That's what I thought.... Pretty clueless... I know that citizens of the United States have rights where I live, and I have been to the US and I'm pretty sure I have some rights there.
Only "some" of course;-)
That is so untrue... My experience has been this: load the first time with the OEM version. Write down system config (graphics card, sound card, network card). (especially with a laptop, with a normal computer just go hunting on the motherboard for what is written on the chips)
Reinstall a good Windows (and the only two that apply are Win2000 and WinNT4, and the latter only on older machines). You may be in VGA mode with no sound, but you can still go to the sites where you can get the drivers. I usually prefer the drivers of the chipset manufacturers than the drivers of the OEM. Yes, I know you might not get some features, but I don't trust OEMs.
(Note: I also can install Linux, but I prefer OpenBSD and by the way, my machines are clean, when I reinstall machines it is to help people so then I can only do windows...you know this Linux on the desktop thingy doesn't work when you get the kid that wants to play Rollercoaster Tycoon or whatever)
Alcohol for example . You could also run your car on natural gas (I mean LPG...yes, I know that it is fossil fuel too). Normal combustion engines can easily be converted to use natural gas.
So there are alternatives, there is just no infrastructure.
Well, you are just half right. Most Europeans do have a car, but they are usually more efficient than the US counterparts. It is also true that many people take public transportation. Heck, I live in Europe and drive an Audi TT which does 25MPG on a good day (10 l/100km). However for going to work, I take the bus. It's easier and at least I don't have to bother finding a parking spot.
We have cars, we just drive them less... also because we often don't have to drive much in the first place to get somewhere. My car is 3 and a half years old, and only has 59000km on the counter (36875 miles). That's just 16857 km per year (10535 miles per year).
I don't care that I have to pay over 50Euro for a fillup. It's worth every cent for the fun of driving.
Hey, at risk of losing some Karma, but I actually do know someone working at "Evil Microsoft". Guess what... these are people like you and me! Not evil at all, just doing a living.
I didn't know she was working for Microsoft at first, and then I got to know her and I liked her. It's only later I found out. Once you get to know the people behind the MS curtain, you won't say anything bad anymore about them. The company may be evil, the employees are not.
Uhm, I have also a Dual AMD Athlon MP 2400. It has bothe IDE and an Adaptec 29160. Guess which one is visbile in the Windows task manager while accessing the disks?
No, it doesn't take the whole CPU power... but it didn't on the P166 either. (The P166 runs OpenBSD) top rarely reported over 0.20 load, with IDE.... With SCSI it was about 0.10 load, and that was very noticable.
On the Dual it isn't noticable, except when you watch the stats carefully...
Same experience here too... I have a P166 server with 128Meg RAM, and before it ran just from an IDE disk. It was terribly slow. I later replaced it with an Adaptec 2940UW with an relatively old IBM 18Gig SCSI harddisk. The difference was mindblowing. It was as if I had upgraded the CPU with a P-II...
It's insane... SCSI is worths it's money... I just don't have the money...;-)
At the risk of sounding like an AOLer: me too! I used to have a PDA for years and years. I was very happy with it and I did everything on it. Earlier this year, it just died taking with it all data (I couldn't sync because my computer was broken). So, instead of buying a new one and trying to gather all the data back, I just decided to go for pen and paper. Paper and pen "just work".
I do have one of those fancy smart-phones. I just don't bother with the PDA part of it. As long as I can call, send SMS and use it as an alarm clock in the morning, I'm happy.
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Now, admittedly, this would also add on some responsibility to tag keywords to the files,
And this is the point where it will fail. Look, the concept is nifty, that is true. However common users rarely bother to give a document a good name, so why would you think that they are going to fill in the metadata? (Which you can do by the way in Office documents)
Now imagine this: we are in 2006, you have your digital camera and come home from a long vacation. You want to upload the pics to your machine runninng Windows Longhorn with WinFS. Ah! Right now you get something like 00001.jpg, 00002.jpg etc. How will the camera know what metadata to put for the pictures? It won't... The only way to *enforce* it is to show each and every single picture and prompt for relevant metadata, which of course no sane user is going to fill in. (Imagine doing it for a couple of hundred pictures) It is that simple. Right now you would just create a folder "vacation to Florida May 2003", dump in all the files and be happy.
No, you won't find the files of you and Sophie the classic way.... but unless the metadata entry is correctly entered, you won't with WinFS either.
in French... I always enjoy seeing operating systems running in other langauages.
As someone who has used both German, French, Dutch and Danish (which I don't even understand) operating systems, I can only tell you that you should be glad to only "see" them.
One major gripe I have is that everything changes. For example in a German Windows it's not "C:\Program Files" but "C:\Programme". I absolutely hate non-english OSes. Hey, Mac OS X is the only one doing it right: choose the lanuage you need, but don't change the system. (Linux might do that too, but I never bothered trying something else than english)
Oh, and not only OSes have this problem. Take for example Office. I recall that the Visual Basic in a certain version of Office was *translated*, resulting in the fact that you could not run a macro you wrote on a french Office in an english Office. Sad, sad, sad....
One or two a week here... but they always come from my provider. Just touting their services, that's about it. I guess I could call the helpline and ask them to stop that.
Once, just once, I got an SMS that was not from the service provider. It came from the Ministry of Transportation and said "Speeding kills". Which scared the crap out of me because I was driving 140kmh where 90kmh was allowed. My idea was "how did they know?", but later that day I heard my dad and brother got the same message (while peacefully sitting at home)
Wouldn't the IT staff be the ones who want to make the change to Apple?
Depends on your company and the people working there. The company I work for gives laptops to people. I refused mine, for several reasons. (Pissed off management a bit, but hey...) I have a private iBook. I took it with me when I had to work at the main office, looked for a empty network socket and plugged it in without asking. Within 5 minutes I had mounted the relevant network shares and configured the browser for their proxy.
The IT support staff just looked at my shiny iBook, wanted a little demo and made a joke about "hey, you know you can't plug in a computer without an antivirus package, eh?". That was it.... Nobody made a fuss.
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I thought XP stands for "Experience". Okay, a LSD-trip experience, but still an experience;-)
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I think I am the only person on Slashdot that has a Powerbook and a Dual Xeon Workstation......
I seriously doubt that. Many of us have more than one machine. (I have five, including a Sun) Perhaps I have no powerbook, but I have an iBook, and I don't have a Dual Xeon machine, but I have a Dual AMD Athlon MP workstation (yes, with ECC RAM...go figure!)
So you're in college and have virus problems? Buddy, not wanting to flame you but buy an anitivius package! Protect yourself! Having a Windows machine on a network without protection is like screwing the street hooker without a condom. So you've probably got educational rebates on commercial Antivirus packages, and if you're too cheap for that, search for freeware antivirus packages. (They exist, I have pointed out to one before, I won't do it again because otherwhise people might think I work for them)
And you are in College... *sigh*
Not really. If I put in a Audio CD, I might want to listen to it, rip it, or just browse the "extra features" that come these days on "Enhanced Audio CD's" How does the computer know what I want to do?
Same for software. How does it know I want to install the program, or run it, or just browse the CD for interesting files (like a README or a PDF).
Games are worse, well they used to be. I had non-pirated games that wanted to install the game each time I put it in the CD-Rom drive, even though, the damned game needed the CD in the drive to be able to run. I know I cannot blame this on Microsoft, but it is just as annoying. These days, I just get an annoying dialog box saying "Run Game" and then a whole slew of advertisement. Uhm... You know, the installer dumped that icon on my desktop for *something*...
Nearly all users are happy when I disable the damned feature.
What side effects? I fail to see any side effects. Point me to software that won't work when I have this key set to 0.
Apart from that, in Microsofts own Knowledge base gives this, as a result to searching for: "How to Enable or Disable Automatically Running CD-ROMs" Go and take a look. It clearly talk about AutoRun, not about "insert notification". Heck, the damned key is called "Autorun". In that page they talk about "NoDriveTypeAutoRun", but as you can see it is related to "There are two other registry keys that can affect this functionality". Sorry, nothing about "insert notification". If Microsoft recommends this system for their own operating system, who should I believe? Some AC on Slashdot or Microsoft. While not being a Microsoft lover, this time I go with the Mircosoft solution.
Thats' bollocks! My burning software works perfectly on any machine that has this reg-edit. And I have used many mainstream software like Nero and EasyCD Creator (just on top of my head) I don't want AutoRun on *any* of my CD Players, so this *is* the correct key to use.
please understand what things do before you change them and don't contribute to more users with avoidable helpdesk requests.
I don't call helpdesks... I solve my own problems.
Uhm... I think that option only existed in the 9x series. I know that it didn't exist in Windows NT4, I don't know for Win2000 because I knew this way and it works (I'll check tonight, if I actually have a W2k box in front of me). For XP I don't know at all, I don't use XP.
Set the Autorun key to 0. Done. One of the first things I do on any machine I install or have to use. I absolutely hate Autorun and find it one of the most useless "innovations" of the last decade.
I wish ISPs would charge, say, an extra $5/month
for users that want no port blocking
Wait a second... You want those with a clue to pay more? Some people actually use their DSL lines mostly from the outside. At least that is how it works for me. I'm just like you: low-traffic mail, http and ssh... but I fail to see why I would need to pay *more* for that. The internet has been built with the philosophy "every node is a server", and it has been that way since the dial-up days (and before...)
I have DSL for the "always on" feature, not for the "lotsa bandwidth".
I have a Mac and a few PC's (and a Sun, but I don't think I'll ever see iTunes for Solaris). Releasing iTunes for Windows isn't my primary concern. I will be happy once they open up their offerings to other countries than just the US and Canada...
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That's what I thought.... Pretty clueless... I know that citizens of the United States have rights where I live, and I have been to the US and I'm pretty sure I have some rights there. ;-)
Only "some" of course
So, I, as a European have no rights at all in the US? You find that fair?
*scratches US from list of places to visit*.
Yeah, I know one "nifty" technology based on yeast: it's called "beer" and has been around for thousands of years. Hoooray for yeast! ;-)
Reinstall a good Windows (and the only two that apply are Win2000 and WinNT4, and the latter only on older machines). You may be in VGA mode with no sound, but you can still go to the sites where you can get the drivers. I usually prefer the drivers of the chipset manufacturers than the drivers of the OEM. Yes, I know you might not get some features, but I don't trust OEMs.
(Note: I also can install Linux, but I prefer OpenBSD and by the way, my machines are clean, when I reinstall machines it is to help people so then I can only do windows...you know this Linux on the desktop thingy doesn't work when you get the kid that wants to play Rollercoaster Tycoon or whatever)
So there are alternatives, there is just no infrastructure.
We have cars, we just drive them less... also because we often don't have to drive much in the first place to get somewhere. My car is 3 and a half years old, and only has 59000km on the counter (36875 miles). That's just 16857 km per year (10535 miles per year).
I don't care that I have to pay over 50Euro for a fillup. It's worth every cent for the fun of driving.
I didn't know she was working for Microsoft at first, and then I got to know her and I liked her. It's only later I found out. Once you get to know the people behind the MS curtain, you won't say anything bad anymore about them. The company may be evil, the employees are not.
Of course... Except that the SCSI card and the harddisk came from another computer with broken motherboard: net investment was 0$.
No, it doesn't take the whole CPU power... but it didn't on the P166 either. (The P166 runs OpenBSD) top rarely reported over 0.20 load, with IDE.... With SCSI it was about 0.10 load, and that was very noticable.
On the Dual it isn't noticable, except when you watch the stats carefully...
You do realise SCSI is parallel technology don't you?
It's insane... SCSI is worths it's money... I just don't have the money... ;-)
I do have one of those fancy smart-phones. I just don't bother with the PDA part of it. As long as I can call, send SMS and use it as an alarm clock in the morning, I'm happy.
And this is the point where it will fail. Look, the concept is nifty, that is true. However common users rarely bother to give a document a good name, so why would you think that they are going to fill in the metadata? (Which you can do by the way in Office documents)
Now imagine this: we are in 2006, you have your digital camera and come home from a long vacation. You want to upload the pics to your machine runninng Windows Longhorn with WinFS. Ah! Right now you get something like 00001.jpg, 00002.jpg etc. How will the camera know what metadata to put for the pictures? It won't... The only way to *enforce* it is to show each and every single picture and prompt for relevant metadata, which of course no sane user is going to fill in. (Imagine doing it for a couple of hundred pictures) It is that simple. Right now you would just create a folder "vacation to Florida May 2003", dump in all the files and be happy.
No, you won't find the files of you and Sophie the classic way.... but unless the metadata entry is correctly entered, you won't with WinFS either.
As someone who has used both German, French, Dutch and Danish (which I don't even understand) operating systems, I can only tell you that you should be glad to only "see" them.
One major gripe I have is that everything changes. For example in a German Windows it's not "C:\Program Files" but "C:\Programme". I absolutely hate non-english OSes. Hey, Mac OS X is the only one doing it right: choose the lanuage you need, but don't change the system. (Linux might do that too, but I never bothered trying something else than english)
Oh, and not only OSes have this problem. Take for example Office. I recall that the Visual Basic in a certain version of Office was *translated*, resulting in the fact that you could not run a macro you wrote on a french Office in an english Office. Sad, sad, sad....
Once, just once, I got an SMS that was not from the service provider. It came from the Ministry of Transportation and said "Speeding kills". Which scared the crap out of me because I was driving 140kmh where 90kmh was allowed. My idea was "how did they know?", but later that day I heard my dad and brother got the same message (while peacefully sitting at home)
Depends on your company and the people working there. The company I work for gives laptops to people. I refused mine, for several reasons. (Pissed off management a bit, but hey...) I have a private iBook. I took it with me when I had to work at the main office, looked for a empty network socket and plugged it in without asking. Within 5 minutes I had mounted the relevant network shares and configured the browser for their proxy.
The IT support staff just looked at my shiny iBook, wanted a little demo and made a joke about "hey, you know you can't plug in a computer without an antivirus package, eh?". That was it.... Nobody made a fuss.
I thought XP stands for "Experience". Okay, a LSD-trip experience, but still an experience ;-)
I seriously doubt that. Many of us have more than one machine. (I have five, including a Sun) Perhaps I have no powerbook, but I have an iBook, and I don't have a Dual Xeon machine, but I have a Dual AMD Athlon MP workstation (yes, with ECC RAM...go figure!)
So you're in college and have virus problems? Buddy, not wanting to flame you but buy an anitivius package! Protect yourself! Having a Windows machine on a network without protection is like screwing the street hooker without a condom. So you've probably got educational rebates on commercial Antivirus packages, and if you're too cheap for that, search for freeware antivirus packages. (They exist, I have pointed out to one before, I won't do it again because otherwhise people might think I work for them)
And you are in College... *sigh*
Same for software. How does it know I want to install the program, or run it, or just browse the CD for interesting files (like a README or a PDF).
Games are worse, well they used to be. I had non-pirated games that wanted to install the game each time I put it in the CD-Rom drive, even though, the damned game needed the CD in the drive to be able to run. I know I cannot blame this on Microsoft, but it is just as annoying. These days, I just get an annoying dialog box saying "Run Game" and then a whole slew of advertisement. Uhm... You know, the installer dumped that icon on my desktop for *something*...
Nearly all users are happy when I disable the damned feature.
What side effects? I fail to see any side effects. Point me to software that won't work when I have this key set to 0.
Apart from that, in Microsofts own Knowledge base gives this, as a result to searching for: "How to Enable or Disable Automatically Running CD-ROMs" Go and take a look. It clearly talk about AutoRun, not about "insert notification". Heck, the damned key is called "Autorun". In that page they talk about "NoDriveTypeAutoRun", but as you can see it is related to "There are two other registry keys that can affect this functionality". Sorry, nothing about "insert notification". If Microsoft recommends this system for their own operating system, who should I believe? Some AC on Slashdot or Microsoft. While not being a Microsoft lover, this time I go with the Mircosoft solution.
please understand what things do before you change them and don't contribute to more users with avoidable helpdesk requests.
I don't call helpdesks... I solve my own problems.
Uhm... I think that option only existed in the 9x series. I know that it didn't exist in Windows NT4, I don't know for Win2000 because I knew this way and it works (I'll check tonight, if I actually have a W2k box in front of me). For XP I don't know at all, I don't use XP.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Cdrom
Set the Autorun key to 0. Done. One of the first things I do on any machine I install or have to use. I absolutely hate Autorun and find it one of the most useless "innovations" of the last decade.
Wait a second... You want those with a clue to pay more? Some people actually use their DSL lines mostly from the outside. At least that is how it works for me. I'm just like you: low-traffic mail, http and ssh... but I fail to see why I would need to pay *more* for that. The internet has been built with the philosophy "every node is a server", and it has been that way since the dial-up days (and before...)
I have DSL for the "always on" feature, not for the "lotsa bandwidth".
I want my Music heroin too! ;-)