Right out of my Analytical Troubleshooting Techniques class, which is unfortunately not taught anymore.
I use no sharing software of any kind, other than on my local (private) network, which is only for data not media, but but I would definitely want your services if anything like this bogus lawsuit happened to me!
Are you by any chance a member of Soros' groups/subgroups?
My son (USMC) came back from his tour in Iraq to visit me in the VA hospital, I didn't see him that trip, I was in a coma and not expected to live through it. During that visit my body functions started working again, and I lived. He came back after I woke up and we visited a while, with a little comparing of Viet Nam (my USMC era) with Iraq. The only thing different today is Fox News, and Internet access for the troops.
All other things remained the same, with the left-wing media only reporting the bad news for higher ratings, and to leave the people at home, and the rest of the world, with the mindset of - America is BAD, it tortures combatants and civilians, and anything else they can make up to fuel their political views. Of course WE can't show the dead and tortured Iraqi and US troops on TV, nor the beheading of the same, so they are not mentioned. Without fox and the troops mailing home, there would be NO good news. The general media doesn't even mention the Kurds, they had to make their own commercials to thank us, and PAY for them! The "bad" guys get free "commercials".
It is no big news that many veterans have clubs like the VFW and American Legion, and visit with other veterans and family members, who ALSO paid the price of their service. That price is living with the "Holier than Thou" attitude of most non-veterans, the media, organizations backed by Soros and other left-wing groups.
It's just comforting to go somewhere that you aren't scorned! During Viet Nam and on leave, I was denounced by my pastor and spit on by other church members, and I hadn't even been to Viet Nam!
With the Internet, and with the troops having their own blogs, one would think that the truth would, or could, be seen by anyone. You have proved that that is not the case, perhaps Google is filtering the information...
The only documented cases of "torture" is the posed pictures at Abu Ghraib, the beheading that can be viewed on al Jazeera, and the remains of Iraqis and our servicemen and women. I suppose that the Red Cross could be in the pay of the government and is lying about Guantanamo, but I don't believe that. You, the media, and the politicians do play it up a lot (For possible/future political gain?).
Perhaps you should post in the politics section of/. where those with better prose could respond. I am only a disabled Vet with no particular viewpoint to propose, and lack the language skills to twist the meanings of words to match my feelings about the subject.
Iraq, like Viet Nam, where the politicians pulled the funding and we left while winning, the politicians are trying to do it again. Remove the funding before a clear "winner" develops, and thus leaving before we finish. This is not to "just get the troops home", it's to implement a political agenda, and insure that a Democrat, or another "Clinton" gets elected President, because they want us to "lose". They don't care about Iraq or their people, and they want us to forget about the sacrifices our military members have made to date, including the fact they want to stay and "win".
A president (Democrat!) once quoted "Speak softly and carry a big stick: You will go far." Six times after we were attacked, Clinton "Spoke LOUDLY, but only used his little dick.". If the media and you were around during WWII, we would be speaking German and Japanese today.
Education may expand your knowledge, but it cannot bestow wisdom. Like you, I am lacking in both, but I WILL admit it!
Everyone (I've read) seems to have overlooked the part about facility layout being included in the download. I would imagine that would be valuable for someone who, after being trained on operating a mockup/real copy, could then take a few friends and visit the original facility. Why, I'll leave to your imaginations... (Terrorist with guns, explosives,.... maybe?)
I had a part time position about 10 years ago, working in the computer lab at the local Community College. Mostly programming students, which I helped tutor, but the room next door was used for a Windows introduction course. It went from powering on a PC, explaining and demonstrating the pieces/parts and buzz words, to using all of the free stuff, plus basic use of the "Office" components (I don't think they were all-in-one then). The class was at night only, no credit, but only cost $22. (GREAT place to pick up ladies!)
Quite common practice for sites with forensics capabilities.
What did the payload do on the system in question, or elsewhere on the Intranet? Stopping incoming is not as important as stopping outgoing after a breach!
If they were to count illegals, they would be at the top.
Estimates are 12M, but if it's like last time, 40M+ illegals. (Weather on Comcast in Spanish!)
In addition to entering illegally, two types of fraud and 1 count of identity theft/or fraud (SSN) is required for an illegal to pay the TAXES the pro-illegals are so proud of.
That works out to 120M+ plus illegal entry +40M, for a total of 160M, which should make it #1.
If as they say, when they are legal, they can bring in up to 8 family members, the real crime will be when congress says that SSA is dead, and use general revenues (higher taxes) to pay off those "currently" drawing SS.
I entered the VA hospital, was treated for a lung problem, and was discharged with disabilities. Because I didn't take notes WHILE I was in a coma (2.5 Mo), I can't prove that they caused my hip fracture, a disabled shoulder, and wrist problems, because THEIR documents don't say anything happened-go figure...
My appeal has been denied three times now-but the VA reviews their own appeals. If I could take them to a fed court, what do YOU think would happen?
I agree. Another thought, ARPA sponsored the net, and by rights owns TCP/IP. Why doesn't the Gov patent it, and support the US Gov on royalties from the M$/Sun/IBM's of the world?
We installed VoIP in late 97, or early 98 at USSTRATCOM, Offutt AFB, Bellevue,NE. Worked fine if a little shaky, of course we only had software AD/DA at the time, VS a box with the same software in it...
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To paraphrase an old campaign slogan: It's the GUI Stupid!:-)
If you run taskmaster and then start a program you can see the cpu resources used when loading the application in the performance tab. You may want to change the view->update speed->high. Taskmaster does use cpu and I/O resources too, so running it in several speeds will give you an average, or a good idea of what work is involved in finding, loading, and initializing an application, keeping in mind that the applications can specify other pieces-parts (DLLs, files,...) that it may require at loading...
Now do it again, only just start the command shell. I have it in an icon, but you can start it with Start->run, enter command.com, or go through the menus Start->all Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt.
Loading and opening a window for the Command Prompt is the minimum, as far as resources required, to start an application. Other applications require resources, which causes Windows to fetch/load them, as well as any of its own supporting software if required. Daunting isn't it?
It's been a long time, and I'm not using anything but Solaris and CDE, but it's pretty snappy running GUI applications-excepting some of the JAVA stuff.
Solaris and the flavors of Linux are OSs with Xwindows hosting a GUI shell. The choice of GUI will determine the extra overhead in response time to GUI events. Windows (XP,...) are GUI OSs with more "crap" (overhead)than any of the Solaris/Linux GUIs, which is why it appears so slow, and why it will not get any better in the near future (IMHO). AERO? may be an attempt by M$ to add a different GUI, but on top of the (flawed) GUI OS, not as a replacement...YET?
I'm sure others can expand on this, I don't normally get too caught up in development, but I have used M$ and Solaris, and the tools in Windows CAN produce a lot of interpreted code, or JIT compiling at execution time.
My experience is dated, but I think it's gotten worse...
It can take up to two years to qualify software or an OS version/configuration, as certified to support medical functions.
Who would pay for the certifications for Linux? M$ works with the FDA and others to produce standard configurations, but the Linux releases would have to be paid for by someone else.
NSA and a few other government agencies released a "hardened" configuration of one at some time in the past, but that was just a secure configuration, NOT something to bet your medical liability insurance policy on!
How true. I remember after 15 years on Sun stuff, I started playing with Solaris X86, and posted a few comments and questions on the X86 newsgroup. Many of the people who are knowledgeable about a subject have no problem finding answers because they know how to RTFM, but: 1) Unix docs, and early Linux ones, were written for experts who knew what they wanted, something about what they wanted, and needed details they couldn't remember about that subject. 2) It's difficult to RTFM when you don't KNOW what subject to look for or even HOW to find the "subject = RTFM"! man RTFM doesn't return anything. 3) I remember a frequent posting about how to get the man pages working! It was, of course, documented in the man pages, AFTER you got them working... 4) Again, Unix/Linux docs are written FOR the knowledgeable BY the knowledgeable, and can often be difficult for experienced users to remember the right keyword to search for, or even the right way to find it! Give them a break...
Searching older newsgroup messages for previous answers is not a good response either because some readers and/or servers don't allow searching, or some groups are not supported very well by ISPs. SBC only allows 6 mo. retention which often is not long enough to even see some complete threads!
HOWTOs are great! They do fill the gaps for new people, but added together, it's too much information all at once, and it's still easy to become overloaded.
The Embedded Programming group is/was the same way. Too many of the members were too busy doing "real" things, and ignored new users, or insulted them. Thank goodness they were too busy to frequent the group except when "they" wanted some help!
I have tried to answer most questions (IF I could) as completely as I could, trying to remember how I felt at the same learning level as the poster, and what kind of answer I wanted from someone at that time. It CAN take quite a bit of time to draft an answer, but when you receive several emails from others who think "you did a good thing" answering a posting from a new guy/girl, it does make you feel like you really gave something back for all the help you received in "the day".
There is a difference between asking for technical help, and starting a zealot war on some subject!
Haven't we got enough problems with Windows software being released 3 years before it's ready? Zero day vulnerabilities 3 years after release isn't a bad thing?
If hardware is released like software, we would never be able to stop the finger pointing when trying to resolve a problem.
As far as features and fixes, I thought using firmware and micros in the controllers fixed all that.
Well, Circuit City can't! A previous post in/. pointed to the story about CC laying off their top 1000+ employees-the ones who knew what technology was, and how to sell it.
No relation to anything to do with CC:-)
My son bought a PS3 because he didn't have to worry about a player when he eventually gets an HDTV.
I needed a replacement for my 27" Sony, and found a 36" Sony (KD-XS955) for $900 new/stand. It will do up to 1080i HDTV, in fact it upconverts if it can. The picture is fantastic and the hires Trinitron really shows good DVDs better than larger HDTVs my family and friends have.
Bigger is nicer, but I haven't seen anything larger than my (~32") HDTV with a better quality picture. I don't have HDTV on my cable yet, but the wide screen picture when I tune the HD channels is just about as good as a DVD!
I live in an apt. Even though my 36", 238lbs, CRT takes up more room than a flat screen HDTV, or as much as a DLP projection TV, I'm happy, and with my 4 yr warranty, I can wait for the HD wars to end and prices drop.
If it weren't for the continual DRM problems with my MCE boxes, I might think about getting a better display card, but my Toshiba DVD/VHS player works fine with HDMI and other interfaces.
Well, mine is not I guess. I've reinstalled twice, and recovery disk twice, on my two systems. I was NOT downloading IE7 or WMP11, and they slipped in as UPDATES not UPGRADES. If one was in, the other caused the DRM messages to show up playing UNPROTECTED analog cable channels. The worst cast was gettting the message watching LIVE TV.
Please tell me again how YOU control your computer. For me I guess M$ will slip in their DRM wherever they want, and move the optional software up to critical or high priority to get it downloaded from Updates.
Fortunately, I only have to worry about this for another year or two when COMCAST goes all digital, and I can just buy a couple of DVRs. That coincides with the time to trash Windows XP and MCE anyway, since I will not be going to Vista. (most things are converted to Solaris/Wine now)
I tried, but it required Quicktime which isn't on my system, because of MY security concerns. He could have ANY number of exploits on his webpages. QT seems to "open?" every QT item on the page...
I agree that law enforcement officers should restrain themselves from doing the same violence to the protesters that the protesters are doing to them, but the policeman still has the same rights as the protesters. This includes, to name just one, the right to life!
I could see this clusterf**k if the government executive branch, AND the judicial branch, were trying to SILENCE the blogger, but this seems to be a simple case of refusing to provide evidence in a federal investigation.
OT: The fact that the last 46 years (40-Dem) has seen the feds manipulate the states into accepting federal funding, our taxes, to finance the local police department's equipment, only shows how big we have allowed the government to get. Or possibly, how stupid we are for not keeping our congress under control. If congress mandates actions to the states, but also provides the funding, they own it!
Look at the educational system as an example. The more the feds mandate, the more it costs, and the more the feds pay BACK to the states, and the worse the educational system gets. Education was supposed to be a local effort, but in NE State Law requires n-hours of multicultural education to graduate, but without any requirements to be able to read, write, or do any math...
Many people like me use host blocking. My blocking file contains about 14000 host that cannot be accessed except by direct IP entry in my browser. Most if not all ad/tracking sites are blocked, which does skew any stats collected by browser-byes...
Since our reps, for the most part, ignore the majority, run and get elected. Of course, you will have to put up with irate voters calling and interrupting you wrapping the cash for storage in your freezer...
It was around 2000 or 2001 I think. I bought DSL from a local ISP, who supplied it through SBC and my phone line. SBC made money and my ISP made money. I paid $25 for 5 fixed IP addresses, 128Kb/1.5Mb, and a Giganews feed.
When I moved across town, 2002?, I was NOT able to just transfer my service because my ISP could no longer sell any DSL, SBC wouldn't allow it. I ended up getting DSL from SBC for $25 and a PPPoE connection. Since the software they wanted to install on my PC COULD allow SBC to play around with my TCP/IP and QoS parameters (they said they wouldn't use that feature...), I simply bought a router with PPPoE on the WAN. Great, without ANY government involvement I still had to replace my 5 IPs with 1, at the same price, AND lose the GigaNews feed my old ISP had.
Please explain how much worse things can get if the feds make the rules? I would be happy with 5 IPs @1.5Mb for $25 again VS $34.99@3.0Mb PPPoE/DHCP, NO servers, and a retarded newsserver.
As mentioned in other posts, you may still be able to find them at retailers, keeping in mind that like MCE, you have to use newsgroups or internet posts for support since M$ will not accept bug reports. Retail vendors like HP and Dell do their own support because they are the OEM. Several Internet vendors sell packaged and custom systems with your choice of OS. www.directron.com has provide me with great service for the last 5/6 years, and still offers XP Pro SP2 as an OS. You could also buy a disk, CPU upgrade, new MB, or any of those to upgrade an existing system and add the XP OEM for $139 (Current price). Very good company, and lots of good FAQs/Info for builders and general users. They are available through email and phone for questions and support. There are several other vendors who offer the same, and like directron, will add additional value for a price. Building is an option, with the advantage of part warranties at OEM/Retail, which range from 1yr to 3yrs or more depending on the manufacturer and part. Intel offers a 3 yr CPU warranty for retail boxed CPUs, which I have, also a lifetime on my crutial memory. My disks vary from 1 yr to 5 years depending on the model and vendor at the time I purchased them (15-16). Personally, I've had more problems with my HP and Dell than all of my home-built systems combined, with possibly the DRM crap forced-loaded on my XP!
Why? In an assembler, also called ASM or MASM, class the student gains many valuable lessons about programming practices. You may learn the hardware of a particular CPU or controller, but you are also learning how to design and implement a program using a low-level language, possibly with no libraries, monitor program, or OS to "handle the details" in making it work.
POP and PUSH are from the stack-based CPUs, (and a few interpreters/languages) which are based on Embedded Controllers like the X86, 68000, 6502,... Not all CPUs are stack-based. B and C were designed for stack-based CPUs. C on a mainframe, or or other CPUs without stacks, don't have stack overflows. If you are using ASM on a stack-based CPU, YOU must do your own checks before running out of stack space.
Developing in ASM forces the programmer-to-be to actually think about what they are trying to do, where and in what order their data is declared, and what parameters are being used in calling/called programs or subroutines/functions. Calls from external programs, or even internal calls, must be validated for length, and a sanity check performed on all values or pointers. (Language features which are standard in COBOL, Fortran, etc:-)
An experienced ASM programmer would be shocked (I was) at the library routines used by C. No wonder there are so many stack and buffer overflows. No checks are made for valid lengths or bounds of the arguments passed. New libs are now available, IF someone pays attention and actually uses them. SANS weekly vulnerabilty reports are running about 80+% in "failing to sanitize or validate user supplied data, or parameters".
People get so caught up in the bells and whistles of their favorite language-of-the-week, they forget to apply rules that would be learned using ASM, or WHY a language like COBOL defines what happens during a move/copy if the receiving field is smaller or larger than the sending. (truncate or space fill). C for example allows the programmer to create a fast, tightly-coded program, with STYLE, but which could crash when it encounters data it was not expecting-just like ASM!
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Right out of my Analytical Troubleshooting Techniques class,
which is unfortunately not taught anymore.
I use no sharing software of any kind, other than on my local (private) network,
which is only for data not media, but but I would definitely want your services
if anything like this bogus lawsuit happened to me!
Are you by any chance a member of Soros' groups/subgroups?
/. where those with better prose could respond. I am only a disabled Vet with no particular viewpoint to propose, and lack the language skills to twist the meanings of words to match my feelings about the subject.
My son (USMC) came back from his tour in Iraq to visit me in the VA hospital, I didn't see him that trip, I was in a coma and not expected to live through it. During that visit my body functions started working again, and I lived. He came back after I woke up and we visited a while, with a little comparing of Viet Nam (my USMC era) with Iraq. The only thing different today is Fox News, and Internet access for the troops.
All other things remained the same, with the left-wing media only reporting the bad news for higher ratings, and to leave the people at home, and the rest of the world, with the mindset of - America is BAD, it tortures combatants and civilians, and anything else they can make up to fuel their political views. Of course WE can't show the dead and tortured Iraqi and US troops on TV, nor the beheading of the same, so they are not mentioned. Without fox and the troops mailing home, there would be NO good news. The general media doesn't even mention the Kurds, they had to make their own commercials to thank us, and PAY for them! The "bad" guys get free "commercials".
It is no big news that many veterans have clubs like the VFW and American Legion, and visit with other veterans and family members, who ALSO paid the price of their service. That price is living with the "Holier than Thou" attitude of most non-veterans, the media, organizations backed by Soros and other left-wing groups.
It's just comforting to go somewhere that you aren't scorned! During Viet Nam and on leave, I was denounced by my pastor and spit on by other church members, and I hadn't even been to Viet Nam!
With the Internet, and with the troops having their own blogs, one would think that the truth would, or could, be seen by anyone. You have proved that that is not the case, perhaps Google is filtering the information...
The only documented cases of "torture" is the posed pictures at Abu Ghraib, the beheading that can be viewed on al Jazeera, and the remains of Iraqis and our servicemen and women. I suppose that the Red Cross could be in the pay of the government and is lying about Guantanamo, but I don't believe that. You, the media, and the politicians do play it up a lot (For possible/future political gain?).
Perhaps you should post in the politics section of
Iraq, like Viet Nam, where the politicians pulled the funding and we left while winning, the politicians are trying to do it again. Remove the funding before a clear "winner" develops, and thus leaving before we finish. This is not to "just get the troops home", it's to implement a political agenda, and insure that a Democrat, or another "Clinton" gets elected President, because they want us to "lose". They don't care about Iraq or their people, and they want us to forget about the sacrifices our military members have made to date, including the fact they want to stay and "win".
A president (Democrat!) once quoted "Speak softly and carry a big stick: You will go far." Six times after we were attacked, Clinton "Spoke LOUDLY, but only used his little dick.". If the media and you were around during WWII, we would be speaking German and Japanese today.
Education may expand your knowledge, but it cannot bestow wisdom. Like you, I am lacking in both, but I WILL admit it!
Everyone (I've read) seems to have overlooked the part about facility layout being included in the download. I would imagine that would be valuable for someone who, after being trained on operating a mockup/real copy, could then take a few friends and visit the original facility. Why, I'll leave to your imaginations... (Terrorist with guns, explosives,.... maybe?)
Good posting!
I had a part time position about 10 years ago, working in the
computer lab at the local Community College. Mostly programming
students, which I helped tutor, but the room next door was used
for a Windows introduction course. It went from powering on a PC,
explaining and demonstrating the pieces/parts and buzz words,
to using all of the free stuff, plus basic use of the "Office"
components (I don't think they were all-in-one then). The class
was at night only, no credit, but only cost $22. (GREAT place
to pick up ladies!)
Now it's $100/class for each part! Bummer.
Quite common practice for sites with forensics capabilities.
What did the payload do on the system in question, or elsewhere on the Intranet?
Stopping incoming is not as important as stopping outgoing after a breach!
If they were to count illegals, they would be at the top.
Estimates are 12M, but if it's like last time, 40M+ illegals. (Weather on Comcast in Spanish!)
In addition to entering illegally, two types of fraud and 1 count of identity theft/or fraud (SSN) is required for an illegal to pay the TAXES the pro-illegals are so proud of.
That works out to 120M+ plus illegal entry +40M, for a total of 160M, which should make it #1.
If as they say, when they are legal, they can bring in up to 8 family members,
the real crime will be when congress says that SSA is dead, and use general revenues (higher taxes) to pay off those "currently" drawing SS.
It's just like the feds.
I entered the VA hospital, was treated for a lung problem, and was discharged with disabilities. Because I didn't take notes WHILE I was in a coma (2.5 Mo), I can't prove that they caused my hip fracture, a disabled shoulder, and wrist problems, because THEIR documents don't say anything happened-go figure...
My appeal has been denied three times now-but the VA reviews their own appeals.
If I could take them to a fed court, what do YOU think would happen?
I'm trying to sic my Congressman on them now...
I'm sure that DRM will be well represented in the new format, OH-maybe we don't need one!
As long as it's not Windows for Warships for the OS!
I agree.
Another thought, ARPA sponsored the net, and by rights owns TCP/IP.
Why doesn't the Gov patent it, and support the US Gov on
royalties from the M$/Sun/IBM's of the world?
We installed VoIP in late 97, or early 98 at USSTRATCOM, Offutt AFB, Bellevue,NE.
Worked fine if a little shaky, of course we only had software AD/DA at the time,
VS a box with the same software in it...
To paraphrase an old campaign slogan: It's the GUI Stupid! :-)
If you run taskmaster and then start a program you can see the cpu resources used when loading the application in the performance tab. You may want to change the view->update speed->high.
Taskmaster does use cpu and I/O resources too, so running it in several speeds will give you an average, or a good idea of what work is involved in finding, loading, and initializing an application, keeping in mind that the applications can specify other pieces-parts (DLLs, files,...) that it may require at loading...
Now do it again, only just start the command shell. I have it in an icon, but you can start it with Start->run, enter command.com, or go through the menus Start->all Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt.
Loading and opening a window for the Command Prompt is the minimum, as far as resources required, to start an application. Other applications require resources, which causes Windows to fetch/load them, as well as any of its own supporting software if required. Daunting isn't it?
It's been a long time, and I'm not using anything but Solaris and CDE, but it's pretty snappy running GUI applications-excepting some of the JAVA stuff.
Solaris and the flavors of Linux are OSs with Xwindows hosting a GUI shell. The choice of GUI will determine the extra overhead in response time to GUI events. Windows (XP,...) are GUI OSs with more "crap" (overhead)than any of the Solaris/Linux GUIs, which is why it appears so slow, and why it will not get any better in the near future (IMHO). AERO? may be an attempt by M$ to add a different GUI, but on top of the (flawed) GUI OS, not as a replacement...YET?
I'm sure others can expand on this, I don't normally get too caught up in development, but I have used M$ and Solaris, and the tools in Windows CAN produce a lot of interpreted code, or JIT compiling at execution time.
My experience is dated, but I think it's gotten worse...
It can take up to two years to qualify software or an OS version/configuration, as certified to support medical functions.
Who would pay for the certifications for Linux?
M$ works with the FDA and others to produce standard configurations, but the Linux releases would have to be paid for by someone else.
NSA and a few other government agencies released a "hardened" configuration of one at some time in the past, but that was just a secure configuration, NOT something to bet your medical liability insurance policy on!
How true.
I remember after 15 years on Sun stuff, I started playing with Solaris X86, and posted a few comments and questions on the X86 newsgroup. Many of the people who are knowledgeable about a subject have no problem finding answers because they know how to RTFM, but:
1) Unix docs, and early Linux ones, were written for experts who knew what they wanted, something about what they wanted, and needed details they couldn't remember about that subject.
2) It's difficult to RTFM when you don't KNOW what subject to look for or even HOW to find the "subject = RTFM"! man RTFM doesn't return anything.
3) I remember a frequent posting about how to get the man pages working! It was, of course, documented in the man pages, AFTER you got them working...
4) Again, Unix/Linux docs are written FOR the knowledgeable BY the knowledgeable, and can often be difficult for experienced users to remember the right keyword to search for, or even the right way to find it! Give them a break...
Searching older newsgroup messages for previous answers is not a good response either because some readers and/or servers don't allow searching, or some groups are not supported very well by ISPs. SBC only allows 6 mo. retention which often is not long enough to even see some complete threads!
HOWTOs are great! They do fill the gaps for new people, but added together, it's too much information all at once, and it's still easy to become overloaded.
The Embedded Programming group is/was the same way. Too many of the members were too busy doing "real" things, and ignored new users, or insulted them. Thank goodness they were too busy to frequent the group except when "they" wanted some help!
I have tried to answer most questions (IF I could) as completely as I could, trying to remember how I felt at the same learning level as the poster, and what kind of answer I wanted from someone at that time. It CAN take quite a bit of time to draft an answer, but when you receive several emails from others who think "you did a good thing" answering a posting from a new guy/girl, it does make you feel like you really gave something back for all the help you received in "the day".
There is a difference between asking for technical help, and starting a zealot war on some subject!
Haven't we got enough problems with Windows software being released 3 years before it's ready? Zero day vulnerabilities 3 years after release isn't a bad thing?
If hardware is released like software, we would never be able to stop the finger pointing when trying to resolve a problem.
As far as features and fixes, I thought using firmware and micros in the controllers fixed all that.
Well, Circuit City can't! A previous post in /. pointed to the story about CC laying off their top 1000+ employees-the ones who knew what technology was, and how to sell it.
No relation to anything to do with CC :-)
My son bought a PS3 because he didn't have to worry about a player when he eventually gets an HDTV.
I needed a replacement for my 27" Sony, and found a 36" Sony (KD-XS955) for $900 new/stand. It will do up to 1080i HDTV, in fact it upconverts if it can. The picture is fantastic and the hires Trinitron really shows good DVDs better than larger HDTVs my family and friends have.
Bigger is nicer, but I haven't seen anything larger than my (~32") HDTV with a better quality picture. I don't have HDTV on my cable yet, but the wide screen picture when I tune the HD channels is just about as good as a DVD!
I live in an apt. Even though my 36", 238lbs, CRT takes up more room than a flat screen HDTV, or as much as a DLP projection TV, I'm happy, and with my 4 yr warranty, I can wait for the HD wars to end and prices drop.
If it weren't for the continual DRM problems with my MCE boxes, I might think about getting a better display card, but my Toshiba DVD/VHS player works fine with HDMI and other interfaces.
Well, mine is not I guess. I've reinstalled twice, and recovery disk twice, on my two systems.
I was NOT downloading IE7 or WMP11, and they slipped in as UPDATES not UPGRADES. If one was in, the other caused the DRM messages to show up playing UNPROTECTED analog cable channels. The worst cast was gettting the message watching LIVE TV.
Please tell me again how YOU control your computer. For me I guess M$ will slip in their DRM wherever they want, and move the optional software up to critical or high priority to get it downloaded from Updates.
Fortunately, I only have to worry about this for another year or two when COMCAST goes all digital, and I can just buy a couple of DVRs. That coincides with the time to trash Windows XP and MCE anyway, since I will not be going to Vista. (most things are converted to Solaris/Wine now)
I tried, but it required Quicktime which isn't on my system, because of MY security concerns. He could have ANY number of exploits on his webpages. QT seems to "open?" every QT item on the page...
I agree that law enforcement officers should restrain themselves from doing the same violence to the protesters that the protesters are doing to them, but the policeman still has the same rights as the protesters. This includes, to name just one, the right to life!
I could see this clusterf**k if the government executive branch, AND the judicial branch, were trying to SILENCE the blogger, but this seems to be a simple case of refusing to provide evidence in a federal investigation.
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The fact that the last 46 years (40-Dem) has seen the feds manipulate the states into accepting federal funding, our taxes, to finance the local police department's equipment, only shows how big we have allowed the government to get. Or possibly, how stupid we are for not keeping our congress under control. If congress mandates actions to the states, but also provides the funding, they own it!
Look at the educational system as an example. The more the feds mandate, the more it costs, and the more the feds pay BACK to the states, and the worse the educational system gets. Education was supposed to be a local effort, but in NE State Law requires n-hours of multicultural education to graduate, but without any requirements to be able to read, write, or do any math...
Many people like me use host blocking. My blocking file contains about 14000 host that cannot be accessed except by direct IP entry in my browser. Most if not all ad/tracking sites are blocked, which does skew any stats collected by browser-byes...
Since our reps, for the most part, ignore the majority, run and get elected.
Of course, you will have to put up with irate voters calling and interrupting you wrapping the cash for storage in your freezer...
It was around 2000 or 2001 I think. I bought DSL from a local ISP, who supplied it through SBC and my phone line. SBC made money and my ISP made money. I paid $25 for 5 fixed IP addresses, 128Kb/1.5Mb, and a Giganews feed. When I moved across town, 2002?, I was NOT able to just transfer my service because my ISP could no longer sell any DSL, SBC wouldn't allow it. I ended up getting DSL from SBC for $25 and a PPPoE connection. Since the software they wanted to install on my PC COULD allow SBC to play around with my TCP/IP and QoS parameters (they said they wouldn't use that feature...), I simply bought a router with PPPoE on the WAN. Great, without ANY government involvement I still had to replace my 5 IPs with 1, at the same price, AND lose the GigaNews feed my old ISP had. Please explain how much worse things can get if the feds make the rules? I would be happy with 5 IPs @1.5Mb for $25 again VS $34.99@3.0Mb PPPoE/DHCP, NO servers, and a retarded newsserver.
As mentioned in other posts, you may still be able to find them at retailers, keeping in mind that like MCE, you have to use newsgroups or internet posts for support since M$ will not accept bug reports. Retail vendors like HP and Dell do their own support because they are the OEM. Several Internet vendors sell packaged and custom systems with your choice of OS. www.directron.com has provide me with great service for the last 5/6 years, and still offers XP Pro SP2 as an OS. You could also buy a disk, CPU upgrade, new MB, or any of those to upgrade an existing system and add the XP OEM for $139 (Current price). Very good company, and lots of good FAQs/Info for builders and general users. They are available through email and phone for questions and support.
There are several other vendors who offer the same, and like directron, will add additional value for a price. Building is an option, with the advantage of part warranties at OEM/Retail, which range from 1yr to 3yrs or more depending on the manufacturer and part. Intel offers a 3 yr CPU warranty for retail boxed CPUs, which I have, also a lifetime on my crutial memory. My disks vary from 1 yr to 5 years depending on the model and vendor at the time I purchased them (15-16). Personally, I've had more problems with my HP and Dell than all of my home-built systems combined, with possibly the DRM crap forced-loaded on my XP!
Why? In an assembler, also called ASM or MASM, class the student gains many valuable lessons about programming practices. You may learn the hardware of a particular CPU or controller, but you are also learning how to design and implement a program using a low-level language, possibly with no libraries, monitor program, or OS to "handle the details" in making it work. POP and PUSH are from the stack-based CPUs, (and a few interpreters/languages) which are based on Embedded Controllers like the X86, 68000, 6502,... Not all CPUs are stack-based. B and C were designed for stack-based CPUs. C on a mainframe, or or other CPUs without stacks, don't have stack overflows. If you are using ASM on a stack-based CPU, YOU must do your own checks before running out of stack space. Developing in ASM forces the programmer-to-be to actually think about what they are trying to do, where and in what order their data is declared, and what parameters are being used in calling/called programs or subroutines/functions. Calls from external programs, or even internal calls, must be validated for length, and a sanity check performed on all values or pointers. (Language features which are standard in COBOL, Fortran, etc :-)
An experienced ASM programmer would be shocked (I was) at the library routines used by C. No wonder there are so many stack and buffer overflows. No checks are made for valid lengths or bounds of the arguments passed. New libs are now available, IF someone pays attention and actually uses them. SANS weekly vulnerabilty reports are running about 80+% in "failing to sanitize or validate user supplied data, or parameters".
People get so caught up in the bells and whistles of their favorite language-of-the-week, they forget to apply rules that would be learned using ASM, or WHY a language like COBOL defines what happens during a move/copy if the receiving field is smaller or larger than the sending. (truncate or space fill). C for example allows the programmer to create a fast, tightly-coded program, with STYLE, but which could crash when it encounters data it was not expecting-just like ASM!