Hmm.. In my experience, most of the time taken to patch systems is downloading the patches, not actually applying them.
With things like Debian, etc you can have local mirrors of security repositories to speed up the application of patches on lots of machines.
Is the same thing available for Windows Update? If not, I wonder what additional bandwidth costs as well as download times would be incurred from having down download the same patches every time from a Microsoft server via Windows Update.
Good grief. When I last had a TV (read: when I last could be bothered to hook my WinTV card up to an aerial and the novely of the wmtv dockapp was still fresh) it was £104 and that was 4 ish years ago.
Wonder if the "buy black and white licence and turn the colour saturation down when the inspectors turn up" trick will still wash;)
There hasn't really been anything "new" since windows 95.
With the advent of DRM, things are getting less fluid and more restrictive, and as they lock the user down more and more, it's only going to get worse:/
Slashdot Mirror
According to the BBC it caused $1 million in damages not billion.
nation?
Shouldn't that be principality?
Hmm.. In my experience, most of the time taken to patch systems is downloading the patches, not actually applying them.
With things like Debian, etc you can have local mirrors of security repositories to speed up the application of patches on lots of machines.
Is the same thing available for Windows Update? If not, I wonder what additional bandwidth costs as well as download times would be incurred from having down download the same patches every time from a Microsoft server via Windows Update.
...it appears Windows XP Starter Edition may be the most secure option after all...
Opera appears not to be a slashdot friendly site..
Connection refused..
That's a great idea! Quick, patent it!
Open source != GPL.
You might be able to _see_ the source code but I'm betting the licence won't let you easily modify it.
"medical speak confuses patients" and "mechanic speak confuses car owners"..
Some professions require profession specific language. Deal.
This must be the day people who pay money to read slashdot hate.
Having someone (a company / corporation) to blame / call when it goes wrong
Packages are already in ubuntu hoary.
:)
just do an apt-get update and then an apt-get dist-upgrade
Good grief. When I last had a TV (read: when I last could be bothered to hook my WinTV card up to an aerial and the novely of the wmtv dockapp was still fresh) it was £104 and that was 4 ish years ago.
;)
Wonder if the "buy black and white licence and turn the colour saturation down when the inspectors turn up" trick will still wash
Looks like they are keeping the licensing fee for another 10 years at least :|
:/
£104 ($180 ish?) a year just to watch TV
Looks like most of the bandwidth is being sucked up displaying their flash adverts.
:)
Maybe they should offload those onto another server / provider
Try this mirrordot image :)
Mirrordot link to images here
I like how some helpful soul has added the comment..
... to the bottom of the article.
"Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2005-02-14 16:06.
Your article is going to hit Slashdot. You may want to get rid of the "feed my cat" link...."
Microsoft don't innovate, they imitate.
:/
There hasn't really been anything "new" since windows 95.
With the advent of DRM, things are getting less fluid and more restrictive, and as they lock the user down more and more, it's only going to get worse
Just MHO.
I find it sad that while allocating over $100 billion on war, Bush denies $1 billion for hubble.
Images like this are a lot more beautiful than the carnage of another car bomb.
Personally I'm just pleased I'm 1st for 'fuck microsoft' :)
As pointed out by James Ogley they had this on BBC Breakfast TV with a Gnome box :)
Of course the Gnome box was the one doing spoofing at the expense of the poor innocent Windows box user.
To further prove a point, let's slashdot the Windows 2003 box off the net - nice going! :)
but but SCO pumped their stock price up by 40 times ($0.60 to around $20) in 6 months!
Oh.. you mean _legally_......
I find the 'printer friendly' version to be far more readable. :)
"The games do not run faster than they should"
So what's the point in overclocking it? Faster load times?