None of those have stopped WinAmp. WinAmp plays shoutcast streams. I have yet to try this with WMP, but I'm doubting it will work. So in essence, WinAmp is another big contender. Now for the real catch, WinAmp is basically free. What about MPlayer? FreeAmp? those are all free.
MSVC 7.1 is one CD. You heard me, one. The rest is a bunch of business software and some other stuff to help in the development of software. By far the largest part of MSVC is MSDN, and that can come seperate on a DVD. Why is it so large? Because it's full of almost any documentation you will ever need, as well as samples and the recent presentation videos.
You obviously haven't heard of this game called Solitaire. It ships with just about every PC. Older people even play it. Probably even has the biggest market of any game ever.
This is incorrect. You can install Windows directly over itself. This is not quite a fresh install, but it will get rid of most of the problems discussed here. Windows XP takes it a step further by having a recovery option that can repair critical Windows files.
Another typical Windows world favorite of the big distributors (Dell, HP, etc) is to have a section of the HD hidden that contains a backup of the original configuration. You run a command from a bootable cd and your computer is restored to the way it was shipped to you.
Right, because it wasn't Netscape's own fault for horribly mangling their own software, then releasing the source to the public to fix. Which still has some of the problems.
I didn't mean to say that they were the same. From what I saw of WP's, it was a lot easier to use for one. I just meant to show that Word does indeed have something that is trying to fill this void.
Some games were small, maybe 10MB. And yes, some games were full CD sized at ~650MB. However, there are certain models of PocketPC devices that interfaces with the 1GB+ storage memory modules. Control has got to be pretty bad on them tho. I read that a lot of them have trouble with simultaneous button presses.
This sounds completely incorrect, at least for Windows XP. If the printer is shared by another Windows machine then it will more than likely automatically show up. If not you can Select Add Network Printer, where you can enter the ip of the machine or the name, etc. You can also browse to the machine and right click on the shared printer and select add.
The Duron is kinda like a Celeron, but at one point the P3 and the current Celeron were roughly the same price. The current Celeron was clocked faster than the P3, but was still slower.
A long time ago there was the MS Java JIT. It loaded up and ran Java applets and played nicely with others. The web was browseable and never caused the evil BSOD to appear. However, the father who never liked this child wanted to push their own JIT upon the people. It was known as the Sun JRE. It didn't like Windows, and often crashed it out of hatred. A great many web pages were blockaded by the JRE. It brought the terrible BSOD any time it could.
A 1gHz P3 will run Windows XP much better than that Duron, although it's almost double the price. At least in my findings... There very well could have been some random factor affecting the speed of the Duron machine I had, as it often just sat there thinking for long periods of time.
The problems reside in keeping trade secrets and sometimes even in using licensed code in your drivers. Imagine if you licensed some sort of technology from someone for a cost for use in your drivers. I'm sure they wouldn't be happy if you distributed (for free) their code along with yours since it would be required to compile the code.
I think you miss the point here. Gaming requires large installs these days, 2GB and upwards. Where will one install these games? Some save games are large because they store a lot of data, Black & White for example. If you look at game saves for consoles, there are some games with complex data that requires a large amount of space. Some games require their own memory card even.
2GB would not allow you to download a new DVD distro to ram disk. What's more, you probably couldn't do a lot of stuff while downloading, because you'd need to keep the ram open for the download. Hard drives are cheaper than RAM, and that should be taken advantage of. $156 USD for 1GB of RAM, or $120 for 120GB hard disk.
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or because Bob renderfarm knows low clocked P4's out render high clocked AMD's.
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"4GB of swap space minimum for everybody" Linus Torvalds (C) 1996 (/lamehumour)
A firewall can indeed protect you from unknown and known vulnerabilities. You forget that a firewall's main purpose is to BLOCK. If all requests and attempts are blocked, then it does not matter how secure the OS was as the attempt never got through.
What about like what happened when the source tree was compromised and someone added a line of code that didn't look all that bad until further investigation when it gave programs root access? I remember they asked for MD5 sums and they were able to track down the root of the problem, but what if someone better was able to modify something on a system such as that without notice?
No, it's still someone else's work, looking upon which is illegal. Management could see you as a risk, one that they don't want. Not all meetings are recorded, no. However, the more important ones there is usually someone who writes down most if not all that was said.
Yeah, I'm sure it's a good idea to bring up to your supervisor that you were looking at this real_working_windows_code and that it was insecure. That'll go over real well. Just make sure they get it all on tape for the trial.
You can open those files with WordPad and the line ends will be fine. I find it annoying too, but having this simple work around is nice. I have Notepad, WordPad, and Edit.com all in my SendTo to make dealing with such things much easier.
If you have Visual Studio, or probably even just a hex editor, you can edit many of the strings and resources in the executables. Sure it takes a little work, but it's not all that difficult to do. I'd suggest trying on your own programs first, as they may be easier to replace.
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If you read the documentation and use the existing SDK from MS, you can play WMV in your own programs on Windows.
None of those have stopped WinAmp. WinAmp plays shoutcast streams. I have yet to try this with WMP, but I'm doubting it will work. So in essence, WinAmp is another big contender. Now for the real catch, WinAmp is basically free. What about MPlayer? FreeAmp? those are all free.
You can uninstall WMP, notepad, all sorts of stuff. I'd say your conclusion on choice is lacking as far as this topic is concerned.
MSVC 7.1 is one CD. You heard me, one. The rest is a bunch of business software and some other stuff to help in the development of software. By far the largest part of MSVC is MSDN, and that can come seperate on a DVD. Why is it so large? Because it's full of almost any documentation you will ever need, as well as samples and the recent presentation videos.
You obviously haven't heard of this game called Solitaire. It ships with just about every PC. Older people even play it. Probably even has the biggest market of any game ever.
This is incorrect. You can install Windows directly over itself. This is not quite a fresh install, but it will get rid of most of the problems discussed here. Windows XP takes it a step further by having a recovery option that can repair critical Windows files.
Another typical Windows world favorite of the big distributors (Dell, HP, etc) is to have a section of the HD hidden that contains a backup of the original configuration. You run a command from a bootable cd and your computer is restored to the way it was shipped to you.
Right, because it wasn't Netscape's own fault for horribly mangling their own software, then releasing the source to the public to fix. Which still has some of the problems.
I didn't mean to say that they were the same. From what I saw of WP's, it was a lot easier to use for one. I just meant to show that Word does indeed have something that is trying to fill this void.
Shift+F1 in Word 2003 => Reveal Codes
Some games were small, maybe 10MB. And yes, some games were full CD sized at ~650MB. However, there are certain models of PocketPC devices that interfaces with the 1GB+ storage memory modules. Control has got to be pretty bad on them tho. I read that a lot of them have trouble with simultaneous button presses.
This sounds completely incorrect, at least for Windows XP. If the printer is shared by another Windows machine then it will more than likely automatically show up. If not you can Select Add Network Printer, where you can enter the ip of the machine or the name, etc. You can also browse to the machine and right click on the shared printer and select add.
The Duron is kinda like a Celeron, but at one point the P3 and the current Celeron were roughly the same price. The current Celeron was clocked faster than the P3, but was still slower.
A long time ago there was the MS Java JIT. It loaded up and ran Java applets and played nicely with others. The web was browseable and never caused the evil BSOD to appear. However, the father who never liked this child wanted to push their own JIT upon the people. It was known as the Sun JRE. It didn't like Windows, and often crashed it out of hatred. A great many web pages were blockaded by the JRE. It brought the terrible BSOD any time it could.
To be continued....
A 1gHz P3 will run Windows XP much better than that Duron, although it's almost double the price. At least in my findings... There very well could have been some random factor affecting the speed of the Duron machine I had, as it often just sat there thinking for long periods of time.
The problems reside in keeping trade secrets and sometimes even in using licensed code in your drivers. Imagine if you licensed some sort of technology from someone for a cost for use in your drivers. I'm sure they wouldn't be happy if you distributed (for free) their code along with yours since it would be required to compile the code.
I think you miss the point here. Gaming requires large installs these days, 2GB and upwards. Where will one install these games? Some save games are large because they store a lot of data, Black & White for example. If you look at game saves for consoles, there are some games with complex data that requires a large amount of space. Some games require their own memory card even.
2GB would not allow you to download a new DVD distro to ram disk. What's more, you probably couldn't do a lot of stuff while downloading, because you'd need to keep the ram open for the download. Hard drives are cheaper than RAM, and that should be taken advantage of. $156 USD for 1GB of RAM, or $120 for 120GB hard disk.
or because Bob renderfarm knows low clocked P4's out render high clocked AMD's.
"4GB of swap space minimum for everybody" Linus Torvalds (C) 1996 (/lamehumour)
A firewall can indeed protect you from unknown and known vulnerabilities. You forget that a firewall's main purpose is to BLOCK. If all requests and attempts are blocked, then it does not matter how secure the OS was as the attempt never got through.
What about like what happened when the source tree was compromised and someone added a line of code that didn't look all that bad until further investigation when it gave programs root access? I remember they asked for MD5 sums and they were able to track down the root of the problem, but what if someone better was able to modify something on a system such as that without notice?
No, it's still someone else's work, looking upon which is illegal. Management could see you as a risk, one that they don't want. Not all meetings are recorded, no. However, the more important ones there is usually someone who writes down most if not all that was said.
Yeah, I'm sure it's a good idea to bring up to your supervisor that you were looking at this real_working_windows_code and that it was insecure. That'll go over real well. Just make sure they get it all on tape for the trial.
You can open those files with WordPad and the line ends will be fine. I find it annoying too, but having this simple work around is nice. I have Notepad, WordPad, and Edit.com all in my SendTo to make dealing with such things much easier.
If you have Visual Studio, or probably even just a hex editor, you can edit many of the strings and resources in the executables. Sure it takes a little work, but it's not all that difficult to do. I'd suggest trying on your own programs first, as they may be easier to replace.
The sequel, Linux Command Console, where you pile through random character combinations to figure out how to get it to work was also announced today.