Next time 34564gnshe@yahoo.com or DSggh5r4555@hotmail.com sends me some spa, I am reporting their ass to the feds. Now I just need to figure out what to do with all of that money...
"Now, here's where you get to reply aggressively, insult me, tell me how you'd kick my arse if we were to meet in person, and all that pre-pubescent crap.
As I said in a previous message: Linux crashes. Deal with it. XP crashes. Deal with it, you juvenile fuck."
Wow, how old are you? I was being an adult about things. Sure I used the word hell once, but I didn't think that made ma a "juvenile fuck".
I am sure I am wrong, but this reply makes you sound like a angst ridden 15 year old. Try to take things a little more like an adult. I closed my previous response with "we can agree to disagree" but clearly this is not enough for you.
I know what the article says...and I can still disagree. I am not claiming to be "the final word" on the subject, remember my original point that this is "my experience" and I am not claiming to BE A FACT. But I am PART OF THE STATISTIC.
In the future, you should not insult people because their opinion is different than your own. Polite disagreement is fine, that's called discussion. Insults should not be tolerated in a place such as Slashdot.
No offense but you don't sound like you enjoy your job. Which by most people's standards means it is time to find a new one....but all I know about you is one rant so who knows.
Anyway, I would say that since you seem to indicate that XP is only on the laptops, and Win2000 is on the pc's...that's not really a fair comparison. Any IT professional would take into account that maybe there are some hardware problems with the laptops and perhaps it is time to upgrade/replace them or the OS/hardware in them. XP Pro as a desktop environment is stable in general.
It only makes you (or any system/network admin) look narrow minded when they take the "I don't tell you how to do your job so don't tell me how to do mine" approach. It makes you look arrogant and I don't know you but I GUARANTEE you don't know everything. I encourage others to give me ideas, to help point out other ways of solving a problem. Indeed, some of the best solutions for any problem are going to come from someone not familiar with it...it lets them think outside the box without even knowing it.
You and I both know that not everything on the web which claims to be fact is indeed fact. Companies, and individuals, get in trouble for reporting false facts all the time. Indeed surveys in general are quite regularly falsified by the person performing them. I understand that this was REPORTED to be fact. What I am saying is that they are INCORRECT facts, or at least SKEWED facts.
You could likely go to Google and find a survey claiming the moon is made of cheese, and it will tell you that 1,200,000 people were surveyed, and 90% of people said it was cheese. I know this is an extreme example, but it makes the argument no less correct.
Now if you are naive enough to take everything for face value, that's fine. I in fact do not. And eveidently a lot of people do not. All those who moderated me up, along with the people who agreed in their comments would seem to think that these facts are in question. Your personal opinion is no more important than mine. Your comment is no more important than mine. In fact EVERYONE is on equal footing here on the web. You have no right to insult anyone's comments because you think they are meaningless to the topic. Slashdot is a forum for discussion, and any discussion is going to bring in a certain amount of personal experience.
I will quote from another of your posts here in this thread...
"I have a P200 running Windows 98 (largely unpatched with only WinRoute Pro for a firewall) that serves Internet to my home network, and I hardly ever need to reboot it (only when the Internet stops working and I don't know what to blame - it's always an ISP fault, though). But I am pretty sure that if I start running games there, editing video (yeah, on a P200) and images, browsing web and doing other kinds of stuff, it will die in a few days."
DOES THIS LOOK LIKE AN ANECDOTE???? Yes, so shut the hell up and stop being a hypocrite. So it seems the pot is calling the kettle black. Let's just agree to disagree in what should or should not be posted on Slashdot. The fact is, Slashdot is different for everyone. And if you don't like how a post is worded or the content, you can either mod it down or quit reading.
See above response...it's a hard ware issue most likely. Crazy flakey fan. But I agree about the processes not hurting each other. Unfortunately, no matter what the OS code writer does, there is almost always going to be a way for me or someone else to write malicious code to harm, change, or otherwise break into code previously thought secure.
There are always going to be memory leaks that fail to get handled. This is true of every OS, and every program out there. And yes, I would say Windows has a bunch of them, but then again Windows is still the primary OS for a reason, a lot of people like it enough to use it. Notice I didn't say buy it, because I realize you have no choice at the big PC places sometimes, but they still like it once they use it.
It's not that the OS slows down or anything my processor fan actually starts cycling up and down for no eveident reason. I believe it is one of the mobo monitors or something detecting excessive heat or something. But if I shut Seti Down, it stops. Then if I start it up again, the fan is back to being flakey.
However, if I reboot the machine then all is well.
It only happens rarely, so it doesn't bother me enough to worry about it. Not sure who's fault this one is, Intel, MS, or Seti.
As far as I know, this is what a comment on Slashdot is. it is my opinion, my experience, my computer, my life. It's my commentary on the topic at hand. If you don't care about our personal anecdotes, danila, don't read the comments just RTFA.
Notice, the "nothing too great" statement, as well as the quotes around "power user". I am just making a point that not everyone does it.
Besides the term "power user" doesn't mean you have to be re-writing a kernel or using TweakUI or some other damned foolish program. It just means that you take full advantage of what you have and aggressively use your machine. ie) I am not running just a web browser...
Yes, re-write the kernel and you're a power user. Let me pat you on the back anonymous coward...
But that's not for everyone, I get enough coding at work and enjoy spending my evenings outside or with my wife.
I find it hard to believe Windows XP crashes 12% of the time. I run XP at work and at home. Here at work I am building, compiling, crashing code, running about 20 things at once and I almost never need to reboot. I shut down on weekends, and sometimes at night to save the company some dough, but I rarely need to reboot.
At home, I play games, surf the web, write in MS Office...all of the typical things a normal user would do. Plus I do things that a "power user" might do. Newsgroups, Irc, nothing too great...and I NEVER reboot. I would say on average I need to reboot about once a month when Seti@home decides to get flakey or something. Does that count as needing to reboot...after a month!!?? Then I guess it needs to 100% of the time.
If people need to reboot 12% of the time, then they are doing something wrong. It's not the OS, but more the user in my opinion. XP is a stable system, and does a good job of keeping my machines running.
Win98, however, I would say needs a reboot 50% of the time. The other 50% you have no choice and it dies without a reboot.
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Yeah, well you just described everything about a dog. Except you left out the companionship they provide. I agree, if you are too lazy to feed, walk, and clean up after the animal then don't get one get a robot. I just hope you never have kids, better buy robot children instead.
As FireFox and Mozilla become more widely used, we will truly see how well the open source community can keep up. After all, I honestly believe that the reason more bugs and fulnerabilities are found in IE is that it is more widely used.
I see the day not too far off when FireFox could overtake IE in the market...so will the majority of problems then be in FireFox, or is microsoft really writing bad code? It will be interesting to see.
I believe the open source community will be up to the task of maintaining the bugs as they come in, but I think we will see that there will still be a lot of these types of serious problems that crop up once there are thousands of people dedicating their lives to exploiting them.
I have never been sky diving, but you essentially get zero gravity while sky diving right? The only difference or course is you have the wind blowing in your face.
For my money, if I had $3000 I would go buy a Segway scooter to ride around all day. Think how many women that would get me!
Hey, this is the best news I have heard since we found out the crazy Russian guy was wrong when he said the internet was going to down a couple weeks ago!
Until I found out that his prophecy must be tru, because it tells me I can't download Firefox when I try!!!
How do licenses apply when you're using Remote Desktop through Windows? Do both people need a license when the software is installed on one machine, and the others remote desktop in and use it remotely?
I'm not up on microsoft licensing, but it seems like you could get away with one license for the machine it is installed on. I would think it would be similar to two users logging in on the same machine, each with a different profile...just curious.
Why does it feel like the only way I have heard about you is online? I know it is important to "embrace the new", but seriously I haven't really heard anything except what I read online.
Do most people read their news online now? I doubt it, there are few sites I trust enough to "believe what I see online". And those sites are mostly the same news corporations that are on TV and in the papers, so I don't generally visit their links anyway.
A little piece of the WWW dies every day. But after it has spent it's 12 hours on the front page of/. it will be back. Don't worry, the death is only temporary...
As I walk around Circuit City I see...black TV's, black stero recievers, black Dvd players, black cd changers...oh and lots of black speakers and speaker stands. Show me the majority of silver subwoofers?
Yea, there are definitely silver ones there too, but it is still easier to find black most of the time in my opinion.
Then it certainly looks much smaller than the current rendition of the Xbox. And from the sixe in the pics, it looks like it probably does not have a hard drive in it. Unless of course they went with a laptop drive, or something smaller then the standard desktop drive.
I must say, I don't like the silver too much. I like the black of the current game systems, they blend into the rest of the entertainment center as is.
it will be interesting a couple years from now (or next year?) when the next generation systems start coming out if this is what it really looks like. I don't believe for a second that this would leak out on accident, I would bet if these are real pics they were let out on purpose to see what reaction they get before they start making them for release.
A friend of mine recently relocated from NYC to the Southwest U.S. I got him onto Vonage before he moved, and he transferred his NYC number of 40 years to Vonage. Now the same stable number he has had for four decades rings in Texas and no one has to know or care that his physical location has changed by 1700 miles.
Yeah, the only problem is that if his number is still an NYC number, he is making all those people he meets in Texas pay long distance to call him locally!
Not hard to remember your address, but what if you only have time to call 911 before the burglar comes into the room and attacks you? And of course currently it is unlikely that you are using Voip if you're not at home, but soon enough there should be widely available wireless, so the odds will be increasing that you could use it.
I am going to print out some of these recipes. I think it will be funny watching my wife try to figure out what the heck it means. I give it 10 minutes until she rips it up and gets out the cook book.
And that 10 minutes will be the funniest thing ever. And the following month I will be one very lonely husband...with some extra time to kill in the evenings if you know what I mean.
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Next time 34564gnshe@yahoo.com or DSggh5r4555@hotmail.com sends me some spa, I am reporting their ass to the feds. Now I just need to figure out what to do with all of that money...
So you say I am a juvenile???
"Now, here's where you get to reply aggressively, insult me, tell me how you'd kick my arse if we were to meet in person, and all that pre-pubescent crap.
As I said in a previous message:
Linux crashes. Deal with it.
XP crashes. Deal with it, you juvenile fuck."
Wow, how old are you? I was being an adult about things. Sure I used the word hell once, but I didn't think that made ma a "juvenile fuck".
I am sure I am wrong, but this reply makes you sound like a angst ridden 15 year old. Try to take things a little more like an adult. I closed my previous response with "we can agree to disagree" but clearly this is not enough for you.
I know what the article says...and I can still disagree. I am not claiming to be "the final word" on the subject, remember my original point that this is "my experience" and I am not claiming to BE A FACT. But I am PART OF THE STATISTIC.
In the future, you should not insult people because their opinion is different than your own. Polite disagreement is fine, that's called discussion. Insults should not be tolerated in a place such as Slashdot.
No offense but you don't sound like you enjoy your job. Which by most people's standards means it is time to find a new one....but all I know about you is one rant so who knows.
Anyway, I would say that since you seem to indicate that XP is only on the laptops, and Win2000 is on the pc's...that's not really a fair comparison. Any IT professional would take into account that maybe there are some hardware problems with the laptops and perhaps it is time to upgrade/replace them or the OS/hardware in them. XP Pro as a desktop environment is stable in general.
It only makes you (or any system/network admin) look narrow minded when they take the "I don't tell you how to do your job so don't tell me how to do mine" approach. It makes you look arrogant and I don't know you but I GUARANTEE you don't know everything. I encourage others to give me ideas, to help point out other ways of solving a problem. Indeed, some of the best solutions for any problem are going to come from someone not familiar with it...it lets them think outside the box without even knowing it.
You and I both know that not everything on the web which claims to be fact is indeed fact. Companies, and individuals, get in trouble for reporting false facts all the time. Indeed surveys in general are quite regularly falsified by the person performing them. I understand that this was REPORTED to be fact. What I am saying is that they are INCORRECT facts, or at least SKEWED facts.
You could likely go to Google and find a survey claiming the moon is made of cheese, and it will tell you that 1,200,000 people were surveyed, and 90% of people said it was cheese. I know this is an extreme example, but it makes the argument no less correct.
Now if you are naive enough to take everything for face value, that's fine. I in fact do not. And eveidently a lot of people do not. All those who moderated me up, along with the people who agreed in their comments would seem to think that these facts are in question. Your personal opinion is no more important than mine. Your comment is no more important than mine. In fact EVERYONE is on equal footing here on the web. You have no right to insult anyone's comments because you think they are meaningless to the topic. Slashdot is a forum for discussion, and any discussion is going to bring in a certain amount of personal experience.
I will quote from another of your posts here in this thread...
"I have a P200 running Windows 98 (largely unpatched with only WinRoute Pro for a firewall) that serves Internet to my home network, and I hardly ever need to reboot it (only when the Internet stops working and I don't know what to blame - it's always an ISP fault, though). But I am pretty sure that if I start running games there, editing video (yeah, on a P200) and images, browsing web and doing other kinds of stuff, it will die in a few days."
DOES THIS LOOK LIKE AN ANECDOTE???? Yes, so shut the hell up and stop being a hypocrite. So it seems the pot is calling the kettle black. Let's just agree to disagree in what should or should not be posted on Slashdot. The fact is, Slashdot is different for everyone. And if you don't like how a post is worded or the content, you can either mod it down or quit reading.
See above response...it's a hard ware issue most likely. Crazy flakey fan. But I agree about the processes not hurting each other. Unfortunately, no matter what the OS code writer does, there is almost always going to be a way for me or someone else to write malicious code to harm, change, or otherwise break into code previously thought secure.
There are always going to be memory leaks that fail to get handled. This is true of every OS, and every program out there. And yes, I would say Windows has a bunch of them, but then again Windows is still the primary OS for a reason, a lot of people like it enough to use it. Notice I didn't say buy it, because I realize you have no choice at the big PC places sometimes, but they still like it once they use it.
It's not that the OS slows down or anything my processor fan actually starts cycling up and down for no eveident reason. I believe it is one of the mobo monitors or something detecting excessive heat or something. But if I shut Seti Down, it stops. Then if I start it up again, the fan is back to being flakey.
However, if I reboot the machine then all is well.
It only happens rarely, so it doesn't bother me enough to worry about it. Not sure who's fault this one is, Intel, MS, or Seti.
As far as I know, this is what a comment on Slashdot is. it is my opinion, my experience, my computer, my life. It's my commentary on the topic at hand. If you don't care about our personal anecdotes, danila, don't read the comments just RTFA.
Notice, the "nothing too great" statement, as well as the quotes around "power user". I am just making a point that not everyone does it.
Besides the term "power user" doesn't mean you have to be re-writing a kernel or using TweakUI or some other damned foolish program. It just means that you take full advantage of what you have and aggressively use your machine. ie) I am not running just a web browser...
Yes, re-write the kernel and you're a power user. Let me pat you on the back anonymous coward...
But that's not for everyone, I get enough coding at work and enjoy spending my evenings outside or with my wife.
I find it hard to believe Windows XP crashes 12% of the time. I run XP at work and at home. Here at work I am building, compiling, crashing code, running about 20 things at once and I almost never need to reboot. I shut down on weekends, and sometimes at night to save the company some dough, but I rarely need to reboot.
At home, I play games, surf the web, write in MS Office...all of the typical things a normal user would do. Plus I do things that a "power user" might do. Newsgroups, Irc, nothing too great...and I NEVER reboot. I would say on average I need to reboot about once a month when Seti@home decides to get flakey or something. Does that count as needing to reboot...after a month!!?? Then I guess it needs to 100% of the time.
If people need to reboot 12% of the time, then they are doing something wrong. It's not the OS, but more the user in my opinion. XP is a stable system, and does a good job of keeping my machines running.
Win98, however, I would say needs a reboot 50% of the time. The other 50% you have no choice and it dies without a reboot.
Yeah, well you just described everything about a dog. Except you left out the companionship they provide. I agree, if you are too lazy to feed, walk, and clean up after the animal then don't get one get a robot. I just hope you never have kids, better buy robot children instead.
As FireFox and Mozilla become more widely used, we will truly see how well the open source community can keep up. After all, I honestly believe that the reason more bugs and fulnerabilities are found in IE is that it is more widely used.
I see the day not too far off when FireFox could overtake IE in the market...so will the majority of problems then be in FireFox, or is microsoft really writing bad code? It will be interesting to see.
I believe the open source community will be up to the task of maintaining the bugs as they come in, but I think we will see that there will still be a lot of these types of serious problems that crop up once there are thousands of people dedicating their lives to exploiting them.
Grab a chair, sit back and watch the fun.
I have to imagine it would be a very bad idea to lose your quantum encryption key...just think how bad it is when I lose my Wep key!
I have never been sky diving, but you essentially get zero gravity while sky diving right? The only difference or course is you have the wind blowing in your face.
For my money, if I had $3000 I would go buy a Segway scooter to ride around all day. Think how many women that would get me!
Hey, this is the best news I have heard since we found out the crazy Russian guy was wrong when he said the internet was going to down a couple weeks ago!
Until I found out that his prophecy must be tru, because it tells me I can't download Firefox when I try!!!
How do licenses apply when you're using Remote Desktop through Windows? Do both people need a license when the software is installed on one machine, and the others remote desktop in and use it remotely?
I'm not up on microsoft licensing, but it seems like you could get away with one license for the machine it is installed on. I would think it would be similar to two users logging in on the same machine, each with a different profile...just curious.
Why does it feel like the only way I have heard about you is online? I know it is important to "embrace the new", but seriously I haven't really heard anything except what I read online.
Do most people read their news online now? I doubt it, there are few sites I trust enough to "believe what I see online". And those sites are mostly the same news corporations that are on TV and in the papers, so I don't generally visit their links anyway.
A little piece of the WWW dies every day. But after it has spent it's 12 hours on the front page of /. it will be back. Don't worry, the death is only temporary...
As I walk around Circuit City I see...black TV's, black stero recievers, black Dvd players, black cd changers...oh and lots of black speakers and speaker stands. Show me the majority of silver subwoofers?
Yea, there are definitely silver ones there too, but it is still easier to find black most of the time in my opinion.
Yes, Google does of the second link
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:rSxfAbK0Yu
Then it certainly looks much smaller than the current rendition of the Xbox. And from the sixe in the pics, it looks like it probably does not have a hard drive in it. Unless of course they went with a laptop drive, or something smaller then the standard desktop drive.
I must say, I don't like the silver too much. I like the black of the current game systems, they blend into the rest of the entertainment center as is.
it will be interesting a couple years from now (or next year?) when the next generation systems start coming out if this is what it really looks like. I don't believe for a second that this would leak out on accident, I would bet if these are real pics they were let out on purpose to see what reaction they get before they start making them for release.
A friend of mine recently relocated from NYC to the Southwest U.S. I got him onto Vonage before he moved, and he transferred his NYC number of 40 years to Vonage. Now the same stable number he has had for four decades rings in Texas and no one has to know or care that his physical location has changed by 1700 miles.
Yeah, the only problem is that if his number is still an NYC number, he is making all those people he meets in Texas pay long distance to call him locally!
Not hard to remember your address, but what if you only have time to call 911 before the burglar comes into the room and attacks you? And of course currently it is unlikely that you are using Voip if you're not at home, but soon enough there should be widely available wireless, so the odds will be increasing that you could use it.
I am going to print out some of these recipes. I think it will be funny watching my wife try to figure out what the heck it means. I give it 10 minutes until she rips it up and gets out the cook book.
And that 10 minutes will be the funniest thing ever. And the following month I will be one very lonely husband...with some extra time to kill in the evenings if you know what I mean.
What advantages? Well two are:
1) I can spontaneously decide to watch the movie right there and then wehn I see it, no planning required.
2) I don't have to get off my lazy butt and go to the store to rent it OR return it.
Don't get me wrong, I never get PPV, but I rarely rent movies either.
I estimate I am the first person to attempt a short joke on my estimating abilities.
(I know, repetitive. So what, gimme a break that's kinda the point)