He will need something to read NTFS when a system won't boot. Winternals AdminPak is the only decent tool that works as well as it does
Knoppix (the bootable, CD-ROM Linux) - will read NTFS file-systems and allow you to ftp, rsync, or scp the contents over to another computer.
1) Insert Knoppix CD 2) Boot 3) Wait a few momoents 4) You now have a desktoip with the NTFS partition(s) as little icons. 5) Browse them. 6) Copy files over network.
The best thing is that the NTFS file-system is mounted read only - so you can't do any more damage than there already has been done.
(yes 'NTFS file-system' is redundant, excuse me while I go to the ATM machine)
What I mean is my friends will ask me to fix their computer or install a new hard drive but they would never think of asking their lawyer friends to write them a contract. What's up with that?
I have a policy with all my friends:
Windows Work: Pay my consulting rate, with travel time. FreeBSD Desktop Work: Free.
I can install FreeBSD, with openoffice in under 30 minutes, and I rarely have to visit the computer again, and if there is a problem, remote diagnosis is quite easy.
Windows has to be installed behind a firewall - otherwise you get owned before the first service pack has been downloaded.
Hell, OpenOffice installes faster on FreeBSD than it takes me to type in the security code and go through the activation process in Windoxs XP.
Yes,
I was using the 'Maniframe' incorectly in the modern sense - sometihng more powerfull than a workstation. Server is a more apportiate word.
I haven't had the opurtunity to work with a true mainframe - but looking over the sholders of come of the old COBOL programmers, I'm actually quite impressed with the care that goes into some of these systems. A bit cryptic... but interesting.
Wine with it's own.DLL's recompiled for Apple, and Boch for all the code in the rest of a Win32 app might be fast enough for a lot of apps out there.
For example, I have a crappy database front-end written in Win32.
It spends most of it's time in ODBC and calling Windows.DLL for forms and reports.
If Wine on OSX had nativly compiled.DLLs for the ODBC, Win Forms and Report printing - there's barly anything left in my app. Just some crappy business logic - if that part ran ten times slower in Boch, nobody would notice.
So you're saying it'd be OK to murder the spammer too?
Let say this spammer sends out a 6 million messages a day, causeing a million people to spend ten seconds deleting the message. That's 416 hours of lost time per day - do that for a year, and it's as if 10 people lost all the time in their natural born lives.
It's it right that he can do this? Ten lives were lost, just spread out over many people.
This cofees is *NOT* expensive - good shade-grown organic cofee is well woth $10 a pound. A lot of effort, time and care goes into the product, and the results are outstanding.
Folgers is about $4.50 a poind, and this cofee is more that 10 times better - in armoa, taste, and in good-will (suporting non-plantation growers that care about the product.)
I'm not an environmentalist wacko - with the typical cofee plantations (in South America) are terrible for our environment. Basically they slash and burn, orver fertalise, the mechanically harverst - and once there done with that peice of land they move on to the next bit of rain-forest.
$10 is nothing for us computer programers - it takes you an extra three minutes to earn the diferance and the results are worth it.
1) Subsudising phone service for deadbeats who won't get a job. 2) Subsudising phone service for rich people who want a trophy house in the middle of nowhere.
As far as I'm concerned, we shouldent have to subsudise either group. Instead, we should use the money to add a spell-checker to Mozilla, so I woulden't look like an idot that can't spell 'subsudising' properly.
, but the ugly part was the rest of it - having a separate malloc implementation just for their code in particular.
ALL really-good code has to have it's own malloc, string and big-num implementations. Bonus points if you write your own parser for reall small expressions, extra bonus points if your parser has really odd operator precidence that require lots of parens to make usable.
about as bad as a person looking at a Ferrari, then bragging about how his compact car will get him from A to B just as fast at a fraction of the cost.
The kicker is when the guy with the compact car uses the saved money to buy an airplane.
On the OEM version of XP you have to reboot after Windows Update.
My point ws that Mandrake is easier to install that the combo of XP/MS Office.
I'm eagerly awating the day when OpenOffce becomes as polished as MS Office - my guess is that in 18 months it will be there - then the real blood letting at Redmond will begin.
Disagree? Give a brand new machine to your parents, or grandparents and get them to install unix. See what happens, and if you have any hair left after walking them through.
Mandrake 9.1 (with built in office suite) requires less that 20% of the effort than WindowsXP and OfficeXP require.
Mandrake:
Partition
Insall
Optionally Configre Network if Not DHCP
Create Password
Reboot
Update
Windows:
Partition
Reboot
Format
Reboot
Install
Enter 20 chard of serial number
Install
Reboot
Optionally Configure Network if not DHCP
Windows Update
Install MS Office
Enter 10 chars of serial number
Microsoft Office Update
Register Windows
Register Office XP
I was showing a client the redundant power-supply by poerwering one down and removing it while the computer kept running.
He though it was pretty cool and later that day he did a demonstration: He powered down the first supply, removed it and then powered down the second supply.
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You forgot step three: 3. Repeat as necessary
Thanks for putting a condition in the loop.
Some progrmmers have died a painfull death in their own shower:
1) Lather
2) Rinse
3) Repeat
it makes me wonder what will be the New Linux... maybe some project that is barely out of gestation today?
My precious Amiga.... Did you hear that? There's hope for us.......
significant viruses of out time as 'MS Blaster' deserves to get caught
I'd name it: My Microsoft Virus.
He will need something to read NTFS when a system won't boot. Winternals AdminPak is the only decent tool that works as well as it does
Knoppix (the bootable, CD-ROM Linux) - will read NTFS file-systems and allow you to ftp, rsync, or scp the contents over to another computer.
1) Insert Knoppix CD
2) Boot
3) Wait a few momoents
4) You now have a desktoip with the NTFS partition(s) as little icons.
5) Browse them.
6) Copy files over network.
The best thing is that the NTFS file-system is mounted read only - so you can't do any more damage than there already has been done.
(yes 'NTFS file-system' is redundant, excuse me while I go to the ATM machine)
goals: freedom of choice, freedom of source code, and freedom to alter applications, are not the goals of the average user.
Then you need to educate the users and tailor their OS to fit their individual needs. Free Unix can do this, and it's an advantage!
Business: How would you like a OS that *ONLY* has business applications on the desktop.
Children: Here's a clean desktop with a few icons - single click them to play.
Geek: Here's mutilple desktops filled with options and tools.
Server: There's only PostreSQL running on this server. No remote logins are allowed.
You'd thing after 100 years sombody would come up with the perftect car that we'd all love, but there as diferent as Hummers and Prius's.
Computers will be the same, and Microsoft's unified system that tries to fit the needs of pre-schollers to servers sucks.
What I mean is my friends will ask me to fix their computer or install a new hard drive but they would never think of asking their lawyer friends to write them a contract. What's up with that?
I have a policy with all my friends:
Windows Work: Pay my consulting rate, with travel time.
FreeBSD Desktop Work: Free.
I can install FreeBSD, with openoffice in under 30 minutes, and I rarely have to visit the computer again, and if there is a problem, remote diagnosis is quite easy.
Windows has to be installed behind a firewall - otherwise you get owned before the first service pack has been downloaded.
Hell, OpenOffice installes faster on FreeBSD than it takes me to type in the security code and go through the activation process in Windoxs XP.
Yes,
I was using the 'Maniframe' incorectly in the modern sense - sometihng more powerfull than a workstation. Server is a more apportiate word.
I haven't had the opurtunity to work with a true mainframe - but looking over the sholders of come of the old COBOL programmers, I'm actually quite impressed with the care that goes into some of these systems. A bit cryptic... but interesting.
These benchmarks really say to me that the G5 is ok, a little better, but you've gotta go all apple to get it.
Apple's G5 is just a baby IBM mainframe - in a silver chassis.
So you do have an upgrade path...
There mab be somthing though...
.DLL's recompiled for Apple, and Boch for all the code in the rest of a Win32 app might be fast enough for a lot of apps out there.
.DLL for forms and reports.
.DLLs for the ODBC, Win Forms and Report printing - there's barly anything left in my app. Just some crappy business logic - if that part ran ten times slower in Boch, nobody would notice.
Wine with it's own
For example, I have a crappy database front-end written in Win32.
It spends most of it's time in ODBC and calling Windows
If Wine on OSX had nativly compiled
"MAC Games" involveve stealing someones network card MAC address and watching the fun.
Copy of 'back side down' image here -> Image
It's on an AOL account, hidden in a 'private' directory. Kinda funny.
So you're saying it'd be OK to murder the spammer too?
Let say this spammer sends out a 6 million messages a day, causeing a million people to spend ten seconds deleting the message. That's 416 hours of lost time per day - do that for a year, and it's as if 10 people lost all the time in their natural born lives.
It's it right that he can do this? Ten lives were lost, just spread out over many people.
you have a job? programming computers? and at $200/hour?
I'm really close to my customers - they can't out-source me.
Just like auto workers can be out-sourced, but car mechanics can't.
This cofees is *NOT* expensive - good shade-grown organic cofee is well woth $10 a pound. A lot of effort, time and care goes into the product, and the results are outstanding.
Folgers is about $4.50 a poind, and this cofee is more that 10 times better - in armoa, taste, and in good-will (suporting non-plantation growers that care about the product.)
I'm not an environmentalist wacko - with the typical cofee plantations (in South America) are terrible for our environment. Basically they slash and burn, orver fertalise, the mechanically harverst - and once there done with that peice of land they move on to the next bit of rain-forest.
$10 is nothing for us computer programers - it takes you an extra three minutes to earn the diferance and the results are worth it.
And for what benefits? None.
Alot of those taxes go for two things:
1) Subsudising phone service for deadbeats who won't get a job.
2) Subsudising phone service for rich people who want a trophy house in the middle of nowhere.
As far as I'm concerned, we shouldent have to subsudise either group. Instead, we should use the money to add a spell-checker to Mozilla, so I woulden't look like an idot that can't spell 'subsudising' properly.
, but the ugly part was the rest of it - having a separate malloc implementation just for their code in particular.
ALL really-good code has to have it's own malloc, string and big-num implementations. Bonus points if you write your own parser for reall small expressions, extra bonus points if your parser has really odd operator precidence that require lots of parens to make usable.
Just imagine Beofulf cluster of Darl McBrides.. That, would be a twist.
It think they made one of those in Redmond, WA.
about as bad as a person looking at a Ferrari, then bragging about how his compact car will get him from A to B just as fast at a fraction of the cost.
The kicker is when the guy with the compact car uses the saved money to buy an airplane.
Sony's PS/2 Linux is an example of a console implementation of Linux failing to produce anything of value to Sony.
A fair amount of people have migrated from the PS/2 Linux 'Hobby-Kit' to full time PS/2 gaming jobs.
That is of value to Sony.
Sound like you slip-streamed some patches
On the OEM version of XP you have to reboot after Windows Update.
My point ws that Mandrake is easier to install that the combo of XP/MS Office.
I'm eagerly awating the day when OpenOffce becomes as polished as MS Office - my guess is that in 18 months it will be there - then the real blood letting at Redmond will begin.
Disagree? Give a brand new machine to your parents, or grandparents and get them to install unix. See what happens, and if you have any hair left after walking them through.
Mandrake 9.1 (with built in office suite) requires less that 20% of the effort than WindowsXP and OfficeXP require.
Mandrake:
Partition
Insall
Optionally Configre Network if Not DHCP
Create Password
Reboot
Update
Windows:
Partition
Reboot
Format
Reboot
Install
Enter 20 chard of serial number
Install
Reboot
Optionally Configure Network if not DHCP
Windows Update
Install MS Office
Enter 10 chars of serial number
Microsoft Office Update
Register Windows
Register Office XP
That remonds me of somthing that happend to me...
I was showing a client the redundant power-supply by poerwering one down and removing it while the computer kept running.
He though it was pretty cool and later that day he did a demonstration: He powered down the first supply, removed it and then powered down the second supply.
Oops.
And I'd wager that the average desktop user would have a far more difficult time sucessfully installing and configuring a Linux-based firewall
In the year 2000 this was true, but most Linux distributions nowdays have a graphical way of creating the firewall.
Hell, even OpenBSD has a GUI mode for PF.
No.... like this!
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<data encoding=32_bit_little _endian_binary_written_in_an_acsii_string_in=32_l
1010101100101001010000111010101010100010001010101 0101010001010101......
</data>
</picture>
If someone really needs a firewall on a 2k machine, why not use Zonealarm?
I'm just saying that Microsoft's priorities are off -
They put a #$#R%@ 3D Pinball game in Windows 2000, and diden't put an easy to use firewall just goes to show their lack of professionalism.