Since I downloaded the last MSDN library no less than 9 times and each time got a corrupted file
Why would you download it? It arrives on a DVD through you door...
Most of the MSDN download stuff is for legacy stuff that nobody has copies of any more, or occasionally a new product that hasn't hit the mailout yet. The MSDN library doesn't really qualify.
VS2005 is missing key features like on the fly compiling.
Visual studio has had that since VS2003 and it works really well most of the time (sometimes it decides it can't compile something silly and forces a full recompile, but it works OK).
I've never seen an opensource editor that could do it.. eclipse certainly couldn't last time I tried a few months ago (it didn't even have an integrated debugger which would defeat the point anyway).
Under Linux I have to start up an SSH connection to another computer, enable X forwarding,
Uhh.. what? Why did you have to bring SSH tunneling into it. You could say exactly the same about terminal server.
Under X the simplest is to go to the terminal, select the machine you want to log into and log into it. It's 100% transparent and runs at native speed. This has worked perfectly for 20 years plus. Or you can log in locally and multiple machines on the same desktop just by setting an environment variable (or a script which runs by clicking, which is easier) - and they run exactly as if you'd run them on the local machine again at full speed. Windows just can't do anything like this.
That whole paragraph about figuring stuff out and configuring is just FUD - have you ever even *tried* to use X remotely? 'command line to execute whatever gui you're interested in'? WTF?? Your GUI is already running on your local machine.
X works fine over dialup - it is *designed* to work over slow connections... when it was written that was all they had.
I haven't seen a CRT in ages.. they don't even sell them any more in most shops.
vast majority is probably true. Even a couple of years ago they were common, and as they break the ones on ancient computers are being replaced as well.
It's not thunderbird... I run TB with IMAP every day and have never seen the behaviour you describe.
The IMAP client in TB is pretty damned good now. Only 6 months ago it used to struggle with large folders and take ages to sync up after a reinstall - now it is near instant even over a slow vpn link. They've clearly done a lot of work on it.
The 877 has a full IOS and isn't very expensive, as routers go. Of course if you want the one with IPSEC then you pay more $$$, and you need smartnet, $$$, and it'll need a memory upgrade (proprietary cisco memory of course) to upgrade IOS anyway, more $$$.
Juniper have their issues. My ISP kept us a running story of when they tried to replace their aging router with a Juniper - we had to be interested because the network was dropping out 5 times a day.. apparently when sent certain packets the router would simply die (the details were technical and I forget the exact packet, but the admin was amazed they'd shipped a product with a bug like that).
But definitely not professional Cisco quality!! I think Cisco should be careful, there is the chance they are dilluting their professional brand recognition with these low-cost, low-quality consumer products.
If you'd ever used cisco stuff you'd know that they're popular not because of their quality but because of their support. IOS has persistent issues with bugs, and it's not unusual for them to release hardware that doesn't work properly (the first 87x routers for example had a buggy DSL implementation that couldn't hold sync, making them pretty useless. I had 5 swapouts on one unit alone before they admitted that none of them worked...
They did it ages ago.. with my phone if I'm near a hotspot I can make free calls and free sms via truphone... and it's all automatic too.
I think we're back to what the article is about.. the US is so far behind you're hoping for things in the future that we've been using for a while now.
Companies maintain the belief that people "vote with their wallets", consumers are starting to realize this and therefore when a company does things they don't like they shrug and take their business elsewhere.
Doesn't work in the mobile phone market of course... get on a contract and you're there for 12 months whether you like it or not. Here in the UK the companies are trying to push 18 month contracts.. same rates, just longer lockin (you can find the 12 month if you look around).
I hear the iphone in the US has a 24 month contract!!! - that'll probably outlive the device itself, and of course you can't change before then without penalties, so the US market is still going to stagnate once they've got those pesky iphone users nicely locked up for a couple of years.
It might be as timid as a housewife who would never cheat in RL experiencing a fake affair
That's not timid.. it's the kind of thing that would quickly lead to divorce. It's cheating however you look at it. If my wife did that she'd be on the street in seconds.
There's a correleation between *perception* of closeness to towers and illness.
There are a shitload more cell towers than most people realize.. each tower doesn't have that much range, and each provider has their own. They're also pretty well hidden.. chances are if you're in a built up area you can probably see one out of your window, but you haven't realized yet.
Most routers have serial consoles, and I'm not sure the PPS example is that esoteric.
USB to serial is an extra device, costs money compared to a simple serial cable, and requires drivers (for some reason they still haven't standardised a usb to serial protocol, dammit!). It's a lot of hassle compared to walking up to a router and plugging the laptop into it.
Even more stupid is usb to serial adapters seem to all be cables with fixed plugs on the end, rather than a standard serial port - so you need a different one for each serial standard (I've got 5 here - all incompatible with each other).
SATA is a mess of incompatibility.. most BIOSes won't boot off SATA without enabling boot ROMs and the like and they increase the boot time to minutes (on my server there are no less than three boot roms for the SATA, two of which are mutually incompatible (the raid and non raid ones - if you enable both you get no SATA at all). Then try loading an OS that supports them.. you need to use a damned *floppy drive* on Windows just to get the boot drivers in. On Linux you often need the very latest kernels... that server needs 2.4.20 minimum otherwise it won't boot (it was *fun* getting xen on there).
It's way too early to be dropping IDE. Wait a year or two until the manufacturers have at least decided on a standard.
It does seem odd. To force people to actually distribute source of everything they use rather than simply point to it would be a huge burden.. I'd probably need a 1Tb fileserver!
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Yes there is. Try it from the desktop - it simply won't allow you to format a drive more than 32GB.
Use a 3rd party formatter and it works fine.
It won't make them faster. If you've ever had the misfortune to use the blizzard downloader you'll know how slow it is.
All it does is shift bandwidth costs from microsoft onto the ISPs and ultimately the consumers.
Since I downloaded the last MSDN library no less than 9 times and each time got a corrupted file
Why would you download it? It arrives on a DVD through you door...
Most of the MSDN download stuff is for legacy stuff that nobody has copies of any more, or occasionally a new product that hasn't hit the mailout yet. The MSDN library doesn't really qualify.
This is very common... in fact I'd contend that it's the norm - I've seen it in very large companies (1000 clients+).
They sold 60 million in OEM installs on new machines and 30 million of them were uninstalled within a week.
VS2005 is missing key features like on the fly compiling.
Visual studio has had that since VS2003 and it works really well most of the time (sometimes it decides it can't compile something silly and forces a full recompile, but it works OK).
I've never seen an opensource editor that could do it.. eclipse certainly couldn't last time I tried a few months ago (it didn't even have an integrated debugger which would defeat the point anyway).
Under Linux I have to start up an SSH connection to another computer, enable X forwarding,
Uhh.. what? Why did you have to bring SSH tunneling into it. You could say exactly the same about terminal server.
Under X the simplest is to go to the terminal, select the machine you want to log into and log into it. It's 100% transparent and runs at native speed. This has worked perfectly for 20 years plus. Or you can log in locally and multiple machines on the same desktop just by setting an environment variable (or a script which runs by clicking, which is easier) - and they run exactly as if you'd run them on the local machine again at full speed. Windows just can't do anything like this.
That whole paragraph about figuring stuff out and configuring is just FUD - have you ever even *tried* to use X remotely? 'command line to execute whatever gui you're interested in'? WTF?? Your GUI is already running on your local machine.
X works fine over dialup - it is *designed* to work over slow connections... when it was written that was all they had.
Um yeah... lets 'dump the evil google' by switching to the Microsoft search engine.
Microsoft aren't evil at all. No siree.
You can save more by doing something like switching of Aero in vista - the power draw of a graphics card under load is far more than an LCD panel.
I haven't seen a CRT in ages.. they don't even sell them any more in most shops.
vast majority is probably true. Even a couple of years ago they were common, and as they break the ones on ancient computers are being replaced as well.
It's not thunderbird... I run TB with IMAP every day and have never seen the behaviour you describe.
The IMAP client in TB is pretty damned good now. Only 6 months ago it used to struggle with large folders and take ages to sync up after a reinstall - now it is near instant even over a slow vpn link. They've clearly done a lot of work on it.
The 877 has a full IOS and isn't very expensive, as routers go. Of course if you want the one with IPSEC then you pay more $$$, and you need smartnet, $$$, and it'll need a memory upgrade (proprietary cisco memory of course) to upgrade IOS anyway, more $$$.
Juniper have their issues. My ISP kept us a running story of when they tried to replace their aging router with a Juniper - we had to be interested because the network was dropping out 5 times a day.. apparently when sent certain packets the router would simply die (the details were technical and I forget the exact packet, but the admin was amazed they'd shipped a product with a bug like that).
But definitely not professional Cisco quality!! I think Cisco should be careful, there is the chance they are dilluting their professional brand recognition with these low-cost, low-quality consumer products.
If you'd ever used cisco stuff you'd know that they're popular not because of their quality but because of their support. IOS has persistent issues with bugs, and it's not unusual for them to release hardware that doesn't work properly (the first 87x routers for example had a buggy DSL implementation that couldn't hold sync, making them pretty useless. I had 5 swapouts on one unit alone before they admitted that none of them worked...
They did it ages ago.. with my phone if I'm near a hotspot I can make free calls and free sms via truphone... and it's all automatic too.
I think we're back to what the article is about.. the US is so far behind you're hoping for things in the future that we've been using for a while now.
Companies maintain the belief that people "vote with their wallets", consumers are starting to realize this and therefore when a company does things they don't like they shrug and take their business elsewhere.
Doesn't work in the mobile phone market of course... get on a contract and you're there for 12 months whether you like it or not. Here in the UK the companies are trying to push 18 month contracts.. same rates, just longer lockin (you can find the 12 month if you look around).
I hear the iphone in the US has a 24 month contract!!! - that'll probably outlive the device itself, and of course you can't change before then without penalties, so the US market is still going to stagnate once they've got those pesky iphone users nicely locked up for a couple of years.
I think you need one of these:
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http://web.archive.org/web/20070321014029/http://
It might be as timid as a housewife who would never cheat in RL experiencing a fake affair
That's not timid.. it's the kind of thing that would quickly lead to divorce. It's cheating however you look at it. If my wife did that she'd be on the street in seconds.
There's a correleation between *perception* of closeness to towers and illness.
There are a shitload more cell towers than most people realize.. each tower doesn't have that much range, and each provider has their own. They're also pretty well hidden.. chances are if you're in a built up area you can probably see one out of your window, but you haven't realized yet.
Most routers have serial consoles, and I'm not sure the PPS example is that esoteric.
USB to serial is an extra device, costs money compared to a simple serial cable, and requires drivers (for some reason they still haven't standardised a usb to serial protocol, dammit!). It's a lot of hassle compared to walking up to a router and plugging the laptop into it.
Even more stupid is usb to serial adapters seem to all be cables with fixed plugs on the end, rather than a standard serial port - so you need a different one for each serial standard (I've got 5 here - all incompatible with each other).
SATA is a mess of incompatibility.. most BIOSes won't boot off SATA without enabling boot ROMs and the like and they increase the boot time to minutes (on my server there are no less than three boot roms for the SATA, two of which are mutually incompatible (the raid and non raid ones - if you enable both you get no SATA at all). Then try loading an OS that supports them.. you need to use a damned *floppy drive* on Windows just to get the boot drivers in. On Linux you often need the very latest kernels... that server needs 2.4.20 minimum otherwise it won't boot (it was *fun* getting xen on there).
It's way too early to be dropping IDE. Wait a year or two until the manufacturers have at least decided on a standard.
They pretty much are.. when's the last time you heard of a vulnerability in sendmail?
This particular one is - as others have pointed out - about 10 years old and really doesn't matter.
Next time I'm at a show and the debian guys are handing out copies of etch on CD..
"Hey you bastard you didn't give me the source code! What to you mean it takes 13 DVDs and you don't have it. I'll see you in court."
It does seem odd. To force people to actually distribute source of everything they use rather than simply point to it would be a huge burden.. I'd probably need a 1Tb fileserver!
He's still alive but that painting in his attic is getting quite ropey now.