I have been unable to boot the Win2k CDROM from any PC with an ATAPI or SCSI CDROM, having to make *FOUR* install floppies (All the BSD's, a bunch of Linux distros and Solaris 8 x86, UnixWare 7 and QNX boot from these machines CDROM's).
Are you sure that W2K CD is bootable? If it's an MSDN one, only the first one (Feb 2000) was ever bootable - the rest weren't.
I must've booted and (re)installed 50 machines of many different flavours with that CD over the last few years.
I agree 100% with all your other points though, just thought a snippet like that might make your job easier:)
Yeah, but for this new desktop chip IBM is stripping out the dual cores and huge caches that make the Power4 such a powerful beast. The standard Power4 is too large, power hungry and expensive to be a desktop chip.
I'm pretty sure it will be a fast chip don't get me wrong, and I'm really looking forward to new Apples and IBM Linux workstations using this chip. But at the same clockspeed, I'm pretty sure the Power4 would kick the ass of this new chip at SPEC benchmarks.
I (like the poster you replied to) would be pleasantly surprised if the new chip was more than 2x as fast as similarly clocked x86 chip (ie an Athlon 2200+ at 1.8GHz). I don't expect it would be though.
But IIS doesn't run as IUSR_MACHINENAME - it runs as LOCALSYSTEM. IUSR_MACHINENAME is the account an anonymous user gets to access the system as for ACLs etc.
It needs LOCALSYSTEM so it can switch to another users security context (eg IUSR_MACHINENAME for anonymous access).
He's right - it ain't even close to finished. I have friends in the same industry in the same town, and it seems that the workload is higher and the deadline tighter than it was for Fellowship - which was tight anyway.
It also looks like Return of the King is going to be even worse off in terms of available time. A few people are wondering (semi jokingly) if Peter Jackson's health will hold out long enough to finish them.
When you hear the filming was all done at once, that just means the actors jobs are mostly over - although they occasionally come back to reshoot some scenes or shoot the odd new one.
There is plenty of postproduction work eg editing, graphics, sound etc still to do. And pressure is on to exceed the standards of the previous film.
Windsurfers were patented. The company windsurfer held onto the patent and in the last couple years of the patent sued the hell out of companies. Result companies went under and Windsurfer took the money and ran. Sure the original patent holders invented the car and windsurfer. But those same inventors did nothing to further the invention.
The Windsurfer example is an interesting one. If I remember correctly they could only afford to apply for the patents in a few countries. I think France wasn't one of them, and the sport took off most in France and that was where most of the new technological developments were happening for a while, until the patents expired in the other countries.
Meanwhile the stuff produced by the Windsurfer company didn't advance at all, and they pretty much went out of business after the patents expired.
PS for those thatdidn't know, Windsurfer is a trademark of the Windsurfer company - the generic term is sailboard.
About time someone mentioned that series of projects.
People go on about iCAL RFCs or whatever, but there is still no open API/protocol for the free/busy calendar sharing stuff that Outlook/Exchange does.
That is what the OpenOffice Groupware/phpGroupware/Mozilla Calendar etc 'alliance' is trying to acheive. And they are short of developers (plenty of sysadmin types though).
If anybody wants a project to contribute to - please go join the OpenOffice Groupware mailing list!
That wasn't my point - I wasn't clear enough. I know how to make NT boot off a floppy, it's what happens when a non bootable floppy is left in the drive.
I want to know why BIOS makers can't skip the floppy if the the floppy isn't bootable - they do it with nonbootable CDs after all.
Also why can't MS make the error message less confusing to nontechy users - it wasn't as confusing back in the DOS or earlier windows days.
I want to know why they can't make floppy disks do they same thing.
The number of support calls that begin with something like "What does Can't find NTLDR mean?" when the user left a floppy in the drive during a reboot.
Maybe you could add moderation features - that way staff would be fighting each to get the best moderated comments (sound familiar?).
Peoples karma could then be brought up at their performance reviews.
Seriously now that I think about it, if people got some recogition for sharing useful knowledge (rather than just slashdot karma whoring) that could motivate people to share more. Leave out the Anonymous Coward though - I doubt your boss would appreciate 'first post' and 'hot grits' trolls on a work system.
And the moderation system could be configured so that highly rated bits of info hang round while the crap would just fade out over time.
Of course it would probably help if the system wasn't just a weblog (nobody would just view that), but part of a bigger system so the comments could get attached to a real world 'object' in the company - ie a project or a budget or a client etc.
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I have been unable to boot the Win2k CDROM from any PC with an ATAPI or SCSI CDROM, having to make *FOUR* install floppies (All the BSD's, a bunch of Linux distros and Solaris 8 x86, UnixWare 7 and QNX boot from these machines CDROM's).
:)
Are you sure that W2K CD is bootable? If it's an MSDN one, only the first one (Feb 2000) was ever bootable - the rest weren't.
I must've booted and (re)installed 50 machines of many different flavours with that CD over the last few years.
I agree 100% with all your other points though, just thought a snippet like that might make your job easier
Yeah, but for this new desktop chip IBM is stripping out the dual cores and huge caches that make the Power4 such a powerful beast. The standard Power4 is too large, power hungry and expensive to be a desktop chip.
I'm pretty sure it will be a fast chip don't get me wrong, and I'm really looking forward to new Apples and IBM Linux workstations using this chip. But at the same clockspeed, I'm pretty sure the Power4 would kick the ass of this new chip at SPEC benchmarks.
I (like the poster you replied to) would be pleasantly surprised if the new chip was more than 2x as fast as similarly clocked x86 chip (ie an Athlon 2200+ at 1.8GHz). I don't expect it would be though.
Yeah but the men in most games don't bear the slightest resemblence to most gaming geeks either.
:)
They are the extreme not the norm
How does that differ from a single 'make bzImage' in Linux?
Doesn't 'make bzImage' just build the linux kernel?
'world' in BSD is everything including the userland stuff.
Gawd - I think I prefer the beowulf cluster 'jokes'!
and body odor has exactly what to do with programming ability?
:)
I think it's the effect it has on other peoples programming ability that might be the problem
1987 (Freemantle) was 12m boats as well.
But IIS doesn't run as IUSR_MACHINENAME - it runs as LOCALSYSTEM. IUSR_MACHINENAME is the account an anonymous user gets to access the system as for ACLs etc.
It needs LOCALSYSTEM so it can switch to another users security context (eg IUSR_MACHINENAME for anonymous access).
A buffer overflow in IIS will get you LOCALSYSTEM
He's right - it ain't even close to finished. I have friends in the same industry in the same town, and it seems that the workload is higher and the deadline tighter than it was for Fellowship - which was tight anyway.
It also looks like Return of the King is going to be even worse off in terms of available time. A few people are wondering (semi jokingly) if Peter Jackson's health will hold out long enough to finish them.
When you hear the filming was all done at once, that just means the actors jobs are mostly over - although they occasionally come back to reshoot some scenes or shoot the odd new one.
There is plenty of postproduction work eg editing, graphics, sound etc still to do. And pressure is on to exceed the standards of the previous film.
Windsurfers were patented. The company windsurfer held onto the patent and in the last couple years of the patent sued the hell out of companies. Result companies went under and Windsurfer took the money and ran. Sure the original patent holders invented the car and windsurfer. But those same inventors did nothing to further the invention.
The Windsurfer example is an interesting one. If I remember correctly they could only afford to apply for the patents in a few countries. I think France wasn't one of them, and the sport took off most in France and that was where most of the new technological developments were happening for a while, until the patents expired in the other countries.
Meanwhile the stuff produced by the Windsurfer company didn't advance at all, and they pretty much went out of business after the patents expired.
PS for those thatdidn't know, Windsurfer is a trademark of the Windsurfer company - the generic term is sailboard.
About time someone mentioned that series of projects.
People go on about iCAL RFCs or whatever, but there is still no open API/protocol for the free/busy calendar sharing stuff that Outlook/Exchange does.
That is what the OpenOffice Groupware/phpGroupware/Mozilla Calendar etc 'alliance' is trying to acheive. And they are short of developers (plenty of sysadmin types though).
If anybody wants a project to contribute to - please go join the OpenOffice Groupware mailing list!
Why the sarcasm tag? With Yamhill, it sounds like Intel is doing exactly that - but hoping they won't ever have to release it.
Clever move that was - Massey University is in New Zealand, but they sneakily use a decoy link that points to a South African university.
In the spirit of Yale vs Princeton, I wonder if the SA university will charge Massey with attacking them with a DDOS.
I juggle a bit everyday (at work and at home) and Sunday mornings I like to go joggling(Juggling while jogging).
At first I thought joggling had something to do with watching women runners.
That wasn't my point - I wasn't clear enough. I know how to make NT boot off a floppy, it's what happens when a non bootable floppy is left in the drive.
I want to know why BIOS makers can't skip the floppy if the the floppy isn't bootable - they do it with nonbootable CDs after all.
Also why can't MS make the error message less confusing to nontechy users - it wasn't as confusing back in the DOS or earlier windows days.
I keep on seeing a green, fire-breathing lizard on the splash screen whenever I start Moz
I'm no expert, but didn't the real Godzilla have a frosty breath?
I want to know why they can't make floppy disks do they same thing.
The number of support calls that begin with something like "What does Can't find NTLDR mean?" when the user left a floppy in the drive during a reboot.
You're making me doubt whether I've ever had a sneeze...
I thought you'd be happier that it is no longer frozen or in testing.
It is in terms of generic everyday language, but the actual products are different.
Sellotape is clear when you hold it up and look through it, Scotch Tape (the 3M stuff) is only clear when you stick it on something.
Scotch tape is thinner I think and doesn't go yellow over time like Sellotape does.
The first 64 bit processor in widespread use on the desktop was the Alpha. It even ran Windows NT.
:)
Although an Alpha running NT is for all intents and purposes a 32bit processor
Well MS did want REMs 'It's the end of the world as we know it' for the Windows 95 launch, and REM turned them down.
Maybe REM should reconsider that one for Palladium? If that doesn't work, maybe the EFF could ask them for it instead.
Maybe the computer gets turned off after use - mine only gets 2 hour uptimes :)
Blowfish is inherently insecure, ANY FILE LARGER THAN 1024KB YOU TRANSFER CAN BE DECRYPTED BY ANY 13 YEAR OLD WITH A POCKET CALCULATOR!
Hmmm... I tried that out, but it didn't work for me. I'm pretty sure the calculator is okay, do you think my 13 year old is faulty?
Maybe you could add moderation features - that way staff would be fighting each to get the best moderated comments (sound familiar?).
Peoples karma could then be brought up at their performance reviews.
Seriously now that I think about it, if people got some recogition for sharing useful knowledge (rather than just slashdot karma whoring) that could motivate people to share more. Leave out the Anonymous Coward though - I doubt your boss would appreciate 'first post' and 'hot grits' trolls on a work system.
And the moderation system could be configured so that highly rated bits of info hang round while the crap would just fade out over time.
Of course it would probably help if the system wasn't just a weblog (nobody would just view that), but part of a bigger system so the comments could get attached to a real world 'object' in the company - ie a project or a budget or a client etc.