If only we already had devices that we could hook up to a wall socket, plug into an ethernet port, and configure with a web browser...
If only we could invent some sort of encrypted storage area for our social networking information...
If only we could adapt these useless boxes...the ones we have hundreds of millions of already, to do the same thing. What are they called? Computers? Hah! They aren't powerful enough to do what the OP is talking. No way.
You referenced lifecycle and service pack support availability. Mainstream support for XP ended last year, while extended support ends in 2014. Both support cycles offer security updates, but non-essential hotfixes are only available to companies who have support contracts.
The first link details when they stop selling various licences of the software (not support) The second link details when support for services packs end AFTER the introduction on new service packs.
To reiterate, XP has extended support until 2014. Windows 2000 support just recently ended.
Apple stops releasing security updates shortly after new releases, while Ubuntu LTS is 3 years for Desktop and 5 years for server...
The same release window as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7. Each copy of OSX runs $129, with some upgrades only being $19. When upgrading from 10, 10.1 to 10.2 Jaguar, Apple required all users to pay $129. Safe to say, if you owned an Apple from 2001 - 2009 and purchased all the OS updates, vs a PC and purchased all the updates, you'd have paid less for Windows.
The upgrade paths for Apple have been far more expensive, for far less features. I don't think anyone can defend Apple's upgrades from 10.0 - 10.6 vs the changes between Windows XP and Windows 7, including their server line 2003 - 2008 for backend control.
The Conservatives are opposed to the bill, and currently they have 145/308 seats in the House of Commons.
They only have to convince 9 of the Liberals, NDP, or Bloc to agree.
Not everything is voted on party lines, but most is. It is likely the conservatives will have to make a concession in some other form to get the Liberals to side with them. And that is extremely likely, because the Liberals no longer hold the threatening role they had a couple months ago.
Then completely out of context he quotes Bill Gates words from 1976, 34 years ago, how programmers should be paid for their work instead of doing everything for free.
I have started to not take seriously any article or piece of "journalism" that presents Bill Gates as Microsoft's decision maker anymore. He is a non-executive chairman. Granted he still has the power if he chooses to use it, but I think he left for a reason - he has entrusted Microsoft to other executives that have proven to be...well, what he wants.
When it was only InterNIC assigning domain names, it was $100/year, and then $70/year. I remember carefully choosing which domains to register - and so did everyone else. There were very few squatters back then.
I believe passing the torch to ICANN, and then having GoDaddy (Wild West) pop up offering $6.COM will be remembered as the ruin of the Internet. Not to mention the 2-3 day "evaluation" period where squatters could hold a domain without paying for it.
Now they've opened up.CO (Columbian) for non-Columbian registration. Pre-registration is $299, and the registrars are trying to push it as the next big TLD.
Virus scanners figured this out years ago, this is why they scan the operating memory!
The difficult part is finding out which "bytes" are bad. The problem is many elements of spy tools are often used for good too. Like VNC and all of those legitimate screen capture and key logger programs for IT.
The dark side of computer "security" pays far better than the good side. I was contracted to setup a number of servers for a company, and as it turned out, they were part of this "dark side." I told them I had an ethical conflict, and decided to remove myself from the situation about 2 hours into it.
The problem is, other than the coders and the boss, many people do not know they are working for these companies. This particular company had about 15 people. 3 were in the know, the other 12 were support for shipping, gathering information, making contacts, and advertising, etc. When dealing with spyware/malware, there is a lot of butt covering, and evasion.
The programmers in particular were amazing coders, some of the best that graduated at the same university I went to. This is how I got contacted to help. Only after we started talking did I realize what they were all about. The pay was almost double what they would have made at a legitimate company.
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I am a fan of Pink Floyd - some of their music can easily be removed and sold individually. Comfortably Numb, Money, Time, Learning to Fly, etc, can all be enjoyed individually with little to no "loss" in atmosphere.
This is how it is played on radio, this is how people have been introduced to it. But once you start listening to the CDs as a whole, you'll never want to go back to one-off radio play. Seeing Roger Waters play Dark Side of the Moon was amazing - and you have to agree with Pink Floyd, something is missing when you play each track by itself and out of order.
Songs like Shine on you Crazy Diamond have to be played together, otherwise it doesn't make much sense. On the radio, DJs will frequently take "Us and Them" and meld it in with Any Color you like, Brain Damage, Eclipse to make sense. Same with parts of Another Brick in the Wall. Listening to many of the Pink Floyd CDs, you can barely tell when one song ends and another begins.
I get a little bit upset (inside) whenever my clients ask me to enable certain games, or to install high end video cards on machines for gaming purposes at work.
I know, they pay me to do a job, etc, but I still help but wonder how much work isn't being done. When I saw Office Space and Peter says he only get about 15 minutes of real, actual work done a week, I knew this was the truth in most organizations.
I'd have to say that the hardest I've ever worked (other than University) was at Dairy Queen. Every job after that has been relatively easy with enough downtime that I felt guilty for years, until I realized every person has the same downtime.
Can I get a +5, Insightful for repeating part of the parent post, too? Dude, he already said that.
Wow, you're right, sorry, I didn't read the whole post before I commented...but...this is slashdot, isn't that a requirement for posting? Who actually reads articles?/. is a forum for half-baked, half-assed opinionated remarks written solely for the purpose of starting flame wars. At least that is what I was told when I signed up years ago.
I was referring to the fact that so many people have had this problem with that DLL that you would think some IT people would have picked up on it...this is usually how malware is discovered.
It's not often that the smart IT people get infected and then think up a fix. It is the regular user that gets infected, calls an IT person, then the IT person figures out what is going on.
Based on the volume of posts for 2.5 years regarding this DLL and its high CPU usage (the users did see this), you'd think some IT person would have seen something wrong.
Or, you'd think that the customers would have called Energizer, and that Energizer would have looked into it. Considering there is a significant amount of malware that is found and patched within a day, 2.5 years going unnoticed is a big fail by SOMEONE - ultimately Energizer - as if they didn't see this at all.
There have been reports of Arucer.dll utilizing 100% CPU as far back as mid 2007. It was originally included by Energizer and used to check that the device was indeed connected to the machine.
They aren't sure how long dll has been infected, but all signs point to the entire time (back to May 2007). Considering how many forum posts have issues with the dll going back 2.5 years, you'd think someone would have figured it out long ago.
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If only we already had devices that we could hook up to a wall socket, plug into an ethernet port, and configure with a web browser...
If only we could invent some sort of encrypted storage area for our social networking information...
If only we could adapt these useless boxes...the ones we have hundreds of millions of already, to do the same thing. What are they called? Computers? Hah! They aren't powerful enough to do what the OP is talking. No way.
Oh well, we can dream, one day.
You referenced lifecycle and service pack support availability. Mainstream support for XP ended last year, while extended support ends in 2014. Both support cycles offer security updates, but non-essential hotfixes are only available to companies who have support contracts.
The first link details when they stop selling various licences of the software (not support)
The second link details when support for services packs end AFTER the introduction on new service packs.
To reiterate, XP has extended support until 2014. Windows 2000 support just recently ended.
Apple stops releasing security updates shortly after new releases, while Ubuntu LTS is 3 years for Desktop and 5 years for server...
XP is 13 years.
In any case, Apple didn't force you to buy all the updates. I skipped 10.5 myself.
I know, I just said if you bought all the updates it would cost more. Chances are people don't have the same PCs from 2001 either.
Microsoft didn't force their updates on anyone either.
Or we could be like Mac and get the annual upgrade tax for even more minor features.
Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard from 2001 - 2009
The same release window as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7. Each copy of OSX runs $129, with some upgrades only being $19. When upgrading from 10, 10.1 to 10.2 Jaguar, Apple required all users to pay $129. Safe to say, if you owned an Apple from 2001 - 2009 and purchased all the OS updates, vs a PC and purchased all the updates, you'd have paid less for Windows.
The upgrade paths for Apple have been far more expensive, for far less features. I don't think anyone can defend Apple's upgrades from 10.0 - 10.6 vs the changes between Windows XP and Windows 7, including their server line 2003 - 2008 for backend control.
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I'm so sorry...
No no, it's my fault, I'm sorry for causing you to experience any thoughts of sorrow. Please accept my deepest apologies.
The Conservatives are opposed to the bill, and currently they have 145/308 seats in the House of Commons.
They only have to convince 9 of the Liberals, NDP, or Bloc to agree.
Not everything is voted on party lines, but most is. It is likely the conservatives will have to make a concession in some other form to get the Liberals to side with them. And that is extremely likely, because the Liberals no longer hold the threatening role they had a couple months ago.
Yes, I am Canadian.
Nothing like a BSOD on your contact lenses while driving
Then completely out of context he quotes Bill Gates words from 1976, 34 years ago, how programmers should be paid for their work instead of doing everything for free.
I have started to not take seriously any article or piece of "journalism" that presents Bill Gates as Microsoft's decision maker anymore. He is a non-executive chairman. Granted he still has the power if he chooses to use it, but I think he left for a reason - he has entrusted Microsoft to other executives that have proven to be...well, what he wants.
When I saw the developer preview, the dropping balls, the flying e's, the super-zoom, all that stuff...
It reminded me of and
Removing the need for plugins and giving native support to all these annoying things is going to be hell - Geocities will be up and running again!
Great! now when I go into the bank with my stack of Radeon cards they'll call security.
Why sue when you know you're gonna LOSE?
Ask SCO.
Although Godaddy was around shortly after that, it didn't start to gain momentum until 2002, and only in 2005 did it surpase Network Solutions.
I guess I could have generalized it more and simply said low cost domain services as Dotster, eNOM, were around and about the same size.
When it was only InterNIC assigning domain names, it was $100/year, and then $70/year. I remember carefully choosing which domains to register - and so did everyone else. There were very few squatters back then.
I believe passing the torch to ICANN, and then having GoDaddy (Wild West) pop up offering $6 .COM will be remembered as the ruin of the Internet. Not to mention the 2-3 day "evaluation" period where squatters could hold a domain without paying for it.
Now they've opened up .CO (Columbian) for non-Columbian registration. Pre-registration is $299, and the registrars are trying to push it as the next big TLD.
Virus scanners figured this out years ago, this is why they scan the operating memory!
The difficult part is finding out which "bytes" are bad. The problem is many elements of spy tools are often used for good too. Like VNC and all of those legitimate screen capture and key logger programs for IT.
If Apple were a person he would be a total douche
He'd also be wearing a turtleneck, have a starbucks double half-calf-frappa-moccha-chino, goatee, and thick black-rimmed glasses.
Oh yeah, and a liberal arts degree.
Ethical conflict? Jesus what are you, Canadian?
As a matter of fact, I am Canadian...
The dark side of computer "security" pays far better than the good side. I was contracted to setup a number of servers for a company, and as it turned out, they were part of this "dark side." I told them I had an ethical conflict, and decided to remove myself from the situation about 2 hours into it.
The problem is, other than the coders and the boss, many people do not know they are working for these companies. This particular company had about 15 people. 3 were in the know, the other 12 were support for shipping, gathering information, making contacts, and advertising, etc. When dealing with spyware/malware, there is a lot of butt covering, and evasion.
The programmers in particular were amazing coders, some of the best that graduated at the same university I went to. This is how I got contacted to help. Only after we started talking did I realize what they were all about. The pay was almost double what they would have made at a legitimate company.
Just another way for the mint to save money!
I am a fan of Pink Floyd - some of their music can easily be removed and sold individually. Comfortably Numb, Money, Time, Learning to Fly, etc, can all be enjoyed individually with little to no "loss" in atmosphere.
This is how it is played on radio, this is how people have been introduced to it. But once you start listening to the CDs as a whole, you'll never want to go back to one-off radio play. Seeing Roger Waters play Dark Side of the Moon was amazing - and you have to agree with Pink Floyd, something is missing when you play each track by itself and out of order.
Songs like Shine on you Crazy Diamond have to be played together, otherwise it doesn't make much sense. On the radio, DJs will frequently take "Us and Them" and meld it in with Any Color you like, Brain Damage, Eclipse to make sense. Same with parts of Another Brick in the Wall. Listening to many of the Pink Floyd CDs, you can barely tell when one song ends and another begins.
I get a little bit upset (inside) whenever my clients ask me to enable certain games, or to install high end video cards on machines for gaming purposes at work.
I know, they pay me to do a job, etc, but I still help but wonder how much work isn't being done. When I saw Office Space and Peter says he only get about 15 minutes of real, actual work done a week, I knew this was the truth in most organizations.
I'd have to say that the hardest I've ever worked (other than University) was at Dairy Queen. Every job after that has been relatively easy with enough downtime that I felt guilty for years, until I realized every person has the same downtime.
Can I get a +5, Insightful for repeating part of the parent post, too? Dude, he already said that.
Wow, you're right, sorry, I didn't read the whole post before I commented...but...this is slashdot, isn't that a requirement for posting? Who actually reads articles? /. is a forum for half-baked, half-assed opinionated remarks written solely for the purpose of starting flame wars. At least that is what I was told when I signed up years ago.
If you've never heard of an application, assume that it's untrusted malware.
Linux has been pioneering a way around this through trusted software repositories, but the concept hasn't panned out for Windows yet.
Linux? Never heard of it. Must be malware.
it will allow w3c to influence Microsoft more
Or do you mean allow Microsoft to influence W3C more?
I was referring to the fact that so many people have had this problem with that DLL that you would think some IT people would have picked up on it...this is usually how malware is discovered.
It's not often that the smart IT people get infected and then think up a fix. It is the regular user that gets infected, calls an IT person, then the IT person figures out what is going on.
Based on the volume of posts for 2.5 years regarding this DLL and its high CPU usage (the users did see this), you'd think some IT person would have seen something wrong.
Or, you'd think that the customers would have called Energizer, and that Energizer would have looked into it. Considering there is a significant amount of malware that is found and patched within a day, 2.5 years going unnoticed is a big fail by SOMEONE - ultimately Energizer - as if they didn't see this at all.
There have been reports of Arucer.dll utilizing 100% CPU as far back as mid 2007. It was originally included by Energizer and used to check that the device was indeed connected to the machine.
They aren't sure how long dll has been infected, but all signs point to the entire time (back to May 2007). Considering how many forum posts have issues with the dll going back 2.5 years, you'd think someone would have figured it out long ago.