I actually have run their diagnostics... it does run a memory test (not as comprehensive as memtest86's), and an HDD test, that are both reasonably useful.
Also, it gives error codes that you can then tell the techs.
I usually run it BEFORE calling or e-mailing, and then I can give them codes, and they just send a tech or the part out without the autoresponse even stopping the e-mail, if I e-mail.
I was replying to a comment saying that the Welcome screen was used on domains, showing a list of every domain user.
Ctrl-Alt-Del protection is not used with the Windows XP (don't know about Vista) Welcome screen.
However, the Welcome screen is not used on domains. Except, it appears, kdm (which is NOT the Windows XP Welcome screen - it's the KDE version of xdm) uses a Welcome screen-style user list on a domain
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Vista fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Vista PC (a Core 2 Duo E6600 w/2 Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my 8600/300 running Mac OS 8, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Vista PC, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Firefox will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Notepad is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Vista PCs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Vista PC that has run faster than its Mac counterpart, despite the PCs' faster chip architecture. My 68040/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 2.4 ghz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Vista PC is a superior machine.
Vista addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Vista over other faster, cheaper, more stable operating systems.
I don't think I've ever seen where CAD completely failed, but I've seen where it couldn't take over the graphics, or such.
As for SysRq... it IS a secure path key, but not ever intended for that use.
The original use was on mainframes to allow input to the operating system.
The intended use on PCs was a similar function to Alt-Tab nowadays.
However, an Alt-PrtSc (which is a SysRq) on Windows copies the contents of the foreground window (instead of the entire screen) to the clipboard. On Linux... at least on my Ubuntu Edgy install, it prepares to save a screenshot of the foreground window, but it also, with certain letters, activates a secure path to the kernel (not quite certain how the System/370 handled a SysRq, but that seems more in the original spirit of SysRq than a task switch operation...)
Power button on most (ATX) PCs triggers an ACPI shutdown.
Ctrl-Alt-Del does NOT reboot on NT-based OSes, it brings up Windows Security (on all NT or 2000 systems, and XP systems using the classic login screen - IIRC, all Vista systems do this as well, even when using the welcome screen), or Task Manager (on XP systems using the welcome screen.)
On a 9x-based OS, you are correct - Ctrl-Alt-Del will bring up the End Task window (different from taskman.exe), and then reboot the system on the second press. In a situation where there the system is unstable, it will revert to Windows 3.1's default behavior - that is, Ctrl-Alt-Del will present the BSOD, then reboot the computer.
Windows 3.1 with BSODs turned off acts like all earlier versions of Windows - the Ctrl-Alt-Del is passed to DOS, which handles it as a reboot.
It's illegal to actively block frequencies (by using a jammer, for instance), but not illegal to passively block frequencies (by creating a Faraday cage, like this paint is trying to do).
Maybe in Feisty, or on an nVidia card, but with my ATI card and Edgy, I had to edit my Xorg.conf, manually add repositories (granted, via checkboxes) in Synaptic, and install some packages.
It's hard to explain how the RIAA is evil, though, and why it's really THAT BAD to support them, when people won't listen, and they're like, "if I like this music, I'm going to obtain it anyway."
(FWIW, the person in question was anti-paying for music - but I was attempting to use the listening base argument - look at Microsoft - users violating copyright is why they're successful)
Ah, but the NT project was a fork of their own OS/2 2.0 code - which in turn was a fork of the OS/2 1.x branch.
However, there were two almost completely unrelated OS/2 2.0 forks. One developed by Microsoft that was unreleased, and was itself forked into NT 3.1, and one that was released by IBM as OS/2 2.0.
Very true, but, you can also modify the fuel (vegetable oils and animal fats into biodiesel, anything carbon-based into diesel via Fischer-Tropsch, etc., etc.)
Well, what about an engine that can run on many flammable liquid fuels? (Certainly not all, but a lot.)
And, a process that can convert anything carbon-based into a fuel that is suitable... no, IDEAL... for that engine? Plus many other much simpler processes for specialized conversions?
The Fischer-Tropsch process will work with other carbon-based feedstocks, not just natural gas.
For the 2008 24 Heure du Mans, Audi's going to run a F-T fuel from plant and (I believe) animal sources. Right now, the "V-Power Diesel" that they run is between 5 and 30% natural gas derived F-T fuel. (The V-Power diesel sold at pumps in Europe is 5% F-T fuel, but I've heard that it was 30% F-T used in the R10.)
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Except I can't read any text, but other than that, I've got it running right now on WINE.
Nah, the Tubgirl exploit would be worse. *shudder*
Agreed... besides, I thought parts of HKCU were OK for users to write to, even if they weren't admins?
And that's definitely an HKCU-type entry.
Opera 9.10 shows a white 20,000 x 20,000 image. No errors.
I actually have run their diagnostics... it does run a memory test (not as comprehensive as memtest86's), and an HDD test, that are both reasonably useful.
Also, it gives error codes that you can then tell the techs.
I usually run it BEFORE calling or e-mailing, and then I can give them codes, and they just send a tech or the part out without the autoresponse even stopping the e-mail, if I e-mail.
I was replying to a comment saying that the Welcome screen was used on domains, showing a list of every domain user.
Ctrl-Alt-Del protection is not used with the Windows XP (don't know about Vista) Welcome screen.
However, the Welcome screen is not used on domains. Except, it appears, kdm (which is NOT the Windows XP Welcome screen - it's the KDE version of xdm) uses a Welcome screen-style user list on a domain
Gah, beaten to it by an AC.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Vista fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Vista PC (a Core 2 Duo E6600 w/2 Gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my 8600/300 running Mac OS 8, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Vista PC, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Firefox will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Notepad is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Vista PCs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Vista PC that has run faster than its Mac counterpart, despite the PCs' faster chip architecture. My 68040/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 2.4 ghz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Vista PC is a superior machine.
Vista addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Vista over other faster, cheaper, more stable operating systems.
True, I forgot about that, but my point was, 99.9% of Windows machines will shut down, not reboot, when you hit the power button. ;)
Ah, that would explain it... I was referring to Windows.
I'm actually amazed it spit out all the domain users for you... that seems like a bit of a security risk...
To be fair, a PC that has the amount of processing power in a certain area that these handhelds have would cost many, many thousands of dollars.
You're actually looking into systems with, oh, 8 or 16 cores to match the processing power for a given area.
I don't think I've ever seen where CAD completely failed, but I've seen where it couldn't take over the graphics, or such.
As for SysRq... it IS a secure path key, but not ever intended for that use.
The original use was on mainframes to allow input to the operating system.
The intended use on PCs was a similar function to Alt-Tab nowadays.
However, an Alt-PrtSc (which is a SysRq) on Windows copies the contents of the foreground window (instead of the entire screen) to the clipboard. On Linux... at least on my Ubuntu Edgy install, it prepares to save a screenshot of the foreground window, but it also, with certain letters, activates a secure path to the kernel (not quite certain how the System/370 handled a SysRq, but that seems more in the original spirit of SysRq than a task switch operation...)
Huh?
;)
Ctrl-Alt-Del protection isn't available on the Welcome screen.
And, besides, the Welcome screen is automatically disabled if you're on a domain.
And, even if it were enabled, there's an invention called "scrollbars" that allow you to see more than what fits on the screen.
What?
Power button on most (ATX) PCs triggers an ACPI shutdown.
Ctrl-Alt-Del does NOT reboot on NT-based OSes, it brings up Windows Security (on all NT or 2000 systems, and XP systems using the classic login screen - IIRC, all Vista systems do this as well, even when using the welcome screen), or Task Manager (on XP systems using the welcome screen.)
On a 9x-based OS, you are correct - Ctrl-Alt-Del will bring up the End Task window (different from taskman.exe), and then reboot the system on the second press. In a situation where there the system is unstable, it will revert to Windows 3.1's default behavior - that is, Ctrl-Alt-Del will present the BSOD, then reboot the computer.
Windows 3.1 with BSODs turned off acts like all earlier versions of Windows - the Ctrl-Alt-Del is passed to DOS, which handles it as a reboot.
It's illegal to actively block frequencies (by using a jammer, for instance), but not illegal to passively block frequencies (by creating a Faraday cage, like this paint is trying to do).
Maybe in Feisty, or on an nVidia card, but with my ATI card and Edgy, I had to edit my Xorg.conf, manually add repositories (granted, via checkboxes) in Synaptic, and install some packages.
I'm aware of that, which is what makes it harder.
It's hard to explain how the RIAA is evil, though, and why it's really THAT BAD to support them, when people won't listen, and they're like, "if I like this music, I'm going to obtain it anyway."
(FWIW, the person in question was anti-paying for music - but I was attempting to use the listening base argument - look at Microsoft - users violating copyright is why they're successful)
Ah, but the NT project was a fork of their own OS/2 2.0 code - which in turn was a fork of the OS/2 1.x branch.
However, there were two almost completely unrelated OS/2 2.0 forks. One developed by Microsoft that was unreleased, and was itself forked into NT 3.1, and one that was released by IBM as OS/2 2.0.
Or they actively don't care. I tried to get someone (a Linux user, even) to quit the RIAA habit yesterday... and they were like, "why bother?"
Maybe because of hardware that isn't compatible with Linux?
Actually, the auxiliary heater is on the production 5th-generation Golf and Jetta TDIs, as well. :)
Very true, but, you can also modify the fuel (vegetable oils and animal fats into biodiesel, anything carbon-based into diesel via Fischer-Tropsch, etc., etc.)
Well, what about an engine that can run on many flammable liquid fuels? (Certainly not all, but a lot.)
And, a process that can convert anything carbon-based into a fuel that is suitable... no, IDEAL... for that engine? Plus many other much simpler processes for specialized conversions?
Diesel FTW.
To be fair, he is keeping a new car from being produced... which uses a LOT of resources...
Well, if we're talking about synfuels...
The Fischer-Tropsch process will work with other carbon-based feedstocks, not just natural gas.
For the 2008 24 Heure du Mans, Audi's going to run a F-T fuel from plant and (I believe) animal sources. Right now, the "V-Power Diesel" that they run is between 5 and 30% natural gas derived F-T fuel. (The V-Power diesel sold at pumps in Europe is 5% F-T fuel, but I've heard that it was 30% F-T used in the R10.)