Yeah, I'm really thinking about selling my TE now, it's pretty much useless for me without networking capabilities. I should've seen that one coming.
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Actually there is something kind of like sudo that's been in windows since 2000 called runas. It doesn't always work as expected, but for the most part it is useful. Open a command line and type runas/? to see how it works. I just wish it was more consistent across the system. Sometimes you can right-click on an executable or shortcut and you get the runas context menu item, then sometimes you don't! In those cases you have to execute it from them command line. I've actually even seen some installers prompt you for login info if you're trying to install it under a normal user account.
I use it to control services that like to crap out all the time on users machines, like the print spooler service; said user has their printer shared, and like 50 different applications open, and of course they've went on break without saving anything, and everyone's too lazy to use the printer in the print room, so I right-click on the services icon in the control panel and login as myself to run the services control panel under the user's account (whew! longest sentence evar!).
Sometimes I launch iexplore.exe using runas to do various tasks like changing file permissions and stuff. Just don't try to launch explorer.exe using runas!
They're still having trouble with the durability and longevity of OLED displays. Though I've started to see them pop up in some consumer devices with limited functionality.
For example my LG VX6000 cell phone has a blue monochrome OLED external display, it's limited to being turned on for a max of 5 minutes, text is never stationary on it, it always either scrolls or flashes the information. So it seems like there might be some burn in issues that they're trying to cover up there.
It's really neat looking though, a very brilliant blue that can light up a whole room in the dark, it looks really crisp and high contrast, the scrolling effect has no ghosting. I wish they could get it to function like a normal LCD though.
These days, it's pretty much a wash. Despite what people like to crow about on/., Windows XP is quite stable, PCs have the latest greatest in graphics, both have easly usable UIs (some argue that OS-X is less usable than OS9, but it's still quite usuable) etc.
OSX does have quite an edge on XP at the moment:
1. Journaling Filesystem: NTFS V5 has metadata journaling I think, in OSX HFS+ is full journaling, journaling NTFS is supposedly coming in Longhorn though (WinFS).
2. QuartzGL: OSX's eye candy is all handled by the GPU on your video card instead of the CPU and RAM handling the burden like XP. I think there's a 3rd party utility that can do this in XP, and there's Avalon, which is supposedly coming in Longhorn also.
Right now I'm typing this on a 450MHz G4 that our company bought back in 2000, I threw in a Radeon 9000 video card and 512MB of RAM. This thing is plenty fast for everyday net admin tasks; three people in our art dept. are actually still using these machines too, which are actually showing their age there.
Those are the two big ones, of course it has a capable shell and Unix under the hood, I could keep going on about it.
My Users are always jealous when they see my machine in action, and complain how neglected their systems are (2.8GHz Celerons running Win2K with 256MB of RAM). They're amazed when I tell them how old this machine is, and the specs on it.
I'm not knocking XP's stability or usability, it's come a long way when you look at NT4/95/ME, it's just grossly insecure and a resource hog. OSX gets faster, and more efficient with every release, right out of the box! I'd really like to see someone running XP with Photoshop, InDesign, etc... on say a Dell OptiPlex from that era with a 500MHz PIII, no thank you!
I used to keep my/Applications and/Library directories on a separate volume using symbolic links. Apple's updates were not friendly to this technique, every time I applied an update it would rm the link and put it's updates into the folder that it re-created. That system was a biotch to keep running, almost as bad as when I tried to use UFS on my beige G3 in 10.1 ick!
I got one of those Power Wheels 3 wheelers for christmas when I was a kid, and my dad would un-plug that little wire that made it go slower when he was away on business trips, it took me all of like two minutes to figure that one out.
No, you don't get the point, IE has a larger market share, AND more security holes. The fact is that IE is a stagnant product. It lacks the features and security that are part of every other browser, and it's also the slowest browser. For example, IE lacks popup blocking, tabbed browsing, and obnoxious flash advertisement blocking.
Microsoft are not worried by Linux on the desktop. On the desktop they're worried by Macs, and always have been.
Why does Microsoft keep developing software for Macintosh then? Which in my opinion is better quality software than the equivalents on their own platform. IE on the mac used to be the best browser around until they let that stagnate, I used to use it exclusively and loved it. In case you haven't checked recently, Linux actually occupies a larger market share than Mac OS does. I should know, I'm posting this right now from from a 4 year old Power Mac G4 which is happily running OS 10.3 (by the way lets see 4 year old PC hardware usefully run WindowsXP). Apple also just got a taste of Microsoft's medicine recently with all their URI exploits. That's what you get when you trust a web browser to interface with parts of the operating system.
The press report Microsoft security holes. Certain massive holes such as the OpenSSL hole that appeared a year or two ago don't get any generalized press because the public wouldn't understand them or the press don't understand them.
I agree with that, many large holes are found in open source software all the time, they just don't get the same publicity as Microsoft's security holes do. Apple has also got a lot of publicity when holes were found in OS X.
I believe in using the best tool for the job, and IE is rarely the best tool for any job. If you use IE, you lose, it's plagued with spy-ware, and don't even try to tell me if other browsers were as prevalent as IE they would also end up with 5 different spy-ware search bars stacked on top of each other. The reason why is IE exposed to so much spy-ware is because of ActiveX, plain and simple, no other browsers by default download executables and invite them to run without even asking you!
I guess you don't have friends and family members constantly begging you to look at their NEW computer because it crashes constantly and acts so slow; first thing to do, install Mozilla Firebird, second, clean off all the spyware, third, install 40 different security patches, fourth, install anti-virus software.
With all the money and market share Microsoft has, they should be able to make better products than other people are MAKING FOR FREE ON THEIR SPARE TIME! They need to quit trying to be a jack of all trades and concentrate on a few things, and do them well.
You sound to me like a threatened Microsoft developer, out of touch with reality in the IT world, I personally am not a developer, I am a net admin, I don't put all my eggs in one basket, I have experience with lots of products. I use what my company forces me to use (*cough* Microsoft *cough*), and whenever I can, I use what I feel are the best tools for the job, which sometimes include Microsoft products. Don't be afraid of open source software, it keeps proprietary vendors on their toes, and can peacefully co-exist with proprietary software. Look at Apple, they have done a great job creating products with a mixed model of open source and proprietary software.
Given widespread distribution to the tune of over 80% usage (according to various webstats I've looked at) IE probably is one of the more secure browsers. I've made this point before about the security of the Windows OS. The fact is, if your browser dominates the market then any security holes are found quickly by miscreants and (hopefully) patched.
Riiiight... Like how Apache has a larger market share than IIS, and it has way less security vulnerabilities.
You'll notice the complexity of this hole is quite advanced, looks like we're running out of holes to find in IE.
I'm sure there's plenty more holes in IE left to be found, and many more will be created when other crap is stacked on top of it and leveraged by the operating system.
And that surely is a good thing?
A good thing is healthy competition, and good open source alternatives should make Microsoft improve the quality of their products to compete; we have just started to see that.
Maybe he wanted PCI slots, and the ability to upgrade the CPU and video card. Then you also have 2 more spots for additional hard drives, and you can also use the monitor(s) of your choice.
> Since "female" is the default sex, I would say
> that the penis is a variation on the clitoris.
> Using that logic, however, I'm still stumped
> on why the pee-hole goes through it
Birds and reptiles have it worse, their piss and shit all comes out of the same hole; at random and frequent intervals I might add! It's called the cloaca which is latin for sewer.
NTFS is NOT full journaling, I think NTFS V5 (Win2K/XP/2K3) has metadata journaling.
Full journaling is supposed to be introduced in WinFS which sounds to me like SQL Server or MSDE slapped on top of NTFS, with journaling handled by the SQL transaction log.
These Japanese displacement/HP ratios are so inflated. Nobody realizes the importance of torque! An '04 Civic SI makes 160HP and 132 LB-FT of torque. Sure the new Accord's 3L V6 makes 240HP and 212 FT-LB of torque. But a '98 Mustang GT makes 225HP and 290 FT-LB. The supercharged 2004 Mustang Cobra Makes a neck-snapping 390HP and 390 FT-LB of torque, want even more power from that cobra?, simply change the supercharger pulley out for a smaller one, and put on a cold air intake. Voila, an additional ~50HP and ~50 FT-LB for under $200.
Variable valve timed engines (VTEC, VVTI, etc.) are designed to be a compromise between economy and performance, economy is an afterthought on a real sports car, otherwise Chevy's LS-1 would have variable valve timing. Ford does make variable valve timed motors such as the Z-Tec in the SVT Focus, which is another car designed for economy/performance. It's a completely different objective.
And if Honda, Nissan, Toyota, etc. made engines that had the same torque to HP ratio of american V8's then they would be a hell of a lot faster; and the torque steer from the front wheels drive starving for traction would literally rip your arms off, and send you careening into the nearest phone pole!
You can put a fat ass turbo on a japanese motor to bring the torque up enough to compete, but then your engine's reliability and economy go to hell, and you still have turbo lag which means you won't have the instant torque of a V8 when you step on the pedal, and you still have front wheel drive, which sucks from any performance standpoint.
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Yeah, I'm really thinking about selling my TE now, it's pretty much useless for me without networking capabilities. I should've seen that one coming.
Actually there is something kind of like sudo that's been in windows since 2000 called runas. It doesn't always work as expected, but for the most part it is useful. Open a command line and type runas /? to see how it works. I just wish it was more consistent across the system. Sometimes you can right-click on an executable or shortcut and you get the runas context menu item, then sometimes you don't! In those cases you have to execute it from them command line. I've actually even seen some installers prompt you for login info if you're trying to install it under a normal user account.
I use it to control services that like to crap out all the time on users machines, like the print spooler service; said user has their printer shared, and like 50 different applications open, and of course they've went on break without saving anything, and everyone's too lazy to use the printer in the print room, so I right-click on the services icon in the control panel and login as myself to run the services control panel under the user's account (whew! longest sentence evar!).
Sometimes I launch iexplore.exe using runas to do various tasks like changing file permissions and stuff. Just don't try to launch explorer.exe using runas!
They're still having trouble with the durability and longevity of OLED displays. Though I've started to see them pop up in some consumer devices with limited functionality.
For example my LG VX6000 cell phone has a blue monochrome OLED external display, it's limited to being turned on for a max of 5 minutes, text is never stationary on it, it always either scrolls or flashes the information. So it seems like there might be some burn in issues that they're trying to cover up there.
It's really neat looking though, a very brilliant blue that can light up a whole room in the dark, it looks really crisp and high contrast, the scrolling effect has no ghosting. I wish they could get it to function like a normal LCD though.
OSX does have quite an edge on XP at the moment:
1. Journaling Filesystem: NTFS V5 has metadata journaling I think, in OSX HFS+ is full journaling, journaling NTFS is supposedly coming in Longhorn though (WinFS).
2. QuartzGL: OSX's eye candy is all handled by the GPU on your video card instead of the CPU and RAM handling the burden like XP. I think there's a 3rd party utility that can do this in XP, and there's Avalon, which is supposedly coming in Longhorn also.
Right now I'm typing this on a 450MHz G4 that our company bought back in 2000, I threw in a Radeon 9000 video card and 512MB of RAM. This thing is plenty fast for everyday net admin tasks; three people in our art dept. are actually still using these machines too, which are actually showing their age there.
Those are the two big ones, of course it has a capable shell and Unix under the hood, I could keep going on about it.
My Users are always jealous when they see my machine in action, and complain how neglected their systems are (2.8GHz Celerons running Win2K with 256MB of RAM). They're amazed when I tell them how old this machine is, and the specs on it.
I'm not knocking XP's stability or usability, it's come a long way when you look at NT4/95/ME, it's just grossly insecure and a resource hog. OSX gets faster, and more efficient with every release, right out of the box! I'd really like to see someone running XP with Photoshop, InDesign, etc... on say a Dell OptiPlex from that era with a 500MHz PIII, no thank you!
I used to keep my /Applications and /Library directories on a separate volume using symbolic links. Apple's updates were not friendly to this technique, every time I applied an update it would rm the link and put it's updates into the folder that it re-created. That system was a biotch to keep running, almost as bad as when I tried to use UFS on my beige G3 in 10.1 ick!
I got one of those Power Wheels 3 wheelers for christmas when I was a kid, and my dad would un-plug that little wire that made it go slower when he was away on business trips, it took me all of like two minutes to figure that one out.
Why does Microsoft keep developing software for Macintosh then? Which in my opinion is better quality software than the equivalents on their own platform. IE on the mac used to be the best browser around until they let that stagnate, I used to use it exclusively and loved it. In case you haven't checked recently, Linux actually occupies a larger market share than Mac OS does. I should know, I'm posting this right now from from a 4 year old Power Mac G4 which is happily running OS 10.3 (by the way lets see 4 year old PC hardware usefully run WindowsXP). Apple also just got a taste of Microsoft's medicine recently with all their URI exploits. That's what you get when you trust a web browser to interface with parts of the operating system.
I agree with that, many large holes are found in open source software all the time, they just don't get the same publicity as Microsoft's security holes do. Apple has also got a lot of publicity when holes were found in OS X.
I believe in using the best tool for the job, and IE is rarely the best tool for any job. If you use IE, you lose, it's plagued with spy-ware, and don't even try to tell me if other browsers were as prevalent as IE they would also end up with 5 different spy-ware search bars stacked on top of each other. The reason why is IE exposed to so much spy-ware is because of ActiveX, plain and simple, no other browsers by default download executables and invite them to run without even asking you!
I guess you don't have friends and family members constantly begging you to look at their NEW computer because it crashes constantly and acts so slow; first thing to do, install Mozilla Firebird, second, clean off all the spyware, third, install 40 different security patches, fourth, install anti-virus software.
With all the money and market share Microsoft has, they should be able to make better products than other people are MAKING FOR FREE ON THEIR SPARE TIME! They need to quit trying to be a jack of all trades and concentrate on a few things, and do them well.
You sound to me like a threatened Microsoft developer, out of touch with reality in the IT world, I personally am not a developer, I am a net admin, I don't put all my eggs in one basket, I have experience with lots of products. I use what my company forces me to use (*cough* Microsoft *cough*), and whenever I can, I use what I feel are the best tools for the job, which sometimes include Microsoft products. Don't be afraid of open source software, it keeps proprietary vendors on their toes, and can peacefully co-exist with proprietary software. Look at Apple, they have done a great job creating products with a mixed model of open source and proprietary software.
Riiiight... Like how Apache has a larger market share than IIS, and it has way less security vulnerabilities.
I'm sure there's plenty more holes in IE left to be found, and many more will be created when other crap is stacked on top of it and leveraged by the operating system.
A good thing is healthy competition, and good open source alternatives should make Microsoft improve the quality of their products to compete; we have just started to see that.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!!!!
The ethernet adaptor's chipset runs at a higher clock speed than the Apple ]['s CPU.
Maybe he wanted PCI slots, and the ability to upgrade the CPU and video card. Then you also have 2 more spots for additional hard drives, and you can also use the monitor(s) of your choice.
> Since "female" is the default sex, I would say
> that the penis is a variation on the clitoris.
> Using that logic, however, I'm still stumped
> on why the pee-hole goes through it
Birds and reptiles have it worse, their piss and shit all comes out of the same hole; at random and frequent intervals I might add! It's called the cloaca which is latin for sewer.
Makes me thankful to be a mammal!
NTFS is NOT full journaling, I think NTFS V5 (Win2K/XP/2K3) has metadata journaling.
Full journaling is supposed to be introduced in WinFS which sounds to me like SQL Server or MSDE slapped on top of NTFS, with journaling handled by the SQL transaction log.
Can you say fat ass resource hog?
These Japanese displacement/HP ratios are so inflated. Nobody realizes the importance of torque! An '04 Civic SI makes 160HP and 132 LB-FT of torque. Sure the new Accord's 3L V6 makes 240HP and 212 FT-LB of torque. But a '98 Mustang GT makes 225HP and 290 FT-LB. The supercharged 2004 Mustang Cobra Makes a neck-snapping 390HP and 390 FT-LB of torque, want even more power from that cobra?, simply change the supercharger pulley out for a smaller one, and put on a cold air intake. Voila, an additional ~50HP and ~50 FT-LB for under $200.
Variable valve timed engines (VTEC, VVTI, etc.) are designed to be a compromise between economy and performance, economy is an afterthought on a real sports car, otherwise Chevy's LS-1 would have variable valve timing. Ford does make variable valve timed motors such as the Z-Tec in the SVT Focus, which is another car designed for economy/performance. It's a completely different objective.
And if Honda, Nissan, Toyota, etc. made engines that had the same torque to HP ratio of american V8's then they would be a hell of a lot faster; and the torque steer from the front wheels drive starving for traction would literally rip your arms off, and send you careening into the nearest phone pole!
You can put a fat ass turbo on a japanese motor to bring the torque up enough to compete, but then your engine's reliability and economy go to hell, and you still have turbo lag which means you won't have the instant torque of a V8 when you step on the pedal, and you still have front wheel drive, which sucks from any performance standpoint.