My favorite Slashdot-ism: The complete, unthinking, absolutely unassailable assumption that every MS employee must be a lying bastard, hypocritical and backstabbing to the end...
"when things don't check out." Because of course they're all lying bastards, and of course it won't check out... and "of course" if you gave the source to Linus he'd save us all!
Oracle hires a PI to dig through Microsoft's trash; Sound dirty to me, but Slashdot says "yay". Sun talks the EU into opening an Anti-trust probe...
Everybody goes after Microsoft; is it suprising that they want to defend themselves?
Why don't y'all get in a huff when the money is going the other way around? It can't be morally offensive for MS to do it, and then just fine for the anybody else.
->TheObvious: Does Sears feel guilty after spending money made on Craftsman to promote Kenmore? What about all those appliance vendors that don't have the opportunity to sell tools, clothing and cheap jewelry?
That's anti-competitive! There oughta be a law....
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al Qaeda Hacks XP?
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As an employee who has worked in the OS division of Microsoft I would like to say unequivocally that this article is complete crap.
There is no way that you could try to put a terrorist-sized hole in XP without a lot of people noticing.
-For the months before the OS ships every line of code that is modified is examined on several levels; every bug that is found could potentially be investigated by any of dozens of people in any part of the organization...
-There's nearly a 1/1 ratio of Test/Dev in the critical parts of the system; to do this you would have to get the developer(s) and the tester(s) responsible for that chunk of code/functionality.
-Automated tools run by seperate groups review changes and record owners; try to sabotage something once & you won't get a second chance.
-Automated tools run by testers review code that's not exercised by test-passes, reporting on changes so that the hole can be filled.
This simply did not happen and it's embarrassing that this pseudo-technical forum is giving the report even a little credit. I would expect better from even the bitter/angry/biased-microsoft-haters that make up the such a vocal percentage of the slashdot crowd.
Bill certainly doesn't seem to like open-source (gasp!) but he didn't claim to invent it. From the article it sounds like he claimed credit for aiding the spread by encouraging standards...
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MS DOS: A Eulogy
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I'd like to clarify something here: It took this many cycles of the NT OS for MS to figure out the benefits to doing something from the command line, but they've finally caught on. In XP you see their first real push to provide a command-line equivalent for everything that you can do inside of it's management consoles. Virtually any management task that you would perform using the GUI can be scripted and run remotely from the command line.
While they're pushing more gunk into the GUI they're not saying they no-longer need command prompts -- cmd.exe is a usefull tool & it gets more functionality with each release.
Take a look at the advances made in win2k & xp: partitioning from the command line, scriptable running in alternate credentials, recovery consoles to securely access your NTFS data in the event of a system crash, etc...
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Congratulations Taco; Good luck, and I hope she's as geeky as you are underneath that pretty picture. :)
:p
You'll have to put your Honeymoon destination up for a poll.
I didn't recognize you as the only person on the thread who wasn't pointing in redmond's direction and shouting "You Bastards".
My favorite Slashdot-ism: The complete, unthinking, absolutely unassailable assumption that every MS employee must be a lying bastard, hypocritical and backstabbing to the end...
"when things don't check out." Because of course they're all lying bastards, and of course it won't check out... and "of course" if you gave the source to Linus he'd save us all!
Go nuts.
Oracle hires a PI to dig through Microsoft's trash; Sound dirty to me, but Slashdot says "yay". Sun talks the EU into opening an Anti-trust probe...
Everybody goes after Microsoft; is it suprising that they want to defend themselves?
Why don't y'all get in a huff when the money is going the other way around? It can't be morally offensive for MS to do it, and then just fine for the anybody else.
->TheObvious: Does Sears feel guilty after spending money made on Craftsman to promote Kenmore? What about all those appliance vendors that don't have the opportunity to sell tools, clothing and cheap jewelry?
That's anti-competitive! There oughta be a law....
There is no way that you could try to put a terrorist-sized hole in XP without a lot of people noticing.
-For the months before the OS ships every line of code that is modified is examined on several levels; every bug that is found could potentially be investigated by any of dozens of people in any part of the organization...
-There's nearly a 1/1 ratio of Test/Dev in the critical parts of the system; to do this you would have to get the developer(s) and the tester(s) responsible for that chunk of code/functionality.
-Automated tools run by seperate groups review changes and record owners; try to sabotage something once & you won't get a second chance.
-Automated tools run by testers review code that's not exercised by test-passes, reporting on changes so that the hole can be filled.
This simply did not happen and it's embarrassing that this pseudo-technical forum is giving the report even a little credit. I would expect better from even the bitter/angry/biased-microsoft-haters that make up the such a vocal percentage of the slashdot crowd.
Bill certainly doesn't seem to like open-source (gasp!) but he didn't claim to invent it. From the article it sounds like he claimed credit for aiding the spread by encouraging standards...
I'd like to clarify something here: It took this many cycles of the NT OS for MS to figure out the benefits to doing something from the command line, but they've finally caught on. In XP you see their first real push to provide a command-line equivalent for everything that you can do inside of it's management consoles. Virtually any management task that you would perform using the GUI can be scripted and run remotely from the command line.
While they're pushing more gunk into the GUI they're not saying they no-longer need command prompts -- cmd.exe is a usefull tool & it gets more functionality with each release.
Take a look at the advances made in win2k & xp: partitioning from the command line, scriptable running in alternate credentials, recovery consoles to securely access your NTFS data in the event of a system crash, etc...