If smaller software companies can patch all of their bugs serious or minor, why can't Microsoft -- with its massive army of programmers and massive budget
Have you SEEN their source code, no seriously....(yeah, I peek'd, but certainly didn't poke:) It _is_ a mess. Spaghetti would be what happens when you try and bolt everything onto the kernel. Poor programming at its richest, I mean finest, or should I say worst?
Gartner, Inc. recently reported: First, the study says that Windows based Servers accounted for 37 percent in revenue. Now traditionally, Windows based systems are more expensive than Linux based systems, so even if vendors sold lesser number of Windows systems, the price difference could ensure that Windows sales revenue was higher. This implies that, in terms of pure numbers, Linux could very well have outsold Windows.
Enough said. Nothing to see here. Move along...
I've recently redone the server end for [yet another] office (Linux based, of course) for which they certainly won't show up in Linux or Windows based sales "reports". Ever. Linux is doing just fine...
It all depends on how they deploy this. They may offer with their free service a NAT address (such as 169.254) via DHCP and limit your bandwidth speed. Absolutely great service for the typical user who just wants to browse the web and check their [G]Mail account.
Premium service could be a static IP address [fed from their fiber network], a 10Mbit uplink (symmetrical), primary and/or secondary DNS services, backup MX'ing, VoIP, etc. I pay $65/mo (wireless) for this exact type of service...And after comparing it to the SBC/Comcast offering(s) am more than happy to pay the "premium" for rock solid reliable service (which SBC's service is NOT).
Google has a _lot_ of room to go into the premium services with basic connectivity offered for free.
Re:This is the LAST Windows you'll ever buy!!
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Too late -- the last version I truly "owned" was their pinnacle version (IMHO): Windows 2000 "Professional".
With Windows XP I won't be able to install/use it in 10 years if I so desire (and yes, I recently just installed a fresh usable MS-DOS box). With Windows 2000 I will be able to do this in 10 years (and block it from Internet access altogether [as is already practice for Windows boxes in our offices:]. When Microsoft discontinues XP what do you think the average Joe will do when it comes time to activate a product which won't be able to be used otherwise? You're already "renting" Windows whether you like it or not...
I just logged on to my AIM [.Mac] account and went looking for this "root-kit" (as I do have the 'root' user enabled on my Mac for various geek reasons:). It did take me a while to find the "lockx.exe" file being offered, but it was quickly downloaded with my 10Mbit pipe. I was even WARNED that I was downloading a executable (?) and did I really want to proceed (of course I did).
I suddenly found myself with a.EXE file on my desktop to which I quickly doubled clicked it to open it.
"There is no default application specified to open the document."; Which one should I choose?:)
I think you exaggerated a bit (?) MSN showed: 87,261,871 results containing linux (0.16 seconds), while Google showed: 401,000,000 for linux (0.08 seconds)
Not to mention (eye balling it)... MSN itself took almost 4 seconds to load (and yes, I am sitting on a 10Mbit pipe); also being presented with so much "garbage" it took be another second to FIND the where to input my "search".
Google itself loaded in under a second and I knew exactly where to enter info...
I certainly don't see WHY I can't apply this to my INBOX. Ironically I have _always_ felt spam to be trespass. It is MY inbox. On my domain. On my server. In my house. Through a connection that I pay for. On equipment I've paid for. To a domain I've paid for.
God help the first spammer I MEET. Anywhere. Anytime.
Of course the same applies to telemarketing, which the law certainly disagrees with me on that matter. Very sad state of affairs all this technology has brought to us...
I have to agree with you -- a bunch of [most likely Outlook] users click on Reply-To-All and 1) this is worthy/. news? 2) how in the heck is this SPAM?
Of course -- with their address now added to a couple of hundred recipients computers... with any number of them about to be re-infected again... they will soon learn what SPAM really is all about.
In the context it happened though -- that certainly wasn't spam. Not even close.
Not that I disagree -- but your site specifically won't work with IE then.:) This can be a good thing though -- I specifically have sites that refuse to render to IE (on purpose). Just because... I can. Not selling widgets on them (though a few have OS X widgets for free:), nor are they geared towards any Windows user.
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For better or worse, Office is the de facto standard for interchange of documents amongst the great unwashed masses. Like or not, you have to learn to interoperate with whatever the Evil Empire puts out. Deal with it!
Really? Compared to most (using Office 97) I'm pretty darn current with my Office 2000 (Win) and Office v.X (OS X) rollouts. Sure, I know of a few that have/use Office 2003 (Win) and Office 2004 (OS X). After evaluating those packages myself I saw absolutely NO need or want to upgrade with the degraded performance and lack of useful new features (actually broke too many spreadsheets for the immediate uptake too).
On the business end I know of _nobody_ that is chomping at the bit to upgrade _anything_ Microsoft. Many are, however, very very interested in Apple offerings (and buying more and more it seems:).
Being IT admin (top dog myself:) -- well, there _is_ a reason that a Mac sits on my desk at home. There's even a better reasons Linux hums away in the basement and on the racks in the offices...
I think Microsoft is going to have a VERY HARD sell this go round (new Office and definitely w/ Longshot:). I've certainly had much better luck getting people to "upgrade" to OpenOffice...
It would be nice if they put 100Mbit to the end user -- but my personal experience with SBC and Verizon warns me to not believe all the hype. They regularly throttle connections -- and hosting any kind of service is typically a NO-NO. Thus they lost me as a customer (both residential and business grade).
The sad thing is that they're just _now_ getting to this. I've had 10Mbit (symmetrical) for many, many years now ($50/mo) through a wireless connection. Yes, that is a solid 10Mbit and I regularly see 800-900K/sec (up or down) if the remote site can handle it. A good test has always been downloading something from Apple.:)
Yeah, I said upload. My ISP has no issue with me hosting my own website, email server, heck camera video feeds too... at home no less. They're towers used to be at 45Mbit and were since upgraded to 100Mbit (or better I believe) with the option to upgrade my antenna coming next month (to 45Mbit -- at my expense for the equipment, but I *own* it then:).
Why are the bells lagging to badly? Sure, the wireless connection (being shared) doesn't *always* give 100% throughput as many others may be tapping it hard at the same time; 8pm isn't a good download time, but gaming isn't a issue... (~10-12 ping on Quake or better -- yeah, that's me you love to hate:).
I will say that it is rock solid enough to have taken the POTS then ISDN line away from the Bells too -- all VoIP over here (through the ISP no less:). I can think of the last time my Internet went down -- it was about a week ago with golf ball sized hail falling from the sky. I was out for I believe 3 minutes, probably while a bunch of routers had to re-sync for whatever reason. Previous to that I can't remember.
Yes, 911 works as expected [tested, thank you:]. Of course there is the cell phone -- and honestly it is in my head to go for the cell in an emergency. If both VoIP and cell fail then there may be bigger issues at hand -- and running down the street naked yelling "FIRE!, FIRE!" will certainly bring help.:)
I personally use Windows (2000) for one thing and one thing only anymore: AutoCAD. You simply can NOT fully _use_ (not install) AutoCAD without admin privileges. XP or 2K. I venomously use 2000 over XP for one reason: take the _same_ hardware (P4 @ +3Ghz with 2G of memory and 256M video) and compare the two side by side: XP is noticeably slower and offers NOTHING in the way of me getting my job done, but that's of another issue.
[Yes, I do have to admit -- that for the home user all the fluff can be very useful]
"Most users just don't know they can set up least-privilege accounts in Windows today, and that's just a sad reality."
I say most users just don't know that other operating systems exist today that can easily out-perform anything Windows can offer with less setup time, daily hick-ups, and of course the BSOD still pops up every so often. That's just a sad reality.
Now imagine a world where I may _have_ to use Windows for some awful task -- a world where I have one computer (not two) with VMWare style software helping run OS.X and 2K side by side. Just image (it's coming:).
The sad part (with Windows bloat)? It is that I've watched old Mac hardware get FASTER with each release of OS X -- starting from the beta [Cheetah] (paid for it, disagreed, but paid:) to Puma, Jaguar, Panther, and now Tiger.
I will say -- I wish I could tell you how nicely Leopard runs on the MacTel box... Longhorn? Ha!
An Indian researcher has breached the much-touted "impenetrable" Windows Genuine Advantage of Microsoft.
Bangalore-based Debasis Mohanty has cracked WGA through an "easy-to-exploit" weakness in the software for generating illegal copies of the Windows XP programme.
Microsoft confirmed the claims of Mohanty, but sought to downplay it saying, "It represents very little threat." A company spokesperson said they did expect counterfeiters to try a number of different methods to circumvent safeguards provided by WGA.
WGA is an anti-piracy programme that keeps a tab on consumers whether they are running legitimately licensed copies of Windows XP.
Mohanty has posted a detailed proof-of-concept programme on the high-profile security mailing list of the software giant, showing how the WGA validation check can be tricked to generate key codes for use on illegal copies of the software.
Using a secondary Microsoft validation tool called 'genuinecheck.Exe', Mohanty claims to have made it possible for people to trick the safeguard mechanism and download and run the supposedly restricted software from Microsoft's download centre, he said.
You have got ONE BIG set of b*lls to post your results like this.
A lot of what you figured out, and posted, falls under the category of "well, duh" when it comes to Microsoft software. Bloated is a fit and often used to describe their system. There is a, of course, a REASON that my office(s) are run on Linux/BSD with OS X on the desktops [today].
Well, duh.
Have you, OTOH, *READ* the Microsoft EULA? What you posted is in direct violation of it, btw... I would expect a CEASE AND DESIST order from their attorneys sometime between Wednesday and Friday of next week. I'll even bookmark your page and check back [it'll be down by Friday].
Good luck!
OMG, it's not just ME?
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OMG, it's not just ME that wants a cell phone. And ONLY a cell phone? My personal cell phone died years ago -- and I never got another one -- went back to a pager which is _only_ ever contacted directly by computer systems. People can call and leave a message, if properly "alerted" then the computer will page me. Otherwise, you're talking on a VoIP line (of course:) with me or my voice mail.
Spinning a dial and pushing a couple of buttons (typically just forward) on the iPod while driving is enough. Actually, I find that I'm MUCH happier with the tunes cranked to deal with traffic and not trying to deal with the traffic and whatever headache may be calling me now.
I also can't count the times I've almost been in an accident due some cellular talking driver, but I digress.
My wife's cell phone has been dying a loooong sloooow death for years now. Still active unlike my ditched brain cancer machine (our "family" cell phone -- I never use it:). The reason her phone hasn't been replaced (and only barely works while plugged in -- batteries are shot again)? Because it is one of those "old" (2000 I think) brick style Nextel phones with a two line display to make and receive calls with. Only calls. We both love it (when it works:) and have been looking for a good replacement with great disappointment.
Both our parents all have camera type phones with games and address books with messaging that nobody understands or really uses. Ok, I'm in my mid 30's and Mr. Tech geeky (it's my living) to boot... and I just don't get it. I *HATE* all these new cell phones. For years I've been looking for a simple CELL PHONE to make and receive calls.
To this day I still miss my old "bag phone". A REAL handset which felt like a real phone, had nice normal big sized buttons, and had the most crisp calls I ever do remember wirelessly (barring my wireless Internet VoIP connection:). A solid 3 watts of power and a 1 pound battery that would last for days. I could use that thing in the middle of nowhere (fishing) and it would always "just work".
Mr Gates told me, and challenged my assertion that Firefox's 'market share' is growing rapidly.
"So much software gets downloaded all the time, but do people actually use it?" he argued.
And I have to say that software gets [forcefully] purchased all the time as well. Heck, I can remember buying dozens of computers -- ranging from desktops made into back-office quasi-servers to full blown workgroup type servers. To get each and every one of those machines the Windows tax had to be paid (at the time). I'm sure those machines are counted in Microsoft's totals for market share as well.
They still run Linux to this day.
Heck, I can count now HUNDREDS of computers that I'm responsible for that all originally legally ran Windows. Care to guess which Linux distro I used on them? Sad -- but a lot of those installs showed up as only one (1) [bittorrent] download...
Mr. Gate's arguments don't and won't fly for too much longer. Microsoft days are numbers -- and yes, I am ready to sell-short their stock when the day(s) come. Might as well make money on their misery -- they certainly have on mine.
I guess I'm the 00.1% of the admins then. I went out and bought Tiger -- well, the SECOND day.:) Beyond that -- after doing normal backup routines I installed Tiger to external Firewire drive for testing. On various systems. Fun as heck to play with, and looking forward to rolling it in production.
But quickly retreated upon finding that my current backup software (Retrospect) doesn't work. I've used BRU previously -- and will take another look at it (it is supported already). The -36 Finder error tying into various Linux Samba boxes didn't help (though I haven't messed with the config file yet -- I've so far assumed it was a potential problem on MY end:). On a couple of boxes I've seen the Spotlight hang-up with the SystemUIServer process pegging the CPU at 100%.
Buying it now or in 3 months or 6 months won't change the price (most likely). It's still $129 -- and well worth it NOW to enjoy playing with it (still installed and used on a couple of temp portable drives). When all the issues go away -- I'll be ready to roll it into production overnight. Will you?:)
I think that if one of our (pick your country:) military planes goes down in enemy territory that I don't want said enemy to have access to how well, or poorly the plane may or may not operate in certain circumstances...
I've recently "disconnected" my.COM version of my home domain (solely using the.US version now). As I get -0- spam to the.US address' (so far:) it is very apparent that a LOT of DNS servers [world wide] simply ignore TTL. A couple of weeks before the "switch" I set the TTL very low (60 seconds) -- I can easily handle the DNS traffic across my DNS servers (peppered here and there:).
I would expect, now almost two months later, to be getting -0- traffic to the.COM domain as I set _everything_ to IP address 127.0.0.1 (just to screw with the spammers high-jacked computers). Yet the spam [attempts] still come in. Every minute.
Technically -- even running your own DNS servers there is nothing you can do if you move/add/delete something and others out there decide not to honor it. Everybody loses.
And do you know what the bitch of the matter is? It is that since the day I was born... I'm gonna die. Something, at some point in my life... will make my heart stop.
And there's not a damn thing I can do about it.
Me, I'd put the sun glasses on and enjoy the light show.
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If smaller software companies can patch all of their bugs serious or minor, why can't Microsoft -- with its massive army of programmers and massive budget
:)
Have you SEEN their source code, no seriously....(yeah, I peek'd, but certainly didn't poke
It _is_ a mess. Spaghetti would be what happens when you try and bolt everything onto the kernel. Poor programming at its richest, I mean finest, or should I say worst?
Gartner, Inc. recently reported:
First, the study says that Windows based Servers accounted for 37 percent in revenue. Now traditionally, Windows based systems are more expensive than Linux based systems, so even if vendors sold lesser number of Windows systems, the price difference could ensure that Windows sales revenue was higher. This implies that, in terms of pure numbers, Linux could very well have outsold Windows.
Enough said. Nothing to see here. Move along...
I've recently redone the server end for [yet another] office (Linux based, of course) for which they certainly won't show up in Linux or Windows based sales "reports". Ever.
Linux is doing just fine...
It all depends on how they deploy this. They may offer with their free service a NAT address (such as 169.254) via DHCP and limit your bandwidth speed. Absolutely great service for the typical user who just wants to browse the web and check their [G]Mail account.
Premium service could be a static IP address [fed from their fiber network], a 10Mbit uplink (symmetrical), primary and/or secondary DNS services, backup MX'ing, VoIP, etc. I pay $65/mo (wireless) for this exact type of service...And after comparing it to the SBC/Comcast offering(s) am more than happy to pay the "premium" for rock solid reliable service (which SBC's service is NOT).
Google has a _lot_ of room to go into the premium services with basic connectivity offered for free.
Too late -- the last version I truly "owned" was their pinnacle version (IMHO): Windows 2000 "Professional".
:]. When Microsoft
With Windows XP I won't be able to install/use it in 10 years if I so desire (and yes, I recently just installed
a fresh usable MS-DOS box). With Windows 2000 I will be able to do this in 10 years (and block it from
Internet access altogether [as is already practice for Windows boxes in our offices
discontinues XP what do you think the average Joe will do when it comes time to activate a product which
won't be able to be used otherwise? You're already "renting" Windows whether you like it or not...
I remember when they first came out with "WeHaveTheWayOut.com" campaign.
:)
I dutifully registered (expired last year) "TheyDoNotHaveTheWayOut.com"
and merrily pointed it to go to FuckMicrosoft.com
Now you know how I feel.
I just logged on to my AIM [.Mac] account and went looking for this "root-kit" (as I do have the 'root' user enabled on my Mac for various geek reasons :). It did take me a while to find the "lockx.exe" file being offered, but it was quickly downloaded with my 10Mbit pipe. I was even WARNED that I was downloading a executable (?) and did I really want to proceed (of course I did).
.EXE file on my desktop to which I quickly doubled clicked it to open it.
:)
I suddenly found myself with a
"There is no default application specified to open the document."; Which one should I choose?
I think you exaggerated a bit (?)
... MSN itself took almost 4 seconds to load
MSN showed:
87,261,871 results containing linux (0.16 seconds), while
Google showed:
401,000,000 for linux (0.08 seconds)
Not to mention (eye balling it)
(and yes, I am sitting on a 10Mbit pipe); also being presented with so much
"garbage" it took be another second to FIND the where to input my "search".
Google itself loaded in under a second and I knew exactly where to enter info...
I certainly don't see WHY I can't apply this to my INBOX.
Ironically I have _always_ felt spam to be trespass.
It is MY inbox. On my domain. On my server. In my house.
Through a connection that I pay for. On equipment
I've paid for. To a domain I've paid for.
God help the first spammer I MEET. Anywhere. Anytime.
Of course the same applies to telemarketing, which the
law certainly disagrees with me on that matter. Very sad
state of affairs all this technology has brought to us...
I have to agree with you -- a bunch of [most likely Outlook] users click on Reply-To-All and 1) this is worthy /. news? 2) how in the heck is this SPAM?
... with any number of them about to be re-infected again ... they will soon learn what SPAM really is all about.
Of course -- with their address now added to a couple of hundred recipients computers
In the context it happened though -- that certainly wasn't spam. Not even close.
Valid HTML/XHTML..... Check
:) ... I can. Not selling widgets on them (though a few have OS X widgets for free :), nor are they geared towards any Windows user.
Valid CSS.... Check
READY!
Not that I disagree -- but your site specifically won't work with IE then.
This can be a good thing though -- I specifically have sites that refuse to render to IE (on purpose). Just because
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For better or worse, Office is the de facto standard for interchange of documents amongst the great unwashed masses. Like or not, you have to learn to interoperate with whatever the Evil Empire puts out. Deal with it!
:).
:) -- well, there _is_ a reason that a Mac sits on my desk at home. There's even a better reasons Linux hums away in the basement and on the racks in the offices...
:). I've certainly had much better luck getting people to "upgrade" to OpenOffice...
Really? Compared to most (using Office 97) I'm pretty darn current with my Office 2000 (Win) and Office v.X (OS X) rollouts. Sure, I know of a few that have/use Office 2003 (Win) and Office 2004 (OS X). After evaluating those packages myself I saw absolutely NO need or want to upgrade with the degraded performance and lack of useful new features (actually broke too many spreadsheets for the immediate uptake too).
On the business end I know of _nobody_ that is chomping at the bit to upgrade _anything_ Microsoft. Many are, however, very very interested in Apple offerings (and buying more and more it seems
Being IT admin (top dog myself
I think Microsoft is going to have a VERY HARD sell this go round (new Office and definitely w/ Longshot
That's peanuts. Now do the math on their .com's...
It would be nice if they put 100Mbit to the end user -- but my personal experience with SBC and Verizon warns me to not believe all the hype. They regularly throttle connections -- and hosting any kind of service is typically a NO-NO. Thus they lost me as a customer (both residential and business grade).
:)
... at home no less. They're towers used to be at 45Mbit and were since upgraded to 100Mbit (or better I believe) with the option to upgrade my antenna coming next month (to 45Mbit -- at my expense for the equipment, but I *own* it then :).
:).
:). I can think of the last time my Internet went down -- it was about a week ago with golf ball sized hail falling from the sky. I was out for I believe 3 minutes, probably while a bunch of routers had to re-sync for whatever reason. Previous to that I can't remember.
:]. Of course there is the cell phone -- and honestly it is in my head to go for the cell in an emergency. If both VoIP and cell fail then there may be bigger issues at hand -- and running down the street naked yelling "FIRE!, FIRE!" will certainly bring help. :)
The sad thing is that they're just _now_ getting to this. I've had 10Mbit (symmetrical) for many, many years now ($50/mo) through a wireless connection. Yes, that is a solid 10Mbit and I regularly see 800-900K/sec (up or down) if the remote site can handle it. A good test has always been downloading something from Apple.
Yeah, I said upload. My ISP has no issue with me hosting my own website, email server, heck camera video feeds too
Why are the bells lagging to badly? Sure, the wireless connection (being shared) doesn't *always* give 100% throughput as many others may be tapping it hard at the same time; 8pm isn't a good download time, but gaming isn't a issue... (~10-12 ping on Quake or better -- yeah, that's me you love to hate
I will say that it is rock solid enough to have taken the POTS then ISDN line away from the Bells too -- all VoIP over here (through the ISP no less
Yes, 911 works as expected [tested, thank you
You couldn't pay me enough money to work at Microsoft. Oh, wait, THEY could though...
:].
Seriously -- it would take a 7 or EIGHT figure offer to make me even _consider_ such an ugly offer. Really.
Now, Google, OTOH, could get me EASILY for under 6 figures. Of course my resume _is_ in with Google at various levels.
njzsftb - I am not a script [kiddie
I personally use Windows (2000) for one thing and one thing only anymore: AutoCAD. You simply can NOT fully _use_ (not install) AutoCAD without admin privileges. XP or 2K. I venomously use 2000 over XP for one reason: take the _same_ hardware (P4 @ +3Ghz with 2G of memory and 256M video) and compare the two side by side: XP is noticeably slower and offers NOTHING in the way of me getting my job done, but that's of another issue.
:).
:) to Puma, Jaguar, Panther, and now Tiger.
[Yes, I do have to admit -- that for the home user all the fluff can be very useful]
"Most users just don't know they can set up least-privilege accounts in Windows today, and that's just a sad reality."
I say most users just don't know that other operating systems exist today that can easily out-perform anything Windows can offer with less setup time, daily hick-ups, and of course the BSOD still pops up every so often. That's just a sad reality.
Now imagine a world where I may _have_ to use Windows for some awful task -- a world where I have one computer (not two) with VMWare style software helping run OS.X and 2K side by side. Just image (it's coming
The sad part (with Windows bloat)? It is that I've watched old Mac hardware get FASTER with each release of OS X -- starting from the beta [Cheetah] (paid for it, disagreed, but paid
I will say -- I wish I could tell you how nicely Leopard runs on the MacTel box... Longhorn? Ha!
Indian cracks Microsoft's anti-piracy program
Alok Sharma | June 21, 2005 14:53 IST
An Indian researcher has breached the much-touted "impenetrable" Windows Genuine Advantage of Microsoft.
Bangalore-based Debasis Mohanty has cracked WGA through an "easy-to-exploit" weakness in the software for generating illegal copies of the Windows XP programme.
Microsoft confirmed the claims of Mohanty, but sought to downplay it saying, "It represents very little threat." A company spokesperson said they did expect counterfeiters to try a number of different methods to circumvent safeguards provided by WGA.
WGA is an anti-piracy programme that keeps a tab on consumers whether they are running legitimately licensed copies of Windows XP.
Mohanty has posted a detailed proof-of-concept programme on the high-profile security mailing list of the software giant, showing how the WGA validation check can be tricked to generate key codes for use on illegal copies of the software.
Using a secondary Microsoft validation tool called 'genuinecheck.Exe', Mohanty claims to have made it possible for people to trick the safeguard mechanism and download and run the supposedly restricted software from Microsoft's download centre, he said.
You have got ONE BIG set of b*lls to post your results like this.
A lot of what you figured out, and posted, falls under the category of "well, duh" when it comes to Microsoft software. Bloated is a fit and often used to describe their system. There is a, of course, a REASON that my office(s) are run on Linux/BSD with OS X on the desktops [today].
Well, duh.
Have you, OTOH, *READ* the Microsoft EULA? What you posted is in direct violation of it, btw... I would expect a CEASE AND DESIST order from their attorneys sometime between Wednesday and Friday of next week. I'll even bookmark your page and check back [it'll be down by Friday].
Good luck!
OMG, it's not just ME that wants a cell phone. And ONLY a cell phone? My personal cell phone died years ago -- and I never got another one -- went back to a pager which is _only_ ever contacted directly by computer systems. People can call and leave a message, if properly "alerted" then the computer will page me. Otherwise, you're talking on a VoIP line (of course :) with me or my voice mail.
:). The reason her phone hasn't been replaced (and only barely works while plugged in -- batteries are shot again)? Because it is one of those "old" (2000 I think) brick style Nextel phones with a two line display to make and receive calls with. Only calls. We both love it (when it works :) and have been looking for a good replacement with great disappointment.
... and I just don't get it. I *HATE* all these new cell phones. For years I've been looking for a simple CELL PHONE to make and receive calls.
:). A solid 3 watts of power and a 1 pound battery that would last for days. I could use that thing in the middle of nowhere (fishing) and it would always "just work".
... "can you hear me now?"
Spinning a dial and pushing a couple of buttons (typically just forward) on the iPod while driving is enough. Actually, I find that I'm MUCH happier with the tunes cranked to deal with traffic and not trying to deal with the traffic and whatever headache may be calling me now.
I also can't count the times I've almost been in an accident due some cellular talking driver, but I digress.
My wife's cell phone has been dying a loooong sloooow death for years now. Still active unlike my ditched brain cancer machine (our "family" cell phone -- I never use it
Both our parents all have camera type phones with games and address books with messaging that nobody understands or really uses. Ok, I'm in my mid 30's and Mr. Tech geeky (it's my living) to boot
To this day I still miss my old "bag phone". A REAL handset which felt like a real phone, had nice normal big sized buttons, and had the most crisp calls I ever do remember wirelessly (barring my wireless Internet VoIP connection
Hey, Verizon
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Mr Gates told me, and challenged my assertion that Firefox's 'market share' is growing rapidly.
"So much software gets downloaded all the time, but do people actually use it?" he argued.
And I have to say that software gets [forcefully] purchased all the time as well. Heck, I can remember buying dozens of computers -- ranging from desktops made into back-office quasi-servers to full blown workgroup type servers. To get each and every one of those machines the Windows tax had to be paid (at the time). I'm sure those machines are counted in Microsoft's totals for market share as well.
They still run Linux to this day.
Heck, I can count now HUNDREDS of computers that I'm responsible for that all originally legally ran Windows. Care to guess which Linux distro I used on them? Sad -- but a lot of those installs showed up as only one (1) [bittorrent] download...
Mr. Gate's arguments don't and won't fly for too much longer. Microsoft days are numbers -- and yes, I am ready to sell-short their stock when the day(s) come. Might as well make money on their misery -- they certainly have on mine.
I guess I'm the 00.1% of the admins then. I went out and bought Tiger -- well, the SECOND day. :) Beyond that -- after doing normal backup routines I installed Tiger to external Firewire drive for testing. On various systems. Fun as heck to play with, and looking forward to rolling it in production.
:). On a couple of boxes I've seen the Spotlight hang-up with the SystemUIServer process pegging the CPU at 100%.
:)
But quickly retreated upon finding that my current backup software (Retrospect) doesn't work. I've used BRU previously -- and will take another look at it (it is supported already). The -36 Finder error tying into various Linux Samba boxes didn't help (though I haven't messed with the config file yet -- I've so far assumed it was a potential problem on MY end
Buying it now or in 3 months or 6 months won't change the price (most likely). It's still $129 -- and well worth it NOW to enjoy playing with it (still installed and used on a couple of temp portable drives). When all the issues go away -- I'll be ready to roll it into production overnight. Will you?
I think that if one of our (pick your country :) military planes goes down in enemy territory that I don't want said enemy to have access to how well, or poorly the plane may or may not operate in certain circumstances...
I am now forming "Team 86" to attempt to cancel this campaign. /. entrants are welcome.
All
Team X (OS) is alive and doing well also.
I've recently "disconnected" my .COM version of my home domain (solely using the .US version now). As I get -0- spam to the .US address' (so far :) it is very apparent that a LOT of DNS servers [world wide] simply ignore TTL. A couple of weeks before the "switch" I set the TTL very low (60 seconds) -- I can easily handle the DNS traffic across my DNS servers (peppered here and there :).
.COM domain as I set _everything_ to IP address 127.0.0.1 (just to screw with the spammers high-jacked computers). Yet the spam [attempts] still come in. Every minute.
I would expect, now almost two months later, to be getting -0- traffic to the
Technically -- even running your own DNS servers there is nothing you can do if you move/add/delete something and others out there decide not to honor it. Everybody loses.
And do you know what the bitch of the matter is? ... I'm gonna die. ... will make my heart stop.
It is that since the day I was born
Something, at some point in my life
And there's not a damn thing I can do about it.
Me, I'd put the sun glasses on and enjoy the light show.