Quite possible that the 3rd party patch doesn't fix *the* real problem (or all the problems) It's also possible that MS has found something else also in the same code that can leave them in an embarrassing situation in another week (This I guess is the 2nd issue with the wmf handling in 3 months) if they release just a hurried patch resolving only the problem we're seeing now. But whether or not they should be delaying it at the risk of letting customers face trouble (and gain bad publicity) is, I hope, given good thought inside MS
Some people'd definitely take the trouble (especially when some huge company with excess of money's gonna start charging licensing fees from you for all kinds of stupid things) Check this out http://www.hindu.com/2005/03/09/stories/2005030902 381300.htm
In this particular case along with saying - uhm, we knew that.... they'd shown proof of people using the technique from a long time also though.
That's why piracy is so widespread in asiatic regions - people simply do not agree that something must be paid for more than once, especially knowledge (which they belive is only worth sharing for free).
I really am confused as to just laugh off at this or ignore it. Piracy, sir, is rampant here not because of whatever idealogical things you are talking about; it's due to the same reason you find piracy even in the developed countries - pricing of software (which if it were according to the place you are selling, the piracy we see now wouldn't have been this ugly). If you know about the actual piracy here, it's not just with software but with movie, music discs as well. On a side-note, Microsoft had taken the software pricing aspect in an extremely stupid manner and introduced some lame windowsXP version which am not sure is still alive.
1000 rupees(er no idea about the actual price - you get an idea as to how popular it is) for a genuine but crippled microsoft windows xp that can run only some 4-5 processes at any time or a free pirated version. The latter of course, thank you
Excuse me, but no where is it mentioned or is no one imagining that microsoft's investing this amount to make india richer or create some employment here. They're just expanding their operations here, for their own benefit.
Even if we go by what you say, the thousands of new employees are not going to sit under the sky and do their work. Am sure ms' gonna build a new campus (or extend one if they already have one), which'd directly or indirectly create quite a lot more jobs in whichever area they're gonna pick. And no, everyone's not dirt poor over here. may be just poor.
Why not make the jump with RAD and start with something like VB(6 and earlier) or Delphi. You can simply just get some pretty windows displayed which just do nothing, just for the kicks and then start working on things like a simple calculator Might sound crazy but you can get yourself familiarised with different aspects of programming without getting pained a lot and once you feel comfortable take the plunge into the world of C
you're already using Firefox, not waiting for an also-ran browser to stop charging.
Sir, if you check out the truth, opera was never an also-ran, haven't used the beginning versions in the 90s, so can't comment on that. You might say it's been an also-ran in terms of the no of users, but if you compare to IE even ur dear firefox is an also-ran. Technically (speed,stability,smallSize,...) opera has always been extremely good and you dare not associate a term like also-ran with it.
It might seem weird to you but not many in the world bother much if the browser they're using is a closed source one or an open sourced one. If it just works without screwing up their systems, lots of people, am sure would be more than happy. May be some (so called)techies would bother, but their percentage anyway would be less than 1%. (No. The reason 'techies spread the word' doesn't work here. If something's good and free, it's *good*, whether or not it's open source, which quite a lot of people do realise)
Can you please let us know as to what all things are being copied from firefox? I haven't used IE7.0 so I can't comment but if you're going to say that they're flicking tabbing and rss, I'll have to say sorry (probably at the expense of some karma). Neither did firefox invent them; guys like opera have been having them from ages And did I mention that the tabbing in firefox is far from perfect. Guess you'd have been to atleast one of those innumerable sites, the links in which always tend to open new firefox windows and not tabs
console No sir this is just hype what people might finally do is just buy a console to sit along with their puters and probably buy those mods that let you make them load something like linux and get a super powerful desktop for a fraction of cost
If I can find out How to dismantle an atomic bomb
on
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for a few bucks what's so special in bbc publishing something about building one?!!?
great if they start getting out laptops based on amd64. Most of the recent inspiron models quite mysteriously seem to behave well with linux, so it shouldn't be much of a problem to offer some customized linux with their notebooks
with suse pre-installed. Was surprised when I cam e to learn that the 1 year support they offer applies to the linux distro as well. This is only for one model though. An AMD Mobile Sempron 2800+ with 256Mb of ram, 15" display, dvd-cdrw combo and a 40G hard disk for around $675. that ain't bad with a 1 year international traveller warranty would love to see other models of acer also to have this option
he/she deserves to be called that (that too with an experience of 22 years) If he's a serious admin, I doubt if he'd be manually installing the os and all the apps needed on all the systems. You'd most probably be using systems with the same config. So get one installation done properly, ghost the image and use it for all the other systems. Install a firewall like kerio and opera/firefox and make it the default browser. These along with some anti-virus solution should be good enough to keep a system reasonably secure, unless your users are adamant about downloading viruses deliberately and running them. Haven't used those features anytime but am quite sure that remote administration in windows 2000+ isn't that bad. For getting your systems regularly updated you can even have a local server that fetches updates from the windowsupdate site, and can push the pathces on to all your systems. But however secure you make the systems to be, unless the users have an idea as to what minimal precautions to take to have a secure system you'd keep switching between different OSes. Something simple like not running any executables, opening documents received as attachments would take care of 80% of your problems. I'd be in windows for atleast 12 hours a day, coding, browsing and playing and never have I had a problem because of some virus or spyware from the time I had started using windows about 6 years ago. I had survived only on linux for 2 years in between but I had never found my windows box to be lesser secure than my linux system. Why?! Have a good firewall, abandon ie/outlook and friends be a little careful about stuff you download from the net. and live happily for ever\
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From TF Changelog
commit 88026842b0a760145aa71d69e74fbc9ec118ca44
Author: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Jan 2 19:21:10 2006 -0800
Linux v2.6.15
Hey, it's fifteen years today since I bought the machine that got Linux
started. January 2nd is a good date.
I guess(hope) this one's really not going to get into the kernel tree(into the Changelog included in the kernels src that is) or has it already?
Quite possible that the 3rd party patch doesn't fix *the* real problem (or all the problems)
It's also possible that MS has found something else also in the same code that can leave them in an embarrassing situation in another week (This I guess is the 2nd issue with the wmf handling in 3 months) if they release just a hurried patch resolving only the problem we're seeing now. But whether or not they should be delaying it at the risk of letting customers face trouble (and gain bad publicity) is, I hope, given good thought inside MS
FYI :D
:p
The caption for that image says - "Joe and Mal"
So I guess the lady in the pic's probably not the one you are referring to
But darn what stage has slashdot come to - trying to get people read posts mentioning the names of PR persons and indicating they're females.
How could the editors even think us people would be interested in such things?
Downloading the Internets ( In page 2 of TFA )
I thought the internet that I downloaded last week was the only one, looks like I'll have to find the other ones too
In the court?!?!a rticle_id=69610&cat_id=585
http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?
http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-5984639.html
Some people'd definitely take the trouble (especially when some huge company with excess of money's gonna start charging licensing fees from you for all kinds of stupid things)2 381300.htm
Check this out
http://www.hindu.com/2005/03/09/stories/200503090
In this particular case along with saying - uhm, we knew that.... they'd shown proof of people using the technique from a long time also though.
That's why piracy is so widespread in asiatic regions - people simply do not agree that something must be paid for more than once, especially knowledge (which they belive is only worth sharing for free).
I really am confused as to just laugh off at this or ignore it. Piracy, sir, is rampant here not because of whatever idealogical things you are talking about; it's due to the same reason you find piracy even in the developed countries - pricing of software (which if it were according to the place you are selling, the piracy we see now wouldn't have been this ugly). If you know about the actual piracy here, it's not just with software but with movie, music discs as well.
On a side-note, Microsoft had taken the software pricing aspect in an extremely stupid manner and introduced some lame windowsXP version which am not sure is still alive.
1000 rupees(er no idea about the actual price - you get an idea as to how popular it is) for a genuine but crippled microsoft windows xp that can run only some 4-5 processes at any time or a free pirated version. The latter of course, thank you
Excuse me, but no where is it mentioned or is no one imagining that microsoft's investing this amount to make india richer or create some employment here.
They're just expanding their operations here, for their own benefit.
Even if we go by what you say, the thousands of new employees are not going to sit under the sky and do their work. Am sure ms' gonna build a new campus (or extend one if they already have one), which'd directly or indirectly create quite a lot more jobs in whichever area they're gonna pick.
And no, everyone's not dirt poor over here. may be just poor.
Why not make the jump with RAD and start with something like VB(6 and earlier) or Delphi.
You can simply just get some pretty windows displayed which just do nothing, just for the kicks
and then start working on things like a simple calculator
Might sound crazy but you can get yourself familiarised with different aspects of programming without getting pained a lot and once you feel comfortable take the plunge into the world of C
that i realise am God once in a while after ....
so was the case with my predecessor mr.holmes
you're already using Firefox, not waiting for an also-ran browser to stop charging.
Sir, if you check out the truth, opera was never an also-ran, haven't used the beginning versions in the 90s, so can't comment on that. You might say it's been an also-ran in terms of the no of users, but if you compare to IE even ur dear firefox is an also-ran.
Technically (speed,stability,smallSize,...) opera has always been extremely good and you dare not associate a term like also-ran with it.
It might seem weird to you
but not many in the world bother much if the browser they're using is a closed source one or an open sourced one.
If it just works without screwing up their systems, lots of people, am sure would be more than happy.
May be some (so called)techies would bother, but their percentage anyway would be less than 1%.
(No. The reason 'techies spread the word' doesn't work here. If something's good and free, it's *good*, whether or not it's open source, which quite a lot of people do realise)
about misinformation on uncyclopedia
(From http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Category:Games)
Rule of Thumb: Games are fun until someone loses an eye. After that, it is considered a sport.
I had always been thinking that was the truth.
This is not a satire
but is there any mirror for this uncyclopedia !?!
Can you please let us know as to what all things are being copied from firefox?
I haven't used IE7.0 so I can't comment
but if you're going to say that they're flicking tabbing and rss, I'll have to say sorry (probably at the expense of some karma). Neither did firefox invent them; guys like opera have been having them from ages
And did I mention that the tabbing in firefox is far from perfect. Guess you'd have been to atleast one of those innumerable sites, the links in which always tend to open new firefox windows and not tabs
http://share.skype.com/e x.php
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/08/24/skype/ind
Linux turns 14
whoah!
can't believe linux is that aged
(http://www.li.org/linuxhistory.php)
check out
http://www.start.com/1/
and
http://www.start.com/2/
console
No sir this is just hype
what people might finally do is just buy a console to sit along with their puters
and probably buy those mods that let you make them load something like linux and get a super powerful desktop for a fraction of cost
for a few bucks what's so special in bbc publishing something about building one?!!?
great if they start getting out laptops based on amd64.
Most of the recent inspiron models quite mysteriously seem to behave well with linux, so it shouldn't be much of a problem to offer some customized linux with their notebooks
with suse pre-installed. Was surprised when I cam e to learn that the 1 year support they offer applies to the linux distro as well. This is only for one model though. An AMD Mobile Sempron 2800+ with 256Mb of ram, 15" display, dvd-cdrw combo and a 40G hard disk for around $675.
that ain't bad with a 1 year international traveller warranty
would love to see other models of acer also to have this option
he/she deserves to be called that (that too with an experience of 22 years)
If he's a serious admin, I doubt if he'd be manually installing the os and all the apps needed on all the systems. You'd most probably be using systems with the same config. So get one installation done properly, ghost the image and use it for all the other systems. Install a firewall like kerio and opera/firefox and make it the default browser. These along with some anti-virus solution should be good enough to keep a system reasonably secure, unless your users are adamant about downloading viruses deliberately and running them.
Haven't used those features anytime but am quite sure that remote administration in windows 2000+ isn't that bad. For getting your systems regularly updated you can even have a local server that fetches updates from the windowsupdate site, and can push the pathces on to all your systems.
But however secure you make the systems to be, unless the users have an idea as to what minimal precautions to take to have a secure system you'd keep switching between different OSes. Something simple like not running any executables, opening documents received as attachments would take care of 80% of your problems.
I'd be in windows for atleast 12 hours a day, coding, browsing and playing and never have I had a problem because of some virus or spyware from the time I had started using windows about 6 years ago. I had survived only on linux for 2 years in between but I had never found my windows box to be lesser secure than my linux system. Why?! Have a good firewall, abandon ie/outlook and friends be a little careful about stuff you download from the net. and live happily for ever\
and the usb slots closed lest you should hurt your OS
In this case, your computer is prone to failing when someone else decides that it should go down.