At least it shows the MS Quality Assurance team don't use Dell.
..or, indeed, Windows XP!
Re:I've got mine on pre-order.
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The only problem I can think of is that you can't (as far as I know) use them with a dimmer switch. I do think they're great and I make a point of using them in places where the light is often on for hours and hours, e.g. the kitchen.
Along with all the other comments re risks from Knoppix CD's and laptops being plugged into your network, you *could* if you're really concerned and have a computer in a less secure area, "reconfigure" the USD ports with a set of pliers? Physically screwing the port up obviously limits future system expansion potential but depending on your requirements this might be fine. At worst, you'd have to install a USB PCI card at a later date.
As a long time person who plays with Linux but then goes back to Windows, I can confirm that Linux is getting waaaaaay better. The last linux I bought was SuSE 8.2 Pro and that was pretty good, but still had enough install/driver issues to make it sub-standard when compared with (ahem) the other OS. I've recently discovered Knoppix (3.4) and am amazed by how well that works straight out of the box (so to speak). Even my wireless PCMCIA card worked once I'd wlcardconfig'ed and pump'ed it! (I couldn't find a GUI tool to do this though... so I guess that was the only disappointment).
I have SuSE 8.2 Pro installed on it, and I thought the same thing about have to recompile (I think one of the messages implies this). You don't have to. My notes (for SuSE linux btw) are:
"After installing SuSE 8.2 on the PB iGo 4450, ACPI is not enabled. To enable it, simply to into YaST2-->System-->Runlevel Editor-->Runlevel Properties and enable ACPI and check the runlevel 5 box. AFAIK the battery monitor is the only service currently working-- the suspend functions have not been implemented yet."
HTH!
ps. I've also got the modem working... say if you want the notes on how to do this.
It always bugs me that programs do that! I can understand why.... but it always seems a bit redundant when there's a whole load of non-visual stuff running in the background. Maybe installers should just test if required resources are in use first and just prompt if thats the case?
How insecure is WEP? What I mean is, is it so trivial that I need to worry about my home net being insecure, or is it just "not 100% secure"... such that I'd only really need to worry if I were a bank/corporate/government type?
(I'm wearing my "I am totally a security n00b" hat)
But if you used (say) MD5 *and* SHA-0, then surely to break it, a hacker would need to find a collision in both algorithms that are both at the exact same point?
(at this point I'd just like to emphasise that I completely and utterly, 100%, do not understand this stuff.... so its quite possible I'm talking out of my arse! END-DISCLAIMER!!)
To be fair to Win98 for a second, I think its 2000 and XP that suffer from worms more so? If you just ensure there aren't any unused services running and make sure nothing is shared, then it should be as secure as XP is when running as administrator!
If you switch from dialup to [A]DSL then a nice NAT box will provide an extra layer of defence.
The worst thing about the Win9x series is its woeful stability issues, but if its just being used for a limited set of tasks then it should be okay.... ish.
Totally agreed. It may be technically non-legal, but morally its fine since you aren't causing any loss in revenue.
Although I would add that for friends and family I wouldn't care about the licensing issue since the machine came with a Windows license, *but* for anyone else I'd have to be pedantic just to cover myself legally.
To restore:
0. Set up the source.
1. Boot Knoppix on the machine you want to install.
3. Mount the source.
4. gzip -dc/path/to/image.gz | dd of=/dev/hda bs=128K
I read the original Register article and thought the best thing was the laundry service, mainly because thats a chore that I *hate* and therefore something like that would improve my quality of life. If an employer offered to do my ironing as well, then I'd probably be an employee for life!!
Although I do like the beer idea also, there's only *so much* of the stuff you can drink, and although drinks are work are fine, my work collegues aren't the people I want to hang out with all the time. And I'm not really a day-time drinker -- even if it is end of working day!
But one could argue that the research and development in this project was the software. Therefore it perhaps makes sense to use existing, proven technology so get the proejct off the ground (sorry!). Later refinement would then be to reduce weight etc, so *then* it might make sense to develop lighter hardware.
Re:Live CDs don't always make good impressions.
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If I'm not mistaken "(as a stop gap until I could do a rebuild)" was a metaphor for getting a new wife. Or did I misunderstand?!;)
Alternativily could it be a bit of PR to deflect from the controvesy surrounding the two recently publicised bugs which had been sat on by the Mozilla team for several years before they got around to being fixed?
Naa, its purely a small amount of money to focus a lot of eyes on the problem. If it was pure PR they'd probably offer a much large some of money for catching virus writters or something?!
I'm not that bothered about it myself, but I agree it does exist! I think some installs are affected more than other though - I'm sure my 0.8 install was okay, but I'm currently running 0.9.1 (patched) on Win2K and it is rendering/. strangely.
The work around is to increase and decrease the font size (ctrl + then ctrl -).
Even replace image? I would've thought that might break a few sites (I know mostly its just used for roll-overs, but there are functional uses for it too)
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Happens quite often. I'm guess its because there *isn't* a "random and unfounded speculation" classification?
At least it shows the MS Quality Assurance team don't use Dell.
..or, indeed, Windows XP!
The only problem I can think of is that you can't (as far as I know) use them with a dimmer switch. I do think they're great and I make a point of using them in places where the light is often on for hours and hours, e.g. the kitchen.
Bodysurf, it isn't wise to upset an Austrailian! ;-)
Along with all the other comments re risks from Knoppix CD's and laptops being plugged into your network, you *could* if you're really concerned and have a computer in a less secure area, "reconfigure" the USD ports with a set of pliers? Physically screwing the port up obviously limits future system expansion potential but depending on your requirements this might be fine. At worst, you'd have to install a USB PCI card at a later date.
Surely the price of portable HD's should come down soon given that SATA drives cost nearly the same as ATA drives but are hot swapable?
VESA I think! :(
As a long time person who plays with Linux but then goes back to Windows, I can confirm that Linux is getting waaaaaay better. The last linux I bought was SuSE 8.2 Pro and that was pretty good, but still had enough install/driver issues to make it sub-standard when compared with (ahem) the other OS. I've recently discovered Knoppix (3.4) and am amazed by how well that works straight out of the box (so to speak). Even my wireless PCMCIA card worked once I'd wlcardconfig'ed and pump'ed it! (I couldn't find a GUI tool to do this though... so I guess that was the only disappointment).
I've got a PB iGO4450 too!! :-D
I have SuSE 8.2 Pro installed on it, and I thought the same thing about have to recompile (I think one of the messages implies this). You don't have to. My notes (for SuSE linux btw) are:
"After installing SuSE 8.2 on the PB iGo 4450, ACPI is not enabled. To enable it, simply to into YaST2-->System-->Runlevel Editor-->Runlevel Properties and enable ACPI and check the runlevel 5 box. AFAIK the battery monitor is the only service currently working-- the suspend functions have not been implemented yet."
HTH!
ps. I've also got the modem working... say if you want the notes on how to do this.
It always bugs me that programs do that! I can understand why.... but it always seems a bit redundant when there's a whole load of non-visual stuff running in the background. Maybe installers should just test if required resources are in use first and just prompt if thats the case?
How insecure is WEP? What I mean is, is it so trivial that I need to worry about my home net being insecure, or is it just "not 100% secure"... such that I'd only really need to worry if I were a bank/corporate/government type?
I don't doubt what you're saying, but I still don't understand how easter eggs *do* get in to MS software? E.g. the flight simulator thing in Excel.
(I'm wearing my "I am totally a security n00b" hat)
But if you used (say) MD5 *and* SHA-0, then surely to break it, a hacker would need to find a collision in both algorithms that are both at the exact same point?
(at this point I'd just like to emphasise that I completely and utterly, 100%, do not understand this stuff.... so its quite possible I'm talking out of my arse! END-DISCLAIMER!!)
To be fair to Win98 for a second, I think its 2000 and XP that suffer from worms more so? If you just ensure there aren't any unused services running and make sure nothing is shared, then it should be as secure as XP is when running as administrator!
If you switch from dialup to [A]DSL then a nice NAT box will provide an extra layer of defence.
The worst thing about the Win9x series is its woeful stability issues, but if its just being used for a limited set of tasks then it should be okay.... ish.
Totally agreed. It may be technically non-legal, but morally its fine since you aren't causing any loss in revenue.
Although I would add that for friends and family I wouldn't care about the licensing issue since the machine came with a Windows license, *but* for anyone else I'd have to be pedantic just to cover myself legally.
To restore: /path/to/image.gz | dd of=/dev/hda bs=128K
0. Set up the source.
1. Boot Knoppix on the machine you want to install.
3. Mount the source.
4. gzip -dc
What about step 2?
Nope - Starter Ed. is limited to very small fire arms, slightly blunt knives and various kitchen implements.
LOL @ #1 !
I read the original Register article and thought the best thing was the laundry service, mainly because thats a chore that I *hate* and therefore something like that would improve my quality of life. If an employer offered to do my ironing as well, then I'd probably be an employee for life!!
Although I do like the beer idea also, there's only *so much* of the stuff you can drink, and although drinks are work are fine, my work collegues aren't the people I want to hang out with all the time. And I'm not really a day-time drinker -- even if it is end of working day!
But one could argue that the research and development in this project was the software. Therefore it perhaps makes sense to use existing, proven technology so get the proejct off the ground (sorry!). Later refinement would then be to reduce weight etc, so *then* it might make sense to develop lighter hardware.
If I'm not mistaken "(as a stop gap until I could do a rebuild)" was a metaphor for getting a new wife. Or did I misunderstand?! ;)
Alternativily could it be a bit of PR to deflect from the controvesy surrounding the two recently publicised bugs which had been sat on by the Mozilla team for several years before they got around to being fixed?
Naa, its purely a small amount of money to focus a lot of eyes on the problem. If it was pure PR they'd probably offer a much large some of money for catching virus writters or something?!
I'm not that bothered about it myself, but I agree it does exist! I think some installs are affected more than other though - I'm sure my 0.8 install was okay, but I'm currently running 0.9.1 (patched) on Win2K and it is rendering /. strangely.
The work around is to increase and decrease the font size (ctrl + then ctrl -).
Pop it into a microwave oven, set timer for 20 seconds,... and Ding! its all forgotten!
I've set control lists for DNS for a long long time.
Could you explain in laymans terms what this is/how it works?
Even replace image? I would've thought that might break a few sites (I know mostly its just used for roll-overs, but there are functional uses for it too)