They did, and tones of Halo cheaters where pissed off. However Xbox live was not as important on the Xbox as it is on the 360. Modder made there own VPN based networks that you could use even if banned on Live, and you could run 3rd party software on the XBOX which had nothing to do with live.
The 360 on the other hand if modded still only plays backups of 360 content. Live Market place is an very important feature to most owners, loss of your connection to Live is a big deal on the 360. On the XBOX it was minimal.
Na, it is better to wait till a bunch of noobs get there boxes modded and then get banned. That way there is all this word of mouth about some friend of a friend getting banned, so people are afraid to try.
- Is Nintendo Guilty of forcing new firmware upgrades on existing equipment just to lock out the homebrew community?
Well you could call them on this one for the DS. Each new version of the hardware has had a firmware change to try and block home brew and they tried to block it by detecting it with some games. However for the moment it appears the the home brew boys have one as they can mimic the real hardware well enough to no longer need a mod to devices firmware.
I can't even understand why they made them in the first place. Why no just use a debit card? It has a pin number and is accepted in almost exactly the same number of places.
The licence just states that if you are running 2003 R2 as the host OS you can run 4 instances of it as VMs on the same server. It doesn't dictate that you must use the MS virtual server product but it does limit you inthe fact you could not do the same with the FULL ESX product from VMware since it becomes the host. You could however use the free VMware server hosted on a 2003 R2 system, as the licence is worded right now anyway.
I agree, if you are a corporate client on a support plan, support is quick and painless. I work in an almost pure Dell hardware environment, I have had new hard drives to my door in less than 3hrs, and when ever any of my laptops has a problem they dispatch both a tech and parts to fix the problem.
And no, none of my laptops have caught fire.. The recalled batteries where replaced within 5 business days, which I believe is fast considering the size of the recall.
Ya, that would be ideal for my collection of portable Bluetooth devices that all need wires to charge on my night stand..
PDAPhone Bluetooth Headset Bluetooth GPS Bluetooth Headphones... maybe soon
Even when they use the same type of connector you often want to charge them all at once. It would be great just to pile them on the night stand and forget about them, instead of digging around for all the cables.
There is too much going on in Ring 0 as it is.. I am all for MS keeping drivers out of there.. This is where BSOD come from, hardware failure or kernel lvl drivers.
I spend a week last year tracing the source of a intermittent problem on a new server, turned out that a antivirus products kernel drivers was leaking kernel memory at a slow rate.. After a reboot, depending on how many times a file was accessed it would just cause the systems to stop responding to requests.
As far as I am concerned only the OS should be at ring 0.
Or just assign your employee's good laptops and provide docking stations at there desk. About 50% of our computers are laptops.
Work on a full or dual screen configuration at work. Undock and take your work with you on the road. Take your laptop home connect to your highspeed internet and vpn to the office. 1 OS licence and 1 set of hardware per user, in your example you would need an OS on both the users laptop and workstation, plus the licening for the VM product, plus the cost of both the laptop and desktop hardware. Hardly cost effective.
This is not to say VMs are not good for users, just that your example seems flawed. VMs can be particularly useful for developers. You can create your DEV environment once and maintain it accross hardware changes as well as maintain old dev environments to support legacy applications.
Simple Microsoft and Adobe are members of of BSA and CAST. However at one point you could get lifetime upgrade licences for winzip cheap, so why not have it licenced.
Products like Exchange have many levels of logging that you can turn on.. If you turn it all on you can fill a HD in no time.
The event log has built in filters so that you can see only the types of even you want to. If applications are not logging errors it is the app developer not the OS that is at fault.. The event log API is not exactly a secret.
Anything but "Off Site" is foolish for data. A fire rated safe is not going to protect tapes for very long. Go pull out the sleve that comes with one of your tapes and see what it's safe operating and storage temp range is... It is very small, I bet the cart migh survive a fire but the tape inside will have expanded and distored destroying all data.
I agree, the three he has highlighted don't change anything that matters. 1. has really fansy rounded half boards, 1 has a dhtml tagging block which is nice and one well changes even less.
All three maintain the three column layout exactly as is!!! Some other submissions at least experimented with changing that.
It is like the UI changes in MS office really.. It is all exactly the same, just one year flat is in style, then it is buffy menus, then it is dynamicly hiding menus.. Even MS is breaking the mold with Office 2007 I think/. can to.
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Office has significant UI changes.. VISTA.. is the one that is mostly shine.
They did, and tones of Halo cheaters where pissed off. However Xbox live was not as important on the Xbox as it is on the 360. Modder made there own VPN based networks that you could use even if banned on Live, and you could run 3rd party software on the XBOX which had nothing to do with live.
The 360 on the other hand if modded still only plays backups of 360 content. Live Market place is an very important feature to most owners, loss of your connection to Live is a big deal on the 360. On the XBOX it was minimal.
Na, it is better to wait till a bunch of noobs get there boxes modded and then get banned. That way there is all this word of mouth about some friend of a friend getting banned, so people are afraid to try.
Well you could call them on this one for the DS. Each new version of the hardware has had a firmware change to try and block home brew and they tried to block it by detecting it with some games. However for the moment it appears the the home brew boys have one as they can mimic the real hardware well enough to no longer need a mod to devices firmware.
I can't even understand why they made them in the first place. Why no just use a debit card? It has a pin number and is accepted in almost exactly the same number of places.
The licence just states that if you are running 2003 R2 as the host OS you can run 4 instances of it as VMs on the same server. It doesn't dictate that you must use the MS virtual server product but it does limit you inthe fact you could not do the same with the FULL ESX product from VMware since it becomes the host. You could however use the free VMware server hosted on a 2003 R2 system, as the licence is worded right now anyway.
I agree, if you are a corporate client on a support plan, support is quick and painless. I work in an almost pure Dell hardware environment, I have had new hard drives to my door in less than 3hrs, and when ever any of my laptops has a problem they dispatch both a tech and parts to fix the problem.
And no, none of my laptops have caught fire.. The recalled batteries where replaced within 5 business days, which I believe is fast considering the size of the recall.
Awww yes, by-passing the version protection preventing it from doing exactly what it was supposed to do.
I have found I need far fewer extensions as FF defaults now act the way I want, so I no longer need an extension to fix the behavior.
Are they origonal CDs with unique keys or do they hand you a burned disk or something?
If the University is using a volume license key chances are that some student somewhere uploaded a copy and got the key flagged.
You know they have tools for testing that sort of thing that are safer than using your hand.
Ya, that would be ideal for my collection of portable Bluetooth devices that all need wires to charge on my night stand..
PDAPhone
Bluetooth Headset
Bluetooth GPS
Bluetooth Headphones... maybe soon
Even when they use the same type of connector you often want to charge them all at once. It would be great just to pile them on the night stand and forget about them, instead of digging around for all the cables.
There is too much going on in Ring 0 as it is.. I am all for MS keeping drivers out of there.. This is where BSOD come from, hardware failure or kernel lvl drivers.
I spend a week last year tracing the source of a intermittent problem on a new server, turned out that a antivirus products kernel drivers was leaking kernel memory at a slow rate.. After a reboot, depending on how many times a file was accessed it would just cause the systems to stop responding to requests.
As far as I am concerned only the OS should be at ring 0.
Almost no one runs XP as an unprivileged users by choice, Run As simply doesn't work for too many takes.
Or just assign your employee's good laptops and provide docking stations at there desk. About 50% of our computers are laptops.
Work on a full or dual screen configuration at work.
Undock and take your work with you on the road.
Take your laptop home connect to your highspeed internet and vpn to the office.
1 OS licence and 1 set of hardware per user, in your example you would need an OS on both the users laptop and workstation, plus the licening for the VM product, plus the cost of both the laptop and desktop hardware. Hardly cost effective.
This is not to say VMs are not good for users, just that your example seems flawed. VMs can be particularly useful for developers. You can create your DEV environment once and maintain it accross hardware changes as well as maintain old dev environments to support legacy applications.
Simple Microsoft and Adobe are members of of BSA and CAST. However at one point you could get lifetime upgrade licences for winzip cheap, so why not have it licenced.
Ya, scrolling to the bottom to save your moderation changes is a pain.
The thing is this update is conly cosmetic.. No slashcode was altered from what I can see. Just a new coat of paint on an old design.
Slashdot already has a mobile mode.. Works great on my Windows Mobile PDA.. It is just the new column with very little formating.
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You might also want to look at the
http://slashdot.org/faq/suggestions.shtml#su700
http://slashdot.org/palm/
Products like Exchange have many levels of logging that you can turn on.. If you turn it all on you can fill a HD in no time.
The event log has built in filters so that you can see only the types of even you want to. If applications are not logging errors it is the app developer not the OS that is at fault.. The event log API is not exactly a secret.
Anything but "Off Site" is foolish for data. A fire rated safe is not going to protect tapes for very long. Go pull out the sleve that comes with one of your tapes and see what it's safe operating and storage temp range is... It is very small, I bet the cart migh survive a fire but the tape inside will have expanded and distored destroying all data.
What software are you using?
I agree, the three he has highlighted don't change anything that matters. 1. has really fansy rounded half boards, 1 has a dhtml tagging block which is nice and one well changes even less.
/. can to.
All three maintain the three column layout exactly as is!!! Some other submissions at least experimented with changing that.
It is like the UI changes in MS office really.. It is all exactly the same, just one year flat is in style, then it is buffy menus, then it is dynamicly hiding menus.. Even MS is breaking the mold with Office 2007 I think
But yet you have time to post on /.
I would say emailing it would work just as well.
http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.13/it.A /id.424/.f
This unit might fit the bill then.. Seems to cover the whole surge and brown out problem, or so it claims. And its small, but not as small.
1. In Windows 2000 / 2003 you would probably be better off using Terminal Services in Admin mode or Remote Desktop in 2003
l to remotely exicute command line apps on almost any Windows NT/2K/2003 OS.
2. You can use PSTools http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsTools.htm