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  1. Re:Finally a way to get rid of Winlogon viruses on Running Windows With No Services · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The right way is to "suspend" the viral program.
    Then do whatever registry or other process modifications that are necessary.
    You can use Process Explorer to suspend processes.

    Winlogon.exe is not subverted in any ways -- what are you talking about?

  2. Re:No-Broadband Users Screwed? on Microsoft To Begin Checking For Piracy · · Score: 1

    You can always get updates at work through technet.

    And even on dailup, if you leave windowsupdate on, the SP2 update will trickle through when your connection is not in use.
    Its more like 75 MB because windowsupdate will update only those files which you have on your system.

  3. Re:Neck and Neck? Who's neck? on Linux and Windows Security Neck and Neck · · Score: 1

    Now look more closely at the Redhat chart.
    Redhat 9 Issues after Jun 04 are completely excluded.

  4. Looks like PS2 pattern on Sony drops Router Functions from PS3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sony has a history of doing this sort of thing.

    They promised a lot for PS2 too.
    But features got dropped when it was finally released.

    Same with PSX.

  5. Re:Microsoft "Breaks" RSS on Microsoft To Extend RSS · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The RSS standard itself allows for extensions.
    The extensions themselves can be standardized.

    Microsoft is not breaking the standard.




  6. Re:What I'm wondering... on Next-gen Windows Command Line Shell Now in Beta · · Score: 2, Informative

    Windows has had symbolic links since Windows 2000. It was called junction points.

    In XP it was renamed as reparse points.




  7. Slashdot Sensationalism on Linux For Losers According To De Raadt · · Score: 1

    Where does he say "Linux is for Losers" ?



  8. Re:Acrylic/Expression on Initial Review of Microsoft's Acrylic BETA · · Score: 1

    For Professional designers red-eye removal is a desaturation tool.
    Desaturation has more uses beyond red eye removal. So it has place in a vector program.

    Since not everbody is a designer, you are not expected to know what desaturation is. So graphic programs usually just rename it as a red-eye remover.

  9. Re:Please get some journalistic integrity... on Korean MSN Site Hacked · · Score: 1

    If you are looking for an example Debian's servers got hacked some time ago.




  10. Re:Isn't it strange? on No IE7 For 2k, Now In Extended Service · · Score: 1

    He is specifically talking about the SAFER api.

    The changes required to support safer api would break a significant number of applications.
    This will lead to the same enterprise upgrade issues the bogged XPSP2.

  11. Re:Why doesn't apple use the Playstation3 chips? on Apple to Use Intel Chips? · · Score: 2, Informative

    PS3 CPU makes sense when you have lots of floating point operations.
    It isn't any faster when it comes to general purpose functions.
    Plus By the time it goes into mass production next year the standard CPUs will be much faster.

  12. Re:huh? on PS3 vs. Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    Sony is using fuzzy mathematics.
    ATI chip in XBox 360 has unified shader architecture. While Nvidia has seperate Pixel and vertex shaders. The 1.8 comes from adding each of the shader performances. To do a proper comparison following Sony's math ATI's GPU flops performance must be doubled.
    Plus both companies use single precision floating point operations to determine the flops rating.

    In reality, both consoles are neck and neck as far as performance is concerned.

  13. Mine on What's in a Typical Geek Home Network? · · Score: 1

    Desktop:
    XP Media Cender 2005 P4 2.8GHz 2GB

    Laptops:
    Toshiba Tablet PC XP SP2
    Old Toshiba Tecra - Win 2K
    Older Laptop - Win98

  14. Re:So.. on Gates' Resolve in Bringing Spammers to Justice · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Usually the damages awarded are beyond the paying capacity of the spammers and phishers.
    Microsoft will never see any money from this Scum bags.
    With the legal costs involved Microsoft is losing money.
    And leave it to some people to term all good actions as PR moves.

  15. No other way around. on New Longhorn Screenshots And Schedule · · Score: 1

    We saw file stacks in PDC 2003 long before the other OS copied it.

  16. Re:funny to see this article right above the news on EDS: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable · · Score: 0, Troll

    Google uses FreeBSD not Linux

  17. Re:Passphrases are MUCH easier on MS Employee Calls for No More Passwords · · Score: 1

    but do you really expect all employees of a mid size company to follow directions that start out like "Click Start, then Run. Type 'regedit' and click OK"?

    LM hashes can be turned off by a group policy.
    Individual employees don't need to muck with their registry or gpedit.msc

  18. Very convienient on How Secure Is Microsoft's Fingerprint Reader? · · Score: 1

    If you local access to a machine sooner or later any logon security can be bypassed.
    But it takes considerable effort - not an job for an average Joe.

    Using the reader is very convienient way to logon to the computer.
    I have different logons for different people in my family with varing privleges.

    I actually brought the reader because of my 4 year old niece who likes to play games.
    She has her own account so that she doesn't end up messing with my personal files or preferences.

  19. Re:Compression on Verizon and Microsoft Partner for IPTV · · Score: 1

    No, It looks great. I was astounded by the quality of video in the demo that I saw recently.

    Most fast motion HD 1080i videos encoded in WMV9 format don't require any more than 10 Mbps. Low motion videos require even less.
    The bandwidth on Verizon's FIOS service is more than adequate.

  20. I was the IPTV demo at CES on Verizon and Microsoft Partner for IPTV · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The demo I saw allowed allowed selection of different camera angles based on personal preferences in a baseball game.

    It looked awesome. I was also suprised at the quality of the streams and the speed at which channels could be changed. Since there is no TV tuner it had multiple Picture-in-picture capabilities.

    I can't wait for Verizon to install fiber in my area.
    I will be subscribe to this from day one.

  21. MPEG LA was protesting Microsoft's low prices. on Does Microsoft Cause Lower Software Prices? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A good example of how Microsoft is effecting prices is in the consumer media formats.

    Microsoft undercut MPEG-4 consortium's prices by offering licensing charges of 10 cents per encoder for its codec.
    The MPEG-4 gropup charges 25 cents.

    This led to protests from the MPEG-4 group including attempts to belittle Microsoft's codec in the press.

  22. Matching MSN Search? on Google Raises Word Limit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Looks like the limit was raised to match
    MSN's new search whih has has sported a bigger word limit for quite some time.

  23. MSNBC carried this story too. on Review of Microsoft's Anti-Spyware Tools · · Score: 1

    I know that the so called "ineffectiveness" of this tool is another Slashdot Bull-crap.
    My personal experience with this tool has been very satifying.
    I never had spyware or virus on my XP so I downloaded some malware off the web to a Virtual PC session to test this out.
    The developers have done a stupendous job on this program.

    I am sure as hell surprised that MSNBC carried this story too.
    Review: Microsoft Anti-Spyware Ineffective




  24. Re:It's finished... on Avalon Preview Released for XP · · Score: 1

    There are some demos on the channel9 website,
    including links to code that you can download and run on your computer.

  25. Re:pardon me but... on Avalon Preview Released for XP · · Score: 1

    To give an paradigm from the digital media world, this is the tool for creating a DVD not the DVD itself.

    Wait for public release of Longhorn Aero builds to see the "DVD".