>>What's easier to change, Windows 2000 => XP SP2 or IE => Firefox?
Tougher question than you might think. Lots of people have apps that would break if they moved to Firefox. Of course, some of those would break in SP2 also, but fewer in my experience.
In a corporate environment it might be much easier to move to XP than Firefox, at least gradually.
The now-completely-dead company I worked for around 1983 wrote a large and complicated 4GL DBMS in various implementations of Pascal, from Apple Pascal on the Apple ][ to HP Pascal on the Series 200 (one of my versions) to MS Pascal on DOS. I can't think of a different language at the time that would have done better for us, and I followed that market. Most C compilers were trash at the time.
Does anyone remember JRT Pascal? It was a vaporware product by a guy named, IIRC, JR Tyson, who advertised in Byte for a while but never delivered. In the era of Turbo Pascal there was a race for $0 in the language market for a while and JR was going to charge something like $29. There was also a whole line of Utah compilers, Utah COBOL, Utah Fortran and so on, and they were also dirt cheap.
I know that in XP a "Limited User" cannot write to the root. Not to make excuses for it; basically, your average worm or spyware program will be able to propagate and do bad things as a Limited User, but it won't be able to persist on the system. Reboot and it will be gone. It can't write to the root or to the run keys or Startup folder or anywhere like that.
This is a tough problem for Windows, because the real answer is that for safe average every day use there needs to be an approved whitelist of programs and everything else blocked by default. This isn't an acceptable situation, and most consumers don't have a responsible admin available.
If normal users were running Linux they'd have the same problem - they'd run into something on the Internet, want to run it and the system would prevent them, and what would they do? Run as admin or just complain?
There was NT for the MIPS, Alpha and PPC, and they all failed miserably in the market. Windows users see no value in running on anything other than the volume-leading processor architecture. There's no value in it.
You're right that it has to do with finance, but it's an extension of the McCain-Feingold regulation of political speech to the Internet. Yes, it is about free speech on the Internet just as it's about free speech on TV.
I'm pretty sure that if you sent out a worm named fuckupyourcomputer.exe enough people would run it to keep it going.
I've read the descriptions on this one and I see no social engineering at all other than the name "funny" - the bar on the human element is far too low.
Yes, Apple Pascal was a p-system port. My company did its original development on Apple Pascal on an Apple ][. On a 6502! I can't even imagine how slow it was anymore.
Earlier than that. I was writing p-System code in mid-83 and it definitely wasn't version 1. According to this article, the date of version 1.3 of the p-System is August 77.
These people (hardcoreware.net) are using SYSMark 04, the article cited in the/. article is using SYSMark 2002. The latter generally found decreases. The 04 test includes a communication test with Outlook, which explains the firewall explanation. But the tests with the general productivity apps in 04 basically show very small differences. Even the browser-based tests later in the article show small differences.
>>Probably most famously, this happened in 1860 with a four-way contest...
Another good example is 1912, where Teddy Roosevelt, pissed off at his former heir apparant Taft, ran against him and Woodrow Wilson on the Progressive (a.k.a. "Bull Moose") party.
TR actually outpolled Taft by a fair margin, about 4.1 million to 3.5 million, and 88 to 8 in the electoral college with 435 going to Wilson. On a state level TR threw enough state elections to Wilson to make the make the electoral college a wipe, even though Wilson only won about 42% of the popular vote. In this sense he was like Nader 4 years ago, although it's not as clear that TR really made the difference that Nader clearly did.
(Even more off point, in this way we may be able to thank TR for helping to bring to office Wilson, the most overtly racist President after the Civil War. He gets off by historians with this progressive image, but his histories - he was a historian at Princeton - were literally pro-KKK and he and his wife took personal charge of making sure D.C. was as segregated as possible while he was in office.)
>>Lincoln was able to capture a majority by winning every one of the non-slave states
New Jersey went to Steven Douglas the Democrat that year. In fact, it was the only state Douglas won. Lincoln also lost Maryland and Delaware to John Breckenridge, a southern (i.e. Traitor) Democrat.
Some Mel Brooks movies are drop-dead funny (Blazing Saddles, The Producers, Young Frankenstein and others) and some are so awful you have to wonder who wrote them (Spaceballs, History of the World Part 1)
And if the user had done system restore to a clean config before the SP2 upgrade it would have gone well. Or do you expect the SP2 installation to include a full updated malware scanner?
Hold out for Staar Surgical and their intraocular lenses. Basically it's an implanted contact lens. Unlike Lasik, it's reversible. You can change your prescription. But it's not quite approved yet.
Incidentally, in the wake of this story I noticed that he's been promoting something called "Fischerandom Chess" in which the first row pieces are places semi-randomly. See for more on this game.
>>Wherner von Braun, who spent his childhood dreaming of the stars...
And his young adulthood building rockets for Hitler to drop on London. To quote Tom Lehrer:
Oh don't say that he's hypocritical Say rather that he's "apolitical" "Once rockets go up who cares where they come down That's not my department" says Werner Von Braun
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>>Too many applications started acting bizarre after install it.
Such as...?
>>What's easier to change, Windows 2000 => XP SP2 or IE => Firefox?
Tougher question than you might think. Lots of people have apps that would break if they moved to Firefox. Of course, some of those would break in SP2 also, but fewer in my experience.
In a corporate environment it might be much easier to move to XP than Firefox, at least gradually.
>>Is this yet another good reason for running Firefox?
Or Windows XP SP2, which is not vulnerable.
What kind of imbecil runs XP but not SP2?
The now-completely-dead company I worked for around 1983 wrote a large and complicated 4GL DBMS in various implementations of Pascal, from Apple Pascal on the Apple ][ to HP Pascal on the Series 200 (one of my versions) to MS Pascal on DOS. I can't think of a different language at the time that would have done better for us, and I followed that market. Most C compilers were trash at the time.
Does anyone remember JRT Pascal? It was a vaporware product by a guy named, IIRC, JR Tyson, who advertised in Byte for a while but never delivered. In the era of Turbo Pascal there was a race for $0 in the language market for a while and JR was going to charge something like $29. There was also a whole line of Utah compilers, Utah COBOL, Utah Fortran and so on, and they were also dirt cheap.
I know that in XP a "Limited User" cannot write to the root. Not to make excuses for it; basically, your average worm or spyware program will be able to propagate and do bad things as a Limited User, but it won't be able to persist on the system. Reboot and it will be gone. It can't write to the root or to the run keys or Startup folder or anywhere like that.
This is a tough problem for Windows, because the real answer is that for safe average every day use there needs to be an approved whitelist of programs and everything else blocked by default. This isn't an acceptable situation, and most consumers don't have a responsible admin available.
If normal users were running Linux they'd have the same problem - they'd run into something on the Internet, want to run it and the system would prevent them, and what would they do? Run as admin or just complain?
There was NT for the MIPS, Alpha and PPC, and they all failed miserably in the market. Windows users see no value in running on anything other than the volume-leading processor architecture. There's no value in it.
You're right that it has to do with finance, but it's an extension of the McCain-Feingold regulation of political speech to the Internet. Yes, it is about free speech on the Internet just as it's about free speech on TV.
I'm pretty sure that if you sent out a worm named fuckupyourcomputer.exe enough people would run it to keep it going.
I've read the descriptions on this one and I see no social engineering at all other than the name "funny" - the bar on the human element is far too low.
Yes, Apple Pascal was a p-system port. My company did its original development on Apple Pascal on an Apple ][. On a 6502! I can't even imagine how slow it was anymore.
>>and P-code came before Java (in what, 1983?).
Earlier than that. I was writing p-System code in mid-83 and it definitely wasn't version 1. According to this article, the date of version 1.3 of the p-System is August 77.
I mostly agree with you bug Bork was paid for his opinion. I doubt many other neanderthal conservatives were impressed.
These people (hardcoreware.net) are using SYSMark 04, the article cited in the /. article is using SYSMark 2002. The latter generally found decreases. The 04 test includes a communication test with Outlook, which explains the firewall explanation. But the tests with the general productivity apps in 04 basically show very small differences. Even the browser-based tests later in the article show small differences.
The last few pages are dead links.
>>Probably most famously, this happened in 1860 with a four-way contest...
Another good example is 1912, where Teddy Roosevelt, pissed off at his former heir apparant Taft, ran against him and Woodrow Wilson on the Progressive (a.k.a. "Bull Moose") party.
TR actually outpolled Taft by a fair margin, about 4.1 million to 3.5 million, and 88 to 8 in the electoral college with 435 going to Wilson. On a state level TR threw enough state elections to Wilson to make the make the electoral college a wipe, even though Wilson only won about 42% of the popular vote. In this sense he was like Nader 4 years ago, although it's not as clear that TR really made the difference that Nader clearly did.
(Even more off point, in this way we may be able to thank TR for helping to bring to office Wilson, the most overtly racist President after the Civil War. He gets off by historians with this progressive image, but his histories - he was a historian at Princeton - were literally pro-KKK and he and his wife took personal charge of making sure D.C. was as segregated as possible while he was in office.)
>>Lincoln was able to capture a majority by winning every one of the non-slave states
New Jersey went to Steven Douglas the Democrat that year. In fact, it was the only state Douglas won. Lincoln also lost Maryland and Delaware to John Breckenridge, a southern (i.e. Traitor) Democrat.
You're being too soft on Java. This is inherent in the dishonesty of Java marketing. Write once run anywhere my ass.
Notice they also show 3% Linux, 2.5% Mac. How many of you think there are more Linux users than Mac users out there?
Some Mel Brooks movies are drop-dead funny (Blazing Saddles, The Producers, Young Frankenstein and others) and some are so awful you have to wonder who wrote them (Spaceballs, History of the World Part 1)
Horrible piece of shit. Damn shame too, since Rowan Atkinson is usually really funny.
XPSP2 may very well do this, but it's not the point. The complaint was that it didn't restore to a clean restore point before installing.
And if the user had done system restore to a clean config before the SP2 upgrade it would have gone well. Or do you expect the SP2 installation to include a full updated malware scanner?
Hold out for Staar Surgical and their intraocular lenses. Basically it's an implanted contact lens. Unlike Lasik, it's reversible. You can change your prescription. But it's not quite approved yet.
Incidentally, in the wake of this story I noticed that he's been promoting something called "Fischerandom Chess" in which the first row pieces are places semi-randomly. See for more on this game.
My God, do you actually not know the difference?
(And Einstein never designed any bombs.)
You're right. He did make a stink and demanded the cameras be removed (see this page for lots of details).
And his young adulthood building rockets for Hitler to drop on London. To quote Tom Lehrer:
Say rather that he's "apolitical"
"Once rockets go up who cares where they come down
That's not my department" says Werner Von Braun