I'm not sure how....you can copy files to the hard drive, but you can't edit them using the console, and there are big restrictions on the files you can edit and overwrite anyway.
I guess if you really thought about it you could, but there are so much easier ways of doing it.
I totally agree on this - I've been doing Win2k installs for a few years now, and I'd have had to totally scrap god knows how many systems if it weren't for the recovery console.
And the fact that you can use the Win2k boot CD to log in without a password isn't a bug, or even a security hole, it's simply the fact that MS didn't require a password to use the Console in Win2k.
What do the critics want MS to do? Recall and patch every single Win2k boot CD?
The idea of demolishing buildings to widen roads wouldn't work: The area the system overs is only the central area of the City, and the buildings in question would either be company headquarters, protected buildings (of historical value etc) or just plain too big to completely remove.
I know it's not quite what you need, but since you said that the patch checking apps don't support Win98, how about BigFix? (www.bigfix.com) As far as I'm aware, it supports Win98, but it does require users to actively follow through...
Software developed by Autonomy, based in Cambridge, England, connected BAE's research databases and alerted civilian aircraft engineers to the fact that the wing-construction problem they were working on was also being addressed by the company's military division.
That's not exactly a task for data miners - it's just bad communication! They could have done exactly the same thing just by making sure the directors were paying attention...there seems to be a big market for telling people the perfectly obvious.
But the other way around - I need to get a refund for Windows ME and get my copy of XP from Sony - you would have thought they'd make it easy for you to give them money, but no. You have to fill out a form on the web, print it out, mail it to France, ring up a wek later to check status, confirm the order by email and *then* send your payment. Do they *want* to lose customers?
Yup, exactly like that. Thanks, I knew I'd read a similar story recently! Didn't mention the OCR thing presicely because someone here said they'd tried it and it was too unreliable.
What about the visual equivalent of plugging an analogue cable into the headphone socket - take screenshots of each page and then save as JPEGs? The only surefire way of preventing e-book piracy is to prevent people from reading the things in the first place.
You're missing the obvious, which is that the net is a huge network: the fact that you've got a nice low ping *now* doesn't make the slightest difference if a major router goes down in 30 seconds time. It's big enough to be more or less random from the point of view of one user.
I'd be bloody terrified if the surgeon started to cut into a vital organ, a DOS attack slowed the network down suddenly, and he had to hold his scalpel in precisely the same position for 5 mins while the connection stabilised. A gimmicky audio program wouldn't help with that, because by the time you could hear the problem, it'd be too late!
Of course, a clever piece of software can do this too - but you already have this clever piece of software installed for free in your brain.
Given that the latency of a ping is no guarantee of the connection speed in 5 minutes time, regardless of whether you use your screen or your ears, isn't this the other way around? Taking a method as good as any other and writing a clever bit of software to use the clever bit of software in your brain to get much the same results as a simple ping?
And what about a quick glance at a latency graph on the pc's monitor? If I was undergoing remote surgery, I'd much rather rely on a nice smooth graph of low ping latency over the past 2 hours than the questionable skills of a tech listening to the pings for a few minutes...
How is it practically possible to completely isolate these new genetically "enhanced" strains anyway? Surely as long a they're being grown in the big wide world, the genetic changes will crep into the food chain anyway...?
Of course, I speak as a complete idjit when it comes to all things biological...
I've been running XP for the past 6 months on my laptop, as it supports pretty much every design package I could possibly need, and if not there's a very close substitute.
I've been running it now for about a month without rebooting, only going into standby during the night, and using it virtually solidly from 9am to 10pm, and it hasn't crashed once. When the odd app does crash (and I must be the only user in the Northern Hemesphere for whom CorelDraw *hasn't* crashed at least once a day), protected memory spaces keep everything running nice and smoothly.
Last month I installed Mandrake (whatever the latest build is - I forget), and it took me 2 days to get the X server running, another 24 hours to get Apache Tomcat up, and then every time someone accessed the server pages, Tomcat crashed, taking any running X servers with it, and for some odd reason restarting the machine.
I installed Win2k, Apache and Tomcat on my server in 35 minutes, configured them and left it running, and uptime's now going on 3 months with no problems. I understand that ISPs use Linux machines for stability, speed etc. on a large scale, but those are my reasons.
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I'm not sure how....you can copy files to the hard drive, but you can't edit them using the console, and there are big restrictions on the files you can edit and overwrite anyway.
I guess if you really thought about it you could, but there are so much easier ways of doing it.
If they reported _every_ M$ bug on Slashdot all the good articles would get pushed off the front page.
As opposed to now, when all the good stories getting pushed off the front page by reposts, you mean?
I totally agree on this - I've been doing Win2k installs for a few years now, and I'd have had to totally scrap god knows how many systems if it weren't for the recovery console.
And the fact that you can use the Win2k boot CD to log in without a password isn't a bug, or even a security hole, it's simply the fact that MS didn't require a password to use the Console in Win2k.
What do the critics want MS to do? Recall and patch every single Win2k boot CD?
The idea of demolishing buildings to widen roads wouldn't work:
The area the system overs is only the central area of the City, and the buildings in question would either be company headquarters, protected buildings (of historical value etc) or just plain too big to completely remove.
This is true, but the plans, adverts and cameras have been in place for about 6 months by now...
Another exclusive scoop by Slashdot?
Hmm.
My FX-301's battery lasts about 30 minutes and has ever since I got it last year. The advertised life of a charge is supposed to be 2 hours.
I know it's not quite what you need, but since you said that the patch checking apps don't support Win98, how about BigFix? (www.bigfix.com)
As far as I'm aware, it supports Win98, but it does require users to actively follow through...
Software developed by Autonomy, based in Cambridge, England, connected BAE's research databases and alerted civilian aircraft engineers to the fact that the wing-construction problem they were working on was also being addressed by the company's military division.
That's not exactly a task for data miners - it's just bad communication! They could have done exactly the same thing just by making sure the directors were paying attention...there seems to be a big market for telling people the perfectly obvious.
Seems it'd be more appropriate to go out to eat Spam afterwards...
But the other way around - I need to get a refund for Windows ME and get my copy of XP from Sony - you would have thought they'd make it easy for you to give them money, but no. You have to fill out a form on the web, print it out, mail it to France, ring up a wek later to check status, confirm the order by email and *then* send your payment. Do they *want* to lose customers?
Yup, exactly like that. Thanks, I knew I'd read a similar story recently! Didn't mention the OCR thing presicely because someone here said they'd tried it and it was too unreliable.
What about the visual equivalent of plugging an analogue cable into the headphone socket - take screenshots of each page and then save as JPEGs? The only surefire way of preventing e-book piracy is to prevent people from reading the things in the first place.
I think we should really give the US audience a chance to get the hang, and use the simplified version for now...
I live on Watling Street, so that amendment stands too. Or indeed the playstation 2 version, considering the media of this discussion...
You're missing the obvious, which is that the net is a huge network: the fact that you've got a nice low ping *now* doesn't make the slightest difference if a major router goes down in 30 seconds time. It's big enough to be more or less random from the point of view of one user.
I'd be bloody terrified if the surgeon started to cut into a vital organ, a DOS attack slowed the network down suddenly, and he had to hold his scalpel in precisely the same position for 5 mins while the connection stabilised. A gimmicky audio program wouldn't help with that, because by the time you could hear the problem, it'd be too late!
Of course, a clever piece of software can do this too - but you already have this clever piece of software installed for free in your brain.
Given that the latency of a ping is no guarantee of the connection speed in 5 minutes time, regardless of whether you use your screen or your ears, isn't this the other way around? Taking a method as good as any other and writing a clever bit of software to use the clever bit of software in your brain to get much the same results as a simple ping?
And what about a quick glance at a latency graph on the pc's monitor? If I was undergoing remote surgery, I'd much rather rely on a nice smooth graph of low ping latency over the past 2 hours than the questionable skills of a tech listening to the pings for a few minutes...
How is it practically possible to completely isolate these new genetically "enhanced" strains anyway? Surely as long a they're being grown in the big wide world, the genetic changes will crep into the food chain anyway...?
Of course, I speak as a complete idjit when it comes to all things biological...
I've been running XP for the past 6 months on my laptop, as it supports pretty much every design package I could possibly need, and if not there's a very close substitute. I've been running it now for about a month without rebooting, only going into standby during the night, and using it virtually solidly from 9am to 10pm, and it hasn't crashed once. When the odd app does crash (and I must be the only user in the Northern Hemesphere for whom CorelDraw *hasn't* crashed at least once a day), protected memory spaces keep everything running nice and smoothly. Last month I installed Mandrake (whatever the latest build is - I forget), and it took me 2 days to get the X server running, another 24 hours to get Apache Tomcat up, and then every time someone accessed the server pages, Tomcat crashed, taking any running X servers with it, and for some odd reason restarting the machine. I installed Win2k, Apache and Tomcat on my server in 35 minutes, configured them and left it running, and uptime's now going on 3 months with no problems. I understand that ISPs use Linux machines for stability, speed etc. on a large scale, but those are my reasons.
And if you ask them nicely, they'll probably remove you from their mailing list, too!
Yes, [sarcasm] again. Does everyone here think I'm dumb, or what?
Thanks. I'd be lost without it - where else am I going to get advice on the best mass-mailers?
It was a joke. Surely no-one except the US Government is THAT dumb?
I'd just like to know if it's still safe to post your email address on Usenet?
You could join the mile-high club in comfort of your own home...
Jesus saves! Moses invests...
:-)
Actually, I was aiming for Zen, but humorous is ok, I guess
You're the first Goon reference I've ever seen on Slashdot! Congrats and kudos, dude!
...that many marketing companies in London regularly go around spray-painting music artist's names onto street furniture...
Maybe us Londoners are more relaxed about that sort of thing?