I think the best strategy to ween companies over to Linux is to replace each Microsoft product they use with a free or open source version of that product.
Why you may ask?
The answer is simple, they want to keep their Windows workstations and change the server over to Linux, without missing features. One of the arguments corporations had against using Linux was that it did not support MS-Exchange protocols so they could keep their Outlook clients and have shared calendars and shared email files.
I suppose next is modifying My-SQL or PostgresSQL to support Transact-SQL the SQL language that MS-SQL Server uses.
Novell Mono already tries to replace Microsoft Visual Studio with Linux, Mac OSX, etc versions, and while they may need some rewriting of code, legacy Visual Studio code can be ported over to Linux for those custom made applications.
When I worked at a law firm in 1997-2001 I used Internet Explorer 4/5/6 and VBScript and ActiveX controls for web Intranet applications using Active Server Pages. I told my manager that the employees who use Macintoshes cannot access our Intranet applications unless we wrote in Javascript and used Java instead of ActiveX. He told me it was nonsense. I said if we had clients who needed to connect to our Intranet and they ran OS/2, Linux, *BSD Unix, or Mac OS 7/8/9 whatever that they couldn't connect. He didn't believe me and told me to never develop in Java and only use Javascript when it could do something better or faster that VBScript couldn't do like some Dynamic HTML features.
Then the Mac users complained why the Intranet apps wouldn't work on their Macs. I told them to ask my manager, as the decision to support the technology that works for their computers was not my decision.
Then in 2001, they decided to use ASP.NET in beta tests to be cutting edge technology and use server side objects to solve the incompatibility issues.
Eventually I got too sick to work and went on short term disability, and when I returned to work I was fired two weeks later for being sick on the job. (The stress upset my GERD and made me throw up in trashcans when I couldn't make it to the bathroom) and security quickly escorted me out of the building.
Two months later my coworkers begged me to reapply for my job back, that the whole Intranet went to shit because I used to debug every Intranet program and Visual BASIC program, and now that they started to write new code without me, the system would crash 12 or more times a day and they even had code they couldn't compile. I told them I couldn't go backward, if they needed me that bad they should not have fired me, besides the stress of the job got to me. I was Atlas for the programmers and held everything up on my own shoulders so everything worked like it should. Eventually they had clients with Linux, OS/2, BeOS, Mac OS, etc. I recall reading on the Microsoft Newsgroups when I searched for their domain name, all of the issues they had and asking Microsoft why ASP.NET and VS.NET does not work as well as the ones they replaced and does not have all of the features they promised.
I think I am better off on disability now, than working some thankless job and carrying most of the programmers because they hardly knew what they were doing. Why I chose to go on disability rather than risk another job that could only make me sicker and cause a stroke or heart attack due to high stress causing high blood pressure. If I didn't do that, I'd most likely have died on the job with a stroke or heart attack, or been paralyzed due to a stroke, or go without a job and lose the house. On relief I get is from friends and family who help out, plus my local church. If not for that support system, and it isn't money, but emotional support and activities, I am not sure what I'd do. Maybe kill myself like one of my friends did in 1999 who had the same mental illness disability that I have, he shut everyone out of his life divorced his wife, his mother was dying of cancer, he stopped going to church, and just sat home
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that change when they stop to look at them.
They stopped to look at one ad, like for McDonald's new McTriple sandwich.
Then the ad changes for Weight Watches because some fat guy stopped to look at it. Then he gets upset and then the ad changes to one for Anger Management. Then he flips it off and gets a WWE Ad for "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's DVD. Then he laughs at it, and it shows a picture of him and some guy appears on the screen and tells him he's been Punked, please watch the "Punked" show on MTV.
Including Sci Fi references: "No! Davros, you can't!"
~ Doctor Who on switching on the LHC
"The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator that has not yet destroyed the world.[1]"
I think the first sentence pretty much sums up what it is and what it possibly can do.
Some people have a theory that at least some of the black holes in the universes used to be Earth like planets until they invented a LHC device which made small black holes that quickly became giant black holes and swallowed their planet and then later their star. That is why there is no intelligent life, each planet that reached our current stage of technology developed a LHC that either destroyed the planet or made a big a** large black hole that swallowed the planet and its star.
Of course miniaturizing it into a planet sized black hole gun, we can use it as a weapon and aim and fire black holes at enemy planets, swallowing them into the man made black holes or even create a black hole bomb.
It is tempting to just withdraw all US and EU troops from the middle-east and then drop a LHC black hole bomb on them and see it wipe out part of the planet and sacrifice innocent lives to finally get rid of terrorists living their and their support from dictatorships that use oil money to fund terrorist networks. But doing so would be highly immoral and unethical, killing billions of lives and destroying what natural resources are available there.
Which is why we should propose a ban on black hole weapons just like we want a ban on nuclear bombs.
What if Iran invents their own LHC? The horror, the horror!
Windows 7.0 Hitler Edition. Invades those Linux and Mac OSX systems your neighbors have and claims them as its own.
It also puts all of those legacy Windows programs in concentration camps and refuses to let them run, forcing you to buy German versions of those programs for extra money. The German versions of those programs take control of your computer and invade the Polish and French versions of Windows 7.0 using the Internet.
German is of course, the default language, and you cannot change it. MS-Office 2009 Hitler edition has Hitler as one of the Office Assistants and he ordered the execution of the Paperclip office assistant. He yells and screams at you, and you cannot make him go away unless you buy Windows 7.0 Allies Edition but you must wait for Windows 7.0 Imperial Japan edition to bomb the Windows 7.0 USA Pearl Harbor edition before the US version of Windows 7.0 enters the fight against Windows 7.0 Hitler edition.
After a few years of fighting, Windows 7.0 Hitler edition commits suicide in the Windows bunker and it is replaced with Windows 8.0 Socialist Germany EU edition with a new technopunk soundtrack and desktop theme.
I recall having admins who did stupid stuff like load more memory resident programs. Usually the same Spyware program the managers used to spy on us got loaded like 7 times in a row along with MSN launch because the managers like having MSN software memory resident. You remove it from MSCONFIG and the admins keep adding the crap back in there via a login script.
The funniest thing they ever did was copy down a boatload of DLL, OCX, and other system files that were out of date and messed up programs. I swear we had like Crystal Reports 7.0 but the admin's login script keep copying the old version that had the double lined reports unless one had admin access to the machine. It was 7.0.0.0 and we needed 7.0.0.2 or something but 7.0.0.0 kept being copied down and overwriting the newer file that fixed the bug issue in Crystal Reports 7.0.
Other funny things they did was restrict access to my Visual BASIC common files so Visual BASIC 6.0 wouldn't work or let me load in DLL and OCX files I needed for the Listview control, etc.
I remember one time my files got so corrupt that I got LASS etc type errors that wouldn't let me log into my PC unless I logged in via Safe Mode or without using a Domain name but the Workstation group instead. Then I had to log into a Workstation without logging into the domain that my workstation was Ghosted on, and copy a few critical system files to a floppy disk to get my workstation running again after the admins refused to help. I had a deadline to meet, and someone took my picture as I plugged in their monitor to get their system booted up so I could copy system files from it to fix my machine. I missed the deadline as those files wouldn't register, and I was forced to do a SFC/CHECKNOW to recover the system files in safe mode or without logging onto the domain, and that not only fixed it but also solved the slow PC problems.
Mind you it was Windows 2000 at the time, but same design flaws as Windows XP. Windows 2000 was Windows 5.0 and Windows XP was Windows 5.1 basically.
Thanks to Internet Pirates, a majority of the information and software lost was shared over BitTorrent networks.
I am sure they well documented what George W. Bush put on his website and what he did as President and put it into a PDF file named "GWB Legacy" or something. Maybe with a few MP3 files of his speeches and some video files as well. If not check with MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, Moveon.org and other Liberal organizations who backed that stuff up on microfilm and DAT storage tape and video backups. After all they all kept close eyes on George W. Bush during his eight years as President. Now that Barack Obama is President we got Fox News, Red State.com, Little Green Footballs, Lou Dobbs at CNNHL, Rush Limbaugh, and other conservative organizations making record of everything that Barack Obama does as well.
Most of the "blogs" that covered Bush are still up and running with "copy and paste" or copypasta of what the whitehouse.gov web site put up, so you can pull the text from those Bush bashing blogs who cooked up some delicious copypasta along with some trolls who trolled liberals on Usenet and Internet forums by cooking up some copypasta from the Whitehouse to get knee-jerk reactions of liberals calling them morons and idiots for repeating what Bush and other neocons said.
The digital black hole happens because when a web site is changed, nobody bothers to back up the old data. Your best bet is Archive.org aka the Wayback Machine and hope they cached a copy of the web page there.
But most media usually finds its way on BitTorrent web sites. So when Microsoft stops selling Windows XP, you'll need a Demonoid invite code or invite code to some BitTorrent web site that offers a cracked version or be legal and use Windows Vista or Windows 7.0 instead and hope that the software you need gets rewritten for Vista and above, because the current software only works with Windows XP and not Vista and 7.0 and above.
The mother of all Big Box Stores Wal-Mart used to have a modem connected network using MS-DOS software to track purchases and inventory control with its vendors. It was the big technical advantage that Wal-Mart had that nobody else has.
Companies like Circuit City that lack such technology lose sales to Best Buy and Wal-Mart and Amazon.com that do have such technology.
It is really basic Statistics using standard deviations to predict trends in inventory to let you know when the item is due to be shipped and in stock. It is called Forecasting, and it is used to pick stocks as well for some financial companies.
Most people think learning Business Statistics or even Elementary Statistics in college is useless, well here is Statistics being used and as a black box behind the open API inviting anyone to write their own program to interface with it.
Now that this technology is being made popular and public, expect other Big Box Stores to open up their API to their technology that does the same thing.
Good luck trying to get Windows XP to "activate" in 50 years from now.
I don't think IPV4 will still work 50 years from now anyway and domain names will change. Either Microsoft will be out of business or no longer will accept Windows XP activations.
I think whatever exists of the Internet in 50 years will ban old technology from connecting in order to promote the latest technology. It would sort of like getting a Univac to connect to the Internet today and use Firefox to browse web sites. Not really possible and a platform 50+ years old would no longer be supported.
I am quite sure that HTML will be replaced with something else in 50 years, and old web browsers couldn't connect to it anymore than Netscape 1.0 could do dynamic HTML 4.0 and AJAX and Shockwave Flash web sites.
If it isn't a virus or hardware issue, perhaps you have too many memory resident programs loaded?
At the Start menu click "Run" and then type in "msconfig" it will allow you to see what services, processes, and start up programs are in use. Naturally you want your Antivirus to load at startup but not your instant messenger programs and other useless junk that clutter up CPU cycles and system memory. Get rid of a few startup programs first and then reboot and see if the system speed improves.
It could be a corrupted registry and that link is to Microsoft's site on how to troubleshoot that.
If you cannot resolve the speed problem that way you might have a bad system file or files that went corrupt.
First make sure that you have: #1 The original XP install CD without any service packs. #2 The slipstreamed XP install CD with the same service pack you are using.
Click Start and select "Run" and type in "sfc/checknow" and have those CDs ready when prompted for them.
Sfc is the system file checker and oddly enough it needs a non-service pack XP CD and an XP CD with your service pack on it. Best to make the slipstreamed version with SP2 or SP3 whatever you are using on it first. I hope you have the non-SP version of XP, if not borrow it from someone who does have it. This could be a tricky process but sometimes it works, but you need to reinstall all security patches after it runs.
because many users are asking for that Windows XP downgrade and willing to pay more money to get it.
Plus more and more file sharing networks are downloading Windows XP ISO images at new records for downloads to get rid of Vista and replace it with a pirated version of XP because they cannot buy a copy of XP except from certain vendors.
Not only that but a lot of people are waiting for ReactOS to enter Beta testing and get closer to a 1.0 release version. So they can have a free and open source Windows alternative that runs native Windows XP drivers and software.
Heck some people even want to use AROS, HaikuOS, or some other FOSS alternative to Windows just to get away from Vista. Even, gasp, Linux! Plus more and more Macs are being sold and converted from PC users.
Some people have taken Windows 2008 Server and using it as a workstation because it runs better than Vista. No joke! Just get the lowest priced small business version of Windows 2008 Server. There was a Windows 2008 Workstation patch on some BitTorrent sites to turn it into a workstation OS by removing server features.
Windows 98SE was the last good version of Windows 9X, Windows ME was a joke and really really buggy. Windows Vista is really Windows ME 2.0 practically with the NT/2000/XP modifications all butchered up.
I tried to write my report in Ubuntu on my Dell laptop using OpenOffice.Org but all it did was beep beep beep at me and then Linux crashed. I had to rewrite the paper but it wasn't as good. I couldn't even get on the Internet to send the paper to my professor because Ubuntu wouldn't install the Verizon disk software. So I got F's in all of my classes. But then my Dad got me a Vista laptop from HP and the Verizon disk installed and Word worked great and I got an A.
Thank you Microsoft for Vista and allowing me to switch.
I remember my 14 year-old niece. She was wearing a t-shirt that said "The Beatles" as everyone in her school wore them.
I asked her if she ever listened to "The Beatles" and she replied "Who?" and I said "The Beatles, you know like your T-Shirt says." and then she said "What kind of music do they play? Are they rappers or techno or heavy metal?" I said "No, they were Rock and Roll, classic Rock and Roll, like from the 1960's." and she said "What kind of songs did they play?" and I said "Yellow Submarine, Yesterday, A Hard Day's Night, and a few others." she said "They sound silly, are they still alive?" I said "No, two of them are dead." and she said "Then how do they play their music, did they replace the two dead guys yet?" I said "They had like over 200 songs and they are trying to digitze them into new formats." and she said "How can they digitize them when half the band is dead?" and I asked "How could you wear a Beatles logo T-shirt and not know who they are?" and she said "It is a fashion trend at our school, everyone is wearing them because our grandparents used to wear them. You know, Hippies and stuff like that. Retrofashion is so in now."
Ironic that at one time The Beatles claimed they were bigger than Jesus. Now the youth of today hardly even know who they were other than some t-shirt sold in the mall as Retrofashion your grandparents used to wear.
Good to know, I did not know that. I guess I gave Steve Jobs too much credit. But he did run Pixar really well, and honed his management skills at Pixar and Next enough to be able to make Apple profitable again when they hired him back on.
I think when Steve Jobs was fired when the original Macintosh was unprofitable. He started up Next and then Pixar. But one man after another tried to replace Jobs and failed, and Apple bled a lot of money as a result.
Then it was the second coming of Steve Jobs and he fixed everything at Apple, brought them the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, and some joked about an iGod or iTree or iToliet or iTV.:)
But if people study how Steve Jobs manages the company, they can replace him by doing what Steve Jobs will do.
Microsoft soon will have to be Post-Gates as well.
the weakest link in any computer security are human beings.
I remember reading how some AOL employee took 26 CD-R disks, each one filled with a letter of the alphabet of data tables of AOL customers with phone numbers, addresses, bank accounts, and credit card numbers and passwords. He tried to sell it for millions but got busted by the FBI.
When I worked for a law firm, there was a department called Litigation Support that changed its name to Technology Services and competed with Information Systems. I was the main developer on a lot of software programs. My machine kept blue screening and crashing, and I installed Black Ice because it looked like someone was sending me the ping of death and ping floods. Black Ice traced the attacks to Technology Services PC systems. When I reported the fact to my boss, he told me to take Black Ice off my system. Then it started crashing again. Eventually it stopped, but I had missed a few deadlines because my computer would crash or freeze up or lose the network connection, and it wasted my time trying to develop programs. Later on I got a bad performance review, but my boss refused to listen to me about hacker type attacks from TS directed at my IP address, despite the proof I had from Black Ice logs. Apparently I think my boss was in on the sabotage because I earned too much money and they wanted an excuse to get rid of me. It really stressed me out, and I had to go on short-term disability and had to suffer from emotional and psychological abuse from coworkers and managers. I developed schizoaffective disorder, and once I came back to work, two weeks later I was fired for being sick on the job. But it all started with denial of service attacks on my IP address.
to me and I am a Christian who used to be against it. But if it can be proven to save lives and grow new bones and teeth, maybe even grow back limbs and eyes, it might be a miracle technology.
Stem cells need not be gotten from aborted babies but from adult cells like wisdom teeth, brilliant! I am sure even Jesus would approve of that.:)
Too bad I had my wisdom teeth taken out, they were impacting my molars. They looked like an octopus and the dentist/surgeon had a hard time pulling them out, and one was pulled out too late that it damaged one of my regular teeth and it had to come out too. Now my regular tooth that is gone, might be grown back in five or ten years in the future. Not that I miss it or anything, but 32 teeth is better than 31 teeth.
I just want to know if teeth can be hermetically sealed like in Star Trek so I can skip brushing them. I can't find any type of toothpaste that I don't gang and throw up on yet. I even gag and sometimes throw up when the dentist is just picking at my teeth.
#1 Look young and sexy. #2 Scream their heads off when the enemy attacks. #3 Non-Violent even to Daleks, feels sad when the Dalek is in prison and has to touch it, which gives the Dalek powers and allows it to break free and try to kill her. So while the Dalek is trying to kill her, she tries to reason with it talking about pacifism and things the Dalek does not understand. #4 Has to fall in love with The Doctor even if he is 500 years older than she is, any hanky panky has to be offscreen though. #5 When the plot requires it she either becomes a Time Goddess or get's The Doctor's memories in her brain, which burns her up unless The Doctor can sacrifice himself or make her forget those memories to save her. #6 When The Doctor is kidnapped, instead of being non-violent all of a sudden she agrees with others to activate a stargem bomb despite being a pacifist her entire life. #7 Becomes something like Bad Wolf which is repeated throughout time and she does not understand it until she almost dies and then sends those messages to herself and The Doctor throughout time as a warning. Even if she knows she already got the message and didn't know what it meant.
Will Smith would make an excellent Doctor. He'd do a rap solo every episode and remix the theme music to a hiphop/rap version. Plus he would wear sunglasses and dress up in the latest rap or hiphop fashions. Every planet he visits he is street smart. Plus they would have to cast Alfonso Ribeiro as his companion Carlton for comic relief. Carlton would get The Doctor and his female companion into trouble, and then The Doctor has to figure a way out of that trouble, all the while lecturing to Carlton that he needs to grow up and stop being such a dork.
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I think the best strategy to ween companies over to Linux is to replace each Microsoft product they use with a free or open source version of that product.
Why you may ask?
The answer is simple, they want to keep their Windows workstations and change the server over to Linux, without missing features. One of the arguments corporations had against using Linux was that it did not support MS-Exchange protocols so they could keep their Outlook clients and have shared calendars and shared email files.
I suppose next is modifying My-SQL or PostgresSQL to support Transact-SQL the SQL language that MS-SQL Server uses.
Novell Mono already tries to replace Microsoft Visual Studio with Linux, Mac OSX, etc versions, and while they may need some rewriting of code, legacy Visual Studio code can be ported over to Linux for those custom made applications.
When I worked at a law firm in 1997-2001 I used Internet Explorer 4/5/6 and VBScript and ActiveX controls for web Intranet applications using Active Server Pages. I told my manager that the employees who use Macintoshes cannot access our Intranet applications unless we wrote in Javascript and used Java instead of ActiveX. He told me it was nonsense. I said if we had clients who needed to connect to our Intranet and they ran OS/2, Linux, *BSD Unix, or Mac OS 7/8/9 whatever that they couldn't connect. He didn't believe me and told me to never develop in Java and only use Javascript when it could do something better or faster that VBScript couldn't do like some Dynamic HTML features.
Then the Mac users complained why the Intranet apps wouldn't work on their Macs. I told them to ask my manager, as the decision to support the technology that works for their computers was not my decision.
Then in 2001, they decided to use ASP.NET in beta tests to be cutting edge technology and use server side objects to solve the incompatibility issues.
Eventually I got too sick to work and went on short term disability, and when I returned to work I was fired two weeks later for being sick on the job. (The stress upset my GERD and made me throw up in trashcans when I couldn't make it to the bathroom) and security quickly escorted me out of the building.
Two months later my coworkers begged me to reapply for my job back, that the whole Intranet went to shit because I used to debug every Intranet program and Visual BASIC program, and now that they started to write new code without me, the system would crash 12 or more times a day and they even had code they couldn't compile. I told them I couldn't go backward, if they needed me that bad they should not have fired me, besides the stress of the job got to me. I was Atlas for the programmers and held everything up on my own shoulders so everything worked like it should. Eventually they had clients with Linux, OS/2, BeOS, Mac OS, etc. I recall reading on the Microsoft Newsgroups when I searched for their domain name, all of the issues they had and asking Microsoft why ASP.NET and VS.NET does not work as well as the ones they replaced and does not have all of the features they promised.
I think I am better off on disability now, than working some thankless job and carrying most of the programmers because they hardly knew what they were doing. Why I chose to go on disability rather than risk another job that could only make me sicker and cause a stroke or heart attack due to high stress causing high blood pressure. If I didn't do that, I'd most likely have died on the job with a stroke or heart attack, or been paralyzed due to a stroke, or go without a job and lose the house. On relief I get is from friends and family who help out, plus my local church. If not for that support system, and it isn't money, but emotional support and activities, I am not sure what I'd do. Maybe kill myself like one of my friends did in 1999 who had the same mental illness disability that I have, he shut everyone out of his life divorced his wife, his mother was dying of cancer, he stopped going to church, and just sat home
What do you mean brute force a joke?
I just heard of Windows Hitler Edition.
I did not know that it is an old joke that originated here.
that change when they stop to look at them.
They stopped to look at one ad, like for McDonald's new McTriple sandwich.
Then the ad changes for Weight Watches because some fat guy stopped to look at it. Then he gets upset and then the ad changes to one for Anger Management. Then he flips it off and gets a WWE Ad for "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's DVD. Then he laughs at it, and it shows a picture of him and some guy appears on the screen and tells him he's been Punked, please watch the "Punked" show on MTV.
They'll be built into TV sets and you cannot switch them off.
They can determine race by the hue of the skin.
AdMic will be included to detect accent and foreign languages.
Big Brother just got into advertising.
In Soviet Russia, you watch the TV.
In the USA, the TV watches you!
What a country, I don't love it!
Why not VMWare Server or Microsoft Virtual Server or even Xen running on a Linux server?
Citrix is not the only virtual machine client server app on the market.
If Windows 7.0 runs legacy Windows programs unlike Windows Vista, then we switch to Windows 7.0, if not then we run XP in virtual machines.
At Uncyclopedia we made fun of it.
Including Sci Fi references:
"No! Davros, you can't!"
~ Doctor Who on switching on the LHC
"The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator that has not yet destroyed the world.[1]"
I think the first sentence pretty much sums up what it is and what it possibly can do.
Some people have a theory that at least some of the black holes in the universes used to be Earth like planets until they invented a LHC device which made small black holes that quickly became giant black holes and swallowed their planet and then later their star. That is why there is no intelligent life, each planet that reached our current stage of technology developed a LHC that either destroyed the planet or made a big a** large black hole that swallowed the planet and its star.
Of course miniaturizing it into a planet sized black hole gun, we can use it as a weapon and aim and fire black holes at enemy planets, swallowing them into the man made black holes or even create a black hole bomb.
It is tempting to just withdraw all US and EU troops from the middle-east and then drop a LHC black hole bomb on them and see it wipe out part of the planet and sacrifice innocent lives to finally get rid of terrorists living their and their support from dictatorships that use oil money to fund terrorist networks. But doing so would be highly immoral and unethical, killing billions of lives and destroying what natural resources are available there.
Which is why we should propose a ban on black hole weapons just like we want a ban on nuclear bombs.
What if Iran invents their own LHC? The horror, the horror!
Windows 7.0 Hitler Edition. Invades those Linux and Mac OSX systems your neighbors have and claims them as its own.
It also puts all of those legacy Windows programs in concentration camps and refuses to let them run, forcing you to buy German versions of those programs for extra money. The German versions of those programs take control of your computer and invade the Polish and French versions of Windows 7.0 using the Internet.
German is of course, the default language, and you cannot change it. MS-Office 2009 Hitler edition has Hitler as one of the Office Assistants and he ordered the execution of the Paperclip office assistant. He yells and screams at you, and you cannot make him go away unless you buy Windows 7.0 Allies Edition but you must wait for Windows 7.0 Imperial Japan edition to bomb the Windows 7.0 USA Pearl Harbor edition before the US version of Windows 7.0 enters the fight against Windows 7.0 Hitler edition.
After a few years of fighting, Windows 7.0 Hitler edition commits suicide in the Windows bunker and it is replaced with Windows 8.0 Socialist Germany EU edition with a new technopunk soundtrack and desktop theme.
I recall having admins who did stupid stuff like load more memory resident programs. Usually the same Spyware program the managers used to spy on us got loaded like 7 times in a row along with MSN launch because the managers like having MSN software memory resident. You remove it from MSCONFIG and the admins keep adding the crap back in there via a login script.
The funniest thing they ever did was copy down a boatload of DLL, OCX, and other system files that were out of date and messed up programs. I swear we had like Crystal Reports 7.0 but the admin's login script keep copying the old version that had the double lined reports unless one had admin access to the machine. It was 7.0.0.0 and we needed 7.0.0.2 or something but 7.0.0.0 kept being copied down and overwriting the newer file that fixed the bug issue in Crystal Reports 7.0.
Other funny things they did was restrict access to my Visual BASIC common files so Visual BASIC 6.0 wouldn't work or let me load in DLL and OCX files I needed for the Listview control, etc.
I remember one time my files got so corrupt that I got LASS etc type errors that wouldn't let me log into my PC unless I logged in via Safe Mode or without using a Domain name but the Workstation group instead. Then I had to log into a Workstation without logging into the domain that my workstation was Ghosted on, and copy a few critical system files to a floppy disk to get my workstation running again after the admins refused to help. I had a deadline to meet, and someone took my picture as I plugged in their monitor to get their system booted up so I could copy system files from it to fix my machine. I missed the deadline as those files wouldn't register, and I was forced to do a SFC /CHECKNOW to recover the system files in safe mode or without logging onto the domain, and that not only fixed it but also solved the slow PC problems.
Mind you it was Windows 2000 at the time, but same design flaws as Windows XP. Windows 2000 was Windows 5.0 and Windows XP was Windows 5.1 basically.
Thanks to Internet Pirates, a majority of the information and software lost was shared over BitTorrent networks.
I am sure they well documented what George W. Bush put on his website and what he did as President and put it into a PDF file named "GWB Legacy" or something. Maybe with a few MP3 files of his speeches and some video files as well. If not check with MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, Moveon.org and other Liberal organizations who backed that stuff up on microfilm and DAT storage tape and video backups. After all they all kept close eyes on George W. Bush during his eight years as President. Now that Barack Obama is President we got Fox News, Red State.com, Little Green Footballs, Lou Dobbs at CNNHL, Rush Limbaugh, and other conservative organizations making record of everything that Barack Obama does as well.
Most of the "blogs" that covered Bush are still up and running with "copy and paste" or copypasta of what the whitehouse.gov web site put up, so you can pull the text from those Bush bashing blogs who cooked up some delicious copypasta along with some trolls who trolled liberals on Usenet and Internet forums by cooking up some copypasta from the Whitehouse to get knee-jerk reactions of liberals calling them morons and idiots for repeating what Bush and other neocons said.
The digital black hole happens because when a web site is changed, nobody bothers to back up the old data. Your best bet is Archive.org aka the Wayback Machine and hope they cached a copy of the web page there.
But most media usually finds its way on BitTorrent web sites. So when Microsoft stops selling Windows XP, you'll need a Demonoid invite code or invite code to some BitTorrent web site that offers a cracked version or be legal and use Windows Vista or Windows 7.0 instead and hope that the software you need gets rewritten for Vista and above, because the current software only works with Windows XP and not Vista and 7.0 and above.
The mother of all Big Box Stores Wal-Mart used to have a modem connected network using MS-DOS software to track purchases and inventory control with its vendors. It was the big technical advantage that Wal-Mart had that nobody else has.
Companies like Circuit City that lack such technology lose sales to Best Buy and Wal-Mart and Amazon.com that do have such technology.
It is really basic Statistics using standard deviations to predict trends in inventory to let you know when the item is due to be shipped and in stock. It is called Forecasting, and it is used to pick stocks as well for some financial companies.
Most people think learning Business Statistics or even Elementary Statistics in college is useless, well here is Statistics being used and as a black box behind the open API inviting anyone to write their own program to interface with it.
Now that this technology is being made popular and public, expect other Big Box Stores to open up their API to their technology that does the same thing.
Good luck trying to get Windows XP to "activate" in 50 years from now.
I don't think IPV4 will still work 50 years from now anyway and domain names will change. Either Microsoft will be out of business or no longer will accept Windows XP activations.
I think whatever exists of the Internet in 50 years will ban old technology from connecting in order to promote the latest technology. It would sort of like getting a Univac to connect to the Internet today and use Firefox to browse web sites. Not really possible and a platform 50+ years old would no longer be supported.
I am quite sure that HTML will be replaced with something else in 50 years, and old web browsers couldn't connect to it anymore than Netscape 1.0 could do dynamic HTML 4.0 and AJAX and Shockwave Flash web sites.
If it isn't a virus or hardware issue, perhaps you have too many memory resident programs loaded?
At the Start menu click "Run" and then type in "msconfig" it will allow you to see what services, processes, and start up programs are in use. Naturally you want your Antivirus to load at startup but not your instant messenger programs and other useless junk that clutter up CPU cycles and system memory. Get rid of a few startup programs first and then reboot and see if the system speed improves.
It could be a corrupted registry and that link is to Microsoft's site on how to troubleshoot that.
If you cannot resolve the speed problem that way you might have a bad system file or files that went corrupt.
First make sure that you have:
#1 The original XP install CD without any service packs.
#2 The slipstreamed XP install CD with the same service pack you are using.
Click Start and select "Run" and type in "sfc /checknow" and have those CDs ready when prompted for them.
Sfc is the system file checker and oddly enough it needs a non-service pack XP CD and an XP CD with your service pack on it. Best to make the slipstreamed version with SP2 or SP3 whatever you are using on it first. I hope you have the non-SP version of XP, if not borrow it from someone who does have it. This could be a tricky process but sometimes it works, but you need to reinstall all security patches after it runs.
because many users are asking for that Windows XP downgrade and willing to pay more money to get it.
Plus more and more file sharing networks are downloading Windows XP ISO images at new records for downloads to get rid of Vista and replace it with a pirated version of XP because they cannot buy a copy of XP except from certain vendors.
Not only that but a lot of people are waiting for ReactOS to enter Beta testing and get closer to a 1.0 release version. So they can have a free and open source Windows alternative that runs native Windows XP drivers and software.
Heck some people even want to use AROS, HaikuOS, or some other FOSS alternative to Windows just to get away from Vista. Even, gasp, Linux! Plus more and more Macs are being sold and converted from PC users.
Some people have taken Windows 2008 Server and using it as a workstation because it runs better than Vista. No joke! Just get the lowest priced small business version of Windows 2008 Server. There was a Windows 2008 Workstation patch on some BitTorrent sites to turn it into a workstation OS by removing server features.
Windows 98SE was the last good version of Windows 9X, Windows ME was a joke and really really buggy. Windows Vista is really Windows ME 2.0 practically with the NT/2000/XP modifications all butchered up.
I tried to write my report in Ubuntu on my Dell laptop using OpenOffice.Org but all it did was beep beep beep at me and then Linux crashed. I had to rewrite the paper but it wasn't as good. I couldn't even get on the Internet to send the paper to my professor because Ubuntu wouldn't install the Verizon disk software. So I got F's in all of my classes. But then my Dad got me a Vista laptop from HP and the Verizon disk installed and Word worked great and I got an A.
Thank you Microsoft for Vista and allowing me to switch.
I developed schizoaffective disorder from all of the stress and got fired for being sick on the job.
I remember my 14 year-old niece. She was wearing a t-shirt that said "The Beatles" as everyone in her school wore them.
I asked her if she ever listened to "The Beatles" and she replied "Who?" and I said "The Beatles, you know like your T-Shirt says." and then she said "What kind of music do they play? Are they rappers or techno or heavy metal?" I said "No, they were Rock and Roll, classic Rock and Roll, like from the 1960's." and she said "What kind of songs did they play?" and I said "Yellow Submarine, Yesterday, A Hard Day's Night, and a few others." she said "They sound silly, are they still alive?" I said "No, two of them are dead." and she said "Then how do they play their music, did they replace the two dead guys yet?" I said "They had like over 200 songs and they are trying to digitze them into new formats." and she said "How can they digitize them when half the band is dead?" and I asked "How could you wear a Beatles logo T-shirt and not know who they are?" and she said "It is a fashion trend at our school, everyone is wearing them because our grandparents used to wear them. You know, Hippies and stuff like that. Retrofashion is so in now."
Ironic that at one time The Beatles claimed they were bigger than Jesus. Now the youth of today hardly even know who they were other than some t-shirt sold in the mall as Retrofashion your grandparents used to wear.
Good to know, I did not know that. I guess I gave Steve Jobs too much credit. But he did run Pixar really well, and honed his management skills at Pixar and Next enough to be able to make Apple profitable again when they hired him back on.
I think when Steve Jobs was fired when the original Macintosh was unprofitable. He started up Next and then Pixar. But one man after another tried to replace Jobs and failed, and Apple bled a lot of money as a result.
Then it was the second coming of Steve Jobs and he fixed everything at Apple, brought them the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, and some joked about an iGod or iTree or iToliet or iTV. :)
But if people study how Steve Jobs manages the company, they can replace him by doing what Steve Jobs will do.
Microsoft soon will have to be Post-Gates as well.
the weakest link in any computer security are human beings.
I remember reading how some AOL employee took 26 CD-R disks, each one filled with a letter of the alphabet of data tables of AOL customers with phone numbers, addresses, bank accounts, and credit card numbers and passwords. He tried to sell it for millions but got busted by the FBI.
When I worked for a law firm, there was a department called Litigation Support that changed its name to Technology Services and competed with Information Systems. I was the main developer on a lot of software programs. My machine kept blue screening and crashing, and I installed Black Ice because it looked like someone was sending me the ping of death and ping floods. Black Ice traced the attacks to Technology Services PC systems. When I reported the fact to my boss, he told me to take Black Ice off my system. Then it started crashing again. Eventually it stopped, but I had missed a few deadlines because my computer would crash or freeze up or lose the network connection, and it wasted my time trying to develop programs. Later on I got a bad performance review, but my boss refused to listen to me about hacker type attacks from TS directed at my IP address, despite the proof I had from Black Ice logs. Apparently I think my boss was in on the sabotage because I earned too much money and they wanted an excuse to get rid of me. It really stressed me out, and I had to go on short-term disability and had to suffer from emotional and psychological abuse from coworkers and managers. I developed schizoaffective disorder, and once I came back to work, two weeks later I was fired for being sick on the job. But it all started with denial of service attacks on my IP address.
to me and I am a Christian who used to be against it. But if it can be proven to save lives and grow new bones and teeth, maybe even grow back limbs and eyes, it might be a miracle technology.
Stem cells need not be gotten from aborted babies but from adult cells like wisdom teeth, brilliant! I am sure even Jesus would approve of that. :)
Too bad I had my wisdom teeth taken out, they were impacting my molars. They looked like an octopus and the dentist/surgeon had a hard time pulling them out, and one was pulled out too late that it damaged one of my regular teeth and it had to come out too. Now my regular tooth that is gone, might be grown back in five or ten years in the future. Not that I miss it or anything, but 32 teeth is better than 31 teeth.
I just want to know if teeth can be hermetically sealed like in Star Trek so I can skip brushing them. I can't find any type of toothpaste that I don't gang and throw up on yet. I even gag and sometimes throw up when the dentist is just picking at my teeth.
Either that or saying "Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaavros!"
Requirements for female companions of The Doctor:
#1 Look young and sexy.
#2 Scream their heads off when the enemy attacks.
#3 Non-Violent even to Daleks, feels sad when the Dalek is in prison and has to touch it, which gives the Dalek powers and allows it to break free and try to kill her. So while the Dalek is trying to kill her, she tries to reason with it talking about pacifism and things the Dalek does not understand.
#4 Has to fall in love with The Doctor even if he is 500 years older than she is, any hanky panky has to be offscreen though.
#5 When the plot requires it she either becomes a Time Goddess or get's The Doctor's memories in her brain, which burns her up unless The Doctor can sacrifice himself or make her forget those memories to save her.
#6 When The Doctor is kidnapped, instead of being non-violent all of a sudden she agrees with others to activate a stargem bomb despite being a pacifist her entire life.
#7 Becomes something like Bad Wolf which is repeated throughout time and she does not understand it until she almost dies and then sends those messages to herself and The Doctor throughout time as a warning. Even if she knows she already got the message and didn't know what it meant.
Will Smith would make an excellent Doctor. He'd do a rap solo every episode and remix the theme music to a hiphop/rap version. Plus he would wear sunglasses and dress up in the latest rap or hiphop fashions. Every planet he visits he is street smart. Plus they would have to cast Alfonso Ribeiro as his companion Carlton for comic relief. Carlton would get The Doctor and his female companion into trouble, and then The Doctor has to figure a way out of that trouble, all the while lecturing to Carlton that he needs to grow up and stop being such a dork.
as the next Doctor Who. It would have been an interesting twist to the show. It also would have bridged the Star Trek and Doctor Who brands.
Maybe they offered it to Shatner, who turned it down because he would have had to give up his Priceline.com commercials. :)