Network Access Protection modules and policies have been brought to XP after being one of the more-well-received features in Windows Vista If that means we will get GPO control over 802.1x configuration for WIRED networks (not wireless - XP has that already) then that and that alone is worth the upgrade IMO.
It was actually the only Vista feature that caught my eye. It's the difference between being able to sensibly roll out 802.1x EAP/PEAP on your switches and not.
What does the name "Slashdot" mean?
"Slashdot" is a sort of obnoxious parody of a URL. When I originally registered the domain, I wanted to make the URL silly, and unpronounceable. With this being a news site, I always kind of imagined the name of the site was a reference to the current directory -/. ('current' - geddit?)
you could just do a quick copy-over of the applicable registry entries.
At a guess I expect that it will use the Office ActiveX controls, and of course the whole thing will probably only run in IE as a result. Admittedly this will be completely and utterly pointless to a level never before previously seen, but that's Microsoft for you.
I loved the show years ago, but these days people are used to their cars talking to them, so the novelty is kind of eroded.
With good stories it could work, but I hope they don't rely on effects to drive interest.
See this is why you should never respond to emails asking you what the reserve price is as they are from snipers waiting to bid that exact amount in the last 10 seconds.
Read TFA - it's both ends of the mean curve that don't get as much sex - i.e. the extra dumb ones and the extra smart ones.
Basically we can super-categorise it like this: average girls don't sleep with guys they think are weird. Whether you are 'weird' to the average girl because you don't play football or you walk around with silver foil on your head makes no difference to them - you are not what they are looking for which is a solid societal stereotype (in most cases).
Obviously there are the more enlightened ladies (thank god) who allow their intellect to surpass or guide their instincts.
In the tech scene for sure there are relatively few ladies - in the words of Scott Adams:
"Female engineers become irresistible at the age of consent and remain that way until about thirty minutes after their clinical death. Longer if it's a warm day."
...lets say it DIDN'T exclude iPhones. How is it going to work? Can't install any software on it, can't download anything. If you could download music, how are you going to play it? Unless it's transferred into it from iTunes, it ain't gonna work.
They have to say it's 'excluded' otherwise the difficult questions would start to get asked like why does the service not work on the iPhone when this so called 'revolutionary' device is shown up yet again by phones that have been around for years.
We have 2000+ desktops. Out of those maybe 500 could run Vista right now; we still run Win2k on a number of the older ones but are trying to standardise on XPSP2.
So far the only (and I mean -ONLY-) compelling feature I have seen in Vista is the ability to easily control 802.1X (P)EAP settings for the wired network interface from Active Directory GPO policies.
Seriously - that's it. If I deployed Vista we would have never ending complaints about nothing working, and even slower machines.
Maybe we will look a moving when drivers stop being available for XP for newer machines that we buy in 5 years or so, but I will be looking to migrate to thin clients or maybe a desktop Linux by then.
Who cares? Illegal warrantless wiretapping or deceiving a country into war is a Big Deal, but yet we don't see anyone impeached or even reprimanded over that. Details of whether someone had a BJ or not are utterly insignificant.
I predicted this would happen years ago (purely because the free flow of information is not good from a government perspective - makes it very hard to lie to the public), then they tried to get it through, and to my genuine surprise Clinton vetoed it as 'unconstitutional' - he got my respect for that. It was shortly after that he got impeached for getting a BJ (which only earned him more respect...)
It's the thin end of the wedge. Once you have the tools in place to filter internet traffic for one type of content, then it becomes trivial to use that infrastructure to control any content you wish. This is a Very Bad Idea.
...just because a SAN is connected at 1Gbit to a machine does not mean there is 1 Gbit of data passing over there all the time.
If I were to write up my house network I could say 'network switches feed data to several computers at 1Gbit per second' - this would be true if I only use it for web browsing - doesn't mean I'm saturating my bandwidth.
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It was actually the only Vista feature that caught my eye. It's the difference between being able to sensibly roll out 802.1x EAP/PEAP on your switches and not.
"Slashdot" is a sort of obnoxious parody of a URL. When I originally registered the domain, I wanted to make the URL silly, and unpronounceable. With this being a news site, I always kind of imagined the name of the site was a reference to the current directory -
- although thinking about it that would be
...who reads FAQs anyway...
At a guess I expect that it will use the Office ActiveX controls, and of course the whole thing will probably only run in IE as a result. Admittedly this will be completely and utterly pointless to a level never before previously seen, but that's Microsoft for you.
I loved the show years ago, but these days people are used to their cars talking to them, so the novelty is kind of eroded. With good stories it could work, but I hope they don't rely on effects to drive interest.
I thought this was the $100 laptop?
If so, how is it buying two costs $399?
Or are they Canadian dollars?
Keine Bluetooth auf iPod :)
Use of having Bluetooth on an iPod? Connecting to Bluetooth speakers for a start but GP was thinking using it with a headset to run VoIP.
No bluetooth on iPod.
Well I don't know about you but I install OSX on my iPod for emergency booting and also use it to move big files around.
Whatever next? I bet the copy of PC Anywhere they used with default passwords was pirated too.
Don't tell me - that 'single IT error' was choosing Microsoft as an OS platform..?
See this is why you should never respond to emails asking you what the reserve price is as they are from snipers waiting to bid that exact amount in the last 10 seconds.
...EXCUSE CITY!
Basically we can super-categorise it like this: average girls don't sleep with guys they think are weird. Whether you are 'weird' to the average girl because you don't play football or you walk around with silver foil on your head makes no difference to them - you are not what they are looking for which is a solid societal stereotype (in most cases).
Obviously there are the more enlightened ladies (thank god) who allow their intellect to surpass or guide their instincts.
In the tech scene for sure there are relatively few ladies - in the words of Scott Adams: "Female engineers become irresistible at the age of consent and remain that way until about thirty minutes after their clinical death. Longer if it's a warm day."
Speaking of glaring omissions - lack of ability to use a GPS with maps?
Would it have killed them to allow connection to a Bluetooth GPS?
...lets say it DIDN'T exclude iPhones. How is it going to work? Can't install any software on it, can't download anything. If you could download music, how are you going to play it? Unless it's transferred into it from iTunes, it ain't gonna work.
They have to say it's 'excluded' otherwise the difficult questions would start to get asked like why does the service not work on the iPhone when this so called 'revolutionary' device is shown up yet again by phones that have been around for years.
We have 2000+ desktops. Out of those maybe 500 could run Vista right now; we still run Win2k on a number of the older ones but are trying to standardise on XPSP2.
So far the only (and I mean -ONLY-) compelling feature I have seen in Vista is the ability to easily control 802.1X (P)EAP settings for the wired network interface from Active Directory GPO policies.
Seriously - that's it. If I deployed Vista we would have never ending complaints about nothing working, and even slower machines.
Maybe we will look a moving when drivers stop being available for XP for newer machines that we buy in 5 years or so, but I will be looking to migrate to thin clients or maybe a desktop Linux by then.
XPSP2 as it stands works ok for us for now.
I'm sure this is news in iPhone Land but here in Europe we've been doing this for some time now.
...is to patent Open Source.
That's right - all your codebase belong to them.
Who cares? Illegal warrantless wiretapping or deceiving a country into war is a Big Deal, but yet we don't see anyone impeached or even reprimanded over that. Details of whether someone had a BJ or not are utterly insignificant.
Most Americans = stupid and don't understand anything more complicated than making calls, therefore there is no market for anything 'fancy'.
So stupid in fact they tolerate paying to receive calls. That still cracks me up every time.
I predicted this would happen years ago (purely because the free flow of information is not good from a government perspective - makes it very hard to lie to the public), then they tried to get it through, and to my genuine surprise Clinton vetoed it as 'unconstitutional' - he got my respect for that. It was shortly after that he got impeached for getting a BJ (which only earned him more respect...) It's the thin end of the wedge. Once you have the tools in place to filter internet traffic for one type of content, then it becomes trivial to use that infrastructure to control any content you wish. This is a Very Bad Idea.
...but they are stupid. And crazy.
Holy shit.
...just because a SAN is connected at 1Gbit to a machine does not mean there is 1 Gbit of data passing over there all the time.
If I were to write up my house network I could say 'network switches feed data to several computers at 1Gbit per second' - this would be true if I only use it for web browsing - doesn't mean I'm saturating my bandwidth.