Neither citrix, vnc, or pcanywhere provide the ability to take over the root console at high speed. Period. PCAnywhere and VNC are *MUCH* too slow to use for extended periods of time.
There is no product you can add on to Windows 2000 that provides the same level of functionality.
The same is true going from Windows 2000 to Windows XP - it's all just about a GUI change.
Personally, I don't like the GUI changes from 2000 to XP. It wastes a lot of screen real estate, and I was quite happy to turn it off. Even happier when I figured out the core "Themes" service could be turned off completely, saving a chunk of memory.
However, at least for me, and a lot of people I know, Remote Desktop Sharing made XP a very useful and even very cost-saving upgrade. Under 2000 Server, I could use RDP (aka Terminal Services) to initiate another login to my machine, but there was no way to take control of the console (and the session logged into it). Besides the inconvenience factor of a new login, I need to be on the 'system console' in order to use things like debuggers, and logging in remotely and then running stuff like Mozilla or even Outlook would result in having to use seperate profiles and such since the same program was running on the console.
Yes, I have tried many versions of VNC (and pcAnywhere and other non OSS offerings). While *great* for remote administration, troubleshooting, etc., they were utterly unuseable for simply logging into a remote machine and working. The latency and refresh issues simply do not go away as you add bandwidth.
Remote Desktop Sharing uses the RDP protocol and while I am not impressed with certain aspects of it, e.g. the sound support is lagged and choppy, on a LAN-ish setup, redraw, latency, GUI operations, clicks, keypresses, etc., are almost indistinguishable in speed from the local console.
I was able to delay purchasing a new laptop by over a year as a result. Even though I eventually got to the point that I simply needed a more powerful machine to take to client sites and on the road, when I am sitting in my easy chair in the living room do I run software locally on it? Keep source code and documents synchronized? Of course not, I just press a hot-key to log into my home-office machine over 802.11g and everything just works as it should at the speed that it should.
Nothing prior, whether on Win32 or 'nix worked this well for this task. There is network transparency stuff that I love in X that I can't do, but X can't even really do this without VNC.
Does the camera not do something it was advertised as being able to do? Didn't think so. The product can be modified to have functionality it was never advertised or claimed as having. That is what you call false advertising?
As far as your claims about single-sided floppy disks. Yes, you could usually notch the other side. What you were paying for with a DS disk was the fact that the other side had gone through testing and was covered under the warranty.
If one side of media failed QA, do you think it was scrapped? Hell no. It was put in the 'sell only as single-sided' bin.
If some or most of the disks in that box had passed QA on both sides...So what? This was back in the days when disks cost enough that you would take advantage of the warranty if one was defective. Only covering one side under warranty makes the product cost less to sell.
In the early 90's we went through the same thing with HD 1.44 disks...Yeah, cutting a hole in it would usually make it work for high density use. One to two years later, I noticed that of the disks that failed...Most were 'converts'.
Do you think a manufacturer is going to cover a disk under warranty after you have cut a hole in it? Hello no, nor should they. Do you think risking losing a disks worth of data is worth saving a couple of bucks for a business? Hello no. Was it worth it to you or I for copying our games and stuff? Hell yes.
evidenced by their refusal to allow cell/wifi devices on planes
Huh?? That is not an FCC, nor even a government regulation. Although the airlines will often try to make it sound like an FAA regulation, the FAA's rule is that the airlines must make disable any devices that the airline believes may cause interferrence.
When cell phones were new, and were 900 Mhz mini-microwaves with 3 watts of power and the
effect on the nav system was an unknown, that was a reasonable precaution.
20 years later and with no real evidence to conclude they are any more dangerous then my laptop, they still keep saying that. But now, the airlines make a tidy profit on those in-flight phones....
It's no different then the movie theater not letting you bring your own drink.
I don't think too many Ingres users were happy when CA bought it up.
No user of a package is happy when CA buys it up. In the early 90's they went on a buying spree, buying up some things that were popular and useful (e.g. Clipper), some things that were mediocre but could have been made into players (e.g. Realizer) and some were absolute crap that they managed to revise to crappier (DBFast, and some weird French-made Windows word processor).
Some of those products were failures before CA gave them the kiss of death. The ones that weren't, CA managed to destroy all value of on their own.
CA is the kiss of death. If CA buys one of your software vendors, start shopping for a replacement now.
Former Clipper developer, but I'm not bitter or anything. Noooo, of course not.
Simple, in most cases this should be able to be handled at the compiler level.
I suppose (and this is 100% hypothetical) that there might be very rare situations where the programmer will need to be able to override, but so be it.
I wasn't sure who (if anybody) it was appropriate to reply to.
My fiancee is a dead-head. They don't care who downloads or trades the live recordings, period. Trading/exchanging them is fine as long as it isn't 'for profit'.
I have a 'small collection' (~7gb) of almost 57 hours of primarily 256Kbb rips of fairly high-quality direct tape captures made over the past (literally) close to 30 years.
I have only learned to love the dead and their music (with or without Jerry) because of her, but it is their attitude and spirit that I love sooooo much more.
Thank you, Daeley, I love you so much more then words could ever describe.
For starters, the Lotus/Borland/Paperback lawsuit was centered on copyright, not patents.
That case made it's way to the Supreme Court where the justices decreed that a user interface is not subject to COPYRIGHT protection.
In addition, Lotus never claimed to invent the spreadsheet user interface in general.
In the original versions of Quattro, Borland copied the exact menu structure and exact keystrokes from 1-2-3. Paperback software had a spreadsheet on the market that did the same.
Both were sued by Lotus based upon that, not the fact that they were spreadsheets.
What specific evidence or even real reasons do you cite that "If you then scale up to 1 million people, you will find that a MUCH larger percentage of people will be misidentified".
I have a CDMA2000 phone, so yes we do have 3G service. It isn't perfect, but knowing what my cost per minute is (both for me and the originating caller) as opposed to what my friends in Europe pay....I'll keep it.
If I travel outside the country, I can rent a phone and forward to it if I so desire.
The 144K data service is not perfect (latency is high, and the speed varies) but it is *very* cheap. Being able to surf and get on IRC while I'm passenger on car trips rocks.
They still make the best mice. I only say this after my Rottweiler ate my corded Microsoft optical mouse. Replaced it with a Logitech cordless, the Logitech was not sensitive enough and even at maximum acceleration, it was still too slow. Bought a Microsoft wireless, it's great. Gave the Logitech to a friend, who quickly gave it to his mother (after having the same complaint I did, and he's not even a geek).
"Deleting or blocking said email is the *wrong* choice."
with
"Deleting or blocking your user's email as a matter of absolute practice is the wrong choice. However, giving your users the options and tools for effective email management is a wonderful thing."
Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you at all about it. Matter of fact I will give my users an account preference to auto-delete spam if they like when I get around to tweaking my mail delivery scripts.
My sole and only point on all of this is that I would never automatically delete my user's mail without at least giving them an option to turn it off.
Which is exatly why reputable spam filters (Spamassassin, etc) only use a positive match on a blacklist to increase your 'spam likelyhood' score. Ditto, as the primary mx for a dozen or so domains, I *NEVER* block or delete email based upon it's spam scorecard or whether the sending server is in a 'blacklist'.
If it goes past a certain threshold (in my case, an SA score of 5 or greater) my server will prepend ****SPAM**** to the subject line. What you choose to have your mail client do with such mail, based upon the subject line match as well as whether the sender is in your adress book, etc. is 100% your decision.
In my personal case, I have a couple of sender domains, namely yahoogroups.com that while not spam are *sometimes* misflagged as such... Not surprising since they are mass-emailed messages that *DO* have advertising. My mail filters move these into a seperate folder before procsssing '***SPAM****" messages.
Spam is a bitch and I hate it as much as the next admin. Deleting or blocking said email is the *wrong* choice.
because it is time consuming and does not solve the issues of contamination within the pipes. Your tap water is chlorinated for a reason, bud.
For drinking water, it is the cat's meow, our little filter will produce water faster than I can drink it, make coffee, etc., and the filter cost is insignificant.
Running bath/lawn/laundry/toilet water through it would be silly, slow, and (due to the volume required) expensive.
I could run Kerosene in my Diesel car, or use vintage wine for cooking too...makes about as much sense.
I built myself a "firebreathing" 300Mhz PII (woohooo) in 1998. At the time, the 300's were the fastest chips that you could readily get your hands on. Yeah, the 333's had just come on the market but they were hard to get and cost about 40% more for 11% more speed. Running the 300 at a 72Mhz FSB was a little more economical for 'lil ol' self-employed programmer person:)
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Neither citrix, vnc, or pcanywhere provide the ability to take over the root console at high speed. Period. PCAnywhere and VNC are *MUCH* too slow to use for extended periods of time.
There is no product you can add on to Windows 2000 that provides the same level of functionality.
The same is true going from Windows 2000 to Windows XP - it's all just about a GUI change.
Personally, I don't like the GUI changes from 2000 to XP. It wastes a lot of screen real estate, and I was quite happy to turn it off. Even happier when I figured out the core "Themes" service could be turned off completely, saving a chunk of memory.
However, at least for me, and a lot of people I know, Remote Desktop Sharing made XP a very useful and even very cost-saving upgrade. Under 2000 Server, I could use RDP (aka Terminal Services) to initiate another login to my machine, but there was no way to take control of the console (and the session logged into it). Besides the inconvenience factor of a new login, I need to be on the 'system console' in order to use things like debuggers, and logging in remotely and then running stuff like Mozilla or even Outlook would result in having to use seperate profiles and such since the same program was running on the console. Yes, I have tried many versions of VNC (and pcAnywhere and other non OSS offerings). While *great* for remote administration, troubleshooting, etc., they were utterly unuseable for simply logging into a remote machine and working. The latency and refresh issues simply do not go away as you add bandwidth.
Remote Desktop Sharing uses the RDP protocol and while I am not impressed with certain aspects of it, e.g. the sound support is lagged and choppy, on a LAN-ish setup, redraw, latency, GUI operations, clicks, keypresses, etc., are almost indistinguishable in speed from the local console.
I was able to delay purchasing a new laptop by over a year as a result. Even though I eventually got to the point that I simply needed a more powerful machine to take to client sites and on the road, when I am sitting in my easy chair in the living room do I run software locally on it? Keep source code and documents synchronized? Of course not, I just press a hot-key to log into my home-office machine over 802.11g and everything just works as it should at the speed that it should.
Nothing prior, whether on Win32 or 'nix worked this well for this task. There is network transparency stuff that I love in X that I can't do, but X can't even really do this without VNC.
Oh give me a break.
Does the camera not do something it was advertised as being able to do? Didn't think so. The product can be modified to have functionality it was never advertised or claimed as having. That is what you call false advertising?
As far as your claims about single-sided floppy disks. Yes, you could usually notch the other side. What you were paying for with a DS disk was the fact that the other side had gone through testing and was covered under the warranty.
If one side of media failed QA, do you think it was scrapped? Hell no. It was put in the 'sell only as single-sided' bin.
If some or most of the disks in that box had passed QA on both sides...So what? This was back in the days when disks cost enough that you would take advantage of the warranty if one was defective. Only covering one side under warranty makes the product cost less to sell.
In the early 90's we went through the same thing with HD 1.44 disks...Yeah, cutting a hole in it would usually make it work for high density use. One to two years later, I noticed that of the disks that failed...Most were 'converts'.
Do you think a manufacturer is going to cover a disk under warranty after you have cut a hole in it? Hello no, nor should they. Do you think risking losing a disks worth of data is worth saving a couple of bucks for a business? Hello no. Was it worth it to you or I for copying our games and stuff? Hell yes.
evidenced by their refusal to allow cell/wifi devices on planes
Huh?? That is not an FCC, nor even a government regulation. Although the airlines will often try to make it sound like an FAA regulation, the FAA's rule is that the airlines must make disable any devices that the airline believes may cause interferrence.
When cell phones were new, and were 900 Mhz mini-microwaves with 3 watts of power and the effect on the nav system was an unknown, that was a reasonable precaution.
20 years later and with no real evidence to conclude they are any more dangerous then my laptop, they still keep saying that. But now, the airlines make a tidy profit on those in-flight phones....
It's no different then the movie theater not letting you bring your own drink.
I don't think too many Ingres users were happy when CA bought it up.
No user of a package is happy when CA buys it up. In the early 90's they went on a buying spree, buying up some things that were popular and useful (e.g. Clipper), some things that were mediocre but could have been made into players (e.g. Realizer) and some were absolute crap that they managed to revise to crappier (DBFast, and some weird French-made Windows word processor).
Some of those products were failures before CA gave them the kiss of death. The ones that weren't, CA managed to destroy all value of on their own.
CA is the kiss of death. If CA buys one of your software vendors, start shopping for a replacement now.
Former Clipper developer, but I'm not bitter or anything. Noooo, of course not.
Puts out fires too!
Ummmmm.....no
The proper word here is "compromise".
Simple, in most cases this should be able to be handled at the compiler level.
I suppose (and this is 100% hypothetical) that there might be very rare situations where the programmer will need to be able to override, but so be it.
Yes, there most definately was an eBay auction.
I wasn't sure who (if anybody) it was appropriate to reply to.
My fiancee is a dead-head. They don't care who downloads or trades the live recordings, period. Trading/exchanging them is fine as long as it isn't 'for profit'.
I have a 'small collection' (~7gb) of almost 57 hours of primarily 256Kbb rips of fairly high-quality direct tape captures made over the past (literally) close to 30 years.
I have only learned to love the dead and their music (with or without Jerry) because of her, but it is their attitude and spirit that I love sooooo much more.
Thank you, Daeley, I love you so much more then words could ever describe.
90 Canadian cents a liter works out to US$2.45 a gallon. That is less then we are paying in Southern California.
Bullshit.
For starters, the Lotus/Borland/Paperback lawsuit was centered on copyright, not patents.
That case made it's way to the Supreme Court where the justices decreed that a user interface is not subject to COPYRIGHT protection.
In addition, Lotus never claimed to invent the spreadsheet user interface in general.
In the original versions of Quattro, Borland copied the exact menu structure and exact keystrokes from 1-2-3. Paperback software had a spreadsheet on the market that did the same.
Both were sued by Lotus based upon that, not the fact that they were spreadsheets.
How in the hell you got modded up is beyond me.
What specific evidence or even real reasons do you cite that "If you then scale up to 1 million people, you will find that a MUCH larger percentage of people will be misidentified".
Do you have anything real to cite?
I have a CDMA2000 phone, so yes we do have 3G service. It isn't perfect, but knowing what my cost per minute is (both for me and the originating caller) as opposed to what my friends in Europe pay....I'll keep it.
If I travel outside the country, I can rent a phone and forward to it if I so desire.
The 144K data service is not perfect (latency is high, and the speed varies) but it is *very* cheap. Being able to surf and get on IRC while I'm passenger on car trips rocks.
They still make the best mice. I only say this after my Rottweiler ate my corded Microsoft optical mouse. Replaced it with a Logitech cordless, the Logitech was not sensitive enough and even at maximum acceleration, it was still too slow. Bought a Microsoft wireless, it's great. Gave the Logitech to a friend, who quickly gave it to his mother (after having the same complaint I did, and he's not even a geek).
Your father had an internet connection and web browser at work in 1992? Wow.
Standard Arcnet ran at 2.5Mb. Arcnet Plus, which is rarer then hens teeth outside of some industrial applications, runs at 20Mb.
No, I just wasn't very clear to begin with.
:)
replace
"Deleting or blocking said email is the *wrong* choice."
with
"Deleting or blocking your user's email as a matter of absolute practice is the wrong choice. However, giving your users the options and tools for effective email management is a wonderful thing."
a little wordier, yes
Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you at all about it. Matter of fact I will give my users an account preference to auto-delete spam if they like when I get around to tweaking my mail delivery scripts.
My sole and only point on all of this is that I would never automatically delete my user's mail without at least giving them an option to turn it off.
That is not what I meant at all. My only point was that as a provider, I will *NOT* delete my user's email.
No, I don't read my spam. It gets deleted upon receipt, but I will not delete my user's incoming mail.
Which is exatly why reputable spam filters (Spamassassin, etc) only use a positive match on a blacklist to increase your 'spam likelyhood' score. Ditto, as the primary mx for a dozen or so domains, I *NEVER* block or delete email based upon it's spam scorecard or whether the sending server is in a 'blacklist'.
If it goes past a certain threshold (in my case, an SA score of 5 or greater) my server will prepend ****SPAM**** to the subject line. What you choose to have your mail client do with such mail, based upon the subject line match as well as whether the sender is in your adress book, etc. is 100% your decision.
In my personal case, I have a couple of sender domains, namely yahoogroups.com that while not spam are *sometimes* misflagged as such... Not surprising since they are mass-emailed messages that *DO* have advertising. My mail filters move these into a seperate folder before procsssing '***SPAM****" messages.
Spam is a bitch and I hate it as much as the next admin. Deleting or blocking said email is the *wrong* choice.
because it is time consuming and does not solve the issues of contamination within the pipes. Your tap water is chlorinated for a reason, bud.
For drinking water, it is the cat's meow, our little filter will produce water faster than I can drink it, make coffee, etc., and the filter cost is insignificant.
Running bath/lawn/laundry/toilet water through it would be silly, slow, and (due to the volume required) expensive.
I could run Kerosene in my Diesel car, or use vintage wine for cooking too...makes about as much sense.
Much better and *VASTLY* cheaper solution.
Buy a reverse osmosis water filter. Fits under your sink, hook it up to the spout on your fridge or an extra spiggot on your sink.
Trust me, it even makes Southern California water yummy.
Not that far before then.
:)
I built myself a "firebreathing" 300Mhz PII (woohooo) in 1998. At the time, the 300's were the fastest chips that you could readily get your hands on. Yeah, the 333's had just come on the market but they were hard to get and cost about 40% more for 11% more speed. Running the 300 at a 72Mhz FSB was a little more economical for 'lil ol' self-employed programmer person
Nope.
This is BSD. BSD is protected under a 1993 settlement between USL and the UC regents.