It actually shows both the Intel and AMD logos (with links to filter based on the companies) at the top of this story page, but it only shows one of the logos on the front page. They stupidly put Intel's logo first.
Elevation from limited-user access to "root" (Administrators-level access) is definitely a threat.
This doesn't do that. You have to already be already running as an Administrator for this so-called exploit to work. If you are not in the Local Administrators group then you will get the prompt requiring a password.
The only thing I dislike about VLC is that instead of just opening up a file and play it, it adds the file to an unwanted playlist and playlist window. If I then open another file, it gets added to the list instead of opening up another player window.
You can fix that yourself. Under the View menu, choose Playlist (or Ctrl-L). Close VLC and open it again. Did the playlist show?
We remove them from the domain, use local firewall to block all but needed ports, stop the server service and block outbound communications to the Internet at the firewall.
Apart from removing them from the domain, surely that is what you should be doing for all your computers no matter what OS they use? I do this even on my home systems - block everything and only allow what I want to access the world, not what the developers want.
Oh, yes. I'm sure the head of Poland's Computer Emergency Response Team would be worried about having the authorities throw the book at him. Especially when the authorities say that this is not something that they care about and it is up to the airlines to worry about it.
Surely if anyone says that they were "just testing the security" then it would be him.
Windows 10 sucks, this whole community agrees. Stop posting stories on windows 10. Stop.
We could all do that, or the easier option is that you could just simply stop reading those stories.
Surely it is newsworthy that the update is completely deleting partitions. Why would you want to deny those that could be affected from being able to take preventative action simply bcause you are sick of hearing about Windows 10?
I don't have a system using Microsoft Accounts where I am right now, but if I recall it displays the email address on the login page under the user name (which I would rather that it didn't). Plug that email address into the reset password page. It will send a confirmation message to that email address (or if a phone was attached to the account then it will send a text message). Follow the instructions.
Ensure that the computer is connected to an Internet connected network (either by cable or WiFi) and try to login using the newly reset password. I can't test this myself right now, so I hope that this does the trick.
Yes, I did it accidentally when I set my system up in my usual way. I always set my firewall to block all outgoing traffic and then create rules to allow the programs that I want to connect to the Internet. I was very surprised that Microsoft didn't include a default rule to allow Windows Updates to connect. I haven't bothered to look at how people block updates because I had to do the opposite and create a rule to actually allow updates - which I only enable when I want them to happen.
If the metered connection trick works then that would be easier for most people to set up. I don't see that it is a problem with it not being the intention of that feature.
In fact, it's so similar, I don't understand how Microsoft can get away with saying that it's a new OS.
They don't say that it's a new OS, just a new version of the same OS. They have built new features on top of the old version (and removed some too) as they always do, hence the same utilities existing since Windows NT 4.0 (and earlier).
Just out of curiosity, did you wait for Windows to finish off all its housekeeping crap that it does after installing before comparing the performance to a well worn install of Windows 7?
Yes. I installed Windows 10 back in January and did some definitive timing tests by filming the screen and using that to time everything in June.
But my impression is that if you have network cable attached to your Windows PC, MS is likely to sneak in in the middle of the night and upgrade your older build to a newer, shinier, more secure, version whose only problem will be that it won't work.
You can always block Windows Update completely and stay frozen at your current version. So if you don't want the Anniversary Update, then you have block all updates in the future. As the OP said, it is worrying what would happen if a reinstall was required though. Keeping an backup image would be the best bet.
I'm using windows 10 and I cannot figure out how to change a user's password.
The Anonymous Cowards who responded to you have given you the correct answers. It should be noted that the method for administering other local accounts has not changed since Windows 2000. You still use Control Panel->User Accounts as you did back then, although the method of getting to the control panel has changed over time. In Windows 10 you right click on the start button and choose it from the pop up menu.
The command line version of "net user username NewPassword" has not changed at all since Windows NT 4.0 (19 years ago). Of course, if you are not used to Windows then it is quite reasonable that you wouldn't know the command to use, any more than a Windows admin would magically know to misspell the word password on Linux.
It is more resource efficient than Windows 7/8. Works better on low end systems.
Not for me it doesn't. I have upgraded two of my computers to Windows 10, and in both cases it is perceptively slower. In the case of my test system - a real low-end computer - I have taken a substantial performance cut since upgrading. I had been using the starter edition of Windows 7, and I upgraded it to 10 to lose the artificial restriction to 2GB of RAM. Yay! Now I can access all 4GB. But, boo! Not only does it run slower, but my computer fan runs more often as the CPU seems to idle at a higher percentage. This was done on a fresh install too.
The other computer (my work system) was a more modern, faster system. While the performance drop is far less pronounced, it is still noticeable. I upgraded the rest of our office and quite a number of people have complained how slow it seems.
I simply cannot understand why people claim that it is more efficient than previous versions of Windows - especially when compared to Windows 7. The most obvious slowness comes from the new don't-call-me-Metro user interface elements. It simply takes longer to display the new UI like menus and dialogs than the traditional ones. For example, it takes half the time for me to launch my old shareware spreadsheet Spread32 than it does to launch the new-look Windows calculator. The windows pop up in the same time, but it takes an extra second or so to display the buttons on the calc. And I no longer launch the calculator with a keyboard shortcut because 1) it is hard to set up as the tile no longer has the ability to set the shortcut (I had to create my own shortcut to calc.exe to make it work), and 2) it takes an extra two seconds to the launch time on my system when using the shortcut compared to clicking on a tile. This means it takes nearly 5.5 seconds to launch the calculator app via a keyboard shortcut. It is faster on my work computer, but it shows that Windows 10 does not run better on low-end systems.
You might think that it's just my slow computer to blame, but it never had this problem when it ran Windows 7 using half the memory.
You have misunderstood what Moore's law is about. It is simply about the number of transistors doubling in integrated circuits every year (later revised to every two years). It is not about single threaded performance in CPUs.
That is why they have just been adding more cores and cache and trying to improve memory technology.
How do you think they add more cores and cache into CPUs if not by increasing the number of transistors? You have just described Moore's law in action!
Moore's law has been around for decades; which only slightly longer than the predictions that the law is dying.
Would have been nice to see that specified in the summary.
One title said that the card was "announced" while the other said that it had been "launched". A pretty clear distinction right from the start. Then the summary says:
The GeForce GTX 1060 held onto its largest leads over the Radeon RX 480 in the DirectX 11 tests, though the Radeon had a clear edge in OpenCL and managed to pull ahead in Thief and in some DirectX 12 tests (like Hitman).
What do you think that these tests are if they aren't benchmarks?
Years ago, Linux was forced to rename "X Windows" to "X Window" because Microsoft didn't like it.
What rot. Why would Linux be forced to rename another team's project? And Mac OS X also has an X in the name. If Microsoft are going to claim both the word Windows and X, why wasn't Linux also forced to rename OS X?
But seriously, X Windows has never been the correct name. From a newsgroup post in 1993:
The X Consortium requests that the following names be used when referring to this software:
X X Window System X Version 11 X Window System, Version 11 X11
There is no such thing as "X Windows" or "X Window", despite the repeated
misuse of the forms by the trade rags. This probably tells you something
about how much to trust the trade rags -- if they can't even get the NAME
of the window system right, why should one trust anything else they have
to say?
So it was never X Windows, Microsoft never asked them to change, and there is no space in the name DirectX. Did you post get anything right?
Which suggests that the government should have been actually planning for this at least three to five years ago. While I think it's assinine for a company to sue for using unlicensed software when they won't sell a license in the first place, I think that the government is in the wrong here.
The government is in the wrong, but not because they haven't planned ahead. They started shopping around for a new system in 2010, but they have had problems with the web-based solution and so have put the roll-out on hold. Only a few city hospitals have started using the new EPAS system. It will be later this year or (as I suspect) some time next year before the country hospitals finally get migrated to the new, centralised solution. Only then will they be able to kick Chiron to the curb.
And what happens when some unsigned index counter wraps around and the database gets corrupted?
Given the age of the software, it wouldn't surprise me if they used a common database format where the structure can be interrogated by SA Health's IT department. They have probably already looked for problems like that. I would also think that they have probably found all the bugs that they are going to find from some 30 year old software.
I think that it is fairly safe to keep using this until EPAS is rolled out either later this year or the next. It's not like they are going to try to keep using this software until 2038 when the next Y2K will happen. (OK, not really - and that's a *nix issue anyway)
Of course, the article says they choose to lease because from the very beginning they planned to replace it. So the plan all along was that they would replace it, but now they decided they'd rather not.
No, you have misread the article (and mixed up choose and chose). I presume that you were referring to this paragraph:
Chiron, an MS-DOS-based system first developed in the 1980s and rolled out in many SA Health rural hospitals in the early 90s, was to have been replaced by the Enterprise Patient Administration System (EPAS) from Allscripts that was originally planned as a state-wide EMR and PAS solution.
The part about when the software was introduced was a subclause of the sentence, and it did not mean that it was already planned to be superseded even as it was introduced. In fact, the software was implemented over 2 years from 1991, while EPAS was only planned in 2009 and put out to tender in 2010. This was many years after they had refused to upgrade to the Windows replacement of Chiron, which itself happened 12 years after SA Health first started using it. The roll-out of EPAS was supposed to have been completed by 2017, 26 years after they first signed up to Chiron. This was not a short term solution as you have stated elsewhere.
As medical records get more comprehensive, they will show your genetic predispositions based on DNA tests. You could be discriminated against based on potential maladies that you may never even contract. It doesn't matter if you completely healthy until the day you get hit by a bus, you might still be deemed a potential risk and therefore not get lower insurance or better employment offers.
And even if that wasn't the case, how short sighted do you have to be do think that you will as healthy as you are now forever?
"My support for 7 is so thorough, it forced me to update to 10".
My other Windows 7 computers are still being supported and will keep getting security upgrades until 2020. So no, I'm not being forced to upgrade to Windows 10. I'm just saying that the upgrade means that I get an additional 5 years of support, which brings the support for my computer up to what I call a generous 14 years.
Since when is five years considered fairly generous? Surely that would be the absolute minimum for supporting any software, let alone an operating system.
My aging Windows 7 notebook is still getting support, and will continue to be supported for quite some time now that I have done the free upgrade to Windows 10. Hell, even the old Vista notebooks that were passed on to me still get updates, although Windows Update is incredibly slow on them so I can't let it automatically check for them.
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Why does the article's logo show Intel?
It actually shows both the Intel and AMD logos (with links to filter based on the companies) at the top of this story page, but it only shows one of the logos on the front page. They stupidly put Intel's logo first.
Elevation from limited-user access to "root" (Administrators-level access) is definitely a threat.
This doesn't do that. You have to already be already running as an Administrator for this so-called exploit to work. If you are not in the Local Administrators group then you will get the prompt requiring a password.
The only thing I dislike about VLC is that instead of just opening up a file and play it, it adds the file to an unwanted playlist and playlist window. If I then open another file, it gets added to the list instead of opening up another player window.
You can fix that yourself. Under the View menu, choose Playlist (or Ctrl-L). Close VLC and open it again. Did the playlist show?
We remove them from the domain, use local firewall to block all but needed ports, stop the server service and block outbound communications to the Internet at the firewall.
Apart from removing them from the domain, surely that is what you should be doing for all your computers no matter what OS they use? I do this even on my home systems - block everything and only allow what I want to access the world, not what the developers want.
Oh, yes. I'm sure the head of Poland's Computer Emergency Response Team would be worried about having the authorities throw the book at him. Especially when the authorities say that this is not something that they care about and it is up to the airlines to worry about it.
Surely if anyone says that they were "just testing the security" then it would be him.
Windows 10 sucks, this whole community agrees. Stop posting stories on windows 10. Stop.
We could all do that, or the easier option is that you could just simply stop reading those stories.
Surely it is newsworthy that the update is completely deleting partitions. Why would you want to deny those that could be affected from being able to take preventative action simply bcause you are sick of hearing about Windows 10?
how are they managing that, MS no longer license win 7 Pro!
That is wrong. It is even mentioned in the f..ing article that Windows 7 Pro is available to OEMs until October 31, 2016.
I don't have a system using Microsoft Accounts where I am right now, but if I recall it displays the email address on the login page under the user name (which I would rather that it didn't). Plug that email address into the reset password page. It will send a confirmation message to that email address (or if a phone was attached to the account then it will send a text message). Follow the instructions.
Ensure that the computer is connected to an Internet connected network (either by cable or WiFi) and try to login using the newly reset password. I can't test this myself right now, so I hope that this does the trick.
In Windows 10 home version you can do that?
Yes, I did it accidentally when I set my system up in my usual way. I always set my firewall to block all outgoing traffic and then create rules to allow the programs that I want to connect to the Internet. I was very surprised that Microsoft didn't include a default rule to allow Windows Updates to connect. I haven't bothered to look at how people block updates because I had to do the opposite and create a rule to actually allow updates - which I only enable when I want them to happen.
If the metered connection trick works then that would be easier for most people to set up. I don't see that it is a problem with it not being the intention of that feature.
In fact, it's so similar, I don't understand how Microsoft can get away with saying that it's a new OS.
They don't say that it's a new OS, just a new version of the same OS. They have built new features on top of the old version (and removed some too) as they always do, hence the same utilities existing since Windows NT 4.0 (and earlier).
Just out of curiosity, did you wait for Windows to finish off all its housekeeping crap that it does after installing before comparing the performance to a well worn install of Windows 7?
Yes. I installed Windows 10 back in January and did some definitive timing tests by filming the screen and using that to time everything in June.
But my impression is that if you have network cable attached to your Windows PC, MS is likely to sneak in in the middle of the night and upgrade your older build to a newer, shinier, more secure, version whose only problem will be that it won't work.
You can always block Windows Update completely and stay frozen at your current version. So if you don't want the Anniversary Update, then you have block all updates in the future. As the OP said, it is worrying what would happen if a reinstall was required though. Keeping an backup image would be the best bet.
I'm using windows 10 and I cannot figure out how to change a user's password.
The Anonymous Cowards who responded to you have given you the correct answers. It should be noted that the method for administering other local accounts has not changed since Windows 2000. You still use Control Panel->User Accounts as you did back then, although the method of getting to the control panel has changed over time. In Windows 10 you right click on the start button and choose it from the pop up menu.
The command line version of "net user username NewPassword" has not changed at all since Windows NT 4.0 (19 years ago). Of course, if you are not used to Windows then it is quite reasonable that you wouldn't know the command to use, any more than a Windows admin would magically know to misspell the word password on Linux.
It is more resource efficient than Windows 7/8. Works better on low end systems.
Not for me it doesn't. I have upgraded two of my computers to Windows 10, and in both cases it is perceptively slower. In the case of my test system - a real low-end computer - I have taken a substantial performance cut since upgrading. I had been using the starter edition of Windows 7, and I upgraded it to 10 to lose the artificial restriction to 2GB of RAM. Yay! Now I can access all 4GB. But, boo! Not only does it run slower, but my computer fan runs more often as the CPU seems to idle at a higher percentage. This was done on a fresh install too.
The other computer (my work system) was a more modern, faster system. While the performance drop is far less pronounced, it is still noticeable. I upgraded the rest of our office and quite a number of people have complained how slow it seems.
I simply cannot understand why people claim that it is more efficient than previous versions of Windows - especially when compared to Windows 7. The most obvious slowness comes from the new don't-call-me-Metro user interface elements. It simply takes longer to display the new UI like menus and dialogs than the traditional ones. For example, it takes half the time for me to launch my old shareware spreadsheet Spread32 than it does to launch the new-look Windows calculator. The windows pop up in the same time, but it takes an extra second or so to display the buttons on the calc. And I no longer launch the calculator with a keyboard shortcut because 1) it is hard to set up as the tile no longer has the ability to set the shortcut (I had to create my own shortcut to calc.exe to make it work), and 2) it takes an extra two seconds to the launch time on my system when using the shortcut compared to clicking on a tile. This means it takes nearly 5.5 seconds to launch the calculator app via a keyboard shortcut. It is faster on my work computer, but it shows that Windows 10 does not run better on low-end systems.
You might think that it's just my slow computer to blame, but it never had this problem when it ran Windows 7 using half the memory.
Moores law has been dead for quite a while now.
You have misunderstood what Moore's law is about. It is simply about the number of transistors doubling in integrated circuits every year (later revised to every two years). It is not about single threaded performance in CPUs.
That is why they have just been adding more cores and cache and trying to improve memory technology.
How do you think they add more cores and cache into CPUs if not by increasing the number of transistors? You have just described Moore's law in action!
Moore's law has been around for decades; which only slightly longer than the predictions that the law is dying.
Would have been nice to see that specified in the summary.
One title said that the card was "announced" while the other said that it had been "launched". A pretty clear distinction right from the start. Then the summary says:
What do you think that these tests are if they aren't benchmarks?
Years ago, Linux was forced to rename "X Windows" to "X Window" because Microsoft didn't like it.
What rot. Why would Linux be forced to rename another team's project? And Mac OS X also has an X in the name. If Microsoft are going to claim both the word Windows and X, why wasn't Linux also forced to rename OS X?
But seriously, X Windows has never been the correct name. From a newsgroup post in 1993:
So it was never X Windows, Microsoft never asked them to change, and there is no space in the name DirectX. Did you post get anything right?
Which suggests that the government should have been actually planning for this at least three to five years ago. While I think it's assinine for a company to sue for using unlicensed software when they won't sell a license in the first place, I think that the government is in the wrong here.
The government is in the wrong, but not because they haven't planned ahead. They started shopping around for a new system in 2010, but they have had problems with the web-based solution and so have put the roll-out on hold. Only a few city hospitals have started using the new EPAS system. It will be later this year or (as I suspect) some time next year before the country hospitals finally get migrated to the new, centralised solution. Only then will they be able to kick Chiron to the curb.
It is not about actual updates it is about the responsability that comes with selling a license for the software you actually wrote.
If SA Health want to keep using the software after it stops being officially supported then they assume the risk. It's simple!
And what happens when some unsigned index counter wraps around and the database gets corrupted?
Given the age of the software, it wouldn't surprise me if they used a common database format where the structure can be interrogated by SA Health's IT department. They have probably already looked for problems like that. I would also think that they have probably found all the bugs that they are going to find from some 30 year old software.
I think that it is fairly safe to keep using this until EPAS is rolled out either later this year or the next. It's not like they are going to try to keep using this software until 2038 when the next Y2K will happen. (OK, not really - and that's a *nix issue anyway)
Of course, the article says they choose to lease because from the very beginning they planned to replace it. So the plan all along was that they would replace it, but now they decided they'd rather not.
No, you have misread the article (and mixed up choose and chose). I presume that you were referring to this paragraph:
The part about when the software was introduced was a subclause of the sentence, and it did not mean that it was already planned to be superseded even as it was introduced. In fact, the software was implemented over 2 years from 1991, while EPAS was only planned in 2009 and put out to tender in 2010. This was many years after they had refused to upgrade to the Windows replacement of Chiron, which itself happened 12 years after SA Health first started using it. The roll-out of EPAS was supposed to have been completed by 2017, 26 years after they first signed up to Chiron. This was not a short term solution as you have stated elsewhere.
But I don't have any health problems...
As medical records get more comprehensive, they will show your genetic predispositions based on DNA tests. You could be discriminated against based on potential maladies that you may never even contract. It doesn't matter if you completely healthy until the day you get hit by a bus, you might still be deemed a potential risk and therefore not get lower insurance or better employment offers.
And even if that wasn't the case, how short sighted do you have to be do think that you will as healthy as you are now forever?
You read it here first!
"My support for 7 is so thorough, it forced me to update to 10".
My other Windows 7 computers are still being supported and will keep getting security upgrades until 2020. So no, I'm not being forced to upgrade to Windows 10. I'm just saying that the upgrade means that I get an additional 5 years of support, which brings the support for my computer up to what I call a generous 14 years.
Since when is five years considered fairly generous? Surely that would be the absolute minimum for supporting any software, let alone an operating system.
My aging Windows 7 notebook is still getting support, and will continue to be supported for quite some time now that I have done the free upgrade to Windows 10. Hell, even the old Vista notebooks that were passed on to me still get updates, although Windows Update is incredibly slow on them so I can't let it automatically check for them.