so you're saying that Microsoft actually does real-world testing then? Have you got any evidence of that? Seems to me that with the number of flaws found so quickly with each new Windows release, they don't.
practically the first thing I did was change the GUI back to Windows Classic
[aol mode] me too!
even more so, I do properties on my computer, and change the desktop candy to maximise for performance, then turn on the two options I want. It make the machine much more snappy. Then I change the task bar back to classic, stop it from personalising the start menus (which IMHO is the most stupid thing ever - you learn where everything is, I don't want MS moving stuff around, and just because I don't use something often doesn't mean they should hide it and make it hard to find)...
A good operating system is one you can forget it there. If it keeps attracting your attention then your productivity drops - too many people spend too much time tweaking backgrounds, colours etc!
it doesn't make any sense to swap out a working and functional server running intel chips with one running AMD purely for power saving, because electricity is a relatively small of the lifetime cost of a server, until
the server no longer has adequate spare capacity and would be upgraded
you're beginning to overload your power or cooling grid, and its cheaper to regrade your servers (which can be deployed elsewhere) than change the power grid or fix your air-con
it's a similar problem for car users - for an average vehicle doing 25mpg, about half the energy of its lifetime of making, using, and recycling/scrap is consumed when making.. environmentally it's best to fix up an old car so it runs properly with minimal emissions than generate a lot of scrap metal & plastics and incur the environmental costs of mining/refining metals, drilling for oil for plastics, manufacture etc of a new car.
they need to support legasy software....not ports, or recompilations, but the same binaries. I doubt the same can be said of Linux or MacOS, especially with the latter so efficient at cutting off support of applications with major release.
a good point, but one which actually misses the target.
Upgrading windows is not free, and people do it reluctantly or only if forced (machine breaks, gets corrupted etc)... often only when they buy a new computer. On the other hand, upgrading linux costs the same as the original install, probably just bandwidth and a DVDR or a few CDRs, and you often don't have to choose to upgrade the whole software + OS system at the same time. Not only has each successive version of windows followed Moore's laws in terms of computing resources required, but also to some extent in price!
Upgrading applications on windows usually breaks the compatibility with other machines - put Office 2003 on some of your machines and the older ones can't read the files any more.
corporate policy is to simply use passworded logins with the checkpoint secure client. it's something I inherited.. along with a wifi network that used only wep (and whose key I cracked in 3 mins using aircrack-ng)!
it's a pretty piss-poor showing, I'll admit. hence the scare tactics. I ran a simple sweep of the password file on one of the web-based management tools and found that 1 in 10 had never changed theirs from the default "changeme". sigh.
did you remember to mount everything read only and/or use "noatime".. otherwise there's a "hidden" write whenever you access a file or directory
at least you didn't use swap on a flash drive, I don't think the wear levelling would cope too well with that; I wonder whether the flash controllers understand the use of FAT and optimise accordingly - people with Zauruses who put ext2 on flash seem to have quite a few problems.
at current job, password rotation on windows login domains is 21 days, so pretty much EVERYONE uses a good 8 char pass followed by a two digit serial number:-/
it's much better to educate people... since I work at a bank, I tell people when they choose their VPN password that we will hold them liable for all costs incurred if someone got hold of their password and stole money - at that point they stop and think very hard about their password!
Theft means to deprive someone of property. If he took them from a grocery store, there's a loss of physical goods which means shop makes a loss on the items.
If he borrowed the disks, made a perfect copy in nanoseconds using a 3D replicator, and put them back on the shelf, such that they were unchanged, he hasn't committed theft, he's committed copyright violation. BIG difference. The shop still has the actual item.
I used to work at an ISP, and we have an FTP server shared by various customers and many had an "incoming" directory for uploads. One day we discovered the disks were overflowing, mainly with warez. Our logs were not really much use, and this was before internet piracy was making headlines. I was about to hit "rm -rf/home/*/incoming" when a colleague stopped me and ran a tape backup "just in case"; there were the latest versions of all sorts of stuff from Windows betas to Photoshop and games galore!
I think in the last year I've only ever had to recompile ONE device driver and that was to run a wireless lan sniffer that ordinary users (sh)wouldn't use!
You, feel free to stick with windows and pay the microsoft taxes... but don't complain when your entire music collection is lost due to your DRM keys being lost or wiped (or zapped by Microsoft accidentally or deliberately), or you find all your archived documents cannot be read by the latest version of Office, or the TPM module on your motherboard gets corrupted and you can't even boot your system to back it up and restoring it is impossible and you can't reinstall because Vista licensing has locked you out.
Me, I'm willing to pay the up-front investment in self-skilling to keep my systems and data free. Buying Microsoft is a gradual way to sell yourself into slavery!
It may be that to maintain our liberty we will be more vulnerable to terrorist attack. Well, that's a price of freedom, but one that with a sensible and progressive foreign policy we can attenuate.
by not being (or at least not acting/giving in to) afraid, terrorism becomes useless.
the terrorists won when our/western gov'ts responded the way they did.
the zune's been dismantled already and pictures posted at http://www.bunniestudios.com/wordpress/?p=131
so, since it's an arm processor from freescale and is thus a well known platform, how long till linux is made to run on it? can't be too long?
I'm particularly interested in the wifi protocol, so as to be able to capture songs squirted from zune on a non-zune device, and/or break into a zune and acquire all its contents without the zune being aware of it!
yeah, right about the time the new Duke Nukem is released for quad-core x86-64 technology with support for 3D holographic displays using quantum computer acceleration units.
My HP laptop hard drive failed, I got a replacement and used the restore CDs
Not so with Sony... my TX2/XP came full of crap, when I wanted a small XP install and leave the rest for linux. So, I created my product recovery disks, repartitioned it, but it wouldn't reinstall without a 27GB C: drive; it proceeded to install XP plus Yahoo messenger and other junk without asking. It persistently wanted the second recovery DVD, so I let it run; it filled up C with demos of Office, Norton, yada yada. I then deinstalled all the demos, removed the junk, and got it down to 8G of XP.
Afterwards, I found out that the recovery partition is just NTFS with a different label, so you can customise the recovery if you want.
if I ever need some machines for doing stuff to tubes, I'll probably remember these guys.. and make sure I go somewhere else as they're clueless and greedy idiots!
I have the slightly unused res of 1366x768 on my Sony TX2 laptop; I had to use the 855resolution hack, but it wasn't hard, and SuSE10.1 even has a config file specifically to make it possible.
In this case, there was no failure of the technology, only a weakness of documentation and lack of a trivial control panel for the hack.
In contrast, I've spent lots of time fiddling with nvidia drivers on windows trying to get a tv-out card to work perfectly with my ordinary CRT television before it worked well.
this sounds like a simple case of getting publicity by suing a big name!
meanwhile, on the other news channel, I am suing google for US$1M for no other reason than that Google have more money than me, and thus Google are causing me to feel anxiety about my relative poverty.
the bizarre thing about the law in the UK, is that I could get someone into serious trouble. I would generate a GPG email key for the victim's email address, then email some terrorist material to that email address, report the person to the police and they would of necessity investigate the person and demand they hand over the decryption key... which of course they wouldn't have!
How can you prove you DONT have something or never had it? I suppose the police would have to demonstrate that they had reasonable suspicion that the person who received the encrypted email would have had the key... but you can see it's basically a farce!
What is worse is that in the UK, the anti-terrorism laws coupled with the Civil Contingencies Act allow the gov't and their appointed lackeys to take absolute control without needing anything other than some vague threat. We, the apathetic british people, have let our gov't steal our fundamental rights whilst we were looking the other way (more people vote for the TV program Big Brother than in local elections)! Maybe we deserve to be treated like sheep?
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so you're saying that Microsoft actually does real-world testing then? Have you got any evidence of that? Seems to me that with the number of flaws found so quickly with each new Windows release, they don't.
practically the first thing I did was change the GUI back to Windows Classic
[aol mode] me too!
even more so, I do properties on my computer, and change the desktop candy to maximise for performance, then turn on the two options I want. It make the machine much more snappy. Then I change the task bar back to classic, stop it from personalising the start menus (which IMHO is the most stupid thing ever - you learn where everything is, I don't want MS moving stuff around, and just because I don't use something often doesn't mean they should hide it and make it hard to find)...
A good operating system is one you can forget it there. If it keeps attracting your attention then your productivity drops - too many people spend too much time tweaking backgrounds, colours etc!
I am inclined to think that in *less* than the prescribed five years, Novell might be saying to MS from their deathbed, "You had me at hello."
WHO'S deathbed, MS or Nov?
go look up the spoof RFC for "simple lart transfer protocol". well worth reading.
it doesn't make any sense to swap out a working and functional server running intel chips with one running AMD purely for power saving, because electricity is a relatively small of the lifetime cost of a server, until
it's a similar problem for car users - for an average vehicle doing 25mpg, about half the energy of its lifetime of making, using, and recycling/scrap is consumed when making.. environmentally it's best to fix up an old car so it runs properly with minimal emissions than generate a lot of scrap metal & plastics and incur the environmental costs of mining/refining metals, drilling for oil for plastics, manufacture etc of a new car.
they need to support legasy software....not ports, or recompilations, but the same binaries. I doubt the same can be said of Linux or MacOS, especially with the latter so efficient at cutting off support of applications with major release.
a good point, but one which actually misses the target.
Upgrading windows is not free, and people do it reluctantly or only if forced (machine breaks, gets corrupted etc)... often only when they buy a new computer. On the other hand, upgrading linux costs the same as the original install, probably just bandwidth and a DVDR or a few CDRs, and you often don't have to choose to upgrade the whole software + OS system at the same time. Not only has each successive version of windows followed Moore's laws in terms of computing resources required, but also to some extent in price!
Upgrading applications on windows usually breaks the compatibility with other machines - put Office 2003 on some of your machines and the older ones can't read the files any more.
corporate policy is to simply use passworded logins with the checkpoint secure client. it's something I inherited.. along with a wifi network that used only wep (and whose key I cracked in 3 mins using aircrack-ng)!
it's a pretty piss-poor showing, I'll admit. hence the scare tactics. I ran a simple sweep of the password file on one of the web-based management tools and found that 1 in 10 had never changed theirs from the default "changeme". sigh.
did you remember to mount everything read only and/or use "noatime".. otherwise there's a "hidden" write whenever you access a file or directory
at least you didn't use swap on a flash drive, I don't think the wear levelling would cope too well with that; I wonder whether the flash controllers understand the use of FAT and optimise accordingly - people with Zauruses who put ext2 on flash seem to have quite a few problems.
at current job, password rotation on windows login domains is 21 days, so pretty much EVERYONE uses a good 8 char pass followed by a two digit serial number :-/
it's much better to educate people... since I work at a bank, I tell people when they choose their VPN password that we will hold them liable for all costs incurred if someone got hold of their password and stole money - at that point they stop and think very hard about their password!
I'll feed the troll.
Theft means to deprive someone of property. If he took them from a grocery store, there's a loss of physical goods which means shop makes a loss on the items.
If he borrowed the disks, made a perfect copy in nanoseconds using a 3D replicator, and put them back on the shelf, such that they were unchanged, he hasn't committed theft, he's committed copyright violation. BIG difference. The shop still has the actual item.
I used to work at an ISP, and we have an FTP server shared by various customers and many had an "incoming" directory for uploads. One day we discovered the disks were overflowing, mainly with warez. Our logs were not really much use, and this was before internet piracy was making headlines. I was about to hit "rm -rf /home/*/incoming" when a colleague stopped me and ran a tape backup "just in case"; there were the latest versions of all sorts of stuff from Windows betas to Photoshop and games galore!
there was a time when IBM were unstoppable and "noone ever got fired for buying IBM". SCO were once good guys with an interesting product.
IBM fell from grace and became the subject for fear and loathing. SCO are the subject of disdain and contempt for their product.
Microsoft are feared and loathed, we're all just waiting for the fall.
a lifetime supply of all-you-can-eat Krispy Kreme Doughnuts - about two month's worth!
make international calls to the far east,
Osama, is that you?
I think in the last year I've only ever had to recompile ONE device driver and that was to run a wireless lan sniffer that ordinary users (sh)wouldn't use!
You, feel free to stick with windows and pay the microsoft taxes... but don't complain when your entire music collection is lost due to your DRM keys being lost or wiped (or zapped by Microsoft accidentally or deliberately), or you find all your archived documents cannot be read by the latest version of Office, or the TPM module on your motherboard gets corrupted and you can't even boot your system to back it up and restoring it is impossible and you can't reinstall because Vista licensing has locked you out.
Me, I'm willing to pay the up-front investment in self-skilling to keep my systems and data free. Buying Microsoft is a gradual way to sell yourself into slavery!
It may be that to maintain our liberty we will be more vulnerable to terrorist attack. Well, that's a price of freedom, but one that with a sensible and progressive foreign policy we can attenuate.
by not being (or at least not acting/giving in to) afraid, terrorism becomes useless.
the terrorists won when our/western gov'ts responded the way they did.
the zune's been dismantled already and pictures posted at http://www.bunniestudios.com/wordpress/?p=131
so, since it's an arm processor from freescale and is thus a well known platform, how long till linux is made to run on it? can't be too long?
I'm particularly interested in the wifi protocol, so as to be able to capture songs squirted from zune on a non-zune device, and/or break into a zune and acquire all its contents without the zune being aware of it!
.. so the next time my wife says she has a headache, I will have the perfect cure for it!!!
yeah, right about the time the new Duke Nukem is released for quad-core x86-64 technology with support for 3D holographic displays using quantum computer acceleration units.
http://www.compositiontoday.com/sound_bank/viola/v iola.asp
My HP laptop hard drive failed, I got a replacement and used the restore CDs
Not so with Sony... my TX2/XP came full of crap, when I wanted a small XP install and leave the rest for linux. So, I created my product recovery disks, repartitioned it, but it wouldn't reinstall without a 27GB C: drive; it proceeded to install XP plus Yahoo messenger and other junk without asking. It persistently wanted the second recovery DVD, so I let it run; it filled up C with demos of Office, Norton, yada yada. I then deinstalled all the demos, removed the junk, and got it down to 8G of XP.
Afterwards, I found out that the recovery partition is just NTFS with a different label, so you can customise the recovery if you want.
if I ever need some machines for doing stuff to tubes, I'll probably remember these guys.. and make sure I go somewhere else as they're clueless and greedy idiots!
In this case, there was no failure of the technology, only a weakness of documentation and lack of a trivial control panel for the hack.
In contrast, I've spent lots of time fiddling with nvidia drivers on windows trying to get a tv-out card to work perfectly with my ordinary CRT television before it worked well.
this sounds like a simple case of getting publicity by suing a big name!
meanwhile, on the other news channel, I am suing google for US$1M for no other reason than that Google have more money than me, and thus Google are causing me to feel anxiety about my relative poverty.
the bizarre thing about the law in the UK, is that I could get someone into serious trouble. I would generate a GPG email key for the victim's email address, then email some terrorist material to that email address, report the person to the police and they would of necessity investigate the person and demand they hand over the decryption key... which of course they wouldn't have!
How can you prove you DONT have something or never had it? I suppose the police would have to demonstrate that they had reasonable suspicion that the person who received the encrypted email would have had the key... but you can see it's basically a farce!
What is worse is that in the UK, the anti-terrorism laws coupled with the Civil Contingencies Act allow the gov't and their appointed lackeys to take absolute control without needing anything other than some vague threat. We, the apathetic british people, have let our gov't steal our fundamental rights whilst we were looking the other way (more people vote for the TV program Big Brother than in local elections)! Maybe we deserve to be treated like sheep?
sorry, rant over.