The WSC stays out of your way if you disable ALL the individual features in the correct way (or give it what it wants).
To disable the firewall portion, do the following:
Open the Security Center
Manage the settings for Windows Firewall
Disable the firewall
Install your own firewall (if you so desire)
If your own firewall isn't compatible with WSC, it will be bitching about no firewall. Click "Recommendations...", and then check "I have a firewall solution that I will monitor myself". That will disable that portion (the WSC will show that in yellow, but it won't bitch).
If it is OK with your firewall, leave it alone. If your firewall fucks up, it'll tell you about it.
If you don't have a firewall, go to "Change the way Windows Security Center alerts me" (on the left pane). Uncheck "Firewall", and click OK.
Disabling autoupdates (Bad Idea(tm)):
Open the Security Center
Manage settings for Automatic Updates (notice a common thread?)
Turn off automatic updates (PLEASE don't - turn it down, but not off - I'm on cable, so I use auto dl, but not autoinstall)
Go to the "Change how WSC alerts me" thing, and uncheck Automatic Updates IF you disabled them. Otherwise, leave it on - somehow, malware (or clueless users who use your computer) could disable AutoUpdates, and notification would be nice...
Disabling AV detection:
If you have an AV app, disable it for a sec. Then, go to "Recommendations...", and check "I have an AV program I'll monitor myself". Reenable the AV app, for crying out loud!
If you DON'T, GET ONE! If you don't want one, go to "CHWSCAM", and uncheck "Virus Protection", and prepare to get owned.
That doesn't TOTALLY fix everything (for example, some things may be at a yellow state), but it won't annoy you. Disabling all alerts will in effect disable WSC entirely. Now, you can use SP2 as a major security update that doesn't fuck with you (and makes IE a little more bearable - get another browser if you're still on IE, while you're at it). Myself, I run Windows Firewall (I know, I know - but, I'm behind a NAT, and am pretty good at managing the apps on here, so I think I'm safe enough) in full mode, AutoUpdates in DL only mode, and Avast! Antivirus in full mode with the WSC (note - Avast has a timebomb if you don't give them your e-mail address (they don't spam), and WSC doesn't pick up that it timebombed).
Office 97 at least properly used MDI... Office 2000+ uses a braindead MSDI (multiple single document interface)...
WinXP has some good components to it - but some crap mixed in. I see little advantage (except for Win2K's security patches ending (unless you shell out LOTS of money for hotfix support)) to going to XP on a desktop, seeing as 2K does everything. However, I just like XP on a laptop better than 2K. Maybe it's because I've never had a problem with WZC, and hated the Linksys connection tool?
From what I've heard, you'll have to frankenstein XP SP2 onto Win2K, and that may also mean frankensteining pieces of the base of XP, to the point that it's XP, but with a registry telling it that it's 2000.
At that point, you're better off cracking an XP SP2 install, and going with that - Windows Update isn't going to work either way, and the cracked XP is going to be more stable.
Now, I'm hoping against hope that it's a simple:
if winver == "Windows NT 5.0":
exitInstaller("Insufficient Windows Version")
, but I doubt it... IE6 did that to Windows 95, but it didn't actually use any features of Windows that Windows 98 introduced that hadn't been backported to 95 already (with IE4). As I said before, IE7 supposedly uses stuff in XP SP2, and MS has already said that they won't backport that to 2K.
My old local library (I've since moved) uses library card numbers to restrict access to those that have internet privileges - to keep minors without parental permission from getting online, mainly. The cards that have permission have a sticker that says "NET" (with quotation marks...), and logins to the system with them will work.
It uses USB. So, if some company makes Wireless USB transceivers in the future, one could slap one on, and mod it to give you access to the power pins, and slap a battery on.
(Yes, I know how dumb that looks - WUSB transceiver with a battery dangling out, attached to a mouse pad for a battery-free mouse;-))
My worst problems with opticals have been on some white plastic tables at my school - they simply don't work.
However, try an optical mouse on a Dell standard mouse pad;-) After about 2 minutes of what seems like a dirty mouse, I send the mouse pad flying across the room, and it works fine. Why the problems? Note the geometrical designs on the pad. They throw the sensor off... I don't know if an MX1000 could cope any better.
But if they artificially keep the price high on the higher-end chips, they can make more money on the higher-end chips. Observe:
1. Make high-end chips. 2. Realize that high-end chips have problems, create mid-end versions that don't use broken parts. 3. Improve process to the point that even the high-end chips don't have problems. 4. ??? (Hmm... maybe NOT lower the price on the high-end chips, and assume some are broken anyway?) 5. Profit!!!
They DO make money on the mid-end parts, but why price the high-end parts the same, when they can make more money?
Wow. Didn't know they did that crap on the PC, too - just knew about it being that bad on the Apple II. *said with an old Copy II Plus disk in hand*
Anyway, I don't think most manufacturers did it for Lotus 123. Most manufacturers did it for the games that timed against the CPU, instead of a constant source (e.g., the RTC - although, that wasn't necessarily present in early 8088-based systems). Basically, they did some simple math, and figured that if the processor is going to run @ 4.77MHz, then if they put a delay of 4,770,000 clock cycles in (oversimplification - I don't know how many cycles a NOP takes on an 8088), it would wait 1 second. Problem was, when they went to faster chips, their 4,770,000 cycle wait took less time - a 33MHz chip would take ~0.15 seconds.
Nitpick: The old Celeron 366 was its own core (Mendocino) - read: not a crippled Pentium II core. In fact, it had MORE functionality than a Deschutes P2 core, as it had on-die L2 cache. Intel didn't start disabling broken cache until the Coppermine Celerons - the Covington chips were Klamath (IIRC) cores, but without the cache chips attached (remember, Pentium IIs didn't have on-die L2, just on-cartridge).
Now, clock speed was crippled - most Celerons could get to at least 525MHz, if not higher (except for the 300A and 333 - they couldn't get that high because they (or their chipsets, but last I checked, a BX could handle an OC to 133 or higher) couldn't handle the high FSBs required for those speeds). Intel even sold 533MHz Mendocino Celerons (they were really bad buys, as a 366 could get to 550 with not much more cooling).
Yeah, but that's most likely disabled by default. If that's the case, they just made a HUGE selling point for DRM (to the unknowing PHB, anyway) - you don't have to buy all of this software to manage your PCs - the DRM-equipped boxes will come with more powerful software for free.
Now, if it's enabled by default, then DRM may well get crushed.
All I know is that I will not trust Intel until they decide to remove DRM from ALL of their chips. I will NEVER buy a P-D, a P-EE (wasn't going to, anyway, though) or an XScale PXA27x (yep, these have DRM) for sure. And, they DID actually lose a possible sale - I was considering a P-M (or C-M) for when I would buy my next laptop.
AMD isn't a good option either - as I understand, they were a founding member of the TCPA - Intel came later.
I guess that leaves VIA for viable x86 (they just announced their C7, so there's some hope)...
We need some Pentium Extreme Editions, then (they're Intel's only dual-core desktop chips with HyperThreading - very important, here).
Remember all the stuff recently about HyperThreading being used to read what another process on the same core has in cache? Disable core 2 (to simplify things), enable HT, and attack (if your assumptions that it'll be decoded in cache are right - I'm almost thinking that it could have a decoder to feed it right into the registers...)
As somebody else said, they're Taiwanese (via.com.tw - the.tw TLD is for Taiwan).
Yes, they're the only remaining option for x86 that's somewhat viable (Transmeta's going to be an IP company, remember?). Going for less viable x86 options, you have the SiS550, a Rise MP6-based System on Chip. The Rise MP6 is a good processor... until you get to the point where it says 8KiB L2 cache. If they had only put on more L2 cache, they'd have had an Athlon killer - before the Athlon even came close to appearing. Next, you're talking STPC's Consumer line. These are 486-class SoCs.
Going away from x86, you've got a few options. NOT PowerPC, unless you get something from Freescale (Motorola) - IBM was first in getting DRM chips in PCs (remember IBM saying "Get our laptops. We have the Embedded Security Subsystem!"?) ARM is a bit dicey, because the fastest ARMs, Intel's XScale PXA27x line, have built-in DRM. However, TI and Toshiba also make ARM processors.
I usually have a CMD.BAT in C:\Windows\Command (on a 9x system - I use 2K/XP systems a lot, so I'm used to Win-R, CMD, Enter), and sometimes I throw in an LS.BAT in there, too.
CMD.BAT:
COMMAND.COM
(there's gotta be a better way to do this)
LS.BAT:
DIR.COM/W
LS-LART.BAT:
DIR.COM
(I know, I know, I can do better... I was just lazy, and didn't feel like looking up stuff on COMMAND.COM's processing ability)
I have a Cybiko Classic lying around somewhere, and I don't recommend it for this. Granted, there were some fixes with the Xtreme, but the keyboard is crap, the memory is too small, and you need either the $(*#$@ expensive memory upgrade or the rare MP3 player.
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What OS are you using that doesn't support USB HID, but lets you install the drivers for it? Even Windows 95 OSR2.1 has USB HID drivers!
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At my school, there are typing classes (for those interested - I get 65-70wpm (qwerty, and higher on a Model M), so I didn't need them). A friend of mine has also said that her old high school (a traditional high school) has typing classes, so I'm going to say YES to your question.
Just because it's a hard drive does not mean that it can't pull under 500uA @ 5V (a powered USB port's power output)...
A 1.8" drive pulls ~1.5W at full load, 3.3V. Simple math says that that's under 500uA - for 3.3V, so less for 5V.
However, I think that the real problem is that the USB port is most likely a USB client, not a USB host. If it's a client, and USB OTG isn't supported, then forget about hooking anything up, unless it's a USB host.
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To disable the firewall portion, do the following:
Disabling autoupdates (Bad Idea(tm)):
Disabling AV detection:
That doesn't TOTALLY fix everything (for example, some things may be at a yellow state), but it won't annoy you. Disabling all alerts will in effect disable WSC entirely. Now, you can use SP2 as a major security update that doesn't fuck with you (and makes IE a little more bearable - get another browser if you're still on IE, while you're at it). Myself, I run Windows Firewall (I know, I know - but, I'm behind a NAT, and am pretty good at managing the apps on here, so I think I'm safe enough) in full mode, AutoUpdates in DL only mode, and Avast! Antivirus in full mode with the WSC (note - Avast has a timebomb if you don't give them your e-mail address (they don't spam), and WSC doesn't pick up that it timebombed).
Active Directory Client for Windows NT4
Granted, I know that that's not the AD Server, but still...
Office 97 at least properly used MDI... Office 2000+ uses a braindead MSDI (multiple single document interface)...
WinXP has some good components to it - but some crap mixed in. I see little advantage (except for Win2K's security patches ending (unless you shell out LOTS of money for hotfix support)) to going to XP on a desktop, seeing as 2K does everything. However, I just like XP on a laptop better than 2K. Maybe it's because I've never had a problem with WZC, and hated the Linksys connection tool?
At that point, you're better off cracking an XP SP2 install, and going with that - Windows Update isn't going to work either way, and the cracked XP is going to be more stable.
Now, I'm hoping against hope that it's a simple: , but I doubt it... IE6 did that to Windows 95, but it didn't actually use any features of Windows that Windows 98 introduced that hadn't been backported to 95 already (with IE4). As I said before, IE7 supposedly uses stuff in XP SP2, and MS has already said that they won't backport that to 2K.
My old local library (I've since moved) uses library card numbers to restrict access to those that have internet privileges - to keep minors without parental permission from getting online, mainly. The cards that have permission have a sticker that says "NET" (with quotation marks...), and logins to the system with them will work.
Mac and Linux systems not ignoring track 1, and crapping out, maybe?
Just rip tracks 2 through (end of CD) to MP3s, and listen to those.
It uses USB. So, if some company makes Wireless USB transceivers in the future, one could slap one on, and mod it to give you access to the power pins, and slap a battery on.
;-))
(Yes, I know how dumb that looks - WUSB transceiver with a battery dangling out, attached to a mouse pad for a battery-free mouse
My worst problems with opticals have been on some white plastic tables at my school - they simply don't work.
;-) After about 2 minutes of what seems like a dirty mouse, I send the mouse pad flying across the room, and it works fine. Why the problems? Note the geometrical designs on the pad. They throw the sensor off... I don't know if an MX1000 could cope any better.
However, try an optical mouse on a Dell standard mouse pad
But if they artificially keep the price high on the higher-end chips, they can make more money on the higher-end chips. Observe:
1. Make high-end chips.
2. Realize that high-end chips have problems, create mid-end versions that don't use broken parts.
3. Improve process to the point that even the high-end chips don't have problems.
4. ??? (Hmm... maybe NOT lower the price on the high-end chips, and assume some are broken anyway?)
5. Profit!!!
They DO make money on the mid-end parts, but why price the high-end parts the same, when they can make more money?
Wow. Didn't know they did that crap on the PC, too - just knew about it being that bad on the Apple II. *said with an old Copy II Plus disk in hand*
Anyway, I don't think most manufacturers did it for Lotus 123. Most manufacturers did it for the games that timed against the CPU, instead of a constant source (e.g., the RTC - although, that wasn't necessarily present in early 8088-based systems). Basically, they did some simple math, and figured that if the processor is going to run @ 4.77MHz, then if they put a delay of 4,770,000 clock cycles in (oversimplification - I don't know how many cycles a NOP takes on an 8088), it would wait 1 second. Problem was, when they went to faster chips, their 4,770,000 cycle wait took less time - a 33MHz chip would take ~0.15 seconds.
Nitpick: The old Celeron 366 was its own core (Mendocino) - read: not a crippled Pentium II core. In fact, it had MORE functionality than a Deschutes P2 core, as it had on-die L2 cache. Intel didn't start disabling broken cache until the Coppermine Celerons - the Covington chips were Klamath (IIRC) cores, but without the cache chips attached (remember, Pentium IIs didn't have on-die L2, just on-cartridge).
Now, clock speed was crippled - most Celerons could get to at least 525MHz, if not higher (except for the 300A and 333 - they couldn't get that high because they (or their chipsets, but last I checked, a BX could handle an OC to 133 or higher) couldn't handle the high FSBs required for those speeds). Intel even sold 533MHz Mendocino Celerons (they were really bad buys, as a 366 could get to 550 with not much more cooling).
Yeah, but that's most likely disabled by default. If that's the case, they just made a HUGE selling point for DRM (to the unknowing PHB, anyway) - you don't have to buy all of this software to manage your PCs - the DRM-equipped boxes will come with more powerful software for free.
Now, if it's enabled by default, then DRM may well get crushed.
All I know is that I will not trust Intel until they decide to remove DRM from ALL of their chips. I will NEVER buy a P-D, a P-EE (wasn't going to, anyway, though) or an XScale PXA27x (yep, these have DRM) for sure. And, they DID actually lose a possible sale - I was considering a P-M (or C-M) for when I would buy my next laptop.
AMD isn't a good option either - as I understand, they were a founding member of the TCPA - Intel came later.
I guess that leaves VIA for viable x86 (they just announced their C7, so there's some hope)...
We need some Pentium Extreme Editions, then (they're Intel's only dual-core desktop chips with HyperThreading - very important, here).
Remember all the stuff recently about HyperThreading being used to read what another process on the same core has in cache? Disable core 2 (to simplify things), enable HT, and attack (if your assumptions that it'll be decoded in cache are right - I'm almost thinking that it could have a decoder to feed it right into the registers...)
State ID (at least in Ohio). Basically, a driver's license, except you can't drive on one.
As somebody else said, they're Taiwanese (via.com.tw - the .tw TLD is for Taiwan).
Yes, they're the only remaining option for x86 that's somewhat viable (Transmeta's going to be an IP company, remember?). Going for less viable x86 options, you have the SiS550, a Rise MP6-based System on Chip. The Rise MP6 is a good processor... until you get to the point where it says 8KiB L2 cache. If they had only put on more L2 cache, they'd have had an Athlon killer - before the Athlon even came close to appearing. Next, you're talking STPC's Consumer line. These are 486-class SoCs.
Going away from x86, you've got a few options. NOT PowerPC, unless you get something from Freescale (Motorola) - IBM was first in getting DRM chips in PCs (remember IBM saying "Get our laptops. We have the Embedded Security Subsystem!"?) ARM is a bit dicey, because the fastest ARMs, Intel's XScale PXA27x line, have built-in DRM. However, TI and Toshiba also make ARM processors.
Anything else anybody can add?
CMD.BAT:(there's gotta be a better way to do this)
LS.BAT:LS-LART.BAT: (I know, I know, I can do better... I was just lazy, and didn't feel like looking up stuff on COMMAND.COM's processing ability)
Depends on your distro/shell. Some distros symlink dir to ls, and I've even seen some cases where dir goes to ls -l, and dir /w goes to regular ls.
I usually type better, but sometimes I need to sketch something out. I can work with a keyboard, but it... takes... forever...
Makes me want a Tablet PC, so I can type AND draw at the same time (flip the screen back (to eliminate gorilla arm), sketch, bring it back up)...
I have a Cybiko Classic lying around somewhere, and I don't recommend it for this. Granted, there were some fixes with the Xtreme, but the keyboard is crap, the memory is too small, and you need either the $(*#$@ expensive memory upgrade or the rare MP3 player.
What OS are you using that doesn't support USB HID, but lets you install the drivers for it? Even Windows 95 OSR2.1 has USB HID drivers!
At my school, there are typing classes (for those interested - I get 65-70wpm (qwerty, and higher on a Model M), so I didn't need them). A friend of mine has also said that her old high school (a traditional high school) has typing classes, so I'm going to say YES to your question.
Just because it's a hard drive does not mean that it can't pull under 500uA @ 5V (a powered USB port's power output)...
A 1.8" drive pulls ~1.5W at full load, 3.3V. Simple math says that that's under 500uA - for 3.3V, so less for 5V.
However, I think that the real problem is that the USB port is most likely a USB client, not a USB host. If it's a client, and USB OTG isn't supported, then forget about hooking anything up, unless it's a USB host.
Yeah, well, but some braindead judge is going to say that "You clicked 'I agree', therefore, you agreed to that clause too."
Wouldn't even be hard, it's just Nintendo won't like the idea due to IP protection...
Not that it stopped anyone from making the NES-on-a-Chip...
So, anyone up to a GBC-on-a-chip?
But the one on the website is the valid EULA, according to almost every EULA I've read ("this document may change without notice").