Sweet time? Indeed, saying that the Konquerer team fixed it in 90 minutes makes them sound very irresponsible, not proactive : Every change like that can have hundreds of ramifications, and I assure you that there is a programmer at Microsoft who could point to a particular segment of code and say "There, we just need to change that line right there". But after several high profile incidents where someone did a change and it broke a dozen large applications, they seem to be a lot more weary about that nowadays. Working in software development, I've seen many situations in large systems where someone wanted to rush out an incompletely thought out feature or fix and the net result was disaster.
I don't know, 90 minutes sounds ok for Konqueror. It's a relatively simple application (a web browser). IE is a bit more complicated, due to its hooks into the OS. Now that MS says the flaw is actually in the OS, we're talking about a much larger code base and potential impact for a patch to break things.
Also, Microsoft isn't really known for releasing beta patches (though they do it occasionally), whereas open source projects (like Konqueror) can put it on CVS and wait to see if bug reports come in before releasing a new version.
Do you know how much taxes M$ pays a year. I am sure this is a tax write off (even if they are doing it for the right reasons). So in the end they get to keep more of their money. M$ didn't become BorgLike by giving away ALL thier money. Cheers
MS pays very little in taxes due to their heavy use of stock options as compensation. Besides that, Bill Gates (who is NOT synonymous with MS (a publically traded company)) is the man behind the charity giving. I am sure it helps his tax bill a bit.
If you want to be cynical about it, then you can guess that Microsoft wants to make some truly egregious use of the DMCA further down the road, and they don't want to risk getting the law overturned on a trivial use.
Except we all know that the case would never have gone to court, MS would have just bullied until Huang dropped it.
Also, I would assume it would be much easier to win on a "trivial" court case, thereby validating the law, than it would be to win in a larger case down the road--when no other cases support it.
I really do think MS deserves some praise for this. For MS to be one of the few major companies to get it...well, it's quite amazing, really.
and i suppose we are just supposed to be born with the knowledge that pressing F8 will bring up this menu. admittedly they placed a nice little line at the start of 2000 (havent looked at XP) but if you are running another win version do we just guess at it or what....
Ummm...it's in the Windows Help file. And in your Windows manual. And plastered all over the web. And accessible via MS's Knowledge Base. And...need I go on?
Of course we can't figure that out. It is supposed to be difficult! If it was supposed to be easy, why would M$ have chosen to place the bootlog in a hidden file?
Hmmm...let's see, press F8 on startup and select Bootlog. then open bootlog.txt. Yup, that's difficult all right.
There's two type of Windows users. There's the computer illiterate users who would be confused by a bootlog.txt file (and that's why it's hidden) and the (hopefully) computer savvy users that should be able to find a hidden file...or have configured their shell to show hidden files. I'll leave it up to you to decide which camp you fall in.
Okay, let's take a few common processes. What are they for/what do they do... csrss.exe. lsass.exe. each instance of svchost.exe. You'll probably find most people who are pretty decent Windows sysadmins do not know. (And in the case of svchost, you can't even tell unless you go and install extra software).?
CSRSS.EXE is the user mode portion of the OS. LSASS.EXE is a security server. It authenticates the user on logon, and creates a token for that authentication. SVCHOST.EXE is used to host services, of course. It hosts DLL files and runs them as services. Tlist can tell you what services are running with svchost.exe.
And if somebody didn't know that, they could easily head over to support.microsoft.com and find the info.
I don't know what MS says about it, but my recommendation
is 40 hours for Windows 95 or 20 hours for Windows 98,
and then reboot. Divide those numbers in half for every
instant messaging client or p2p filesharing thingy you
have installed, and then divide them in half again if
you don't know exactly what's running out of the various
Run registry entries. I don't know Me well enough to
assign a figure for it here.
I'll go with that...though it's much easier to tell users to reboot every day than every 40 hours. And, on my own system, or ones that I administer full time, they can easily run a week or more without reboots.
As for Windows ME, my figure would be to reboot it immediately. Then keep rebooting until your hard drive crashes, then buy a new one with another OS.
If we are going to bring up single-instance as an example of the norm, I believe mine supports far more than yours does, as what I have is almost impossible for *anyone* who uses IE/Outlook to maintain for longer than a year.
Let me be the first to call bullshit. I use both IE and Outlook on Win98 and Win2K, and have had machines that run fine for 3 years with reinstalling. That includes installing pretty much everything I can get my hands on, uninstalling 3/4 of that, etc., etc. Just because you know how to maintain a Linux system, doesn't mean there aren't some of us that know how to maintain a Windows system. It's just a different knowledge set.
While Linux is prone to falling into dependancy hell, it doesn't suffer from the same performance degradation that you get in windows. In windows, you seem to have to periodically re-install everything just to get your system to load in a reasonable amount of time.
I'm honestly amazed at how many *nix people out there have very few clues when it comes to tweaking/maintaining/fixing Windows.
For some reason, they can search for 3 days for that elusive X setting, but they can't figure out how to make a bootlog and figure out what takes Windows so long to boot. Or they fancy themselves kernel hackers, but can't clean up their registry (OID's you say? Simple, just search for the name of the app in the Uninstall portion, that will give you the correct OID). They can reverse engineer a device driver, then code one in ASM language, but they can't figure out msconfig.
And, of course, I'm exagerrating a bit. Kernel hackers and the like are more than competent to maintain Windows, but they prefer Linux....I just find it odd that most *nix guys are tolerant of the hurdles they must jump through with *nix, but clueless and intolerant of Windows' similiar hurdles.
Oh, and to keep it on topic, Safe Mode is 640x480 in 16 colors...not 800x600.
If you have to start your post with IANAL (or similar) then please don't bother replying! It would be nice to have some solid facts instead of comment or guesswork!
If you want a response from an actual lawyer, odds are you'll have to actually hire one. You see, lawyers aren't known for giving out advice for free, since that's principally what they are hired for. If you're just looking for solid facts, then google for them. Or ask nicely for other people's references. Just because someone is not a lawyer doesn't mean they don't know facts.
And you wonder why your question wasn't answered in the first place....Sheesh.
Contracts are allowed to be secret. Making a few extra copies of one you have signed or are considering might be fair use. But putting the full text of one in a database and publishing the database almost certainly isn't.
I could see that logic being applied to a negotiated contract; Company X may not want Company Y to know what Company Z's terms are. But EULA's are boiler plate and distributed to anyone who buys the software. They're not exactly secret, and I could be considering accepting the EULA for almost any software product at anytime.
As a kind of parlor trick, I amuse myself and give my friends the willies just using Google and telling them about themselves. With only a nickname or an email address, I can find phone numbers, addresses, and past histories. Frequently, much this information was not placed on the net by the person themselves or is no longer under their control.
Hmmm...seeing as how I've never experienced this hijacking of info and being put on the net, I'm a bit confused. After being on the WWW for many years now, a Google search on my email address (and my previous 3, dating back to around 1994) simply turns up mailing list/discussion board postings. At most you'd find out I atteneded the University of Florida (and by extension, probably lived in Gainesville, FL) at one point in time.
Is it just that FL is woefully inadequate in posting these "easily accessible" gov't public records on the net? Or is it that your friends like to post their personal details on public websites?
1). The adverage IQ is 100 that means half of the people who can vote have below adverage IQ however you measure IQ, thats just the way it is, who's to say you vote is better than somone elses.
Maybe you should pick up stats book. What you're thinking of is the median.
Not if the secret involves how much over cost each of these units was actually sold for! : )
There are actually just 2 calculators in a box. You press the = key next to the candidate you want to vote for, then they read the number off at the end of the elections.
"No, god no! Not the C key!!!" ..... "Uh, it would seem we had a very poor voter turnout this year....."
In all fairness, MS actually has pretty powerful scripting built in through Windows Script Host. You can pretty much do anything with WSH that you can do in front of the PC, and a few more that you can't do in front of the PC. It's just a huge gaping security hole, and not as easy as shell scripting (IMO). But any good Windows admin should know about it and how to use it.
So while you would not have to lug around the books, you would still have to buy the text books. Because I REALLY doubt they would give them away for free. So now I have both an expensive PDA and electronic textbook.
I wasn't suggesting a $2000 PDA. How about a $500-$750 reader, with limited PDA functionality, and 50-75% of the cost of a bound book. The ebook gives you (a) more portability (it's hard to lug around 6 text books all the time), (b) an actually useful iindex...searching, (c) it's updateable as errors are discovered, or new material is added. The professor can even insert his own material into appropiate sections. Plus, as you go on to advanced engineering, you can still refer back to your basic engineering textbook on the fly.
Sure if you are taking pyschology. But I graduated as an engineer, which requires math, text and graphics. And all of this has to be annotated. And while it would be nice to get the notes ahead of time, most of my profs actually did things on the fly. This meant sure they knew roughly, but not exactly and work out the problems in the class.
Professors should make thier notes ahead of time, IMO. But, even so, styli and touchscreens make drawings a snap. Like I said, a "killer app" for note taking would need to be developed (I don't know of any...but maybe there are some?) for math equations and the like...but that's trivial to do, really.
I'm sure I don't have to tell you how much easier it is to read printed material than it is to read from a lit display. I really don't think it'd be feasible for extended use until ebook readers support electronic ink. It's just too hard on the eyes.
Maybe you're study habits were different than mine, but I'd say less than an hour per book per day in college for me. My god, man, I spend 8 hours a day in front of a computer, and have very little trouble reading.
On another note, reliance on spell/grammer checkers is, I believe, leading to people not being able to spell well on their own or form gramatically correct sentences. I'm don't claim to be immune from this either. My spelling can be terrible at times (most of them). I won't even start on how grammer checkers have such bad grammer. Who are they helping?
I don't think bad spelling and grammar is a recent phenomenon. The internet just exposes the problem more, because we're so used to talking to people...not writing to them. Oh...and they're helping those with poor grammer[sic] and poor spelling. Like you.;)
No, but I'm sure a good bit of the money goes to printing, shipping, storing, warehousing, and retailing.
Not to mention that the professors (in universities) and school boards (in k-12) get to dictate what books they use. If a publisher offered ebooks, and then promoted it, I think it would be a valuable alternative...even at a negliglible price difference.
The idea looks nice, but the blocking factor would be the speed at which notes could be taken, I'm afraid. I grafitti much slower than I type, but I type slower than I can take notes on paper.
Bah. Teach kids to type, and they'll soon be doing 60-70wpm. Plenty fast enough to take notes. Not to mention that computers can automatically fill out abbreviations, as well as spell and grammar check on the fly. And my god, what I wouldn't have given for fully indexed searchable notes when I was in college. Admittedly, something would have to be done for math equations...I know of no quick and easy way to take Calculus notes, for example. But, that's just a matter of writing and proting the software.
So what you'd be left with would be an expensive replacement for textbooks.
What?! Expensive? I don't know about where you went to school, but my college texts were a lot more than a palm. Around $60-$70 a piece (and some courses needed 2 or 3 texts). Multiply that by 4 courses per semester, 2 semesters per year, and 4 years of schooling...you get about $2000. Plenty of money for an eBook reader and downloadable textbooks. Once again, the searchability is a big advantage as well. Oh yeah, and you don't have to lug around 35 pounds of books. Why haven't they done this yet????
Sorry, but I strongly disagree with this. MCSE is "the world according to Microsoft" - which is fine if thats what you wish to learn about, but for someone wishing to find out about the basics of computing, MCSE is not the answer. Almost all Windows text books concentrate on procedures as opposed to principles - ie "click this, fill in this, click OK" making most of them 1000 pages of the bleedin' obvious.
Bah. More Anti-MS propaganda on/. How typical. Let's see here, I have MS Press's Netwroking Essentials right here on my shelf....let's see what we can come up with:
The OSI model (including brief mentions of 802.3,.4, and.5, and a larger detail on TCP/IP of course). Decidedly not MS-centric. AAMOF, the only mention of Windows I can find in the entire chapter is about WinSock (with a nod to BSD for the basis of the design), and obligatory NetBIOS and NetBEUI info.
There's also good info on basic netwrok troubleshooting, RAID levels, networking hardware, etc. Is it in depth? No, but it's a good read for anyone starting with networks. It gives general background info, and I have never found it to be MS propaganda. True, it does go into some detail on how to do certain things on a Windows system. But, seeing as how it's targeted to MCSE wannabe's, that's to be expected.
Just so you know, MS Press's other MCSE books are similarly well written, but of course some are more MS centric. Kind of hard to write a book on Active Directory (for instance) without being. But, every book I've seen from them that deals with broader topics (Network security, for instance) spends a lot more time on whys than hows.
If there's a department that can't stand to work off the main file server, get them a a budget departmental server. Centralized backups are faster, easier managed, and done correctly. Workstation backups are very rarely done consistently.
All laptops running Windows should be using Win2000. Win2k's syncronize function works beatifully for this. XP's works...but it's a bit more of a pain.
Which is one of the reasons to move to a Windows 2000 network. Then you can take advantage of a real Group Policy system.
If there's not that many desktops, it's often easier to just redirect My Documents by right clicking it and setting a new path (I use H:\ for "Home"...though U for "you" is quite cute [g]). Poledit on Win9x machines is downright ugly.
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I don't know, 90 minutes sounds ok for Konqueror. It's a relatively simple application (a web browser). IE is a bit more complicated, due to its hooks into the OS. Now that MS says the flaw is actually in the OS, we're talking about a much larger code base and potential impact for a patch to break things.
Also, Microsoft isn't really known for releasing beta patches (though they do it occasionally), whereas open source projects (like Konqueror) can put it on CVS and wait to see if bug reports come in before releasing a new version.
MS pays very little in taxes due to their heavy use of stock options as compensation. Besides that, Bill Gates (who is NOT synonymous with MS (a publically traded company)) is the man behind the charity giving. I am sure it helps his tax bill a bit.
Also, I would assume it would be much easier to win on a "trivial" court case, thereby validating the law, than it would be to win in a larger case down the road--when no other cases support it.
I really do think MS deserves some praise for this. For MS to be one of the few major companies to get it...well, it's quite amazing, really.
They have no concept of grammar either.
Ummm...it's in the Windows Help file. And in your Windows manual. And plastered all over the web. And accessible via MS's Knowledge Base. And...need I go on?
Hmmm...let's see, press F8 on startup and select Bootlog. then open bootlog.txt. Yup, that's difficult all right.
There's two type of Windows users. There's the computer illiterate users who would be confused by a bootlog.txt file (and that's why it's hidden) and the (hopefully) computer savvy users that should be able to find a hidden file...or have configured their shell to show hidden files. I'll leave it up to you to decide which camp you fall in.
CSRSS.EXE is the user mode portion of the OS. LSASS.EXE is a security server. It authenticates the user on logon, and creates a token for that authentication. SVCHOST.EXE is used to host services, of course. It hosts DLL files and runs them as services. Tlist can tell you what services are running with svchost.exe.
And if somebody didn't know that, they could easily head over to support.microsoft.com and find the info.
I'll go with that...though it's much easier to tell users to reboot every day than every 40 hours. And, on my own system, or ones that I administer full time, they can easily run a week or more without reboots.
As for Windows ME, my figure would be to reboot it immediately. Then keep rebooting until your hard drive crashes, then buy a new one with another OS.
Let me be the first to call bullshit. I use both IE and Outlook on Win98 and Win2K, and have had machines that run fine for 3 years with reinstalling. That includes installing pretty much everything I can get my hands on, uninstalling 3/4 of that, etc., etc. Just because you know how to maintain a Linux system, doesn't mean there aren't some of us that know how to maintain a Windows system. It's just a different knowledge set.
I'm honestly amazed at how many *nix people out there have very few clues when it comes to tweaking/maintaining/fixing Windows.
For some reason, they can search for 3 days for that elusive X setting, but they can't figure out how to make a bootlog and figure out what takes Windows so long to boot. Or they fancy themselves kernel hackers, but can't clean up their registry (OID's you say? Simple, just search for the name of the app in the Uninstall portion, that will give you the correct OID). They can reverse engineer a device driver, then code one in ASM language, but they can't figure out msconfig.
And, of course, I'm exagerrating a bit. Kernel hackers and the like are more than competent to maintain Windows, but they prefer Linux....I just find it odd that most *nix guys are tolerant of the hurdles they must jump through with *nix, but clueless and intolerant of Windows' similiar hurdles.
Oh, and to keep it on topic, Safe Mode is 640x480 in 16 colors...not 800x600.
If you want a response from an actual lawyer, odds are you'll have to actually hire one. You see, lawyers aren't known for giving out advice for free, since that's principally what they are hired for. If you're just looking for solid facts, then google for them. Or ask nicely for other people's references. Just because someone is not a lawyer doesn't mean they don't know facts.
And you wonder why your question wasn't answered in the first place....Sheesh.
I could see that logic being applied to a negotiated contract; Company X may not want Company Y to know what Company Z's terms are. But EULA's are boiler plate and distributed to anyone who buys the software. They're not exactly secret, and I could be considering accepting the EULA for almost any software product at anytime.
Hmmm...seeing as how I've never experienced this hijacking of info and being put on the net, I'm a bit confused. After being on the WWW for many years now, a Google search on my email address (and my previous 3, dating back to around 1994) simply turns up mailing list/discussion board postings. At most you'd find out I atteneded the University of Florida (and by extension, probably lived in Gainesville, FL) at one point in time.
Is it just that FL is woefully inadequate in posting these "easily accessible" gov't public records on the net? Or is it that your friends like to post their personal details on public websites?
Maybe you should pick up stats book. What you're thinking of is the median.
There are actually just 2 calculators in a box. You press the = key next to the candidate you want to vote for, then they read the number off at the end of the elections.
"No, god no! Not the C key!!!"
.....
"Uh, it would seem we had a very poor voter turnout this year....."
With AutoIt , of course.
In all fairness, MS actually has pretty powerful scripting built in through Windows Script Host. You can pretty much do anything with WSH that you can do in front of the PC, and a few more that you can't do in front of the PC. It's just a huge gaping security hole, and not as easy as shell scripting (IMO). But any good Windows admin should know about it and how to use it.
I wasn't suggesting a $2000 PDA. How about a $500-$750 reader, with limited PDA functionality, and 50-75% of the cost of a bound book. The ebook gives you (a) more portability (it's hard to lug around 6 text books all the time), (b) an actually useful iindex...searching, (c) it's updateable as errors are discovered, or new material is added. The professor can even insert his own material into appropiate sections. Plus, as you go on to advanced engineering, you can still refer back to your basic engineering textbook on the fly.
Professors should make thier notes ahead of time, IMO. But, even so, styli and touchscreens make drawings a snap. Like I said, a "killer app" for note taking would need to be developed (I don't know of any...but maybe there are some?) for math equations and the like...but that's trivial to do, really.
I don't think bad spelling and grammar is a recent phenomenon. The internet just exposes the problem more, because we're so used to talking to people...not writing to them. Oh...and they're helping those with poor grammer[sic] and poor spelling. Like you. ;)
Not to mention that the professors (in universities) and school boards (in k-12) get to dictate what books they use. If a publisher offered ebooks, and then promoted it, I think it would be a valuable alternative...even at a negliglible price difference.
Bah. Teach kids to type, and they'll soon be doing 60-70wpm. Plenty fast enough to take notes. Not to mention that computers can automatically fill out abbreviations, as well as spell and grammar check on the fly. And my god, what I wouldn't have given for fully indexed searchable notes when I was in college. Admittedly, something would have to be done for math equations...I know of no quick and easy way to take Calculus notes, for example. But, that's just a matter of writing and proting the software.
What?! Expensive? I don't know about where you went to school, but my college texts were a lot more than a palm. Around $60-$70 a piece (and some courses needed 2 or 3 texts). Multiply that by 4 courses per semester, 2 semesters per year, and 4 years of schooling...you get about $2000. Plenty of money for an eBook reader and downloadable textbooks. Once again, the searchability is a big advantage as well. Oh yeah, and you don't have to lug around 35 pounds of books. Why haven't they done this yet????
Bah. More Anti-MS propaganda on /. How typical. Let's see here, I have MS Press's Netwroking Essentials right here on my shelf....let's see what we can come up with:
The OSI model (including brief mentions of 802.3,.4, and .5, and a larger detail on TCP/IP of course). Decidedly not MS-centric. AAMOF, the only mention of Windows I can find in the entire chapter is about WinSock (with a nod to BSD for the basis of the design), and obligatory NetBIOS and NetBEUI info.
There's also good info on basic netwrok troubleshooting, RAID levels, networking hardware, etc. Is it in depth? No, but it's a good read for anyone starting with networks. It gives general background info, and I have never found it to be MS propaganda. True, it does go into some detail on how to do certain things on a Windows system. But, seeing as how it's targeted to MCSE wannabe's, that's to be expected.
Just so you know, MS Press's other MCSE books are similarly well written, but of course some are more MS centric. Kind of hard to write a book on Active Directory (for instance) without being. But, every book I've seen from them that deals with broader topics (Network security, for instance) spends a lot more time on whys than hows.
I delete the Enum key from the Registry. It's a lot faster and cuts down on those damn duplicate device entries.
Also note for win2K, that sysprep/ghost won't work if the machines have different HALs (ACPI vs. APM).
If there's a department that can't stand to work off the main file server, get them a a budget departmental server. Centralized backups are faster, easier managed, and done correctly. Workstation backups are very rarely done consistently.
All laptops running Windows should be using Win2000. Win2k's syncronize function works beatifully for this. XP's works...but it's a bit more of a pain.
If there's not that many desktops, it's often easier to just redirect My Documents by right clicking it and setting a new path (I use H:\ for "Home"...though U for "you" is quite cute [g]). Poledit on Win9x machines is downright ugly.