I would be inclined to agree; however, I installed Vista Beta 1 on a Gateway m320s laptop (approx 9 months old now), and Vista had drivers for everything except the modem. Wireless (Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter) worked, although the network status window always reported zero bytes sent and received.
The only problem I had was with installation: I downloaded the ISO from MSDN membership and burned it to what I now realize was a low-quality DVD+R disc. When I finally received the the pressed disc in the mail, Vista (slowly) installed fine.
Ctrl+scrollUp in Internet Explorer 7 beta now matches the behavior in Office 2003 (zoom in). Let's just hope that someone didn't "fix" Office 2007 to match IE 6....
Mod parent up. My university recently just hired someone for a newly created "Web Accessibility" coordinator position. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act is important to public schools and government. Dreamweaver--and I imagine similar web dev suites are in the game--have accessibility featuers built in to help make sure you specify alt tag for all images and so on. A lot of WAI requirements are good web practices to follow anyway. Information wants to be free (accessible);)
$luck, if you are running Windows and the machines are networked, you might be interested in the software MaxiVista.
(I don't know if you could easily cycle through each computer to each utilitze two displays, but you can download a free demo.)
* Use a monitor of another PC as if it is a second monitor attached to you main computer.
* Keyboard/Mouse switch (aka Remote Control mode): Each monitor shows what's on the computer it is attached to, and you can move the mose among them. Keyboard input is directed to the screen the mouse is on.
* Desktop mirroring.
Quality is quite good, but I haven't tried gaming on it. I used to use a KVM switch, but I find that the remote control mode is much nicer than having to constantly press ScrollLock.
I imagine other similar software exists for other platforms. (I'd be interested in something for Mac OS X.)
"On 2002-09-24, Microsoft KnowledgeBase article ID Q311486, promised six months ago, finally appeared. Its publication date is falsified to claim that it appeared on 2001-10-26. It talks about programs that "pass invalid screen size parameters" when the sample program code that it gives for replicating the bug clearly contains nothing at all relating to screen size parameters."
According to the table (from clicking the image in the article), Windows Live Services will include "Windows Live Favorites" which is listed as having no competitors. Isn't del.icio.us a competitor?
I first try removing junk via Add/Remove programs and then cleanup startup/autorun entries with Startup CPL
Security Task Manager (shareware) rates each process in how likely it is to be malicious and gives you the option of killing or quarantining (or uninstalling the corresponding program if appropriate). I've had good success with eliminating nasties that were sucking so much CPU that Ad-Aware and Spybot couldn't finish scanning.
BartPE is a great live CD, especially with the RunScanner plugin that lets you run Ad-Aware on the local machine's registry. RegeditPE was also mentioned by someone.
While English, history, and algebra may be better served by removing computers from the classroom, computer science, networking, etc., most certainly would not be so served.
Many of my introductory computer science courses at college were taught in lecture halls without a computer. You don't need computers to teach fundamental concepts and algorithms:)
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Exactly what I was thinking--tariff. But it didn't always work as planned
I would be inclined to agree; however, I installed Vista Beta 1 on a Gateway m320s laptop (approx 9 months old now), and Vista had drivers for everything except the modem. Wireless (Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter) worked, although the network status window always reported zero bytes sent and received.
The only problem I had was with installation: I downloaded the ISO from MSDN membership and burned it to what I now realize was a low-quality DVD+R disc. When I finally received the the pressed disc in the mail, Vista (slowly) installed fine.
Ctrl+scrollUp in Internet Explorer 7 beta now matches the behavior in Office 2003 (zoom in). Let's just hope that someone didn't "fix" Office 2007 to match IE 6....
Hmm, the Learn more link on the Google suggest page is broken.... but I was able to google for the right link: http://labs.google.com/suggest/faq.html
Mod parent up. ;)
My university recently just hired someone for a newly created "Web Accessibility" coordinator position. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act is important to public schools and government.
Dreamweaver--and I imagine similar web dev suites are in the game--have accessibility featuers built in to help make sure you specify alt tag for all images and so on. A lot of WAI requirements are good web practices to follow anyway. Information wants to be free (accessible)
Could part of the reason be that Microsoft is backing HD DVD while Sony is backing Blu-ray?
The indiferrent party to my enemy is my friend.
You can use the free program AutoIt
; Example AutoIt script to run a program as admin
RunAsSet("Administrator", "", "adminpassword")
Run("C:\Program Files\example\foo.exe")
RunAsSet()
The script can be compiled into a stand-alone executable so that you don't need your password sitting in a plain text file on your hard drive
The Belkin Wireless Pre-N (F5D8230-4) Router (F5D82304) has been out since October 2004, and gets good reviews at epinions.com
$luck, if you are running Windows and the machines are networked, you might be interested in the software MaxiVista.
(I don't know if you could easily cycle through each computer to each utilitze two displays, but you can download a free demo.)
* Use a monitor of another PC as if it is a second monitor attached to you main computer.
* Keyboard/Mouse switch (aka Remote Control mode): Each monitor shows what's on the computer it is attached to, and you can move the mose among them. Keyboard input is directed to the screen the mouse is on.
* Desktop mirroring.
Quality is quite good, but I haven't tried gaming on it. I used to use a KVM switch, but I find that the remote control mode is much nicer than having to constantly press ScrollLock.
I imagine other similar software exists for other platforms. (I'd be interested in something for Mac OS X.)
This site mentions a high-level I/O-processing bug that was present in csrss.exe in many versions of NT/2K/XP that could be triggered by something as simple as a opening a text file that contains a bunch of backspace characters.
"On 2002-09-24, Microsoft KnowledgeBase article ID Q311486, promised six months ago, finally appeared. Its publication date is falsified to claim that it appeared on 2001-10-26. It talks about programs that "pass invalid screen size parameters" when the sample program code that it gives for replicating the bug clearly contains nothing at all relating to screen size parameters."
I second Microsoft Power Toys and add some more:
* AutoIt for simple automation tasks and creating small programs with graphical user interfaces
* Firefox, of course. Opera is also a good choice.
* Daemon Tools for mounting ISOs as virtual CD/DVD drives
* Trillian--AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN, and Yahoo messenger client
* QuickTime Alternative
* RealPlayer Alternative
* IrfanView--small, free, fast image viewer
* SysInternals utilities--useful for admins
* Scanner--shows hard drive usage as stacked pie graph of files/folders
* 7-zip: similar to WinZip or WinRAR or StuffIt
* Foxit [PDF] Reader--a lite alternative to Adobe
Following ones aren't free but are very useful Windows-only programs:
* FinePrint--n up printing, universal print preview, etc.
* MaxiVisa--use a networked computer like a secondary display
* TextPad, though I opt for the open-source and FREE SciTE
According to the table (from clicking the image in the article), Windows Live Services will include "Windows Live Favorites" which is listed as having no competitors. Isn't del.icio.us a competitor?
The article features the second-place winners, so what does the first-place design look like?
I first try removing junk via Add/Remove programs and then cleanup startup/autorun entries with Startup CPL
Security Task Manager (shareware) rates each process in how likely it is to be malicious and gives you the option of killing or quarantining (or uninstalling the corresponding program if appropriate). I've had good success with eliminating nasties that were sucking so much CPU that Ad-Aware and Spybot couldn't finish scanning.
BartPE is a great live CD, especially with the RunScanner plugin that lets you run Ad-Aware on the local machine's registry. RegeditPE was also mentioned by someone.
No wonder Lego is in financial trouble--Someone is stealing them all!
I guess the salaries in this Far Side weren't too far off after all!
Puts a new twist on MS AntiSpyware (Beta). We'll only show you the ads we want you to see....
I'm still waiting for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money to come out!
google NT 4 USB support
That reminds me of the Drug Dealers vs. Software Engineers joke!
What numbers could Google search?
;)
How about large numbers you wanted factored into primes?
Google lunar job
Does anyone prefer Yahoo! over Gmail (and Hotmail) because of tabbed browsing?
Verbatim's Store 'n' Go Pro has software that lets you take your desktop with you. I haven't used it, but my supervisor showed it to me.
While English, history, and algebra may be better served by removing computers from the classroom, computer science, networking, etc., most certainly would not be so served.
:)
Many of my introductory computer science courses at college were taught in lecture halls without a computer. You don't need computers to teach fundamental concepts and algorithms