It's more usually a sign of stress. It's only (paranoid) schizophrenia when you're tapping your foot because the FBI just passed a message into your brain that if you don't tap your foot they will take you out with their orbital "laser".
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Actually I am unemployed and would grateful for any job at the moment since I can't pay my mortgage.
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I don't care how low your uid is, I still find your referring to employees as drones to be patronising and arrogant.
Presumably you are administering a WINDOWS network, so remember what they say about people who live in GLASS HOUSES.
Well, any way they want, e.g. querying a microsoft server, as someone else pointed out, over port 80 since that will get past most firewalls. XP could send the key to the server, the server checks, e.g. a list of widely distributed warezed keys or maybe to see if that key was ever issued, then gives xp its answer. The os can then do whatever it wants.
"Do you know anything at all about the activation system, or are you just randomly guessing?"
Yes I do know all about the activation system, but the real point is that the corporate version doesn't have product activation (supposedly as a convenience for bulk buyers, e.g. colleges, large corporations). I suppose I am just "randomly guessing"; being paranoid that since MS requires a cd key for the supposedly activation-free corporate edition they might be doing something with it.
I was wondering about this after I heard the story somewhere else first, ( hoho ).
Most people not paying for XP are either going to be using the crack on the "trial" version or downloading the corporate version from their fave p2p network.
Thinking about the 2nd scenario, the corporate version requires a key, but doesn't need activation. The key is printed on the back of the cd case and every corporate version.rar I have seen has the same key- starting, (amusingly) "FCK..."
Anyway- the corporate versions of Win2000 didn't need a key- they filled it in for you (unless I am getting mixed-up with other MS software of the same period).
So, the big question is: Why does the corporate version need a key? MS knows it is damn easy to write it down, so there's no security there, but if MS wants to check the key when the system connects to the internet, checking against a database (oh look, 3 million people all using the same key!), then isn't this a similar hassle to product activation, only done sneakily with no dialogs ?
Presumably if you install the corporate version with the "FCK..." key and never connect to the internet then it will never hassle you or expire or need to be activated, but if you do connect to the net then it *could* be sort of activating itself by checking the key with microsoft. If this turns out to be the case then you could always block it with your favourite firewall, since as this would be a sneaky check they could hardly deactivate your machine if they couldn't connect...
Then again, we all know that MS loves home piracy and the product activation is just to stop small and medium businesses from using one cd on their whole lan.
"Windows is basically one big script. Everything it does, practically, is scripted....There will always be a way to exploit windows"
As opposed to linux where there is not a script in sight?
Actually the Windows scripts differ from linux ones in that they control some pretty fundamental things in the OS, like the html behind file-manager windows. Linux scripts are, I suppose, only run at certain specific times, like ppp-up or system shutdown.
Of course, either system is open to the abuse of replacing standard scripts with malicious ones, it's just that under linux most people are not using their root account for day-to-day work, while under Windows nearly everyone's Administrator.
blah blah, this is because a) Users know no better , b) Because Windows has this different mindset there are a whole bunch of things you have to be Administrator to do, so it is harder for security-conscious users to seperate the user from the super-user.
"You have to do something with all those spare cycles and I could really care less about finding alien signals from noise, cracking the latest DES, or factoring the largest mersine (sic) primes."
Well how about finding a cure for cancer? It used to be Windows only, but I think there is a linux console version now, or if not, there at least is for some of the other worthy causes to crunch numbers for.
I run the cancer one on 3 of my boxes at home; I guarantee you will get more of a genuine "warm, fuzzy feeling" from helping cancer research than you will knowing you compiled all your own source.
No- they couldn't say this because all the projects on SF are covered by various open-source licences. E.g. my project on SF is covered by the apache licence. SF couldn't suddenly claim it as their property because the apache licence doesn't allow this.
"I really do like the idea of MMORPG?s; they give you the chance to live another life, so to speak.
"
Yeah, unfortunately you have to give up what life you had before to play your new life.
The worst ever was when text-based MUDS like Mozart had "renting"- meaning you had to put a couple of hours of play in every day even if you didn't want to in order to make enough gold that your stuff wouldn't get lost.
I probably sit a different distance from my tv than you do, but neither of us see a need to focus a tv. The only reason they answer a (hypothetical) question about focusing, (I suppose), is that people may compare the device's display to a telescope or binoculars since it goes close to your eye.
The reason the display "appears" to be two feet away is because it is basically up close to your eye, so pretty much fills your view from that eye.
Actually I think they are playing on the concept of those "iglasses" or whatever they were called- you know, the ones where you gave them a video source and they displayed it on a pair of spectacles. The difference with these when compared to this display is that the "iglasses" showed a different picture to each eye so you could create the impression of a giant cinema screen (you can create false depth information), and secondly the "iglasses" wouldn't let you see anything else except the display- this display sounds as if it is either transparent or you can see round the edge of it.
"What I would love to see in a language is something merges the power of Perl (mainly regular expressions) w/ something like Visual C++ (OO + GUI), AND allows easy distribution (doesn't require a special runtime module, and is not a pain in the neck for Joe Blow to install on his machine)"
Check out rebol (www.rebol.com). It doesn't have rad, but the gui stuff is really easy to do, but anyway the really good feature you'll like is that it's incredibly easy to install on an end user's machine- one exe file to run.
It runs on all major platforms too, and has regexps, and the internet protocols are very well handled.
I am not a paid astro-turfer of rebol, but maybe it wouldn't hurt to send them my cv...
"Why would you boss ask you to find a language that supports multiple inheritance?"
Well maybe some really highly-paid guy in the company already specced the class library out in UML or something- we just don't know, do we?
I find it weird, by the way, that I am a big fan of multiple inheritance, and yet all of the languages I can think of that have it are real bondage-and-discipline types. (C++ and Eiffel spring horridly to mind}.
Thus far, the animals are thriving. According to Childress, the tube worms are growing, the mussels are attaching and moving around, and the crabs are claiming "first post"s on slashdot.
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I have used "someone@microsoft.com" ever since Outlook Express said "Fill in your email address, e.g. 'someone@microsoft.com'".
The address doesn't bounce- they probably filter it all out.
graspee
It's more usually a sign of stress. It's only (paranoid) schizophrenia when you're tapping your foot because the FBI just passed a message into your brain that if you don't tap your foot they will take you out with their orbital "laser".
graspee
Actually I am unemployed and would grateful for any job at the moment since I can't pay my mortgage.
graspee
I don't care how low your uid is, I still find your referring to employees as drones to be patronising and arrogant.
Presumably you are administering a WINDOWS network, so remember what they say about people who live in GLASS HOUSES.
graspee
That was "Wheelie", not StreetHawk...
graspee
"Once you get married, all your base are belong to her."
Given that it's taco, shouldn't that be "all you're base" (sic). ?
Anyway, if he gets divorced then half his base will belong to her.
graspee
Well you just ruined that episode for uk readers. Luckily I am up to date with the US because of p2p networks ;)
graspee, UK
Today must be a REAL SLOW news day if this makes the front page!
graspee
"And how would they do this?"
Well, any way they want, e.g. querying a microsoft server, as someone else pointed out, over port 80 since that will get past most firewalls. XP could send the key to the server, the server checks, e.g. a list of widely distributed warezed keys or maybe to see if that key was ever issued, then gives xp its answer. The os can then do whatever it wants.
"Do you know anything at all about the activation system, or are you just randomly guessing?"
Yes I do know all about the activation system, but the real point is that the corporate version doesn't have product activation (supposedly as a convenience for bulk buyers, e.g. colleges, large corporations). I suppose I am just "randomly guessing"; being paranoid that since MS requires a cd key for the supposedly activation-free corporate edition they might be doing something with it.
graspee
" you can even change a whole motherboard out and it doesn't say a thing"
I changed the mb and processor in my (legal, non-corporate) XP and it didn't say a thing either.
graspee
I was wondering about this after I heard the story somewhere else first, ( hoho ).
Most people not paying for XP are either going to be using the crack on the "trial" version or downloading the corporate version from their fave p2p network.
Thinking about the 2nd scenario, the corporate version requires a key, but doesn't need activation. The key is printed on the back of the cd case and every corporate version.rar I have seen has the same key- starting, (amusingly) "FCK..."
Anyway- the corporate versions of Win2000 didn't need a key- they filled it in for you (unless I am getting mixed-up with other MS software of the same period).
So, the big question is: Why does the corporate version need a key? MS knows it is damn easy to write it down, so there's no security there, but if MS wants to check the key when the system connects to the internet, checking against a database (oh look, 3 million people all using the same key!), then isn't this a similar hassle to product activation, only done sneakily with no dialogs ?
Presumably if you install the corporate version with the "FCK..." key and never connect to the internet then it will never hassle you or expire or need to be activated, but if you do connect to the net then it *could* be sort of activating itself by checking the key with microsoft. If this turns out to be the case then you could always block it with your favourite firewall, since as this would be a sneaky check they could hardly deactivate your machine if they couldn't connect...
Then again, we all know that MS loves home piracy and the product activation is just to stop small and medium businesses from using one cd on their whole lan.
graspee
"Windows is basically one big script. Everything it does, practically, is scripted....There will always be a way to exploit windows"
As opposed to linux where there is not a script in sight?
Actually the Windows scripts differ from linux ones in that they control some pretty fundamental things in the OS, like the html behind file-manager windows. Linux scripts are, I suppose, only run at certain specific times, like ppp-up or system shutdown.
Of course, either system is open to the abuse of replacing standard scripts with malicious ones, it's just that under linux most people are not using their root account for day-to-day work, while under Windows nearly everyone's Administrator.
blah blah, this is because a) Users know no better , b) Because Windows has this different mindset there are a whole bunch of things you have to be Administrator to do, so it is harder for security-conscious users to seperate the user from the super-user.
graspee
"You have to do something with all those spare cycles and I could really care less about finding alien signals from noise, cracking the latest DES, or factoring the largest mersine (sic) primes."
Well how about finding a cure for cancer? It used to be Windows only, but I think there is a linux console version now, or if not, there at least is for some of the other worthy causes to crunch numbers for.
I run the cancer one on 3 of my boxes at home; I guarantee you will get more of a genuine "warm, fuzzy feeling" from helping cancer research than you will knowing you compiled all your own source.
graspee
No- they couldn't say this because all the projects on SF are covered by various open-source licences. E.g. my project on SF is covered by the apache licence. SF couldn't suddenly claim it as their property because the apache licence doesn't allow this.
graspee
I stopped using Suse when they kept releasing broken distros- e.g. gnome apps have user-interface issues in 7.2...
graspee
Tuvox system online:
you: "I have a problem with my handspring treo"
Tuvox: "I fail to see your problem ensign. It would appear you have selected an inferior technology."
graspee
"I really do like the idea of MMORPG?s; they give you the chance to live another life, so to speak.
"
Yeah, unfortunately you have to give up what life you had before to play your new life.
The worst ever was when text-based MUDS like Mozart had "renting"- meaning you had to put a couple of hours of play in every day even if you didn't want to in order to make enough gold that your stuff wouldn't get lost.
graspee
I probably sit a different distance from my tv than you do, but neither of us see a need to focus a tv. The only reason they answer a (hypothetical) question about focusing, (I suppose), is that people may compare the device's display to a telescope or binoculars since it goes close to your eye.
The reason the display "appears" to be two feet away is because it is basically up close to your eye, so pretty much fills your view from that eye.
Actually I think they are playing on the concept of those "iglasses" or whatever they were called- you know, the ones where you gave them a video source and they displayed it on a pair of spectacles. The difference with these when compared to this display is that the "iglasses" showed a different picture to each eye so you could create the impression of a giant cinema screen (you can create false depth information), and secondly the "iglasses" wouldn't let you see anything else except the display- this display sounds as if it is either transparent or you can see round the edge of it.
graspee
"What I would love to see in a language is something merges the power of Perl (mainly regular expressions) w/ something like Visual C++ (OO + GUI), AND allows easy distribution (doesn't require a special runtime module, and is not a pain in the neck for Joe Blow to install on his machine)"
Check out rebol (www.rebol.com). It doesn't have rad, but the gui stuff is really easy to do, but anyway the really good feature you'll like is that it's incredibly easy to install on an end user's machine- one exe file to run.
It runs on all major platforms too, and has regexps, and the internet protocols are very well handled.
I am not a paid astro-turfer of rebol, but maybe it wouldn't hurt to send them my cv...
graspee
"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
I find the other way round true:
"When all you have is nails, anything starts to look like a hammer".
That's why my Swiss Army knife has dents in the side of it anyway...
graspee
"Why would you boss ask you to find a language that supports multiple inheritance?"
Well maybe some really highly-paid guy in the company already specced the class library out in UML or something- we just don't know, do we?
I find it weird, by the way, that I am a big fan of multiple inheritance, and yet all of the languages I can think of that have it are real bondage-and-discipline types. (C++ and Eiffel spring horridly to mind}.
graspee
If Larry Wall is God, does that make Heidi Jesus?
I really got to get out more.
graspee
"Unusual creatures rock my boat. "
When unusual creatures rock your boat, it's time to break out the harpoon guns and Hollywood cliches...
graspee
Thus far, the animals are thriving. According to Childress, the tube worms are growing, the mussels are attaching and moving around, and the crabs are claiming "first post"s on slashdot.
graspee
It's valid java/ecma script though...
graspee