Because of the closed source nature of Windows 2000, there is no informal, free support available, and bugs are fixed on Microsoft's schedule, not your's. Since Windows 2000 is not updated frequently (besides an SP before it was released), you may wait years for bugs to be fixed.
I hate to interrupt you, but...
Many Windows applications are provided as "shareware", without source code, so the programs cannot be customized, debugged, improved, or extended by the user.
Fascinating...but I should tell you that...
That brings us to price. The server edition of Windows 2000 costs nearly $650. Even basic applications cost extra. Users often spend many thousands of dollars for programs that are included for free with Linux or FreeBSD. I think that says it all, really. Sorry to all you Microsoft fans - but try going on fact - like the facts stated above, rather than FUD, like the FUD contained on Microsoft's web site.
...this isn't the MicroSoft Network for christ's sakes!! This is slashdot - we know all this stuff.
Your in a tight spot if you're trolling for 'Microsoft Fans', sorry.
Read this in a book that I can't recall the title of...
It theoried that the 'leap' in human evolution was partially due to the environmental changes that occurred during the
time frame mentioned in the essay (100k-40k years ago). The forthcoming Ice Age was cooling the planet and 'humans', who were surviving for the greater percentage of time in trees,
were forced aground in search of food. While this was necessary, it also exposed them to
various predators (lions, etc) - forcing the humans to travel together, hunt together, and in all likelihood, develop a sophisticated communcations system together.
Perhaps this can lend some insight into why the sudden leap in intellectual evolution didn't occur earlier in our history,
as the article mentioned that our brains have been at approximately the same
intellectual level for the last 250k years.
Of course I am no expert in this field so feel free to disagree:)
Good idea although I can already see ways around it for the companies that get patents invalidated - company Q incorporates new company A that owns the rights to some upcoming brilliant patent, for example. Of course this depends on many details not covered in two sentences...I still like your idea if 'they' can make it work.
Maybe I'm too cinical, but invariably some company will patent the method of avoiding bad patents and then we're back to square one:)
New Scientist magazine reports the revolutionary container has a flexible membrane which contains the beer inside the barrel. Air is pumped between the barrel wall and the membrane to force the beer out.
membrane ('mem-"brAn) n. - Dutch for "funnel"
Also opens opportunities for:
membraned ('mem-"brAnd) adj. - Slang for extreme drunken behavior
As you might guess, I don't like deliberate portscanners. My network is MY NETWORK. It's here for my convenience, not yours, and I don't particularly appreciate you poking around on my boxes.
Then get your boxen off public roadways...others are trying to drive.
Someone said it earlier - if you don't want YOUR network to be scanned, take it off the Internet...
Watched the A&E Biography on Steve Wozniak last night. One of his designs (Apple 1 methinks) was revolutionary for its time - a reduction from about one thousand chips on board to sixty - way ahead of what anyone else was doing.
Maybe it's me, but I can't think of a simliar 'breakthrough' advance in recent years. I remember reading somewhere that computers are approaching the 'limits' of current architecture design - we can only crank out so much from today's motherboard/x386 technology. I know that optical computing is slated as the next wave, but I can't help thinking that to bring this to light there needs to be a new "Apple I" breakthrough. Am I off base here?
A...if the author of the software is sitting on it and not turning a dime of profit by sitting on it, then I'm not depriving him of a dime by using it anyway and sharing it with my friends...
B...If my favorite garage band is selling CDs for $10 a pop and I start burning copies of that CD for all my friends, I'm depriving them of a fraction of $10 per sale. (After all, most of my friends wouldn't buy their CD; of the ten people I burned a CD for, the band probably lost only one sale...
In both cases, should the (software author/garage band) end up releasing any future (software/album) - be it as a new (version/remix) or completely new product, the name will be known already by the bunch of friends you gave that software to and the nine other people who received that CD for free.
Never underestimate the marketing value of a free giveaway.
The same thing apply for my "real" mail; it is not filled with loads of unwanted samples/tryouts/adds. Ok, maybe just a little bit of junk that has not been personally addressed but put in every citizen mailboxes of the small town I live in.
Well, I don't live in a small town but my current residence receives an inordinate amout of junk mail. I happen to know the person who lived here before me and she admitted to buying clothing occasionally through a certain mail order catalogue.
Just last Friday I received 3 different catalogues and SEVEN miscellaneous envelopes telling me I'd already won billions.
These catalogues I receive are from very different companies - clothing mainly, but also woodworking, house/home/gardening stuff - you name it, I probably get it by post. Not only that, but I receive doubles of certain publications. This time of year (Xmas) I sometimes get three copies of Victoria Secret in one day....
The company spends about $10 million a year fighting spam. "We have a process in place, and we want to be fair to all our customers." Haight said he doesn't doubt that UUNet's technical staff works hard to fight spam, but he questions the company's priorities. "UUNet spends two or three million dollars a day upgrading their network. Spam is not costing them enough to clean up their mess." Other ISPs that spend money for excess capacity to handle the spam e-mail -- up to 40 percent of traffic -- bear the financial burden, a burden eventually passed on to consumers, he said.
Maybe it's me but this paragraph sums it up nicely. UUNet spends (approx) half a billion dollars a year on network upgrades (5*52*2mil) and passes on these costs to ISPs that need the bandwidth to handle the onslaught of spam email coming down the pipe from companies that UUNet negotiates "pink contracts" with - all the while spending 10 million a year on spam cops to screw over the rest.
Here's the registry edit for Windows TCP MaxMTU setting.
WARNING!!! THIS WAS PERFORMED ON A TEST MACHINE BY A PROFESSIONAL REGEDIT STUNTMAN. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS @HOME!!!HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Class\NetTrans\0001\
Right-click to add a new STRING VALUE called MaxMTU. Right-click to modify and enter 1492 as the Value data.
Julian Priest is walking east down Clink Street away from his office. He's holding his laptop in both hands and surfing the Web as he goes through an enviable five-megabits-per-second link to his desktop computer.
I can see the headlines....
LONDON - Chalk two more victims for Clink Street.
In a continuing display of brutal idiocy, two men were killed earlier today when they inadvertently stumbled onto the busy thoroughfare. Ralph Foster, of York, was "surfing the web" on his new laptop while out for his lunch time stroll. Witness say he had just logged on to Hotmail.com and was happily deleting spam when he tripped near the curb and tumbled out headfirst into traffic. Police say he was killed almost instantly - managing, however, to log out before logging off.
Simon Edwin, of Chester, had a slightly different fate. With two Palm V's in each hand, Simon was actually playing a modified version of pong online - against himself! The police cannot confirm his exact cause of death, saying only that they have yet to find the 2nd PalmPilot.
These unfortunate events come just days after the loss of the entire development team from WebSolutions.com, who met untimely deaths when their Internet-connected coach flipped four times after the driver veered to avoid packet loss...
...this could be related to a recent news article on Dr. Robert Kahn.
An exerpt - I'm too tired to find the link...
THE COPYRIGHT CONUNDRUM
Another problem is with copyrights and other protections of intellectual property. As we have learned from the recent Napster battles, this can be a real sticky wicket on the Net, where users can so easily and freely trade files regardless of any such protection. Because the current system is intentionally oblivious to what's in those Internet packets being transferred, there's no easy way to protect copyrighted data.
With all that in mind, Kahn decided it was necessary to develop a new framework for dealing with all the information on the Internet that would act as a layer above the existing infrastructure but deal with the "what" as much as the "where." So through the 90s, while most of the world was just discovering the Internet, Kahn was working on how to reinvent it. His new system is called the "Handle System." Instead of identifying the place a file is going to or coming from, it assigns an identifier called a "handle" to the information itself, called "digital objects." A digital object is anything that can be stored on a computer: a web page, a music file, a video file, a book or chapter of a book, your dental x-rays - you name it.
Similar to the way a host name is resolved to an IP address, the handle will be resolved into information the computer needs to know about the object. Only since the information is now about the object, the location of the object is just one of the bits of information that is important. The handle record will also tell the computer things like what kind of file the object it is, how often it will be updated and how the object is allowed to be used - whether there are any copyright or privacy protections. The record can also have any industry-specific information about the object, like a book's International Standard Book Number (ISBN) code.
There are two other crucial things about these records: First, each handle can have multiple records associated with it - allowing multiple copies of the same information to be stored on different servers or for different systems. Second, the handle record is updated by the owner of the information - something in stark contrast to the host-name data, which is updated by central repository companies like Network Solutions. This will make things like changing the location of the file much more seamless, rather than waiting days for a new IP address to be updated in the DNS server.
Wouldn't merging the querying features with the above "Handle System" seem a wise thing to do? Maybe that's what it already does...
Sometimes I'd like a real tactile keyboard, the ones that click, but I don't know where to find those anymore. I actually have one in my basement, but many years ago I spilled a plastic bonding agent on the keys, and while the board still functions, the keys are all grimy.
I've got two, and no you can't have one:)
One thing about them is that you sure know when you've pressed a key - in fact, so do most of your neighbours...
Just don't register www.entangled-photons.com. I'm sure I've heard Spock mention that at least one episode and before you know it Shatner will be at your door demanding you relinquish the URL.
Oh and I suppose you'd have to include www.entangled-photons-suck.com
This happens in smaller markets already...
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...as a previous poster pointed out, the phone company gets a piece of the pie through 800 number charges and corporate phone line pricing.
This also happens in certain industries - Electronic Data Interchange (E.D.I.) for example. Used heavily in the medial/dental fields for insurance claim submissions, certain corporations own the network infrastructure it rides across and as such take a cut of each and every EDI claim. In the dental industry in Canada, each time a dental office sends a patient insurance claim electronically the insurance company pays fifty cents - of which the carrier company gets about $0.15.
Not quite the same situation, but it's likely this will be the future of business-to-business communications.
That's right, Microsoft Outlook. I couldn't check my Microsoft Outlook e-mail using Microsoft Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows in the Microsoft Store.
Similar situation here...spilled Coke on my 'a', 'z', and left shift keys, rendering them useless. Had a.txt doc on my desktop with the aforementioned letters which I would copy when logging on (the a, not the z). Anytime I needed to buy a vowel, I'd just paste away. Troublesome at first, but I got so good at it that when I finally replaced the keyboard, I was still hitting Ctrl-V everytime I wanted an 'a'.
Also, the laws regarding lawsuits won't magically change in Texas becausee somebody in California won a frivolous suit that would not be allowed in Texas.
Not exactly what I meant - more along the lines of previous rulings and how they would affect cases in other states.
Having studied civil law in Ontario...
Me too. And you're right, this sort of suit would have a difficult time here. Fortunately for me, I don't pay for copies of Windows (mind you now I'll miss out on my $22.32 refund from Bill)
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I hate to interrupt you, but...
Many Windows applications are provided as "shareware", without source code, so the programs cannot be customized, debugged, improved, or extended by the user.
Fascinating...but I should tell you that...
That brings us to price. The server edition of Windows 2000 costs nearly $650. Even basic applications cost extra. Users often spend many thousands of dollars for programs that are included for free with Linux or FreeBSD. I think that says it all, really. Sorry to all you Microsoft fans - but try going on fact - like the facts stated above, rather than FUD, like the FUD contained on Microsoft's web site.
Your in a tight spot if you're trolling for 'Microsoft Fans', sorry.
Oh yeah, someone rated this 'Interesting'?
It theoried that the 'leap' in human evolution was partially due to the environmental changes that occurred during the
time frame mentioned in the essay (100k-40k years ago). The forthcoming Ice Age was cooling the planet and 'humans', who were surviving for the greater percentage of time in trees,
were forced aground in search of food. While this was necessary, it also exposed them to
various predators (lions, etc) - forcing the humans to travel together, hunt together, and in all likelihood, develop a sophisticated communcations system together.
Perhaps this can lend some insight into why the sudden leap in intellectual evolution didn't occur earlier in our history,
as the article mentioned that our brains have been at approximately the same
intellectual level for the last 250k years.
Of course I am no expert in this field so feel free to disagree
Maybe I'm too cinical, but invariably some company will patent the method of avoiding bad patents and then we're back to square one :)
This comment sums it up:
"OMG, I nominated this one last year," wrote John Lusby.
membrane ('mem-"brAn) n. - Dutch for "funnel"
Also opens opportunities for:
membraned ('mem-"brAnd) adj. - Slang for extreme drunken behavior
Excellent...
Then get your boxen off public roadways...others are trying to drive.
Someone said it earlier - if you don't want YOUR network to be scanned, take it off the Internet...
Do I need to elaborate?
we can only crank out so much from today's motherboard/x386 technology
:)
oops...I meant x86 technology. Obviously the 386 can only crank out so much
Maybe it's me, but I can't think of a simliar 'breakthrough' advance in recent years. I remember reading somewhere that computers are approaching the 'limits' of current architecture design - we can only crank out so much from today's motherboard/x386 technology. I know that optical computing is slated as the next wave, but I can't help thinking that to bring this to light there needs to be a new "Apple I" breakthrough. Am I off base here?
B ...If my favorite garage band is selling CDs for $10 a pop and I start burning copies of that CD for all my friends, I'm depriving them of a fraction of $10 per sale. (After all, most of my friends wouldn't buy their CD; of the ten people I burned a CD for, the band probably lost only one sale...
In both cases, should the (software author/garage band) end up releasing any future (software/album) - be it as a new (version/remix) or completely new product, the name will be known already by the bunch of friends you gave that software to and the nine other people who received that CD for free.
Never underestimate the marketing value of a free giveaway.
Well, I don't live in a small town but my current residence receives an inordinate amout of junk mail. I happen to know the person who lived here before me and she admitted to buying clothing occasionally through a certain mail order catalogue.
Just last Friday I received 3 different catalogues and SEVEN miscellaneous envelopes telling me I'd already won billions.
These catalogues I receive are from very different companies - clothing mainly, but also woodworking, house/home/gardening stuff - you name it, I probably get it by post. Not only that, but I receive doubles of certain publications. This time of year (Xmas) I sometimes get three copies of Victoria Secret in one day....
...
...sorry, what was I complaining about?
Maybe it's me but this paragraph sums it up nicely. UUNet spends (approx) half a billion dollars a year on network upgrades (5*52*2mil) and passes on these costs to ISPs that need the bandwidth to handle the onslaught of spam email coming down the pipe from companies that UUNet negotiates "pink contracts" with - all the while spending 10 million a year on spam cops to screw over the rest.
Nice.
WARNING!!! THIS WAS PERFORMED ON A TEST MACHINE BY A PROFESSIONAL REGEDIT STUNTMAN. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS @HOME!!! HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Class\NetTrans\0001\
Right-click to add a new STRING VALUE called MaxMTU. Right-click to modify and enter 1492 as the Value data.
Re-f@*king boot for some stupid reason...
Julian Priest is walking east down Clink Street away from his office. He's holding his laptop in both hands and surfing the Web as he goes through an enviable five-megabits-per-second link to his desktop computer.
I can see the headlines....
LONDON - Chalk two more victims for Clink Street. In a continuing display of brutal idiocy, two men were killed earlier today when they inadvertently stumbled onto the busy thoroughfare. Ralph Foster, of York, was "surfing the web" on his new laptop while out for his lunch time stroll. Witness say he had just logged on to Hotmail.com and was happily deleting spam when he tripped near the curb and tumbled out headfirst into traffic. Police say he was killed almost instantly - managing, however, to log out before logging off.
Simon Edwin, of Chester, had a slightly different fate. With two Palm V's in each hand, Simon was actually playing a modified version of pong online - against himself! The police cannot confirm his exact cause of death, saying only that they have yet to find the 2nd PalmPilot.
These unfortunate events come just days after the loss of the entire development team from WebSolutions.com, who met untimely deaths when their Internet-connected coach flipped four times after the driver veered to avoid packet loss...
An exerpt - I'm too tired to find the link...
THE COPYRIGHT CONUNDRUM
Another problem is with copyrights and other protections of intellectual property. As we have learned from the recent Napster battles, this can be a real sticky wicket on the Net, where users can so easily and freely trade files regardless of any such protection. Because the current system is intentionally oblivious to what's in those Internet packets being transferred, there's no easy way to protect copyrighted data. With all that in mind, Kahn decided it was necessary to develop a new framework for dealing with all the information on the Internet that would act as a layer above the existing infrastructure but deal with the "what" as much as the "where." So through the 90s, while most of the world was just discovering the Internet, Kahn was working on how to reinvent it. His new system is called the "Handle System." Instead of identifying the place a file is going to or coming from, it assigns an identifier called a "handle" to the information itself, called "digital objects." A digital object is anything that can be stored on a computer: a web page, a music file, a video file, a book or chapter of a book, your dental x-rays - you name it. Similar to the way a host name is resolved to an IP address, the handle will be resolved into information the computer needs to know about the object. Only since the information is now about the object, the location of the object is just one of the bits of information that is important. The handle record will also tell the computer things like what kind of file the object it is, how often it will be updated and how the object is allowed to be used - whether there are any copyright or privacy protections. The record can also have any industry-specific information about the object, like a book's International Standard Book Number (ISBN) code. There are two other crucial things about these records: First, each handle can have multiple records associated with it - allowing multiple copies of the same information to be stored on different servers or for different systems. Second, the handle record is updated by the owner of the information - something in stark contrast to the host-name data, which is updated by central repository companies like Network Solutions. This will make things like changing the location of the file much more seamless, rather than waiting days for a new IP address to be updated in the DNS server.
Wouldn't merging the querying features with the above "Handle System" seem a wise thing to do? Maybe that's what it already does...
compared to buying a new TV set, a card like this seems like a smart idea
At close to 8 gigs an hour you might just spend as much on new drives as a new TV. Especially if you subscribe to the *dirty* channels...
Sometimes I'd like a real tactile keyboard, the ones that click, but I don't know where to find those anymore. I actually have one in my basement, but many years ago I spilled a plastic bonding agent on the keys, and while the board still functions, the keys are all grimy.
I've got two, and no you can't have one
One thing about them is that you sure know when you've pressed a key - in fact, so do most of your neighbours...
Oh and I suppose you'd have to include www.entangled-photons-suck.com
E ven funnier...
This also happens in certain industries - Electronic Data Interchange (E.D.I.) for example. Used heavily in the medial/dental fields for insurance claim submissions, certain corporations own the network infrastructure it rides across and as such take a cut of each and every EDI claim. In the dental industry in Canada, each time a dental office sends a patient insurance claim electronically the insurance company pays fifty cents - of which the carrier company gets about $0.15.
Not quite the same situation, but it's likely this will be the future of business-to-business communications.
Perhaps due to the numerous security flaws in Outlook??
I'm surprised they let you use IE if that was the case!!!
Also, the laws regarding lawsuits won't magically change in Texas becausee somebody in California won a frivolous suit that would not be allowed in Texas.
Not exactly what I meant - more along the lines of previous rulings and how they would affect cases in other states.
Having studied civil law in Ontario...
Me too. And you're right, this sort of suit would have a difficult time here. Fortunately for me, I don't pay for copies of Windows (mind you now I'll miss out on my $22.32 refund from Bill)
I am Canadian
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