Could it be that Microsoft is trying to generate some positive news for itself at a time when even the average Joe and Josephine are pissed because their Microsoft OSes are trashed after being on the net for a few hours? Or is Microsoft doing this Spam battle out of the goodness of their hearts?
Curious, but the invective hurled against Microsoft by average non-geek folks certainly has exploded recently: Seems even grandmas understand Microsoft sold them a pretty bag full of moths, metaphorically speaking.
This could make for an interesting ending of the Microsoft con: The greedy, gluttonous dragon devours its own heart and falls over dead.
Consider getting one of those electric fence devices used to keep little dogs in the yard: They use low amps, high volts and junior will understand the concept of "stay away" with the very first lesson.
These can also be effective on door knobs when wired correctly (keep wifey out!) but should be used on toilet bowl flush handles with much caution unless a man slaughter charge isn't a concern.
Other devices can be useful for keeping pesky children in line whilst teaching them the concept of survival but you should check the laws in your area as some certain methods and devices are frowned upon.
No, no, no -- you have it all wrong! What you should do is indemnify all the individual users and OEMs against your software: Seems the poor bastards are getting creamed in many numerous and expensive ways because of your crappy products. True justice would see a world-wide class action suit you (Microsoft) to cover all the loses individuals and businesses have suffered because of your slopware.
The EULA? Can a person on the street walk up to another and say, "I'm not responsible for my actions!" and do whatever they like to the other and suffer no consequences? No, and neither is your EULA a license to act irresponsibly by saying up front, "We're not responsible for our products."
Funny that the very marketing department which has made you, Microsoft, so successful is the noose around your collective necks: Microsoft marketing says, "Hey, buy our products, they are the best!" whilst the EULA says, "We're not responsible for our products!" whilst the customer says, "Hey, I'm getting screwed here because of this lousy product!"
What do you call sky-high promises before the money changes hands followed by complete avoidance of responsibility when the promises turn out to be misleading _after_ the money changes hands? I think the legal term is fraud.
*Waves to packs of hungry lawyers, points to Redmond* Sic 'em! There's gold in them thar shills!
"...half their security problems just come from clueless users..."
Yes, but isn't that one of Microsoft's main selling points with Windows, that users don't need a clue, just run it and MS takes care of the rest, the great Toaster Oven of operating systems?
"How hard is it to turn on Windows Update..."
Most of the Windows users I run into who aren't updated are afraid to update because the last time they tried that it hosed their systems. Some few have never heard of Windows Updates.
"...Linux / other OSs administrators are more likely to be up to date..."
Well yeah, but some of us are just plain lazy too. *inn*
Dah, we need some enterprising cooling site to start offering these for sale. This i1472 machine has plenty of usable space with a good design for the airflow -- a couple of additional heatpipes added to the current setup would be a very good thing! Problem is, there is no where to get them that I can find.
Interesting that this i1472 which I purchased around Christmas, 1999 has one heat pipe used in it. IBM did a good job with the design but the execution was flawed -- the one heat pipe isn't enough and the little fan doesn't move enough air.
I suppose I'll keep looking. Starting to consider pulled parts from old laptops just to get heat pipes -- very expensive way to do it, ugh.
Do a google search for pc cooling, follow the links for notebooks/laptops. Almost all of the cooling sites have a section for notebook/laptop items. There are a bunch of sites. Another place to look for items on these sites is the vga/chipset cooling sections.
Understand you are not going to find ready-made items: You'll have to search/measure/modify to fit the requirements of the space available in your laptop and it's usually very sparse. Best place to start is to get yourself a copy of the service manual for your machine so you can open it up and put it back together again without breaking it and rendering it useless.
As for heatsinks, they are often measured in millimeters as opposed to inches so you'll want to find a good conversion tool. There's one on the web which is great, google for metric conversion.
You have a place to get heatpipes? I've been looking and looking and have yet to find a place to get them stock. Most places which sell heatpipe technology are engineering firms which want to sell their design services, not plain straight heat pipes. I'm sure this is because the heatpipe itself is just piece one of three required for effectiveness: a heatsink on the hot end, a heatpipe to do the transfer and (usually) a cooling block/device on the other end.
If you know of a place to get a variety of heatpipes in stock sizes and lengths, please post it here.
Yes, have to agree with you if you use a laptop cooler tray stock from the retailer. However, I found that taking off the RAM cover panel on the bottom of my laptop makes a big difference. Okay, it make a HUGE difference. You can also use a loop of 1/4x1/8" window sealing tape to make a closed loop seal on the tray which forces the air to blow into the hole (in this case, the RAM cover hole) on the bottom of the laptop.
There are other tricks for laptops too. For instance, my IBM i1472 had no heatsink for the GPU chip but plenty of room to install one. I put on a low height heatsink, placed to take advantage of the designed airflow and viola, another big difference.
More tricks are possible for laptop cooling, you just need to do some research and remember that laptops are consumer items -- many things which are possible to do to the machine to keep it cool have not been done because it wasn't cost effective to do at the factory. If you can do some engineering mods on your laptop yourself, you can really make them sit up and do some cooling tricks.
I am looking to do a water cooled laptop on this i1472 when it gets replaced next month. Don't think it's possible? I didn't either until I made some measurements inside the machine and researched parts and availability -- it's very doable. Granted, the laptop won't have the same level of portability.:) I am looking at using the same cooling blocks but instead of water, using low preasure compressed air. I'll be fun and interesting if nothing else.
Experience says that when there is much controversy over solutions to a particular problem it is often because the problem hasn't been properly defined.
Current definition of "The problem:" How to change government in a democracy with open, accurate elections which allow the voter to remain anonymous.
The solution is in the history of U.S. democracy. History tells us that a small group of elite folks (Founding Fathers) decided that the electorate could not be trusted (Electoral College) and that the best overall solution was a restricted form of democracy (representative democracy.) In the years since, the attitude of our ruling class has blossomed into a degenerate, self-serving incompetence-towards-the-whole which threatens the longevity of the nation.
Ask yourself why only the two parties can play and any third party or other outside group gets lead weights hung around the necks of their efforts. Don't think it's true? Go check the election rules for your city, county and state. Two-parties-only is the end result of many very suspicious rules and requirements for other groups or parties wishing to play. The same game of Restriction-via-Rubric-Rules exists at the federal level.
Redefinition of "The Problem:" How to get an entrenched (and very rotten) ruling class to open up the process to open, accurate elections and thus move closer towards achieving a true democracy? In most of the rest of the world -- and throughout human history -- such efforts usually result in civil war.
If you think any elite group will just give it up, open your eyes and your brain at the same time and witness the current bitterness over voting methodologies: When none of the players are willing to be open and honest, then none of the players _are_ open and honest. Bluntly, the last thing either party wants is open, accurate, direct elections.
Do we have a democracy or an illusion, a national delusion that we are a democracy? Has not representative democracy failed when a small group of the very richest individuals and corporations (hey, same group of folks, imagine that) severely restrict who can participate in governance?
You fix this by not sending the same rotten bastards back to Congress time and time and time again. One term and they reek with the stench of corporate cash. In other words -- and let me make this as simple as possible -- the focus on the Presidential election is a red herring, a sleight-of-hand, a trick of the light, a cheap trick, social engineering on a colossal scale, a setup for a SUCKER PUNCH!
So what did the Harvard Republican say to the Harvard Democrat? "You're either with me or against me! *wink wink, nudge nudge*"
Because of bloat my Pentium II 366 Celeron laptop running a tweaked Slackware 8.0 (!) install seems to run faster that the Pentium IV Dell with Windows XP I have to use at work. The perceived speed (what the user sees as speed) difference between the two is nil. That is the downside of excessive bloat.
Axiomatic: Bloat attracts bloat! My bet is that after 30 days of running MS XP on the net your son's new emachine will have the perceived speed of a Commodore 64.
The owner of a large structure notices it is having problems. He asks for advice and gets it in truckloads. "Fix this, change that!" "No," say others, "Change this, fix that and fold here!" The advice is plentitudinously ponderous and most precisely proportional to the problem.
Seeing an old man chuckling at the circus of advisors with their advisements , the owner asks him what is the source of his amusement.
"You refuse to accept what you see: The structure is built of sticks held together with mud, it is built on a sand foundation, the bedrock below is cracked basalt laying atop an active fault. So you built a pretty facade on it. Take your lesson, cut your loses and move on."
The owner looks at the structure, looks at all the advising advisors, looks again at the old man, shakes his head and sighs: He buys a cherry coke and takes a walk on the beach.
I for one don't welcome our (potential) new Microsoft overlords -- everything they touch turns into poor quality crap. That's why I started running Linux in the first place, I needed something that was reliable and just plain worked day after week after month after year.
The IT guys where I work have figured it out: The only way to keep Microsoft products stable and secure is to run them as little as possible and to severely restrict what can be run and where they can go. Even then most of IT's time is spent trying to keep the Windows boxes working. Why? Because Microsoft makes and markets garbage, it's their business model: Just good enough to get the cash from the suckers who are fooled by a pretty GUI. Make the user sign a EULA agreeing that Microsoft isn't responsible for the poor quality of the product and...profit!
The only thing Microsoft should be doing in the future is pushing up the proverbial daisy. A fitting end considering that is what Windows machines do best: Sing Daisy.
Do I understand this right? In a country ruled by dark age religious nutcases, six people who said something against said nutcases get arrested?
Hmmm, go figure. I would think they'd be tortured or dismembered or the like, but simply arrested?
Those Iatoldyas need to get their act together: They're not going to put the fear of their god into the populace by simply arresting a few wordy wankers.
It is called "Escape from Microsoft" which has to be the best productivity enhancing game of our time. Seeing how much time and effort my peers and superiors waste in their constant and vain attempts at keeping their MS OSs working, perhaps _that_ game should be entitled "Escape from Hell."
Judging from the increasingly hostile attitude towards Microsoft these folks are rapidly developing, I think they will manage to escape eventually.
Thanks Microsoft! That is where we need to go today and tomorrow.
Don't need no stinkin' spellchecker, it's a simple typo I didn't catch when editing.:) I suppose that makes a good argument for the value of spellcheckers, eh?
Once upon a time there was a fellow who bought a Yugo. It had a really shiny paint job and plenty of marketing oomph behind it too. Unfortunately, the pretty, painted Yugo was still just a Yugo on the inside and very soon after purchase the new Yugo owner was most unhappy, as were all his fellow Yugo-owning neighbors.
One particularly troubling day the Yugo owner asked his fellow Yugo owners why this sorry state of affairs was extant and if there wasn't some way to mitigate the myriad problems inherent with Yugo ownership. After much argument and debate and considerable gnashing of teeth, the Yugo owners all decided to go and get fresh, clean paint jobs on their Yugos: No other solution seemed palatible to their collective Yugo mindset.
Obviously this solution did not solve any problems other than a few scratches in paint, but it did make the Yugo owners feel better for a while. Unfortunately, Yugo owners are horrible with simple math and have almost no concept of the value of quality when measured over time and so continue to make this same error in all aspects of their lives. Such is life for the Yugo owner who can't bring himself to admit that the Yugo is just a sorry piece of poo on the inside, regardless of how much he has spent on the paintjob.
The moral of the story: Windows users, YOU GO!
(Psst! Hey fella, here's a free clue for ya: The Porches are free! *snicker-snort-ROFL* Doh, what am I going to do for cheap entertainement when everyone is running *NIX?)
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Yes, that surely did catch my attention too, but I'm assuming it was a bit of moderating humor as it did make me chuckle.
Could it be that Microsoft is trying to generate some positive news for itself at a time when even the average Joe and Josephine are pissed because their Microsoft OSes are trashed after being on the net for a few hours? Or is Microsoft doing this Spam battle out of the goodness of their hearts?
Curious, but the invective hurled against Microsoft by average non-geek folks certainly has exploded recently: Seems even grandmas understand Microsoft sold them a pretty bag full of moths, metaphorically speaking.
This could make for an interesting ending of the Microsoft con: The greedy, gluttonous dragon devours its own heart and falls over dead.
Add your own happily-ever-after line here.
Consider getting one of those electric fence devices used to keep little dogs in the yard: They use low amps, high volts and junior will understand the concept of "stay away" with the very first lesson.
These can also be effective on door knobs when wired correctly (keep wifey out!) but should be used on toilet bowl flush handles with much caution unless a man slaughter charge isn't a concern.
Other devices can be useful for keeping pesky children in line whilst teaching them the concept of survival but you should check the laws in your area as some certain methods and devices are frowned upon.
Cheers!
Usage directions:
1. Buy Microsoft product.
2. Get screwed over by Microsoft product.
3. Scream, rant and roar!
4. Rinse.
5. Repeat.
Sidenote: They should've called it, "Planet of the Idiots" and left the apes well enough alone.
...and Powerpoint presenters spontaneously combusting. *egrin*
"sacrificing the future for short-term profits"
But, but...that is the strategy.
Dude, I'd give you a free clue but you have to be able to hold it first. *bonk*
said it best (and I paraphrase:)
90% of everything is garbage.
So, learn to pick the gems out of the dung heap?
No, no, no -- you have it all wrong! What you should do is indemnify all the individual users and OEMs against your software: Seems the poor bastards are getting creamed in many numerous and expensive ways because of your crappy products. True justice would see a world-wide class action suit you (Microsoft) to cover all the loses individuals and businesses have suffered because of your slopware.
The EULA? Can a person on the street walk up to another and say, "I'm not responsible for my actions!" and do whatever they like to the other and suffer no consequences? No, and neither is your EULA a license to act irresponsibly by saying up front, "We're not responsible for our products."
Funny that the very marketing department which has made you, Microsoft, so successful is the noose around your collective necks: Microsoft marketing says, "Hey, buy our products, they are the best!" whilst the EULA says, "We're not responsible for our products!" whilst the customer says, "Hey, I'm getting screwed here because of this lousy product!"
What do you call sky-high promises before the money changes hands followed by complete avoidance of responsibility when the promises turn out to be misleading _after_ the money changes hands? I think the legal term is fraud.
*Waves to packs of hungry lawyers, points to Redmond* Sic 'em! There's gold in them thar shills!
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Now...imagine a Beowolf cluster of those and you have *viola* Windows XP with Dufus Pack 2!
"...half their security problems just come from clueless users..."
Yes, but isn't that one of Microsoft's main selling points with Windows, that users don't need a clue, just run it and MS takes care of the rest, the great Toaster Oven of operating systems?
"How hard is it to turn on Windows Update..."
Most of the Windows users I run into who aren't updated are afraid to update because the last time they tried that it hosed their systems. Some few have never heard of Windows Updates.
"...Linux / other OSs administrators are more likely to be up to date..."
Well yeah, but some of us are just plain lazy too. *inn*
Ciao.
Heh, here is a clue, check and see if perhaps it applies to your area too: The single biggest section in my local Yellow Pages is for...lawyers.
Ciao.
Dah, we need some enterprising cooling site to start offering these for sale. This i1472 machine has plenty of usable space with a good design for the airflow -- a couple of additional heatpipes added to the current setup would be a very good thing! Problem is, there is no where to get them that I can find.
Interesting that this i1472 which I purchased around Christmas, 1999 has one heat pipe used in it. IBM did a good job with the design but the execution was flawed -- the one heat pipe isn't enough and the little fan doesn't move enough air.
I suppose I'll keep looking. Starting to consider pulled parts from old laptops just to get heat pipes -- very expensive way to do it, ugh.
Yes, silence in a pc is a good thing!
Do a google search for pc cooling, follow the links for notebooks/laptops. Almost all of the cooling sites have a section for notebook/laptop items. There are a bunch of sites. Another place to look for items on these sites is the vga/chipset cooling sections.
Understand you are not going to find ready-made items: You'll have to search/measure/modify to fit the requirements of the space available in your laptop and it's usually very sparse. Best place to start is to get yourself a copy of the service manual for your machine so you can open it up and put it back together again without breaking it and rendering it useless.
As for heatsinks, they are often measured in millimeters as opposed to inches so you'll want to find a good conversion tool. There's one on the web which is great, google for metric conversion.
Happy hacking!
You have a place to get heatpipes? I've been looking and looking and have yet to find a place to get them stock. Most places which sell heatpipe technology are engineering firms which want to sell their design services, not plain straight heat pipes. I'm sure this is because the heatpipe itself is just piece one of three required for effectiveness: a heatsink on the hot end, a heatpipe to do the transfer and (usually) a cooling block/device on the other end.
If you know of a place to get a variety of heatpipes in stock sizes and lengths, please post it here.
Thanks.
Yes, have to agree with you if you use a laptop cooler tray stock from the retailer. However, I found that taking off the RAM cover panel on the bottom of my laptop makes a big difference. Okay, it make a HUGE difference. You can also use a loop of 1/4x1/8" window sealing tape to make a closed loop seal on the tray which forces the air to blow into the hole (in this case, the RAM cover hole) on the bottom of the laptop.
:) I am looking at using the same cooling blocks but instead of water, using low preasure compressed air. I'll be fun and interesting if nothing else.
There are other tricks for laptops too. For instance, my IBM i1472 had no heatsink for the GPU chip but plenty of room to install one. I put on a low height heatsink, placed to take advantage of the designed airflow and viola, another big difference.
More tricks are possible for laptop cooling, you just need to do some research and remember that laptops are consumer items -- many things which are possible to do to the machine to keep it cool have not been done because it wasn't cost effective to do at the factory. If you can do some engineering mods on your laptop yourself, you can really make them sit up and do some cooling tricks.
I am looking to do a water cooled laptop on this i1472 when it gets replaced next month. Don't think it's possible? I didn't either until I made some measurements inside the machine and researched parts and availability -- it's very doable. Granted, the laptop won't have the same level of portability.
Oy, it finaly happened: I've turned into a geek.
Experience says that when there is much controversy over solutions to a particular problem it is often because the problem hasn't been properly defined.
Current definition of "The problem:" How to change government in a democracy with open, accurate elections which allow the voter to remain anonymous.
The solution is in the history of U.S. democracy. History tells us that a small group of elite folks (Founding Fathers) decided that the electorate could not be trusted (Electoral College) and that the best overall solution was a restricted form of democracy (representative democracy.) In the years since, the attitude of our ruling class has blossomed into a degenerate, self-serving incompetence-towards-the-whole which threatens the longevity of the nation.
Ask yourself why only the two parties can play and any third party or other outside group gets lead weights hung around the necks of their efforts. Don't think it's true? Go check the election rules for your city, county and state. Two-parties-only is the end result of many very suspicious rules and requirements for other groups or parties wishing to play. The same game of Restriction-via-Rubric-Rules exists at the federal level.
Redefinition of "The Problem:" How to get an entrenched (and very rotten) ruling class to open up the process to open, accurate elections and thus move closer towards achieving a true democracy? In most of the rest of the world -- and throughout human history -- such efforts usually result in civil war.
If you think any elite group will just give it up, open your eyes and your brain at the same time and witness the current bitterness over voting methodologies: When none of the players are willing to be open and honest, then none of the players _are_ open and honest. Bluntly, the last thing either party wants is open, accurate, direct elections.
Do we have a democracy or an illusion, a national delusion that we are a democracy? Has not representative democracy failed when a small group of the very richest individuals and corporations (hey, same group of folks, imagine that) severely restrict who can participate in governance?
You fix this by not sending the same rotten bastards back to Congress time and time and time again. One term and they reek with the stench of corporate cash. In other words -- and let me make this as simple as possible -- the focus on the Presidential election is a red herring, a sleight-of-hand, a trick of the light, a cheap trick, social engineering on a colossal scale, a setup for a SUCKER PUNCH!
So what did the Harvard Republican say to the Harvard Democrat? "You're either with me or against me! *wink wink, nudge nudge*"
Cheers and ciao.
WOo, great laugh, that was seriously funny!
Thanks!
"becasue of bloat !!! Yes !!!"
Because of bloat my Pentium II 366 Celeron laptop running a tweaked Slackware 8.0 (!) install seems to run faster that the Pentium IV Dell with Windows XP I have to use at work. The perceived speed (what the user sees as speed) difference between the two is nil. That is the downside of excessive bloat.
Axiomatic: Bloat attracts bloat! My bet is that after 30 days of running MS XP on the net your son's new emachine will have the perceived speed of a Commodore 64.
Have fun and be happy!
The owner of a large structure notices it is having problems. He asks for advice and gets it in truckloads. "Fix this, change that!" "No," say others, "Change this, fix that and fold here!" The advice is plentitudinously ponderous and most precisely proportional to the problem.
Seeing an old man chuckling at the circus of advisors with their advisements , the owner asks him what is the source of his amusement.
"You refuse to accept what you see: The structure is built of sticks held together with mud, it is built on a sand foundation, the bedrock below is cracked basalt laying atop an active fault. So you built a pretty facade on it. Take your lesson, cut your loses and move on."
The owner looks at the structure, looks at all the advising advisors, looks again at the old man, shakes his head and sighs: He buys a cherry coke and takes a walk on the beach.
I for one don't welcome our (potential) new Microsoft overlords -- everything they touch turns into poor quality crap. That's why I started running Linux in the first place, I needed something that was reliable and just plain worked day after week after month after year.
...profit!
The IT guys where I work have figured it out: The only way to keep Microsoft products stable and secure is to run them as little as possible and to severely restrict what can be run and where they can go. Even then most of IT's time is spent trying to keep the Windows boxes working. Why? Because Microsoft makes and markets garbage, it's their business model: Just good enough to get the cash from the suckers who are fooled by a pretty GUI. Make the user sign a EULA agreeing that Microsoft isn't responsible for the poor quality of the product and
The only thing Microsoft should be doing in the future is pushing up the proverbial daisy. A fitting end considering that is what Windows machines do best: Sing Daisy.
Do I understand this right? In a country ruled by dark age religious nutcases, six people who said something against said nutcases get arrested?
Hmmm, go figure. I would think they'd be tortured or dismembered or the like, but simply arrested?
Those Iatoldyas need to get their act together: They're not going to put the fear of their god into the populace by simply arresting a few wordy wankers.
And they need me to tell them this? Sheesh.
It is called "Escape from Microsoft" which has to be the best productivity enhancing game of our time. Seeing how much time and effort my peers and superiors waste in their constant and vain attempts at keeping their MS OSs working, perhaps _that_ game should be entitled "Escape from Hell."
Judging from the increasingly hostile attitude towards Microsoft these folks are rapidly developing, I think they will manage to escape eventually.
Thanks Microsoft! That is where we need to go today and tomorrow.
Don't need no stinkin' spellchecker, it's a simple typo I didn't catch when editing. :) I suppose that makes a good argument for the value of spellcheckers, eh?
Architect, no. Admirer of quality, yes.
Once upon a time there was a fellow who bought a Yugo. It had a really shiny paint job and plenty of marketing oomph behind it too. Unfortunately, the pretty, painted Yugo was still just a Yugo on the inside and very soon after purchase the new Yugo owner was most unhappy, as were all his fellow Yugo-owning neighbors.
One particularly troubling day the Yugo owner asked his fellow Yugo owners why this sorry state of affairs was extant and if there wasn't some way to mitigate the myriad problems inherent with Yugo ownership. After much argument and debate and considerable gnashing of teeth, the Yugo owners all decided to go and get fresh, clean paint jobs on their Yugos: No other solution seemed palatible to their collective Yugo mindset.
Obviously this solution did not solve any problems other than a few scratches in paint, but it did make the Yugo owners feel better for a while. Unfortunately, Yugo owners are horrible with simple math and have almost no concept of the value of quality when measured over time and so continue to make this same error in all aspects of their lives. Such is life for the Yugo owner who can't bring himself to admit that the Yugo is just a sorry piece of poo on the inside, regardless of how much he has spent on the paintjob.
The moral of the story: Windows users, YOU GO!
(Psst! Hey fella, here's a free clue for ya: The Porches are free! *snicker-snort-ROFL* Doh, what am I going to do for cheap entertainement when everyone is running *NIX?)
Oxymoron for the Internet Age.
Note to astroturfers: Marking truths as trolls doesn't change the truth value of the post but doing so does display your attitude towards truth. Mark away foolish ones.