I've been wanting to check out some of this new 3D stuff IMAX is doing, but I'm wondering if I'll be able to get the full experience.
Whenever I tried to read 3D books as a kid, I could see either red or blue with those glasses, but it would never mix and create what was supposed to be there since my eyes don't focus on the same point. It's not crazy-like. I drive w/o glasses just fine. However, it affects my ability to do anything 3D, including those pictures you're supposed to "look through" to see the real image.
Anyway, does anybody knows how the audience will get the 3D experience? I'm sure you have to wear some sort of special pair of glasses, but if it depends on each lens requiring the other at the same point to do the special stuff, I'm not going to be able to see it.
In my opinion, IIS has been more secure compared to Apache in their respective latest major versions.
Go to SecurityFocus and do a search on the vulnerabilities. IIS 6.0 since its release in April of 2003 has had two (2) vulnerabilities. Apache, on the other hand has had 30 (!) since its release of 2.0.44, which is the release I could find that was closest to the release date of IIS 6.0. If you go back to all of Apache 2.0 (the major release), there's a whole page more of them, but I didn't think that comparison was fair.
That's your opinion and that's great, but you're just another nobody so if others find some of them clever (not necessarily all) then let them have their chuckle and don't let it bother you so much. Like I said in my previous post: feel free to get your news from elsewhere for today.
I don't see why everyone has to turn into whiny little pricks for a day. Go elsewhere for your news today if you don't like the (continued) humor. I, for one, have enjoyed the ThinkGeek (and other) jokes. And you know what? It'll be gone tomorrow so no big deal.
If I were to, say, whack libc, libssl and libz from your box, would you expect all your stuff to still work right? Didn't think so.
But that's your fault for not thinking ahead of time and considering the possibility that one day, that dependency might not be available
Yep, I suppose that's our fault as programmers for not thinking about these dependencies. Although, if I'm writing a sample ssh client (or a simple media player) then shit, that's a hard dependency to get out of, isn't it? Even if I want to draw a box on the screen, it sure helps if there's something underneath to do some of the mundane stuff for me.
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Tabbed browsing is a concept that was first put into implementation by NetCaptor. Even Firefox copied it. *gasp!*
By default the resource usage for this server is set to "Medium. Use this if you use your PC for light tasks such as word processing." Well, this medium setting uses a lot of CPU time. So much that it caused my DVD burning software to take twice as long as usual and ran the buffer very close to underrun.
Um, yeah. DVD burning != word processing. The former takes many more resources than the second so of course there's going to be clashes there. If you don't like it, turn down the setting on your TiVo server. That's why they give you that setting. I'm running an AthlonXP 1900+ and I can burn DVDs and edit videos just fine with my TiVo server set to Medium, so maybe something more sinister is happening on your machine? In fact, I notice my TiVo server will slow down to allow my machine to do something instead of the other way around. I did have to exempt those TiVo directories on my machine from my realtime virus scanner, though, because scanning tons of MP3s and huge MPEGs for viruses was slowing everything down really badly.
Also the fact that the upcoming software for burning the shows to DVD (Sonic MyDVD) is being sold not included with Tivo service is pretty lame.
Sure, it's lame, but in reality, Sonic MyDVD is lame. I have a copy of it because it was bundled with something else I bought and it seriously sucks. I don't use it. Moving around in a video takes so long that editing out commercials or doing anything really just isn't possible. It's just not very good software. Use Nero. It works great for me.
I thought it's called a 'new version of Office because last one sucked', it isn't? Oh, then how about new version of a 'Operating system because last one wasn't the be-all-end-all, best of the best we promised you'?
People sure like to tout Linux as the be-all-end-all, best of the best. You know what, though? They keep releasing new versions. Why's that? Because it's not perfect. It has bugs, too.
Like, say, Microsoft AntiSpyware? What, isn't that an anti-malware tool? Then what is it? Oh, it is but it's not "FREE", okay... why isn't it free, why some MS anti-malware tools are but not this? Because we must pay some extra cash to make windows less insecure?
What is your freaking point here? You should just say it instead of trying to be clever. Their AntiSpyware tool is free... so wtf are you getting at? You obviously have a hard time finding good information, so let me help you out:
Linux is just as insecure when it comes to most of this stuff. If I can get you to run something I send you, I can delete shit. Maybe not your entire / because you're running as someone else, but I could sure as hell screw up all your personal settings, delete your email, etc. Don't act like you're immune just because you run another platform. I'm sure if the user base that typically runs Windows switched to running Linux (heh, yeah) you'd see a jump in problems over there.
So let me see if I'm clear on this... they write shitty code that I'm forced to use (since the apps I need only run on Win32), and then I have to pay again for software to keep people from exploiting the software that was shitty to begin with. Isn't that a bit like selling you a piece of shit car, then charging you to use your warranty when the clutch fails on day #2 of ownership? You know, many of us thought that the day would come that M$ would charge for access to WindowsUpdate. Is there anything they won't charge for?
So let me see if I'm clear on this... Have they charged for their Windows Update or Anti-Malware tools yet? No. Do the apps that are so 'shitty' still save you time over doing whatever it is you do manually so you still use them? Yes. Are you using 3rd-party apps that could be the shitty code and not Windows? Probably. Are you whining about some old version of Windows instead of the latest, which actually works pretty darn well? Most likely.
Don't they ever say "we fucked up... here's a freebie on us"? Or "you already paid $300 for our OS... here's a way to secure it for free".
Yeah, it's called a 'Service Pack'. Oh yeah, not to mention their FREE Anti-Malware tools.
Sure, Windows isn't perfect, but they're obviously still trying to make things better. Every OS has flaws. If you think you're so perfect, go write your own and we'll see how it scales to enterprise use.
Agreed. I don't think this guy should be able to sell these things to just anyone. Well... he says "responsible adults", but I doubt he's doing background checks. Assuming our Department of Homeland Security isn't a complete joke, shouldn't they have some issues with this?
Does mkpasswd (or any other generator someone knows of) allow you to generate a password that alternates hands with each letter? I used to have a generator that could do this, but lost it at one point and have never been able to find one since. I really don't care what the password is as long as I can do that. It makes typing it in much quicker.
I agree, there seems to be very little forward movement in significant functionality in the Palm world. Can I be so bold to suggest that this lack of innovation might be due to the lack fo significant competition for Palm?
Actually, the Pocket PC is now the dominant PDA OS on the market. I think it's because Microsoft has a genuinely better product here. I have a Dell Axim and an Audiovox SMT5600 Smartphone. They both operate great and I can copy any file I want over to them from the desktop. I wish my phone could look at word/excel docs like the Axim can, but you can still buy 3rd-party programs that do that.
What's also really great for developers is that the Mobile Application SDK allows you to build one application that will run on both the PDA and Smartphone pretty darn easily.
I dunno.... maybe you should try clicking on the article link and finding out? That's assuming you haven't seen the numerous other stories about the system over the last few months. You can even put 'ds' into Google and find out really quickly. Dolt.
No. Windows 3.1 was a GUI on top of DOS. The real reason why you saw so many crashes and blue screens on the Win9x line is what the grandparent post said. This is why there were "familiar" places the OS would crash. It's because another app or driver would consistently write to that location and, since the separation wasn't there, blue screen the box.
It turns out, her brother's GF is a market droid at Microsoft here. She had given a computer that was in private use by some developer or something and meant that (actual quote): "2003 is just so much better, just look: it's three years more advanced."
So, a marketing droid said a marketing sentence. Whoa, big news! Admittedly, it wasn't the best thing to say in order to sell the OS on someone, but neither was the hacked up machine running it. It's hard to validate the "seller of the year award or some crap" claim, but I doubt doing things like that repeatedly would keep her at the company for long. Obviously, their marketing department as a whole is working pretty well. Additionally, Win2k3 so far has been a fairly rock solid release from what I've seen. I don't think your single story really maps to the 50,000+ employee corporation as a whole in the present day.
What's the point if on the second page, you tell them to make an administrator user? Win2k3 has amazing security enhancements and that step effectively drops them on the floor.
Except when the same fuzz tests later found (about an hour later) a really serious flaw in IE, it STILL hasn't been fixed, whereas Opera's and Gecko's (Firefox, Mozilla, etc) have been, and they are using that tool as a regular test now... Despite even being used in a worm with now three variants, MS still haven't patched it...
If I recall correctly, IIS6 (out for 1.75 yrs) currently has no exploits. Win2k3 (out for the same amount of time) has very few exploits. In fact, I think it's on par with OpenBSD.
mswish [at] microsoft [dot] com. I know for a fact that they do get and route this information to the right people. Many features and tweaks have been implemented in this fashion.
While I agree with you in the general sense that savvy computer users should be able to deal with things like this, if my mom had just installed it on her own she would have been at a loss as to what to do.
I can guess what she would've done. Call you.;)
By the way, I run Linux on almost all my computers, and upgraded to kernel 2.6 without a hitch. I would consider that a more intrusive upgrade than a service pack.
Depends on what's in the service pack. Replacing kernel32.dll and/or ntoskrnl.exe would essentially be the same. Anyway, I think my point still stands. I'm sure not everyone was able to upgrade to kernel 2.6 without a hitch and I'm sure some of them had some trouble fixing it. On the other hand, I've installed XPSP2 on numerous machines and haven't had a single problem. Like I said before, 'tis the nature of software (especially upgrades and especially when they're trying to lock down insecure interfaces).
I'm not trying to sound depcrecating so don't get me wrong, but Windows has a MUCH larger userbase than Linux and it's a tough problem.
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I've been wanting to check out some of this new 3D stuff IMAX is doing, but I'm wondering if I'll be able to get the full experience.
Whenever I tried to read 3D books as a kid, I could see either red or blue with those glasses, but it would never mix and create what was supposed to be there since my eyes don't focus on the same point. It's not crazy-like. I drive w/o glasses just fine. However, it affects my ability to do anything 3D, including those pictures you're supposed to "look through" to see the real image.
Anyway, does anybody knows how the audience will get the 3D experience? I'm sure you have to wear some sort of special pair of glasses, but if it depends on each lens requiring the other at the same point to do the special stuff, I'm not going to be able to see it.
In my opinion, IIS has been more secure compared to Apache in their respective latest major versions.
Go to SecurityFocus and do a search on the vulnerabilities. IIS 6.0 since its release in April of 2003 has had two (2) vulnerabilities. Apache, on the other hand has had 30 (!) since its release of 2.0.44, which is the release I could find that was closest to the release date of IIS 6.0. If you go back to all of Apache 2.0 (the major release), there's a whole page more of them, but I didn't think that comparison was fair.
That's your opinion and that's great, but you're just another nobody so if others find some of them clever (not necessarily all) then let them have their chuckle and don't let it bother you so much. Like I said in my previous post: feel free to get your news from elsewhere for today.
I don't see why everyone has to turn into whiny little pricks for a day. Go elsewhere for your news today if you don't like the (continued) humor. I, for one, have enjoyed the ThinkGeek (and other) jokes. And you know what? It'll be gone tomorrow so no big deal.
If I were to, say, whack libc, libssl and libz from your box, would you expect all your stuff to still work right? Didn't think so.
But that's your fault for not thinking ahead of time and considering the possibility that one day, that dependency might not be available
Yep, I suppose that's our fault as programmers for not thinking about these dependencies. Although, if I'm writing a sample ssh client (or a simple media player) then shit, that's a hard dependency to get out of, isn't it? Even if I want to draw a box on the screen, it sure helps if there's something underneath to do some of the mundane stuff for me.
Tabbed browsing is a concept that was first put into implementation by NetCaptor. Even Firefox copied it. *gasp!*
By default the resource usage for this server is set to "Medium. Use this if you use your PC for light tasks such as word processing." Well, this medium setting uses a lot of CPU time. So much that it caused my DVD burning software to take twice as long as usual and ran the buffer very close to underrun.
Um, yeah. DVD burning != word processing. The former takes many more resources than the second so of course there's going to be clashes there. If you don't like it, turn down the setting on your TiVo server. That's why they give you that setting. I'm running an AthlonXP 1900+ and I can burn DVDs and edit videos just fine with my TiVo server set to Medium, so maybe something more sinister is happening on your machine? In fact, I notice my TiVo server will slow down to allow my machine to do something instead of the other way around. I did have to exempt those TiVo directories on my machine from my realtime virus scanner, though, because scanning tons of MP3s and huge MPEGs for viruses was slowing everything down really badly.
Also the fact that the upcoming software for burning the shows to DVD (Sonic MyDVD) is being sold not included with Tivo service is pretty lame.
Sure, it's lame, but in reality, Sonic MyDVD is lame. I have a copy of it because it was bundled with something else I bought and it seriously sucks. I don't use it. Moving around in a video takes so long that editing out commercials or doing anything really just isn't possible. It's just not very good software. Use Nero. It works great for me.
I thought it's called a 'new version of Office because last one sucked', it isn't? Oh, then how about new version of a 'Operating system because last one wasn't the be-all-end-all, best of the best we promised you'?
People sure like to tout Linux as the be-all-end-all, best of the best. You know what, though? They keep releasing new versions. Why's that? Because it's not perfect. It has bugs, too.
Like, say, Microsoft AntiSpyware? What, isn't that an anti-malware tool? Then what is it? Oh, it is but it's not "FREE", okay... why isn't it free, why some MS anti-malware tools are but not this? Because we must pay some extra cash to make windows less insecure?
What is your freaking point here? You should just say it instead of trying to be clever. Their AntiSpyware tool is free... so wtf are you getting at? You obviously have a hard time finding good information, so let me help you out:
Microsoft Anti-Spyware FREE download
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool FREE download
Linux is just as insecure when it comes to most of this stuff. If I can get you to run something I send you, I can delete shit. Maybe not your entire / because you're running as someone else, but I could sure as hell screw up all your personal settings, delete your email, etc. Don't act like you're immune just because you run another platform. I'm sure if the user base that typically runs Windows switched to running Linux (heh, yeah) you'd see a jump in problems over there.
So let me see if I'm clear on this... they write shitty code that I'm forced to use (since the apps I need only run on Win32), and then I have to pay again for software to keep people from exploiting the software that was shitty to begin with. Isn't that a bit like selling you a piece of shit car, then charging you to use your warranty when the clutch fails on day #2 of ownership? You know, many of us thought that the day would come that M$ would charge for access to WindowsUpdate. Is there anything they won't charge for?
So let me see if I'm clear on this... Have they charged for their Windows Update or Anti-Malware tools yet? No. Do the apps that are so 'shitty' still save you time over doing whatever it is you do manually so you still use them? Yes. Are you using 3rd-party apps that could be the shitty code and not Windows? Probably. Are you whining about some old version of Windows instead of the latest, which actually works pretty darn well? Most likely.
Don't they ever say "we fucked up... here's a freebie on us"? Or "you already paid $300 for our OS... here's a way to secure it for free".
Yeah, it's called a 'Service Pack'. Oh yeah, not to mention their FREE Anti-Malware tools.
Sure, Windows isn't perfect, but they're obviously still trying to make things better. Every OS has flaws. If you think you're so perfect, go write your own and we'll see how it scales to enterprise use.
You are naive. Read this: http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/29/laser.plane/index .html. Just came out today and it's very relevant.
Remember, the 9/11 commission found that our biggest failure was a lack of imagination. Don't be so narrow-minded.
even a BB gun that is just as dangerous as this laser is.
Uh, can your BB gun permanently damage the eyes of pilots from the ground? Didn't think so.
Agreed. I don't think this guy should be able to sell these things to just anyone. Well... he says "responsible adults", but I doubt he's doing background checks. Assuming our Department of Homeland Security isn't a complete joke, shouldn't they have some issues with this?
Does mkpasswd (or any other generator someone knows of) allow you to generate a password that alternates hands with each letter? I used to have a generator that could do this, but lost it at one point and have never been able to find one since. I really don't care what the password is as long as I can do that. It makes typing it in much quicker.
I agree, there seems to be very little forward movement in significant functionality in the Palm world. Can I be so bold to suggest that this lack of innovation might be due to the lack fo significant competition for Palm?
Actually, the Pocket PC is now the dominant PDA OS on the market. I think it's because Microsoft has a genuinely better product here. I have a Dell Axim and an Audiovox SMT5600 Smartphone. They both operate great and I can copy any file I want over to them from the desktop. I wish my phone could look at word/excel docs like the Axim can, but you can still buy 3rd-party programs that do that.
What's also really great for developers is that the Mobile Application SDK allows you to build one application that will run on both the PDA and Smartphone pretty darn easily.
I dunno.... maybe you should try clicking on the article link and finding out? That's assuming you haven't seen the numerous other stories about the system over the last few months. You can even put 'ds' into Google and find out really quickly. Dolt.
No. Windows 3.1 was a GUI on top of DOS. The real reason why you saw so many crashes and blue screens on the Win9x line is what the grandparent post said. This is why there were "familiar" places the OS would crash. It's because another app or driver would consistently write to that location and, since the separation wasn't there, blue screen the box.
It turns out, her brother's GF is a market droid at Microsoft here. She had given a computer that was in private use by some developer or something and meant that (actual quote): "2003 is just so much better, just look: it's three years more advanced."
So, a marketing droid said a marketing sentence. Whoa, big news! Admittedly, it wasn't the best thing to say in order to sell the OS on someone, but neither was the hacked up machine running it. It's hard to validate the "seller of the year award or some crap" claim, but I doubt doing things like that repeatedly would keep her at the company for long. Obviously, their marketing department as a whole is working pretty well. Additionally, Win2k3 so far has been a fairly rock solid release from what I've seen. I don't think your single story really maps to the 50,000+ employee corporation as a whole in the present day.
What's the point if on the second page, you tell them to make an administrator user? Win2k3 has amazing security enhancements and that step effectively drops them on the floor.
Except when the same fuzz tests later found (about an hour later) a really serious flaw in IE, it STILL hasn't been fixed, whereas Opera's and Gecko's (Firefox, Mozilla, etc) have been, and they are using that tool as a regular test now... Despite even being used in a worm with now three variants, MS still haven't patched it...
Care to share a link to those test results?
If I recall correctly, IIS6 (out for 1.75 yrs) currently has no exploits. Win2k3 (out for the same amount of time) has very few exploits. In fact, I think it's on par with OpenBSD.
In fact, recent fuzz tests have favored MSIE.
mswish [at] microsoft [dot] com. I know for a fact that they do get and route this information to the right people. Many features and tweaks have been implemented in this fashion.
Uhhh, you mean it found no differences which means that IBMcode == SCOliarscode? That's no good. I'm confused...
Maybe it's because I've never used nedit and am missing something?
While I agree with you in the general sense that savvy computer users should be able to deal with things like this, if my mom had just installed it on her own she would have been at a loss as to what to do.
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I can guess what she would've done. Call you.
By the way, I run Linux on almost all my computers, and upgraded to kernel 2.6 without a hitch. I would consider that a more intrusive upgrade than a service pack.
Depends on what's in the service pack. Replacing kernel32.dll and/or ntoskrnl.exe would essentially be the same. Anyway, I think my point still stands. I'm sure not everyone was able to upgrade to kernel 2.6 without a hitch and I'm sure some of them had some trouble fixing it. On the other hand, I've installed XPSP2 on numerous machines and haven't had a single problem. Like I said before, 'tis the nature of software (especially upgrades and especially when they're trying to lock down insecure interfaces).
I'm not trying to sound depcrecating so don't get me wrong, but Windows has a MUCH larger userbase than Linux and it's a tough problem.
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Yeah, and when I do big software installs or config changes on Linux, it _never_ breaks and/or takes up a day or two.
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Sure it sucks, but 'tis the nature of software sometimes. At least you were able to get your system back up and running.