The concept for the MMC is superficially convincing: a consistent approach for all tasks. Unfortunately, what happens is that dissimilar functions are shoe horned into the model, rather than having a task-based approach that gives the best way to deal with a particular thing.
And the function IS still scattered. When you launch the disk thingy, it's a separate applet. It's not an MMC thing, but the only way to launch it (apart from locating the file and launching it) is through MMC. The shortcut for it is just buried in one MMC default page that is not easy to find. Sure, you can build your own consoles, but why not have that applet where it belongs?
Building pages of MMC controls doesn't strike me as a massive leap forward in usability.
I'm glad scripting has improved - that's an area I haven't explored.
I may be prejudiced; I was a contract tester for SMS 2.0 and we lost the summer's work when someone made a mid-course correction, abandoning the task-based UI for the MMC. I don't think the MMC UI was intuitive at all. Sure, it looked like other apps, but it had nothing in common with, say, Exchange. So why the same interface?
I get calls from neighbors and at work all the time for hijacked desktops. They go to some lame, hostile website and every time they open IE, a million popups. If they have Active Desktop then every time they boot up.
It's insane. And ignored.
I tell them to use a browser that has not been hacked onto the OS like a siamese twin.
When I was a contractor/whore a colleague in development showed netstat connections from the PRC, where MS had no development. Not in our project, anyway.
Totally owned. MS netsec had no interest. The report impugned their competence. I have no idea if things are any better now. Maybe there was a shakeup after Code Red infected the very web servers that distribute patches for us all.
"The open source world needs to learn a little about UI consistency and try to make things easy to use if any Open Source OS is ever going to be taken seriously on the desktop or in the home."
Here is an opportunity for Linux to bring something entirely new to the table: UI consistency. The gratuitous UI changes from one windows flavor to another are deeply frustrating. Finding a particular admin applet is like playing whack-a-mole. As I recall in NT 3.51 the hard disk management applet was easily reached. Every generation hides it deeper.
And the default XP screen is really infantile - inspired by Teletubbies. You can see Po and La-la on really hi-rez screens.
and Wallingford does have some distinction. There's not much left of Fremont, in my mind, anyway. I thought about including it in the list, but I think most of the beauty of Seattle was here before the buildings went up. Downtown has some cool buildings, too, but none of them give me anywhere near the "wow!" that the Victorian houses in S.F. give me - even the crack houses have paint jobs signed by the artiste! That said, Seattle is a lot more livable than S.F. or N.O., and it is quite pretty. I think Bellevue is downright ugly. Might as well be Columbus.
The two I picked just happen to be the only cities where any part of them were built by people who cared what the outcome would look like.
If you think the vast majority of Americans have a problem with drugs, uh, you aren't paying attention. They advertise drugs on t.v. Nothing more mainstream than that. The drugs are delivery systems for alcohol, but if you think there's a moral difference between it and the others, you are insane.
I believe it is the especially blighted cities in Texas where you'll find drive through liquor stores. Is your definition of "not hidious" those cities that most prominantly feature big box retail outlets surrounded by wastelands of parking? Vast monoculture subdivisions of prefab, vinyl sided houses? That sums up most of the rest of the U.S. Santa Fe has some interesting bits, but it ain't adobe if you paint cement brown.
and the Garden District, touristy as hell, I grant. I had no use for Bourbon St., but Royal is another matter. I didn't see any sludge, but I did hear the band in Preservation Hall.
It was like the Disneyland ride "Pirates of the Carribean", only for real.
I did glean some info on the gnarly aspects from "Down by Law", a movie by Jim Jaramouch. Charmingly gnarly. A disfunctional place for disfunctional people.
the endless pursuit of stuff is killing us and what's worse, it's making us shallower.
I'm afraid that Coke is a pretty good shorthand reference for American culture. American cities are hidious, with maybe two exceptions (San Fran, New Orleans). The sole urban design goal seems to be the breakdown of community and conversion of citizens to consumers. We've lost a tremendous amount of personal time to work. Is that a good trade-off? What about pro-family values? Can you raise your kids from work? Once they are fed, housed, and clothed, is the delta income worth the -delta face time? Did you get a choice re: -delta face time?
GDP is not a sound measure of societal health. I don't think it's even a good measure of economic health. Where externalities aren't monetized (you aren't charged for pollution), but cancer treatments are, you have a skewed measurement and eventually warped values./end rant gotta get some sleep
We were usually able to script the machine name change, but domain join ALWAYS failed. Did you have better results? It was completely mucked when we tried to push images to altiris clients, too.
I'm not imaging the labs any more, but I think the guys who are preferred ghost.
They also found the imaging speed from same server hardware to be (fastest -> slowest) NetWare 4.11, Redhat 7.3/samba, Windows 2000
Even if you buy the security through obscurity model (and I don't think you should), you have to accept that Windows code is not obscure. Not to the bad guys, anyway.
The Chinese government has the code. Every contractor in the Operating Systems Group (+dog) at MS has the code. Disgruntled employees and contractors at "major partners" (not us peons) has the code. Think the black hats don't have the code?
Now, who DOESN'T have the code? Me. Not that this matters, because I'm too lame to find holes via code review. What does matter is that no PFY can find them via code review, either. Which means there's an asymetry. While pretty much any interested black hat can review the code, a small subset of white hats can/will, and few of them will be motivated. I'd much rather open it up to all the white hat PFYs looking to make a rep by PUBLISHING their finds. All MS has done is open it up to a subset of white hats employed by China, Russia, and large, mainstream IT (not where I'd look for talent in this area), and all the black hats.
There's nothing like seeing something fail silently because you were watching it like a hawk.
Vindication of my contempt!
I don't know how bad it is that the rpc patch for Blaster was supplanted by a subsequent patch for the same area of code. If they didn't suck, I'd be inclined to give them a pass. Maybe it was an unrelated flaw that they found with a stringent code review. Since they do suck, I am content to assume they should have caught the second hole when they patched the first one.
I've been looking for a chassis to host 6+ scsi drives and connect via an external . I'd prefer a rackmount enclosure. Just about everything I've seen is either another server to maintain (got lots of those) or at least a populated chassis. I have the disks, and if I didn't could get them cheaper than the "solution" vendors.
What I want is to plug hot-swap drives into an applicance that connects to the 68 pin ultra2 external channel. Dual (individually adequate) power supplies would be nice, along with adequate cooling.
so the players might as well get something out of it.
Players aren't competing for salary with school teachers. They divy up the proceeds from the revenue they generate with the owners, many of whom did nothing more amazing than survive the trip down the birth canal. Let them get all they can, and bless 'em for it. What the players don't get, the owners keep.
I'm returning the Belkin wireless router. I was ticked off that they included censorware (which doesn't work and which blocks incorrectly), but figured I could just not use it. Then this? From an UPDATE?
There are two hi-rez, "diamond vision" type billboards that are a menace. They are inevitably and purposefully a distraction, and they are also bright enough to be a hazard.
They should be eliminated on public safety grounds.
I think the standard billboards can reasonably be regulated on other grounds. If my neighbors can prevent me from hanging laundry, I should be able to keep the Ad Council from telling my kids to abuse legal-for-adult drugs.
There's a balance between doing what you want with your property (putting revenue enhancers like billboards) and making other people's property worth less (by making the neighborhood look like shit).
In certain areas of the south, hookworms are common.
That doesn't make them sanitary.
I'm willing to believe he mispronounces it on purpose to identify with anti-intellectuals, much as he insists on harmful but trivial environmental policies just to piss off the Sierra Club.
MS had a run of print ads featuring folks that at first glance did not seem to be alpha geeks in any way. They were presented as no-nonsense, get-it-done techy types, and maybe that was their self-image, but to me they looked like poseurs. There is a class of tech whose esteem is boosted by booth weasels handing out tchotchkes, who think wearing a Visual Studio cap will enhance their sex appeal. These ads were composed of and for those guys, and in me they inspire the deepest pity.
If any of you are such a psuedo tech, you are not forceful and decisive for surrendering your judgement to the "inevitability" of the market leader.
They don't have to run everything with a logic gate. To qualify as a monopoly, they just need the power to distort what would otherwise be a free market. To prompt justice dept. action, they need to abuse that power.
In both cases, BINGO. Does MS have the power to distort the market in desktop operating systems? What market? MS offered different prices to different OEMs, for the same thing. As I recall, Gateway was screwed in a relative sense, they all were in an absolute sense.
Anticompetitive pricing in browsers, specifically to annihilate Netscape. Remember, Gate's thought giving the browser away was "communist" until someone explained its use as a dirty trick. Could a startup compete on those terms? Nope. Would any other company be able to stick anything it wanted into Windows? Nope.
Competitive is running a race as fast as you can. Anticompetitive is tripping your opponent. MS is guilty of the latter, and is a hopeless recidivist. Hang 'em.
I think the term "terrorist" is only usefully applied to the deliberate targetting of non-combatents to gain political leverage. (Without the political leverage goal you have simple thrill killing)
I think attacking political/military figures is a legitimate act of war/resistance/whatever. Terrorizing Nazis is good, attacking civilians compelled to cooperate with them (because you are too feeble/cowardly to attack Nazis) is bad. If you are doing your job, the enemy will be scared of you, but that doesn't make you a terrorist.
the MSN Gaming Zone is an empty folder. I won't go to anything msn related - it's a religious thing. My hosts file will go some way to enforcing the religious ban. Nothing in Control Panel will let you remove this useless folder, nor the harmful outhouse excess.
I don't have experience with a broad variety of distros, but the number of services installed by default on RH 7.3 - 9 is much smaller and less scary than that of windows. Ditto for OBSD. RH 9 has (had) several options to automate the install, characterized by the intended use of the box. Server? Workstation? Custom? The Custom option was further tailored in that you could install broad catagories, like "Development." If you wanted more finely tuned control, you could specify individual packages, like Python but not Perl. The install routine checks for dependencies, like a graphical toolkit, but no X, and suggests the additional packages. Finally, for folks like me, there's the "Everything" option. Give me the soup and the nuts. I think the firewall configuration routine that follows does a nice job of securing the box, with generalizations for the newbies, and a way to specify rules for the more fluent. So even if you do specify an option that installs stuff you aren't prepared to maintain, Apache, say, RH 9 covers your behind by making you decide how the firewall is to behave. I think most newbs would be o.k., even installing everything.
And if you install something, you can get rid of it. Anything. Even things that would be unwise to get rid of. At least you can get rid of the things it would be wise to. That's a fundamental difference between any linux or bsd distro I know of, and windows. The OS is yours, and treats the hardware as yours. With Windows, the box belongs to Bill. You're just running it. Any time your interests collide with theirs, you lose. Realize that IE sucks and exposes you to trivial remote exploits? Too bad. They want to monopolize the web, so you have to live with it. Even if you install another browser, you'll find all kinds of apps still using it, launching worms as a result. They want to monopolize media on your pc, so if you apply a service pack, you have the latest Windows Media Player. Which has its own remote root exploits. WTF?
I think your complaint about excess junk in default installs has been heard, by Redhat at least. That install was as flexible and as easy as I could imagine. There is simply no comparison between it and Windows 2000/XP.
I've had similar frustrations with hardware in XP as you did with the MP3 player, and there's no excuse- all the manufacturers aim at XP.
The only side-side usability study I've heard of found that it took only a couple of minutes longer (something like 45 - 48 minutes)to complete a set of tasks with a non-technical bunch. This was XP and RH 9, if I recall.
I can sympathize with the minimalist approach, but when all this cool stuff is available, there's a real temptation to include it. And if you don't, you get trolled for not including minesweeper. I use OpenBSD for minimalist stuff, and until this week, RH 9 for desktop. I'm not sure where I'm going next, but I'll look at Fedora and Gentoo.
RH 9 does a better job with sound and USB camera support than windows did. In both cases, Windows allowed something to install and nuke them. No clues, no backtracking, the path to repair was to format and reinstall.
Windows hides stuff so users can't break it. And when something else breaks it, the users (and techs) can't fix it. Some of it is hidden because of simply lousy architecture and programming.
XP-home drives me up a tree. Setting permissions on files - where the fuck is that? It's not where it's been since nt 3.5. And why can't I delete c:\program files\MSN Gaming Zone ? It has OPERATING SYSTEM PROTECTION. Some asshole went out of his way to alter the OS to make it hard for me to get rid of that. Fuck him/her! Getting outlook express off of your SERVER is extremely difficult. On and on.
I think a lot of Russian casualties can be explained by genocidal invaders, and genocidal defenders. The earlier post about sending unarmed soldiers into battle is one point. Russian POWs did not get great treatment once they got home. They went into russian prison camps when they got home.
Cannon fodder. Lemmings. It must have really sucked to be them.
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The concept for the MMC is superficially convincing: a consistent approach for all tasks. Unfortunately, what happens is that dissimilar functions are shoe horned into the model, rather than having a task-based approach that gives the best way to deal with a particular thing.
And the function IS still scattered. When you launch the disk thingy, it's a separate applet. It's not an MMC thing, but the only way to launch it (apart from locating the file and launching it) is through MMC. The shortcut for it is just buried in one MMC default page that is not easy to find. Sure, you can build your own consoles, but why not have that applet where it belongs?
Building pages of MMC controls doesn't strike me as a massive leap forward in usability.
I'm glad scripting has improved - that's an area I haven't explored.
I may be prejudiced; I was a contract tester for SMS 2.0 and we lost the summer's work when someone made a mid-course correction, abandoning the task-based UI for the MMC. I don't think the MMC UI was intuitive at all. Sure, it looked like other apps, but it had nothing in common with, say, Exchange. So why the same interface?
I get calls from neighbors and at work all the time for hijacked desktops. They go to some lame, hostile website and every time they open IE, a million popups. If they have Active Desktop then every time they boot up.
It's insane. And ignored.
I tell them to use a browser that has not been hacked onto the OS like a siamese twin.
When I was a contractor/whore a colleague in development showed netstat connections from the PRC, where MS had no development. Not in our project, anyway.
Totally owned. MS netsec had no interest. The report impugned their competence. I have no idea if things are any better now. Maybe there was a shakeup after Code Red infected the very web servers that distribute patches for us all.
"The open source world needs to learn a little about UI consistency and try to make things easy to use if any Open Source OS is ever going to be taken seriously on the desktop or in the home."
Here is an opportunity for Linux to bring something entirely new to the table: UI consistency. The gratuitous UI changes from one windows flavor to another are deeply frustrating. Finding a particular admin applet is like playing whack-a-mole. As I recall in NT 3.51 the hard disk management applet was easily reached. Every generation hides it deeper.
And the default XP screen is really infantile - inspired by Teletubbies. You can see Po and La-la on really hi-rez screens.
and Wallingford does have some distinction. There's not much left of Fremont, in my mind, anyway. I thought about including it in the list, but I think most of the beauty of Seattle was here before the buildings went up. Downtown has some cool buildings, too, but none of them give me anywhere near the "wow!" that the Victorian houses in S.F. give me - even the crack houses have paint jobs signed by the artiste! That said, Seattle is a lot more livable than S.F. or N.O., and it is quite pretty. I think Bellevue is downright ugly. Might as well be Columbus.
I have no use for Florida.
The two I picked just happen to be the only cities where any part of them were built by people who cared what the outcome would look like.
If you think the vast majority of Americans have a problem with drugs, uh, you aren't paying attention. They advertise drugs on t.v. Nothing more mainstream than that. The drugs are delivery systems for alcohol, but if you think there's a moral difference between it and the others, you are insane.
I believe it is the especially blighted cities in Texas where you'll find drive through liquor stores. Is your definition of "not hidious" those cities that most prominantly feature big box retail outlets surrounded by wastelands of parking? Vast monoculture subdivisions of prefab, vinyl sided houses? That sums up most of the rest of the U.S. Santa Fe has some interesting bits, but it ain't adobe if you paint cement brown.
and the Garden District, touristy as hell, I grant. I had no use for Bourbon St., but Royal is another matter. I didn't see any sludge, but I did hear the band in Preservation Hall.
It was like the Disneyland ride "Pirates of the Carribean", only for real.
I did glean some info on the gnarly aspects from "Down by Law", a movie by Jim Jaramouch. Charmingly gnarly. A disfunctional place for disfunctional people.
the endless pursuit of stuff is killing us and what's worse, it's making us shallower.
/end rant gotta get some sleep
I'm afraid that Coke is a pretty good shorthand reference for American culture. American cities are hidious, with maybe two exceptions (San Fran, New Orleans). The sole urban design goal seems to be the breakdown of community and conversion of citizens to consumers. We've lost a tremendous amount of personal time to work. Is that a good trade-off? What about pro-family values? Can you raise your kids from work? Once they are fed, housed, and clothed, is the delta income worth the -delta face time? Did you get a choice re: -delta face time?
GDP is not a sound measure of societal health. I don't think it's even a good measure of economic health. Where externalities aren't monetized (you aren't charged for pollution), but cancer treatments are, you have a skewed measurement and eventually warped values.
define, please
Also "anal-retentive"
We were usually able to script the machine name change, but domain join ALWAYS failed. Did you have better results? It was completely mucked when we tried to push images to altiris clients, too.
I'm not imaging the labs any more, but I think the guys who are preferred ghost.
They also found the imaging speed from same server hardware to be (fastest -> slowest) NetWare 4.11, Redhat 7.3/samba, Windows 2000
Even if you buy the security through obscurity model (and I don't think you should), you have to accept that Windows code is not obscure. Not to the bad guys, anyway.
The Chinese government has the code. Every contractor in the Operating Systems Group (+dog) at MS has the code. Disgruntled employees and contractors at "major partners" (not us peons) has the code. Think the black hats don't have the code?
Now, who DOESN'T have the code? Me. Not that this matters, because I'm too lame to find holes via code review. What does matter is that no PFY can find them via code review, either. Which means there's an asymetry. While pretty much any interested black hat can review the code, a small subset of white hats can/will, and few of them will be motivated. I'd much rather open it up to all the white hat PFYs looking to make a rep by PUBLISHING their finds. All MS has done is open it up to a subset of white hats employed by China, Russia, and large, mainstream IT (not where I'd look for talent in this area), and all the black hats.
It's the worst of both models.
There's nothing like seeing something fail silently because you were watching it like a hawk.
Vindication of my contempt!
I don't know how bad it is that the rpc patch for Blaster was supplanted by a subsequent patch for the same area of code. If they didn't suck, I'd be inclined to give them a pass. Maybe it was an unrelated flaw that they found with a stringent code review. Since they do suck, I am content to assume they should have caught the second hole when they patched the first one.
I've been looking for a chassis to host 6+ scsi drives and connect via an external . I'd prefer a rackmount enclosure. Just about everything I've seen is either another server to maintain (got lots of those) or at least a populated chassis. I have the disks, and if I didn't could get them cheaper than the "solution" vendors.
What I want is to plug hot-swap drives into an applicance that connects to the 68 pin ultra2 external channel. Dual (individually adequate) power supplies would be nice, along with adequate cooling.
Anybody found what I'm looking for?
so the players might as well get something out of it.
Players aren't competing for salary with school
teachers. They divy up the proceeds from the revenue they generate with the owners, many of whom did nothing more amazing than survive the trip down the birth canal. Let them get all they can, and bless 'em for it. What the players don't get, the owners keep.
I'm returning the Belkin wireless router. I was ticked off that they included censorware (which doesn't work and which blocks incorrectly), but figured I could just not use it. Then this? From an UPDATE?
Fsk them. I won't even buy cable from them.
There are two hi-rez, "diamond vision" type billboards that are a menace. They are inevitably and purposefully a distraction, and they are also bright enough to be a hazard.
They should be eliminated on public safety grounds.
I think the standard billboards can reasonably be regulated on other grounds. If my neighbors can prevent me from hanging laundry, I should be able to keep the Ad Council from telling my kids to abuse legal-for-adult drugs.
There's a balance between doing what you want with your property (putting revenue enhancers like billboards) and making other people's property worth less (by making the neighborhood look like shit).
I remember being astonished and impressed that a company had so much faith in its code that it was available for review. This was in 1993-94, I think.
I think they changed the policy. The rest of the civilized world went their original direction.
In certain areas of the south, hookworms are common.
That doesn't make them sanitary.
I'm willing to believe he mispronounces it on purpose to identify with anti-intellectuals, much as he insists on harmful but trivial environmental policies just to piss off the Sierra Club.
MS had a run of print ads featuring folks that at first glance did not seem to be alpha geeks in any way. They were presented as no-nonsense, get-it-done techy types, and maybe that was their self-image, but to me they looked like poseurs. There is a class of tech whose esteem is boosted by booth weasels handing out tchotchkes, who think wearing a Visual Studio cap will enhance their sex appeal. These ads were composed of and for those guys, and in me they inspire the deepest pity.
If any of you are such a psuedo tech, you are not forceful and decisive for surrendering your judgement to the "inevitability" of the market leader.
They don't have to run everything with a logic gate. To qualify as a monopoly, they just need the power to distort what would otherwise be a free market. To prompt justice dept. action, they need to abuse that power.
In both cases, BINGO. Does MS have the power to distort the market in desktop operating systems? What market? MS offered different prices to different OEMs, for the same thing. As I recall, Gateway was screwed in a relative sense, they all were in an absolute sense.
Anticompetitive pricing in browsers, specifically to annihilate Netscape. Remember, Gate's thought giving the browser away was "communist" until someone explained its use as a dirty trick. Could a startup compete on those terms? Nope. Would any other company be able to stick anything it wanted into Windows? Nope.
Competitive is running a race as fast as you can. Anticompetitive is tripping your opponent. MS is guilty of the latter, and is a hopeless recidivist. Hang 'em.
I think the term "terrorist" is only usefully applied to the deliberate targetting of non-combatents to gain political leverage. (Without the political leverage goal you have simple thrill killing)
I think attacking political/military figures is a legitimate act of war/resistance/whatever. Terrorizing Nazis is good, attacking civilians compelled to cooperate with them (because you are too feeble/cowardly to attack Nazis) is bad. If you are doing your job, the enemy will be scared of you, but that doesn't make you a terrorist.
the MSN Gaming Zone is an empty folder. I won't go to anything msn related - it's a religious thing. My hosts file will go some way to enforcing the religious ban. Nothing in Control Panel will let you remove this useless folder, nor the harmful outhouse excess.
I don't have experience with a broad variety of distros, but the number of services installed by default on RH 7.3 - 9 is much smaller and less scary than that of windows. Ditto for OBSD. RH 9 has (had) several options to automate the install, characterized by the intended use of the box. Server? Workstation? Custom? The Custom option was further tailored in that you could install broad catagories, like "Development." If you wanted more finely tuned control, you could specify individual packages, like Python but not Perl. The install routine checks for dependencies, like a graphical toolkit, but no X, and suggests the additional packages. Finally, for folks like me, there's the "Everything" option. Give me the soup and the nuts. I think the firewall configuration routine that follows does a nice job of securing the box, with generalizations for the newbies, and a way to specify rules for the more fluent. So even if you do specify an option that installs stuff you aren't prepared to maintain, Apache, say, RH 9 covers your behind by making you decide how the firewall is to behave. I think most newbs would be o.k., even installing everything.
And if you install something, you can get rid of it. Anything. Even things that would be unwise to get rid of. At least you can get rid of the things it would be wise to. That's a fundamental difference between any linux or bsd distro I know of, and windows. The OS is yours, and treats the hardware as yours. With Windows, the box belongs to Bill. You're just running it. Any time your interests collide with theirs, you lose. Realize that IE sucks and exposes you to trivial remote exploits? Too bad. They want to monopolize the web, so you have to live with it. Even if you install another browser, you'll find all kinds of apps still using it, launching worms as a result. They want to monopolize media on your pc, so if you apply a service pack, you have the latest Windows Media Player. Which has its own remote root exploits. WTF?
I think your complaint about excess junk in default installs has been heard, by Redhat at least. That install was as flexible and as easy as I could imagine. There is simply no comparison between it and Windows 2000/XP.
I've had similar frustrations with hardware in XP as you did with the MP3 player, and there's no excuse- all the manufacturers aim at XP.
The only side-side usability study I've heard of found that it took only a couple of minutes longer (something like 45 - 48 minutes)to complete a set of tasks with a non-technical bunch. This was XP and RH 9, if I recall.
I can sympathize with the minimalist approach, but when all this cool stuff is available, there's a real temptation to include it. And if you don't, you get trolled for not including minesweeper. I use OpenBSD for minimalist stuff, and until this week, RH 9 for desktop. I'm not sure where I'm going next, but I'll look at Fedora and Gentoo.
RH 9 does a better job with sound and USB camera support than windows did. In both cases, Windows allowed something to install and nuke them. No clues, no backtracking, the path to repair was to format and reinstall.
Windows hides stuff so users can't break it. And when something else breaks it, the users (and techs) can't fix it. Some of it is hidden because of simply lousy architecture and programming.
XP-home drives me up a tree. Setting permissions on files - where the fuck is that? It's not where it's been since nt 3.5. And why can't I delete c:\program files\MSN Gaming Zone ? It has OPERATING SYSTEM PROTECTION. Some asshole went out of his way to alter the OS to make it hard for me to get rid of that. Fuck him/her! Getting outlook express off of your SERVER is extremely difficult. On and on.
Foreign cities now working on obsolete wonders.
I think a lot of Russian casualties can be explained by genocidal invaders, and genocidal defenders. The earlier post about sending unarmed soldiers into battle is one point. Russian POWs did not get great treatment once they got home. They went into russian prison camps when they got home.
Cannon fodder. Lemmings. It must have really sucked to be them.