Why is a comment from someone who hasn't even used the operating system themselves marked insightful? He's basically said "I've heard that a bunch of dudes that haven't used Vista haven't heard great things about it".
Perhaps insightful of the bunch of dudes had trialled Vista. But I heard from someone that heard isn't really all that insightful is it?
Readyboost is encrypted and is not a swap file. Pages are not swapped out of RAM to a readyboost device. Readyboost is primary for fast reading of commonly accessed files.
See the following post from the MS ReadyBoost program manager:
http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02 /615199.aspx
Sorry I need to clarify - system image files can be created using Business, Enterprise and Ultimate editions - not the home basic or home premium editions. This is a lot better than the parent post which indicated that backup was missing entirely from editions other than ultimate.
This is simply untrue. Check http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsv ista/features/details/backup.mspx
Some versions of Vista do not allow for AUTOMATED backup, but the backup utility, including the ability to make system image files, is present in all editions.
Recovery is straightfoward. Make an image file (you can even span optical media in writing it). If your hard disk does the firework, you boot off your upgrade disk, select Repair and then select Full Recovery. You then provide the media holding your image and the whole thing is restored to the point when you took the image.
It is also possible to recover to a particular restore point off the upgrade media (if your hard disk hasn't done the firework)
I meant 2004. Anyway - if you are not a yank you will be fingerprinted at the US border, even if you are a child. There are other places in the world to take children if they want to see Mickey Mouse and not have their kids fingerprinted as if they were possible terrorists.
Think it is doubtful all you want, I can name at least 5 people who have cancelled trips to the USA because they didn't think that their 3 and 5 year old children should be fingerprinted if they wanted to visit Disneyland.
So, given that you are using OO.o and have broken the "cycle of upgrades", does this mean that you will not upgrade your current version of OO.o when a new version is released in future? Or are you happy to keep upgrading OO.o to the latest and greatest, switching one treadmill for another?
If Microsoft had never existed, another closed source monopoly would be in its place. It is likely (given how other corporations act) that less money would have been given to charity.
It might be entirely possible, but that doesn't make it probable.
But I admire you for living in a world where corporations, saving money on computer licensing expenses, don't pad executive salaries, but instead give the cash to charaties fighting AIDs and so on.
If you've been running a computer with either of these operating systems, you have been doing so for many years now. Chances are you sorted out any kinks you had a long time ago and you are aware of any pertinent security issues and have made your decision to stick where you are.
So why would anyone who has stuck with either OS for so long get excited about a lack of official support?
Mod parent up. Scientific progress via fringe theories as an exception rather than a rule. See Kuhn, Lakatos, Laudan... (insert name of favorite historian / philosopher of science)
DNS on Windows isn't part of IIS. It is a completely separate service. So they could have been telling you the truth, your domain could be hosted there (within DNS) without it being touched by IIS. Saying that Windows DNS is a part of IIS is like suggesting that BIND is a part of Apache.
They mentioned that they had gas central heating and a gas stove. Most uni students can't afford a drier. These are probably both out.
I run four computers in my home lab, central gas heating and a gas stove. I live in a 3 bedroom house with my wife and son. My quarterly gas bill is almost 1/10th of my quarterly electricity bill. Going from "all computers on, all the time" to shutting them down at night and restarting them in the morning (I work from home) saved me more money than my entire quarterly gas and water bills.
Your mileage may vary and perhaps gas is cheaper and electricity is more expensive where I live.
It is the four computers running all the time that will cost you a significant amount of money. What you should all do is work out when your computers actually need to be running. Although its nice to sit down and instantly start working, or to check your email when you are up at 3am going to the loo, if you are pinching pennies you'll notice that even over the course of a month, shutting down computers when they aren't doing anything will save you a significant number of pounds.
Chances are as students you'll be spending a lot of time away from the house anyway at the pub, classes, the pub again, the local curry place, the pub. If you add that to your sleep routine you'll probably find that the number of hours each week that you actually need your computers is only a small fraction of the 168 that they will be on. Set your automated tasks to occur when you are eating dinner or watching the TV rather than having your computer on at 3am just to backup and download updates. Is having a great distributed computing score worth the price of several meals each month?
Also consider. If you all already have mobile phones, do you really need a landline?
I've always found that there is *in principle* support for training within companies that I've worked for, but that you are ultimately better off doing it on your own time. At best I was given time off with pay to take exams.
A subscription to O'Reilly's Safari is an excellent and cheap investment. Exam training kits as well as standard technical books are available from several publishers and even the most basic subscription will provide you with more books than you can likely read in a month.
Your claim was that he was expelled. He wasn't expelled, hence your claim is untrue. Your claim was not that he was threatened with expulsion, but that he was actually expelled. He wasn't expelled, hence your claim is untrue.
If you look at the linked article you will see that he was pushed into putting his code into the public domain. That was the punishment, not expulsion. It sounds as though he was pissed off about the punishment and left, but he was not expelled, hence your claim is untrue.
Do you have anything to back that up? Wikipedia (for one) disagrees. Googling for Gates Expelled doesn't back you up (you'd think something like that would be everywhere).
I've read a few histories that go over the whole Basic / Altair story and none of them state that Gates was expelled. Perhaps what you are thinking about is this:
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/random-bits/2 002-October/000952.html
Einstein was influenced in this by Karl Popper's doctrine of Falsificationism. He's the one who basically said that you couldn't prove a theory correct, but you could falsify it.
Would you notice if someone put a hardware keylogger between your keyboard and the back of your computer?
Only takes a second for someone to put it there and then remove it. It only needs to be there a few hours.
If someone can physically get to your computer, even for a few seconds, they can set in place a process where they can compromise all your information. If you are a sysadmin, they can quite easily escalate their privs until they can access any file on your network.
It would take me about 2 minutes to put a hardware keylogger on the back of your workstation between the keyboard and its connection if it is generally accessible.
Maybe you'd notice it. Maybe you wouldn't. But if I can get to your computer, I can get to everything in it.
Ah but here is a more interesting question. Given similar experience, do you prefer a candidate with a degree AND certifications above a candidate with only the degree?
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Why is a comment from someone who hasn't even used the operating system themselves marked insightful? He's basically said "I've heard that a bunch of dudes that haven't used Vista haven't heard great things about it". Perhaps insightful of the bunch of dudes had trialled Vista. But I heard from someone that heard isn't really all that insightful is it?
Readyboost is encrypted and is not a swap file. Pages are not swapped out of RAM to a readyboost device. Readyboost is primary for fast reading of commonly accessed files. See the following post from the MS ReadyBoost program manager: http://blogs.msdn.com/tomarcher/archive/2006/06/02 /615199.aspx
Sorry I need to clarify - system image files can be created using Business, Enterprise and Ultimate editions - not the home basic or home premium editions. This is a lot better than the parent post which indicated that backup was missing entirely from editions other than ultimate.
This is simply untrue. Check http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsv ista/features/details/backup.mspx
Some versions of Vista do not allow for AUTOMATED backup, but the backup utility, including the ability to make system image files, is present in all editions.
Recovery is straightfoward. Make an image file (you can even span optical media in writing it). If your hard disk does the firework, you boot off your upgrade disk, select Repair and then select Full Recovery. You then provide the media holding your image and the whole thing is restored to the point when you took the image.
It is also possible to recover to a particular restore point off the upgrade media (if your hard disk hasn't done the firework)
I meant 2004. Anyway - if you are not a yank you will be fingerprinted at the US border, even if you are a child. There are other places in the world to take children if they want to see Mickey Mouse and not have their kids fingerprinted as if they were possible terrorists.
Yes it is - it started in 1994 http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/04/visit.program/
Think it is doubtful all you want, I can name at least 5 people who have cancelled trips to the USA because they didn't think that their 3 and 5 year old children should be fingerprinted if they wanted to visit Disneyland.
Are we going to get a "someone doesn't like Vista" article every day until the operating system is released to the general public?
So, given that you are using OO.o and have broken the "cycle of upgrades", does this mean that you will not upgrade your current version of OO.o when a new version is released in future? Or are you happy to keep upgrading OO.o to the latest and greatest, switching one treadmill for another?
Halliburton in space - what an excellent idea!
If Microsoft had never existed, another closed source monopoly would be in its place. It is likely (given how other corporations act) that less money would have been given to charity. It might be entirely possible, but that doesn't make it probable. But I admire you for living in a world where corporations, saving money on computer licensing expenses, don't pad executive salaries, but instead give the cash to charaties fighting AIDs and so on.
If you've been running a computer with either of these operating systems, you have been doing so for many years now. Chances are you sorted out any kinks you had a long time ago and you are aware of any pertinent security issues and have made your decision to stick where you are. So why would anyone who has stuck with either OS for so long get excited about a lack of official support?
Mod parent up. Scientific progress via fringe theories as an exception rather than a rule. See Kuhn, Lakatos, Laudan ... (insert name of favorite historian / philosopher of science)
DNS on Windows isn't part of IIS. It is a completely separate service. So they could have been telling you the truth, your domain could be hosted there (within DNS) without it being touched by IIS. Saying that Windows DNS is a part of IIS is like suggesting that BIND is a part of Apache.
They mentioned that they had gas central heating and a gas stove. Most uni students can't afford a drier. These are probably both out. I run four computers in my home lab, central gas heating and a gas stove. I live in a 3 bedroom house with my wife and son. My quarterly gas bill is almost 1/10th of my quarterly electricity bill. Going from "all computers on, all the time" to shutting them down at night and restarting them in the morning (I work from home) saved me more money than my entire quarterly gas and water bills. Your mileage may vary and perhaps gas is cheaper and electricity is more expensive where I live.
It is the four computers running all the time that will cost you a significant amount of money. What you should all do is work out when your computers actually need to be running. Although its nice to sit down and instantly start working, or to check your email when you are up at 3am going to the loo, if you are pinching pennies you'll notice that even over the course of a month, shutting down computers when they aren't doing anything will save you a significant number of pounds. Chances are as students you'll be spending a lot of time away from the house anyway at the pub, classes, the pub again, the local curry place, the pub. If you add that to your sleep routine you'll probably find that the number of hours each week that you actually need your computers is only a small fraction of the 168 that they will be on. Set your automated tasks to occur when you are eating dinner or watching the TV rather than having your computer on at 3am just to backup and download updates. Is having a great distributed computing score worth the price of several meals each month? Also consider. If you all already have mobile phones, do you really need a landline?
I've always found that there is *in principle* support for training within companies that I've worked for, but that you are ultimately better off doing it on your own time. At best I was given time off with pay to take exams. A subscription to O'Reilly's Safari is an excellent and cheap investment. Exam training kits as well as standard technical books are available from several publishers and even the most basic subscription will provide you with more books than you can likely read in a month.
Your claim was that he was expelled. He wasn't expelled, hence your claim is untrue. Your claim was not that he was threatened with expulsion, but that he was actually expelled. He wasn't expelled, hence your claim is untrue. If you look at the linked article you will see that he was pushed into putting his code into the public domain. That was the punishment, not expulsion. It sounds as though he was pissed off about the punishment and left, but he was not expelled, hence your claim is untrue.
Do you have anything to back that up? Wikipedia (for one) disagrees. Googling for Gates Expelled doesn't back you up (you'd think something like that would be everywhere). I've read a few histories that go over the whole Basic / Altair story and none of them state that Gates was expelled. Perhaps what you are thinking about is this: http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/random-bits/2 002-October/000952.html
Einstein was influenced in this by Karl Popper's doctrine of Falsificationism. He's the one who basically said that you couldn't prove a theory correct, but you could falsify it.
Would you notice if someone put a hardware keylogger between your keyboard and the back of your computer? Only takes a second for someone to put it there and then remove it. It only needs to be there a few hours. If someone can physically get to your computer, even for a few seconds, they can set in place a process where they can compromise all your information. If you are a sysadmin, they can quite easily escalate their privs until they can access any file on your network.
It would take me about 2 minutes to put a hardware keylogger on the back of your workstation between the keyboard and its connection if it is generally accessible. Maybe you'd notice it. Maybe you wouldn't. But if I can get to your computer, I can get to everything in it.
MichaelSmith nailed it exactly.
That is a wonderful response. Is it yours, or did you lift it from somewhere?
Ah but here is a more interesting question. Given similar experience, do you prefer a candidate with a degree AND certifications above a candidate with only the degree?