Slipstreaming is a way of integrating the service pack into the Windows CD to get a one-stop install.
Good things:
Windows Media and DirectX 9.x installed by default (no need to patch/upgrade older versions)
Various services disabled which weren't in SP1
Security Centre not as anoying as expected.
system seems quite fast - possibly faster than SP1 slipstream
Bad things:
STILL no driver for nForce 2chipset
STILL has out of date nVidia graphics driver installed
I have responsibility for over 100 Optiplex GX400 and Precision 340/360 machines and have to say, they are good. I only have a few niggles with them:
Nonstandard PSU: Looks like an ATX unit but can't be exchanged with them.
Heavy - but that could also be read as well-built
Some of them use IBM Deskstar (Deathstar) hard drives which have comparatively poor reliability. When Maxtor drives are so cheap, there's really no excuse for this.
The nice thing about these machines is that all the drivers for them are on a standard Windows XP CD, so a reinstall is an easy task, especially if you make up an unattend.txt file to automate it.
Thanks for the heads-up on this. However, I have some unfavourable comments. When I installed RPE it claimed it would give control over file associations, however this isn't true. It stole the associations for Realmedia files from Media Player Classic (RealAlternative) and flatly refuses to let them be unticked !
So, it gives more choice, but is still a typically Real product in that it seems to think it knows better than I do what I want.
OSX seems to manage pointy-clicky installs without those inherent security flaws. And as a counterpoint:
rpm-uvh ClariaSpyware2.21.rpm
Installing from a commandline doesn't make the applications you install safe, nor does doig it by mouse make it unsafe. It's all about how the operating system handles priviledges and warnings, and the degree of power it gives to the application.
As I understand it, Helix was a community-led project to design a cross-platform media player framework, the Helix Player, which is then used by Realnetworks to make their RealPlayer application with the addition of closed-source codecs and probably a degree of Real's nagware added in
So: Where.. or when, can I download Helix Player for Windows? I don't want or need Real's codecs on my system, but if the player is as good as people say I may consider using it instead of Windows Media Player for watching my downloaded movie files
I guess we're coming to a point where the consumer protests about the lack of "added value" in broadcast media. When you go to a football match, or a baseball game, or a rock concert you're getting to see people performing live for your entertainment. That shows talent and professionalism, and it's the sort of thing for which people should expect to pay a reasonable price.
Broadcast media,however, is a service for which we already pay once in channel access charges, and now technologu is being deployed to prevent us sharing the pre-packaged, re-transmitted coverage of old events for which we've already paid if not once then several times.
Contrary to the apparent beliefs of the broadcast industry, subscribers are sophisticated enough to know when they're being ripped off, and when a service provider loses the trust of its customer base no amount of law or technology can save them.
Far from trolling,I was trying to make the point that technology is not responsible for the uses to which it is put - in the same way that American senator Orrin Hatch is wrong to introduce an act which legislates against technological products which could be used to illegal ends.
..."normal people cannot change parts in their car themselves..!
Or to prevent terrorists sneaking bombs into aeroplane service hatches? This isn't an entirely anti-consumers-rights technology. Judge it by its useful applications as well as its possible abuses.
According to This Page an Athlon 64 XPC of similar appearance is either available or pending - the Shuttle site appears to be under heavy load and is glitching badly so I can't give any further detail.
It's good to see that users who jib at Intel's excessive prices are looked after by Shuttle.
Umm.. again, that means that low-paid public-facing staff have lost their jobs and better-paid technicians have been hired. This does not disprove my point !
How ironic, that a site that complains about (mainly American) tech workers losing their jobs to Indians gives favourable coverage to an inventor who made thousands of bank workers lose their jobs to a machine....
Doubt they'd need to download anything. Just think how many CDs 1650 students bring to University with them?
A few weeks of swapping and ripping with iTunes and they could all have all the music they want without needing to download a single track, and what's more important, without appearing on the RIAAs radar. Having iPods, they'll all have iTunes and probably a large hard drive as well... it won't take long for CD-ripping to become second nature.
The big IM providers are NOT joining forces, they're just making a tidy sum providing Microsoft with a way of routing messages between networks. IM convergence would mean being able to send a message to a user on another network directly, that still is not on the cards.
I'm just waiting for Google to offer a Messenger service, using a gMail account as a login. I think they could bring great things to the IM market, especially if the based an offering on an OSS project like Jabber, for which other IM software providers could then incorporate support.
Passport is already tied closely to Messenger and Windows XP in particular, I don't see the opposition gaining ground without going the same way.
Not a clue, I'm afraid. It's been there at least a year, I can't speak for before that. And to be honest, although it has a faded CERN sticker on it, one NeXT cube looks very much like another....
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Slipstreaming is a way of integrating the service pack into the Windows CD to get a one-stop install.
Good things:
Windows Media and DirectX 9.x installed by default (no need to patch/upgrade older versions)
Various services disabled which weren't in SP1
Security Centre not as anoying as expected.
system seems quite fast - possibly faster than SP1 slipstream
Bad things:
STILL no driver for nForce 2chipset
STILL has out of date nVidia graphics driver installed
I have responsibility for over 100 Optiplex GX400 and Precision 340/360 machines and have to say, they are good. I only have a few niggles with them:
Nonstandard PSU: Looks like an ATX unit but can't be exchanged with them.
Heavy - but that could also be read as well-built
Some of them use IBM Deskstar (Deathstar) hard drives which have comparatively poor reliability. When Maxtor drives are so cheap, there's really no excuse for this.
The nice thing about these machines is that all the drivers for them are on a standard Windows XP CD, so a reinstall is an easy task, especially if you make up an unattend.txt file to automate it.
... Jeff Goldblum uses an Apple Powerbook to fight an Alien invasion: Proof once more that Apple is years ahead of the PC market.
If you'd read a bit further or tried it, you'd find they're all fully configurable. Windows bitches a bit about it but it lets you disable them.
Not that an extra firewall ever really hurt anyone. I have three.....
Thanks for the heads-up on this. However, I have some unfavourable comments. When I installed RPE it claimed it would give control over file associations, however this isn't true. It stole the associations for Realmedia files from Media Player Classic (RealAlternative) and flatly refuses to let them be unticked !
So, it gives more choice, but is still a typically Real product in that it seems to think it knows better than I do what I want.
OSX seems to manage pointy-clicky installs without those inherent security flaws. And as a counterpoint:
rpm-uvh ClariaSpyware2.21.rpm
Installing from a commandline doesn't make the applications you install safe, nor does doig it by mouse make it unsafe. It's all about how the operating system handles priviledges and warnings, and the degree of power it gives to the application.
As I understand it, Helix was a community-led project to design a cross-platform media player framework, the Helix Player, which is then used by Realnetworks to make their RealPlayer application with the addition of closed-source codecs and probably a degree of Real's nagware added in
So: Where.. or when, can I download Helix Player for Windows? I don't want or need Real's codecs on my system, but if the player is as good as people say I may consider using it instead of Windows Media Player for watching my downloaded movie files
Did anyone else think this was about the Will Smith movie? (I, Robot)
I guess we're coming to a point where the consumer protests about the lack of "added value" in broadcast media. When you go to a football match, or a baseball game, or a rock concert you're getting to see people performing live for your entertainment. That shows talent and professionalism, and it's the sort of thing for which people should expect to pay a reasonable price.
Broadcast media,however, is a service for which we already pay once in channel access charges, and now technologu is being deployed to prevent us sharing the pre-packaged, re-transmitted coverage of old events for which we've already paid if not once then several times.
Contrary to the apparent beliefs of the broadcast industry, subscribers are sophisticated enough to know when they're being ripped off, and when a service provider loses the trust of its customer base no amount of law or technology can save them.
Far from trolling,I was trying to make the point that technology is not responsible for the uses to which it is put - in the same way that American senator Orrin Hatch is wrong to introduce an act which legislates against technological products which could be used to illegal ends.
..."normal people cannot change parts in their car themselves..!
Or to prevent terrorists sneaking bombs into aeroplane service hatches? This isn't an entirely anti-consumers-rights technology. Judge it by its useful applications as well as its possible abuses.
..yet another good reason to buy a Turbo-diesel car. No ignition system!
...is that by current progress, in 10 years you'll be able to get a consumer desktop with this much power.
Still.. just imagine how much SETI@Home you could do on a beo.. err, on one of those!
According to This Page an Athlon 64 XPC of similar appearance is either available or pending - the Shuttle site appears to be under heavy load and is glitching badly so I can't give any further detail.
It's good to see that users who jib at Intel's excessive prices are looked after by Shuttle.
With a /. UID of 458 you've been reading slashdot long enough to have checked it from every internet café on Earth.. and this is the best you can do?
I upgraded 150 Dells to SP4 from SP2 and SP3, every single one came up perfectly. I suspect parent is a troll
Umm.. again, that means that low-paid public-facing staff have lost their jobs and better-paid technicians have been hired. This does not disprove my point !
If you had done the maths you'll find that 75,000 / 58,000 x 484,000 = 626,000 (rounded up)
Ergo there are now fewer teller staff per branch. That means people have lost their jobs to the ATM !!!
How ironic, that a site that complains about (mainly American) tech workers losing their jobs to Indians gives favourable coverage to an inventor who made thousands of bank workers lose their jobs to a machine....
Doubt they'd need to download anything. Just think how many CDs 1650 students bring to University with them?
A few weeks of swapping and ripping with iTunes and they could all have all the music they want without needing to download a single track, and what's more important, without appearing on the RIAAs radar. Having iPods, they'll all have iTunes and probably a large hard drive as well... it won't take long for CD-ripping to become second nature.
The big IM providers are NOT joining forces, they're just making a tidy sum providing Microsoft with a way of routing messages between networks. IM convergence would mean being able to send a message to a user on another network directly, that still is not on the cards.
I'm just waiting for Google to offer a Messenger service, using a gMail account as a login. I think they could bring great things to the IM market, especially if the based an offering on an OSS project like Jabber, for which other IM software providers could then incorporate support.
Passport is already tied closely to Messenger and Windows XP in particular, I don't see the opposition gaining ground without going the same way.
I suspect if it's really that good it'll get ported to OS X anyway, many othr GPL apps of this kind (Think AudaCity) get ported eventually.
if it helps, I recall it had a sticker on one side saying something like "This machine is a server please don't turn it off"
Not a clue, I'm afraid. It's been there at least a year, I can't speak for before that. And to be honest, although it has a faded CERN sticker on it, one NeXT cube looks very much like another....
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