It's a PC user's nightmare: You're almost done with a lengthy e-mail, or about to finish a report at the office, and the computer crashes for no apparent reason. It tries to restart but never quite finishes booting. Then it crashes again. And again.
Getting caught in such a loop is frustrating enough on Earth. But imagine what it's like when the computer is 200 million miles away on Mars.
You mean NASA spent billions on sending a rover to Mars just to type an e-mail!? Should've said... I've got a ton of P100s here if they wanted them;-)
As in you actually *get* diagnostics and log messages.
M$ Windows truly sucks in this regard.
Sure does... I've got a dual monitor system using a GeForce 4 and a salvaged ATI Rage II card. X probed them fine and set it up no problems - I tweaked the XF86Config file to suit my setup (one CRT, one TFT) and all was well.
XP on the other hand... just bleats that the "Device would not start" on the ATI card and gives in;-)
Agreed! I work for a place selling PCs and it's often my job to get them ready for sale. Typically, I'll use the OEM setup kit for XP, set it up on my master PC, connect it to the internet, run Windows update, enable the firewall, disable odd services and so on before whipping out the hard drive and duplicating it.
A pain! I'd much rather give the customer another CD that the Windows Welcome setup asks them for and that they can use in the future. At the moment, we still have a problem that if the user decides they're going to reinstall XP then they'll have a classic patch-less XP install!
The survey asked:
"What two things would you suggest to make MS better?"
I said:
An easy uninstall facility (along the lines of fdisk)... without the help of 'clippy'.
The survey asked:
"What two things would you suggest to make Linux better?"
I said:
I'm sorry....?
Correct. aMSN 0.83 (released on the 14th) introduced the MSNP9 protocol. You'll also need to download TLS extensions but aMSN guides you through this.
aMSN SF site
Dominic
Hey people, where or how could we know how many queries/searches do VeriSign and Microsoft get with sitefinder and with IE???? Because with it, i think they can intercept all 404, malformed URL, non-registered domains and DNS errors!!
Verisign have control of the.com and.net DNS systems - they will never know about 404 errors and so on - once the DNS is resolved then it's out of their hands (unless the domain doesn't exist of course;-)
Microsoft can only "intercept" because there are so many people out there who persist using Internet Explorer. Nobody's forcing you to use that browser - that's the way IE works and if you don't like it, change. Opera.
Microsoft's app handles errors that are returned to it - it decides to handle them in a commercial manner (i.e. MSN search) but anybody who is using Mozilla, Opera or whatever isn't affected.
Verisign on the other hand are abusing a public system for commercial gain and this affects everybody who wants to use the "international".com and.net TLDs.
I work for a small electronics/computer retailer just about to move into the online ordering world. I've been working with PCs myself for years and I've been programming for most of them in one form or another.
Since I don't have the time to write the site myself, we got a local web designer in to do the job for us. He showed us the sample site this week with some sample custom PC ordering scripts... looked ok at first.
It wasn't until I looked at the HTML source (horribly written in a mixture of Frontpage and Dreamweaver with about 98% bloat) that I realised what the idiot had done... all the prices for the components were submitted by the form. To be precise, the last six characters of the form data sent to the server were assumed to be the price - this was then added up and quoted as the total for the customer to pay...
I then looked at the site code and it just got progressively worse... the <b>MS Access</b> database was stored in the root directory of the server with tables such as "orders". Thankfully he's only started the site and hasn't had chance to utilise his "programming" skills to the max;-)
"Is this going to one day turn into a computer program which defeats its rival in the computer, then takes on civilisation as we know it and takes over the world?"
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'This guy,' he proclaimed, 'is the best at Visual Basic.'
;-)
At which point I cracked up in laughter
XP on the other hand... just bleats that the "Device would not start" on the ATI card and gives in
Geez...!
Agreed! I work for a place selling PCs and it's often my job to get them ready for sale. Typically, I'll use the OEM setup kit for XP, set it up on my master PC, connect it to the internet, run Windows update, enable the firewall, disable odd services and so on before whipping out the hard drive and duplicating it.
A pain! I'd much rather give the customer another CD that the Windows Welcome setup asks them for and that they can use in the future. At the moment, we still have a problem that if the user decides they're going to reinstall XP then they'll have a classic patch-less XP install!
Ah well...
The survey asked:
"What two things would you suggest to make MS better?"
I said:
An easy uninstall facility (along the lines of fdisk)... without the help of 'clippy'.
The survey asked:
"What two things would you suggest to make Linux better?"
I said:
I'm sorry....?
Microsoft can only "intercept" because there are so many people out there who persist using Internet Explorer. Nobody's forcing you to use that browser - that's the way IE works and if you don't like it, change. Opera.
Microsoft's app handles errors that are returned to it - it decides to handle them in a commercial manner (i.e. MSN search) but anybody who is using Mozilla, Opera or whatever isn't affected.
Verisign on the other hand are abusing a public system for commercial gain and this affects everybody who wants to use the "international"
Dominic
Lol... 97% against, and 3% for ;-)
I work for a small electronics/computer retailer just about to move into the online ordering world. I've been working with PCs myself for years and I've been programming for most of them in one form or another.
;-)
Since I don't have the time to write the site myself, we got a local web designer in to do the job for us. He showed us the sample site this week with some sample custom PC ordering scripts... looked ok at first.
It wasn't until I looked at the HTML source (horribly written in a mixture of Frontpage and Dreamweaver with about 98% bloat) that I realised what the idiot had done... all the prices for the components were submitted by the form. To be precise, the last six characters of the form data sent to the server were assumed to be the price - this was then added up and quoted as the total for the customer to pay...
I then looked at the site code and it just got progressively worse... the <b>MS Access</b> database was stored in the root directory of the server with tables such as "orders". Thankfully he's only started the site and hasn't had chance to utilise his "programming" skills to the max
Now I've got to break it to my boss...!
"Is this going to one day turn into a computer program which defeats its rival in the computer, then takes on civilisation as we know it and takes over the world?"
;-)
Isn't this what M$ are trying to do?
Dominic