I agree. Myspace itself isn't the problem. ANY site can be abused. If the site lets minors on, there will be predators looking to find them. I suppose next we'll blame the malls for how children act in them?
SOMETIMES myspace malfunctions?! I'm always getting errors on one part of the site or another. Often times the error message doesn't even match what you are doing. There are days where I can click on any link on any page in the entire myspace.com domain and I will get a "user's profile is undergoing special maintenance" error. Doesn't mean I clicked on a profile, but I get the error nonetheless. Then there's the ever so famous "sorry an unexpected error occurred. Myspace tech group has been notified" error. I'd say they could use some upgrades.
I really don't know why they consider it a waste. I'm an adult and I enjoy video games. I would much rather the interaction of a video game, or the interaction of Internet use like IM, chatting, and the like.... over watching TV any day. I do occasionally watch TV but rarely.
I guess video games are a waste of time for adults if they have something more worthwhile to do. If there's more important things to do like write out bills, or grocery shopping, or mowing my lawn because it's starting to look like a hay field, I'll do that instead. When it comes time to relax and do something enjoyable, I can either play games, watch TV, play a sport, go online....
Having an active activity that doesn't bring you any money is a waste of time for an adult, it's a waste of your energy for real activities that will bring more money in your wallet. I can't see any other explanation
The same can be said for passive activities. Or active, non-video-game activities like sports. Do adults (assuming they're into sports) see playing football in the yard with friends as a waste of time because it's not earning them money? It uses energy but doesn't bring in money. TV and video games (and sports) are entertainment. I gather there are very FEW adults that consider entertainment as a waste of time. When you come home at the end of a long work day (where you made money) you want to do something entertaining, whether that is going out to the bar with friends, watching TV, renting the latest DVD movie, or playing video games, or anything else.
Video games aren't a "waste of time" because they take energy whereas TV doesn't. You're still spending your time doing something in both cases that doesn't have much (if any) short term gain. At least video games are interactive.
How long will it take for IT departments to request budget increases to purchase the hardware/software needed to play this music? I like listening to music at work, and now this gives a justified business reason to do so.
yes, you can view the source code in open source software, including Linux... but how many people out there (aside from large corporations) actually do it? Just because the source is there to look at doesn't mean that a user can be confident that there are no back doors.
If you autoplay the CD under XP, it gives you the option to install. Does that install as an application under XP, or will it overwrite your XP install? I've never seen an OS install CD run as an installer under XP before.
Sounds to me like Microsoft is requiring all NEW deployments of the affected applications to use the new upgraded/patched version, but they are only requesting that you patch your existing installations. Seems patching existing installs is not required by Microsoft.
Optional? Every time you boot, it nags me with the "please install the firewall for connection X" message. Doesn't sound optional to me.
Yeah, unless you click the checkbox for "I have my own firewall solution that I will monitor myself" (or similar wording). Then XP will not alert you that the firewall is offline.
I have to agree here. Since Microsoft is marketing this as a much more secure operating system (or however they are wording it) integrating an AV solution into it would just be admitting it has flaws. They are claiming Vista is so much better security wise than any other previous version of Windows. Of course any piece of software will have flaws, but integrating protection for those flaws will just make them more apparent. Then people will ask "how is this any better than ?" Then there's the whole anti-trust thing too...
Well yes, but I didn't see an option to add a second hard drive. True, I could go out and buy another 200 gig hard drive myself, but the average "Joe" user may not know they can do that. Besides, since the system I have came with a 200GB hard drive, and I don't need all that storage just for XP, I should be able to use the rest of the disk for other things.
I couldn't agree more. Another thing I don't like about OEMs when it comes to Microsoft products is the way they create their recovery partitions and/or CDs. I made the mistake of buying a Compaq a while back. The system did not come with any install CDs but did have a recovery partition that I was able to burn to a bootable DVD. If my system ever crashes, just pop the DVD in and everything will be back to factory, including repartitioning the hard drive to restore the recovery partition.
This makes it quite difficult to use my legally licensed version of XP Home along with another operating system in a dual-boot environment. I dual boot now, but if XP ever went down, I would have to run the recovery DVD and then repartion the hard drive with Partition magic or similar and reinstall Gentoo Linux along with all my other software that I have. Why do the OEMs make it so difficult to run Windows along with another OS? If you burn the recovery DVD, the partition shouldn't need to be restored. Just reinstall XP and bundled software on the chosen partition. Leave the rest of the drive alone. It's just another way Microsoft has a stronghold on the market.
It's not the bundling of software that's the problem. I don't think people would complain if Microsoft bundled IE along with Netscape, Opera, Firefox, and maybe other browsers to give the user a choice. Instead, Microsoft just bundled IE and that's all you get.
While I agree that it is more difficult for an average user to get Linux on his or her system than it is for him or her to get XP on the same system, it is not fair to compare Linux and XP in that way. When you compare the usability of operating systems, it should be just that... usability. How easy is it to USE the system? Is it easier to use XP, or to use OS X? Both can be bought preinstalled. You can compare installation of Linux to installation of XP or compare the use of XP to the use of Linux, but let's not compare apples and oranges.
It's interesting how those users would freak out over a default option like the one you mentioned, but they are quite happy to click "yes" when presented with a browser popup (read:spyware) that states "Your computer is likely infected with spyware and other malicious programs. Click Yes to scan your computer and remove these malicious programs."
Actually, newer systems come with a "restore" partition and don't even COME with CDs at all. I bought a Compaq about a year ago and ran into this issue. Luckily I was able to burn a recovery DVD from that 5 gig partition. Then again, since I dual boot XP and Gentoo, I can't use the recovery DVD or else I'll have to reinstall Gentoo as well because I only have one hard drive.
just FYI, the automatic partitioning in distros such as ubuntu and mandrake (in my experience at least) work quite nicely in a dual boot situation. I've installed Mandrake on a Windows XP-only system before, and the installer popped up a dialog asking something like "Windows is detected on this system. Do you want to 1) use the free space on the Windows partition 2) erase the windows partition or 3) use custom disk partitioning. Option 1 and 3 work just fine to install mandrake and keep Windows in its place.
One of the failures of the Linux community is recognizing the fact that most users don't want and don't care about such a tool. If you want full Linux-installer-style partition and format control over a Windows install, it's there, and it's not that hard to find.
Then again, most Windows users don't want and don't care about installing Windows. It comes preinstalled on their OEM PC. The users that choose to go out and buy a computer without an operating system, and then install Windows themselves, are generally more computer savvy and able to handle a partitioning program, especially if said partitioner has a very limited feature set and will only install the OS on ONE partition. For these users that choose to install Windows themselves, they shouldn't have to hunt around for a "full Linux-installer-style partition and format" tool. It should be presented to them as a normal part of the install.
I for one have never run spyware or virus protection, and have only had one spyware infection that required a reformat and two viruses -- in 11 years of being connected to networks unprotected. All of those infections were 3+ years ago.
I've seen people make this claim before. If you do not run spyware/virus protection, how do you know that you're not infected? I mean you would notice if your computer started opening popup ads every 5 minutes for a spyware infection, but a lot of malware works in the background. Wouldn't you need to scan your system to detect these sorts of things? Would you know for sure that you don't have a rootkit on your system if you didn't use some type of software that detects this?
Yes people's Internet access SHOULD be restricted based on their computer. If a user tries to connect his or her virus/trojan/spyware/worm infested PC to an ISP network, shouldn't the ISP deny them access, or at least restrict it until the PC is cleaned up? Now the ISP shouldn't restrict the user because he is running Windows or because he is running an old version of Red Hat, because that PC might be locked down pretty tight. Restrict the user because of what his or her PC is doing to your network, not because of what it COULD do to it. Simiarly, the Department of Transportation shouldn't restrict someone's driving rights because they drive an old car. However, if that car has a fuel leak that could cause the car to explode, the owner should be prevented from driving it until it is fixed.
My ISP actually required that the Windows PC they set the connection up on be connected directly to their cable modem. I could not have the box behind a firewall or any other device. They said that if they installed it behind my firewall that they'd have to provide support for the firewall. So instead, they plug it right into the cable modem, and by the time the PC booted up and my antivirus and windows firewall (pre SP2) came up, I was hit with a few trojans. That left me a bit frustrated since I had to spend time afterwards cleaning my system out. Luckily, I have another PC that I use normally so I cleaned the first up and put both behind a D-link router and all is well now.
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I agree. Myspace itself isn't the problem. ANY site can be abused. If the site lets minors on, there will be predators looking to find them. I suppose next we'll blame the malls for how children act in them?
SOMETIMES myspace malfunctions?! I'm always getting errors on one part of the site or another. Often times the error message doesn't even match what you are doing. There are days where I can click on any link on any page in the entire myspace.com domain and I will get a "user's profile is undergoing special maintenance" error. Doesn't mean I clicked on a profile, but I get the error nonetheless. Then there's the ever so famous "sorry an unexpected error occurred. Myspace tech group has been notified" error. I'd say they could use some upgrades.
I really don't know why they consider it a waste. I'm an adult and I enjoy video games. I would much rather the interaction of a video game, or the interaction of Internet use like IM, chatting, and the like.... over watching TV any day. I do occasionally watch TV but rarely. I guess video games are a waste of time for adults if they have something more worthwhile to do. If there's more important things to do like write out bills, or grocery shopping, or mowing my lawn because it's starting to look like a hay field, I'll do that instead. When it comes time to relax and do something enjoyable, I can either play games, watch TV, play a sport, go online....
The same can be said for passive activities. Or active, non-video-game activities like sports. Do adults (assuming they're into sports) see playing football in the yard with friends as a waste of time because it's not earning them money? It uses energy but doesn't bring in money. TV and video games (and sports) are entertainment. I gather there are very FEW adults that consider entertainment as a waste of time. When you come home at the end of a long work day (where you made money) you want to do something entertaining, whether that is going out to the bar with friends, watching TV, renting the latest DVD movie, or playing video games, or anything else.
Video games aren't a "waste of time" because they take energy whereas TV doesn't. You're still spending your time doing something in both cases that doesn't have much (if any) short term gain. At least video games are interactive.
How long will it take for IT departments to request budget increases to purchase the hardware/software needed to play this music? I like listening to music at work, and now this gives a justified business reason to do so.
And what do you do when the person that you are chatting with copy/pastes your conversation to another window? There is always the human element.
well your IMs aren't really private unless you use some form of encryption. Even then, it would depend on the type of encryption you use.
yes, you can view the source code in open source software, including Linux... but how many people out there (aside from large corporations) actually do it? Just because the source is there to look at doesn't mean that a user can be confident that there are no back doors.
If you autoplay the CD under XP, it gives you the option to install. Does that install as an application under XP, or will it overwrite your XP install? I've never seen an OS install CD run as an installer under XP before.
Sounds to me like Microsoft is requiring all NEW deployments of the affected applications to use the new upgraded/patched version, but they are only requesting that you patch your existing installations. Seems patching existing installs is not required by Microsoft.
I have to agree here. Since Microsoft is marketing this as a much more secure operating system (or however they are wording it) integrating an AV solution into it would just be admitting it has flaws. They are claiming Vista is so much better security wise than any other previous version of Windows. Of course any piece of software will have flaws, but integrating protection for those flaws will just make them more apparent. Then people will ask "how is this any better than ?" Then there's the whole anti-trust thing too...
Well yes, but I didn't see an option to add a second hard drive. True, I could go out and buy another 200 gig hard drive myself, but the average "Joe" user may not know they can do that. Besides, since the system I have came with a 200GB hard drive, and I don't need all that storage just for XP, I should be able to use the rest of the disk for other things.
I couldn't agree more. Another thing I don't like about OEMs when it comes to Microsoft products is the way they create their recovery partitions and/or CDs. I made the mistake of buying a Compaq a while back. The system did not come with any install CDs but did have a recovery partition that I was able to burn to a bootable DVD. If my system ever crashes, just pop the DVD in and everything will be back to factory, including repartitioning the hard drive to restore the recovery partition.
This makes it quite difficult to use my legally licensed version of XP Home along with another operating system in a dual-boot environment. I dual boot now, but if XP ever went down, I would have to run the recovery DVD and then repartion the hard drive with Partition magic or similar and reinstall Gentoo Linux along with all my other software that I have. Why do the OEMs make it so difficult to run Windows along with another OS? If you burn the recovery DVD, the partition shouldn't need to be restored. Just reinstall XP and bundled software on the chosen partition. Leave the rest of the drive alone. It's just another way Microsoft has a stronghold on the market.
It's not the bundling of software that's the problem. I don't think people would complain if Microsoft bundled IE along with Netscape, Opera, Firefox, and maybe other browsers to give the user a choice. Instead, Microsoft just bundled IE and that's all you get.
While I agree that it is more difficult for an average user to get Linux on his or her system than it is for him or her to get XP on the same system, it is not fair to compare Linux and XP in that way. When you compare the usability of operating systems, it should be just that... usability. How easy is it to USE the system? Is it easier to use XP, or to use OS X? Both can be bought preinstalled. You can compare installation of Linux to installation of XP or compare the use of XP to the use of Linux, but let's not compare apples and oranges.
It's interesting how those users would freak out over a default option like the one you mentioned, but they are quite happy to click "yes" when presented with a browser popup (read:spyware) that states "Your computer is likely infected with spyware and other malicious programs. Click Yes to scan your computer and remove these malicious programs."
Actually, newer systems come with a "restore" partition and don't even COME with CDs at all. I bought a Compaq about a year ago and ran into this issue. Luckily I was able to burn a recovery DVD from that 5 gig partition. Then again, since I dual boot XP and Gentoo, I can't use the recovery DVD or else I'll have to reinstall Gentoo as well because I only have one hard drive.
just FYI, the automatic partitioning in distros such as ubuntu and mandrake (in my experience at least) work quite nicely in a dual boot situation. I've installed Mandrake on a Windows XP-only system before, and the installer popped up a dialog asking something like "Windows is detected on this system. Do you want to 1) use the free space on the Windows partition 2) erase the windows partition or 3) use custom disk partitioning. Option 1 and 3 work just fine to install mandrake and keep Windows in its place.
Then again, most Windows users don't want and don't care about installing Windows. It comes preinstalled on their OEM PC. The users that choose to go out and buy a computer without an operating system, and then install Windows themselves, are generally more computer savvy and able to handle a partitioning program, especially if said partitioner has a very limited feature set and will only install the OS on ONE partition. For these users that choose to install Windows themselves, they shouldn't have to hunt around for a "full Linux-installer-style partition and format" tool. It should be presented to them as a normal part of the install.
I realize that, but if a ligitimate application is being installed, and that application uses the aformentioned dll, it will register it, will it not?
Yes people's Internet access SHOULD be restricted based on their computer. If a user tries to connect his or her virus/trojan/spyware/worm infested PC to an ISP network, shouldn't the ISP deny them access, or at least restrict it until the PC is cleaned up? Now the ISP shouldn't restrict the user because he is running Windows or because he is running an old version of Red Hat, because that PC might be locked down pretty tight. Restrict the user because of what his or her PC is doing to your network, not because of what it COULD do to it. Simiarly, the Department of Transportation shouldn't restrict someone's driving rights because they drive an old car. However, if that car has a fuel leak that could cause the car to explode, the owner should be prevented from driving it until it is fixed.
My ISP actually required that the Windows PC they set the connection up on be connected directly to their cable modem. I could not have the box behind a firewall or any other device. They said that if they installed it behind my firewall that they'd have to provide support for the firewall. So instead, they plug it right into the cable modem, and by the time the PC booted up and my antivirus and windows firewall (pre SP2) came up, I was hit with a few trojans. That left me a bit frustrated since I had to spend time afterwards cleaning my system out. Luckily, I have another PC that I use normally so I cleaned the first up and put both behind a D-link router and all is well now.