From a quick straw poll, I don't think many people are weeping. Sure, it's a bad thing to have happened, but we've coped with worse in the form of road accidents, train crashes, flash floods, and a pretty poor run rate against Australia.
Sometimes, being British is just a matter of getting on with life.
Actually, on Win2K you have NTFS reparse points, which you could in principle use to make your USB device available as C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%
The fact that computers generate RF noise was put to great use by a program for the Sinclair ZX81 (which had no sound hardware). The program caused oscillations which, if you turned the TV's sound up, were audible as tones.
If what you're doing is genuinely useful, you don't need to do anything. Make your work available on the web and let news spread by word-of-mouth and result-of-Google. It works for PuTTY.
(You'll get a much smoother growth curve with this sort of "soft launch", too, which will help a lot when you're planning how much bandwidth you need.)
Oh dear. Here we go again. I'm no great fan of Windows (I'm a primarily Unix sysadmin) but I'm tired of hearing that old chestnut `Windows [NT]has NO remote administration capabilities' because it's just plain false.
Even without things like SMS, BackOrifice, and PC Anywhere, there's a great deal you can do from an NT machine. Let's see:
* Add / remove / modify user accounts * Modify services on remote machines * Schedule jobs on remote machines * Modify SMB exports (shares) and permissions on remote filesystems * Monitor processes and performance statistics on remote machines * View and manage remote machines' logging information
Yes, it's a very different sort of remote administration to what you may be used to from the Unix or VMS worlds, but it's there and in large part it's there as standard. Add the tools from the Resource Kit, and you've even got remote shell facilities if you really want them; if you want remote GUI control for free, you can always use the GNU GPLed VNC utilities.
I'm no fan of Windows NT, but I won't see it bashed for the wrong reasons. Credit where credit's due, and let's criticise it for its real faults.
Having been struck by hand/wrist pain late last year, I've been spending the past six or seven months trying to work out what to do about it. For reasons of pure paranoia (I'm a sysadmin) I went to my doctor as soon as I had the first twinges, and from there I've had physiotherapy of various sorts, which has helped. It pays to be paranoid: talk to your doctor.
The key, though, is that a little therapy will do you no good at all on its own. You have to look at every aspect of how you live, and particularly how you work with computers.
Posture is important, so don't just look at pictures of stick men on the web and think "that's about how I sit, I'm okay"; get someone else to look at how you're sitting. The equipment you use to operate computers is important: experiment with different keyboards and mouse-substitutes until you find out what works for you. When you find one, keep looking, because often in this area a change is as good as a break. The software you use is important, too. Some people swear that emacs killed their wrists, others that it was all that mousing in Windows that did it. What exercise do you do? A lot of people recommend swimming: see what works for you.
I'll second everything jwz said -- particularly about xwrits, which was the only keyboard use monitoring software persistent enough to get me to pay attention to it -- and add that even in the midst of pain, it's possible to have some fun: play with all the fun technology there is out there! I'm writing this at the moment with the voice recognition package DragonDictate, which is at turns the most wonderful and the most frustrating piece of software in my life at the moment:-)
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From a quick straw poll, I don't think many people are weeping. Sure, it's a bad thing to have happened, but we've coped with worse in the form of road accidents, train crashes, flash floods, and a pretty poor run rate against Australia.
Sometimes, being British is just a matter of getting on with life.
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Actually, on Win2K you have NTFS reparse points, which you could in principle use to make your USB device available as C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%
The fact that computers generate RF noise was put to great use by a program for the Sinclair ZX81 (which had no sound hardware). The program caused oscillations which, if you turned the TV's sound up, were audible as tones.
If what you're doing is genuinely useful, you don't need to do anything. Make your work available on the web and let news spread by word-of-mouth and result-of-Google. It works for PuTTY.
(You'll get a much smoother growth curve with this sort of "soft launch", too, which will help a lot when you're planning how much bandwidth you need.)
...was "eh?"
I mentioned this article to Ian Jackson just now, and it was the first he'd heard of any of this.
PuTTY is covered by the MIT licence, not the GPL.
Oh dear. Here we go again. I'm no great fan of Windows (I'm a primarily Unix sysadmin) but I'm tired of hearing that old chestnut `Windows [NT]has NO remote administration capabilities' because it's just plain false.
Even without things like SMS, BackOrifice, and PC Anywhere, there's a great deal you can do from an NT machine. Let's see:
* Add / remove / modify user accounts
* Modify services on remote machines
* Schedule jobs on remote machines
* Modify SMB exports (shares) and permissions on remote filesystems
* Monitor processes and performance statistics on remote machines
* View and manage remote machines' logging information
Yes, it's a very different sort of remote administration to what you may be used to from the Unix or VMS worlds, but it's there and in large part it's there as standard. Add the tools from the Resource Kit, and you've even got remote shell facilities if you really want them; if you want remote GUI control for free, you can always use the GNU GPLed VNC utilities.
I'm no fan of Windows NT, but I won't see it bashed for the wrong reasons. Credit where credit's due, and let's criticise it for its real faults.
Having been struck by hand/wrist pain late last year, I've been spending the past six or seven months trying to work out what to do about it. For reasons of pure paranoia (I'm a sysadmin) I went to my doctor as soon as I had the first twinges, and from there I've had physiotherapy of various sorts, which has helped. It pays to be paranoid: talk to your doctor.
:-)
The key, though, is that a little therapy will do you no good at all on its own. You have to look at every aspect of how you live, and particularly how you work with computers.
Posture is important, so don't just look at pictures of stick men on the web and think "that's about how I sit, I'm okay"; get someone else to look at how you're sitting. The equipment you use to operate computers is important: experiment with different keyboards and mouse-substitutes until you find out what works for you. When you find one, keep looking, because often in this area a change is as good as a break. The software you use is important, too. Some people swear that emacs killed their wrists, others that it was all that mousing in Windows that did it. What exercise do you do? A lot of people recommend swimming: see what works for you.
I'll second everything jwz said -- particularly about xwrits, which was the only keyboard use monitoring software persistent enough to get me to pay attention to it -- and add that even in the midst of pain, it's possible to have some fun: play with all the fun technology there is out there! I'm writing this at the moment with the voice recognition package DragonDictate, which is at turns the most wonderful and the most frustrating piece of software in my life at the moment