This knowledge base article from Microsoft describes how to use the Time Zone Editor utility (which you can download from that page) to adjust time zone settings.
If you need to update several computers, it also describes which registry keys to export. You can then import those registry keys in a logon script or whatever.
It's not like people/companies running Win2k are SOL.
From Lawrence Lessig's blog: "So we have 10 days left in the Creative Commons campaign. This is not a drill. We are down to the last $100,000, and really need your support..." (source) And then a few days later... "At 12:30pm, an envelope from Redmond appeared at the Creative Commons office. Inside, a check for $25,000. From Microsoft." (source))
Your exact scenario happened to me a few weeks ago.
Do you use the TweakUI program that comes with Powertoys for Windows XP? If so, do you have X-Mouse turned on? Check Mouse -> X-Mouse and see if "Activation follows mouse (X-Mouse)" is turned on.
Some poorly written Windows apps will pop up dialogs that then disappear if they lose mouse focus. If you have X-Mouse turned on, they will pop up a dialog - and if your mouse is anywhere else on the screen, they'll think they've lost focus and close the dialog.
All I had to do was disable X-Mouse until the app popped the dialog again, then I could deal with it. Unfortunately I don't remember what the poorly written program happened to be...
I can't see how anyone could construe this as an endorsement by Microsoft of unconventional copyright terms.
Hrm... Well, then how about these:
"Microsoft today announced the release of its Simple List Extensions specification to RSS under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license." (source)
"The Microsoft-hosted PatternShare community brings together information on software patterns organized by wiki inventor and now Microsoft employee Ward Cunningham." (source)
From Lawrence Lessig's blog: "So we have 10 days left in the Creative Commons campaign. This is not a drill. We are down to the last $100,000, and really need your support..." (source) And then a few days later... "At 12:30pm, an envelope from Redmond appeared at the Creative Commons office. Inside, a check for $25,000. From Microsoft." (source)
You should address your good wishes to Melinda. Gates did very little beneficial before he met her, and ever since they married, he's started spending more and more on philantropy. To me that's exactly the sign of a man under the soft but efficient control of his wife slowly turning him around to what she wants.
"You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature." (Source)
Correlation does not imply causation. Denigrating his generosity on account of when he was generous is just plain rude.
To be impacted with the worm, users have to actively download the code. Messenger conversations initiated by the worm carry texts like "jaja look a that" or "mira este video" as well as a web address from where it is downloaded.
Ummmm... here's a hint: if somebody sends you a random URL to an executable, don't run it!
...Ballmer is going to sit on all that money they have instead of giving back to the shareholders or doing something useful.
In 2004, Microsoft gave $30 billion back to the shareholders. Google for it. And seriously, this is/., so Microsoft bashing is par for the course -- but at least don't just make stuff up.
I don't know much at all about the subject, but check out DropMyRights, by Michael Howard, a security guy at Microsoft.
DropMyRights is a very simple application to help users who must run as an administrator run applications in a much-safer context -- that of a non-administrator. It does this by taking the current user's token, removing various privileges and SIDs from the token, and then using that token to start another process...
It's basically sample code, rather than a full solution, but it might give you a starting point.
Also ask Google about the.Net Framework's security model - in particular "code access security." From here:
Code access security uses the location from which executable code is obtained and other information about the identity of code as a primary factor in determining what resources the code should have access to. This information about the identity of an assembly is called evidence... It is the responsibility of the code access security system in the runtime to map this evidence into a set of permissions, which will determine what access this code has to a number of resources such as the registry or the file system.
Let's see... 91,000,000 hours / 8 hours in a day / 5 days in a week / 50 weeks in a year = 45,500 person years.
That's utterly... amazing.
In comparison, David A. Wheeler's paper Estimating Linux's Size approximates the work on Linux so far to be about 4,500 man years. (He uses the COCOMO model.)
That reference was off the top of my head - I think it was mentioned on/. before. Didn't have much luck finding other interesting estimates...
This issue is orthogonal to DRM
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A number of "Internet radio" and "streaming TV" devices and programs have become available today. Most of the products sold for this purpose only receive stations that have been enabled through the gateway site of product's manufacturer...
Imagine the problem for democracy if, when that day dawns, the manufacturers of our access devices are a few companies that have attained a market lock on Internet broadcasting, thus determining what political viewpoints the electorate can receive.
This issue is orthogonal to DRM. The problem is restricting what data sources these devices can listen to.
Are you sure you don't mean "Windows Live Local (updated version of Microsoft's TerraServer)"? TerraServer has existed since at least 2000. Or maybe you mean "Windows Live Local (online version of Microsoft's MapPoint)", which has existed since at least 2001?
Or do you really mean the product developed by KeyHole, which Google acquired in 2004?
Internet Explorer 6 includes support for server certificate revocation, which verifies that an issuing CA has not revoked a server certificate...
To enable server certificate revocation, in the Internet Options dialog box, click the Advanced tab, and then select the Check for server certificate revocation check box...
Internet Explorer 6 includes support for publisher's certificate revocation, which verifies that an issuing CA has not revoked a publisher's certificate. To enable publisher's certificate revocation, in the Internet Options dialog box, click the Advanced tab, and then select the Check for publisher's certificate revocation check box.
The VeriSign screw up was made worse because their certificate didn't indicate a CDP (CRL Distribution Point) from which IE could have automatically downloaded the updated CRL. From Microsoft's security bulletin:
Every certificate should provide a piece of data called the CRL Distribution Point (CDP) - this data indicates the location from which the CRL can be obtained. The problem is that VeriSign code-signing certificates don't provide CDP information. As a result, even though VeriSign has added these two certificates to its current CRL, it's not possible for systems to automatically download and check it. Our update compensates for this omission in the VeriSign certificates.
I can't figure out whether people actually believe the "Vista is just XP with a new skin"/. meme, or they just propagate it for mod points...
Either way, our friend Wikipedia has plenty of information about the new features in Vista. In particular, note the following:
D3D10 functionality will require the Advanced VDDM (Vista Display Driver Model), which in turn will require new graphics hardware. The graphics hardware will be pre-emptive multithreaded, to allow multiple threads use the GPU in turns. It will also provide paging of the graphics memory.
First off, no offense intended - it was a generalization, and the fact that you can write in coherent English to post here takes away the "stupid" automatically.:)
No worries - I wasn't offended. I know that many people on/. feel strongly about renting music, so I just thought I'd provide an opposing viewpoint. Cheers!
People are stupid, but given the choice between owning DRMed music that you can burn or renting it and watching it all vanish when you stop paying...well, I'd hope that people aren't that stupid.
I subscribe to Rhapsody, so I guess I am that stupid.
I know some people feel very... passionately... about "renting" music rather than "owning" it. But I like having access to thousands upon thousands of tracks that I can listen to at any time. Rhapsody has two million tracks.
Am I going to listen to all two million? Of course not. But I have extremely varied tastes and like exploring new music. Last week I was listening to my favorite indie tracks, then I got bored. So I started checking out world music - African, Caribbean, Brazilian. Then I got bored and listened to some hip-hop. Then I got bored and listened to some music from Rent.
In a given week, I'll listen to hundreds of different tracks - most of them brand new to me. How much do I pay? About $12.
The Microsoft/Urge subscription model contains a new twist as well: 'Urge also lets you rent songs: $9.95 a month (or $99 a year) lets you download all the tracks you want to a computer, while $14.95 ($149 a year) lets you transfer those downloads to most newer Windows Media-compatible players. These rented songs can't be burned to CD and go silent if you stop paying the fees.'
How is this a "new twist"? Listen Rhapsody has been using this model for years.
But how dare they violate the valuable IP of patent #6,368,227? Don't bother letting these hardened criminals rot in jail- just shoot them for their crimes against humanity.
A five-year-old kid from Minnesota has patented a way of swinging on a child's swing...
Peter Olson[, his father,] told New Scientist: "I had told him that if he invented something he could file a patent." His son had not seen sideways swinging because the swings at his school are closely spaced, so he asked his father to file the application.
But that's coo, Slashdot. Mock away. That's what you do best.
Lets assume that Vista is as few as a 1000KLoc - (I'd bet another order of magnatude personally)
FWIW, according to this article (PDF - sorry) from CyberDefense Magazine, Microsoft Word alone was 2 million lines of code... in 1995.
It also says that Windows 2000 had 35 million LOC, and XP has 40 million.
Assume that the growth between XP and Vista is the same: that means 45 million LOC for Vista. So 60% is 27 million lines of code. It would be ridiculous to re-write that much - let alone impossible.
Does anyone remember the previous third-party patch to IE? This is from December of '03.
Slashdot: "Open Source Firm Releases Patch for IE Bug [UPDATED]"
An open source and freeware software development web site has released a patch to fix the URL spoofing vulnerability in Internet Explorer... Update: Sadly, the patch appears to contain a buffer overflow and some possibly-malicious code. (link)
"...For those of you that refuse to believe, here's an estimate of the lines of managed code in Microsoft applications that I got permission to blog about:
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This knowledge base article from Microsoft describes how to use the Time Zone Editor utility (which you can download from that page) to adjust time zone settings.
If you need to update several computers, it also describes which registry keys to export. You can then import those registry keys in a logon script or whatever.
It's not like people/companies running Win2k are SOL.
So far MOAB has released 2 bugs for QuickTime, 1 for iLife, 1 for DiskManagement/diskutil, and 1 for Finder.
I don't. I just open source my code, and other people find the security bugs for me. More eyeballs and all, ya know?
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Or maybe I, too, can post unprovable, untestable anti-Microsoft conjecture to slashdot and get modded up?
Yawn is all I can say.
Okay, not the EFF, but how about
Your exact scenario happened to me a few weeks ago.
Do you use the TweakUI program that comes with Powertoys for Windows XP? If so, do you have X-Mouse turned on? Check Mouse -> X-Mouse and see if "Activation follows mouse (X-Mouse)" is turned on.
Some poorly written Windows apps will pop up dialogs that then disappear if they lose mouse focus. If you have X-Mouse turned on, they will pop up a dialog - and if your mouse is anywhere else on the screen, they'll think they've lost focus and close the dialog.
All I had to do was disable X-Mouse until the app popped the dialog again, then I could deal with it. Unfortunately I don't remember what the poorly written program happened to be...
Hrm... Well, then how about these:
"Microsoft today announced the release of its Simple List Extensions specification to RSS under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license." (source)
"The Microsoft-hosted PatternShare community brings together information on software patterns organized by wiki inventor and now Microsoft employee Ward Cunningham." (source)
From Lawrence Lessig's blog: "So we have 10 days left in the Creative Commons campaign. This is not a drill. We are down to the last $100,000, and really need your support..." (source) And then a few days later... "At 12:30pm, an envelope from Redmond appeared at the Creative Commons office. Inside, a check for $25,000. From Microsoft." (source)
And so forth
"You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature." (Source)
Correlation does not imply causation. Denigrating his generosity on account of when he was generous is just plain rude.
From the article:
Ummmm... here's a hint: if somebody sends you a random URL to an executable, don't run it!
The More You Know
In 2004, Microsoft gave $30 billion back to the shareholders. Google for it. And seriously, this is /., so Microsoft bashing is par for the course -- but at least don't just make stuff up.
I don't know much at all about the subject, but check out DropMyRights, by Michael Howard, a security guy at Microsoft.
It's basically sample code, rather than a full solution, but it might give you a starting point.
Also ask Google about the .Net Framework's security model - in particular "code access security." From here:
Cheers.
Let's see... 91,000,000 hours / 8 hours in a day / 5 days in a week / 50 weeks in a year = 45,500 person years.
That's utterly... amazing.
In comparison, David A. Wheeler's paper Estimating Linux's Size approximates the work on Linux so far to be about 4,500 man years. (He uses the COCOMO model.)
That reference was off the top of my head - I think it was mentioned on /. before. Didn't have much luck finding other interesting estimates...
This issue is orthogonal to DRM. The problem is restricting what data sources these devices can listen to.
Are you sure you don't mean "Windows Live Local (updated version of Microsoft's TerraServer)"? TerraServer has existed since at least 2000. Or maybe you mean "Windows Live Local (online version of Microsoft's MapPoint)", which has existed since at least 2001?
Or do you really mean the product developed by KeyHole, which Google acquired in 2004?
And actually, MFSA 2006-32 fixes *7* "potential memory corruption" vulnerabilities, so the count of critical flaws alone could be as high as 12.
From here:
The VeriSign screw up was made worse because their certificate didn't indicate a CDP (CRL Distribution Point) from which IE could have automatically downloaded the updated CRL. From Microsoft's security bulletin:
I can't figure out whether people actually believe the "Vista is just XP with a new skin" /. meme, or they just propagate it for mod points...
Either way, our friend Wikipedia has plenty of information about the new features in Vista. In particular, note the following:
The Direct3D page has more information.
Did a little googling for sendmail.cf - the sendmail configuration file - and found this gem. The unintentional humour on the last line is hilarious:
No worries - I wasn't offended. I know that many people on /. feel strongly about renting music, so I just thought I'd provide an opposing viewpoint. Cheers!
I subscribe to Rhapsody, so I guess I am that stupid.
I know some people feel very... passionately... about "renting" music rather than "owning" it. But I like having access to thousands upon thousands of tracks that I can listen to at any time. Rhapsody has two million tracks.
Am I going to listen to all two million? Of course not. But I have extremely varied tastes and like exploring new music. Last week I was listening to my favorite indie tracks, then I got bored. So I started checking out world music - African, Caribbean, Brazilian. Then I got bored and listened to some hip-hop. Then I got bored and listened to some music from Rent.
In a given week, I'll listen to hundreds of different tracks - most of them brand new to me. How much do I pay? About $12.
But that's ok, call me stupid. ;)
How is this a "new twist"? Listen Rhapsody has been using this model for years.
In reference to the patent you mention, this text is from a New Scientist article on the patent:
But that's coo, Slashdot. Mock away. That's what you do best.
FWIW, according to this article (PDF - sorry) from CyberDefense Magazine, Microsoft Word alone was 2 million lines of code... in 1995.
It also says that Windows 2000 had 35 million LOC, and XP has 40 million.
Assume that the growth between XP and Vista is the same: that means 45 million LOC for Vista. So 60% is 27 million lines of code. It would be ridiculous to re-write that much - let alone impossible.
Does anyone remember the previous third-party patch to IE? This is from December of '03.
Read this blog posting by Dan Fernandez:
"...For those of you that refuse to believe, here's an estimate of the lines of managed code in Microsoft applications that I got permission to blog about: