we will never realize our lifestyle is unsustainable, we're too greedy and selfish, plain and simple. We want what we want now, and damn anyone who gets in our way.
I've had a similar problem with emails coming from *@irs.gov i almost fell for one, as i was having tax issues with the previous owner of my business.
now some of my clients are getting the emails, and luckily it didn't actually contain a virus, but they completely fell for it.
um...making money or not eating....no problem with that.
businesses are ALWAYS there to make money, otherwise, its not worth the hassle. Let me tell you, as a business owner, it can be a REAL hassle
the primary problem I have with slipstreaming is this: once you install or repair install an 2k/xp box with a slipstream disc, ONLY that disc (or one with at least those updates) can work when the system asks for the disc again. (for adding/removing components, etc)
so, in my line of work, where i am repairing or fresh installing customer machines, i'd have to GIVE them a copy of the slipstream disc i use, which microsoft frowns upon, unless i want them to NOT be able to fix their machines themselves, which would just piss a lot of them off.
so i will wait for sp3, and when it comes out, rejoice, as it takes 2x as long to install updates as it does the OS it self, with or without autopatcher....
I can back that up, as a small business owner selling ram, I got the invite to join the class action lawsuit against micro/infineon, and a few others for price fixing in the 2001-2002 time period. My business was under different ownership back then, so I didn't both participating in what I couldn't prove i took part in.
I DO remember ram being nice and $$$ back then though:)
if you think that us 'geeks' banding together would make one lick of difference, then unfortunately you don't know how the economy and business really work.
sorry, don't mean to flame, but its just not realistic (but it DOES sound good on paper!)
the harddrive makes a huge difference in battery life. i had an HP laptop a few years back, and i went from 4200rpm to 7200rpm. it was super fast, but my battery life went from 2-2.25hrs to 45min.
coke and super mario didn't have an OS. so yes that is free advertising. OS2/Warp is old, so who cares. Isn't BeOS free?
Apple DID have an os, and one of the major 'cool' factors was the aqua interface. So when you made icons for xp that in essence makes it 'look' like a mac, apple thinks 'crap, customers will see that you can get mac os coolness on an xp, we might sell x less machines.....serve them!'
now, i don't agree with the letters they sent you, but you have to understand why they did it.
THANK YOU
I own a retail computer service shop and handle both residential and business clients. You have summed up what I want to type every time I see a/. article on microsoft.
if i had mod points right now, you'd be getting them.
people care about two things:
themselves
making sure they have more / are better than their neighbor
change this, and one of the many benefits you will see is a strive for more efficient cars. until then, just more of the same as we have now. Btw, this is not likely to change. I have noticed a decline in the past 6-8 years, and i'm only 28.
no, it sprays water ONTO the intercooler, cooling it down, allowing it to cool the intake charge even more, so the turbo can cram more air into the cylinder for more power
This is in direct response to your sig, not your post. This is not intended to be inflammatory, or start a debate on the topic. If your going to quote God on what he's going to do, please read the book in which he says what he is going to do a little more carefully. He didn't say he would torture you forever, only that you would spend eternity separated from him. (which *I* define as torture, but obviously in a different way than you do.)
according to the MS rep at the ASI conference I was at last September, the point was to release a new OS (server and desktop) every 4 years, with an "R2" paid upgrade every 2 years
this might have changed, of course, but that was straight from the rep's mouth.
This estimate of labor billing is EXACTLY how i bill my clients (I run network support for businesses around town.) They LOVE it, and it works great for me too!
your sata harddrive didn't work in xp because your motherboard is most likely running it in AHCI mode. Turn that off (if you can) and xp will install just fine:)
a word of warning, the 60gb and 120gb WD desktop drives were the craptastic ones of the line. At the computer shop I own, we've been exclusively WD for over 6 years. get the 120's out of your system, they fail about 4-6 times as fast as any of the others (which, for the others, is almost never.) We use probably 10-20 hd's per week and i can count on two hands how many we've replaced in 6 years.
WD is good stuff, just gotta watch certain lines (as is the same with any HD manufacturer)
now the 80's and 160's? golden
i take it i can pass all ports thru the firewall, basically making it invisible, i run two routers that need external access. or would it be better to run it inside the network and have all internet traffice hit it, and then out to the router?
Another thing with slipstreaming in updates. This is all fine and good for the machines at your company, or your personal one.
The problem is if you build a new machine for a customer, or do a repair install with said slipstreamed cd, and then the customer EVER needs to do a repair install again, their own cd will NOT work, as it will be looking for the one you used with the updates you have in it. We had to stop using slipstreamed discs because of this.
google dial-a-fix and get it, use it to fix windowsupdate and bits.
if it fails, go to the tools section and have it fix the registry permissions, then run the windowsupdate fix
dollars to donuts it fixes your problem:)
I run a pc repair and sales shop. We use autopatcher all the time, everyday, for updating customer machines that walk in the door un-updated, and also getting new builds patched up. This saves me not only a bunch of time as it is a start-and-forget procedure, but also saves a bunch of bandwidth, since I have to only get the updates ONE TIME PER CYCLE, not EVERY TIME I UPDATE A CLIENT!
Mot to mention all the times i update our clients that we support at their businesses. Instead of popping in the autopatcher and going, I have to download the stupid updates, from each machine, therefore increasing THEIR bandwidth costs as well.
I would be all for a WSUS server on my guest network that my clients connect to, if I could just make all of the clients' windowsupdates point to it easily and easily revert back when done. I run anywhere from 10 to 40 machines through my shop per day.
Autopatcher was much better. Thanks Microsoft for making my life harder when I bend over backward trying to sell your server and desktop software to clients. I appreciate it. Really.
me roommate and I were discussing the other night the need for more REAL pvp in WoW, like back in the good 'ol text mud days. If you guy, your corpse can get looted, and you have to get your stuff all over again, things like that...
our idea was this:
new WoW server type: hardcore pvp if you die, then the other guy can raid you corpse. Now, honestly, letting them have all your stuff would be crazy, because it takes too freaking long to get it all, so...let them take a percentage of cash, (or not) and importantly, they can pick any one item from your iventory (epics and higher included) and take that as well, or maybe two items.
something along those lines, where it really DOES cost you to die, would appeal a different crown than the current carefree model.
If you're only using adaware to clean machines, regardless of whether booting the host machine, using a bootable cd, or pulling the drive and putting it in another box, you're missing a LARGE amount of spyware. I work at a computer repair shop, and we have to use a mixture of adaware, spyware doctor, spy sweeper, and etrust pest patrol to get machine's clean. No one of those programs finds everything, so you have to run them all to be sure.
The same thing applies to viruses, we run housecall, panda dos scan and titanium, etrust antivirus, and norton.
we've built custom tools to run all of these programs in safe mode and/or booting off of a BartPE style bootup.
we end up having to change this around almost every week as new stuff is always coming out.
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we will never realize our lifestyle is unsustainable, we're too greedy and selfish, plain and simple. We want what we want now, and damn anyone who gets in our way.
I've had a similar problem with emails coming from *@irs.gov i almost fell for one, as i was having tax issues with the previous owner of my business. now some of my clients are getting the emails, and luckily it didn't actually contain a virus, but they completely fell for it.
can't you already do this in the states?
um...making money or not eating....no problem with that. businesses are ALWAYS there to make money, otherwise, its not worth the hassle. Let me tell you, as a business owner, it can be a REAL hassle
the primary problem I have with slipstreaming is this: once you install or repair install an 2k/xp box with a slipstream disc, ONLY that disc (or one with at least those updates) can work when the system asks for the disc again. (for adding/removing components, etc)
so, in my line of work, where i am repairing or fresh installing customer machines, i'd have to GIVE them a copy of the slipstream disc i use, which microsoft frowns upon, unless i want them to NOT be able to fix their machines themselves, which would just piss a lot of them off.
so i will wait for sp3, and when it comes out, rejoice, as it takes 2x as long to install updates as it does the OS it self, with or without autopatcher....
I can back that up, as a small business owner selling ram, I got the invite to join the class action lawsuit against micro/infineon, and a few others for price fixing in the 2001-2002 time period. My business was under different ownership back then, so I didn't both participating in what I couldn't prove i took part in. I DO remember ram being nice and $$$ back then though :)
if you think that us 'geeks' banding together would make one lick of difference, then unfortunately you don't know how the economy and business really work. sorry, don't mean to flame, but its just not realistic (but it DOES sound good on paper!)
the harddrive makes a huge difference in battery life. i had an HP laptop a few years back, and i went from 4200rpm to 7200rpm. it was super fast, but my battery life went from 2-2.25hrs to 45min.
coke and super mario didn't have an OS. so yes that is free advertising. OS2/Warp is old, so who cares. Isn't BeOS free? Apple DID have an os, and one of the major 'cool' factors was the aqua interface. So when you made icons for xp that in essence makes it 'look' like a mac, apple thinks 'crap, customers will see that you can get mac os coolness on an xp, we might sell x less machines.....serve them!' now, i don't agree with the letters they sent you, but you have to understand why they did it.
THANK YOU I own a retail computer service shop and handle both residential and business clients. You have summed up what I want to type every time I see a /. article on microsoft.
if i had mod points right now, you'd be getting them.
people care about two things: themselves making sure they have more / are better than their neighbor change this, and one of the many benefits you will see is a strive for more efficient cars. until then, just more of the same as we have now. Btw, this is not likely to change. I have noticed a decline in the past 6-8 years, and i'm only 28.
no, it sprays water ONTO the intercooler, cooling it down, allowing it to cool the intake charge even more, so the turbo can cram more air into the cylinder for more power
This is in direct response to your sig, not your post. This is not intended to be inflammatory, or start a debate on the topic. If your going to quote God on what he's going to do, please read the book in which he says what he is going to do a little more carefully. He didn't say he would torture you forever, only that you would spend eternity separated from him. (which *I* define as torture, but obviously in a different way than you do.)
according to the MS rep at the ASI conference I was at last September, the point was to release a new OS (server and desktop) every 4 years, with an "R2" paid upgrade every 2 years this might have changed, of course, but that was straight from the rep's mouth.
This estimate of labor billing is EXACTLY how i bill my clients (I run network support for businesses around town.) They LOVE it, and it works great for me too!
your sata harddrive didn't work in xp because your motherboard is most likely running it in AHCI mode. Turn that off (if you can) and xp will install just fine :)
a word of warning, the 60gb and 120gb WD desktop drives were the craptastic ones of the line. At the computer shop I own, we've been exclusively WD for over 6 years. get the 120's out of your system, they fail about 4-6 times as fast as any of the others (which, for the others, is almost never.) We use probably 10-20 hd's per week and i can count on two hands how many we've replaced in 6 years. WD is good stuff, just gotta watch certain lines (as is the same with any HD manufacturer) now the 80's and 160's? golden
dead like me ftw
i take it i can pass all ports thru the firewall, basically making it invisible, i run two routers that need external access. or would it be better to run it inside the network and have all internet traffice hit it, and then out to the router?
this looks most sexy and i think i'm gonna have to try it out does IPCop need to sit firewall style in between the net and my routers?
Another thing with slipstreaming in updates. This is all fine and good for the machines at your company, or your personal one. The problem is if you build a new machine for a customer, or do a repair install with said slipstreamed cd, and then the customer EVER needs to do a repair install again, their own cd will NOT work, as it will be looking for the one you used with the updates you have in it. We had to stop using slipstreamed discs because of this.
google dial-a-fix and get it, use it to fix windowsupdate and bits. if it fails, go to the tools section and have it fix the registry permissions, then run the windowsupdate fix dollars to donuts it fixes your problem :)
I run a pc repair and sales shop. We use autopatcher all the time, everyday, for updating customer machines that walk in the door un-updated, and also getting new builds patched up. This saves me not only a bunch of time as it is a start-and-forget procedure, but also saves a bunch of bandwidth, since I have to only get the updates ONE TIME PER CYCLE, not EVERY TIME I UPDATE A CLIENT! Mot to mention all the times i update our clients that we support at their businesses. Instead of popping in the autopatcher and going, I have to download the stupid updates, from each machine, therefore increasing THEIR bandwidth costs as well. I would be all for a WSUS server on my guest network that my clients connect to, if I could just make all of the clients' windowsupdates point to it easily and easily revert back when done. I run anywhere from 10 to 40 machines through my shop per day. Autopatcher was much better. Thanks Microsoft for making my life harder when I bend over backward trying to sell your server and desktop software to clients. I appreciate it. Really.
me roommate and I were discussing the other night the need for more REAL pvp in WoW, like back in the good 'ol text mud days. If you guy, your corpse can get looted, and you have to get your stuff all over again, things like that...
our idea was this:
new WoW server type: hardcore pvp
if you die, then the other guy can raid you corpse. Now, honestly, letting them have all your stuff would be crazy, because it takes too freaking long to get it all, so...let them take a percentage of cash, (or not) and importantly, they can pick any one item from your iventory (epics and higher included) and take that as well, or maybe two items.
something along those lines, where it really DOES cost you to die, would appeal a different crown than the current carefree model.
If you're only using adaware to clean machines, regardless of whether booting the host machine, using a bootable cd, or pulling the drive and putting it in another box, you're missing a LARGE amount of spyware. I work at a computer repair shop, and we have to use a mixture of adaware, spyware doctor, spy sweeper, and etrust pest patrol to get machine's clean. No one of those programs finds everything, so you have to run them all to be sure.
The same thing applies to viruses, we run housecall, panda dos scan and titanium, etrust antivirus, and norton.
we've built custom tools to run all of these programs in safe mode and/or booting off of a BartPE style bootup.
we end up having to change this around almost every week as new stuff is always coming out.