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 SATA HD, 120GB Maxtor ATA133 HD, NFORCE4 onboard sound), although it can be a big sluggish when copying large files from/to HD.
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).
As the other poster said, apps unfortunatly requre it, and besides it still wouldn't prevent infection most of the time - just limit it to one user account.
It wasn't the tabbed browsing, or extensions like adblock, or better standards compliance that I switched to Firefox. It was getting infected by a piece of spyware that used the same security hole I was pissing about with THREE MONTHS BEFOREHAND that I saw it on a security bullitin, and despite being fully up to date on my patches it still infected me.
IIRC from the last article on this I think the problems come in when you distribute a piece of software that is capable of defeating access control, irrelevent of who actually uses the software.
The college I attend dropped support for floppies at the beginning of the year (some machines have floppy drives still but if they break they won't be replaced, and new machines probably won't have them), and as a result everyone carries USB flash drives (all machines have USB ports on the front of the case).
Mugging or pickpocketing people for usb flash drives would be stupid - they cost what, about £12 for 128MB now? I'm in Britain so if you want mug/pickpocket people it would be for mobile phones (I don't know anybody who doesn't have one) rather than cheap USB keys.
Hmm IANAL but if the player owns the items, wouldnt the company who runs Second Life be liable if the items are lost/deleted/whatever from server error?
Why would they waste time trying to advertise to people who have made it perfectly clear that we don't want annoying intrusive advertising thrust upon us. The best thing they could do imo for all parties concerned is use plain text ads, they aren't intrusive enough to annoy hardly anyone and therefore probably won't be blocked.
Only had three pieces of RAM from Crucial (1x512MB PC2700 DDR333, 1x1GB PC4000 DDR500, 1x512MB PC2100 DDR266), but all of them have been error free as far as I can tell too. Another thing I like about Crucial is they deliver quick and for free (for orders >£25 anyway) - usually next day delivery or at most day after, with tracking (at least here in the UK anyway), and I'd definatly recommend them.
Probably just lucky, Windows hitting different areas of memory to RH etc, as I've heard the reverse happen too (RAM failing on Windows but being fine on RH or other distros).
s/illegally/through less legitimate channels . Forgot it isn't illegal (at the moment anyway) to download copyrighted music in Canada without permission.
Well that makes sense (I mean yeah a lot of blank media is going to be used for that), but this is just plain stupid - they're taxing people who download and pay for the product, which in turn makes the product more expensive, making people more likely to download the product illegally instead.
I doubt they'd be stupid enough to fake a linux distro ISO (at least not stupid enough to do it on a completely legitimate network like for example on a distro's official torrent tracker, and thats if this tech even works for bittorrent in the first place). The thing I'm worried about is them doing this on files which are now public domain in countries with shorter copyright terms than the US (US has how long copyright now, author's death + 75 years?). Compared to even the UK with it's 50 (and I'm sure there are countries with a lot shorter copyright term and a non-negliagable connected userbase) years copyright, there's a hell of a lot of material which is legal to download (without permission) inside the UK but not inside the US.
"AMD are also crippled on the desktop by MS's inability to produce a 64 bit OS. People feel comfortable with microsoft OS's and an OS upgrade is always a good driver to upgrade."
MS does have a 64-bit OS, in fact it went gold recently. Have RC2 of it running on my AMD64 machine at home (at college at the moment, incidently on a Dell machine) and it works fine. Only problem I have with it is lack of drivers at the moment (most critical stuff has drivers, like gfx card, sound, on board LAN etc, but it's still lacking in printer drivers, but that's down to the manufacturer of the printers, not MS (although I've forced my Canon IP2000 to work with BJC-8000 drivers which came with 64 bit windows and it works fine)).
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As for the parent, you can choose "remind me tomorrow", and it won't prompt every 15 minutes.
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I think you're thinking of something else, when it asks to reboot it only has two options - "Reboot now" and "Reboot later" (which brings up the prompt every 15 mins), at least on XP SP2 anyway.
Oh yeah it definatly has a point, but it kind of loses it's point after the fifth or sixth time it's came up, especially when it's a patch for WMP (why does it need to restart anyway? It should just be an isolated application). Anyway on the bright side my XP SP2 machine hasn't asked me to restart yet!
Only problem I have with updates in windows is that if you choose to "Restart later" after installing the updates, it will pop up every 15 mins or so asking if you want to restart now (as well as having a yellow shield in the task bar). Not much of a big deal, just irritating when you know you'll restart the machine later anyway so theres no point in restarting it now.
Never used Skype, but maybe with Skype your machine uploads the outgoing audio data to the Skype servers and the other users download it from there, meaning you're uploading one stream no matter how many users are listening to it (and the Skype servers deal with the bandwidth to the other users). With shoutcast, users connect directly to you, so you have to upload the same stream to each user meaning more bandwidth is used.
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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 SATA HD, 120GB Maxtor ATA133 HD, NFORCE4 onboard sound), although it can be a big sluggish when copying large files from/to HD. 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).
As the other poster said, apps unfortunatly requre it, and besides it still wouldn't prevent infection most of the time - just limit it to one user account.
IE6 already has a popup blocker if you're running XP SP2 32-bit, XP 64-bit RC2, or Server 2003 SP1.
It wasn't the tabbed browsing, or extensions like adblock, or better standards compliance that I switched to Firefox. It was getting infected by a piece of spyware that used the same security hole I was pissing about with THREE MONTHS BEFOREHAND that I saw it on a security bullitin, and despite being fully up to date on my patches it still infected me.
IIRC from the last article on this I think the problems come in when you distribute a piece of software that is capable of defeating access control, irrelevent of who actually uses the software.
The college I attend dropped support for floppies at the beginning of the year (some machines have floppy drives still but if they break they won't be replaced, and new machines probably won't have them), and as a result everyone carries USB flash drives (all machines have USB ports on the front of the case).
Mugging or pickpocketing people for usb flash drives would be stupid - they cost what, about £12 for 128MB now? I'm in Britain so if you want mug/pickpocket people it would be for mobile phones (I don't know anybody who doesn't have one) rather than cheap USB keys.
Hmm IANAL but if the player owns the items, wouldnt the company who runs Second Life be liable if the items are lost/deleted/whatever from server error?
Why would they waste time trying to advertise to people who have made it perfectly clear that we don't want annoying intrusive advertising thrust upon us. The best thing they could do imo for all parties concerned is use plain text ads, they aren't intrusive enough to annoy hardly anyone and therefore probably won't be blocked.
Only had three pieces of RAM from Crucial (1x512MB PC2700 DDR333, 1x1GB PC4000 DDR500, 1x512MB PC2100 DDR266), but all of them have been error free as far as I can tell too. Another thing I like about Crucial is they deliver quick and for free (for orders >£25 anyway) - usually next day delivery or at most day after, with tracking (at least here in the UK anyway), and I'd definatly recommend them.
Probably just lucky, Windows hitting different areas of memory to RH etc, as I've heard the reverse happen too (RAM failing on Windows but being fine on RH or other distros).
s/illegally/through less legitimate channels . Forgot it isn't illegal (at the moment anyway) to download copyrighted music in Canada without permission.
Well that makes sense (I mean yeah a lot of blank media is going to be used for that), but this is just plain stupid - they're taxing people who download and pay for the product, which in turn makes the product more expensive, making people more likely to download the product illegally instead.
Number ten - "Greed is eternal".
I doubt they'd be stupid enough to fake a linux distro ISO (at least not stupid enough to do it on a completely legitimate network like for example on a distro's official torrent tracker, and thats if this tech even works for bittorrent in the first place). The thing I'm worried about is them doing this on files which are now public domain in countries with shorter copyright terms than the US (US has how long copyright now, author's death + 75 years?). Compared to even the UK with it's 50 (and I'm sure there are countries with a lot shorter copyright term and a non-negliagable connected userbase) years copyright, there's a hell of a lot of material which is legal to download (without permission) inside the UK but not inside the US.
"AMD are also crippled on the desktop by MS's inability to produce a 64 bit OS. People feel comfortable with microsoft OS's and an OS upgrade is always a good driver to upgrade."
MS does have a 64-bit OS, in fact it went gold recently. Have RC2 of it running on my AMD64 machine at home (at college at the moment, incidently on a Dell machine) and it works fine. Only problem I have with it is lack of drivers at the moment (most critical stuff has drivers, like gfx card, sound, on board LAN etc, but it's still lacking in printer drivers, but that's down to the manufacturer of the printers, not MS (although I've forced my Canon IP2000 to work with BJC-8000 drivers which came with 64 bit windows and it works fine)).
VS 2005 is still in beta, which is what I was talking about, not SQL Server 2000.
" So what do you mean by "obtained?" Stolen? "Borrowed?""
Why pirate it when it's still in beta (and I believe also available for free public download)?
"And what do you mean by "spidering?" Trying to spam the addresses on my websites?"
Spidering = using automated software that crawls a web page and either indexes it or caches it.
" As for the parent, you can choose "remind me tomorrow", and it won't prompt every 15 minutes. "
I think you're thinking of something else, when it asks to reboot it only has two options - "Reboot now" and "Reboot later" (which brings up the prompt every 15 mins), at least on XP SP2 anyway.
"Anyway on the bright side my XP SP2 machine hasn't asked me to restart yet!"
Ok it JUST popped up after I typed that for the first time. Spooky.
Oh yeah it definatly has a point, but it kind of loses it's point after the fifth or sixth time it's came up, especially when it's a patch for WMP (why does it need to restart anyway? It should just be an isolated application). Anyway on the bright side my XP SP2 machine hasn't asked me to restart yet!
Only problem I have with updates in windows is that if you choose to "Restart later" after installing the updates, it will pop up every 15 mins or so asking if you want to restart now (as well as having a yellow shield in the task bar). Not much of a big deal, just irritating when you know you'll restart the machine later anyway so theres no point in restarting it now.
List of members of the ISPA if anybody is interested. It seems to be pretty much every major ISP in the UK.
I meant publically rather than internally.
Under the GPL I don't think they'd have to submit anything back unless they distributed it publically anyway.
Never used Skype, but maybe with Skype your machine uploads the outgoing audio data to the Skype servers and the other users download it from there, meaning you're uploading one stream no matter how many users are listening to it (and the Skype servers deal with the bandwidth to the other users). With shoutcast, users connect directly to you, so you have to upload the same stream to each user meaning more bandwidth is used.