Win2k Pro is no more "server-centric" than WinXP Pro. All the networking and server-like features (i.e. IIS) work in the exact same way, and are in the exact same location of the operating system.
We all know that Win2k is a hell of a lot more secure than win98/ME and probably just as secure as XP....that aside...
Why don't they do what my university did.....if your machine was detected trying to propogate nimda or code red, the smart switches disabled your jack. Getting it re-enabled meant calling Information Services Division and proving that you had cleaned up and protected your machine (downloading and installing the free copy of Norton Antivirus they provided).
It really seems to be a good system. Plug in an unregisterd NIC - blam - jack turned off and MAC address added to a blocked hosts list. Plug in a hub with more than one machine behind it...jack turned off. Run an unauthorized web server...jack turned off, mac address added to blocked hosts list. etc. etc. etc.
I'm suprised other large institutions don't do the same thing. It sounds like it would save a lot of headaches.
Thaks for reminding me of the name. I dug one up in the yard about a year or so ago, well the chassis anyways. I had lost it in my childhood.....my bet is that it had been buried for about 16 years or so. It was in suprisingly good shape. I wanted to 'restore' it but I can't remember where I put it. When I was a kid I remember not caring about the shells for them. The important part was the chassis and the motor. I used to make roads over hills of dirt for them to climb.
I have been recieving spam since mid-1996. On average, accross the past years and my many email accounts, I can estimate 75 pieces of spam per day (most through AOL and hotmail of course).
6 years x 75 spams/day = somewhere on the order of 164000 pieces of spam received.
Of all of those, I have purchased something based on a spam-ad exactly once. And that was a special offer (buy anything and we'll throw this in free) from a reputable retailer I was planning on purchasing from anyways. The spam didn't originate from the retailer but from an advertising/spamming service. When I made my purchase/order I stripped all the identifying information from the URL so that the spammer wouldn't get the commission anyways.
I hope you were trolling....because if you think a PDA is a useless addon for a cell phone...you are dead wrong.
Why carry 2 devices of aproximately the same form factor....with overlapping functions?
Whats the easiest way to update the contacts in your phone? Buy a $40+ cable, wait 5-10 years for a 'standard' wireless transfer protocol and content format, or combine them?
Why carry two seperate devices that both have support for: email, contact managament, web browsing, game playing, data/fax. Combine them!
(BTW, I think my Samsung I-300 is the single most useful electronic device I have every purchased)
Except that Lindows actually charges for their 'beta' which is version 2.0 btw...oh, and you have to purchase the 'beta' in order to get the sourcecode.
Considering PizzaHut (at the time a PepsiCo subsiderary) was the first to slap their logo to the side of a space-bound rocket (a Russian one btw), this doesn't suprise me in the least.
Interesting idea. How many people have their children install software because the 12 year old is so much more profficient at the computer than the parent? At least in California, if the kid enters a legally binding contract ("I Agree") without their legal guardian also signing the contract, then it is null and void. Statutory Rape cases have used this to break up otherwise legal marraiges.....why wouldn't it be valid in a shrink-wrap case?
Hmmmm.....so if the Law of Gravity is illegal (it has no practical use other than being a circumvention device....we would be much better of without anyways - cheaper construction, etc.) then these CD players + DMCA = Antigravity device! Hmmmm.....so why isn't the RIAA headquarters flying off the planet as we speak?
I'm not saying they made an ethical choice in the movie, I'm saying that deciding what timeline "should" be is an ethical choice...and hence both plots are going back in time to make things the way they "should" be.
Cool....with a little hacking I can have that soundtrack to my life like the guy in Tad Williams's Otherland series.
But seriously, a lot of people listen to music when running, working out, etc....but its difficult to do when skiing/snoboarding (try getting out your CD/Tape/MP3 player and pressing the buttons while wearing gloves)....I think once the price comes down this will be a very popular item.
The better solution is to wipe your hard disk and download the Red Hat ISO or buy a Mac before you become further entangled in Microsoft's web.
Hmmm....my office is almost all Mac.....and in the next year or so we will have to migrate to OSX..... is there a decent office package besides MS Office for the Mac? Nope because Open/StarOffice isn't ported yet. So buying a Mac is not getting away from MS' web.
"It's incredible to me that Microsoft would turn its back on Word 97 users," said Woody Leonhard, who has written books on Microsoft's Word and Office software. "They bought the package with full faith in Microsoft and its ability to protect them from this kind of exploit."
Come on....Word 97? Who expects Microsoft to do something to fix problems in that? They have had 2 major (4 if you include the Mac versions) releases since then. You think Netscape is going to issue a patch for 4.7x now that version 7 is out? Just one example of many.
The operating word there is that history happens as it "should" which constitutes an ethical choice.
The whales didn't live, but we think they *should* have (to appease our moral/ethical misgivings). So time is changed to be the way it *should* be (that is, to our benefit).......we wouldn't feel it right if our civilization was wiped out by an alien force. So we think we have a moral imperitive, that we *should* do anything to deflect it.. Thats exactly what happens w/ S.T. IV.
So both IV and VIII are examples of going back in time to change things to reflect how they *should* be.
All I can say is WOW....I mean I've fried components before, but nothing with this kind of visible damage.....well, except for the time I burned out my zip drive, scsi card, motherboard and floppy by accidently pluging my speaker transformer into my zip drive (they look identical and have identical connections, except as I noticed afterwards one is 12VAC and the other 2.5VDC).....left pretty burn marks all over my scsi card and motherboard. And then there was the time I was serviceing my old laptop (loose connection somewhere inside) and I forgot that when I moved workspaces I had slipped the battery back into its slot....ZZZTZTZ....smoke, and a fried out chip on the motherboard.
Luckly everything I've destroyed since then has not had such spectacular effects associated.
yes they can....because they are the powers that be.....people wont stop buying and renting movies, people wont stop buying new music....especially not if there is some kind of technical improvement offered (DTS, HDTV)....combine it with all new TVs having a digital tuner by 2007, and it will happen.....sure, there will still be DVDs and CDs arround.....just like there are still cassettes and vhs arround right now....but the market will die if they slowly stop releasing content for them.....its the same thing as vinyl -> reel to reel -> casette -> cd -> dts........give a decade long conversion period and it will happen because most consumer electronics aren't built to have a long lifespan.
My dad tends to be a late adopter of technology....but when he does buy, he buys the best. He bought a top of the line reel-to-reel in the 60's, a top of the line turntable in the 70's, a top of the line casette player in the 80's.....and they all still work great. But his top of the line VCR that he bought in the 90's started having problems within 5 years and is now all but dead - and it was probably the least used out of all. We'll see what happens to the CD player he got a couple years ago. Point is, electronics wear out and break, especially the newer ones. As people have to buy new equipment to replace the old, they'll have no choice but to buy stuff thats DRM equipped.....they won't mind too much because they will get better quality recordings....and if their DVDs still work on the new system (like CDs work in most DTS and DVD machines) then there wont be any problem at all with getting people to convert.
Lets see, they've done it before (cassette -> CD and VHS -> DVD) and they will do it again. The movie industry and the recording industry are one and the same now. The same few people controll both. They can easily decide to migrate (over the course of 5 years or so) all of their new content to a new format. And of course they would probably make their new format machines able to read the 'old' DVDs and CDs....but everything new that is published will be DRM-enabled.
The biggest couterargument to this is that the reason why comsumers went to the new formats was better quality. Hmmm....lets see....the recording industry already puts out DTS (5.1 channel CDs) which are encrypted with CSS and region encoding etc. But people buy them because they are better quality. People buy DVDs (with region encoding, macrovision, css, etc) for the better quality. All the industry has to do is start releasing movies in HDTV quality on the new disks. People will buy it for the better quality over their DVD. It will happen. And they won't get a "fuck off" when things become mandated by law.
And you think that in 4 years, when the new DVD-replacement format is what all new movies, music, etc. is being released on, is palladium/DRM only, that Apple won't follow suit and enable that feature into their OS/hardware. If you think that, then you are blind. Especially considering by that point, Hollings will have gotten something through congress that ensures that only DRM capable equipment is sold in the US. Saying this is a Wintel only problem is like saying that Macs are immune from viruses. Its blatantly false.
Yep, mine did the same thing....after about 3000 pages or so it would start to grab the entire pile instead of just one sheet....supposedly there was a cleaning kit or replacemnet rollers or something to correct the problem, but I could never find it.
Other than that, it was an extremely reliable small deskspace laser printer with extremely good quality. Mine has been in a box for the last couple years, since I didn't have the deskpsace, and because I go a Deskjet 1220 (mmmm.....llx17 color glossies:D) but now that I've moved into a new place, I think I'm going to dig it out. If I remember correctly, it was compatible with the jet-direct cards, and it could easily be updated to 8 Mb of RAM (from the default 1). It was a good laser printer for a very good price.
Hmmm....... I just took a look at the site and sampled the music and I have just a few thoughts:
While the musicians are definately play well, heavy music like that doesn't seem to be where the industry as a whole is going at the moment, meaning it will be harder to find airplay and such because its not what people are looking to hear. The other thing is that the writer needs some practice. I listened to livid, stumblepit, and pacafist. The lyrics are decent, but the melody/chord progression patterns are lousy. Each song is just a repetition of 3-4 chords that are cliche/elementary even for a heavy metal/hard rock group. The styling of the musicians is fine, the recording quality is good, the lyrics are decent (if not somewhat typical of the genre) but the tune is boring. If the overall quality and such was like this 5-10 years they would have no problem 'making it big'. But the current market #1 is turning away from the heavy music, and #2 is getting frustrated with cliched groups, regardless of the genre.
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Win2k Pro is no more "server-centric" than WinXP Pro. All the networking and server-like features (i.e. IIS) work in the exact same way, and are in the exact same location of the operating system.
We all know that Win2k is a hell of a lot more secure than win98/ME and probably just as secure as XP....that aside...
Why don't they do what my university did.....if your machine was detected trying to propogate nimda or code red, the smart switches disabled your jack. Getting it re-enabled meant calling Information Services Division and proving that you had cleaned up and protected your machine (downloading and installing the free copy of Norton Antivirus they provided).
It really seems to be a good system. Plug in an unregisterd NIC - blam - jack turned off and MAC address added to a blocked hosts list. Plug in a hub with more than one machine behind it...jack turned off. Run an unauthorized web server...jack turned off, mac address added to blocked hosts list. etc. etc. etc.
I'm suprised other large institutions don't do the same thing. It sounds like it would save a lot of headaches.
because I'm betting there were a lot of single ladies running winNT/2K
Yes! Those were awesome!
Thaks for reminding me of the name. I dug one up in the yard about a year or so ago, well the chassis anyways. I had lost it in my childhood.....my bet is that it had been buried for about 16 years or so. It was in suprisingly good shape. I wanted to 'restore' it but I can't remember where I put it. When I was a kid I remember not caring about the shells for them. The important part was the chassis and the motor. I used to make roads over hills of dirt for them to climb.
**sniff** oh the memories...
I have been recieving spam since mid-1996. On average, accross the past years and my many email accounts, I can estimate 75 pieces of spam per day (most through AOL and hotmail of course).
6 years x 75 spams/day = somewhere on the order of 164000 pieces of spam received.
Of all of those, I have purchased something based on a spam-ad exactly once. And that was a special offer (buy anything and we'll throw this in free) from a reputable retailer I was planning on purchasing from anyways. The spam didn't originate from the retailer but from an advertising/spamming service. When I made my purchase/order I stripped all the identifying information from the URL so that the spammer wouldn't get the commission anyways.
Where's the profit?
I hope you were trolling....because if you think a PDA is a useless addon for a cell phone...you are dead wrong.
Why carry 2 devices of aproximately the same form factor....with overlapping functions?
Whats the easiest way to update the contacts in your phone? Buy a $40+ cable, wait 5-10 years for a 'standard' wireless transfer protocol and content format, or combine them?
Why carry two seperate devices that both have support for: email, contact managament, web browsing, game playing, data/fax. Combine them!
(BTW, I think my Samsung I-300 is the single most useful electronic device I have every purchased)
Except that Lindows actually charges for their 'beta' which is version 2.0 btw...oh, and you have to purchase the 'beta' in order to get the sourcecode.
Mr. Simonyi has left Microsoft with the right to use the intellectual property he developed and patented while working there.
If he patented stuff, he owns the rights to it and can use it if leaves MS. Now if his work was patented in MS' name, then he couldn't take it.
Um, the Jack and Coke was invented in the days when Coke actually had Cocaine in it. So a Jack and Coke was a nice (and very addicting) intoxicant.
Considering PizzaHut (at the time a PepsiCo subsiderary) was the first to slap their logo to the side of a space-bound rocket (a Russian one btw), this doesn't suprise me in the least.
Interesting idea. How many people have their children install software because the 12 year old is so much more profficient at the computer than the parent? At least in California, if the kid enters a legally binding contract ("I Agree") without their legal guardian also signing the contract, then it is null and void. Statutory Rape cases have used this to break up otherwise legal marraiges.....why wouldn't it be valid in a shrink-wrap case?
Hmmmm.....so if the Law of Gravity is illegal (it has no practical use other than being a circumvention device....we would be much better of without anyways - cheaper construction, etc.) then these CD players + DMCA = Antigravity device! Hmmmm.....so why isn't the RIAA headquarters flying off the planet as we speak?
I'm not saying they made an ethical choice in the movie, I'm saying that deciding what timeline "should" be is an ethical choice...and hence both plots are going back in time to make things the way they "should" be.
Cool....with a little hacking I can have that soundtrack to my life like the guy in Tad Williams's Otherland series.
But seriously, a lot of people listen to music when running, working out, etc....but its difficult to do when skiing/snoboarding (try getting out your CD/Tape/MP3 player and pressing the buttons while wearing gloves)....I think once the price comes down this will be a very popular item.
The better solution is to wipe your hard disk and download the Red Hat ISO or buy a Mac before you become further entangled in Microsoft's web.
Hmmm....my office is almost all Mac.....and in the next year or so we will have to migrate to OSX..... is there a decent office package besides MS Office for the Mac? Nope because Open/StarOffice isn't ported yet. So buying a Mac is not getting away from MS' web.
"It's incredible to me that Microsoft would turn its back on Word 97 users," said Woody Leonhard, who has written books on Microsoft's Word and Office software. "They bought the package with full faith in Microsoft and its ability to protect them from this kind of exploit."
Come on....Word 97? Who expects Microsoft to do something to fix problems in that? They have had 2 major (4 if you include the Mac versions) releases since then. You think Netscape is going to issue a patch for 4.7x now that version 7 is out? Just one example of many.
The operating word there is that history happens as it "should" which constitutes an ethical choice.
The whales didn't live, but we think they *should* have (to appease our moral/ethical misgivings). So time is changed to be the way it *should* be (that is, to our benefit).......we wouldn't feel it right if our civilization was wiped out by an alien force. So we think we have a moral imperitive, that we *should* do anything to deflect it.. Thats exactly what happens w/ S.T. IV.
So both IV and VIII are examples of going back in time to change things to reflect how they *should* be.
I got to see the first page before it got /.ed
All I can say is WOW....I mean I've fried components before, but nothing with this kind of visible damage.....well, except for the time I burned out my zip drive, scsi card, motherboard and floppy by accidently pluging my speaker transformer into my zip drive (they look identical and have identical connections, except as I noticed afterwards one is 12VAC and the other 2.5VDC).....left pretty burn marks all over my scsi card and motherboard. And then there was the time I was serviceing my old laptop (loose connection somewhere inside) and I forgot that when I moved workspaces I had slipped the battery back into its slot....ZZZTZTZ....smoke, and a fried out chip on the motherboard.
Luckly everything I've destroyed since then has not had such spectacular effects associated.
So....I guess I can see how this stuff happens.
yes they can....because they are the powers that be.....people wont stop buying and renting movies, people wont stop buying new music....especially not if there is some kind of technical improvement offered (DTS, HDTV)....combine it with all new TVs having a digital tuner by 2007, and it will happen.....sure, there will still be DVDs and CDs arround.....just like there are still cassettes and vhs arround right now....but the market will die if they slowly stop releasing content for them.....its the same thing as vinyl -> reel to reel -> casette -> cd -> dts........give a decade long conversion period and it will happen because most consumer electronics aren't built to have a long lifespan.
My dad tends to be a late adopter of technology....but when he does buy, he buys the best. He bought a top of the line reel-to-reel in the 60's, a top of the line turntable in the 70's, a top of the line casette player in the 80's.....and they all still work great. But his top of the line VCR that he bought in the 90's started having problems within 5 years and is now all but dead - and it was probably the least used out of all. We'll see what happens to the CD player he got a couple years ago. Point is, electronics wear out and break, especially the newer ones. As people have to buy new equipment to replace the old, they'll have no choice but to buy stuff thats DRM equipped.....they won't mind too much because they will get better quality recordings....and if their DVDs still work on the new system (like CDs work in most DTS and DVD machines) then there wont be any problem at all with getting people to convert.
aside from your trolling....lets address this:
Lets see, they've done it before (cassette -> CD and VHS -> DVD) and they will do it again. The movie industry and the recording industry are one and the same now. The same few people controll both. They can easily decide to migrate (over the course of 5 years or so) all of their new content to a new format. And of course they would probably make their new format machines able to read the 'old' DVDs and CDs....but everything new that is published will be DRM-enabled.
The biggest couterargument to this is that the reason why comsumers went to the new formats was better quality. Hmmm....lets see....the recording industry already puts out DTS (5.1 channel CDs) which are encrypted with CSS and region encoding etc. But people buy them because they are better quality. People buy DVDs (with region encoding, macrovision, css, etc) for the better quality. All the industry has to do is start releasing movies in HDTV quality on the new disks. People will buy it for the better quality over their DVD. It will happen. And they won't get a "fuck off" when things become mandated by law.
And you think that in 4 years, when the new DVD-replacement format is what all new movies, music, etc. is being released on, is palladium/DRM only, that Apple won't follow suit and enable that feature into their OS/hardware. If you think that, then you are blind. Especially considering by that point, Hollings will have gotten something through congress that ensures that only DRM capable equipment is sold in the US. Saying this is a Wintel only problem is like saying that Macs are immune from viruses. Its blatantly false.
Do you happen to have the part number, description, or someting of the like so that I can find it to order it from HP?
Can't find anything about it on HPs website except for the $189 maintenance kit for a printer that has reached an insanely high page count.
Yep, mine did the same thing....after about 3000 pages or so it would start to grab the entire pile instead of just one sheet....supposedly there was a cleaning kit or replacemnet rollers or something to correct the problem, but I could never find it.
:D) but now that I've moved into a new place, I think I'm going to dig it out. If I remember correctly, it was compatible with the jet-direct cards, and it could easily be updated to 8 Mb of RAM (from the default 1). It was a good laser printer for a very good price.
Other than that, it was an extremely reliable small deskspace laser printer with extremely good quality. Mine has been in a box for the last couple years, since I didn't have the deskpsace, and because I go a Deskjet 1220 (mmmm.....llx17 color glossies
Hmmm....... I just took a look at the site and sampled the music and I have just a few thoughts:
While the musicians are definately play well, heavy music like that doesn't seem to be where the industry as a whole is going at the moment, meaning it will be harder to find airplay and such because its not what people are looking to hear. The other thing is that the writer needs some practice. I listened to livid, stumblepit, and pacafist. The lyrics are decent, but the melody/chord progression patterns are lousy. Each song is just a repetition of 3-4 chords that are cliche/elementary even for a heavy metal/hard rock group. The styling of the musicians is fine, the recording quality is good, the lyrics are decent (if not somewhat typical of the genre) but the tune is boring. If the overall quality and such was like this 5-10 years they would have no problem 'making it big'. But the current market #1 is turning away from the heavy music, and #2 is getting frustrated with cliched groups, regardless of the genre.
strange, /. cut out the html tags....the website is kcrw.org