Did I mention that it opens Vonage up to a HUGE new market? Cell-phone users will one day be able to dump their phones for a new phone that runs over WiMax, just as we are able to dump our land lines for Vonage with our traditional wired networks.
Integrating Wi-Max with VOIP is the natural progression of the technology, and Vonage has a unique opportunity to get in on the ground floor.
Perhaps you fail to grasp the greatness that is Wi-Max, or are unable to visualize Ubiquitous Internet. Please allow me to edify;
When wireless internet coverage is as prevelant as cellular phone coverage (ie: mostly everywhere), people will realize that it makes sense to connect more devices to the internet, and to one another. I look forward to a day when I can press a "synchronize" button on my watch that will synch the time and set alarms for all my appointments for the day/week/etc.
Instant messaging applications and hardware will become as ubiquitous as cellphones.
Phones no longer depend on proprietary networks, but on the open internet. All they need is a way in. Of course, the way things are today, VOIP providers such as Vonage are required to direct traffic.
Once the internet connection is purchased, the way you want to use it is limited only by your imagination. Just the way it is today, but it will be everywhere.
Brian was saying that he was stupid as a kid, and gave examples where the teacher called on him to give the plural of ox. He gave oxes, then she called on the smart kid, who gave oxen. She then asked him what the plural for box was. It was funny when he told it.
With synergy (see.sig) I have a six monitor setup, if you include this crappy iMac. My main box has dual 18" LCDs (HA! Had to one-up you didn't I?), one in portrait mode.
I only know a few professional web developers, but they all use Dreamweaver. I took over one of their projects, so I started using it myself. I have to say, it's probably the most complete web development app out there. I've been using it for a year and have only scratched the surface of it's capabilities. It presents itself with a simple interface to begin with, and gets as complicated as you like. It's also got the best CSS editor I've ever used.
If someone knows of a better CSS editor (and by better I mean easier for newbies; I teach a class on web design to beginners), let me know!
Like the article, your post contains no commentary on the actual nature of the specific Windows problems demonstrated at "Blue Hat".
Using tools like void11, you can disconnect wireless clients. Windows automatically attempts to reconnect to the WAP. If you've got an identically-named WAP and you can overpower their WAP, they'll connect to yours instead. They won't be notified, and will think that they are on their own network. Which doesn't matter too much because you could alternately just sniff all their traffic (or even inject your own) without setting up a WAP of your own.
There's a lot that MS can do about it, and code written 2 decades ago has absolutely no bearing on it.
But despite the ban, polygamy never died out in Utah. An estimated 30,000 polygamists, most of them in Utah, live in the American West, according to the Associated Press.
Nice post, and I like Diskeeper too, but as far as the taking care of automatically and never bothering you, schtasks and defrag can do that just as well.
The above will begin to defrag drive c: (-f forces it to defrag even if free disk space is below 10%) whenever the computer has been idle for 30 minutes. It should stop defragmenting when you move the mouse or hit a key, and so not deprive you of needed resources. And of course, when you go idle again, it should more or less pick up from where it left off. After awhile it'll only take a few seconds to defragment, or not do anything at all. Finally,/ru "" causes it to run under the system account, hiding it from view and making it truly transparent. Unless you're running processes/services while it's defragmenting you shouldn't notice anything at all.
I agree that the loading problem he has is likely due to fragmentation or swap file issues, although it could potentially be anything. I believe that one of the problems with defrag is that it will not defragment the swap file. So what I reccommend whenever possible is turning off the swap file, rebooting (which is required to turn off the swap file), defragmenting, then turning swap back on. Or getting Diskeeper.
Yes, system restore = lost HDD space. Although it has come in handy at least once. I just turn it's disk useage down to 0%, which is actually enough space for a few restore points. They round down.
I'm not saying Microsoft invented all these things for Windows 2000. I'm saying they were all brought together for the first time by Microsoft, and the result was that we could do things we couldn't before. The computer became more reliable, easier to manage, and more useful than when it was running 98/NT.
Turn off the Themes service, Automatic Updates service, Error Reporting service, Help and Support service, Windows Firewall... Pretty soon you'll be getting near win2k memory loads, and your XP box will look pretty good. I once would have agreed with you -- I resisted the 2000 -> XP conversion for quite some time, but I have adequate resources and XP runs like a champ for me.
Think about what Win2k gave us! Plug and Play, protected memory (when apps crash, the OS survives), NTFS, and USB support. All these things were necessary to help the OS do more for the end-user. Not to mention Active Directory, and Group Policies! All good stuff for Windows users. As for security issues, windows update is a much better solution than what we had with previous OSes. So what Windows 2000 did is integrated everything good about NT and 98. Yes, there were security vulnerabilities in IIS. A lot of websites got broken into. Waah.
This is great news for the Linux or Windows fan. While we will not be able to boot other OSes on this computer, making them cost-competitive with x86 PCs will dramatically increase their apppeal. I wouldn't mind having a Mac in my computer room if the price was right.
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Did I mention that it opens Vonage up to a HUGE new market? Cell-phone users will one day be able to dump their phones for a new phone that runs over WiMax, just as we are able to dump our land lines for Vonage with our traditional wired networks.
Integrating Wi-Max with VOIP is the natural progression of the technology, and Vonage has a unique opportunity to get in on the ground floor.
Perhaps you fail to grasp the greatness that is Wi-Max, or are unable to visualize Ubiquitous Internet. Please allow me to edify;
When wireless internet coverage is as prevelant as cellular phone coverage (ie: mostly everywhere), people will realize that it makes sense to connect more devices to the internet, and to one another. I look forward to a day when I can press a "synchronize" button on my watch that will synch the time and set alarms for all my appointments for the day/week/etc.
Instant messaging applications and hardware will become as ubiquitous as cellphones.
Phones no longer depend on proprietary networks, but on the open internet. All they need is a way in. Of course, the way things are today, VOIP providers such as Vonage are required to direct traffic.
Once the internet connection is purchased, the way you want to use it is limited only by your imagination. Just the way it is today, but it will be everywhere.
Brian was saying that he was stupid as a kid, and gave examples where the teacher called on him to give the plural of ox. He gave oxes, then she called on the smart kid, who gave oxen. She then asked him what the plural for box was. It was funny when he told it.
Auditor and Whax (formerly Whoppix) are merging.
you all owe me three keystrokes.
...wait, I misread your post.
In the address bar, in FireFox:
Gives you the best movie ever*.
*Guaranteed**.
**Guarantee not guaranteed.
Just looking at that website makes me angry.
nntp://alt.binaries.freeware
Those torrents are about as fast as a beowolf cluster without electricity.
many updates to Windows are security fixes and zombie machines adversely affect other users, not just the owner.
True! Genuine Advantage is great news to the folks who create and use the Metasploit framework.
With synergy (see .sig) I have a six monitor setup, if you include this crappy iMac. My main box has dual 18" LCDs (HA! Had to one-up you didn't I?), one in portrait mode.
I'll look into Eclipse. Thanks!
I only know a few professional web developers, but they all use Dreamweaver. I took over one of their projects, so I started using it myself. I have to say, it's probably the most complete web development app out there. I've been using it for a year and have only scratched the surface of it's capabilities. It presents itself with a simple interface to begin with, and gets as complicated as you like. It's also got the best CSS editor I've ever used.
If someone knows of a better CSS editor (and by better I mean easier for newbies; I teach a class on web design to beginners), let me know!
Wireless Access Point.
Ooh, you're right. I've gotta stop abbreviating it like that. Thanks for setting me straight!
Like the article, your post contains no commentary on the actual nature of the specific Windows problems demonstrated at "Blue Hat".
Using tools like void11, you can disconnect wireless clients. Windows automatically attempts to reconnect to the WAP. If you've got an identically-named WAP and you can overpower their WAP, they'll connect to yours instead. They won't be notified, and will think that they are on their own network. Which doesn't matter too much because you could alternately just sniff all their traffic (or even inject your own) without setting up a WAP of your own.
There's a lot that MS can do about it, and code written 2 decades ago has absolutely no bearing on it.
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Very disturbing.
For example:
The above will begin to defrag drive c: (-f forces it to defrag even if free disk space is below 10%) whenever the computer has been idle for 30 minutes. It should stop defragmenting when you move the mouse or hit a key, and so not deprive you of needed resources. And of course, when you go idle again, it should more or less pick up from where it left off. After awhile it'll only take a few seconds to defragment, or not do anything at all. Finally,
MS's documentation on schtasks
I agree that the loading problem he has is likely due to fragmentation or swap file issues, although it could potentially be anything. I believe that one of the problems with defrag is that it will not defragment the swap file. So what I reccommend whenever possible is turning off the swap file, rebooting (which is required to turn off the swap file), defragmenting, then turning swap back on. Or getting Diskeeper.
Yes, system restore = lost HDD space. Although it has come in handy at least once. I just turn it's disk useage down to 0%, which is actually enough space for a few restore points. They round down.
I'm not saying Microsoft invented all these things for Windows 2000. I'm saying they were all brought together for the first time by Microsoft, and the result was that we could do things we couldn't before. The computer became more reliable, easier to manage, and more useful than when it was running 98/NT.
Turn off the Themes service, Automatic Updates service, Error Reporting service, Help and Support service, Windows Firewall... Pretty soon you'll be getting near win2k memory loads, and your XP box will look pretty good. I once would have agreed with you -- I resisted the 2000 -> XP conversion for quite some time, but I have adequate resources and XP runs like a champ for me.
And Windows 98 had USB support and plug and play. Windows 2000 brought those two together.
Think about what Win2k gave us! Plug and Play, protected memory (when apps crash, the OS survives), NTFS, and USB support. All these things were necessary to help the OS do more for the end-user. Not to mention Active Directory, and Group Policies! All good stuff for Windows users. As for security issues, windows update is a much better solution than what we had with previous OSes. So what Windows 2000 did is integrated everything good about NT and 98. Yes, there were security vulnerabilities in IIS. A lot of websites got broken into. Waah.
In that case, why not have a small crank for emergency use when the battery dies? The image this conjures up in my head is just priceless!
Or read your post and watch a movie. :p
What, you think the best rapper is white?
This is great news for the Linux or Windows fan. While we will not be able to boot other OSes on this computer, making them cost-competitive with x86 PCs will dramatically increase their apppeal. I wouldn't mind having a Mac in my computer room if the price was right.
Thanks for correcting me. I'll keep that in mind.
IIS on XP, however, limits the number of clients allowed to connect (to I think 10).