Exactly. In rural areas they wanted to compete with satellite and long-range wireless providers. The default installation here is now a HSPA+ (42 Mbps) router for fast ethernet and wireless-N. Since cell phones probably outnumber these installations 100-to-1, this is an expected result. I don't understand the OP's car analogy.
Those aren't your sub-100W corporate boxes. Rough calculations for gaming PSUs on 230V would be tens of thousands of amps. And good thing it's winter in Sweden!
Same here. Intel Desktop Board with integrated Atom. I installed XP with most services disabled, no AV, just some IP cam software. It only has LAN access (no Internet). Runs fast and has never gone down. My favorite part is the power consumption--measuring at the wall with activity was 18W.
Having read your first four autobiographies, and seeing that you just released your sixth, have you checked if you hold any records for the most autobiographies published?
1) Correct, not everybody. I would estimate that there will be 1 PC owner with 32-bit hardware wanting to pay $150 to upgrade to Windows 8 for every 10,000 PCs with 64-bit hardware sold with or upgraded to Windows 8. 2) Correct. And these systems can continue to run XP Embedded or 7. And in five years I bet the new hardware will be x86-64 or ARM. 3) Or perhaps there's no dependencies. 4) Any time you work with drivers (for hardware or software), a single version becomes two. There are millions of jobs where this requires more work and more opportunity for problems. I create an installer package for SEP, I create two. When the installer needs to be run, I need to run the right package on the right system. This is just one of a thousand examples I experience. I can't even imagine other people's jobs.
You would have a hard time finding a new PC today that ships with Windows 7 32-bit (and isn't the 32-bit-only Starter edition). Why not drop it and make all our lives easier? Legacy systems can use Windows 7 or VMs.
This. And it's not just software and services, they're keeping everything from the HP Enterprise Business and HP Imaging and Printing Group. This means LaserJet, ProLiant, ProCurve (or whatever they call it now), etc. is all hardware that is here to stay.
Yes, switching to 5 GHz should help, but not all your equipment may support it.
The other solution is to overpower them. Something like this can be cranked up to 19dBm assuming you only need internet-level speeds. You'll screw everyone else, but it should work.
My grandfather was throwing out his NAD 7030 (30+ years old) so he could replace it with something newer and smaller. I took it home, sprayed the tuner, and now own a beautiful, high-quality amp. Article title irony.
Even on a small scale this makes sense. The easiest is 2.5" external drives ($100 for 1TB). This avoids the mess of power adapters. If you need significantly more storage, you may want to consider a dock ($50) and internal desktop drives ($80 for 2TB). Consider this: you can buy from anywhere a USB adapter that will plug into a 20+ year old drive and any OS will mount it. Wish I could say the same about all my removable media...
Traditionally the way to do this is with tape. As you replace the drive (and you will), your tape capacity increases, but it will be read-compatible with your old tapes. The investment is huge, but it makes it very easy to replicate, take off-site, archive, etc.
Not recently. Instead they prompt you to create your own. If you failed to do this, and you only needed to access the System Recovery Options mentioned in the TechNet blog, you could use a disc from any PC with the same version of Windows.
The "F8" method might not be available because of the broken MBR, so you would have to use a disc. Also, "system recovery" should read "system restore". Going back a day doesn't loose files, it just reverts to previous versions of system files and the registry.
The Microsoft engineer is quoted as saying, "restore your system to a pre-infected state". The article then says, "a recovery disc returns Windows to its factory settings". This is entirely false. The engineer is not saying to do a factory restore. For the layman using 7: use F8 or a 7 disc and choose "repair your computer", run the command prompt, run fixmbr, run system recovery and go back a day.
That's an interesting world you live in. I could have a rootkit right now and not know it. In fact, I better format and flash immediately after posting this.
I'm not sure why this was posted in reply to my comment. When I spoke of others having their data wiped by a technician, it was usually because they couldn't fix a Windows problem (no start, software doesn't install, etc). As far as rootkits in the wild go these days, they're nearly all used to empower a hoax product. Their removal has become mundane. Sure there could be another, more exotic rootkit that doesn't exhibit symptoms, but that could be the case at any time.
"a problem with the power supply unit that we fixed for about a fiver" It doesn't say what was done, but who bills $8 for repairs?
In my experience the problem isn't malicious technicians, just incompetent or lazy ones. Formatting drives with customer's data (no backup or consultation) is probably the biggest one. Pirated Windows installations when there's a COA on the case for the same version (not totally sure what this is about). Days spent troubleshooting a problem that anyone with experience would take five minutes. The list goes on.
While everyone is concerned about their next iPad, no one seemed to notice that Japan is one of the only manufacturers of data tapes. Well, almost no one.
Right away you know this guy lives in his own little world. I can guarantee if you walk into a retail store today and checked each desktop and notebook, less than 1 in 10 will have USB 3.0.
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Exactly. In rural areas they wanted to compete with satellite and long-range wireless providers. The default installation here is now a HSPA+ (42 Mbps) router for fast ethernet and wireless-N. Since cell phones probably outnumber these installations 100-to-1, this is an expected result. I don't understand the OP's car analogy.
Those aren't your sub-100W corporate boxes. Rough calculations for gaming PSUs on 230V would be tens of thousands of amps. And good thing it's winter in Sweden!
Not when the IP cam software only supports Windows.
Same here. Intel Desktop Board with integrated Atom. I installed XP with most services disabled, no AV, just some IP cam software. It only has LAN access (no Internet). Runs fast and has never gone down. My favorite part is the power consumption--measuring at the wall with activity was 18W.
Having read your first four autobiographies, and seeing that you just released your sixth, have you checked if you hold any records for the most autobiographies published?
1) Correct, not everybody. I would estimate that there will be 1 PC owner with 32-bit hardware wanting to pay $150 to upgrade to Windows 8 for every 10,000 PCs with 64-bit hardware sold with or upgraded to Windows 8.
2) Correct. And these systems can continue to run XP Embedded or 7. And in five years I bet the new hardware will be x86-64 or ARM.
3) Or perhaps there's no dependencies.
4) Any time you work with drivers (for hardware or software), a single version becomes two. There are millions of jobs where this requires more work and more opportunity for problems. I create an installer package for SEP, I create two. When the installer needs to be run, I need to run the right package on the right system. This is just one of a thousand examples I experience. I can't even imagine other people's jobs.
You would have a hard time finding a new PC today that ships with Windows 7 32-bit (and isn't the 32-bit-only Starter edition). Why not drop it and make all our lives easier? Legacy systems can use Windows 7 or VMs.
This. And it's not just software and services, they're keeping everything from the HP Enterprise Business and HP Imaging and Printing Group. This means LaserJet, ProLiant, ProCurve (or whatever they call it now), etc. is all hardware that is here to stay.
If you read the article you linked, the deal was with HP Enterprise Systems. Today's news is about splitting or selling HP Personal Systems Group.
Yes, switching to 5 GHz should help, but not all your equipment may support it.
The other solution is to overpower them. Something like this can be cranked up to 19dBm assuming you only need internet-level speeds. You'll screw everyone else, but it should work.
My grandfather was throwing out his NAD 7030 (30+ years old) so he could replace it with something newer and smaller. I took it home, sprayed the tuner, and now own a beautiful, high-quality amp. Article title irony.
Even on a small scale this makes sense. The easiest is 2.5" external drives ($100 for 1TB). This avoids the mess of power adapters. If you need significantly more storage, you may want to consider a dock ($50) and internal desktop drives ($80 for 2TB). Consider this: you can buy from anywhere a USB adapter that will plug into a 20+ year old drive and any OS will mount it. Wish I could say the same about all my removable media...
Traditionally the way to do this is with tape. As you replace the drive (and you will), your tape capacity increases, but it will be read-compatible with your old tapes. The investment is huge, but it makes it very easy to replicate, take off-site, archive, etc.
And they take better pictures than I do...
Here you go. Use the product key attached to the machine.
If you buy Windows (whether OEM or retail) you get a disc. If you buy a brand-name PC with Windows, you get prompted to make a disc.
What? So you can't use rstrui (system restore) or fixmbr with Knoppix, but you figure this is the best way to do both of these things?
Right. They prompt you to make one. If you consider yourself the type to want to fix your PC, you would of done this, or already have one.
Not recently. Instead they prompt you to create your own. If you failed to do this, and you only needed to access the System Recovery Options mentioned in the TechNet blog, you could use a disc from any PC with the same version of Windows.
The "F8" method might not be available because of the broken MBR, so you would have to use a disc. Also, "system recovery" should read "system restore". Going back a day doesn't loose files, it just reverts to previous versions of system files and the registry.
The Microsoft engineer is quoted as saying, "restore your system to a pre-infected state". The article then says, "a recovery disc returns Windows to its factory settings". This is entirely false. The engineer is not saying to do a factory restore. For the layman using 7: use F8 or a 7 disc and choose "repair your computer", run the command prompt, run fixmbr, run system recovery and go back a day.
Right. I don't understand why this is on Slashdot. I've watched dozens of nature and astrophotography time lapses, and most are better than this one.
That's an interesting world you live in. I could have a rootkit right now and not know it. In fact, I better format and flash immediately after posting this.
I'm not sure why this was posted in reply to my comment. When I spoke of others having their data wiped by a technician, it was usually because they couldn't fix a Windows problem (no start, software doesn't install, etc). As far as rootkits in the wild go these days, they're nearly all used to empower a hoax product. Their removal has become mundane. Sure there could be another, more exotic rootkit that doesn't exhibit symptoms, but that could be the case at any time.
"a problem with the power supply unit that we fixed for about a fiver" It doesn't say what was done, but who bills $8 for repairs?
In my experience the problem isn't malicious technicians, just incompetent or lazy ones. Formatting drives with customer's data (no backup or consultation) is probably the biggest one. Pirated Windows installations when there's a COA on the case for the same version (not totally sure what this is about). Days spent troubleshooting a problem that anyone with experience would take five minutes. The list goes on.
While everyone is concerned about their next iPad, no one seemed to notice that Japan is one of the only manufacturers of data tapes. Well, almost no one.
Right away you know this guy lives in his own little world. I can guarantee if you walk into a retail store today and checked each desktop and notebook, less than 1 in 10 will have USB 3.0.