iTunes has scripting. Try closing it while using FoxyTunes on Firefox with iTunes as the media player. It will tell you that an application is using "scripting api".
I do not know about advanced queries. Probably it's a nice feature.
And I do not care about the "core" of MM. What I'm comparing is the "current feature set". It means MM has surpassed WinAmp by far and is now comparable to (or better than? - subjective) iTunes.
From the looks, MediaMonkey looks more like "basically iTunes with a litle bit more functions" than "basically WinAmp with more database functions".
I'm not just talking about brushed metal theme. If you look at their features page (I've not downloaded it and the proper version - Gold - costs money, and iTunes comes free with my iPod, I mean free for everyone), you'll see these items:
- Party Mode & Auto-DJ - Auto Renamer / File Organizer - Find Duplicate Tracks and Missing Tags - Advanced Searches and AutoPlaylists
Which are directly available or easily done on iTunes, but not available on WinAmp. (There are several others but may be speculative).
I'd normally try this one, since it has "auto album art download" and "auto tagging" (which could be done by external add-ons for iTunes), but currently I'm lazy to switch from iTunes...
Well I happen to have installed the thing, and tried "get-help *" to list all commands available. To my surprise, commands do have short aliases, some in the UNIX form!
The claim "1 big app that tries to do it all is not as effective as many focused individual apps." is generally true, but I believe that iTunes is a noteworthy exception.
(I'll keep the same structure of your post)
Ripping: iTunes includes a pretty good ripper: it automatically downloads song metadata from CDDB, rips using "jitter correction", encodes to 320kbit MP3 at high speed, and finally stores average volume information for normalizing during playback. I do not seem to miss much on this front. (Maybe OGG support would be slightly better)
WinAmp does this in a crippled way (2x rip/128kbit mp3 - did it change?). WMP is similar.
Playback: For playback of single (or few) songs I still continue to use WinAmp, because it's fast and it just works. However for general music listening the picture easily changes, because I need more functionality to manage my > 10,000 songs collection.
I know WinAmp includes media library capability (and so does Windows Media Player, etc), however unlike it's main interface this one is cluttered and hard to use (at least for me). On the other hand iTunes does this job well with its obvious and fast to use interface (with minor glitches).
Collection Organizing: No I'm not talking about playback or smart playlists, it was the previous item. It's about "physical organization"
For metadata editing, iTunes is very helpful. I can click "any" item (be it artist name, genre or rating) on screen and edit it in place, furthermore I can select many songs at once and change their album title from "black album" to "Metallica - Black Album" by a single operation. (I've used an external mass metadata editor/inferer only once when I first imported my collection).
I can rate my songs, and use this ratings to prune my library. This is especially better when I rate them on my iPod and sync back!
Furthermore, I can edit the library data, which is paralelly saved to an XML file, by using any external tool (VIM) possible.
And finally I can to small tasks like mass changing ID3 format, moving external songs to my library (consolidate library), or delete songs from my hard drive directly.
(While WinAmp or WMP does "some" of these, not every item is supported or they are supported in a non-intuative way).
Syncronization with portable PLUS burning: I can't say much on the sync issue. I have an iPod, and it just works by nothing more than plugging it to a USB port. It synchs everything, including custom (per song) equalizer settings, ratings (two way), album arts, etc.
And I can burn my playlists to CDs at full speed! (I mean is it a joke? Why is the speed limited on *some* players is not understandable by me).
Final Remarks: While WinAmp is fine for playings a small set of songs, nothing rivals iTunes as a juckbox on Windows. The other apps (for ripping and sync) are also made unnecessary because the bundled ones are good -- and not limited to 2x speed:) .
On Linux I prefer Rhythmbox because I'm a GNOME user and use XMMS/BMP instead of WinAmp (AmaroK is probably nice too).
I do not have a clue, netiher does any of the replies above (e.g: "Windows runs better when turned off"): many "funny" messages, but no "informative" ones.
Got d***n it. I've read the article (yes I did), I also had in introductory quantum phycics course in undergrad, but I still do not understand "how this is supposed to work".
Yes they say that using the Schrödinger's idea, they send a photon into the computer while inhibiting it by using a series of mirrors. This rises the photon into a "superposition" where it's both inside and not inside the system at the same time. (Actually it's more like not inside). However this causes the system to run (*but sometimes*) and yet with less error ratio (quantum computing is error prone).
Baybe the actual question is "why is this supposed to wotk this way", I'm still confused.
> I'm with ya. Also, give me the ability to add shortcuts like "Next tab" and "Previous tab" that cycle back to tab 1 after I hit "Next tab" on the last tab.
Currently I do not know how to do that.
> Give me an unlimited history (I can manage my own memory, don't stop me at 300k because you don't like I ever need that much).
By history I guess you mean "scrollback lines"/"rollback lines". While I cannot say whether 300K lines are enough for you or not, I can say that on my system 100K lines will take 63671K (~64M) for each TAB. (That makes 635M for 10 tabs, you do the math). It's impractical. If you need to see "more" screen output maybe you should consider using "less".
> Give me the ability to add my own shortcut. Adding "Alt-n" as a short cut for "new tab" doesn't work - instead, it operates other commands in that window.
Ok, you can have it! Just check the gconf keys under/apps/gnome-terminal/keybindings/. You can change any binding you want. (However I must say that C-A-n is a better choice for opening new tabs, since there will be enough console applications with A-n binding (e.g. bash) to make it annoying for some people).
> Finally, like konsole does, give me the ability to control my tabs/sessions/apps from the command line.
Ah forget it, I do not know about that options (except for limited control -- see "gnome-terminal --help")
N ame : sabayon-admin Relocations: (not relocatable) ..bla bla.. lameness filter... Description: The sabayon-admin package contains the graphical tools which a sysadmin should use to manage Sabayon profiles.
If I use the command line, I'd like to know all the package management related commands.
I have a similar setup of FC4, too. However I've upgraded GNOME from 2.10 to 2.12 using nrpms repositories, and I use several additional mono applications.
My situation is roughly the same, but I have to add several things:
I currently use XMMS only for "testing" audio files. Rhytmbox or Muine does not have the problems you mention. (I actaully use BMP instead of XMMS, BMS is GTK2 port/fork of XMMS).
Integration of P2P lacking. I cannot comment much, since I only use azureus and it works well. However "magnet" urls (and any other scheme) can be handled easily in gnome (see/desktop/gnome/url-handlers key in gconf for ideas)
CD writing. Actually I installed k3b like you did, but have never used in the past several months. Nautilus burner is more than enough. (Yes no fancy options, however it's sufficent for me).
Movies I'd recommend VLC for H264/HDTV and mplayer for anything else. There has never been any format I could not play lately (including VMW9, QuickTime, H264, AAC, etc). (Did you install win32codecs package?)
Anyways it's nice to see another fellow using a similar setup (OK, there are millions like us).
Actually it's currently listed as "User Profile Editor" in my System Settings menu. The name of the executable need not be the same as application menu item. (See gedit/Text Editor, mrproject/Project Management, etc).
And "Group Policy Editor" under windows is actually (if I recall correctly) "gpedit.msc"
This "issue" has been discussed in GNOME HIG v2.
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GNOME has definately become a solid desktop with the recent releases (after 2.6 or 2.8). Now everything "works" perfectly (almost) out of the box. (USB sticks, iPods, DVD burners, all kinds of multimedia, SFTP/DAV/SMB/etc integration, openoffice, and many more).
It has replaced Windows XP as my current primary desktop, and I can finally recommend Linux to my friends without hesitation.
(btw You shouldn't have "DDOSed" the poor server. It contains really nice information.)
Yes I had a friend who own an iPod, and he said the same thing: "it works with only a single computer".
However this is not totally correct. (I found out after buying my own iPod).
The summary is like this: You can manage your iPod from as many iTunes installations as your want. But in order to do this, you have to disable synchronization from Preferences window.
I know it's still a limitation, however it's not DRM related. Actually the problem is with the sync algorithm. Consider this: you add "Metallica.mp3" to PC A'a library and another unrelated "Metallica.mp3" to PC B'a library. After that you sync with PC A, then sync with PC B and then delete the mp3 on PC A and then to the both syncs again. What should happen?
This is a very difficult question, because there is not one anwser to it. So they chose the obvious solution: sync works with a single copy iTunes, however you can upload songs from as many PCs as you want if you disable sync.
(Btw, sorry my moderations will be undone, hope someone else redoes them).
If I'm not mistaken you're trying to "combine the strengths of several old machines to run a SINGLE software".
If so, please do not try to do this in a "generic" way. Even if somehow you achive to do it, the effect will be opposite of what you want. There is a big bottleneck in PC networking, unless you're using some specific fabric (say from Sun).
Instead, try to rewrite you application to be "cluster aware". Windows has (in production?) a new version called "Compute Cluster Edition" which comes with MPI and necessary management tools.
If you do not have access to the source code, bad luck then. Either use Free Software next time, or buy yourself a "powerful" single machine.
If I'm mistaken and you're trying to make a "POOL" for virtual machines, then Xen would be a good solution (for it's price). However as you've said VMware is solid but Xen is "in infant stages". You'll have to write many (probably in Python) scripts to do your job.
"This is not a troll comment but can it run on a cluster?"
No it's not troll, but it's totally uniformed. Currently SMP (multiprocessor/multithreaded) VMware is only supported on ESX server as an addon. As ESX runs on bare hardware (it's GSX who runs as a Linux application), there is currently no support for "virtual multiple CPUs in Linux". (Xen does this, but it's not the issue now).
Additionally OpenMOSIX (which comes with ClusterKnoppix - I guess you meant this by "those Live CDs"), does not to "SMP like" processing. Instead it combines the processes in a "global system view" state. (Too much technical details here, but a multiple threads are not migrated -- see HOWTO).
Moreover, it would be slow because of obvious issues -- as in network based access to disk and shared memory!
Finally multiple GSX servers managed from a single point is already possible with VMWare virtual center (google this yourselves is left for an exercise).
Sorry, but your suggestion will not work (at least under current circumstances).
First of all they DO have a warning in the package that says iPod could cause hearing loss.
Additionally, they also say earbud headphones are actually worse for hearing and they warn you not to increase the volume level "to block outer noise".
Firefox, Opera, etc (and even avantbrowser) for advanced users only. Nowadays it's considered "difficult" to install software by clicking "next, next, next".
Do not get me wrong. It's not that Firefox is not user friendly or easier to use, however there are so many "PC users" below "novice" level which will disable an antivirus if they're unable to open an infected file. And there are many "system admins", (which are in charge of internet cafes or school labs) who only knows how to install Windows and Office (and probably from "recovery CDs"). Times are different now.
(Previously everybody not only knew what every file in their C:\DOS and C:\WINDOWS were for, they could also program in at least in one language).
We cannot expect any more growth until PC users are more educated.
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While I will probably never use their tools, I believe that choice in C++ compilers is actually very good.
Remember what happened in RedHat GCC 2.96 case: An upgraded computer with "better" standards support actually resulted in more problems. Many source codes with GCC specific assumptions ceased to compile (inluding the Linux kernel) and everybody blamed RedHat. (Please do not start a flamewar about this).
But if we already had many vendors (like gcc, Intel, watcom), we'd be less likely to run into such problems.
I do not know the exact details, so accept this as a pure speculation.
It seems like a software problem. Think it like the "Weak Reference" issue in garbage collection. Since a system task is always demanding CPU the ACPI subsystem will of course not decrease the power.
Such things also happen in Linux world. For example the update daemon causes disk activity every 10 minutes, which prevented the hard disk from spinning down. Since this was a big issue with laptops, it's now fixed in later versions (my system no longer has/sbin/update).
Yes you can download the setup file from a good machine, however "disabling" authenticity check is no longer an option.
Nevertheless, you'll soon be unable to download any signature updates, because they're planning to integrate Signature updates in windows update with Beta 2. (Ok, you can also do this from a "clean" machine, but it's much more work).
Nowadays this is much less of a problem. There are far more legal installations of windows, due to campus wide licenses in universities, yearly subscriptions in corporations and "pre-bundled" versions in brand PCs.
Actually you should not try to disinfect a system after a virus or malware has successfully penetrated it. It's too much work, and more importantly it will always leave "traces". (This has been mentioned by many replies above).
However it's strange that nobody mentions Microsoft Anti Spyware. I've had much more success in preventing intrusion by using it, and it contains many tools making (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) registry hunt irrelevant. (It contains over 30 checkpoints like IE toolbars, WinSock helpers etc. And also, it contains a complete list of each and every startup program possible).
I know it's from Microsoft and such, and it has it's own limitations (like not being available to pirated Windows installations. But as being free and efficient I could recommend it to every Windows users.
Actually, Microsoft is already licensing the Windows source code. However the significance of the new event is, they will not be choosing the licensor (at least not as much as before).
For a list of microsoft shared source licencing programs look at http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/Li censing/default.mspx. You'll see that the top item mentions "access to Microsoft Windows® source code for internal development and support purpose". And as far as I know there are already many utility producers (Symantec, WinInternals, etc) that can access NTFS source codes.
Anyways do not keep your hopes too high. As you can see there are many shared source licenses (some are even like BSD), however Windows is not becoming "Open Source" soon.
Yes there are occasional duplicates, many errors, microsoft hating, etc.
But, hey! This site is fun to read, and given that many complaints, it means many people are actually reading these "stinky stories" in order to moan, right?
Anyways, congrats to CmdrTaco for his hard work and patience!
[ Actually I'm posting this without looking at any other comments:) ]
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iTunes has scripting. Try closing it while using FoxyTunes on Firefox with iTunes as the media player. It will tell you that an application is using "scripting api".
I do not know about advanced queries. Probably it's a nice feature.
And I do not care about the "core" of MM. What I'm comparing is the "current feature set". It means MM has surpassed WinAmp by far and is now comparable to (or better than? - subjective) iTunes.
From the looks, MediaMonkey looks more like "basically iTunes with a litle bit more functions" than "basically WinAmp with more database functions".
I'm not just talking about brushed metal theme. If you look at their features page (I've not downloaded it and the proper version - Gold - costs money, and iTunes comes free with my iPod, I mean free for everyone), you'll see these items:
- Party Mode & Auto-DJ
- Auto Renamer / File Organizer
- Find Duplicate Tracks and Missing Tags
- Advanced Searches and AutoPlaylists
Which are directly available or easily done on iTunes, but not available on WinAmp. (There are several others but may be speculative).
I'd normally try this one, since it has "auto album art download" and "auto tagging" (which could be done by external add-ons for iTunes), but currently I'm lazy to switch from iTunes...
No I was also surprised too :)
I mean I did not expect to do "man ls" on a microsoft shell, but it actually runs.
Here are some of the commands available:
So please check first before asuming anything
The claim "1 big app that tries to do it all is not as effective as many focused individual apps." is generally true, but I believe that iTunes is a noteworthy exception.
:) .
(I'll keep the same structure of your post)
Ripping:
iTunes includes a pretty good ripper: it automatically downloads song metadata from CDDB, rips using "jitter correction", encodes to 320kbit MP3 at high speed, and finally stores average volume information for normalizing during playback. I do not seem to miss much on this front. (Maybe OGG support would be slightly better)
WinAmp does this in a crippled way (2x rip/128kbit mp3 - did it change?). WMP is similar.
Playback:
For playback of single (or few) songs I still continue to use WinAmp, because it's fast and it just works. However for general music listening the picture easily changes, because I need more functionality to manage my > 10,000 songs collection.
I know WinAmp includes media library capability (and so does Windows Media Player, etc), however unlike it's main interface this one is cluttered and hard to use (at least for me). On the other hand iTunes does this job well with its obvious and fast to use interface (with minor glitches).
Collection Organizing:
No I'm not talking about playback or smart playlists, it was the previous item. It's about "physical organization"
For metadata editing, iTunes is very helpful. I can click "any" item (be it artist name, genre or rating) on screen and edit it in place, furthermore I can select many songs at once and change their album title from "black album" to "Metallica - Black Album" by a single operation. (I've used an external mass metadata editor/inferer only once when I first imported my collection).
I can rate my songs, and use this ratings to prune my library. This is especially better when I rate them on my iPod and sync back!
Furthermore, I can edit the library data, which is paralelly saved to an XML file, by using any external tool (VIM) possible.
And finally I can to small tasks like mass changing ID3 format, moving external songs to my library (consolidate library), or delete songs from my hard drive directly.
(While WinAmp or WMP does "some" of these, not every item is supported or they are supported in a non-intuative way).
Syncronization with portable PLUS burning:
I can't say much on the sync issue. I have an iPod, and it just works by nothing more than plugging it to a USB port. It synchs everything, including custom (per song) equalizer settings, ratings (two way), album arts, etc.
And I can burn my playlists to CDs at full speed! (I mean is it a joke? Why is the speed limited on *some* players is not understandable by me).
Final Remarks:
While WinAmp is fine for playings a small set of songs, nothing rivals iTunes as a juckbox on Windows. The other apps (for ripping and sync) are also made unnecessary because the bundled ones are good -- and not limited to 2x speed
On Linux I prefer Rhythmbox because I'm a GNOME user and use XMMS/BMP instead of WinAmp (AmaroK is probably nice too).
I do not have a clue, netiher does any of the replies above (e.g: "Windows runs better when turned off"): many "funny" messages, but no "informative" ones.
Got d***n it. I've read the article (yes I did), I also had in introductory quantum phycics course in undergrad, but I still do not understand "how this is supposed to work".
Yes they say that using the Schrödinger's idea, they send a photon into the computer while inhibiting it by using a series of mirrors. This rises the photon into a "superposition" where it's both inside and not inside the system at the same time. (Actually it's more like not inside). However this causes the system to run (*but sometimes*) and yet with less error ratio (quantum computing is error prone).
Baybe the actual question is "why is this supposed to wotk this way", I'm still confused.
> I'm with ya. Also, give me the ability to add shortcuts like "Next tab" and "Previous tab" that cycle back to tab 1 after I hit "Next tab" on the last tab.
/apps/gnome-terminal/keybindings/. You can change any binding you want. (However I must say that C-A-n is a better choice for opening new tabs, since there will be enough console applications with A-n binding (e.g. bash) to make it annoying for some people).
Currently I do not know how to do that.
> Give me an unlimited history (I can manage my own memory, don't stop me at 300k because you don't like I ever need that much).
By history I guess you mean "scrollback lines"/"rollback lines". While I cannot say whether 300K lines are enough for you or not, I can say that on my system 100K lines will take 63671K (~64M) for each TAB. (That makes 635M for 10 tabs, you do the math). It's impractical. If you need to see "more" screen output maybe you should consider using "less".
> Give me the ability to add my own shortcut. Adding "Alt-n" as a short cut for "new tab" doesn't work - instead, it operates other commands in that window.
Ok, you can have it! Just check the gconf keys under
> Finally, like konsole does, give me the ability to control my tabs/sessions/apps from the command line.
Ah forget it, I do not know about that options (except for limited control -- see "gnome-terminal --help")
Ok, I'll be lame here:If I use the command line, I'd like to know all the package management related commands.
My situation is roughly the same, but I have to add several things:
Anyways it's nice to see another fellow using a similar setup (OK, there are millions like us).
Actually it's currently listed as "User Profile Editor" in my System Settings menu. The name of the executable need not be the same as application menu item. (See gedit/Text Editor, mrproject/Project Management, etc).
And "Group Policy Editor" under windows is actually (if I recall correctly) "gpedit.msc"
This "issue" has been discussed in GNOME HIG v2.
GNOME has definately become a solid desktop with the recent releases (after 2.6 or 2.8). Now everything "works" perfectly (almost) out of the box. (USB sticks, iPods, DVD burners, all kinds of multimedia, SFTP/DAV/SMB/etc integration, openoffice, and many more).
It has replaced Windows XP as my current primary desktop, and I can finally recommend Linux to my friends without hesitation.
(btw You shouldn't have "DDOSed" the poor server. It contains really nice information.)
Yes I had a friend who own an iPod, and he said the same thing: "it works with only a single computer".
However this is not totally correct. (I found out after buying my own iPod).
The summary is like this: You can manage your iPod from as many iTunes installations as your want. But in order to do this, you have to disable synchronization from Preferences window.
I know it's still a limitation, however it's not DRM related. Actually the problem is with the sync algorithm. Consider this: you add "Metallica.mp3" to PC A'a library and another unrelated "Metallica.mp3" to PC B'a library. After that you sync with PC A, then sync with PC B and then delete the mp3 on PC A and then to the both syncs again. What should happen?
This is a very difficult question, because there is not one anwser to it. So they chose the obvious solution: sync works with a single copy iTunes, however you can upload songs from as many PCs as you want if you disable sync.
(Btw, sorry my moderations will be undone, hope someone else redoes them).
If I'm not mistaken you're trying to "combine the strengths of several old machines to run a SINGLE software".
If so, please do not try to do this in a "generic" way. Even if somehow you achive to do it, the effect will be opposite of what you want. There is a big bottleneck in PC networking, unless you're using some specific fabric (say from Sun).
Instead, try to rewrite you application to be "cluster aware". Windows has (in production?) a new version called "Compute Cluster Edition" which comes with MPI and necessary management tools.
If you do not have access to the source code, bad luck then. Either use Free Software next time, or buy yourself a "powerful" single machine.
If I'm mistaken and you're trying to make a "POOL" for virtual machines, then Xen would be a good solution (for it's price). However as you've said VMware is solid but Xen is "in infant stages". You'll have to write many (probably in Python) scripts to do your job.
"This is not a troll comment but can it run on a cluster?"
No it's not troll, but it's totally uniformed. Currently SMP (multiprocessor/multithreaded) VMware is only supported on ESX server as an addon. As ESX runs on bare hardware (it's GSX who runs as a Linux application), there is currently no support for "virtual multiple CPUs in Linux". (Xen does this, but it's not the issue now).
Additionally OpenMOSIX (which comes with ClusterKnoppix - I guess you meant this by "those Live CDs"), does not to "SMP like" processing. Instead it combines the processes in a "global system view" state. (Too much technical details here, but a multiple threads are not migrated -- see HOWTO).
Moreover, it would be slow because of obvious issues -- as in network based access to disk and shared memory!
Finally multiple GSX servers managed from a single point is already possible with VMWare virtual center (google this yourselves is left for an exercise).
Sorry, but your suggestion will not work (at least under current circumstances).
I do agreee. Apple is not faulty here.
First of all they DO have a warning in the package that says iPod could cause hearing loss.
Additionally, they also say earbud headphones are actually worse for hearing and they warn you not to increase the volume level "to block outer noise".
It's sad, but it's expected.
Firefox, Opera, etc (and even avantbrowser) for advanced users only. Nowadays it's considered "difficult" to install software by clicking "next, next, next".
Do not get me wrong. It's not that Firefox is not user friendly or easier to use, however there are so many "PC users" below "novice" level which will disable an antivirus if they're unable to open an infected file. And there are many "system admins", (which are in charge of internet cafes or school labs) who only knows how to install Windows and Office (and probably from "recovery CDs"). Times are different now.
(Previously everybody not only knew what every file in their C:\DOS and C:\WINDOWS were for, they could also program in at least in one language).
We cannot expect any more growth until PC users are more educated.
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While I will probably never use their tools, I believe that choice in C++ compilers is actually very good.
Remember what happened in RedHat GCC 2.96 case: An upgraded computer with "better" standards support actually resulted in more problems. Many source codes with GCC specific assumptions ceased to compile (inluding the Linux kernel) and everybody blamed RedHat. (Please do not start a flamewar about this).
But if we already had many vendors (like gcc, Intel, watcom), we'd be less likely to run into such problems.
I do not know the exact details, so accept this as a pure speculation.
/sbin/update).
It seems like a software problem. Think it like the "Weak Reference" issue in garbage collection. Since a system task is always demanding CPU the ACPI subsystem will of course not decrease the power.
Such things also happen in Linux world. For example the update daemon causes disk activity every 10 minutes, which prevented the hard disk from spinning down. Since this was a big issue with laptops, it's now fixed in later versions (my system no longer has
Yes you can download the setup file from a good machine, however "disabling" authenticity check is no longer an option.
Nevertheless, you'll soon be unable to download any signature updates, because they're planning to integrate Signature updates in windows update with Beta 2. (Ok, you can also do this from a "clean" machine, but it's much more work).
Nowadays this is much less of a problem. There are far more legal installations of windows, due to campus wide licenses in universities, yearly subscriptions in corporations and "pre-bundled" versions in brand PCs.
Actually you should not try to disinfect a system after a virus or malware has successfully penetrated it. It's too much work, and more importantly it will always leave "traces". (This has been mentioned by many replies above).
However it's strange that nobody mentions Microsoft Anti Spyware. I've had much more success in preventing intrusion by using it, and it contains many tools making (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) registry hunt irrelevant. (It contains over 30 checkpoints like IE toolbars, WinSock helpers etc. And also, it contains a complete list of each and every startup program possible).
I know it's from Microsoft and such, and it has it's own limitations (like not being available to pirated Windows installations. But as being free and efficient I could recommend it to every Windows users.
Actually they are planning to include VT (hypervisor) technology in latest 2700 model of Core Duo.
However I do not know weather Apple iMacs comes with those.
(This is also discussed on vmware forums).
Actually, Microsoft is already licensing the Windows source code. However the significance of the new event is, they will not be choosing the licensor (at least not as much as before).
i censing/default.mspx. You'll see that the top item mentions "access to Microsoft Windows® source code for internal development and support purpose". And as far as I know there are already many utility producers (Symantec, WinInternals, etc) that can access NTFS source codes.
For a list of microsoft shared source licencing programs look at http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/L
Anyways do not keep your hopes too high. As you can see there are many shared source licenses (some are even like BSD), however Windows is not becoming "Open Source" soon.
Clean, and lean...
:) ]
Yes there are occasional duplicates, many errors, microsoft hating, etc.
But, hey! This site is fun to read, and given that many complaints, it means many people are actually reading these "stinky stories" in order to moan, right?
Anyways, congrats to CmdrTaco for his hard work and patience!
[ Actually I'm posting this without looking at any other comments
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I'm shocked with the replies to this article. Yes, I haven't read them all, but all the ones I've seen are offtopic.
How can a moderator work in this environment?
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