My stupid ass elementary school in Cincinnati Ohio had banned all that stuff way back in the 80s as well, I'm 25 now, do the math. How is this news again??
I'm 99% sure Wal-Mart already sells iTMS gift cards. I remember seeing them somewhere (and Napster cards at the same time) and thinking "WTF!? They're cannibalizing their own online music store sales?". Anyways, they already sell iPods, so why not?
You obviously know more about the internal workings of Windows than I.
I merely speak from the experience of having shitty Genicom (which were only provided kernel mode) and HP LaserJet print drivers, in both Windows NT4 and 2000 wreak havoc on a SQL database, as well as the local filesystem's integrity. Not fun. I had a hard time convincing my boss, and the owners of this small company that they needed to replace these expensive Genicom impact printers, that worked fine in the previous Unix environment, with impact printers from another vendor merely because of software limitations.
With X-Windows, all of the user's GUI apps die. For a workstation, this likely represents everything important.
True, but on a workstation, at least the filesystem will be left in a consistent state, and I don't have to waste time rebooting and going through filesystem checks, etc (I know NT doesn't do this on it's own, as it assumes everything's gravy with it's journaling, which is sometimes not the case!). On a server, there's no reason to really run X, it's just a waste of resources. If you do choose to run X on your server for some odd reason, and it crashes, all of those server processes are still left intact at least.
See where I'm getting at? Yes, the same issues affect Unix, but at least we have a choice. On Windows, we're stuck with GDI, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, etc. all the way up to freaking CCS/HPC Edition! That seems a bit ridiculous to me.
If I don't like X, I can just not install it. Or I can be ultra-paranoid and use X on something like SE Linux where everything is ACL'd to hell and back. Or I can write my own, or pay somebody else to write a better window server. Or I can run some other window server, from some vendor (I'm to lazy at the moment to cite examples, I know they exist).
P.S. What's up with deleting print jobs in Windows? Why do they just refuse to go away with this "printing-error-deleting" madness until you restart the print spooler service!? Even when the printer isn't in an error state, it just seems like it'll delete the job whenever it feels like it (umpteen wasted pages later). In Mac OS X for example, it simply finishes printing what's in the print buffer, and ejects the page.
LOL... The print spooler in NT 4 through 2000 SP4 was moved into Ring0, which allows bad print drivers and malformed jobs to at least, BSOD the system, or worst case, execute arbitrary code... That's secure!
They also moved GDI into the kernel in NT4 which allows crappy video drivers to BSOD the system. Though this provided a good performance improvement, it still does compromise security for performance!
I will admit the NT kernel is a marked improvement over DOS as far as security goes, but it still has a loooong way to go. We'll see in Vista I guess...
Actually Filemon and Regmon can help very much with troubleshooting permissions. I used them to get Great Plains 7 (which is a fucking M$ product btw) running under regular user accounts, extremely time consuming, but worth it in the end.
I agree though... lots of shitty legacy software to deal with. So true on the Event Log LOL.
Pennsylvania tollways aren't maintained well at all. Toll Booth Operators are also paied ridiculously high wages for what they do, that's where all the money goes I suspect. Construction isn't always bad if it's planned and executed well.
Everyone outside of the US doesn't seem to realize how freakin' huge our country is. Yeah, we use more gas because some of us have to.
Imagine getting into your car in Finland and driving flat-out 105 Kilometers/hour for 2 days, across land, no ocean, no ferries. In the western US you can easily drive for serveral hours between cities and see almost nothing but corn fields, or desert.
Gas is my 2nd highest expense, so I pay lots of attention to the prices. I drive 80 miles a day round trip, to work and back home. But yeah, I can understand why the average consumer should care less about gas prices than I. I spend over 3X as much as the average consumer on gasoline.
One thing I've noticed in my long commutes. It seems like oil companies play a shell game. I've seen price differences between towns upwards of.60 cents/gallon. Currently for instance, gas right down the road from my work here is $1.98/gallon. In Batesville, a small town that's about 20 miles from where I live, gas is currently averaging like $2.46/gallon. I can often watch prices go up drastically in one town, and down in another. Then a month later, vice-versa. This seems to me like a good way to appease the consumer, making them less suspicious when prices dip below the national average periodically; while still maintaining the high profit margin that we all know the oil companines love. Lower prices here... raise prices there to pick up the slack.
Price per barrel of crude oil affects the price of virtually everything, not only gas! People seem to forget that many things besides gasoline, like plastics, are manufactured from crude oil as well, and all of these things are transported with oil-burning machines. Face it, our economy is driven by oil.
From Google News, I came across a news site that's actually in Nigeria. The story is quite a bit more detailed here. The advertisiments alone on that page are quite amusing as well, it's worth a look.
Only good news? SP2. Yeah, thanks for not being total asshats and making me pay $200 for an OS upgrade just to watch movies, on top of all the hardware shit you'd be making me buy.
Actually, if it's an OEM Windows license, and you replace all that hardware... You will be paying $200 for an OS upgrade =P...if it's retail, then your fine of course.
No, they probably think lots of people will be dumb enough to buy outrageously overpriced movies on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray (repeatedly), and play them back on their non-HDCP equipment (be it LCD computer displays, or older HDTV sets that don't have HDMI). Best case; remain ignorantly blissful, thinking they're getting the best picture possible, or they might even realize that the quality isn't as good as it could be, but they still think it's better than DVD. Meanwhile it's only displaying the same resolution as plain ol' DVD.
Anyways, we'll see I guess. DVD's good enough for me in the mean time.
Um... actually HFS+ does let you label your volumes, NTFS and FAT32 do as well. Ever installed Linux on a Mac? pdisk (the equivalent of fdisk on PPC) shows all the partitions in a well explained manner. Windows NT based installers, and Microsoft fdisk on the other hand, do not show volume labels!!
Does all AV software not depend on a recognition file for known viruses? If there are no known Mac viruses, how can someone make a recognition file that must periodically updated as new viruses appear? It seems pointless to have AV software if it cannot recognize a virus that has not yet been made.
Currently Mac AV software will clean Windows viruses from email attachments that you may forward to other Windows users, as well as MS Word and Excel macro viruses from those files. But you're right, it won't really contain anything Mac specific, since they have nothing to target as of yet, except maybe the "Opener" malware. So... Running AV software on your mac is currently serving only as a courtesy to your Windows running friends.
Apple could make their OS more secure by having TWO or more accounts by default. One would be the administrator and all the others would just be ordinary users with minimum privileges. That way ordinary users (like students in schools and kids in families) could not install crapware unless they knew the admin password.
On Mac OS X, nobody runs as root (the equivelent of Administrator in Windows). All users are either Administrative Users, that are allowed to do administrative tasks, but only after re-authenticating on behalf of the process wishing to make changes affecting the whole system. Regular users aren't allowed to modify things outside of their home directory without the authorization of a valid Administrative User. There's also the ability to create specially restricted users that you can enforce a whole range of draconian policies upon. Currently the only equivalent to this in Windows is the "Runas" feature, which unfortunately isn't used by default, nor does it always work seamlessly when called upon by a knowledgeable administrator!
We're looking for a new DV camcorder to replace our 4 year old tape-eating Canon ZR50MC. I would definately not rate the ZR50MC as durable.
This Panasonic looks nice, and reasonably priced. I have one question though. Does the PV-GS150 function as a DV VCR; can it record to tape from inputs? This is one feature that we really need, we take movie trailers that we recieve on VHS and convert them to digital format for sales reps to use in presentations.
Those rendered images remind me of twisted metal. Ah, yes... So many sleepless nights spent playing that game. There's something magical about vehicles with ridiculous weapons attached to them; smashing the hell out of your friends.
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Oh Visa... like the credit card company. I read it as Vista, as in the next version of Windows... I was thinking, oh wow, who cares, big suprise, etc.
My stupid ass elementary school in Cincinnati Ohio had banned all that stuff way back in the 80s as well, I'm 25 now, do the math. How is this news again??
I'm 99% sure Wal-Mart already sells iTMS gift cards. I remember seeing them somewhere (and Napster cards at the same time) and thinking "WTF!? They're cannibalizing their own online music store sales?". Anyways, they already sell iPods, so why not?
I merely speak from the experience of having shitty Genicom (which were only provided kernel mode) and HP LaserJet print drivers, in both Windows NT4 and 2000 wreak havoc on a SQL database, as well as the local filesystem's integrity. Not fun. I had a hard time convincing my boss, and the owners of this small company that they needed to replace these expensive Genicom impact printers, that worked fine in the previous Unix environment, with impact printers from another vendor merely because of software limitations.
True, but on a workstation, at least the filesystem will be left in a consistent state, and I don't have to waste time rebooting and going through filesystem checks, etc (I know NT doesn't do this on it's own, as it assumes everything's gravy with it's journaling, which is sometimes not the case!). On a server, there's no reason to really run X, it's just a waste of resources. If you do choose to run X on your server for some odd reason, and it crashes, all of those server processes are still left intact at least.
See where I'm getting at? Yes, the same issues affect Unix, but at least we have a choice. On Windows, we're stuck with GDI, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, etc. all the way up to freaking CCS/HPC Edition! That seems a bit ridiculous to me.
If I don't like X, I can just not install it. Or I can be ultra-paranoid and use X on something like SE Linux where everything is ACL'd to hell and back. Or I can write my own, or pay somebody else to write a better window server. Or I can run some other window server, from some vendor (I'm to lazy at the moment to cite examples, I know they exist).
P.S. What's up with deleting print jobs in Windows? Why do they just refuse to go away with this "printing-error-deleting" madness until you restart the print spooler service!? Even when the printer isn't in an error state, it just seems like it'll delete the job whenever it feels like it (umpteen wasted pages later). In Mac OS X for example, it simply finishes printing what's in the print buffer, and ejects the page.
LOL... The print spooler in NT 4 through 2000 SP4 was moved into Ring0, which allows bad print drivers and malformed jobs to at least, BSOD the system, or worst case, execute arbitrary code... That's secure!
They also moved GDI into the kernel in NT4 which allows crappy video drivers to BSOD the system. Though this provided a good performance improvement, it still does compromise security for performance!
I will admit the NT kernel is a marked improvement over DOS as far as security goes, but it still has a loooong way to go. We'll see in Vista I guess...
"classified/protected" systems running Windows is a scary thought in itself. Assuming they're attached to any public networks.
Actually Filemon and Regmon can help very much with troubleshooting permissions. I used them to get Great Plains 7 (which is a fucking M$ product btw) running under regular user accounts, extremely time consuming, but worth it in the end.
I agree though... lots of shitty legacy software to deal with. So true on the Event Log LOL.
Pennsylvania tollways aren't maintained well at all. Toll Booth Operators are also paied ridiculously high wages for what they do, that's where all the money goes I suspect. Construction isn't always bad if it's planned and executed well.
Everyone outside of the US doesn't seem to realize how freakin' huge our country is. Yeah, we use more gas because some of us have to.
Imagine getting into your car in Finland and driving flat-out 105 Kilometers/hour for 2 days, across land, no ocean, no ferries. In the western US you can easily drive for serveral hours between cities and see almost nothing but corn fields, or desert.
HAHA yeah, ever driven on a toll road? 90% of them are the worst maintained, POS roads in America.
Gas is my 2nd highest expense, so I pay lots of attention to the prices. I drive 80 miles a day round trip, to work and back home. But yeah, I can understand why the average consumer should care less about gas prices than I. I spend over 3X as much as the average consumer on gasoline.
.60 cents/gallon. Currently for instance, gas right down the road from my work here is $1.98/gallon. In Batesville, a small town that's about 20 miles from where I live, gas is currently averaging like $2.46/gallon. I can often watch prices go up drastically in one town, and down in another. Then a month later, vice-versa. This seems to me like a good way to appease the consumer, making them less suspicious when prices dip below the national average periodically; while still maintaining the high profit margin that we all know the oil companines love. Lower prices here... raise prices there to pick up the slack.
One thing I've noticed in my long commutes. It seems like oil companies play a shell game. I've seen price differences between towns upwards of
Price per barrel of crude oil affects the price of virtually everything, not only gas! People seem to forget that many things besides gasoline, like plastics, are manufactured from crude oil as well, and all of these things are transported with oil-burning machines. Face it, our economy is driven by oil.
From Google News, I came across a news site that's actually in Nigeria. The story is quite a bit more detailed here. The advertisiments alone on that page are quite amusing as well, it's worth a look.
Actually, if it's an OEM Windows license, and you replace all that hardware... You will be paying $200 for an OS upgrade =P
No, they probably think lots of people will be dumb enough to buy outrageously overpriced movies on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray (repeatedly), and play them back on their non-HDCP equipment (be it LCD computer displays, or older HDTV sets that don't have HDMI). Best case; remain ignorantly blissful, thinking they're getting the best picture possible, or they might even realize that the quality isn't as good as it could be, but they still think it's better than DVD. Meanwhile it's only displaying the same resolution as plain ol' DVD.
Anyways, we'll see I guess. DVD's good enough for me in the mean time.
That's like asking: "Why did they buy Virtual PC (from Connectix) for Windows? Or, why does VMWare run atop Windows?
Um... actually HFS+ does let you label your volumes, NTFS and FAT32 do as well. Ever installed Linux on a Mac? pdisk (the equivalent of fdisk on PPC) shows all the partitions in a well explained manner. Windows NT based installers, and Microsoft fdisk on the other hand, do not show volume labels!!
Microsoft could sell you insecure software, then sell you a separate product to secure it.
*COUGH*ONECARE*COUGH*
Correct. Ever heard of the broadcast flag? Recording is already being prevented on HDTV...
See: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/14/14402
Ever heard of these:
http://www.google.com/enterprise/
Currently Mac AV software will clean Windows viruses from email attachments that you may forward to other Windows users, as well as MS Word and Excel macro viruses from those files. But you're right, it won't really contain anything Mac specific, since they have nothing to target as of yet, except maybe the "Opener" malware. So... Running AV software on your mac is currently serving only as a courtesy to your Windows running friends.
On Mac OS X, nobody runs as root (the equivelent of Administrator in Windows). All users are either Administrative Users, that are allowed to do administrative tasks, but only after re-authenticating on behalf of the process wishing to make changes affecting the whole system. Regular users aren't allowed to modify things outside of their home directory without the authorization of a valid Administrative User. There's also the ability to create specially restricted users that you can enforce a whole range of draconian policies upon. Currently the only equivalent to this in Windows is the "Runas" feature, which unfortunately isn't used by default, nor does it always work seamlessly when called upon by a knowledgeable administrator!
HAHAHAHA... You mean like the ATM's that run Linux?
http://www.linux.org/people/banrisul_english.html
Yeah security through obscurity is great.
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We're looking for a new DV camcorder to replace our 4 year old tape-eating Canon ZR50MC. I would definately not rate the ZR50MC as durable.
This Panasonic looks nice, and reasonably priced. I have one question though. Does the PV-GS150 function as a DV VCR; can it record to tape from inputs? This is one feature that we really need, we take movie trailers that we recieve on VHS and convert them to digital format for sales reps to use in presentations.
Those rendered images remind me of twisted metal. Ah, yes... So many sleepless nights spent playing that game. There's something magical about vehicles with ridiculous weapons attached to them; smashing the hell out of your friends.