If your hard drive fails, how is it that you will be able to someone save your work, upload to it a DFS, and begin working on a new box, with the data on the failed hard drive?
Or are they implying that user data will stored in a central location?
Of course, the usual caveats of that situation apply (server failure knocks EVERYONE out, the need to keep certain data local and private, latency for large files)
I mean, even with the SunRay, it's like, whoo-hoo, we combined VNC and H.263 and you should jump for friggin' joy.
You can already do it with rdesktop and windows, vnc and any vnc-enabled graphical environment, even X11 if you have the right kind of proxy extension enabled. I'm just waiting for someone to polish up a client for the SunRay protocol (it's mostly understood, but no one seems to care enough for someone to finish a client...)
I don't think anyone really wants this.
I think a visual protocol is too specific. The work needs to be in creating a widget/RPC API that lets you splat a standardized local GUI onto remote application servers. XML-RPC might be a part of it, or maybe just a component. Something that lets you pick your "skin" and standardizes on a backend with an interface description language... like XUL or Glade or something, but remote.
Then it'd be real easy to have a consistent view of the state of the app from anywhere.
He has what would normally be consider a genetic defect in that he does not produce as much of that chemical (I forget what it's called, some kind of acid) that makes muscles feel tired/cramped after long periods of usage. It's supposed to keep a person from hurting themselves. But Lance has trainers and a medical staff behind him, looking after his fitness, so it's probably a better thing that he doesn't have that limitation.
mhollis (the parent) is implying that usually you will find Jeopardy! on an ABC affiliate's station at about 7PM, and that in most other markets it is not typical WB fare.
The only other network I am aware of that runs Jeopardy! is the Game Show Network, and even then they don't run the current season.
Just lie. Use a 555 number. You think the sales monkey cares? The only person who really cares will be the consultant they hired to prune their CRM databases.
I've had staff members RECOMMEND that I do those things and take advantage of those annoying Best Buy "perks" that they are instructed to pitch at you.
Best Buy is totally aware that the customer would quickly think of ways of abusing the policy. But they already figured that would happen. They're banking on the gobs of people who are trying to be "decent", and Best Buy is just abusing that goodwill. Same thing with rebates. They assume (correctly) that most will forget about it, or not photocopy your UPC, then return the product.
The problem is that now, with the internet, these notions have spread far further than they projected. People do it out of spite, even if they end up wasting time and money doing these things.
So Best Buy could either demonize these customers who are acting just as they predicted we would, or adapt (maybe they could just provide better customer service?)
I guess customer profiling is the next best thing. It's like... you asked for it. Be prepared to fight for your right to abuse their policies... or get used to shopping with Amazon or Circuit City.
if it's an expensive, hard to fix artifact, prone to breakage under normal usage or containing really small moving parts (laptops, PDAs, +500 and less than 1500 digital cameras/camcorders). do yourself a favor and get an extended warranty if you're known to be a klutz. Also, the same goes for devices that are constantly updated with new models yearly or biannually (video cards are typical example). Make up some problem with the old one, be "forced" to get the new one as a replacement.
Never buy the warranty on things like: cellphones, pagers, really expensive cameras, console gaming systems, portable audio/video playback devices, and appliances that you don't move around much, etc. They are either not worth the extra cost, hardy enough as is, or easily RMAd for a replacement.
Well, this is typical demon customer behavior. I guess the worst customer is the informed customer. Sigh.
but I could do without all the stupid bullshit. Maybe copeland secretly hates ruby and wants it to look more astroturfy than someone pitching C# and the MSDN.
Restore Points uses the Volume Shadow Copy service. And it makes checkpoints of everything, not just the registry. Well, it makes copies of everything that matches one of these filename extensions. The file %sysdir%/system32/restore/filelist.xml will explain better. It specifies paths to omit, for example, the My Documents folder in local user profiles, WBEM logs, temporary folders, cookies, etc. In the registry... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/system/CurrentControlSet/contro l/backuprestore/filesnottobackup lists a few more things to not copy (DRM, pagefile, hibernation file, drive/help indexes, etc.) There's a couple registry keys around there that specify specific registry keys to not restore when rolling the system back. All of the above is, of course, completely configurable. If you want your documents backed up too, you can do that.
The only thing that's never backed up is the SAM (%sysdir%/system32/config/SAM), for obvious reasons (don't want to roll back passwords)
...for installing a THIRD PARTY crap-tool from Roxio to replace a feature that ALREADY COMES WITH SERVER 2003. It's called "Restore Points". Learn how to use them. Better yet, learn about the Volume Shadow facilities, and how to use proper tools that take advantage of it (at least NTBackup.exe for gods sake). And ditch that shovelware.
...anything which thinks it can pretend you've got a UP box is generally at fault. It also helps if your system is ACPI based, or SMP, for responsiveness when things go apeshit.
Linux users don't have the luxury of each printer manufacturer doing them the liberty of writing their ink-spitting code for as a plugin to Ghostscript on a linux target while their debugging their windows drivers.
We just do like everyone else does and pony up for a real Postscript pritner and be done with it.;P
Both GFS and Lustre (since it was mentioned earlier) support mmap. Note that the syscall semantics might be slightly different (I don't know the details). So give it a shot.
Less is more! People hate having inconsistent view of their files when they're working across machines in a lab enviornment or in a cluster. Things like GFS are godsends because they reduce IT's need to be invovled. Set it up once, and go.
If you're talking about.HTML documents in a folder somewhere, you need to associate the filetype with mozilla (a similar process, but can also be accomplished under "Tools (menu)...Folder Options (menu option)...File Types (tab)" in a windows folder.
doesn't allow scripting languages in webpages to reference internal URL handlers. The potentially dangerous URL handling starts and ends in the URL bar of the browser. (Apple made a mistake in expanding this functionality in Safari...)
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If your hard drive fails, how is it that you will be able to someone save your work, upload to it a DFS, and begin working on a new box, with the data on the failed hard drive?
Or are they implying that user data will stored in a central location?
Of course, the usual caveats of that situation apply (server failure knocks EVERYONE out, the need to keep certain data local and private, latency for large files)
Who the hell wants to deal with Citrix anymore? And everyone BESIDES microsoft already had similar solutions in place.
Yawn
::shrugs::
I mean, even with the SunRay, it's like, whoo-hoo, we combined VNC and H.263 and you should jump for friggin' joy.
You can already do it with rdesktop and windows, vnc and any vnc-enabled graphical environment, even X11 if you have the right kind of proxy extension enabled. I'm just waiting for someone to polish up a client for the SunRay protocol (it's mostly understood, but no one seems to care enough for someone to finish a client...)
I don't think anyone really wants this.
I think a visual protocol is too specific. The work needs to be in creating a widget/RPC API that lets you splat a standardized local GUI onto remote application servers. XML-RPC might be a part of it, or maybe just a component. Something that lets you pick your "skin" and standardizes on a backend with an interface description language... like XUL or Glade or something, but remote.
Then it'd be real easy to have a consistent view of the state of the app from anywhere.
He has what would normally be consider a genetic defect in that he does not produce as much of that chemical (I forget what it's called, some kind of acid) that makes muscles feel tired/cramped after long periods of usage. It's supposed to keep a person from hurting themselves. But Lance has trainers and a medical staff behind him, looking after his fitness, so it's probably a better thing that he doesn't have that limitation.
mhollis (the parent) is implying that usually you will find Jeopardy! on an ABC affiliate's station at about 7PM, and that in most other markets it is not typical WB fare.
The only other network I am aware of that runs Jeopardy! is the Game Show Network, and even then they don't run the current season.
I've heard this argument thrown around a lot. Please enlighten me... what strings are attached, and what are the secret hidden agendas?
seta cg_bobroll "0"
seta cg_bobpitch "0"
map ubercoolsecretdm
Just lie. Use a 555 number. You think the sales monkey cares? The only person who really cares will be the consultant they hired to prune their CRM databases.
I've had staff members RECOMMEND that I do those things and take advantage of those annoying Best Buy "perks" that they are instructed to pitch at you.
Best Buy is totally aware that the customer would quickly think of ways of abusing the policy. But they already figured that would happen. They're banking on the gobs of people who are trying to be "decent", and Best Buy is just abusing that goodwill. Same thing with rebates. They assume (correctly) that most will forget about it, or not photocopy your UPC, then return the product.
The problem is that now, with the internet, these notions have spread far further than they projected. People do it out of spite, even if they end up wasting time and money doing these things.
So Best Buy could either demonize these customers who are acting just as they predicted we would, or adapt (maybe they could just provide better customer service?)
I guess customer profiling is the next best thing. It's like... you asked for it. Be prepared to fight for your right to abuse their policies... or get used to shopping with Amazon or Circuit City.
if it's an expensive, hard to fix artifact, prone to breakage under normal usage or containing really small moving parts (laptops, PDAs, +500 and less than 1500 digital cameras/camcorders). do yourself a favor and get an extended warranty if you're known to be a klutz.
Also, the same goes for devices that are constantly updated with new models yearly or biannually (video cards are typical example). Make up some problem with the old one, be "forced" to get the new one as a replacement.
Never buy the warranty on things like: cellphones, pagers, really expensive cameras, console gaming systems, portable audio/video playback devices, and appliances that you don't move around much, etc. They are either not worth the extra cost, hardy enough as is, or easily RMAd for a replacement.
Well, this is typical demon customer behavior. I guess the worst customer is the informed customer. Sigh.
but I could do without all the stupid bullshit. Maybe copeland secretly hates ruby and wants it to look more astroturfy than someone pitching C# and the MSDN.
Restore Points uses the Volume Shadow Copy service. And it makes checkpoints of everything, not just the registry. Well, it makes copies of everything that matches one of these filename extensions.o l/backuprestore/filesnottobackup lists a few more things to not copy (DRM, pagefile, hibernation file, drive/help indexes, etc.) There's a couple registry keys around there that specify specific registry keys to not restore when rolling the system back.
The file %sysdir%/system32/restore/filelist.xml will explain better. It specifies paths to omit, for example, the My Documents folder in local user profiles, WBEM logs, temporary folders, cookies, etc.
In the registry...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/system/CurrentControlSet/contr
All of the above is, of course, completely configurable. If you want your documents backed up too, you can do that.
The only thing that's never backed up is the SAM ( %sysdir%/system32/config/SAM ), for obvious reasons (don't want to roll back passwords)
...for installing a THIRD PARTY crap-tool from Roxio to replace a feature that ALREADY COMES WITH SERVER 2003. It's called "Restore Points". Learn how to use them. Better yet, learn about the Volume Shadow facilities, and how to use proper tools that take advantage of it (at least NTBackup.exe for gods sake). And ditch that shovelware.
...anything which thinks it can pretend you've got a UP box is generally at fault. It also helps if your system is ACPI based, or SMP, for responsiveness when things go apeshit.
VINs, on the other hand, need to be unique globally.
BTW, just one of the reasons why I use FedEx.
Linux users don't have the luxury of each printer manufacturer doing them the liberty of writing their ink-spitting code for as a plugin to Ghostscript on a linux target while their debugging their windows drivers.
;P
We just do like everyone else does and pony up for a real Postscript pritner and be done with it.
Both GFS and Lustre (since it was mentioned earlier) support mmap. Note that the syscall semantics might be slightly different (I don't know the details). So give it a shot.
Less is more! People hate having inconsistent view of their files when they're working across machines in a lab enviornment or in a cluster. Things like GFS are godsends because they reduce IT's need to be invovled. Set it up once, and go.
If you're talking about .HTML documents in a folder somewhere, you need to associate the filetype with mozilla (a similar process, but can also be accomplished under "Tools (menu)...Folder Options (menu option)...File Types (tab)" in a windows folder.
doesn't allow scripting languages in webpages to reference internal URL handlers. The potentially dangerous URL handling starts and ends in the URL bar of the browser. (Apple made a mistake in expanding this functionality in Safari...)
...through the course of a day.
regedit.exe
Open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open
Remove the "ddeexec" subkey (subfolder).
Go into the "command" subkey (subfolder).
Change the (Default) string to this value:
"C:\path\to\mozilla.exe" -nosplash -url "%1"
Make sure to use the full path to mozilla or firefox. Also, keep the quotes.
To test, go to the run menu and type in an http:// URL. It should pop up a new mozilla window to the webpage.
Do the same thing for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\https and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ftp to get the HTTPS and FTP protocol handlers as well.
Mail (mailto: links) is a little trickier. Use this guide for assistance.