If his Windows XP installation disc was built by the manufacturer (i.e., has Dell's logo in addition to Microsoft's), it will validate the BIOS as being from the correct OEM before permitting installation.
He would have to purchase the motherboard from Dell (if it is still available) or else have access to their BIOS tattooing kit (usually only certified techs get that).
And as for using a different CD with his key----no. Windows XP discs supported different sets of product keys depending on their distribution channel. A Dell OEM key will not work for a full retail, volume license, or retail upgrade disc. His Dell key will only work with Dell media.
Microsoft knocked off that nonsense in Vista, thankfully, but shops with legacy systems will have problems until the day XP is no more.
You still have to pay your taxes in USD. They just do not want stacks of paper and coins being hauled into their offices. For better or worse, the USD has been primarily a digital currency for at least a decade.
Aside from pressing the key combo that cancels fullscreen mode (CTRL+ALT+Enter for VMware), there is nothing that a normal web/email user can do to tell the difference. Just create a snapshot before the guests arrive and revert to it after they leave.
This used to be possible with the free VMware player---don't know if that's changed or not. The paid VMware Workstation product definitely can do it, or an equivalent product from their competitors.
Electroconvulsive therapy is broad, and even its most targeted implemented sends electricity to places it doesn't need to go. It must also pass through tissues that have no therapeutic reason to be exposed to electric current.
An internally-mounted system could be far more precise; possibly even as good as this experiment.
The best analogy I can come up with is: ECT is like trying to chisel a sculpture with a jackhammer.
Storage controllers already offer both volatile and non-volatile for caching. NVRAM can survive power losses and surprise reboots without data loss or corruption.
Some controllers have volatile RAM backed up with a battery so that outstanding writes can be committed to media once the power is restored.
I imagine the NAND/DRAM hybrid will cache reads in DRAM and writes in NAND, or else it will use very small batteries or modest capacitors to migrate pending writes to NAND when there is an unanticipated system shutdown.
When employees of American tech companies are issued disposable cell phones and told not to discuss anything sensitive because the phones will be hacked while they're there, it seems like an obvious extension of that stance to restrict the ingress of machines running Chinese code.
Personally, I don't care if someone in China wants to watch me stream Scrubs on Netflix. But there are things on government and corporate networks that are important or dangerous enough where I would rather take every reasonable precaution.
If they want to see lots of sales and premium pricing, they need to deliver something that someone craves. So let's see which large markets they've locked on to...
Consumers? Not without long battery life and a strong app ecosystem.
Business offices? Not without domain capability and policy enforcement.
Industrial or scientific? Not without win32 or easy access to privileged functions (both of which are a bad idea without centrally-managed security policy).
They got their "Ooh, wow, look at this" customers that any new gadget will get, but that's all they'll get with this release of Windows RT. Better luck next time.
I would like to see a court weigh in on whether photos or videos containing other people can be uploaded to social media sites. Or to other possibly non-private file repositories.
I have a sneaking suspicion that images recorded in private locations without explicit consent will end up receiving substantial awards in civil cases.
As far as recordings in public places are concerned, however, I expect very little.
Assisted GPS can offload some tasks to carrier-operated servers. Also, enabling GPS on most cell phones will enable network-based location.
In areas with poor visibility of the sky or other issues, network-based location may be faster, more accurate, or both.
Every cell phone in the US must be capable of determining its location (since the late 90s), and this requirement existed before GPS was widespread. Assisted GPS uses that existing infrastructure to some extent. There are some standards related to aGPS that allow it to work globally on GSM networks, and US carriers have additional proprietary functionality beyond that (or at least they used to---I've been out of the industry for a few years now).
Hyper-V is essentially free if you're already invested in the Microsoft platform.
With an Enterprise license, you are allowed up to 4 instances on the same box. If an instance is used only to support virtualization, it doesn't count toward this limit. Note that with 4 instances, Enterprise is the same cost per instance as Standard so the price will be equivalent assuming reasonable VM density.
In addition, since failover clusters and enterprise certificate servers require Enterprise, most Microsoft customers will already be licensing Enterprise anyway.
With Datacenter edition, an unlimited number of VMs can be run on the same box. This does, however, require attention to the underlying hardware as it is licensed per-CPU unlike the other editions. With Intel's current offerings, a cheap 2-CPU server can have 12 cores (24 with HT). If it can handle 6 VMs, it reaches price parity with Standard edition---and it can probably handle far more than that.
tl;dr - Hyper-V is more cost-effective than VMware for a Windows or hybrid shop, but there are some features it currently lacks or implements poorly.
With the 2008 R2 service pack, this is no longer the case, as VMs can now be live-migrated. It is not as smooth as VMotion, however, so Hyper-V is still technically inferior.
There is a notable cost advantage when Enterprise or Datacenter versions of Windows are used on appropriate hardware, but I don't know if that will last if/when Microsoft reaches feature parity.
Does anyone use a single HVAC unit? If your datacenter cannot sustain the failure of a single HVAC unit, you need to invest in your infrastructure a little more.
The same would apply to submersion-cooled equipment. Redundant pumps with sufficient cooling towers to tolerate failures.
The failure of a single part should never bring anything down unless the part that fails is "the building".
Almost every business on the planet would stop functioning if all software stopped functioning aside from Office and of.
There are no ARM desktops being mass-produced for the corporate desktop. Windows on ARM isn't replacing that platform, so WoA doesn't need its army of third-party apps.
On phones and tablets, most users consume content (web browsing, videos), stay in contact, or view/edit basic documents. Taking WMP, Office, and IE in combination with Flash and Adobe Reader gives a typical office user everything they're expecting on a mobile platform.
Of course there's going to be a help desk application, an ERP database, or a custom accounting app that won't run on WoA. But until Microsoft OEMs try to put ARM into desktops, it doesn't matter.
To anyone with a real job, that assertion is laughable.
My dad's an electrician. He needs access to his email and some spread sheets when he's working. He's covered by the suggested basics, and he ditched his laptop in favor of a smartphone a few years ago.
Care to tell me what you consider a real job? Because I'm pretty sure you're considering only people whose jobs are almost entirely on computers---and ignoring the majority of people who use computers to expediate their non-IT jobs.
It is not patently unconstitutional; it is common practice.
While the changes generally tend to remain on-topic (e.g., one net neutrality clause is stricken and replaced with another), the Senate can legislate in a way that completely opposes the House bill. This is a long-standing practice.
Technically, the revised bill must go through a reconciliation process, although this usually consists of the House signing off on the Senate version. Still, they can reject it or insist on further modifications.
In case you didn't accept Jumperalex's explanation, you are wrong.
Classification is based on the threat posed by the acquisition of the information by a hostile entity.
Sometimes, otherwise non-sensitive information received from a particular source may be classified if it could expose the source.
E.g., if there's a concern that Tidbit A would only be known to Alice and Bob, we cannot let Alice know that we know---because she will know that Bob leaked. So even if Tidbit A doesn't merit a higher classification on its own, the risk it poses to Bob could lead to its classification.
Classifications are *always* derived from the content of the document, specifically the risk associated its widespread distribution. The higher the risk is, the higher the classification level.
Isn't this already covered by the gas tax, which is inherently incurred on a "per mile" (gallon, really) basis?
No. As the summary indicated, it's meant to bring parity to taxation of hybrids and electric vehicles. While these cars may be better for the environment, the wear they place on the infrastructure is the same as their gasoline-fueled counterparts.
As an example, imagine a world where all vehicles are electric and we still have road maintenance. The gas tax may help cover infrastructure costs, but as gasoline consumption wanes it will become increasingly irrelevant. Mileage metering places the tax burden properly on those who are (A) contributing most to the deterioration and (B) using the infrastructure the most.
I believe a mileage metering scheme (possibly with a multiplier based on vehicle type) would be the fairest system. If we require new cars to be built with meters now, we can realistically retrofit legacy vehicles in about 10 years and run with it.
At the rate SSD storage is growing (and the capacity is being used), it is conceivable that a company could choose cheap MLC drives and simply plan on upgrading them before their expected time of death.
With modern wear-leveling algorithms, reduced write amplification, and better physical longevity, I can see cheap SSDs lasting the 2-3 years their capacity would be good for.
SATA SSD over iSCSI is starting to look very appealing now compared to Fibre Channel or SAS. Since silicon performance and capacity scale much faster than mechanical performance/capacity---and SATA devices are compatible with SAS host controllers---it should only be a few more years before this becomes commonplace.
As a DBA, I would love to have solid-state storage instead of needing to segment my databases properly and work with the software dev guys to make sure we have reasonable load distribution.
Where can I get someone to pay a million dollars so I can do substandard work?
He has to file suit in order for it to be a civil or criminal matter.
A judge will almost certainly issue an order for the information to be released once he advises the court that his pet has a locator device.
Although the situation is a bit odd, I approve of a law which requires court action before any who isn't me can be provided my location.
The new owners likely have no idea that the dog was stolen, and handling the situation through the courts is much less likely to explode than allowing the company to hand out home addresses to aggrieved parties.
This may have been the case in 2005, but it is not any longer. Verizon replaces defective routers as long as the customer has a subscription, and the equipment has to be returned upon cancellation to avoid a fee.
The router is configured at the firmware level for the following:
1. NAT rules/ACLs for set-top boxes (STBs) 2. QoS rules for STB traffic (primarily to allow VOD, as it is sent over IP) 3. Automatic updating (this can be disabled) 4. MoCA key (necessary for internet over coax connection, useless otherwise) 5. Remote diagnostics (explained below)
The remote diagnostic function allows tech support to see connectivity of the router ports, see the number of connected STBs, see the transfer speeds to the STBs (they use MoCA so it's not just 10/100), see the host names of connected devices (if they have names set), restart the router, factory reset the router, and change the wifi settings. I believe they are also able to view signal strength for the coax connection if the internet runs in that way.
The router control is handled through one of Verizon's line diagnostic systems. Tech support, field techs, and engineers cannot access a router without that action being logged.
Verizon has rolled out firmware updates silently to fix issues with the guide, video on demand, PPV ordering, and console online gaming. I'm a bit touchy about security, but I would leave it as-is if I could get FiOS where I live. They do a lot of work behind the scenes on router and STB firmware.
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If his Windows XP installation disc was built by the manufacturer (i.e., has Dell's logo in addition to Microsoft's), it will validate the BIOS as being from the correct OEM before permitting installation.
He would have to purchase the motherboard from Dell (if it is still available) or else have access to their BIOS tattooing kit (usually only certified techs get that).
And as for using a different CD with his key----no. Windows XP discs supported different sets of product keys depending on their distribution channel. A Dell OEM key will not work for a full retail, volume license, or retail upgrade disc. His Dell key will only work with Dell media.
Microsoft knocked off that nonsense in Vista, thankfully, but shops with legacy systems will have problems until the day XP is no more.
You still have to pay your taxes in USD. They just do not want stacks of paper and coins being hauled into their offices. For better or worse, the USD has been primarily a digital currency for at least a decade.
Create a VM and run it in fullscreen mode.
Aside from pressing the key combo that cancels fullscreen mode (CTRL+ALT+Enter for VMware), there is nothing that a normal web/email user can do to tell the difference. Just create a snapshot before the guests arrive and revert to it after they leave.
This used to be possible with the free VMware player---don't know if that's changed or not. The paid VMware Workstation product definitely can do it, or an equivalent product from their competitors.
Electroconvulsive therapy is broad, and even its most targeted implemented sends electricity to places it doesn't need to go. It must also pass through tissues that have no therapeutic reason to be exposed to electric current.
An internally-mounted system could be far more precise; possibly even as good as this experiment.
The best analogy I can come up with is: ECT is like trying to chisel a sculpture with a jackhammer.
If they are already destroying old equipment, this won't really change anything. It may prompt an ominous memo or two reinforcing the habit.
I see this being more useful for storage controllers.
The ratio of NAND to DRAM is too high for system memory, and the CPU memory controller would have to support it before it could even be installed.
Storage controllers already offer both volatile and non-volatile for caching. NVRAM can survive power losses and surprise reboots without data loss or corruption.
Some controllers have volatile RAM backed up with a battery so that outstanding writes can be committed to media once the power is restored.
I imagine the NAND/DRAM hybrid will cache reads in DRAM and writes in NAND, or else it will use very small batteries or modest capacitors to migrate pending writes to NAND when there is an unanticipated system shutdown.
When employees of American tech companies are issued disposable cell phones and told not to discuss anything sensitive because the phones will be hacked while they're there, it seems like an obvious extension of that stance to restrict the ingress of machines running Chinese code.
Personally, I don't care if someone in China wants to watch me stream Scrubs on Netflix. But there are things on government and corporate networks that are important or dangerous enough where I would rather take every reasonable precaution.
If they want to see lots of sales and premium pricing, they need to deliver something that someone craves. So let's see which large markets they've locked on to...
Consumers? Not without long battery life and a strong app ecosystem.
Business offices? Not without domain capability and policy enforcement.
Industrial or scientific? Not without win32 or easy access to privileged functions (both of which are a bad idea without centrally-managed security policy).
They got their "Ooh, wow, look at this" customers that any new gadget will get, but that's all they'll get with this release of Windows RT. Better luck next time.
I would like to see a court weigh in on whether photos or videos containing other people can be uploaded to social media sites. Or to other possibly non-private file repositories.
I have a sneaking suspicion that images recorded in private locations without explicit consent will end up receiving substantial awards in civil cases.
As far as recordings in public places are concerned, however, I expect very little.
Assisted GPS can offload some tasks to carrier-operated servers. Also, enabling GPS on most cell phones will enable network-based location.
In areas with poor visibility of the sky or other issues, network-based location may be faster, more accurate, or both.
Every cell phone in the US must be capable of determining its location (since the late 90s), and this requirement existed before GPS was widespread. Assisted GPS uses that existing infrastructure to some extent. There are some standards related to aGPS that allow it to work globally on GSM networks, and US carriers have additional proprietary functionality beyond that (or at least they used to---I've been out of the industry for a few years now).
> Let's talk price, shall we?
Hyper-V is essentially free if you're already invested in the Microsoft platform.
With an Enterprise license, you are allowed up to 4 instances on the same box. If an instance is used only to support virtualization, it doesn't count toward this limit. Note that with 4 instances, Enterprise is the same cost per instance as Standard so the price will be equivalent assuming reasonable VM density.
In addition, since failover clusters and enterprise certificate servers require Enterprise, most Microsoft customers will already be licensing Enterprise anyway.
With Datacenter edition, an unlimited number of VMs can be run on the same box. This does, however, require attention to the underlying hardware as it is licensed per-CPU unlike the other editions. With Intel's current offerings, a cheap 2-CPU server can have 12 cores (24 with HT). If it can handle 6 VMs, it reaches price parity with Standard edition---and it can probably handle far more than that.
tl;dr - Hyper-V is more cost-effective than VMware for a Windows or hybrid shop, but there are some features it currently lacks or implements poorly.
With the 2008 R2 service pack, this is no longer the case, as VMs can now be live-migrated. It is not as smooth as VMotion, however, so Hyper-V is still technically inferior.
There is a notable cost advantage when Enterprise or Datacenter versions of Windows are used on appropriate hardware, but I don't know if that will last if/when Microsoft reaches feature parity.
Does anyone use a single HVAC unit? If your datacenter cannot sustain the failure of a single HVAC unit, you need to invest in your infrastructure a little more.
The same would apply to submersion-cooled equipment. Redundant pumps with sufficient cooling towers to tolerate failures.
The failure of a single part should never bring anything down unless the part that fails is "the building".
Almost every business on the planet would stop functioning if all software stopped functioning aside from Office and of.
There are no ARM desktops being mass-produced for the corporate desktop. Windows on ARM isn't replacing that platform, so WoA doesn't need its army of third-party apps.
On phones and tablets, most users consume content (web browsing, videos), stay in contact, or view/edit basic documents. Taking WMP, Office, and IE in combination with Flash and Adobe Reader gives a typical office user everything they're expecting on a mobile platform.
Of course there's going to be a help desk application, an ERP database, or a custom accounting app that won't run on WoA. But until Microsoft OEMs try to put ARM into desktops, it doesn't matter.
To anyone with a real job, that assertion is laughable.
My dad's an electrician. He needs access to his email and some spread sheets when he's working. He's covered by the suggested basics, and he ditched his laptop in favor of a smartphone a few years ago.
Care to tell me what you consider a real job? Because I'm pretty sure you're considering only people whose jobs are almost entirely on computers---and ignoring the majority of people who use computers to expediate their non-IT jobs.
It is not patently unconstitutional; it is common practice.
While the changes generally tend to remain on-topic (e.g., one net neutrality clause is stricken and replaced with another), the Senate can legislate in a way that completely opposes the House bill. This is a long-standing practice.
Technically, the revised bill must go through a reconciliation process, although this usually consists of the House signing off on the Senate version. Still, they can reject it or insist on further modifications.
In case you didn't accept Jumperalex's explanation, you are wrong.
Classification is based on the threat posed by the acquisition of the information by a hostile entity.
Sometimes, otherwise non-sensitive information received from a particular source may be classified if it could expose the source.
E.g., if there's a concern that Tidbit A would only be known to Alice and Bob, we cannot let Alice know that we know---because she will know that Bob leaked. So even if Tidbit A doesn't merit a higher classification on its own, the risk it poses to Bob could lead to its classification.
Classifications are *always* derived from the content of the document, specifically the risk associated its widespread distribution. The higher the risk is, the higher the classification level.
Isn't this already covered by the gas tax, which is inherently incurred on a "per mile" (gallon, really) basis?
No. As the summary indicated, it's meant to bring parity to taxation of hybrids and electric vehicles. While these cars may be better for the environment, the wear they place on the infrastructure is the same as their gasoline-fueled counterparts.
As an example, imagine a world where all vehicles are electric and we still have road maintenance. The gas tax may help cover infrastructure costs, but as gasoline consumption wanes it will become increasingly irrelevant. Mileage metering places the tax burden properly on those who are (A) contributing most to the deterioration and (B) using the infrastructure the most.
I believe a mileage metering scheme (possibly with a multiplier based on vehicle type) would be the fairest system. If we require new cars to be built with meters now, we can realistically retrofit legacy vehicles in about 10 years and run with it.
At the rate SSD storage is growing (and the capacity is being used), it is conceivable that a company could choose cheap MLC drives and simply plan on upgrading them before their expected time of death.
With modern wear-leveling algorithms, reduced write amplification, and better physical longevity, I can see cheap SSDs lasting the 2-3 years their capacity would be good for.
SATA SSD over iSCSI is starting to look very appealing now compared to Fibre Channel or SAS. Since silicon performance and capacity scale much faster than mechanical performance/capacity---and SATA devices are compatible with SAS host controllers---it should only be a few more years before this becomes commonplace.
As a DBA, I would love to have solid-state storage instead of needing to segment my databases properly and work with the software dev guys to make sure we have reasonable load distribution.
Where can I get someone to pay a million dollars so I can do substandard work?
He has to file suit in order for it to be a civil or criminal matter.
A judge will almost certainly issue an order for the information to be released once he advises the court that his pet has a locator device.
Although the situation is a bit odd, I approve of a law which requires court action before any who isn't me can be provided my location.
The new owners likely have no idea that the dog was stolen, and handling the situation through the courts is much less likely to explode than allowing the company to hand out home addresses to aggrieved parties.
This may have been the case in 2005, but it is not any longer. Verizon replaces defective routers as long as the customer has a subscription, and the equipment has to be returned upon cancellation to avoid a fee.
The FiOS TOS permits this.
The router is configured at the firmware level for the following:
1. NAT rules/ACLs for set-top boxes (STBs)
2. QoS rules for STB traffic (primarily to allow VOD, as it is sent over IP)
3. Automatic updating (this can be disabled)
4. MoCA key (necessary for internet over coax connection, useless otherwise)
5. Remote diagnostics (explained below)
The remote diagnostic function allows tech support to see connectivity of the router ports, see the number of connected STBs, see the transfer speeds to the STBs (they use MoCA so it's not just 10/100), see the host names of connected devices (if they have names set), restart the router, factory reset the router, and change the wifi settings. I believe they are also able to view signal strength for the coax connection if the internet runs in that way.
The router control is handled through one of Verizon's line diagnostic systems. Tech support, field techs, and engineers cannot access a router without that action being logged.
Verizon has rolled out firmware updates silently to fix issues with the guide, video on demand, PPV ordering, and console online gaming. I'm a bit touchy about security, but I would leave it as-is if I could get FiOS where I live. They do a lot of work behind the scenes on router and STB firmware.