Premium customers do not get the patches earlier. Premium customers get an early warning that patches are coming with some indication of the number of patches and their severity.
In my experience, the early warning is nice, but not especially accurate.
6% is horrible!
The SANS (informal) survey currently shows 20% had a nasty time of it (big problems, failure, or rebuild).
oh.. wait.. this is good for an MS patch.
Semi-official response is DDOS on their DNS service.
The problem has been mitigated by working with their ISP's, and service should be returning to normal.
Most home PC users and many businesses have licensed copies of Windows, but neglect to patch and protect their machines. They end up looking exactly the same as unlicensed machines.
@FirebirdGM> I just called my Futureshop and asked them how much a 20 GB Hard drive weighed when it was full with information, compared to when it was empty.
@FirebirdGM> The guy that was on the phone told me that it was only a few pounds difference.
depends on how many 1's vs. 0's are used. 0's are lighter because there is nothing there.
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But not if I have to eat stuff that tastes bad!
AOL must expand into new business lines as the dial-up market is shrinking. Broadband services are stealing customers from the dial-up ISP's.
With free webmail AOL is attempting to bring back some of the advertising revenue it has been loosing as customers move away.
a little experimenting says that "strict" mode is required.
From what I've seen, three weeks would be a more accurate description. They seem to work three shifts.
It would be nice to see what kind of problems show up in a year though. There must be some substantial shrinkage in some of the products used.
in the newsgroup thread: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1 &safe=off&frame=right&th=1606e9c6afe19691&seekm=2M MU9-71k-11%40gated-at.bofh.it#s
Worse yet, you let us all /. your wife!
passed on back on the 7th. MS seems to have passed on it too.
If it had been October 7th 2003, MS would have included it.
He just wanted to see how fast he could go!
obviousness is not clear until you put on your 20/20 hindsight goggles (patent pending).
If it's not OpenBeer, it has not value to me!
Premium customers do not get the patches earlier.
Premium customers get an early warning that patches are coming with some indication of the number of patches and their severity.
In my experience, the early warning is nice, but not especially accurate.
A large Oak may have 250,000, and I have to rake up every !^$!$#@&%^$ one of them!
Many news sources are targeted at an 8'th grade reading/comprehension level, so 14 year olds would be more accurate.
I've never seen any movie posted on the IMDB list http://us.imdb.com/chart/bottom.
Having seen the trailer for "Dumb and Dumberer" (which made the list), I can say it looked like a good candidate for the Dumberest movie ever.
6% is horrible!
The SANS (informal) survey currently shows 20% had a nasty time of it (big problems, failure, or rebuild). oh.. wait.. this is good for an MS patch.
it was there! really! seems to have been removed, but the individual patches (MS04-018 to -024) are listed here
is at ms04-jul
I thought it had something to do with the farmers daughter.
Then works just about like IE.
unless you long for the security holes...
Expansion in combination with a loose gas cap made a large hole in my paved driveway one hot sunny day :(
Semi-official response is DDOS on their DNS service.
The problem has been mitigated by working with their ISP's, and service should be returning to normal.
Affected sites (includeing Google) seem to moving their DNS off Akamai as a work around.
Those Netgear bozos really seem to be dumber then my cigar cutter.
And not nearly as sharp!
Most home PC users and many businesses have licensed copies of Windows, but neglect to patch and protect their machines. They end up looking exactly the same as unlicensed machines.
@FirebirdGM> I just called my Futureshop and asked them how much a 20 GB Hard drive weighed when it was full with information, compared to when it was empty. @FirebirdGM> The guy that was on the phone told me that it was only a few pounds difference.
depends on how many 1's vs. 0's are used. 0's are lighter because there is nothing there.