On 512MB Vista runs perfectly fine, having automatically turned off the UI bells and whistles and throttled back some of its services. In my experience 1GB is the sweet spot, which is how much I have on my Dev box.
... Microsoft gave some sort of preview of the OS for 3rd parties to test and update their applications. Maybe then Apple could have done something about it. I blame Microsoft.
Written on January 2004. This was just before the big 'reset' where they realized they were going in the wrong direction, and completely refocused their efforts -- they wen't gun-ho on security, developing XP SP2, and moving 'longhorn' development to the win2k3 codebase instead of the bloated junk they had for the very early previews.
So the statement makes total sense within context. Soon after Jim's statement, the development of 'longhorn' was dramatically altered. You can't use it as a reflection of the RTM'd product. The RTM'd product is a result of these harsh words.
I bought a new Lenovo Thinkpad for my wife a few months ago. I was shocked at the OEM setup. I kid you not when I say that the task bar had 12 icons in it for apps that ran on boot (many hidden by the 'unused icon' feature in XP). When I went to the Run portion of the registry, it had 30+ entries in it for executables to run on log in. Add to this a desktop shrewn with icons, and a battery meter took up another 15% of real estate on the task bar. It was ridiculous. I ended up cleaning out probably 95% of all the auto-start apps -- they were mostly auto-updaters for crap applications, or resident launchers that supposedly sped up the launch of apps that my wife wouldn't ever use anyway.
I sincerely hope MS can reign in this kind of setup...
Why exactly do you need administrative rights to the machine to run a game? The only impact this has on game writers is that it forces them to stop requiring ridiculous privileges to the system.
If anything, Vista will be especially appealing to Businesses, with its slew of enterprise features (for example the workable non-Administrator platform, IPSEC, Quarantine of machines on the network, Group Policy and Software deployment, etc...).
There's never been an OS that has seen immediate deployment in Enterprise. It's pretty disengenious to try to make conclusions out of the corporate adoption rate on the first month of availability (especially when it's not event available to the broader public).
We people really clamoring for Windows XP when it was released? Because it was a massive success and as far as I could tell at the consumer level there was very little mindshare for the brand, other than "it's Windows".
Vista is not available for consumers until the end of January. Zune is a consumer application. It's probably safe to say that they wanted to get Zune out ASAP in time for the holidays, so they concentrated on the XP client first and foremost. It will support Vista when it is released (a beta is already available that works just fine).
The SQL Express issue is more relevant, since Vista is available to businesses. As has been mentioned a bunch of times already the article is misleading though, since it has nothing to do with SQL Server.
The XNA is not meant for people creating the next Gears of War. It's for hobbyist. And C# on.Net is performant than enough to make beautiful 2d and reasonably complex 3d games (see their demo XNA 3d driving game).
That said, I wouldn't be surprised that the decision to use C# is partly to lock the game down onto the MS platform. But as a technology you should be able to make some awesome games w/ the language.
Might seem silly to suggest more school, but in my case a Masters in CS helped me considerably, both in coding and depth of understanding in the field. This is assuming you avoid specializing in the theoretical aspects where it can get even more detatched from the real world than your undergrad CS was. I was able to gain lots of hands-on experience in the fields of AI, Graphics, Networking, Databases, (and others) and finally settled on OS where I spent a year hacking away at the linux kernel while doing research. Way more experience than I would have gotten out in the field in that amount of time.
Coming out of the Masters I had the experience and confidence to get the job I wanted (developing in the field of OS), versus my experience out of undergrad where I could barely crack into the IT field.
It's lame that something like this makes the front page. The report makes no mention of version, no proof of concept code is available. Ah but they DO try to sell your their security application which supposedly protects from this vulnerability.
Replace "Vista" with "XP" and "2006" with "2001" and the article applies just as well. It's a fact of corporate life that there is a big delay between the release of a new OS and its adoption in the corporate marketplace.
Without Administrator access, a virus can at best mess around with his son's account. Easy enough to fix by killing and recreating the account. This is actually true of XP as well (and OSX/Linux, obviously), but Vista is the first MS OS to handle Standard User in a straightforward way.
And with UAC, since Administrators don't even run with full token by default, 3rd party applications will quickly move away from assuming Admin access (a huge problem with running XP as limited -- apps blow up).
1) Create 'company' with a handful of people, and a 'product' deriving from microsoft office 2) Write in blogs as a "Software Architect" 3) ??? 4) Profit!
I ran the test code on IE on Vista RC2, and it did not succeed. 'your browser does not seem to be vulnerable to this particular exploit' is what I get.
If you do, these email or IM bombs will not be able to root the system, or open firewall ports. At most the user's folder is busted, and once deleted and restored the machine is clean.
Why should the OS be secure when I can pay $30 for a 3rd party can do it (and destabilize the system as they do it, since they root the OS in undocumented ways)? This is a bad precedent and a huge loss for consumers.
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I totally disagree with your here. MS is for the most part like hundreds of little start ups. Even within the large monoliths like Windows each aspect of the OS has their own management and heirarchy. Get it on a new feature and you can find yourself rising up the ranks real fast.
The same thing is achieved in Vista by taking your user out of the Administrator group. By default the first account created is an Administrator, all others are Standard users. Standard Users get a full Admin credential prompt (username/password) if Admin privileges are needed.
Secure = Administrator on the machine should be blocked from installing google toolbar?
Truth is, he should have tried to see how much damage he can make as a standard user without providing Administrator credentials. Being and admin and clicking through all the warning dialogs is like running as root in linux and being surprised you can install software...
Hate to whine, but why do these articles make it into slashdot? It seems like often the other technical subjects discussed here are well moderated, and the articles thought provoking. But as soon as someone with a fleeting command of the english language lays down any thoughts that are anti-Microsoft, it immediately makes the front page.
They've made is so that it's impossible for anybody but MS to make a proper virus scanner.
How exactly have they done that? You can still load kernel mode drivers easily, and there are *supported* ways of hooking into kernel operations. Anti-virus companies are just miffed that from now on they can't employ virus tactics (root the system, overwrite undocumented kernel tables, etc...) in order to 'protect' the system.
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On 512MB Vista runs perfectly fine, having automatically turned off the UI bells and whistles and throttled back some of its services. In my experience 1GB is the sweet spot, which is how much I have on my Dev box.
... Microsoft gave some sort of preview of the OS for 3rd parties to test and update their applications. Maybe then Apple could have done something about it. I blame Microsoft.
Written on January 2004. This was just before the big 'reset' where they realized they were going in the wrong direction, and completely refocused their efforts -- they wen't gun-ho on security, developing XP SP2, and moving 'longhorn' development to the win2k3 codebase instead of the bloated junk they had for the very early previews.
So the statement makes total sense within context. Soon after Jim's statement, the development of 'longhorn' was dramatically altered. You can't use it as a reflection of the RTM'd product. The RTM'd product is a result of these harsh words.
True in theory, but Universities can license the source code of the windows kernel for academic purposes:
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I bought a new Lenovo Thinkpad for my wife a few months ago. I was shocked at the OEM setup. I kid you not when I say that the task bar had 12 icons in it for apps that ran on boot (many hidden by the 'unused icon' feature in XP). When I went to the Run portion of the registry, it had 30+ entries in it for executables to run on log in. Add to this a desktop shrewn with icons, and a battery meter took up another 15% of real estate on the task bar. It was ridiculous. I ended up cleaning out probably 95% of all the auto-start apps -- they were mostly auto-updaters for crap applications, or resident launchers that supposedly sped up the launch of apps that my wife wouldn't ever use anyway.
I sincerely hope MS can reign in this kind of setup...
Why exactly do you need administrative rights to the machine to run a game? The only impact this has on game writers is that it forces them to stop requiring ridiculous privileges to the system.
If anything, Vista will be especially appealing to Businesses, with its slew of enterprise features (for example the workable non-Administrator platform, IPSEC, Quarantine of machines on the network, Group Policy and Software deployment, etc...).
There's never been an OS that has seen immediate deployment in Enterprise. It's pretty disengenious to try to make conclusions out of the corporate adoption rate on the first month of availability (especially when it's not event available to the broader public).
I hate it how when I start a Ubuntu install Microsoft suddenly shuts down my machine.
We people really clamoring for Windows XP when it was released? Because it was a massive success and as far as I could tell at the consumer level there was very little mindshare for the brand, other than "it's Windows".
Vista is not available for consumers until the end of January. Zune is a consumer application. It's probably safe to say that they wanted to get Zune out ASAP in time for the holidays, so they concentrated on the XP client first and foremost. It will support Vista when it is released (a beta is already available that works just fine). The SQL Express issue is more relevant, since Vista is available to businesses. As has been mentioned a bunch of times already the article is misleading though, since it has nothing to do with SQL Server.
The XNA is not meant for people creating the next Gears of War. It's for hobbyist. And C# on .Net is performant than enough to make beautiful 2d and reasonably complex 3d games (see their demo XNA 3d driving game).
That said, I wouldn't be surprised that the decision to use C# is partly to lock the game down onto the MS platform. But as a technology you should be able to make some awesome games w/ the language.
Might seem silly to suggest more school, but in my case a Masters in CS helped me considerably, both in coding and depth of understanding in the field. This is assuming you avoid specializing in the theoretical aspects where it can get even more detatched from the real world than your undergrad CS was. I was able to gain lots of hands-on experience in the fields of AI, Graphics, Networking, Databases, (and others) and finally settled on OS where I spent a year hacking away at the linux kernel while doing research. Way more experience than I would have gotten out in the field in that amount of time.
Coming out of the Masters I had the experience and confidence to get the job I wanted (developing in the field of OS), versus my experience out of undergrad where I could barely crack into the IT field.
Good luck!
Thanks! I missed that specific data.
It's lame that something like this makes the front page. The report makes no mention of version, no proof of concept code is available. Ah but they DO try to sell your their security application which supposedly protects from this vulnerability.
Replace "Vista" with "XP" and "2006" with "2001" and the article applies just as well. It's a fact of corporate life that there is a big delay between the release of a new OS and its adoption in the corporate marketplace.
Without Administrator access, a virus can at best mess around with his son's account. Easy enough to fix by killing and recreating the account. This is actually true of XP as well (and OSX/Linux, obviously), but Vista is the first MS OS to handle Standard User in a straightforward way.
And with UAC, since Administrators don't even run with full token by default, 3rd party applications will quickly move away from assuming Admin access (a huge problem with running XP as limited -- apps blow up).
1) Create 'company' with a handful of people, and a 'product' deriving from microsoft office
2) Write in blogs as a "Software Architect"
3) ???
4) Profit!
I ran the test code on IE on Vista RC2, and it did not succeed. 'your browser does not seem to be vulnerable to this particular exploit' is what I get.
That all sounds great, but as with anything Sony, I'll believe it when I see it.
If you do, these email or IM bombs will not be able to root the system, or open firewall ports. At most the user's folder is busted, and once deleted and restored the machine is clean.
Lots of corps do this even with Win2k/XP.
Why should the OS be secure when I can pay $30 for a 3rd party can do it (and destabilize the system as they do it, since they root the OS in undocumented ways)? This is a bad precedent and a huge loss for consumers.
I totally disagree with your here. MS is for the most part like hundreds of little start ups. Even within the large monoliths like Windows each aspect of the OS has their own management and heirarchy. Get it on a new feature and you can find yourself rising up the ranks real fast.
The same thing is achieved in Vista by taking your user out of the Administrator group. By default the first account created is an Administrator, all others are Standard users. Standard Users get a full Admin credential prompt (username/password) if Admin privileges are needed.
Secure = Administrator on the machine should be blocked from installing google toolbar?
Truth is, he should have tried to see how much damage he can make as a standard user without providing Administrator credentials. Being and admin and clicking through all the warning dialogs is like running as root in linux and being surprised you can install software...
Hate to whine, but why do these articles make it into slashdot? It seems like often the other technical subjects discussed here are well moderated, and the articles thought provoking. But as soon as someone with a fleeting command of the english language lays down any thoughts that are anti-Microsoft, it immediately makes the front page.
They've made is so that it's impossible for anybody but MS to make a proper virus scanner.
How exactly have they done that? You can still load kernel mode drivers easily, and there are *supported* ways of hooking into kernel operations. Anti-virus companies are just miffed that from now on they can't employ virus tactics (root the system, overwrite undocumented kernel tables, etc...) in order to 'protect' the system.