I've been using Namesecure for years, since back when they were a decent company. Originally they were part of 555-1212.com back when you could do reverse phone lookups there for free.
You could call Namesecure up on the phone and talk to an actual tech person who would fix things on the spot. Now, the only way to reach them is by fax or email -- they have painstakingly removed every telephone contact.
Back in the day, I had some custom configuration done on my mail routing. Now I can't receive email from Namesecure any more. I can receive email from anybody in the world, as long as it's not sent from a Namesecure internal mailserver. They swear there's nothing unusual about my domain, but they can't explain why their mail doesn't come through. This makes tech support rather difficult, especially if I forget to patch up the "Reply-To" header...
Having said all that, though, the Namesecure product is pretty good. Easy signup, easy administration of email and website forwarding, A, CNAME, and MX, and so on. Their support is absolutely the suck, but they're pretty stable so I hardly ever need the support anyway.
The outgoing message on their one remaining phone line (which does not record) says they've turned off live tech support "to remain competitive". They charge from $9.90 to $15/year depending on term; I'd gladly pay double those prices if they'd just turn the &*$&^$ phones back on!
I switched a couple domains to Register.com a while back, but Register.com framed my website (breaking it) and put a big ol' banner ad underneath it, which they'd gladly remove if I paid extra. Register.com wanted twice what Namesecure did for their basic service, and many of the standard services from Namesecure were upgrades at Register.com so the actual price ended up being even more. But they had tech support: Live people answering the phone, people who actually knew things, so that's why I went there. However, Register.com couldn't do the type of email forwarding I'd been getting at Namesecure so I ended up switching back and crossing my fingers.
Having my domains set up at Namesecure did save my ass when I got screwed by an ISP -- I switched to a different provider, updated my zone file at Namesecure, and was back on the air immediately. I didn't have to try and wrestle my domain away from the previous ISP. (OTOH, if I have a Problem with Namesecure I'll have to wrestle my domains away from them.)
So, here's my vote for Best Registrar: Namesecure doubles their pricing across the board and uses the extra money to hook up with Register.com's helpdesk.
Caveat: Namesecure appears to be owned by Verisign / Network Solutions (at least that's who owns their site certificate) so they are probably part of the Axis of Evil. This would explain the tech support.
I don't remember it exactly (got it written down around here someplace...) but this is created from the first and middle names.
ddd = (month of birth - 1) * 31 + day of birth
I seem to recall that ddd is altered for females.
Add 600 if female.
Here's a GWBASIC tool I wrote that calculates Illinois Driver's license numbers. Be kind; remember it's GWBASIC and note the date:-)
There is no serialization in the number. Everything is calcualted from the name, gender, and birthdate of the individual. If I ever have twins, I plan to choose names that work out to the same driver's license number, just to see what happens (evil grin).
Find the idiot who cross-threaded the screw to begin with, and explain to them that their life depends on their ability to remove that screw without damaging the motherboard.
Then leave them alone while they solve the problem for you. This is a forward-looking solution, as it not only fixes the current problem but also reduces the likelihood of future problems.
Remember the alleged RIAA "plot" to seed bogus media files into P2P networks? Well, this sounds like an excellent time for Michigan State students to Photoshop some interesting faces into the crowd of rioters, then wait for their HD to be nabbed.
Make some of them really obvious, some not-so-obvious, and some of them pretty good. This should destroy the credibility of all the photos the cops get; they'll have no idea what's real and what isn't.
They're welcome to introduce whatever technology they want; if the market doesn't buy it, it will go away on its own. Witness the "Processor Serial Number," a good idea IMO which barfed in the marketplace because so many people screamed "Big Brother". (Apparently, those people had never heard of MAC addresses (which can be spoofed, but so can a PSN))
If its that its being patented - can someone explain why it isn't a valid patent?
Well, take a look at the patent. Specifically, examine Claim 1, which is the keystone of any patent:
What is claimed is:
1. A mechanism for detecting and deterring over-clocking of a clock signal for use in a processor, comprising:
a detection circuit adapted to detect over-clocking of a clock signal for use in the processor based on a reference signal; and
a prevention circuit adapted to prevent over-clocking of said clock signal by limiting or reducing performance of the processor in response to detection of said over-clocking of said clock signal.
Now answer this: Where's the invention?
There is nothing in Claim 1 that is novel in any way. In fact, there is nothing in the entire patent that isn't taught in high-school level electronics and programming classes! Compare the frequency of two oscillators, and then branch software based on the ratio. Yeah, THAT's innovative.
I found two typos (ex: "system basis input/output start up (BIOS)") on my first pass reading the patent, and they've had FOUR YEARS to proofread the thing.
So, I have no beef with anti-overclocking tech; it will sell or it won't. Big whoop. But patents like this one only clog the system and interfere with legitimate innovation.
For example, if I'm using a DSP in a medical device, I want to make sure that it's coming up with the correct answers. One key thing I'd want my hardware to do would be to verify the processor frequency is accurate. If the clock is wrong, I need to compensate for the error. Guess what? I just violated Claim 1 of Intel's patent! If I want the device to indicate there's a clock problem, I've busted several more claims, in particular Claim 25.
The only good thing about this patent is that it makes such a great example of Patent Bloat.
So were the 712s. Airfone (before they were "GTE (now Verizon) Airfone") used them in their ground stations (many of which were on mountaintops and such) because the 700 family drives were spec'ed for high altitude use -- less air to fly the heads at 10,000ft MSL.
I once ran a 712 with the cover off for a couple of weeks without errors until some jamoke spilled coffee on it. It had been damaged in shipment; the cover was dented. It worked but QA said we couldn't put it in the field so it was mine to vivisect:->
What other hard drive, can last close to 15 years with that sort of durability, and only a 10% failure rate?
How about the Shugart SA712? Spec'ed for 10MB at 306 cylinders, actually had 350 usable cylinders for 12MB -- but wait! Works with the "new" 2,7RLL controllers, so that's 18MB. And then you run DoubleDisk on it and you've got a half-height 30MB+ drive, using mid-1980s technology.
I have to support some ancient boxen around here, and last year I whipped out one of my SA712s to replace: a failed ST225:-)
Our prognosis: drive slagging is a fool-proof method to prevent data recovery.
What experiments have they performed to test this hypothesis? Have they bombarded the ingots with inverse-polarized chronoton radiation and checked for holographic interference patterns? Huh? Bet they haven't.
I'll bet Harper and Rommie could read those drives, if it was essential to the plot.
Well, I've never liked IE -- worms aside -- and so I've mostly been a Netscape user. Tried NS5: hog, didn't like it. Tried NS6: hog, didn't like it. Went back to NS471 and have been mostly happy. Tried Opera (6, I think) and whenever I ran it my entire system shortly went massively unstable so I went back to NS471. I do hit the occasional page with problems, so if I really want to see that page I try several other browsers until I find one that works.
We encourage and expect major sites to test their pages with many different browsers, including Opera. If a page looks distorted in some browsers, there is probably something wrong with the page. It is possible to write pages that work in all popular browsers.
Whatever its faults, Netscape 4.71 is a popular (albeit old) browser.
Rocket-grade peroxide is pretty hairy stuff. The stuff you buy at the local corner store is mostly water (like maybe 3% peroxide). For propulsion you want concentrations of more like 90% - 95%. In these concentrations peroxide will consume just about anything which can be oxidized; it's particularly fond of organic material, such as people... No surprise he's having trouble getting it.
Here's a decent FAQ on peroxide, with some stuff on rocketry uses included.
Many years ago, I needed to secure my work PC (a spanking-new IBM XT-286) from the night shift; since I was doing CAD I had an EGA and a fast machine so my office became the midnight game room.
I wrote a routine which put a login prompt on the screen, and then waited for a particular cadence on the DTR line of COM2. I patched this code into some blank space on the EGA's BIOS extension ROM, and executed it before the keyboard was even enabled during POST:-) COM2 had a plotter attached & I would turn the plotter on and off appropriately to boot the system. I never booted when there was somebody else in the room.
Then came a change in company ownership, with its attendant politics... I was canned on a Friday afternoon with no notice whatsoever. Nobody asked about my password. Of course the vultures descended on my office, and among the first things to go was the plotter. No plotter, no password.
Apparently after several frustrating weeks in Software Engineering the PC was returned to IBM for an expensive "repair" -- if someone had asked I'd have told them to swap the original EGA ROM from my desk drawer back into the EGA. Nobody asked.
I've got this card, and it's great -- monitors bus voltages, and also has latching LEDs for each IRQ and DMA channel. Has a BIOS extension on it that includes a bunch of diagnostics (including par/ser loopback, drive and RAM exercising, etc.) so you can do quite a bit of testing without (or despite:-) an OS.
Of course, just a few months after I bought the card the manufacturer dried up and blew away. Now I need a PCI equivalent and haven't seen one out there.
It says at the end it can be forwarded, so here goes:
(Humor note: I had to do some editing because, as originally formatted, it tripped Slashdot's "Lameness filter:-)
Name Change for Windows.NET Server 2003 Announcement for Microsoft Partners
Applicable To: All Microsoft Partners Worldwide
SUMMARY
The product name Microsoft(R) Windows(R).NET Server 2003 is being changed, effective January 9, 2003, to "Windows Server 2003." Microsoft is making an effort to clarify the naming and branding strategy for.NET. As support for Web services becomes intrinsic across our entire product line, we are moving toward a consistent naming and branding strategy to better enable partners to affiliate with this strategy and customers to identify.NET-enabled products. The first product to be affected is Windows.NET Server 2003. The new name for the next version of Windows is "Windows Server 2003." This will not affect our time frame for launch, which is still planned for April 2003.
DETAILS
* We are pursuing an overall effort to clarify the naming and branding strategy around.NET. As support for Web services becomes intrinsic across our entire product line, we are moving toward a consistent naming and branding strategy to better enable partners to affiliate with this strategy and customers to identify.NET-enabled products.
* The next version of Windows Server will be formally called "Windows Server 2003." The reason for this is to simplify the product's naming and reconcile it with our branding strategy or.NET.
* "Windows Server 2003" will carry the "Microsoft.NET Connected" logo indicating its ability to easily and consistently connect disparate information, systems, and devices to meet customers' people and business needs (regardless of underlying platform or programming language). This logo is also available for use by our partners who are building solutions on the Microsoft platform to help customers identify solutions and products that support standards-based interoperability.
* The more complete integration of.NET Web services and products is one of several major enhancements in "Windows Server 2003" -- all aimed at providing a highly connected, productive, and dependable infrastructure with excellent economic value for our customers.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Q) Why the name change? A) In response to customer and partner feedback to provide clarity around our.NET strategy and programs. Specifically, we are moving toward a branding approach where ".NET Connected" is the way we communicate our products (and our partners' products) that enable customers to easily and consistently connect disparate information, systems and devices to meet their people and business needs, regardless of underlying platform or programming languages.
Q) Why make this change now? A) Product naming, features, etc. are never final until the product ships -- this is both in response to customer feedback as well as part of a larger effort to provide clarity for customers and partners interested in affiliating with and benefiting from Microsoft.NET.
Q) What changes technically in the Windows Server 2003 product as a result of this name change? A) There are no feature changes in the product. This is a naming change, and does not affect the functionality of the product in any way.
Q) Will this cause a slip in the Windows Server 2003 product schedule? A) No -- we remain on track for a worldwide launch of "Windows Server 2003" in April 2003.
Q) Is this an indication that Microsoft is backing away from.NET? A) Quite the opposite -- "Windows Server 2003" is a major step forward in our effort to provide a highly connected, productive, and dependable infrastructure with excellent economic value for our customers. "Windows Server 2003," with integration of the Microsoft.NET Framework, UDDI services, and other XML Web services support has set the industry bar for Web service development and performance -- combined with the new security, scalability, and performance of "Windows Server 2003" and we are delivering a platform optimized for the next generation of enterprise computing.
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> Please learn to provide some useful information in your comments.
Well, sure. But sometimes you just have to put in something like:
/* Look, I know this is stupid, and you know it's stupid * But [bossname] says we've GOT to have this feature * so here's the stupid feature, and damn the torpedoes. */
That's not so much "useful information" as it is "CYA with the rest of the team".
From the lawyer's letter: "If in fact your employee's given legal name is Bill Wyman (a fact we would insist be reasonably demonstrated to us), we then request that a prominent disclaimer accompany every reference to your writer's name, clearly indicating that your columnist is not the same Bill Wyman who was a member of the Rolling Stones."
It seems to me, given that William George Perks changed his name to "Bill Wyman" in 1963 (legally, in 1964) this paragraph would be more powerful if we make a few changes and send it back:
"If in fact your client's given legal name is Bill Wyman (a fact we would insist be reasonably demonstrated to us), we then request that a prominent disclaimer accompany every reference to your client's name, clearly indicating that your client is not the same Bill Wyman who is a columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution."
I do PC repair, so of course I need to move drivers from the net-connected PC in the shop to various random PCs in for repair. Much simpler to sneakernet a floppy (although I work barefoot:-) than configuring a LAN connection.
Most video and sound boards need a CD these days, but a floppy is still the easiest way to do a clean boot, load LAN drivers, etc. Also the simplest way to move documents between PCs at multiple locations. "Pendrives" and the like aren't supported across as many platforms as the boring old floppy.
How come it's so easy for someone to transfer a domain registrar via social engineering and yet it's so hard to do it legitimately?
My recent attempt to move a domain from Verisign to Namesecure ended up taking the domain off the air for over a month... Namesecure has completely dropped telephone support -- their email support being consistently unhelpful and clueless I ended up moving the domain to Register.com instead.
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I've been using Namesecure for years, since back when they were a decent company. Originally they were part of 555-1212.com back when you could do reverse phone lookups there for free.
You could call Namesecure up on the phone and talk to an actual tech person who would fix things on the spot. Now, the only way to reach them is by fax or email -- they have painstakingly removed every telephone contact.
Back in the day, I had some custom configuration done on my mail routing. Now I can't receive email from Namesecure any more. I can receive email from anybody in the world, as long as it's not sent from a Namesecure internal mailserver. They swear there's nothing unusual about my domain, but they can't explain why their mail doesn't come through. This makes tech support rather difficult, especially if I forget to patch up the "Reply-To" header...
Having said all that, though, the Namesecure product is pretty good. Easy signup, easy administration of email and website forwarding, A, CNAME, and MX, and so on. Their support is absolutely the suck, but they're pretty stable so I hardly ever need the support anyway.
The outgoing message on their one remaining phone line (which does not record) says they've turned off live tech support "to remain competitive". They charge from $9.90 to $15/year depending on term; I'd gladly pay double those prices if they'd just turn the &*$&^$ phones back on!
I switched a couple domains to Register.com a while back, but Register.com framed my website (breaking it) and put a big ol' banner ad underneath it, which they'd gladly remove if I paid extra. Register.com wanted twice what Namesecure did for their basic service, and many of the standard services from Namesecure were upgrades at Register.com so the actual price ended up being even more. But they had tech support: Live people answering the phone, people who actually knew things, so that's why I went there. However, Register.com couldn't do the type of email forwarding I'd been getting at Namesecure so I ended up switching back and crossing my fingers.
Having my domains set up at Namesecure did save my ass when I got screwed by an ISP -- I switched to a different provider, updated my zone file at Namesecure, and was back on the air immediately. I didn't have to try and wrestle my domain away from the previous ISP. (OTOH, if I have a Problem with Namesecure I'll have to wrestle my domains away from them.)
So, here's my vote for Best Registrar: Namesecure doubles their pricing across the board and uses the extra money to hook up with Register.com's helpdesk.
Caveat: Namesecure appears to be owned by Verisign / Network Solutions (at least that's who owns their site certificate) so they are probably part of the Axis of Evil. This would explain the tech support.
now he can print the ticket IN my car!
Face it, Flounder -- he can print the ticket ON your car!
bbb = ?
:-)
I don't remember it exactly (got it written down around here someplace...) but this is created from the first and middle names.
ddd = (month of birth - 1) * 31 + day of birth
I seem to recall that ddd is altered for females.
Add 600 if female.
Here's a GWBASIC tool I wrote that calculates Illinois Driver's license numbers. Be kind; remember it's GWBASIC and note the date
There is no serialization in the number. Everything is calcualted from the name, gender, and birthdate of the individual. If I ever have twins, I plan to choose names that work out to the same driver's license number, just to see what happens (evil grin).
I'm surprised nobody else has suggested this:
Find the idiot who cross-threaded the screw to begin with, and explain to them that their life depends on their ability to remove that screw without damaging the motherboard.
Then leave them alone while they solve the problem for you. This is a forward-looking solution, as it not only fixes the current problem but also reduces the likelihood of future problems.
The differences (plural) between these pairs of words (plural, good) is (singular -- oops!) very easy to learn.
:-)
Physician, heal thyself
One can only obstruct justice where there is justice to obstruct.
Remember the alleged RIAA "plot" to seed bogus media files into P2P networks? Well, this sounds like an excellent time for Michigan State students to Photoshop some interesting faces into the crowd of rioters, then wait for their HD to be nabbed.
Make some of them really obvious, some not-so-obvious, and some of them pretty good. This should destroy the credibility of all the photos the cops get; they'll have no idea what's real and what isn't.
If its that its being used...wah.
They're welcome to introduce whatever technology they want; if the market doesn't buy it, it will go away on its own. Witness the "Processor Serial Number," a good idea IMO which barfed in the marketplace because so many people screamed "Big Brother". (Apparently, those people had never heard of MAC addresses (which can be spoofed, but so can a PSN))
If its that its being patented - can someone explain why it isn't a valid patent?
Well, take a look at the patent. Specifically, examine Claim 1, which is the keystone of any patent:
What is claimed is:
1. A mechanism for detecting and deterring over-clocking of a clock signal for use in a processor, comprising:
a detection circuit adapted to detect over-clocking of a clock signal for use in the processor based on a reference signal; and
a prevention circuit adapted to prevent over-clocking of said clock signal by limiting or reducing performance of the processor in response to detection of said over-clocking of said clock signal.
Now answer this: Where's the invention?
There is nothing in Claim 1 that is novel in any way. In fact, there is nothing in the entire patent that isn't taught in high-school level electronics and programming classes! Compare the frequency of two oscillators, and then branch software based on the ratio. Yeah, THAT's innovative.
I found two typos (ex: "system basis input/output start up (BIOS)") on my first pass reading the patent, and they've had FOUR YEARS to proofread the thing.
So, I have no beef with anti-overclocking tech; it will sell or it won't. Big whoop. But patents like this one only clog the system and interfere with legitimate innovation.
For example, if I'm using a DSP in a medical device, I want to make sure that it's coming up with the correct answers. One key thing I'd want my hardware to do would be to verify the processor frequency is accurate. If the clock is wrong, I need to compensate for the error. Guess what? I just violated Claim 1 of Intel's patent! If I want the device to indicate there's a clock problem, I've busted several more claims, in particular Claim 25.
The only good thing about this patent is that it makes such a great example of Patent Bloat.
the ST-225s... Those were built like a tank
:->
So were the 712s. Airfone (before they were "GTE (now Verizon) Airfone") used them in their ground stations (many of which were on mountaintops and such) because the 700 family drives were spec'ed for high altitude use -- less air to fly the heads at 10,000ft MSL.
I once ran a 712 with the cover off for a couple of weeks without errors until some jamoke spilled coffee on it. It had been damaged in shipment; the cover was dented. It worked but QA said we couldn't put it in the field so it was mine to vivisect
What other hard drive, can last close to 15 years with that sort of durability, and only a 10% failure rate?
:-)
How about the Shugart SA712? Spec'ed for 10MB at 306 cylinders, actually had 350 usable cylinders for 12MB -- but wait! Works with the "new" 2,7RLL controllers, so that's 18MB. And then you run DoubleDisk on it and you've got a half-height 30MB+ drive, using mid-1980s technology.
I have to support some ancient boxen around here, and last year I whipped out one of my SA712s to replace: a failed ST225
Our prognosis: drive slagging is a fool-proof method to prevent data recovery.
What experiments have they performed to test this hypothesis? Have they bombarded the ingots with inverse-polarized chronoton radiation and checked for holographic interference patterns? Huh? Bet they haven't.
I'll bet Harper and Rommie could read those drives, if it was essential to the plot.
The css MSN served Opera in their tests checks out with only a warning about a missing background color.
Well, I've never liked IE -- worms aside -- and so I've mostly been a Netscape user. Tried NS5: hog, didn't like it. Tried NS6: hog, didn't like it. Went back to NS471 and have been mostly happy. Tried Opera (6, I think) and whenever I ran it my entire system shortly went massively unstable so I went back to NS471. I do hit the occasional page with problems, so if I really want to see that page I try several other browsers until I find one that works.
Point is, to quote from Opera's MSN page:
We encourage and expect major sites to test their pages with many different browsers, including Opera. If a page looks distorted in some browsers, there is probably something wrong with the page. It is possible to write pages that work in all popular browsers.
Whatever its faults, Netscape 4.71 is a popular (albeit old) browser.
Opera's page describing the MSN problem doesn't display properly in Netscape 4.7 -- but it does display properly in IE5.0.
Rocket-grade peroxide is pretty hairy stuff. The stuff you buy at the local corner store is mostly water (like maybe 3% peroxide). For propulsion you want concentrations of more like 90% - 95%. In these concentrations peroxide will consume just about anything which can be oxidized; it's particularly fond of organic material, such as people... No surprise he's having trouble getting it.
Here's a decent FAQ on peroxide, with some stuff on rocketry uses included.
Many years ago, I needed to secure my work PC (a spanking-new IBM XT-286) from the night shift; since I was doing CAD I had an EGA and a fast machine so my office became the midnight game room.
:-) COM2 had a plotter attached & I would turn the plotter on and off appropriately to boot the system. I never booted when there was somebody else in the room.
I wrote a routine which put a login prompt on the screen, and then waited for a particular cadence on the DTR line of COM2. I patched this code into some blank space on the EGA's BIOS extension ROM, and executed it before the keyboard was even enabled during POST
Then came a change in company ownership, with its attendant politics... I was canned on a Friday afternoon with no notice whatsoever. Nobody asked about my password. Of course the vultures descended on my office, and among the first things to go was the plotter. No plotter, no password.
Apparently after several frustrating weeks in Software Engineering the PC was returned to IBM for an expensive "repair" -- if someone had asked I'd have told them to swap the original EGA ROM from my desk drawer back into the EGA. Nobody asked.
I've got this card, and it's great -- monitors bus voltages, and also has latching LEDs for each IRQ and DMA channel. Has a BIOS extension on it that includes a bunch of diagnostics (including par/ser loopback, drive and RAM exercising, etc.) so you can do quite a bit of testing without (or despite :-) an OS.
Of course, just a few months after I bought the card the manufacturer dried up and blew away. Now I need a PCI equivalent and haven't seen one out there.
It says at the end it can be forwarded, so here goes:
:-)
.NET Server 2003
.NET Server 2003 is being changed, effective January 9, 2003, to "Windows Server 2003." Microsoft is making an effort to clarify the naming and branding strategy for .NET. As support for Web services becomes intrinsic across our entire product line, we are moving toward a consistent naming and branding strategy to better enable partners to affiliate with this strategy and customers to identify .NET-enabled products. The first product to be affected is Windows .NET Server 2003. The new name for the next version of Windows is "Windows Server 2003." This will not affect our time frame for launch, which is still planned for April 2003.
.NET. As support for Web services becomes intrinsic across our entire product line, we are moving toward a consistent naming and branding strategy to better enable partners to affiliate with this strategy and customers to identify .NET-enabled products.
.NET.
.NET Connected" logo indicating its ability to easily and consistently connect disparate information, systems, and devices to meet customers' people and business needs (regardless of underlying platform or programming language). This logo is also available for use by our partners who are building solutions on the Microsoft platform to help customers identify solutions and products that support standards-based interoperability.
.NET Web services and products is one of several major enhancements in "Windows Server 2003" -- all aimed at providing a highly connected, productive, and dependable infrastructure with excellent economic value for our customers.
.NET strategy and programs. Specifically, we are moving toward a branding approach where ".NET Connected" is the way we communicate our products (and our partners' products) that enable customers to easily and consistently connect disparate information, systems and devices to meet their people and business needs, regardless of underlying platform or programming languages.
.NET.
.NET? .NET Framework, UDDI services, and other XML Web services support has set the industry bar for Web service development and performance -- combined with the new security, scalability, and performance of "Windows Server 2003" and we are delivering a platform optimized for the next generation of enterprise computing.
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Name Change for Windows
Announcement for Microsoft Partners
Applicable To: All Microsoft Partners Worldwide
SUMMARY
The product name Microsoft(R) Windows(R)
DETAILS
* We are pursuing an overall effort to clarify the naming and branding strategy around
* The next version of Windows Server will be formally called "Windows Server 2003." The reason for this is to simplify the product's naming and reconcile it with our branding strategy or
* "Windows Server 2003" will carry the "Microsoft
* The more complete integration of
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Q) Why the name change?
A) In response to customer and partner feedback to provide clarity around our
Q) Why make this change now?
A) Product naming, features, etc. are never final until the product ships -- this is both in response to customer feedback as well as part of a larger effort to provide clarity for customers and partners interested in affiliating with and benefiting from Microsoft
Q) What changes technically in the Windows Server 2003 product as a result of this name change?
A) There are no feature changes in the product. This is a naming change, and does not affect the functionality of the product in any way.
Q) Will this cause a slip in the Windows Server 2003 product schedule?
A) No -- we remain on track for a worldwide launch of "Windows Server 2003" in April 2003.
Q) Is this an indication that Microsoft is backing away from
A) Quite the opposite -- "Windows Server 2003" is a major step forward in our effort to provide a highly connected, productive, and dependable infrastructure with excellent economic value for our customers. "Windows Server 2003," with integration of the Microsoft
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> Please learn to provide some useful information in your comments.
Well, sure. But sometimes you just have to put in something like:
/* Look, I know this is stupid, and you know it's stupid
* But [bossname] says we've GOT to have this feature
* so here's the stupid feature, and damn the torpedoes.
*/
That's not so much "useful information" as it is "CYA with the rest of the team".
Oh, come on... Who has never used Q as an index in a BASIC "for" statement?
Or does this get modded -5 for "too bleeding obvious"...
From the lawyer's letter:
"If in fact your employee's given legal name is Bill Wyman (a fact we would insist be reasonably demonstrated to us), we then request that a prominent disclaimer accompany every reference to your writer's name, clearly indicating that your columnist is not the same Bill Wyman who was a member of the Rolling Stones."
It seems to me, given that William George Perks changed his name to "Bill Wyman" in 1963 (legally, in 1964) this paragraph would be more powerful if we make a few changes and send it back:
"If in fact your client's given legal name is Bill Wyman (a fact we would insist be reasonably demonstrated to us), we then request that a prominent disclaimer accompany every reference to your client's name, clearly indicating that your client is not the same Bill Wyman who is a columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution."
But who is going to verify the TransOrbital flight?
I do PC repair, so of course I need to move drivers from the net-connected PC in the shop to various random PCs in for repair. Much simpler to sneakernet a floppy (although I work barefoot :-) than configuring a LAN connection.
Most video and sound boards need a CD these days, but a floppy is still the easiest way to do a clean boot, load LAN drivers, etc. Also the simplest way to move documents between PCs at multiple locations. "Pendrives" and the like aren't supported across as many platforms as the boring old floppy.
Well, it does bring a more literal meaning to the word, "ping", doesn't it?
How come it's so easy for someone to transfer a domain registrar via social engineering and yet it's so hard to do it legitimately?
My recent attempt to move a domain from Verisign to Namesecure ended up taking the domain off the air for over a month... Namesecure has completely dropped telephone support -- their email support being consistently unhelpful and clueless I ended up moving the domain to Register.com instead.