Fine so there will be ways around it, just remeber that not everyone is such a geek so most people simply will lose there work more than likely. Basically what I'm trying to say is that it's no a magical solution to the virus problem.
True, but by then the damage may already be done depending on what the virus does. If it's just gathering information (I'm lumping all manner of annoying windows computing phenomena under the designation "virus") then your data has already been copied once you notice the virus is active. In this case traditional virus removal techniques would still be required.
I will admit it's a step in the right direction, but many./ users are uncovering potential flaws in a matter of minutes, imagine what a hacker could think up given months or years? Like all computer systems it won't be perfect but hopefully it will be a step in the right direction...Even if it's not the first of it's kind. (This is basically what XP's system restore does isn't it?)
If a user's computer becomes infected, she could use the Rollback feature to go back to an arbitrary point in time prior to the infection and resume work there, deleting the subsequent work -- and the virus.
So I was right with my original assumption, if the virus simply hangs low for x days you rollback and still lose x days work.
OK, so let my just think a little bit here. You get a virus that remains dormant for say, 6 months. Then sudennly it does something really bad to your computer so what do you do? Rollback 1 day and have it screw up the next day or rollback 6 months and lose 6 months work? I think a litte more thought has to be put into that feature....Or maybe I should RTFA.
I haven't seen American Pie but I can't see myself finding overtly sexual humour actually funny. I remember sitting through There's Something About Mary and the only time I laughed was when the singing guy got shot.
Also recently when I was watching Old School with a bunch of mates the only time I laughed was when the blow job instructor mentioned something about "sucking on the teet of Remus, if you know your Greek mythology"...No one else got it, am I just that weird?
I will agree that the films themselves may not be all that funny at the time, personally I find them boring mostly. What really makes Monty Python funny is when people quote it later on, it brings a group closer when you all remember a little bit of a Monty Python skit...even if you've never actually *seen* it before.
For some reason I see the same thing happening with other humour sources such as Futurama (all rise for a moments silence...), The Simpsons and HHGTTG. They all seem funnier when quoted later on, generally the more random and out of context the quote the funnier it seems.
Netgear WG311v2, the problem I get creates exactly the same dmesg log as seen by people bothering to post on the acx100 message board. Remember that the 650+is a 11b card, the WG311 is an 11g card and hence has the acx111 chip, not the acx100.
I like the way you've taken the opposite side to a lot of other people but even among your valid arguments I'd still rather just buy a product and have it last a long time. If it did what I bought it to do the day I bought it why shoulden't it do it in 1, 5 or even 10 years time. I know that in 1994 you could get a 486 machine for word processing and if you could still easily get printer cartriges for printers made in 1994 I'm sure it would still be quite a usefull machine, but do you still see people using equipment that old? I find it a sad fact that you don't and an environmental hazard to boot with all the wasted recources going into products that will be landfill in 2 or 3 years.
I know that I will always be one to laugh when I see a 4 year old fridge thrown out and a 40 year old fridge continue to cool like it was brand new. Even if it is only used to cool beer at some summer beachhouse I admire the fact that it was built to last. Imagine how satisfying it would be knowing that the camera you bought today was powered off a plutonium heat cell and would last as well as the
Voyager probe.
Our cameras come with a lot of great features...Like a phone.
-Any modern phone producer
Believe it or not that was actually a slogan used on a billboard for a phone. I can't remember which one but it really turned me off buying a new one as I know that mobile phone cameras are crappier-than-webcam quality and if the phone is just an added feature of the camera I guess I'm better off with 2 cans and a bit of string.
It plays havoc with people wanting a linux compatible Wifi card as well. Basically no wifi manufacturer has released a card that at one stage had say a nice prism or orinoco chipset in it that hasn't changed it for something uncompatible like a Broadcomm or TI.
eg:
Netgear WG311 was an Atheros supported by the
madwifi
driver but is now a Texus Intruments which is yet to have a stable driver (partial success has been had with
this one, just not by me). At *least* Netgear had the kindness to call the TI version "WG311v2" and change the box slightly (documented
here it still makes it really annoying when you see "supported" next to "wg311" at places such as here, then you buy one and find out it's changed from 4 weeks ago)
The (in)famous Linksys WMP11 used to be a linux-friendly prism but is now a Broadcomm or inprocomm (I think it's been both according to
The List
Many other wifi cards have undergone such massive (I consider a chipset change massive) changes without there model numbers changed and it makes getting a wireless card for linux *VERY* difficult and frustrating.
Which is why I haven't bought one for about 5 years.
Personally I want my purchases to *last*, I don't care if a "better" product is available the fact remains that when I bought something it did what I expected and required it to do and a year later it should still do it, hopefully for much longer.
I really dislike the way the entire technology arena is going, I am only 19 and already I see far too much "progress" for comfort. I look at my dad who has been able to keep the same job for 19 years and I know that I simply won't be able to do that.
But in all this change, I think we should all remember Ecclesiastes 7:10: Do not say, "Why were the old days better than these?"
For it is not wise to ask such questions.
People longed for the past 5000odd years ago and they still do it today, humans all share an odd similarity.
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Fine so there will be ways around it, just remeber that not everyone is such a geek so most people simply will lose there work more than likely. Basically what I'm trying to say is that it's no a magical solution to the virus problem.
True, but by then the damage may already be done depending on what the virus does. If it's just gathering information (I'm lumping all manner of annoying windows computing phenomena under the designation "virus") then your data has already been copied once you notice the virus is active. In this case traditional virus removal techniques would still be required.
./ users are uncovering potential flaws in a matter of minutes, imagine what a hacker could think up given months or years? Like all computer systems it won't be perfect but hopefully it will be a step in the right direction...Even if it's not the first of it's kind. (This is basically what XP's system restore does isn't it?)
I will admit it's a step in the right direction, but many
Shhhh, I'm relying on that flaw!
OK, I read enough of the article:
If a user's computer becomes infected, she could use the Rollback feature to go back to an arbitrary point in time prior to the infection and resume work there, deleting the subsequent work -- and the virus.
So I was right with my original assumption, if the virus simply hangs low for x days you rollback and still lose x days work.
OK, so let my just think a little bit here. You get a virus that remains dormant for say, 6 months. Then sudennly it does something really bad to your computer so what do you do? Rollback 1 day and have it screw up the next day or rollback 6 months and lose 6 months work? I think a litte more thought has to be put into that feature....Or maybe I should RTFA.
Doesn't Firefox just have both? Look in (with version 0.8, I'm a lazy bum I know) Tools menu-> Options-> Downloads (icon on left) -> Download Manager
There are 2 tick boxes, one to make it open in the first place and another to make it close when all downloads are complete.
We can't be original, we aren't popular enough to be different.
Basically what I was trying to say is that I've quoted Monty Python stuff that I've heard from other people without having seen the original.
I haven't seen American Pie but I can't see myself finding overtly sexual humour actually funny. I remember sitting through There's Something About Mary and the only time I laughed was when the singing guy got shot.
Also recently when I was watching Old School with a bunch of mates the only time I laughed was when the blow job instructor mentioned something about "sucking on the teet of Remus, if you know your Greek mythology"...No one else got it, am I just that weird?
I will agree that the films themselves may not be all that funny at the time, personally I find them boring mostly. What really makes Monty Python funny is when people quote it later on, it brings a group closer when you all remember a little bit of a Monty Python skit...even if you've never actually *seen* it before.
For some reason I see the same thing happening with other humour sources such as Futurama (all rise for a moments silence...), The Simpsons and HHGTTG. They all seem funnier when quoted later on, generally the more random and out of context the quote the funnier it seems.
Smaller than IPod Mini? What, like if you want it implanted in your head or something?
Yo, dude, sorry man it was meant to be like satirical or sarcastic or something...not literal anyway.
If it's only as big as a AAA what are you going to power it with? Your own sence of self satisfaction?
Ogg is simply free/open source. Better encoding quality is purely accidental.
I take it you don't prescribe to The 6-Month Product Cycle, get with the times man!
...And mabye a clock.
True, but at least you don't have to pay for kernel upgrades.
Netgear WG311v2, the problem I get creates exactly the same dmesg log as seen by people bothering to post on the acx100 message board. Remember that the 650+is a 11b card, the WG311 is an 11g card and hence has the acx111 chip, not the acx100.
I like the way you've taken the opposite side to a lot of other people but even among your valid arguments I'd still rather just buy a product and have it last a long time. If it did what I bought it to do the day I bought it why shoulden't it do it in 1, 5 or even 10 years time. I know that in 1994 you could get a 486 machine for word processing and if you could still easily get printer cartriges for printers made in 1994 I'm sure it would still be quite a usefull machine, but do you still see people using equipment that old? I find it a sad fact that you don't and an environmental hazard to boot with all the wasted recources going into products that will be landfill in 2 or 3 years.
I know that I will always be one to laugh when I see a 4 year old fridge thrown out and a 40 year old fridge continue to cool like it was brand new. Even if it is only used to cool beer at some summer beachhouse I admire the fact that it was built to last. Imagine how satisfying it would be knowing that the camera you bought today was powered off a plutonium heat cell and would last as well as the Voyager probe.
Just remember:
Our cameras come with a lot of great features...Like a phone.
-Any modern phone producer
Believe it or not that was actually a slogan used on a billboard for a phone. I can't remember which one but it really turned me off buying a new one as I know that mobile phone cameras are crappier-than-webcam quality and if the phone is just an added feature of the camera I guess I'm better off with 2 cans and a bit of string.
It plays havoc with people wanting a linux compatible Wifi card as well. Basically no wifi manufacturer has released a card that at one stage had say a nice prism or orinoco chipset in it that hasn't changed it for something uncompatible like a Broadcomm or TI.
eg:
Netgear WG311 was an Atheros supported by the madwifi driver but is now a Texus Intruments which is yet to have a stable driver (partial success has been had with this one, just not by me). At *least* Netgear had the kindness to call the TI version "WG311v2" and change the box slightly (documented here it still makes it really annoying when you see "supported" next to "wg311" at places such as here, then you buy one and find out it's changed from 4 weeks ago)
The (in)famous Linksys WMP11 used to be a linux-friendly prism but is now a Broadcomm or inprocomm (I think it's been both according to The List
Many other wifi cards have undergone such massive (I consider a chipset change massive) changes without there model numbers changed and it makes getting a wireless card for linux *VERY* difficult and frustrating.
Which is why I haven't bought one for about 5 years.
Personally I want my purchases to *last*, I don't care if a "better" product is available the fact remains that when I bought something it did what I expected and required it to do and a year later it should still do it, hopefully for much longer.
I really dislike the way the entire technology arena is going, I am only 19 and already I see far too much "progress" for comfort. I look at my dad who has been able to keep the same job for 19 years and I know that I simply won't be able to do that.
But in all this change, I think we should all remember Ecclesiastes 7:10:
Do not say, "Why were the old days better than these?" For it is not wise to ask such questions.
People longed for the past 5000odd years ago and they still do it today, humans all share an odd similarity.
I sorta strayed a bit there...Aw well.
Everyone! Keep refreshing that page, lets see how high we can make the green bar!
Makes these? What other funny M$ pages are there? Come on man don't hold out on me!
Possibly but the FPU registers would have to be significantly larger to adopt the same functionality.