Real BSODs, in my experience, tend to be driver and hardware related. Yes. Like, I/O driver. For CD-ROM, reading a scratched disk. Or Floppy. Or audio. AC97 codec dying because there was too much disk activity and it couldn't fill audio buffer for too long. Or the USB drive. Somewhere during the transfer the plug went loose and you see blue screen of death, "Please insert disk into drive G:". Or the network went down and an app dies because it can't "call home". Or the gfx card driver fails to reset after quitting a game and you're stuck with no video, have to reboot because you don't see a thing.
Well, most software problems are only computer related too.
Nice elder guy with white beard, sitting in the patio of the pretty white residence amongst trees, enjoying the golden chicken nuggets and good Brandy, while 500 black slaves work under a whip, in a cotton plantation behind the house. That's my mental image of him.
Single line enter, huge backslash. I thought these were meant to make typing paths in MS-DOS easier? ESC instead of F1. Not a horror but may take some getting used to. The bottom line of the G-keys will certainly get in my way while webbrowsing. (I tend to hold my hand there - Esc, ctrl+w, F3, tab, shift, ctrl, alt (scroll modifiers)) And last but not least - how durable is it? After all, the best keyboards for gaming are the CHEAP ones, because you need to replace them quite often...
Well,/dev/hda1 maybe./dev/hda will overwrite some essential data like the harddrive geometry (so e.g. you end up with your drive thinking it has thrice as many heads as it has), and completely screw it up. Nearest recovery path: Move the harddrive to a different computer, as a second one, or boot LiveCD. Visit the hdd manufacturer website or if you're lucky, read the geometry from the label on the drive (sometimes it's there, more often not.) Sometimes the website won't have the geometry so try again yet elsewhere, google is your friend, obscure mailing list archives are your hope. Write them down. Launch fdisk for that harddrive, in "expert" option enter all the geometry data. Repartition, reformat. Reboot and pray.
...to trace eyeball movement? If it was "show two images, then guess which one the subject thinks of", that would be more interesting. Or decode contents of the image. For now most of the "mind reading" attempts seem to receive a single bit of information...
Do you feel ashamed of your company at times? Do you have moments of doubt about your career choice? Are there things you'd like to see changed in the ways Microsoft acts? Corporate evils you hate, but must bear? Decisions you'd prevent if you were in charge?
Right now they yet have to make the system multi-session. Well, with XP SP2 it was introduced already - 2 users can use the same computer at a time. Still need to break that 2 users barrier yet.
One of the biggest gripes about Open Office that Microsoft claimed is poor support for MS Office documents. When will MS Office start supporting Open Office documents?
Answer: No. Linux has its weaknesses. Many of them. Quite a few where Windows works better. Just waiting to be shown to the public. If anyone at MS knows them, it would be this guy. But Balmer shoots complete bullshit. Non-existing issues. Fake benchmarks. Plain lies. I can't believe a guy who has a bit of clue about Linux would pass this kind of bullshit to Balmer, instead of some real info. (unless of course this guy is sabotaging MS, keeping the truth to himself and sending easiest to debunk and most unbelievable lies to Balmer's desk, just to make an ass of him in front of everyone)
As much as I'd like to see this question answered truthfully, you'll never know. The answer WILL be "but of course, no!" because no matter what the truth, the second the guy would say "yes" he'd be fired.
Set up a host outside the firewall, and tunnel the NTP data over some "allowed" port, so it gets through. Or set it up as NTP server on non-standard port (80?) outside the firewall. If you want precise measurement, this is the way to go. NTP software will correct the latency errors, no matter if you have direct connection or if it goes through tunnels around the globe, so you have precise time. But if you go for methods like reading time from website applet, all the network latency problems get completely neglected and just add up to the error of the internal server. You could just as well sync it to your hand watch instead.
This is not an inevitable part of the job we could accept. It's just a deeply rooted, fundamental design flaw. It can be fixed, but not by slapping another layer of paint and glue or adding another pre-flight test, but by redesigning the process from scratch, including the whole idea of shuttle.
Think "So many apps depend on this bug, that we really can't fix it. So the app crashes from time to time, aren't we overreacting just a tad?"
All these are workarounds, not solutions. The solution is to replace the failed design (space shuttle, one-size-fits-all) with a set of more robust task-oriented vessels. Not slapping another patch on top of a design that falls apart.
The cost of replacement would be maybe the cost of two-three shuttle launches. It's just president's ego, legacy of cold war era, that won't allow the military tool to be dismantled.
Why keep using technology that is proven unsafe, proven cost-inefficient, obsolete, slow to develop and deploy, and one-size-fits-none? Just to show that you still can? I, for one, am glad. Time to move on, design and build something smart, safe and economically good, that won't be a cold-war-era presidential "ego" extender, but a set of tools to bring different stuff into space and do it well.
I mean, it launched, cool. But what's the purpose besides proving the point NASA is not going to replace the cost-inefficient vessel with anything more modern within any reasonable time? Usually the shuttles have some missions. Put a satellite in the orbit, deliver supplies/equipment to the space station, perform some 0g research, repair/readjust satellites, that sort of stuff. So does she fly to do something useful or is this just a launch to prove it can be launched?
True all the "retail" and OEM MS Windows have this kind of disclaimers. But Microsoft also sells "custom Windows" to special customers that require exceptional stability. Essentially, it's the same software that reaches normal customers, but with special, custom licenses that DO promise to pay damages in case of failure etc. Just expect a single copy with such a license will cost $4000-$10000...
Well, I haven't investigated -these- either. The problem is in your case you install ONE on the wire going to the antenna. In our case, 4 connections between houses = 8 such devices (one at each cable end). And I bet they would be in -very- common use if the price was lower than, say, 5-6x price of a switch. The device I talked about is called "protect-net", horrible quality (plus requires GOOD grounding to fulfill its role. Not the kind you find in houses) and costs about the same as a switch... Somehow I doubt that one would be much cheaper...
Cabling is the stuff that remains and survives. It's the active devices that get fried. And of course there are these atesters. Three little problems about them. 1) They cost more than devices they protect (and their protection is that they get fried instead of the protected devices - single-use.) 2) They won't protect against a really strong lightning. 3) They reduce connection quality to level where you're happy with 100Kbit throughput, and can forget 100Mbit.
(oh irony, typing this from GPRS connection, the gateway is down again:)
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Real BSODs, in my experience, tend to be driver and hardware related.
Yes.
Like, I/O driver.
For CD-ROM, reading a scratched disk.
Or Floppy.
Or audio. AC97 codec dying because there was too much disk activity and it couldn't fill audio buffer for too long.
Or the USB drive. Somewhere during the transfer the plug went loose and you see blue screen of death, "Please insert disk into drive G:".
Or the network went down and an app dies because it can't "call home".
Or the gfx card driver fails to reset after quitting a game and you're stuck with no video, have to reboot because you don't see a thing.
Well, most software problems are only computer related too.
umm, please explain. I just watched it. Linux. Firefox. Flash plugin. so, huh?
Nice elder guy with white beard, sitting in the patio of the pretty white residence amongst trees, enjoying the golden chicken nuggets and good Brandy, while 500 black slaves work under a whip, in a cotton plantation behind the house.
That's my mental image of him.
that over 50% of terrorist websites run on Open Source webservers? :)
Single line enter, huge backslash. I thought these were meant to make typing paths in MS-DOS easier?
ESC instead of F1. Not a horror but may take some getting used to.
The bottom line of the G-keys will certainly get in my way while webbrowsing. (I tend to hold my hand there - Esc, ctrl+w, F3, tab, shift, ctrl, alt (scroll modifiers))
And last but not least - how durable is it? After all, the best keyboards for gaming are the CHEAP ones, because you need to replace them quite often...
Well, /dev/hda1 maybe. /dev/hda will overwrite some essential data like the harddrive geometry (so e.g. you end up with your drive thinking it has thrice as many heads as it has), and completely screw it up. Nearest recovery path: Move the harddrive to a different computer, as a second one, or boot LiveCD. Visit the hdd manufacturer website or if you're lucky, read the geometry from the label on the drive (sometimes it's there, more often not.) Sometimes the website won't have the geometry so try again yet elsewhere, google is your friend, obscure mailing list archives are your hope. Write them down. Launch fdisk for that harddrive, in "expert" option enter all the geometry data. Repartition, reformat. Reboot and pray.
Agreed. I'd like him to quickly clarify which of these are his personal views, and which ones are company's official standpoints.
Seamonkey - Mozilla Suite issue.
...to trace eyeball movement?
If it was "show two images, then guess which one the subject thinks of", that would be more interesting. Or decode contents of the image.
For now most of the "mind reading" attempts seem to receive a single bit of information...
Well, except great most of it is non-toxic. Toxic stuff could be launched into the Sun if you prefer.
Do you feel ashamed of your company at times? Do you have moments of doubt about your career choice? Are there things you'd like to see changed in the ways Microsoft acts? Corporate evils you hate, but must bear? Decisions you'd prevent if you were in charge?
Right now they yet have to make the system multi-session. Well, with XP SP2 it was introduced already - 2 users can use the same computer at a time. Still need to break that 2 users barrier yet.
Notice he didn't sell it. He's just LEASING!
One of the biggest gripes about Open Office that Microsoft claimed is poor support for MS Office documents. When will MS Office start supporting Open Office documents?
Answer: No.
Linux has its weaknesses. Many of them. Quite a few where Windows works better. Just waiting to be shown to the public. If anyone at MS knows them, it would be this guy. But Balmer shoots complete bullshit. Non-existing issues. Fake benchmarks. Plain lies. I can't believe a guy who has a bit of clue about Linux would pass this kind of bullshit to Balmer, instead of some real info. (unless of course this guy is sabotaging MS, keeping the truth to himself and sending easiest to debunk and most unbelievable lies to Balmer's desk, just to make an ass of him in front of everyone)
As much as I'd like to see this question answered truthfully, you'll never know. The answer WILL be "but of course, no!" because no matter what the truth, the second the guy would say "yes" he'd be fired.
Set up a host outside the firewall, and tunnel the NTP data over some "allowed" port, so it gets through. Or set it up as NTP server on non-standard port (80?) outside the firewall.
If you want precise measurement, this is the way to go. NTP software will correct the latency errors, no matter if you have direct connection or if it goes through tunnels around the globe, so you have precise time. But if you go for methods like reading time from website applet, all the network latency problems get completely neglected and just add up to the error of the internal server. You could just as well sync it to your hand watch instead.
This is not an inevitable part of the job we could accept. It's just a deeply rooted, fundamental design flaw. It can be fixed, but not by slapping another layer of paint and glue or adding another pre-flight test, but by redesigning the process from scratch, including the whole idea of shuttle.
Think "So many apps depend on this bug, that we really can't fix it. So the app crashes from time to time, aren't we overreacting just a tad?"
All these are workarounds, not solutions. The solution is to replace the failed design (space shuttle, one-size-fits-all) with a set of more robust task-oriented vessels. Not slapping another patch on top of a design that falls apart.
The cost of replacement would be maybe the cost of two-three shuttle launches. It's just president's ego, legacy of cold war era, that won't allow the military tool to be dismantled.
Why keep using technology that is proven unsafe, proven cost-inefficient, obsolete, slow to develop and deploy, and one-size-fits-none? Just to show that you still can? I, for one, am glad. Time to move on, design and build something smart, safe and economically good, that won't be a cold-war-era presidential "ego" extender, but a set of tools to bring different stuff into space and do it well.
I mean, it launched, cool. But what's the purpose besides proving the point NASA is not going to replace the cost-inefficient vessel with anything more modern within any reasonable time? Usually the shuttles have some missions. Put a satellite in the orbit, deliver supplies/equipment to the space station, perform some 0g research, repair/readjust satellites, that sort of stuff. So does she fly to do something useful or is this just a launch to prove it can be launched?
True all the "retail" and OEM MS Windows have this kind of disclaimers. But Microsoft also sells "custom Windows" to special customers that require exceptional stability. Essentially, it's the same software that reaches normal customers, but with special, custom licenses that DO promise to pay damages in case of failure etc.
Just expect a single copy with such a license will cost $4000-$10000...
Well, I haven't investigated -these- either. The problem is in your case you install ONE on the wire going to the antenna. In our case, 4 connections between houses = 8 such devices (one at each cable end). And I bet they would be in -very- common use if the price was lower than, say, 5-6x price of a switch. The device I talked about is called "protect-net", horrible quality (plus requires GOOD grounding to fulfill its role. Not the kind you find in houses) and costs about the same as a switch... Somehow I doubt that one would be much cheaper...
Cabling is the stuff that remains and survives. It's the active devices that get fried. And of course there are these atesters. Three little problems about them. 1) They cost more than devices they protect (and their protection is that they get fried instead of the protected devices - single-use.)
:)
2) They won't protect against a really strong lightning.
3) They reduce connection quality to level where you're happy with 100Kbit throughput, and can forget 100Mbit.
(oh irony, typing this from GPRS connection, the gateway is down again