If all of the rest of the world managed to make better office products, then none of this would be relevent.
The real contradiction is that the people making the worst office products have allied with government IT staffs (read: unproductive burocratic waste) and have taken it upon themselves to decide the future.
Yes, this Vulnerability affects every operating system supporting the FireWire specification equally, you can take over Macs and Linux computers as well as Windows computers.
In addition, the same problem exists with USB devices.
If Yahoo declines any further then Flickr, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Groups could be acquired by Google to give them a position in markets where they are now only minor players.
Yahoo is worth 100 Doubleclick's, 44 billion for that is a bargin.
Although the WHS share looks like a standard windows share, it isn't. Files on a WHS share might be moved to another physical partition (balancing storage), or/and replaced with a NTFS link, if it is a duplicate. Basically you should not edit anything on the WHS share, only copy files to the WHS share.
I not sure how they can 'solve' this one, except by not exposing WHS shares in this way.
So now instead of being able to download and watch programs later or offline, you now can only use flash streaming. Thanks.
The Late Edition: Series 4
Episode 9
Duration: 30 minutes
Satirical comedy show, with host Marcus Brigstocke and guests.
Contains some strong language.
"how is it even possible to remove a system file that is necessary to boot the system. Unlike the EVE representative making this statement I am going to blame Microsoft,"
The boot.ini file is actually protected. It is specifically marked as a System File, Read-Only and Hidden. This means that to modify the file you need to remove these attributes in a specific order first before you can modify or delete it, even if you are logged in as Administrator.
The only way to prevent software from doing bad things to important system files not to store important system information in text files on the filesystem...
Forget about reading stupid articles in 'theregister.com' look at the money, microsoft has just posted record breaking profits and sales revenue beating the analysts in the both the last two quarters, how the register managed to spin that against vista would be amazing if it wasn't so transparent.
No is isn't people are just too stupid to read properly, the article is about microsoft changing their predictions about XP sales for next year from 15% up to 22% and vista from 85% down to 78%.
Its amazing how people can get facts so wrong when its practically written in your face
The BBC said they are going to look at other platforms later. They are just making downloads available to the vast majority of the people who paid for it first, this is normal.
This is like 4oD and SKY Anytime which currently only work with Windows XP (not even Vista). I'm sure they will be updatiung their software for at least Vista and Mac soon enough. It not like they said NO is it!
This is not true. You can disable built in indexing by unchecking indexing of the indexing locations (i.e. Outlook or the Hardrives) or by disabling the indexer in windows services list.
The worst thing about google software is that they distrubute it like malware, in the sense that its hidden in other software like Adobe Reader, Java, and Firefox. If your not careful you can end up with goodle toolbars, sidebars and whatnot installed on your machine.
"One quarter of the 612 survey respondents said they were already using the new OS;" - i find that quote more interesting 25% claim to be already using vista seems to be a very high for something just released.
Microsoft are not dropping Mac support for office - this report is from 1997, and if you actually read the email, you will find that its actually talking about improving support for the mac and justifying supporting the mac and apple despite the 1997 drop in sales.
The macworld.co.uk website has twisted this around for _entertainment_ purposes, probably with the assumption that people would not actually read the email
I actually found the email to be very positive about Apple and the Mac, from bill gates no less, its shocking to see how easily people can be manipulated into thinking the reverse. I believe yours in the only comment, out of hundreds to actually state the contradiction.
No. You are wrong. Playback and Editing of normal non-drm music files mp3,wav,aac and even wma is unaffected by Vista's "DRM Protection" schemes.
"This DRM only affects the playback of next-generation DVDs; which isn't a real problem for anyone quite yet: players cost $1,000 at the moment and there's next to no content available for them." - Andrew Orlowski (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/vista_drm _analysis/)
This discussion is funny because we have anti-DRM people (Slashdot) complaining about the Playback quality of a DRM system which requires you to BUY DRM in the first instance.
If you don't want DRM system to interfere with your system - DON'T BUY DRM'ed files or hardware (HD-DVD and BlueRay). That is the best way to kill this kind of extreme DRM non-sense.
Slashdot Mirror
Here: http://www.lexiconer.com/software/software/speech_software.html :)
This has been around for few years now on other phones symbion, windows, android by http://www.speereo.com/ Enjoy ;)
If all of the rest of the world managed to make better office products, then none of this would be relevent.
The real contradiction is that the people making the worst office products have allied with government IT staffs (read: unproductive burocratic waste) and have taken it upon themselves to decide the future.
Actually this has been demonstrated here http://blog.juhonkoti.net/2008/02/29/automated-os-x-macintosh-password-retrieval-via-firewire
Yes, this Vulnerability affects every operating system supporting the FireWire specification equally, you can take over Macs and Linux computers as well as Windows computers.
In addition, the same problem exists with USB devices.
Here is a document describing the hack on Apple
If Yahoo declines any further then Flickr, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Groups could be acquired by Google to give them a position in markets where they are now only minor players. Yahoo is worth 100 Doubleclick's, 44 billion for that is a bargin.
What do you expect from these people, they post anything to try and make their system look better.
Although the WHS share looks like a standard windows share, it isn't. Files on a WHS share might be moved to another physical partition (balancing storage), or/and replaced with a NTFS link, if it is a duplicate. Basically you should not edit anything on the WHS share, only copy files to the WHS share.
I not sure how they can 'solve' this one, except by not exposing WHS shares in this way.
Probably the same read why this wasn't caught in QA, people are human...
The problem isn't actually anything to do with backups.
The problems is probably due to Windows Home Server file shares not catering for NTFS streams (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941914).
So now instead of being able to download and watch programs later or offline, you now can only use flash streaming. Thanks.
"how is it even possible to remove a system file that is necessary to boot the system. Unlike the EVE representative making this statement I am going to blame Microsoft,"
The boot.ini file is actually protected. It is specifically marked as a System File, Read-Only and Hidden. This means that to modify the file you need to remove these attributes in a specific order first before you can modify or delete it, even if you are logged in as Administrator.
The only way to prevent software from doing bad things to important system files not to store important system information in text files on the filesystem...
Forget about reading stupid articles in 'theregister.com' look at the money, microsoft has just posted record breaking profits and sales revenue beating the analysts in the both the last two quarters, how the register managed to spin that against vista would be amazing if it wasn't so transparent.
MSFT
No is isn't people are just too stupid to read properly, the article is about microsoft changing their predictions about XP sales for next year from 15% up to 22% and vista from 85% down to 78%.
Its amazing how people can get facts so wrong when its practically written in your face
The BBC said they are going to look at other platforms later. They are just making downloads available to the vast majority of the people who paid for it first, this is normal.
This is like 4oD and SKY Anytime which currently only work with Windows XP (not even Vista). I'm sure they will be updatiung their software for at least Vista and Mac soon enough. It not like they said NO is it!
"The OSC compared the situation to the European Commission's prosecution of Microsoft over its bundling of Windows Media Player with Windows."
they just consult with the EU commission and make a new website www.bbcN.co.uk website without media player files
Installing an operating system package is different from installing a utility like Adobe PDF Reader.
The problem with google is that they are relying on people unwittingly installing something by accident.
There is already an API to the Service Control Manager API for google or anyone else to use.
This is not true. You can disable built in indexing by unchecking indexing of the indexing locations (i.e. Outlook or the Hardrives) or by disabling the indexer in windows services list.
Or worse yet, Google is demanding that Microsoft bundle Google's crapware?
The worst thing about google software is that they distrubute it like malware, in the sense that its hidden in other software like Adobe Reader, Java, and Firefox. If your not careful you can end up with goodle toolbars, sidebars and whatnot installed on your machine.
"One quarter of the 612 survey respondents said they were already using the new OS;" - i find that quote more interesting 25% claim to be already using vista seems to be a very high for something just released.
Microsoft are not dropping Mac support for office - this report is from 1997, and if you actually read the email, you will find that its actually talking about improving support for the mac and justifying supporting the mac and apple despite the 1997 drop in sales.
The macworld.co.uk website has twisted this around for _entertainment_ purposes, probably with the assumption that people would not actually read the email
The email: http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/1 22106/PLEX0_6060.pdf
I actually found the email to be very positive about Apple and the Mac, from bill gates no less, its shocking to see how easily people can be manipulated into thinking the reverse. I believe yours in the only comment, out of hundreds to actually state the contradiction.
For those interested in what he does theres a video interview on channel9 site:
9 1
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=498
No. You are wrong. Playback and Editing of normal non-drm music files mp3,wav,aac and even wma is unaffected by Vista's "DRM Protection" schemes.
"This DRM only affects the playback of next-generation DVDs; which isn't a real problem for anyone quite yet: players cost $1,000 at the moment and there's next to no content available for them." - Andrew Orlowski (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/vista_drm _analysis/)
This discussion is funny because we have anti-DRM people (Slashdot) complaining about the Playback quality of a DRM system which requires you to BUY DRM in the first instance.
If you don't want DRM system to interfere with your system - DON'T BUY DRM'ed files or hardware (HD-DVD and BlueRay). That is the best way to kill this kind of extreme DRM non-sense.