"Use partition magic to convert from NTFS to fat32."
When you convert to FAT32, you lose all NTFS file permissions. However, your method is interesting.
The main issue is that Microsoft has tried to prevent the user from making full hard drive backups. It can be done with non-Microsoft tools, as the referenced Slashdot article says.
Here's another way the Windows XP file system is crippled. Here is a direct
quote from the Microsoft Press book Microsoft Windows XP Power Toolkit,
ISBN 0-7356-1790-2:
"No Shared Folder Passwords in Windows XP
"The folder password security feature, available in previous features of
Windows designed for home users, has been removed from Windows XP." [my
emphasis]
Note the sneaky, dishonest language. Microsoft puts down its own operating
system, Windows 98, which was definitely sold as a business operating system.
The lack of being able to assign passwords to folders is a huge shortcoming in
Windows XP that deliberately reduces the security in the XP file system.
Microsoft has deliberately designed the NTFS file system in Windows XP so that
it cannot copy all of its own system files. Microsoft tech support employees
have verfied that this is so. That's why you can't use XCOPY.EXE or
NTBACKUP.EXE or ROBOCOPY.EXE to make a functional full hard disk backup of a
Windows XP system partition.
That's crippled. Apparently Microsoft crippled NTFS for copy protection and to
encourage people to buy a new computer when their old one fails. To me, this
is completely outside acceptible behavior. I predict that there will be
massive layoffs at Microsoft within the next 5 years, as more and more people
switch to Linux.
I don't think anyone cares about the small extra amount they pay for Windows
when they buy a new computer. I understand that the amount large system
builders pay is less than $40 per computer. However, people are extremely
unhappy about Microsoft's attempts to control their product after it is sold.
For most people Linux is not attractive because it is free; Linux is
attractive because, with Windows, you are partners with a company that
consistently acts in a destructive way toward you.
This comment is NOT anti-Microsoft. I consider any anti-Microsoft behavior
immature. This is anti- bad company management. Microsoft's marketing failure
is destroying the company. It's one of the biggest marketing failures of all
time, including the Arthur Anderson and Enron self-destruction.
From the parent post: "90% of the time that precieved fault of
microsoft is really something that is misconfigured, or a under engineered
network causing the trouble... but MS get's the bulk of the blame."
I think there are huge problems with Windows XP that are the fault of
Microsoft. For example, the Windows XP file system is crippled. Unlike Windows
98, which can make a bootable full hard disk copy with the XCOPY.EXE program,
Windows XP cannot copy all of its own files:
Experiences
w/ Drive Imaging Software?
Even when using the "Recovery Console", you cannot access some files on a hard
drive. Windows XP is very crippled.
Not only that, but do you want to run the risk of using an operating system that puts most of the configuration settings in one file of more than 20 megabytes (the "Registry")? If something goes wrong, it is necessary to re-install ALL of your programs and patches and updates, not just the operating system.
Everything mentioned here has been verified several times by Microsoft tech support employees.
My nVidia MX440 cards are as good as the Matrox G400 cards. I had problems with the Matrox cards dying. Two are sitting on my desk now.
This looks like the best 2D video card deal now: eVGA.com MX440. I use the same chipset from other nVidia manufacturers, but I'm getting ready to order eVGA.
The key issue is RAMDAC speed, which is 350 MHz for the MX440. That's high enough for crisp 1600 x 1200.
Suspect a bad connection inside the computer. Pull out all connectors and adapters and memory modules one millimeter and push them back. That refreshes the connections by wiping off oxides and other corrosion.
It's utterly true. The Indian constitution tries to dismantle the caste system. However, the caste system still is a huge problem in India. The government should try to solve that problem rather than make cryogenic rockets, in my opinion.
It is common, but despicable, that governments largely ignore huge difficult problems and solve exciting ones. Here are some examples:
U.S. government: We need to bomb Iraq because Saddam is being violent.
Let's not consider the problem that the U.S. government is, more and more, for
sale; that's a tough problem.
Chinese government: Let's go to the moon. We will mostly ignore the
fact that 80% of our population has too little education, freedom, and money.
Indian government: Cryogenic rockets! Let's not think about how to
further dismantle the caste system that destroys individual initiative.
Thanks for your post. I get tired of the Al Gore joke, too. The "Internet" before Gore was DARPA's Advanced Research Projects Administration Net. DARPA is an organization of the U.S. government that researches more efficient ways of killing people and destroying their property. The post-Gore Internet is a force for good in the world.
True. However, they would also catch me doing many very intelligent things. I've never known President George Bush to do anything especially intelligent.
You didn't mention the alcholic personalities of Bush and Cheney. The grandparent post gave links to their DUI records. Basically,
Republicans are, in general, more out of touch with their feelings than
Democrats. So Republicans tend not to notice alcoholic personalities:
Absense of deep or sophisticated thinking (If anyone has any information
about George W. Bush showing evidence of sophisticated thinking, please write
to me.)
Polarized thinking (Bush's "you are either with us or against us" is
an
example. Another example is his statement, "Look my job isn't to try to
nuance. I think moral clarity is important... this is evil versus good.")
Obsessive repetition (On August 7, during his "working vacation" at
his
Crawford, Texas, ranch, Bush used the word "home" six times in a minute of
conversation with reporters: "It's nice to be home... This is my home...
It's good to be home... This is where you come home... This is my home,"
etc. In a five-minute speech later in the month, Bush mentioned values at
least seven times and "neighbor" or "neighborliness" or "neighborly" six
times. In a twenty-minute speech the next day he used "character" eleven
times. -- Some of the examples here are drawn from a September 6, 2001 article
in The Atlantic magazine, The
Bumbling
Communicator. Not only was Bush repetitive, he was lying. The article
says, "Bush lived in the Texas governor's mansion and vacationed in swank
resorts and at Kennebunkport before the campaign began.")
Inability to perceive the needs of others, inability to understand
someone
different from oneself
Grandiosity, believing that one's own ideas are all-important. (Bush,
and
the oil and weapons people who support him, say the U.S. has the right to take
military action before the adversary even has the capacity to attack.)
Impatience ("If we wait for threats to fully materialize," President
Bush
said in a speech he gave at West Point, "we will have waited too long.")
Incoherence. Things don't make sense in the mind of an alcoholic. An
alcoholic's pattern of speech sometimes reflects his or her inner chaos.
It's not hate-filled to say that George Bush does not seem intelligent.
Watch David Letterman. (For those of you not in the U.S., he is a talk show
host who is on TV every weekday night.) Letterman has been regularly showing
video clips, taken from that day's news, of our President, George Bush, doing
something stupid.
For example, in one David Letterman clip George Bush read a speech and when he
was finished gave a cough and a jerky movement that David Letterman
characterized as, "That was boring. Now I'm out of here."
I'm tired of having a president that other foreign leaders characterize as an
"idiot". That reference is just one example.
There is a part of the Republican party composed of people who will do
anything to sell the U.S. government to those, mostly their friends, who have
money. They are truly not a political party; they can rightly be characterized
as criminals. George Bush is their figurehead. For example, look at this CNN
article, "Vice
President Cheney has a financial interest in Halliburton." Quoting David
Letterman, "When you write the check for your part of the $83 billion to
rebuild Iraq, remember that there are two Ls in Halliburton."
According to someone I know who was in Vice President Dick Cheney's social
circle while he was at Halliburton, Cheney was (is) an alcoholic with a history of boozing and womanizing.
This was not
different from George Bush, of course.
I'm not the only person who is looking for an alternative to President Bush.
I think that maybe Howard Dean is the best alternative.
Also, note that this post is on-topic. We are talking about the politics of
the U.S. government spending billions of money it doesn't have to send people
to the moon. Others have characterized this as intended to be a distraction
from the serious problems the present U.S. government administration has
caused.
From the parent post: "... (this is starting to look more and more like
Vietnam, thought I am too young to know that for certain)..."
In the Vietnam War, the U.S. government killed approximately 2,000,000
Vietnamese directly, and many more indirectly. None of those Vietnamese
threatened the U.S. directly.
Even if they had wanted to threaten the U.S., the average income of Vietnamese
then was less than $100 per year. So they couldn't have afforded an
airline ticket even if they did want to go to the U.S. to threaten someone.
Not to be outdone by the Vietnam War in stupidity and lack of social
sophistication, the U.S. government's war in Iraq is, for many Arabs and
Muslims, equivalent to picking a fight with 330 million Arabs and 1.1 billion
Muslims.
So, while the second U.S. Government-Iraq War is equally as illogical as the
U.S. Government-Vietnam War, it is not yet equally as immoral.
Is the rest of the world just there for the U.S. government to use to act out
the inner conflict and anger of its members? If you don't think so, this man
seems to be more mentally healthy than George Bush: Howard
Dean.
There is what appears to be a good alternative to hearing jokes about the president of the U.S. not having much comprehension:
Howard
Dean for President.
I've seen this too. There is something squirrely about Win XP. It has memory management problems, it appears. If one program fails, it will sometimes corrupt the memory space of another program, or the OS itself.
(No offense to squirrels. They are cute, friendly animals. But, operating systems should not act like them.)
When searching for a Microsoft document, don't use the Microsoft search engine. It's terrible. Use Google, with
site:microsoft.com
as part of the search parameters.
I agree. It sounds like a virus.
Certainly the first thing to do is to discover if the BIOS is seeing the drives, which it is if you can see the drive in DOS.
If it's not a virus, suspect human involvement. Maybe someone ran the same program on all the computers. Such as a screen saver, for example. It would be very much like someone with no computer experience to run a screen save they got off the internet and to forget that they did it.
Wow! My mistake! I just checked, and you are right. I had picked "Finding Nemo" at random.
However, I've discussed the issue of having relevant material with librarians there and the basic issue is what I said. The library probably purchased all 128 copies, and has sold donated ones, judging from what I've been told when discussing other works.
Slashdot Mirror
"Use partition magic to convert from NTFS to fat32."
When you convert to FAT32, you lose all NTFS file permissions. However, your method is interesting.
The main issue is that Microsoft has tried to prevent the user from making full hard drive backups. It can be done with non-Microsoft tools, as the referenced Slashdot article says.
Here's another way the Windows XP file system is crippled. Here is a direct quote from the Microsoft Press book Microsoft Windows XP Power Toolkit, ISBN 0-7356-1790-2:
"No Shared Folder Passwords in Windows XP
"The folder password security feature, available in previous features of Windows designed for home users, has been removed from Windows XP." [my emphasis]
Note the sneaky, dishonest language. Microsoft puts down its own operating system, Windows 98, which was definitely sold as a business operating system.
The lack of being able to assign passwords to folders is a huge shortcoming in Windows XP that deliberately reduces the security in the XP file system.
Microsoft has deliberately designed the NTFS file system in Windows XP so that it cannot copy all of its own system files. Microsoft tech support employees have verfied that this is so. That's why you can't use XCOPY.EXE or NTBACKUP.EXE or ROBOCOPY.EXE to make a functional full hard disk backup of a Windows XP system partition.
That's crippled. Apparently Microsoft crippled NTFS for copy protection and to encourage people to buy a new computer when their old one fails. To me, this is completely outside acceptible behavior. I predict that there will be massive layoffs at Microsoft within the next 5 years, as more and more people switch to Linux.
I don't think anyone cares about the small extra amount they pay for Windows when they buy a new computer. I understand that the amount large system builders pay is less than $40 per computer. However, people are extremely unhappy about Microsoft's attempts to control their product after it is sold. For most people Linux is not attractive because it is free; Linux is attractive because, with Windows, you are partners with a company that consistently acts in a destructive way toward you.
This comment is NOT anti-Microsoft. I consider any anti-Microsoft behavior immature. This is anti- bad company management. Microsoft's marketing failure is destroying the company. It's one of the biggest marketing failures of all time, including the Arthur Anderson and Enron self-destruction.
From the parent post:
"90% of the time that precieved fault of microsoft is really something that is misconfigured, or a under engineered network causing the trouble... but MS get's the bulk of the blame."
I think there are huge problems with Windows XP that are the fault of Microsoft. For example, the Windows XP file system is crippled. Unlike Windows 98, which can make a bootable full hard disk copy with the XCOPY.EXE program, Windows XP cannot copy all of its own files: Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software?
Can you accept an operating system which does not allow you to make a full hard disk backup? Yes, I know about third-party tools and Sysprep. They ALL have verified problems. The version of Sysprep that comes with Windows XP sometimes causes failure of the Windows XP Recovery Console: 'The Password Is Not Valid' Error Message Appears When You Log On to Recovery Console in Windows XP.
Even when using the "Recovery Console", you cannot access some files on a hard drive. Windows XP is very crippled.
Not only that, but do you want to run the risk of using an operating system that puts most of the configuration settings in one file of more than 20 megabytes (the "Registry")? If something goes wrong, it is necessary to re-install ALL of your programs and patches and updates, not just the operating system.
Everything mentioned here has been verified several times by Microsoft tech support employees.
My nVidia MX440 cards are as good as the Matrox G400 cards. I had problems with the Matrox cards dying. Two are sitting on my desk now.
This looks like the best 2D video card deal now: eVGA.com MX440. I use the same chipset from other nVidia manufacturers, but I'm getting ready to order eVGA.
The key issue is RAMDAC speed, which is 350 MHz for the MX440. That's high enough for crisp 1600 x 1200.
"get binaries' checksums to match the old binaries' checksums (nigh on impossible, given how md5 hash works)"
It's so impossible that someone who could do it might win a Fields medal.
Suspect a bad connection inside the computer. Pull out all connectors and adapters and memory modules one millimeter and push them back. That refreshes the connections by wiping off oxides and other corrosion.
From the parent post: "The US is a seriously backward and disfunctional society,
This fits with my experience in other areas: History surrounding the U.S. war with Iraq: Four short stories.
It's utterly true. The Indian constitution tries to dismantle the caste system. However, the caste system still is a huge problem in India. The government should try to solve that problem rather than make cryogenic rockets, in my opinion.
It is common, but despicable, that governments largely ignore huge difficult problems and solve exciting ones. Here are some examples:
U.S. government: We need to bomb Iraq because Saddam is being violent. Let's not consider the problem that the U.S. government is, more and more, for sale; that's a tough problem.
Chinese government: Let's go to the moon. We will mostly ignore the fact that 80% of our population has too little education, freedom, and money.
Indian government: Cryogenic rockets! Let's not think about how to further dismantle the caste system that destroys individual initiative.
From the parent post: "Microsoft would then hunt you down and kill you and everyone in your family through to your great-grandchildren."
This is an exaggeration. Actually, Bill Gates would come to your house and raid your refrigerator.
The U.S. government is becoming more and more corrupt. What do you plan to do about it?
Thanks for your post. I get tired of the Al Gore joke, too. The "Internet" before Gore was DARPA's Advanced Research Projects Administration Net. DARPA is an organization of the U.S. government that researches more efficient ways of killing people and destroying their property. The post-Gore Internet is a force for good in the world.
True. However, they would also catch me doing many very intelligent things. I've never known President George Bush to do anything especially intelligent.
What you said is largely true, except the part about Cheney not benefiting from his involvement with Halliburton, as mentioned above in the grandparent post: "Vice President Cheney has a financial interest in Halliburton."
You didn't mention the alcholic personalities of Bush and Cheney. The grandparent post gave links to their DUI records. Basically, Republicans are, in general, more out of touch with their feelings than Democrats. So Republicans tend not to notice alcoholic personalities:
"... volumes bigger than 2gb..."
This should be file sizes bigger than 2 Gigabytes.
It's not hate-filled to say that George Bush does not seem intelligent. Watch David Letterman. (For those of you not in the U.S., he is a talk show host who is on TV every weekday night.) Letterman has been regularly showing video clips, taken from that day's news, of our President, George Bush, doing something stupid.
For example, in one David Letterman clip George Bush read a speech and when he was finished gave a cough and a jerky movement that David Letterman characterized as, "That was boring. Now I'm out of here."
I'm tired of having a president that other foreign leaders characterize as an "idiot". That reference is just one example.
There is a part of the Republican party composed of people who will do anything to sell the U.S. government to those, mostly their friends, who have money. They are truly not a political party; they can rightly be characterized as criminals. George Bush is their figurehead. For example, look at this CNN article, "Vice President Cheney has a financial interest in Halliburton." Quoting David Letterman, "When you write the check for your part of the $83 billion to rebuild Iraq, remember that there are two Ls in Halliburton."
According to someone I know who was in Vice President Dick Cheney's social circle while he was at Halliburton, Cheney was (is) an alcoholic with a history of boozing and womanizing. This was not different from George Bush, of course.
I'm not the only person who is looking for an alternative to President Bush. I think that maybe Howard Dean is the best alternative.
Also, note that this post is on-topic. We are talking about the politics of the U.S. government spending billions of money it doesn't have to send people to the moon. Others have characterized this as intended to be a distraction from the serious problems the present U.S. government administration has caused.
From the parent post: "... (this is starting to look more and more like Vietnam, thought I am too young to know that for certain)..."
In the Vietnam War, the U.S. government killed approximately 2,000,000 Vietnamese directly, and many more indirectly. None of those Vietnamese threatened the U.S. directly. Even if they had wanted to threaten the U.S., the average income of Vietnamese then was less than $100 per year. So they couldn't have afforded an airline ticket even if they did want to go to the U.S. to threaten someone.
Not to be outdone by the Vietnam War in stupidity and lack of social sophistication, the U.S. government's war in Iraq is, for many Arabs and Muslims, equivalent to picking a fight with 330 million Arabs and 1.1 billion Muslims.
So, while the second U.S. Government-Iraq War is equally as illogical as the U.S. Government-Vietnam War, it is not yet equally as immoral.
Is the rest of the world just there for the U.S. government to use to act out the inner conflict and anger of its members? If you don't think so, this man seems to be more mentally healthy than George Bush: Howard Dean.
Are they talking about sending Bush to the moon?
There is what appears to be a good alternative to hearing jokes about the president of the U.S. not having much comprehension: Howard Dean for President.
I've seen this too. There is something squirrely about Win XP. It has memory management problems, it appears. If one program fails, it will sometimes corrupt the memory space of another program, or the OS itself.
(No offense to squirrels. They are cute, friendly animals. But, operating systems should not act like them.)
Adding to my post above, also see this article: Display All Devices That Are Connected to a Windows XP-Based Computer
Tips:
When searching for a Microsoft document, don't use the Microsoft search engine. It's terrible. Use Google, with as part of the search parameters.
I agree. It sounds like a virus.
Certainly the first thing to do is to discover if the BIOS is seeing the drives, which it is if you can see the drive in DOS.
If it's not a virus, suspect human involvement. Maybe someone ran the same program on all the computers. Such as a screen saver, for example. It would be very much like someone with no computer experience to run a screen save they got off the internet and to forget that they did it.
Wow! My mistake! I just checked, and you are right. I had picked "Finding Nemo" at random.
However, I've discussed the issue of having relevant material with librarians there and the basic issue is what I said. The library probably purchased all 128 copies, and has sold donated ones, judging from what I've been told when discussing other works.
It helps get a sense of perspective to realize that Australia has a population of 20,000,000.
Excellent. That's what I want for Portland, Oregon.