The trick is to find out exactly what hardware is in the thing and then go to the HP support site and claim you need the driver for XP. If need be, get a Linux live CD and boot the thing to Linux long enough to do a lspci and you'll have all of the information you need. At this point Google is your friend since you can either search for the hardware manufacturers driver or the HP driver. Just be sure you download at least the network drivers so get a network connection once you have installed XP.
From my experience with my wife's DV9015, HP has XP drivers for all of their hardware. They just don't let you get to it if your system identifies itself as having Vista when you connect to support. That's where using Google to find the XP drivers comes in. HP will let you download the files even if your system is running Linux if you ask for a specific file. It's just that they've idiot-proofed their support site so you can't easily get an XP driver for a Vista system by mistake. Download the driver files, stick them on a thumb drive, install XP, load drivers from thumb drive and you've got a fully functional XP system.
Unfortunately, she ran into such problems at her work (where I'm not available). Generally, these were programs she used every day and frequently several times a day so going through the process of "ontrol Panel -> Programs -> Use and older program with this version of Windows" was a pain that wouldn't go away. Also, this still didn't always allow the programs to work correctly since there were frequently helper applications that she then had to figure out still weren't running. So, no, it wasn't that simple.
I don't think Vista survived for more than a week on my wife's laptop (HP Pavilion dv9015) before I "upgraded" it to XP. She works for a small company and the worst problem was that modt of the custom applications she needed to be able to run wouldn't run under Vista. I got everything working under XP that she needed although I never really tried to get the TV card working. It should work but haven't tried it.
On the other hand, I upgraded my HP zv6015 from XP to Linux almost as soon as I got it back in 2005. It's currently running CentOS 5 x86_64. More on that story at my blog: http://davenjudy.org/wordpress/?p=15.
Let's see. Twice for W, once for Dole, twice for H.W., twice for Reagan, once for Ford. Couldn't vote for Nixon since I wasn't old enough. I just wish Condi was running this time.
I find it amusing that you approve of personal violence as a means of influencing the vote. Have you considered moving to a country that approves of such actions? Also, odd that you proclaim that you're not a liberal. With your lack of logical consistency you'd fit right in.
Hopefully the liberals will continue to not figure out that whinny, over-the-top hyperbole in situations like this only gives everyone else a good belly laugh. In the past "irregular combatants" were not considered any different than spies and were executed. Sounds like we just keep them in "Club Gitmo" until we find out what they know and find a place that will accept them. Of course that's not good enough for those who also blame this country for being attacked.
In my opinion, hackers are more like terrorists. They are motivated by sadism and determined at their craft.
This may have been true some time ago. The folks who create and spread malware these days are motivated by simple greed. Botnets and such are big business. So is the information harvested from unsuspecting users through key loggers. Terrorists tend to be ideologically motivated regardless of whether the ideology is religion, politics or whatever.
Change the economics of web sites hosting malware and that infect unsuspecting users and the effort will go in a different direction. Consider the expense these people went to to create false results through Google by having a bunch of fake sites set up to point to the malware host. This isn't necessarily expense in the sense of money changing hands but more likely effort that was channelled to creating the falsified results. How many bots had to be created to get Google to point to the malware web host?
When writing parallel software, you need to treat the interactions between different threads of execution the same way you treat interactions between different code elements. This is a *DESIGN* issue. That's why debuggers aren't usually useful for finding such problems. Debuggers let you find sequential logic errors but rarely give you any insight into state coupling errors that only occur during real-time execution of the program. This is true whether the error occurs between different threads of the same code or different processes of the overall program. For some reason, people are particullarly unable to see such problems between different threads.
I first ran into this sort of problem in 1983 when working on a CDC mainframe. The only way to find the bug was the line by line analysis method since even compiling the code with debug caused it to run slower and the nature of the problem changed. That's as much detail as I remember.
I expect to see a lot more of these kinds of errors pop up as multi-core CPUs become more prevalent (true parallel execution) and people continue to assume that they can just crank out code without taking the time to understand the design. I'd also expect the prevalence of multi-core processors to create a demand for more parallelism. If you don't take advantage of the additional cores, your program will only be as fast as if it were on a single core system. If the competition can create a program that uses the additional cores, your program will seem slow.
...people have an explicit agenda to rewrite history to make themselves look right, but that's an outsider's perspective. This experiment shows that there isn't always much conscious thought going on.
That sure explains a lot about some managers I've known.
Says here 'Scott was charged with the distribution of Microsoft products among employees.'
Hmmm. So everybody at Microsoft secretly uses a Mac or runs Linux on a PC and he caused productivity to implode by insisting that they actually use the products they were creating. Having been briefly exposed to Vista (until I could wipe it off of my Wife's laptop) and hearing her complain about the gawd-awful ribbon interface in the new office, I can believe it.
Jalapenos aren't hot. They're just nicely warm. Try some Thai bird chiles or a scotch bonnet or habanero. Better yet, go to a Thai restaurant and order a spicy dish cooked "Thai hot" (that's a level above just "hot" in case you didn't guess). Yummy.
I wonder if they had to correct the study for those volunteers who liked hot, spicy food. I know my tolerance for heat goes up the more frquently I have hot food. I could see going in for surgery and have the doctor try this and it doesn't work unless they bump up the capsaicin on a chile head (like me).
The biggest concern seems to be finding the glitches in the system instead of reconsidering automated arms altogether.
Other than a very few from a steadily shrinking list, almost all modern weapons are automated to some extent. The level of automation varies from automatic weapons such as machine guns (been around since before WWI) and assault rifles (WWII) to various guided or "smart" munitions. The comment would have been a little less lame if the word robotic had been used instead of automated although still hopelessly naive. Automated/robotic weapons usually mean that fewer people are killed; not more. Or would the submitter prefer a return to the massed infantry tactics of WWI and prior?
Does this mean I can sick the RIAA on the guy in the car in the next lane for blaring his bad taste in music at everyone within a thousand yards of his car? Could be a useful precedent.
I was going to post the same point but (in toitally un-/. manner) checked for someone else having previously made the point. We may not agree with the way copyrights restrict our ability to listen to music but the parent post is spot on as to what the legalities are. I learned about this when complaining about "Musac" (commercial elevator music) back in the 1970s. Things have gotten worse, not better, since then.
Maintenance panels off is a different animal. Just when you said "no pictures" it was a little too broad. Lots of/.ers think they're seeing something forbidden with the photos of the Japanese stealth fighter mock-up. What I know about stealth technology (e.g., what I read in Ben Rich's "Skunk Works" plus working a few radar software projects back in the 1980s, etc.) indicates that materials, coatings, shape and burying things like engines are all involved. The F-117A demonstrated the possibilities but with a plane that is very difficult to maintain. There's probably a lot of hands on engineering in the F-22 to make it easier to maintain that the Japanese still have to learn.
That is really an amazing airplane. The demo team performed quite a few "non-aerodynamic" manuevers that are simply impossible with a conventional airplane. The F-15 and F-16 demos were impressive but when the F-22 pilot hovered and did a "standing back flip" (think of it as a loop but in place), I was just awestruck.
No pictures of the F-22? Seems kind of odd since the Air Force F-22 demo team performed in front of a couple hundred thousand people in Columbus, OH last weekend at the "Gathering of Mustangs and Legends" air show. That included taxiing past the grandstand and lots of fly-bys (both low speed and high speed) along with a banked pass that had the weapons bay open. You can find coverage at both Air Show Buzz and at The Columbus Dispath (several pics of the F-22 as well as other GML coverage).
The F-22 demo was very impressive since the demo team also showed off its thrust vectoring capability to do several things that even a Harrier can't do (better avionics means that the F-22 doesn't just rely on pilot skill to stay stable when vectoring). Expect to see quite a few pictures since the Sunday "Heritage Flight" had all three demo team jets (F-15, F-16 and F-22) flying in formation with a Mustang which matched the "Heritage Flight" patch for the first time ever.
Check to see if there are any point-to-point wireless providers for your area. Depending on other traffic, I get up to about T1 speeds with an 18 inch dish on my roof that points to their antenna. If it's not available, it's not an option but you might not be asking the right question.
Gory detail to back up what you said... The bankruptcy filing indicated that there are only about 400 individual owners of SCO common stock. This is tiny even for a company the size of SCO. I'd guess that the majority of shares are owned by board members and other insiders such as Canopy Group. It also wouldn't surprise me if a large number of ahares were owned (possibly through some agent to keep the relationship obscure) by Microsquish.
The judge already found that Novell is the rightful owner of Unix so that concern is a little late. On the other hand, Novell also now owns SuSE Linux and continues to distribute it under the GPL. That means that any overlap, whether intentional or unintentional, no longer matters. There are no longer *ANY* grounds for someone to claim that Linux infringes Unix copyrights. Any such "infringement" just means that Novell as the Unix copyright owner released the code under the GPL. Funny how that works.
I'd worry more about MicroSoft's new pattent FUD campaign. They're using the same strategy as SCO but claiming pattents instead of copyrights (claim there's infringement but not say where or even which patents). S-I-G-H. On the plus side, M$ keeps getting zinged by patent trolls so maybe they'll start working against software patents. Big, rich companies have a lot more to lose and very little to gain.
Cheers, Dave
BTW, IANAL so the above may be wrong but I don't think so.
I'm quite happy with what P.J. O'Rourke has to say. Different peoples have differing expectations as to what the government should and should not do. The French, Sweeds, etc. have an expectation of the government taking care of them (see also socialism). A goodly number of people in the U.S. see such cradle to grave care by the government as a tax on those willing to take risks and/or take care of themselves. Neither is right or wrong; just different approaches to the problem that suits the temperament of different people. You should also note that the new French president is attempting to dismantle some of the social support structure since they don't seem to be able to afford it.
You might also look a little more closely at countries with socialized medecine like Canada and the U.K. Those with money leave to get the care they need in a timely manner. Those who can't afford to leave sometimes die waiting for facilities and tests that are considered routine in this country. Yeah, they may have a lower infant mortality rate but don't get sick with something that requires specialized treatment (unless you can afford to pick up the tab yourself possibly after some travel).
The conversion from chapter 11 (re-organization) to chapter 7 (liquidation) happens automatically if the company can't show how they can remain a going concern. Assuming Novell gets justice, this is a done deal.
The judge in the SCO v. Novell case ruled that SCO retained money that legally belonged to Novell (the legal term is "conversion"). The amount has yet to be determined but chances are that it is greater than SCO's net worth ($30 million has been bandied about). Since this is money that SCO had no right to keep, Novell moves ahead of the creditor pack and SCO is toast. If you dig around on Groklaw, someone found the clause in the Asset Purchase Agreement (APA - the legal document that set up SCO as the bagman and overseer of Unix licenses) that states that money collected by SCO for Unix SVRX licenses belongs to Novell specifcally in case SCO declares bankruptcy.
SCO is in the same position as a bank robber who tries to declare bankruptcy to avoid giving the bank back it's money. The bank robber may have other creditors but they have no claim on the money stolen from the bank since it's still the bank's money. SCO didn't rob a bank but they illegally converted money that belongs to Novell into their own which amounts to the same thing.
I wonder if any of SCO's old trade show swag is at all interesting. Who knows, in fifty years it might be worth something on e-bay.
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Cheers,
Dave
The trick is to find out exactly what hardware is in the thing and then go to the HP support site and claim you need the driver for XP. If need be, get a Linux live CD and boot the thing to Linux long enough to do a lspci and you'll have all of the information you need. At this point Google is your friend since you can either search for the hardware manufacturers driver or the HP driver. Just be sure you download at least the network drivers so get a network connection once you have installed XP.
From my experience with my wife's DV9015, HP has XP drivers for all of their hardware. They just don't let you get to it if your system identifies itself as having Vista when you connect to support. That's where using Google to find the XP drivers comes in. HP will let you download the files even if your system is running Linux if you ask for a specific file. It's just that they've idiot-proofed their support site so you can't easily get an XP driver for a Vista system by mistake. Download the driver files, stick them on a thumb drive, install XP, load drivers from thumb drive and you've got a fully functional XP system.
Cheers,
Dave
Note: I stopped at the Linux step for my HP zv6015. See my blog if you want the details: http://davenjudy.org/wordpress
Unfortunately, she ran into such problems at her work (where I'm not available). Generally, these were programs she used every day and frequently several times a day so going through the process of "ontrol Panel -> Programs -> Use and older program with this version of Windows" was a pain that wouldn't go away. Also, this still didn't always allow the programs to work correctly since there were frequently helper applications that she then had to figure out still weren't running. So, no, it wasn't that simple.
Cheers,
Dave
I don't think Vista survived for more than a week on my wife's laptop (HP Pavilion dv9015) before I "upgraded" it to XP. She works for a small company and the worst problem was that modt of the custom applications she needed to be able to run wouldn't run under Vista. I got everything working under XP that she needed although I never really tried to get the TV card working. It should work but haven't tried it.
On the other hand, I upgraded my HP zv6015 from XP to Linux almost as soon as I got it back in 2005. It's currently running CentOS 5 x86_64. More on that story at my blog: http://davenjudy.org/wordpress/?p=15.
Cheers,
Dave
Good point although Anna Wu (Julia Ling) seems to be reasonably competent. The show doesn't really bring out much about the remaining Nerd Herd.
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Dave
... and the "Nerd Herd" is obviously a reference to the "Geek Squad" (other than the Nerd Herd folks are portrayed as being competent).
Cheers,
Dave
Shouldn't your comment be one of those "In Soviet Russia" jokes?
You know, "In Soviet Russia we don't beat voters (much), we just remove the ones we don't like."
Of course, with the way Putin is going this may still be true again if you just remove the word "Soviet."
Cheers,
Dave
Let's see. Twice for W, once for Dole, twice for H.W., twice for Reagan, once for Ford. Couldn't vote for Nixon since I wasn't old enough. I just wish Condi was running this time.
I find it amusing that you approve of personal violence as a means of influencing the vote. Have you considered moving to a country that approves of such actions? Also, odd that you proclaim that you're not a liberal. With your lack of logical consistency you'd fit right in.
Cheers,
Dave
Hopefully the liberals will continue to not figure out that whinny, over-the-top hyperbole in situations like this only gives everyone else a good belly laugh. In the past "irregular combatants" were not considered any different than spies and were executed. Sounds like we just keep them in "Club Gitmo" until we find out what they know and find a place that will accept them. Of course that's not good enough for those who also blame this country for being attacked.
Cheers,
Dave
This may have been true some time ago. The folks who create and spread malware these days are motivated by simple greed. Botnets and such are big business. So is the information harvested from unsuspecting users through key loggers. Terrorists tend to be ideologically motivated regardless of whether the ideology is religion, politics or whatever.
Change the economics of web sites hosting malware and that infect unsuspecting users and the effort will go in a different direction. Consider the expense these people went to to create false results through Google by having a bunch of fake sites set up to point to the malware host. This isn't necessarily expense in the sense of money changing hands but more likely effort that was channelled to creating the falsified results. How many bots had to be created to get Google to point to the malware web host?
Cheers,
Dave
When writing parallel software, you need to treat the interactions between different threads of execution the same way you treat interactions between different code elements. This is a *DESIGN* issue. That's why debuggers aren't usually useful for finding such problems. Debuggers let you find sequential logic errors but rarely give you any insight into state coupling errors that only occur during real-time execution of the program. This is true whether the error occurs between different threads of the same code or different processes of the overall program. For some reason, people are particullarly unable to see such problems between different threads.
I first ran into this sort of problem in 1983 when working on a CDC mainframe. The only way to find the bug was the line by line analysis method since even compiling the code with debug caused it to run slower and the nature of the problem changed. That's as much detail as I remember.
I expect to see a lot more of these kinds of errors pop up as multi-core CPUs become more prevalent (true parallel execution) and people continue to assume that they can just crank out code without taking the time to understand the design. I'd also expect the prevalence of multi-core processors to create a demand for more parallelism. If you don't take advantage of the additional cores, your program will only be as fast as if it were on a single core system. If the competition can create a program that uses the additional cores, your program will seem slow.
Cheers,
Dave
That sure explains a lot about some managers I've known.
Cheers,
Dave
Hmmm. So everybody at Microsoft secretly uses a Mac or runs Linux on a PC and he caused productivity to implode by insisting that they actually use the products they were creating. Having been briefly exposed to Vista (until I could wipe it off of my Wife's laptop) and hearing her complain about the gawd-awful ribbon interface in the new office, I can believe it.
Cheers,
Dave
Jalapenos aren't hot. They're just nicely warm. Try some Thai bird chiles or a scotch bonnet or habanero. Better yet, go to a Thai restaurant and order a spicy dish cooked "Thai hot" (that's a level above just "hot" in case you didn't guess). Yummy.
I wonder if they had to correct the study for those volunteers who liked hot, spicy food. I know my tolerance for heat goes up the more frquently I have hot food. I could see going in for surgery and have the doctor try this and it doesn't work unless they bump up the capsaicin on a chile head (like me).
Cheers,
Dave
Other than a very few from a steadily shrinking list, almost all modern weapons are automated to some extent. The level of automation varies from automatic weapons such as machine guns (been around since before WWI) and assault rifles (WWII) to various guided or "smart" munitions. The comment would have been a little less lame if the word robotic had been used instead of automated although still hopelessly naive. Automated/robotic weapons usually mean that fewer people are killed; not more. Or would the submitter prefer a return to the massed infantry tactics of WWI and prior?
Cheers,
Dave
Jumbo shrimp
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Military intelligence
A new classic
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Dave
Does this mean I can sick the RIAA on the guy in the car in the next lane for blaring his bad taste in music at everyone within a thousand yards of his car? Could be a useful precedent.
Cheers,
Dave
I was going to post the same point but (in toitally un-/. manner) checked for someone else having previously made the point. We may not agree with the way copyrights restrict our ability to listen to music but the parent post is spot on as to what the legalities are. I learned about this when complaining about "Musac" (commercial elevator music) back in the 1970s. Things have gotten worse, not better, since then.
Cheers,
Dave
Maintenance panels off is a different animal. Just when you said "no pictures" it was a little too broad. Lots of /.ers think they're seeing something forbidden with the photos of the Japanese stealth fighter mock-up. What I know about stealth technology (e.g., what I read in Ben Rich's "Skunk Works" plus working a few radar software projects back in the 1980s, etc.) indicates that materials, coatings, shape and burying things like engines are all involved. The F-117A demonstrated the possibilities but with a plane that is very difficult to maintain. There's probably a lot of hands on engineering in the F-22 to make it easier to maintain that the Japanese still have to learn.
That is really an amazing airplane. The demo team performed quite a few "non-aerodynamic" manuevers that are simply impossible with a conventional airplane. The F-15 and F-16 demos were impressive but when the F-22 pilot hovered and did a "standing back flip" (think of it as a loop but in place), I was just awestruck.
Cheers,
Dave
The F-22 demo was very impressive since the demo team also showed off its thrust vectoring capability to do several things that even a Harrier can't do (better avionics means that the F-22 doesn't just rely on pilot skill to stay stable when vectoring). Expect to see quite a few pictures since the Sunday "Heritage Flight" had all three demo team jets (F-15, F-16 and F-22) flying in formation with a Mustang which matched the "Heritage Flight" patch for the first time ever.
Cheers,
Dave
Check to see if there are any point-to-point wireless providers for your area. Depending on other traffic, I get up to about T1 speeds with an 18 inch dish on my roof that points to their antenna. If it's not available, it's not an option but you might not be asking the right question.
Cheers,
Dave
Gory detail to back up what you said... The bankruptcy filing indicated that there are only about 400 individual owners of SCO common stock. This is tiny even for a company the size of SCO. I'd guess that the majority of shares are owned by board members and other insiders such as Canopy Group. It also wouldn't surprise me if a large number of ahares were owned (possibly through some agent to keep the relationship obscure) by Microsquish.
Cheers,
Dave
The judge already found that Novell is the rightful owner of Unix so that concern is a little late. On the other hand, Novell also now owns SuSE Linux and continues to distribute it under the GPL. That means that any overlap, whether intentional or unintentional, no longer matters. There are no longer *ANY* grounds for someone to claim that Linux infringes Unix copyrights. Any such "infringement" just means that Novell as the Unix copyright owner released the code under the GPL. Funny how that works.
I'd worry more about MicroSoft's new pattent FUD campaign. They're using the same strategy as SCO but claiming pattents instead of copyrights (claim there's infringement but not say where or even which patents). S-I-G-H. On the plus side, M$ keeps getting zinged by patent trolls so maybe they'll start working against software patents. Big, rich companies have a lot more to lose and very little to gain.
Cheers,
Dave
BTW, IANAL so the above may be wrong but I don't think so.
You might also look a little more closely at countries with socialized medecine like Canada and the U.K. Those with money leave to get the care they need in a timely manner. Those who can't afford to leave sometimes die waiting for facilities and tests that are considered routine in this country. Yeah, they may have a lower infant mortality rate but don't get sick with something that requires specialized treatment (unless you can afford to pick up the tab yourself possibly after some travel).
Cheers,
Dave
The conversion from chapter 11 (re-organization) to chapter 7 (liquidation) happens automatically if the company can't show how they can remain a going concern. Assuming Novell gets justice, this is a done deal.
The judge in the SCO v. Novell case ruled that SCO retained money that legally belonged to Novell (the legal term is "conversion"). The amount has yet to be determined but chances are that it is greater than SCO's net worth ($30 million has been bandied about). Since this is money that SCO had no right to keep, Novell moves ahead of the creditor pack and SCO is toast. If you dig around on Groklaw, someone found the clause in the Asset Purchase Agreement (APA - the legal document that set up SCO as the bagman and overseer of Unix licenses) that states that money collected by SCO for Unix SVRX licenses belongs to Novell specifcally in case SCO declares bankruptcy.
SCO is in the same position as a bank robber who tries to declare bankruptcy to avoid giving the bank back it's money. The bank robber may have other creditors but they have no claim on the money stolen from the bank since it's still the bank's money. SCO didn't rob a bank but they illegally converted money that belongs to Novell into their own which amounts to the same thing.
I wonder if any of SCO's old trade show swag is at all interesting. Who knows, in fifty years it might be worth something on e-bay.
Cheers,
Dave