Outlook 2002+, or recent versions Outlook Express allow you to add Hotmail as an email provider. You can then drag and drop your folders to your local PST, and back that up.
That's debatable. The admin pages are exposed to the internet at large by default, with a known username and password. Whereas with no WEP and so on you at least have to be physically close.
only reason I upgraded windows media player to version 9 was because the Halo 2 teaser trailer would only work on version 9 so that was reason enough for me to upgrade.
If you were running 7 you shouldn't have needed to upgrade. The WM9 codecs work within MP7 and would have automatically downloaded and installed the first time you played WM9 content.
Already happening. The EU anti-trust investigation was around media player. However that seems driven mostly by Real's sour grapes ("People don't use real because WMP is on the desktop". No, people don't use real because it's been a bloated heap of spyware driven shit, with an awful set of codecs).
Lacking Ogg support? You seriously expect them to bundle every 3rd party codec out there?
There is Ogg support, in the form of
Tobias's Ogg DirectShow filter. The specs for DirectShow filters are pretty well known. Complaining that MS aren't producing a wrapper for a codec they didn't write is, well, a Real tatic:D
Bill's on-line music service? Napster? Musicmatch?
This sort of integration is NOT NEW. It's been there since 7, the UK MSN store, and the Tiscali store both use it, it's just that no US services did, because hey, as well as selling music they're selling eyeballs for advertisers, and you want to keep control of that.
Note that this WMP9 also claims to support the same DRM as Windows WMP9. I have no such protected files to test against so I don't know how well that works.
No it doesn't. It says
Plays secure content protected with Microsoft Windows Media Rights Manager version 1.3.
That's not the same DRM as Windows WMP9, or even WMP7, it's the first version of DRM, which doesn't offer a lot of the features that music producers want, like expiry from first play and so on. Also the DRM SDK1 was, well, difficult to play nicely with.
This threat does not infect 32-bit systems and will not run on 32-bit Windows platforms. It is a direct-action infector, typically exiting memory after execution, and is written in IA64 (Intel Architecture) assembly code
The payload causes infected windows machines to resubmit the same story to slashdot every day, in the hope that a duplicate story will arise.
Richard Stallman was quoted as saying the virus was sourced at Microsoft in an attempt to make linux news sites look silly, then requested that the source for the virus be published openly under a FSF license. SCO then claimed that they had the first 64 bit virus, and were now going to sue the author and every owner of an infected machine. Larry Elison was rumoured to say that the Oracle 64bit virus ran faster and cheaper than an MS 64 bit virus and stood grinning until someone pointed out that Bill Gates can buy him 10 times over.
A lot of the spamvertised web sites (including Richter's) are hosted on Chinese ISPs (71% according to a survey from Commtouch. (The same survey shows that 60.5% of spam is sent from US addresses)
The ISPs are unresponsive to emails, some don't have abuse@ addresses and of course there's the language barrier. So, hopefully, a spamhaus setup in China will get the chinese ISPs to remove the spamvertised sites quickly.
The effectiveness of this idea, of course, remains to be seen. I can see the temptation of taking hard currency when you're happily ignoring complaints about the "Make big penis" web sites hosted in your IP space.
Now if only Russia would do something about the paypal, ebay and bank phishing spammers they host, then I might consider lifting some country blocks.
Well if you're aiming at portable devices, then, due to lack of the more exotic codecs on the common players, what the heck is the point in looking at an Ogg branch, or anything other than AAC, MP3 and WMA?
It's all very nice saying "This codec is best", but if I can't use that codec in a portable player, a commonly available, reasonably priced portably player, then why should I care?
IMO comparisons like this are auditory masturbation, nothing more.
OK, so use SMTP Auth and make your sales people use your company SMTP server. Even better bind it with SSL so it's all encrypted.
My phone provider was firewalling the SMTP port, now I am actually connecting to the ODMR port (not blocked) on my own server, authenicating using S/SMTP and sending to people on my mail server, and to others. SPF works in this situation.
You can add the "roaming" SMTP server to the allowed MX servers for a domain, I had to do it because my mobile phone provider forced me to use their SMTP box
And the SDK doesn't even support that, it allows scripting/COM languages to drive iTunes
There is NOTHING about supporting FairPlay AAC in any external programs.
Of course Apple, like Real will whine about Media Player not supporting their formats, even though the DirectFilter SDK and specs have been around for years. Ogg supports it nicely, as does DIVX. Apple and Real just produce PR puff pieces, making bogus complaints. Of course they don't want people using Media Player, or WinAmp, as they loose the eyeballs and revenue they get forcing people to stick to their players.
If you really want to think about it, MS have a WM SDK, and a DRM SDK which they give away for FREE, so anyone can write a player (although for DRM you have to have a code signing key). More open than Apple? Shocking huh?
Microsoft spent much of Day 2 of its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here refuting a published report claiming the company has axed its Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) security technology.
"NGSCB is alive and kicking," said Mario Juarez, a product manager in Microsoft's security and technology business unit.
No modern Linux ships with anything turned on except SSHD.
And no "modern" Windows (well, 2003 anyway) ships with anything turned on either. Need IIS? Have to install it after initial install. DHCP? Same. AD? Same. And so on. It even refuses to run SQL2k until you install SP3.
But of course it's not much help, as there aren't many home users running 2003 server <g>
Spammers send the same message multiple times, so posting this spammer story multiple times is fitting, no?
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"The balloons will be enclosed in a carbon fibre and net structure 25m in diameter tethered to the ground by 6 cables and held aloft at a height of 60m where it will remain for several hours."
They are not free floating balloons, so presumably they will rise in the net and come down in the net
It's not exactly new either, I've been seeing it for the past 6 months on places like neowin (who dropped it after a few months) and a few developer sites.
It sucked badly as it slowed page loads down while it scaned through the page looking for the keywords to highlight.
I guess that's a personal thing, I can still sing along to tunes I liked in the 80s. Of course being able to sing along to Duran Duran is not a survival trait.
You're thinking of it in the wrong way. Imagine a BlockBuster where you pay a monthly fee and you can watch whatever you want. So change it to music. I'd happily pay 10 pcm to access the entire catalogue for say, EMI.
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Outlook 2002+, or recent versions Outlook Express allow you to add Hotmail as an email provider. You can then drag and drop your folders to your local PST, and back that up.
I lost all those megabytes of increase my penis size email!
That's debatable. The admin pages are exposed to the internet at large by default, with a known username and password. Whereas with no WEP and so on you at least have to be physically close.
2) Yea, it's an admin only install, like most things MS produced
only reason I upgraded windows media player to version 9 was because the Halo 2 teaser trailer would only work on version 9 so that was reason enough for me to upgrade.
If you were running 7 you shouldn't have needed to upgrade. The WM9 codecs work within MP7 and would have automatically downloaded and installed the first time you played WM9 content.
Already happening. The EU anti-trust investigation was around media player. However that seems driven mostly by Real's sour grapes ("People don't use real because WMP is on the desktop". No, people don't use real because it's been a bloated heap of spyware driven shit, with an awful set of codecs).
Lacking Ogg support? You seriously expect them to bundle every 3rd party codec out there?
There is Ogg support, in the form of Tobias's Ogg DirectShow filter. The specs for DirectShow filters are pretty well known. Complaining that MS aren't producing a wrapper for a codec they didn't write is, well, a Real tatic :D
Bill's on-line music service? Napster? Musicmatch?
This sort of integration is NOT NEW. It's been there since 7, the UK MSN store, and the Tiscali store both use it, it's just that no US services did, because hey, as well as selling music they're selling eyeballs for advertisers, and you want to keep control of that.
No it doesn't. It says
Plays secure content protected with Microsoft Windows Media Rights Manager version 1.3.
That's not the same DRM as Windows WMP9, or even WMP7, it's the first version of DRM, which doesn't offer a lot of the features that music producers want, like expiry from first play and so on. Also the DRM SDK1 was, well, difficult to play nicely with.
The payload causes infected windows machines to resubmit the same story to slashdot every day, in the hope that a duplicate story will arise.
Richard Stallman was quoted as saying the virus was sourced at Microsoft in an attempt to make linux news sites look silly, then requested that the source for the virus be published openly under a FSF license. SCO then claimed that they had the first 64 bit virus, and were now going to sue the author and every owner of an infected machine. Larry Elison was rumoured to say that the Oracle 64bit virus ran faster and cheaper than an MS 64 bit virus and stood grinning until someone pointed out that Bill Gates can buy him 10 times over.
The ISPs are unresponsive to emails, some don't have abuse@ addresses and of course there's the language barrier. So, hopefully, a spamhaus setup in China will get the chinese ISPs to remove the spamvertised sites quickly.
The effectiveness of this idea, of course, remains to be seen. I can see the temptation of taking hard currency when you're happily ignoring complaints about the "Make big penis" web sites hosted in your IP space.
Now if only Russia would do something about the paypal, ebay and bank phishing spammers they host, then I might consider lifting some country blocks.
It's all very nice saying "This codec is best", but if I can't use that codec in a portable player, a commonly available, reasonably priced portably player, then why should I care?
IMO comparisons like this are auditory masturbation, nothing more.
My phone provider was firewalling the SMTP port, now I am actually connecting to the ODMR port (not blocked) on my own server, authenicating using S/SMTP and sending to people on my mail server, and to others. SPF works in this situation.
You can add the "roaming" SMTP server to the allowed MX servers for a domain, I had to do it because my mobile phone provider forced me to use their SMTP box
There is NOTHING about supporting FairPlay AAC in any external programs.
Of course Apple, like Real will whine about Media Player not supporting their formats, even though the DirectFilter SDK and specs have been around for years. Ogg supports it nicely, as does DIVX. Apple and Real just produce PR puff pieces, making bogus complaints. Of course they don't want people using Media Player, or WinAmp, as they loose the eyeballs and revenue they get forcing people to stick to their players.
If you really want to think about it, MS have a WM SDK, and a DRM SDK which they give away for FREE, so anyone can write a player (although for DRM you have to have a code signing key). More open than Apple? Shocking huh?
Except it's NOT being dropped according to a WinHEQ talk.
Microsoft-Watch has details,
Who to believe?
The KB article was updated because that patch is killing some SSL configurations.
The patch was available 2 weeks ago, not a great gap, but not 3 days either.
And no "modern" Windows (well, 2003 anyway) ships with anything turned on either. Need IIS? Have to install it after initial install. DHCP? Same. AD? Same. And so on. It even refuses to run SQL2k until you install SP3.
But of course it's not much help, as there aren't many home users running 2003 server <g>
Spammers send the same message multiple times, so posting this spammer story multiple times is fitting, no?
"The balloons will be enclosed in a carbon fibre and net structure 25m in diameter tethered to the ground by 6 cables and held aloft at a height of 60m where it will remain for several hours."
They are not free floating balloons, so presumably they will rise in the net and come down in the net
It sucked badly as it slowed page loads down while it scaned through the page looking for the keywords to highlight.
So instead of
Cannot fire missile, replace missile in launch tube, A)bort, R)etry, F)ail
we'd have
I'll fire in a minute captain, I'm just recompiling the kernel to enable new funky pre-emptive multi-tasking
<g>
I guess that's a personal thing, I can still sing along to tunes I liked in the 80s. Of course being able to sing along to Duran Duran is not a survival trait.
You're thinking of it in the wrong way. Imagine a BlockBuster where you pay a monthly fee and you can watch whatever you want. So change it to music. I'd happily pay 10 pcm to access the entire catalogue for say, EMI.
"The only downer is the fact that if you lose the licenses you're screwed."
Start Media Player. Pull down the Tools menu, then select License Management. Choose Back Up now.
Tada. You're no more screwed than anyone else who doesn't backup.