I could see supporting home brewers by stating: Mac OS/X is designed to run on Macintosh hardware and is unsupported on any other platform and may not be returned if t does not work on non-Apple hardware. For home experimenters who acknowledge that OS/X will most likely NOT run on their P.C. and agree to assume all risk, here is a list of OS/X supported peripherals, good luck.
And run straight into a flat out war with Microsoft that Apple would lose. Why do you think Apple doesn't want to enter the generic PC market?
Now, as for the issue where you can't use something you bought at retail on whatever hardware you want, good luck Apple.
The FCC was created to stop radio stations from interfering with each other. Stopping cable/phone companies from interfering with each other is not a huge jump.
However, turning into the censorship police is completely outside what they should be doing.
I agree, pretty much anything is possible. You could possibly 'get a black eye as a result of a stampede of wild elephants running through your house between 3:55 and 4 PM on the fourth of July, during a hailstorm'.
Unless someone discovers a flaw in the underlying OS, it's not happening anytime soon. And if someone does discover a flaw in the underlying OS, they're not going to go on a code signing modification spree.
It would be a lot more difficult to do with a singed piece of code
That is an amazingly huge understatement. I suggest learing more on how software is signed.
One of the first crude examples of this is the old MSDOS.SYS file. It contained a number of Xes in them to keep the file length a certain size so windows could check to see if it had been altered as would be a sign of a virus
Actually, that was file padding for backwards compatibility, not virus detection.
If somebody figures out how to hack these stealth updates (and now that people know the capability exists they will definitely try), then we can all look forward to the time when a rootkit or other exploit is pushed down to machines and installed with the blessing of the OS and the complete ignorance of the person whose machine just got screwed. And it'll look like a legitimate update as far as all parties are concerned after the fact.
I thought everyone went over this, they would have to first spoof the Microsoft servers, then get the certificates they use for code signing. In order to do that they would have to already own your computer and/or own Microsoft. If they have already done that, they really don't need to push fake updates.
Lord Twitter, slayer of the dark lord William of Gates, wrote to mention that the M$A has released a new set of proposed rules that is raising quite a stir among groups ranging from the ACLU to the Free penguin society. Under the new rules everyone would be required to install Micro$oft software on all computers everywhere. M$ would then be using M$ to M$ and M$, with M$ and M$. Occasionally M$ and M$ would have to M$.
Technically, it's not that complicated. Personally I would like to see the Internet run by itself without outside influence, however, it's also technically simple for the US to start assigning IP addresses in use by other countries, causing a split.
I'm annoyed about the lack of Windows 2000 support.
But lets be realistic, Service Pack 1 is not an operating system, it's a series of patches, bug fixes and system improvements. IE7 requires some of those patches to be present to function properly. While that may or may not be a good design on Microsoft's part, it is their call.
By this time if you're still having problems installing SP2 something is wrong on your end.
Could be worse, you could have completely forgotten what your name was because you signed up when you still had a CompuServe account that you canceled in 1998.
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I could see supporting home brewers by stating: Mac OS/X is designed to run on Macintosh hardware and is unsupported on any other platform and may not be returned if t does not work on non-Apple hardware. For home experimenters who acknowledge that OS/X will most likely NOT run on their P.C. and agree to assume all risk, here is a list of OS/X supported peripherals, good luck.
And run straight into a flat out war with Microsoft that Apple would lose. Why do you think Apple doesn't want to enter the generic PC market?
Now, as for the issue where you can't use something you bought at retail on whatever hardware you want, good luck Apple.
The FCC was created to stop radio stations from interfering with each other. Stopping cable/phone companies from interfering with each other is not a huge jump.
However, turning into the censorship police is completely outside what they should be doing.
This time, it's a 9% drop in Vista sales. Got something useful to say about that?
Well, actually, I do. If you look at the actual figures you'll see the cycle...wait, I'm arguing with twitter...need to drop down a few levels.
You think M$ is teh ghay, but $$$ is in the M$ and they make $$$. No, you cant haz cheezeburger, not yours.
Google is going on some convoluted anti-M$ M$ M$ OMG M$! rant?
Wait, there's a website with the same name as that asshole.
I have a similar situaion, an ISAPI extension that lets you lookup a user's profile.
URL's looked like http://server.domain/isa/isapi.dll/profile/username
Of course this was done in 1998, and I still use the app today.
Like I said, it's not a good upgrade OS. Upgrading from XP to Vista is complex and not for the casual end user.
Are they really planning on registering more human beings that exist?
It's for their new sockpuppet policy. Either that, or they're just getting ready for our new robotic overlords.
If they suddenly went from 2 gigs of email to 5 exabytes, then yes.
Good point.
Can I borrow an exabyte for my MP3's? On second thought, forget MP3's, raw audio is fine.
It was a joke, duh.
They said the same thing to me when Windows 95 was released. Can I get Windows 3.1 on this system?
My response was: Are you sane?!
Ok the response was: Well, we can, but it will take alot of work, so why don't you try this for a week and get back to me.
Vista is not an upgrade OS. It's an OS for new computers.
After using Vista 32 for 4 months on a P4 2ghz, I finally retired by 4 year old computer and dumped Vista 32 for the one OS that was better, Vista 64.
HTML, not [i][b]BBCode[/b][/i]. OK?
Can I get a frontpage story? I used GUIDs in my database design.
Seriously, user ids?
Hi, 1985 is on the phone, they want their copy of C-Net BBS back.
You must be new here.
Of course they have jurisdiction.
Congress has several powers it seems to ignore. Like declaring war.
I agree, pretty much anything is possible. You could possibly 'get a black eye as a result of a stampede of wild elephants running through your house between 3:55 and 4 PM on the fourth of July, during a hailstorm'.
Unless someone discovers a flaw in the underlying OS, it's not happening anytime soon. And if someone does discover a flaw in the underlying OS, they're not going to go on a code signing modification spree.
It would be a lot more difficult to do with a singed piece of code
That is an amazingly huge understatement. I suggest learing more on how software is signed.
One of the first crude examples of this is the old MSDOS.SYS file. It contained a number of Xes in them to keep the file length a certain size so windows could check to see if it had been altered as would be a sign of a virus
Actually, that was file padding for backwards compatibility, not virus detection.
If somebody figures out how to hack these stealth updates (and now that people know the capability exists they will definitely try), then we can all look forward to the time when a rootkit or other exploit is pushed down to machines and installed with the blessing of the OS and the complete ignorance of the person whose machine just got screwed. And it'll look like a legitimate update as far as all parties are concerned after the fact.
I thought everyone went over this, they would have to first spoof the Microsoft servers, then get the certificates they use for code signing. In order to do that they would have to already own your computer and/or own Microsoft. If they have already done that, they really don't need to push fake updates.
Can I use my journal instead?
Or maybe I could find some kind of web log, I'll have to think of a cool name for web log first.
I had a glimpse of the original story:
Lord Twitter, slayer of the dark lord William of Gates, wrote to mention that the M$A has released a new set of proposed rules that is raising quite a stir among groups ranging from the ACLU to the Free penguin society. Under the new rules everyone would be required to install Micro$oft software on all computers everywhere. M$ would then be using M$ to M$ and M$, with M$ and M$. Occasionally M$ and M$ would have to M$.
It goes downhill from there.
Yeah, I don't like twit ter
Technically, it's not that complicated. Personally I would like to see the Internet run by itself without outside influence, however, it's also technically simple for the US to start assigning IP addresses in use by other countries, causing a split.
My point was it's too overt when it comes to the Internet. Unlike the WTO, ICANN isn't likely to disobey.
I'm surprised nobody is claiming the Internet is anti US too.
Mostly because the US pretty much owns the Internet. (Who runs the root servers? Who tells ICANN/IANA what to do?)
I know in my case, when I administrate IIS, I use both the GUI and the text file.
Because you, like me, spent the time to actually learn how to properly run IIS.
Most complaints about point and click seem to be done by people who never bother to learn the other methods.
I'm annoyed about the lack of Windows 2000 support.
But lets be realistic, Service Pack 1 is not an operating system, it's a series of patches, bug fixes and system improvements. IE7 requires some of those patches to be present to function properly. While that may or may not be a good design on Microsoft's part, it is their call.
By this time if you're still having problems installing SP2 something is wrong on your end.
I'm going to invent my own space currency, with space blackjack, and space hookers...
Could be worse, you could have completely forgotten what your name was because you signed up when you still had a CompuServe account that you canceled in 1998.