Wait until they reach their EOL code. You can be certain that NT4 will begin to malfunction, as will the other OS's as they reach their "End Of Life"
They will become so unstable that you'll have to patch them to keep them up. I have a customer that is trying what you are trying.
On a brand spanking new box. It will run Linux rock solid for weeks at a time without crashing or rebooting or any other problem. Rock solid. (and it gets an *extreme* workout!)
But that very same box will not stay running more than 15 minutes with a fresh install of Windows 2000 and no patches or service packs installed. Just sitting there doing nothing at all other than waiting for input, you can stare at the screen and not touch the mouse or keyboard and it goes BSOD on you while you look at it.
We've reinstalled 2000 on it numerous times, reformated the hdd and still the same thing. It will NOT stay running. Well, out of desperation we downloaded and installed service pack 4 (v.666) but no other patches. It stablized now but it's also r00ted and 0wned by M$ now.
One other thing to note. When it was crashing, there was NO SOFTWARE installed on it at all. Absolutly NOTHING. It was a stock, clean, naked install from a hologramed, licensed, factory original CD and there were NO applications of any kind at all installed. It booted up, sat there for a few minutes and went BSOD without a human being touching it..
"Windows Vulnerabilities Revealed, Patched" With M$ handling 'Homeland Security (tm)' this latest newsflash gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling, knowing that M$ is protecting me from evil terrorist by keeping the super-duper Windows based, global spy computers up-to-date and all patched up...
(lays head on pillow and closes eyes in peaceful bliss)
"who gives a shit?" I mean really. Like this is important? Only retards use AOL or M$ or would care about either subject. I know a few older folks that use AOL and they live in constant fear of being hacked. They are also totally terrorized at the thought of trying something different. They have some idea that if they don't march to the drumbeat of AOL / M$ that black helicopters will swoop down on them and ninja hit squads will bash their downs down and assassinate them for *thinking* about trying an alternative.
They feel that it's their lot in life to be a $lave to M$ and to AOL.. They are en$laved to the machine. I shit you not.
they could flood the p2p nets with fake mp3's, just loops of that annoying-ass Billy Mays maybe he could be thrumpeting the joys of RIAA/MPAA compliance... Then again, maybe not..
This is just smoke and mirrors to put eveyrone back to sleep. You can bet your ass it's going ahead full tilt.
There is no way in hell Big Brother is going to let slip an opportunity to squeeze Winstons' neck ever and ever tighter until he chokes all the will from him..
'Voters using SERVE can register to vote and cast their ballots from any computer using Microsoft Windows with Internet access.' Why the Windows requirement? Is that really going to make online voting secure?"
Are you sh*ting me?? Secure?! HA! I would rather chop my legs off with a Ginsu knife and drag my bleeding body over broken glass and burning coals, by my fingernails to get to a polling place than install Windows just to vote. Besides, voting is a scam anyway. They put whoever they want in there anyway. Voting is just so that the people *THINK* they really put someone in office.
And in the end, do the scumbag that gets into office ever keep any promises?? Hell no... They get fat, pad their pockets and glorify themselves to massage their egos...
I simply don't believe that. If I took a copy of Xbox linux source code and built it from scratch on two boxes,one being an xbox and one being say a ppc based box then ran the same exploit on both boxes that are now running xbox Linux that is compiled for THAT cpu, that the xbox would crack and the ppc box would not, simply because of the CPU??
"And no, saying 'M$' instead of 'MS' doesn't make you look cool."
Um, excuse me, I'm not trying to look cool when I say "M$". I use that out of PURE DISRESPECT for a company and a thought process that I utterly despise with the most prejudice and malcontempt that I can muster.
I dumped M$... Not only do I advocate Linux to friends, family, and associates, I've accepted Linux as my new religion. I've read the GPL and accept it as a holy document.
Linus Torvalds is the high priest of of the First United Church of Linux.
I wish I could find a synaptics driver for my serial touchpad. I have one of those ergonomic weird looking keyboard with a ysnaptics tp built in and I can not turn off the stupid tap to click crap.
Main Entry: commodify
Pronunciation: k&-'mä-d&-"fI
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -fied; -fying
Date: 1982
: to turn (as an intrinsic value or a work of art) into a commodity - commodification/-"mä-d&-f&-'kA-sh&n/ noun
is my ISP going to "protect" me from evil spammers by pre-filtering my email for me?
I use RoadRunner in Texas and they filter my email now for viruses. They say it's for my own good and the common good of the RR community.
I get several messages a day from RR trumpting the fact that I was protected from an evil virus and that the offending attachment was deleted.
Whoopty-doo.. I use Linux. I don't need a baby sitter or a Big Brother to protect me from the big, scary world out there. I can do it myself, thank you very much.
As a matter of fact I intentionally troll for spam so that I can "teach" my system to deal with it. I *WANT* the viruses to come through too so that I can "teach" my system to filter viruses on it's own.
I need to design and test filtering systems that I can install for my customers (that use other non-filtering ISP's) but it's damn hard to do now because they are looking out for my best interests and the common good of the RR community..
I'm for outlawing spam but I'm not for the ever protective hand of a caring Big Brother to watch over me..
My cell provider sold me a phone that is capable of secured communications but my provider does not permit secured communications.
I set my phone to use encryption on all calls but it tells me every single time that it was unable to establish a secure connection. And it only tells me that AFTER the call is over with.
So, moral is, don't say shit on the phone, someone is listening. That goes for ALL phones, landlines included.
If you want real privacy, talk with your friend in the middle of an empty field so that you can see everything around you for a very long distance. Your home is not private either. A kid with a $2 laser pen, $5 worth of parts and a soldering iron can listen to everything in your house like he's right there.
I would like to see cell phones with a hardware PGP CPU chip built in.. I would buy one. But ONLY if it was open sourced...
Yeah, flamebait. Right. You don't want to hear the truth so you mod it down. That's how they do it in communist countries, let "the few" shout down the many. No free speech here today eh??
You're just afraid to hear the truth. You don't want others to hear the truth either because it'll expose your faults. So silence the truthsayers and live your life of decadence...
That's the american way eh??
I still say video games rot the mind, make kids FAT, and make them LAZY.
This story about it making kids smarted is BULLSHIT...
I'm a parent. I have two kids. I'm about to be a grandfather too. And I see my kids friends. I don't live in a fantasy world of video games like the author of that bullshit story does.
I went to repair a PC once at a church about 18 years ago. The lady that used the computer to type letters for the pastor was bumfuzzled because "my TV won't give me a picture after I turned the brain on!"
She called the monitor the "TV" and the CPU was the "brain". It was an old IBM XT. Turns out that she had turned the brightness down on the monitor because this was *way* before the days (IBM DOS 2.10) of screensavers.
My dad still can't grasp the difference between RAM and hard disk storage after 10 years of me trying to explain it to him.
MOST people call the CASE (the cabinet) the "hard drive"
They know mouse, monitor, keyboard, CD. That's about it.
I find it easier to explain the problem of filling the hard disk up like this.
Your hard drive is like your refridgerator. You can only put so much beer in it before it gets to full to close the door. Once it gets filled up you have to take some beer (files) out to put more in.
It's sad that most people can tell you how many times some football player farted in 1996 or the names of all the movies that some little twit starred in or name all the Brittney Spears songs but they can't put oil in a car or lawn mower, don't know the difference between the CPU and the hard drive, etc...
If it doesn't involve sports, alcohol, or tv/movie stars they are baffled.
I'm afraid there is little hope for mankind, ignorance truly is bliss...
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Always did, always will.
Besides, they're "DHS approved" BB taps...
Build your own. Take a dump in the cisco and throw it out to the curb..
Wait until they reach their EOL code.
You can be certain that NT4 will begin to malfunction, as will the other OS's as they reach their "End Of Life"
They will become so unstable that you'll have to patch them to keep them up. I have a customer that is trying what you are trying.
On a brand spanking new box. It will run Linux rock solid for weeks at a time without crashing or rebooting or any other problem. Rock solid. (and it gets an *extreme* workout!)
But that very same box will not stay running more than 15 minutes with a fresh install of Windows 2000 and no patches or service packs installed. Just sitting there doing nothing at all other than waiting for input, you can stare at the screen and not touch the mouse or keyboard and it goes BSOD on you while you look at it.
We've reinstalled 2000 on it numerous times, reformated the hdd and still the same thing.
It will NOT stay running. Well, out of desperation we downloaded and installed service pack 4 (v.666) but no other patches. It stablized now but it's also r00ted and 0wned by M$ now.
One other thing to note. When it was crashing, there was NO SOFTWARE installed on it at all. Absolutly NOTHING. It was a stock, clean, naked install from a hologramed, licensed, factory original CD and there were NO applications of any kind at all installed. It booted up, sat there for a few minutes and went BSOD without a human being touching it..
"Windows Vulnerabilities Revealed, Patched"
With M$ handling 'Homeland Security (tm)' this latest newsflash
gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling, knowing that M$ is protecting me from
evil terrorist by keeping the super-duper Windows based,
global spy computers up-to-date and all patched up...
(lays head on pillow and closes eyes in peaceful bliss)
Homeland Security??
These stupid bastards can't even manage Desktop Security..
The war is over, America has lost, move along now..
"who gives a shit?"
I mean really. Like this is important?
Only retards use AOL or M$ or would care about either subject. I know a few older folks that use AOL and they live in constant fear of being hacked. They are also totally terrorized at the thought of trying something different.
They have some idea that if they don't march to the drumbeat of AOL / M$ that black helicopters will swoop down on them and ninja hit squads will bash their downs down and assassinate them for *thinking* about trying an alternative.
They feel that it's their lot in life to be a $lave to M$ and to AOL..
They are en$laved to the machine.
I shit you not.
the damn thing and get it over with.
M$ is such a broken peice of crap that there is no repairing it.
Everything M$ puts out is virusware.
on vcd the day it was released to the rip-off houses, er, ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H theatres..
they could flood the p2p nets with fake mp3's,
just loops of that annoying-ass Billy Mays
maybe he could be thrumpeting the joys of RIAA/MPAA compliance...
Then again, maybe not..
This is just smoke and mirrors to put eveyrone back to sleep. You can bet your ass it's going ahead full tilt.
There is no way in hell Big Brother is going to let slip an opportunity to squeeze Winstons' neck ever and ever tighter until he chokes all the will from him..
Remember, ignorance is bliss.
INGSOC...
'Voters using SERVE can register to vote and cast their ballots from any computer using Microsoft Windows with Internet access.' Why the Windows requirement? Is that really going to make online voting secure?"
Are you sh*ting me?? Secure?! HA!
I would rather chop my legs off with a Ginsu knife and drag my bleeding body over broken glass and burning coals, by my fingernails to get to a polling place than install Windows just to vote. Besides, voting is a scam anyway. They put whoever they want in there anyway. Voting is just so that the people *THINK* they really put someone in office.
And in the end, do the scumbag that gets into office ever keep any promises?? Hell no...
They get fat, pad their pockets and glorify themselves to massage their egos...
I simply don't believe that.
If I took a copy of Xbox linux source code and built it from scratch on two boxes,one being an xbox and one being say a ppc based box then ran the same exploit on both boxes that are now running xbox Linux that is compiled for THAT cpu, that the xbox would crack and the ppc box would not, simply because of the CPU??
My point is that Windows, which the Xbox runs, is so rife with security flaws that there is little wonder that a simple buffer overflow did it.
Windows is the O$ with insecurity built in..
"And no, saying 'M$' instead of 'MS' doesn't make you look cool."
Um, excuse me, I'm not trying to look cool when I say "M$".
I use that out of PURE DISRESPECT for a company and a thought process that I utterly despise with the most prejudice and malcontempt that I can muster.
You stand corrected.
I think this is the parent to Skynet!!
It's happening!!!
Noooooooooooooo!!!
for buffer overflows or what??
Seems that's the number one way to whack an M$ system...
Troll?!! Are you kidding me??
I'm stone cold serious! Have you ever played the waiting game with Mandrake??
Sheesh!
I dumped M$...
Not only do I advocate Linux to friends, family, and associates, I've accepted Linux as my new religion. I've read the GPL and accept it as a holy document.
Linus Torvalds is the high priest of of the First United Church of Linux.
Finland is Mecca...
I wish I could find a synaptics driver for my serial touchpad.
I have one of those ergonomic weird looking keyboard with a ysnaptics tp built in and I can not turn off the stupid tap to click crap.
I freaking hate it.
we'll see the 2.6 kernel in Mandrake 23.2 in the year 2019..
I can't wait!!
Dictionary Nazi says,
n ary&va=commodification
/-"mä-d&-f&-'kA-sh&n/ noun
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictio
One entry found for commodify.
Main Entry: commodify
Pronunciation: k&-'mä-d&-"fI
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -fied; -fying
Date: 1982
: to turn (as an intrinsic value or a work of art) into a commodity
- commodification
is my ISP going to "protect" me from evil spammers by pre-filtering my email for me?
I use RoadRunner in Texas and they filter my email now for viruses. They say it's for my own good and the common good of the RR community.
I get several messages a day from RR trumpting the fact that I was protected from an evil virus and that the offending attachment was deleted.
Whoopty-doo.. I use Linux. I don't need a baby sitter or a Big Brother to protect me from the big, scary world out there. I can do it myself, thank you very much.
As a matter of fact I intentionally troll for spam so that I can "teach" my system to deal with it. I *WANT* the viruses to come through too so that I can "teach" my system to filter viruses on it's own.
I need to design and test filtering systems that I can install for my customers (that use other non-filtering ISP's) but it's damn hard to do now because they are looking out for my best interests and the common good of the RR community..
I'm for outlawing spam but I'm not for the ever protective hand of a caring Big Brother to watch over me..
part of the time and are warned when they don't..
My cell provider sold me a phone that is capable of secured communications but my provider does not permit secured communications.
I set my phone to use encryption on all calls but it tells me every single time that it was unable to establish a secure connection.
And it only tells me that AFTER the call is over with.
So, moral is, don't say shit on the phone, someone is listening. That goes for ALL phones, landlines included.
If you want real privacy, talk with your friend in the middle of an empty field so that you can see everything around you for a very long distance. Your home is not private either. A kid with a $2 laser pen, $5 worth of parts and a soldering iron can listen to everything in your house like he's right there.
I would like to see cell phones with a hardware PGP CPU chip built in.. I would buy one. But ONLY if it was open sourced...
Yeah, flamebait. Right. You don't want to hear the truth so you mod it down. That's how they do it in communist countries, let "the few" shout down the many. No free speech here today eh??
You're just afraid to hear the truth. You don't want others to hear the truth either because it'll expose your faults. So silence the truthsayers and live your life of decadence...
That's the american way eh??
I still say video games rot the mind, make kids FAT, and make them LAZY.
This story about it making kids smarted is BULLSHIT...
I'm a parent. I have two kids. I'm about to be a grandfather too. And I see my kids friends. I don't live in a fantasy world of video games like the author of that bullshit story does.
Reality can not be denied...
that so many people are so ignorant.
I went to repair a PC once at a church about 18 years ago. The lady that used the computer to type letters for the pastor was bumfuzzled because "my TV won't give me a picture after I turned the brain on!"
She called the monitor the "TV" and the CPU was the "brain". It was an old IBM XT.
Turns out that she had turned the brightness down on the monitor because this was *way* before the days (IBM DOS 2.10) of screensavers.
My dad still can't grasp the difference between RAM and hard disk storage after 10 years of me trying to explain it to him.
MOST people call the CASE (the cabinet) the "hard drive"
They know mouse, monitor, keyboard, CD. That's about it.
I find it easier to explain the problem of filling the hard disk up like this.
Your hard drive is like your refridgerator. You can only put so much beer in it before it gets to full to close the door. Once it gets filled up you have to take some beer (files) out to put more in.
It's sad that most people can tell you how many times some football player farted in 1996 or the names of all the movies that some little twit starred in or name all the Brittney Spears songs but they can't put oil in a car or lawn mower, don't know the difference between the CPU and the hard drive, etc...
If it doesn't involve sports, alcohol, or tv/movie stars they are baffled.
I'm afraid there is little hope for mankind, ignorance truly is bliss...
"ummm, I don't use Windows."
Then there is hope for you!