scvhost.exe is the service host. It it itself is not the problem, one of the services it is running is. The problem with killing scvhost is that it will terminate other importaint services that may also be running with it. Often simular services are all run under one instance of scvhost. What you should do is go to your services snap-in (right click on "My Computer" then choose manage, make your way to the services snap-in) and tone down and unnecisarry services. There are many of them. One of them is the culprit of the extra memory and processor usage. It is most likely a 3rd party service, since I have never seen an MS service really fail that bad. Hope that works.
Sun's philosophy has been for a while that Linux is the future. Many of the high-end server manufacturers are still offering Linux. Sun is limiting the amount of customer choice once again. As much as I would like to see Sun stay afloat, this is one more sign of their eventual demise.
I thought by definition a virus caused disease. It kills cells, injects its own viral code, bursts, and spreads. If this doesn't do that, is it a virus? If it does, isn't it causing disease?
PHP 4 and previous versions taught most of us that if you run it even a 13-year-old script-kiddy can 0wn your site. New version, new features aside, PHP can't catch on much more than it has until more of the holes in it's implementation are patched. Would any of us buy a fancy car without locks? PHP is much the same, really nice to use but without security is it worth it?
You said: "Microsoft is taking the control out of users hands for just the same reason (and for anyone in denial, try to log in as "Administrator" on a WinXP machine)."
Your argument falls apart here. You can log on as the administrator, whether it be "administrator" or a member of the "administrators" group and you have as much control of your system as you did in Win2k. If you don't feel like you have enough control with the administrator, you can log on as "system" also through a number of tricks. One of them is using the "at" command (type in "help at" for more info) to schedule cmd.exe a few minutes in the future.
From my command line:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>echo %username%
Administrator
Windows in no way gives you as much control over your comp as the super user in Linux but MS is not moving towards restricting control either.
Many colleges have had and continue to use Unix OSes (GNU/Linux included).
Your right though, the dramatic majority of new setups go to the windows world. And that needs to change. Windows has its place, but oftentimes Open-Source is better suited to the task. (Webservers and the likes.) The trend really need to change and one way to help facilitate that change is to point out no name places in the world that have changed. To companies it is like saying "Even Local Business XYZ has done it, why haven't you?" No one wants to be the first, when people know it is happening and has been happening even in hole-in-the-wall places they are more likely to consider it themselves. My $0.02
And "training costs" will be dramatically reduced if you can hire someone that started off in the right direction at a young age. A lot of reason why training costs are rather high for GNU/Linux or Unix OS's is the little exposure to them. If a few more companies and countries bit the bullet and switched the training cost argument would fly right out the window.
Although rather low-profile on the global scale I think this I great. I would like to see a lot more of this happening in the United States and in South Korea (among other countries). I find it very disheartening than so many people I know have never heard of GNU-Linux/Free Software and never seen a non-Microsoft operating system on a personal computer. (Besides Macs of course) The school districts are by far the most important place to start. If kids know there is something out there besides Windows and MS Office they may be more inclined to use it at home or consider it at their place of work. Andalucia is a step in the right direction.
"GDDR3 will consume half the power of GDDR2 and operate up to 50 percent faster."
Maybe graphic makers should hold out on GDDR2 for GDDR3. People that buy high-end graphics cards want quality. Look at the GeForce FX. It's going to kill NVIDIA. I think NVIDIA and others (ATI) are going to really learn from the FX and make extra sure that what they come out with will be real innovation, not a quick way to get back on top and the expense of their customers.
From the artical: "Blank magnetic media, especially recordable CDs, are -- or have been -- taxed in more than 40 countries, including Canada and the United States."
In other news millions of Germans are buying keyboards without the ball, instead buying the nifty ones with the red light on the bottom.
Why wouldn't anyone write a device driver in VB? Maybe not in VB 6.0 but the whole idea of.net is that no matter what language you use, VB.net, C#, S#.... It all compiles to the same M$ Intermediary code. And since this is a managed code and not native code it takes a performance hit (Microsoft really plays this down, trust me, I've asked all the questions and gotten not a single strait answer). What you should have said is that no one is going to write a device driver for the.net framework period. The.net framework is primarily for web services. It has other advantages and features but none of them include high-performance mission critical applications and drivers. That's for ANSI C and other languages that compile to native binaries.
Good memory management skills and code optimization skills will never be replaced by fancy frameworks. What the.net framework does is put training wheels on programming and lowers the overall quality of code produced as well as the median skill and knowledge of the programmer pool.
Unfortunately this will probably fail. Most of the success of P2P does stem from copyrighted music being available. This is probably not the case so much for Slashdot users who often prefer OGGs to mp3s anyways. However being in college, I know that most students have never heard of open source/public domain and judge P2P solely on the availability of their favorite (non public-domain) band. MusicBrainz will have to get the word out fast and a large user base before their cash reserves and other funding dry up. I sure hope not. Anyone have any insight into what will set this one apart and turn them into a popular service before they go? I would like to see that happen but it isn't likely. Thoughts are welcome.
It's been a question for years whether bug finders should go public with bug finds or contact the company directly as to the flaws and the extent of their risk. I think the Open Source community agrees that places like bugtraq and open forums are the best way to discuss holes and security risks. Although Mark Rein was a little over-reactive and zealous M$ and other companies should make more effort to help their users find bug reporting easy -- in an open environment. This would really speed up the patching process (the priority at least) as well as the overall quality of knowledge available to the users affected and the company whose product is at fault.
You may be right about traffic counting and cost effectiveness. What radar certainly doesn't give you though is speed data over time for individuals as well as mileage and driving habits. Such data could be very useful for planning roads as well enforcing laws. Knowing the habits of the drivers in geographic regions could really do wonders for some of the crazy layouts and counter-intuitive inefficient ways in which roads checker the land. If it were an anonymous system (GPS monitoring) there would, perhaps, be some public support. Privacy is a must.
This plan, although interesting is stuck in the Stone Age. Use GPS transmitters to monitor density. Sure it would require fitting vehicles with a unit but eliminating the cost of expensive sensors and helicopter time could really balance things out. Has anyone done any research in this area?
And on a side note...
I've always wondered why with cheep GPS availability the ever encroaching government doesn't just monitor speeds and mileage from in the car. I know Oregon was thinking about a mileage counter with GPS systems but there was no mention of speed tracking. I am not an advocate of such a thing, privacy is a good thing, but there is no doubt that if drivers know they will get caught the roads would be a safer place.
I am sure this will be useful to other producers as well. There is such a demand for land and room to do movie effects that this should really make it a lot easier to film movies in a timely fashion. As well as bring in cash for LucasFilm when they decide to rent out some of their campus. Very smart move.
Well I do know that many heart valves are replaced using pig valves for a fact and I have heard a lot of talk about pig organs but I did a google and it looks as though this sort of thing has been tried a lot without much success.
The first experiments to use genetically altered animal organs in humans were given US government approval July 1995 - genetically altered pig livers would be attached to the circulatory systems of patients who were near death or whose livers had failed. Need for the tests had arisen due to a shortage of human organs available for transplant. [http://www.hme.co.uk/samples/transpla.htm]
I would think that it would have been more telling to replace the sheep's heart with the pigs. Simply putting the pig's heart on the sheep's neck says little about the functionality or feasibility. Nonetheless, this is promising for the medical community. I'm sure all sorts of other cell swapping will take place besides marrow and spleen cells to figure out which combination of immune system cells reduces the rejection rate the most.
Also, if you needed a heart transplant, would they need to take your marrow? Or just and human's? Six months is a long time to wait for that pig to grow when your heart isn't working correctly. I would like to see more research done and more questions answered.
I totally agree, I feel instant messaging distracts from users and others sitting near by when it is being used in lecture. Too many times I have seen people sitting next to an IM user trying not to read the conversation and instead pay attention and fail.
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scvhost.exe is the service host. It it itself is not the problem, one of the services it is running is. The problem with killing scvhost is that it will terminate other importaint services that may also be running with it. Often simular services are all run under one instance of scvhost. What you should do is go to your services snap-in (right click on "My Computer" then choose manage, make your way to the services snap-in) and tone down and unnecisarry services. There are many of them. One of them is the culprit of the extra memory and processor usage. It is most likely a 3rd party service, since I have never seen an MS service really fail that bad. Hope that works.
Sun's philosophy has been for a while that Linux is the future. Many of the high-end server manufacturers are still offering Linux. Sun is limiting the amount of customer choice once again. As much as I would like to see Sun stay afloat, this is one more sign of their eventual demise.
Sun seemed rather committed to Linux.
This will outline many of them.
So all those emails I've been getting are right after all! Size DOES matter!
"It is not yet known if it causes disease."
I thought by definition a virus caused disease. It kills cells, injects its own viral code, bursts, and spreads. If this doesn't do that, is it a virus? If it does, isn't it causing disease?
Slashdot, educate me!
PHP 4 and previous versions taught most of us that if you run it even a 13-year-old script-kiddy can 0wn your site. New version, new features aside, PHP can't catch on much more than it has until more of the holes in it's implementation are patched. Would any of us buy a fancy car without locks? PHP is much the same, really nice to use but without security is it worth it?
You said: "Microsoft is taking the control out of users hands for just the same reason (and for anyone in denial, try to log in as "Administrator" on a WinXP machine)."
Your argument falls apart here. You can log on as the administrator, whether it be "administrator" or a member of the "administrators" group and you have as much control of your system as you did in Win2k. If you don't feel like you have enough control with the administrator, you can log on as "system" also through a number of tricks. One of them is using the "at" command (type in "help at" for more info) to schedule cmd.exe a few minutes in the future.
From my command line:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>echo %username%
Administrator
Windows in no way gives you as much control over your comp as the super user in Linux but MS is not moving towards restricting control either.
Really? Red Hat is in the black.
Many colleges have had and continue to use Unix OSes (GNU/Linux included).
Your right though, the dramatic majority of new setups go to the windows world. And that needs to change. Windows has its place, but oftentimes Open-Source is better suited to the task. (Webservers and the likes.) The trend really need to change and one way to help facilitate that change is to point out no name places in the world that have changed. To companies it is like saying "Even Local Business XYZ has done it, why haven't you?" No one wants to be the first, when people know it is happening and has been happening even in hole-in-the-wall places they are more likely to consider it themselves. My $0.02
And "training costs" will be dramatically reduced if you can hire someone that started off in the right direction at a young age. A lot of reason why training costs are rather high for GNU/Linux or Unix OS's is the little exposure to them. If a few more companies and countries bit the bullet and switched the training cost argument would fly right out the window.
Although rather low-profile on the global scale I think this I great. I would like to see a lot more of this happening in the United States and in South Korea (among other countries). I find it very disheartening than so many people I know have never heard of GNU-Linux/Free Software and never seen a non-Microsoft operating system on a personal computer. (Besides Macs of course) The school districts are by far the most important place to start. If kids know there is something out there besides Windows and MS Office they may be more inclined to use it at home or consider it at their place of work. Andalucia is a step in the right direction.
"GDDR3 will consume half the power of GDDR2 and operate up to 50 percent faster."
Maybe graphic makers should hold out on GDDR2 for GDDR3. People that buy high-end graphics cards want quality. Look at the GeForce FX. It's going to kill NVIDIA. I think NVIDIA and others (ATI) are going to really learn from the FX and make extra sure that what they come out with will be real innovation, not a quick way to get back on top and the expense of their customers.
From the artical: "Blank magnetic media, especially recordable CDs, are -- or have been -- taxed in more than 40 countries, including Canada and the United States." In other news millions of Germans are buying keyboards without the ball, instead buying the nifty ones with the red light on the bottom.
My old GE is still going -- 21 years old. Everyone looks at it and asks why I don't replace it. I tell them "Don't fix it if it ain't broke".
Why wouldn't anyone write a device driver in VB? Maybe not in VB 6.0 but the whole idea of .net is that no matter what language you use, VB.net, C#, S#.... It all compiles to the same M$ Intermediary code. And since this is a managed code and not native code it takes a performance hit (Microsoft really plays this down, trust me, I've asked all the questions and gotten not a single strait answer). What you should have said is that no one is going to write a device driver for the .net framework period. The .net framework is primarily for web services. It has other advantages and features but none of them include high-performance mission critical applications and drivers. That's for ANSI C and other languages that compile to native binaries.
Good memory management skills and code optimization skills will never be replaced by fancy frameworks. What the .net framework does is put training wheels on programming and lowers the overall quality of code produced as well as the median skill and knowledge of the programmer pool.
Unfortunately this will probably fail. Most of the success of P2P does stem from copyrighted music being available. This is probably not the case so much for Slashdot users who often prefer OGGs to mp3s anyways. However being in college, I know that most students have never heard of open source/public domain and judge P2P solely on the availability of their favorite (non public-domain) band. MusicBrainz will have to get the word out fast and a large user base before their cash reserves and other funding dry up. I sure hope not. Anyone have any insight into what will set this one apart and turn them into a popular service before they go? I would like to see that happen but it isn't likely. Thoughts are welcome.
It's been a question for years whether bug finders should go public with bug finds or contact the company directly as to the flaws and the extent of their risk. I think the Open Source community agrees that places like bugtraq and open forums are the best way to discuss holes and security risks. Although Mark Rein was a little over-reactive and zealous M$ and other companies should make more effort to help their users find bug reporting easy -- in an open environment. This would really speed up the patching process (the priority at least) as well as the overall quality of knowledge available to the users affected and the company whose product is at fault.
You may be right about traffic counting and cost effectiveness. What radar certainly doesn't give you though is speed data over time for individuals as well as mileage and driving habits. Such data could be very useful for planning roads as well enforcing laws. Knowing the habits of the drivers in geographic regions could really do wonders for some of the crazy layouts and counter-intuitive inefficient ways in which roads checker the land. If it were an anonymous system (GPS monitoring) there would, perhaps, be some public support. Privacy is a must.
This plan, although interesting is stuck in the Stone Age. Use GPS transmitters to monitor density. Sure it would require fitting vehicles with a unit but eliminating the cost of expensive sensors and helicopter time could really balance things out. Has anyone done any research in this area?
And on a side note...
I've always wondered why with cheep GPS availability the ever encroaching government doesn't just monitor speeds and mileage from in the car. I know Oregon was thinking about a mileage counter with GPS systems but there was no mention of speed tracking. I am not an advocate of such a thing, privacy is a good thing, but there is no doubt that if drivers know they will get caught the roads would be a safer place.
I am sure this will be useful to other producers as well. There is such a demand for land and room to do movie effects that this should really make it a lot easier to film movies in a timely fashion. As well as bring in cash for LucasFilm when they decide to rent out some of their campus. Very smart move.
Well I do know that many heart valves are replaced using pig valves for a fact and I have heard a lot of talk about pig organs but I did a google and it looks as though this sort of thing has been tried a lot without much success.
The first experiments to use genetically altered animal organs in humans were given US government approval July 1995 - genetically altered pig livers would be attached to the circulatory systems of patients who were near death or whose livers had failed. Need for the tests had arisen due to a shortage of human organs available for transplant. [http://www.hme.co.uk/samples/transpla.htm]
I would think that it would have been more telling to replace the sheep's heart with the pigs. Simply putting the pig's heart on the sheep's neck says little about the functionality or feasibility. Nonetheless, this is promising for the medical community. I'm sure all sorts of other cell swapping will take place besides marrow and spleen cells to figure out which combination of immune system cells reduces the rejection rate the most. Also, if you needed a heart transplant, would they need to take your marrow? Or just and human's? Six months is a long time to wait for that pig to grow when your heart isn't working correctly. I would like to see more research done and more questions answered.
I totally agree, I feel instant messaging distracts from users and others sitting near by when it is being used in lecture. Too many times I have seen people sitting next to an IM user trying not to read the conversation and instead pay attention and fail.