Re:It might if you keep advertizing it ever y day
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Can Microsoft Beat Google?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
They dont need to, many users will just use whatever is the default on the os/browser that came by default.. MS has never competed by adding value when it's easier to do so by harassing users until they capitulate.
No, that wasn't the point... On a completely fresh machine with nothing installed, you need only insert the cd and it will boot much like a playstation does.. This is actually much easier than going through bios settings as you would need to do on an x86 box.. On a machine which already has something installed, you can boot the existing macos and start the installation from the running copy, no need to actually boot the cd.
I agree it's not as easy as it could be, but that wasnt my point.. People often say linux is too hard to install and that the users should use windows and yet those same users couldn't install windows by themselves either. Especially on modern hardware, many linux distributions are actually much easier and less time consuming to install than windows. This also encourages laziness, people don't ever learn how to install any os themselves because someone else will do it for them.
But this is a talk about DEFAULT CONFIGURATION.. If you see fit to configure port knocking or restricting based on ip address then your capable of turning the firewall on in the first place, you would NOT be using the defaults. The point is, that by default on macos there are NO ports open, nothing to connect to atall and therefore theres nothing for a firewall to prevent or restrict connections to, however if the user were to intentionally install such a program then he would also need to know how to reconfigure the firewall to allow his new service
But would the firewall block packets designed to break the firewall stack? A firewall is just an additional stack ontop of the existing one, theres just as much chance of a vulnerability to crash the firewall stack which could have the same effects as crashing the main network stack, wether it just kills networking or crashes the whole machine.
Because swapping files are exactly the kind of things users too clueless to configure a firewall correctly (and thus using the defaults) will be trying to do, if your running a vnc or printer server or indeed any kind of server then you should be clued up enough to configure a firewall.
The purpose of a hardware firewall is just that, a software firewall doesnt stop the traffic reaching your computer since THATS WHERE THE SOFTWARE FIREWALL IS.. It just prevents other processes recieving it. And if a port is closed, no spyware or virus is going to infect it, any traffic sent to a closed port will be responded to with a port unreachable, which is often very usefull for instance if a user has a dynamic ip, and his ip changes and a new user gets the old ip, your connections to the old ip will get reset by the new machine, if the new machine has a firewall configured which drops the packets then your machine will have to wait until it times out.
On a machine with no services running, no spyware or virus will be able to infect your machine remotely over the network, the user would need to initiate the connection himself, this is no different from having a firewall which blocks all incoming connections.
They may not be able to make their products seemlessly integrate with each other, but they can put up barriers to make sure competitors products integrate even worse.
And usually the codec error just shows a number, doesn't say anything usefull... most codecs include their name in the file, it could atleast display that so you know what to google for.
If you had to hold down C then the machine must have already had something installed on it.. if the HD isn't bootable it will default to the CD by default.
windows often requires a geek to set it up too, 99% of windows users never installed the system and only got a preinstalled system from a vendor, so how exactly is this any different?
96mb ram? thats an odd amount, especially for a p4... is it using an onboard displaycard that's stealing 32mb of ram? you dont need that much, reduce it to 4mb or something in the bios and you'l have a bit more ram for the rest of the system..
But much of the free and opensource software is included with linux, or atleast available in a package repository which is available from a single command/click (think apt-get)... for windows on the other hand, you have to go searching google for the app and then you have to take a leap of faith with each individual download site that it won't contain trojans or spyware, which brings up another point, a lot of "free" windows apps contain spyware. It's also amusing to note that windows is the most expensive os and yet comes with no support, all the others have a phone number you can call for help or an email address you can contact.
There's actually no need to enable the OSX firewall by default.. The purpose of enabling the windows firewall by default is to prevent access to services which (stupidly) you cant disable.. On OSX it's possible to disable everything from listening on the network, and this is the default, so the firewall being enabled wouldnt actually stop anything. On the flip side, on all systems, having the firewall enabled often hinders legitimate uses of the system, such as dcc send/chat on irc, or p2p apps etc, so having the firewall enabled by default on osx would actually cause problems while not providing any benefit.
I can't believe they consider windows to be easier to install than OSX, OSX must be one of the easiest installs, easily easier than windows or any of the linux distributions.. asidefrom that, windows doesn't even support serial ata out of the box, so installing it on modern hardware os a HUGE pain in the ass, especially if you dont have a floppy drive to load the driver from, and even if you do.. its far from intuitive
They noted "No Live CD" as a negative point of Xandros, but this isn't listed as a negative point for windows or osx, since these don't include a livecd either... (MacOS9 used to include a livecd, infact the installer involved booting to a full macos desktop from which you ran the installer)
It looks like msoffice, ms apps always look dated and ugly, and openoffice is trying to clone that appearance.
Re:Openvms is downloadable too. Most reliable OS.
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Solaris 10 Released
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I have OpenVMS media, and machines to run it on, i've just never been able to sign up for a license... Most of the user groups i had to join required a fee, the one i found that i could join wouldn't let me download the openvms license..
But the beauty of PDF is that it's an open format, it may be controlled by one company but the specs are public so theres nothing to stop you writing your own reader/writer.. And msoffice takes a similar time to load... Other PDF viewers dont take so long to load, "preview" that comes with OSX is very fast, as is Xpdf on unix machines... You dont get the flexibility of being able to use multiple apps like this with a close format.
Atleast one site i host (A game site called BNT = http://bnt.burmeseonline.net) has 1% of hits coming from lynx users, atleast a few hundred hits per day most days..
But by doing this, you are reinforcing certain webmasters belief that there is no other browser out there and that theres no reason why they shouldnt make sites using propriatory crap that consequently won't display on firefox, or on your linux box atall, forcing you to buy an expensive commercial os if you want to browse the web.
The prices only stay down while the competition persists, once the competition has been eliminated MS will raise prices against... Just compare the cost of windows to the cost of dos.
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They dont need to, many users will just use whatever is the default on the os/browser that came by default.. MS has never competed by adding value when it's easier to do so by harassing users until they capitulate.
In the table at the end, which gave them marks out of 100 for installation.
No, that wasn't the point...
On a completely fresh machine with nothing installed, you need only insert the cd and it will boot much like a playstation does.. This is actually much easier than going through bios settings as you would need to do on an x86 box..
On a machine which already has something installed, you can boot the existing macos and start the installation from the running copy, no need to actually boot the cd.
I agree it's not as easy as it could be, but that wasnt my point..
People often say linux is too hard to install and that the users should use windows and yet those same users couldn't install windows by themselves either.
Especially on modern hardware, many linux distributions are actually much easier and less time consuming to install than windows.
This also encourages laziness, people don't ever learn how to install any os themselves because someone else will do it for them.
But this is a talk about DEFAULT CONFIGURATION.. If you see fit to configure port knocking or restricting based on ip address then your capable of turning the firewall on in the first place, you would NOT be using the defaults.
The point is, that by default on macos there are NO ports open, nothing to connect to atall and therefore theres nothing for a firewall to prevent or restrict connections to, however if the user were to intentionally install such a program then he would also need to know how to reconfigure the firewall to allow his new service
But would the firewall block packets designed to break the firewall stack? A firewall is just an additional stack ontop of the existing one, theres just as much chance of a vulnerability to crash the firewall stack which could have the same effects as crashing the main network stack, wether it just kills networking or crashes the whole machine.
Because swapping files are exactly the kind of things users too clueless to configure a firewall correctly (and thus using the defaults) will be trying to do, if your running a vnc or printer server or indeed any kind of server then you should be clued up enough to configure a firewall.
The purpose of a hardware firewall is just that, a software firewall doesnt stop the traffic reaching your computer since THATS WHERE THE SOFTWARE FIREWALL IS.. It just prevents other processes recieving it. And if a port is closed, no spyware or virus is going to infect it, any traffic sent to a closed port will be responded to with a port unreachable, which is often very usefull for instance if a user has a dynamic ip, and his ip changes and a new user gets the old ip, your connections to the old ip will get reset by the new machine, if the new machine has a firewall configured which drops the packets then your machine will have to wait until it times out.
On a machine with no services running, no spyware or virus will be able to infect your machine remotely over the network, the user would need to initiate the connection himself, this is no different from having a firewall which blocks all incoming connections.
They may not be able to make their products seemlessly integrate with each other, but they can put up barriers to make sure competitors products integrate even worse.
And usually the codec error just shows a number, doesn't say anything usefull... most codecs include their name in the file, it could atleast display that so you know what to google for.
If you had to hold down C then the machine must have already had something installed on it.. if the HD isn't bootable it will default to the CD by default.
windows often requires a geek to set it up too, 99% of windows users never installed the system and only got a preinstalled system from a vendor, so how exactly is this any different?
96mb ram? thats an odd amount, especially for a p4... is it using an onboard displaycard that's stealing 32mb of ram? you dont need that much, reduce it to 4mb or something in the bios and you'l have a bit more ram for the rest of the system..
But much of the free and opensource software is included with linux, or atleast available in a package repository which is available from a single command/click (think apt-get)... for windows on the other hand, you have to go searching google for the app and then you have to take a leap of faith with each individual download site that it won't contain trojans or spyware, which brings up another point, a lot of "free" windows apps contain spyware.
It's also amusing to note that windows is the most expensive os and yet comes with no support, all the others have a phone number you can call for help or an email address you can contact.
There's actually no need to enable the OSX firewall by default.. The purpose of enabling the windows firewall by default is to prevent access to services which (stupidly) you cant disable.. On OSX it's possible to disable everything from listening on the network, and this is the default, so the firewall being enabled wouldnt actually stop anything.
On the flip side, on all systems, having the firewall enabled often hinders legitimate uses of the system, such as dcc send/chat on irc, or p2p apps etc, so having the firewall enabled by default on osx would actually cause problems while not providing any benefit.
I can't believe they consider windows to be easier to install than OSX, OSX must be one of the easiest installs, easily easier than windows or any of the linux distributions.. asidefrom that, windows doesn't even support serial ata out of the box, so installing it on modern hardware os a HUGE pain in the ass, especially if you dont have a floppy drive to load the driver from, and even if you do.. its far from intuitive
They noted "No Live CD" as a negative point of Xandros, but this isn't listed as a negative point for windows or osx, since these don't include a livecd either...
(MacOS9 used to include a livecd, infact the installer involved booting to a full macos desktop from which you ran the installer)
It looks like msoffice, ms apps always look dated and ugly, and openoffice is trying to clone that appearance.
I have OpenVMS media, and machines to run it on, i've just never been able to sign up for a license... Most of the user groups i had to join required a fee, the one i found that i could join wouldn't let me download the openvms license..
But the beauty of PDF is that it's an open format, it may be controlled by one company but the specs are public so theres nothing to stop you writing your own reader/writer.. And msoffice takes a similar time to load...
Other PDF viewers dont take so long to load, "preview" that comes with OSX is very fast, as is Xpdf on unix machines... You dont get the flexibility of being able to use multiple apps like this with a close format.
Oops, that should be http://bnt.burmeseonline.org Not .net
Atleast one site i host (A game site called BNT = http://bnt.burmeseonline.net) has 1% of hits coming from lynx users, atleast a few hundred hits per day most days..
But by doing this, you are reinforcing certain webmasters belief that there is no other browser out there and that theres no reason why they shouldnt make sites using propriatory crap that consequently won't display on firefox, or on your linux box atall, forcing you to buy an expensive commercial os if you want to browse the web.
Haha, send me it!..
Is it still vulnerable on 2003?
The prices only stay down while the competition persists, once the competition has been eliminated MS will raise prices against... Just compare the cost of windows to the cost of dos.