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Hrm, the plans I saw were more like:
1. Expand as quickly as possible--and at any cost--to saturate and own the market 2. IPO 3. Spend, spend, spend because the money never stops. No worries, we'll own the market soon and sooner or later we'll actually make a profit on operations. 4. Buy own island and be extremely rich recluse.
Well, I left out the part about lavish offices top impress everone and giving employees benefits such as constant free food, drinks (even beer in some cases) and free long distance calls on company dimes. That comes before IPO.
I'm not sure what the story submitter was smoking. A nursing home for dying tech companies? No, more like a collaborated ongoing attempt at screwing employees, stockholders and customers of all failing businesses. No thanks, they do that well enough individually.
You want to know what's really sad? That wasn't the first time that email circulated through my company.
The first time MY MANAGER, the manager of about 20 techs/admins, deleted jdbgc.exe before forwarding the email to all of us and his director and V.P..
This is the guy I rescued from Sircam a year ago. You'd think he'd call me first, but no, this email must know what it's talking about!
You know what's really, really, really sad? At least 3 of my coworkers 'fessed up to deleting the file on several PCs and were planning to do a sweep of the whole complex.
What's funny is how fast they did it. I was at the PC when the manager's email came through and immediately replied to all with the subject "HOAX Re: <old subject>" and linked to the proper page of NAI's virus library. Even with that fast a response many still were off deleting this thing before they read my email. <sigh>
If a sizable part of the population need to use computers, there will always be a significant number of those who do stupid things from them. These problems will continue no matter how secure Windows becomes.
What gets me about some users is that they'll call me up concerned if two icons switch positions, but they get an email like this from a friend and actually find and delete jdbgc.exe themselves. Go figure.
The following email (the typical jdbgc.exe hoax) was circulated recently at my company, and one senior admin secretary sent it out to EVERYONE in her address book as it instructed. I sent out an email to my users saying that this is a known hoax and that if there were a new virus out there that McAfee, Norton and *I* would know about it before their email friends did.
I can't imagine why they thought otherwise.
Disclaimer: HOAX EMAIL! Do NOT delete the file or you will mess up IE's Java implementation. -----
I found the little bear in my machine because of that I am sending this message in order for you to find it in your machine. The procedure is very simple:
The objective of this e-mail is to warn all Hotmail users about a new virus that is spreading by MSN Messenger. The name of this virus is jdbgmgr.exe and it is sent automatically by the Messenger and by the address book too. The virus is not detected by McAfee or Norton and it stays quiet for 14 days before damaging the system.
The virus can be cleaned before it deletes the files from your system. In order to eliminate it, it is just necessary to do the following steps: 1. Go to Start, click "Search" 2.- In the "Files or Folders option" write the name jdbgmgr.exe 3.- Be sure that you are searching in the drive "C" 4.- Click "find now" 5.- If the virus is there (it has a little bear-like icon with the name of jdbgmgr.exe DO NOT OPEN IT FOR ANY REASON 6.- Right click and delete it (it will go to the Recycle bin) 7.- Go to the recycle bin and delete it or empty the recycle bin.
IF YOU FIND THE VIRUS IN ALL OF YOUR SYSTEMS SEND THIS MESSAGE TO ALL OF YOUR CONTACTS LOCATED IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK BEFORE IT CAN CAUSE ANY DAMAGE. ----- Disclaimer: The above is a HOAX! Do not follow its advice!
For a truly volumetric display, we would expect it to be vector-like anyway, no? It wouldn't make sense to rasterize a 3d space.
Well, it's 3d space, but it's still a point movnig through space. Drawing something as simple as a filled square would require scanning/tracing like a TV does, anyway. I suppose it depends on what you're displaying. If you want wireframe polyhedrons vector is fine. If you want painted/textured planes you might as well rasterise it and display with timed sweeps like TV or VGA, but in 3d.
Damn, XF86Config is going to be a bitch to configure then. Not only vert and horizontal frequencies, but Z, too!
commisioner gordan has been projecting images onto gotham city's foggy night sky for years...
I'm so addicted to Batman. I keep watching it because I want to see what happens to the city when it isn't cloudy. It must be pretty bad. Maybe that movie will come out next Halloween.
I am not saying that you can't edit configs with windows in a CLI, but, everyone must admit that the default windows shell sucks doneky balls. It is not even in the same league as *nix shells.
Agreed. Cmd.exe is no bash, ksh or csh. Or even sh. But, surprisingly to me, they have improved it. When WinME came out "without DOS" <suppressing hysterical laughter> I thought MS was kicking out CLI forever. But Win2k actually is a nice improvement over the old stuff and adds functionality. But still not in the same league as *nix shells.
I hope, for admins' sake everywhere, that MS is working on a really good shell as a nice option for the future generations of their OS.
I thought they were heading in the direction of having all non-gui admin being handled through Windows Script Host, but I usually find a shell far more convenient. Then I thought Win2k's improvements signaled that they're improving the shell. I'm not sure where they're heading now, but last I heard they were pushing MMC for config screens and such, and their GUI for remote management currently (with Win2k) uses MMC.
As fascinating as it sounds, unfortunately, Congress will never fund such an endeavor -- as far as they concerned, space is a useless void that we now have no reason to explore after the death of the USSR.
Yeah, that's why international space stations don't get built and why several countries are launching rockets and shuttles and Mars and other space probes and why commercial spaceports are starting to open...uh, what?
Windows 2000 Pro and Server are pretty cool when it comes to command line management compared to previous versions.
The Resource Kit (more money) adds a lot of new commands, but you can do a lot with the default "net stop ", "net start ", "cacls", "at", "runas" and, of course, vbscript (or Jscript or others) with "wscript" or "cscript".
The cmd.exe interface is much better in Win2k and later than previous versions and the old DOS batch and CLI commands are enhanced. So I don't usually have to use vbscript.
I'm not saying they're better than un*x, but I was surprised at how many non-gui tools I can use to administer my Win2k Pro PCs.
As a random example I can delete all temp folders under Documents and Settings with this, which is WAY faster than the gui "Disk Cleanup":
for/D %%x in (c:\"Documents and Settings"\*) do rd/s/q "%%x\Local Settings\Temp" && mkdir "%%x\Local Settings\Temp"
(%%x for batch files, %x if from command line)
Not the best example, but it's the type of thing you couldn't easily do in earlier versions of Windows. And this is a killer app when you have 100-200 profiles on a workstation.
Same thing, but for "Temporary Internet Files", including the bloated "index.dat"s (I've found them to be as big as 10mb for some users) that no MS program will delete:
for/D %%x in (c:\"Documents and Settings"\*) do rd/s/q "%%x\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5"
Read his post again. It's full of "will run"s "will be"s "the goal"s and "the target"s. This is vaporware/imagineware. It's a project with a vision but no product. I have tons of those myself, but I haven't named them all yet.:-)
Cool idea, though. Call us back when there's an alpha.
To me, there are also some abstract issues, such as the fact that people take a LOT more pictures today, with digital cameras, than they ever would have done with film.
Yes, but how many of those pictures will be around in 100 years?
My dad has a suitcase full of old black&white photos. It's quite a store of family history. And they just had to be kept dry in a box somewhere.
Pretty soon you'll want to move your digital pics from disk/CDR/tape to DVDR....or is that DVDRAM? Hmmm. Well, whichever. Then copy them again in 5 years and hope your descendants keep the faith and keep copying to the latest media. (I've heard CDR's are supposed to last 100 years, but who's tested that yet? And who will have a usable CDROM drive in 100 years? Do you still have a 5 1/4" floppy drive?)
Oh, those old B&W photos have writing on the back to tell who's who. Your digital photo annotations are in what, text? Unicode or ASCII? In a separate file in 8.3 naming format? As part of a file-format tag? What about 5 years from now?
Digital has its place, but don't think it's the end-all be-all of photography from here on out.
By the way, your film color photos will fade in 100 years, too. Take some B&W photos and use archival (non-acidic) papers to print them if you want your great great grandchildren to know what you, your house and your gasoline SUV look like.
I feel like some type of linux-like client to the HURD kernel could give the HURD the ability to use Linux drivers.
I'm far from an expert, but I followed the Hurd mailing lists for a while and had it installed for a while.
I think the idea is to have all hardware drivers in userspace. You would be able to implement controls, of course. But I believe they want you to be able (softwarewise, though not necessarily hardwarewise), for example, to unload your video or network driver, take out the card, put in a new one and load the driver for it. The architechture allows for that even if the average computer's PCI bus doesn't.
I think the recent few months' goals have been to keep working on the core servers, migrate applications and get pthreads working (they just did this, apparently). Some longer term goals were movnig to OSKit Mach (they may have already done this) and hopefully to a newer generation microkernel such as L4. The L4 conversion is apparently a very daunting task due to synchronous IPC versus asynchronous IPC, IIRC. They were discussing whether it'd be easier to convert the existing Hurd servers or rewrite them from scratch. Ouch.
On the H3 CDs I had, the network drivers were in Mach for some reason. Several other device drivers were in the microkernel, too. I'm pretty sure they want to get away from this, but the nearer term goals are to get it working and stable. Longer term goals are to purify and optimize it.
As far as using Linux drivers for the Hurd I'm pretty sure it will be possible. Maybe with a converter like you say but more likely a port of the drivers. the Hurd is a different architecture but is intended to be POSIX compatible and new or existing servers can handle system calls that the Linux kernel would normally handle, if the drivers need those.
OSKit Mach is said to use Linux drivers, also. I'm not sure they're on OSKit Mach yet but I know they were working on going that direction.
Sooner or later I expect distributions to change their naming to something like, for example "Red Hat OS" with small print at the bottom (or large at the top, depending on the target consumer appeal) "based on Linux, GNU Tools, Apache web server, MySQL [/PostreSQL],...", etc.. (Listing major opensource contributed projects or groups of proejcts.)
Proprietary commercial vendors are already doing that with their own products. Windows 2000 says it's based on NT technology. There are other examples, but I can't think of them right now.
United Linux was released as a "closed beta", and there was either disclosure or assumption (not sure which) that the beta reviewers had to sign NDA's.
I'm too lazy to find the Slashdot story, though. It was a week or two ago.
It was, of course, a very hot discussion. An NDA for Linux? (sorry Richard, GNU/Linux)
I used to play EQ for 10 hours a day. Then I met the right woman, got married, and had a baby.
How did you meet a woman when playing EQ for 10 hours a day? Let's see: Eat, sleep, shower (I assume), 10 hours of EQ, some form of school or income. What, did she break down your door and molest you while you were playing EQ?
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Hrm, the plans I saw were more like:
1. Expand as quickly as possible--and at any cost--to saturate and own the market
2. IPO
3. Spend, spend, spend because the money never stops. No worries, we'll own the market soon and sooner or later we'll actually make a profit on operations.
4. Buy own island and be extremely rich recluse.
Well, I left out the part about lavish offices top impress everone and giving employees benefits such as constant free food, drinks (even beer in some cases) and free long distance calls on company dimes. That comes before IPO.
I'm not sure what the story submitter was smoking. A nursing home for dying tech companies? No, more like a collaborated ongoing attempt at screwing employees, stockholders and customers of all failing businesses. No thanks, they do that well enough individually.
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You want to know what's really sad? That wasn't the first time that email circulated through my company.
The first time MY MANAGER, the manager of about 20 techs/admins, deleted jdbgc.exe before forwarding the email to all of us and his director and V.P..
This is the guy I rescued from Sircam a year ago. You'd think he'd call me first, but no, this email must know what it's talking about!
You know what's really, really, really sad? At least 3 of my coworkers 'fessed up to deleting the file on several PCs and were planning to do a sweep of the whole complex.
What's funny is how fast they did it. I was at the PC when the manager's email came through and immediately replied to all with the subject "HOAX Re: <old subject>" and linked to the proper page of NAI's virus library. Even with that fast a response many still were off deleting this thing before they read my email. <sigh>
If a sizable part of the population need to use computers, there will always be a significant number of those who do stupid things from them. These problems will continue no matter how secure Windows becomes.
What gets me about some users is that they'll call me up concerned if two icons switch positions, but they get an email like this from a friend and actually find and delete jdbgc.exe themselves. Go figure.
The following email (the typical jdbgc.exe hoax) was circulated recently at my company, and one senior admin secretary sent it out to EVERYONE in her address book as it instructed. I sent out an email to my users saying that this is a known hoax and that if there were a new virus out there that McAfee, Norton and *I* would know about it before their email friends did.
I can't imagine why they thought otherwise.
Disclaimer: HOAX EMAIL! Do NOT delete the file or you will mess up IE's Java implementation.
-----
I found the little bear in my machine because of that I am sending this message in order for you to find it in your machine. The procedure is very simple:
The objective of this e-mail is to warn all Hotmail users about a new virus that is spreading by MSN Messenger. The name of this virus is jdbgmgr.exe and it is sent automatically by the Messenger and by the address book too. The virus is not detected by McAfee or Norton and it stays quiet for 14 days before damaging the system.
The virus can be cleaned before it deletes the files from your system. In order to eliminate it, it is just necessary to do the following steps:
1. Go to Start, click "Search"
2.- In the "Files or Folders option" write the name jdbgmgr.exe
3.- Be sure that you are searching in the drive "C"
4.- Click "find now"
5.- If the virus is there (it has a little bear-like icon with the name of jdbgmgr.exe DO NOT OPEN IT FOR ANY REASON
6.- Right click and delete it (it will go to the Recycle bin)
7.- Go to the recycle bin and delete it or empty the recycle bin.
IF YOU FIND THE VIRUS IN ALL OF YOUR SYSTEMS SEND THIS MESSAGE TO ALL OF YOUR CONTACTS LOCATED IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK BEFORE IT CAN CAUSE ANY DAMAGE.
-----
Disclaimer: The above is a HOAX! Do not follow its advice!
For a truly volumetric display, we would expect it to be vector-like anyway, no? It wouldn't make sense to rasterize a 3d space.
Well, it's 3d space, but it's still a point movnig through space. Drawing something as simple as a filled square would require scanning/tracing like a TV does, anyway. I suppose it depends on what you're displaying. If you want wireframe polyhedrons vector is fine. If you want painted/textured planes you might as well rasterise it and display with timed sweeps like TV or VGA, but in 3d.
Damn, XF86Config is going to be a bitch to configure then. Not only vert and horizontal frequencies, but Z, too!
Are they ill-tempered alligators? With frickin' "la-ser" beams on their heads?
commisioner gordan has been projecting images onto gotham city's foggy night sky for years ...
I'm so addicted to Batman. I keep watching it because I want to see what happens to the city when it isn't cloudy. It must be pretty bad. Maybe that movie will come out next Halloween.
I am not saying that you can't edit configs with windows in a CLI, but, everyone must admit that the default windows shell sucks doneky balls. It is not even in the same league as *nix shells.
Agreed. Cmd.exe is no bash, ksh or csh. Or even sh. But, surprisingly to me, they have improved it. When WinME came out "without DOS" <suppressing hysterical laughter> I thought MS was kicking out CLI forever. But Win2k actually is a nice improvement over the old stuff and adds functionality. But still not in the same league as *nix shells.
I hope, for admins' sake everywhere, that MS is working on a really good shell as a nice option for the future generations of their OS.
I thought they were heading in the direction of having all non-gui admin being handled through Windows Script Host, but I usually find a shell far more convenient. Then I thought Win2k's improvements signaled that they're improving the shell. I'm not sure where they're heading now, but last I heard they were pushing MMC for config screens and such, and their GUI for remote management currently (with Win2k) uses MMC.
As fascinating as it sounds, unfortunately, Congress will never fund such an endeavor -- as far as they concerned, space is a useless void that we now have no reason to explore after the death of the USSR.
Yeah, that's why international space stations don't get built and why several countries are launching rockets and shuttles and Mars and other space probes and why commercial spaceports are starting to open...uh, what?
No, you just slide down the carbon nanotube ribbon like it's a fire pole or the secret passageway to the Batcave.
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FYI,
/D %%x in (c:\"Documents and Settings"\*) do rd /s /q "%%x\Local Settings\Temp" && mkdir "%%x\Local Settings\Temp"
/D %%x in (c:\"Documents and Settings"\*) do rd /s /q "%%x\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5"
Windows 2000 Pro and Server are pretty cool when it comes to command line management compared to previous versions.
The Resource Kit (more money) adds a lot of new commands, but you can do a lot with the default "net stop ", "net start ", "cacls", "at", "runas" and, of course, vbscript (or Jscript or others) with "wscript" or "cscript".
The cmd.exe interface is much better in Win2k and later than previous versions and the old DOS batch and CLI commands are enhanced. So I don't usually have to use vbscript.
I'm not saying they're better than un*x, but I was surprised at how many non-gui tools I can use to administer my Win2k Pro PCs.
As a random example I can delete all temp folders under Documents and Settings with this, which is WAY faster than the gui "Disk Cleanup":
for
(%%x for batch files, %x if from command line)
Not the best example, but it's the type of thing you couldn't easily do in earlier versions of Windows. And this is a killer app when you have 100-200 profiles on a workstation.
Same thing, but for "Temporary Internet Files", including the bloated "index.dat"s (I've found them to be as big as 10mb for some users) that no MS program will delete:
for
A quick good search did not reveal anything
:-)
Read his post again. It's full of "will run"s "will be"s "the goal"s and "the target"s. This is vaporware/imagineware. It's a project with a vision but no product. I have tons of those myself, but I haven't named them all yet.
Cool idea, though. Call us back when there's an alpha.
Otherwise known as the Vowel Planet
No, that's Uranus.
Oh wait, I'm sorry, Uranus is the Bowel Planet.
but it'd be cool to have someone name a planet for you, even if it was only for your money.
You take that back!
Here are a couple of examples why:
Planet Gates
Planet Trump
Planet Perot (It is a little planet after all, and he'd be good at graphing its orbit)
Disneyland!
To me, there are also some abstract issues, such as the fact that people take a LOT more pictures today, with digital cameras, than they ever would have done with film.
Yes, but how many of those pictures will be around in 100 years?
My dad has a suitcase full of old black&white photos. It's quite a store of family history. And they just had to be kept dry in a box somewhere.
Pretty soon you'll want to move your digital pics from disk/CDR/tape to DVDR....or is that DVDRAM? Hmmm. Well, whichever. Then copy them again in 5 years and hope your descendants keep the faith and keep copying to the latest media. (I've heard CDR's are supposed to last 100 years, but who's tested that yet? And who will have a usable CDROM drive in 100 years? Do you still have a 5 1/4" floppy drive?)
Oh, those old B&W photos have writing on the back to tell who's who. Your digital photo annotations are in what, text? Unicode or ASCII? In a separate file in 8.3 naming format? As part of a file-format tag? What about 5 years from now?
Digital has its place, but don't think it's the end-all be-all of photography from here on out.
By the way, your film color photos will fade in 100 years, too. Take some B&W photos and use archival (non-acidic) papers to print them if you want your great great grandchildren to know what you, your house and your gasoline SUV look like.
so you're still throwing similar amounts of C02 into the atmosphere
Some places have nuclear power.
The pictures I saw looked like the car was photographed at night with a flash, and that pic was pasted into a day scene in front of a mansion.
I feel like some type of linux-like client to the HURD kernel could give the HURD the ability to use Linux drivers.
I'm far from an expert, but I followed the Hurd mailing lists for a while and had it installed for a while.
I think the idea is to have all hardware drivers in userspace. You would be able to implement controls, of course. But I believe they want you to be able (softwarewise, though not necessarily hardwarewise), for example, to unload your video or network driver, take out the card, put in a new one and load the driver for it. The architechture allows for that even if the average computer's PCI bus doesn't.
I think the recent few months' goals have been to keep working on the core servers, migrate applications and get pthreads working (they just did this, apparently). Some longer term goals were movnig to OSKit Mach (they may have already done this) and hopefully to a newer generation microkernel such as L4. The L4 conversion is apparently a very daunting task due to synchronous IPC versus asynchronous IPC, IIRC. They were discussing whether it'd be easier to convert the existing Hurd servers or rewrite them from scratch. Ouch.
On the H3 CDs I had, the network drivers were in Mach for some reason. Several other device drivers were in the microkernel, too. I'm pretty sure they want to get away from this, but the nearer term goals are to get it working and stable. Longer term goals are to purify and optimize it.
As far as using Linux drivers for the Hurd I'm pretty sure it will be possible. Maybe with a converter like you say but more likely a port of the drivers. the Hurd is a different architecture but is intended to be POSIX compatible and new or existing servers can handle system calls that the Linux kernel would normally handle, if the drivers need those.
OSKit Mach is said to use Linux drivers, also. I'm not sure they're on OSKit Mach yet but I know they were working on going that direction.
Sooner or later I expect distributions to change their naming to something like, for example "Red Hat OS" with small print at the bottom (or large at the top, depending on the target consumer appeal) "based on Linux, GNU Tools, Apache web server, MySQL [/PostreSQL], ...", etc.. (Listing major opensource contributed projects or groups of proejcts.)
Proprietary commercial vendors are already doing that with their own products. Windows 2000 says it's based on NT technology. There are other examples, but I can't think of them right now.
United Linux was released as a "closed beta", and there was either disclosure or assumption (not sure which) that the beta reviewers had to sign NDA's.
I'm too lazy to find the Slashdot story, though. It was a week or two ago.
It was, of course, a very hot discussion. An NDA for Linux? (sorry Richard, GNU/Linux)
Why - really - does Joe need broadband to read his AOL-mail?
To get through all the spam faster. Also to view the sign-in ads to get to the mail faster.
LOL, (sorry) I believe it's time to reprogram my key bindings.
Our long experience with these very difficult experiments warns that antihydrogen may not have really been produced.
Well, it doesn't matter, anyway.
Ba-dum-bump.
I used to play EQ for 10 hours a day. Then I met the right woman, got married, and had a baby.
How did you meet a woman when playing EQ for 10 hours a day? Let's see: Eat, sleep, shower (I assume), 10 hours of EQ, some form of school or income. What, did she break down your door and molest you while you were playing EQ?
Does she have a sister?