In the fourth quarter of 2002, Microsoft delivered to industry partners a developmental release of the 64-bit operating system with application development tools for the AMD 64-bit processor hardware.
Helps to read the article before posting a comment on it.
Actually NVidia includes special video drivers to accelerate Windows graphics functions (GDI+, I believe)... at least on the Toshiba laptop I got (atellite 2435).
Sadly, the Toshiba (P4 2.4ghz) smokes... smoke isn't even the word... kills my G4(s) in terms of performance. Speed-wise there is no comparison whatsoever.
Microsoft gave you a free copy of a really nice piece of software (Visual Studio.NET). Shut up and take it, or send it back, quit overly antagonizing the MS guy for giving you a free copy of the software without a license. He's probably not an MS lawyer, forgive his "grave" flaws.
Sure, you have a point, but the point was made a long time ago.
The penguin rage building up in every Slashdot nerd, just waiting to be unleashed in a hail of enraged letters, thinkgeek.com shirts, and calls for Dell boycotts...
"Oh, they didn't mean Linux, too...Yeah! UNIX is dead!"
I didn't mean to flame. It just touches a sore spot when people say "Someone should write...". Despite being a good idea, it is just that, just a good idea.
Nice suggestion, so why don't YOU start working on it? Ideas are like assholes... yadda yadda
Get off your ass and write it, instead of offering suggestions like the hundreds of other sheep who do, and never get anything done.
From the Windows Update website privacy statement
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· Score: 4, Informative
To provide you with the best possible service, Windows Update also tracks and records how many unique machines visit its site and whether the download and installation of specific updates succeeded or failed. In order to do this, the Windows operating system generates a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) that is stored on your computer to uniquely identify it. The GUID does not contain any personally identifiable information and cannot be used to identify you. Windows Update records the GUID of the computer that attempted the download, the ID of the item that you attempted to download and install, and the configuration information listed above.
Yes, we don't not track you.
Tell that to the Melissa author, and some number of other people who's GUID was used to identify them. Even if you aren't a criminal, this could be misused in so many ways.
Despite loving many Microsoft products and the line of NT OS'es, I wouldn't trust Microsoft as far as I could throw them.
Kill them. Seriously, knee cap them and let them die from the blood loss, and maybe arrange for enough telemarketers to flood their house with calls that they can't possibly get an open line to 911.
As a person who likes to just plain kill things in his video games, I've come up with several ways to kill Sims.
Try having one go use the stove, and when the sim is using it, enter build mode, and fence him in around the stove. He'll soon burst into flames and die, and there'll be a nice tombstone out front.
Another way to kill them, is to make them go swimming in a pool, and while they're doing that, enter Build Mode and remove all of the stepladders. they'll soon drown, and a shiny new tombstone will appear in the front yard. There are a couple other ways that I've figured out how to kill them, but there's two for you.
Just because you made a quick buck in an IPO doesn't give you the right to rant about whatever you want and expect people to bow down.
Actually, he's done a hell of a lot more than that: Netscape Navigator, Lucid Emacs/XEmacs, and XScreensaver, to name just a few.
What have YOU done?
I think you should take your own advice and not rant about people you have little clue about. He's probably done a hell of a lot more for "open source" than you have.
That raises the disquieting possibility of being tracked though our personal possessions. Imagine: The Gap links your sweater's RFID tag with the credit card you used to buy it and recognizes you by name when you return.
I hope the RFID tags can survive the ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) nightmare that is my clunky old dryer. It would be kind of humor to see this come to fruition, only to be wiped out en masse by clothes dryers.
Maybe I should call Maytag and see if they have some type of gauss gun add-on.
I'll probably get marked as a troll by those linux zealot moderators among us, but oh well.
This "study" is preposterous. While Linux has a lower TCO in small lab or workgroup environments it is highly unsuited for real enterprise environments.
While Linux has many of the same feature analogs that Windows 2000 does, the Linux ones are usually incomplete or far inferior to their Microsoft counterparts and require a significant amount of time to install (In order to install software X I have to recompile these libraries too?!? But software Y relies on them, oh? I have to recompile that also?), maintain, and upgrade.
Some of the features required for a successful enterprise solution:
- A Distributed Directory Service. OpenLDAP with SSL? PLEASE! Active Directory works well, right out of the box.
- Client Policy Management. Uh, I can install Samba and hack away to get ntconfig.pol to work, which is a seriously out of date policy scheme from the NT/9x days, or Active Directory.
- Remote Software Installation? In Linux, whichever hack you choose, it's going to require a lot of administrator time. With Windows 2000, you've got the package installation via GPO's. Easy to setup, and you can automaticaly configure clients with software packages based on the organizational unit (eg. Lab 1 in building 4) they're in.
- Centralized Management Tools. There are a few crappy third party tools for Linux, but they suck, to be frank. With Windows 2000, you have the MMC tool. Heavily upgraded since the NT4 days, this tool allows you to generate custom toolsets to administer your entire organization from one window, if you choose. Just add a snap-in and go.
- Remote Administration. Linux? X11 or VNC. Windows? The excellet Remote Desktop/Terminal Services software. Much more stable, smoother (movies & sound via RDP anyone?), and not clunky.
- Kerberos, with no dicking around, nuff said.
- Enterprise monitoring utilities. With Linux, you have things like BB and syslog, yippee. With Windows 2000, you have BB, but also excellent tools like Microsoft Operations Manager, and the numerous other network monitoring tools (like the cool ones from Solar Winds).
- Automatic Updates & Patching. I think Red Hat still has that crappy update utility, sucks if you've gotta update 50 servers that way, though. Microsoft? Software Update Services and Automatic Updates right now. Not the perfect solution, but much better than what Linux has going for it.
Plus, with Automatic Updates configured to automatically download (but not install) your patches, you don't have to sit around in the middle of the night waiting for the downloads to finish for all 50 servers.
With an even moderately competent Win2k administrator a network can be almost completely managed from his desktop.
One can even argue that, with a competent administrator for each, Windows 2000 can be made more secure (while still being perfectly usable). I won't even get into the whole debate about the number of Linux exploits compared to the fewer Windows 2000 exploits on Bugtraq, because that really doesn't mean much overall.
When it comes to pure software price, sure Linux is cheaper. When it comes to the enterprise? Please! Linux can't compete, right now. Microsoft software appears expensive (and most certainly is overpriced), but when you figure in man hours installing, updating, and maintaining, salaries for those people, and downtime while you recompile app x and lib y and app z that depends on y, Windows 2000 starts to look very attractive.
As the old saying goes: "Linux is free, except when it comes to my time".
Why? GNU/Linux sucks for actually getting anything accomplished other than hacking around. This article is about the iApps, nothing of which exists under Linux, of anywhere near the same caliber.
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I must have missed the "much-discussed" piles concept on /. Can someone enlighten me, please?
Piles hasn't already been out for 6 months, so of course you haven't heard about it on Slashdot.
In the fourth quarter of 2002, Microsoft delivered to industry partners a developmental release of the 64-bit operating system with application development tools for the AMD 64-bit processor hardware.
Helps to read the article before posting a comment on it.
Actually NVidia includes special video drivers to accelerate Windows graphics functions (GDI+, I believe)... at least on the Toshiba laptop I got (atellite 2435).
Sadly, the Toshiba (P4 2.4ghz) smokes... smoke isn't even the word... kills my G4(s) in terms of performance. Speed-wise there is no comparison whatsoever.
Microsoft gave you a free copy of a really nice piece of software (Visual Studio .NET). Shut up and take it, or send it back, quit overly antagonizing the MS guy for giving you a free copy of the software without a license. He's probably not an MS lawyer, forgive his "grave" flaws.
Sure, you have a point, but the point was made a long time ago.
God bless John Ashcroft for protecting us from "roulette terrorists".
is it waterproof?
Sun shits on their community more than Microsoft shits on theirs.
The reality distortion field present here is amazing
The penguin rage building up in every Slashdot nerd, just waiting to be unleashed in a hail of enraged letters, thinkgeek.com shirts, and calls for Dell boycotts...
"Oh, they didn't mean Linux, too...Yeah! UNIX is dead!"
I have an old DEC Alpha chip that I've successfully overclocked to 120GHZ using only a 486 CPU fan. I plan to release these to the public in Q4 2003.
I didn't mean to flame. It just touches a sore spot when people say "Someone should write...". Despite being a good idea, it is just that, just a good idea.
Nice suggestion, so why don't YOU start working on it? Ideas are like assholes... yadda yadda
Get off your ass and write it, instead of offering suggestions like the hundreds of other sheep who do, and never get anything done.
To provide you with the best possible service, Windows Update also tracks and records how many unique machines visit its site and whether the download and installation of specific updates succeeded or failed. In order to do this, the Windows operating system generates a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) that is stored on your computer to uniquely identify it. The GUID does not contain any personally identifiable information and cannot be used to identify you. Windows Update records the GUID of the computer that attempted the download, the ID of the item that you attempted to download and install, and the configuration information listed above.
Yes, we don't not track you.
Tell that to the Melissa author, and some number of other people who's GUID was used to identify them. Even if you aren't a criminal, this could be misused in so many ways.
Despite loving many Microsoft products and the line of NT OS'es, I wouldn't trust Microsoft as far as I could throw them.
So what should we do about spam? Ask Barry.
Kill them. Seriously, knee cap them and let them die from the blood loss, and maybe arrange for enough telemarketers to flood their house with calls that they can't possibly get an open line to 911.
Anyone remember Damar's legendary warez BBS in the 714 area code? Or Ice Palace, or the gov't BBS AIS?
Ahh those were the days
As a person who likes to just plain kill things in his video games, I've come up with several ways to kill Sims.
Try having one go use the stove, and when the sim is using it, enter build mode, and fence him in around the stove. He'll soon burst into flames and die, and there'll be a nice tombstone out front.
Another way to kill them, is to make them go swimming in a pool, and while they're doing that, enter Build Mode and remove all of the stepladders. they'll soon drown, and a shiny new tombstone will appear in the front yard. There are a couple other ways that I've figured out how to kill them, but there's two for you.
Be inventive.
Just because you made a quick buck in an IPO doesn't give you the right to rant about whatever you want and expect people to bow down.
Actually, he's done a hell of a lot more than that: Netscape Navigator, Lucid Emacs/XEmacs, and XScreensaver, to name just a few.
What have YOU done?
I think you should take your own advice and not rant about people you have little clue about. He's probably done a hell of a lot more for "open source" than you have.
Thank God! These 10 fonts were the last thing holding me from adopting Linux on the workstation. Now my soul can be saved!
Thank you, Richard Stallman, thank you!
Microsoft already ships Java in Win XP SP1 via Windows Update.
That raises the disquieting possibility of being tracked though our personal possessions. Imagine: The Gap links your sweater's RFID tag with the credit card you used to buy it and recognizes you by name when you return.
I hope the RFID tags can survive the ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) nightmare that is my clunky old dryer. It would be kind of humor to see this come to fruition, only to be wiped out en masse by clothes dryers.
Maybe I should call Maytag and see if they have some type of gauss gun add-on.
I'll probably get marked as a troll by those linux zealot moderators among us, but oh well.
This "study" is preposterous. While Linux has a lower TCO in small lab or workgroup environments it is highly unsuited for real enterprise environments.
While Linux has many of the same feature analogs that Windows 2000 does, the Linux ones are usually incomplete or far inferior to their Microsoft counterparts and require a significant amount of time to install (In order to install software X I have to recompile these libraries too?!? But software Y relies on them, oh? I have to recompile that also?), maintain, and upgrade.
Some of the features required for a successful enterprise solution:
- A Distributed Directory Service. OpenLDAP with SSL? PLEASE! Active Directory works well, right out of the box.
- Client Policy Management. Uh, I can install Samba and hack away to get ntconfig.pol to work, which is a seriously out of date policy scheme from the NT/9x days, or Active Directory.
- Remote Software Installation? In Linux, whichever hack you choose, it's going to require a lot of administrator time. With Windows 2000, you've got the package installation via GPO's. Easy to setup, and you can automaticaly configure clients with software packages based on the organizational unit (eg. Lab 1 in building 4) they're in.
- Centralized Management Tools. There are a few crappy third party tools for Linux, but they suck, to be frank. With Windows 2000, you have the MMC tool. Heavily upgraded since the NT4 days, this tool allows you to generate custom toolsets to administer your entire organization from one window, if you choose. Just add a snap-in and go.
- Remote Administration. Linux? X11 or VNC. Windows? The excellet Remote Desktop/Terminal Services software. Much more stable, smoother (movies & sound via RDP anyone?), and not clunky.
- Kerberos, with no dicking around, nuff said.
- Enterprise monitoring utilities. With Linux, you have things like BB and syslog, yippee. With Windows 2000, you have BB, but also excellent tools like Microsoft Operations Manager, and the numerous other network monitoring tools (like the cool ones from Solar Winds).
- Automatic Updates & Patching. I think Red Hat still has that crappy update utility, sucks if you've gotta update 50 servers that way, though. Microsoft? Software Update Services and Automatic Updates right now. Not the perfect solution, but much better than what Linux has going for it.
Plus, with Automatic Updates configured to automatically download (but not install) your patches, you don't have to sit around in the middle of the night waiting for the downloads to finish for all 50 servers.
With an even moderately competent Win2k administrator a network can be almost completely managed from his desktop.
One can even argue that, with a competent administrator for each, Windows 2000 can be made more secure (while still being perfectly usable). I won't even get into the whole debate about the number of Linux exploits compared to the fewer Windows 2000 exploits on Bugtraq, because that really doesn't mean much overall.
When it comes to pure software price, sure Linux is cheaper. When it comes to the enterprise? Please! Linux can't compete, right now. Microsoft software appears expensive (and most certainly is overpriced), but when you figure in man hours installing, updating, and maintaining, salaries for those people, and downtime while you recompile app x and lib y and app z that depends on y, Windows 2000 starts to look very attractive.
As the old saying goes: "Linux is free, except when it comes to my time".
Why? GNU/Linux sucks for actually getting anything accomplished other than hacking around. This article is about the iApps, nothing of which exists under Linux, of anywhere near the same caliber.
Finally, widespread proof that Oregon has paved roads, now quit asking me!
In the future, I'll have to remember to reiterate the Slashdot story in a couple sentences, so I can get modded +5.