It is NOT as stable, but it is good enough. Linux and Unix servers stay up for years, Windows servers DO NOT. Weird things start happening, especially with the user interface, things which a logon/logoff do not fix. It also requires reboots for updating/patching system components that Linux/Unix does not require rebooting to update.
Only recently I read an article from Microsoft engineers talking about how, in Windows Server 2003, they are improving uptime and reliablility, and seeing "crazy uptimes now, a couple of months!"
But it's okay, they need to concentrate more on fixing Explorer (all those great new 'features' in XP are buggybuggybuggy) to make it more stable, not moving it to a new kernel.
Wrong-- because, on my incredibly-up-to-date patched Windows XP SP1 / IE6 SP1 with every last security patch installed, not running as an administrator account, the exploit code STILL RUNS and writes a file to my hard drive and opens minesweeper!!!
I made my main browser Mozilla (finally) after this.
But the only graphical RPM manager it includes is that weird thing that is waaay to similar to winblows' "add/remove programs" if you ask me. I had to find gnorpm and install it in order to selectively remove things that I didn't want/need on my system that the default RH8 script installs (like PCMCIA stuff, for instance).
I like RH8 too, although it is overkill for servers (7.2 or 7.3 is fine for them). I can't wait for distros based on the new 2.6 kernel (when it's stable) -- the process and disk improvements will rock!!!
Well, if Microsoft PSS can't find HOW Windows machines are being compromised, this is one of the few times a 'black hat' has stumbled on a security hole and started exploiting it before any 'white hats' found it to reported it the 'red(mond, WA) hats'. It must be a tiny, obscure hole if they haven't got it yet, and I hope they find it soon before my server goes!
Whenever anyone talks about this album, they almost NEVER mention the words of the song itself, instead preferring to concentrate on the very loosely patched-together 'concept' or the glam make-up or the alien backstory or whatever.
But the title song is the best thing on it, the lyrics are simple but very direct, and countless rock stars before and after have made the same ego-driven band-breaking-up mistakes as portrayed in "Ziggy Stardust".
Perhaps it's time people DID concentrate on those lyrics, and so remember who they are and where they came from.
Although I haven't bought a brand-new retail CD from one of the 'Big 5' publishers in quite a while (my last purchase being They Might Be Giants' No!), I certainly won't be buying any now.
If they thought sales were slumping before, just wait till they piss off their user base. Just because there are still lots of people out there who don't download music or have anything to do with the Internet doesn't mean they don't know when someone is trying to screw them.
I'm surprised the article didn't talk about the effects of used CDs and movies thanks to the Internet. It's probably the same story -- the Internet enables someone who wants something and someone who has something to connect almost instantly, and when that happens the thing gets sold. I've been doing it for a few years now and it's definitely saved me money--especially on textbooks!
There are bands today that allow non-profit audience recordings to circulate with no restrictions. Following the Grateful Dead's tradition, Phish allowed this all through their career and credit it with helping them become such a successful touring act (and all the other jam bands that sprung up in their wake followed their lead).
I think mp3s are going to become more like this. Every unknown band website has got free mp3s on it!
These days, at least half the kids are downloading it, and the other half are asking me... erm, I mean, the kids who know how to download it, if they can have a copy. All sorts of industry-standard programs like Photoshop, Final Draft (for screenwriters), After Effects, Flash, 3d studio max, etc etc., are being downloaded via p2p. the student versions are usually less than $100, but if you could download those pricey textbooks you bet I'd.. erm, I mean, those kinds of students would be downloading them too. Or you could just buy them from a student at half.com, paying 50% of the price to a fellow student selling it, or getting 40% MORE than the college will buy it back for!!!!
There is a workaround:
runas/user:administrator "cmd/c start test.html"
Unfortunately you will have to use the 8.3 shortname of the file because start doesn't support using quotes around an LFN (or rather, it uses them to create the title of the window, stupid microsoft), but it works.:)
I might agree with you if two other easily-abused (and MUCH more unhealthy) drugs weren't incredibly legal: tobacco and alcohol. While tobacco is coming under pressure lately, alcohol had already been banned for several years with not-so-great effects. And let's not forget how incredibly addictive tobacco is, and how many fistfights alcohol starts... there are a million reasons why you should either be working for the control and prohibition of tobacco and alcohol consumption in this country, or agreeing that marijuana IS mild compared to other (legal and non-legal) drugs.
I don't think I'm alone in saying that I thought the Dirk Gently novels (esp. the second one) were the most inventive and funny writing Adams' had ever produced. It wasn't knock-down funny like the HH radio scripts, but it was a slower deep kind of funny. The scene in which Dirk is fighting the eagle is so damn good...
This is what _The Diamond Age_ is all about (and I know almost everyone here likes Neal Stephenson): how an utterly involving interactive text-adventure can turn a reasonably smart young girl into a very clever, intelligent woman who examines everything (in addition to teaching things like self-defense). It's vindication for all those people who decried the death of the text adventure by 'one dimensional' first person shooters! Hopefully the future will be like this.
The B&B movie was great, thank you.
It didn't have any kind of rushed-out feel,
it had a coherent storyline and jokes,
and even some irony.:) It was great.
And so was the show, and so is Mike Judge's
new cartoon, King of the Hill.
Of course! This is the real reason why Toy Story and its sequel had such great success: they have excellent characters and a great storyline (not to mention a point! not to mention showing us something about our own humanity!). Meanwhile Titan A.E. with its carbon-copy cookie-cutter (I like that alliteration!) characters will go to the trash heap where it belongs.
Your mention of machine consciousness and the current chromosome discussion makes me wish I was living in the Culture where all the hard stuff would have been taken care of already.:)
Not if you use a dialup ISP that randomly assigns IP addresses from a pool at connect-time (e.g., AOL and most others). Unfortunately this doesn't work if you've got a DSL line, or even if you're behind a proxy server because it still has to have a real address. I'm not familiar with address-spoofing techniques... perhaps they could be added to a future version of Gnutella?
Any VBS file is NOT a binary file, it is a script, a text file which must have a.VBS extension to be executable (at least on a double-click). An anti-virus program running in the background can automatically check binary files for virus signatures.
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Only recently I read an article from Microsoft engineers talking about how, in Windows Server 2003, they are improving uptime and reliablility, and seeing "crazy uptimes now, a couple of months!"
But it's okay, they need to concentrate more on fixing Explorer (all those great new 'features' in XP are buggybuggybuggy) to make it more stable, not moving it to a new kernel.
But you're not going to copy the LICENSE file and make your product free now, are you? :)
I made my main browser Mozilla (finally) after this.
I like RH8 too, although it is overkill for servers (7.2 or 7.3 is fine for them). I can't wait for distros based on the new 2.6 kernel (when it's stable) -- the process and disk improvements will rock!!!
Well, if Microsoft PSS can't find HOW Windows machines are being compromised, this is one of the few times a 'black hat' has stumbled on a security hole and started exploiting it before any 'white hats' found it to reported it the 'red(mond, WA) hats'. It must be a tiny, obscure hole if they haven't got it yet, and I hope they find it soon before my server goes!
But the title song is the best thing on it, the lyrics are simple but very direct, and countless rock stars before and after have made the same ego-driven band-breaking-up mistakes as portrayed in "Ziggy Stardust".
Perhaps it's time people DID concentrate on those lyrics, and so remember who they are and where they came from.
If they thought sales were slumping before, just wait till they piss off their user base. Just because there are still lots of people out there who don't download music or have anything to do with the Internet doesn't mean they don't know when someone is trying to screw them.
I'm surprised the article didn't talk about the effects of used CDs and movies thanks to the Internet. It's probably the same story -- the Internet enables someone who wants something and someone who has something to connect almost instantly, and when that happens the thing gets sold. I've been doing it for a few years now and it's definitely saved me money--especially on textbooks!
I think mp3s are going to become more like this. Every unknown band website has got free mp3s on it!
It's not exactly automatic when you still have to close all your apps and reboot your PC. :-(
Unfortunately, there was a Windows 98 Third Edition... fucking Windows Millenium Edition. Wow, what a piece of shit. :)
These days, at least half the kids are downloading it, and the other half are asking me... erm, I mean, the kids who know how to download it, if they can have a copy. All sorts of industry-standard programs like Photoshop, Final Draft (for screenwriters), After Effects, Flash, 3d studio max, etc etc., are being downloaded via p2p. the student versions are usually less than $100, but if you could download those pricey textbooks you bet I'd.. erm, I mean, those kinds of students would be downloading them too. Or you could just buy them from a student at half.com, paying 50% of the price to a fellow student selling it, or getting 40% MORE than the college will buy it back for!!!!
HORRAY FOR THE INTERNET!!!!
There is a workaround: runas /user:administrator "cmd /c start test.html"
Unfortunately you will have to use the 8.3 shortname of the file because start doesn't support using quotes around an LFN (or rather, it uses them to create the title of the window, stupid microsoft), but it works. :)
you made me so depressed (not really) that i'm packing my bowl right now...
I might agree with you if two other easily-abused (and MUCH more unhealthy) drugs weren't incredibly legal: tobacco and alcohol. While tobacco is coming under pressure lately, alcohol had already been banned for several years with not-so-great effects. And let's not forget how incredibly addictive tobacco is, and how many fistfights alcohol starts... there are a million reasons why you should either be working for the control and prohibition of tobacco and alcohol consumption in this country, or agreeing that marijuana IS mild compared to other (legal and non-legal) drugs.
This is exactly how I feel. I just thought you'd like to know you're not alone. :)
<p>PS-I don't usually have time to post comments because I'm reading everyone else's.
I don't think I'm alone in saying that I thought the Dirk Gently novels (esp. the second one) were the most inventive and funny writing Adams' had ever produced. It wasn't knock-down funny like the HH radio scripts, but it was a slower deep kind of funny. The scene in which Dirk is fighting the eagle is so damn good...
Mr Sartre reincarnated!
This is what _The Diamond Age_ is all about (and I know almost everyone here likes Neal Stephenson): how an utterly involving interactive text-adventure can turn a reasonably smart young girl into a very clever, intelligent woman who examines everything (in addition to teaching things like self-defense). It's vindication for all those people who decried the death of the text adventure by 'one dimensional' first person shooters! Hopefully the future will be like this.
The B&B movie was great, thank you. It didn't have any kind of rushed-out feel, it had a coherent storyline and jokes, and even some irony. :) It was great.
And so was the show, and so is Mike Judge's new cartoon, King of the Hill.
Of course! This is the real reason why Toy Story and its sequel had such great success: they have excellent characters and a great storyline (not to mention a point! not to mention showing us something about our own humanity!). Meanwhile Titan A.E. with its carbon-copy cookie-cutter (I like that alliteration!) characters will go to the trash heap where it belongs.
Your mention of machine consciousness and the current chromosome discussion makes me wish I was living in the Culture where all the hard stuff would have been taken care of already. :)
From the FAQ...
1.5. Did the RIAA really sue Pan?
No. It's just a joke.
Not if you use a dialup ISP that randomly assigns IP addresses from a pool at connect-time (e.g., AOL and most others). Unfortunately this doesn't work if you've got a DSL line, or even if you're behind a proxy server because it still has to have a real address. I'm not familiar with address-spoofing techniques... perhaps they could be added to a future version of Gnutella?
Any VBS file is NOT a binary file, it is a script, a text file which must have a .VBS extension to be executable (at least on a double-click). An anti-virus program running in the background can automatically check binary files for virus signatures.