Speaking as a geek-parent, I don't think I would want my kids working on machines that are subpar, or old. At home, at least, I want to keep my kids up to date with technology. I don't want their experience with technology being on old machines likely to crap out; that's how a fear of this stuff starts because this type of stuff breaks(e.g., "If I touch it it will blow up"). If anything, our schools and our children deserve faster boxes...
To me this is an issue of space vs. capacity. Cooling systems for servers probably don't run cheap and you can't just magically make a cooler server; 15,000 rpm drives clustered together in tight quarters and sitting on top of each other and dozens of servers crammed into close spaces make for hot rooms no matter what you do.
Cooler servers would make for more of a foot print. Somehow, I don't think people can just magically make a server room bigger.
If the company can't stand on it's own and figure out how to meet the customer's needs, then the government can step in and help create an artificial market for them.
It's essentially what happening here. Phone companies should/could turn into mega isps and could offer their own VoIP service for a cheaper rate than Vonage does.
I think this could end up damaging the Phone co's in the long run given that there are other companies out there that would love to take a share of the "we'll provide the services all through your (cable/satalite/phone/power/etc. line"
This is not meant or intended to get to be 'flamebait', but I find it odd that people expect ethical, or even well intended behavior from a corporation that employs more than 1000 people.
Seriously, Apple is a corporation not your buddy you sit next to in programming classes.
Someone metioned that Apple plunders OpenSource...but do we let them? Is people's despise for M$ so great that they will willingly hand over code to Apple just because they think that they can 'get to' M$.
The huge problem with McAfee 8.0i has been figuring out a policy that protects from buffer overruns and keeps your developers happy; I've had to loosen the restrictions for those folks because as you put together stuff in vstudio and attempt to debug it, McAfee's Buffer Overrun flags it and doesn't allow it to run:(.
How about Windows on a Sun blade server?
How about Windows on a Cray?
How about Windows on an IBM mainframe?
How about Windows on an Apple?
To me, these are the same questions. People who buy apple machines don't buy them because they can get Microsoft software. It's a different world...players are people like Adobe, or MacroMedia, not really MS.
My Graphic Designer friend would rather poke his eye out than use Windows.
It sounds like this Taylor guy should become CEO. As fond of MS as we all are around here, at least somebody there is thinking through strategy and figuring out how to compete. IMO, that was IBM's downfall in the late 80's...they just didn't care because they were on top.
Mind you, that still doesn't mean MS's got it all down. RedHat or SUSE could still obliterate them due to MS's size alone; e.g., it's going to take them till 2007 to get longhorn out...that says to me they're getting too big.
--pete
If RTW is Monday, why is this such a huge deal?
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Windows XP SP2 Goes Gold
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You're foolish if you've got auto-update turned on right now - if anything just to prevent it from catching you off guard. It boggles my mind why everyone is like rats scurrying around to find something to eat with this on a Friday night.
Not intentionally being flamebait, but can't it wait till Monday so that you're for sure your downloading the right thing and not some ankle bitter's bot script that's embedded in their copy of SP2?
...I find it interesting that these new huge flaws come in time for the start of a new academic year. Resnets are prime targets for these types of viri (largely unregulated, noob users who don't know any better). We're battening down the hatches at our institution...
There are a couple of pieces that I'd like (e.g. the pop-up blocker), but for the most part, I really don't care and it's a problem that's best suited till later. I don't feel like piecing my way through the gpo that you'll need to setup to configure the "firewall" the right way.
I'm much more looking forward to Mcafee's next release which will include a buffer overrun protector and its own spyware killer(which I bet will work a bit better).
--pete
Yeah, so here I was Mr. Smart-computer-guy and I was writing my Master's thesis that was due in less than a month and I had stayed up until 3 a.m. working on my Statistics chapter (roughly 12-15 pages of just the methodology and numbers behind my study. I was paranoid and backing it up regularly to a backed up Network Drive that I'd created and to the desktop of my laptop I was typing on. I got punchy towards the end of the night and decided to consolidate everything to one copy. I overwrote what I'd been doing with a copy from the beginning of the night then emptied the recycle bin and then deleted the other copy and emptied the recycle bin (why does that always happen that you empty the recycle bin...) and just as I hit 'yes' I realized what I'd done. I ended up weeping the rest of the night....and re-writing it the next night.
"The Microsoft browser, the government warned, cannot protect against vulnerabilities in its Internet Information Services (IIS) 5 server programs, "
I don't want to stem the tide of MS bashing, but does this sentence make sense to anyone? To me it doesn't and it implies that the browser is linked to IIS 5.0.
Beyond that fact that you're either dumb or stuck if you're running IIS 5.0 these days, does it make sense to link IE w/ IIS 5.0?
You see, I used to, but wired became too concerned about its look rather than content. Around 2000 was when it seemed that their ability to attract good writers with interesting things to say feel into the toilet.
I stopped reading information week/network world some time ago. This may sound lame, but for trends, I look to the web and my social network that I have of other friends in the business, and to customer needs. As far as information goes, I much rather prefer to wade through a technical website or an 1000 pg manual to find specifically what I need rather than keeping up on trade journals.
If there were a magazine that was more theory based and more high level it would be more of a draw to me, but most of the stuff that I get 'comp' subscriptions for I just don't read.
There's that and the fact that they hassle you to renew your subscription with a survey that just takes 'a couple of minutes' and ends up being 15 pages on demographics just isn't worth my time...
Now I'm sitting in the Nigera with my friends from several banking institutions wondering how we can get the money out of the country. Perhaps we could have your help?
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--pete
Cooler servers would make for more of a foot print. Somehow, I don't think people can just magically make a server room bigger.
--pete
It's essentially what happening here. Phone companies should/could turn into mega isps and could offer their own VoIP service for a cheaper rate than Vonage does.
I think this could end up damaging the Phone co's in the long run given that there are other companies out there that would love to take a share of the "we'll provide the services all through your (cable/satalite/phone/power/etc. line"
--pete
--pete "Who enjoys the April fools jokes"
Seriously, Apple is a corporation not your buddy you sit next to in programming classes.
Someone metioned that Apple plunders OpenSource...but do we let them? Is people's despise for M$ so great that they will willingly hand over code to Apple just because they think that they can 'get to' M$.
Just some thoughts...
--pete
The huge problem with McAfee 8.0i has been figuring out a policy that protects from buffer overruns and keeps your developers happy; I've had to loosen the restrictions for those folks because as you put together stuff in vstudio and attempt to debug it, McAfee's Buffer Overrun flags it and doesn't allow it to run :(.
--pete
Unfortunately, most of teh 2236 comments probably consist of "I'm right and you're a piece of crap".
--pete
How about Windows on a Cray?
How about Windows on an IBM mainframe?
How about Windows on an Apple?
To me, these are the same questions. People who buy apple machines don't buy them because they can get Microsoft software. It's a different world...players are people like Adobe, or MacroMedia, not really MS.
My Graphic Designer friend would rather poke his eye out than use Windows.
--Pete --pete
(aren't we a bit beyond the whole pissing on each other's character? Who really listens to that stuff anyway?)
mmmmm....I can't wait to get home and fry up one of them helper monkeys...
It sounds like this Taylor guy should become CEO. As fond of MS as we all are around here, at least somebody there is thinking through strategy and figuring out how to compete. IMO, that was IBM's downfall in the late 80's...they just didn't care because they were on top.
Mind you, that still doesn't mean MS's got it all down. RedHat or SUSE could still obliterate them due to MS's size alone; e.g., it's going to take them till 2007 to get longhorn out...that says to me they're getting too big.
--pete
Not intentionally being flamebait, but can't it wait till Monday so that you're for sure your downloading the right thing and not some ankle bitter's bot script that's embedded in their copy of SP2?
--pete
That and a Cyber Cafe on the dingle penninsula in Ireland.
--pete
What rock have they been living under for the past 14 years that they've just now noticed this? Can we say 'SCO' boys and girls? --pete
Windows XP SP2, RC2 is vulnerable; I successfully completed their test. --pete
--pete
There are a couple of pieces that I'd like (e.g. the pop-up blocker), but for the most part, I really don't care and it's a problem that's best suited till later. I don't feel like piecing my way through the gpo that you'll need to setup to configure the "firewall" the right way.
I'm much more looking forward to Mcafee's next release which will include a buffer overrun protector and its own spyware killer(which I bet will work a bit better).
--pete
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Got a couple of tracks that I've been trying to make an excuse to download for a while
Got to participate in a real time community experience on the Internet, which, btw I think is rare these days
Apple made a few dollars off me
Oh well, I had fun...:)
--pete
--pete
Beyond that fact that you're either dumb or stuck if you're running IIS 5.0 these days, does it make sense to link IE w/ IIS 5.0?
--pete
--pete
If there were a magazine that was more theory based and more high level it would be more of a draw to me, but most of the stuff that I get 'comp' subscriptions for I just don't read.
There's that and the fact that they hassle you to renew your subscription with a survey that just takes 'a couple of minutes' and ends up being 15 pages on demographics just isn't worth my time...
--pete
Now I'm sitting in the Nigera with my friends from several banking institutions wondering how we can get the money out of the country. Perhaps we could have your help?
--pete
--pete
--pete