Yes it has a scripting language. You can use either Visual Basic Script or Javascript (JScript in MS speak). Or you can add (free) third party scripting languages like Perl and Python. Now as for reliability...
That's the biggest bunch of crap I've ever heard, I count my W2K workstation's uptime in weeks (even months). If you're on the level then you should hire me as your IT consultant. Your current IT staff is definitely not doing it's job.
The registry is NOT one file on Windows 2000/XP/NT it is a least 5 files. Permissions can also be assigned to certain branches and keys of the registry to restrict access. Plus it's a database file, as long as no more than one process is accessing the same record, concurrent use can and does happen. Sorry none of your argument holds up.
Canadians have no problem poking fun at ourselves, I thought that episode was hilarious. BTW Ren & Stimpy creator, John Kricfalusi, is a Canadian. We Canucks are everywhere.
That wasn't insightful, you just don't know how to properly distribute virus defs. Your mistake is that you're trusting your users to update their anti-virus program. You can never count on them to do the right thing. Spend the money and get Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition. It will automatically keep users' computers up-to-date with the latest virus defs. I look after several company networks and Nimda didn't even appear on the radar. In fact I haven't had any downtime due to viruses in over a year.
You could stop the IIS service...
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before downloading and installing the patch
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choose not to install IIS on installation, download the patch, install IIS while not connected to Internet and then apply patch.
I don't always agree with Gibson, I think he's off-base concerning raw sockets, but the Register is way out of line in saying that he predicted severe consequences for the Internet. In reading Gibson's advisory I see no such thing. In fact at the end of the the advisory Gibson says:
"Please note that neither in the above communique, nor elsewhere, have I ever made any dire predictions for the worm's effect on the Internet. Others have, but I am skeptical. I believe that the Internet can easily handle the "replication probing traffic" generated even by millions of simultaneously searching and reproducing IIS worms."
I don't have this problem on W2K. Reading, writing and formatting a floppy work like a charm and don't bog my machine down. I think the problem is either your floppy controller or something's not right in your OS.
I get scanned regularily by @Home, I use Shaw Cable in Calgary. My logs report scans 5-6 times a day on TCP port 119 (NNTP) from 24.0.0.203 (authorized-scan1.security.home.net). This has been going on for quite a while now, in all that time they have never said a word to me about my email, web or DNS server.
What follows is a brief review of some of the most noteworthy examples of such censorship in Canada in 1994.
Come on now, this is seven year old stuff! Most of this is of a minor nature and has long since been resolved. The current government does very little in the way of censoring, if any. In fact when it came to the Internet, they took a strictly hands off approach and said they would NOT censor it. But in the the US you have the DMCA...
Really, you don't need expansion slots anymore. Virtually everything you need can be done through FireWire or USB.
Just what I need extra boxes and cables on my desk. If I want add say a new drive (of any kind) it should go in the box not on my desk. Sorry there is still a need for expansion slots and drive bays, if only to stop the clutter.
Not true. Intel made USB standard on Pentium II motherboards, after all they invented it. I was building USB capable PCs in 1997, the year the Pentium II debuted. Problem was OS support was lacking, Win95 at the time only partially supported it. Plus there were many ways to add devices to PCs USB just didn't seem that important. Then Win98 came out followed shortly by the iMac. Finally there were two OSs with full USB support. But Apple's decision to limit expansion on the iMac to USB helped kickstart the USB peripheral market.
Conclusion, PCs were first with USB, Apple helped to make it a success.
And it was not designed by MS but instead by a Japanese developer named Kazuhiko Nishi. MS only provided a version of their BASIC for the machine. Matsushita & Sony were the two most important manufacturers and Nishi used the abbreviation MSX saying that it meant Matsushita Sony X-machine.
A number of companies built MSX compatible computers during the eighties (MS was not one of them) and they were very popular in Asia and parts of Europe. They never took off in North America, probably due to the overwelming success of the C64 at the time.
Because M$ NT / 2000 has a *per seat* license agreement
Wrong, the install of NT 4 Server lets you choose a "per seat" OR a "per server" license, you select whatever you paid for. Also anonymous Internet connections do not count.
Could it be that non-MS-brand software is better, more stable, and doesn't screw things up so badly?
Maybe, the only MS software I use besides Windows itself is Office 2000 (without Outlook installed) and IE 5.01 SP2 (IE 5.5 sucks, as does Netscape). My NT installation has been rock solid for over two years now.
Really? This
picture of Apple's Extended keyboard (from Apple's website) looks an awful lot like the PS/2 keyboard that IBM introduced in 1987. The G4 keyboard is just a slight (very slight) variation.
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Yes it has a scripting language. You can use either Visual Basic Script or Javascript (JScript in MS speak). Or you can add (free) third party scripting languages like Perl and Python. Now as for reliability...
Granted this is a problem but there is a fix. Just Disable Processing of HTML Scripts in Media Files.
Either Linux or Windows 2000 Pro (i.e., not Server) will do a software RAID-5
Windows 2000 Pro WILL NOT do software RAID 5. Hell it won't even do RAID 1, RAID 0 is it. The Server versions will do software RAID 1 & 5.
If you like, you can run BIND on Windows 2000. I use it on Windows 2000 Server rather than Microsoft's offering.
That's the biggest bunch of crap I've ever heard, I count my W2K workstation's uptime in weeks (even months). If you're on the level then you should hire me as your IT consultant. Your current IT staff is definitely not doing it's job.
Seriously how many times have you uninstalled a program only to find that it left megs and megs of files in your win directory.
But is that a Windows problem or an application problem? Seems like an application one to me.
The registry is NOT one file on Windows 2000/XP/NT it is a least 5 files. Permissions can also be assigned to certain branches and keys of the registry to restrict access. Plus it's a database file, as long as no more than one process is accessing the same record, concurrent use can and does happen. Sorry none of your argument holds up.
Canadians have no problem poking fun at ourselves, I thought that episode was hilarious. BTW Ren & Stimpy creator, John Kricfalusi, is a Canadian. We Canucks are everywhere.
so how exactly is it Australian?
Because it is advertized in North America as an Australian beer. The slogan being: Foster's, Australian for beer
That wasn't insightful, you just don't know how to properly distribute virus defs. Your mistake is that you're trusting your users to update their anti-virus program. You can never count on them to do the right thing. Spend the money and get Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition. It will automatically keep users' computers up-to-date with the latest virus defs. I look after several company networks and Nimda didn't even appear on the radar. In fact I haven't had any downtime due to viruses in over a year.
before downloading and installing the patch
or
choose not to install IIS on installation, download the patch, install IIS while not connected to Internet and then apply patch.
I don't always agree with Gibson, I think he's off-base concerning raw sockets, but the Register is way out of line in saying that he predicted severe consequences for the Internet. In reading Gibson's advisory I see no such thing. In fact at the end of the the advisory Gibson says:
"Please note that neither in the above communique, nor elsewhere, have I ever made any dire predictions for the worm's effect on the Internet. Others have, but I am skeptical. I believe that the Internet can easily handle the "replication probing traffic" generated even by millions of simultaneously searching and reproducing IIS worms."
The rest of the advisory is here.
The Register has lost my respect, but then it never had much of it to begin with.
Exchange rate current as of today.
$50 Canadian = $32.89 US
BTW I pay $40/month for cable modem access, that's $26.31 US.
I don't have this problem on W2K. Reading, writing and formatting a floppy work like a charm and don't bog my machine down. I think the problem is either your floppy controller or something's not right in your OS.
I get scanned regularily by @Home, I use Shaw Cable in Calgary. My logs report scans 5-6 times a day on TCP port 119 (NNTP) from 24.0.0.203 (authorized-scan1.security.home.net). This has been going on for quite a while now, in all that time they have never said a word to me about my email, web or DNS server.
From the website you linked to:
What follows is a brief review of some of the most noteworthy examples of such censorship in Canada in 1994.
Come on now, this is seven year old stuff! Most of this is of a minor nature and has long since been resolved. The current government does very little in the way of censoring, if any. In fact when it came to the Internet, they took a strictly hands off approach and said they would NOT censor it. But in the the US you have the DMCA...
More Photoshop test's...sigh, if you read the article, that's what he was trying to avoid. He wanted comparisons on the type of apps HE uses.
Really, you don't need expansion slots anymore. Virtually everything you need can be done through FireWire or USB.
Just what I need extra boxes and cables on my desk. If I want add say a new drive (of any kind) it should go in the box not on my desk. Sorry there is still a need for expansion slots and drive bays, if only to stop the clutter.
Not true. Intel made USB standard on Pentium II motherboards, after all they invented it. I was building USB capable PCs in 1997, the year the Pentium II debuted. Problem was OS support was lacking, Win95 at the time only partially supported it. Plus there were many ways to add devices to PCs USB just didn't seem that important. Then Win98 came out followed shortly by the iMac. Finally there were two OSs with full USB support. But Apple's decision to limit expansion on the iMac to USB helped kickstart the USB peripheral market.
Conclusion, PCs were first with USB, Apple helped to make it a success.
At least so he says. He's even been selling plots. Here's the link .
And it was not designed by MS but instead by a Japanese developer named Kazuhiko Nishi. MS only provided a version of their BASIC for the machine. Matsushita & Sony were the two most important manufacturers and Nishi used the abbreviation MSX saying that it meant Matsushita Sony X-machine.
A number of companies built MSX compatible computers during the eighties (MS was not one of them) and they were very popular in Asia and parts of Europe. They never took off in North America, probably due to the overwelming success of the C64 at the time.
That's how long my W2K Server has been running without a reboot. Just goes to show that everyone's experiences are different.
Because M$ NT / 2000 has a *per seat* license agreement
Wrong, the install of NT 4 Server lets you choose a "per seat" OR a "per server" license, you select whatever you paid for. Also anonymous Internet connections do not count.
Could it be that non-MS-brand software is better, more stable, and doesn't screw things up so badly?
Maybe, the only MS software I use besides Windows itself is Office 2000 (without Outlook installed) and IE 5.01 SP2 (IE 5.5 sucks, as does Netscape). My NT installation has been rock solid for over two years now.
since we all know that after 6 months all versions of windows need to be re-installed or they stop running correctly.
Oops, I'd better re-install Windows right now! According to you, I'm about two years overdue!
The Keyboard layout is still not the same
Really? This picture of Apple's Extended keyboard (from Apple's website) looks an awful lot like the PS/2 keyboard that IBM introduced in 1987. The G4 keyboard is just a slight (very slight) variation.