The patches have been available for a LOOOOONG time now. They should have patched. They can't whine now. End of story.
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I've had to patch several Windows 2000 boxes for clueless friends and mothers of friends.
The patch is ony 1.3 Megs or so, but the problem is that you have to have SP3 or higher to apply the patch and going from no service pack to SP4 takes 11 hours over a 56K connection.
Try explanig that over the phone.
It woulden't be so bad if Windows 2000 had a servacable firewall - there's one hidden in the managment console thingy.
It's really pathetetic that in the year 2000 - ALL of the free unixes had decent, available firewalls, and most of them fit under 60 Megs.
IBM is to be commended on it's restraint in patent litigation - I *KNOW* for a fact that several programs that I'm involved violate several of IBM's trivial patents. IBM knows that some of their patents are trivial, and the never abuse anybody with them unless they fire the first shot.
In IBM's patent portfolio there are many patents that are patent worthy, and they do defend them vigorously, but the trivial stuff - they could care less about (unless you piss them off first.)
For my portable eXPerience, I like to keep My Favorites in My USB Drive. This gives me access to My Websites, at any of My Computers. When I plug in My USB Drive - it even shows up as an icon in Microsoft Windows Explorer - Built with Spyglass Technology in under a second.
It's truly My Favorite. Even My Dog agrees with me, because I won't feed him if he doesen't.
The Jaguar (as a video-game system) has a 68000 chip that was used for bootstraping and low-level tasks (like reading the joystick port) - it had two 64 bit graphice/video DSP like chips that were used to make the pretty video and pretty sounds.
As a general purpous PC system, the Jaguar port of Contiki will probably just use the 68000 - the two DSP chips are almost usless for general apps and os needs.
A side affect of the on-board 68000 was that Jaguar developers used it as a crutch - witness the loust ports of ST/Amiga games for the system.
A lot of winodows accounting packages - Peachtree, MAS 90, Quickbooks that use files as a psudo-database crash *HARD* if you don't turn off opplocks. You can do it in both Windows Server and Samba.
(Opplocks is windows crapy way of caching networked files for speed - it's implementation sucks)
The top US supercomputer can only do 20 TFLOPS or so.
And that's only the ones we know of.
The NSA probably thinks top500.org is rather amusing.
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That was the '92 IMSA races - older cars are allowed to a point.
The Olds Cutlas was ugly - but the hightest power to ugly ratio had be be the Buick Grand-Nationals.
Those are true sleepsrs if you don't know what they are.
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that the louder speaker system always sounds better. They move a lot of expensive speakers like that.
And with TV's and Monitors - over-saturated colore sells. Spend a little time adjusting your TV so that skin looks.... well... skin color... and you'll see the differance.
Car's work the same way - the Cool looking 1992 Mazda RX-7 were constatly spanked by the ugly Oldsmobile Cutlass .
But the cooler looking RX-7 is considered by lay people to be the better car (and it is on many levels, just not IMSA racing.)
What if a compant decides it does not want to sell to people of certain ethnic backgrounds
Actually - they do this right now. Younger people pay more for goods and servics that 'elderly' people - they charge up to 100% more for food at resturants, movies, hotels and other such things.
It's even illegal to own property in certain housing developments if your under the age of 55.
do I patronise the Chinese manufaturer so that their employees can eat?
or do I patronise the American manufacturer so that their employess can buy A BIG SCREEN TV's at AL's TV EMPORIUM - SUNDAY SYNDAY SYNDAY - Save BIG at AL's on SUNDAY. Free hot-dogs, and baloons for the kiddies!.
Ethically it is absolutely heinous to make some people pay an exaggerated price in order to frighten others
Although the RIAA is a bunch of jerks,
Over-punishment is a common crime controll technique - a $45 fine for speeding is rediculous when you consider that you diden't hurt anybody, but the point is that the fine is suposed to be large enough to descurage you from doing it again.
For petty crimes, this is often the case:
$1000 for littering, $10,000 for minor tax fraud, $500 for driving without insurance.
It's sad though that with *real* crimes the punsihment is nowhere near the severity of the crime - 4 years for cold blooded murder that deprives someone of 60 years of life. 8 months for rape that leaves somone a blubbering ball of fear and pregnet with a bastard child that they have to get fished out of their womb.
The antivirus vendors can only release their updated file - AFTER the virus has started to spread, the receive a copy and patch and test. This could take *DAYS*.
Some people think that a properly created worm/virus could spread over the entire available host populations in under 15 min from release.
Add atachement mangeling, removal, and remove vunerable email client for example; Outlook with with it's own exploits and it's embeded HTML (Explorer) with it's own list of exploits are unacceptable for a networked computing environment.
Be sure to test your code often - at the 55th hour it's a bummer to find that your coding has slowly morphed to Perl, especially when you started in C++.
Isn't that what boobs that are a few credits short of a Community College degree and badly printed business cards have been trying to do for years?
That's me.
Except that some of my clients have grown, and my business has grown with it. In 7 years we went from
Me - fixing windows 95 CD-ROM drivers.
to
Me and four other people - making accounting packages with PostgreSQL and XUL, installing OpenBSD firewalls/WAN, FreeBSD file-servers, making KDE apps that are served with Linux, and all sorts of other fun stuff.
1. Indent properly. 2. Make Your code readable.//this is a great idea 3. Use_good_variable_names. 4. Avoid buffer *overflows. 5. for (;;x = "Avoid using statements like goto.") {;}
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The patches have been available for a LOOOOONG time now. They should have patched. They can't whine now. End of story.
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I've had to patch several Windows 2000 boxes for clueless friends and mothers of friends.
The patch is ony 1.3 Megs or so, but the problem is that you have to have SP3 or higher to apply the patch and going from no service pack to SP4 takes 11 hours over a 56K connection.
Try explanig that over the phone.
It woulden't be so bad if Windows 2000 had a servacable firewall - there's one hidden in the managment console thingy.
It's really pathetetic that in the year 2000 - ALL of the free unixes had decent, available firewalls, and most of them fit under 60 Megs.
what fucking idiot is modding this up?
I did!
This morning, I was just an idiot.
But $20, some Old English and two joints later...
I'm a fucking idiot.
Yeah!!!
buying an SCO license with monopoly money..
Kidding aside, Microsoft did but an SCO license with 'monopoly' money just a few weeks ago.
And now SCO is attacking the GPL.
Now isen't that interesting.
Since Microsoft paid SCO to make it the problem...pretty cool for them if the GPL collapses, hm?
Even if the GPL is deemed unenforcable - and it reverts to sort of a BSD license, it still think Free Software will win in the long run.
Most of us, nowdays, demand freely distributable source code, so the appatite is out there.
What would we all buy:
$199 (Single Upgrade License) Microsoft Linux XP Pro Longhorn
$45 (Redistributable) Mandrake 11.5. (With Source).
IBM is to be commended on it's restraint in patent litigation - I *KNOW* for a fact that several programs that I'm involved violate several of IBM's trivial patents. IBM knows that some of their patents are trivial, and the never abuse anybody with them unless they fire the first shot.
In IBM's patent portfolio there are many patents that are patent worthy, and they do defend them vigorously, but the trivial stuff - they could care less about (unless you piss them off first.)
What's wrong with waiting 30 seconds or a minute to download a bunch spam, as long as you don't have to see it ?
Client-side spam filtering sucks if you have an expensive internet connection:
ATT GPRS charges me $.0008 per kilo-byte
Iridium charges me $1.50 bet minuite at 9600 baud
and some 56K european ISP don't offer the tryical $20 all you can use connections we Americans have gotten used to.
(side note: pair.com has built in spamassassin filtering you can activate. And FreeBSD servers - highly recomended)
What kind of an idiot would buy penis-enlargement pills?
:(
:)
Meeeeeeeeeee
After the pills:
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Please. Try _bookmarks_. Definitely.
[MODE=MSFT]
For my portable eXPerience, I like to keep My Favorites in My USB Drive. This gives me access to My Websites, at any of My Computers. When I plug in My USB Drive - it even shows up as an icon in Microsoft Windows Explorer - Built with Spyglass Technology in under a second.
It's truly My Favorite. Even My Dog agrees with me, because I won't feed him if he doesen't.
The Jaguar (as a video-game system) has a 68000 chip that was used for bootstraping and low-level tasks (like reading the joystick port) - it had two 64 bit graphice/video DSP like chips that were used to make the pretty video and pretty sounds.
As a general purpous PC system, the Jaguar port of Contiki will probably just use the 68000 - the two DSP chips are almost usless for general apps and os needs.
A side affect of the on-board 68000 was that Jaguar developers used it as a crutch - witness the loust ports of ST/Amiga games for the system.
A lot of winodows accounting packages - Peachtree, MAS 90, Quickbooks that use files as a psudo-database crash *HARD* if you don't turn off opplocks. You can do it in both Windows Server and Samba.
(Opplocks is windows crapy way of caching networked files for speed - it's implementation sucks)
The top US supercomputer can only do 20 TFLOPS or so.
And that's only the ones we know of.
The NSA probably thinks top500.org is rather amusing.
That was the '92 IMSA races - older cars are allowed to a point.
The Olds Cutlas was ugly - but the hightest power to ugly ratio had be be the Buick Grand-Nationals.
Those are true sleepsrs if you don't know what they are.
that the louder speaker system always sounds better. They move a lot of expensive speakers like that.
.
And with TV's and Monitors - over-saturated colore sells. Spend a little time adjusting your TV so that skin looks.... well... skin color... and you'll see the differance.
Car's work the same way - the Cool looking 1992 Mazda RX-7 were constatly spanked by the ugly Oldsmobile Cutlass
But the cooler looking RX-7 is considered by lay people to be the better car (and it is on many levels, just not IMSA racing.)
What if a compant decides it does not want to sell to people of certain ethnic backgrounds
Actually - they do this right now. Younger people pay more for goods and servics that 'elderly' people - they charge up to 100% more for food at resturants, movies, hotels and other such things.
It's even illegal to own property in certain housing developments if your under the age of 55.
Hmm...
do I patronise the Chinese manufaturer so that their employees can eat?
or do I patronise the American manufacturer so that their employess can buy A BIG SCREEN TV's at AL's TV EMPORIUM - SUNDAY SYNDAY SYNDAY - Save BIG at AL's on SUNDAY. Free hot-dogs, and baloons for the kiddies!.
Ethically it is absolutely heinous to make some people pay an exaggerated price in order to frighten others
Although the RIAA is a bunch of jerks,
Over-punishment is a common crime controll technique - a $45 fine for speeding is rediculous when you consider that you diden't hurt anybody, but the point is that the fine is suposed to be large enough to descurage you from doing it again.
For petty crimes, this is often the case:
$1000 for littering, $10,000 for minor tax fraud, $500 for driving without insurance.
It's sad though that with *real* crimes the punsihment is nowhere near the severity of the crime - 4 years for cold blooded murder that deprives someone of 60 years of life. 8 months for rape that leaves somone a blubbering ball of fear and pregnet with a bastard child that they have to get fished out of their womb.
The antivirus vendors can only release their updated file - AFTER the virus has started to spread, the receive a copy and patch and test. This could take *DAYS*.
Some people think that a properly created worm/virus could spread over the entire available host populations in under 15 min from release.
More Info Worhal Virus
Add atachement mangeling, removal, and remove vunerable email client for example; Outlook with with it's own exploits and it's embeded HTML (Explorer) with it's own list of exploits are unacceptable for a networked computing environment.
Like going into porn.
The best thing about working in porn, is the complementry lemony-fresh moist towelette.
Mmmm.... lemon....
My record is 55 hours of straight coding.
Be sure to test your code often - at the 55th hour it's a bummer to find that your coding has slowly morphed to Perl, especially when you started in C++.
* Wil Wright invents the "software toy" or "sandbox" type of game with SimCity
The invention of the "software toy" is *very* important - but there were earlier examples:
1982 Rock'y Boots
1960's Logo
1960's Eliza and Parry
I'm sure there are earlie examples of interactive, exploratory, non-games.
Isn't that what boobs that are a few credits short of a Community College degree and badly printed business cards have been trying to do for years?
That's me.
Except that some of my clients have grown, and my business has grown with it. In 7 years we went from
Me - fixing windows 95 CD-ROM drivers.
to
Me and four other people - making accounting packages with PostgreSQL and XUL, installing OpenBSD firewalls/WAN, FreeBSD file-servers, making KDE apps that are served with Linux, and all sorts of other fun stuff.
All the while making a shit-load of money.
Ahem...
1. Indent properly.
2. Make Your code readable.
3. Use_good_variable_names.
4. Avoid buffer *overflows.
5. for (;;x = "Avoid using statements like goto.") {;}
Not just a planet anymore, it's a server!
(Kolob is the planet(or star) near where God lives according the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints)
Jeez, don't they teach you USians basic language skills at school?
No, most of us learn C++ or Java.
(kidding)
so its okay to outsource jobs to reduce costs but not okay to lower salaries of the top management to reduce costs?
.... just on a company wide scale.
...
This happens!
Lean and mean 1970's SONY repleaces fat-and-bloated RCA
Lean and mean 2010's Samsung replaces fat-and-bloated SONY
Lean and mean 1970's Honda replaces fat-and-bloated AMC
Lean and mean 2010's Hyundai replaces fat-and-bloated Honda