Recovery Console was an absolute piece of garbage. It was very restricted and had a very limited set of commands which often made it inneficient or even useless for fixing many Windows problems.
...thus demonstrating that you were not a power user. Recovery console allows restoring corrupted or infected MBRs, fixing a corrupted boot.ini, running a special chkdsk that actually restores corrupted system files, and deleting viruses that would normally be undeletable outside of a Linux boot cd. It also allowed easy access to disable and enable drivers and services, something that is VERY difficult to do from a Linux boot cd, and can be a lifesaver if your system isnt booting because of a bad driver.
Startup repair is basically glorified garbage. I havent seen it do anything I couldnt do in a few seconds in autoruns anyways. You say that it allows a repair install; are you sure you dont mean reinstall, which is completely different and wipes out both the registry and program files?
As for BCD, I rather suspect the "edit it offline from any OS" feature is what they wanted killed. Regardless, they certainly accomplished that. XP can be easily restored from a corrupted state with a linux boot cd and/or an XP install cd in about 10 minutes. Vista? Not so much.
Glad to hear that im not the only one who finds 1000 instances of that kind of crap every day obnoxious in the extreme. Use a parking meter like youre supposed to.
The cameras are already there, it can already be abused. Was there massive outcry about the cameras before this? I would be interested to see how many people only started complaining when it might actually cost them parking tickets.
A lot like red light cameras-- Im sure there are legitimate concerns with them, but Im also sure the vast majority of people complaining about them just want to be able to drive how they want with impunity.
Compared with XP, 7 just isnt really better. I cant think of a single new thing off hand (not that there arent any, I just cant think of them) that 7 adds over vista except for RAM improvements and eyecandy, and other than IE7/8 protected mode and UAC, cant think of a single thing Vista adds over XP.
Of course, they DID remove the ability to install a decent recovery console to the hard drive, and completely ruined boot.ini in favor of the disaster that is bcd, and remove the ability to do a meaningful repair of a broken installation (it has to be initiated from a working installation-- no more boot from cd--> repair). Oh, and the control panel is a disaster now, with Network Connections and adapters taking some 6 clicks to get to (or actually typing ncpa.cpl into start menu).
Same experience, about 6 mos ago i was working on a live-boot linux image for systems diagnostics and forensics, and could choose either debian or ubuntu.
After getting annoyed at ubuntu's shenigans (all the trouble to fix button positions, crappy themes, social networking garbage), i decided to try Debian. After 15 minutes trying to figure out what to download (ended on netboot version), and then installing the system, and then doing a dist-upgrade to a more recent version (testing I think) in order to reach relative parity with ubuntu, everything blew up.
I ended up taking all of about 1 hour to rip out the crap from ubuntu that I didnt want, rather than the absolute dependency nightmare that resulted with debian. Apparently at that point doing a dist-upgrade to testing would break the world. Whoops. But yea, Ubuntu's REAL awful in comparison, right?
It really worries me to see someone pull out the old "heavens are a canopy" argument, and then get modded informative. I have to wonder if any of the mods have ever taken high school lit, or know what metaphorical language is. But no, clearly, the author of Isaiah thinks the sky is a sheet of cloth.
You may not believe that the Bible is accurate, but any time you pull out a ridiculous and weak claim like that, it just damages your credibility.
I can tell you havent read very much of his work, as you wouldnt classify it primarily as "tales" or "truth telling". He dealt heavily in reasoning and logic in many of his books; while he did delve into theology on several occasions, you dont look at a book like "The Screwtape Letters" (or "Screwtape Proposes a Toast") and say "oh, thats a fairy tale" because it instantly brands you as someone who doesnt understand metaphor, allegory, and other similarly difficult literary devices.
I would also point out that what "C.S. Lewis is...known for" isnt decided by you, but public consensus; I will note that his fiction seems to be an afterthought in the Wikipedia summary:
CS Lewis... was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction....
News to me, I spent half of the day dealing with a company's email that was...offline. But its not "in the cloud" so that makes it not-so-serious, right?
You mean, unless theres actually real security there? I would hope the NSA could afford better equipment than dumb switches and a single router.
There are, for example, pieces of network equipment that will detect outbound traffic on the network and forcibly route it through itself (the equipment I saw doing this was a Nomadix gateway). Tie that with a managed layer-3 switch (configured to prevent DHCP from coming from untrusted ports), plus a little configuration to raise a red flag when a node's mac changes, and you have a configuration where the most someone can do is provide himself an isolated connection to the internet.
Of course, one could have a wireless router hooked to the internet, hook into that and then bridge into the private network, but noone else would be able to access that gateway, and if you have proper firewall rules in place noone should be able to do any serious harm regardless. Sure, an outside party could spoof IPs, but I dont see how you would get any kind of meaningful TCP connection thru the bridge if you did so.
Saying that "one little gateway....and the whole walled garden is compromised" is just ignorant. I mitigate that scenario with a second $30 Rosewill router walling off part of the network. LOOK! now the breach is contained to a single segment. Why are armchair admins being modded "insightful", again?
riddle me this, if theyre already doing search suggestions (and thus sending letter by letter updates to google), what additional benefit does it provide Google to actually run the query?
So then, what solution would you propose to permenantly solve the "war against terror"? Trade sanctions? Some how that will keep people who hate us, from hating us?
Anyone who thinks solving "some people hate us and want to destroy our society" is easy, is full of themselves.
Worth noting is that if you actually configure a package with their basic phone service (or some of the tv packages), the price DROPS to $317/mo (!). Check it out here, http://ebpfi.com/you-pick
That is incorrect. All non IE browsers get "OWA-Lite", ie, "OWA made as crappy as we can without pissing off our users too much". It is better in Exchange07, but it is STILL lite mode.
Sounds like democracy isnt the type of government you're looking for, then. See, the whole point of democracy isnt that the elite or educated or white get to vote, but that the governed get to elect their governors.
Social security is a pyramid scheme. Once the base of the pyramid stops growing, the entire thing collapses. Its a retarded idea, and its more complex than the simple "everyone is responsible for saving money themselves". If the financial system collapses (which it hasnt exactly, as my bank account still seems to have a balance, miraculously), then yes, perhaps youre in trouble... but what if the social security system collapses, as is inevitable? The population cannot and will not continue to grow forever, what then?
NASA does great things, and I wont speak against it, but I will note that private industry does seem to be picking up the reins and starting to take shots at space.
I think the point about education was based on how disastrous non merit-based pay can be, while (I imagine) merit-based pay would be more the norm in private schools.
Im unclear on what your point is with self governance and contracts. If Joe Blow develops a new backup utility, and Microsoft signs a deal to license it from him, and then ignores all of the royalty and rights he is to retain, what is his recourse?
Are you suggesting that a democracy, properly understood, means that only those who agree with you can vote? Or only those at least as educated as you? Or only those as privileged as you?
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probably better than most, since it has symbols, unless you have a fairly good dictionary.
Recovery Console was an absolute piece of garbage. It was very restricted and had a very limited set of commands which often made it inneficient or even useless for fixing many Windows problems.
...thus demonstrating that you were not a power user. Recovery console allows restoring corrupted or infected MBRs, fixing a corrupted boot.ini, running a special chkdsk that actually restores corrupted system files, and deleting viruses that would normally be undeletable outside of a Linux boot cd. It also allowed easy access to disable and enable drivers and services, something that is VERY difficult to do from a Linux boot cd, and can be a lifesaver if your system isnt booting because of a bad driver.
Startup repair is basically glorified garbage. I havent seen it do anything I couldnt do in a few seconds in autoruns anyways. You say that it allows a repair install; are you sure you dont mean reinstall, which is completely different and wipes out both the registry and program files?
As for BCD, I rather suspect the "edit it offline from any OS" feature is what they wanted killed. Regardless, they certainly accomplished that. XP can be easily restored from a corrupted state with a linux boot cd and/or an XP install cd in about 10 minutes. Vista? Not so much.
Glad to hear that im not the only one who finds 1000 instances of that kind of crap every day obnoxious in the extreme. Use a parking meter like youre supposed to.
drug and alcohol laws that even the Taliban think are a tad excessive.
[citation needed]
The cameras are already there, it can already be abused. Was there massive outcry about the cameras before this? I would be interested to see how many people only started complaining when it might actually cost them parking tickets.
A lot like red light cameras-- Im sure there are legitimate concerns with them, but Im also sure the vast majority of people complaining about them just want to be able to drive how they want with impunity.
Reading Isaiah in Hebrew doesnt help you if you cannot identify the difference between historical narrative, scientific terminology, and metaphor.
I would note that in v22, Isaiah calls the inhabitants of the earth grasshoppers. Clearly, he was directing this passage towards insects.
Compared with XP, 7 just isnt really better. I cant think of a single new thing off hand (not that there arent any, I just cant think of them) that 7 adds over vista except for RAM improvements and eyecandy, and other than IE7/8 protected mode and UAC, cant think of a single thing Vista adds over XP.
Of course, they DID remove the ability to install a decent recovery console to the hard drive, and completely ruined boot.ini in favor of the disaster that is bcd, and remove the ability to do a meaningful repair of a broken installation (it has to be initiated from a working installation-- no more boot from cd--> repair). Oh, and the control panel is a disaster now, with Network Connections and adapters taking some 6 clicks to get to (or actually typing ncpa.cpl into start menu).
But boy that new eyecandy is impressive, right?
Same experience, about 6 mos ago i was working on a live-boot linux image for systems diagnostics and forensics, and could choose either debian or ubuntu.
After getting annoyed at ubuntu's shenigans (all the trouble to fix button positions, crappy themes, social networking garbage), i decided to try Debian. After 15 minutes trying to figure out what to download (ended on netboot version), and then installing the system, and then doing a dist-upgrade to a more recent version (testing I think) in order to reach relative parity with ubuntu, everything blew up.
I ended up taking all of about 1 hour to rip out the crap from ubuntu that I didnt want, rather than the absolute dependency nightmare that resulted with debian. Apparently at that point doing a dist-upgrade to testing would break the world. Whoops. But yea, Ubuntu's REAL awful in comparison, right?
It really worries me to see someone pull out the old "heavens are a canopy" argument, and then get modded informative. I have to wonder if any of the mods have ever taken high school lit, or know what metaphorical language is. But no, clearly, the author of Isaiah thinks the sky is a sheet of cloth.
You may not believe that the Bible is accurate, but any time you pull out a ridiculous and weak claim like that, it just damages your credibility.
Enter key is hard bro.
I would also point out that what "C.S. Lewis is
CS Lewis... was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction....
(wikipedia, emphasis mine)
Oh, so you didnt notice all those advertising scripts running in the background on slashtot?
Email works fine and it doesnt go OFF LINE...
News to me, I spent half of the day dealing with a company's email that was...offline. But its not "in the cloud" so that makes it not-so-serious, right?
You mean, unless theres actually real security there? I would hope the NSA could afford better equipment than dumb switches and a single router.
There are, for example, pieces of network equipment that will detect outbound traffic on the network and forcibly route it through itself (the equipment I saw doing this was a Nomadix gateway). Tie that with a managed layer-3 switch (configured to prevent DHCP from coming from untrusted ports), plus a little configuration to raise a red flag when a node's mac changes, and you have a configuration where the most someone can do is provide himself an isolated connection to the internet.
Of course, one could have a wireless router hooked to the internet, hook into that and then bridge into the private network, but noone else would be able to access that gateway, and if you have proper firewall rules in place noone should be able to do any serious harm regardless. Sure, an outside party could spoof IPs, but I dont see how you would get any kind of meaningful TCP connection thru the bridge if you did so.
Saying that "one little gateway....and the whole walled garden is compromised" is just ignorant. I mitigate that scenario with a second $30 Rosewill router walling off part of the network. LOOK! now the breach is contained to a single segment. Why are armchair admins being modded "insightful", again?
riddle me this, if theyre already doing search suggestions (and thus sending letter by letter updates to google), what additional benefit does it provide Google to actually run the query?
why not just click the "turn off instant search" button....
Yes, and that idea (transubstantiation) is utterly rejected by mainstream protestantism.
strawmen are fun!
same against 911 and the war against terror....
So then, what solution would you propose to permenantly solve the "war against terror"? Trade sanctions? Some how that will keep people who hate us, from hating us?
Anyone who thinks solving "some people hate us and want to destroy our society" is easy, is full of themselves.
Worth noting is that if you actually configure a package with their basic phone service (or some of the tv packages), the price DROPS to $317/mo (!). Check it out here, http://ebpfi.com/you-pick
That is incorrect. All non IE browsers get "OWA-Lite", ie, "OWA made as crappy as we can without pissing off our users too much". It is better in Exchange07, but it is STILL lite mode.
Sounds like democracy isnt the type of government you're looking for, then. See, the whole point of democracy isnt that the elite or educated or white get to vote, but that the governed get to elect their governors.
Social security is a pyramid scheme. Once the base of the pyramid stops growing, the entire thing collapses. Its a retarded idea, and its more complex than the simple "everyone is responsible for saving money themselves". If the financial system collapses (which it hasnt exactly, as my bank account still seems to have a balance, miraculously), then yes, perhaps youre in trouble... but what if the social security system collapses, as is inevitable? The population cannot and will not continue to grow forever, what then?
NASA does great things, and I wont speak against it, but I will note that private industry does seem to be picking up the reins and starting to take shots at space.
I think the point about education was based on how disastrous non merit-based pay can be, while (I imagine) merit-based pay would be more the norm in private schools.
Im unclear on what your point is with self governance and contracts. If Joe Blow develops a new backup utility, and Microsoft signs a deal to license it from him, and then ignores all of the royalty and rights he is to retain, what is his recourse?
Are you suggesting that a democracy, properly understood, means that only those who agree with you can vote? Or only those at least as educated as you? Or only those as privileged as you?
Your statement would be relevant if it were in ANY way unique to the Bible.