* You want a standardised system for storing system and application configuration and run-time data, because the existing system results in millions of.ini files strewn all over the system.
And what's wrong with deleting the directory and all files in Blaser or Bonsi Buddy and have it completely gone?
I had an issue with my wife's XP home box. I but on a software copy machine to use the scanner and printer. It worked fine. I needed to re-size some photos to e-mail. I fired up the demo photo editor that Dell was kind enough to leave on the system. It wanted all kinds of personal information to register for the 30 day trial, so I quit. That hosed the scanner instalation. Opening the copier software and trying to photocopy a document now results in the TWAIN driver opening, scanning and launching the photo editor that is not registered putting me into the NAG screen. I uninstalled the photo editor. The photo copier is still broken as it try to re-launch the removed photo editor. In DOS I could peruse the Autoexec and Config files and fix something like this. In XP I can't. There is no documentation. I moved the scanner to my Ubuntu box until the next XP box reformat and reinstall.
There is no reason for an application demo to hi-jack the hardware assuming nothing else on the system would use it. There should be an easy way to fix the damage. There isn't.
In DOS quiting the MIDI player would free the MIDI port for use by the Piano Tutor. Quiting the Piano Tutor would free the MIDI Port for the game, etc.
Uninstalling a program and removing it's system hooks should not be rocket science.
Crippled IP stack - There are a lot of features between the desktop and server distributions that are crippled to try to keep people from running servers with the desktop distros. Completely fucking pointless since the real money in server distros is not licensing fees, but the support contracts companies.
In the same strain,
Downgraded network security. I know, they added a firewall. What's screwed up is the SMB in XP Home. It is a downgrade as any share is all or nothing in permissions. There is no such thing as a place in XP home to share my digital camera photos as read only. Anyone with access to network neighborhood can manipulate and delete my shared photos. Even worse, anyone can place a worm or virus in the shared directory.
Needless to say XP home is a client, not a server on my network. I bought a Simple Share NAS instead. It encrypts and supports per user permission access control lists.
The Penguin Computing poster is correct. Tux visits Redmond saying "Good evening Mr. Gates, I'll be your server tonight!".
MS is sending the SOHO SMB server market right to the competetion. I'm not spending 2-300 bucks for a software upgrade of XP Pro when for 2-300 bucks I can get a NAS providing more hard drive space, better security and I don't have to leave a PC on to serve the LAN.
MS dumbed down XP home is why I bought a NAS instead of a second hard drive for the XP box.
What MIGHT be acceptable is if the students had an option (very important, they should in no way be forced) to sell a license to this service to use their works and were paid an agreed upon annual fee for its use. Yes, it would cost the service an assload of money...as it should if they are profiting from copyrighted works.
The software is improperly applied. It should be used in the patent office and copyright office for comparisons of the source code of all software patent applications and to the sheet music and lyrics of all musicians.
Do you have any idea how much redundant stuff would get rejected?
If the source code from SCO and the source code for Linux were entered when copyrighted, then the lawyers would be out of work and Linux could be written in a manner where it is proven when copyrighted, that it is not a copyright violation.
While I am ranting, trademarks should also be included.
Ok now on a more serious note, he could of been a bit more objective by not flinging the Anti-M$ FUD back the other way.
Who needs to spread FUD when the facts work just fine. Print out the EULA for MS Office and for Open Office.
Note the cost of installing MS office on your home network including your PC, your laptop, your wife's PC, your kid's PC and the same for Open Office. With a highlighter, highlight the portion of the EULA where it is specific on the number of machines it can be installed upon.
For FUD, put up a few BSA articles and ask, Is your copy of Office legal on that machine?
Average Joe wants a computer that works. Telling Joe that what he's been happy with for the last X years is "crap" and that $LinuxDistributionOfTheWeek is "better" puts Joe on the defensive right away.
I keep a Ubuntu box online and running with a guest account running for those waiting. The corkboard next to it is covered with the exploit of the week from the Slammer on to the latest Windows. Included it the EULA for MS Office and a copy of the EULA for Open Office. Next to that is a grocery store style price list of the software on both machines. Near the bottom of the list is a BSA rat on your employer advertisement.
Right below that is the simple statement that putting a Pirated copy of Windows on your home built box could be very expensive.
The savings on running a Ubuntu box is enough to buy a good game console.
The here it is, try it goes a long way. If you would like it installed free with an office suite free goes much easier. Windows with the latest AV, Office Suite, etc is a serious chunk of change. The no piracy way and MS Genuine advantage that may disable your bootleg box at anytime is a bonus.
The RIAA doesn't care about winning the case, they care about scaring people. It still works.
It works enough I'm afraid to buy a CD anymore. I can't buy enough insurance to protect me for what my kids might do with one. It's another reason to stay on dial-up. It's too slow.
Most swimming pools no longer have a diving board even though they were about as common as swimming pools due to the legal liability. I'm thinking I-pods and internet connections are next.
The liability is certainly killing open Wi-Fi access points.
Has anybody noticed the ripple effect from these lawsuits?
How about starting that donkey and downloading them? A copy is a copy, isn't it?
Um no. If the RIAA shows up in court with a file with a different checksum or length (diffrent rip) they throw a big shadow over their whole case and the defendants would be all over it like flies. They don't need a Microsoft style demo in a courtroom.
I noticed during the summer that the fan didn't stop any more, and it still doesn't.
Don't overlook the obvious. The CPU is too hot. Common causes, Lint in the heatsink, dried out oil causing slow fan RPM, bubbles formed in heatsink grease reducing coupling, Once overheated CPU now less effecient, or simular reduction of cooling or more heat generated items.
The MS patch is a good theory. I know my IBM laptop runs cooler after I loaded Ubuntu. CPU idle now can drop to under 2% instead of about 20%.
then how exactly all those 9/11 passengers called home about the hijacking?
They called after the plane lost altitude. Many of the calls were placed as 2 planes were skyscaper high, not at 35,000 feet. They were in close range of just a few towers and not close to the same strength to towers over a very large geographic area such as 10 miles. At lower altitude, they were considerably closer to some towers than many other towers.
The system works at 800 feet. It has problems at 40,000 feet.
When I first read the headline I envisioned a hostile takeover by giant laptops with tuxeyes running fullscreen for laser shooting purposes. This is cool too though, I guess.
Not quite the same, but it reminds me of the Penguin Computing from a few years ago. I Godzilla size Tux invading the Redmond campus saying "Good evening Mr. Gates, I'll be your server tonight!".
Can you do a memory owerflow hack into the software ower the keyboard? >Othervise I dont understand how could you get the machine out of normal state and put it in programming mode.
From the PDF.. Unplug the machine. Plug it in. In the first 30 seconds the top level menu is displayed. Hold the CTRL key and press one.. If this is not done the machine enters the customer mode so no intervention is needed after a brief power outage to begin serving customers.
I know; It's easier to just ask Slashdot. Someone will have read the manual.
All that's in the PDF is the default password, following a warning in BIG BOLD TYPE saying that you need to change the default password before deploying the machine. Would they put in a new combination lock on their vault and leave a combo of 1-2-3? I should hope not...
Also in the PDF is the mention of the need for the power interruption to get to the top level menu to enter a password. Somehow I think the ATM should have a LOUD beep that sounds for 10 seconds on power up like a really bad Windows start up sound. Then the staff could be attentive to something is going on with the ATM.
The way this happened was quite simple... Much like the spambots of today, these distributors taint many, many groups with their filth.
Just like Slashdot gets trolled by GNAA and something about a goat... Can you imagine getting arrested for having hate material on your PC or photos of that guys butt just becuause you visit Slashdot?
I have seen some of the photos mentioned where the girls look way too young at about 12 or younger. I would hate to be arrested for having it in my cache.
Funny you mention that...when my Prius was in for the 90k mile service, the rep told me that the bettery had passed some sort of test, maybe it was a deep discharge/load test or something. I didn't know the testing waws scheduled, but I didn't complain; it didn't show up on the bill.
That is the one. I didn't remember the interval but I did remember it was near the 100K miles. Mine will be due in another 15K miles. It is a deep discharge/full recharge cycle to equalize the cell pack and test capacity. They probably do it at 90K miles to catch any problems before the warrenty expires to prevent complaints of batteries dying right after the warranty. They don't want an i-pod 1 year battery failure to drive away customers like i-pod customers finding they have to buy a new one every year.
The purchase price of ghost and perhaps a drive for imaging would probably have been cheaper in the long run.
I thought about it, then realized it would do nothing to fix the increasing frequency of the need to rebuild due to amount of exploits. That would be a band-aid. An upgrade of Windows is a hole in the pocket for a marginal upgrade. Let's face it. Windows XP came out 5 years ago. Dapper Drake came out less then 6 months ago. The price was right and I could always fall back if it didn't work out. Turns out to have worked well with less hastles with a price that was just right. It also came free from any issues with MS Genuine Advantage, Internet Explorer, or MS DRM.
Finding all my hardware out of the box was icing on the cake. The only hardware not working was an HP Scanjet 3300 scanner. I pulgged in a cannon scanner instead and it just worked. No drivers were needed for any hardware unlike Windows which needs motherboard drivers, scanner drivers, printer drivers, card reader drivers, network printserver drivers, etc.
We have a single family TV. Of course, I only use it as a display unit for XBMC,
That's why I mentioned in the 1970's. The IBM PC didn't come out unitl the 1980's. These other time distractions didn't exist and there was decent free programming on TV in prime time that didn't make church ladies cringe at the content.
Over the air TV has gotten to the point that not a single TV in the house has an antenna and I don't miss it. I've moved on to other persuits making the phase out of analog TV a non-issue.
The problem is that at very high altitudes, the phone "sees" hundreds of cell base stations at once, and the system isn't really designed to deal with this.
On the flip side, the phone can't deal with dozens of control signals from dozens of towers on the same channel. Normal operation a phone sees a control channel from several towers nearby on several frequencies. These control channels get geographly re-used. At altitude it's the ability to see many towers on the same frequency at the same time scramples the signal to the phone and breaks the phone ability to lock on to a control signal. This is the sudden loss of signal bars seen on an airbone phone. Too many towers in view at close to the same signal strength and on the same channels as each other.
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I had signal for a decent phone call up to ~5,000 feet and could send SMS to around ~6,000 feet, soon after this I lost signal.
More likely you had too much signal. From altitude you tie up one RF channel on several dozen towers in range instead of running at reduced power on the closest tower. This blanket coverage of dozens of towers tying up a channel without the ability to hand your signal to a single tower and free up the frequency on other towers for use by others is why they don't permit phone use on aircraft. If the system is smart, it may have shut down your phone to clear the frequency as the towers noticed an even signal strength from one phone over dozens of towers. You simply did not get a tower assignment at altitude.
you'd have to snip all of those zip-ties to trace a cable.
Dude, Invest in a fox and hound. Check your local electrical supply dealer. I am not talking about pets here. It should be part of any low voltage tech's toolkit.
I honestly don't think that it was much of a problem for RS232 communication (i.e. high-voltage, relatively low frequency).
It was a real problem for RS232. RS232 is not a balanced signal with a + line and complimentary - line to reject common mode noise. Long RS232 lines were known for errors due to being a good antenna and radiating signal as well as receiving interferance. Ground loops and ground noise from all the power filtering that dumped current, noise and voltage into ground wires caused problems. This noise corrupted data regulary. That is why balanced lines instead of RS232 is used for long runs.
If you need to rearrange wiring often (for whatever reason), there is no point in making it look great (though a certain level of neatness is required for optimum efficiency).
Want to bet? The wireing to the structure does not get moved much. It goes to a wall jack someplace right? Bring it into the cabinet into a patch bay. If someone changes office location and needs to keep their location on the managed system switch, simply repatch from the patch panel to the switch to keep the same port. There is no reason to ever have a rats nest in the back of a cabinet.
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* You want a standardised system for storing system and application configuration and run-time data, because the existing system results in millions of .ini files strewn all over the system.
And what's wrong with deleting the directory and all files in Blaser or Bonsi Buddy and have it completely gone?
I had an issue with my wife's XP home box. I but on a software copy machine to use the scanner and printer. It worked fine. I needed to re-size some photos to e-mail. I fired up the demo photo editor that Dell was kind enough to leave on the system. It wanted all kinds of personal information to register for the 30 day trial, so I quit. That hosed the scanner instalation. Opening the copier software and trying to photocopy a document now results in the TWAIN driver opening, scanning and launching the photo editor that is not registered putting me into the NAG screen. I uninstalled the photo editor. The photo copier is still broken as it try to re-launch the removed photo editor. In DOS I could peruse the Autoexec and Config files and fix something like this. In XP I can't. There is no documentation. I moved the scanner to my Ubuntu box until the next XP box reformat and reinstall.
There is no reason for an application demo to hi-jack the hardware assuming nothing else on the system would use it. There should be an easy way to fix the damage. There isn't.
In DOS quiting the MIDI player would free the MIDI port for use by the Piano Tutor. Quiting the Piano Tutor would free the MIDI Port for the game, etc.
Uninstalling a program and removing it's system hooks should not be rocket science.
Crippled IP stack - There are a lot of features between the desktop and server distributions that are crippled to try to keep people from running servers with the desktop distros. Completely fucking pointless since the real money in server distros is not licensing fees, but the support contracts companies.
In the same strain,
Downgraded network security. I know, they added a firewall. What's screwed up is the SMB in XP Home. It is a downgrade as any share is all or nothing in permissions. There is no such thing as a place in XP home to share my digital camera photos as read only. Anyone with access to network neighborhood can manipulate and delete my shared photos. Even worse, anyone can place a worm or virus in the shared directory.
Needless to say XP home is a client, not a server on my network. I bought a Simple Share NAS instead. It encrypts and supports per user permission access control lists.
The Penguin Computing poster is correct. Tux visits Redmond saying "Good evening Mr. Gates, I'll be your server tonight!".
MS is sending the SOHO SMB server market right to the competetion. I'm not spending 2-300 bucks for a software upgrade of XP Pro when for 2-300 bucks I can get a NAS providing more hard drive space, better security and I don't have to leave a PC on to serve the LAN.
MS dumbed down XP home is why I bought a NAS instead of a second hard drive for the XP box.
What MIGHT be acceptable is if the students had an option (very important, they should in no way be forced) to sell a license to this service to use their works and were paid an agreed upon annual fee for its use. Yes, it would cost the service an assload of money...as it should if they are profiting from copyrighted works.
The software is improperly applied. It should be used in the patent office and copyright office for comparisons of the source code of all software patent applications and to the sheet music and lyrics of all musicians.
Do you have any idea how much redundant stuff would get rejected?
If the source code from SCO and the source code for Linux were entered when copyrighted, then the lawyers would be out of work and Linux could be written in a manner where it is proven when copyrighted, that it is not a copyright violation.
While I am ranting, trademarks should also be included.
Ok now on a more serious note, he could of been a bit more objective by not flinging the Anti-M$ FUD back the other way.
Who needs to spread FUD when the facts work just fine. Print out the EULA for MS Office and for Open Office.
Note the cost of installing MS office on your home network including your PC, your laptop, your wife's PC, your kid's PC and the same for Open Office. With a highlighter, highlight the portion of the EULA where it is specific on the number of machines it can be installed upon.
For FUD, put up a few BSA articles and ask, Is your copy of Office legal on that machine?
Average Joe wants a computer that works. Telling Joe that what he's been happy with for the last X years is "crap" and that $LinuxDistributionOfTheWeek is "better" puts Joe on the defensive right away.
I keep a Ubuntu box online and running with a guest account running for those waiting.
The corkboard next to it is covered with the exploit of the week from the Slammer on to the latest Windows. Included it the EULA for MS Office and a copy of the EULA for Open Office. Next to that is a grocery store style price list of the software on both machines. Near the bottom of the list is a BSA rat on your employer advertisement.
Right below that is the simple statement that putting a Pirated copy of Windows on your home built box could be very expensive.
The savings on running a Ubuntu box is enough to buy a good game console.
The here it is, try it goes a long way.
If you would like it installed free with an office suite free goes much easier. Windows with the latest AV, Office Suite, etc is a serious chunk of change. The no piracy way and MS Genuine advantage that may disable your bootleg box at anytime is a bonus.
The RIAA doesn't care about winning the case, they care about scaring people. It still works.
It works enough I'm afraid to buy a CD anymore. I can't buy enough insurance to protect me for what my kids might do with one. It's another reason to stay on dial-up. It's too slow.
Most swimming pools no longer have a diving board even though they were about as common as swimming pools due to the legal liability. I'm thinking I-pods and internet connections are next.
The liability is certainly killing open Wi-Fi access points.
Has anybody noticed the ripple effect from these lawsuits?
How about starting that donkey and downloading them? A copy is a copy, isn't it?
Um no. If the RIAA shows up in court with a file with a different checksum or length (diffrent rip) they throw a big shadow over their whole case and the defendants would be all over it like flies. They don't need a Microsoft style demo in a courtroom.
I noticed during the summer that the fan didn't stop any more, and it still doesn't.
Don't overlook the obvious. The CPU is too hot. Common causes, Lint in the heatsink, dried out oil causing slow fan RPM, bubbles formed in heatsink grease reducing coupling, Once overheated CPU now less effecient, or simular reduction of cooling or more heat generated items.
The MS patch is a good theory. I know my IBM laptop runs cooler after I loaded Ubuntu. CPU idle now can drop to under 2% instead of about 20%.
then how exactly all those 9/11 passengers called home about the hijacking?
They called after the plane lost altitude. Many of the calls were placed as 2 planes were skyscaper high, not at 35,000 feet. They were in close range of just a few towers and not close to the same strength to towers over a very large geographic area such as 10 miles. At lower altitude, they were considerably closer to some towers than many other towers.
The system works at 800 feet. It has problems at 40,000 feet.
The linux penetration in India schools means that the Windows programing jobs will stay in the USA !!!
Who cares? What I care about is my Linux support calls may be taken by someone who's second or third language is english!
When I first read the headline I envisioned a hostile takeover by giant laptops with tuxeyes running fullscreen for laser shooting purposes. This is cool too though, I guess.
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Not quite the same, but it reminds me of the Penguin Computing from a few years ago. I Godzilla size Tux invading the Redmond campus saying "Good evening Mr. Gates, I'll be your server tonight!".
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DL it and use it as your desktop wallpaper.
Slashbots always struck me as being the immoral and greedy types.
If that were the case, then nobody would be posting due to the rush to the local ATM.
Not the list of good solutions suggested.
Can you do a memory owerflow hack into the software ower the keyboard? >Othervise I dont understand how could you get the machine out of normal state and put it in programming mode.
From the PDF.. Unplug the machine. Plug it in. In the first 30 seconds the top level menu is displayed. Hold the CTRL key and press one.. If this is not done the machine enters the customer mode so no intervention is needed after a brief power outage to begin serving customers.
I know; It's easier to just ask Slashdot. Someone will have read the manual.
Oh by the way this applies.. RTFM!
All that's in the PDF is the default password, following a warning in BIG BOLD TYPE saying that you need to change the default password before deploying the machine. Would they put in a new combination lock on their vault and leave a combo of 1-2-3? I should hope not...
Also in the PDF is the mention of the need for the power interruption to get to the top level menu to enter a password. Somehow I think the ATM should have a LOUD beep that sounds for 10 seconds on power up like a really bad Windows start up sound. Then the staff could be attentive to something is going on with the ATM.
Workarounds can be found here and here.
Shhhh. Not so loud. Ubuntu comes with bittorrent installed. No need to rip to a DRM format at all. Be sure to install the Lame encoder to support MP3.
. Yet I never saw one single picture of a child engaged in sex!
You must be lucky. I've tripped cross a couple that looked like she could hardly be older than 12 and definately in a hardcore act.
It's like the goatse.cx thing on Slashdot. You never know where you will run cross it. And wham, you are now eligible for prison time.
I did not save a copy to show you. Sorry.
The way this happened was quite simple... Much like the spambots of today, these distributors taint many, many groups with their filth.
Just like Slashdot gets trolled by GNAA and something about a goat... Can you imagine getting arrested for having hate material on your PC or photos of that guys butt just becuause you visit Slashdot?
I have seen some of the photos mentioned where the girls look way too young at about 12 or younger. I would hate to be arrested for having it in my cache.
Funny you mention that...when my Prius was in for the 90k mile service, the rep told me that the bettery had passed some sort of test, maybe it was a deep discharge/load test or something. I didn't know the testing waws scheduled, but I didn't complain; it didn't show up on the bill.
That is the one. I didn't remember the interval but I did remember it was near the 100K miles. Mine will be due in another 15K miles. It is a deep discharge/full recharge cycle to equalize the cell pack and test capacity. They probably do it at 90K miles to catch any problems before the warrenty expires to prevent complaints of batteries dying right after the warranty. They don't want an i-pod 1 year battery failure to drive away customers like i-pod customers finding they have to buy a new one every year.
The purchase price of ghost and perhaps a drive for imaging would probably have been cheaper in the long run.
I thought about it, then realized it would do nothing to fix the increasing frequency of the need to rebuild due to amount of exploits. That would be a band-aid. An upgrade of Windows is a hole in the pocket for a marginal upgrade. Let's face it. Windows XP came out 5 years ago. Dapper Drake came out less then 6 months ago. The price was right and I could always fall back if it didn't work out. Turns out to have worked well with less hastles with a price that was just right. It also came free from any issues with MS Genuine Advantage, Internet Explorer, or MS DRM.
Finding all my hardware out of the box was icing on the cake. The only hardware not working was an HP Scanjet 3300 scanner. I pulgged in a cannon scanner instead and it just worked. No drivers were needed for any hardware unlike Windows which needs motherboard drivers, scanner drivers, printer drivers, card reader drivers, network printserver drivers, etc.
We have a single family TV. Of course, I only use it as a display unit for XBMC,
That's why I mentioned in the 1970's. The IBM PC didn't come out unitl the 1980's. These other time distractions didn't exist and there was decent free programming on TV in prime time that didn't make church ladies cringe at the content.
Over the air TV has gotten to the point that not a single TV in the house has an antenna and I don't miss it. I've moved on to other persuits making the phase out of analog TV a non-issue.
The problem is that at very high altitudes, the phone "sees" hundreds of cell base stations at once, and the system isn't really designed to deal with this.
On the flip side, the phone can't deal with dozens of control signals from dozens of towers on the same channel. Normal operation a phone sees a control channel from several towers nearby on several frequencies. These control channels get geographly re-used. At altitude it's the ability to see many towers on the same frequency at the same time scramples the signal to the phone and breaks the phone ability to lock on to a control signal. This is the sudden loss of signal bars seen on an airbone phone. Too many towers in view at close to the same signal strength and on the same channels as each other.
I had signal for a decent phone call up to ~5,000 feet and could send SMS to around ~6,000 feet, soon after this I lost signal.
More likely you had too much signal. From altitude you tie up one RF channel on several dozen towers in range instead of running at reduced power on the closest tower. This blanket coverage of dozens of towers tying up a channel without the ability to hand your signal to a single tower and free up the frequency on other towers for use by others is why they don't permit phone use on aircraft. If the system is smart, it may have shut down your phone to clear the frequency as the towers noticed an even signal strength from one phone over dozens of towers. You simply did not get a tower assignment at altitude.
you'd have to snip all of those zip-ties to trace a cable.
Dude, Invest in a fox and hound. Check your local electrical supply dealer. I am not talking about pets here. It should be part of any low voltage tech's toolkit.
I honestly don't think that it was much of a problem for RS232 communication (i.e. high-voltage, relatively low frequency).
It was a real problem for RS232. RS232 is not a balanced signal with a + line and complimentary - line to reject common mode noise. Long RS232 lines were known for errors due to being a good antenna and radiating signal as well as receiving interferance. Ground loops and ground noise from all the power filtering that dumped current, noise and voltage into ground wires caused problems. This noise corrupted data regulary. That is why balanced lines instead of RS232 is used for long runs.
If you need to rearrange wiring often (for whatever reason), there is no point in making it look great (though a certain level of neatness is required for optimum efficiency).
Want to bet? The wireing to the structure does not get moved much. It goes to a wall jack someplace right? Bring it into the cabinet into a patch bay. If someone changes office location and needs to keep their location on the managed system switch, simply repatch from the patch panel to the switch to keep the same port. There is no reason to ever have a rats nest in the back of a cabinet.