I had that problem a while back when I was adminning. I often found that a quick download of all critical updates from windows update almost always fixed the problems for each user. As always, YMMV.
* Speed: mozilla just keeps getting more and more responsive. It's not as fast as 4.77, never will be since it does so much more, but it is certainly getting better.
I have to disagree. If you load a page with a fair number of tables then Mozilla is much faster then NS4.77. One needs to only look at comments in -1, Nested to see what I'm talking about.
I can't speak for Win2k (my win2k box doesn't have a floppy), but my WinNT box at work doesn't get bogged down when reading or writing to a floppy. Neither do either of my Linux boxes.
On the other hand, my Win9x machine used to all but die when I was formatting a floppy. My guess is Linux and NT have better I/O handling so they have no real problem with reading and writing 1.44mb of data.
It does work that way. The judicial arm only works if there is someone to bring forth the suit. The president controls the DOJ, so if he wants the suit dropped, it can be dropped.
Mind you, many states said they would persue the case even without the DOJ. Though, they also conceded that it would be much more difficult without the resources the DOJ brought to the table.
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Maybe not, but GPL code does force you to use a specific license if you choose to release your application containing any GPL code. This appears to be what Microsoft is doing as well. They are not saying you cannot release your applications. They are, however, saying that if you use their SDK, you must release it under an agreeable license. How is this much different from the GPL?
This EULA is a piece of shit and wouldn't hold up for very long if tested, which it never will be.
Ironic ain't it? All sorts of people say that exact same thing about the GPL.
What's even funnier is you resort to calling MS's license viral. As if the beloved GPL is not.
Don't get me wrong, I like the GPL. I use Linux at home, and tried to use it at work (until the higher ups said no). But this seems to me that Microsoft is just trying to fight the GPL using the same tactics the GPL uses to fight Microsoft, and all other closed software vendors.
Agreed, Microsoft is a big company. That's why when they enter new areas they're like a huge elephant: they go slow, but there isn't much that can stop 'em once they start moving.
Smaller doesn't mean quicker though. Sticking to the same analogy, the smaller companies are more like mice. They can quickly dart back and forth, but obstacles can really slow them down.
I firmly believe that Microsoft can be beaten. It's just important to remember that just because they're big and slow does not make them an easy target at all.
Even if you squeezed the mass of the entire Earth into a black hole, wouldn't it still have the gravitational pull of the Earth? So assuming you could squeeze all the mass in their building into a teeny tiny black hole, it shouldn't have any more pull as a black hole then it did before. Or am I missing something?
Wouldn't the buoyancy of the person be the same under the spinning force as it would be under gravity? The force would push the person down, as gravity does here on earth, but the force of the water should push the person back up, as it does here on earth.
Also, I meant vertical circles. There's just something cool sounding about being able to swim in a loop around the X axis instead of the Y.
Couldn't they add some spin to that room and keep some force on the water? It wouldn't have to be nearly 1g, but it could be greater than 0. That should help keep the water in, or close to, one spot of the room. Plus it would give people the similar orientation they are already used to.
What I think would be really cool though is a cylinder shaped room with a docking tube in the dead center. The outer parts of the room are filled with water, and spinning to create some artificial gravity. People could enter the room through the docking tube, and the "pool" would be along the entire outer edge of the room. So you could in effect swim around the room in a big circle, and end up back where you started.
Added bonus if there were a few windows on the outside walls so you could swim to the "bottom" of the pool and look out into space spinning by. Though, depending on the speed of the spin, that may be a very bad idea.
I remember hearing that during the Apollo missions, the mission to the moon was almost scrapped. This was because of the one which caught fire. Congress had hearings on it and started wondering if it was all worth it.
If memory serves me (and at 1am, it may not), it was a letter from one of the people who died onboard which persuaded congress to continue. Something along the lines of he knew the risk and would not want his death to impede our space program in any way.
Point? NASA had a close brush with institutional death. Challanger was another one. With how NASA's budget is being slashed already by W, it's not hard to understand why they fear a disaster. My guess is that in today's economy, one disaster with human life would be the end, or near end, of NASA.
I don't know about the rest of you out there, but slashdot is loading at a snails place for me. It's usually insanely fast (and most of my other often frequented sites still are).
I was just curious if Slashdot may be under attack by this hacker as well, since s/he seems to attacking popular *nix sites.
Time Warner's RoadRunner here used to be PPPoE or some variant that required the users to log in before surfing. Due to several customer complaints a few years ago (back when almost everyone on RR here in Columbus was a techie), Time Warner dropped that requirement. Now the cable boxes act just as any router would (well, any router that takes in a cable signal and turns it into Ethernet that is).
Oddly enough, Time Warner also used to require the users to go through the Proxy servers. That too was dropped at the request of many customers.
I think most companies really do care about the customers, they just need to hear what the customers want. And no, bitching at the L1 techs does not tell the companies what the customers want, that just makes some minimum wage lacky's life hell.
The point is that Wurzler is essentially rewarding people for using an OS whose socioeconomic philosophy is decidedly un-American.
Funny thing that. I thought the American way was provide a better service for a better price and people will come. Where in there is the idea that it is un-American to charge more for servers Wurzler feels are at higher risk? Is it now un-American to try and protect your business by reducing risk? Maybe that explains the dot-com crash after all.
Odd though, I thought wrapping yourself in a flag and calling others commies went out of style years ago. I guess I was wrong.
But what Wurzler is doing here is essentially punishing people (fining them, as it were) for making a responsible choice to use the products and services offered by one of America's most important flagship companies.
No, what they are doing is changing their risk/reward assessment based on their research. Their research found that *nix was less prone to cracking, due to several listed factors. This is how insurance companies work. They figure out the chance of something bad happening and charge you accordingly.
The way that America works is that people get together and work hard to put out a product, and then they sell it to people.
True, but that does not mean the people have to buy it. The people can go buy a different product or no product at all. Same goes for the insurance companies. You can buy your insurance from Wurzler, you can buy it from someone else, or you can just shut the heck up and not buy it at all. That's how America works.
I read the article and didn't see what it said it was running pre-alpha code and that it was the first ever working prototype. It said it was the first prototype shown to a group of people where were not engineers. That is vastly different then saying it was the first ever working prototype.
I don't remember hearing about the first ever working PS2 shown to a group of people who were not engineers crashing. Do you? How about the N64? Dreamcast? Any of those crash during E3?
You have to remember, Microsoft put the best possible hardware in this box. How it performed is directly related to how well received it will be among programmers. There will be plenty of gaming companies who think twice about writing software for the XBox now that it crashed.
Ask yourself this, when a game crashs on a typical game player, are they going to bitch to Microsoft about the OS or the gaming company about the game? That can be boiled down to which sounds more likely: "The OS on the XBox crashed." or "This @#!$y game crashed my XBox." I'll bet most people choose option 2.
More and more places are running multiple virtual servers on a single IP address. This would not be possible using straight IP addresses instead of domain names.
You forgot an added bonues. If drugs were legal they can be taxed. Think of all the money that could then be poured into inner city schools if drugs were taxed.
No, I won't. Mod me down as you will, but I cannot jump on the bandwagon just because people say I should.
Honestly, my only Linux box is a PPro 200. It cannot handle either of the games just released. I think I am the type of person Loki needs (yeah, say what you will about that statement, but hear me out).
I love computer games. Though, I tend to stay a few generations behind the "bleeding edge." I like ATI cards, they are decent and cheap. I use Windows because it runs the games I do like.
Now here's the key. I use Linux for servers. I love the stability of it. However, I fear fully switching to it for lack of apps, lack of hardware support, and lack of games. If Loki can prove to me that my fears are unwarranted, I would switch in no time. Until then, I think I will stay where I am.
In fairness, most cars do not need to have the gas tank flushed and the car jumped if the user turns the wrong knob. Computer sofware tends to have the equilivant happen, and quite often too (think bsod).
I think if software was as reliable as most cars, there would be much less of a problem.
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I had that problem a while back when I was adminning. I often found that a quick download of all critical updates from windows update almost always fixed the problems for each user. As always, YMMV.
* Speed: mozilla just keeps getting more and more responsive. It's not as fast as 4.77, never will be since it does so much more, but it is certainly getting better.
I have to disagree. If you load a page with a fair number of tables then Mozilla is much faster then NS4.77. One needs to only look at comments in -1, Nested to see what I'm talking about.
I can't speak for Win2k (my win2k box doesn't have a floppy), but my WinNT box at work doesn't get bogged down when reading or writing to a floppy. Neither do either of my Linux boxes.
On the other hand, my Win9x machine used to all but die when I was formatting a floppy. My guess is Linux and NT have better I/O handling so they have no real problem with reading and writing 1.44mb of data.
It does work that way. The judicial arm only works if there is someone to bring forth the suit. The president controls the DOJ, so if he wants the suit dropped, it can be dropped.
Mind you, many states said they would persue the case even without the DOJ. Though, they also conceded that it would be much more difficult without the resources the DOJ brought to the table.
ZDNet: "Doh, we screwed up again."
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Maybe not, but GPL code does force you to use a specific license if you choose to release your application containing any GPL code. This appears to be what Microsoft is doing as well. They are not saying you cannot release your applications. They are, however, saying that if you use their SDK, you must release it under an agreeable license. How is this much different from the GPL?
This EULA is a piece of shit and wouldn't hold up for very long if tested, which it never will be.
Ironic ain't it? All sorts of people say that exact same thing about the GPL.
What's even funnier is you resort to calling MS's license viral. As if the beloved GPL is not.
Don't get me wrong, I like the GPL. I use Linux at home, and tried to use it at work (until the higher ups said no). But this seems to me that Microsoft is just trying to fight the GPL using the same tactics the GPL uses to fight Microsoft, and all other closed software vendors.
Agreed, Microsoft is a big company. That's why when they enter new areas they're like a huge elephant: they go slow, but there isn't much that can stop 'em once they start moving.
Smaller doesn't mean quicker though. Sticking to the same analogy, the smaller companies are more like mice. They can quickly dart back and forth, but obstacles can really slow them down.
I firmly believe that Microsoft can be beaten. It's just important to remember that just because they're big and slow does not make them an easy target at all.
Even if you squeezed the mass of the entire Earth into a black hole, wouldn't it still have the gravitational pull of the Earth? So assuming you could squeeze all the mass in their building into a teeny tiny black hole, it shouldn't have any more pull as a black hole then it did before. Or am I missing something?
Wouldn't the buoyancy of the person be the same under the spinning force as it would be under gravity? The force would push the person down, as gravity does here on earth, but the force of the water should push the person back up, as it does here on earth.
Also, I meant vertical circles. There's just something cool sounding about being able to swim in a loop around the X axis instead of the Y.
Couldn't they add some spin to that room and keep some force on the water? It wouldn't have to be nearly 1g, but it could be greater than 0. That should help keep the water in, or close to, one spot of the room. Plus it would give people the similar orientation they are already used to.
What I think would be really cool though is a cylinder shaped room with a docking tube in the dead center. The outer parts of the room are filled with water, and spinning to create some artificial gravity. People could enter the room through the docking tube, and the "pool" would be along the entire outer edge of the room. So you could in effect swim around the room in a big circle, and end up back where you started.
Added bonus if there were a few windows on the outside walls so you could swim to the "bottom" of the pool and look out into space spinning by. Though, depending on the speed of the spin, that may be a very bad idea.
I remember hearing that during the Apollo missions, the mission to the moon was almost scrapped. This was because of the one which caught fire. Congress had hearings on it and started wondering if it was all worth it.
If memory serves me (and at 1am, it may not), it was a letter from one of the people who died onboard which persuaded congress to continue. Something along the lines of he knew the risk and would not want his death to impede our space program in any way.
Point? NASA had a close brush with institutional death. Challanger was another one. With how NASA's budget is being slashed already by W, it's not hard to understand why they fear a disaster. My guess is that in today's economy, one disaster with human life would be the end, or near end, of NASA.
I don't know about the rest of you out there, but slashdot is loading at a snails place for me. It's usually insanely fast (and most of my other often frequented sites still are).
I was just curious if Slashdot may be under attack by this hacker as well, since s/he seems to attacking popular *nix sites.
Time Warner's RoadRunner here used to be PPPoE or some variant that required the users to log in before surfing. Due to several customer complaints a few years ago (back when almost everyone on RR here in Columbus was a techie), Time Warner dropped that requirement. Now the cable boxes act just as any router would (well, any router that takes in a cable signal and turns it into Ethernet that is).
Oddly enough, Time Warner also used to require the users to go through the Proxy servers. That too was dropped at the request of many customers.
I think most companies really do care about the customers, they just need to hear what the customers want. And no, bitching at the L1 techs does not tell the companies what the customers want, that just makes some minimum wage lacky's life hell.
The point is that Wurzler is essentially rewarding people for using an OS whose socioeconomic philosophy is decidedly un-American.
Funny thing that. I thought the American way was provide a better service for a better price and people will come. Where in there is the idea that it is un-American to charge more for servers Wurzler feels are at higher risk? Is it now un-American to try and protect your business by reducing risk? Maybe that explains the dot-com crash after all.
Odd though, I thought wrapping yourself in a flag and calling others commies went out of style years ago. I guess I was wrong.
But what Wurzler is doing here is essentially punishing people (fining them, as it were) for making a responsible choice to use the products and services offered by one of America's most important flagship companies.
No, what they are doing is changing their risk/reward assessment based on their research. Their research found that *nix was less prone to cracking, due to several listed factors. This is how insurance companies work. They figure out the chance of something bad happening and charge you accordingly.
The way that America works is that people get together and work hard to put out a product, and then they sell it to people.
True, but that does not mean the people have to buy it. The people can go buy a different product or no product at all. Same goes for the insurance companies. You can buy your insurance from Wurzler, you can buy it from someone else, or you can just shut the heck up and not buy it at all. That's how America works.
I read the article and didn't see what it said it was running pre-alpha code and that it was the first ever working prototype. It said it was the first prototype shown to a group of people where were not engineers. That is vastly different then saying it was the first ever working prototype.
I don't remember hearing about the first ever working PS2 shown to a group of people who were not engineers crashing. Do you? How about the N64? Dreamcast? Any of those crash during E3?
You have to remember, Microsoft put the best possible hardware in this box. How it performed is directly related to how well received it will be among programmers. There will be plenty of gaming companies who think twice about writing software for the XBox now that it crashed.
Ask yourself this, when a game crashs on a typical game player, are they going to bitch to Microsoft about the OS or the gaming company about the game? That can be boiled down to which sounds more likely: "The OS on the XBox crashed." or "This @#!$y game crashed my XBox." I'll bet most people choose option 2.
Nah, keep guns... Outlaw bullets. Nothing in the second amendment about them. :)
More and more places are running multiple virtual servers on a single IP address. This would not be possible using straight IP addresses instead of domain names.
Not sure if you noticed or not, but there are various lawsuits saying that gun companies shoot people...
g uns_lawsuit.html
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/dailynews/
PS: blame slashdot on the fact that you can't just cut and paste that link. It inserted the space and I can't remove the space.
It may have a few problems. It has no video card. :)
I needed the PCI slot for an additional network card.
The war on drugs kills too...
r u_americanplane_2_010423.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/pe
You forgot an added bonues. If drugs were legal they can be taxed. Think of all the money that could then be poured into inner city schools if drugs were taxed.
No, I won't. Mod me down as you will, but I cannot jump on the bandwagon just because people say I should.
Honestly, my only Linux box is a PPro 200. It cannot handle either of the games just released. I think I am the type of person Loki needs (yeah, say what you will about that statement, but hear me out).
I love computer games. Though, I tend to stay a few generations behind the "bleeding edge." I like ATI cards, they are decent and cheap. I use Windows because it runs the games I do like.
Now here's the key. I use Linux for servers. I love the stability of it. However, I fear fully switching to it for lack of apps, lack of hardware support, and lack of games. If Loki can prove to me that my fears are unwarranted, I would switch in no time. Until then, I think I will stay where I am.
In fairness, most cars do not need to have the gas tank flushed and the car jumped if the user turns the wrong knob. Computer sofware tends to have the equilivant happen, and quite often too (think bsod).
I think if software was as reliable as most cars, there would be much less of a problem.