It can't be as bad as 5308... jeez what a trainwreck.
Can't get beta2 since FTM is stalled at 0% for the last hour.... (edit: no it's 'interrupted'. Sigh. Start again.. FTM sucks..). It just must be an improvement.. like being able to actually run visual studio would help...
Vista February CTP sucks to the point of unusability on a dual core 64bit with 2gb. I'm told they've improved the performance for the later betas (which are closed betas so developers can't run them... bizarre.. and annoying since I can't test compatibility - that build was a trainwreck so barely anything works) but *that* much? I doubt it.
Until I see a version of vista that can run in 2gb I'll be *really* sceptical of someone running it in 256mb or less.
Nobody with half a brain would want a wireless brake. A brake needs to be a *simple* device - if it fails you're dead. The same with the steering - we have powered steering now but that has a failsafe mode so if it fails it just becomes normal steering.
If the wireless transmitter fails or gets jammed... no brakes or steering!
Build 5308 *was* unusable (I couldn't even get it stable enough to run a test build of my software on it.. and it was unusably slow on a 2GB dual core). Beta 2 is out 'real soon now' and is supposed to fix most of that - if Beta 2 is still a train wreck *then* we can start complaining..
As much as I like the idea of throwing people in jail who have too little clue to secure their machines, I'm afraid I don't think it'll do a lot to stop the phishers.
If someone steals your car and you don't notice and it's used for a bank robbery, guess where the police will turn up?
In the same way if your machine is used for a phishing scam expect to have your account terminated with prejudice, until you prove that you weren't involved.
They have to do this with Windows anyway.. it comes with a pitiful number of drivers out of the box. You have to know the manufacturer of all the devices in your box, go to their website, find the drivers (if you know exactly what you are looking for - many newbies can't do this).
If the driver you're looking for is your network driver then you're stuffed unless you have multiple computers - again, newbies cannot do this.
When you've done this you have to connect to Windows Update and download 60MB+ of updates (multiple times, because Windows Update has a bug where it misses updates - you have to keep going back after reboots until there are non left).
I've yet to see anyone without technical knowledge install Windows. Normally they don't have to. Linux is actually *easier* because it comes with far more drivers in the distribution and will generally work first time.
The only OS I've ever seen I would trust a newbie to install would be OSX, but that's because it has no options... just a 'next' button, and it's custom built for the hardware it's on.
OpenWRT might include the closed-source Broadcom driver, but you have to install that driver yourself, don't you?
No. The broadcom hardware requires a modified kernel. To compile that kernel you have to link in the broadcom closed source binaries. All broadcom based kernels contain that binary part (and by extension aren't truly redistributable since the license to those parts doesn't permit it, but broadcom haven't complained yet).
You can already do this with mobile phone tracking - sold as a 'think of the children' package.. it can just as easily be used to track other family members, provided you can get their mobile phone for 5 minutes.
This is not the government doing this (they wouldn't dare) - it's just reality TV gone mad. It'll last just until the TV company is sued by people under privacy laws.
They had their on 'MSN' network that rivalled AOL but didn't link to the wider internet. They had 'Windows Mail' which was not SMTP or IMAP/POP based.
Bill gates himself said there would never be an MS internet division.
The internet, however, took over, and open standards won out. MSN was reduced to a mere portal and MS was forced to have an internet division. Windows mail few people remember (if you ever install a Win95 machine for testing though it's still there).
The X360 port of FFXI was basically just a straight copy of the PC version - however they managed to bork the graphics (looks like 640x480 in many places), and the framerate just drags at times (there's speculation it's actually running on a PC emulator).
OTOH it's primarily aimed at the PS2 gamers for an upgrade and is a big improvement for them.
IMO you either like things like FFXI or you like things like Guid Wars. If you want PvP then go for GW, if you want involved storylines and RPG then go for FFXI.
The user access control does *not* prompt for a password.
It's just a big dialog with 'OK' on it. Invariably filled with techincal gobbledegook involving Rundll32... we've had big dialogs with 'OK' before in IE and they weren't very effective either.
Problem: Everyone logs in as administrator, so there's no security.
Obvious solution: Don't let people log in as administrator, implement password protected setuid (aka. OSX)
MS solution: Remove all privileges from the administrator. Have a passwordless setuid which is default 'yes' (so you *very* quickly learn to hit return by reflex when it appears) and invariably asks you if you want 'rundll32' to have privileges. Make this dialog pop up when you want to do *anything*.
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Extratition probably, followed by nice orange jackets for a few dozen years.
It can't be as bad as 5308... jeez what a trainwreck.
Can't get beta2 since FTM is stalled at 0% for the last hour.... (edit: no it's 'interrupted'. Sigh. Start again.. FTM sucks..). It just must be an improvement.. like being able to actually run visual studio would help...
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=uranus
You'll find both are valid, depending on your regional accent.
I personally have never heard your version.
Microsoft provide ISOs of all their operating systems, both for download, and on separate DVDs so you can burn copies.
Vista is currently available only in ISO form.
You need to be an MSDN suscriber to get any of these of course.
Vista February CTP sucks to the point of unusability on a dual core 64bit with 2gb. I'm told they've improved the performance for the later betas (which are closed betas so developers can't run them... bizarre.. and annoying since I can't test compatibility - that build was a trainwreck so barely anything works) but *that* much? I doubt it.
Until I see a version of vista that can run in 2gb I'll be *really* sceptical of someone running it in 256mb or less.
Woosh.
..and you ipsec keys, which change every few minutes, your ssh key, which is per session, your kerberos key, etc.
Most people don't even realize how many keys they use. They could default on a law like this without even knowing it.
That proves the story is old.
The 2006 bogeyman is *terrorists* not pirates.
That just proves the w3c validator has bugs in it. There's no way that's valid HTML.
It was clearly a marketdroid of a PHB.
Nobody with half a brain would want a wireless brake. A brake needs to be a *simple* device - if it fails you're dead. The same with the steering - we have powered steering now but that has a failsafe mode so if it fails it just becomes normal steering.
If the wireless transmitter fails or gets jammed... no brakes or steering!
Build 5308 *was* unusable (I couldn't even get it stable enough to run a test build of my software on it.. and it was unusably slow on a 2GB dual core). Beta 2 is out 'real soon now' and is supposed to fix most of that - if Beta 2 is still a train wreck *then* we can start complaining..
As much as I like the idea of throwing people in jail who have too little clue to secure their machines, I'm afraid I don't think it'll do a lot to stop the phishers.
If someone steals your car and you don't notice and it's used for a bank robbery, guess where the police will turn up?
In the same way if your machine is used for a phishing scam expect to have your account terminated with prejudice, until you prove that you weren't involved.
They have to do this with Windows anyway.. it comes with a pitiful number of drivers out of the box. You have to know the manufacturer of all the devices in your box, go to their website, find the drivers (if you know exactly what you are looking for - many newbies can't do this).
If the driver you're looking for is your network driver then you're stuffed unless you have multiple computers - again, newbies cannot do this.
When you've done this you have to connect to Windows Update and download 60MB+ of updates (multiple times, because Windows Update has a bug where it misses updates - you have to keep going back after reboots until there are non left).
I've yet to see anyone without technical knowledge install Windows. Normally they don't have to. Linux is actually *easier* because it comes with far more drivers in the distribution and will generally work first time.
The only OS I've ever seen I would trust a newbie to install would be OSX, but that's because it has no options... just a 'next' button, and it's custom built for the hardware it's on.
OpenWRT might include the closed-source Broadcom driver, but you have to install that driver yourself, don't you?
No. The broadcom hardware requires a modified kernel. To compile that kernel you have to link in the broadcom closed source binaries. All broadcom based kernels contain that binary part (and by extension aren't truly redistributable since the license to those parts doesn't permit it, but broadcom haven't complained yet).
And the broadcom kernels - where the binary parts aren't even modules they're an integral part of the kernel.
Apparently that isn't a violation... so why is this?
Love the caption 'I'm not a nosey neighbour'
They should have printed the rest of the sentence
'.. but I get my kicks out of spying on them'
You can already do this with mobile phone tracking - sold as a 'think of the children' package.. it can just as easily be used to track other family members, provided you can get their mobile phone for 5 minutes.
This is not the government doing this (they wouldn't dare) - it's just reality TV gone mad. It'll last just until the TV company is sued by people under privacy laws.
It does seem the US is paranoid about sex.
A president gives someone a blowjob. He gets thrown out of office.
A breast is seen on TV for 1/100th of a second. Whole country grinds to a halt for a week.
Vice president shoots someone in the face. He gets a laugh.
From this side of the pond it varies from being extremely funny to being extremely scary...
RTF was an 'open standard for documents' too. MS screwed that up too (RTF support in word is terrible).
The format is patented. Other applications cannot be fully compatible - they can't even reverse engineer it.
They tried to, but failed.
They had their on 'MSN' network that rivalled AOL but didn't link to the wider internet.
They had 'Windows Mail' which was not SMTP or IMAP/POP based.
Bill gates himself said there would never be an MS internet division.
The internet, however, took over, and open standards won out. MSN was reduced to a mere portal and MS was forced to have an internet division. Windows mail few people remember (if you ever install a Win95 machine for testing though it's still there).
By the early 90's most people I knew had computers... and pretty much every schoolchild at least knew how to run games on them.
If the poster had said early 80's I might have believed it.
The X360 port of FFXI was basically just a straight copy of the PC version - however they managed to bork the graphics (looks like 640x480 in many places), and the framerate just drags at times (there's speculation it's actually running on a PC emulator).
OTOH it's primarily aimed at the PS2 gamers for an upgrade and is a big improvement for them.
IMO you either like things like FFXI or you like things like Guid Wars. If you want PvP then go for GW, if you want involved storylines and RPG then go for FFXI.
The user access control does *not* prompt for a password.
It's just a big dialog with 'OK' on it. Invariably filled with techincal gobbledegook involving Rundll32... we've had big dialogs with 'OK' before in IE and they weren't very effective either.
They've done a doozie with Vista.
Problem: Everyone logs in as administrator, so there's no security.
Obvious solution: Don't let people log in as administrator, implement password protected setuid (aka. OSX)
MS solution: Remove all privileges from the administrator. Have a passwordless setuid which is default 'yes' (so you *very* quickly learn to hit return by reflex when it appears) and invariably asks you if you want 'rundll32' to have privileges. Make this dialog pop up when you want to do *anything*.
Windows sends a 1-byte ping to a server within the microsoft.com domain, ostensibly to confirm network connectivity
Years ago, Bill Gates said 'If only I had $1 for every time a windows server rebooted..'
And the rest is history.