Uh... does anyone who actually wants to go to msn.com even know that there is anything other than IE?
FYI, my NS4.7x works, Opera doesn't, even with id set to IE5. Go figure.
What are these mystical Services? Are they pay versions of existing Services? Are they something new? My guess is they're MS pay versions of things that are doable/doing/done now by non-MS servers. Perhaps MS is betting that people will find some sort of comfort in paying for something, rather than not. It's crazy, but people seem to have this inate sense that they more money thrown at something, the better.
Seeing how the economy is in the crapper right now, the launch of XP is probably seen as a Good thing by our government. In light of this, I seriously doubt the government will do anything to stop it. Conspiracy theorists, insert your 9/11 MS conspiracy theory here.
They'll listen to you if you have a lot of money, or if they think you do. They're too busy blowing big business, so they can get re-elected, to worry about you.
Even if a keystroke logger recorded every single keystroke... if you were to copy and paste a password, say you put it in a text file on a floppy on a different computer.... wouldn't this render the keystroke logger useless? It would have to also record the contents of the "clipboard", no?
I suspect it's only a matter of time before motherboards come equiped with a "blackbox" type of thing, similar to a flight data recorder. They could store, say, the last 10,000 keystrokes on any keyboard. Does such a thing exist?
Heck, I still use Office 97, as do most people in our organization. I have a copy of 2000, but it's a hog... mostly in size and installability. Office 2000 doesn't really have any significant improvements that I've seen so far (I use mostly Access and Word, sometimes Excel, never Powerpoint). Plus, Office97 fits on 1 cd. What a deal.
This could've been a Seinfeld Episode:
George inherits this laptop, only to find it's fingerprint protected, so at the funeral, he tries to sneak it up to the corpse to get the print...
Yadda yadda yadda....
My main complaint with DS9 was what I called BooBoo... the cutesy little feringy bartender -- oops - I mean Barkeep in the cutesy-pseudo-medieval-lingo Trekies use.
This cutesy-comic-relief-agent (CCRA) is perhaps most obvious in JarJar Binks; the main reason I have not seen and never intend to see, the Phantom Menace. I mean, hey, that's what R2D2 was for.
So Anyway.... is this new series also cursed with a CCRA? Please let me know so I can save myself the agony.
Thanks
This, in my opinion, is total crap. I don't listen to the radio, except sometimes on the road.
However, on long drives out here (Montana), you're often out of range of decent radio. So I can see how it might be good for many people out West. This might be really nice for truckers (for when they aren't doing meth and engaging in man-on-man love at rest areas).
My 2 cents.
That KB article has nothing to do with what I suggested.
FYI if you do delete this file on accident, you're screwed. Of course, you could rename your windows directory, re-install windows, copy out the new vmm32.vxd into the renamed windows directory, delete the new windows directory, rename the renamed windows directory back to windows, and you'd be set.
Of course you already knew that, ass monkey.
Hi Hackers,
Here's my advice, while I'm still free to give it:
1. Make a fun virus/worm, which switches Windows(tm) wallpaper to a porno picture. A veritable laff-riot would ensue, what with techies scrambling around trying to get the crotch shot removed from the CEO's desktop.
2. If you can delete only one file on a Windows(tm) 9x machine, do c:\windows\system\vmm32.vxd
The user will get a message something like "missing vmm32.vxd, must re-install windows". It's not just a file you can re-extract. It's built during setup with hardware specific info, like a kernel. You can't just copy someone else's either. Try it, it's fun!
When will people realize that the great comedic genius of late 20th century England was Benny Hill, not these numbskulls called Monty Python!
Come on, get with the program.
As much as I'd love to ditch MS, the truth is that for the last X number of years, most all 3rd party apps.. specifically specialty apps writtten for specific industries, not just "Word", have been written for Windows.
I would love to get rid of MS in my work environment, but the apps I need to use simply don't exist under any operating system other than Windows, and it's extremely unlikely that the 3rd party vendors will blow millions of dollars to make a Linux version to please the small (albeit growing) percentage of computer users that despise MS.
You could make a wonderful office suite, a billion times better than MS Office, but it doesn't matter, because the office suite software is a minor set of utilities in many, many workplaces.
Could this be the cause of the shark hysteria a few weeks ago? I thought originally it was George W's people creating an "enemy". Is it a coincidence that we haven't heard of any shark attacks since America's Day Of Terror(tm) ? Hmm...
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I agree, if you can't figure out the difference between then and than, or between to, two, and too, you should be butt-raped by a waterbuffalo.
Uh... does anyone who actually wants to go to msn.com even know that there is anything other than IE?
FYI, my NS4.7x works, Opera doesn't, even with id set to IE5. Go figure.
What are these mystical Services? Are they pay versions of existing Services? Are they something new? My guess is they're MS pay versions of things that are doable/doing/done now by non-MS servers. Perhaps MS is betting that people will find some sort of comfort in paying for something, rather than not. It's crazy, but people seem to have this inate sense that they more money thrown at something, the better.
Seeing how the economy is in the crapper right now, the launch of XP is probably seen as a Good thing by our government. In light of this, I seriously doubt the government will do anything to stop it. Conspiracy theorists, insert your 9/11 MS conspiracy theory here.
This SIT tone, can it be created by hitting a series of 3 buttons on the phone?
If so, you could manually punch that in when you get such a call.
They'll listen to you if you have a lot of money, or if they think you do. They're too busy blowing big business, so they can get re-elected, to worry about you.
Even if a keystroke logger recorded every single keystroke... if you were to copy and paste a password, say you put it in a text file on a floppy on a different computer.... wouldn't this render the keystroke logger useless? It would have to also record the contents of the "clipboard", no?
I suspect it's only a matter of time before motherboards come equiped with a "blackbox" type of thing, similar to a flight data recorder. They could store, say, the last 10,000 keystrokes on any keyboard. Does such a thing exist?
Heck, I still use Office 97, as do most people in our organization. I have a copy of 2000, but it's a hog... mostly in size and installability. Office 2000 doesn't really have any significant improvements that I've seen so far (I use mostly Access and Word, sometimes Excel, never Powerpoint). Plus, Office97 fits on 1 cd. What a deal.
This could've been a Seinfeld Episode:
George inherits this laptop, only to find it's fingerprint protected, so at the funeral, he tries to sneak it up to the corpse to get the print...
Yadda yadda yadda....
10 cents says you can boot into the bios and reset it, or use a paperclip.
If not, how could you ever sell it, or let anyone else use it?
We watched Law & Order, because we wanted to see something we knew would be entertaining, and someone intellectual. Star Trek shows typically suck.
My main complaint with DS9 was what I called BooBoo... the cutesy little feringy bartender -- oops - I mean Barkeep in the cutesy-pseudo-medieval-lingo Trekies use.
This cutesy-comic-relief-agent (CCRA) is perhaps most obvious in JarJar Binks; the main reason I have not seen and never intend to see, the Phantom Menace. I mean, hey, that's what R2D2 was for.
So Anyway.... is this new series also cursed with a CCRA? Please let me know so I can save myself the agony.
Thanks
This, in my opinion, is total crap. I don't listen to the radio, except sometimes on the road.
However, on long drives out here (Montana), you're often out of range of decent radio. So I can see how it might be good for many people out West. This might be really nice for truckers (for when they aren't doing meth and engaging in man-on-man love at rest areas).
My 2 cents.
He's Ask Maxwell's lover. http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/1999/1 2-16maxwell.asp
I wish I could afford to buy a brand new computer every time Apple made an improvement!
That KB article has nothing to do with what I suggested.
FYI if you do delete this file on accident, you're screwed. Of course, you could rename your windows directory, re-install windows, copy out the new vmm32.vxd into the renamed windows directory, delete the new windows directory, rename the renamed windows directory back to windows, and you'd be set.
Of course you already knew that, ass monkey.
Hi Hackers,
Here's my advice, while I'm still free to give it:
1. Make a fun virus/worm, which switches Windows(tm) wallpaper to a porno picture. A veritable laff-riot would ensue, what with techies scrambling around trying to get the crotch shot removed from the CEO's desktop.
2. If you can delete only one file on a Windows(tm) 9x machine, do c:\windows\system\vmm32.vxd
The user will get a message something like "missing vmm32.vxd, must re-install windows". It's not just a file you can re-extract. It's built during setup with hardware specific info, like a kernel. You can't just copy someone else's either. Try it, it's fun!
When will people realize that the great comedic genius of late 20th century England was Benny Hill, not these numbskulls called Monty Python!
Come on, get with the program.
From the article:
"New machines, network links, and resources should be automatically assimilated."
Assimilated.
Better yet, if we could just "export display" from Win machine, we could keep a Win machine in the closet and use it's apps as necessary.
As much as I'd love to ditch MS, the truth is that for the last X number of years, most all 3rd party apps.. specifically specialty apps writtten for specific industries, not just "Word", have been written for Windows.
I would love to get rid of MS in my work environment, but the apps I need to use simply don't exist under any operating system other than Windows, and it's extremely unlikely that the 3rd party vendors will blow millions of dollars to make a Linux version to please the small (albeit growing) percentage of computer users that despise MS.
You could make a wonderful office suite, a billion times better than MS Office, but it doesn't matter, because the office suite software is a minor set of utilities in many, many workplaces.
Could this be the cause of the shark hysteria a few weeks ago? I thought originally it was George W's people creating an "enemy". Is it a coincidence that we haven't heard of any shark attacks since America's Day Of Terror(tm) ? Hmm...
Amazing... do you see a little devil's face in the smoke of your burned out Athlon though?
Combine this with sleeping pills, and you have a winner.