I've used Vista, and I didn't whine on Slashdot when software designed for XP didn't work on it.
I didn't know that HTC TyTn was Microsoft. That model name wasn't very descriptive as far as naming the vendor, and no of course I didn't bother to Google it. Sorry about that.
So in regards to your response about Term Srvr - if you make a mistake you have to type in your username and password again. That sure is poor design. I suppose it should just let you in regardless of a mistake in your username and/or password? LOL No you just whine when you see posts you don't like, however I see you admitting you've had problems with Vista also.
...and what exactly, pray tell, from my list was 'designed for XP'?
The TS client should allow me to just connect to the server if I want to, without demanding that I supply credentials first, ESPECIALLY if it's going to do that ANYWAY if I put in WRONG credentials. What *exactly* does it gain from this behaviour? Are they pathetically attempting to block hackers by demanding credentials are supplied first? Because as we all know, the ONLY TS client IN EXISTENCE is the TS6 client which comes with Vista isn't it? What if I want to see what domains are in the list to log on to and I don't know them or can't remember the exact spelling? TS5 client - no problem - connect, look in list. TS6 client - oh no - can't be THAT simple - I have to get my credentials wrong first (and risk an account lock out) just to connect to the ****ing server. Have you ANY idea how much of a pain in the arse this is when you have to connect to a TS for EVERY tiny little admin task because Microsoft don't have their OWN flagship Server admin tools working under their own OS?
Actually I guess you don't as you don't sound like an admin.
So you're legacy crap doesn't work, and it won't sync or talk to the SD card in your non-MS PDA/phone? This isn't Microsoft's fault the vendor of your device has had PLENTY of time to write drivers (Beta was out over a year ago). I'd bitch to them.
And the Remote Desktop Connection complaint you have is unfounded since the whole point of making you authenticate again is to add increased levels of security. So again, you are just spreading bullshit Mac-o-phile type whiny complaints and FUD. Great job. Do you know what a HTC TyTn is? It's a VERY recent (as in within the last 6 months) Windows Mobile 5 phone. Read the Windows bit again - Microsoft *is* the vendor.
With regard to TS6, please explain the point of asking me for a username and password before connecting to a server, where if I make a mistake, I am then asked by the server for a username and password? Yeah REAL improvement on security there. Perhaps they are trying to piss off hackers from even bothering to try connecting to terminal servers.
Absolutely nothing I wrote is bullshit - it's all based on FACTUAL personal experience.
Have you even USED Vista or are you just another MS shill?
A few things that don't work (I have Vista Business since it's release to we VL customers in December):
Server 2003 Admin tools (meaning I had to use TS to talk to servers) They crash, then I receive a message that this is 'fixed in the release copy' (I am running a release copy)
New TS6 client is *infuriating* in that it will NOT simply connect to the terminal server without you entering a domain / username password first
Refuses to sync anything other than WMP to my HTC TyTn PDA phone (i.e. no Outlook sync)
Sync Center totally ignores my phone 1Gb memory card but constantly complains that I don't have enough internal storage to sync music with only 53Mb (yeah - that would be why I have a 1Gb memory card...)
Problems talking to legacy NTLM based NAS boxen such as Snap Servers
Problems with drivers (and we are talking for Dell systems here, not some obscure esoteric rubbish)
Having used Vista, realised the issues, then gone back to XP, my perception of Vista now is that it is basically the new Windows Millennium Edition.
Staying with XPSP2 strongly advised.
Roll on 2009 and the next version, however in the meantime if you are going to have the hassle of nothing working anyway, you may as well take a look at switching to OSX or Linux.
I spent some time trying to effectively block MySpace from our organisation. Firstly, how to detect MySpace being accessed - obviously one blocks 'myspace.com' but then finds that people are still using it. Use SARG to analyse the Squid logs and look in the top sites accessed - you will see google images, YouTube and whatever proxy they are using for MySpace listed in your most accessed sites. One starts banning proxies (tip: try monitoring web accesses for phproxy and you will be amazed at what you find) but ultimately realises that one is fighting a losing battle as for every proxy one blocks, two more will spring up.
The absolute best way I have found of banning MySpace no matter what proxy is used is to block it's content using DansGuardian - look in the HTML of MySpace pages and find strings that appear in every MySpace page, but not in others. Put the strings into DansGuardian's banned phrase lists, and voila - blocked no matter what proxy is used.
Obviously this will not work for SSL encrypting proxies, however only a lunatic would allow a free SSL proxy meaning that SSL proxies are usually pay services, and are easy to spot if you look in your logs. Use SARG regularly to monitor access and you will easily see how your users are finding a way to it if they manage that in the future. Also set up a block page where your users can ask for sites to be unblocked - when the regular 'PLZ UNBLOCK MYSPAZ KTHXBY' messages stop arriving, be suspicious and look for how they are getting to it and take appropriate action.
Unless he's developing games I can't see it being a problem. I access my big Windows boxes remotely all the time from my little PowerBook using RDP without problems. Obviously the availability of wireless is an issue, but if it's available and fast enough it's quite useable - plus you don't have to lug a monster around with you and if it gets broken or stolen you don't lose your work.
Insulting me in the subject? Straight off with an ad hominen attack? Me thinks you know you are on shakey ground before we even begin.
Sorry to dissapoint... We are a Democracy here in the States Yes...
and therefore, the majority decides things like what get's printed on our money. Actually you will find that your government decides what goes on your money, and your government is famous for being manipulated by religious lobbyists.
America is NOT a country of athiests. Evidently..!
Just ask the 90+% that beleive in God. 90+%? Really? And which orifice did you pull that figure out of?
Should everyone else have their freedoms held back because it bothers you? NO. Absolutely not! However, should the state be allowed to go AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION by endorsing a religion on it's money because it doesn't bother you?
When the founders of this nation came here, they wanted a nation that ensured religious freedom, NOT NON-RELEGION. In other words, the "separation of church and state" is meant to keep the State out of the Church, NOT the opposite as many athiests would like us to beleive. Sorry to disappoint, but you are utterly and completely wrong and seem to share a view that most theists would have us believe. In the words of Jefferson himself:
'Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State.'
And may I draw your attention to this particular quote also by Jefferson:
'No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
This is what happens when you pander to religious fruit loops - it started with the 'In God We Trust' rebrand of the US (in particular, on money) which was the thin end of the wedge and now we have a situation whereby scientists cannot even discuss things properly.
All the major organised religions seem to want is lots of uneducated children who think they are going to go to 'heaven' when they die.
By 'hackers' do they mean people scanning their networks for machines with no firewall running PC Anywhere with default passwords like Gary McKinnon did?
The main Windows installers (such as InstallShield) if you read the documentation, usually have a way of extracting the files without actually doing the install for the purposes of customising and distributing the software using enterprise management tools, often with a silent install option.
When you look at it properly, Windows Installer is pretty good - it's just a shame that it's not universally used by everyone, but I think that's down to the fact it wasn't really ready when Windows 2000 shipped.
How can you do this for a binary blob of a third party setup program on a windows system? Like this using Orca. Sure you will end up looking at binaries at some point, however you will have the same problem with RPM packages as unless they are source RPMs, they contain binaries.
I have no experience of Deb packages (as I don't use Debian) however I would expect them to work in a similar fashion.
I think the important difference between Windows Vista installers and RPM however is that you can choose if you want to try to install an RPM as root or not where the Vista issue TFA is talking about is Vista automatically giving admin to any installer packages. (Whether the RPM install works as non-root however is obviously an issue, however at least one has the choice.)
If you install an RPM of unknown providence, you deserve what you get It's only fair to say then that if you run any installer on Windows of unknown providence that you deserve what you get also.
So... scan around.mil networks for wide open PC Anywhere machines with default passwords, compromise those machines and launch a cyber attack from them.
This guy sounds like he makes a lot of sense, however firstly I'm wondering if it's just because he's next to Bush and that is skewing my perception, but secondly if he's for real, I wonder how long it will be before someone tries to assassinate him. Seems to be how America treats people who talk sense.
No, a ball is not a wheel. What makes the invention of "the wheel" important is the non-rotating load carried by the wheel's axle. A wheel with no axle if fucking useless. So putting a load on logs which are rolled underneath because they don't have axes is 'fucking useless'? I think not.
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...and what exactly, pray tell, from my list was 'designed for XP'?
The TS client should allow me to just connect to the server if I want to, without demanding that I supply credentials first, ESPECIALLY if it's going to do that ANYWAY if I put in WRONG credentials. What *exactly* does it gain from this behaviour? Are they pathetically attempting to block hackers by demanding credentials are supplied first? Because as we all know, the ONLY TS client IN EXISTENCE is the TS6 client which comes with Vista isn't it? What if I want to see what domains are in the list to log on to and I don't know them or can't remember the exact spelling? TS5 client - no problem - connect, look in list. TS6 client - oh no - can't be THAT simple - I have to get my credentials wrong first (and risk an account lock out) just to connect to the ****ing server. Have you ANY idea how much of a pain in the arse this is when you have to connect to a TS for EVERY tiny little admin task because Microsoft don't have their OWN flagship Server admin tools working under their own OS?
Actually I guess you don't as you don't sound like an admin.
With regard to TS6, please explain the point of asking me for a username and password before connecting to a server, where if I make a mistake, I am then asked by the server for a username and password? Yeah REAL improvement on security there. Perhaps they are trying to piss off hackers from even bothering to try connecting to terminal servers.
Absolutely nothing I wrote is bullshit - it's all based on FACTUAL personal experience.
Have you even USED Vista or are you just another MS shill?
Au contrare.
a virus dedicated to the eradication of Symantec from the known world
We can only hope.
Having used Vista, realised the issues, then gone back to XP, my perception of Vista now is that it is basically the new Windows Millennium Edition.
Staying with XPSP2 strongly advised.
Roll on 2009 and the next version, however in the meantime if you are going to have the hassle of nothing working anyway, you may as well take a look at switching to OSX or Linux.
I spent some time trying to effectively block MySpace from our organisation. Firstly, how to detect MySpace being accessed - obviously one blocks 'myspace.com' but then finds that people are still using it. Use SARG to analyse the Squid logs and look in the top sites accessed - you will see google images, YouTube and whatever proxy they are using for MySpace listed in your most accessed sites. One starts banning proxies (tip: try monitoring web accesses for phproxy and you will be amazed at what you find) but ultimately realises that one is fighting a losing battle as for every proxy one blocks, two more will spring up.
The absolute best way I have found of banning MySpace no matter what proxy is used is to block it's content using DansGuardian - look in the HTML of MySpace pages and find strings that appear in every MySpace page, but not in others. Put the strings into DansGuardian's banned phrase lists, and voila - blocked no matter what proxy is used.
Obviously this will not work for SSL encrypting proxies, however only a lunatic would allow a free SSL proxy meaning that SSL proxies are usually pay services, and are easy to spot if you look in your logs. Use SARG regularly to monitor access and you will easily see how your users are finding a way to it if they manage that in the future. Also set up a block page where your users can ask for sites to be unblocked - when the regular 'PLZ UNBLOCK MYSPAZ KTHXBY' messages stop arriving, be suspicious and look for how they are getting to it and take appropriate action.
Did I mention I am Evil®?
Unless he's developing games I can't see it being a problem. I access my big Windows boxes remotely all the time from my little PowerBook using RDP without problems. Obviously the availability of wireless is an issue, but if it's available and fast enough it's quite useable - plus you don't have to lug a monster around with you and if it gets broken or stolen you don't lose your work.
Why not have a big behemoth server sitting on the net somewhere and access it remotely using a nice wireless OSX machine?
'Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State.'
And may I draw your attention to this particular quote also by Jefferson:
'No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
This is what happens when you pander to religious fruit loops - it started with the 'In God We Trust' rebrand of the US (in particular, on money) which was the thin end of the wedge and now we have a situation whereby scientists cannot even discuss things properly.
All the major organised religions seem to want is lots of uneducated children who think they are going to go to 'heaven' when they die.
You sound like you are describing 'Origami', or the 'Ultra Mobile PC' (UMPC).
They are expensive now, but the idea is to get the price down to (I believe) around $500.
Alternatively you could just let the kids join their PSP's to the school wireless network.
By 'hackers' do they mean people scanning their networks for machines with no firewall running PC Anywhere with default passwords like Gary McKinnon did?
The main Windows installers (such as InstallShield) if you read the documentation, usually have a way of extracting the files without actually doing the install for the purposes of customising and distributing the software using enterprise management tools, often with a silent install option.
When you look at it properly, Windows Installer is pretty good - it's just a shame that it's not universally used by everyone, but I think that's down to the fact it wasn't really ready when Windows 2000 shipped.
I have no experience of Deb packages (as I don't use Debian) however I would expect them to work in a similar fashion.
I think the important difference between Windows Vista installers and RPM however is that you can choose if you want to try to install an RPM as root or not where the Vista issue TFA is talking about is Vista automatically giving admin to any installer packages. (Whether the RPM install works as non-root however is obviously an issue, however at least one has the choice.)
Video of simply trying to delete a 174 byte file from the Vista Business desktop (desktop.ini).
You forgot the 'boom!'
So... scan around .mil networks for wide open PC Anywhere machines with default passwords, compromise those machines and launch a cyber attack from them.
Watch as the US Military nukes itself?
The fact that spam exists is proof that nobody really important uses email.
This guy sounds like he makes a lot of sense, however firstly I'm wondering if it's just because he's next to Bush and that is skewing my perception, but secondly if he's for real, I wonder how long it will be before someone tries to assassinate him. Seems to be how America treats people who talk sense.