The ability to host your mail on GMail is an OPTION. If you don't take it, you get the standard server+Squirrelmail interface you always have with them.
Compared to XP it is worlds above in both stability and usability
If you don't mind that "SP1 eats your system" thing. Or the "Time remaining on file copy = Infinity+1" thing. Or the....
It almost even comes close to KDE for a decent UI.
Okay, now I KNOW you're looking to get modded "+1 Funny"
What are the reasons people want to stay with XP??
Because it's stable, has driver support out the ying-yang, performs better than Vista on similar hardware, doesn't waste resources when what someone merely wants is a standard desktop, it doesn't go out of it's way to obfuscate necessary system management tools, and setting aside all the BS about UAC, isn't really less secure than Vista. It's not that XP really has more upsides than Vista. Just fewer downsides.
As it is, I manage 1200 users, and we are happily switching all to Vista (as well as SLED) as we roll out new machines.
It's your funeral...
Personally, I'm hoping Microsoft really HAS learned it's lesson, and MinWin will be a step in the right direction.
This is a SQL injection attack. IIS just happens to be the front-end of a poorly written web app.
Thus, if I'm running a web app that doesn't rely on IIS for anything more than presentation, and am not using SQL in my authentication (say something like Terminal Services or GraphOn), I should be fine.
However you slice it, even if this "friendly" botnet is performing some beneficial task (such as kacking a bad botnet that's infected my machine), it's STILL bad!
It's accessing and carrying out tasks on my machine without my express permission.
HELL FUCKING NO!
This is NOT a "lesser of two evils" choice here. BOTH choices (malicious botnet or "beneficial" botnet) are evil, PERIOD!
My brand-spanking new ThinkPad T61p sports a 1920x1200 widescreen.
This is more screen real estate than my last ThinkPad, an A31p (1600x1200)
I can view EXACTLY the same number of lines of code on each of them. Except now, if I have a line that's slightly longer than 1600 pixels, I can look at it without scrolling.
Sure, physical-height-wise I have less screen. Big fscking deal. My vision is perfect. So I can enjoy maximum resolution without squinting or needing the screen magnifier.
If you have that much of a problem reading smaller, high-resolution displays, get your eyes checked and get glasses.
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Oh wait...
Maybe not...
Here's hoping they have better luck than some of the switchovers I've had the "privilege.
Seriously, is it that hard?
The ability to host your mail on GMail is an OPTION. If you don't take it, you get the standard server+Squirrelmail interface you always have with them.
Sweet Jesus! Cmdr. Taco just shoved that slide rule up Cowboy Neal's ass! SIDEWAYS! AND HE LOVED IT!
You WERE intending this for a Funny mod right?
Ask them how well their campaign of suppression is working out for them.
School is NOT about education. It is simply jail/daycare for kids.
I swear. If I see a single grit, hot or otherwise, someone dies...
I was trying for a +1 "Funny" modifier.
"I have a 5 1/4 floppy drive and some disks set aside for the exact same reason.....someday I'll want that info and then I'll be all set."
If bit-rot doesn't do you in first.
Otherwise you're pretty boned.
Nope. Take offense when some silly git tries to hijack a thread with partisan BS where none is relative.
As a card-carrying Republican, take offense to that.
This isn't a "right-wing" or "left-wing" bullshit issue. This is a "unscrupulous fucking company with no moral center" issue.
Please take the pointless partisanism someplace else.
Now we have a weapons manufacturer dictating medical procedure and reporting.
*Sniff* *Sniff* I smell bullshit....
You vastly underestimate these people's abilities to justify ANYTHING in their quest to be "right".
Gary Gnu wants his tagline back.
Hello?
Bueller?
I've been a Vista user for over a year now
You have our condolences.
and am somewhat satisfied with the OS.
Wow. What a resounding display of support!
Compared to XP it is worlds above in both stability and usability
If you don't mind that "SP1 eats your system" thing. Or the "Time remaining on file copy = Infinity+1" thing. Or the....
It almost even comes close to KDE for a decent UI.
Okay, now I KNOW you're looking to get modded "+1 Funny"
What are the reasons people want to stay with XP??
Because it's stable, has driver support out the ying-yang, performs better than Vista on similar hardware, doesn't waste resources when what someone merely wants is a standard desktop, it doesn't go out of it's way to obfuscate necessary system management tools, and setting aside all the BS about UAC, isn't really less secure than Vista. It's not that XP really has more upsides than Vista. Just fewer downsides.
As it is, I manage 1200 users, and we are happily switching all to Vista (as well as SLED) as we roll out new machines.
It's your funeral...
Personally, I'm hoping Microsoft really HAS learned it's lesson, and MinWin will be a step in the right direction.
This is a SQL injection attack. IIS just happens to be the front-end of a poorly written web app.
Thus, if I'm running a web app that doesn't rely on IIS for anything more than presentation, and am not using SQL in my authentication (say something like Terminal Services or GraphOn), I should be fine.
Correct?
Just for that snide remark, you get to provide Ballmer with some chairs...
NO!
NO NO NO NO!
However you slice it, even if this "friendly" botnet is performing some beneficial task (such as kacking a bad botnet that's infected my machine), it's STILL bad!
It's accessing and carrying out tasks on my machine without my express permission.
HELL FUCKING NO!
This is NOT a "lesser of two evils" choice here. BOTH choices (malicious botnet or "beneficial" botnet) are evil, PERIOD!
Too bad they use a non-standard connector.
Not to mention they're taller than standard laptop drives.
So they won't fit in the backplane. Been to Frys, saw the backplane you're talking about, it's made for laptop drives.
And, as noted in a sibling post, these things would cook themselves to death, even if they DID fit.
This is the real determining factor here.
My brand-spanking new ThinkPad T61p sports a 1920x1200 widescreen.
This is more screen real estate than my last ThinkPad, an A31p (1600x1200)
I can view EXACTLY the same number of lines of code on each of them. Except now, if I have a line that's slightly longer than 1600 pixels, I can look at it without scrolling.
Sure, physical-height-wise I have less screen. Big fscking deal. My vision is perfect. So I can enjoy maximum resolution without squinting or needing the screen magnifier.
If you have that much of a problem reading smaller, high-resolution displays, get your eyes checked and get glasses.
You forget the Microsoft Method of software classification.
Regular software model: Microsoft software model.
First Raw Ugly Code: Alpha
First Revision: Beta
Second Revision: RC1
Cleaned Revision: Shipping
Pre Alpha: Immediate Bugfix
Alpha: SP1
Beta: SP2
RC1: SP3
Shipping: Security Rollup
Wow. Let's run a bunch of single-threaded benchmarks to show how a faster CPU beats a slower CPU!
BRILLIANCE!
Why not run tests for F@H or Distributed.net and show what beats what?
Oh yes. The mythical "ordinary load".
This article may as well have just run 3dMark and called it a day, their results being almost as meaningful.