1. If IE infringed on a patent (it did until that patent got cancelled) then would that mean all ATMs having to be altered? after all it's fairly hard to have an IE free XP install, you can lose the front end but the HTML engine remains.
2. Viruses? do you want a Windows virus to infect an ATM which is responsible for money!!
3. Cost, embedded Windows solutions require greater hardware costs.
Exactly. a search engine just locates information. It's the website where the data is hosted that is responsible for publishing the information.
His problem is probably that the negative information is ranked higher than his website, but this sort of thing happens when you're dealing with computers and not people.
He states a computer expert in North Korea can download Linux and create a super-computer. Yet I'm sure the same expert can download some ISOs of Windows from somewhere. Of course one method is legal and one is illegal, but I'm sure they wouldn't care about having unlicensed copies of Windows if they can't purchase legitimate copies.
I'm sure Darl would sooner they be running SCO software.
Would be a lot more useful if the BIOS booted your PC in about 5 seconds so you didn't need to bother with such silly BIOS features. Hibernation brings laptops out of standby fast, why not leverage this method to speed up the booting of PCs? sure you'd have to recreate the boot image in the flash ROM after an upgrade of system files, but that wouldn't take long.
Once again another rather expensive and non-groundbreaking idea from Microsoft. With portable DVD players costing a fraction and iPod already being established this product needs to be amazing yet it lacks in many ways.
They should leave the innovating to everyone else and stick to reinventing the ideas of others since they seem to be best at that.
I'm sure they have some website about how this is "preventing us from competing" and "stifling our innovation".
Even if they do get fined they will keep appealing, they've got the money to keep trying. They've got the money to "sweeten" a few EU MEPs. I'm fairly surprised the EU has done this given how they suck up to big business.
Microsoft only does work on their products if it is commercially viable. In the past making their products available in different languages of which sales were likely to be small made it not viable (don't forget they'll have to hire translators who can do simple development).
But if a rival product gets established in that market it could likely take over, this is what they're worried about, so the potential losses in business make it commercially viable to create this translation tool. However there's a big difference between having an open-source app which is ready to run and having to spend hours translating software.
The difference between Windows and Linux that Windows doesn't warn you that you're being foolish running with full admin rights. Recent versions of Windows try to be clever and not allow you to delete or replace critical system files, but then file protection can be turned off.
There's just too many nooks and crannies for stuff to hide in with Windows. At least with Linux you can boot into runlevel one (single user) which will stop X starting and other services. Once you're at a prompt you can remove any viruses using your normal shell. What's the Windows equivalent? recovery console? it's extremely limited, it's not even up to DOS standards in terms of usefulness.
Firstly to install a very basic Linux system which will allow you to get onto the Internet and download all the latest packages.
Second use is to install a system from the CD tailored to your needs.
In both these cases I feel Debian's installer requires too much fiddling around. What it needs is menu with "Typical role for this installation" and options like:
[] Desktop computer [] Web Server [] Database Server [] Minimal install [] Custom
The custom option would allow you to setup the packages you require and allow you to load one of the presets to base your custom selections on.
Also why can't the installer be a bit more intelligent and read the current disk layout and make some clever suggestions?
Yeah that's an option in a mid sized case, but in a laptop there isn't always space for a large fan. Smaller fans spin faster to move the same amount of air as a larger fan and that results in high pitched whine. So this would be a useful technology for laptops.
Might be moderated as funny, but a 64MB Pentium III box with some old NVidia 3D chip is fairly low end these days. The difference is the games are optimised for that CPU and 3D chip.
That's what drives many people to build their own PCs. Not to mention OEM licenses aren't supposed to allow the hard disk to be moved to a new machine. WinXP home has a mechanism which stops this (change 3 significant hardware components and it needs reactivating), but they state it's an anti piracy measure (yeah right).
If there's 1 or 2 then one would be commercial, leaving a choice of free or not free. Currently I have a choice of one or two decent free distros, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware etc.. each have their own merits.
Many distros have their own agenda and uses, not to mention quite a few of them are based on others.
You're not an office user who wants their desktops to be easily migrated to a new OS.
Such a migration involves looking at:
The availability of software for the new platform.
File formats.
Compatibility with current hardware and connectivity with site services like printing, exchange server.
Porting of internal software tools.
etc...
Drivers can be hard to source for Linux, plus there isn't a heck of a lot of applications people currently use on Windows that are also available for Linux. So companies migrating have to see if there are alternatives to their current software, fairly often there are alternatives but the proprietary file formats make all their past work inaccessible. Hence why Munich were going to use VMWare for some users.
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Two articles about Viruses infecting ATMs.
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http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/sec
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/34175.h
1. If IE infringed on a patent (it did until that patent got cancelled) then would that mean all ATMs having to be altered? after all it's fairly hard to have an IE free XP install, you can lose the front end but the HTML engine remains.
2. Viruses? do you want a Windows virus to infect an ATM which is responsible for money!!
3. Cost, embedded Windows solutions require greater hardware costs.
Exactly. a search engine just locates information. It's the website where the data is hosted that is responsible for publishing the information.
His problem is probably that the negative information is ranked higher than his website, but this sort of thing happens when you're dealing with computers and not people.
SETI, Render farms? you don't need clustering to process large amounts of data, but it makes it easier.
He states a computer expert in North Korea can download Linux and create a super-computer. Yet I'm sure the same expert can download some ISOs of Windows from somewhere. Of course one method is legal and one is illegal, but I'm sure they wouldn't care about having unlicensed copies of Windows if they can't purchase legitimate copies.
I'm sure Darl would sooner they be running SCO software.
Tom Baker also played the doctor for the longest period from 1974 to 1981. Most of the others did a stretch of about 3-4 years.
Would be a lot more useful if the BIOS booted your PC in about 5 seconds so you didn't need to bother with such silly BIOS features. Hibernation brings laptops out of standby fast, why not leverage this method to speed up the booting of PCs? sure you'd have to recreate the boot image in the flash ROM after an upgrade of system files, but that wouldn't take long.
Once again another rather expensive and non-groundbreaking idea from Microsoft. With portable DVD players costing a fraction and iPod already being established this product needs to be amazing yet it lacks in many ways.
They should leave the innovating to everyone else and stick to reinventing the ideas of others since they seem to be best at that.
I'm sure they have some website about how this is "preventing us from competing" and "stifling our innovation".
Even if they do get fined they will keep appealing, they've got the money to keep trying. They've got the money to "sweeten" a few EU MEPs. I'm fairly surprised the EU has done this given how they suck up to big business.
Microsoft only does work on their products if it is commercially viable. In the past making their products available in different languages of which sales were likely to be small made it not viable (don't forget they'll have to hire translators who can do simple development).
But if a rival product gets established in that market it could likely take over, this is what they're worried about, so the potential losses in business make it commercially viable to create this translation tool. However there's a big difference between having an open-source app which is ready to run and having to spend hours translating software.
MacOSX uses BSD based kernel.
The difference between Windows and Linux that Windows doesn't warn you that you're being foolish running with full admin rights. Recent versions of Windows try to be clever and not allow you to delete or replace critical system files, but then file protection can be turned off.
There's just too many nooks and crannies for stuff to hide in with Windows. At least with Linux you can boot into runlevel one (single user) which will stop X starting and other services. Once you're at a prompt you can remove any viruses using your normal shell. What's the Windows equivalent? recovery console? it's extremely limited, it's not even up to DOS standards in terms of usefulness.
What next, SCO sues OpenBSD for having a feature that Linux has?
Firstly to install a very basic Linux system which will allow you to get onto the Internet and download all the latest packages.
Second use is to install a system from the CD tailored to your needs.
In both these cases I feel Debian's installer requires too much fiddling around. What it needs is menu with "Typical role for this installation" and options like:
[] Desktop computer
[] Web Server
[] Database Server
[] Minimal install
[] Custom
The custom option would allow you to setup the packages you require and allow you to load one of the presets to base your custom selections on.
Also why can't the installer be a bit more intelligent and read the current disk layout and make some clever suggestions?
Yeah that's an option in a mid sized case, but in a laptop there isn't always space for a large fan. Smaller fans spin faster to move the same amount of air as a larger fan and that results in high pitched whine. So this would be a useful technology for laptops.
Might be moderated as funny, but a 64MB Pentium III box with some old NVidia 3D chip is fairly low end these days. The difference is the games are optimised for that CPU and 3D chip.
Using a PDA would use less power and be easier, but then the display might not be big enough.
:)
An old colour laptop could work I guess, but then it might be too big
SGI hardware is expensive and not so far ahead these days, many have been replacing SGI boxes for Macs and Linux boxes.
Well it might be they sell a 120GB drive that has failed quality checks as an 80GB drive, the area which is damaged is "masked off".
It's the ratio between legal costs and potential settlement rewards (not just money but access to each others technology).
Tell me what it's like in a months time :)
That's what drives many people to build their own PCs. Not to mention OEM licenses aren't supposed to allow the hard disk to be moved to a new machine. WinXP home has a mechanism which stops this (change 3 significant hardware components and it needs reactivating), but they state it's an anti piracy measure (yeah right).
Why would they suddenly invalidate a patent when there's so much at stake? I'm sure something fishy is going on.
If there's 1 or 2 then one would be commercial, leaving a choice of free or not free. Currently I have a choice of one or two decent free distros, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware etc.. each have their own merits.
Many distros have their own agenda and uses, not to mention quite a few of them are based on others.
But he doesn't ultimately recommend one over the others.
Even if you use Gnome you can still you KMail, if you use KDE you can use Evolution. I used to run KMail all the time when I was using Gnome.
You're not an office user who wants their desktops to be easily migrated to a new OS.
Such a migration involves looking at:
The availability of software for the new platform.
File formats.
Compatibility with current hardware and connectivity with site services like printing, exchange server.
Porting of internal software tools.
etc...
Drivers can be hard to source for Linux, plus there isn't a heck of a lot of applications people currently use on Windows that are also available for Linux. So companies migrating have to see if there are alternatives to their current software, fairly often there are alternatives but the proprietary file formats make all their past work inaccessible. Hence why Munich were going to use VMWare for some users.