Another note: We just had the power supply in our voicemail computer go out. It had been running continuously for 13 years. It burned extensively, but was certainly not a fire risk.
Thanks for your constructive comment. I get tired of reading hostile, immature, "I'm better than you" comments like some of those posted before yours. Not everyone can know everything, especially about computers.
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Haven't seen any problem with AMD processors. It's necessary to follow the Cooling Guidelines, of course.
Make sure you have a good power supply. We use KingWin 350 Watt supplies that have two fans. (Ignore the language, "Extreme Series". That's there just to appeal to gamers, who expect every product to include some reference to violence or games. There is nothing extreme about them, and they are reasonably priced.)
Note that power supply manufacturers sell power supplies that have 100 Watts more rated power for sometimes close to twice the price. That's to take advantage of the "more is better" people.
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As long as someone is worrying about "space garbage", there are a few galaxies we need moved. They are blocking the view in that direction.
Now its coming back to me. (I couldn't think clearly at 4:34 AM.) ASR and Sysprep are mutually exclusive. SUS only works if you are attached to a domain. ASR doesn't work if there if the hardware to which you restore is different than that from which you made a backup, as it will be if something fails several years after installation (or even months, sometimes), because you won't be able to buy hardware similar to the original.
There should be a large, large protest about this. The copy protection built into Windows (the registry) prevents saving all your installation and configuration work. This is not a problem with Linux, for example. Copy protection is fine, but not when it prevents your right to make a backup of your own installation and configuration work, which may easily be worth more than the cost of Windows XP.
Interesting. I don't think Sysprep was part of the retail CDs. Maybe it is now. I didn't know it was possible to download Sysprep. I was told by a Microsoft technical support person to use only the Windows 2003 Server version of Sysprep, since earlier versions have bugs.
Microsoft technical support people never suggest using ASR for a full functional backup of a Windows XP boot partition. MS tech support says there is no way to back up a Windows XP partition without 3rd party tools. I've been told this repeatedly by several Microsoft technicians. If ASR works, why do Acronis (my favorite), Ghost, PowerDeploy, and other 3rd party programs exist?
It constantly amazes me to get answers like the one you quoted. First, the person who answered has a serious anger problem.
Second, he missed the point. He was warned in the Slashdot story, but he missed the point anyway. Microsoft provides no way to make a functional backup of a Windows XP boot partition. That's a fact. Microsoft technical support agrees with this.
Third, did you read the answer to the comment you quoted: #7455912? Apparently not, because larien (5608) gives a complete answer and bigpat (158134) criticized the original poster for his anger.
Fourth, he talks about Sysprep. He apparently doesn't realize that Sysprep is not available to most users of Windows XP. He also assumes that the user is attached to a domain. Most aren't.
I think that an OS with no full backup method does not meet the need for Fitness for Merchantibility. That legal standard may not apply to Windows XP, but it should, in my opinion. In another field, the manufacturer would not be allowed to provide an incomplete product.
The sociology of his answer is more interesting than what he said.
Thanks for writing the story about Bart's and getting Slashdot to publish it. I already knew about Bart's, but the some of the comments were useful to me.
When building a Bart's CD, the program just finds the user's own Windows XP operating system files, and incorporates them into the Bart's CD. No knowledge of the NTFS file system is required, because the actual, real NTFS file system is included.
Also, it doesn't matter if Bart's is new. What matters is that more people need to hear about it.
I wish Bart's was better documented and easier to customize.
Note that Bart is doing for Microsoft customers what Microsoft should have done. Microsoft provides PE only for its biggest customers. Everyone else gets a crippled version of the OS.
Even if you have Bart's Windows XP is still crippled: "Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP have crippled file systems." The
file system cannot copy some of the files that are necessary to the operating
system. Microsoft provides no way of making functional backups of its newer
operating systems! (Yes, I know about Sysprep and NTBackup and third-party
methods. Microsoft technical support agrees with my statement.)
Thanks for bringing some sanity to this discussion. The author of the original story was just trying to get attention, and probably knows nothing about the physics of stars.
Depending on your situation, I suggest buying an inexpensive daypack and installing some foam rubber in it. It's much more comfortable not to look like a target for theft, I've found. A bubble pack envelope large enough for the laptop may be enough cushioning if you put some foam rubber at the bottom of the daypack.
On the other hand, if you always travel by limousine, I suggest you bring along a supermodel to distract thieves from the laptop.
This is reasonable! Bit torrent does this. Sem problema. No problemo. Besides, they don't use very much bandwidth or CPU power, and they use it only when Skype is running.
I have heard that there have been over 60 vulnerabilities found (how many not found?) in Microsoft Internet Explorer in the last two years. So, here's a question: Could this have happened because of sloppy coding? Or, are these back doors put there because a U.S. government spy agency requests them?
There is very little interaction between chemical processes and power lines that are 20 meters away. That's because of Planck's constant: 6.626068 x 10-34 m2 kg/s. When you multiply normal events by a number that has a decimal point and 34 zeroes, the result is tiny.
Notice this paragraph in the article: "Goheen also cautioned that the rats had to be placed much closer to the electrical device than would be the case for most people and their ion air generators."
Someone who was able to show that there was, in fact, a strong interaction would immediately win a Nobel Prize, because he or she would have discovered a new kind of interaction between electromagnetic energy and chemical processes.
Respectfully, you have given great reasons why technically oriented people should like the name. However, that's not the point. We would use Firebird FireFox browser no matter what it is called.
Most of the prospective users have no technical background. The name must be appropriate to interest them.
How can you criticize Microsoft for this? There have been only 60 extremely serious vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer in two years.
The real source of the problem is..., well yes, Microsoft. One would think that Microsoft would be better at coding than someone who taught himself programming and writes programs on the weekends.
Finally a name no one else is using! Wait, Firefox.
Picking a name for a product, especially an extremely valuable internationally famous product such as this one, is far more difficult than it appears. Those who have never had any experience writing advertising often don't realize how difficult.
Also, consider the connotations of the name. Where is the burning that would cause the product to be named "fire"? Where is the cleverness that would cause the product to be called "fox"? Maybe the name FireFox is not right for a standard household product meant to be used by the entire family as a way to communicate with the world. Yes, writing the product required an enormous amount of cleverness, but using it doesn't. Also, the name FireFox is made of English words, and most of the world does not speak English.
The name is IMPORTANT. A good name will ease acceptance. A name that people find difficult can kill acceptance. There is a huge amount of importance in this one word.
Maybe a made-up word is better. Drug companies use made-up words like Claritin or Cialis to name just two. That has the benefit that the domain name is not
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I agree. It's crazy that AMD does not make their own chipsets.
Another note: We just had the power supply in our voicemail computer go out. It had been running continuously for 13 years. It burned extensively, but was certainly not a fire risk.
No matter what happens inside your computer (that has a metal case), you cannot have an external fire.
Even with serious component burning, you do not get a fire, because of fire-retardant materials. The smoke smells horrible, of course.
At present, AMD and Intel processors are about equal in power use. With a proper heat sink, they will both last for years, with no problems.
Good point. There are a lot of people like you, and they are welcome to Slashdot. Ignore those with an anger problem.
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Thanks for your constructive comment. I get tired of reading hostile, immature, "I'm better than you" comments like some of those posted before yours. Not everyone can know everything, especially about computers.
Haven't seen any problem with AMD processors. It's necessary to follow the Cooling Guidelines, of course.
Make sure you have a good power supply. We use KingWin 350 Watt supplies that have two fans. (Ignore the language, "Extreme Series". That's there just to appeal to gamers, who expect every product to include some reference to violence or games. There is nothing extreme about them, and they are reasonably priced.)
Note that power supply manufacturers sell power supplies that have 100 Watts more rated power for sometimes close to twice the price. That's to take advantage of the "more is better" people.
As long as someone is worrying about "space garbage", there are a few galaxies we need moved. They are blocking the view in that direction.
I agree. It would be better to consider the whole world when writing stories for Slashdot.
Now its coming back to me. (I couldn't think clearly at 4:34 AM.) ASR and Sysprep are mutually exclusive. SUS only works if you are attached to a domain. ASR doesn't work if there if the hardware to which you restore is different than that from which you made a backup, as it will be if something fails several years after installation (or even months, sometimes), because you won't be able to buy hardware similar to the original.
There should be a large, large protest about this. The copy protection built into Windows (the registry) prevents saving all your installation and configuration work. This is not a problem with Linux, for example. Copy protection is fine, but not when it prevents your right to make a backup of your own installation and configuration work, which may easily be worth more than the cost of Windows XP.
Interesting. I don't think Sysprep was part of the retail CDs. Maybe it is now. I didn't know it was possible to download Sysprep. I was told by a Microsoft technical support person to use only the Windows 2003 Server version of Sysprep, since earlier versions have bugs.
Microsoft technical support people never suggest using ASR for a full functional backup of a Windows XP boot partition. MS tech support says there is no way to back up a Windows XP partition without 3rd party tools. I've been told this repeatedly by several Microsoft technicians. If ASR works, why do Acronis (my favorite), Ghost, PowerDeploy, and other 3rd party programs exist?
Not everyone wants to give Winternals $300. Especially since the capability should be supplied with Windows XP, without having to pay more.
WhoDaresWins,
It constantly amazes me to get answers like the one you quoted. First, the person who answered has a serious anger problem.
Second, he missed the point. He was warned in the Slashdot story, but he missed the point anyway. Microsoft provides no way to make a functional backup of a Windows XP boot partition. That's a fact. Microsoft technical support agrees with this.
Third, did you read the answer to the comment you quoted: #7455912? Apparently not, because larien (5608) gives a complete answer and bigpat (158134) criticized the original poster for his anger.
Fourth, he talks about Sysprep. He apparently doesn't realize that Sysprep is not available to most users of Windows XP. He also assumes that the user is attached to a domain. Most aren't.
I think that an OS with no full backup method does not meet the need for Fitness for Merchantibility. That legal standard may not apply to Windows XP, but it should, in my opinion. In another field, the manufacturer would not be allowed to provide an incomplete product.
The sociology of his answer is more interesting than what he said.
Thanks for writing the story about Bart's and getting Slashdot to publish it. I already knew about Bart's, but the some of the comments were useful to me.
When building a Bart's CD, the program just finds the user's own Windows XP operating system files, and incorporates them into the Bart's CD. No knowledge of the NTFS file system is required, because the actual, real NTFS file system is included.
The Winternals product costs maybe $300. Bart's is free.
Also, it doesn't matter if Bart's is new. What matters is that more people need to hear about it.
I wish Bart's was better documented and easier to customize.
Note that Bart is doing for Microsoft customers what Microsoft should have done. Microsoft provides PE only for its biggest customers. Everyone else gets a crippled version of the OS.
Even if you have Bart's Windows XP is still crippled: "Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP have crippled file systems." The file system cannot copy some of the files that are necessary to the operating system. Microsoft provides no way of making functional backups of its newer operating systems! (Yes, I know about Sysprep and NTBackup and third-party methods. Microsoft technical support agrees with my statement.)
Thanks for bringing some sanity to this discussion. The author of the original story was just trying to get attention, and probably knows nothing about the physics of stars.
Depending on your situation, I suggest buying an inexpensive daypack and installing some foam rubber in it. It's much more comfortable not to look like a target for theft, I've found. A bubble pack envelope large enough for the laptop may be enough cushioning if you put some foam rubber at the bottom of the daypack.
On the other hand, if you always travel by limousine, I suggest you bring along a supermodel to distract thieves from the laptop.
VERY impressive.
This is reasonable! Bit torrent does this. Sem problema. No problemo. Besides, they don't use very much bandwidth or CPU power, and they use it only when Skype is running.
Use Skype, until they ask everyone to pay. Better sound quality than telephone. Works with only Port 80 open. Free.
You put a wet finger on the negative end and touch the postive end with your tongue. For 1.5 volt batteries only. Don't try this on 90 volt batteries.
I have heard that there have been over 60 vulnerabilities found (how many not found?) in Microsoft Internet Explorer in the last two years. So, here's a question: Could this have happened because of sloppy coding? Or, are these back doors put there because a U.S. government spy agency requests them?
There is very little interaction between chemical processes and power lines that are 20 meters away. That's because of Planck's constant: 6.626068 x 10-34 m2 kg/s. When you multiply normal events by a number that has a decimal point and 34 zeroes, the result is tiny.
Notice this paragraph in the article: "Goheen also cautioned that the rats had to be placed much closer to the electrical device than would be the case for most people and their ion air generators."
Someone who was able to show that there was, in fact, a strong interaction would immediately win a Nobel Prize, because he or she would have discovered a new kind of interaction between electromagnetic energy and chemical processes.
Respectfully, you have given great reasons why technically oriented people should like the name. However, that's not the point. We would use Firebird FireFox browser no matter what it is called.
Most of the prospective users have no technical background. The name must be appropriate to interest them.
How can you criticize Microsoft for this? There have been only 60 extremely serious vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer in two years.
The real source of the problem is..., well yes, Microsoft. One would think that Microsoft would be better at coding than someone who taught himself programming and writes programs on the weekends.
Finally a name no one else is using! Wait, Firefox.
Picking a name for a product, especially an extremely valuable internationally famous product such as this one, is far more difficult than it appears. Those who have never had any experience writing advertising often don't realize how difficult.
Also, consider the connotations of the name. Where is the burning that would cause the product to be named "fire"? Where is the cleverness that would cause the product to be called "fox"? Maybe the name FireFox is not right for a standard household product meant to be used by the entire family as a way to communicate with the world. Yes, writing the product required an enormous amount of cleverness, but using it doesn't. Also, the name FireFox is made of English words, and most of the world does not speak English.
The name is IMPORTANT. A good name will ease acceptance. A name that people find difficult can kill acceptance. There is a huge amount of importance in this one word.
Maybe a made-up word is better. Drug companies use made-up words like Claritin or Cialis to name just two. That has the benefit that the domain name is not taken.