IIRC, one major reason that Toshiba came out (rebranded, actually) with a new driver for the SavageIX chipset in their laptops was that there were *so* many blue-screens fingering their driver.
More memory is always good, yes, but most modern apps (as in after 2000 or so) can read/write SD cards or be run on them.
I agree about the applications; on my m130, it's shocking that Memo Pad *still* has a 8kb limit, which I could understand when I was using my IIIxe (FWIW, I'm still using it); fortunately I managed to get hold of the Tungsten T CD and installed DocsToGo on the Palm (for about 3.5MB)...
Also, the ICQ client for Palm doesn't seem to have been updated recently, and MSN/Yahoo/AIM don't seem to have clients for PalmOS either.
Yup, but most people judge the "size" of an app by looking at it in the Info program; on mine, AvantGo takes up 821KB and I've seen portable PDFs take up > 3MB before.
'cause most Palm apps are small ( 1MB). IIRC, the Tungsten T2 will (like other recent Palms) come with a SD/MMC/CF slot for expansion, so they can save costs by including less onboard memory.
OK, it's no secret that MS wants to focus on DRM especially since that's what the content providers are pushing for, but the part about IIS/IE and secure signatures was never substantiated in any of the articles, only vague implied "predictions".
Would you happen to have a link to (for example) an interview with an actual MS engineer? No? I thought so.
I think your own subject should apply to *your* post. >D
That's as much of a load of "rambling dribble" as I've seen on/., and I've been around here for a while now.
If you have *conclusive* proof (previous/. articles don't count) that IE and IIS are going to be modified the way you claim, then post it. Otherwise, take it somewhere else.
ActiveX controls are a client-side technology, not a server-side one. You can have pages that use ActiveX controls on an Apache server (I've done it before).
And the scripting techniques are, likewise, not in IIS' domain. Don't confuse server-side VBscript with client-side VBscript.
Why was that modded offtopic?! You've got to credit this poster for understanding the *real* reason why 99.99999999% of submissions get rejected, which is to fulfil/.'s role as a geek center and increase the level of geek procreation.:-)
It's not too hard for ordinary people to understand (I can understand it and I'm not an expert in hardware), though the article didn't really talk about USB thumb drives, etc.
What kind of controller interface do they (thumb drives) use? ATA, SCSI or something else?
How did this Slashbot post get modded up to Interesting? I don't claim to be working for MS, but definitely if I was in their position I'd want to buy the AV company so that my customers wouldn't have to be worried about the latest kiddies attack.
But, I forgot this is/., where anti-M$ opinion can and often does get +5 Insightful. 8=P
He writes: I've seen that M$ is depreciating C in their Visual Studio, thanks to the use of C#. Would you think it good for M$ to take away the programer's ability to make custom code?
You may want to actually, y'know, CHECK the Visual Studio web pages? C++ is actually supported, and is more standards-compliant than VC++ 6.0.
I have no idea why this was modded as a troll, cause it definitely does give you some insight into: (a) writing your own trojans =P (b) doing analysis and stuff inhouse without any consultants being needed.
Just thought I'd point out that W3C standards and.NET are orthogonal;.NET doesn't specify anything about how to render web pages or do client-side scripting.
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Have you actually *taken* a look at Longhorn? It's nothing like what you're describing, at least from the publicly available info.
/. to wear tinfoil hats in response to everything MS says or does. :-)
Though there's this tendency on
I don't know. Maybe 'cause it's difficult for MS to get people to upgrade to more secure/stable versions of Windows?
Have you taken a look at Win2003 server btw? It's a lot more secure than previous versions (even if you count MSBlast).
Fine, I'll call you on your statement.
My Win2k box has not been hacked in over 3 years. Yes, that's right. NOT hacked.
So what was that you were saying about "stupid Windows users" ?
MS definitely isn't telling me what I can or can't run. They would probably have a case to do so if I was working at MS, but I'm not.
And oh, just because you call something stupid doesn't mean it's stupid.
This is interesting? Bwahahaha!
Anyway. Read up on Code Access Security and let me know whenever Java gets anything similar to it.
Then take off your tinfoil hat.
IIRC, one major reason that Toshiba came out (rebranded, actually) with a new driver for the SavageIX chipset in their laptops was that there were *so* many blue-screens fingering their driver.
They already have an NNTP service since IIS 4.0, and it works well with other news readers; I should know.
I have no idea how this trash got modded up, unless the mods were smoking crack.
More memory is always good, yes, but most modern apps (as in after 2000 or so) can read/write SD cards or be run on them.
I agree about the applications; on my m130, it's shocking that Memo Pad *still* has a 8kb limit, which I could understand when I was using my IIIxe (FWIW, I'm still using it); fortunately I managed to get hold of the Tungsten T CD and installed DocsToGo on the Palm (for about 3.5MB)...
Also, the ICQ client for Palm doesn't seem to have been updated recently, and MSN/Yahoo/AIM don't seem to have clients for PalmOS either.
Yup, but most people judge the "size" of an app by looking at it in the Info program; on mine, AvantGo takes up 821KB and I've seen portable PDFs take up > 3MB before.
'cause most Palm apps are small ( 1MB). IIRC, the Tungsten T2 will (like other recent Palms) come with a SD/MMC/CF slot for expansion, so they can save costs by including less onboard memory.
OK, it's no secret that MS wants to focus on DRM especially since that's what the content providers are pushing for, but the part about IIS/IE and secure signatures was never substantiated in any of the articles, only vague implied "predictions".
Would you happen to have a link to (for example) an interview with an actual MS engineer? No? I thought so.
I think your own subject should apply to *your* post. >D
/., and I've been around here for a while now.
/. articles don't count) that IE and IIS are going to be modified the way you claim, then post it. Otherwise, take it somewhere else.
That's as much of a load of "rambling dribble" as I've seen on
If you have *conclusive* proof (previous
ActiveX controls are a client-side technology, not a server-side one. You can have pages that use ActiveX controls on an Apache server (I've done it before).
And the scripting techniques are, likewise, not in IIS' domain. Don't confuse server-side VBscript with client-side VBscript.
In that case, maybe you can tell me why *my* IIS server's pages display equally well in Mozilla, IE and Opera?
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Don't believe everything you read on
Actually, it wasn't meant to be sarcasm, I really didn't know exactly how it was "represented".
Why was that modded offtopic?! You've got to credit this poster for understanding the *real* reason why 99.99999999% of submissions get rejected, which is to fulfil /.'s role as a geek center and increase the level of geek procreation. :-)
I see, thanks a lot. =)
It's not too hard for ordinary people to understand (I can understand it and I'm not an expert in hardware), though the article didn't really talk about USB thumb drives, etc.
What kind of controller interface do they (thumb drives) use? ATA, SCSI or something else?
How did this Slashbot post get modded up to Interesting? I don't claim to be working for MS, but definitely if I was in their position I'd want to buy the AV company so that my customers wouldn't have to be worried about the latest kiddies attack.
/., where anti-M$ opinion can and often does get +5 Insightful. 8=P
But, I forgot this is
So, in other words, I have a 4GB dual Xeon laptop right here. Gee, thanks! I wonder what I can do with it? =)
[It's actually a P4-1.6 with 512MB RAM)
Actually, in WinXP, you can select all the files in the folder and click the Rotate button, which rotates all of them for you.
Oh, just fyi, but there *are* VB developers who know what files are. =P
He writes:
I've seen that M$ is depreciating C in their Visual Studio, thanks to the use of C#. Would you think it good for M$ to take away the programer's ability to make custom code?
You may want to actually, y'know, CHECK the Visual Studio web pages? C++ is actually supported, and is more standards-compliant than VC++ 6.0.
I have no idea why this was modded as a troll, cause it definitely does give you some insight into:
(a) writing your own trojans =P
(b) doing analysis and stuff inhouse without any consultants being needed.
Actually, VB does have :=, it's not very often used though. And it's only really useful when calling methods with named arguments.
Just thought I'd point out that W3C standards and .NET are orthogonal; .NET doesn't specify anything about how to render web pages or do client-side scripting.
Now, if you were talking about SOAP...