People don't spend enough money on their computing environment. Joe consumer wants the cheapest solution available, that mainly works. For cars, people expect to pay over 1k a year in gas, a couple oil changes, etc. If Joe Consumer spent 50 bucks a year to buy a security product for the latest woe (firewall, spam, antivirus), they really wouldn't have any problems. If MS has engineered win95 to do all these things way back in the early 90s, or if they went with a subscription model promising to take care of unforseen security problems, it would have cost Joe Consumer considerably more. Joe Consumer wants to be able to download music for free, but doesn't want to pay the piper when he downloads a bogus mp3 that is trojan infected, or some such.
Disclaimer - there is no way I will ever vote for Dean.
If it is Dean campaign policy that anyone working for the campaign can claim to make authoritative public statements for the campaign, they are going to end up in a world of trouble.
A freshman rep is very powerless in the cosmic scheme of things, a Democratic one currently is especially so. That said, how on earth can a barely known 1-2 term rep leave congress to become a powerful lobbyist? Its the people with deep institutional knowledges that are often becoming lobbyists. Most members of congress are preoccupied with remaining members of congress, not with what they will do after being members of congress.
They are often low tax regimes. Much like how Ireland has prospered over the past 10+ years - through trading agreements, you basically have free trade with all of Europe, and then ensure that you have a pro business environment.
Newbury comics in the Boston area is competitive with online places and the box stores. When I went to school in DC, I had the same problem as you. Newbury Comics has about 10 stores in the boston area - I wonder if they key to success is selling cds for 7/10ths of what everyone else does, but selling a lot more of them.
Apple is never going to threaten anyone. Linux is viable because of cheap commodity hardware. Cheap commodity hardware in an anathema to Apple (and sun, but I digress).
Linux is $0 on a 1k box. MS software is $200 minimum on a 1k box. OS X is on a 2k box, so you can load up a x86 pc with MS software, and have it competitive with apple.
They are generally non security patches, so they want to track the patch usage. These types of patches generally get rolled into service packs - ever read the 3+ page long list of fixes in service packs - these comprise the bulk of that stuff.
You cannot necessarily say that the acquisition and the end of the mac client are necessarily causational. MS has been complaining about their mac office sales. The number of people who want to run real financial software on a mac is much smaller than the market for office, or any of the multimedia packages that are the bread and butter for the mac user base. The mac rev could have been on the way out before the acquisition
The MA state gov has probably pumped 10 billion extra into education in the last 5 years. The MCAS isn't about class warfare, its about making high school diplomas have some value. Without the MCAS, high school diplomas are attendance awards.
I hang out on the cisco's firewall support board. Some guy wanted to know how to stop people via his PIX from being able to telnet into port 25 and type commands like "mail to", "helo", etc. to his mailserver. Yikes.
Dude, I am a MCSE-type, but the recompile happens, then make install, and then you stop and restart the service. Rebooting an server and watching it count gig(s) of ram, count and check 75 scsi ids, and load the os is a totally diffrent story. MS has made some progress for patches not needing reboots, but IE fucking ruins everything, just as usual.
You are onto something, and you don't even fully know it. SUS is free, BTW
I am playing with SUS server and its group policy settings, and there is no way for end users to initiate downloads. I can make updates happen over night, and force pc reboots, but I am not thrilled with that solution (i feel that may negatively reinforce user's locking their workstations as a routine behaviour). SUS doesn't interact with windows update at all - disabling windows update via group policy isn't an ideal solution either.
You are right - furthermore, wiring guys are getting killed by this market - no one is signing commercial leases, so no wire needs to be run. for a job of that size/complexity (rewire is much more of a PITA than in a gutted building as it is going up), you probably could demand 75 or less a drop.
Look at all of these posts citing promise ide raid cards. Who wants to call my first tier support guy and tout them? Him, the poor bastard who had to rebuild the array from scratch per Promise's recommendations (along with installing a beta bios, and beta win2k drivers0. We have gotten excellent support from them (we have western dig drives that disappear and reappear, and the raid card keeps trying to rebuild the array, etc,etc,etc), but ide raid is still not ready for production use. We only are using it for a large capacity install point for msdn software, etc - all stuff we have on cd, didn't want to pay the scsi tax for > 300GB of disk
Although its fun to kick MS around for licensing reasons, they have been pretty reasonable updating the software limitations of hardware - 2k pro supposed only 2 cpus, but I am very certain that it and XP pro will see and use all 4 logical cores of a 2 CPU hyperthreading xeon machine.
Therefore, I wouldn't be surprised to see the RAM limits increased when more ram becomes necessary. Right now, MS publically says due to lack of PAE support in Exchange 2000, there is no reason to put > 3 GB of ram in a E2k box. Once apps start pushing things on a more regular basis, MS will probably have to relent. Right now I think the people who really need 64 bits have it, and are using *nix. People who would like it, find ways to deal. AMD hopefully will commoditize 64 bit computing, and make it something we don't need to worry about.
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If you use the post sp3 .adm files, I believe you can config local security policy to grab updates from windows update.
There multiple ways to do stuff like that - psexec from sysinternals pstools, and there is something in the resource kit, iirc
Here is my semi on topic premise:
People don't spend enough money on their computing environment. Joe consumer wants the cheapest solution available, that mainly works. For cars, people expect to pay over 1k a year in gas, a couple oil changes, etc. If Joe Consumer spent 50 bucks a year to buy a security product for the latest woe (firewall, spam, antivirus), they really wouldn't have any problems. If MS has engineered win95 to do all these things way back in the early 90s, or if they went with a subscription model promising to take care of unforseen security problems, it would have cost Joe Consumer considerably more. Joe Consumer wants to be able to download music for free, but doesn't want to pay the piper when he downloads a bogus mp3 that is trojan infected, or some such.
ostiguy
Disclaimer - there is no way I will ever vote for Dean.
If it is Dean campaign policy that anyone working for the campaign can claim to make authoritative public statements for the campaign, they are going to end up in a world of trouble.
ostiguy
The Rehman book came out 3 months later - does that play into the amazon sales ranking? Not that sales has anything to do with quality
There is definitely a MS patch for nt4, but I am not sure in this particular vuln. works on it
This is a post sp4 hotfix. sp3 nor sp4 fixes this.
Your post is nonsensical.
A freshman rep is very powerless in the cosmic scheme of things, a Democratic one currently is especially so. That said, how on earth can a barely known 1-2 term rep leave congress to become a powerful lobbyist? Its the people with deep institutional knowledges that are often becoming lobbyists. Most members of congress are preoccupied with remaining members of congress, not with what they will do after being members of congress.
ostiguy
They are often low tax regimes. Much like how Ireland has prospered over the past 10+ years - through trading agreements, you basically have free trade with all of Europe, and then ensure that you have a pro business environment.
ostiguy
Newbury comics in the Boston area is competitive with online places and the box stores. When I went to school in DC, I had the same problem as you. Newbury Comics has about 10 stores in the boston area - I wonder if they key to success is selling cds for 7/10ths of what everyone else does, but selling a lot more of them.
I think they are special is in:
You get to pay a special price (17.99) for buying this cd instead of at a big box store (10.99), because the selection is basically the same.
AKA, its the same "special" is in "special needs"
ostiguy
Have you looked at earthlink? in MA they resell comcast cable service. it might be cheaper for you as a modem owner and as a non cable tv subscriber
Apple is never going to threaten anyone. Linux is viable because of cheap commodity hardware. Cheap commodity hardware in an anathema to Apple (and sun, but I digress).
Linux is $0 on a 1k box. MS software is $200 minimum on a 1k box. OS X is on a 2k box, so you can load up a x86 pc with MS software, and have it competitive with apple.
ostiguy
Joe owns the hardware, not the software. If the software's license dictates auto updating, you are out of luck.
ostiguy
They are generally non security patches, so they want to track the patch usage. These types of patches generally get rolled into service packs - ever read the 3+ page long list of fixes in service packs - these comprise the bulk of that stuff.
ostiguy
You cannot necessarily say that the acquisition and the end of the mac client are necessarily causational. MS has been complaining about their mac office sales. The number of people who want to run real financial software on a mac is much smaller than the market for office, or any of the multimedia packages that are the bread and butter for the mac user base. The mac rev could have been on the way out before the acquisition
ostiguy
The MA state gov has probably pumped 10 billion extra into education in the last 5 years. The MCAS isn't about class warfare, its about making high school diplomas have some value. Without the MCAS, high school diplomas are attendance awards.
ostiguy
No kidding.
I hang out on the cisco's firewall support board. Some guy wanted to know how to stop people via his PIX from being able to telnet into port 25 and type commands like "mail to", "helo", etc. to his mailserver. Yikes.
ostiguy
Dude, I am a MCSE-type, but the recompile happens, then make install, and then you stop and restart the service. Rebooting an server and watching it count gig(s) of ram, count and check 75 scsi ids, and load the os is a totally diffrent story. MS has made some progress for patches not needing reboots, but IE fucking ruins everything, just as usual.
ostiguy
You are onto something, and you don't even fully know it. SUS is free, BTW
I am playing with SUS server and its group policy settings, and there is no way for end users to initiate downloads. I can make updates happen over night, and force pc reboots, but I am not thrilled with that solution (i feel that may negatively reinforce user's locking their workstations as a routine behaviour). SUS doesn't interact with windows update at all - disabling windows update via group policy isn't an ideal solution either.
grrrrrr.
ostiguy
You are right - furthermore, wiring guys are getting killed by this market - no one is signing commercial leases, so no wire needs to be run. for a job of that size/complexity (rewire is much more of a PITA than in a gutted building as it is going up), you probably could demand 75 or less a drop.
ostiguy
No kidding.
Look at all of these posts citing promise ide raid cards. Who wants to call my first tier support guy and tout them? Him, the poor bastard who had to rebuild the array from scratch per Promise's recommendations (along with installing a beta bios, and beta win2k drivers0. We have gotten excellent support from them (we have western dig drives that disappear and reappear, and the raid card keeps trying to rebuild the array, etc,etc,etc), but ide raid is still not ready for production use. We only are using it for a large capacity install point for msdn software, etc - all stuff we have on cd, didn't want to pay the scsi tax for > 300GB of disk
ostiguy
The problem with your statement is that IIS 6.0 uses a binary metabase, not the registry....
because...
drumroll please....
The IIS dev team decided that the registry wasn't quick enough. But then they hatched another binary format monstrosity, the metabase.
ostiguy
DARPA is not a welfare program. If they get the results/research they seek, it shouldn't matter where the work gets done.
Although its fun to kick MS around for licensing reasons, they have been pretty reasonable updating the software limitations of hardware - 2k pro supposed only 2 cpus, but I am very certain that it and XP pro will see and use all 4 logical cores of a 2 CPU hyperthreading xeon machine.
Therefore, I wouldn't be surprised to see the RAM limits increased when more ram becomes necessary. Right now, MS publically says due to lack of PAE support in Exchange 2000, there is no reason to put > 3 GB of ram in a E2k box. Once apps start pushing things on a more regular basis, MS will probably have to relent. Right now I think the people who really need 64 bits have it, and are using *nix. People who would like it, find ways to deal. AMD hopefully will commoditize 64 bit computing, and make it something we don't need to worry about.
ostiguy