Im a computer geek and work as a systems engineer. My work rarely demands any motion besides pressing keys and thinking( damn you ssh!). Because of this and the fact i started to grow sideways i started training half a year ago. It took me months before i could see any effects which i suspect is why so many diss it as a way to loose weight.
Its a fact that muscles burns more energy in a resting state than fat does. Training that builds muscles burns calories you can deduct from your daily intake. The higher energy consumption from building the muscles continues for about 24 hours after an excercice.
Because of this you can loose weight if you dont eat more than you burn. If you train hard its sometimes hard to eat enough, the market for gainers didn t come from thin air.
Fat contains high amounts of energy but you dont to avoid it. Just dont eat more than you burn. You could just as well get fat on carrots but you would have to eat most of the day. The problem
is the overconsumtion in conjunction with lack of excercise for most fat people. For the sake of the enviroment it would be better if people didnt eat more than they really need.
Most vendors dont slip release dates as heavily as Microsoft did between Windows XP and Windows Vista. Microsofts practice of releasing their major OS upgrades as beta software also plays in here. No sane company will roll out until atleast SP1, and those are the bleeding edge people who likes it rough and bumpy.
Since most of Microsofts userbase is on XP up until MS gets Vista up to par with it they would alienate most of their userbase if they didnt release updates for their old OS.
Kind of funny you mentioned that it has been 6 years since XP came out. You would have thunk that in 6 years more would have happened? I have a Vista box at my office and i cant think of one single thing that would warrant me to use it instead of the virtualized XP box on my Ubuntu workstation. Vista, it just sucks.
This guy is a very good security consultant that has been around for a while. This is not the first leak he has discovered and tried to warn people, Dan discovered that his home DSL was going slow and started sniffing out the traffic from his ISP. He quickly discovered that the ISP sent him traffic from about 4000 other customers on 16 different subnets! He could see everything on the network.
This very time he had setup a tor link and started sniffing out the traffic, just as NSA does in the US on their large tor links. What he found was countless passwords and other sensitive stuff floating around. He found large amounts of usernames and password floating by all the time. No doubt this was from a hacker/foreign security intelligence that used tor for anynomity. The fact that most passwords was from governments like Iran, Russia and other countries not in the US "group" suggests this was US spying in progress. The fact that Swedish "Säpo" (intelligence is not the right word for theese people) was pressured into action against something thats not a crime at all in sweden also makes one wonders what is going on.
It seems people are dissatisfied that this leak was made public. I doubt the people being hacked was miffed at Dan for showing them that someone was spying on them. Now that they know and secure their communications, maybe with stringent encryption and backdoor free open source, i do now one country that will be angry.
I really do not understand the constant need some people have to paint Google in a bad manner. Up until this very day Google has been a good netizen and last i checked they wasnt involved in any criminal acts like some other unnamed company. Mozilla does a great job on Firefox and nothing is really worth complaining about. If Google is twisting Mozilla.orgs arm they dont get much for all that money thats for sure.
The damn browser is free, both as in beer and freedom. Just fork it or shut up.
I do have a fealing that much of the complaints against Google are coordinated attempts to blacken its very good reputation. Maybe from some other company that do not have a, should we say, excellent track record in behaiving nicely.
As a very satisfied Firefox "customer" i want to say, thanks Google and Mozilla!
These days its very hard to know if even western media tells the truth. I really do not swallow things just because its in western media any more than i trust for your favourite state controlled press. So much of what has been reported by western media in later years have been refuted a bit later as just plain lies. The US govt seems hellbent on having as many enemies as possible and one way of ensuring that is to paint any adversery or competing country as evil. The reason they want enemies, or more exactly perceived enemies is for control and a blank check to do whatever to "protect" its citizens.
The free western media is just a pawn in a game just as media in other countries, the difference is just in how the propaganda is inserted and controlled.
"There are some very talented people at MS Research who have been working on some really cool algorithms for photo manipulation: Phototours, Groupshot, Photosynth."
This is offset by the number of not so talanted people in PR and SALES that adds useless features while making the ones good be buried deep down in a swamp of security issues because some PHB decided it should be as much tied into the desktop as possible. All while the talented people at MS Research scream in horror.
MS Research is just props to give the impression that MS does innovate things, it has no effect at all over Microsofts products. Even if they innovated the best damn OS function in the world it still wouldnt be implemented in Windows until a competitior did it.
Wich was extremely popular when Microsoft bought it and had a very large userbase. It took them many long and hard years to even get the most basic stuff off of *nix. Several trial ended in horror and they had to revert back to *nix more than once. Thats not a good example of a success.
Why the need to tie everything down onto the desktop? Integrating stuff can be nice if it serves a purpouse. When integrating things just because it often gives a worse product than it could be.
Why not spend the development effort on bringing out the best possible product regardless of how its presented? Right now it really feels like the end product is way down on the list, long after "do it in.net or get fired", "make it suck" and "for gods sake tie it down onto the desktop".
Really, after Windows Vista i have really just stopped caring about what MS does. They can do whatever but i doubt Windows 7 will be anything but some minor enhanchements and some new fancy clothes when the day for gold comes. If they horribly failed with current codebase how can they do any better without a major rewrite in just a couple of years? It must suck for MS to have put themselves in this position.
I guess the real problem for many is the quality of the code in question and the level of documentation. If you as many OSS projects have very well written code that as a bonus is extremely well commented a patch can be issued within hours for Q&A. If on the other hand have a big pile of poorly made code that lacks both sanity and documentation, well, it will take time.
Spaghetti code can make even the easiest fix break things in totally unrelated places making Q&A a nightmare. If it takes you a couple of weeks to get a patch released something is broken. Be it management or code, it still sounds like a long time.
My own experience is that many OSS projects for some reason has extremely short patch periods and still dont break stuff all over when releasing a patch. One of the differences is the lack of centralized management. How much of the time for releasing the patch is really just waiting for approvals and such from others?
First of all, running XP on that computer wont be a nice experince. Secondly nobody wants them to run pirated XP but its their choice since they own the computer, not rent it.
Tech support will probably come from the same place they get all the other support, from me. Im one of those who fixes my friends computers, they very rarely use tech support. Most support for Windows computers is utter crap. People hate it with a vengence. The time it takes people to even get through the phone ques is less than the time it takes me to fix their computer.
Nobody insults people for wanting help. What does sting is when the same plumber, lawyer or mechanic that charges you great $$$ for any help wants you to fix their computer for free because they are to lazy to even read the most basic manuals. When someone asks you to do things that are very nicely documented and crystal clear just because they dont WANT to read the documentation i can understand that some people get irritated.
Would you perform your daily work for free to strangers that are rude, ignorant and ungrateful?
The deal has made no impact whatsoever in any of Novells products. Most integration with Microsofts products is either old or from open source components. The only exception is Zenworks 10 support for Vista but i really doubt that is because of the cooperation they have. In fact Novell relies on samba 4 for AD support, go figure that out. Where is the hyped cooperation there one might ask?
This is just an attempt to justify taking loads of money from Microsoft to purport using their patents. PR wise it was a disaster and now its all about damage control.
When the competition starts to trash Googles mobile initiative before its even out the door they must be very very afraid. The smart thing would have been to just shut up about it. Microsoft is clearly worried wich gives tremendous amounts of free PR to google. Its like setting up a big sign infront of every possible competitior to Windows mobile / Symbian and screaming "Work with Google!".
I have a SE P990i that says Symbian should just stfu and get their own crap working before they dare critize anyone else. The mobile world right now is owned by Nokia and SonyEricsson but there are a big horde of asian phones just waiting to get a toe into the market. Once any of them succed and open the floodgates Nokia and SonyEricsson will take the same route as european computer manufacturers.
Now if they just could have any useful services. Competing with google will take much more than increasing bandwidth and processing power. Current services that try their utmost to tie into the desktop just plain sucks. It should be the other way around.
Microsoft has a bad management issue where money is king and the product just a means to an end. It could just as well be vacuum cleaners they sold. It has never been about innovation and will probably never be. Unlike IBM Microsoft has absolutely nothing to stand on other than their applications barrier to entry. Their research centers is a complete joke where the occasional good stuff very rarely gets into any production. If something goes into production they mess it up like with winfs.
They are looking franticly for any means of revenues than Windows/Office which is about all the revenue source they have. Unless they find a new cashcow they are just going to die slowly. This must happen before OS/Office apps becomes commodities or competition forces them to substantially lower their prices to the "unmonopolized" real market value.
Just as Facebook and Myspace we have had an enormous community here in sweden called Lunarstorm. At the beginning it was like everyone on the net went there but slowly as the kidz started to come people went away doing other more grown up stuff. It wasnt fun anymore when you had 30 people a day only out to make connections for bragging points or attention whores that idd anything to get many hits on their page.
In Sweden grownups arent there anymore, just kids with not much money to spend. Not someplace i would want to put ads unless i was targeting young kids and selling very cheap goods like ringtones and music.
Most security patches for Windows come from Antivirus companies anyway. Its not like patches takes away any need for a good firewall and antivirus on Windows. No matter how much they patch its still as unsecure and needs someone holding hands like Antivirus and Firewall.
As long as Anvivirus vendors keeps updating their definitions for XP its just business as usual on most XP computers.
Anyone who does serios work that demands CPU power do not want to toss those cycles out the window. People who buys a new computer to play games wants better speed, resolution and non-flicker gaming experience. Why give all those precious cycles away for nothing?
I have run Vista and compared to Linux Compiz 3D its a sluggish snail that cant do half of what Compiz can. Compiz plays videos on four different workspaces in see thru mode on a spinning cube without using much CPU. Vista can do pretty much nothing and behaive like a snail in a wheelchair and square wheels. Microsoft has really dropped the ball on this and i dont think its fixable in a servicepack without braking all sorts of things. Application support is bas enough as it is right now.
If you have to get down and dirty and disable the only real change in a new OS i dont really understand why you would buy it. Especially if it comes with sluggish performance and no improvement in security to boot. I have tried Vista and find it abysmal compared to XP and i do not like XP one bit. Its "Windows ME 2007", same old crap with new fancy wardrobe and brand spanking new concrete boots.
"I guess they don't believe their products are superior either."
Well, after i have had the "privelige" to work with Microsoft products recently i can understand their fear. Before i mostly worked with Linux and was used to its very detailed logging facilities, the transparacy of the system and the extremely good documentation and free support all over the internet.
Windows still cant log anything more detailed than "Event ID 1006 £@..324...234.23.434". Its logging capabilities is not up to par with anything else. If Microsoft hasnt released a KB explaining in detail why something dont work you are really out of luck finding any advanced errors by yourself and are left to expensive support contracts to fix bugs and other errors in the product.
The Windows system is a complete blackbox where you seldom can find out why, how or when something works or not. The various courses i have taken in windows have all just explained how things should work, not a single word is about what to do when it doesnt. Its like there is some kind of denial that things can go wrong. The most comon fix i have seen so far is reinstall. Mouse dont work, reinstall the driver. Service dont work, reinstall service and so on. Im used to identify the problem in detail, find a solution and implementing the solution, not reinstalling and not knowing wtf happened at all.
Documentation for deeper parts of Windows is abysmal to someone used to all the documentation, all the forums, the ability to have direct contact with developers and to file bugs towards the developers.
I havent worked on Windows servers much since NT but i found Windows2003 not to be that much progress. Every friggin advanced setting is done in some obscure place in the registry, consists of some hex value and are impossible to use if you dont know its there and knows exactly what various hex values does.
Frankly i was really surprised since every MS shill out there always brag about how easy Windows is and how well it works. I took it as a challenge and was really not hostile towards Windows 2003 in the start. I honestly thought it would be very easy, stable and efficient to manage. PR and reality turned out to differ much more than i thought.
If Microsoft cant do better with their army of developers, their bottomless coffins, their monopoly and blind obidience from their partners they are totally screwed once they get level competition to fight against.
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Im a computer geek and work as a systems engineer. My work rarely demands any motion besides pressing keys and thinking( damn you ssh!). Because of this and the fact i started to grow sideways i started training half a year ago. It took me months before i could see any effects which i suspect is why so many diss it as a way to loose weight.
Its a fact that muscles burns more energy in a resting state than fat does. Training that builds muscles burns calories you can deduct from your daily intake. The higher energy consumption from building the muscles continues for about 24 hours after an excercice.
Because of this you can loose weight if you dont eat more than you burn. If you train hard its sometimes hard to eat enough, the market for gainers didn t come from thin air.
Fat contains high amounts of energy but you dont to avoid it. Just dont eat more than you burn. You could just as well get fat on carrots but you would have to eat most of the day. The problem
is the overconsumtion in conjunction with lack of excercise for most fat people. For the sake of the enviroment it would be better if people didnt eat more than they really need.
Most vendors dont slip release dates as heavily as Microsoft did between Windows XP and Windows Vista. Microsofts practice of releasing their major OS upgrades as beta software also plays in here. No sane company will roll out until atleast SP1, and those are the bleeding edge people who likes it rough and bumpy.
Since most of Microsofts userbase is on XP up until MS gets Vista up to par with it they would alienate most of their userbase if they didnt release updates for their old OS.
Kind of funny you mentioned that it has been 6 years since XP came out. You would have thunk that in 6 years more would have happened? I have a Vista box at my office and i cant think of one single thing that would warrant me to use it instead of the virtualized XP box on my Ubuntu workstation. Vista, it just sucks.
This guy is a very good security consultant that has been around for a while. This is not the first leak he has discovered and tried to warn people, Dan discovered that his home DSL was going slow and started sniffing out the traffic from his ISP. He quickly discovered that the ISP sent him traffic from about 4000 other customers on 16 different subnets! He could see everything on the network. This very time he had setup a tor link and started sniffing out the traffic, just as NSA does in the US on their large tor links. What he found was countless passwords and other sensitive stuff floating around. He found large amounts of usernames and password floating by all the time. No doubt this was from a hacker/foreign security intelligence that used tor for anynomity. The fact that most passwords was from governments like Iran, Russia and other countries not in the US "group" suggests this was US spying in progress. The fact that Swedish "Säpo" (intelligence is not the right word for theese people) was pressured into action against something thats not a crime at all in sweden also makes one wonders what is going on. It seems people are dissatisfied that this leak was made public. I doubt the people being hacked was miffed at Dan for showing them that someone was spying on them. Now that they know and secure their communications, maybe with stringent encryption and backdoor free open source, i do now one country that will be angry.
I really do not understand the constant need some people have to paint Google in a bad manner. Up until this very day Google has been a good netizen and last i checked they wasnt involved in any criminal acts like some other unnamed company. Mozilla does a great job on Firefox and nothing is really worth complaining about. If Google is twisting Mozilla.orgs arm they dont get much for all that money thats for sure. The damn browser is free, both as in beer and freedom. Just fork it or shut up. I do have a fealing that much of the complaints against Google are coordinated attempts to blacken its very good reputation. Maybe from some other company that do not have a, should we say, excellent track record in behaiving nicely. As a very satisfied Firefox "customer" i want to say, thanks Google and Mozilla!
These days its very hard to know if even western media tells the truth. I really do not swallow things just because its in western media any more than i trust for your favourite state controlled press. So much of what has been reported by western media in later years have been refuted a bit later as just plain lies. The US govt seems hellbent on having as many enemies as possible and one way of ensuring that is to paint any adversery or competing country as evil. The reason they want enemies, or more exactly perceived enemies is for control and a blank check to do whatever to "protect" its citizens. The free western media is just a pawn in a game just as media in other countries, the difference is just in how the propaganda is inserted and controlled.
"There are some very talented people at MS Research who have been working on some really cool algorithms for photo manipulation: Phototours, Groupshot, Photosynth." This is offset by the number of not so talanted people in PR and SALES that adds useless features while making the ones good be buried deep down in a swamp of security issues because some PHB decided it should be as much tied into the desktop as possible. All while the talented people at MS Research scream in horror. MS Research is just props to give the impression that MS does innovate things, it has no effect at all over Microsofts products. Even if they innovated the best damn OS function in the world it still wouldnt be implemented in Windows until a competitior did it.
Wich was extremely popular when Microsoft bought it and had a very large userbase. It took them many long and hard years to even get the most basic stuff off of *nix. Several trial ended in horror and they had to revert back to *nix more than once. Thats not a good example of a success.
Why the need to tie everything down onto the desktop? Integrating stuff can be nice if it serves a purpouse. When integrating things just because it often gives a worse product than it could be. Why not spend the development effort on bringing out the best possible product regardless of how its presented? Right now it really feels like the end product is way down on the list, long after "do it in .net or get fired", "make it suck" and "for gods sake tie it down onto the desktop".
Really, after Windows Vista i have really just stopped caring about what MS does. They can do whatever but i doubt Windows 7 will be anything but some minor enhanchements and some new fancy clothes when the day for gold comes. If they horribly failed with current codebase how can they do any better without a major rewrite in just a couple of years? It must suck for MS to have put themselves in this position.
I guess the real problem for many is the quality of the code in question and the level of documentation. If you as many OSS projects have very well written code that as a bonus is extremely well commented a patch can be issued within hours for Q&A. If on the other hand have a big pile of poorly made code that lacks both sanity and documentation, well, it will take time.
Spaghetti code can make even the easiest fix break things in totally unrelated places making Q&A a nightmare. If it takes you a couple of weeks to get a patch released something is broken. Be it management or code, it still sounds like a long time.
My own experience is that many OSS projects for some reason has extremely short patch periods and still dont break stuff all over when releasing a patch. One of the differences is the lack of centralized management. How much of the time for releasing the patch is really just waiting for approvals and such from others?
First of all, running XP on that computer wont be a nice experince. Secondly nobody wants them to run pirated XP but its their choice since they own the computer, not rent it. Tech support will probably come from the same place they get all the other support, from me. Im one of those who fixes my friends computers, they very rarely use tech support. Most support for Windows computers is utter crap. People hate it with a vengence. The time it takes people to even get through the phone ques is less than the time it takes me to fix their computer. Nobody insults people for wanting help. What does sting is when the same plumber, lawyer or mechanic that charges you great $$$ for any help wants you to fix their computer for free because they are to lazy to even read the most basic manuals. When someone asks you to do things that are very nicely documented and crystal clear just because they dont WANT to read the documentation i can understand that some people get irritated. Would you perform your daily work for free to strangers that are rude, ignorant and ungrateful?
The deal has made no impact whatsoever in any of Novells products. Most integration with Microsofts products is either old or from open source components. The only exception is Zenworks 10 support for Vista but i really doubt that is because of the cooperation they have. In fact Novell relies on samba 4 for AD support, go figure that out. Where is the hyped cooperation there one might ask? This is just an attempt to justify taking loads of money from Microsoft to purport using their patents. PR wise it was a disaster and now its all about damage control.
Is the United States current president really a robot from the future?
When the competition starts to trash Googles mobile initiative before its even out the door they must be very very afraid. The smart thing would have been to just shut up about it. Microsoft is clearly worried wich gives tremendous amounts of free PR to google. Its like setting up a big sign infront of every possible competitior to Windows mobile / Symbian and screaming "Work with Google!".
I have a SE P990i that says Symbian should just stfu and get their own crap working before they dare critize anyone else. The mobile world right now is owned by Nokia and SonyEricsson but there are a big horde of asian phones just waiting to get a toe into the market. Once any of them succed and open the floodgates Nokia and SonyEricsson will take the same route as european computer manufacturers.
Now if they just could have any useful services. Competing with google will take much more than increasing bandwidth and processing power. Current services that try their utmost to tie into the desktop just plain sucks. It should be the other way around.
I can second that, SLES is a real PITA to manage. I have had numerous problems with Yast/rug/ZYPP. Frankly, packet management on SLES is broken.
Microsoft has a bad management issue where money is king and the product just a means to an end. It could just as well be vacuum cleaners they sold. It has never been about innovation and will probably never be. Unlike IBM Microsoft has absolutely nothing to stand on other than their applications barrier to entry. Their research centers is a complete joke where the occasional good stuff very rarely gets into any production. If something goes into production they mess it up like with winfs. They are looking franticly for any means of revenues than Windows/Office which is about all the revenue source they have. Unless they find a new cashcow they are just going to die slowly. This must happen before OS/Office apps becomes commodities or competition forces them to substantially lower their prices to the "unmonopolized" real market value.
Just as Facebook and Myspace we have had an enormous community here in sweden called Lunarstorm. At the beginning it was like everyone on the net went there but slowly as the kidz started to come people went away doing other more grown up stuff. It wasnt fun anymore when you had 30 people a day only out to make connections for bragging points or attention whores that idd anything to get many hits on their page. In Sweden grownups arent there anymore, just kids with not much money to spend. Not someplace i would want to put ads unless i was targeting young kids and selling very cheap goods like ringtones and music.
The only reason i could think of is to buy some companies and extinguish them.
Most security patches for Windows come from Antivirus companies anyway. Its not like patches takes away any need for a good firewall and antivirus on Windows. No matter how much they patch its still as unsecure and needs someone holding hands like Antivirus and Firewall.
As long as Anvivirus vendors keeps updating their definitions for XP its just business as usual on most XP computers.
Anyone who does serios work that demands CPU power do not want to toss those cycles out the window. People who buys a new computer to play games wants better speed, resolution and non-flicker gaming experience. Why give all those precious cycles away for nothing? I have run Vista and compared to Linux Compiz 3D its a sluggish snail that cant do half of what Compiz can. Compiz plays videos on four different workspaces in see thru mode on a spinning cube without using much CPU. Vista can do pretty much nothing and behaive like a snail in a wheelchair and square wheels. Microsoft has really dropped the ball on this and i dont think its fixable in a servicepack without braking all sorts of things. Application support is bas enough as it is right now.
If you have to get down and dirty and disable the only real change in a new OS i dont really understand why you would buy it. Especially if it comes with sluggish performance and no improvement in security to boot. I have tried Vista and find it abysmal compared to XP and i do not like XP one bit. Its "Windows ME 2007", same old crap with new fancy wardrobe and brand spanking new concrete boots.
The news is that computers will be sold with XP installed. Thats a huge difference to getting a recovery disc and doing it yourself.
"I guess they don't believe their products are superior either." Well, after i have had the "privelige" to work with Microsoft products recently i can understand their fear. Before i mostly worked with Linux and was used to its very detailed logging facilities, the transparacy of the system and the extremely good documentation and free support all over the internet. Windows still cant log anything more detailed than "Event ID 1006 £@..324...234.23.434". Its logging capabilities is not up to par with anything else. If Microsoft hasnt released a KB explaining in detail why something dont work you are really out of luck finding any advanced errors by yourself and are left to expensive support contracts to fix bugs and other errors in the product. The Windows system is a complete blackbox where you seldom can find out why, how or when something works or not. The various courses i have taken in windows have all just explained how things should work, not a single word is about what to do when it doesnt. Its like there is some kind of denial that things can go wrong. The most comon fix i have seen so far is reinstall. Mouse dont work, reinstall the driver. Service dont work, reinstall service and so on. Im used to identify the problem in detail, find a solution and implementing the solution, not reinstalling and not knowing wtf happened at all. Documentation for deeper parts of Windows is abysmal to someone used to all the documentation, all the forums, the ability to have direct contact with developers and to file bugs towards the developers. I havent worked on Windows servers much since NT but i found Windows2003 not to be that much progress. Every friggin advanced setting is done in some obscure place in the registry, consists of some hex value and are impossible to use if you dont know its there and knows exactly what various hex values does. Frankly i was really surprised since every MS shill out there always brag about how easy Windows is and how well it works. I took it as a challenge and was really not hostile towards Windows 2003 in the start. I honestly thought it would be very easy, stable and efficient to manage. PR and reality turned out to differ much more than i thought. If Microsoft cant do better with their army of developers, their bottomless coffins, their monopoly and blind obidience from their partners they are totally screwed once they get level competition to fight against.