The problem with IOS is every release breaks something different.. so if cisco says there's a security vulnerability well there's not a lot you can do - you get a release that works for you and never update it, because the downtime of having that release possibly having a bug in something you use and the general slowness of TAC (took me 6 months to get them to fix one bug for example.. they demand dozens of packet dumps etc. and it takes up a fair amount of time even though the bug I found was 100% reproducible at their end, by their own admission) means it's likely to be a major disruption.
Well if you put 15% less fuel in the tank it'd be even lighter, so you could put even less fuel in the tank, which would make it lighter still... repeat until head asplodes:p
Only up to a point.. you spend so much time on the ground that there's a limit to how fast you can make it.
ie. you can make the plane make the journey in an hour, but you're going to be at least half an hour to an hour at each end anyway, so you're looking at 2-3 hours minimum.. most of that spent going at walking pace.
Maybe I'm being unreasonably optimistic, but it seems to me that Microsoft's market share can only decline.
Their market share will stay the same (roughly) but they won't be able to make profit from it.
Basically everyone is staying with XP.. so they've got lots of market share but it's worth nothing to them - nobody is upgrading. They need to produce something to upgrade to otherwise it's going to cost them.. Windows Server 2008 will probably be the next big one (Vista 'enterprise edition' didn't seem to get any traction).
Anyone who installs "beta", "community technology preview", or "release candidate" or "Windows Vista" software on their systems and then complains about the experience and how it sucks should be branded with a big ol' "D U M B A S S" on their short-bus-riding-tuckus.
There, fixed it for you.
btw. The RC of Vista SP1 is *way* more stable than the Vista release. It still has some silly unfixed bugs (like the dropdown on the file open dialog box still lists the browser history instead of the file open history) but I've not been able to break it even stressing it... network file copy still seems a bit flaky but even that is better (instead of crashing explorer completely it recovers after a minute now). Not to mention the amount of prompting seems to be a lot less.
If your XP is up to date you basically have SP3 already - it's really just a rollup of patches so far. It's in RC too so should be available publically soon I expect (or just get it from MSDN if you have access to it.. if you work in software you probably do).
The article is crap... you don't have to go through that at all.
I installed SP1 on top of a clean vista install just the other day.. it works fine (it's a bit wierd though.. it goes through 3 'stages' each requiring a reboot).
Of course I wiped it as soon as I'd done testing - the less Vista I have to endure the better:p
MSDN users can also download a Vista DVD with SP1 already applied.
Actually it doesn't..cpp files can't get viruses.. scanning *everything* just slows the whole company down and costs money, and achieves precisely nothing in increased security. Once this is explained often corporate policy relaxes somewhat (you have to put it in corporate speak and dollar amounts for the manager types though.. something I'm not good at personally).
We get called in to fix server issues sometimes. The first thing we ask is the status of the virus scanners. Norton in 'full welly' mode can slow a server down by over 90%, and will also cause random software failure in the process (it opens files as they're being deleted/renamed for example). The single action of simply setting it to a more sane policy has solved more than one seeming intractable problem.
Absolutely. My wife is terrible when things go wrong.
Her computer is running slow.. it's *my* problems and don't *dare* go to work without fixing it, even if I'm late. She's forgotten her mysql password (again, FFS) and it's *my* problem to fix *immediately* even if it's 2am and I'm already in bed.
God help me if she ever deletes anything.. not only is that my problem I get hell for it for days because I didn't have the ability to wave a magic wand and recover it.
But it's not private.. your data is tracked all over the place, and capable of being tracked a lot more than it is - every router and switch your packets travel across is a possible logging point.
You *never* have an expectaion of privacy on the web, unless you encrypt everything.. and even then you're trusting that the other end isn't going to sell your data anyway (probably true for a bank, but joe random internet site would sell it in a heartbeat).
SP3 really doesn't seem to do anything at all. RC1 has a bug which ejects the CDROM at random (which is *really* bizarre if you're away from your box) but that's about it. It's just a rollup of stuff that was there before, so you don't have to download 300mb of updates if you install SP2 on a box.
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The problem with IOS is every release breaks something different.. so if cisco says there's a security vulnerability well there's not a lot you can do - you get a release that works for you and never update it, because the downtime of having that release possibly having a bug in something you use and the general slowness of TAC (took me 6 months to get them to fix one bug for example.. they demand dozens of packet dumps etc. and it takes up a fair amount of time even though the bug I found was 100% reproducible at their end, by their own admission) means it's likely to be a major disruption.
If they did it I sure as hell hope they *can* be compelled to admit to it.
If they can't then you're just using the law to help criminals, which is just stupid.
If they're innocent there's nothing to admit to so no problem.
Give *a* correct key, but a special key that triggers code that nukes the disk completely.
Or a key that gives access to the boring content whilst hiding the incriminating stuff. Oh, and nukes the incriminating stuff.
Look up rubber hose cryptography sometime. The government really don't need the key.
:p
Oh and if congress comes asking it's not torture, it's cryptography
What's wrong with that? It would seem to be the whole point.
I can't understand the USians saying that it's OK for the law to block a criminal investigation... just don't get it at all.
Well if you put 15% less fuel in the tank it'd be even lighter, so you could put even less fuel in the tank, which would make it lighter still... repeat until head asplodes :p
Only up to a point.. you spend so much time on the ground that there's a limit to how fast you can make it.
ie. you can make the plane make the journey in an hour, but you're going to be at least half an hour to an hour at each end anyway, so you're looking at 2-3 hours minimum.. most of that spent going at walking pace.
Maybe I'm being unreasonably optimistic, but it seems to me that Microsoft's market share can only decline.
Their market share will stay the same (roughly) but they won't be able to make profit from it.
Basically everyone is staying with XP.. so they've got lots of market share but it's worth nothing to them - nobody is upgrading. They need to produce something to upgrade to otherwise it's going to cost them.. Windows Server 2008 will probably be the next big one (Vista 'enterprise edition' didn't seem to get any traction).
I still get techs who have forgotten that what we call SP6 is actually SP6a - the bugfixed version. SP6 was recalled.
Anyone who installs "beta", "community technology preview", or "release candidate" or "Windows Vista" software on their systems and then complains about the experience and how it sucks should be branded with a big ol' "D U M B A S S" on their short-bus-riding-tuckus.
There, fixed it for you.
btw. The RC of Vista SP1 is *way* more stable than the Vista release. It still has some silly unfixed bugs (like the dropdown on the file open dialog box still lists the browser history instead of the file open history) but I've not been able to break it even stressing it... network file copy still seems a bit flaky but even that is better (instead of crashing explorer completely it recovers after a minute now). Not to mention the amount of prompting seems to be a lot less.
Vista will automatically download all updates you need to install the RC1 and install them over the next couple of days
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The update runs in 3 stages, with a reboot after each. One of those stages will be downloading and applying updates.
There is absolutely no difference applying this and applying any other service pack, other than it reboots 3 times rather than once.
Just the other day I installed the bare vista and SP1 right after each other with no delay, special handling or anything else.
If your XP is up to date you basically have SP3 already - it's really just a rollup of patches so far. It's in RC too so should be available publically soon I expect (or just get it from MSDN if you have access to it.. if you work in software you probably do).
Already done... just download from MSDN pre-slipstreamed.
I suspect the usual slipstream methods work if you want to do it by hand.
The article is crap... you don't have to go through that at all.
:p
I installed SP1 on top of a clean vista install just the other day.. it works fine (it's a bit wierd though.. it goes through 3 'stages' each requiring a reboot).
Of course I wiped it as soon as I'd done testing - the less Vista I have to endure the better
MSDN users can also download a Vista DVD with SP1 already applied.
So we're really just talking about a few retards with an internet connection.
I've never heard wikipedia described so succinctly... I think I just found my new sig!
Actually it doesn't. .cpp files can't get viruses.. scanning *everything* just slows the whole company down and costs money, and achieves precisely nothing in increased security. Once this is explained often corporate policy relaxes somewhat (you have to put it in corporate speak and dollar amounts for the manager types though.. something I'm not good at personally).
We get called in to fix server issues sometimes. The first thing we ask is the status of the virus scanners. Norton in 'full welly' mode can slow a server down by over 90%, and will also cause random software failure in the process (it opens files as they're being deleted/renamed for example). The single action of simply setting it to a more sane policy has solved more than one seeming intractable problem.
That's when you get the response
"I can't tell because it's dark because of the power cut..."
That's not nearly as much fun.
:p
Especially when the user starts hitting random keys to get out of vi and manages to completely screw up the existing file
Absolutely. My wife is terrible when things go wrong.
Her computer is running slow.. it's *my* problems and don't *dare* go to work without fixing it, even if I'm late. She's forgotten her mysql password (again, FFS) and it's *my* problem to fix *immediately* even if it's 2am and I'm already in bed.
God help me if she ever deletes anything.. not only is that my problem I get hell for it for days because I didn't have the ability to wave a magic wand and recover it.
Dinosour... everyone knows words are 64 bits now.
Unless you're using Windows, in which case they're still 16 bits.
You may joke but 'cromulent' will end up in the dictionary very soon I expect.. 'Embiggens' hasn't entered pop culture nearly so much though.
Yeah it means something like 'great' or 'woo' (which it's probably historically related to).
'we owned the other team' doesn't even make sense in the context that it's used.
But it's not private.. your data is tracked all over the place, and capable of being tracked a lot more than it is - every router and switch your packets travel across is a possible logging point.
You *never* have an expectaion of privacy on the web, unless you encrypt everything.. and even then you're trusting that the other end isn't going to sell your data anyway (probably true for a bank, but joe random internet site would sell it in a heartbeat).
SP3 really doesn't seem to do anything at all. RC1 has a bug which ejects the CDROM at random (which is *really* bizarre if you're away from your box) but that's about it. It's just a rollup of stuff that was there before, so you don't have to download 300mb of updates if you install SP2 on a box.
Firefox runs on it fine.. even windows heads that I know won't touch IE7.
The best that you can come up with is 'runs an updated version of paint'?? lol.
Paint is not a graphics package. It's a simple bmp editor that that's largely useless.