"The default design for the EFS recovery policy is different in Windows XP Professional than it was in Windows 2000 Professional. Stand-alone computers do not have a default DRA,"
This is from MS Technet. As to MS having a master recovery key, I doubt it, EFS uses the Crypto API to produce keys and that facility of Windows has been pretty thouroughly tested and the libraries pulled apart, if there were provisions for a master key it would have been found by now.
It allows you to encrypt anything, if you select the root of C and apply it to subdirectories then you can encrypt the entire disk*. For the home directory just select the folder at the top of it and all of its contents will be protected.
Outlook hasn't allowed executable extensions for the last three iterations and the previous two had patches applied that made it a simple matter to disable them. You can disable those filters but in Outlook 2003 it's actually very hard to find the option to turn the filters off, quite a reversal from MS's historic design but they ARE learning.
EFS which is the service that allows encryption of NTFS filesystems, under Windows 2000 it uses DESX which is a MS implementation of 3DES which provides ~128 bits level protection. Enabling encryption is as simple as right clicking the folder or file, advanced, click the checkbox that says encrypt.
it depends on how the clause limiting Disney's name to the advertising for the movies is worded. I know that Pixar has retained copyright to the films but they might not be able to use their name in connection with the previous films depending on that and other clauses in the contracts. Hopefully Jobs et all didn't give up the whole farm in exchange for Disneys marketing muscle and a little capital.
Actually most people I know are more impressed by seeing the name Pixar on a film than seeing that Disney is distributing it. All Pixar has to do to get people in door is say "From the makers of Toy Story and Finding Nemo" and it will be an automatic must see for people with kids in their target age bracket. Hell I would probably own their films even if I didn't have a three year old.
That's why they are using Lieberts extreme cooling solution which uses a non-CFC coolant piped to a central chiller. With a forced air solution they would have been at 60MPH with the old density.
No, they would need to buy enough Infiniband switches and HBA's for the new units, double the capacity of their cooling and power systems (probably not possible due to physical constraints of the facility) and to top it all off they are already at the maximium efficiency for the port density of their Infiniband switches, more PC's would just lower the average efficiency.
No, it doesn't work in the long run. Having a poorly configured Exchange server is just ASKING for abuse. And it normally leads to the box being owned, your IP's being banned, and you spending days trying to recover from backups and fix your initial mistakes. I'm trained on Exchange but I wouldn't take a position admining it without actually doing it under someone elses tutilage for a while. If you want to be a halfass admin that ultimately gets fired when your house of cards falls down then sure you can do that. It's usually after such a situation that consultants make the big bucks fixing things.
In a few years time when Linux includes the filesystems and best parts of the various Unix volume managers then what will you say? Already Linux has most of the non super high end filesystems. I think what people want ultimatly from Linux is for the software to be communilly developed by all of the interested parties and to pay for support. That way if they don't like the support from one vendor they can chose another based soley on their support history not on support + software.
Because FreeDos requires zero setup, configuration, or implied promise of driver support. It would be very unlikely that someone could come up with a support call resulting from shipping with FreeDos but very likely that one might result with the inclusion of a Linux distro. There isn't any margin in a $300 PC for support.
Umm any geek who hasn't seen Kurosawa's film's is hardly a geek at all (at least of the film variety). Kurosawa has made some of the best made films in history and while the general American public might not know them anyone who is serious about good movies has.
It's only OEM, so power users will have a hard time getting their hands on it. *cough* *sputter*
You must have a much different definition of power user than most of us around here =) If you can't get your hands on OEM software, hack Linux into your BIOS and handle the integration of the two then I don't think your a power user by slashdot standards.
Better yet if you are totally anti-establishment is to figure out what encoding they are using for their barcodes and what range of accounts are valid. Then print out a new code on a sticker each week with a different account number and affix it to your card. This way you are poluting their database such that their corelations get messed up. If enough people did this you could seriously undermine the usefulness of the database =)
AND you can get the best of both worlds because data sizes do NOT have to be 64 bit just to use the 64bit registers. In fact here is a quote from an AMD manual on driver porting for 64bit-Windows on AMD64 platforms:
*Stupid freaking AMD engineer made the PDF world accessible but then went and encrypted it so that I can't cut and paste, print it, or do anything with it*
Well basically INT's and LONG's remain 32 bit while Pointers, LONG LONG's and Floats are 64 bit by default.
The paper can be found at AMD's website
Actually chipping diamonds is extremely easy, diamonds are hard which normally implies brittle. This is true of diamonds as it is of most materials. For instance I have known more than one woman who has chipped a diamond engagement ring while working in a kitchen with marble countertops.
Actually I bought a product from another company recently that uses a somewhat similar process. They use vapor deposition to coat a well cut synthetic simulant with diamonds. This leads to probably the best price/performance in the gem area because it is much cheaper to have a gemcutter cutting synthetics and then plating the perfect ones than it is to grow lots of diamonds and have them cut attempting to get a perfect cut. Btw the company is Better Than Diamonds and the trade name of their simulant with the coating is Asha. After my wife lost her half carat diamond earings I refused to replace them with another set of real diamonds after being awakened to the dual evils of blood diamonds and the De Beers cartel. So I found these and got her 2 carat earings for almost exactly what the "real" ones cost!
Actually retail AMD's don't contain paste they contain a thermal pad which is impossible to incorrectly apply because it is applied before packaging. They do this exactly so that you can't accidently misapply the stuff, burn up your cpu and blame AMD since it was a retail box product. Btw there are thermal pads out there that do better than any thermal paste but it's not the ones that AMD uses for their retail box products. That stuff is cheap and is meant to maintain reliability for the product run at stock specs.
Intel's engineer's didn't decide the direction of the processor. The whole direction of Intel's desktop line has been controlled by marketing concerns since the initial stages of development on the P4. The engineers got to do as they wished with the Itanium but unfortunatly they went too far the other way and completely forgot about marketing concerns like running legacy code.
I don't think it even needs to be Debian persee. If you write the low level stuff for POSIX and the high level stuff for a portable framework then the only OS stuff that matters is the toolset and most OS's ship with the GNU tools. There is bad software out there that isn't easily portable but most stuff today that is available for Linux can fairly easily be ported to the *BSD's and Solaris.
Nah, it's just the testing phase for a bigger version. They don't need plasma-nuclear-hyper-transmogrifying-death bombs if they can scale their rock thrower up to a big enough size because really large rocks moving at interplantary speeds is just as effective at killing as the much more expensive plasma-nuclear-hyper-transmogrifying-death bombs. See that's why the rock is magnetic, the mass driver has to use ferous materials =)
No, he gathered a bunch of cool people around him and made a kick ass product that no one else at the time could touch then sold out to corporate america for a very large sum of money. Then he went on to work on subverting corporate controll while being paid by same embodiment of corporate america. Justin was NEVER a corporate drone and when they tried to make him conform he quit.
Actually the MCSE and CCNA are NOT mutually exclusive. In fact I see them requested in the same job postings quite often. The reason for this is that there are a LOT of small to medium sized businesses that need a jack of all trades to do all their IT stuff. Over 50% of people in the US work for a company with fewer than 50 employees, unless they are an IT firm companies that size will have at most one IT guy. The baseline certs for these types of positions are MCSE, CCNA, A+ and possibly CNA/CNE. Besides if you want to be a network engineer you should be shooting for the CCNP with possibly getting the CCNA as a stepping stone to get you an entry level position where you can get some real world experience.
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Not true for XP Pro and above:
"The default design for the EFS recovery policy is different in Windows XP Professional than it was in Windows 2000 Professional. Stand-alone computers do not have a default DRA,"
This is from MS Technet.
As to MS having a master recovery key, I doubt it, EFS uses the Crypto API to produce keys and that facility of Windows has been pretty thouroughly tested and the libraries pulled apart, if there were provisions for a master key it would have been found by now.
It allows you to encrypt anything, if you select the root of C and apply it to subdirectories then you can encrypt the entire disk*. For the home directory just select the folder at the top of it and all of its contents will be protected.
*NOT recommended.
Outlook hasn't allowed executable extensions for the last three iterations and the previous two had patches applied that made it a simple matter to disable them. You can disable those filters but in Outlook 2003 it's actually very hard to find the option to turn the filters off, quite a reversal from MS's historic design but they ARE learning.
EFS which is the service that allows encryption of NTFS filesystems, under Windows 2000 it uses DESX which is a MS implementation of 3DES which provides ~128 bits level protection. Enabling encryption is as simple as right clicking the folder or file, advanced, click the checkbox that says encrypt.
it depends on how the clause limiting Disney's name to the advertising for the movies is worded. I know that Pixar has retained copyright to the films but they might not be able to use their name in connection with the previous films depending on that and other clauses in the contracts. Hopefully Jobs et all didn't give up the whole farm in exchange for Disneys marketing muscle and a little capital.
Actually most people I know are more impressed by seeing the name Pixar on a film than seeing that Disney is distributing it. All Pixar has to do to get people in door is say "From the makers of Toy Story and Finding Nemo" and it will be an automatic must see for people with kids in their target age bracket. Hell I would probably own their films even if I didn't have a three year old.
That's why they are using Lieberts extreme cooling solution which uses a non-CFC coolant piped to a central chiller. With a forced air solution they would have been at 60MPH with the old density.
No, they would need to buy enough Infiniband switches and HBA's for the new units, double the capacity of their cooling and power systems (probably not possible due to physical constraints of the facility) and to top it all off they are already at the maximium efficiency for the port density of their Infiniband switches, more PC's would just lower the average efficiency.
Yep, point to point limit using a 100mW card is around 28dBi.
No, it doesn't work in the long run. Having a poorly configured Exchange server is just ASKING for abuse. And it normally leads to the box being owned, your IP's being banned, and you spending days trying to recover from backups and fix your initial mistakes. I'm trained on Exchange but I wouldn't take a position admining it without actually doing it under someone elses tutilage for a while. If you want to be a halfass admin that ultimately gets fired when your house of cards falls down then sure you can do that. It's usually after such a situation that consultants make the big bucks fixing things.
In a few years time when Linux includes the filesystems and best parts of the various Unix volume managers then what will you say? Already Linux has most of the non super high end filesystems. I think what people want ultimatly from Linux is for the software to be communilly developed by all of the interested parties and to pay for support. That way if they don't like the support from one vendor they can chose another based soley on their support history not on support + software.
Because FreeDos requires zero setup, configuration, or implied promise of driver support. It would be very unlikely that someone could come up with a support call resulting from shipping with FreeDos but very likely that one might result with the inclusion of a Linux distro. There isn't any margin in a $300 PC for support.
It's called an 808 and a 909 and they have been out for a LONG time.
Wait, do I need to take the hook out of my mouth now?
Umm any geek who hasn't seen Kurosawa's film's is hardly a geek at all (at least of the film variety). Kurosawa has made some of the best made films in history and while the general American public might not know them anyone who is serious about good movies has.
It's only OEM, so power users will have a hard time getting their hands on it.
*cough* *sputter*
You must have a much different definition of power user than most of us around here =) If you can't get your hands on OEM software, hack Linux into your BIOS and handle the integration of the two then I don't think your a power user by slashdot standards.
Better yet if you are totally anti-establishment is to figure out what encoding they are using for their barcodes and what range of accounts are valid. Then print out a new code on a sticker each week with a different account number and affix it to your card. This way you are poluting their database such that their corelations get messed up. If enough people did this you could seriously undermine the usefulness of the database =)
AND you can get the best of both worlds because data sizes do NOT have to be 64 bit just to use the 64bit registers. In fact here is a quote from an AMD manual on driver porting for 64bit-Windows on AMD64 platforms:
*Stupid freaking AMD engineer made the PDF world accessible but then went and encrypted it so that I can't cut and paste, print it, or do anything with it*
Well basically INT's and LONG's remain 32 bit while Pointers, LONG LONG's and Floats are 64 bit by default.
The paper can be found at AMD's website
Actually chipping diamonds is extremely easy, diamonds are hard which normally implies brittle. This is true of diamonds as it is of most materials. For instance I have known more than one woman who has chipped a diamond engagement ring while working in a kitchen with marble countertops.
Actually I bought a product from another company recently that uses a somewhat similar process. They use vapor deposition to coat a well cut synthetic simulant with diamonds. This leads to probably the best price/performance in the gem area because it is much cheaper to have a gemcutter cutting synthetics and then plating the perfect ones than it is to grow lots of diamonds and have them cut attempting to get a perfect cut. Btw the company is Better Than Diamonds and the trade name of their simulant with the coating is Asha. After my wife lost her half carat diamond earings I refused to replace them with another set of real diamonds after being awakened to the dual evils of blood diamonds and the De Beers cartel. So I found these and got her 2 carat earings for almost exactly what the "real" ones cost!
Actually retail AMD's don't contain paste they contain a thermal pad which is impossible to incorrectly apply because it is applied before packaging. They do this exactly so that you can't accidently misapply the stuff, burn up your cpu and blame AMD since it was a retail box product. Btw there are thermal pads out there that do better than any thermal paste but it's not the ones that AMD uses for their retail box products. That stuff is cheap and is meant to maintain reliability for the product run at stock specs.
Intel's engineer's didn't decide the direction of the processor. The whole direction of Intel's desktop line has been controlled by marketing concerns since the initial stages of development on the P4. The engineers got to do as they wished with the Itanium but unfortunatly they went too far the other way and completely forgot about marketing concerns like running legacy code.
I don't think it even needs to be Debian persee. If you write the low level stuff for POSIX and the high level stuff for a portable framework then the only OS stuff that matters is the toolset and most OS's ship with the GNU tools. There is bad software out there that isn't easily portable but most stuff today that is available for Linux can fairly easily be ported to the *BSD's and Solaris.
Nah, it's just the testing phase for a bigger version. They don't need plasma-nuclear-hyper-transmogrifying-death bombs if they can scale their rock thrower up to a big enough size because really large rocks moving at interplantary speeds is just as effective at killing as the much more expensive plasma-nuclear-hyper-transmogrifying-death bombs. See that's why the rock is magnetic, the mass driver has to use ferous materials =)
No, he gathered a bunch of cool people around him and made a kick ass product that no one else at the time could touch then sold out to corporate america for a very large sum of money. Then he went on to work on subverting corporate controll while being paid by same embodiment of corporate america. Justin was NEVER a corporate drone and when they tried to make him conform he quit.
Actually the MCSE and CCNA are NOT mutually exclusive. In fact I see them requested in the same job postings quite often. The reason for this is that there are a LOT of small to medium sized businesses that need a jack of all trades to do all their IT stuff. Over 50% of people in the US work for a company with fewer than 50 employees, unless they are an IT firm companies that size will have at most one IT guy. The baseline certs for these types of positions are MCSE, CCNA, A+ and possibly CNA/CNE. Besides if you want to be a network engineer you should be shooting for the CCNP with possibly getting the CCNA as a stepping stone to get you an entry level position where you can get some real world experience.