This is a pretty poor Ask Slashdot article, IMHO. Here is how I do it within an hour and have nothing to worry about:
1. Unplug network cable
2. Install Windows XP
3. Upon first boot turn on the Windows Firewall and reconnect network cable
4. http://www.windowsupdate.com
5. Wait for patches to download, then remove network cable and reboot after patches have installed
6. Return to http://www.windowsupdate.com and download the remaining patches
7. Reboot (no need to unplug network cable this time) and install a Virus Scanner/Firewall Suite.
Moot, its not really considered professional until you're about 16. Case and point: I started programming simple text adventures when i was 7, animated games when i was 9, and wrote a 3d engine when i was 11. I have written several games with a storyline, multiplayer capabilities, and (at least in my opinion) many intresting twists on gameplay. Before I got my current job I was turned down for a programming position for a graduate student who had no clue what he was doing (but he had a degree and was working towards his masters, so he must be qualified!). After three years at my current job (where programming is not in my job description, but required), I was recently offered a programming position with a well known security company.
I can say I have 10 years of programming experience, but realistically its only 3 (and even then its more like 1.5). I also do not have much team-based programming experience (asides from a failed quake mod). It sucks because I encountered some really interesting and unique obstacles that sometimes took awhile to get by.
-dk
And yes, i know people with degrees generally have a better approach to certain problems, but so do people that have been programming for a long time.
University computers: queues for PCs at any hour of the day or night, and 80% CPU when they're being used because they're 500MHz pentiums running Windows.
Maybe a community college, but our department (computer science) just ordered 150 3.0ghz (HT enabled) machines. They will all be idle between 2am and 6am everyday with maybe an average of 15% cpu usage over the entire day. More computers have been ordered for the rest of our campus which will undoubtly be doing the same thing. You underestimate the funding of higher education institutions.
At 20 cents per cd, a scratched cdr is a moot point since i can always reburn it from the original or mp3s. I cannot fit a cd changer under my seat and it is a lot more convenient to just flip through a cd book at a red light and swap cds than to run out of my car and change a cd magazine in my trunk. Anyway, that is going offtopic. The point is that quality CD-Rs (not the cheap stuff that peels away after a month) last just as long as "factory made cds".
2: A hard drive crash doesnt erase my collection. Burned cd's, backups, what have you get scratched, and aren't reliable. My factory made cd's will last much longer.
Ha ha ha, not likely. I no longer carry original cds around because they get scratched way too quickly. When I get a cd it gets ripped to my computer and I make a copy. On average a cd (copied or not) lasts about 10-12 months in my car before it becomes unplayable (this is also partly my fault since I no longer attempt to put cds back into their original sleeve while driving).
If I were on his jury, I'd acquit anyone arrested for stealing those goddamn headlights (what kind of safety feature is it to blind oncoming traffic?).
When a car leaves the dealership with HID lights, it is aimed and filtered properly so it does not blind other drivers. When a car leaves the dealership and then decides to retrofit HID lights into headlight housings meant for halogen lights, then you have problems. IIRC, the housing internals has to be modified for HID lights.
Task manager sends a WM_CLOSE signal to the program (if you close the application), as does Alt-F4 and the little X button. Task manager will only forcefully quit if you end the process by name or if the application doesn't close gracefully after clicking end task.
Well, if Real is listening, they'll hopefully make a big prominent link to the free version on their front page. They do Which leads you here
I remember four years ago when I had to dig through the site to find it; what a pain in the butt. Fast forward four years to today. It's not a pain any more... Therefore I don't see the purpose of this article ..oh wait, its slashdot.
What else did this someone modify on their car? If you are chipping a stock car then don't expect any noticable difference. You should reprogram an ECU after you do any kind of engine mods so the computer can take full advantage of the upgrade. The smoking part could be due to a lower grade gas used. You should use 93 octane gas minimum if you chip any car (96+ if you plan to race)
I should also add, there is no need to hold the cruise control button for 5 seconds (if you don't have a modified ecu). Setting CC is a one touch thing...
-dk
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And what do you do when you want "normal" cruise control?
You press the button. I have an APR chip in my car, and all you have to do is hold the cruise control button until the check engine light flashes. After you have the mode set, light goes off and the new software takes control. I like it since I don't have to put the extra stress my turbo when I don't need it.
So you'd rather have all of your hardware sit idle and unused leaving you with the satisfaction that you're getting the most for your money? Fortunately, Longhorn will take full advantage of your hardware-accelerated graphics card. If you say this is bad, you obviously have never tried to move a large transparent window around in windows xp.
Therefore I will take performance over 'wasted cpu cycles' for my eye candy, thank you
Your dvd player does support SVCDs right? I have seen so many people complain that svcds don't work only for them to find out that their dvd player has no support for them...
What exactly was taught in the first 2 years of school? Algorithms, Data structures, etc. None of which actually explains the low level stuff. I used to complain about the same thing when I actually went to some of my CS courses, but then I stepped into my friends shoes and realized that this kind of stuff isn't taught in school. The people that ask these questions are usually in the major because they are interested in what they could potentially do, but they don't understand how to grasp the knowledge thats not taught in a book.
This same explanation is valid for other fields as well. I would love to get into Chemistry or Mathematics, but there is a point where I just don't pick up certain things as quickly as others that have a natural liking for that field.
Whats even worse is you can't get a good phone without getting a camera on it. I just put a Toshiba VM4050 and i'm stuck with a rather useless camcorder feature. The camera and picture ID ring is kinda cool, though i'm sure the novelty will wear off soon.
Same in NYC. I recently went to some clubs up there a few months ago, and the smoking ban is great. I hate leaving clubs smelling like smoke because someone couldn't put their nicotine fix on hold. On the otherhand, restaurants i think may be overkill since you can effectively seperate smokers and nonsmokers if the restaurant is large enough. Oh well, i'm still happy:)
Not to mention the license allows you to use it at your place of employment, unlike Adaware. We use it all the time at work and have just recently incorporated the Spybot S&D resident scanner into all of our new builds.
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This is a pretty poor Ask Slashdot article, IMHO. Here is how I do it within an hour and have nothing to worry about:
1. Unplug network cable
2. Install Windows XP
3. Upon first boot turn on the Windows Firewall and reconnect network cable
4. http://www.windowsupdate.com
5. Wait for patches to download, then remove network cable and reboot after patches have installed
6. Return to http://www.windowsupdate.com and download the remaining patches
7. Reboot (no need to unplug network cable this time) and install a Virus Scanner/Firewall Suite.
This takes an hour and isn't rocket science.
-dk
Even on my phone, there's a few tiny things I'd like to change (defaults, the dictionary for T9 input, placement of some menu items) but can't.
My Toshiba VM4050 T9 dictionary learns as I type and lets me create my own menus (very useful). Moral of this story: get a better phone.
-dk
Moot, its not really considered professional until you're about 16. Case and point: I started programming simple text adventures when i was 7, animated games when i was 9, and wrote a 3d engine when i was 11. I have written several games with a storyline, multiplayer capabilities, and (at least in my opinion) many intresting twists on gameplay. Before I got my current job I was turned down for a programming position for a graduate student who had no clue what he was doing (but he had a degree and was working towards his masters, so he must be qualified!). After three years at my current job (where programming is not in my job description, but required), I was recently offered a programming position with a well known security company.
I can say I have 10 years of programming experience, but realistically its only 3 (and even then its more like 1.5). I also do not have much team-based programming experience (asides from a failed quake mod). It sucks because I encountered some really interesting and unique obstacles that sometimes took awhile to get by.
-dk
And yes, i know people with degrees generally have a better approach to certain problems, but so do people that have been programming for a long time.
Seriously, is doom III going to be as good as touted?
Just think back to when quake 2 was about to be released...
-dk
University computers: queues for PCs at any hour of the day or night, and 80% CPU when they're being used because they're 500MHz pentiums running Windows.
Maybe a community college, but our department (computer science) just ordered 150 3.0ghz (HT enabled) machines. They will all be idle between 2am and 6am everyday with maybe an average of 15% cpu usage over the entire day. More computers have been ordered for the rest of our campus which will undoubtly be doing the same thing. You underestimate the funding of higher education institutions.
-dk
I could tell from some of the things mentioned there that they (the network ops) had advance knowledge of the vulnerability.
Yup.
-dk
At 20 cents per cd, a scratched cdr is a moot point since i can always reburn it from the original or mp3s. I cannot fit a cd changer under my seat and it is a lot more convenient to just flip through a cd book at a red light and swap cds than to run out of my car and change a cd magazine in my trunk. Anyway, that is going offtopic. The point is that quality CD-Rs (not the cheap stuff that peels away after a month) last just as long as "factory made cds".
-dk
2: A hard drive crash doesnt erase my collection. Burned cd's, backups, what have you get scratched, and aren't reliable. My factory made cd's will last much longer.
Ha ha ha, not likely. I no longer carry original cds around because they get scratched way too quickly. When I get a cd it gets ripped to my computer and I make a copy. On average a cd (copied or not) lasts about 10-12 months in my car before it becomes unplayable (this is also partly my fault since I no longer attempt to put cds back into their original sleeve while driving).
-dk
If I were on his jury, I'd acquit anyone arrested for stealing those goddamn headlights (what kind of safety feature is it to blind oncoming traffic?).
When a car leaves the dealership with HID lights, it is aimed and filtered properly so it does not blind other drivers. When a car leaves the dealership and then decides to retrofit HID lights into headlight housings meant for halogen lights, then you have problems. IIRC, the housing internals has to be modified for HID lights.
-dk
Google Cache doesn't seem to have it either
Except it does...
Task manager sends a WM_CLOSE signal to the program (if you close the application), as does Alt-F4 and the little X button. Task manager will only forcefully quit if you end the process by name or if the application doesn't close gracefully after clicking end task.
Well, if Real is listening, they'll hopefully make a big prominent link to the free version on their front page.
They do
Which leads you here
I remember four years ago when I had to dig through the site to find it; what a pain in the butt.
Fast forward four years to today. It's not a pain any more... Therefore I don't see the purpose of this article
..oh wait, its slashdot.
-dk
What else did this someone modify on their car? If you are chipping a stock car then don't expect any noticable difference. You should reprogram an ECU after you do any kind of engine mods so the computer can take full advantage of the upgrade. The smoking part could be due to a lower grade gas used. You should use 93 octane gas minimum if you chip any car (96+ if you plan to race)
-dk
I should also add, there is no need to hold the cruise control button for 5 seconds (if you don't have a modified ecu). Setting CC is a one touch thing...
-dk
And what do you do when you want "normal" cruise control?
You press the button. I have an APR chip in my car, and all you have to do is hold the cruise control button until the check engine light flashes. After you have the mode set, light goes off and the new software takes control. I like it since I don't have to put the extra stress my turbo when I don't need it.
-dk
So you'd rather have all of your hardware sit idle and unused leaving you with the satisfaction that you're getting the most for your money? Fortunately, Longhorn will take full advantage of your hardware-accelerated graphics card. If you say this is bad, you obviously have never tried to move a large transparent window around in windows xp.
Therefore I will take performance over 'wasted cpu cycles' for my eye candy, thank you
-dk
don't forget news.google.com for the latest on martha stewart!
-dk
Your dvd player does support SVCDs right? I have seen so many people complain that svcds don't work only for them to find out that their dvd player has no support for them...
-dk
Isn't this against Kazaa's Terms of Service and one reason why KazaaLite was forced to be removed?
-dk
What exactly was taught in the first 2 years of school? Algorithms, Data structures, etc. None of which actually explains the low level stuff. I used to complain about the same thing when I actually went to some of my CS courses, but then I stepped into my friends shoes and realized that this kind of stuff isn't taught in school. The people that ask these questions are usually in the major because they are interested in what they could potentially do, but they don't understand how to grasp the knowledge thats not taught in a book.
This same explanation is valid for other fields as well. I would love to get into Chemistry or Mathematics, but there is a point where I just don't pick up certain things as quickly as others that have a natural liking for that field.
-dk
Whats even worse is you can't get a good phone without getting a camera on it. I just put a Toshiba VM4050 and i'm stuck with a rather useless camcorder feature. The camera and picture ID ring is kinda cool, though i'm sure the novelty will wear off soon.
-dk
uh, no firewall here and we're not having our oracle server wiped out on a daily basis. maybe you need to hire better admins?
-dk
What is the difference if you just had a cellphone phone set to vibrate on voicemail?
-dk
- no smoking in bars or restaurants (seriously)
:)
Same in NYC. I recently went to some clubs up there a few months ago, and the smoking ban is great. I hate leaving clubs smelling like smoke because someone couldn't put their nicotine fix on hold. On the otherhand, restaurants i think may be overkill since you can effectively seperate smokers and nonsmokers if the restaurant is large enough. Oh well, i'm still happy
-dk
Not to mention the license allows you to use it at your place of employment, unlike Adaware. We use it all the time at work and have just recently incorporated the Spybot S&D resident scanner into all of our new builds.
-dk