I just helped (and by help, I mean did way more than I should've had to) ADP and our HR department migrate our time & attendance from the ancient 16-bit POS that is eTime, to their Workforce Now hosted product; and our payroll from PC Payroll to whatever it's new web hosted equivalent is. I get a lot of complaints that it's slow as hell and from what I've observed, it does not work in Chrome or Firefox. The whole implementation project was poorly managed by them, and pretty much everything short of a complete disaster with people's PTO and Vacation accruals getting screwed up, garnishments getting charged twice, the wrong timeclocks and components being delivered repeatedly, etc. Yeah, I'm glad it's over.
I should mention that their support group is pretty friendly and competent, besides the complete disconnect between their payroll and time & attendance divisions.
So having common sense must mean that you acknowledge the fact that our current living standards as a human race are unsustainable without fossil fuels, and that you wouldn't mind having to hunt for your own food and gather your own fruits and vegetables.
You'll have to forgo all of the modern conveniences and protections of industrialized civilization. Oh sure, you'll still be able to run some of your appliances off of solar energy and wind power occasionally. Just remember that all of your appliances are made out of plastics, rubbers, composites and metals that are manufactured by machines, which are also powered by fossil fuels.
Millions of people would starve to death and die without all the food provided from fertilizers manufactured from fossil fuels. Sorry, it turns out modern civilization can't be powered by happy sunshine, unicorns and rainbows alone.
Nuclear power will never be replaced by wind, wave, hydroelectric or solar power until the human population drops massively, people desert entire cities in mass exodus to move within distribution limits, or some miracle power distribution technology comes to fruition.
What do you propose as an alternative? I would rather have modern nuclear power plants than coal burning plants constantly spewing radiation and mercury into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, greenpeace nuts and the media keep pushing everyone away from nuclear power without suggesting realistic alternatives.
if someone lives and dies by Exchange then WP7 will go head to head with Blackberry and I am not sure that it is better than a Blackberry in that space.
Last I heard, WP7 didn't support on-device encryption yet, or even have any enterprise management tools available to manage it. Ironic, considering that it's a Microsoft's own product and every other modern ActiveSync (or BES) capable device can do on-device encryption. Obviously, consumer oriented features are a higher priority on WP7 than enterprise features.
Regardless, I still believe competition is a good thing and that the iOS and Android devs still have some things to learn from WebOS and maybe even WP7 in the future.
Of course it's good, anything that's competition to keep the developers of iOS and Android on their toes is good. Hopefully HP can step up to the plate with Palm now as well.
I was just at a house party this weekend in a new-ish suburban area (Hamilton, OH) less than 20 miles outside of Cincinnati OH where all of the people with GSM phones varied from no coverage to 1 bar. The neighborhood has both Cable and DSL high speed internet, so I wouldn't necessary consider it rural. Guess these guys don't get out much.
You're right, but the correct answer would've been ASLR and NX help protect me from shit like that nowadays. I could site other examples, but I'm too lazy to google more. Bit hey, ignorance is bliss, right?
Would it satisfy you if those of us who don't use AV software on a regular basis install some, do a scan, and show you that we are indeed (speak for myself) not infected with mysterious viruses?
As long as you take that drive out and scan it for viruses booted from another drive.
There are rootkits out there that can patch the kernel to completely evade detection from inside of the running OS. I just had the fun of removing the Alureon rootkit from an XP SP3 machine running an up to date version of McAfee 8.5i. Neither McAfee, NOD32, MSE or MRT.exe detected it on the running system. MRT.exe finally found and removed an infected tcpip.sys from the drive when I scanned it from another machine, which I then had to replace with a good copy.
It was a Dell laptop, that coincidentally had an SSD drive with a proprietary ribbon-connector interface. That was fun setting it up as an iSCSI target to be scanned from another machine. Suppose I could've used a WinPE boot cd to scan it, but I was too lazy to read up on the latest XP slipstreaming and product activation evasion techniques. Damn that legacy OS.
You guys do realize that Windows (and other OSs) have had serious vulnerabilities in shared libraries that are used in pretty much every application (including Firefox or Chrome) that parses image data or audio. With the GDI+ vulnerability, all the page had to do was load one malicious JPEG advert and you were pwnt. There are many other examples with audio libraries and such, go ahead and Google it.
MOD PARENT UP... this is exactly what I'm saying to all these crazy asses that think they're fine because they have a firewall and they run Firefox with NoScript. Once you have a vulnerability in a shared library that's widely used across the system, it practically doesn't matter which browser you use, you're screwed soon as you parse a malicious image in an ad on a "safe" site.
Is it even possible to have broadband these days and not have a router or gateway acting as a hardware firewall?
And how would you get a virus by just visiting websites? I use noscript and only unblock it for trusted sites, and I certainly don't have Adobe Reader installed (god forbid).
And what kind of email client gives you viruses by opening email? You'd have to run an executable attachment or open a specially crafted data file. I use webmail anyway (doesn't everyone?).
Yeah, you should be fine, just as long as you don't ever browse any sites that load JPEGS or PNGs.
Even if you don't use IE as your browser, there are many MS (Outlook Express, Live Mail, Outlook, Office, any app with integrated online help...) and 3rd party apps that use the IE rendering engine to parse HTML. Even when you "remove" IE from Add/Remove programs, its libraries stay in the system because there are numerous dependencies in Windows that require them to parse any HTML.
Wow, HELLO, GDI+ exploit! one malicious JPEG parsed in any application *BAM*! Just one example of many. Guess you don't view any JPEGs on the internet do you? I suppose you use absolutely no plugins (Flash, Adobe Reader, Java) in your browser either? Idiots...
Interesting, I've used the ATT Tilt, the Tmo HD2 and whatever the equivalent of the Tilt is on Sprint (Touch?)... I didn't try to play any videos on them, but the UI sucked. Despite HTC's really good job they did of skinning WM6, having two UIs for many of the apps confused everyone who demo'd these phones. Only one user liked the Tilt because she could use her ridiculously long fingernails more effectively on the (resistive) touchscreen. Everyone else preferred either the Torch or the iPhone 4. Unfortunately Android didn't make the cut because 2.2 wasn't available at the time.
Oh, and before you contend the multitasking statement, WP7 implements "multitasking" the same way Apple does. Of course, Apple's definition of multitasking is actually a misnomer.
There're probably downsides to either way of doing it. On Android, you have multitasking anarchy where one (or more) errant app(s) in the background can suck up all available CPU and battery life. The first app anyone in the know installs on an Android phone is a task killer. But I don't understand why everyone else is complaining, what's wrong with the way iOS 4 (and now WP7) does multitasking?
Bloated... maybe, but who cares? It's not like I ever have to, or can upgrade RAM or CPU on an embedded device, that is all spec'd out by the manufacturer. But slow? Compared to what? Have you ever even used an iPhone 3GS or 4 for any length of time? I recently demo'd all the major smartphones at the company I work for, and WM6 on the HTC Tilt was a GARBAGE multitasker, it was slow. They all have their strong points, but the only thing WM6 really had going for it was Office.
just moved my entire network (243 computers) off of reader 9 to reader 8.Testing repl acements now. F*ck Adobe.
Did you know that all you had to do was remove one DLL? I just rolled a logon script out to rename authplay.dll (the flash component of Reader) on every machine, problem mitigated. Unfortunately, most people here need the real Adobe reader, as we do a lot of graphics and print, so 3rd party replacements aren't an option yet.
The problem is I need my phone available for email, voice and texts. If I listened to music on it like I do with my little Sansa Fuze then the battery wouldn't be enough to last me a day. If these things start getting enough battery life to handle everything then I would gladly move to one device for everything, but until then I have to prioritize.
Battery life is one of the few things that the iPhone 4 has bested every other touchscreen smartphone I've seen in. I can stream music or play the iPod for both of my drives to and from work (about 2 hours total), text all day, make occasional short phone calls, surf web pages for about an hour at lunch; assuming it's a Friday night, go out, play music again in the car, snap some pics and or video, catch up on social networking, get home at 3AM and still have 20% battery remaining as I plug it into the charger and go to bed.
developers think Android is the long term solution while iOS is basically the immediate choice because of its dominance it has enjoyed with being the first.
What the developers think is irrelevant it's what's the consumers buy that matters.
...and many consumers will go to the platform where the most useful free, and high quality paid apps are available, so developers are also somewhat important.
With mechanical drives I've yet to have one "just die" as I ALWAYS got warnings something was going via drive noise, heat, random small errors, etc. And now SMART just makes that even easier to spot.
Google found differently in their massive hard drive survey... sometimes drives would just up and die with no SMART warnings. Also the most common SSD failure-case is lack of writes, at least you can retrieve data off the drive as opposed to a completely opaque device if the platter is frozen.
Yeah, I've seen quite the opposite. Let me preface this with saying that I'm strictly talking about consumer and midrange drives, I've seen very few SCSI and SAS drives die without warning.
In the past 10 years, in a company with about 200 nodes, I can literally count on one hand the amount of hard drives that have given any SMART warnings leading up to their imminent failure. They pretty much always die while the OS accumulates log entries of bad blocks and I/O errors. Most of the time it was either death by shock, or death by manufacturer defect (Maxtor!). The former, SSD drives are pretty much immune to BTW. I would prefer an SSD in a road warrior or college student's laptop any day over a conventional HDD.
I can attest to one contributor. People not buying a case when they purchase the phone because they're going several weeks unprotected waiting for their free iPhone 4 case from Apple.
If you're running as a regular non-admin user though, you can effectively sudo by entering in the user account credentials of an admin account when prompted to do so by UAC, so you can get similar functionality. It just requires two user accounts instead of one unfortunately.
When I upgraded to Windows 7 I thought I could get the scanner running with XP Mode. Nope. If Windows 7 doesn't see it, XP Mode can't see it, so even though my scanner works fine in XP, it won't in XP Mode.
I think you've missed a step somewhere then. I've had success getting 16-bit software, scanners and USB to Ethernet adaptors (that didn't work on Windows 7) working in an XP Mode VM under Windows 7 x64. From what little I recall though, it was a pain in the ass and not straightforward at all. But it does work after you give up and resort to reading documentation.
I'm not an Intel fanboy, but what if you figure power efficiency into the equation? I chose a Core2 over a Phenom on my MythTV backend a few years ago based on efficiency.
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I just helped (and by help, I mean did way more than I should've had to) ADP and our HR department migrate our time & attendance from the ancient 16-bit POS that is eTime, to their Workforce Now hosted product; and our payroll from PC Payroll to whatever it's new web hosted equivalent is. I get a lot of complaints that it's slow as hell and from what I've observed, it does not work in Chrome or Firefox. The whole implementation project was poorly managed by them, and pretty much everything short of a complete disaster with people's PTO and Vacation accruals getting screwed up, garnishments getting charged twice, the wrong timeclocks and components being delivered repeatedly, etc. Yeah, I'm glad it's over.
I should mention that their support group is pretty friendly and competent, besides the complete disconnect between their payroll and time & attendance divisions.
So having common sense must mean that you acknowledge the fact that our current living standards as a human race are unsustainable without fossil fuels, and that you wouldn't mind having to hunt for your own food and gather your own fruits and vegetables.
You'll have to forgo all of the modern conveniences and protections of industrialized civilization. Oh sure, you'll still be able to run some of your appliances off of solar energy and wind power occasionally. Just remember that all of your appliances are made out of plastics, rubbers, composites and metals that are manufactured by machines, which are also powered by fossil fuels.
Millions of people would starve to death and die without all the food provided from fertilizers manufactured from fossil fuels. Sorry, it turns out modern civilization can't be powered by happy sunshine, unicorns and rainbows alone.
Nuclear power will never be replaced by wind, wave, hydroelectric or solar power until the human population drops massively, people desert entire cities in mass exodus to move within distribution limits, or some miracle power distribution technology comes to fruition.
What do you propose as an alternative? I would rather have modern nuclear power plants than coal burning plants constantly spewing radiation and mercury into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, greenpeace nuts and the media keep pushing everyone away from nuclear power without suggesting realistic alternatives.
Last I heard, WP7 didn't support on-device encryption yet, or even have any enterprise management tools available to manage it. Ironic, considering that it's a Microsoft's own product and every other modern ActiveSync (or BES) capable device can do on-device encryption. Obviously, consumer oriented features are a higher priority on WP7 than enterprise features.
Regardless, I still believe competition is a good thing and that the iOS and Android devs still have some things to learn from WebOS and maybe even WP7 in the future.
Of course it's good, anything that's competition to keep the developers of iOS and Android on their toes is good. Hopefully HP can step up to the plate with Palm now as well.
I was just at a house party this weekend in a new-ish suburban area (Hamilton, OH) less than 20 miles outside of Cincinnati OH where all of the people with GSM phones varied from no coverage to 1 bar. The neighborhood has both Cable and DSL high speed internet, so I wouldn't necessary consider it rural. Guess these guys don't get out much.
You're right, but the correct answer would've been ASLR and NX help protect me from shit like that nowadays. I could site other examples, but I'm too lazy to google more. Bit hey, ignorance is bliss, right?
As long as you take that drive out and scan it for viruses booted from another drive. There are rootkits out there that can patch the kernel to completely evade detection from inside of the running OS. I just had the fun of removing the Alureon rootkit from an XP SP3 machine running an up to date version of McAfee 8.5i. Neither McAfee, NOD32, MSE or MRT.exe detected it on the running system. MRT.exe finally found and removed an infected tcpip.sys from the drive when I scanned it from another machine, which I then had to replace with a good copy.
It was a Dell laptop, that coincidentally had an SSD drive with a proprietary ribbon-connector interface. That was fun setting it up as an iSCSI target to be scanned from another machine. Suppose I could've used a WinPE boot cd to scan it, but I was too lazy to read up on the latest XP slipstreaming and product activation evasion techniques. Damn that legacy OS.
You guys do realize that Windows (and other OSs) have had serious vulnerabilities in shared libraries that are used in pretty much every application (including Firefox or Chrome) that parses image data or audio. With the GDI+ vulnerability, all the page had to do was load one malicious JPEG advert and you were pwnt. There are many other examples with audio libraries and such, go ahead and Google it.
MOD PARENT UP... this is exactly what I'm saying to all these crazy asses that think they're fine because they have a firewall and they run Firefox with NoScript. Once you have a vulnerability in a shared library that's widely used across the system, it practically doesn't matter which browser you use, you're screwed soon as you parse a malicious image in an ad on a "safe" site.
Is it even possible to have broadband these days and not have a router or gateway acting as a hardware firewall?
And how would you get a virus by just visiting websites? I use noscript and only unblock it for trusted sites, and I certainly don't have Adobe Reader installed (god forbid).
And what kind of email client gives you viruses by opening email? You'd have to run an executable attachment or open a specially crafted data file. I use webmail anyway (doesn't everyone?).
Yeah, you should be fine, just as long as you don't ever browse any sites that load JPEGS or PNGs.
Even if you don't use IE as your browser, there are many MS (Outlook Express, Live Mail, Outlook, Office, any app with integrated online help...) and 3rd party apps that use the IE rendering engine to parse HTML. Even when you "remove" IE from Add/Remove programs, its libraries stay in the system because there are numerous dependencies in Windows that require them to parse any HTML.
Wow, HELLO, GDI+ exploit! one malicious JPEG parsed in any application *BAM*! Just one example of many. Guess you don't view any JPEGs on the internet do you? I suppose you use absolutely no plugins (Flash, Adobe Reader, Java) in your browser either? Idiots...
Interesting, I've used the ATT Tilt, the Tmo HD2 and whatever the equivalent of the Tilt is on Sprint (Touch?)... I didn't try to play any videos on them, but the UI sucked. Despite HTC's really good job they did of skinning WM6, having two UIs for many of the apps confused everyone who demo'd these phones. Only one user liked the Tilt because she could use her ridiculously long fingernails more effectively on the (resistive) touchscreen. Everyone else preferred either the Torch or the iPhone 4. Unfortunately Android didn't make the cut because 2.2 wasn't available at the time.
There're probably downsides to either way of doing it. On Android, you have multitasking anarchy where one (or more) errant app(s) in the background can suck up all available CPU and battery life. The first app anyone in the know installs on an Android phone is a task killer. But I don't understand why everyone else is complaining, what's wrong with the way iOS 4 (and now WP7) does multitasking?
Bloated... maybe, but who cares? It's not like I ever have to, or can upgrade RAM or CPU on an embedded device, that is all spec'd out by the manufacturer. But slow? Compared to what? Have you ever even used an iPhone 3GS or 4 for any length of time? I recently demo'd all the major smartphones at the company I work for, and WM6 on the HTC Tilt was a GARBAGE multitasker, it was slow. They all have their strong points, but the only thing WM6 really had going for it was Office.
Did you know that all you had to do was remove one DLL? I just rolled a logon script out to rename authplay.dll (the flash component of Reader) on every machine, problem mitigated. Unfortunately, most people here need the real Adobe reader, as we do a lot of graphics and print, so 3rd party replacements aren't an option yet.
Battery life is one of the few things that the iPhone 4 has bested every other touchscreen smartphone I've seen in. I can stream music or play the iPod for both of my drives to and from work (about 2 hours total), text all day, make occasional short phone calls, surf web pages for about an hour at lunch; assuming it's a Friday night, go out, play music again in the car, snap some pics and or video, catch up on social networking, get home at 3AM and still have 20% battery remaining as I plug it into the charger and go to bed.
Already exists. Check out Tango.
I've never heard of anything other than 16 bit software that wouldn't run under Win7 64, but runs fine under Win7 32.
MS GP9, ADP eTime, lots of VB6 and .NET 1.x apps...
Google found differently in their massive hard drive survey... sometimes drives would just up and die with no SMART warnings. Also the most common SSD failure-case is lack of writes, at least you can retrieve data off the drive as opposed to a completely opaque device if the platter is frozen.
Yeah, I've seen quite the opposite. Let me preface this with saying that I'm strictly talking about consumer and midrange drives, I've seen very few SCSI and SAS drives die without warning.
In the past 10 years, in a company with about 200 nodes, I can literally count on one hand the amount of hard drives that have given any SMART warnings leading up to their imminent failure. They pretty much always die while the OS accumulates log entries of bad blocks and I/O errors. Most of the time it was either death by shock, or death by manufacturer defect (Maxtor!). The former, SSD drives are pretty much immune to BTW. I would prefer an SSD in a road warrior or college student's laptop any day over a conventional HDD.
I can attest to one contributor. People not buying a case when they purchase the phone because they're going several weeks unprotected waiting for their free iPhone 4 case from Apple.
If you're running as a regular non-admin user though, you can effectively sudo by entering in the user account credentials of an admin account when prompted to do so by UAC, so you can get similar functionality. It just requires two user accounts instead of one unfortunately.
I think you've missed a step somewhere then. I've had success getting 16-bit software, scanners and USB to Ethernet adaptors (that didn't work on Windows 7) working in an XP Mode VM under Windows 7 x64. From what little I recall though, it was a pain in the ass and not straightforward at all. But it does work after you give up and resort to reading documentation.
I'm not an Intel fanboy, but what if you figure power efficiency into the equation? I chose a Core2 over a Phenom on my MythTV backend a few years ago based on efficiency.