1. Improvements to GP are already available with Windows 2003 server R2 (though I'm still trying to figure out what the heck R2 is. Is it a service pack? A new product? Do I have to pay for it?) and is fully compatible with XP SP2.
2. Most businesses already don't allow users to run as admin. The legacy apps that require writing to HKeyLocalMachine, etc., are the problem here. Not Windows. If users are already running as limited accounts, it's really no change at all.
Another big impediment to adoption by business is the Aero interface requirement of a 128MB video card. Remember that the biggest selling video chipset is the intel integrated. The vast majority of business PCs deployed right now do not come close to meeting this requirement. For me, the possiblity of having to deal with an environment where there is all one OS but some machines have one UI and others a different one is huge disincentive to upgrade.
They do reveal that they are running on an Nvidia 6800, which would at least meet (and depending on the model could substantially exceed) Vista's minimum requirements for Aero.
While it does indeed look cool, I can't imagine a single useful purpose that would make me ever want to turn it on in either OS. I mean, the fade affect was bad enough, now new app windows can wobble too? I want my apps to open faster, not slower!
Mac OS X is the only non-Free operating system that I know of that ships with nVidia's drivers. Windows users must install the third-party driver.
I'm not really sure about this. On at least one model of Dell that I have here, Windows update always finds a newer nvidia driver available. Of course, if you install that driver, the machine inevitably blue screens on the next reboot and the driver has to be removed. But it is available from Microsoft.
I mosltly agree with this... while you're at it, why not mention the huge annoyance of Firefox defaulting to saving downloaded files to the desktop (which is really annoying whenever I run it from Fluxbox).
On the other hand, I quite frequently have to deal with users who think they don't have PowerPoint or Publisher installed on their PC because the icon isn't on the desktop. The All Users desktop is useful, especially in a domain environment with multiple users sharing a machine, for making sure that each user gets the same desktop. But the inflexibility this creates for home users kind of sucks.
For children and senior citizens, 180 degree liquid can cause third degree burns in approximately one second. Once spilled, I don't see how you could possibly remove the spill from your lap in less time than this, no matter how catlike your reflexes are.
I've heard that coffee begins to deteriorate after more than 15 minutes and that it is best served immediately after brewing at close to 200 degrees F. I'm not sure how anyone knows this, though, since it must be difficult to determine the flavor with your tastebuds burned off. In fact, I've burned my tongue numerous times using your ingenious sip test to check the temperature of my coffee.
Neither do I own the air which is used to transmit my voice when I speak to someone in a closed room, but it still requires a warrant to hide a recording device in the room. A person's speech is their effect, regardless of the medium used to transmit it.
Yes. You forgot to mention that the writing sucks. I grabbed a coworkers copy and read the first page recently. I counted at least 6 cliches. "You shouldn't have run" is always good for a laugh, but to have it spoken by an albino with a gun... somebody please tell me this is a satire or parody of some sort? Also, the opening sentence should be entered in the Bulwer-Lytton contest.
Um, that isn't a fact. It is a highly dubious opinion. Check about halfway down this page for the facts. We very much do have the technology to create such 3d images, and can replicate the level of 3d detail in the shroud easily using techniques which were common in the 12th century.
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." -Abraham Lincoln, 1864
Another Lincoln quote seems appropriate here as well: "These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel."
Well, no it doesn't tell if the policies are "working". It tells to what degree they are being enforced. In order to know if they are working, we would first need to know what the work is that they are supposed to be doing.
If your 13 year old kid can make it to the mall, spend 50 bucks, and play an entire video game in your house without you ever knowing about it, chances are you have much worse things to worry about than whether they're running the hot coffee mod.
You say "my servers and customer servers have up times that are only interrupted by real world problems"
How do you deal with Windows updates?
I'm asking this in all seriousness, as I admin several offsite Windows servers and would love a better solution than I currently have, especially for the one server which hosts an app that is used 24/7.
From the Comcast subpoena (which the website identifies as "a typical subpoena"):
" "And" and "or" shall be construed either disjunctively or conjunctively as necessary to bring within the scope of the request all responses that might otherwise be construed to be outside of its scope. "
So and can mean and or or, and or can mean or or and? (Or possibly and can mean and and or... no, let's not get crazy.)
Talk about a broad subpoena. If I were Comcast, my response would be, "It depends what your definition of is is, jerk. You owe me two hundred thousand dollars."
Thinking that it is possible that one of us has a faulty memory, I tried to quickly do a little research into the matter. I could not find the hard numbers that I would have liked, such as number of businesses using each technology by year, etc. However, I did find two articles on the sales of Netware (release date Oct 98) and Windows 2000 (release date Dec 99).
The Netware article indicates 3.8 million server licenses in use as of Q3 1997. A conservative estimate would place half of those as running NDS(Meaning pre Netware 4.11 versions, as you can't run Netware 4.11 and later without NDS/eDirectory). The other article says, according to Microsoft's own numbers, that Windows 2000 server sales reached 1 million by March, 2001. Even if Netware sales were 0 in this time period (and I worked for a fairly typical VAR at the time... sales were about even, though Windows2000 definitely began to pull ahead during 2001) this would have the number of AD networks at about half the number of NDS networks. But even that estimate is high, because the article also states:
"...survey data from 1,200 information technology customers worldwide. Of these, 30 percent have installed Windows 2000 Server. But only 10 to 15 percent of those have deployed Active Directory..."
You might want to rethink your statement of "If you ran a Windows 2000 domain, you used the Active Directory "
Yeah, AD eventually overtook NDS in sales and installations, much the way that IE eventually killed Netscape. But that doesn't mean that IE was there first, and neither was AD. I would guess that there were very few large businesses at the time that didn't start with NDS before moving to AD.
myway. looks a lot like yahoo, only less cluttered. While it is "full featured", it is full of features that I don't care about. I prefer google's personalized homepage, both for its cleaner layout and the nice selection of content features, including a Slashdot section and the ability to add bookmarks (much better than del.icio.us or Spurl for frequently used links). It also has a lot more third party content available as well.
That is an excellent workaround. Thanks for the suggestion.
After playing around with that for a bit, I also found a way to utilize fast user switching (ie, have multiple users logged on locally) when joined to a domain, which is supposed to be disabled. Simply kill explorer in task manager, then select new task, browse to explorer.exe, right click and select runas. The desktop for the credentials you supplied in runas comes up, but the original user is still logged in. I wonder what sort of security holes this opens up?
Not really. His complaint actually seems to be there are places where an admin prompt is needed, but no such prompt is offered. This is true in WinXP as well. Only.exe files present RunAs in the right click menu... why not batch files or vbscripts? Also, ever try to use RunAs to open explorer.exe as administrator? Can't be done. Oh, the RunAs prompt appears, but nothing happens when you put in the passowrd, not even an error message. Which means file copies requiring admin rights need to be done from a command promt, which is OK by me except you also lose the user's drive mappings. Argh.
It does seems somewhat in contradiction to his Nagging dialogue box complaint, although I will agree that too many prompts are an annoyance. The first time I tried WinXP, I immediately googled how to turn off balloon dialogues via the registry... there is no checkbox or control panel setting for this. XP's balloons are far far more annoying than any OSX dialogue prompt, at least those are in response to user action.
I haven't tried OSX, but I wish the rough edges in Windows were this smooth.
I know that NetWare (at least as far back as 5.1) used a different method to avoid the need for defragmentation, which basically just allowed the disk to read the sectors based on the physical location on the disk rather than the order they were needed. The thing was, without defrag tools, you couldn't even check to see if fragmentation was a problem. The same problem exists with *nix filesystems right now. Everyone says you don't need to defrag, but there's no easy way for the average admin to verify this.
The HFS plus approach seems like a good idea, but I'm wondering if there is a performance cost, both in CPU cycles and drive wear and tear. It also looks to me like the system could be defragging files that are already contiguous, but I may be wrong. Given that modern journaling filesystems (supposedly) are not likely to become fragmented in the first place, is this feature worth it?
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Sure, if you think a triangular piece of glass and a thermometer are fancy equipment.
I never indicated that using Aero was required. It was the requirements needed to run Aero to which I was referring.
2. Most businesses already don't allow users to run as admin. The legacy apps that require writing to HKeyLocalMachine, etc., are the problem here. Not Windows. If users are already running as limited accounts, it's really no change at all.
Another big impediment to adoption by business is the Aero interface requirement of a 128MB video card. Remember that the biggest selling video chipset is the intel integrated. The vast majority of business PCs deployed right now do not come close to meeting this requirement. For me, the possiblity of having to deal with an environment where there is all one OS but some machines have one UI and others a different one is huge disincentive to upgrade.
rm /home/someuser/-file
Or even
rm ./-file.
While it does indeed look cool, I can't imagine a single useful purpose that would make me ever want to turn it on in either OS. I mean, the fade affect was bad enough, now new app windows can wobble too? I want my apps to open faster, not slower!
I'm not really sure about this. On at least one model of Dell that I have here, Windows update always finds a newer nvidia driver available. Of course, if you install that driver, the machine inevitably blue screens on the next reboot and the driver has to be removed. But it is available from Microsoft.
On the other hand, I quite frequently have to deal with users who think they don't have PowerPoint or Publisher installed on their PC because the icon isn't on the desktop. The All Users desktop is useful, especially in a domain environment with multiple users sharing a machine, for making sure that each user gets the same desktop. But the inflexibility this creates for home users kind of sucks.
I've heard that coffee begins to deteriorate after more than 15 minutes and that it is best served immediately after brewing at close to 200 degrees F. I'm not sure how anyone knows this, though, since it must be difficult to determine the flavor with your tastebuds burned off. In fact, I've burned my tongue numerous times using your ingenious sip test to check the temperature of my coffee.
Neither do I own the air which is used to transmit my voice when I speak to someone in a closed room, but it still requires a warrant to hide a recording device in the room. A person's speech is their effect, regardless of the medium used to transmit it.
According to the 9th amendment, this does not mean that the right does not exist.
Yes. You forgot to mention that the writing sucks. I grabbed a coworkers copy and read the first page recently. I counted at least 6 cliches. "You shouldn't have run" is always good for a laugh, but to have it spoken by an albino with a gun... somebody please tell me this is a satire or parody of some sort? Also, the opening sentence should be entered in the Bulwer-Lytton contest.
Um, that isn't a fact. It is a highly dubious opinion. Check about halfway down this page for the facts. We very much do have the technology to create such 3d images, and can replicate the level of 3d detail in the shroud easily using techniques which were common in the 12th century.
Another Lincoln quote seems appropriate here as well: "These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel."
"Party of Lincoln" my ass.
Bad analogy. Try your experiment with three partitions. If half the atoms end up in each of two partitions while a third remains empty, write back.
If your 13 year old kid can make it to the mall, spend 50 bucks, and play an entire video game in your house without you ever knowing about it, chances are you have much worse things to worry about than whether they're running the hot coffee mod.
How do you deal with Windows updates?
I'm asking this in all seriousness, as I admin several offsite Windows servers and would love a better solution than I currently have, especially for the one server which hosts an app that is used 24/7.
" "And" and "or" shall be construed either disjunctively or conjunctively as necessary to bring within the scope of the request all responses that might otherwise be construed to be outside of its scope. "
So and can mean and or or, and or can mean or or and? (Or possibly and can mean and and or... no, let's not get crazy.)
Talk about a broad subpoena. If I were Comcast, my response would be, "It depends what your definition of is is, jerk. You owe me two hundred thousand dollars."
You forgot about MSAV?
The Netware article indicates 3.8 million server licenses in use as of Q3 1997. A conservative estimate would place half of those as running NDS(Meaning pre Netware 4.11 versions, as you can't run Netware 4.11 and later without NDS/eDirectory). The other article says, according to Microsoft's own numbers, that Windows 2000 server sales reached 1 million by March, 2001. Even if Netware sales were 0 in this time period (and I worked for a fairly typical VAR at the time... sales were about even, though Windows2000 definitely began to pull ahead during 2001) this would have the number of AD networks at about half the number of NDS networks. But even that estimate is high, because the article also states:
"...survey data from 1,200 information technology customers worldwide. Of these, 30 percent have installed Windows 2000 Server. But only 10 to 15 percent of those have deployed Active Directory..."
You might want to rethink your statement of "If you ran a Windows 2000 domain, you used the Active Directory "
Yeah, AD eventually overtook NDS in sales and installations, much the way that IE eventually killed Netscape. But that doesn't mean that IE was there first, and neither was AD. I would guess that there were very few large businesses at the time that didn't start with NDS before moving to AD.
myway. looks a lot like yahoo, only less cluttered. While it is "full featured", it is full of features that I don't care about. I prefer google's personalized homepage, both for its cleaner layout and the nice selection of content features, including a Slashdot section and the ability to add bookmarks (much better than del.icio.us or Spurl for frequently used links). It also has a lot more third party content available as well.
Of course you mean NetWare, right?
After playing around with that for a bit, I also found a way to utilize fast user switching (ie, have multiple users logged on locally) when joined to a domain, which is supposed to be disabled. Simply kill explorer in task manager, then select new task, browse to explorer.exe, right click and select runas. The desktop for the credentials you supplied in runas comes up, but the original user is still logged in. I wonder what sort of security holes this opens up?
(At least he's consistent... subject-verb agreement is wrong nearly every time.)
It does seems somewhat in contradiction to his Nagging dialogue box complaint, although I will agree that too many prompts are an annoyance. The first time I tried WinXP, I immediately googled how to turn off balloon dialogues via the registry... there is no checkbox or control panel setting for this. XP's balloons are far far more annoying than any OSX dialogue prompt, at least those are in response to user action.
I haven't tried OSX, but I wish the rough edges in Windows were this smooth.
The HFS plus approach seems like a good idea, but I'm wondering if there is a performance cost, both in CPU cycles and drive wear and tear. It also looks to me like the system could be defragging files that are already contiguous, but I may be wrong. Given that modern journaling filesystems (supposedly) are not likely to become fragmented in the first place, is this feature worth it?