It's called Remote Desktop/Terminal Services. Comes with XP Pro. Connect with any citrix or terminal server client, or just install IIS 5.1 and you've got the web client. Ta dah!
Oh, about "having vnc client everywhere" is total BS, buddy. Install VNC and just HTTP to port 5800 (or 5801++, depending on the screen port number) and ta dah, you have a java applet vnc client available to any web browser.
However, I highly recommend Remote Desktop over anything else. Unlike X, it provides a total environment to the local user. It even maps a sound driver to the local machine so if I play mp3 files on the remote machine, they actually come out of the client's speakers 1000 miles away! Try doing that with X or VNC. Also, unline VNC, Remote Desktop actually _works_. By that I mean, I can open a web browser and scroll down and actually have the screen refresh in real time. It's really polished, gives you a run for your money. I suggest you try it.
...that scene in Jurassic where the girl is like, "this is unix, I know this..." when playing with that whizzy cool desktop.
Heh they fooled us all cause we all know command line is where it is. Anyways, isn't this akin to making Windows File Manager your shell? Personally, I think it's pointless. It's like going back in time to Sun's OpenWindows with no toolbar and just a file manager to deal with on load. Ick. Stick to toolbars, not FS.
The other major circumvention of WPA is via leaked keys for corporate versions, which are unlocked simply by entering the key, rather than it being necessary to activate over the Internet or by phone. Again, Microsoft can invalidate these keys at service pack time, and it has done so at least once in the past.
BZZZT. Guess what, I've seen this version before (don't worry, I'm running a properly licensed version of XP:-). It requires no product key. It's called the "volume licensing version" by Microsoft. For use when corporate customers buy licenses in bulk...
So... to counter that, an NT BSOD is almost _always_ due to a shotty 3rd party driver or strange hardware issue.
So we can't really blame windows... only the buggy drivers we have running!
So you should only complain about Windows being unstable when it is running a vanilla install.
I disagree. If we remove Media Player, then Apple should remove iTunes and QuickTime, and Linux should remove XMMS.
Now, see what a terrible inconveinence that is? See to you and me, it's not any trouble to go download a media player, but to Joe Q. Public, he wants it to plug it in and have it work, period.
Imagine that! That's the stupidest thing I've heard all day.
By the way, "Open-Windows" is a Sun trademark, and they'll get sued, just like LindowsOS all over again.
Windows is all about unity. If it did get leaked to the public like you say, it would be stupidly forked into a million different versions, just like the Linux kernel forks. "Joe's Windows" "Jim's Windows" etc...
This is not flamebait, but MS is a commercial company. The source probably has more comments than actual lines of raw code.
Their documentation is very thorough. Remember, whether you admit it or not, these are professional programmers, not 14-year-old l33t k1dd13z who "write code" for Linux.
Corporate code standards are much more stringent than any open source project you've ever seen or will ever see. Try working for a company sometime.
By the way, your use of the obligatory dollar sign makes you look like an immature tool. Have a great day!
This is a sure-fire way... run the following command (command-line should be familiar to Linux users anyway; don't complain about having to execute a command.)
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I can clarify that it is TOTAL BULLSHIT.
With IE6, most of my foreign documents (i.e., PDF, DOC, PPT, etc...) open IN THE BROWSER. In other words, no need to get a separate plug-in.
Anyways, Adobe has shipped an ActiveX control as an IE plug-in since like version 3 if I am correct. One thing I am happy to see that Adobe fixed in version 5 is a goofy printing error that has plagued acrobat reader. But, that quote it total FUD.
Anyway, who would use a Netscape plug-in in IE anyway? That's retarded. That's like saying you'd rather run an app's Windows version under WINE than use its Linux-native version.
Wow, I have to say that I am pleasantly surprised... I thought soozah was one of the best distros out there... little did I know it was plagued with problems.
Whatever happened to Caldera? (Rhetorical question...) They used to make the best distro for servers (although I could never get their installer to take on a particular box of mine, even though RedHat installed with flying colors.)
I can't believe you guys consider posting this slop. It's called a proxy server. Have you never seen one before? It's called HTTP acceleration. It's used to offload data to local proxies so it can be cached and therefore not be routed all over the Internet. Guess what. My university runs proxy caching servers. A whole 5. They claim it adds about an extra 5 Mbits to our commodity Internet connection by offloading traffic that would normally travel over the net to the cached data. They have openly told us that "they are not in the packet-watching business, nor will they ever will be."
@Home used proxies before they went defunct. Try DNSing any proxy.city1.state.home.com and see what you get. It's used to speed stuff up. No conspiracy there. Whoever wrote this letter is a conspiracy theorist loser. I guess all those Cisco routers my data goes through before it reaches slashdot is a whole conspiracy, too.
Give me a break. Comcast is obviously doing this to speed up their network. I love the part where he suggests that "This allows them to monitor and change (or insert ads into) what you read." What a fucking idiot. I'm sure they are doing that.
If he's going on a whim by saying "[the server]'s not configured to serve cached data" I think he's wrong. Since he doesn't work for Comcast, how does he know this? He doesn't. It's also funny how a few lines later he says "It then caches the
returned data." Umm, I thought you just said it didn't.
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"Unfortunately... home machines are WinXP only."
You say this like you actually think that Linux has more than a snowball's chance in sorry Hell to succeed on the desktop.
While you're at it, I have a bridge in New York I want to sell you...
It's called Remote Desktop/Terminal Services. Comes with XP Pro. Connect with any citrix or terminal server client, or just install IIS 5.1 and you've got the web client. Ta dah!
Oh, about "having vnc client everywhere" is total BS, buddy. Install VNC and just HTTP to port 5800 (or 5801++, depending on the screen port number) and ta dah, you have a java applet vnc client available to any web browser.
However, I highly recommend Remote Desktop over anything else. Unlike X, it provides a total environment to the local user. It even maps a sound driver to the local machine so if I play mp3 files on the remote machine, they actually come out of the client's speakers 1000 miles away! Try doing that with X or VNC. Also, unline VNC, Remote Desktop actually _works_. By that I mean, I can open a web browser and scroll down and actually have the screen refresh in real time. It's really polished, gives you a run for your money. I suggest you try it.
...that scene in Jurassic where the girl is like, "this is unix, I know this..." when playing with that whizzy cool desktop. Heh they fooled us all cause we all know command line is where it is. Anyways, isn't this akin to making Windows File Manager your shell? Personally, I think it's pointless. It's like going back in time to Sun's OpenWindows with no toolbar and just a file manager to deal with on load. Ick. Stick to toolbars, not FS.
Maybe if you stopped pouring hot grits into your NT box it wouldn't happen.
The other major circumvention of WPA is via leaked keys for corporate versions, which are unlocked simply by entering the key, rather than it being necessary to activate over the Internet or by phone. Again, Microsoft can invalidate these keys at service pack time, and it has done so at least once in the past.
:-). It requires no product key. It's called the "volume licensing version" by Microsoft. For use when corporate customers buy licenses in bulk...
BZZZT. Guess what, I've seen this version before (don't worry, I'm running a properly licensed version of XP
Nah, he can hit them with a, "Back when I invented COBOL" story.
Heh, I bet he shagged good ole Grace Murray Hopper after one of her "debugging" incidents.
Nah. Don't you think he'd be more fit to clean the vomit out of the toliets in the banquet hall? After all, he is a janitor...
"Can we get him?"
So... to counter that, an NT BSOD is almost _always_ due to a shotty 3rd party driver or strange hardware issue. So we can't really blame windows... only the buggy drivers we have running! So you should only complain about Windows being unstable when it is running a vanilla install.
And michael will be serving cocktails and waiting tables...
Of course it will be stable. Everything is stable under L---
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kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
kernel: Incorrect segment count at 0xc01781d6nr_segments is 15
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kernel: Segment 0xc3871aa0, blocks 4, addr 0x4c407ff
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kernel: Kernel panic: Ththththaats all folks. Too dangerous to continue.
kernel:
kernel: rq->cmd=1, rq->sector=73208, rq->nr_sectors=8
kernel: kernel BUG at pktcdvd.c:1046!
kernel: invalid operand: 0000
kernel: CPU: 0
kernel: EIP: 0010:[serial:__insmod_serial_S.bss_L3392+238989/3
kernel: EFLAGS: 00010086
kernel: eax: 0000001e ebx: c1273840 ecx: c4676000 edx: c020f384
kernel: esi: c208f09c edi: c208f074 ebp: c7f9d760 esp: c6fc3f88
kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
kernel: Process pktcdvd0 (pid: 1303, stackpage=c6fc3000)
kernel: Stack: c8861c10 c8861d2f 00000416 c6fc2000 c208f09c c208f074 c208f000 c7f9d86c
kernel: c8860076 c208f074 00000f00 c762df1c c208f000 00000b00 c6fc3fe0 c208f008
kernel: c208f10c c7f9d778 00000000 c6fc2000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c6fc2000
kernel: Call Trace: [serial:__insmod_serial_S.bss_L3392+245712/371483
kernel:
kernel: Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c b8 06 00 00 00 0f ab 45 48 19 c0 85 c0 75 24
I disagree. If we remove Media Player, then Apple should remove iTunes and QuickTime, and Linux should remove XMMS. Now, see what a terrible inconveinence that is? See to you and me, it's not any trouble to go download a media player, but to Joe Q. Public, he wants it to plug it in and have it work, period.
Imagine that! That's the stupidest thing I've heard all day.
By the way, "Open-Windows" is a Sun trademark, and they'll get sued, just like LindowsOS all over again.
Windows is all about unity. If it did get leaked to the public like you say, it would be stupidly forked into a million different versions, just like the Linux kernel forks. "Joe's Windows" "Jim's Windows" etc...
This is not flamebait, but MS is a commercial company. The source probably has more comments than actual lines of raw code.
Their documentation is very thorough. Remember, whether you admit it or not, these are professional programmers, not 14-year-old l33t k1dd13z who "write code" for Linux.
Corporate code standards are much more stringent than any open source project you've ever seen or will ever see. Try working for a company sometime.
By the way, your use of the obligatory dollar sign makes you look like an immature tool. Have a great day!
That doesn't always work.
This is a sure-fire way... run the following command (command-line should be familiar to Linux users anyway; don't complain about having to execute a command.)
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
I can clarify that it is TOTAL BULLSHIT. With IE6, most of my foreign documents (i.e., PDF, DOC, PPT, etc...) open IN THE BROWSER. In other words, no need to get a separate plug-in. Anyways, Adobe has shipped an ActiveX control as an IE plug-in since like version 3 if I am correct. One thing I am happy to see that Adobe fixed in version 5 is a goofy printing error that has plagued acrobat reader. But, that quote it total FUD. Anyway, who would use a Netscape plug-in in IE anyway? That's retarded. That's like saying you'd rather run an app's Windows version under WINE than use its Linux-native version.
But Windows with every package is still faster. Even for idiots.
Hah, Mandrake giving up to SuSE.... that is like soooo 1940s.
Wow, I have to say that I am pleasantly surprised... I thought soozah was one of the best distros out there... little did I know it was plagued with problems. Whatever happened to Caldera? (Rhetorical question...) They used to make the best distro for servers (although I could never get their installer to take on a particular box of mine, even though RedHat installed with flying colors.)
in which case we have full rights to whinge, moan and complain that it's crap, and therefore ALL of Microsoft's software is crap.
Welcome to Slashdot, where our motto is, "If it's not Linux, it's CRAP!"
Hah! Soon the bastards will be shipping hardware dongles with audio CDs to plug into the back of our CD players.
Perhaps you need to go back to the third grade to learn how to spell, considering it's not 'calculater'...
Too bad the article didn't have a link to http://www.hick.org/goat/ ;)
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Yawn.
I can't believe you guys consider posting this slop. It's called a proxy server. Have you never seen one before? It's called HTTP acceleration. It's used to offload data to local proxies so it can be cached and therefore not be routed all over the Internet. Guess what. My university runs proxy caching servers. A whole 5. They claim it adds about an extra 5 Mbits to our commodity Internet connection by offloading traffic that would normally travel over the net to the cached data. They have openly told us that "they are not in the packet-watching business, nor will they ever will be."
@Home used proxies before they went defunct. Try DNSing any proxy.city1.state.home.com and see what you get. It's used to speed stuff up. No conspiracy there. Whoever wrote this letter is a conspiracy theorist loser. I guess all those Cisco routers my data goes through before it reaches slashdot is a whole conspiracy, too.
Give me a break. Comcast is obviously doing this to speed up their network. I love the part where he suggests that "This allows them to monitor and change (or insert ads into) what you read." What a fucking idiot. I'm sure they are doing that.
If he's going on a whim by saying "[the server]'s not configured to serve cached data" I think he's wrong. Since he doesn't work for Comcast, how does he know this? He doesn't. It's also funny how a few lines later he says "It then caches the
returned data." Umm, I thought you just said it didn't.
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