Until the windows registry can be maintained using a revision control system, it is just a toy.
You can use.reg files to define keys and values. These can be checked into CVS, and can be applied from a command line, I believe.
That having been said, the MS way would be to use a WSH script with your API of choice to make changes, either by creating 'change scripts' or by storing the key/value/date/reason-why-done sets in a database.
Oh, and with DCOM and domain auth, you can distribute the changes across an entire network quite easily.
Windows is just as flexible and scriptable as UNIX; it's just done in a different way.
Actually, with your average modern car, there's a thingy in the engine you can poke, and the engine light will flash out a code. Then you look up the code in the service manual.
That's all the "mechanics" do these days.
Me: "Yeah, my car's busted. The RPMS keep dropping by ~500 for a second at intermittant intervals, be it idling, accel or braking.
Authorized Service Mechanic: "Is the check engine light on?"
Me: "No, but..."
ASM: "Next!"
A week later, it DID come on, I took it in, and it was fixed within four hours.
Most people drive cars. They're well within their rights to strip it down, learn how it works, do their own maintenance.
How many people do it? Sure, the car buffs. But not the average person.
When in actual combat, the crew of a tank is competely buttoned up, and see the world through periscopes.
How difficult would it be to replace those periscopes with video cameras, build remote controls into the various controls, put in an automatic loader, and drive the thing remotely?
What he's saying is that there's two factors; short term and long term.
Waking up at the wrong point in your sleep cycle will fuck you up for the day; sleep 12 hours but wake up at the wrong time, you're going to feel like crap.
Not getting enough sleep "per night" will fuck you up in the long term.
That punishes people for having poor connections, not for their desire to share or not share.
Or, put another way, is the point awarded on download start, or download completion?
A buddy of mine in HS decided to try the 'five day' rule; damn near killed himself when he was riding his bike, and hallucinated, four days in.
Me, I know that it's time to toddle off to bed when I get paranoid. Usually, this manifests as seeing my mouse move out of the corner of my eye. I swear the little bugger tries to crawl across me desk when I'm really really tired.
I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE to have a Tivo, WITH SERVICE. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
Bell just introduced PVR capability in their satellite receivers, so get ahold of Rogers and put out a digital cable terminal with a tivo built in! PLEASE!
If I recall correctly (and it's iffy on the first point, but I'm certain on the second point) it was two things; 1: mutiple PowerPC processors, and 2: little LED bars on the front of the case that monitored CPU load.
Actually, it was more about Anakin; it shows that he's rash, impulsive, and likes to settle things with his fists every once in a while. And when Qui-Gon pulls him off of Greedo, Ani gives Q-G and EEEEEVIL glare.
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The fact is that joe six pack WILL NOT wait to download a movie to their TV set.
Umm...I get something like 400 channels, in real time, on digital cable, on the same coax that my cable modem sits on. Don't talk to me about 'waiting to watch a movie.' It's a matter of 'instead of picking the channel that's playing the movie I want, pick the movie I want playing on this channel.'
Crime rates rise in summer. Ice Cream sales rise in summer. Hence, we can clearly conclude that either Criminals eat Ice Cream, or Ice Cream causes Criminal Behaviour.
Wait....
When you can prove to me that a video game actually directly caused someone injury, then you can use that line of reasoning.
Well, I once nipped my finger with the cover of a 3.5 inch floppy...and I've hurt my fists once or twice slamming them into something out of sheer frustration (like the 'climbing Babel Tower' sequence in Xenogears I just played through again.)
This is exactly how non-trivial keypads work. They keypad is a grid of 4x3 keys that are LED panels (think digital clock). When you want to put in your secret code, you hit the 'activate' button, and each key is randomly assigned it's number for that entry.
I went to Boston a few years back, and I was freaked out by two things in rapid succession. For this to make sense, understand that I'm from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1: There was a (presumably bulletproof) barrier between passenger and driver in the taxi cab.
2: There was a huge double billboard that said 'Giving children guns might lead to tragedy' or something to that effect; it was that baldly stated.
Arcade owner: What happen?
Arcade operator: Somebody set up us the ban.
Arcade operator: We get phone call.
Arcade owner: What?
Arcade operator: Main line pick up.
Arcade owner: It's you!!!
Mayor: How are you gentlemen???
Mayor: All your game are belong to us!!!
Mayor: You are on the way to bankruptcy.
Arcade owner: What you say???
Mayor: You have no chance to profit, make your time.
Mayor: Ha ha ha
Arcade owner: Take off every lawyer.
Arcade operator: You know what you doing.
Arcade owner: Move lawyer.
Arcade owner: For great constitutional reference.
Violence is just as natural as sex. The problem with humans is that we've lost our instinct for controlled violence. Take a look at two males of pretty much any other mammal species fighting for dominance or mating rights; it's ritualistic combat. Humans don't have that any more, so we go overboard.
Also, you'll never hear a lion claiming religious reasons for slaughtering that other pride.
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"You have inserted new items into the trunk/boot. Please stop and restart the car to proceed."
Actually, with your average modern car, there's a thingy in the engine you can poke, and the engine light will flash out a code. Then you look up the code in the service manual. That's all the "mechanics" do these days. Me: "Yeah, my car's busted. The RPMS keep dropping by ~500 for a second at intermittant intervals, be it idling, accel or braking.
Authorized Service Mechanic: "Is the check engine light on?"
Me: "No, but..."
ASM: "Next!" A week later, it DID come on, I took it in, and it was fixed within four hours.
Do a 'find / -name "*2pdf" -print' and you'll find a whack of converters.
Most people drive cars. They're well within their rights to strip it down, learn how it works, do their own maintenance. How many people do it? Sure, the car buffs. But not the average person.
When in actual combat, the crew of a tank is competely buttoned up, and see the world through periscopes. How difficult would it be to replace those periscopes with video cameras, build remote controls into the various controls, put in an automatic loader, and drive the thing remotely?
What he's saying is that there's two factors; short term and long term. Waking up at the wrong point in your sleep cycle will fuck you up for the day; sleep 12 hours but wake up at the wrong time, you're going to feel like crap. Not getting enough sleep "per night" will fuck you up in the long term.
That punishes people for having poor connections, not for their desire to share or not share. Or, put another way, is the point awarded on download start, or download completion?
A buddy of mine in HS decided to try the 'five day' rule; damn near killed himself when he was riding his bike, and hallucinated, four days in. Me, I know that it's time to toddle off to bed when I get paranoid. Usually, this manifests as seeing my mouse move out of the corner of my eye. I swear the little bugger tries to crawl across me desk when I'm really really tired.
I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE to have a Tivo, WITH SERVICE. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Bell just introduced PVR capability in their satellite receivers, so get ahold of Rogers and put out a digital cable terminal with a tivo built in! PLEASE!
My Bell Canada basic phone service (a line, call display, and call answer/VM) is 41 a month. My cable modem service is 50. That ain't bad.
I don't agree. The CTS was caused by the job, therefore the employer is obligated to take care of them.
If I recall correctly (and it's iffy on the first point, but I'm certain on the second point) it was two things; 1: mutiple PowerPC processors, and 2: little LED bars on the front of the case that monitored CPU load.
Actually, it was more about Anakin; it shows that he's rash, impulsive, and likes to settle things with his fists every once in a while. And when Qui-Gon pulls him off of Greedo, Ani gives Q-G and EEEEEVIL glare.
Crime rates rise in summer. Ice Cream sales rise in summer. Hence, we can clearly conclude that either Criminals eat Ice Cream, or Ice Cream causes Criminal Behaviour. Wait....
But at that point, wouldn't using even the most rudimentary of encryption take it 'out of plain view?'
Two modems...one null modem cable...one process at idle+1 priority that sends random letters from one modem to the other.
This is exactly how non-trivial keypads work. They keypad is a grid of 4x3 keys that are LED panels (think digital clock). When you want to put in your secret code, you hit the 'activate' button, and each key is randomly assigned it's number for that entry.
Hardware keylogger that physically exists between keyboard and motherboard.
I went to Boston a few years back, and I was freaked out by two things in rapid succession. For this to make sense, understand that I'm from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 1: There was a (presumably bulletproof) barrier between passenger and driver in the taxi cab. 2: There was a huge double billboard that said 'Giving children guns might lead to tragedy' or something to that effect; it was that baldly stated.
Arcade owner: What happen?
Arcade operator: Somebody set up us the ban.
Arcade operator: We get phone call.
Arcade owner: What?
Arcade operator: Main line pick up.
Arcade owner: It's you!!!
Mayor: How are you gentlemen???
Mayor: All your game are belong to us!!!
Mayor: You are on the way to bankruptcy.
Arcade owner: What you say???
Mayor: You have no chance to profit, make your time.
Mayor: Ha ha ha
Arcade owner: Take off every lawyer.
Arcade operator: You know what you doing.
Arcade owner: Move lawyer.
Arcade owner: For great constitutional reference.
Violence is just as natural as sex. The problem with humans is that we've lost our instinct for controlled violence. Take a look at two males of pretty much any other mammal species fighting for dominance or mating rights; it's ritualistic combat. Humans don't have that any more, so we go overboard. Also, you'll never hear a lion claiming religious reasons for slaughtering that other pride.
I wonder how many will read that, shrug, and go to a rave. ;-)