopy the most. If they didn't have a shared printer, I'd pelt them with net send messages, heh.. ahh those were the days. Now all anyone is interested in is making money. Sign of the times I guess..
That's where Strong Leadership(tm) comes in, but I'm afraid we'd have to outsource it at this point. Where there's a will, there's a way, but I don't currently see much of a will from up top.
Heh, I can't tell if you're kidding or not, but I think Al Gore would have been a good president. Certainly better than what we have now, and a lot more conservative in all the ways that actually matter.
The failure of third-party candidates isn't as much about lack of exposure as it is about simple mathematics. The way we count votes actively discourages more than two contenders being in any election. In order to have any chance, third-parties need to get "first past the post" removed as the voting algorthm, and replaced with something like a Condorcet or even (bleh) IRV system.
Amen, condorcet or something like it, ftw. And completely do away with primaries while we're at it.
If you want to bitch about something that *is* messed up, go bitch about cashiers checking who ask for photo ID when they take your credit card. Every merchant account contract I've signed or read explicitly prohibits this. You aren't even supposed to match signatures according to the contract.
Bah, I have had 100% software compatibility with Vista so far, and I'm even using x64 version. Yes, it's a new version, and yes, there's the possibility of incompatibilities to arise, but people need to quit being such crybabies having never even used it.
Bill Gates, if you're reading this, hook me up with a laptop, and I'll tell everyone how much I like Vista, which is true, which is the only reason why I would extend this offer.
Short list of reasons I like Vista:
* The Aero Glass theme is very nice and very clean looking. * The start button enhancements are fantastic. I love the instant search box. * The sidebar is very well executed, and I especially like the default picture slideshow. * Runs great and fast for everyday use (ie, not multitasking WoW) on 1gig ram (2 is better). * Solid as a f'n rock, and I don't say that lightly. * "Poor" driver support is still easier than dealing with Linux, 95% automatic so far, and I'm actually fairly good with Linux. * Window-Tab. * Boots fast.
Suck it, haters. Vista==100% satisfaction. And I'm not fanboy, I just believe in giving credit where credit is due, and frankly I think Vista is getting a raw deal. I'll never forgive you farkers for putting me in the position of having to defend Microsoft.
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I added a new 8600gt video card ($112) and an extra 2 gigs of ram ($90 for 3gigs total) and a new AMD x2 2.2ghz chip ($65, up from a single core 1.8), and the machine just smokes. It boots fast, runs stable, etc. It now multitasks WoW like a dream with the game running at 1152x864 in a window.
I've been doing some programming in vb.net 2005, and that is going swimmingly. I tried quake 4 (which is admittedly a little older, and it sucks) but it ran smoothly. My Vista x64 Business machine (that I'm typing on) still kicks tremendous quantities of butt daily. My Vista 32 laptop still hums along quietly, ripping dvd's to my wife's ipod, pumping music to the stereo, connecting to the net from anywhere via at&t's 3g (I hate at&t, but work provided it). The laptop also has full and proper power management. My other buddy here at work has vista on his desktop here, and he doesn't even click over to his old xp machine anymore.
Overall rating: GOOD. Not great, not tremendous, not suck. GOOD. Wholly adequate with a strong hint of pleasant.
My only complaint so far is with the UAC, which I actually quite like for myself, but I hate it when I'm on the phone with people and I tell them to do something, and they INSIST on reading the damn message. Look, jerky, I told you to run the damn program, so yes allow it, please. Alternately, you could click cancel, and we can sit here and think about what it would be like if you knew how to follow instructions. Ehh.. I guess the new search kind of sucks too.
I'm with you on the marketing BS, though, like DX10 being vista only and DRM (not that it's bit me yet) and shenanigans like that. Microsoft is still evil, but when you exaggerate the problems and, in the same breath, push Linux, it comes across as desperate. Windows doesn't have to suck for Linux to be good too.
Why is everyone so gung ho for *free* wifi anyway? Free as in freedom, yes. Free as in beer, no. Plus, my gut tells me that too much govt will become a no on both counts.
Yep, I've heard that too. The retroactive warrant is part of why I think this whole thing is a huge steaming pile of dung on the govt's part. The FISA court is so incredibly lenient that there is almost zero reason why anyone should have a problem with it. However, if you were to get a temp warrant based on clearly BS information FISA would wring some neck when they found out, and that's the part we need.
"Federal agencies can submit retroactive search warrant requests up to 72 hours after they begin surveilling someone. In 2002, for instance, Attorney General John Ashcroft personally issued more than 170 emergency domestic spying warrants -- permitting agents to carry out wiretaps and search homes and offices for as many as 72 hours before the feds requested a search warrant from the FISA court. He used such powers almost a 100 times as often as attorneys general did before 9/11."
Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie!" until you can find a rock.
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The best definition of diplomacy I ever heard was:
"Diplomacy is the difference between rape and seduction, either way you get what you want"
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I always liked: "Diplomacy is the art of letting other people have your way."
My Armada had the battery in a floppy drive slot, and I could actually remove the floppy and add a 2nd battery. They did make armadas for quite a while, though, so maybe they had several designs?
Why 26% like him: he's protecting us from terrorists, and his economic policies are good for the country.
Or that's the theory.. I'm not sure I buy it. But I'm sure you already know these arguments. In fact, I suspect you were waiting in anticipation for the first sentence, and if it weren't for this sentence, you'd be getting ready to copy and pasting your retorts right now.
Dig it: you and I probably agree, but... I dunno, some people just really legitimately feel that way. A buddy described it very well the other day after we watched Transformers. He said meeting a Bushbot is like talking to a normal person, they seem sane, etc, and then they start spouting off the Bush line like they honestly believe it, and he just gazes in horror as if they had ripped away their flesh to expose a robot skeleton. Heh, at the time, it was a very poignant image.
No, it's not just you. I'm hopeful too on this one. My buddy at work and I were talking about the offense itself earlier, so I just told him that some FBI were maybe going to be charged for it, and he just scoffed and mumbled, but I am still cautiously optimistic. We have such a great system here, in theory. I have to believe that it's just a matter of time before the pendulum swings the other way, and I keep hoping for the best (and a chance to vote).
The sickening part is that there is the FISA court where the FBI can go, basically 24/7, and they can get a warrant for damn near anything that sounds remotely reasonable. The FISA court is so lenient, they (fbi or whoever) can even go ahead with their search and then get the warrant retroactively. But no, that's not good enough. They can't even be bothered to consider getting a warrant, they just fill out some papers, type up a letter, and mail it to the phone company. Then the phone company has to jump through hoops and do the searcher's dirty work. But even that is too inconvenient, because now we find out they haven't even been filling out the paperwork. So they can basically get anything they want, on a whim.
Give an inch, take a mile, anyone? These civil liberty violations are clearly institutional at this point.
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It seems to me that if email protocols didn't make it so easy to spoof the sender, there would be a lot less spam. IMHO, legit companies aren't anywhere near as big a pain as the illegit ones who send out emails looking like they from basically anyone except themselves. Easy spoofing just makes it too easy for spammers to cover their tracks.
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The verb got adjectivized and then verbed (reverbed, actually). Pimp, as an adjective, means something that has been enhanced, such as a simple purple velvet hat being upgraded by addition of a yellow feather. The hat is now 'pimp'. However, this process also lead to the reverbing of the word, wherein the process of adding the feather is known as 'pimping the hat'. Of course gerunds and participles naturally follow. A 'pimped' hat or the 'pimping' of your operating system. I suspect you knew all that, but there you go.
With all that in mind, just run Vista you pussies. Short list of reasons I like Vista:
* The Aero Glass theme is very nice and very clean looking. * The start button enhancements are fantastic. I love the instant search box. * The sidebar is very well executed, and I especially like the default picture slideshow. * Runs great and fast for everyday use (ie, not multitasking WoW) on 1gig ram (2 is better). * Solid as a f'n rock, and I don't say that lightly. * "Poor" driver support is still easier than dealing with Linux, 95% automatic so far, and I'm actually fairly good with Linux. * Window-Tab. * Boots fast.
Suck it, haters. Vista==100% satisfaction. And I'm no fanboy, I just believe in giving credit where credit is due, and frankly I think Vista is getting a raw deal. I'll never forgive you farkers for putting me in the position of having to defend Microsoft. I have ultimate 64 at home, business 64 at work, and ultimate 32 on my work laptop, plus a business 32 on a test machine at work. All of them are solid as a rock, and I've only had minimal problems with drivers that any Linuxers should be able to get around.
Starforce game copy protection is the one notable f'up I've experienced, but when a drm happy installer rams an unsigned 32 bit DRIVER (video game needs a frickin driver?) down vista 64's throat, it is going to end badly, but the auto-recover worked fine, and I'm typing on that machine now./platform agnostic, ftw
A while back I had the pleasure of giving an AT&T rep an earful.. I had at&t dialup as a backup connection on my company laptop, but I didn't need it anymore, so I needed to cancel. This was a year or two ago when at&t got busted for turning over private data to the feds or whatever the authoritarian act du jour was. So when I called to cancel (which I needed to do anyway) I raised holy hell and made him fill out an 'official complaint' which may be a post-it in his trash can for all I know, but I like to think it went somewhere... who knows. The best part was that it was an Indian guy who sounded like he could barely contain himself from laughing. I specified up front that I was not mad at him, but AT&T's policies, and after I kept an angry tone, but he seemed totally happy with writing down whatever the hell I had to say about it.
However, I'd like to see one thing put in all man files: More basic-use examples. [snip] They've installed WhizBangProgram, they want to know how to make WhizBangProgram do what they want. Doesn't need to cover every single use case, but a basic: "To make WhizBangProgram Bang Whizzes, use: WhizBangProgram --input=~/whiz --bangage=10 --etc"
Amen to that.. I hate Linux man pages for that reason. Put a sample in there! I've gotten frustrated and given up on a number of occasions when I couldn't piece together the command line syntax from man pages.
I have a 3 year old, and I can't wait till she's older so I can send her to school with a doctored banana. She's gonna come home and be like "y0, dadz, omfg my nana was in pcs, lol" at which point I will take away her texting privileges and tell her all about Mr. Wizard.
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http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=441379
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I didn't try it on 32, so I don't know, but I suspect it has the same issue. The installer attempts to write to c:\boot.ini and/or do something with bcdedit.exe. I made a shortcut to debian.exe and set it to admin+xpsp2 compatibility and copied a boot.ini from an xp machine. The install ran and asked me to reboot, and it did modify the boot.ini I copied over, but of course the real startup files were not modified.
Here's what it did, in case anyone knows how to replicate this by hand using bcdedit.exe (it added the last line):
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
C:\g2ldr.mbr="Debian Installer"
I'd monkey with it, but not on this machine.
Also, it says during install that once you reboot it will ask you if you want to format your hdd or resize it, but I thought from reading the thread here that it would create a few gig file on the c: and use it as a virtual drive. I just ran it again to make sure I got my verbiage right, and there is no indication that it will run directly off of the ntfs. Am I reading it wrong?
Lol, if only it weren't true
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheez_Whiz
I wouldn't use the goodbye-windows.com installer from their web page because for all I know it's malware.
Heh, that would be quite apropos, given the name, and quite teh funnay imho.
I think I'll get started on deleteyourwindows.com and put some flash banners on it with an unexplained download link and hype it up to be the greatest thing since jarred cheese.. and the d'l will simply wipe the partition table and reboot. Oh man, I can already see the dollars rolling in as I "free" people from windows. Heh.
So here's what you are suggesting: 1) That it is impossible to judge the menace of any particular person at any particular time because they may not give signs of their badness at the moment they are monitored 2) That bad people associate with bad people 3) That it is possible to decide who is bad by monitoring them and monitoring those who associate with them.
And you are suggesting: 1) assume the position, 2) bite down on something, 3) etc..
If you want the long penii of the law probing your nether regions, that's your choice. I suggest shoving a firecracker up your butt and farting on a police dog. But to decide that for 300 million freedom loving Americans strikes me as arrogant.
I hope you see the circular reasoning in step 3. Likewise, I hope you understand that bad people also interact with good people, especially with the knowledge spelled out in 1.
Ideally, since step 1 includes monitoring, there is (or should be) an implied warrant involved, which means there has been some groundwork established to decide that the person is worth monitoring. The only people you're likely to miss are individuals who decide to become terrorists completely independent of outside influence and networking, which I would tend to suspect is a minuscule minority.
How can you behaviorally profile everyone without first monitoring everyone?
This usually takes place in person at public places like airports or in front of embassies, and in those cases, a human really does just scan the crowd, but that's completely OT since TFA is about eavesdropping. You don't need a warrant to stand in the street and read faces.
The answer is that you either make selections based on non-behavioral traits or you randomly pick someone to monitor until they do something bad (aha! a bad guy) or you give up any chance of catching them do something bad (bummer! probably a good guy). Do you think that the random harassment of a few citizens is better than constant monitoring of all the citizens?
Nice false dichotomy there.. The answer is (at least in the US) to 1) use the FISA courts, 2) follow the bad guys and money to find more bad guys and money, 3) make arrests, 4) prosecute, preferably using the UNTAINTED EVIDENCE gathered in 1 and 2. A few random citizens will be bothered due to accidentally associating with bad guys. But they will not be harassed, and under no circumstances is monitoring of ALL citizens either 1) allowed, 2) useful, 3) necessary, 4) warranted, 5) legal, 6) etc..
Our system of checks and balances and courts and warrants and whatnot was developed and matured under people much wiser than Bush. Every now and then some special case will come along, and the ground pounders will think to themselves "you know, if we were only able to monitor everybody in the country, we could have stopped this".. that guy should go back to flipping burgers. Tragedies will happen, but in this case a perfectly efficient system would be too ripe for abuse. We need inefficiency and oversight.
Sorry about the novel, but I'm just astounded at the growing support for the growing authoritarianism in the country that should be the gold standard for freedom and liberty.
Wow, all this time I thought Microsoft either won the case or at least scared them into changing the name. Instead MS paid them $24 million to change their name! The lols are insufficient.
We can only speculate, but I suspect the two servers aren't really part of the infrastructure, per se, and are merely hanging out as test boxes for the few windows clients they support, or maybe they run some legacy app that is rarely used. Without details we'll never know, but it sounds like all the heavy authentication and heavy traffic servers got migrated.
Though, the thing I'm still wondering about is what is so different about migrating a bunch of Windows servers onto a consolidated Xen infrastructure compared to migrating Windows application and infrastructure components onto Linux servers that may have been born into the Xen infrastructure? Seems like 6 of one, half dozen of the other to me. I also don't recall the article saying that 50 physical boxes were replaced by 50 virtual servers. Was there service consolidation as well, or just hardware consolidation?
Regarding proof, yeah, more details would be nice. But it's also possible that as a relatively small shop, they don't have hordes of beancounters to identify where every last penny went, and the CEO or owner simply knows that profits have been getting bigger, and revenue isn't really up, which means costs must be down. The alternative is that the guy is actually *lying* which I doubt. Maybe a bit self-serving, as yall mentioned, but still true. Useless, but true.
My favorite old memory was when 95 or 98 was still shipping with sharing turned on, and I forget the name of the app, maybe searchtree like you said, but I specifically went looking for shared printers and printed out helpful messages for them. The driver network install didn't work, so sometimes it was a bit of work helping these people. I'd usually leave a link to a security app in their startup, but I figure these knuckleheads probably needed the hardcopy the most. If they didn't have a shared printer, I'd pelt them with net send messages, heh.. ahh those were the days. Now all anyone is interested in is making money. Sign of the times I guess..
That's where Strong Leadership(tm) comes in, but I'm afraid we'd have to outsource it at this point. Where there's a will, there's a way, but I don't currently see much of a will from up top.
Heh, I can't tell if you're kidding or not, but I think Al Gore would have been a good president. Certainly better than what we have now, and a lot more conservative in all the ways that actually matter.
The failure of third-party candidates isn't as much about lack of exposure as it is about simple mathematics. The way we count votes actively discourages more than two contenders being in any election. In order to have any chance, third-parties need to get "first past the post" removed as the voting algorthm, and replaced with something like a Condorcet or even (bleh) IRV system.
Amen, condorcet or something like it, ftw. And completely do away with primaries while we're at it.
If you want to bitch about something that *is* messed up, go bitch about cashiers checking who ask for photo ID when they take your credit card. Every merchant account contract I've signed or read explicitly prohibits this. You aren't even supposed to match signatures according to the contract.
A bit OT, but can you elaborate on this?
Bah, I have had 100% software compatibility with Vista so far, and I'm even using x64 version. Yes, it's a new version, and yes, there's the possibility of incompatibilities to arise, but people need to quit being such crybabies having never even used it.
Click it and weep, boys:
http://thinktanktraining.com/vistax64
Bill Gates, if you're reading this, hook me up with a laptop, and I'll tell everyone how much I like Vista, which is true, which is the only reason why I would extend this offer.
Short list of reasons I like Vista:
* The Aero Glass theme is very nice and very clean looking.
* The start button enhancements are fantastic. I love the instant search box.
* The sidebar is very well executed, and I especially like the default picture slideshow.
* Runs great and fast for everyday use (ie, not multitasking WoW) on 1gig ram (2 is better).
* Solid as a f'n rock, and I don't say that lightly.
* "Poor" driver support is still easier than dealing with Linux, 95% automatic so far, and I'm actually fairly good with Linux.
* Window-Tab.
* Boots fast.
Suck it, haters. Vista==100% satisfaction. And I'm not fanboy, I just believe in giving credit where credit is due, and frankly I think Vista is getting a raw deal. I'll never forgive you farkers for putting me in the position of having to defend Microsoft.
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I added a new 8600gt video card ($112) and an extra 2 gigs of ram ($90 for 3gigs total) and a new AMD x2 2.2ghz chip ($65, up from a single core 1.8), and the machine just smokes. It boots fast, runs stable, etc. It now multitasks WoW like a dream with the game running at 1152x864 in a window.
I've been doing some programming in vb.net 2005, and that is going swimmingly. I tried quake 4 (which is admittedly a little older, and it sucks) but it ran smoothly. My Vista x64 Business machine (that I'm typing on) still kicks tremendous quantities of butt daily. My Vista 32 laptop still hums along quietly, ripping dvd's to my wife's ipod, pumping music to the stereo, connecting to the net from anywhere via at&t's 3g (I hate at&t, but work provided it). The laptop also has full and proper power management. My other buddy here at work has vista on his desktop here, and he doesn't even click over to his old xp machine anymore.
Overall rating: GOOD. Not great, not tremendous, not suck. GOOD. Wholly adequate with a strong hint of pleasant.
My only complaint so far is with the UAC, which I actually quite like for myself, but I hate it when I'm on the phone with people and I tell them to do something, and they INSIST on reading the damn message. Look, jerky, I told you to run the damn program, so yes allow it, please. Alternately, you could click cancel, and we can sit here and think about what it would be like if you knew how to follow instructions. Ehh.. I guess the new search kind of sucks too.
I'm with you on the marketing BS, though, like DX10 being vista only and DRM (not that it's bit me yet) and shenanigans like that. Microsoft is still evil, but when you exaggerate the problems and, in the same breath, push Linux, it comes across as desperate. Windows doesn't have to suck for Linux to be good too.
Why is everyone so gung ho for *free* wifi anyway? Free as in freedom, yes. Free as in beer, no. Plus, my gut tells me that too much govt will become a no on both counts.
So much for all the spice I've been stockpiling... :(
"Federal agencies can submit retroactive search warrant requests up to 72 hours after they begin surveilling someone. In 2002, for instance, Attorney General John Ashcroft personally issued more than 170 emergency domestic spying warrants -- permitting agents to carry out wiretaps and search homes and offices for as many as 72 hours before the feds requested a search warrant from the FISA court. He used such powers almost a 100 times as often as attorneys general did before 9/11."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard17.html
dunno how authoritative the above is, but I've heard similar from several sources
Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie!" until you can find a rock.
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The best definition of diplomacy I ever heard was:
"Diplomacy is the difference between rape and seduction, either way you get what you want"
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I always liked: "Diplomacy is the art of letting other people have your way."
* Warning: may not be suitable for children.
** Do not taunt happy fun B83 nuclear warhead
My Armada had the battery in a floppy drive slot, and I could actually remove the floppy and add a 2nd battery. They did make armadas for quite a while, though, so maybe they had several designs?
Why 26% like him: he's protecting us from terrorists, and his economic policies are good for the country.
Or that's the theory.. I'm not sure I buy it. But I'm sure you already know these arguments. In fact, I suspect you were waiting in anticipation for the first sentence, and if it weren't for this sentence, you'd be getting ready to copy and pasting your retorts right now.
Dig it: you and I probably agree, but... I dunno, some people just really legitimately feel that way. A buddy described it very well the other day after we watched Transformers. He said meeting a Bushbot is like talking to a normal person, they seem sane, etc, and then they start spouting off the Bush line like they honestly believe it, and he just gazes in horror as if they had ripped away their flesh to expose a robot skeleton. Heh, at the time, it was a very poignant image.
No, it's not just you. I'm hopeful too on this one. My buddy at work and I were talking about the offense itself earlier, so I just told him that some FBI were maybe going to be charged for it, and he just scoffed and mumbled, but I am still cautiously optimistic. We have such a great system here, in theory. I have to believe that it's just a matter of time before the pendulum swings the other way, and I keep hoping for the best (and a chance to vote).
The sickening part is that there is the FISA court where the FBI can go, basically 24/7, and they can get a warrant for damn near anything that sounds remotely reasonable. The FISA court is so lenient, they (fbi or whoever) can even go ahead with their search and then get the warrant retroactively. But no, that's not good enough. They can't even be bothered to consider getting a warrant, they just fill out some papers, type up a letter, and mail it to the phone company. Then the phone company has to jump through hoops and do the searcher's dirty work. But even that is too inconvenient, because now we find out they haven't even been filling out the paperwork. So they can basically get anything they want, on a whim.
Give an inch, take a mile, anyone? These civil liberty violations are clearly institutional at this point.
It seems to me that if email protocols didn't make it so easy to spoof the sender, there would be a lot less spam. IMHO, legit companies aren't anywhere near as big a pain as the illegit ones who send out emails looking like they from basically anyone except themselves. Easy spoofing just makes it too easy for spammers to cover their tracks.
The verb got adjectivized and then verbed (reverbed, actually). Pimp, as an adjective, means something that has been enhanced, such as a simple purple velvet hat being upgraded by addition of a yellow feather. The hat is now 'pimp'. However, this process also lead to the reverbing of the word, wherein the process of adding the feather is known as 'pimping the hat'. Of course gerunds and participles naturally follow. A 'pimped' hat or the 'pimping' of your operating system. I suspect you knew all that, but there you go.
/platform agnostic, ftw
With all that in mind, just run Vista you pussies. Short list of reasons I like Vista:
* The Aero Glass theme is very nice and very clean looking.
* The start button enhancements are fantastic. I love the instant search box.
* The sidebar is very well executed, and I especially like the default picture slideshow.
* Runs great and fast for everyday use (ie, not multitasking WoW) on 1gig ram (2 is better).
* Solid as a f'n rock, and I don't say that lightly.
* "Poor" driver support is still easier than dealing with Linux, 95% automatic so far, and I'm actually fairly good with Linux.
* Window-Tab.
* Boots fast.
Suck it, haters. Vista==100% satisfaction. And I'm no fanboy, I just believe in giving credit where credit is due, and frankly I think Vista is getting a raw deal. I'll never forgive you farkers for putting me in the position of having to defend Microsoft. I have ultimate 64 at home, business 64 at work, and ultimate 32 on my work laptop, plus a business 32 on a test machine at work. All of them are solid as a rock, and I've only had minimal problems with drivers that any Linuxers should be able to get around.
Starforce game copy protection is the one notable f'up I've experienced, but when a drm happy installer rams an unsigned 32 bit DRIVER (video game needs a frickin driver?) down vista 64's throat, it is going to end badly, but the auto-recover worked fine, and I'm typing on that machine now.
> ... without giving money to AT&T. :-(
Ditto..
A while back I had the pleasure of giving an AT&T rep an earful.. I had at&t dialup as a backup connection on my company laptop, but I didn't need it anymore, so I needed to cancel. This was a year or two ago when at&t got busted for turning over private data to the feds or whatever the authoritarian act du jour was. So when I called to cancel (which I needed to do anyway) I raised holy hell and made him fill out an 'official complaint' which may be a post-it in his trash can for all I know, but I like to think it went somewhere... who knows. The best part was that it was an Indian guy who sounded like he could barely contain himself from laughing. I specified up front that I was not mad at him, but AT&T's policies, and after I kept an angry tone, but he seemed totally happy with writing down whatever the hell I had to say about it.
So yeah, boycott, etc.
However, I'd like to see one thing put in all man files: More basic-use examples. [snip] They've installed WhizBangProgram, they want to know how to make WhizBangProgram do what they want. Doesn't need to cover every single use case, but a basic:
"To make WhizBangProgram Bang Whizzes, use:
WhizBangProgram --input=~/whiz --bangage=10 --etc"
Amen to that.. I hate Linux man pages for that reason. Put a sample in there! I've gotten frustrated and given up on a number of occasions when I couldn't piece together the command line syntax from man pages.
I have a 3 year old, and I can't wait till she's older so I can send her to school with a doctored banana. She's gonna come home and be like "y0, dadz, omfg my nana was in pcs, lol" at which point I will take away her texting privileges and tell her all about Mr. Wizard.