For what it's worth the MS site says the front end pages are handled by just 35 servers ("500,000 pages visited by 5M people a day") and that the entire farm (including databases, test machines, intranet, etc) totals 350 machines (all now running W2K)
Multimon support on Win9x and NT is mostly app independent. Usually the worst thing that happens is dialog boxes appear on the wrong screen. Annoying but not fatal and increasingly rare.
Still, you do need to make sure you have compatible video cards.
It's true that GC works best on classes who's only 'resource' is memory but IMHO the creakiness of having to call explicit cleanup functions (File.ReallyFreakingCloseNowDammit) every once in a while is not a big deal. The other advantages of GC seem to outway the disadvantages for most app-level development.
It's complicated. MS and 3rd party apps often ship updated system components (available as SPs, QFEs etc). App components sometimes ship with the OS too (although more rarely).
Part of the problem is that it's hard to tell what is the OS and what isn't!
This sounds like a bit of an urban legend unless the people who did the bugging were extreme amateurs.
With the appropriate authorization (!) BT can pretty much monitor any calls to or from a particular number completely remotely, they just need an SX exchange somewhere in the way.
More than 10 years ago they offered a service to government folks where you could dial in and checked your intercepted messages from anywhere, much like voice mail. Pretty handy:-)
From what I understand, abuses within the telecommunications industry became so widespread that they pulled the plug on many of the remote monitoring features such that only places like GCHQ (that could be physically secured) had access.
Kinda ironic that Notepad is mostly a wrapper around the standard OS edit control such that if you did remove that code the machine (probably) wouldn't boot:-)
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I've never tried this so ymmv but look on msdn under "ddml". Apparently this allows you to hook all the GDI calls at the DDI level.
For what it's worth the MS site says the front end pages are handled by just 35 servers ("500,000 pages visited by 5M people a day") and that the entire farm (including databases, test machines, intranet, etc) totals 350 machines (all now running W2K)
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Multimon support on Win9x and NT is mostly app independent. Usually the worst thing that happens is dialog boxes appear on the wrong screen. Annoying but not fatal and increasingly rare.
Still, you do need to make sure you have compatible video cards.
It's true that GC works best on classes who's only 'resource' is memory but IMHO the creakiness of having to call explicit cleanup functions (File.ReallyFreakingCloseNowDammit) every once in a while is not a big deal. The other advantages of GC seem to outway the disadvantages for most app-level development.
So someone still needs to monitor all the communication between the companies? For how long?
This all seems completely unworkable and hopelessly naive (not unlike most government decision making where technology is involved - sigh).
Why not just take away Bill's billions (maybe pay off some 3rd world debt), fire all the employees and sell Office and Windows to the highest bidder.
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So someone's going to have to keep monitoring them to make sure they don't co-operate?
I thought that was what the breakup proposal was supposed to avoid!
Same question, do any Office apps call these APIs?
Who calls these APIs?
It's complicated. MS and 3rd party apps often ship updated system components (available as SPs, QFEs etc). App components sometimes ship with the OS too (although more rarely).
Part of the problem is that it's hard to tell what is the OS and what isn't!
This sounds like a bit of an urban legend unless the people who did the bugging were extreme amateurs.
:-)
With the appropriate authorization (!) BT can pretty much monitor any calls to or from a particular number completely remotely, they just need an SX exchange somewhere in the way.
More than 10 years ago they offered a service to government folks where you could dial in and checked your intercepted messages from anywhere, much like voice mail. Pretty handy
From what I understand, abuses within the telecommunications industry became so widespread that they pulled the plug on many of the remote monitoring features such that only places like GCHQ (that could be physically secured) had access.
NB.
Kinda ironic that Notepad is mostly a wrapper around the standard OS edit control such that if you did remove that code the machine (probably) wouldn't boot
Even your average NT fan couldn't be this dumb right?
Trolls. Sigh.
It sounds like you're thinking of the Win95 bug that would cause it to crash (doing nothing) after 49.7 days.
NT machines are typically orders of magnitude better than this.