We already have IP portability. Geez, where have you been? My machine was 127.0.0.1 before I moved into this house, and it still is now. You know, that's funny that my other computer has that number too...
Also, bandwidth can be huge because of all the parallel network paths that are available to people. If traffic can be routed intelligently packet-by-packet, the bandwidth is just about unlimited (up to the capacity of the eventual hardline--a T3 line or whatever) and dynamically available to whoever needs it at the time.
It's not a punishment, it's a settlement. MS has made an offer and they have accepted it. Case closed.
That's the part that breaks my heart about this. I expect MS to make an offer like that. It's the best for them and gets them off the hook from a cash settlement. BUT, I expect it to be laughed at--not accepted! It's the prosecuting side that screwed this up. If they accept these kinds of settlement offers, that's when we lose. I wonder if MS is able to do this because of their threatening legal presence. Winning cases is very valuable for a lawyer's reputation. I wonder if that is swaying the decision on accepting these Mickey Mouse kinds of offers. The lawyer gets to look like he "beat Microsoft", which looks great on a resume. If he doesn't accept it, MS is going to bring the Hammer(TM) to try to squash them and get off scot free. The lawyer gets paid either way, but it looks better to "win" easily in a settlement than to potentially lose if it goes all the way through court.
I think this may be just a cleverly disguised troll. Usually it goes: 1. Linux fanatic rips on "constant" BSOD/crashes in Windows. (insightful) 2. Current Windows user informs them that current versions of Windows don't do that. (informative) 3. ??? 4. Profit. (ok, sorry couldn't resist.)
In this case, the criticism is valid. Windows XP still does need to reboot on just about anything you install, but someone saw a chance to be modded insightful by using the usual formula of correcting Windows critiques.
I must have been hanging around/. too long. When I was reading your comment I thought, "RTF what? manual? article?" Then I got to the.rtf part and figured it out.
of ANY kind to my house--I don't care what speed. I'm stuck with ^%&*#$ CableOne internet for $45 a month, and DSL isn't supported on my line. Qwest just started offering unbundled DSL service for about $15 a month (plus a few bucks for a cheap ISP), and I can't get it!
This is Boise Idaho, so we're not exactly on the leading edge of technology.
To shut it off, open your registry editor and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Cdrom and set the Autorun value to 0. You can
also download TweakUI from Microsoft (go to Microsoft.com and search for TweakUI) which will change the key for you, as well as altering other behaviour.
First, don't say "also". Either one is sufficient, so you don't need to tell people to do both, but... DON'T tell people to edit the registry as the first way to deal with something. There's a perfectly decent way to deal with this through the OS (uncheck the box for autorun in the driver properties) or through the TweakUI program. This jumping to edit the registry first stems from the instinct to start editing config files to fix things. That's not how Windows is made to work, and I think leads to so many of the comments about registries getting screwed.
I would like to see two contrary laws slug it out in court. It is illegal for them to put this virus on CDs that install themselves, but it is illegal for us to try to remove their virus because of the DMCA.
I love the modding on that comment--80% Funny from those of us who have gone through this pain, and 20% Troll from someone who was lucky enough to have a supported* sound card and thinks it's just FUD.
*Supported (su-pôrt-ed) adj. Capable of being correctly detected and having drivers installed, rather than the huge list of "supported" devices that don't do squat until you manually compile a driver into a module or your kernel.
For those with access to WMP9, you can download the whole album from Wal-Mart's music download store for $9.44 or individual tracks for $.88. I don't know if it's on iTunes yet. By the way, don't criticize this as another boy-band or Britney thing. Velvet Revolver is made up of some former members of Guns 'N Roses and the former lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, etc. That is why this album is so popular.
Heh, I worked an internship in a steel mill in 1998 on a team doing the Y2K assessment of their computer control systems. They had COBOL stuff written in the 70's that still controlled their furnace systems.
Writers and performers can get paid salary but they also can get paid royalties based upon some pretty strongly defended copy protection rights under law. The FBI enforces these.
You know what? The employment contract you signed says that the publishing company owns all the copyrights on any work you produce while you are employed there. FBI enforcement has nothing to do with the fact that you signed away any copyrights you would've had that could generate royalties.
How many programmers do you know who get offered the chance to write for retained royalty pay? Do you think you are likely to get offered such rights which currently do not exist under law? [NOT NO...^*!! NO!] Please get with reality here. Computer programmers are more likely to have their work last longer than movie actors and screen writers who most often get royalties for use.
Go ahead and demand that they change the employment contract so that you get to keep your copyrights then. Why are they laughing at you? I'll tell you why. There are other programmers looking for jobs that won't make demands like that. That is what happens in a competitive job market. There are guys who need to get a paycheck to support themselves and their families who aren't as picky as to negotiate for royalties.
1. Integration with GnuPG and/or PGP. Yes I know of engimail, I think it's essential enough it should be built-in.
2. Integration with Jabber. IM + Email would be cool. I like how Windows Messenger does this, but with Thunderbird it would actually be secure:)
I don't think either of those is that great an idea. The point of T-Bird is supposed to be about a slim program. GPG/PGP isn't used by the majority of people, so I sure don't think they need to put it in the main program. Doesn't having an easily accesible extention take care of the needs of people who want that? And people use several different IM applications, so I don't think they should be integrating any into an email program. A calendar I can see putting in to let this compete with Outlook in the email/calendar app space in businesses.
You are reverting back to where we came from --> "I think besides email, it should be able to browse newsgroups. oh yeah, and an integrated IRC chat client...and maybe an HTML composer."
I really never understood people sticking with Hotmail accounts. My wife signed up for one several years ago when they were very new. Immediate bombardment of spam. It was so awful right off the bat, that she dumped it quickly for a Yahoo account (and I also got one) when they were still 6MB accounts. It has been bliss since then. Their spam filtering is really great, but more than that is just that there's hardly anything to filter. We each get maybe 1 or 2 a day because we're careful about giving it out. The 100MB storage and 10MB attachments are a great bonus.
I'm a mostly Mac/Unix user recently forced to Windows XP, and his description is entirely true for my reaction. I came to XP as mostly a blank slate but there is still something about it that encourages full-screen everything and discourages Mac-style everything open at once.
I use Windows at home and a Windows machine and Sun Solaris with CDE at work. I've discovered one of the things I really like about the windowing system on the Sun is using mouse focus (but not auto-raise) with the "front" toggle button to cycle through the open windows. CDE doesn't have a taskbar to display the currently running applications, so this "front" toggling is pretty much necessary to find what you want. With Windows, I can use the taskbar, but it is sometimes inconvenient. If you have multiple of the same type of program open (file explorers, text editors, browsers), it's sometimes hard to identify which is which on the taskbar. Knowing that one is on the right and one is on the left is just easier to know which one to go to, rather than one of a row of 5 or 6 buttons on the taskbar. Tiled windows that don't overlap aren't a good solution because each one has to be smaller than I would like on a not very big monitor. I do want a decent amount of real estate for each one since I have a 17" monitor at 1024x768 at home. It's easiest just to point to an exposed area of the window I want and hit "front". That's something I wish Windows would do.
And, I think, if you've seen the amount of improvement that goes into each release, you wouldn't accuse Apple of "intentionally holding off a few features and releasing them later in a 'newer version' to sell again". After all, they're trying to wow people into wanting to switch to Apple, so there's a lot of incentive to make OSX as great as they can.
I think that supports my point though. I do think they are trying to make their newest version of OSX as great as they can, but they are releasing often with a few new features. That way they are not just getting people to switch to Apple, but are also targetting people who just bought their last version a year or two ago, but now want to buy the new version because of the extra features they just put in. That would seem like a motivating factor to throw a few upgrades together and release it as a "new version".
I read that Security advisory. That is pretty interesting and another good reason to avoid using IE. In this case, then, it sounds like displaying the HTML message in a separate email client would probably be safe, since this exploit relies on IE's execution of the commands in the HTML.
Comment on your sig. I think it's clever, but you might want to correct the information. "The way to a man's heart is through the left ventricle."
Actually the left ventricle would be the way out of a man's heart. The left ventricle is the chamber that pushes the blood out through the aorta to circulate through the rest of the body. The right atrium/auricle is where blood is first received back into the heart. More info can be found here or here.
I'm going to reply to you, AC, just to prevent you from confusing anyone with your response.
Once again, you have this backwards: the only reason you need to have a 3rd party scan your emial is because Microsoft has made it sooo easy to execute attachments. In addition, the defaults in Windows hide the filetype of attachments so you can't even determine that it might be dangerous!
I obviously was not addressing the cause, because we can't fix the cause. We can't make MS rewrite Windows securely. With that given, this is a method to protect ourselves from email viruses. If you don't virus scan your attachments, you have to just throw away ones you don't trust and take a risk on the ones you do trust. If you do virus scan, you have to buy the virus scanning software and maintain that as another program installed on your system, getting updates for it, etc. Scanning through Yahoo has the advantages that 1. It's free 2. They patch their scanning software for the newest virus defs faster than anyone at home. 3. It doesn't have to run on my computer.
And you completely ignore the latest, most dangerous round of exploits that require NO user intervention: MSBlaster (requires only an Internet connection, with or without their stupid implementation of a firewall), Bagel (you don't even have to view the e-mail to have a script run) and the numerous IE holes (which only require viewing a malicious web-page to have spyware downloaded and installed without any confirmation).
Once again, your train of thought has derailed. We're talking about scanning email attachments. Virus scanners may be able to rid your system of worms after they have been identified and spread to many computers, but the real way to stop that is a firewall. I use one, so I have never had a problem with MSBlaster or any other worm that doesn't require user action. And, of course, I don't use IE because of those very reasons.
And you are going to trust the arhitects of these idiocies to protect you against them? Get real!
I think you may have missed something here. I was talking about Yahoo mail--that's not MS.
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We already have IP portability. Geez, where have you been? My machine was 127.0.0.1 before I moved into this house, and it still is now. You know, that's funny that my other computer has that number too...
Also, bandwidth can be huge because of all the parallel network paths that are available to people. If traffic can be routed intelligently packet-by-packet, the bandwidth is just about unlimited (up to the capacity of the eventual hardline--a T3 line or whatever) and dynamically available to whoever needs it at the time.
I think this may be just a cleverly disguised troll. Usually it goes:
1. Linux fanatic rips on "constant" BSOD/crashes in Windows. (insightful)
2. Current Windows user informs them that current versions of Windows don't do that. (informative)
3. ???
4. Profit. (ok, sorry couldn't resist.)
In this case, the criticism is valid. Windows XP still does need to reboot on just about anything you install, but someone saw a chance to be modded insightful by using the usual formula of correcting Windows critiques.
I must have been hanging around /. too long. When I was reading your comment I thought, "RTF what? manual? article?" Then I got to the .rtf part and figured it out.
sorry...so sorry.
C'mon, how can we possibly have a story about someone dying without the Netcraft angle?
of ANY kind to my house--I don't care what speed. I'm stuck with ^%&*#$ CableOne internet for $45 a month, and DSL isn't supported on my line. Qwest just started offering unbundled DSL service for about $15 a month (plus a few bucks for a cheap ISP), and I can't get it!
This is Boise Idaho, so we're not exactly on the leading edge of technology.
DON'T tell people to edit the registry as the first way to deal with something. There's a perfectly decent way to deal with this through the OS (uncheck the box for autorun in the driver properties) or through the TweakUI program. This jumping to edit the registry first stems from the instinct to start editing config files to fix things. That's not how Windows is made to work, and I think leads to so many of the comments about registries getting screwed.
I would like to see two contrary laws slug it out in court. It is illegal for them to put this virus on CDs that install themselves, but it is illegal for us to try to remove their virus because of the DMCA.
I love the modding on that comment--80% Funny from those of us who have gone through this pain, and 20% Troll from someone who was lucky enough to have a supported* sound card and thinks it's just FUD.
*Supported (su-pôrt-ed) adj. Capable of being correctly detected and having drivers installed, rather than the huge list of "supported" devices that don't do squat until you manually compile a driver into a module or your kernel.
It's a front to get more recruits for the war. You'll get deployed! (I'd better put in this ;) or I'll need to search for my asbestos underwear.)
Yeah, apparently my cluster of Commodores didn't get enough publicity for them to notice it. Do they have an honorable mention list?
For those with access to WMP9, you can download the whole album from Wal-Mart's music download store for $9.44 or individual tracks for $.88. I don't know if it's on iTunes yet. By the way, don't criticize this as another boy-band or Britney thing. Velvet Revolver is made up of some former members of Guns 'N Roses and the former lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, etc. That is why this album is so popular.
The subject line of your message seems like a good suggestion for the next Googlebomb.
How about new JOB?
Heh, I worked an internship in a steel mill in 1998 on a team doing the Y2K assessment of their computer control systems. They had COBOL stuff written in the 70's that still controlled their furnace systems.
Go ahead and demand that they change the employment contract so that you get to keep your copyrights then. Why are they laughing at you? I'll tell you why. There are other programmers looking for jobs that won't make demands like that. That is what happens in a competitive job market. There are guys who need to get a paycheck to support themselves and their families who aren't as picky as to negotiate for royalties.
You are reverting back to where we came from --> "I think besides email, it should be able to browse newsgroups. oh yeah, and an integrated IRC chat client...and maybe an HTML composer."
I really never understood people sticking with Hotmail accounts. My wife signed up for one several years ago when they were very new. Immediate bombardment of spam. It was so awful right off the bat, that she dumped it quickly for a Yahoo account (and I also got one) when they were still 6MB accounts. It has been bliss since then. Their spam filtering is really great, but more than that is just that there's hardly anything to filter. We each get maybe 1 or 2 a day because we're careful about giving it out. The 100MB storage and 10MB attachments are a great bonus.
I read that Security advisory. That is pretty interesting and another good reason to avoid using IE. In this case, then, it sounds like displaying the HTML message in a separate email client would probably be safe, since this exploit relies on IE's execution of the commands in the HTML.
Comment on your sig. I think it's clever, but you might want to correct the information.
"The way to a man's heart is through the left ventricle."
Actually the left ventricle would be the way out of a man's heart. The left ventricle is the chamber that pushes the blood out through the aorta to circulate through the rest of the body. The right atrium/auricle is where blood is first received back into the heart. More info can be found here or here.
Once again, your train of thought has derailed. We're talking about scanning email attachments. Virus scanners may be able to rid your system of worms after they have been identified and spread to many computers, but the real way to stop that is a firewall. I use one, so I have never had a problem with MSBlaster or any other worm that doesn't require user action. And, of course, I don't use IE because of those very reasons.
I think you may have missed something here. I was talking about Yahoo mail--that's not MS.