People so often forget Microsoft plans multiple versions of Windows ahead. So, dropping DOS/16-bit in Vista and leaving 32-bit alone might seem lame but the version after Vista could very well drop Win32 support too.
Dear Mr. Baker,
As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have few very basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your consistent and annoying harassment of my co-workers and me during our commission of duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few true genetic wastes of our time.
Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen. I was hired because I know how to network computer systems, and you were apparently hired to provide amusement to your employees, who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste" as it is explained to you for the hundredth time.
You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an IP is. Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will.
You wander around the building all day, shiftlessly seeking fault in others. You have a sharp dressed, useless look about you that may have worked for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle.
Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation; however, I have a few parting thoughts:
When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal for you to give me a bad recommendation as I have consisted performed my duties and even more. The most you can say to hurt me is, "I prefer not to comment." To keep you honest, I will have friends randomly call you over the next couple of years, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own.
I have all the passwords to every account on the system and I know every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I will publish your "Favorites," which I conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files. I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not viewed favorably by the university administrations.
When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your mother's b-day," you neglected to mention that you were going to take nude pictures of yourself in the mirror. Then, like the techno-moron you are, you forgot to erase them. Suffice it to say, I have never seen such odd acts with a ketchup bottle. I assure you that those photos are being kept in safe places pending your authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation. (And, for once, would you please try to use spellcheck? I hate correcting your mistakes.)
I expect the letter of recommendation on my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody and all of your twisted little repugnant obsessions will become public knowledge. Never f*ck with your systems administrator, Mr. Baker! They know what you do with all that free time!
Sincerely
David Blocker
Network Administrator
Build a man a fire, and he is warm today.
Teach a man how to build a fire, he will keep building fires until there are no more trees. After that, they will burn coal, then oil -- sounds familar?
"our buying power is no longer sustainable by credit debt."
how many trillions are we in debt? what about the bank's switching from petro-dollars to petro-euros soon?
I think CPU or Northbridge benchmarking could detect such a rootkit. Have windows installer write these benchmarks to a CDR after windows is first installed.. then prompt the user for the CD when Windows Defender wants to run a test on the system. Maybe a new sector on the CD could be burnt whenever a new restore-point is created or some other performance affecting program. Thus, adding up the baseline along with each program could determine a real difference to what is actually happening and thus detect something is wrong.
you might not of been able to uninstall WOW because of the spyware it runs.. you cannot delete a file if another process has that file opened (unless you force close that handle).
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People so often forget Microsoft plans multiple versions of Windows ahead. So, dropping DOS/16-bit in Vista and leaving 32-bit alone might seem lame but the version after Vista could very well drop Win32 support too.
I always wondered about this. When I do a "yum -y update" does that mean I probably will have a broken system after a fresh distro install?
When virtualization goes to the chip level, MS might kill off VMware..
Dear Mr. Baker, As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have few very basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your consistent and annoying harassment of my co-workers and me during our commission of duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few true genetic wastes of our time. Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen. I was hired because I know how to network computer systems, and you were apparently hired to provide amusement to your employees, who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste" as it is explained to you for the hundredth time. You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an IP is. Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will. You wander around the building all day, shiftlessly seeking fault in others. You have a sharp dressed, useless look about you that may have worked for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle. Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation; however, I have a few parting thoughts: When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal for you to give me a bad recommendation as I have consisted performed my duties and even more. The most you can say to hurt me is, "I prefer not to comment." To keep you honest, I will have friends randomly call you over the next couple of years, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own. I have all the passwords to every account on the system and I know every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I will publish your "Favorites," which I conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files. I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not viewed favorably by the university administrations. When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your mother's b-day," you neglected to mention that you were going to take nude pictures of yourself in the mirror. Then, like the techno-moron you are, you forgot to erase them. Suffice it to say, I have never seen such odd acts with a ketchup bottle. I assure you that those photos are being kept in safe places pending your authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation. (And, for once, would you please try to use spellcheck? I hate correcting your mistakes.) I expect the letter of recommendation on my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody and all of your twisted little repugnant obsessions will become public knowledge. Never f*ck with your systems administrator, Mr. Baker! They know what you do with all that free time! Sincerely David Blocker Network Administrator
Guess Microsoft should have asked for the documents from the US judge before the UK ruled on it as being irrelevant.
great, that means Billions of dollars companies are going to have to spend on their contractors/employees
Thats screwed up, they are now overloading the use of security patches because that is the only way people automatically let patches through.
try W2003R2.. it runs fast on my PII 266mhz
Why not use a 3rd party windows updater and leave IE off the machine.
if FPGAs impress you, VPGAs, PLDs and ALUs blow them out of the water.
You think 7x is fast, you should check out what ClearSpeed CSX600 is going to do 10x with AMD's coherence HT.
Build a man a fire, and he is warm today. Teach a man how to build a fire, he will keep building fires until there are no more trees. After that, they will burn coal, then oil -- sounds familar?
very true, Asus K8V Deluxe here -- super happy even though it is over 2 years old now. Zero problems with it and I bully it around.
"our buying power is no longer sustainable by credit debt."
how many trillions are we in debt? what about the bank's switching from petro-dollars to petro-euros soon?
is this dumb enough?
http://www.theexplodingwhale.com/
have you ever looked at their projects? http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/research/ http://web.media.mit.edu/~push/#Research http://agents.media.mit.edu/projects
is that really your ph # or is it aunt Sally?
100% affirmative. yuppers. how could I argue the change the internet has and will make. really, how could one argue?
I think CPU or Northbridge benchmarking could detect such a rootkit. Have windows installer write these benchmarks to a CDR after windows is first installed.. then prompt the user for the CD when Windows Defender wants to run a test on the system. Maybe a new sector on the CD could be burnt whenever a new restore-point is created or some other performance affecting program. Thus, adding up the baseline along with each program could determine a real difference to what is actually happening and thus detect something is wrong.
that series is very old -- it probably doesn't pertain to the new BIOS in use today.
4,177,023,409 times!!
awesome, a virus could turn it on
Maybe if some Google VPN was to evolve, multicast could be deployed without the broadband suppliers implementing it?
Yeah, privacy like Heaven's Gate.
you might not of been able to uninstall WOW because of the spyware it runs.. you cannot delete a file if another process has that file opened (unless you force close that handle).