Arcs cause resets, too many resets, and the circuits are taken out... I find it shocking that there are utilities that scrimp on a few links of insulator...
Ballmer: in our reorg, I'm moving you to department X. Martin: hey isn't that a demotion? Ballmer: yes Martin: !@#$&^% Ballmer: deal with it Martin: I'm gonna see what else is out there for me Ballmer: Security, escort this man off the campus
She was a technical recruiter at Microsoft, and had some very interesting posts. In her goodbye she said: Microsoft is an awesome place to work, things are looking great, etc. oh by the way I've decided to leave and do my own thing. C'ya later!
JobsBlog doesn't have the profile of Scoble or Mini, but I think that says a lot.
Unless you have actually tried to configure a ton of apps, you have no authority to make this claim.
I know this is a minor example, but I always had a lot of trouble running the Microsoft Reader (their EBook reader) from a non-admin account, especially after their 2.0 format update. Before I could read ebooks just fine from my Admin or my Power User account, but after, it got screwed up big time. Reader ran it didn't always work - some books were only accessible from Administrator, and another set were only accessible only access from my Power User. Yet I had authorized the same hotmail address from both, etc.
You might want to check on any DRM app to make sure they work properly. Working properly at the minimum means 1) a non-admin can authorize a purchase, 2) stuff still is accessible especially after an app update which is done my an admin.
The entire EBook fiasco I've had has turned me off their DRM altogether.
No no no. Veritas does have their own file system (vxfs) - a driver exists for linux - but they didn't write one for Windows. At least not one they've released or made public.
I'm waiting too, but that is more to do with letting the hardware stabilize. No flames, but aren't there some issues with the MacBooks? I haven't been paying full attention, maybe I have the wrong impression. Anyway, when the next gen notebook hardware is out, I am 100% getting one and switching. As has been mentioned a zillion times by others, the only thing I do on Windows that can't migrate easily is play games. With dual boot, problem solved. I got my parents a Mac Mini for Christmas and they love it.
What a way to get rid of BSOD, perform harakiri instead of showing the bluscre[e]n.
It has been a while, but I vaguely remember a policy change concerning bugchecks (a.k.a. bluescreens) - in XP, they would only show if a kernel debugger were attached. Because really, if the machine did crash without a kernel debugger, what point is showing a page of hex gobbledy gook? Nobody is gonna write down the crash arguments and stack; you are lucky if they get the bugcheck number correct. I guess what makes the most sense is this: "machine will reboot whether or not the user selected that if a kernel debugger isn't present". Again, typically all machines were attached to a kernel debugger and you wanted to trap failures for analysis.
You can try KnoppMyth, which others have suggested, but be aware it isn't quite the silver bullet. Check out LWN's recent brief write up on MythTV and KnoppMyth in their March 9th weekly.
It is fair to note he also had the HD3000 card working as well. Ultimately, he went with Fedora Core 4 because of the great documentation.
There is a nugget of truth in what you say, about stop supporting their products. I am doing this route. First step was to get Ubuntu Linux on my spare system, and use it fore regular tasks. Next was to buy my parents a Mac Mini when their windows system died for the umpteenth time. As my own desktop nears its end, I am eyeing a Mac. Basically, I do not plan to go from XP to Vista.
The problem I have with Microsoft selling anti-virus and anti-spyware software is the conflict of interest. I seriously believe they will no longer try their best to release secure software, once the money starts rolling in from this subscription service.
The thing is, as the price rises, sellers often offer price protection. Think of all the consumer applicance stores, car dealerships, etc. that will give back the difference between what you paid and the current price, within a small time window.
I believe Apple computer does this as well, if you buy a computer a few days before a price drop, they'll refund you.
Are there any plans to make security rollups and patches available offline? As in, offer the latest patched versions of your various products on CD, available for nomimal shipping costs? This can't possibly cost much to administer, compared to auto companies who face product recalls when design/safety issues arise.
I know the service packs make it to Windows Update, but when something bad happens and a system needs to be reinstalled from the media it came with, that isn't practical. A new install from one or two year old media means an immediate download of dozens of megabytes of patches before the system is reasonably usable. Such a system might be compromised while the update occurs. Yes I can do X, Y, and Z to work around this, but try explaining to an average consumer where to download patches "just in case" and how to slipstream their own media, and you might as well tell them to just buy a new computer every year. I think it is unfair to push this entire burden onto customers, when updated media is cheap to provide.
There were so many advantages to the PC version of Morrowind (console access for quest fixes and other "god" mode sorts of thing, ability to add mods), that I'd stick with the PC version unless they implement this stuff for the XBOX360 version.
I'd like to plug Guild Wars, which also solves this by providing AI controlled henchman. Yeah, real players are smarter, but I've done 95% of the quests so far (I am about midway through the storyline missions) with henchies and have done just fine. I'm not forced to wait for a PUG to form.
and at the end of the 60-90 minutes I realized I had just thrown away those 60-90 minutes just trying to recover my body after dying repeatedly.
I used to play Asheron's Call, a game that also had death penalties - loss of items, percentage weakness on your stats. I would also spend a lot of time recovering my body. People might say, don't die, but then the most fun thing is to take on an even challenge and work through it. I could have killed rabbits or whatever, but that isn't any fun. So fun = risk = chance of death = massive tedium recovering your body to get items back.
Now I play Guild Wars, which hardly punishes at all on death. Yeah, you get weaker (which works off as you gain more xp), but you don't lose any items, so no need for body recovery, and even better - when you zone back to a city, the death penalty is erased. Of course, everything is instanced except cities, so all you lose is the progress towards a quest.
I've never played WoW, but it sounds like it doesn't waste your time on death either. The fact is this makes for more fun/enjoyment for these two games since you wind up playing the game more and taking risk, rather than being actively punished.
If you know the folks on your gift list well enough - that doesn't happen. If you don't know them well enough - why in heck are they on your gift list?
What if this person has two wonderful friends such as yourself, and you both get them the same thing? The fact is, gift cards are supremely practical.
Home Depot and grocery stores -- the self checkout.
I bought one of the Home Depot home improvement books, and it had a barcode for the U.S. price as well as a barcode for the Canadian price. Every time I went to scan the book, it would screw up the register and set off the flashing light, and the supervising cashier had to come "reset" it for me. After the third or fourth time this happened, we both gave up and she had to key it in manually. What a drag.
So self-checkout isn't perfect. I'm not sure what the problem was - I gather the double barcode blew up the database lookup.
I think it is worse what the UN did. You can expect Microsoft to act in their self-interest, but the UN is supposed to represent the world's countries. In this case, WTF are they doing listening to what some company has to say.
I think the key here is that while the prisoners don't know what K is, we, as the omniscient puzzle solvers, do. So we can come up with a strategy. I guess you could say there is a theoretical solution - if for some reason this was happening in real life, then yeah, the prisoners are screwed because they don't know what K is.
When and if TIVO starts implementing the auto-delete feature on shows, I may re-evaluate...
And before anyone starts in on the "oh they've already deleted stuff off of people's TIVO's" bit -- Tivo has admitted it, said it was a mistake and said it's part of a future change
Do you seriously believe that TIVO implemented and is testing this feature, only to NOT deploy it? Or you are just hoping it won't affect the shows you watch?
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One thing I always wondered about. Since Macs are so easy to use, why does it require a "genius" to fix one?
It is named like that for their customers. People don't want to go to the "clueless dumbass bar" to get stuff fixed.
Arcs cause resets, too many resets, and the circuits are taken out... I find it shocking that there are utilities that scrimp on a few links of insulator...
Awesome pun!!
It might have gone down like this:
Ballmer: in our reorg, I'm moving you to department X.
Martin: hey isn't that a demotion?
Ballmer: yes
Martin: !@#$&^%
Ballmer: deal with it
Martin: I'm gonna see what else is out there for me
Ballmer: Security, escort this man off the campus
Gretchen's Goodbye.
She was a technical recruiter at Microsoft, and had some very interesting posts. In her goodbye she said: Microsoft is an awesome place to work, things are looking great, etc. oh by the way I've decided to leave and do my own thing. C'ya later!
JobsBlog doesn't have the profile of Scoble or Mini, but I think that says a lot.
Maybe it a pointless to read the EULA after all - Microsoft will just forget to mention the really obnoxious things they are doing. Yeesh.
I know this is a minor example, but I always had a lot of trouble running the Microsoft Reader (their EBook reader) from a non-admin account, especially after their 2.0 format update. Before I could read ebooks just fine from my Admin or my Power User account, but after, it got screwed up big time. Reader ran it didn't always work - some books were only accessible from Administrator, and another set were only accessible only access from my Power User. Yet I had authorized the same hotmail address from both, etc. You might want to check on any DRM app to make sure they work properly. Working properly at the minimum means 1) a non-admin can authorize a purchase, 2) stuff still is accessible especially after an app update which is done my an admin. The entire EBook fiasco I've had has turned me off their DRM altogether.
No no no. Veritas does have their own file system (vxfs) - a driver exists for linux - but they didn't write one for Windows. At least not one they've released or made public.
I'm waiting too, but that is more to do with letting the hardware stabilize. No flames, but aren't there some issues with the MacBooks? I haven't been paying full attention, maybe I have the wrong impression. Anyway, when the next gen notebook hardware is out, I am 100% getting one and switching. As has been mentioned a zillion times by others, the only thing I do on Windows that can't migrate easily is play games. With dual boot, problem solved. I got my parents a Mac Mini for Christmas and they love it.
It has been a while, but I vaguely remember a policy change concerning bugchecks (a.k.a. bluescreens) - in XP, they would only show if a kernel debugger were attached. Because really, if the machine did crash without a kernel debugger, what point is showing a page of hex gobbledy gook? Nobody is gonna write down the crash arguments and stack; you are lucky if they get the bugcheck number correct. I guess what makes the most sense is this: "machine will reboot whether or not the user selected that if a kernel debugger isn't present". Again, typically all machines were attached to a kernel debugger and you wanted to trap failures for analysis.
It is fair to note he also had the HD3000 card working as well. Ultimately, he went with Fedora Core 4 because of the great documentation.
There is a nugget of truth in what you say, about stop supporting their products. I am doing this route. First step was to get Ubuntu Linux on my spare system, and use it fore regular tasks. Next was to buy my parents a Mac Mini when their windows system died for the umpteenth time. As my own desktop nears its end, I am eyeing a Mac. Basically, I do not plan to go from XP to Vista.
The problem I have with Microsoft selling anti-virus and anti-spyware software is the conflict of interest. I seriously believe they will no longer try their best to release secure software, once the money starts rolling in from this subscription service.
The thing is, as the price rises, sellers often offer price protection. Think of all the consumer applicance stores, car dealerships, etc. that will give back the difference between what you paid and the current price, within a small time window.
I believe Apple computer does this as well, if you buy a computer a few days before a price drop, they'll refund you.
Are there any plans to make security rollups and patches available offline? As in, offer the latest patched versions of your various products on CD, available for nomimal shipping costs? This can't possibly cost much to administer, compared to auto companies who face product recalls when design/safety issues arise.
I know the service packs make it to Windows Update, but when something bad happens and a system needs to be reinstalled from the media it came with, that isn't practical. A new install from one or two year old media means an immediate download of dozens of megabytes of patches before the system is reasonably usable. Such a system might be compromised while the update occurs. Yes I can do X, Y, and Z to work around this, but try explaining to an average consumer where to download patches "just in case" and how to slipstream their own media, and you might as well tell them to just buy a new computer every year. I think it is unfair to push this entire burden onto customers, when updated media is cheap to provide.
I wonder what MS's DRM terms are.
I think it involves a newborn, or being stretched over a barrel, or some blood ritual.
I'm sure people would if Microsoft made their source code available. Sound more familiar?
There were so many advantages to the PC version of Morrowind (console access for quest fixes and other "god" mode sorts of thing, ability to add mods), that I'd stick with the PC version unless they implement this stuff for the XBOX360 version.
I'd like to plug Guild Wars, which also solves this by providing AI controlled henchman. Yeah, real players are smarter, but I've done 95% of the quests so far (I am about midway through the storyline missions) with henchies and have done just fine. I'm not forced to wait for a PUG to form.
I used to play Asheron's Call, a game that also had death penalties - loss of items, percentage weakness on your stats. I would also spend a lot of time recovering my body. People might say, don't die, but then the most fun thing is to take on an even challenge and work through it. I could have killed rabbits or whatever, but that isn't any fun. So fun = risk = chance of death = massive tedium recovering your body to get items back.
Now I play Guild Wars, which hardly punishes at all on death. Yeah, you get weaker (which works off as you gain more xp), but you don't lose any items, so no need for body recovery, and even better - when you zone back to a city, the death penalty is erased. Of course, everything is instanced except cities, so all you lose is the progress towards a quest.
I've never played WoW, but it sounds like it doesn't waste your time on death either. The fact is this makes for more fun/enjoyment for these two games since you wind up playing the game more and taking risk, rather than being actively punished.
What if this person has two wonderful friends such as yourself, and you both get them the same thing? The fact is, gift cards are supremely practical.
Home Depot and grocery stores -- the self checkout. I bought one of the Home Depot home improvement books, and it had a barcode for the U.S. price as well as a barcode for the Canadian price. Every time I went to scan the book, it would screw up the register and set off the flashing light, and the supervising cashier had to come "reset" it for me. After the third or fourth time this happened, we both gave up and she had to key it in manually. What a drag. So self-checkout isn't perfect. I'm not sure what the problem was - I gather the double barcode blew up the database lookup.
I think it is worse what the UN did. You can expect Microsoft to act in their self-interest, but the UN is supposed to represent the world's countries. In this case, WTF are they doing listening to what some company has to say.
Imagine getting rated "Troll"! ;)
I think the key here is that while the prisoners don't know what K is, we, as the omniscient puzzle solvers, do. So we can come up with a strategy. I guess you could say there is a theoretical solution - if for some reason this was happening in real life, then yeah, the prisoners are screwed because they don't know what K is.
Do you seriously believe that TIVO implemented and is testing this feature, only to NOT deploy it? Or you are just hoping it won't affect the shows you watch?
>It never fails
???. I guess you edited the registry to log you in on reboot? And auto-launched the media app?
Because whenever I have a power spike or brief outage, my ReplayTV reboots and comes right back and keeps recording. Windows Media Center doesn't.
Granted, I can solve this with a UPS (which I have done), and can set the autologon myself, but this isn't exactly friendly to the novice user.