OEM's like Dell and HP have the DRAC's and ALOM "add-in" cards that they sell at various prices ranging from $99 upwards of $650. Yet Intel is talking about enabling features the OEM's are charging premiums for in the BIOS for free.
This could have a backlash effect from the channel partners...
Banyan's largest customer worldwide was the United States Marine Corps. The penetration into the US network market never exceeded 24%. They were actually much larger in Europe than they were in America having around 40% of the market.
Banyan originally started out making ICA (communication cards) for mainframes and other Network OS's. They decided to have a go at making their own NOS to exploit both the hardware and software side of the house. The Banyan servers sat on top of a bastardized unix operating system. Kernel access as they called it, effectively Root at the command line, was a tightly guarded secret, even though there was just one hard coded login for all Banyan Servers.
Quality Assurance was not a priority at Banyan, often times you would receive updates, but on several occasions you would have to apply a patch to a patch, before you patched your server. Instead of just releasing a total update package, you would have to update all patch files incrementally and then apply them to the server.
In 1995 we still had to use DOS clients and windows 3.1x computers. By 1996 we were rolling out Windows 95 machines with the Windows Banyan Client that worked decently enough, though your email (which was incorporated into the server code) was still a dos client. The windows clients with any functionality did not come out until almost 1997.
The servers came with all software installed and loaded for every option, but you required a dongle on the parallel port of your computer to unlock "features" of the software. You could place two dongles over each other and move features from one dongle to another (deactivating the first dongle). And use software codes to unlock new features on the dongles hashed against its serial number.
There were many features of Banyan we missed and hated losing when we switched to Windows NT 4.0 and Exchange 5.0 and 5.5... Though Banyan was example again of a company with a good technology failing to fully maintain and develop it.
In the air of full disclosure, I was a Banyan Certified Engineer (BCE) for the Marines back in the middle to late 90's.
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Active Directory was originally technology licensed from Banyan Vines. When Banyan went under, Microsoft received free reign to use the technology wholesale.
Under Banyan Vines it was called StreetTalk. Your login was your name @ office @ organization or jsmith@houston@slashdot
It was far superior to NT 4.0's domain system and was licensed for inclusion into Active Directory starting with Windows 2000. In Banyan, all file shares and printers were easily located in the directory the same way. Resource @ server @ organization such as: publicfiles@serverca001@slashdot or xeroxprinter@serverny003, part of the reason Microsoft licensed the technology was to enable placing resources in the directory structure.
The downside to StreetTalk was networks with over 1024 servers. It was never intended to grow that large back in the 80's and early 90's. The largest Banyan Vines network was actually run by the United States Marine Corps with over 5800 servers. The Marines had to break the network up into three sections each containing less than 2000 servers. They created what was called ELMS gateways that linked and allowed some resources to be shared across the three different "zones".
Starting in 1998 the Marines Corps began transitioning away from Banyan Vines to Windows NT 4.0 and the release of Windows 2000 with Active Directory which was updated to address the issues the Marines had with large networks was the final deathblow to Banyan in the US market. Shortly afterwards Banyan announced they were going back to making hardware only and licensing the StreetTalk directory out. Within a couple of years Banyan was gone from the networking world.
So let me get this right, they spent all this time and money to design, develope, and deploy this software. To conceal it and hide its presence, but you now want us to believe that they simply configured it to send data to an IP in Texas?
If the stuxnet really did phone home with information, the developers would have programmed it to send to relays in other parts of the world to further hide its origin. If it DID send data to a Texas IP, I'd think any logical thinking person would realize its someone else trying to cast blame on the US...
More FUD from Iran...
I have a personal Sprint Epic and a work issued AT&T Iphone 3gs. I get faster data speeds on the Epic in 3g mode than I do the Iphone.
The Iphone does have better battery life, the Epic sucks its battery dry in a day. Because of this I usually leave the GPS and WiFi disabled on the Epic. In fact, the Epic will not allow you to have WiFi and 4g mode activated at the same time. If you activate one, it deactivates the other automatically. That all said, as I previously stated, in 3g mode without WiFi, I can be on the phone and browsing the web at the same time. In fact I can even use the Epic as a mobile broadband access point for upto 5 computers while also using it as a phone, something I have done several times.
Thus, in my experiance, the AT&T claim is completely bogus.
In the several articles, including this one above, AT&T makes the claim only their IPhones (which are 3g) can browse the internet and do a call at the same time while no other carriers phones can.
I leave the 4g turned off most of the time because it kills the battery on the Samsung Epic which is just a Galaxy S family phone. Even in 3g only mode I have been able to surf the internet and talk at the same time in various places through out California and Neveda. As long as I can get 3g signal, calls and data work just fine on the Sprint network, thus invalidating AT&T's FUD.
AT&T claims they are still better because on their network you can make calls and use the browser at the same time. AT&T claims that you can not do this with CDMA LTE technology like Sprint and Verizon use. This is a bold face lie. I have a Sprint carried Samsung Epic 4g phone and routinely use the web browser while on calls.
Since Sprint and Verizon use mostly identical technology, I cannot believe AT&T's claims that Verizon's phone wont be able to do what Sprint phones already can do...
AT&T's statements are merely FUD, I know a lot of people already lined up to leave AT&T once the IPhone is available on another carrier, and AT&T knows and is scared of this too.
Now just watch, on the BP spin, er, news site, there will be an article saying how great this oil spill is because they discovered two new species of fish. Had then not put all those cameras and submersibles there, we'd have missed out on this new species that will likewise also be wiped out...
Growing up a friend of mine had a CB base station and a Ham radio, not satisfied with the range on his CB Base station he added boosters to his system. Any time he fired up his Base station to full power, TV's for a block or so went out everytime he key his mic.
Look around and see if you see any radio antenna's around the neighborhood. Could be an overpowered CB or Ham Radio operator that gets on at that time every night.
After 10 years with Cable TV in my appartment I finally cut it off last week. When I first moved in I went for everything, full premium package, it was just $79/month after the initial 6 month special of just $39/month. Over the years they added more and more channels I would never watch, I dont care for nor need 6 shopping networks. And slowly I watched the bill keep being increased each year till it was $135/month for the same cable setup. Add in the $50 for high speed internet over cable and taxes and I was paying close to $200/month.
Last few months I realized the premium movie channels were all playing the same movies at the same time, and none were really anything I cared to see, nothing was ever "on".
I also realized the only channels I was constantly watching were the base 4 broadcasts (Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC) and the SyFy channel and the Discovery history and science channels. For $30/month I could get those channels. But then again, rabbit ears and I can still get the local channels and I can catch what I want to see from SyFy online... So I dropped everything except my broadband connection.
Its funny the cable companies state the price is so high because of all the channels, but I dont want all those channels. They tell Congress they cant unbundle because many of these channels would go out of business. Then let them, if people actually want them, let them subscribe to them. I dont need the Manderin news network nor the home shopping networks or the battered wives network, etc...
Cable companies can do any show "on demand" now, so there is no reason they cant give the consumer a check list and say, pick the 10 channels you want for $5/month or 25 for $10, etc... I don't need, want, or use 600 channels.
I was at a job yesterday where the client had replaced their DSL service and the tech that AT&T sent out couldn't figure out how to get the new modem to work with the firewall they have in place. So a second tech came out and together they unplugged the Untrusted port and plugged it into one of the trusted ports basically just using the firewall as a hub.
But nothing worked again because now the DSL modem and the Firewall were both fighting over assigning DHCP. The fix? They asked the client for the login information for the firewall, logged in and DELETED the DHCP service settings for both the trusted and WiFi networks.
I get a call the client can get to the internet but none of her printers or network drives work anymore. I see what the AT&T techs did, undo the damage, move the untrusted line back to the right port and plugged back in the NAS device. Once I got the clients back on the right IP's suddenly they could print and access their network drives again. AT&T just walked out once they saw the internet up, even though they broke everything else.
Well since you are to lazy or misinformed to do your own research:
Raids in Southern China Target $2 Billion Global Software - July 24, 2007 - www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=203561
No, I dont work for any large company, never have. But thanks for hoping the best for my financial future.
Yes I know many of the computers in China are older and slower and many running out dated software such as VCC and FoxPro, both which Microsoft chopped. Having an old license isnt the same as pirated software.
I'm not offering up my personal views here, but the same attention to detail I bring to each of my clients. As a consultant, if I let slip a piece of pirated software into a clients network and then they get busted, they can in turn come after me for their losses. In the business world its all about C.Y.A.
Another problem with using older software for your coders is simply that, you are using old codes... Everyone that codes knows that hooks and pointers change from.dll version to.dll version. Something that worked with Winsock32.dll 5.0.234 might not work with 6.0.12... And if you force them to downgrade that one file for your program to work, you may break five other programs.
We all know the software business does not have the same quality control as other businesses.
While many big companys may employ people to go through these threads, I dont work for any big company... I've been an independent since I got in the field in '99... Take your flame bait else where, thanks.
I'm an I.T. consultant in Silicon Valley and several of my clients over the years have had manufacturing offices in Hong Kong and China.
I've had to deal with this situation more times than I care for in the last 10 years. Its a very big legal hassle for your company, and their are raids every few years. Not enough to scare the Asian work force into compliance, but its enough of a game of corporate Russian roulette that the risk just isn't worth it.
Not only are many of the Asian offices using pirated software, but are not running any antivirus software. I've routinely tracked down about 80% of all infections at my client offices to their e-mails with their overseas counterparts or from when they are traveling in Asia on business.
Also, much of the pirated versions of the software are riddled with trojans, spyware, and security holes galore. Allowing them to use that software further opens up your entire company up to a breach or leak of information.
I've also seen more than one company fold or nearly go under because one disgruntled person called in an anonymous tip that their current or former companies software was not legit.
In a corporate environment, getting the documentation and legal software is definitely the IT managers job, and an obvious C.Y.A. for anyone in the I.T. department and the company officers... Its those heads that will roll if the B.S.A. shows up with the authorities to audit you.
My friend works for Wells Fargo's ATM computer/mainframe division and use to have a 9/80 work schedule. Last spring in an effort to reduce costs and "get more value" out of their employees they let go of a couple of people from his department and then switched everyone back to a traditional 40 hour week. Thus everyone lost their every other friday off.
Back in the 80's there were jokes about TWA and DELTA... A comedian said he hated flying TWA because it stood for "Traveling With Arabs" and prefered DELTA because it stood for "Don't Even Let Them Aboard"...
Of course back in the 70's and 80's every other week about you heard about another TWA jet being hijacked...
One thing I learned in the service was, all it takes is one aww shit to screw up a hundred atta-boys... Basically 1 screw up can screw up a reputation after having a hundred good deeds... There have been terror acts by different groups, yes. I will not contest nor deny it. Sadly the vast majority has been by splinter groups of fanatics from the Muslim religion. Each time sprouting off justification of there action because of their religion. Which is doublely ironic since the Koran and Muslim religion actually promotes peace and non-violience. So most terrorist are flouting a perversion of the belief system. Regardless, its the terrorists that are making headlines as devoute Muslims... Thus creating the anti-Muslim atmosphere much of the Western World now lives in.
The U.S. and other NATO countrys fighting terrorism will never achieve the goals they want. The only true way to eliminate the splinter faction Muslim group based terrorism is for the other Muslim groups to actively go after the splinter groups and deal with it themselves. Which considering Muslim is the largest and fastest growing religion currently, it would be more effective for them instead of crying about being type casted to actually go after and eliminate the problems from within themselves.
The US Navy tried this a few years back and the ships systems crashed and had to be towed back to port by tug boats when a Divide by Zero fault came up in the navigation system which then cascaded and crashed the entire ships network leaving her dead in the water. Look up the cruiser USS Yorktown.
Apparently its true, History is doomed to repeat itself.
Enough new gamers come around, they dont care... Actually all the faulty and draconian DRM they put on games now has actually turned me OFF of gaming. I use to buy a couple hundred dollars worth of new titles each year. And there have been many out there that I was interested in until I found out what DRM and root kits mascarading as copy protection they were loaded with. Don't care to go the Warez route since often many of those games are also loaded with spyware/malware from whomever cracked it or uploaded it.
I hate console games, always felt more immersed and in control with the keyboard games. A console game with what, 2 eight way sticks and 8 buttons versus a keyboard with 108 keys you can set actions to or full flight controls and add on hardware? There was never a question in my household. Only reason I even bought a PS2 was because my ex had a young son and he liked the simple games and controls. Haven't touched it or powered it on in over two years. Don't even know if it still works.
Sadly, as the gaming industry complains about the downturn in their sales, they are to busy focusing the blame on the wrong areas. They claim pirating. But pirating has increased exponetially with their increase use of draconian DRM that often times then exposes your computer to more harmful problems.
DRM has worked to keep me from pirating in a sense I guess you could say. Not that I was before, but it has also made me stop buying music and games. And actually RIAA's efforts were the biggest motivator for me to stop buying cd's and music... If its on the radio, I might listen to it. If not, I don't need to hear it. I dont even watch movies on my PC, mainly because I have a big screen tv and dvd player, but also because I dont want any of the crap DRM they are loading on DVD's now mucking up my system anymore.
What kind of new Eve employee sponsored cheating and cover-ups can we look forward too... No wait, let me guess, its no longer improper for Eve employees to cheat or assist their corporations, its now "Expanding story arcs"...
Firefox has never had a security hole discovered? Are you new to Slashdot? Just google Firefox Security holes... Not even 5 hours after Firefox 3 was released they announced a critical security hole was discovered...
Nope, Any Dell OEM XP Cd shipped since 2000 will work on ANY Dell computer built after 2000. It looks at the BIOS codes... I routinely rebuild client computers and just use the first Dell OEM cd I grab that matches what version it has installed...
Used a Dell OEM XP Sp1 cd from like 2003 on a brand new Dell Laptop the other day after the person decided to open the box himself and go online before we installed antivirus or malware protection software...
Toshiba and HP do lock the OEM software to certain versions. And IBM and Dell lock the Server software to particular models, but not the XP home and Proversions.
You cant use an Dell cd on an HP box without having to call Microsoft and explaining and manually activating the machine.
They just raised it... Two weeks ago when I ordered 6 new computers for two different clients it was only a $50 upgrade to get it with XP pre-installed.
Oh well, you can always exercise your downgrade rights under the EULA and use a privious Dell OEM XP Cd if you have one laying around from previous systems, and still be legal without paying the Down/Upgrade tax.
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OEM's like Dell and HP have the DRAC's and ALOM "add-in" cards that they sell at various prices ranging from $99 upwards of $650. Yet Intel is talking about enabling features the OEM's are charging premiums for in the BIOS for free. This could have a backlash effect from the channel partners...
companies manufacturing smoke machines and mirrors have reported increased sales and stock prices...
Banyan originally started out making ICA (communication cards) for mainframes and other Network OS's. They decided to have a go at making their own NOS to exploit both the hardware and software side of the house. The Banyan servers sat on top of a bastardized unix operating system. Kernel access as they called it, effectively Root at the command line, was a tightly guarded secret, even though there was just one hard coded login for all Banyan Servers.
Quality Assurance was not a priority at Banyan, often times you would receive updates, but on several occasions you would have to apply a patch to a patch, before you patched your server. Instead of just releasing a total update package, you would have to update all patch files incrementally and then apply them to the server.
In 1995 we still had to use DOS clients and windows 3.1x computers. By 1996 we were rolling out Windows 95 machines with the Windows Banyan Client that worked decently enough, though your email (which was incorporated into the server code) was still a dos client. The windows clients with any functionality did not come out until almost 1997.
The servers came with all software installed and loaded for every option, but you required a dongle on the parallel port of your computer to unlock "features" of the software. You could place two dongles over each other and move features from one dongle to another (deactivating the first dongle). And use software codes to unlock new features on the dongles hashed against its serial number.
There were many features of Banyan we missed and hated losing when we switched to Windows NT 4.0 and Exchange 5.0 and 5.5... Though Banyan was example again of a company with a good technology failing to fully maintain and develop it.
In the air of full disclosure, I was a Banyan Certified Engineer (BCE) for the Marines back in the middle to late 90's.
Under Banyan Vines it was called StreetTalk. Your login was your name @ office @ organization or jsmith@houston@slashdot
It was far superior to NT 4.0's domain system and was licensed for inclusion into Active Directory starting with Windows 2000. In Banyan, all file shares and printers were easily located in the directory the same way. Resource @ server @ organization such as: publicfiles@serverca001@slashdot or xeroxprinter@serverny003, part of the reason Microsoft licensed the technology was to enable placing resources in the directory structure.
The downside to StreetTalk was networks with over 1024 servers. It was never intended to grow that large back in the 80's and early 90's. The largest Banyan Vines network was actually run by the United States Marine Corps with over 5800 servers. The Marines had to break the network up into three sections each containing less than 2000 servers. They created what was called ELMS gateways that linked and allowed some resources to be shared across the three different "zones".
Starting in 1998 the Marines Corps began transitioning away from Banyan Vines to Windows NT 4.0 and the release of Windows 2000 with Active Directory which was updated to address the issues the Marines had with large networks was the final deathblow to Banyan in the US market. Shortly afterwards Banyan announced they were going back to making hardware only and licensing the StreetTalk directory out. Within a couple of years Banyan was gone from the networking world.
So let me get this right, they spent all this time and money to design, develope, and deploy this software. To conceal it and hide its presence, but you now want us to believe that they simply configured it to send data to an IP in Texas? If the stuxnet really did phone home with information, the developers would have programmed it to send to relays in other parts of the world to further hide its origin. If it DID send data to a Texas IP, I'd think any logical thinking person would realize its someone else trying to cast blame on the US... More FUD from Iran...
I have a personal Sprint Epic and a work issued AT&T Iphone 3gs. I get faster data speeds on the Epic in 3g mode than I do the Iphone. The Iphone does have better battery life, the Epic sucks its battery dry in a day. Because of this I usually leave the GPS and WiFi disabled on the Epic. In fact, the Epic will not allow you to have WiFi and 4g mode activated at the same time. If you activate one, it deactivates the other automatically. That all said, as I previously stated, in 3g mode without WiFi, I can be on the phone and browsing the web at the same time. In fact I can even use the Epic as a mobile broadband access point for upto 5 computers while also using it as a phone, something I have done several times. Thus, in my experiance, the AT&T claim is completely bogus.
In the several articles, including this one above, AT&T makes the claim only their IPhones (which are 3g) can browse the internet and do a call at the same time while no other carriers phones can. I leave the 4g turned off most of the time because it kills the battery on the Samsung Epic which is just a Galaxy S family phone. Even in 3g only mode I have been able to surf the internet and talk at the same time in various places through out California and Neveda. As long as I can get 3g signal, calls and data work just fine on the Sprint network, thus invalidating AT&T's FUD.
AT&T claims they are still better because on their network you can make calls and use the browser at the same time. AT&T claims that you can not do this with CDMA LTE technology like Sprint and Verizon use. This is a bold face lie. I have a Sprint carried Samsung Epic 4g phone and routinely use the web browser while on calls. Since Sprint and Verizon use mostly identical technology, I cannot believe AT&T's claims that Verizon's phone wont be able to do what Sprint phones already can do... AT&T's statements are merely FUD, I know a lot of people already lined up to leave AT&T once the IPhone is available on another carrier, and AT&T knows and is scared of this too.
What about the months of testing they did on the unit before they um, I dont know, RELEASED it?
Now just watch, on the BP spin, er, news site, there will be an article saying how great this oil spill is because they discovered two new species of fish. Had then not put all those cameras and submersibles there, we'd have missed out on this new species that will likewise also be wiped out...
Growing up a friend of mine had a CB base station and a Ham radio, not satisfied with the range on his CB Base station he added boosters to his system. Any time he fired up his Base station to full power, TV's for a block or so went out everytime he key his mic. Look around and see if you see any radio antenna's around the neighborhood. Could be an overpowered CB or Ham Radio operator that gets on at that time every night.
That was control signals from a US Airforce base that was causing all the garage doors to go wonky iirc...
After 10 years with Cable TV in my appartment I finally cut it off last week. When I first moved in I went for everything, full premium package, it was just $79/month after the initial 6 month special of just $39/month. Over the years they added more and more channels I would never watch, I dont care for nor need 6 shopping networks. And slowly I watched the bill keep being increased each year till it was $135/month for the same cable setup. Add in the $50 for high speed internet over cable and taxes and I was paying close to $200/month. Last few months I realized the premium movie channels were all playing the same movies at the same time, and none were really anything I cared to see, nothing was ever "on". I also realized the only channels I was constantly watching were the base 4 broadcasts (Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC) and the SyFy channel and the Discovery history and science channels. For $30/month I could get those channels. But then again, rabbit ears and I can still get the local channels and I can catch what I want to see from SyFy online... So I dropped everything except my broadband connection. Its funny the cable companies state the price is so high because of all the channels, but I dont want all those channels. They tell Congress they cant unbundle because many of these channels would go out of business. Then let them, if people actually want them, let them subscribe to them. I dont need the Manderin news network nor the home shopping networks or the battered wives network, etc... Cable companies can do any show "on demand" now, so there is no reason they cant give the consumer a check list and say, pick the 10 channels you want for $5/month or 25 for $10, etc... I don't need, want, or use 600 channels.
I was at a job yesterday where the client had replaced their DSL service and the tech that AT&T sent out couldn't figure out how to get the new modem to work with the firewall they have in place. So a second tech came out and together they unplugged the Untrusted port and plugged it into one of the trusted ports basically just using the firewall as a hub. But nothing worked again because now the DSL modem and the Firewall were both fighting over assigning DHCP. The fix? They asked the client for the login information for the firewall, logged in and DELETED the DHCP service settings for both the trusted and WiFi networks. I get a call the client can get to the internet but none of her printers or network drives work anymore. I see what the AT&T techs did, undo the damage, move the untrusted line back to the right port and plugged back in the NAS device. Once I got the clients back on the right IP's suddenly they could print and access their network drives again. AT&T just walked out once they saw the internet up, even though they broke everything else.
Well since you are to lazy or misinformed to do your own research: Raids in Southern China Target $2 Billion Global Software - July 24, 2007 - www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=203561
No, I dont work for any large company, never have. But thanks for hoping the best for my financial future.
Yes I know many of the computers in China are older and slower and many running out dated software such as VCC and FoxPro, both which Microsoft chopped. Having an old license isnt the same as pirated software.
I'm not offering up my personal views here, but the same attention to detail I bring to each of my clients. As a consultant, if I let slip a piece of pirated software into a clients network and then they get busted, they can in turn come after me for their losses. In the business world its all about C.Y.A.
Another problem with using older software for your coders is simply that, you are using old codes... Everyone that codes knows that hooks and pointers change from .dll version to .dll version. Something that worked with Winsock32.dll 5.0.234 might not work with 6.0.12... And if you force them to downgrade that one file for your program to work, you may break five other programs.
We all know the software business does not have the same quality control as other businesses.
While many big companys may employ people to go through these threads, I dont work for any big company... I've been an independent since I got in the field in '99... Take your flame bait else where, thanks.
I've had to deal with this situation more times than I care for in the last 10 years. Its a very big legal hassle for your company, and their are raids every few years. Not enough to scare the Asian work force into compliance, but its enough of a game of corporate Russian roulette that the risk just isn't worth it.
Not only are many of the Asian offices using pirated software, but are not running any antivirus software. I've routinely tracked down about 80% of all infections at my client offices to their e-mails with their overseas counterparts or from when they are traveling in Asia on business.
Also, much of the pirated versions of the software are riddled with trojans, spyware, and security holes galore. Allowing them to use that software further opens up your entire company up to a breach or leak of information.
I've also seen more than one company fold or nearly go under because one disgruntled person called in an anonymous tip that their current or former companies software was not legit.
In a corporate environment, getting the documentation and legal software is definitely the IT managers job, and an obvious C.Y.A. for anyone in the I.T. department and the company officers... Its those heads that will roll if the B.S.A. shows up with the authorities to audit you.
My friend works for Wells Fargo's ATM computer/mainframe division and use to have a 9/80 work schedule. Last spring in an effort to reduce costs and "get more value" out of their employees they let go of a couple of people from his department and then switched everyone back to a traditional 40 hour week. Thus everyone lost their every other friday off.
Back in the 80's there were jokes about TWA and DELTA... A comedian said he hated flying TWA because it stood for "Traveling With Arabs" and prefered DELTA because it stood for "Don't Even Let Them Aboard"...
Of course back in the 70's and 80's every other week about you heard about another TWA jet being hijacked...
One thing I learned in the service was, all it takes is one aww shit to screw up a hundred atta-boys... Basically 1 screw up can screw up a reputation after having a hundred good deeds... There have been terror acts by different groups, yes. I will not contest nor deny it. Sadly the vast majority has been by splinter groups of fanatics from the Muslim religion. Each time sprouting off justification of there action because of their religion. Which is doublely ironic since the Koran and Muslim religion actually promotes peace and non-violience. So most terrorist are flouting a perversion of the belief system. Regardless, its the terrorists that are making headlines as devoute Muslims... Thus creating the anti-Muslim atmosphere much of the Western World now lives in.
The U.S. and other NATO countrys fighting terrorism will never achieve the goals they want. The only true way to eliminate the splinter faction Muslim group based terrorism is for the other Muslim groups to actively go after the splinter groups and deal with it themselves. Which considering Muslim is the largest and fastest growing religion currently, it would be more effective for them instead of crying about being type casted to actually go after and eliminate the problems from within themselves.
The US Navy tried this a few years back and the ships systems crashed and had to be towed back to port by tug boats when a Divide by Zero fault came up in the navigation system which then cascaded and crashed the entire ships network leaving her dead in the water. Look up the cruiser USS Yorktown. Apparently its true, History is doomed to repeat itself.
Enough new gamers come around, they dont care... Actually all the faulty and draconian DRM they put on games now has actually turned me OFF of gaming. I use to buy a couple hundred dollars worth of new titles each year. And there have been many out there that I was interested in until I found out what DRM and root kits mascarading as copy protection they were loaded with. Don't care to go the Warez route since often many of those games are also loaded with spyware/malware from whomever cracked it or uploaded it.
I hate console games, always felt more immersed and in control with the keyboard games. A console game with what, 2 eight way sticks and 8 buttons versus a keyboard with 108 keys you can set actions to or full flight controls and add on hardware? There was never a question in my household. Only reason I even bought a PS2 was because my ex had a young son and he liked the simple games and controls. Haven't touched it or powered it on in over two years. Don't even know if it still works.
Sadly, as the gaming industry complains about the downturn in their sales, they are to busy focusing the blame on the wrong areas. They claim pirating. But pirating has increased exponetially with their increase use of draconian DRM that often times then exposes your computer to more harmful problems.
DRM has worked to keep me from pirating in a sense I guess you could say. Not that I was before, but it has also made me stop buying music and games. And actually RIAA's efforts were the biggest motivator for me to stop buying cd's and music... If its on the radio, I might listen to it. If not, I don't need to hear it. I dont even watch movies on my PC, mainly because I have a big screen tv and dvd player, but also because I dont want any of the crap DRM they are loading on DVD's now mucking up my system anymore.
What kind of new Eve employee sponsored cheating and cover-ups can we look forward too... No wait, let me guess, its no longer improper for Eve employees to cheat or assist their corporations, its now "Expanding story arcs"...
Firefox has never had a security hole discovered? Are you new to Slashdot? Just google Firefox Security holes... Not even 5 hours after Firefox 3 was released they announced a critical security hole was discovered...
Nope, Any Dell OEM XP Cd shipped since 2000 will work on ANY Dell computer built after 2000. It looks at the BIOS codes... I routinely rebuild client computers and just use the first Dell OEM cd I grab that matches what version it has installed...
Used a Dell OEM XP Sp1 cd from like 2003 on a brand new Dell Laptop the other day after the person decided to open the box himself and go online before we installed antivirus or malware protection software...
Toshiba and HP do lock the OEM software to certain versions. And IBM and Dell lock the Server software to particular models, but not the XP home and Proversions.
You cant use an Dell cd on an HP box without having to call Microsoft and explaining and manually activating the machine.
They just raised it... Two weeks ago when I ordered 6 new computers for two different clients it was only a $50 upgrade to get it with XP pre-installed.
Oh well, you can always exercise your downgrade rights under the EULA and use a privious Dell OEM XP Cd if you have one laying around from previous systems, and still be legal without paying the Down/Upgrade tax.