Ya know, that one got me too. I don't know about anyone else here, but the offices I've worked in all have drop ceilings. Ya know, the wall ends at the ceiling tiles? The ones, you can easily climb over...
However, it was protected by two levels of passwords.
So... what does that actually mean? I know that TFA is a media fluffed version washed for the general masses, but they could've mentioned that part at least. If one was the NT login, were the admins smart enough to disable the LM Hash? Still, booting it with a *NIX CD and blanking the SAM password for administrator is trivial. What could the second be? A BIOS password? Open it and pull the battery. Big deal.
Is there something I'm missing about this? Are there a (whopping!) two password scheme that could actually make something more secure then just booting it with something else and pulling data off?
Before Howard signed, Sirius had only about 500,000 subscribers. Only 2.5 years after Howard broadcasting, they are over 8 million.
Before Howard signed, Sirius was about to fold up shop because XM was creaming them in subscribers. Now, Sirius is spearheading the merger with XM being the "loser" of the two.
I'd say the He/She that owns Sirius (with Mel's help, of course) made a damn good business decision with signing Howard.
Yes, I am a Stern fan. I've been a listener since '90 +/-.
Look, even SLASHDOT, home of the nerds, uses formatting.
...and I wish to any deity willing to listen that they get rid of that ugly +5 boxing bar that they put in a few months ago. I there should be (at the very least) a way to turn it off.
The point was that he was saying that the even numbered ones were the better ones. I was only pointing out that theory doesn't hold any water since Vista is NT6.
And with your example (no matter how incorrect it is - but I understand you are just trying to illustrate your point), OS/2 being "NT2", it would indeed be a better release than the others. I can't say that I have had much experience with Microsoft's OWN OS/2 (I've only come across one instance of it), but IBM's was pretty damn stable (for an OS of it's type at the time).
No prob. I've made that mistake a time or two in the past myself.:-\
I speced out a (at the time) pretty nice MB a few years back. It uses RIMMs, though (I know, I know, Evil RamBus; it was the fastest thing at the time). I got 1G RAM for it. Boy was I pissed off when I built my kernel and finished installing enough of the OS to boot on its own only to find it wasn't using all the RAM. I hit several dozen sites trying to figure out if there was something about RIMMs and a 2.4.* kernel that I had to do special. Finally one day (not too many after install) I was bitching about it on a now defunct IRC channel (irc.drirc.net #pranknet) and one of the guys mentioned that to me. I couldn't believe I had been so dense...:-(
Last week I updated my GF's XP_Pro machine to SP3 (she insists on having her machine using Windows despite having a better time using my KDE/Gentoo machine...). Since then, I've noticed that it's sending out SMB keep-alives about every 5 seconds to my machine (which is the Samba "PDC" also). SP2 wasn't doing this (or WireShark didn't pick up on it, anyway).
Could this be something that would hose a router as well? A ton of useless keep-alives?
As of this typing, the couple stories I've gone through don't have the damn 4px wide comment container bar things they added a month or so ago. Does that mean they are gone for good? I sure as hell hope so! I played with the CSS, and found that they are really kinda helpful if set to 1px. 4px was just horrible. I hope they are gone for good!
I now return he horizontal and the vertical back to you.
Well, hiding all those backdoors has got to be pretty hard, right?
With closed-source, it's not hard at all. That's where the problem lies.
Aside, even if the devs were 100% perfect and typed ALL the code perfect, there's nothing stopping some jerk from slipping something in at final compile time, or even after that with "last minute update" to the "firmware".
This is how I've felt about Linux for a good little while now. I feel part of a community. I've been using Linux near full-time (on my personal machines - at work I don't usually have the choice...) since '98 or '99. I honestly forget when I made my first Linux-Only machine (not dual-boot, not "testing").
In the 20-ish or so years I was using Microsoft's Operating Systems (DOS 2 or so through XP) I'd never once felt like I was part of a "community". At least no more part of a community than a bunch of strangers that happen to shop at the same supermarket can be considered a "community", anyway.
P.S.
During the 3.1x --> '95 years, I was clinging onto my install of Warp! 3 as tightly as possible, but I had to give in to 95; nothing (a user would use) was being developed.:-( I rather liked Warp... well, after I upgraded my system at the time to 8M RAM...
True. We're talking current and future things here, though. XP, after 6 or so years worth of updates, isn't that bad of an OS anymore (my GF's XP-Home machine Blue-Screens every 19 to 21 hours for now apparent reason, though...). And, yes, it can be slimmed down, some. But we're talking Vista and beyond here. Microsoft can not compete when Vista is used as the base-line.
"As Moore's Law drives flash memory prices even lower, can ultraportables running Microsoft Windows compete?"
No, it can't.
Here, on this laptop:
# du -sx/
4677115
# du -sx/home
2026303
# echo "4677115 - 2026303" | bc
2650812
(This is Gentoo so you need to subtract about 300M for the metadata caches,etc. Also,/usr/portage is on a seperate partition from hda1 and not included in that measurement.)
2 1/2 Gig. That's it. Sure I could slim it down more if needed (I don't really use timidi much at all, etc.).
That's for a FULL, USABLE Operating System. OOo, Full install of KDE, several other User things that make this machine (a near 9 year old laptop) a User's PC and not a "workstation".
Given that same space, Windows will get your machine to boot to a Desktop and that's about it. Linux will soar on flash drives, especially with them getting larger and cheaper. Windows (unless you run CE...:\ ) can not match that.
[...]core development practices so that they are better aligned with open source software initiatives.
BZZZZZZZT!
No.
It's so open source software can be better aligned with them. They'd never allow themselves to be seen as Number Two. They want to still be the coach, and everyone else to play the game their way. If saying that isn't true, why would they need to release their APIs? We'd already know that info since they'd already be using the open standards, not their versions of them.
If they were playing nice, they'd drop their stuff and use the standards.
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Konqueror also renders it fine. (KDE 3.5.9)
Ya know, that one got me too. I don't know about anyone else here, but the offices I've worked in all have drop ceilings. Ya know, the wall ends at the ceiling tiles? The ones, you can easily climb over...
So... what does that actually mean? I know that TFA is a media fluffed version washed for the general masses, but they could've mentioned that part at least. If one was the NT login, were the admins smart enough to disable the LM Hash? Still, booting it with a *NIX CD and blanking the SAM password for administrator is trivial. What could the second be? A BIOS password? Open it and pull the battery. Big deal.
Is there something I'm missing about this? Are there a (whopping!) two password scheme that could actually make something more secure then just booting it with something else and pulling data off?
Yes and no. The marketing dept. at IBM didn't do squat about Warp! which was far superior to anything Microsoft was pumping out at the time.
I'm a big Linux user, I have been since the mid-ish / later-ish '90s sometime. I do have to ask, though:
How long do these machines stay running Linux?
If someone wanted a new and cheap PC, get a Linux one and format c:
I really don't think anything more needs to be said...
You may want to rephrase that slightly:
Don't forget, they CAN help Apache by making IIS even crappier...
640k should be enough for everybody.
Aren't you supposed to add a
...and get off my lawn!
after saying something that?
It's a very generic font face, true. The font rendering looks very nice.
Which are you commenting on?
Before Howard signed, Sirius had only about 500,000 subscribers. Only 2.5 years after Howard broadcasting, they are over 8 million.
Before Howard signed, Sirius was about to fold up shop because XM was creaming them in subscribers. Now, Sirius is spearheading the merger with XM being the "loser" of the two.
I'd say the He/She that owns Sirius (with Mel's help, of course) made a damn good business decision with signing Howard.
Yes, I am a Stern fan. I've been a listener since '90 +/-.
The point was that he was saying that the even numbered ones were the better ones. I was only pointing out that theory doesn't hold any water since Vista is NT6.
And with your example (no matter how incorrect it is - but I understand you are just trying to illustrate your point), OS/2 being "NT2", it would indeed be a better release than the others. I can't say that I have had much experience with Microsoft's OWN OS/2 (I've only come across one instance of it), but IBM's was pretty damn stable (for an OS of it's type at the time).
Yea, but, Vista is NT6.
emerge app-portage/cfg-update
It will solve all config file headaches.
No prob. I've made that mistake a time or two in the past myself. :-\
:-(
I speced out a (at the time) pretty nice MB a few years back. It uses RIMMs, though (I know, I know, Evil RamBus; it was the fastest thing at the time). I got 1G RAM for it. Boy was I pissed off when I built my kernel and finished installing enough of the OS to boot on its own only to find it wasn't using all the RAM. I hit several dozen sites trying to figure out if there was something about RIMMs and a 2.4.* kernel that I had to do special. Finally one day (not too many after install) I was bitching about it on a now defunct IRC channel (irc.drirc.net #pranknet) and one of the guys mentioned that to me. I couldn't believe I had been so dense...
All was well after I enabled that...
No?
I didn't think so. That's why the memory footprint is being made a big deal of...
Did you forget to enable High Memory support in your kernel?
Processor type and features --->
High Memory Support (on) --->
(X) 4GB
Last week I updated my GF's XP_Pro machine to SP3 (she insists on having her machine using Windows despite having a better time using my KDE/Gentoo machine...). Since then, I've noticed that it's sending out SMB keep-alives about every 5 seconds to my machine (which is the Samba "PDC" also). SP2 wasn't doing this (or WireShark didn't pick up on it, anyway).
Could this be something that would hose a router as well? A ton of useless keep-alives?
As of this typing, the couple stories I've gone through don't have the damn 4px wide comment container bar things they added a month or so ago. Does that mean they are gone for good? I sure as hell hope so! I played with the CSS, and found that they are really kinda helpful if set to 1px. 4px was just horrible. I hope they are gone for good!
I now return he horizontal and the vertical back to you.
It's hardly "silly" or "little" at a minimum of 99 bucks a year!
Aside, even if the devs were 100% perfect and typed ALL the code perfect, there's nothing stopping some jerk from slipping something in at final compile time, or even after that with "last minute update" to the "firmware".
Wow! Why is this modded "Flamebait"?
:-( I rather liked Warp... well, after I upgraded my system at the time to 8M RAM...
This is how I've felt about Linux for a good little while now. I feel part of a community. I've been using Linux near full-time (on my personal machines - at work I don't usually have the choice...) since '98 or '99. I honestly forget when I made my first Linux-Only machine (not dual-boot, not "testing").
In the 20-ish or so years I was using Microsoft's Operating Systems (DOS 2 or so through XP) I'd never once felt like I was part of a "community". At least no more part of a community than a bunch of strangers that happen to shop at the same supermarket can be considered a "community", anyway.
P.S.
During the 3.1x --> '95 years, I was clinging onto my install of Warp! 3 as tightly as possible, but I had to give in to 95; nothing (a user would use) was being developed.
True. We're talking current and future things here, though. XP, after 6 or so years worth of updates, isn't that bad of an OS anymore (my GF's XP-Home machine Blue-Screens every 19 to 21 hours for now apparent reason, though...). And, yes, it can be slimmed down, some. But we're talking Vista and beyond here. Microsoft can not compete when Vista is used as the base-line.
That's the way I was looking at it.
No, it can't.
Here, on this laptop:
# du -sx
4677115
# du -sx
2026303
# echo "4677115 - 2026303" | bc
2650812
(This is Gentoo so you need to subtract about 300M for the metadata caches,etc. Also,
2 1/2 Gig. That's it. Sure I could slim it down more if needed (I don't really use timidi much at all, etc.).
That's for a FULL, USABLE Operating System. OOo, Full install of KDE, several other User things that make this machine (a near 9 year old laptop) a User's PC and not a "workstation".
Given that same space, Windows will get your machine to boot to a Desktop and that's about it. Linux will soar on flash drives, especially with them getting larger and cheaper. Windows (unless you run CE...
BZZZZZZZT!
No.
It's so open source software can be better aligned with them. They'd never allow themselves to be seen as Number Two. They want to still be the coach, and everyone else to play the game their way. If saying that isn't true, why would they need to release their APIs? We'd already know that info since they'd already be using the open standards, not their versions of them.
If they were playing nice, they'd drop their stuff and use the standards.