The only thing I could think of is that she tried the upgrade after the sale, which would have an added media cost.
According to Lenovo's Self Maintainer program, The R61 XP Pro Recovery CD's (P/N 44Y2596) Retails for $36 even. Labor claim is anywhere between $20 and $70 depending on what you have to replace (Systemboards are $70 for example) and are set by Lenovo at entitlement. If it's a warranty claim, Lenovo reimburses you the labor. The only way Lenovo would reimburse a OS Reinstall is if the Hard drive went bad, which would then cover the recovery media as well as the hard drive and labor associated with the repair.
My guess is that Lenovo charged her for the Media CD's, and added labor and tax to the mix.
If they charged her extra before or during the sale, that makes no sense, unless she was buying a consumer Lenovo (which they don't offer XP on), or was trying to upgrade a thinkpad to XP from Vista Home Basic, which has an extra cost. (XP and Vista business is around the same price, but Home basic is cheaper than either XP or vista. They also do not offer XP home on thinkpads, only XP professional.)
I have to agree this is getting out of hand. I expect Slashdot to be Linux biased, but at the very least bash Microsoft with real news that matters, no BS made by BS'ers.
I've been here for years, and for what it's worth, kdawson is the most biased editor I've ever seen on this site. Period. No one else even comes close. I wouldn't even have a problem with that if there was solid evidence to back the stories he posts, but 9 our of 10 times he posts crap from some blogger that has an axe to grind, or infers something from a simple article to mean totally something else. Like this story for instance.
I'm almost positive I could put in a journal entry saying "Windows 7 Killed my Baby!", post a three paragraph rant on how my (nonexistant BTW) kid died from SIDS while I was installing Windows 7, post it to the firehose, and he would post it as front page news.
So, I've come to the conclusion that kdawson is the Fox Mulder of Slashdot. He believes that there's this all encompassing Microsoft Conspiracy to destroy everything not M$, and will do whatever he can to convince everyone he sees of this Vast M$ conspiracy regardless if the evidence is nonexistant to circumstantial at best.
Basically, the electoral college has an amount of people roughly equal to all of the members in congress, right? so then set up the voting standard similar to the representative system in congress today.
1) Electoral voters are assigned the same districts as the House of representatives and 2 EC members per state (who stand in as senators).
2) The representative district popular vote dictate how the HOR EC member votes for a particular district, in other words, if district X popular vote votes in favor of candidate X, then the HOR EC member assigned to that particular district must vote for candidate X
3) The Senator EC members votes based on the outcome of the districts in their state, and are winner take all. In other words, if state x has 9 representative districts, 5 vote for candidate X and 4 vote candidate Y, then both Senator EC members must vote for Candidate X. In case of a District tie, then use the popular vote of the state to determine this.
This would give you a very close representation of popular votes in the EC, as well as give the smaller, less populated states, more leeway in electing the next president.
I don't know the feasibility of using this over there, but if you have access to a computer you could look into a Magicjack.
Basically, you plug the Magicjack into a USB jack and it acts like a Voip gateway for a phone. You can use a regular phone or a computer Speaker/Microphone to call. Since you can use a local number for your jack, if you family calls you it will not be long distance. It also supports Caller-ID and voicemail. combine with this phone, and you got a lightweight solution. Although that handset isn't looking too stellar review wise.
It's not the cheapest solution though. Magicjack costs 39.95 for the unit which comes with 1 year of service. After that it's 19.95 a year. Also, the Military may frown on software being installed on their PC's. If you are bringing a notebook or Netbook you shouldn't have a problem though. Third, bandwidth could be an issue too, since it needs a minimum of 128 kb/s to function.
One Standalone Lab I helped build A long time ago used a Slayers Theme:
1) All of the Servers were named after Darklords: IE Shabranigdo, Ceiphied, ETC 2) All of the Clients were named after Mortals: IE Lina, Gourry, Amelia, ETC. They were identified by the background image of the character on the screen. 3) The Printer was named "Clare Bible" and the Domain Name was "Lord of Nightmares"
Interesting notes. Students who had no Idea what the Slayers anime was (IE: Many of them) Were bothered by the Domain Name, especially since it was the Visual Studio Dev Lab. They usually got into the series just to find out what the hell was going on in the lab.
Since this was NT4 era, the Clients had a tendency to lock the Print Server (Shabranigdo). This (from people that knew what slayers was) was referred to as, "Lina Killed Shabanigdo with the Clare Bible" Regardless of what Client caused it.
Back Before the Messenger service was evil, the Server would send status messages to clients, for example, when they Print or run out of storage space. Someone on our staff eventually changed the status messages to say Slayers Related stuff, like " has been Defeated!" if one of the systems went down for any reason. I think It would say "Clare Bible Fragment: has been Conjured!" when the Print Job Succeeded.
This wasn't the only lab like this. down the hall, another group had a lab with a SpaceBalls theme. I think someone got the messenger Idea from them since They had it say lines from the movie way before our lab did.
like I said in the last thread, Is IE that big of an issue when it's losing market share to competitors? IE8 isn't going to save it because it still has abymissial JScript performance and as more sites everyday are using AJAX, IE gets slower and appears to lock up more.
Over the last 2 years, it lost market share, and According to these guys IE dropped from 79.9 down to 68.1. Now Google chrome is in the mix and already eclipsed Opera's share of.7% within 4 months and stands at 1% market share, and it only going up from there.
This isn't 2000, When all you had was a reliable and fast IE, a buggy Mozilla, a decripid and virtually useless Netscape, and a "HTML compliant" Opera that can't render any site correctly. Now, there's a slow and locking up IE, a reliable and fast rendering Firefox, a solid preforming Safari, a super fast and easy to install Chrome and a better, but still renders funny sometimes Opera.
FIrst off, FireFox should have never wasted resources on the Ad's or any of the other gimmicks. Word of mouth has done more for FF than anything they have tried involving Advertisements.
Second, people won't switch browsers if they don't think there's a reason. Period. As of late, However, IE has had horrendous performance. With Chrome pushing onto the scene through Google and FireFox spreading due to word of mouth, unless MS does something bold to IE and fast, and IE8 is nowhere near bold enough, there going to bleed market share like a sive.
IE lost 5% last year. it doesn't sound like a lot until you realize that it barely lost anything the 5 previous years. Also, the downward trend is getting steeper. currently IE stands at 68.15 according to these guys. It's been roughly losing 1% every month to FireFox, Chrome and Safari. It's going to get worse before it gets better, and at this rate, they'll be below 60% by the end of this year.
First: Get this. If you got a rootkit, this should find it. unless it's something zero day. If it finds stuff, then reboot back into windows and run something like Malwarebytes Anti Malware or Spybot Search and Destroy for a few days (a week or two with Spybot. They only update on Wednesdays) to get it completely cleaned out. Windows Defender also works good here and adds realtime scannning to the mix.
Second: Like someone above posted, Check for Drives Running PIO in Device Manager. If you find any, run the resetDMA Script someone above posted. ALso Check your BIOS for changed settings. Dying CMOS batteries can cause a lot of havok with DMA settings depening on the BIOS defaults.
Third: Test Hardware. Contrary to Popular belief here, Windows NT Kernel Failures, *Especially Blue Screens* Are usually caused by either a Hardware failure or a Driver failure. If it's been running great and then BAM, check hardware first. The Ultimate Boot CD has all the tests you need. Test for RAM errors and test your Hard drive using the Drive Specific diagnostic program.
Forth: if all else fails after this, backtrack. If you installed something recently, and the machine started acting weird afterwards. uninstall it and see what happens. System restore (if it actually works) also comes in handy.
Finally, a Tip. Stay The Hell away from "optimizing" software. Just about every Registry optimizer I've ever seen screws up more then it's worth. Speed boosters tend to slow things down in the long run or lock windows, and any disk optimizer basically does nothing different than defrag C:. Even Microsoft's Registry and cleaning offerings on their onecare site has screwed me over in some cases, and if they can't optimize their own OS... Just say no to them.
Don't think it can't get worse. Ask yourself instead, why should you expect it to get any better?
I don't. I Believe that the most accurate future ever conceived was the one in Demolition man. Apparently it wasn't LA/SF that started the Verbal Morality Statute.
Catch up on your commercial jingles, and be prepared to Eat Taco Bell for the rest of your life. At least the bell will prepare you for the three seashells.
I don't know if their contract allows this, but the minute those banners showed up on their programming, TWC should have pulled those channels and replaced them with a nice graphic telling Customers that Viacom expects you to pay more and tell them to stop. Complete with a nice 1-800 number going to viacom HQ.
And as for market loss... I don't know if it would be that much of a loss. No one other than Dish Network went longer than 2 days, and I doubt they lost a ton of customers over it. And if you factor in a substantial refund, they can surely hold on for a while.
Also, you got people that are getting TWC Phone and Roadrunner. Those guys aren't going to dare switch over to Dish unless they *REALLY* need their SpongeBob or Colbert fix. The only risk there is anywhere FIOS is available, and that's not nearly deployed enough to lose substantial customers.
Personally, I wish it did go off the air. TWC was talking refunds if the channels went dark. although I doubt they would refund the money, it would have been nice since I wouldn't miss any of those channels.
If it goes up because of this agreement all of a sudden however, I'm switching to Dish. For once, I was actually hoping a CableCo would stand up to unnecessary rate hikes. At least Dish Network let the channels go dark for a few days to put the pressure on.
At first, we used to use Malwarebytes to clean this infection from our university laptop program, but after a while we just switched to "format and reinstall" when it came to Antivirus 2009.
Why you ask? Because in our dealings with the program, about 30-50% of the infections would also have the TDSS Rootkit embedded with the malicious package. It would hide everything from F-secure (not really surprised there), and although Malwarebytes had the best chance of getting the rootkit and the AV2009 application, it would occasionally be missed by MBAM as well.
We just felt that it was safer for the student as well as the network to start over, move their documents, and sleep well knowing that the rootkit is gone and not logging their credit card or other personal info.
Other interesting notes, most of the students had no idea how they got this. It was browser agnostic (Firefox and IE users would get it) and no specific place was ever found by us to infect a PC. I thought it was at first IM related, but some students had no IM installed. My guess it was either a Flash Ad infection or a Java Ad infection, but again I never found a source to test infection with. And people wonder why users use anti-banner systems like AdBlockplus and Spywareblaster.
If it's going to be anything like onecare, this won't be a problem.
If Onecare found a virus, you had to deal with it. There was no ignore option, it was either delete or quarantine.
Of course, If it was a false positive, you were pretty much screwed. The only way I found around it was to move the file to quarantine, exclude a directory and move the false positive to the excluded directory. Although I will say that false positives under MS was less than other scanners I've used.
Although, MS understood the Law of Stupidity (99% of computer users don't know what they are doing) very well, and designed OneCare around that measure, it was a mixed bag if you did know what you are doing.
First off, Although ID and Creationism are similar, they are not identical. Creationism is basically the belief that the book of Genesis is the way the universe was created. ID is basically the hypothesis that Battlestar Galatica is a documentary, and that the world was seeded and nurtured by an ET. So if tomorrow, ET landed on Earth and presented irrefutable evidence that Earth was seeded and nurtured with life, the ID hypothesis would (most likely reluctantly) become more credible to the point of becoming theory or law, but Creationists would debate endlessly because they could not accept that ET is God.
That being said, both ID and Creationism are Hypothesises, which is "a suggested explanation for an observable phenomenon or of a reasoned proposal predicting a possible causal correlation among multiple phenomena". This is different from a Theory, which is "a testable model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise verified through empirical observation."
Both ID and Creationism could possibly happen, therefore could be hypothesized, but since they cannot be observed or tested (at least not right now. anything could happen in the future.) They cannot graduate to a theory.
Regardless, Creationism is one of the oldest hypothesis available when it comes to the origin of life and the universe, and it should be treated as an historical account leading up to the current science theories we have today.
As Much as Creationism seems to strike a chord with some people, I've never actually understood why.
I've always looked at creationism historically, as in a "This is what a guy 2-3 thousand years ago though how the universe was made when science rarely existed and wasn't as important as religion" kind of way. That being said, it's not too far off from creationism considering the religious source and the age of the text other than the 7 days thing, but realistically what's 7 days to God? a billion years? 10 minutes? who knows.
Based on that, I believe that it should be taught in schools, but only as an historical reference to how we led to the current evolution theory. Similar to how Spontaneous generation is taught in schools as a previously accepted theory until a new theory proved it was incorrect.
Call me when they remove activation on business versions.
I know where I work, we won't touch Vista because of the activation crap they pulled on business customers. If Windows 7 has the same thing, It's either stay with XP or find another OS to use.
No business in their right mind will install an OS where MS can pull the plug if some Virus pulls the VLK from an infected PC, posts it on a Warez site and all hell breaks loose.
Only problems is it pops up an Ad to upgrade to the pay version every time you download an update and it can be false positive happy when turned up to it's fullest settings and definitions, but otherwise it's one of the best scanners I've seen.
Admins have to understand that RAID (especially RAID-5) is a "Nines" solution and not a backup solution.
If your server has to be up 99.999% of the time and data is not mission critical, then a single RAID server is fine. If Data is of the utmost importance and downtime can be tolerated, 2 RAIDless servers mirroring each other with a storage solution to offsite backup in case The Wizard of OZ decides to make a visit, or the Towering Inferno is being filmed in your datacenter is an solid solution.
Of course if you got the capital, It's best to combine the above solutions and get the best of both worlds.
If Dell wanted to save battery life on their Vista notebooks, why didn't they just integrate sideshow in their laptops? It comes with the OS and has a lot of plugins to choose from.
I know it's not a full blown OS, but outside of web surfing it does most of the functions of this system with even less power usage because of it's smaller screen.
This Ad seems like it's starting some sort of theme here. Think about it. Why would one of the richest men in the world shop at a discount shoe store? And to top it off, Not even get correctly fitting shoes until Jerry Bails him out with the size 10's? I'm seeing a pattern of "Cheap isn't always good" and "Don't buy something smaller than what you need". Both of these things are definitely true with Vista. A cheap and small PC with low specs will run Vista, but it's better to go with a higher end PC that fits your needs.
As for the Ad being a failure, Say what you will, but I can't really say it's a failure because we're talking about it right now on Slashdot. Sure it's in a negative light here, but you know you want to see the next one just for the simple reason of figuring out where Microsoft is trying to go with this campaign. It's been all over the net too, so it's getting the exposure. Now the question remains if the campaign as a whole can deliver.
The icon makes sense in the context of "View this page in Broken Standards mode"
Although I'd Rather see the Rendering Status displayed as the icon. For Example, Show an 8 when Rendered in Standards mode, a 7 for IE7 mode and and a 5 for Quirks mode. When you click on it, it cycles through the modes.
I did notice that certain pages, Such as Google, make the icon disappear. It must not show up if a render mode is defined in the site, but I'm not sure.
Other than that, what this Opera guy is pushing is FUD. It's not going to affect 99% of your home users at all, and your corporate users can push a domain policy to force it off and set intranet sites that really need compatibility mode turned on.
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The only thing I could think of is that she tried the upgrade after the sale, which would have an added media cost.
According to Lenovo's Self Maintainer program, The R61 XP Pro Recovery CD's (P/N 44Y2596) Retails for $36 even. Labor claim is anywhere between $20 and $70 depending on what you have to replace (Systemboards are $70 for example) and are set by Lenovo at entitlement. If it's a warranty claim, Lenovo reimburses you the labor. The only way Lenovo would reimburse a OS Reinstall is if the Hard drive went bad, which would then cover the recovery media as well as the hard drive and labor associated with the repair.
My guess is that Lenovo charged her for the Media CD's, and added labor and tax to the mix.
If they charged her extra before or during the sale, that makes no sense, unless she was buying a consumer Lenovo (which they don't offer XP on), or was trying to upgrade a thinkpad to XP from Vista Home Basic, which has an extra cost. (XP and Vista business is around the same price, but Home basic is cheaper than either XP or vista. They also do not offer XP home on thinkpads, only XP professional.)
I have to agree this is getting out of hand. I expect Slashdot to be Linux biased, but at the very least bash Microsoft with real news that matters, no BS made by BS'ers.
I've been here for years, and for what it's worth, kdawson is the most biased editor I've ever seen on this site. Period. No one else even comes close. I wouldn't even have a problem with that if there was solid evidence to back the stories he posts, but 9 our of 10 times he posts crap from some blogger that has an axe to grind, or infers something from a simple article to mean totally something else. Like this story for instance.
I'm almost positive I could put in a journal entry saying "Windows 7 Killed my Baby!", post a three paragraph rant on how my (nonexistant BTW) kid died from SIDS while I was installing Windows 7, post it to the firehose, and he would post it as front page news.
So, I've come to the conclusion that kdawson is the Fox Mulder of Slashdot. He believes that there's this all encompassing Microsoft Conspiracy to destroy everything not M$, and will do whatever he can to convince everyone he sees of this Vast M$ conspiracy regardless if the evidence is nonexistant to circumstantial at best.
Victor Multi Kill Electronic Mouse Trap
I love how lively the announcer sounds. He sounds a little TOO happy about a robotic mouse terminator.
Basically, the electoral college has an amount of people roughly equal to all of the members in congress, right? so then set up the voting standard similar to the representative system in congress today.
1) Electoral voters are assigned the same districts as the House of representatives and 2 EC members per state (who stand in as senators).
2) The representative district popular vote dictate how the HOR EC member votes for a particular district, in other words, if district X popular vote votes in favor of candidate X, then the HOR EC member assigned to that particular district must vote for candidate X
3) The Senator EC members votes based on the outcome of the districts in their state, and are winner take all. In other words, if state x has 9 representative districts, 5 vote for candidate X and 4 vote candidate Y, then both Senator EC members must vote for Candidate X. In case of a District tie, then use the popular vote of the state to determine this.
This would give you a very close representation of popular votes in the EC, as well as give the smaller, less populated states, more leeway in electing the next president.
I don't know the feasibility of using this over there, but if you have access to a computer you could look into a Magicjack.
Basically, you plug the Magicjack into a USB jack and it acts like a Voip gateway for a phone. You can use a regular phone or a computer Speaker/Microphone to call. Since you can use a local number for your jack, if you family calls you it will not be long distance. It also supports Caller-ID and voicemail. combine with this phone, and you got a lightweight solution. Although that handset isn't looking too stellar review wise.
It's not the cheapest solution though. Magicjack costs 39.95 for the unit which comes with 1 year of service. After that it's 19.95 a year. Also, the Military may frown on software being installed on their PC's. If you are bringing a notebook or Netbook you shouldn't have a problem though. Third, bandwidth could be an issue too, since it needs a minimum of 128 kb/s to function.
One Standalone Lab I helped build A long time ago used a Slayers Theme:
1) All of the Servers were named after Darklords: IE Shabranigdo, Ceiphied, ETC
2) All of the Clients were named after Mortals: IE Lina, Gourry, Amelia, ETC. They were identified by the background image of the character on the screen.
3) The Printer was named "Clare Bible" and the Domain Name was "Lord of Nightmares"
Interesting notes.
Students who had no Idea what the Slayers anime was (IE: Many of them) Were bothered by the Domain Name, especially since it was the Visual Studio Dev Lab. They usually got into the series just to find out what the hell was going on in the lab.
Since this was NT4 era, the Clients had a tendency to lock the Print Server (Shabranigdo). This (from people that knew what slayers was) was referred to as, "Lina Killed Shabanigdo with the Clare Bible" Regardless of what Client caused it.
Back Before the Messenger service was evil, the Server would send status messages to clients, for example, when they Print or run out of storage space. Someone on our staff eventually changed the status messages to say Slayers Related stuff, like " has been Defeated!" if one of the systems went down for any reason. I think It would say "Clare Bible Fragment: has been Conjured!" when the Print Job Succeeded.
This wasn't the only lab like this. down the hall, another group had a lab with a SpaceBalls theme. I think someone got the messenger Idea from them since They had it say lines from the movie way before our lab did.
like I said in the last thread, Is IE that big of an issue when it's losing market share to competitors? IE8 isn't going to save it because it still has abymissial JScript performance and as more sites everyday are using AJAX, IE gets slower and appears to lock up more.
Over the last 2 years, it lost market share, and According to these guys IE dropped from 79.9 down to 68.1. Now Google chrome is in the mix and already eclipsed Opera's share of .7% within 4 months and stands at 1% market share, and it only going up from there.
This isn't 2000, When all you had was a reliable and fast IE, a buggy Mozilla, a decripid and virtually useless Netscape, and a "HTML compliant" Opera that can't render any site correctly. Now, there's a slow and locking up IE, a reliable and fast rendering Firefox, a solid preforming Safari, a super fast and easy to install Chrome and a better, but still renders funny sometimes Opera.
FIrst off, FireFox should have never wasted resources on the Ad's or any of the other gimmicks. Word of mouth has done more for FF than anything they have tried involving Advertisements.
Second, people won't switch browsers if they don't think there's a reason. Period. As of late, However, IE has had horrendous performance. With Chrome pushing onto the scene through Google and FireFox spreading due to word of mouth, unless MS does something bold to IE and fast, and IE8 is nowhere near bold enough, there going to bleed market share like a sive.
IE lost 5% last year. it doesn't sound like a lot until you realize that it barely lost anything the 5 previous years. Also, the downward trend is getting steeper. currently IE stands at 68.15 according to these guys. It's been roughly losing 1% every month to FireFox, Chrome and Safari. It's going to get worse before it gets better, and at this rate, they'll be below 60% by the end of this year.
Why bother.
At the Rate IE is losing market share, it's only a matter of time before Firefox has a solid share of the browser market.
And it's not like Opera will take up the slack anyways. MS would side with Firefox anyday over the other competition if it was forced to bundle.
First: Get this. If you got a rootkit, this should find it. unless it's something zero day. If it finds stuff, then reboot back into windows and run something like Malwarebytes Anti Malware or Spybot Search and Destroy for a few days (a week or two with Spybot. They only update on Wednesdays) to get it completely cleaned out. Windows Defender also works good here and adds realtime scannning to the mix.
Second: Like someone above posted, Check for Drives Running PIO in Device Manager. If you find any, run the resetDMA Script someone above posted. ALso Check your BIOS for changed settings. Dying CMOS batteries can cause a lot of havok with DMA settings depening on the BIOS defaults.
Third: Test Hardware. Contrary to Popular belief here, Windows NT Kernel Failures, *Especially Blue Screens* Are usually caused by either a Hardware failure or a Driver failure. If it's been running great and then BAM, check hardware first. The Ultimate Boot CD has all the tests you need. Test for RAM errors and test your Hard drive using the Drive Specific diagnostic program.
Forth: if all else fails after this, backtrack. If you installed something recently, and the machine started acting weird afterwards. uninstall it and see what happens. System restore (if it actually works) also comes in handy.
Finally, a Tip. Stay The Hell away from "optimizing" software. Just about every Registry optimizer I've ever seen screws up more then it's worth. Speed boosters tend to slow things down in the long run or lock windows, and any disk optimizer basically does nothing different than defrag C:. Even Microsoft's Registry and cleaning offerings on their onecare site has screwed me over in some cases, and if they can't optimize their own OS... Just say no to them.
Don't think it can't get worse. Ask yourself instead, why should you expect it to get any better?
I don't. I Believe that the most accurate future ever conceived was the one in Demolition man. Apparently it wasn't LA/SF that started the Verbal Morality Statute.
Catch up on your commercial jingles, and be prepared to Eat Taco Bell for the rest of your life. At least the bell will prepare you for the three seashells.
I don't know if their contract allows this, but the minute those banners showed up on their programming, TWC should have pulled those channels and replaced them with a nice graphic telling Customers that Viacom expects you to pay more and tell them to stop. Complete with a nice 1-800 number going to viacom HQ.
And as for market loss... I don't know if it would be that much of a loss. No one other than Dish Network went longer than 2 days, and I doubt they lost a ton of customers over it. And if you factor in a substantial refund, they can surely hold on for a while.
Also, you got people that are getting TWC Phone and Roadrunner. Those guys aren't going to dare switch over to Dish unless they *REALLY* need their SpongeBob or Colbert fix. The only risk there is anywhere FIOS is available, and that's not nearly deployed enough to lose substantial customers.
Personally, I wish it did go off the air. TWC was talking refunds if the channels went dark. although I doubt they would refund the money, it would have been nice since I wouldn't miss any of those channels.
If it goes up because of this agreement all of a sudden however, I'm switching to Dish. For once, I was actually hoping a CableCo would stand up to unnecessary rate hikes. At least Dish Network let the channels go dark for a few days to put the pressure on.
At first, we used to use Malwarebytes to clean this infection from our university laptop program, but after a while we just switched to "format and reinstall" when it came to Antivirus 2009.
Why you ask? Because in our dealings with the program, about 30-50% of the infections would also have the TDSS Rootkit embedded with the malicious package. It would hide everything from F-secure (not really surprised there), and although Malwarebytes had the best chance of getting the rootkit and the AV2009 application, it would occasionally be missed by MBAM as well.
We just felt that it was safer for the student as well as the network to start over, move their documents, and sleep well knowing that the rootkit is gone and not logging their credit card or other personal info.
Other interesting notes, most of the students had no idea how they got this. It was browser agnostic (Firefox and IE users would get it) and no specific place was ever found by us to infect a PC. I thought it was at first IM related, but some students had no IM installed. My guess it was either a Flash Ad infection or a Java Ad infection, but again I never found a source to test infection with. And people wonder why users use anti-banner systems like AdBlockplus and Spywareblaster.
If it's going to be anything like onecare, this won't be a problem.
If Onecare found a virus, you had to deal with it. There was no ignore option, it was either delete or quarantine.
Of course, If it was a false positive, you were pretty much screwed. The only way I found around it was to move the file to quarantine, exclude a directory and move the false positive to the excluded directory. Although I will say that false positives under MS was less than other scanners I've used.
Although, MS understood the Law of Stupidity (99% of computer users don't know what they are doing) very well, and designed OneCare around that measure, it was a mixed bag if you did know what you are doing.
First off, Although ID and Creationism are similar, they are not identical. Creationism is basically the belief that the book of Genesis is the way the universe was created. ID is basically the hypothesis that Battlestar Galatica is a documentary, and that the world was seeded and nurtured by an ET. So if tomorrow, ET landed on Earth and presented irrefutable evidence that Earth was seeded and nurtured with life, the ID hypothesis would (most likely reluctantly) become more credible to the point of becoming theory or law, but Creationists would debate endlessly because they could not accept that ET is God.
That being said, both ID and Creationism are Hypothesises, which is "a suggested explanation for an observable phenomenon or of a reasoned proposal predicting a possible causal correlation among multiple phenomena". This is different from a Theory, which is "a testable model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise verified through empirical observation."
Both ID and Creationism could possibly happen, therefore could be hypothesized, but since they cannot be observed or tested (at least not right now. anything could happen in the future.) They cannot graduate to a theory.
Regardless, Creationism is one of the oldest hypothesis available when it comes to the origin of life and the universe, and it should be treated as an historical account leading up to the current science theories we have today.
As Much as Creationism seems to strike a chord with some people, I've never actually understood why.
I've always looked at creationism historically, as in a "This is what a guy 2-3 thousand years ago though how the universe was made when science rarely existed and wasn't as important as religion" kind of way. That being said, it's not too far off from creationism considering the religious source and the age of the text other than the 7 days thing, but realistically what's 7 days to God? a billion years? 10 minutes? who knows.
Based on that, I believe that it should be taught in schools, but only as an historical reference to how we led to the current evolution theory. Similar to how Spontaneous generation is taught in schools as a previously accepted theory until a new theory proved it was incorrect.
Call me when they remove activation on business versions.
I know where I work, we won't touch Vista because of the activation crap they pulled on business customers. If Windows 7 has the same thing, It's either stay with XP or find another OS to use.
No business in their right mind will install an OS where MS can pull the plug if some Virus pulls the VLK from an infected PC, posts it on a Warez site and all hell breaks loose.
I recommend Avira Antivir Personal. Very Lean, fast, customizable and through.
Only problems is it pops up an Ad to upgrade to the pay version every time you download an update and it can be false positive happy when turned up to it's fullest settings and definitions, but otherwise it's one of the best scanners I've seen.
Exactly.
Admins have to understand that RAID (especially RAID-5) is a "Nines" solution and not a backup solution.
If your server has to be up 99.999% of the time and data is not mission critical, then a single RAID server is fine. If Data is of the utmost importance and downtime can be tolerated, 2 RAIDless servers mirroring each other with a storage solution to offsite backup in case The Wizard of OZ decides to make a visit, or the Towering Inferno is being filmed in your datacenter is an solid solution.
Of course if you got the capital, It's best to combine the above solutions and get the best of both worlds.
1) AMD Spins of fabs. ...
2) Intel/VIA/TMSC/IBM buys AMD Fabs.
3) Intel/VIA/TMSC/IBM Fabs charges huge price to manufacture AMD CPU's.
4) AMD CPU Prices skyrocket. Unable to find a cheap reliable FAB, AMD loses price competitive edge.
5) AMD Stock tanks.
6)
7) LOSS.
If Dell wanted to save battery life on their Vista notebooks, why didn't they just integrate sideshow in their laptops? It comes with the OS and has a lot of plugins to choose from.
I know it's not a full blown OS, but outside of web surfing it does most of the functions of this system with even less power usage because of it's smaller screen.
Just to add onto this...
This Ad seems like it's starting some sort of theme here. Think about it. Why would one of the richest men in the world shop at a discount shoe store? And to top it off, Not even get correctly fitting shoes until Jerry Bails him out with the size 10's? I'm seeing a pattern of "Cheap isn't always good" and "Don't buy something smaller than what you need". Both of these things are definitely true with Vista. A cheap and small PC with low specs will run Vista, but it's better to go with a higher end PC that fits your needs.
As for the Ad being a failure, Say what you will, but I can't really say it's a failure because we're talking about it right now on Slashdot. Sure it's in a negative light here, but you know you want to see the next one just for the simple reason of figuring out where Microsoft is trying to go with this campaign. It's been all over the net too, so it's getting the exposure. Now the question remains if the campaign as a whole can deliver.
First they close and sell off a good portion of Geauga lake and now their dropping Star trek.
Whats next? Sell off Cedar Point's Magnum XL200?
The icon makes sense in the context of "View this page in Broken Standards mode"
Although I'd Rather see the Rendering Status displayed as the icon. For Example, Show an 8 when Rendered in Standards mode, a 7 for IE7 mode and and a 5 for Quirks mode. When you click on it, it cycles through the modes.
I did notice that certain pages, Such as Google, make the icon disappear. It must not show up if a render mode is defined in the site, but I'm not sure.
Other than that, what this Opera guy is pushing is FUD. It's not going to affect 99% of your home users at all, and your corporate users can push a domain policy to force it off and set intranet sites that really need compatibility mode turned on.