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  1. The Prince of darkness on EU Trade Commissioner Enjoyed MS Hospitality · · Score: 2, Funny

    This suprises you because...? It's peter mandleson, the prince of darkness, the arch overlord of the bad-things.

  2. Download from flexbeta? Get p0wned :) on Windows Media Player 10 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    FlexBeta are great and all, but can you please link to the offical download in future?

    http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=34505 Is the offcial download from microsoft - faster, nicer to the people who hosted and gives you much more faith in it not being trojaned.

  3. Re:XP bug free on Windows XP SP2 Delayed Until Late 2004 · · Score: 1

    It's called the recovery console you tart. You can run chkdsk from this menu. No, you don't need the CD if you install the recovery console onto the HD.

  4. Re:This isn't what I'm seeing on Why IE Is So Fast ... Sometimes · · Score: 1

    There does def. seem to be a problem with popup javascript windows. The more IE windows you have open, the longer this pause tends to be. Sometimes it's upwards of 30s or even a minute if you've got A *lot* of windows open. I assume it's doing some sort of security check that involves enumerating all the windows... ?

  5. Theats? on Ending Harassment from Microsoft and the BSA? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Who mentioned threats? o_O

  6. Bleeding edge on Headless Windows 2000 Servers? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you dont mind trying the "bleeding edge" you could call up your local MS subsib, and see if you can get a trial version of the beta of Windows.net server which will support being headless.

    As a side point, Win2k *does* support being headless - some of the SAN devices run Win2k Server Appliance Kit.

  7. Re:Forsight on Geek Jobs in Television Production? · · Score: 1

    Offtopic, but...

    Would this not dry up all the extreme sciences where the only real, directly related employment after is research? Math, Physics, Astrophysics for example.

    I'm not saying these dont have "real world" jobs, but they are research mostly, which doesnt pay very well.

    We need parents to pay occsionally so people can advance these sciences (amoung other things)

  8. Cool tool, but not new on Authenticate Your Windows Clients Against... Anything · · Score: 3, Informative

    Windows NT has been able to authenticate a number of servers since day one. Novell is just one of those that it can. How does it do this? Using this interface - as somone else pointed, the replaceable authentication dll etc is documented and is on MSDN.

    pGina is cool thanks to it's plugin interface - it seems to make things a lot easyer.

    BTW, there is already a virus that gets in, and replaces your MS gina with it's own, so it looks and works like normal but collects passwords.

  9. Re:MS found these bugs first! on Eight New Security Holes in IIS · · Score: 1

    I suggest you go back and read it. Yes, some of the fixes were found by third parties, but the rest were infact found by MS. Whether this is because of the security review or because they were looking at the code to fix the 3rd party found bugs, and stumbled accross them, we dont know. I dont think we have seen the result of the security review yet.

    The win2k codereview is happening at a slightly differnt pace compared to windows.net.

  10. Microsoft Research had something like this... on No-click Mouse? · · Score: 1

    MSR were doing research into new UI's and ways to interact with them, and they played around with as well as the buttons, and the wheel, making the primary button also sense capacitance. It would only show the tool bar when your finger touched the button.

    There is no reason why someone couldnt build a mouse that used this technique to sense the contact with a finger.

  11. Well, it's Win2k here... on Microsoft/Unisys Unix-bashing Site Runs FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    This says it's IIS5 on Win2k (which is determined from the IP fingerprinting that netcraft do).

    When I first went to the link, it was saying FreeBSD. Do we care? Nope. It was given to some marketting company who signed up and got some hosting space for the campaign. Oh well. It means nothing.

  12. You can control RD/RA/TS from any platform... on Microsoft XP License Prohibits VNC · · Score: 1

    rDesktop
    GPL'd, works on Linux, *BSD, even solaris. Connects fine to XP, 2k, NT4.

    HOBLinkJWT
    Java based TS client. Works fine against XP, 2K, NT4, from many oses.

  13. Software Fault Tolerance on Manually-Confirgured Software RAID Under NT? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    NT4 and above have always supported software RAID, most commonly RAID-0, and in the server editions RAID-1 too (I think it did some others, I'm not sure).

    Neither of these will help since you are having to recover the data, and even so the hardware controller may have a differant format to the NT one etc (same goes for any controller).

    I think the best solution, if you dont have a backup is talk to the people like Ontrack - they can recover almost anything.

  14. Re:One reason. on Manually-Confirgured Software RAID Under NT? · · Score: 2, Informative

    This person wasnt using software. They were using Hardware based soltuon which subsequentially broke, and he's looking at a software based soltion to recover the data.

  15. At last! on Genetically Modified Mouthwashing Bacteria · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is somethign that all computer people need. Anything that lessens the time that a computer person has to spend away from their keyboard, the better. I for one welcome this, since brushing of the teeth is something that I have to try very hard to remember.

  16. Re:you wish on LindowsOS.com Email Lists Collected For MS Suit · · Score: 1

    if you wish to use OWA without the relm stuff then get your admin to re-enabled basic authentication. The realm stuff implies that NTLM has been forced as the only authentication mechanism

  17. Re:OS bloat on Fast Alpha-Blending In Your GUI · · Score: 3, Interesting

    B1 (or maybe one of the interims between this a b2) of Win2K had this. B1 was released in september 1999. It's been sitting under the hood in GDI for bloody ages. I remember somone wrote an app during the beta that allowed you to do JUST was glass 2k does. So even that app is old.

    Yes, maybe XFree has it a year ago, but that puts it to mid-2000ish. Still after Win2K.

    Who cares which came first? What matters is how it's used. And on one or two windows, and in other places, it works VERY well. But for your whole desktop... no way.

  18. Red Hat monopoly? on Red Hat Proposes Alternative Settlement To MSFT · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does this not equate to a RedHat mononopoly in much the same way as a microsoft monopoly? Surely schools should have a range of hetregenous systems - Max, Unix, Windows, etc

  19. Why the obsession with passport? on Petreley on Ximian and Mono · · Score: 2
    Passport has nothing to do with .net. It's not in the spec, and it's not in the classes that are included in the .Net SDK. It's not included in the runtime either. To implement a fully working .net system, you dont need PassPort. Yes, you can IF you want, implement PassPort in your .net applications, and I think that the Passport team at microsoft provide sample code for .net to do this.

    You are thinking of HailStorm. That IS closely linked with Passport, and Hailstorm will be implemented ontop of/with .net.

    Passport is not a core part of .net framework. Core part of the .net stratagy maybe.