That's not a bug, that's a feature. To fix it, you just Right-click on My Computer, click Properties, click the Advanced tab. Under "Startup & Recovery," click Settings. Under "System Failure," uncheck the box in front of "Automatically restart."
Once you've done that, you'll have your old familiar bluescreen back in no time!
Over whose night? There'd be plenty of people awake, alert and in daylight to reconfigure DNS servers. It could be done in seconds, if there were contingency plans in place.
Even more importantly, designers of materials and components can make sure that particles of the same shape and size as problem asbestos fibres do not end up in people lungs.
The key difference that's missing here is that asbestos is so dangerous because it's so refractory. Other fibrous materials of the same shape and size (i.e. textiles, SMF, glassfibre) don't have the same health effects because they are absorbed by the body. Even other refractory materials such as non-crystalline silica don't cause pneumoconiosis because their shape means our body defences (macrophages, cilia etc) are able to get rid of them. That doesn't mean they have no effect, but that using asbestos as a model is seriously flawed, since the mechanism of illness is a consequence of the physical rather than chemical characteristics of the material.
In Western Australia, there have been some long-term studies of lung function and particulate exposures amongst miners. The Contam system, and the information gained from it, has been used to virtually eliminate silicosis and related illnesses. Much of that data would also be relevant to exposures to carbon particulates (from the diesel engines used in underground mining), and I suspect it would be much more relevant to nano toxicity than asbestos data.
An interesting bit of nastyness is that when it became obvious that asbestos was a problem it was asserted that the true blue local patriotic aussie asbestos was perfectly safe by opportunists who wanted to make a buck.
The dangers of asbestos have been known for two millennia or more. The ancient greeks wrote about the slaves who mined it dying as a result. The mine managers at Wittenoom and other mines would have known they were killing their workers, but all they needed was to make sure they had plausible deniability for the press, and the government made sure they weren't prosecuted.
yes, thats right, MIDI. give me a way to control it from a MIDI keyboard,
I'll second that, provided it also gets a half-decent audio line in capability (hint: no ALC).
I'm using a Boss BR-532 as a portable recording deck, and while it gets seriously good sound (I'm mostly using it for off-cam sound on video shoots), it's bigger than a lot of the Mini DV cameras out there.
But the fact remains, the users are going to, from time to time, want and need to do potentially stupid things in order to make the most use of their computers.
Yup, absolutely. And if I decide to log in as root and delete everything in/boot or C:\Windows, then I deserve to spend however much time it'll take to fix the mess.
If I'm using a computer the way any normal person would expect it to be used, including installing software, I shouldn't scared of be opening a door to every wanker who wants to look through my password collection.
Normal computer users cannot be expected to automagically know which software is safe to use and which has potentially dangerous bugs. Even experts like Dvorak can get caught out...
An amusing picture, even if you meant to type "lose" and suggest the opposite.:)
Now what's the point of starting a spelling flame here. We use language to communicate, and as long as the poster's meaning is communicated, then why does it matter if their spelling's a little off.
Let's face it, it's not like there's any doubt that the OP simply miss-spelled "apatite" and was using the term "loosing the apatite" as a witty new term for mudslinging...
BG: "Microsoft was playing a much broader role[laughs] than just doing software for this machine. I mean whether it is the keyboard, the character set, the graphics adapter, or even the memory layouts. I laid out memory so the bottom 640K was general purpose RAM and the upper 384 I reserved for video and ROM, and things like that. That is why they talk about the 640K limit. It is actually a limit, not of the software, in any way, shape, or form, it is the limit of the microprocessor. That thing generates addresses, 20-bits addresses, that only can address a megabyte of memory. And, therefore, all the applications are tied to that limit. It was ten times what we had before. But to my surprise, we ran out of that address base for applications within -- oh five or six years people were complaining."
There would then be no remotely similar works for a period of 20 years
So, no copycat movies, No Hollywood plagiarising itself, no outright theft and "localising" of overseas TV series and movies, and no thousand variations of the same reality TV garbage that infests every channel?
Anybody who calls drivers incompetent if they drive off a cliff is an advocate for Ford?
No, but anyone who says "That doesn't make it Ford's fault" when Ford Pintos explode, because competent drivers don't get involved in car accidents, is an advocate for Ford.
AFAIK, the real problem is that when the next pandemic hits, we don't have a way to manufacture immunizations.
Close. The real problem is that governments have been conned into believing the only answer to a pandemic is Tamiflu. Tamiflu is a patent-protected antiviral agent which can only be made by Roche. It is not a vaccine, since it alleviates the symptoms of bird flu, but does not stop it spreading.
Crazy religions will be just as effective for everyone who can't afford Tamiflu (about US$90.00 per course), and they're a lot more fun.
That's an interesting position... what would you change to make it secure enough to meet those standards?
Key points are:
Clear separation of OS/Application/Data spaces.
RO media for OS space.
Application space is RO lockable by the user (no secretly writing to it)
No code execution from data space.
Application and OS configs as pure text in Data space (no binary configs)
Single text file for all autostart apps.
Linux already has a number of live CD distros - my own server boots off a custom CD and loads the OS and servers (Samba, Apache etc) into RAM in a chroot jail. The only things that get written to disk are swap, logs and data. If I'm ever concerned about an intrusion, I can reboot. All the configs, OS and apps are refreshed from RO media and I'm clean.
And I maintain that this attitude isn't zealotry... it's just a different opinion on system design.
We'll have to agree to disagree then. Anyone who calls me (and other users) incompetent for not being able to safely use Windows, as it's advertised to be used, is a de-facto advocate for Microsoft.
So I'm a Linux zealot AND a Windows zealot at the same time? Sweet!
If that's what you want to be. I'm only replying at your Microsoft apologia.
And just to be clear, you would agree with me if I said that Linus was at fault for anybody who got rooted in the last couple OpenSSH and Apache security flaws, right?
No, Linus is just one of many who develop Linux. That would be like blaming Bill Gates for everything that is wrong with Windows. But Linux developers are definitely responsible for making sure those holes don't allow attackers to take over the whole OS.
Just to make this absolutely clear, I believe all current major OSs are seriously flawed by both by design and execution. Linux is marginally more secure than Windows (as are OSX, Solaris, VMS, *BSD etc), mostly because they don't obfuscate their workings as much. I support Linux/BSD etc because I believe they offer a better path to the future, not because they are (much) better now.
I fail to see how running a unsecure 3rd party app invalidates Microsoft's marketing around XP.
I suspect you're being intentionally obtuse, but anyway;
Computer users need operating systems so they can run their programs.
There will always be badly written programs.
There will always be people who will exploit security faults in badly written programs.
The bad people will always try to use badly written programs to take over operating sysems.
Computer users can not fix these problems.
Software writers will not always fix badly written programs.
Computer operating system developers can and should ensure their systems are not compromised by badly written programs.
And please realize: when you call someone who's just looking at the situation logically and not trying to take sides a zealot, you look like a troll.
Trying to shift the blame for bad programming from Microsoft to computer users is zealotry, no matter how much neutrality you're claiming.
It is Microsoft's fault. They are marketing Windows as:
Safe and Easy Personal Computing
Windows XP makes personal computing easy and enjoyable! Power, performance, a bright new look, and plenty of help when you need it. Windows XP has it all, along with unmatched dependablity and security.
That's what Joe Average wants to buy. That's what they're being told they're getting. Dvorak's by no means Joe Average when it comes to computing, but even people with as much experience as he has get sucked in sometimes. Yet every single time someone comes out and says "this is just plain wrong", dozens of apologists like yourself come out of the woodwork loudly proclaiming "That still doesn't make it Microsoft's fault" and calling the users dumb because they believed what they were told.
Stop apologising for Microsoft and I'll stop calling you a zealot.
That still doesn't make it Microsoft's fault, though.
It's always the same isn't it. Whenever there's a discussion about operating systems, the Windows zealots say Linux will never be ready for the desktop because granny/mom/sis/clueless newbie can't use it. Whenever it's a security failure on Windows, it's because the user wasn't competent to operate their computer.
What I believe is needed is a light-weight OO.org viewer that is quick to download and quick to open.
There's a bigger picture than a viewer happening here. Did you see this quote?
From there, there is no doubt in my mind that OpenDocument is heading to the W3C for ratification as the successor to HTML and XHTML.
What's implied is that OpenDocument will become the driver of a much more interactive web. Google Office may be off the agenda for now, but I'll bet it won't stay that way.
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Umm, Frankenstein's Monster was made of random body parts, not the Doctor himself!
Nooooo! Frankenstein's Monster was intelligently designed. Nothing that complex could be made from random body parts.
Aw, c'mon: I have seen exactly one BSOD on XP.
That's not a bug, that's a feature. To fix it, you just Right-click on My Computer, click Properties, click the Advanced tab. Under "Startup & Recovery," click Settings. Under "System Failure," uncheck the box in front of "Automatically restart."
Once you've done that, you'll have your old familiar bluescreen back in no time!
interest on money lost on the overnight
Over whose night? There'd be plenty of people awake, alert and in daylight to reconfigure DNS servers. It could be done in seconds, if there were contingency plans in place.
Even more importantly, designers of materials and components can make sure that particles of the same shape and size as problem asbestos fibres do not end up in people lungs.
The key difference that's missing here is that asbestos is so dangerous because it's so refractory. Other fibrous materials of the same shape and size (i.e. textiles, SMF, glassfibre) don't have the same health effects because they are absorbed by the body. Even other refractory materials such as non-crystalline silica don't cause pneumoconiosis because their shape means our body defences (macrophages, cilia etc) are able to get rid of them.
That doesn't mean they have no effect, but that using asbestos as a model is seriously flawed, since the mechanism of illness is a consequence of the physical rather than chemical characteristics of the material.
In Western Australia, there have been some long-term studies of lung function and particulate exposures amongst miners. The Contam system, and the information gained from it, has been used to virtually eliminate silicosis and related illnesses. Much of that data would also be relevant to exposures to carbon particulates (from the diesel engines used in underground mining), and I suspect it would be much more relevant to nano toxicity than asbestos data.
An interesting bit of nastyness is that when it became obvious that asbestos was a problem it was asserted that the true blue local patriotic aussie asbestos was perfectly safe by opportunists who wanted to make a buck.
The dangers of asbestos have been known for two millennia or more. The ancient greeks wrote about the slaves who mined it dying as a result. The mine managers at Wittenoom and other mines would have known they were killing their workers, but all they needed was to make sure they had plausible deniability for the press, and the government made sure they weren't prosecuted.
yes, thats right, MIDI. give me a way to control it from a MIDI keyboard,
I'll second that, provided it also gets a half-decent audio line in capability (hint: no ALC).
I'm using a Boss BR-532 as a portable recording deck, and while it gets seriously good sound (I'm mostly using it for off-cam sound on video shoots), it's bigger than a lot of the Mini DV cameras out there.
But the fact remains, the users are going to, from time to time, want and need to do potentially stupid things in order to make the most use of their computers.
/boot or C:\Windows, then I deserve to spend however much time it'll take to fix the mess.
Yup, absolutely. And if I decide to log in as root and delete everything in
If I'm using a computer the way any normal person would expect it to be used, including installing software, I shouldn't scared of be opening a door to every wanker who wants to look through my password collection.
Normal computer users cannot be expected to automagically know which software is safe to use and which has potentially dangerous bugs. Even experts like Dvorak can get caught out...
An amusing picture, even if you meant to type "lose" and suggest the opposite. :)
Now what's the point of starting a spelling flame here. We use language to communicate, and as long as the poster's meaning is communicated, then why does it matter if their spelling's a little off.
Let's face it, it's not like there's any doubt that the OP simply miss-spelled "apatite" and was using the term "loosing the apatite" as a witty new term for mudslinging...
In an interview with David Allison, 1993.
BG: "Microsoft was playing a much broader role[laughs] than just doing software for this machine. I mean whether it is the keyboard, the character set, the graphics adapter, or even the memory layouts. I laid out memory so the bottom 640K was general purpose RAM and the upper 384 I reserved for video and ROM, and things like that. That is why they talk about the 640K limit. It is actually a limit, not of the software, in any way, shape, or form, it is the limit of the microprocessor. That thing generates addresses, 20-bits addresses, that only can address a megabyte of memory. And, therefore, all the applications are tied to that limit. It was ten times what we had before. But to my surprise, we ran out of that address base for applications within -- oh five or six years people were complaining."
Getting off topic, but any recommendations for good comparisons between Linux and OS X?
Yes. Just Google "flamewar".
However you can't remember his name, but you can accurately remember all those numbers?
The parent poster is correct. The executive was Disney ex-president Michael Ovitz, who was paid $140,000,000 to leave the company after 15 months.
There would then be no remotely similar works for a period of 20 years
So, no copycat movies, No Hollywood plagiarising itself, no outright theft and "localising" of overseas TV series and movies, and no thousand variations of the same reality TV garbage that infests every channel?
Where do I sign?
I'll need them to get rid of the calculator with a multiplication sign so small it looks like a dot!
Geeks don't multiply.
Now you're just being stubborn.
I'm being consistent.
Anybody who calls drivers incompetent if they drive off a cliff is an advocate for Ford?
No, but anyone who says "That doesn't make it Ford's fault" when Ford Pintos explode, because competent drivers don't get involved in car accidents, is an advocate for Ford.
Maybe you're actively posting about this on the other one? :D
If Slashdot is a cover site for anything to do with intelligence, its disguise is near perfect.
AFAIK, the real problem is that when the next pandemic hits, we don't have a way to manufacture immunizations.
Close. The real problem is that governments have been conned into believing the only answer to a pandemic is Tamiflu. Tamiflu is a patent-protected antiviral agent which can only be made by Roche. It is not a vaccine, since it alleviates the symptoms of bird flu, but does not stop it spreading.
Crazy religions will be just as effective for everyone who can't afford Tamiflu (about US$90.00 per course), and they're a lot more fun.
Key points are:
Linux already has a number of live CD distros - my own server boots off a custom CD and loads the OS and servers (Samba, Apache etc) into RAM in a chroot jail. The only things that get written to disk are swap, logs and data. If I'm ever concerned about an intrusion, I can reboot. All the configs, OS and apps are refreshed from RO media and I'm clean.
And I maintain that this attitude isn't zealotry... it's just a different opinion on system design.
We'll have to agree to disagree then. Anyone who calls me (and other users) incompetent for not being able to safely use Windows, as it's advertised to be used, is a de-facto advocate for Microsoft.
It, like, alters your mind! Wohoa!
So uhh, mind expanding drugs, like, make your mind bigger huh?
So I'm a Linux zealot AND a Windows zealot at the same time? Sweet!
If that's what you want to be. I'm only replying at your Microsoft apologia.
And just to be clear, you would agree with me if I said that Linus was at fault for anybody who got rooted in the last couple OpenSSH and Apache security flaws, right?
No, Linus is just one of many who develop Linux. That would be like blaming Bill Gates for everything that is wrong with Windows. But Linux developers are definitely responsible for making sure those holes don't allow attackers to take over the whole OS.
Just to make this absolutely clear, I believe all current major OSs are seriously flawed by both by design and execution. Linux is marginally more secure than Windows (as are OSX, Solaris, VMS, *BSD etc), mostly because they don't obfuscate their workings as much. I support Linux/BSD etc because I believe they offer a better path to the future, not because they are (much) better now.
I fail to see how running a unsecure 3rd party app invalidates Microsoft's marketing around XP.
I suspect you're being intentionally obtuse, but anyway;
Computer users need operating systems so they can run their programs.
There will always be badly written programs.
There will always be people who will exploit security faults in badly written programs.
The bad people will always try to use badly written programs to take over operating sysems.
Computer users can not fix these problems.
Software writers will not always fix badly written programs.
Computer operating system developers can and should ensure their systems are not compromised by badly written programs.
And please realize: when you call someone who's just looking at the situation logically and not trying to take sides a zealot, you look like a troll.
Trying to shift the blame for bad programming from Microsoft to computer users is zealotry, no matter how much neutrality you're claiming.
I don't think linux will really take off til you can count the number of distros on one hand.
The number of distros available is a consequence of freedom. Everbody is free to make their own distribution to serve their own purposes.
Linux will take off when people like you start to realise freedom is better than servitude.
It is Microsoft's fault. They are marketing Windows as: (From file:///C:/WINDOWS/Help/Tours/htmlTour/default.ht
That's what Joe Average wants to buy. That's what they're being told they're getting. Dvorak's by no means Joe Average when it comes to computing, but even people with as much experience as he has get sucked in sometimes. Yet every single time someone comes out and says "this is just plain wrong", dozens of apologists like yourself come out of the woodwork loudly proclaiming "That still doesn't make it Microsoft's fault" and calling the users dumb because they believed what they were told.
Stop apologising for Microsoft and I'll stop calling you a zealot.
It's the same thing. If you ever feel like giving them up forever, try some of the recipes here http://mattfischer.com/ramen/
That still doesn't make it Microsoft's fault, though.
It's always the same isn't it. Whenever there's a discussion about operating systems, the Windows zealots say Linux will never be ready for the desktop because granny/mom/sis/clueless newbie can't use it. Whenever it's a security failure on Windows, it's because the user wasn't competent to operate their computer.
Indeed, in that particular instance the developer was treated with nothing but respect.
I think you should take a long hard look at your understanding of what respect means.
There's a bigger picture than a viewer happening here. Did you see this quote? What's implied is that OpenDocument will become the driver of a much more interactive web. Google Office may be off the agenda for now, but I'll bet it won't stay that way.