OK, you are mostly correct (and way more informed than 99% of the other posters here), but you are wrong on a very key point: explorer.exe does NOT load MSHTML.DLL at startup. This can easily be verified with a debugger, or with processes explorer from sysinternals.
The daily check is different. It does check if your OS is "genuine" once every 90 days (still more than 1 time), but the daily check is a kill-switch on the checker, not the OS. At least according to TFA.
I can't find the actual paper anywhere, but this blog posting has way more details than the article originally linked...
Very interestingly, Windows XP is not vulnerable, but OpenBSD is.
This is the most intelligent, coherent comment ever posted in slashdot history. Is the world coming to an end?
No way would MSFT participate
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Anyone at microsoft who looked at their source code would be considered "tainted" and could never work on any microsoft operating system. (otherwise microsoft could be accused of copying their source). Something similar happened with their Java engine and developers who had seen the licensed Sun code.
Currently in XP with all the patches, I can get Explorer to crash by clicking on Start, clicking on All Programs, and then right clicking on a group.
This is almost definitely related to a non-microsoft context menu extension you have installed. When the crash dialog comes up, look at the module that it has crashed in, and uninstall that software.
You can also use regedit to open up HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers and disable the entries one-by-one until the problem goes away.
Get a clue, troll- if you have a blank admin password, XP prevents ANY remote network access using that account. You are actually more secure with a blank password.
Quite a few states have a very explicitly stated right to bear arms.
The WA constitution is especially clear:
SECTION 24 RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS. The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men.
The first section is also pretty damn clear as to the sentiments of the authors: SECTION 1 POLITICAL POWER. All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect and maintain individual rights.
on a separate note, i remember a game from the late 80's in which you had to program logic circuits to get a robot to perform tasks of increasing difficulty... not a game with a lot of commercial appeal, i'm sure, but i spent many hours trying to solve problems using those little graphical circuit boards...
I think you are thinking of chipwits. Probably what first got me into coding. I had the good fortune to cross paths with the author about 5 years ago, but he was (terminally?) ill at the time. Don't know what ever became of him.
Obviously there are some hoops to jump through. Both so you can't sign up to view adobe's crash logs, and to make sure that that you protect the personal info that may be in the dumps (per the agreement.
While what you are saying about the failure of online advertising was true a few years ago, I think the definite trend is towards advertising to build awareness, not just clikc-throughs.
You see this in the flash "over-page" ads (for things like cars or Absolut), where the flash plays on top the surrounding content. Also, there are more and more "interstitial" ads (where the ads plays before showing you the content example on salon, and I would imagine that the click-through on interstitials is abysmal, since people are juust trying to get whereever they are going.
While I agree Paul Thurott is an idiot, all the other reviews/commentary of Starter Edition are based on FAR less actual knowledge of the product than he had.....
Actually, I think you are not getting his point. I've often wondered the same question: Why in god's name do DSLR's have a physical mirror which needs to swing out of the way? The sensor, unlike film, can be continuously exposed to light!
My perfect DSLR would be more like the current crop of "pro-sumer" EVF (Electronic ViewFinder) cameras (Olympus C8080, etc), but with interchangeable lenses.
There is no logical reason I can think of not to make an interchangeable lens camera EVF instead of SLR. The lower resolution and low-light performance are solvable issues, and the cost & performance savings of not having a mirror should make it worth it.
That laser method sounds really interesting, but I'm doubtfull. I'm too lazy to calculate how long it takes light to move, say one milimeter, but your talking picoseconds... Can you really synchronize at that level? If the object was static you could send out multiple pulses, so wouldn't need to take multiple pictures, but it would still need to be super-precisely synchronized.
Actually, this is a common point of confusion with windows XP. There are two tricky aspects to it. 1st, the read-only bit on directories is "special" and doesn't actually make the directory read only. 2nd, and this is really confusing, in XP's folder property sheet, the read-only checkbox is a tri-state checkbox that refers to the files within the folder, but the XP theme makes the "indeterminate" state look like its checked.
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OK, you are mostly correct (and way more informed than 99% of the other posters here), but you are wrong on a very key point: explorer.exe does NOT load MSHTML.DLL at startup. This can easily be verified with a debugger, or with processes explorer from sysinternals.
And better hope that $2,000 suburban doesn't break down on you 20 miles offroad in the desert.
I usually turn off short file name generation, it just seems like a wasteful thing to do in 2006.
w indows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/fsutil_behavior.mspx? mfr=true
See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=121007
and other cool options at http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/
The daily check is different. It does check if your OS is "genuine" once every 90 days (still more than 1 time), but the daily check is a kill-switch on the checker, not the OS. At least according to TFA.
On windows 2000/XP, you can whitelist/blacklist the execution of programs using group policy.p pro/maintain/rstrplcy.mspx for details.
See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winx
I can't find the actual paper anywhere, but this blog posting has way more details than the article originally linked ...
Very interestingly, Windows XP is not vulnerable, but OpenBSD is.
This is the most intelligent, coherent comment ever posted in slashdot history. Is the world coming to an end?
Anyone at microsoft who looked at their source code would be considered "tainted" and could never work on any microsoft operating system. (otherwise microsoft could be accused of copying their source). Something similar happened with their Java engine and developers who had seen the licensed Sun code.
and of course, I just noticed you said "clicking on a group". Also check the entries under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandle rs
You can also use regedit to open up HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers and disable the entries one-by-one until the problem goes away.
Get a clue, troll- if you have a blank admin password, XP prevents ANY remote network access using that account. You are actually more secure with a blank password.
Something like this would do quite nicely.
Quite a few states have a very explicitly stated right to bear arms.
The WA constitution is especially clear:
SECTION 24 RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS. The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men.
The first section is also pretty damn clear as to the sentiments of the authors:
SECTION 1 POLITICAL POWER. All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect and maintain individual rights.
See Product Lifecycle Dates and the Lifecycle Policy FAQ.
no such beast. You mean Pentium4-M, which is a totally different beast. The pentium M is indeed faster than its clock speed would lead you to believe.
You are right though, bus speed is a big factor too...
Probably not? Spoken like a true clueless slashdot fanboy.
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Obviously there are some hoops to jump through. Both so you can't sign up to view adobe's crash logs, and to make sure that that you protect the personal info that may be in the dumps (per the agreement.
Right, google would never have any any security or privacy issues
While what you are saying about the failure of online advertising was true a few years ago, I think the definite trend is towards advertising to build awareness, not just clikc-throughs.
You see this in the flash "over-page" ads (for things like cars or Absolut), where the flash plays on top the surrounding content. Also, there are more and more "interstitial" ads (where the ads plays before showing you the content example on salon, and I would imagine that the click-through on interstitials is abysmal, since people are juust trying to get whereever they are going.
Since when do people with @aol.com get articles accepted?
While I agree Paul Thurott is an idiot, all the other reviews/commentary of Starter Edition are based on FAR less actual knowledge of the product than he had.....
Actually, I think you are not getting his point. I've often wondered the same question: Why in god's name do DSLR's have a physical mirror which needs to swing out of the way? The sensor, unlike film, can be continuously exposed to light!
My perfect DSLR would be more like the current crop of "pro-sumer" EVF (Electronic ViewFinder) cameras (Olympus C8080, etc), but with interchangeable lenses.
There is no logical reason I can think of not to make an interchangeable lens camera EVF instead of SLR. The lower resolution and low-light performance are solvable issues, and the cost & performance savings of not having a mirror should make it worth it.
That laser method sounds really interesting, but I'm doubtfull. I'm too lazy to calculate how long it takes light to move, say one milimeter, but your talking picoseconds... Can you really synchronize at that level? If the object was static you could send out multiple pulses, so wouldn't need to take multiple pictures, but it would still need to be super-precisely synchronized.
Cognos Powerplay does this too, and even better than excel.
Actually, this is a common point of confusion with windows XP. There are two tricky aspects to it. 1st, the read-only bit on directories is "special" and doesn't actually make the directory read only. 2nd, and this is really confusing, in XP's folder property sheet, the read-only checkbox is a tri-state checkbox that refers to the files within the folder, but the XP theme makes the "indeterminate" state look like its checked.
See Q326549 for more info.