You took off Office Suites and replaced them with WordPad? Since when is WordPad a spreadsheet app? I'm sure you were real popular with the students and teachers when Excel disappeared. I'm also sure that they liked the fact that all their nice tables, columns, tables of content, indexes, etc. disappeared when you went to WordPad from Word.
Where do your kids go to school? Unless this is a preschool, and a private one at that, I somehow doubt administrators would really let you get away with this.
The funny part is that I confessed that I screwed up in another reply, and I still have people modding me up! Glad to see those moderator points going to good use.
Dammit! There I go thinking ZDNet would actually have breaking news. I really should know better. My bad. I withdraw my question and submit myself to the floggings to come forthwith.
FWIW, I did scan through the articles, but apparently not very thoroughly.
Let me make sure I understand. There's a front page article about a potential Microsoft worm that may be created using an eight day old security vulnerability, but no articles at all about the Sendmail vulnerability discovered today, or the SSH Vulnerability discovered yesterday? What am I missing?
I think one problem is the assumption that just because a SP is released, it will work perfectly in every situation without any other updates. This is silly. There is no way to test an OS update with every single piece of third-party software under the sun.
2. If you install the O/S, then Visual Studio, then Norton Internet Security (kind of important on a windows 2000 box, which doesn't have an integrated firewall), then try to update Norton and Windows, WHICH OUGHT TO WORK, Norton will update fine, Windows Update will crash several times, and the end result will be your IIS will stop working, so your Visual Studio won't be able to create VS.Net projects. I think this might be related to a recent patch, because it didn't happen before Service Pack 4 came out.
Under known issues with SP4, I found this, which, I believe, addresses your Norton problem in item 2.
3. If you have a recent copy of Roxio's CD burning software, it'll stop working after you update Windows. The app will start up, but it'll crash as soon as you insert a CD-RW into the drive. I've updated the software from the Roxio site, too, hoping that would help (no luck). It's got to be something in one of the windows patches. So, patch windows or burn CDs! You seem to have to choose one or the other. Older, no longer available copies of Roxio seem to keep working, so if you get a Rio Volt MP3 Cd-player, you can install the older software off of their disk (warning: this might not be true anymore).
What CD burner do you have? I have found a reference to Sony burners failing with SP4 unless you install a fix from Roxio here, which may cover #3.
5. Windows patches keep restoring MS Outlook Express! If I kill it off, it keeps coming back like a friggin' vampire. It's the undead, unwanted email app. Actually, the only easy way I've found to kill it is to change the security on the Outlook Express folder so that no one has read-write priviledges, then boot from a floppy and clean the thing out. This way, Windows can't keep putting the files back (Grr... Windows puts 'em back THREE SECONDS after you delete them, otherwise!).
I have already addressed #4(or 5:-)) when I discussed WFP.
1. If you install the O/S, then patch it, and THEN try to install Visual Studio, the Visual Studio installer crashes. The problem seems to be that if you install Microsoft's updated.Net packages before Visual Studio, Visual Studio can't handle that and it chokes.
That leaves #1 which, I too, had this problem with. However, all I did was go to add/remove programs, uninstalled the.NET framework that windowsupdate installed, then restarted VS.NET installation. Worked fine after that, and I just skipped the.NET framework recommendation on the windowsupdate site (it was not a "critical" update, anyway).
The point being that as awesome as the resources and support are for Linux and other open source OSes, there is a multitude of free support for Windows as well. I don't infer that this relates to a lack of knowledge or ability, but perhaps a lack of effort to resolve the problem?
I'm confused when it became flamebait to use humor to demonstrate a point about ignorance of a subject not being a defense for belittling said subject. Perhaps I should elucidate.
One of the original poster's point was that their stuff gets rewritten by Windows three seconds after they delete them. This is a feature called Windows File Protection (WFP). It is used for the same reason that the current topic of discussion is being considered...users who do not know what they are doing screwing up their systems. In this case, if someone accidentally deletes an important system file, or they install an outdated, unsupported software that would break their current system files, the OS fixes the problem automatically. If you don't like it, spend 10 seconds on google.com and find an article like this that tells you how to turn it off.
As opposed to a using a system that just works?
I don't recall telling anyone they should use any specific OS. To me, that is akin to telling them which God to worship. However, it does appear that the original poster is being forced to use Windows. Therefore, I recommended that they study up a little on the OS they are using and find ways around the things they hate. To someone familiar with Windows, saying you hate windows because of WFP is like saying you hate Unix because there is no GUI. How much research would it take to discover X?
BTW: For those who missed the reference, and therefore the joke...here you go (about 1/4 of the way down).
If I remember correctly, the instructions said to tune your radio to 87.7. I guess that would make it legal, then.
Also, that was not a Mr. Microphone in Toy Story (and Toy Story 2). That was a Playskool Tape Recorder with Sing-Along Mike. Mr. Microphone was a stand-alone mic, no cord, no recorder.
Apparently you've confused Linux with the imaginary Super Magic Happy Fun Ball OS, where there are no virus threats or security vulnerabilities, and all software is free (unlike the pot you're apparently smoking).
What? 15 vulnerabilities in one week. They must be talking about some other Linux.
Seriously, for the author's sake...
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please remove this review. It does absolutely no credit to the author. It does not persuade anyone to read the book. "F*(% You" written on the bathroom wall conveys more literary skill than this oral diarrhea. This person should be banned from slashdot, and may God have mercy on his cold, black soul.
Does anyone know exactly how those autogenerating programs work? Is it a dictionary search, or an alphabetical (aaaaa@, aaaab@, aaaac@, etc.)? I have a hotmail account that is nothing more difficult than my first name and last name @hotmail.com, neither one that unique. I have never in the 2+ years I have had that account received any spam. True, I only use it at reputable businesses and with friends, but still...am I just lucky?
Sorry, but you're thinking of criminal charges. In civil charges such as lawsuits, it is quite common to have to prove your innocence. Also, you are not entitled to a lawyer. Also, you are not entitled to a jury trial. Kind of ironic that "Civil Suits" give the shaft to "Civil rights".
More than once in the article, the author recommends that the gaming industry receive the same support that the movie industry does. If the quality of recent British films (e.g. The Pianist) is the result of government interfere...er, assistance, I sincerely hope they keep their mitts off the gaming industry.
On the other hand, for those situations where government assistance is necessary, I think they are choosing the correct path. There are two schools of thought on government meddling in the business sector:
1) Give money to small businesses, which foster many new ideas but don't have the capital to bring them to market.
2) Persecute the big businesses so that small, idiotic companies with poor business models can flood the market with every little stupid idea that springs into their double mocha cappucino soaked brains.
It's pretty obvious which direction the US has chosen. Hopefully they can learn from the UK that option #1 is the better solution.
It's been nearly six months since the SANS/FBI "Top 20" Internet vulnerabilities list was updated. Looks like it's time for another update as the sendmail section contains the following line:
Sendmail has not had a 'high' severity vulnerability in more two years
Is this latest considered 'high' vulnerability? If you have never read this report, I highly recommend it for both Unix and MS system admins.
How much German, Japanese, and European history was destroyed in the early 20th century? Is history more important than the present? I believe there was a quote, maybe from Tokien, which said something about the folly of being more proud of who your ancestors were than who your children are. Some countries are willing to trade the freedom and safety of their children to preserve the memory of their ancestors. France did it in the early 20th, and they are apparently willing to do it again today. I, personally, don't have much respect for this type of elitist cowardice. If the destruction of a pottery battery will save a couple hundred Iraqi civilians from being detained, thrown in jail, and tortured, it's worth it.
I was 'fortunate' enough to be a beta tester for this game, and I was extremely disappointed with the game. Simply put, there are fundamental issues here.
This deserves a +5 mod for "No Shit" factor. You were a beta tester and you found issues with the software. Gee, what a surprise, a beta version had issues. The real question is, did you do your job as a beta tester and report those issues, or did you just complain about it? How do you know that those issues were not fixed in the final release?
"Beta testing" and "Test Marketing" are two different things. Let's not confuse them.
"The users are asked to read and agree to the site policy before they can make use of it," eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove told Haaretz. "We provide a link to our privacy policy on every single page of our site, and provide summaries of this policy, all so that users will be familiar with our policy."
Be pissed, boycott 'em, tell everyone else how shitty they are, but don't say you weren't warned. Clicking through the EULA without reading it is never a good practice. If you have never been bitten in the ass before (i.e. Gator), just take my word for it. If you are going to give someone your personal information, you better know what they plan to do with it.
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I believe that would be mutton. Lamb chops are less than 18 months old. Dolly's chops would be, uh, less than desirable at her age.
My guess is that they chose to do this because they were sick of the bigotry of people who had been here longer and did not like that some shanty mick was living in their neighborhood, stinking it up with their corned beef and soda bread. Now that I live in a more civilized society, and have become successful, I would like to pay hommage to them and return our name to posterity. My guess is that they would be proud that their progeny can proudly proclaim their name, rather than hide behind some bastardized version of it.
My surname was anglicized when my great-grandparents came to America. I would like to revert it to its original form. However, I now have children and a wife. Would it be difficult to change my name and my children's names as well? My kids are still very young. Has anyone experienced a name change in their childhood? Did it have any adverse effects on your self-image? Also, converting it to its original would automatically label them as a specific ethnicity/nationality. Can anyone give any insight as to what it is like to have a surname which is obviously from a specific country? (hint: I would be adding an O' to the beginning and changing the spelling slightly--save the alcoholic jokes for someone else). Thanks for the input.
Ok, this is driving me nuts. I distinctly remember entering this approximately 4,348,182 times on my Nintendo, but I cannot remember what game it was. Contra? Metroid? Super Mario? Mike Tyson's Punchout? AAAAAARRRRGH! HELP!
That gun that shot the big balls of flame in Super Contra had to be the best weapon in the history of gaming
Now if the UK gov't switched to Linux like other gov't of the world.. *drool* I could only imaging the progress that would be pushed forward!
Am I the only person that gets pissed off about statements like this? I like Linux as much as the next guy, really, but does anyone truly believe that simply switching the primary desktop OS of the government of a country from MS to Linux is going to foster in a new age of innovation or something? Where does this logic come from?
obTopic: I am not familiar with the anti-trust/monopoly laws of the UK. I understood the US suing MS because that is where the company is headquartered. How can a foreign country sue a corporation that does not reside within its borders? Isn't this how all those gambling websites get away with it?
I haven't played with any of the "features" that are supposed to be available now with Yahoo, but the switchover was painless. Nice that I got my old price, and my old email address. I'd say do it now. If you wait until they force all of the old customers, and you have a problem, you are going to be having that problem with 10,000 other people who just got switched the same day...
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You took off Office Suites and replaced them with WordPad? Since when is WordPad a spreadsheet app? I'm sure you were real popular with the students and teachers when Excel disappeared. I'm also sure that they liked the fact that all their nice tables, columns, tables of content, indexes, etc. disappeared when you went to WordPad from Word.
Where do your kids go to school? Unless this is a preschool, and a private one at that, I somehow doubt administrators would really let you get away with this.
The funny part is that I confessed that I screwed up in another reply, and I still have people modding me up! Glad to see those moderator points going to good use.
FWIW, I did scan through the articles, but apparently not very thoroughly.
Let me make sure I understand. There's a front page article about a potential Microsoft worm that may be created using an eight day old security vulnerability, but no articles at all about the Sendmail vulnerability discovered today, or the SSH Vulnerability discovered yesterday? What am I missing?
Under known issues with SP4, I found this, which, I believe, addresses your Norton problem in item 2.
What CD burner do you have? I have found a reference to Sony burners failing with SP4 unless you install a fix from Roxio here, which may cover #3.
I have already addressed #4(or 5 :-)) when I discussed WFP.
That leaves #1 which, I too, had this problem with. However, all I did was go to add/remove programs, uninstalled the .NET framework that windowsupdate installed, then restarted VS.NET installation. Worked fine after that, and I just skipped the .NET framework recommendation on the windowsupdate site (it was not a "critical" update, anyway).
The point being that as awesome as the resources and support are for Linux and other open source OSes, there is a multitude of free support for Windows as well. I don't infer that this relates to a lack of knowledge or ability, but perhaps a lack of effort to resolve the problem?
One of the original poster's point was that their stuff gets rewritten by Windows three seconds after they delete them. This is a feature called Windows File Protection (WFP). It is used for the same reason that the current topic of discussion is being considered...users who do not know what they are doing screwing up their systems. In this case, if someone accidentally deletes an important system file, or they install an outdated, unsupported software that would break their current system files, the OS fixes the problem automatically. If you don't like it, spend 10 seconds on google.com and find an article like this that tells you how to turn it off.
I don't recall telling anyone they should use any specific OS. To me, that is akin to telling them which God to worship. However, it does appear that the original poster is being forced to use Windows. Therefore, I recommended that they study up a little on the OS they are using and find ways around the things they hate. To someone familiar with Windows, saying you hate windows because of WFP is like saying you hate Unix because there is no GUI. How much research would it take to discover X?
BTW: For those who missed the reference, and therefore the joke...here you go (about 1/4 of the way down).
*In my best Sean Connery*
"It tells me that penguin loving morons such as yourself should try reading MS books instead of burning them!"
Also, that was not a Mr. Microphone in Toy Story (and Toy Story 2). That was a Playskool Tape Recorder with Sing-Along Mike. Mr. Microphone was a stand-alone mic, no cord, no recorder.
What? 15 vulnerabilities in one week. They must be talking about some other Linux.
please remove this review. It does absolutely no credit to the author. It does not persuade anyone to read the book. "F*(% You" written on the bathroom wall conveys more literary skill than this oral diarrhea. This person should be banned from slashdot, and may God have mercy on his cold, black soul.
Does anyone know exactly how those autogenerating programs work? Is it a dictionary search, or an alphabetical (aaaaa@, aaaab@, aaaac@, etc.)? I have a hotmail account that is nothing more difficult than my first name and last name @hotmail.com, neither one that unique. I have never in the 2+ years I have had that account received any spam. True, I only use it at reputable businesses and with friends, but still...am I just lucky?
Sorry, but you're thinking of criminal charges. In civil charges such as lawsuits, it is quite common to have to prove your innocence. Also, you are not entitled to a lawyer. Also, you are not entitled to a jury trial. Kind of ironic that "Civil Suits" give the shaft to "Civil rights".
More than once in the article, the author recommends that the gaming industry receive the same support that the movie industry does. If the quality of recent British films (e.g. The Pianist) is the result of government interfere...er, assistance, I sincerely hope they keep their mitts off the gaming industry.
On the other hand, for those situations where government assistance is necessary, I think they are choosing the correct path. There are two schools of thought on government meddling in the business sector:
It's pretty obvious which direction the US has chosen. Hopefully they can learn from the UK that option #1 is the better solution.
It's been nearly six months since the SANS/FBI "Top 20" Internet vulnerabilities list was updated. Looks like it's time for another update as the sendmail section contains the following line:
Is this latest considered 'high' vulnerability? If you have never read this report, I highly recommend it for both Unix and MS system admins.
In case you're tired of looking for UFOs with SETI, you can use your spare CPU cycles to help prove/disprove this hypothesis here.
How much German, Japanese, and European history was destroyed in the early 20th century? Is history more important than the present? I believe there was a quote, maybe from Tokien, which said something about the folly of being more proud of who your ancestors were than who your children are. Some countries are willing to trade the freedom and safety of their children to preserve the memory of their ancestors. France did it in the early 20th, and they are apparently willing to do it again today. I, personally, don't have much respect for this type of elitist cowardice. If the destruction of a pottery battery will save a couple hundred Iraqi civilians from being detained, thrown in jail, and tortured, it's worth it.
This deserves a +5 mod for "No Shit" factor. You were a beta tester and you found issues with the software. Gee, what a surprise, a beta version had issues. The real question is, did you do your job as a beta tester and report those issues, or did you just complain about it? How do you know that those issues were not fixed in the final release?
"Beta testing" and "Test Marketing" are two different things. Let's not confuse them.
I believe that would be mutton. Lamb chops are less than 18 months old. Dolly's chops would be, uh, less than desirable at her age.
My guess is that they chose to do this because they were sick of the bigotry of people who had been here longer and did not like that some shanty mick was living in their neighborhood, stinking it up with their corned beef and soda bread. Now that I live in a more civilized society, and have become successful, I would like to pay hommage to them and return our name to posterity. My guess is that they would be proud that their progeny can proudly proclaim their name, rather than hide behind some bastardized version of it.
My surname was anglicized when my great-grandparents came to America. I would like to revert it to its original form. However, I now have children and a wife. Would it be difficult to change my name and my children's names as well? My kids are still very young. Has anyone experienced a name change in their childhood? Did it have any adverse effects on your self-image? Also, converting it to its original would automatically label them as a specific ethnicity/nationality. Can anyone give any insight as to what it is like to have a surname which is obviously from a specific country? (hint: I would be adding an O' to the beginning and changing the spelling slightly--save the alcoholic jokes for someone else). Thanks for the input.
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Ok, this is driving me nuts. I distinctly remember entering this approximately 4,348,182 times on my Nintendo, but I cannot remember what game it was. Contra? Metroid? Super Mario? Mike Tyson's Punchout? AAAAAARRRRGH! HELP!
That gun that shot the big balls of flame in Super Contra had to be the best weapon in the history of gaming
Now if the UK gov't switched to Linux like other gov't of the world.. *drool* I could only imaging the progress that would be pushed forward!
Am I the only person that gets pissed off about statements like this? I like Linux as much as the next guy, really, but does anyone truly believe that simply switching the primary desktop OS of the government of a country from MS to Linux is going to foster in a new age of innovation or something? Where does this logic come from?
obTopic: I am not familiar with the anti-trust/monopoly laws of the UK. I understood the US suing MS because that is where the company is headquartered. How can a foreign country sue a corporation that does not reside within its borders? Isn't this how all those gambling websites get away with it?
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I haven't played with any of the "features" that are supposed to be available now with Yahoo, but the switchover was painless. Nice that I got my old price, and my old email address. I'd say do it now. If you wait until they force all of the old customers, and you have a problem, you are going to be having that problem with 10,000 other people who just got switched the same day...
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