I think if FF was starting to feel like IE, you'd be getting infected using vulnariblities which are still unpatched, but whether this is a result of MS's relatively slow patching routing (someone mentioned they only released patches once a month except in extreme situations) and Firefox not being limited by this, or Firefox patching quicker, or a combanation of both, I can't really say.
Step 1: Go to providers web site, order broadband and modem.
Step 2: Recieve and install modem
But that's because everything went well for me (exchange was only recently activated for broadband, and phone line was only installed 15 years ago). I think the problem he's pointing out is when it goes wrong, it usually goes horribly horribly wrong.
I haven't really had massive problems with BT myself - but at the end of last year I had a problem with my broadband connection dying in the evening so I phoned BT (who provide my phone line). They ran line checks at their end and found nothing wrong, even though the connection was down at the time, so told me to contact Eclipse (who provide my broadband).
So I contacted Eclipse and they ran line checks, which also returned fine, and they could see no reason for the line being down! They told me they would contact BT and about three days later they sent an engineer round who managed to fix the problem.
"Also, you learn roundabout ways of doing things, thanks to the school's odd view on security. For example, you can't right-click or use the "File" menu in Windows Explorer. To make a new folder, enter Microsoft Word, go to their "Open file" dialog, press the button. (etc, etc)"
Your school isn't by any chance using RM Networks "Security" is it? The school I attended used that and it even closed any window with the word "properties" in it and popped up a "Restricted" box!
Maybe the motherboards of the future will have smoke detectors and a really bad error is your computer is on fire?
Seriously though, I'm thinking it would probably be a hardware error when running a diagnostic ("I just chucked 111 in RAM location x and it came back as 222, wtf?") or maybe the filesystem is corrupt or something along those lines.
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Probably only illegal without permission, and I doubt they could claim they didn't give permission now that it's been posted on/. and elsewhere saying "Come hack this box and win an Xbox", but that said if I were going to claim the prize or enter the competition I'd probably want written permission to hack it first.
IIS isn't open source and as a result of that it's going be difficult to fix some holes without it being noticed (like for example a buffer overflow might be fixable by disabling something, but if that thing you're disabling is ASP handling, it's gunna get noticed) or help from MS.
This isn't for Open Source devs to use to check for thier own code, it's for managers of closed source software projects to check for code that programmers may have plaigerised from open source projects.
"And some of those dialog boxes offer no clickable option other than "OK" which means reboot and you have to jump through an extra cognitive hoop and remember to click the "X" in the corner of the dialog window (to defer the reboot). "
That's assuming the "X" in the corner actaully stops it rebooting and doesn't just reboot it anyway (ZoneAlarm I'm looking at you).
When I was back at school, the network admin blocked the word "sex" in email, and the web. It even filtered out some of the intranet (yes, he even made it apply to the school intranet) because the pages referred to schools in Sussex and Middlesex.
Probably is illegal (they'd be abusing their monopoly to directly push a monopoly on digital music, rather than indirectly with their media player at the moment), but this could be screenshots of the "US version" and the "EU version" has it removed.
I think if you could legally download a song for $0.001, MP3 or OGG, it was DRM free and decent quality it would do very well to compete with p2p networks.
Don't know how much mainstream music costs in the US but I bet it's cheaper than here in the UK (£13-18 for a new album, which is about $26-$36), so the main reason people download it here illegally is the price.
We do have music services which are much cheaper than the CDs, such as Tesco.com's music download service (about £8.99 for an album) - however for a lot of people this is pointless as they use Microsoft's DRM which is incompatible with most music players (personally I think that cheap flash based MP3 players are the most common, followed by Ipods although I think by a fairly large gap). Not sure about how much the same hypothetical album costs on iTunes (can you buy the whole album at once at a lesser price than the total of each track, or do you have to just buy each track?) but there's still the problem of DRM which prevents it being played on most MP3 players - and I'd say that's one of, if not the biggest reason for the "British DRM backlash" reported on/. yesterday.
I'd say DRM is the biggest reason preventing legal downloads succeeding further over P2P - the restrictions might be fair and might not affect the average consumer - but the restrictions might as well be "only play on your computer" when it means the music doesn't work with the average person's MP3 player of choice.
Giving them less than 24 hours to respond seems a little extreme to me, but I don't really make many complaints to abuse desks so don't know what the average response time is.
Can't really answer that sorry as I've only really ran x64 on this machine so don't have regular 32-bit windows to compare with fairly - although I know that a few extra performence boosts from the updated OS (IIRC it uses the same core/kernel from Server 2003) such as "advanced performence" disk caching which I found on my previous machine (AMD XP2400+, 1 GB RAM, NVidia 5900 AGP, running Windows Server 2003) it helped a lot (although that was a much slower HD than the SATA one I've got in here).
The OS itself I find a lot more stable than XP SP2 on my laptop (768MB RAM, 2ghz Celeron, 30GB 2.5" internal toshiba HD, 160GB Seagate Barracuda 3.5" in externel USB case) and near enough if not identical to Server 2003.
The performence for gaming I can't really find fault with (UT2004 with 1600x1200 resolution and all graphics settings to very high and 32 bots on network is very playable), but personally I'd probably recommend sticking with 32-bit at least for a few months until the drivers and software sort themselves out, or warez it to try it out first on your hardware before deciding to purchase it - no point wasting cash now on something you might not use for a few months.
In the whole I'd say x64 is a very usable OS, and I don't think MS could have done much more than they have with the OS itself, and the main issues with it at the moment is third party support.
I'm not the original poster, but I'm running XP x64 RC2 and have had problems with Nero (asks for enterprise key just to run, then it works fine), printer drivers for Canon IP2000 (although driver problems are expected, and the built in BJC-8000 drivers work fine for printing, have to hook it up to 32-bit Windows machine to do head cleaning etc), ZoneAlarm doesn't install (although Tiny has a 64-bit Windows firewall available now), a few motherboard utils for my A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard won't run (but 64 bit versions seem to be appearing), Doom 3 and some other software complains when installing - but editing the MSI file, or running in Windows XP compatiblity mode to get around this usually lets it install and run fine. Had a problem with GetRight crashing so switched to Free Download Manager (shared internet connection so really need the speed capping), haven't tried any BitTorrent apps (hacked together an app which passes torrents to my laptop) but presumably will have same problem as 32-bit SP2 - initialising socket caps.
Apart from my printer, all my hardware works fine (A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard, NVIDIA 6600GT PCI-Express graphics card, 1GB Crucial PC4000 RAM, 200GB Maxtor Diamondmax 10 SATA HD, 120GB Maxtor Diamondmax 9 ATA133 HD, NFORCE4 onboard sound, NEC ND-3500 DVD burner, and some other generic 8x DVD reader), although it can be a big sluggish when copying large files from/to HD I think that's down to drivers rather than anything else.
Using Firefox 1.0.3 for browsing, Media Player Classic 6.4.8.2 for video, Winamp 5 for music and never had any problems with them, so don't know what poster above is talking about unless is using a very early build (used 1218 previously and only had same issues as I do now - only difference I noticed was upgraded Windows apps - IE got SP2'd with popup blocker, Solitair is 64-bit etc).
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It must be real. There's 390,000 jedis in the UK alone!
I think if FF was starting to feel like IE, you'd be getting infected using vulnariblities which are still unpatched, but whether this is a result of MS's relatively slow patching routing (someone mentioned they only released patches once a month except in extreme situations) and Firefox not being limited by this, or Firefox patching quicker, or a combanation of both, I can't really say.
Well for me it was (I'm in the UK):
Step 1: Go to providers web site, order broadband and modem.
Step 2: Recieve and install modem
But that's because everything went well for me (exchange was only recently activated for broadband, and phone line was only installed 15 years ago). I think the problem he's pointing out is when it goes wrong, it usually goes horribly horribly wrong.
I haven't really had massive problems with BT myself - but at the end of last year I had a problem with my broadband connection dying in the evening so I phoned BT (who provide my phone line). They ran line checks at their end and found nothing wrong, even though the connection was down at the time, so told me to contact Eclipse (who provide my broadband).
So I contacted Eclipse and they ran line checks, which also returned fine, and they could see no reason for the line being down! They told me they would contact BT and about three days later they sent an engineer round who managed to fix the problem.
"Also, you learn roundabout ways of doing things, thanks to the school's odd view on security. For example, you can't right-click or use the "File" menu in Windows Explorer. To make a new folder, enter Microsoft Word, go to their "Open file" dialog, press the button. (etc, etc)"
Your school isn't by any chance using RM Networks "Security" is it? The school I attended used that and it even closed any window with the word "properties" in it and popped up a "Restricted" box!
To change "reset instead of BSOD", right-click "My Computer", hit properties, advanced tab, startup and recovery, and set automatically restart.
Maybe the motherboards of the future will have smoke detectors and a really bad error is your computer is on fire? Seriously though, I'm thinking it would probably be a hardware error when running a diagnostic ("I just chucked 111 in RAM location x and it came back as 222, wtf?") or maybe the filesystem is corrupt or something along those lines.
Probably only illegal without permission, and I doubt they could claim they didn't give permission now that it's been posted on /. and elsewhere saying "Come hack this box and win an Xbox", but that said if I were going to claim the prize or enter the competition I'd probably want written permission to hack it first.
IIS isn't open source and as a result of that it's going be difficult to fix some holes without it being noticed (like for example a buffer overflow might be fixable by disabling something, but if that thing you're disabling is ASP handling, it's gunna get noticed) or help from MS.
This isn't for Open Source devs to use to check for thier own code, it's for managers of closed source software projects to check for code that programmers may have plaigerised from open source projects.
"And some of those dialog boxes offer no clickable option other than "OK" which means reboot and you have to jump through an extra cognitive hoop and remember to click the "X" in the corner of the dialog window (to defer the reboot). "
That's assuming the "X" in the corner actaully stops it rebooting and doesn't just reboot it anyway (ZoneAlarm I'm looking at you).
Here in the UK some of them are hidden inside signs - like for example the large ones at petrol stations which display the prices.
When I was back at school, the network admin blocked the word "sex" in email, and the web. It even filtered out some of the intranet (yes, he even made it apply to the school intranet) because the pages referred to schools in Sussex and Middlesex.
Not Google, but someone got a message from Apple about distributing it on Bittorrent. Oh and replied.
Cellphone broadbast towers. Just have the phone device connect to the cell towers for triangulation when making a 911 call.
Don't even need GPS, I guess you could do the same thing as they do for cellphones - triangulate your rough position with the broadcast towers.
IIRC a parody has to be clearly different than the original to be considered a parody.
Probably is illegal (they'd be abusing their monopoly to directly push a monopoly on digital music, rather than indirectly with their media player at the moment), but this could be screenshots of the "US version" and the "EU version" has it removed.
I think if you could legally download a song for $0.001, MP3 or OGG, it was DRM free and decent quality it would do very well to compete with p2p networks.
/. yesterday.
Don't know how much mainstream music costs in the US but I bet it's cheaper than here in the UK (£13-18 for a new album, which is about $26-$36), so the main reason people download it here illegally is the price.
We do have music services which are much cheaper than the CDs, such as Tesco.com's music download service (about £8.99 for an album) - however for a lot of people this is pointless as they use Microsoft's DRM which is incompatible with most music players (personally I think that cheap flash based MP3 players are the most common, followed by Ipods although I think by a fairly large gap). Not sure about how much the same hypothetical album costs on iTunes (can you buy the whole album at once at a lesser price than the total of each track, or do you have to just buy each track?) but there's still the problem of DRM which prevents it being played on most MP3 players - and I'd say that's one of, if not the biggest reason for the "British DRM backlash" reported on
I'd say DRM is the biggest reason preventing legal downloads succeeding further over P2P - the restrictions might be fair and might not affect the average consumer - but the restrictions might as well be "only play on your computer" when it means the music doesn't work with the average person's MP3 player of choice.
Recent related Ask Slashdot here.
Giving them less than 24 hours to respond seems a little extreme to me, but I don't really make many complaints to abuse desks so don't know what the average response time is.
Well put it this way... I'm English and my family of 5 goes through 26 pints of milk a week purely on tea.
French fries != Chips.
Chips are cut wider than fries, and fries are usually saltier.
So THAT's how John Titor's civil war starts!
Can't really answer that sorry as I've only really ran x64 on this machine so don't have regular 32-bit windows to compare with fairly - although I know that a few extra performence boosts from the updated OS (IIRC it uses the same core/kernel from Server 2003) such as "advanced performence" disk caching which I found on my previous machine (AMD XP2400+, 1 GB RAM, NVidia 5900 AGP, running Windows Server 2003) it helped a lot (although that was a much slower HD than the SATA one I've got in here). The OS itself I find a lot more stable than XP SP2 on my laptop (768MB RAM, 2ghz Celeron, 30GB 2.5" internal toshiba HD, 160GB Seagate Barracuda 3.5" in externel USB case) and near enough if not identical to Server 2003. The performence for gaming I can't really find fault with (UT2004 with 1600x1200 resolution and all graphics settings to very high and 32 bots on network is very playable), but personally I'd probably recommend sticking with 32-bit at least for a few months until the drivers and software sort themselves out, or warez it to try it out first on your hardware before deciding to purchase it - no point wasting cash now on something you might not use for a few months. In the whole I'd say x64 is a very usable OS, and I don't think MS could have done much more than they have with the OS itself, and the main issues with it at the moment is third party support.
Try Play.com.
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I'm not the original poster, but I'm running XP x64 RC2 and have had problems with Nero (asks for enterprise key just to run, then it works fine), printer drivers for Canon IP2000 (although driver problems are expected, and the built in BJC-8000 drivers work fine for printing, have to hook it up to 32-bit Windows machine to do head cleaning etc), ZoneAlarm doesn't install (although Tiny has a 64-bit Windows firewall available now), a few motherboard utils for my A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard won't run (but 64 bit versions seem to be appearing), Doom 3 and some other software complains when installing - but editing the MSI file, or running in Windows XP compatiblity mode to get around this usually lets it install and run fine. Had a problem with GetRight crashing so switched to Free Download Manager (shared internet connection so really need the speed capping), haven't tried any BitTorrent apps (hacked together an app which passes torrents to my laptop) but presumably will have same problem as 32-bit SP2 - initialising socket caps.
Apart from my printer, all my hardware works fine (A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard, NVIDIA 6600GT PCI-Express graphics card, 1GB Crucial PC4000 RAM, 200GB Maxtor Diamondmax 10 SATA HD, 120GB Maxtor Diamondmax 9 ATA133 HD, NFORCE4 onboard sound, NEC ND-3500 DVD burner, and some other generic 8x DVD reader), although it can be a big sluggish when copying large files from/to HD I think that's down to drivers rather than anything else.
Using Firefox 1.0.3 for browsing, Media Player Classic 6.4.8.2 for video, Winamp 5 for music and never had any problems with them, so don't know what poster above is talking about unless is using a very early build (used 1218 previously and only had same issues as I do now - only difference I noticed was upgraded Windows apps - IE got SP2'd with popup blocker, Solitair is 64-bit etc).