The good part about competition in such an industry is that it lowers prices. Prices on most of their services are basically as uninflated as they get. That said, now we can hope for things like better coverage (from the ATTWS/Cingular merger) or better services from consolidation. Of course these things take time.:-/
I like the way MS releases patches. Once an exploit is reported, if Microsoft keeps it under wraps, they buy time to really test out their patch. If they take their time to fix an exploit, that means that they thought it over to fix it, rather than get it out the door ASAP.
Umm, what the earlier article about the IE exploit failed to mention completely is that there is a Windows Update for it already! It was released yesterday, just like the update to Mozilla.
What about OO.org that has a program called writer and the entire project has the same name as their product with "open" in front? It's a look a like, not a copy. I'm not saying MS is hugely innovative with Office, but OO.org is certainly marketed as an direct alternative to Microsoft's product.
I like to be able to put a CD in a DVD case, and vice versa. It's also nice to put a CD in a DVD player and have it play. Little convenient things like that.
I set *mine* to read only, yes. I'm saying when diagnosing problems on others' machines, I look there right away when unable to reach liveupdate or windowsupdate.
I bet he didn't check the hosts file. I bet that was null routing the liveupdate DNS records.
Once the infections were removed, LiveUpdate still could not retrieve the latest virus-targeting data. So I gave up on that and uninstalled and reinstalled the entire Norton AntiVirus program, hoping that its update system would work afterward -- but it did not. I again tried to access Microsoft's Windows Update Web site, but IE still failed to respond.
Suspecting a problem with Internet Explorer itself, I tried to repair IE using the Add/Remove Programs control panel. That didn't work either, producing an error message that indicated some file or files necessary for IE were damaged or inaccessible. Trying to restore the previous version of IE, 5.5, yielded no benefit, either.
Finally, I abandoned ship, reinstalling the entire Windows 98 operating system to repair the damage to Internet Explorer and allow Kathleen's computer to access the Internet and update the Norton AntiVirus definitions.
I always check that file. It always gets hijacked. I'd be willing to bet that was his problem.
(and if they have the same vunerabilities, then fine, I'll wait 3 days, emerge sync && emerge -uD world && genkernel all && emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx hotplug emu10k1 and I'm all set)
Then you can wait 3 more days!
I love Gentoo, but that is not the solution to your problem.:)
As a user of all things gadgety and all things wireless, I can't wait to have this on my cell phone ! It could improve battery life or reception (depending on how it's calibrated).
However, this brings up a question...is this a design that scales to something as small as a cell phone?
Also, group policy is a great way to lock down a system. You can make a machine very fool proof in terms of not screwing things up. For instance, you could have a profile, and every time you log off the system discards it and uses the default one again.
It seems to me that, regarding system instability, that when Windows has problems, it's obviously Microsoft's incompetance. When Linux crashes, quite obviously, it's my fault! Clearly, I've configured something wrong. Bad software design? No, I just don't understand the underlying framework (I guess I have to). The software is stable. The software is perfect!
Gimme a break. Windows XP/2000 is just as stable as Linux. Both have the same caveat: proper user configuration and maintainence.
There are a suprisiing number of people on/. who have more respect for MS than you think, but they don't say anything because they will get trolled to death. A vocal majority, to say.
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An underwater glider???
Yeah, this is cool.
It's probably good.
:-/
The good part about competition in such an industry is that it lowers prices. Prices on most of their services are basically as uninflated as they get. That said, now we can hope for things like better coverage (from the ATTWS/Cingular merger) or better services from consolidation. Of course these things take time.
They're going to voice scan your calls and every 5 minutes there will be an interruption by a commercial.
"Hey Bob, how's that car working for ya'?"
*beep beep*
"Come on down to Steve's auto extravaganza!!! We will NOT be oversold!"
So has Cingular.
On slashdot, engadget is for dummies!
Seriously though, no credit? Come on!
I like the way MS releases patches. Once an exploit is reported, if Microsoft keeps it under wraps, they buy time to really test out their patch. If they take their time to fix an exploit, that means that they thought it over to fix it, rather than get it out the door ASAP.
Umm, what the earlier article about the IE exploit failed to mention completely is that there is a Windows Update for it already! It was released yesterday, just like the update to Mozilla.
What about OO.org that has a program called writer and the entire project has the same name as their product with "open" in front? It's a look a like, not a copy. I'm not saying MS is hugely innovative with Office, but OO.org is certainly marketed as an direct alternative to Microsoft's product.
"Frank"
"OK, Frank, how do you spell that?"
Gah!
It has nothing to do with that.
I like to be able to put a CD in a DVD case, and vice versa. It's also nice to put a CD in a DVD player and have it play. Little convenient things like that.
This would also be necessary for image stabilzation.
I set *mine* to read only, yes. I'm saying when diagnosing problems on others' machines, I look there right away when unable to reach liveupdate or windowsupdate.
I bet he didn't check the hosts file. I bet that was null routing the liveupdate DNS records.
Once the infections were removed, LiveUpdate still could not retrieve the latest virus-targeting data. So I gave up on that and uninstalled and reinstalled the entire Norton AntiVirus program, hoping that its update system would work afterward -- but it did not. I again tried to access Microsoft's Windows Update Web site, but IE still failed to respond.
Suspecting a problem with Internet Explorer itself, I tried to repair IE using the Add/Remove Programs control panel. That didn't work either, producing an error message that indicated some file or files necessary for IE were damaged or inaccessible. Trying to restore the previous version of IE, 5.5, yielded no benefit, either.
Finally, I abandoned ship, reinstalling the entire Windows 98 operating system to repair the damage to Internet Explorer and allow Kathleen's computer to access the Internet and update the Norton AntiVirus definitions.
I always check that file. It always gets hijacked. I'd be willing to bet that was his problem.
the EULA, of course
(and if they have the same vunerabilities, then fine, I'll wait 3 days, emerge sync && emerge -uD world && genkernel all && emerge nvidia-kernel nvidia-glx hotplug emu10k1 and I'm all set)
:)
Then you can wait 3 more days!
I love Gentoo, but that is not the solution to your problem.
As a user of all things gadgety and all things wireless, I can't wait to have this on my cell phone ! It could improve battery life or reception (depending on how it's calibrated).
However, this brings up a question...is this a design that scales to something as small as a cell phone?
Anonymous proxies...overseas preferred.
Why don't you try "being" funny?
RTFA...he presents a solution to that problem. Sell off the spectrum and treat it like land, complete with tresspasses and restraining orders.
Also, group policy is a great way to lock down a system. You can make a machine very fool proof in terms of not screwing things up. For instance, you could have a profile, and every time you log off the system discards it and uses the default one again.
It seems to me that, regarding system instability, that when Windows has problems, it's obviously Microsoft's incompetance. When Linux crashes, quite obviously, it's my fault! Clearly, I've configured something wrong. Bad software design? No, I just don't understand the underlying framework (I guess I have to). The software is stable. The software is perfect!
Gimme a break. Windows XP/2000 is just as stable as Linux. Both have the same caveat: proper user configuration and maintainence.
It's the circle of karma. I get karma for the orignal, you get some for fixing what I did wrong. :)
It's much easier to download this:. aspx?Fa milyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&Displa yLang=en
:)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details
Then that has a nice little thingy called remap.exe. Let's you remap any key to any other.
There are a suprisiing number of people on /. who have more respect for MS than you think, but they don't say anything because they will get trolled to death. A vocal majority, to say.