I remember when MS said this when win2000 came out...
Windows 2000 Professional requires fewer planned and unplanned system restarts than Windows NT 4.0. To improve the operating system's stability and reliability, Microsoft eliminated more than 75 scenarios in Windows NT 4.0 (such as adding a network protocol or installing a new device) that required a system reboot. Microsoft has reduced the number of reboot scenarios in Windows 2000 Professional to fewer than 10.
I guess those 10 scenarios are all patch related.:)
My guess is that he's right. The programmers DO get the code fixed within 24 hours.
The problem sets in when it's got to be run on millions of PC's now. Most likely this takes a good week or two to verify if the patch won't bork 90% of the PC's out there.
although I'd like to see it happen, i dont think its going to catch on as much as they hype said it was.
I remembered when they were touting that never again would a wire outside of power touch my pc. It was going to run the keyboard, mouse, printer, even the monitor somehow and it didn't need an antenna or configuration or anything, just a chip in each device that had it. But since very few major PC's took on the technology, (unlike USB, Where just about every Major PC manufacture adopted it. I've seen 486's with USB onboard it was adopted so throughly, even though devices wouldn't take advantage of it for years.) I dont see it catching on unless it takes off like a rocket this year.
Sure people hate wires and they hate having to know where to plug things into their PC, not to mention the nest of wires, but if the technology that would remove such wires has little to no adoption in the real world what good is it?
Hard to believe, but I still use my ZDS SuperSport "laptop" that I got from a bulk PC purchase.
it's an old 8088 with a 20mb hard disk and a 720k floppy. runs msdos 6.22 and windows 3.0. I pretty much use it for typing papers using WP5.1 and the like. I have used it to check E-mail with a 300 baud external modem that I have for it, but I dont recommend it unless you have a ton of paitience.
I have another one of these that I use for parts to keep the other one running.
I'll have to second this. when I was an Imm on a mud this was all I used. It's great because it fits on a floppy, so you could go to Computer labs in college and run it from disk.
Get it from here They have the binary and Source code from an eariler version there.
It would be nice if it became GPL'ed since the author basicially abandoned it. It was the best clent out there until zmud basicially started to copy it.
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I work for IT at a college, Yes, IT shut of the resnet after it took our entire intenret down. Yes it is a living hell, especially with the way upstairs has handled the situation.
My biggest problem, however isn't with the students as much as it is with the majority of antivirus software bundled with PC's out there.
Dell for example, comes with Mcafee Virusscan Online. In my opinion this is the most useless thing ever conceived. First, once someone actually looks at it and you find out that its not protecting you, you have to register online, then once you go through that and it somehow worked, it then downloads for 10 mins and then installes a 90 day virus scanner. Unfortunatly it prompts every startup saying that you are protected when in fact you haven't registered it and its doing nothing to protect you from viruses. I cant count the number of students that come to me that say they have a virus scanner and its updating and it ends up being this stupid thing.
Then There's Norton Antivirus. It loves giving out 90 day trials too with compaqs. It has the same problem that Mcafee has in that it doesn't protect you unless you actually click on the icon to find out what it does. The only two redeeming parts of Norton are that you dont have to go online to update it and you can force an update by setting the date back, but students dont know that and as far as they know there protected when in reality they haven't updated in 2 years.
If some of these PC vendors would install virus scanners that were configured ready to go update and run with no user intervention for the life of the PC, this would be a lot better world right now, but at this point, Im directing people to get the free virus scanner from grisoft.com to replace both of the above simply because it's updatable and works well for being free.
Microsoft Just bought an Antivirus firm. I'm praying that at some point in time Microsoft says screw getting sued for being monopolistic and puts and anti virus scanner in Windows. In other words, Its time for Windows to have some sort of scanner that is free to update and built into it.
In the end, MS wants messenger to do one thing, Gain Marketshare. It's not in their best interest to block outside clients because that forces marketshare out of their system and to someone else. In other words the client is irrevelant. It's the guy logging in that they care about.
Now, considering the worm outbreaks this past week, and the fact that their are worms out there that take advantage of MSN Messenger to spread, My guess is that MS truly has something wrong with this thing that could become a huge firestorm if older clients are left on the network. There has to be something wrong if they are going to change the protocol all of a sudden, Especially since they have been trying to standardize it for a few years now.
Give it time, if they dont publish the new protocol then circle the wagons and light the torches.
Texting people after the movie is pretty ingenious. All this time I thought gauging how bad a movie sucked based on how many commercials you saw of the movie in a 1 hour period on cable was an ingenious way.
Dont believe it works, how many "League of Extrodinary Gentleman" Commercials did you see before it came out? They had a feeling it was going to suck in the thethers so they pimped it from here to high heaven. Right now, Im debating to see "The Medallion" because of this, Sure it's Jackie Chan, but when I see him 10x/Hour it scares me.
I remember almost three years ago when my boss at a computer shop where I used to work asked me to build the best box I could with the best hardware we could get our hands on at the time for a PC we were going to use at a show. What I ended up building was a 1Ghz PIII with 512 MB ram, 20GB HD built on an motherboard running the Fastest Chipset at the time, a VIA Chipset.
When it came to the Video however, I couldn't get my hands on a Nvidia Card because the Idiot that bought cards at the time worshiped ATI like the messiah. the Best I could do was ATI's best, which was a Rage Fury Maxx. The absolute second I installed the Drivers on the pc it went all to hell. it would crash every 5 minutes, I couldn't install office cause it would lock up because ATI Would try to accelerate everything it could and screwed up when it tried to accelerate the progress bar, ETC.
In the End, the Drivers were not compatable with VIA chipsets. and the beta ones that were worse were around 12 megs (This is back when NVidia's were 2Megs. Remember those?) I went down the line of ATI Cards from Rage 128 Pro, to Rage Pro II to eventually being forced to Defile this PC by putting a Sis 6326 in it. then all the problems magicially went away although now it cant run any of the higher end demos that we wanted to run.
For those you say that ATI has changed, You're right, their drivers don't suck as much as they used to and the Catalyst drivers are pretty good, but they still have other issues to fix. I deal with these issues everyday with 3 all in wonder 8500 DV cards that the Media Dept just HAD to have where I currently work. Either the drivers dont install because the installer crashes which forces you to install them manually, or the system goes unstable all of a sudden, or you cant get their updates for the tv tuner software without going on a manhunt on their site because their trying to get you to buy the new version, or you have to install their tv tuner software twice because the latest version is an update to the previous version. And dont get me started on the obsene amount of installers needed to install an 8500dv. I think theres CATALYST, WDM, Hydravision, Multimedia 7.6, DVD, Multimedia7.7, and Remote that need to be installed in order to be able to use all the features of the card, and they have to be installed in that order. You install stuff out of order and your doing it all over again. thats 7 Installers Folks, all of which want you to restart after you run them. Their drivers might be better then their older ones, but they definatly have quirks here and there just to remind you that it's still from ATI
Not too suprising, everything that Nvidia Makes is running my Home PC right now. Nforce2 and Geforce 4 Ti4200 Personal Cinema. All my stuff works without the dog and pony show ATI puts you through.
Frankly, Other than adding Outlook's stupid "Block all Attachments" Feature and setting the Security Zone to restriced by default, Something that should of been done in the first place I might add, OE hasn't changed that much since it was introduced.
The only thing that OE really needed was a Spam filter, but since Blue Mountain Arts forced MS to throw that into the toilet there isn't much else it needs that can be added.
It's simple and it works well, and it all most people need.
From My Experience With l0phtCrack, Which is what this is basicially except much faster...
The only way this will work is if someone gets access to a Domain Administrator acct. (unless you are running NT as your DC and Didn't Run Syskey to increase your Password security. Then Your Screwed) After someone has a DA account why are they going to bother to hack passwords? They already own the farm.
This is the Equivelant of Someone getting root on Linux. Pretty much if someone hacked the Administrator account you are screwed.
1) A Standard emerges that most if not all DVD Writers Adopt. 2) Price Drops Below $100 to get more mainstream. 3) Write speed gets faster. Particually the Write Speed of CD-R's.
By the time that happens, most likely BluRay would be out for some insane price, But at least it looks like it will have a more defined standard and be 27 GB per disk.
Pretty much works the same way as Security Through Obscurity if you ask me.
Although it blocks users from browsing your files and blocks queries from known malicious IP's It would not stop the RIAA from downloading from you from a not yet known malicious IP, Proxy, wierd "Save the Music Industry" Campaingn where they pay you to hunt down P2P Users, ETC.
Basicially if they do a search for "St. Anger" on Kazaa, Download it, and verify that it is "St. Anger" they have an IP going to somewhere. And that IP now has a big red Bullseye on it whether it's a proxy, a user or whatever else that could obscure your idenity.
The only way to truthfully be anonymous is to be encrypted, swarmed and stored all over the place by hundreds of users like Freenet does it, and even that gives them an IP to paint a target on with the excuse that even though you dont know what your PC is sending thats no excuse to infringe. Although the courts would have to decide that.
I wish that IRo had 600,000 users. They probably would have if they didn't screw up the release here.
The first thing they did to gain users was make an open beta period where it was open for free. this is good, but considering that it was only 1 month and there was still bugs when they went to pay, most users didn't have much time in it to stay with it, not to mention now it has no way of attracting new users since there is no 30 day trial period as far as I can see. From open beta to retail, it went from 20000 Users total (10000 Per Server) to around 8000 users.
Then The Fun Began. First off the price was too high to be competitive vs. EverQuest unless you paid 6 months in advance (which I did) and used a cryptic Credit card system that would produce Errors in Korean. Then They Rolled back accounts 7 days when they switched to pay, which Pissed off half the game. The Bugs were made much more obvious When it was hacked late last month. this resulted in a week of confusion while People were waiting for new passwords that never came because Gravity E-mails were being blocked as spam as a two day reimbursement period was going on. This also resulted in a rollback which again pissed off the userbase and changed people's minds when it came to renewing their 1 month accounts. Sites like ro.pak0.com close out of frustration, ETC.
Personally I like RO. It's the cloest MMORPG i've seen to a text based mud and it's fun to play and has a good player athmosphere. I just hope there will still be players on it 5 months from now.
I don't know what the circumstances were for him to hand the RIAA $12000, but personally I would have used the money to do something a little more constructive, like hire a lawyer (or find one that wants to make a name for himself) and let the lawsuit begin.
If Sharman Networks can get a judge to say that Their app is legal based on the legal uses it has, I cant see how he could lose considering that he has no control what was on the campus network it was searching.
All this does is open the floodgates to sue Search Engines. Whats Next? Microsoft Gets sued because the Search function in XP can search the entire Network for Files?
Just to add to the "No Excuse" list, If you dont have a virus scanner because it costs money, or your current Virus Scanner is asking you for money to update, uninstall it and get AVG. It's Free and it works.
If you have a PC running windows, Especially XP with all of it's Virus Friendly Features built in, The Question Isn't IF you will get a virus but WHEN
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I remember when MS said this when win2000 came out...
:)
Windows 2000 Professional requires fewer planned and unplanned system restarts than Windows NT 4.0. To improve the operating system's stability and reliability, Microsoft eliminated more than 75 scenarios in Windows NT 4.0 (such as adding a network protocol or installing a new device) that required a system reboot. Microsoft has reduced the number of reboot scenarios in Windows 2000 Professional to fewer than 10.
I guess those 10 scenarios are all patch related.
My guess is that he's right. The programmers DO get the code fixed within 24 hours.
The problem sets in when it's got to be run on millions of PC's now. Most likely this takes a good week or two to verify if the patch won't bork 90% of the PC's out there.
although I'd like to see it happen, i dont think its going to catch on as much as they hype said it was.
I remembered when they were touting that never again would a wire outside of power touch my pc. It was going to run the keyboard, mouse, printer, even the monitor somehow and it didn't need an antenna or configuration or anything, just a chip in each device that had it. But since very few major PC's took on the technology, (unlike USB, Where just about every Major PC manufacture adopted it. I've seen 486's with USB onboard it was adopted so throughly, even though devices wouldn't take advantage of it for years.) I dont see it catching on unless it takes off like a rocket this year.
Sure people hate wires and they hate having to know where to plug things into their PC, not to mention the nest of wires, but if the technology that would remove such wires has little to no adoption in the real world what good is it?
Hard to believe, but I still use my ZDS SuperSport "laptop" that I got from a bulk PC purchase.
it's an old 8088 with a 20mb hard disk and a 720k floppy. runs msdos 6.22 and windows 3.0. I pretty much use it for typing papers using WP5.1 and the like. I have used it to check E-mail with a 300 baud external modem that I have for it, but I dont recommend it unless you have a ton of paitience.
I have another one of these that I use for parts to keep the other one running.
I'll have to second this. when I was an Imm on a mud this was all I used. It's great because it fits on a floppy, so you could go to Computer labs in college and run it from disk.
Get it from here They have the binary and Source code from an eariler version there.
It would be nice if it became GPL'ed since the author basicially abandoned it. It was the best clent out there until zmud basicially started to copy it.
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Some Of Lucas's best work yet
I work for IT at a college, Yes, IT shut of the resnet after it took our entire intenret down. Yes it is a living hell, especially with the way upstairs has handled the situation.
My biggest problem, however isn't with the students as much as it is with the majority of antivirus software bundled with PC's out there.
Dell for example, comes with Mcafee Virusscan Online. In my opinion this is the most useless thing ever conceived. First, once someone actually looks at it and you find out that its not protecting you, you have to register online, then once you go through that and it somehow worked, it then downloads for 10 mins and then installes a 90 day virus scanner. Unfortunatly it prompts every startup saying that you are protected when in fact you haven't registered it and its doing nothing to protect you from viruses. I cant count the number of students that come to me that say they have a virus scanner and its updating and it ends up being this stupid thing.
Then There's Norton Antivirus. It loves giving out 90 day trials too with compaqs. It has the same problem that Mcafee has in that it doesn't protect you unless you actually click on the icon to find out what it does. The only two redeeming parts of Norton are that you dont have to go online to update it and you can force an update by setting the date back, but students dont know that and as far as they know there protected when in reality they haven't updated in 2 years.
If some of these PC vendors would install virus scanners that were configured ready to go update and run with no user intervention for the life of the PC, this would be a lot better world right now, but at this point, Im directing people to get the free virus scanner from grisoft.com to replace both of the above simply because it's updatable and works well for being free.
Microsoft Just bought an Antivirus firm. I'm praying that at some point in time Microsoft says screw getting sued for being monopolistic and puts and anti virus scanner in Windows. In other words, Its time for Windows to have some sort of scanner that is free to update and built into it.
Im not too sure if they want to do that.
In the end, MS wants messenger to do one thing, Gain Marketshare. It's not in their best interest to block outside clients because that forces marketshare out of their system and to someone else. In other words the client is irrevelant. It's the guy logging in that they care about.
Now, considering the worm outbreaks this past week, and the fact that their are worms out there that take advantage of MSN Messenger to spread, My guess is that MS truly has something wrong with this thing that could become a huge firestorm if older clients are left on the network. There has to be something wrong if they are going to change the protocol all of a sudden, Especially since they have been trying to standardize it for a few years now.
Give it time, if they dont publish the new protocol then circle the wagons and light the torches.
Texting people after the movie is pretty ingenious. All this time I thought gauging how bad a movie sucked based on how many commercials you saw of the movie in a 1 hour period on cable was an ingenious way.
Dont believe it works, how many "League of Extrodinary Gentleman" Commercials did you see before it came out? They had a feeling it was going to suck in the thethers so they pimped it from here to high heaven. Right now, Im debating to see "The Medallion" because of this, Sure it's Jackie Chan, but when I see him 10x/Hour it scares me.
I can't agree with you more here.
I remember almost three years ago when my boss at a computer shop where I used to work asked me to build the best box I could with the best hardware we could get our hands on at the time for a PC we were going to use at a show. What I ended up building was a 1Ghz PIII with 512 MB ram, 20GB HD built on an motherboard running the Fastest Chipset at the time, a VIA Chipset.
When it came to the Video however, I couldn't get my hands on a Nvidia Card because the Idiot that bought cards at the time worshiped ATI like the messiah. the Best I could do was ATI's best, which was a Rage Fury Maxx. The absolute second I installed the Drivers on the pc it went all to hell. it would crash every 5 minutes, I couldn't install office cause it would lock up because ATI Would try to accelerate everything it could and screwed up when it tried to accelerate the progress bar, ETC.
In the End, the Drivers were not compatable with VIA chipsets. and the beta ones that were worse were around 12 megs (This is back when NVidia's were 2Megs. Remember those?) I went down the line of ATI Cards from Rage 128 Pro, to Rage Pro II to eventually being forced to Defile this PC by putting a Sis 6326 in it. then all the problems magicially went away although now it cant run any of the higher end demos that we wanted to run.
For those you say that ATI has changed, You're right, their drivers don't suck as much as they used to and the Catalyst drivers are pretty good, but they still have other issues to fix. I deal with these issues everyday with 3 all in wonder 8500 DV cards that the Media Dept just HAD to have where I currently work. Either the drivers dont install because the installer crashes which forces you to install them manually, or the system goes unstable all of a sudden, or you cant get their updates for the tv tuner software without going on a manhunt on their site because their trying to get you to buy the new version, or you have to install their tv tuner software twice because the latest version is an update to the previous version. And dont get me started on the obsene amount of installers needed to install an 8500dv. I think theres CATALYST, WDM, Hydravision, Multimedia 7.6, DVD, Multimedia7.7, and Remote that need to be installed in order to be able to use all the features of the card, and they have to be installed in that order. You install stuff out of order and your doing it all over again. thats 7 Installers Folks, all of which want you to restart after you run them. Their drivers might be better then their older ones, but they definatly have quirks here and there just to remind you that it's still from ATI
Not too suprising, everything that Nvidia Makes is running my Home PC right now. Nforce2 and Geforce 4 Ti4200 Personal Cinema. All my stuff works without the dog and pony show ATI puts you through.
Frankly, Other than adding Outlook's stupid "Block all Attachments" Feature and setting the Security Zone to restriced by default, Something that should of been done in the first place I might add, OE hasn't changed that much since it was introduced.
The only thing that OE really needed was a Spam filter, but since Blue Mountain Arts forced MS to throw that into the toilet there isn't much else it needs that can be added.
It's simple and it works well, and it all most people need.
From My Experience With l0phtCrack, Which is what this is basicially except much faster...
The only way this will work is if someone gets access to a Domain Administrator acct. (unless you are running NT as your DC and Didn't Run Syskey to increase your Password security. Then Your Screwed) After someone has a DA account why are they going to bother to hack passwords? They already own the farm.
This is the Equivelant of Someone getting root on Linux. Pretty much if someone hacked the Administrator account you are screwed.
Same Here.
Pretty much waiting for three things to happen.
1) A Standard emerges that most if not all DVD Writers Adopt.
2) Price Drops Below $100 to get more mainstream.
3) Write speed gets faster. Particually the Write Speed of CD-R's.
By the time that happens, most likely BluRay would be out for some insane price, But at least it looks like it will have a more defined standard and be 27 GB per disk.
Pretty much works the same way as Security Through Obscurity if you ask me.
Although it blocks users from browsing your files and blocks queries from known malicious IP's It would not stop the RIAA from downloading from you from a not yet known malicious IP, Proxy, wierd "Save the Music Industry" Campaingn where they pay you to hunt down P2P Users, ETC.
Basicially if they do a search for "St. Anger" on Kazaa, Download it, and verify that it is "St. Anger" they have an IP going to somewhere. And that IP now has a big red Bullseye on it whether it's a proxy, a user or whatever else that could obscure your idenity.
The only way to truthfully be anonymous is to be encrypted, swarmed and stored all over the place by hundreds of users like Freenet does it, and even that gives them an IP to paint a target on with the excuse that even though you dont know what your PC is sending thats no excuse to infringe. Although the courts would have to decide that.
Much more of this crap and slashdot is going to News for Weenies, Stuff that Bores.
I always thought it was implied that Slashdot was "News For Linux, Nothing Else Matters" Just not stated anywhere officially on the site.
I wish that IRo had 600,000 users. They probably would have if they didn't screw up the release here.
The first thing they did to gain users was make an open beta period where it was open for free. this is good, but considering that it was only 1 month and there was still bugs when they went to pay, most users didn't have much time in it to stay with it, not to mention now it has no way of attracting new users since there is no 30 day trial period as far as I can see. From open beta to retail, it went from 20000 Users total (10000 Per Server) to around 8000 users.
Then The Fun Began. First off the price was too high to be competitive vs. EverQuest unless you paid 6 months in advance (which I did) and used a cryptic Credit card system that would produce Errors in Korean. Then They Rolled back accounts 7 days when they switched to pay, which Pissed off half the game. The Bugs were made much more obvious When it was hacked late last month. this resulted in a week of confusion while People were waiting for new passwords that never came because Gravity E-mails were being blocked as spam as a two day reimbursement period was going on. This also resulted in a rollback which again pissed off the userbase and changed people's minds when it came to renewing their 1 month accounts. Sites like ro.pak0.com close out of frustration, ETC.
Personally I like RO. It's the cloest MMORPG i've seen to a text based mud and it's fun to play and has a good player athmosphere. I just hope there will still be players on it 5 months from now.
Did any one else think of the Scene in "Demolition Man" With the Graffiti robot when they first read this news item.
:)
Maybe they can shrink it down in a few years
I think Hormel is more worried about the name Spam Being associated with a product rather than Unsoliciated E-mail.
If Symantec decided to rename their Cleansweep Product to Windex to imply that it cleans windows, I'm sure SC Johnson wouldn't be too happy.
...is if Microsoft can filter spam without being Sued.
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Since MS is declared a Destructive Monopoly in the courts all Lindows has to do is the following.
1) Gather Information on what MS is doing to Stifle Competition.
2) Sue.
3) Win.
It's That Simple.
I don't know what the circumstances were for him to hand the RIAA $12000, but personally I would have used the money to do something a little more constructive, like hire a lawyer (or find one that wants to make a name for himself) and let the lawsuit begin.
If Sharman Networks can get a judge to say that Their app is legal based on the legal uses it has, I cant see how he could lose considering that he has no control what was on the campus network it was searching.
All this does is open the floodgates to sue Search Engines. Whats Next? Microsoft Gets sued because the Search function in XP can search the entire Network for Files?
I guess if you wanted a small Portable Sun to fly around in space you could, considering it's 15000K when it's active.
it be interesting if it could be refined for use in Spaceship propulsion, or to extend the life of a reaction in current fusion reactors.
Just to add to the "No Excuse" list, If you dont have a virus scanner because it costs money, or your current Virus Scanner is asking you for money to update, uninstall it and get AVG. It's Free and it works.
If you have a PC running windows, Especially XP with all of it's Virus Friendly Features built in, The Question Isn't IF you will get a virus but WHEN