Just because they moved to an Intel CPU doesn't mean they should support any generic PC hardware.
Wouldn't this be the same argument for any game console that used an Intel chip (like the original Xbox?). The reason a game console is created is so that every person that plays a game on it has the same experience. A person playing a game on an Xbox has the same experience and MS can pretty much guarantee that experience. Same goes for the PS2, Gamecube or any other console ever made. Any one of them could have chosen to just sell some OS that runs on any Intel-based CPU but they didn't.
Or, take a company like Cisco. The Cisco PIX 520 is pretty much an Intel-based PC. They didn't compile the PIX software to run on just any Intel-based hardware did they? Why? Because if you bought at PIX 520, you had the same experience as anyone else running a PIX 520 (bugs and all). If they opened it up to run on any Intel platform, imagine the support headaches they would run into when trying to figure out why some feature doesn't work on a Dell Poweredge or some other non-Cisco hardware.
I guess my point is: What's the difference between Apple keeping their OS running on their own hardware versus any other vendor that does the same thing? Isn't it for many of the same reasons?
Hmm... aren't they breaking their own email systems? I mean, I remember when I paid my ISP for the priviledge of having an email account.
Now, I can get FREE email from places like hotmail, yahoo and gmail.
I don't understand all the complaining about this. Yes, in principal it seems stupid for MS to do something like this. But I didn't see them say they're going to do it to their NON-FREE MSN email accounts, just the FREE Hotmail ones. Maybe they're testing this sort of thing on all the people who want to use their free accounts?
You get what you pay for... errr... didn't pay for. Move on already.
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And on June 1 if you type "apt-get dist-upgrade" on your Woody install, will it tell you that it's going to upgrade 100's or 1000's of packages?
Not that I run stable (testing/sarge is good enough for me), but just curious.
Ah. You're saying that the original poster may have needed to contact his family/friends so that he can query their local ISP DNS servers since he may not have been able to (they block anyone outside of their own IP blocks). That makes sense and it didn't occur to me when I read the original post.
I queried twelve outside DNS servers/caches that I had access to (Thanks to my friends and relatives with dial ups and DSL who put up with me and my requests to reboot their machine daily!).
Why did you need to contact your friends/relatives to check whether or not your domain gets propagated?
Couldn't you just query DNS servers directly using nslookup and/or dig?
Querying them directly would eliminate you from wondering if the machine you are checking from has the DNS cached and you wouln't need to flush it (why would you need your friends/relatives to reboot their machines?). Not to mention the amount of time you would spend in having to coordinate this type of testing.
Even if you don't want to use nslookup and/or dig from your Windows/Linux/Mac/whatever, there are tools available via the web that can help as well.
This certainly is not a list of all the tools, or even the best ones... they're just ones that I have used in the past:
dig Web-based "dig" tool
nslookup Web-based "nslookup" tool
DNS Report Checks for DNS errors and provides nicely formatted information on a given domain
DNS Stuff Various web-based DNS tools
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Just because they moved to an Intel CPU doesn't mean they should support any generic PC hardware.
Wouldn't this be the same argument for any game console that used an Intel chip (like the original Xbox?). The reason a game console is created is so that every person that plays a game on it has the same experience. A person playing a game on an Xbox has the same experience and MS can pretty much guarantee that experience. Same goes for the PS2, Gamecube or any other console ever made. Any one of them could have chosen to just sell some OS that runs on any Intel-based CPU but they didn't.
Or, take a company like Cisco. The Cisco PIX 520 is pretty much an Intel-based PC. They didn't compile the PIX software to run on just any Intel-based hardware did they? Why? Because if you bought at PIX 520, you had the same experience as anyone else running a PIX 520 (bugs and all). If they opened it up to run on any Intel platform, imagine the support headaches they would run into when trying to figure out why some feature doesn't work on a Dell Poweredge or some other non-Cisco hardware.
I guess my point is: What's the difference between Apple keeping their OS running on their own hardware versus any other vendor that does the same thing? Isn't it for many of the same reasons?
Hmm... aren't they breaking their own email systems? I mean, I remember when I paid my ISP for the priviledge of having an email account.
Now, I can get FREE email from places like hotmail, yahoo and gmail.
I don't understand all the complaining about this. Yes, in principal it seems stupid for MS to do something like this. But I didn't see them say they're going to do it to their NON-FREE MSN email accounts, just the FREE Hotmail ones. Maybe they're testing this sort of thing on all the people who want to use their free accounts?
You get what you pay for... errr... didn't pay for.
Move on already.
Exactly! :-)
Shouldn't this read "Speculation is that it is a new spreadsheet program "?
That's all?
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And on June 1 if you type "apt-get dist-upgrade" on your Woody install, will it tell you that it's going to upgrade 100's or 1000's of packages? Not that I run stable (testing/sarge is good enough for me), but just curious.
Ah. You're saying that the original poster may have needed to contact his family/friends so that he can query their local ISP DNS servers since he may not have been able to (they block anyone outside of their own IP blocks). That makes sense and it didn't occur to me when I read the original post.
Why did you need to contact your friends/relatives to check whether or not your domain gets propagated?
Couldn't you just query DNS servers directly using nslookup and/or dig?
Querying them directly would eliminate you from wondering if the machine you are checking from has the DNS cached and you wouln't need to flush it (why would you need your friends/relatives to reboot their machines?). Not to mention the amount of time you would spend in having to coordinate this type of testing.
Even if you don't want to use nslookup and/or dig from your Windows/Linux/Mac/whatever, there are tools available via the web that can help as well.
This certainly is not a list of all the tools, or even the best ones... they're just ones that I have used in the past:
dig Web-based "dig" tool
nslookup Web-based "nslookup" tool
DNS Report Checks for DNS errors and provides nicely formatted information on a given domain
DNS Stuff Various web-based DNS tools
Single player and co-op are both 480p and widescreen.
Versus mode is 480p, no widescreen.
Sometimes that back of the game-case is wrong.
Game specs on teamxbox.com
Game specs on consolegold.com
I think that you may be talking about the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (which is available in Windows Update) and not the Microsoft Windows Anti-Spyware software which you have to download yourself from their website I believe.