I had a similar experience with Vista; Vista was blue screening trying to load "CI.DLL." After trying all of the sundry ways of restoring my Vista installation, a cursory search revealed that this was a common death knell.
Instead of chancing that this would happen again, I just installed Ubuntu+VMWare+WGA Patched Windows XP.
I also had a WGA problem this summer when some malware tried to patch tcpip.sys. That was a complete nightmare. It turns out that if a single file's cryptographic hash doesn't match whatever is in their hash set WGA deactivates Visa. While I appreciate knowing about the malware, I don't appreciate not being able to load more than four programs, not being able to tell me exactly what it was that caused my copy of Vista to become deactivated and not being of any help at resolving the problem.
The most depressing place on the internet must be the WGA Vista support forum. Within a few minutes of browsing, you can find stories from average users whom cannot run their small businesses, whom have all of their data held hostage and whom are in tears. I can understand Ubuntu users relying on web forums to get support; however, I cannot understand Vista users having to rely on web forums for support because their software assumes they're criminals.
Don't worry. It's not the kids that shall have to concern themselves with per-hour software usage fees.
The tax payers shall. It's not the software as a service, or whatever people are calling it this hour, market that Microsoft is after; they are after the lucrative public teat market.
Most universities offer Microsoft Office to their students through higher education academic licenses. The prospect of extending the existing academic pricing regime to such large and to such publicly funded markets is not nearly as profitable as putting a usage-meter on every K12 student in the country.
Any restriction that is circumventable by using a virtual machine is an honour system; likewise, physical modification. SATA laptop hard drives can be found that would only cost a couple hours of labour at a shitty, minimum-wage, after-school job. How would you go about stopping them from swapping hard drives yet keep the computers serviceable?
Giving laptops out to 6th-to-12th graders is a lose-lose situation: you take on liability; they have to worry about returning a broken laptop which, in all likelihood, will not add all that much to learning "Macbeth" or geometry. However, they might learn a thing or two about the group policy editor.
Even in that case, the case where there aren't any feature deficits and you're stuck twiddling your thumbs, I'm sure there is some better use of your salary than behaving like an over caffeinated undergrad.
A friend of mine hosted Stallman when he was speaking at our school. Among the other bizarre things that my friend witnessed Stallman doing, Stallman doesn't use _any_ browser. Instead, he sends a mail message to himself, his procmail settings then download the page, the page is converted to a PDF and the page is mailed back to him.
Pasting things into it has required clicking on the upper-left corner to get the window menu, going to "Edit," and clicking on "Paste." Selections must be "Marked" in a different mode before they can be copied out of the console.
The whole thing works like it was someone's term project from 1994.
Although, it was an improvement over opening command.com window in Windows 3.1. Opening that thing would result in a general protection fault about 30% of the time.
But, unless the applicant explicitly lists the profile as theirs, there is no way for an admissions office to know if the profile is real.
I'm sure there will be a case in the not to distant future where someone will be denied admission to a prestigious school and that decision might have been affected by a fake profile made with the express intent of ruining their life.
I do not want any government trying to police the internet to route out trolls. Instead, admissions offices and HR departments should do their jobs and stop relying on google to do their jobs for them.
The more telling question is, who exactly did he send the email to?
Did he send it just to the system administrators, or did he CC their bosses and other people in the university's administration?
I can completely understand them pressing changes if the email was CCed to other people; it makes it look like the kid was trying to point out how stooopid and incompetent the system administrators were. People, especially system administrators and programmers, are much more receptive to criticism when it appears to be one-on-one.
Why doesn't he just buy a disposable pre-paid phone and then use the SIM card in his phone when he is abroad?
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How does Firefox's, Opera's or IE's tabbing "violate" Fitts's Law?
Fitts's Law is a relationship between mouse movement distance and cognitive load. Saying that something violates Fitts's Law would be like saying something violates the laws of gravity or violates the laws of thermodynamics; violating Fitts's Law would entail that cognitive load would go down as the mouse distance between items increased.
Piracy leads to an economy that is more efficient.
Resources that were going to be used towards fulfillment of a legal contract are freed to be used on new technology, raw goods and education. The fact that piracy is a significant problem for people whom primarily distribute media means the economy hasn't run as efficiently as is could have in the past. Piracy isn't a problem; it's a correction.
"President Bush opposes the $2 billion in funding, saying it would be fiscally irresponsible."
A multi-trillion Dollar boondoggle in both Iraq and Afghanistan is somehow a prudent decision that history shall vindicate him for undertaking, yet two billion for NASA is fiscally irresponsible?
Pointing out open APs in 2000 was clever; pointing out open APs in 2008 is not. After setting up an open access point, the realization sinks in quickly that if no extra steps were required to connect to the network on your computer then anyone's computer can connect to the network.
What happens after that depends on temperament: most people do not care; aspies with shopping carts rigged-up with Wifi equipment and public address systems think it is criminal and a greater opprobrium than walking around with a shopping cart rigged-up with Wifi equipment and a public address system.
I leave my access point open. Any application that relies on the security of the underlying network is not an application designed to be used on the internet. "Security is not a product; it's a process."
Slashdot Mirror
I guess the slashdot equivalent would be inserting subtle ad text into all the +5 comments. Now that I think about it, I better patent that idea.
Null Modem+pppd+System 7.0.1*. "Problem" Solved.
* 4MiB required.
I had a similar experience with Vista; Vista was blue screening trying to load "CI.DLL." After trying all of the sundry ways of restoring my Vista installation, a cursory search revealed that this was a common death knell.
Instead of chancing that this would happen again, I just installed Ubuntu+VMWare+WGA Patched Windows XP.
I also had a WGA problem this summer when some malware tried to patch tcpip.sys. That was a complete nightmare. It turns out that if a single file's cryptographic hash doesn't match whatever is in their hash set WGA deactivates Visa. While I appreciate knowing about the malware, I don't appreciate not being able to load more than four programs, not being able to tell me exactly what it was that caused my copy of Vista to become deactivated and not being of any help at resolving the problem.
The most depressing place on the internet must be the WGA Vista support forum. Within a few minutes of browsing, you can find stories from average users whom cannot run their small businesses, whom have all of their data held hostage and whom are in tears. I can understand Ubuntu users relying on web forums to get support; however, I cannot understand Vista users having to rely on web forums for support because their software assumes they're criminals.
Don't worry. It's not the kids that shall have to concern themselves with per-hour software usage fees.
The tax payers shall. It's not the software as a service, or whatever people are calling it this hour, market that Microsoft is after; they are after the lucrative public teat market.
Most universities offer Microsoft Office to their students through higher education academic licenses. The prospect of extending the existing academic pricing regime to such large and to such publicly funded markets is not nearly as profitable as putting a usage-meter on every K12 student in the country.
Let's just erect a security fence to stop our skilled workers from leaving the country.
I get the Mexican part. But, can someone explain the octopus part?
Any restriction that is circumventable by using a virtual machine is an honour system; likewise, physical modification. SATA laptop hard drives can be found that would only cost a couple hours of labour at a shitty, minimum-wage, after-school job. How would you go about stopping them from swapping hard drives yet keep the computers serviceable?
Giving laptops out to 6th-to-12th graders is a lose-lose situation: you take on liability; they have to worry about returning a broken laptop which, in all likelihood, will not add all that much to learning "Macbeth" or geometry. However, they might learn a thing or two about the group policy editor.
That's an unlikely situation.
Even in that case, the case where there aren't any feature deficits and you're stuck twiddling your thumbs, I'm sure there is some better use of your salary than behaving like an over caffeinated undergrad.
YCTAT.
A friend of mine hosted Stallman when he was speaking at our school. Among the other bizarre things that my friend witnessed Stallman doing, Stallman doesn't use _any_ browser. Instead, he sends a mail message to himself, his procmail settings then download the page, the page is converted to a PDF and the page is mailed back to him.
> Since when is a PhD in Computer Science needed to register a vote ?
Agree. Asking the voter to solve a min-cut/max-flow problem before registering their vote sounds like it would be a good idea.
When are they going to update the console window?
Pasting things into it has required clicking on the upper-left corner to get the window menu, going to "Edit," and clicking on "Paste." Selections must be "Marked" in a different mode before they can be copied out of the console.
The whole thing works like it was someone's term project from 1994.
Although, it was an improvement over opening command.com window in Windows 3.1. Opening that thing would result in a general protection fault about 30% of the time.
Macs never had RS-232. They had RS-422.
Agree.
But, unless the applicant explicitly lists the profile as theirs, there is no way for an admissions office to know if the profile is real.
I'm sure there will be a case in the not to distant future where someone will be denied admission to a prestigious school and that decision might have been affected by a fake profile made with the express intent of ruining their life.
Hell, we already have helicopter mothers making fake social networking profiles to goat their child's rivals.
I do not want any government trying to police the internet to route out trolls. Instead, admissions offices and HR departments should do their jobs and stop relying on google to do their jobs for them.
Time to get back to your Calc I problem set.
The more telling question is, who exactly did he send the email to?
Did he send it just to the system administrators, or did he CC their bosses and other people in the university's administration?
I can completely understand them pressing changes if the email was CCed to other people; it makes it look like the kid was trying to point out how stooopid and incompetent the system administrators were. People, especially system administrators and programmers, are much more receptive to criticism when it appears to be one-on-one.
It is possible to get a phone that takes two SIM cards for scenarios just like this.
That was delicious and well written.
Why doesn't he just buy a disposable pre-paid phone and then use the SIM card in his phone when he is abroad?
How does Firefox's, Opera's or IE's tabbing "violate" Fitts's Law?
Fitts's Law is a relationship between mouse movement distance and cognitive load. Saying that something violates Fitts's Law would be like saying something violates the laws of gravity or violates the laws of thermodynamics; violating Fitts's Law would entail that cognitive load would go down as the mouse distance between items increased.
The symbols exported from gears.dll, the only chrome plugin, make it look like it can use gecko plugins.
Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 9.00.21022.08
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Dump of file gears.dll
File Type: DLL
Section contains the following exports for gears.dll
00000000 characteristics
48B3E45E time date stamp Tue Aug 26 07:09:18 2008
0.00 version
1 ordinal base
4 number of functions
4 number of names
ordinal hint RVA name
4 0 0005A040 CP_Initialize
1 1 0007EC20 NP_GetEntryPoints
2 2 0007ECB0 NP_Initialize
3 3 0007ED10 NP_Shutdown
Piracy leads to an economy that is more efficient.
Resources that were going to be used towards fulfillment of a legal contract are freed to be used on new technology, raw goods and education. The fact that piracy is a significant problem for people whom primarily distribute media means the economy hasn't run as efficiently as is could have in the past. Piracy isn't a problem; it's a correction.
"President Bush opposes the $2 billion in funding, saying it would be fiscally irresponsible."
A multi-trillion Dollar boondoggle in both Iraq and Afghanistan is somehow a prudent decision that history shall vindicate him for undertaking, yet two billion for NASA is fiscally irresponsible?
Agree.
Pointing out open APs in 2000 was clever; pointing out open APs in 2008 is not. After setting up an open access point, the realization sinks in quickly that if no extra steps were required to connect to the network on your computer then anyone's computer can connect to the network.
What happens after that depends on temperament: most people do not care; aspies with shopping carts rigged-up with Wifi equipment and public address systems think it is criminal and a greater opprobrium than walking around with a shopping cart rigged-up with Wifi equipment and a public address system.
I leave my access point open. Any application that relies on the security of the underlying network is not an application designed to be used on the internet. "Security is not a product; it's a process."
The cheapest alternative would be to just label whatever allocation the campus radio station is currently getting as an "alternative."
Hell, they could even get with the 90's and stream it over the campus network.
Problem solved. Next, please.