I can't tell you how many people I know are looking for a LiveCD/DVD that runs Linux (Ubuntu would be preferred just for ease and familiarity for these people that work on Windows machines all day) and has a GOOD antivirus program along with a GOOD or maybe a few anti-malware programs that will scan the local Windows hard drive. Sure, some LiveCD's are out there but it would be great if you could update them on the fly. I know it wouldn't save to the CD, but just updating it in a RAMdisk would be great. Having to update it each time would be fine.
Being able to walk over to an infected machine, boot from a CD/DVD to an Ubuntu desktop and run up to date cleaning utilities from there would be so incredibly helpful.
I've seen people try, but so far all the attempts I've seen... kind of suck.
This is unfortunate. For so many years, I've told people not to buy anything that is "Draft" or "Pre"-N because it's not official and might change. So many products still say "Draft" or "Pre" on them that people are still not buying them because there's no official "FINAL RELEASE-N" that they see.
They may never upgrade to -N. They might just wait for whatever is next.
No, I don't feel bad for telling them that for years. If the mfgr's want to make Beta products for consumers, fine, but I'm not going to recommend them to clients. It is sad that there is a lack of communication (and back stock) of the Draft-N products that hundreds (that I've told) of people will not buy -N.
"they've told me that ANY data--even one kilobyte--is billed as 1MB. The damage is done."
It's bullshit like this that keeps me from getting one. They really need to stop nickel and dimeing people with data plans. They really are way over priced. I won't get one, I know what it costs to bring data to a user and they charge way too much for it.
F you comcast. I pay for service, not dis-service. You can give me a faster cap, no total download limit, treat all traffic the neutrally and none of this 'throttling because you are using it' crap, for less money. Other ISP's can, time for you to cut off the top... and I mean your management.
I've got Karmic running on 4 production machines. (Kubuntu) And on one machine I had an issue of KDE not coming up all the way, there is a bug filed and I know how to fix it should it happen again. Other than that, for me, it's been flawless.
No outrage here. I'm looking forward to the game. Looks like it depicts real life situations where sometimes people do bad things. Video games aren't always about painting a pretty picture of how the good guys always get there before the bad guys do anything. Why not try the other side of it and see how horrible of a person you could be?
"Network Adapter Keeps Talking While a PC Is Asleep "
Not really. It's just small pc with a network connection, can do plenty of things without the big pc, and has the ability to wake the big pc if it needs to.
I'm telling you. Save a ton on cooling costs and move north. Yea they'll be some chicken and egg type stuff, you'll need to get better infrastructure out there... but they need to stop building heat generators in a hot climate. It's just dumb.
I see this as a rock and a hard place for Microsoft.
On one hand, they need to get something out to replace the dirty name... Vista. Everyone knows it and hates it. It's got a lot of bad press and rightfully so. It sucks. So MS needs something to replace it as soon as possible.
On the other hand, part of the reason Vista sucked was because it was rushed out the door. Yea, how many years in development? It wasn't ready. I think the other reason was that it was too different from XP that people who had been using it kind of felt offended when this Vista came along and changed basic functions. Renamed things and made them hard to find, some people just didn't like it for that and refused it... sans it's technical deficiencies.
So, I see why MS needs to get something out fast... Vista sucks and everyone knows it. The name = bad. But at the same time, if they get it out too soon they are going to have just another Vista release. Which.... it's already starting to shape up like Vista. I've used it. I don't like it.
It's also a slap in the face to charge Vista users to upgrade to Vista SP2.
"You can delete and/or restrict the contents from inside a Flash movie. Use the right-click menu in Flash to access settings and set the storage level to 0 bytes. That will wipe everything out. It will also force Flash to prompt you every time it wishes to save something to disk."
And since 2002 it hasn't worked. I have tried to set that setting ever since every few months, hoping they fixed it. Every time I go back in there, it's filled up again and not on the setting I choose. I really wish Adobe would give users more control and make it work. Make it actually save my settings, that's ok, because I don't want anything else saved.
If it weren't for the front page on Slashdot and/or Digg, I don't know how long I would have wondered why my NIC stopped working after upgrading to Intrepid beta. Sure I might have checked out the bug reports, but since it's on a testing system I wasn't that worried. Now I am, I think I just bricked that machine.
This doesn't really help me now.... but it's nice to know and hopefully when the fixes for the broken EEPROM's come out, those will be on the front page as well.
1) Most likely is that you need to cycle the connection, not the whole router. However, just rebooting it is usually quicker and easier. So while the fix might not need to reboot the whole thing, they reboot so quickly... why not?
2) Faulty firmware. At least upgrade to the latest from your mfgr. If you can, install something else like DD-WRT. I have 3 Linksys WRT54G(L)'s of varying models and they all ran much more stable, faster and of course let me have more control over more settings after "upgrading" to DD-WRT. Not all routers can support it, but those that do (from my experiance) have been better off with it.
3) Faulty hardware. Over heating or just plain something wrong with it. They are heavily mass produced items, so it could be that you got one with a problem. They are relatively inexpensive to replace, and if you have a warranty... use it.
4) It's not the router. This kind of goes back to number 1. Cycling the connections. Windows is supposed to keep an open connection and if something interrupts it, it's supposed to reestablish a working connection. But, that's not always the case. Simply doing a DHCP cycle (search on how) might fix it. But rebooting your router forces the OS to do more.
Sure, it's only beta right now, but Firefox 3 renders ACID 2 just fine as well. Whooptie dooo IE. IE8 will suck like IE7. I uninstall it from any pc I can.
"Simply coming into compliance now is not sufficient to settle the matter, because that would mean anyone can violate the license until caught"
Um, no. This is what I dislike about how current law works. They just assume that since something was settled one way that it'll always be that way from then on.
That's like going to a party and saying no to a dance from someone, it doesn't mean the same decision would be reached if each person asked.
1) He can put tape over them if he's got some kind of mental issue with them. 2) What he's asking will just make the devices more complicated and expensive. 3) Most people will disagree with him, we want to see status lights. We want to be able to glance at the cable modem and see what lights are on and off. 4) What an ego to think that he can make some kind of Bill Of ______ that others should abide by.
Netscape. Sucked for years now, several versions have been aweful and I would uninstall it on any pc I came across.
Firefox, rocks. It's great. Has been since it's been released.
I'm not sure on exactly how Netscape is related to Mozilla and thus Firefox... but they should really call on family and just rebadge Firefox to Netscape. I don't see them actually making something worth while anymore, any other way.
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I can't tell you how many people I know are looking for a LiveCD/DVD that runs Linux (Ubuntu would be preferred just for ease and familiarity for these people that work on Windows machines all day) and has a GOOD antivirus program along with a GOOD or maybe a few anti-malware programs that will scan the local Windows hard drive. Sure, some LiveCD's are out there but it would be great if you could update them on the fly. I know it wouldn't save to the CD, but just updating it in a RAMdisk would be great. Having to update it each time would be fine.
Being able to walk over to an infected machine, boot from a CD/DVD to an Ubuntu desktop and run up to date cleaning utilities from there would be so incredibly helpful.
I've seen people try, but so far all the attempts I've seen... kind of suck.
That's quite a list of people that will be there. And which one of those is representing the people? I don't see any.
This is unfortunate. For so many years, I've told people not to buy anything that is "Draft" or "Pre"-N because it's not official and might change. So many products still say "Draft" or "Pre" on them that people are still not buying them because there's no official "FINAL RELEASE-N" that they see.
They may never upgrade to -N. They might just wait for whatever is next.
No, I don't feel bad for telling them that for years. If the mfgr's want to make Beta products for consumers, fine, but I'm not going to recommend them to clients. It is sad that there is a lack of communication (and back stock) of the Draft-N products that hundreds (that I've told) of people will not buy -N.
Bury yourself with other content. If you cannot remove something, make other content more prominent and easier to find.
If 10 people say X about you, get 100 people to say Y about you. When someone goes looking, they are far more likely to hear Y.
"they've told me that ANY data--even one kilobyte--is billed as 1MB. The damage is done."
It's bullshit like this that keeps me from getting one. They really need to stop nickel and dimeing people with data plans. They really are way over priced. I won't get one, I know what it costs to bring data to a user and they charge way too much for it.
Since you don't know how to slow down commenting, we'll slow it down for you.
Careful we don't just cut you off completely.
F you comcast. I pay for service, not dis-service. You can give me a faster cap, no total download limit, treat all traffic the neutrally and none of this 'throttling because you are using it' crap, for less money. Other ISP's can, time for you to cut off the top... and I mean your management.
I've got Karmic running on 4 production machines. (Kubuntu) And on one machine I had an issue of KDE not coming up all the way, there is a bug filed and I know how to fix it should it happen again. Other than that, for me, it's been flawless.
I see it as a near perfect release.
No outrage here. I'm looking forward to the game. Looks like it depicts real life situations where sometimes people do bad things. Video games aren't always about painting a pretty picture of how the good guys always get there before the bad guys do anything. Why not try the other side of it and see how horrible of a person you could be?
MSI Wind Nettop with an Intel Atom 330 dual core processor. You choose the RAM, HDD and Optical drive.
Perfect for a home server. Even SOHO, it's a great system.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/msi-nettop-dual-core-intel,6846.html
"Network Adapter Keeps Talking While a PC Is Asleep "
Not really. It's just small pc with a network connection, can do plenty of things without the big pc, and has the ability to wake the big pc if it needs to.
In other words... this isn't news.
I'm telling you. Save a ton on cooling costs and move north. Yea they'll be some chicken and egg type stuff, you'll need to get better infrastructure out there... but they need to stop building heat generators in a hot climate. It's just dumb.
I see this as a rock and a hard place for Microsoft.
On one hand, they need to get something out to replace the dirty name... Vista. Everyone knows it and hates it. It's got a lot of bad press and rightfully so. It sucks. So MS needs something to replace it as soon as possible.
On the other hand, part of the reason Vista sucked was because it was rushed out the door. Yea, how many years in development? It wasn't ready. I think the other reason was that it was too different from XP that people who had been using it kind of felt offended when this Vista came along and changed basic functions. Renamed things and made them hard to find, some people just didn't like it for that and refused it... sans it's technical deficiencies.
So, I see why MS needs to get something out fast... Vista sucks and everyone knows it. The name = bad. But at the same time, if they get it out too soon they are going to have just another Vista release. Which.... it's already starting to shape up like Vista. I've used it. I don't like it.
It's also a slap in the face to charge Vista users to upgrade to Vista SP2.
Sorry, I forget who it was, but a couple years back someone had a working 2 and 3 LCD laptop.
The 2 LCD basically had a hinge on one side of the screen and another screen would fold out.
The 3 LCD was one main one and two smaller ones that would fold out to either side.
They looked like they sucked, I'm sure they sold -5 of them.
"You can delete and/or restrict the contents from inside a Flash movie. Use the right-click menu in Flash to access settings and set the storage level to 0 bytes. That will wipe everything out. It will also force Flash to prompt you every time it wishes to save something to disk."
And since 2002 it hasn't worked. I have tried to set that setting ever since every few months, hoping they fixed it. Every time I go back in there, it's filled up again and not on the setting I choose. I really wish Adobe would give users more control and make it work. Make it actually save my settings, that's ok, because I don't want anything else saved.
If it weren't for the front page on Slashdot and/or Digg, I don't know how long I would have wondered why my NIC stopped working after upgrading to Intrepid beta. Sure I might have checked out the bug reports, but since it's on a testing system I wasn't that worried. Now I am, I think I just bricked that machine.
This doesn't really help me now.... but it's nice to know and hopefully when the fixes for the broken EEPROM's come out, those will be on the front page as well.
I'd rather Mozilla either completely made over Gecko or started over from scratch than use webkit.
Webkit is an apple by-product. And I won't use apple. I'll go back to IE and Konqueror if Firefox stops using Gecko.
1) Most likely is that you need to cycle the connection, not the whole router. However, just rebooting it is usually quicker and easier. So while the fix might not need to reboot the whole thing, they reboot so quickly... why not?
2) Faulty firmware. At least upgrade to the latest from your mfgr. If you can, install something else like DD-WRT. I have 3 Linksys WRT54G(L)'s of varying models and they all ran much more stable, faster and of course let me have more control over more settings after "upgrading" to DD-WRT. Not all routers can support it, but those that do (from my experiance) have been better off with it.
3) Faulty hardware. Over heating or just plain something wrong with it. They are heavily mass produced items, so it could be that you got one with a problem. They are relatively inexpensive to replace, and if you have a warranty... use it.
4) It's not the router. This kind of goes back to number 1. Cycling the connections. Windows is supposed to keep an open connection and if something interrupts it, it's supposed to reestablish a working connection. But, that's not always the case. Simply doing a DHCP cycle (search on how) might fix it. But rebooting your router forces the OS to do more.
So it was a Flash exploit.... which would mean that each of the machines would be vulnerable?
I don't know the details about the sploit so I don't know if it's OS specific even though it is Flash.
Sure, it's only beta right now, but Firefox 3 renders ACID 2 just fine as well. Whooptie dooo IE. IE8 will suck like IE7. I uninstall it from any pc I can.
Just the idea that something like this exists in Windows Vista is enough to make me stay away from it. Legit or not, I won't use it.
"Simply coming into compliance now is not sufficient to settle the matter, because that would mean anyone can violate the license until caught"
Um, no. This is what I dislike about how current law works. They just assume that since something was settled one way that it'll always be that way from then on.
That's like going to a party and saying no to a dance from someone, it doesn't mean the same decision would be reached if each person asked.
It's a chili not a pepper.
What a whiny bitch.
1) He can put tape over them if he's got some kind of mental issue with them.
2) What he's asking will just make the devices more complicated and expensive.
3) Most people will disagree with him, we want to see status lights. We want to be able to glance at the cable modem and see what lights are on and off.
4) What an ego to think that he can make some kind of Bill Of ______ that others should abide by.
Lets see here...
Netscape. Sucked for years now, several versions have been aweful and I would uninstall it on any pc I came across.
Firefox, rocks. It's great. Has been since it's been released.
I'm not sure on exactly how Netscape is related to Mozilla and thus Firefox... but they should really call on family and just rebadge Firefox to Netscape. I don't see them actually making something worth while anymore, any other way.