winXP Pro with IE6 (all patches up to date from windowsupdate) and the cookie works, the minesweeper seemed to take a few tries. Most of the time it just wound up with a blank IE page, but there may just be some sort of latency launching the app.
When will people learn that WMA and MP3 support isn't enough anymore?
but it is enough. there may be.001% of the music population that even knows what Ogg Vorbis is, but most folks buying this stuff only know MP3.
I suspect most people wind up with windows media files more by accident (because the media encoder does them by default) than because they know anything about the format...
no, sony's i.Link is a little different -- the cable doesn't carry any power (allowing for a smaller plug on the external device) so an i.Link device is 1394 but needs a different cable and external power.
if your search returns any results, they'll give you the misspelled results and also suggest "did you mean to search for __________?" with a link to the properly spelled word.
They really have an amazingly well-thought out and user-friendly system...
We have to wait for XBox 3.0 for it to be functional, and then XBox 3.1 will be popular, and XBox 4.0 will actually be as good as the contemporary Sony unit.
The problem with using primates is that they are so busy writing the complete works of Shakespeare, they rarely have time to work on the web search rankings...
my god man, it's a search engine, not a spell-checker. what of you want search for instances of misspelled words? and not be nbothered by the damn thing thinking it know better than you?
Google only offers to search on the properly spelled word (while giving you the results for the word you searched for). It's definitely the best solution -- of course many times the word really is spelled the way you typed it. But there's been a few times i hit the keys in the wrong order, and google hiving "did you mean to search for friends?" as the first link is a great time-saver...
hey, wow -- thanks, that was a good review. i am interested in picking up the books after the solon review. Even the Amazon information and book cover blurb didn't seem very exciting...
Ok, your argument might be, your not going to browse on a server so you really don't have to worry about the ie updates, fair.
That's exactly correct. If you're running desktop (ie, consumer-oriented) apps on a server, you're inviting security problems.
Anyway, I do remember a number of vulnerabilities with some of the key server apps available on MS products. Nimda.
But nimda wasn't a problem for anyone who had IIS set up correctly in the first place (except for the bandwidth and resource waste). Yes, if you just installed all the default configuration IIS you got hit by nimda. But if you followed MS's own security checklist (nothing new, its been around for years) and implemented even half the security settings you were totally invulnerable. Nimda requires several specific configuration issues to be left unsecured all on the same box. If any one of them (for example, installing IIS on a partition separate from windows itself) was done, you're fine. So many of these exploits have been variations on the same thing its laughable. How long does it take someone to figure out that they need to configure a box right to make it secure?
What's the point of a server if everything is locked down
The question is nonsensical. Every server should be locked down, Windows or Unix. You should run the services you need and nothing more, with the options you need and no more. Not just for security, but also for ease of administration and troubleshooting.
Could this be a little more vague? I still have honestly no idea what the heck these novels are about in any way whatsoever.
Saying "the character goes on adventures and meets new people in amazing places" describes about 75% of the books in existence.
"It's a great fantasy book about characters that do things!" I'm not asking for the Cliffs Notes version of the book, but even the blurb on the back dust cover could have told me more about why I'd like to read it that this "review".
AS well as the other reply, most of the security issues are avoided with a decent system configuration in the first place. The biggest problem with MS isn't necessarily that it is less secure, but that it has so much stuff running out of the box.
If you shut down the things you don't really need, its actually pretty rare (like once every 6 months) for a security issue to pop up that requires a software update on a given box as opposed to a simple configuration edit.
It is a federal crime to _require _ your SSN for any reason other than social security
You have that backwards -- the FEDERAL government is prohibited from using your SS number for anything else, and when they ask for it (as on your tax forms) they specifically must state under what legal authority they ask for it, whether or not it is required, and what it will be used for.
State governments and private businesses can use your SS number for anything they please, though I suspect there would be protests if a state put it on your license plate.
Actually, that was solved with the cable-select jumper years ago.
I've had plenty of drives that didn't work well with CS, that's why eliminating the whole configuration issue is a big step. CS is a patch to the problem, but it doesn't eliminate it 100%
Mixing a sony CD-R with a Teac DVD-ROM both with CS and things like that sometimes cause weird issues. I had two drives where if one was first and the other second it would work on CS, but not reversed, unless I locked the master/slave correctly...
I thought that was just for the "compatibility period" of the first generation serial ata spec.
Once everyone is using serial ata and software no longer expects a limit of 2 devices per controller I think it goes up to whatever limit (7,15?). Ahh, i'm too lazy at the moment to look it up:)
I would say the biggest benefit is the number of devices being increased. When the initial ATA specs came out, the notion of a desktop computer having more than 1 or 2 hard drives was insane.
Now it's not at all unusual to buy a new computer and find that every drive connector is taken because you have a DVD and CD-R on one channel, and two hard drives on the other.
Cabling issues will be a big benefit to OEMs, and end users who have fewer tech issues with adding drives, as it will be impossible to wire improperly and master/slave/cs jumpers will no longer exist.
If it was only speed improvements I tend to think nobody would care very much.
I think the point is that he paid unemployment taxes -- HIS MONEY -- for this situation, yet the rules on collecting the money he put away for this purpose are almost self-defeating...
Desktop users don't need anything faster than 1Ghz. So what's Intel's brilliant strategy? Why, they're going to develop chips that are even faster than the overpriced 2Ghz P4s they're having difficulties unloading right now.
You're missing the second part of the the story, here -- while increases in top-end processing speed are nice, they are not the only result of faster/more efficient processors.
Another major feature is that for the same clock speed, it can be run on less power and with less heat, meaning that even if they only sold the chips to run at 1 GHz, they would be able to run on half or a third of the power that a current 1 GHz chip could.
I recently replaced the 700 MHz celeron in my home entertainment machine with a 1.2 GHz Pentium 3 -- not because I needed more power, quite the contrary. I underclocked the P3 to 600 MHz and took off the processor fan, thereby reducing the total noise on the system. It's been running fine, only a few degrees warmer than the old chip with active cooling. Total power use and waste heat is down.
In a few years, the 20 GHz chips mean that we'll be able to run our wristwatches off a battery for months at 600 MHz without any cooling at all. THAT is the point...
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I find it funny that the company that has the iMac, iPOD, iTunes, iMovie, etc got beaten to iLINK by sony
Oh, actually i hadn't even noticed that -- you're right, that is pretty funny!
...mandated a Mozilla-only policy...employees waste far less time surfing the web
No wonder -- it takes so long for a new window to open in Mozilla, they forget what site they wanted to visit!
winXP Pro with IE6 (all patches up to date from windowsupdate) and the cookie works, the minesweeper seemed to take a few tries. Most of the time it just wound up with a blank IE page, but there may just be some sort of latency launching the app.
When will people learn that WMA and MP3 support isn't enough anymore?
.001% of the music population that even knows what Ogg Vorbis is, but most folks buying this stuff only know MP3.
but it is enough. there may be
I suspect most people wind up with windows media files more by accident (because the media encoder does them by default) than because they know anything about the format...
no, sony's i.Link is a little different -- the cable doesn't carry any power (allowing for a smaller plug on the external device) so an i.Link device is 1394 but needs a different cable and external power.
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I sadly gave it up a few years ago, when I realized that good, active, moderated, insightful forums were dead...
if your search returns any results, they'll give you the misspelled results and also suggest "did you mean to search for __________?" with a link to the properly spelled word.
They really have an amazingly well-thought out and user-friendly system...
Of course it isn't dead yet.
We have to wait for XBox 3.0 for it to be functional, and then XBox 3.1 will be popular, and XBox 4.0 will actually be as good as the contemporary Sony unit.
this is just getting old...
The problem with using primates is that they are so busy writing the complete works of Shakespeare, they rarely have time to work on the web search rankings...
my god man, it's a search engine, not a spell-checker. what of you want search for instances of misspelled words? and not be nbothered by the damn thing thinking it know better than you?
Google only offers to search on the properly spelled word (while giving you the results for the word you searched for). It's definitely the best solution -- of course many times the word really is spelled the way you typed it. But there's been a few times i hit the keys in the wrong order, and google hiving "did you mean to search for friends?" as the first link is a great time-saver...
hey, wow -- thanks, that was a good review. i am interested in picking up the books after the solon review. Even the Amazon information and book cover blurb didn't seem very exciting...
Ok, your argument might be, your not going to browse on a server so you really don't have to worry about the ie updates, fair.
That's exactly correct. If you're running desktop (ie, consumer-oriented) apps on a server, you're inviting security problems.
Anyway, I do remember a number of vulnerabilities with some of the key server apps available on MS products. Nimda.
But nimda wasn't a problem for anyone who had IIS set up correctly in the first place (except for the bandwidth and resource waste). Yes, if you just installed all the default configuration IIS you got hit by nimda. But if you followed MS's own security checklist (nothing new, its been around for years) and implemented even half the security settings you were totally invulnerable. Nimda requires several specific configuration issues to be left unsecured all on the same box. If any one of them (for example, installing IIS on a partition separate from windows itself) was done, you're fine. So many of these exploits have been variations on the same thing its laughable. How long does it take someone to figure out that they need to configure a box right to make it secure?
What's the point of a server if everything is locked down
The question is nonsensical. Every server should be locked down, Windows or Unix. You should run the services you need and nothing more, with the options you need and no more. Not just for security, but also for ease of administration and troubleshooting.
Could this be a little more vague? I still have honestly no idea what the heck these novels are about in any way whatsoever.
Saying "the character goes on adventures and meets new people in amazing places" describes about 75% of the books in existence.
"It's a great fantasy book about characters that do things!" I'm not asking for the Cliffs Notes version of the book, but even the blurb on the back dust cover could have told me more about why I'd like to read it that this "review".
AS well as the other reply, most of the security issues are avoided with a decent system configuration in the first place. The biggest problem with MS isn't necessarily that it is less secure, but that it has so much stuff running out of the box.
If you shut down the things you don't really need, its actually pretty rare (like once every 6 months) for a security issue to pop up that requires a software update on a given box as opposed to a simple configuration edit.
thanks!
It is a federal crime to _require _ your SSN for any reason other than social security
You have that backwards -- the FEDERAL government is prohibited from using your SS number for anything else, and when they ask for it (as on your tax forms) they specifically must state under what legal authority they ask for it, whether or not it is required, and what it will be used for.
State governments and private businesses can use your SS number for anything they please, though I suspect there would be protests if a state put it on your license plate.
translation for the mathematically impaired?
Actually, that was solved with the cable-select jumper years ago.
I've had plenty of drives that didn't work well with CS, that's why eliminating the whole configuration issue is a big step. CS is a patch to the problem, but it doesn't eliminate it 100%
Mixing a sony CD-R with a Teac DVD-ROM both with CS and things like that sometimes cause weird issues. I had two drives where if one was first and the other second it would work on CS, but not reversed, unless I locked the master/slave correctly...
I thought that was just for the "compatibility period" of the first generation serial ata spec.
:)
Once everyone is using serial ata and software no longer expects a limit of 2 devices per controller I think it goes up to whatever limit (7,15?). Ahh, i'm too lazy at the moment to look it up
I would say the biggest benefit is the number of devices being increased. When the initial ATA specs came out, the notion of a desktop computer having more than 1 or 2 hard drives was insane.
Now it's not at all unusual to buy a new computer and find that every drive connector is taken because you have a DVD and CD-R on one channel, and two hard drives on the other.
Cabling issues will be a big benefit to OEMs, and end users who have fewer tech issues with adding drives, as it will be impossible to wire improperly and master/slave/cs jumpers will no longer exist.
If it was only speed improvements I tend to think nobody would care very much.
I was really worried for a second there, I thought the headline was "Internet spamming OS".
That's one variant of NetBSD we DON'T need developed...
As an aside, it's also worth noting that more than half of all comment posters fall into this 3%
So you're saying that the very people who make slashdot worth reading are the ones who will have to pay most? Isn't this...backwards?
I think the point is that he paid unemployment taxes -- HIS MONEY -- for this situation, yet the rules on collecting the money he put away for this purpose are almost self-defeating...
Desktop users don't need anything faster than 1Ghz. So what's Intel's brilliant strategy? Why, they're going to develop chips that are even faster than the overpriced 2Ghz P4s they're having difficulties unloading right now.
You're missing the second part of the the story, here -- while increases in top-end processing speed are nice, they are not the only result of faster/more efficient processors.
Another major feature is that for the same clock speed, it can be run on less power and with less heat, meaning that even if they only sold the chips to run at 1 GHz, they would be able to run on half or a third of the power that a current 1 GHz chip could.
I recently replaced the 700 MHz celeron in my home entertainment machine with a 1.2 GHz Pentium 3 -- not because I needed more power, quite the contrary. I underclocked the P3 to 600 MHz and took off the processor fan, thereby reducing the total noise on the system. It's been running fine, only a few degrees warmer than the old chip with active cooling. Total power use and waste heat is down.
In a few years, the 20 GHz chips mean that we'll be able to run our wristwatches off a battery for months at 600 MHz without any cooling at all. THAT is the point...