..is that for every token gesture they make to try and make the open source and free software movements warm to them and like them (opening up the next document formats in Office, etc), there is this kind of shit going on.
Sorry Microsoft.. you've earned your reptuation as underhanded, dirty, cheating assholes - and stupid stunts like this just continue to prove that you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
I begrudgingly began to use iTunes for more than just encoding my CD's when I dabbled with a Powermac G4 a few months back, and have to admit that it gradually won me over. I prefer the Winamp way of playing my music and could find no similar product for OSX at all so I just got on with getting familiar with Itunes.
The only time it falls down is if your MP3 collection hasn't quite got the MP3 tags like some of mine has.. mixes i've pulled down from the net, etc - but if you have a very precisely organised MP3 collection, you'll be in heaven.
Nice software and a real bonus that its a freebie.
Isn't that always the annoying problem. A small and difficult to reproduce bug that, whilst not specific to your organisation, is still not wide spread enough for Microsoft to give a crap about it.
The only problem I ever had with OWA2003 was after a bit of domain reshuffling, it refused to accept that when you logged in, the only domain on the network was the one you wanted to log in to! In the end I just inserted a java script bit that, as soon as you hit enter or clicked login, prefixed the correct domain in front of your username before it actually submitted. It was a dodgy fix but 2 years after I left, I believe its still in place and working just fine;)
Well, sorry, but i'm gonna have to go against the Microsoft slating 'grain' and defend OWA. From a users point of view, OWA on Exchange 2003 is a revelation. Administration might be tiresome (although to be fair in my time running it, I had virtually no headaches from it) but it looks and behaves very very similarly to Outlook 2003 - its a superb piece of work.
Yes - i'll concede that Microsoft are a bunch of dicks for making it only work properly on Internet Explorer (as a Firefox user, that really "grinds my gears") but if you're using IE, I honestly don't know of a better webmail client. Well, ok, GMail is very good, but in a nice minimalistic sort of way!
I was under the (apparently mistaken) impression that this was already out.. our system admin called our software supplier today and the person on the other end of the line basically said that they have the prices for the product but Microsoft has told them not to actually divulge the pricing information until the end of the month! Excuse me??
So what gives. The product is apparently out.. we want to buy it.. Microsoft have set the prices out.. so can we buy it or what?!
The favourable (p)reviews for SQL 2005 seem to be in stark contrast to those for Visual Studio 2005.. bloated, resource hungry, and bug laden.. apparently.
You need to have a reasonably modern PC with a fully ACPI compliant BIOS in order for the power button thing to work. My 2+ year old Abit NF7-S board works fine with it.. press the power button, begins a normal shutdown of the system.
Of course folk like SGI have had this on their systems for years.. my old SGI Indy did this and thats from the early 90's!!:)
From TFA: Microsoft has tried a similar approach with their remote desktop support built into Windows XP but, as usual, it's only a half-assed attempt at something the rest of the free world is doing properly.
Strange.. I find Remote Desktop on Windows one of the most easy to use and fully featured remote desktop systems on any operating system? Could someone please elaborate and tell me exactly what is so half arsed about it when compared to the competition?
lol.. I didn't wanna get modded down for posting a similar comment so i'm glad I searched first. As soon as I saw peptide this was the first thing that came into my head.
And he will require water. And you must provide him with a sandbox. And you must talk to him. Tell him he is a pretty cat -- and a good cat.:)
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Cheating aside, 'The Longest Yard' was one of the best Q3 maps ever. I used to play it ALL the time. And, i'd like to point out, sans-autoaim! Was great fun if you could place rockets at peoples feet just before they landed.. they'd just take a crap load of damage and skip off the map into oblivion:)
So glad thats in there. Its almost inspired me enough to go and pick up a copy of Quake IV now.
..i'm immediately reminded of Walter Peck from Ghost Busters.
Hopefully when the phoned up the police to ask them to arrest the Penny Arcade guys, the police officer on the phone said "You do your job pencil neck, don't tell me how to do mine!";)
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What the hell phone do you have that goes flat after 1 day?!
I run a Microsoft / Orange SPV C500 and its loaded with features.. MSN Messenger, Internet Explorer, Media Player, etc - I use it heavily for SMS texting (250/month roughly) and make about 2 or 3 calls a week on average and it usually lasts me about 5 days between charging. Its small too!
Aren't 'heavy revamps' of the front end what users of Microsoft products have been complaining about for god knows how long? Microsoft get it to a stage where everyone is used to it then completely redo it!
In my previous tech job, we moved offices a few times and each time we planned KVM's, tool racks, spares, places to put 'work in progress' machines etc.. but it didn't matter. Within a few months tools get left lying around (or missing), machines were scattered everywhere and the whole system was in disarray.
I don't think we were just lazy - virtually every single tech outfit i've ever visited ends up going the same way. Its just the way of techies!:D
So save your time now.. don't bother.. just leave some empty tables to work on and let whatever chaos that will inevitable ensue, happen!:)
I feal like this article is just a dun of the mill hype fest to get some excitement going for a new Microsoft OS. The problem is its just Windows XP Second Edition.
If you'd read a little background on Paul and his site, you'd know that nothing could be further from the truth.
Paul Thurrot used to be up Microsofts ass, no doubt about it.. but he seems to have gone through a bit of an epiphiny - he was very very vocal about how poor the early betas of Longhorn / Vista were and raved about how good OS X Tiger was when it came out. It made for surprising reading, and it also made me realised he wasn't entirely biased.
Of course his views on Vista upset the Microsoft 'fans' but I think he weathered it pretty well.
I'm still yet to be convinced that Google store that kind of data (other than on rumour mongering anti-google sites) - but even if they do, I have nothing to hide. If pointless phone calls to my friends and emails from collegues on automotive forums are of interest to google then good for them.
Exactly the same sort of post I was going to make.
The body tell us its tired for a reason - it needs good healthy sleep, in order to keep you all in check. People who avoid sleep, people who keep themselves awake with drugs, people who burn the candle at both ends.. they are just setting themselves up for premature death. Just go to sleep!
As Kramer once said in an episode of Seinfeld.. "Well.. I don't argue with the body Jerry. It's an argument you can't win!"
Because the majority of your voting public re-elected a war president.
The rest of the world (and the 49 percent of people who DIDNT want him back in) did try to tell them it was a bad idea, but obviously enough people didn't listen!:(
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..is that for every token gesture they make to try and make the open source and free software movements warm to them and like them (opening up the next document formats in Office, etc), there is this kind of shit going on.
Sorry Microsoft.. you've earned your reptuation as underhanded, dirty, cheating assholes - and stupid stunts like this just continue to prove that you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
I begrudgingly began to use iTunes for more than just encoding my CD's when I dabbled with a Powermac G4 a few months back, and have to admit that it gradually won me over. I prefer the Winamp way of playing my music and could find no similar product for OSX at all so I just got on with getting familiar with Itunes.
The only time it falls down is if your MP3 collection hasn't quite got the MP3 tags like some of mine has.. mixes i've pulled down from the net, etc - but if you have a very precisely organised MP3 collection, you'll be in heaven.
Nice software and a real bonus that its a freebie.
Isn't that always the annoying problem. A small and difficult to reproduce bug that, whilst not specific to your organisation, is still not wide spread enough for Microsoft to give a crap about it.
;)
The only problem I ever had with OWA2003 was after a bit of domain reshuffling, it refused to accept that when you logged in, the only domain on the network was the one you wanted to log in to! In the end I just inserted a java script bit that, as soon as you hit enter or clicked login, prefixed the correct domain in front of your username before it actually submitted. It was a dodgy fix but 2 years after I left, I believe its still in place and working just fine
Well, sorry, but i'm gonna have to go against the Microsoft slating 'grain' and defend OWA. From a users point of view, OWA on Exchange 2003 is a revelation. Administration might be tiresome (although to be fair in my time running it, I had virtually no headaches from it) but it looks and behaves very very similarly to Outlook 2003 - its a superb piece of work.
Yes - i'll concede that Microsoft are a bunch of dicks for making it only work properly on Internet Explorer (as a Firefox user, that really "grinds my gears") but if you're using IE, I honestly don't know of a better webmail client. Well, ok, GMail is very good, but in a nice minimalistic sort of way!
I was under the (apparently mistaken) impression that this was already out.. our system admin called our software supplier today and the person on the other end of the line basically said that they have the prices for the product but Microsoft has told them not to actually divulge the pricing information until the end of the month! Excuse me??
So what gives. The product is apparently out.. we want to buy it.. Microsoft have set the prices out.. so can we buy it or what?!
The favourable (p)reviews for SQL 2005 seem to be in stark contrast to those for Visual Studio 2005.. bloated, resource hungry, and bug laden.. apparently.
You need to have a reasonably modern PC with a fully ACPI compliant BIOS in order for the power button thing to work. My 2+ year old Abit NF7-S board works fine with it.. press the power button, begins a normal shutdown of the system.
:)
Of course folk like SGI have had this on their systems for years.. my old SGI Indy did this and thats from the early 90's!!
Or you can make a shortcut on your desktop, to shutdown the computer with the following command line:
:)
shutdown -s -f
Or you can make it do a shutdown and restart with:
shutdown -r -f
The -f option is to forcibly quit any applications that insist on staying open!
From TFA: Microsoft has tried a similar approach with their remote desktop support built into Windows XP but, as usual, it's only a half-assed attempt at something the rest of the free world is doing properly.
Strange.. I find Remote Desktop on Windows one of the most easy to use and fully featured remote desktop systems on any operating system? Could someone please elaborate and tell me exactly what is so half arsed about it when compared to the competition?
Perhaps that will be enough.
lol.. I didn't wanna get modded down for posting a similar comment so i'm glad I searched first. As soon as I saw peptide this was the first thing that came into my head.
:)
And he will require water. And you must provide him with a sandbox. And you must talk to him. Tell him he is a pretty cat -- and a good cat.
Cheating aside, 'The Longest Yard' was one of the best Q3 maps ever. I used to play it ALL the time. And, i'd like to point out, sans-autoaim! Was great fun if you could place rockets at peoples feet just before they landed.. they'd just take a crap load of damage and skip off the map into oblivion :)
So glad thats in there. Its almost inspired me enough to go and pick up a copy of Quake IV now.
..i'm immediately reminded of Walter Peck from Ghost Busters.
;)
Hopefully when the phoned up the police to ask them to arrest the Penny Arcade guys, the police officer on the phone said "You do your job pencil neck, don't tell me how to do mine!"
I think he did a little too much LDS.
What the hell phone do you have that goes flat after 1 day?!
I run a Microsoft / Orange SPV C500 and its loaded with features.. MSN Messenger, Internet Explorer, Media Player, etc - I use it heavily for SMS texting (250/month roughly) and make about 2 or 3 calls a week on average and it usually lasts me about 5 days between charging. Its small too!
What.. even though I read about this being in development a good month or so before the video capable iPod was announced?
;)
Seems to me that you might be wrong there
Info on Sandman:
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Aren't 'heavy revamps' of the front end what users of Microsoft products have been complaining about for god knows how long? Microsoft get it to a stage where everyone is used to it then completely redo it!
In my previous tech job, we moved offices a few times and each time we planned KVM's, tool racks, spares, places to put 'work in progress' machines etc.. but it didn't matter. Within a few months tools get left lying around (or missing), machines were scattered everywhere and the whole system was in disarray.
:D
:)
I don't think we were just lazy - virtually every single tech outfit i've ever visited ends up going the same way. Its just the way of techies!
So save your time now.. don't bother.. just leave some empty tables to work on and let whatever chaos that will inevitable ensue, happen!
Hm..
;)
How about 'Where on Google Earth(tm) is Carmen Sandiego?'
I feal like this article is just a dun of the mill hype fest to get some excitement going for a new Microsoft OS. The problem is its just Windows XP Second Edition.
If you'd read a little background on Paul and his site, you'd know that nothing could be further from the truth.
Paul Thurrot used to be up Microsofts ass, no doubt about it.. but he seems to have gone through a bit of an epiphiny - he was very very vocal about how poor the early betas of Longhorn / Vista were and raved about how good OS X Tiger was when it came out. It made for surprising reading, and it also made me realised he wasn't entirely biased.
Of course his views on Vista upset the Microsoft 'fans' but I think he weathered it pretty well.
Indeed.
No spyware, no virus's.. but i'm not going to shout about it as it clearly upsets some people.
Guess the truth just hurts.
Got something to hide, goat boy? ;)
I'm still yet to be convinced that Google store that kind of data (other than on rumour mongering anti-google sites) - but even if they do, I have nothing to hide. If pointless phone calls to my friends and emails from collegues on automotive forums are of interest to google then good for them.
Exactly the same sort of post I was going to make.
:)
The body tell us its tired for a reason - it needs good healthy sleep, in order to keep you all in check. People who avoid sleep, people who keep themselves awake with drugs, people who burn the candle at both ends.. they are just setting themselves up for premature death. Just go to sleep!
As Kramer once said in an episode of Seinfeld.. "Well.. I don't argue with the body Jerry. It's an argument you can't win!"
Its a comment I whole heartedly agree with!
You really need to learn about sarcasm!
Because the majority of your voting public re-elected a war president.
:(
The rest of the world (and the 49 percent of people who DIDNT want him back in) did try to tell them it was a bad idea, but obviously enough people didn't listen!