If Microsoft programmers built houses, the walls would be blue with white trim, and the garage would have to have CHKCAR run on every instance of the door opening.
On top of that, there's also the whole "backdoor left wide open" stigma that comes with the Windows house.
One: If you do this, you can't get SP2. However, people knowledgeable enough about reghives and the registry aren't likely to place their main system in infection's way, so that problem's negated.
Two: Is GPedit enabled in this? That's the most useful tool in all XP Pro - screw that wussy little RD (VNC is far better) - and it stops a lot of crap from happening on a machine.
While the idea that a cellular phone could perform the duties of an iPod seemns preposterous at first, I seem to recall some Taiwanese group made a rather large (1TB or so, if memory serves) flash chip a while back, and that could easily serve for music, videos, photos, and whatnot that requires storage on the machine.
However, a phone will not replace the iPod, not unless it can run DRM-less media. Too many people know about DRM these days, and more and more people are avoiding it like the plague.
Not only that, the iPod doesn't have goddamned annoying ringtones that go off in the worst places.
"Secure Startup protects users against offline attacks, blocking access to the computer if the content of the hard drive is compromised. This prevents a laptop thief from booting up the system from a floppy disk to circumvent security features or swapping out the hard drive."
In other words, no more pulling out a drive to virus-scan it then replacing it or replacing a drive on an OEM machine - that won't allow it to boot.
"The security platform depends on a TPM chip being present in the system. The chip is an industry standard governed by the Trusted Computing Group, a non-profit organisation which develops security standards."
All nonprofits rely on donations to survive, and I can bet that a LOT of donations are going to start rolling in to them from certain organizations involved in content creation and distribution.
Also, if it requires a custom chip, it ain't gonna go over easy - new motherboards will be required.
I've tried to do something about that where I work (an elementary school). We had an old version of Number Munchers for DOS sitting in a closet, so I dug it out and put it in the standard loadset along with Carmen Sandiego and the Oregon Trail - they keep the kids entertained more than the Internet or mucking around with the crap edutainment we have as district-standard.
I've got a two-processor (physical) Xeon machine at the office. Dell shipped it to me with one processor in it and hyperthreading turned off and didn't mention it at all (go into the BIOS and turn it on!); when I turned HT on, I immediately noticed a performance boost in Windows, ESPECIALLY in apps that involved major network usage (VNC, NetworkView, et cetera). When I stuck in a second physical CPU and turned its HT on, I realized that Windows XP Corporate does indeed handle quad-processors well, and it doesn't carp about it at all.
It threads the requests to each processor accordingly, and there's no lag at all. Admittedly, it's not a gaming machine, but hell, I'll be damned if it's not the best administrator machine I've ever used - 4 1.8GHz Xeons in one machine with 4GB RAM and a gigabit NIC.
Try an elementary school. Kids there deposit all kinds of crap into it - hair, boogers, spilled milk, dead roaches, et cetera - and ninety-nine percent of the time, the techs can't clean them all out. Hell, I only cracked open the keyboards and mice (and cases, for that matter) last year (300 machines), and I was astounded at what was in it, especially since they'd not been cleaned since we got them (and some are still P1 machines).
Part of the reason for this is that Server 2003 is intended to be a server OS, and anyone who buys it is generally getting it from an OEM and therefore has a legitimate key.
Not too many people will buy it as a standalone, and those who pirate it will probably do so for development purposes. It's not exactly a perfect desktop OS; that's XP's niche, and that's far more pirated than Server 2003.
It does seem kind of odd, seeing as how most people running this will be behind a NAT device on a private LAN (office servers and such). This isn't a desktop OS, and it won't get treated like XP does.
However, it doesn't hurt to turn it on and refuse all traffic until Windows Update has been visited.
I've been using the latest RC as a desktop OS for a while, and it's pretty good; it does have some issues with Steam, but then again, it's not meant to be a gaming OS, just a server OS.
All in all, though, it's damn stable and secure as is, and it's pretty responsive.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if they introduced a low-end G5 (as in near Mac Mini) as a grey-box substitute.
A video iPod is completely plausible, especially if they bundle the xVid codec or some licensed variant of VLC with it - anime fanboys with money'll snap them right up to watch fansubs on the go (about 150MB an episode on average - take three or four series - at 26 episodes apiece - with you plus your tunes). The only concern might be battery life, and whether they would use a passive-matrix or active-matrix screen in addition to how the movies would get on there; presumably, iTunes would figure in, which would imply that it would eventually evolve into a video store in addition to a music venue.
This may not concern Apple directly, but especially in regards to yesterday's "World's Smallest Linux Box" story, with a few revisions to iPodLinux, it could be possible to use the iPod as a server (plug the Firewire cable into a Cisco switch; they have Firewire expansion cards). It would be interesting to see if Apple could develop software to turn the iPod into a NAS device as well, but an iPod server would just be a cool toy.
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It already does, if you're using build 5048 - the installer can't create NTFS partitions.
If Microsoft programmers built houses, the walls would be blue with white trim, and the garage would have to have CHKCAR run on every instance of the door opening.
On top of that, there's also the whole "backdoor left wide open" stigma that comes with the Windows house.
Well, progman.exe is still around in Windows, and you can still use it as a shell if you want.
One: If you do this, you can't get SP2. However, people knowledgeable enough about reghives and the registry aren't likely to place their main system in infection's way, so that problem's negated.
Two: Is GPedit enabled in this? That's the most useful tool in all XP Pro - screw that wussy little RD (VNC is far better) - and it stops a lot of crap from happening on a machine.
Will it find the Question? I mean, honestly, if Earth won't do it, the whole goddamn Universe ought to have a crack at it.
This was easily the best operating system MS ever made; easy-to-use, stable, and could run any app written for Windows/WinNT/16-bit Windows.
They should have supported it longer.
Isn't this a hormone supposedly released during the female orgasm?
And don't use IE, even if it's fully patched, but that goes without saying.
While the idea that a cellular phone could perform the duties of an iPod seemns preposterous at first, I seem to recall some Taiwanese group made a rather large (1TB or so, if memory serves) flash chip a while back, and that could easily serve for music, videos, photos, and whatnot that requires storage on the machine.
However, a phone will not replace the iPod, not unless it can run DRM-less media. Too many people know about DRM these days, and more and more people are avoiding it like the plague.
Not only that, the iPod doesn't have goddamned annoying ringtones that go off in the worst places.
"Secure Startup protects users against offline attacks, blocking access to the computer if the content of the hard drive is compromised. This prevents a laptop thief from booting up the system from a floppy disk to circumvent security features or swapping out the hard drive."
In other words, no more pulling out a drive to virus-scan it then replacing it or replacing a drive on an OEM machine - that won't allow it to boot.
"The security platform depends on a TPM chip being present in the system. The chip is an industry standard governed by the Trusted Computing Group, a non-profit organisation which develops security standards."
All nonprofits rely on donations to survive, and I can bet that a LOT of donations are going to start rolling in to them from certain organizations involved in content creation and distribution.
Also, if it requires a custom chip, it ain't gonna go over easy - new motherboards will be required.
Nothing beats the sheer bandwidth of a 767 filled with dual-layer DVDs sent hurtling at some destination.
I've tried to do something about that where I work (an elementary school). We had an old version of Number Munchers for DOS sitting in a closet, so I dug it out and put it in the standard loadset along with Carmen Sandiego and the Oregon Trail - they keep the kids entertained more than the Internet or mucking around with the crap edutainment we have as district-standard.
As I recall, Marketscore also sends SSL traffic through its servers, decrypting it, sending it, then re-encrypting it to gain speed.
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When Lavasoft rates it as a ten out of ten threat rating, I'll start to get worried - oh, wait, they DID.
Is a (not-so-) live concert by the legendary Hotblack Desiato.
Unfortunately, he's spending a year dead for tax purposes, but hey, we can't but hope, eh?
LSB-certified rootkits for the bastard.
I've got a two-processor (physical) Xeon machine at the office. Dell shipped it to me with one processor in it and hyperthreading turned off and didn't mention it at all (go into the BIOS and turn it on!); when I turned HT on, I immediately noticed a performance boost in Windows, ESPECIALLY in apps that involved major network usage (VNC, NetworkView, et cetera). When I stuck in a second physical CPU and turned its HT on, I realized that Windows XP Corporate does indeed handle quad-processors well, and it doesn't carp about it at all.
It threads the requests to each processor accordingly, and there's no lag at all. Admittedly, it's not a gaming machine, but hell, I'll be damned if it's not the best administrator machine I've ever used - 4 1.8GHz Xeons in one machine with 4GB RAM and a gigabit NIC.
They can build the Alan Parsons Project.
Try an elementary school. Kids there deposit all kinds of crap into it - hair, boogers, spilled milk, dead roaches, et cetera - and ninety-nine percent of the time, the techs can't clean them all out. Hell, I only cracked open the keyboards and mice (and cases, for that matter) last year (300 machines), and I was astounded at what was in it, especially since they'd not been cleaned since we got them (and some are still P1 machines).
No, there's an easier way.
Give machine to any typical clueless user. Tell them to go on the Internet without protection (just IE, no firewall, et cetera). Watch the fun begin.
No, it doesn't.
Part of the reason for this is that Server 2003 is intended to be a server OS, and anyone who buys it is generally getting it from an OEM and therefore has a legitimate key.
Not too many people will buy it as a standalone, and those who pirate it will probably do so for development purposes. It's not exactly a perfect desktop OS; that's XP's niche, and that's far more pirated than Server 2003.
It does seem kind of odd, seeing as how most people running this will be behind a NAT device on a private LAN (office servers and such). This isn't a desktop OS, and it won't get treated like XP does.
However, it doesn't hurt to turn it on and refuse all traffic until Windows Update has been visited.
I've been using the latest RC as a desktop OS for a while, and it's pretty good; it does have some issues with Steam, but then again, it's not meant to be a gaming OS, just a server OS.
All in all, though, it's damn stable and secure as is, and it's pretty responsive.
"They've got seven billion nanoprobes in them each! On the open market, that's over a hundred million bars of gold-pressed latinum for them!"
I wouldn't be surprised at all if they introduced a low-end G5 (as in near Mac Mini) as a grey-box substitute.
A video iPod is completely plausible, especially if they bundle the xVid codec or some licensed variant of VLC with it - anime fanboys with money'll snap them right up to watch fansubs on the go (about 150MB an episode on average - take three or four series - at 26 episodes apiece - with you plus your tunes). The only concern might be battery life, and whether they would use a passive-matrix or active-matrix screen in addition to how the movies would get on there; presumably, iTunes would figure in, which would imply that it would eventually evolve into a video store in addition to a music venue.
This may not concern Apple directly, but especially in regards to yesterday's "World's Smallest Linux Box" story, with a few revisions to iPodLinux, it could be possible to use the iPod as a server (plug the Firewire cable into a Cisco switch; they have Firewire expansion cards). It would be interesting to see if Apple could develop software to turn the iPod into a NAS device as well, but an iPod server would just be a cool toy.
And by "just too much," I meant to say "just too little."