Here in the UK, if you buy intelligently, you can get 1200 minutes per month to any network and no text charges at all for the equivalent of $25 per month. We don't pay to receive calls, either. You're being ripped off in the USA!
At the last count, I'd found 38 vulnerabilities in Vista that would be labelled critical and reported all of them. Today MS patched the second of them (though it was only classed as "important")! I'll leave the rest of them out there as an excercise for the class...
Windows CE is really funny - in most environments it collects junk like a malware magnet, and falls over within minutes. Trying to "run" it on a netbook would be a stupid thing to do.
More proof (if any more was needed) that MS don't have any viable products anymore.
As long as Great Britain has only one cable TV company (Virgin-on-the-ridiculous Media), there's no incentive for anyone to do anything about the appalling infrastructure.
This blind, stupid, corrupt Government couldn't see that a communications monopoly was a stupid idea. Now we're in deep trouble, and nobody's going to bother to do anything about it!
I'm glad I'm leaving to go to a civilised country, without millions of illegal immigrants chewing up the welfare, stinking up the streets. I'll also be able to get 100 Mb/s for less than a third of my current cost for 16 Mb/s.
Britain's completely fucked, and I'm glad to be leaving!
There's no "debatable" about it. It's illegal - it's simply "bait and switch". We've got the British ISP Virgin Media in court over this, and we're applying for an injunction against them operating at all, which should focus their tiny minds somewhat.
They sold me "20 MB/s" cable service. That suggests to me (and the rest of the plaintiffs) that it should be 20 MegaBytes per second. VM claim (of course) that it's 20 MegaBits per second.
They then apply "STM" - Subscriber Traffic Management. The effect of this is that if you download anything for just 20 minutes in any day, your data rate is reduced to 25% of your rated speed...
Virgin Media have a monopoly on cable 'net connections in the UK, and ADSL simply isn't an option in most areas - we have the oldest telephone lines in the world!
It was funny when I visited Symantec a while ago, and put two nasty bits of malware on their internal network. None of thier silly AV products were able to find them, and one of them is still there, two years later (it phones home occasionally). If Symantec are that bad, then so is the whole of the rest of the industry.
The sooner the general public stop using Windoze, the sooner the 'net will quieten down and we can all get some damn work done!
The first machine I saw with electronic sounds and counters had a skiing motif and was called "Schuss" - I think it was a Gottlieb machine - and that was back in 1975.
You poor guy! I used to work there too, but I got out from under - they bought me a nice house, and then I left. I now develop FOSS for a well-known hardware vendor.
The horrible truth about Vista is that most of the code we'd developed was dumped at the behest of Marketing. Engineering had a reasonably viable new product five years ago, but it mostly crippled compatability - bloody Marketing wouldn't stand for that.
Features were stripped away, good ideas abandoned, and there was a mad rush in the last few months before release to rewrite the whole damn thing - all that was possible was to ditch all that had been delivered and pretty much just re-spin XP.
I can't wait to see the mess that Windoze 7 will be...
Actually, that's not quite true: my brother's website was abused like this, which resulted in Google referrals warning that "this site contains malicious software". His company ranking was Number 1 in every Google search for his type of service. It's proving very expensive for him.
It's entirely fair! The airport "security" is just silly "security theatre" and does nothing to improve safety. At the risk of a holiday in Cuba: it's trivially easy to knock an airliner out of the sky with ordinary, innocuous materials. No amount of "security" checks can prevent this!
You'd "rather spend two hours securing Windows" - you're wasting your time. Windows simply cannot be "secured. A Windows installation with drivers, endless reboots, updates and all the rest takes all day, an installation of a modern Linux distro takes about an hour when you download and install all the updates. For example - I just installed Fedora 8 on my Sony Vaio laptop. Installing the media codecs was trivial, and everything "Just Works". Total time was under an hour, and there was NO command-line tweaking required.
XP "secure"? Can I have some of whatever you're drinking? In the time it takes you to rad this reply, there will be at least one more piece of Windoze malware released...
Why was "starting with new code" wrong? MS are still using a kernel written (or rather, cobbled together) in 1991. MS are in deep trouble - the problems with the kernel first became apparent in NT4 and haven't been addressed yet. Nor will they be - MS no longer employ people capable of writing a kernel.
MS will have to buy a new kernel from somewhere (I've got something they could use, and it's much, much better than the Mach kernel!)
Turn off Aero? It's all that distinguishes Vista from XP. None of the features in Vista are worth paying money for. Vista brings MS to about 2002 in Linux terms, but without the security and stability. MS really need to wake up and employ some real programmers. Everybody else is leaving them way behind...
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1) Novell
Probably not - Suse Linux is a great seller for them.
2) NetApp
Probably. They have no real products!
3) Checkpoint
Who cares?
4) McAfee (let's hope so!)
Already close to being dead and buried - they have no viable product, and even the Windoze morons are seeing them as snake-oil salesmen!
5) Salesforce.com
Probably.
6) Juniper, CA, and AMD are tied for sixth place.
All of them are in rude good health, and will survive.
7) Sun, no surprise there
Sun will, like "The Dude", endure. There are too many companies tied to expensive Sun kit for them to fall over.
8) Citrix
Maybe. However, they're selling huge numbers of their thin clients.
9) Symantec (again, let's hope so!)
In a worse state than even McAfee. Good riddance!
10) VMware
Too much virtualisation going on these days for them to be damaged...
Here in the UK, if you buy intelligently, you can get 1200 minutes per month to any network and no text charges at all for the equivalent of $25 per month. We don't pay to receive calls, either. You're being ripped off in the USA!
Linux usage in this neighbourhood (roughly 120 homes) in North London? 97% Even our local pub gives away Ubuntu beer mats!
He didn't use a computer because the Americans were too thick to develop one. We had them in the UK more than a year before that photograph was taken!
I don't trust any upper-level manager in any industry, but especially not in DoD contracting.
Nor do I. $270 "mil spec" screwdrivers, anyone?
No detriment to the customer? The very existence of Microsoft is a detriment to the world!
The sooner that MS dies off, the better for everybody!
As they do in other countries (see Eastern Europe for an example), Microsoft will just pay the government officials that award the contract.
It's not just "eastern Europe" - Tony Blair got a nice house from Bill gates...
How is any Windows user going to be able to decide what's "unusual"?
At the last count, I'd found 38 vulnerabilities in Vista that would be labelled critical and reported all of them. Today MS patched the second of them (though it was only classed as "important")! I'll leave the rest of them out there as an excercise for the class...
Windows CE is really funny - in most environments it collects junk like a malware magnet, and falls over within minutes. Trying to "run" it on a netbook would be a stupid thing to do.
More proof (if any more was needed) that MS don't have any viable products anymore.
Game Over, Microsoft!
In other news:
The Pope discovered to be Catholic. Bears found to defecate in woods. MS not resonsible for crap software...
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As long as Great Britain has only one cable TV company (Virgin-on-the-ridiculous Media), there's no incentive for anyone to do anything about the appalling infrastructure.
This blind, stupid, corrupt Government couldn't see that a communications monopoly was a stupid idea. Now we're in deep trouble, and nobody's going to bother to do anything about it!
I'm glad I'm leaving to go to a civilised country, without millions of illegal immigrants chewing up the welfare, stinking up the streets. I'll also be able to get 100 Mb/s for less than a third of my current cost for 16 Mb/s.
Britain's completely fucked, and I'm glad to be leaving!
There's no "debatable" about it. It's illegal - it's simply "bait and switch". We've got the British ISP Virgin Media in court over this, and we're applying for an injunction against them operating at all, which should focus their tiny minds somewhat.
They sold me "20 MB/s" cable service. That suggests to me (and the rest of the plaintiffs) that it should be 20 MegaBytes per second. VM claim (of course) that it's 20 MegaBits per second.
They then apply "STM" - Subscriber Traffic Management. The effect of this is that if you download anything for just 20 minutes in any day, your data rate is reduced to 25% of your rated speed...
Virgin Media have a monopoly on cable 'net connections in the UK, and ADSL simply isn't an option in most areas - we have the oldest telephone lines in the world!
It was funny when I visited Symantec a while ago, and put two nasty bits of malware on their internal network. None of thier silly AV products were able to find them, and one of them is still there, two years later (it phones home occasionally). If Symantec are that bad, then so is the whole of the rest of the industry.
The sooner the general public stop using Windoze, the sooner the 'net will quieten down and we can all get some damn work done!
The first machine I saw with electronic sounds and counters had a skiing motif and was called "Schuss" - I think it was a Gottlieb machine - and that was back in 1975.
I work as a dev at Microsoft,
You poor guy! I used to work there too, but I got out from under - they bought me a nice house, and then I left. I now develop FOSS for a well-known hardware vendor.
The horrible truth about Vista is that most of the code we'd developed was dumped at the behest of Marketing. Engineering had a reasonably viable new product five years ago, but it mostly crippled compatability - bloody Marketing wouldn't stand for that.
Features were stripped away, good ideas abandoned, and there was a mad rush in the last few months before release to rewrite the whole damn thing - all that was possible was to ditch all that had been delivered and pretty much just re-spin XP.
I can't wait to see the mess that Windoze 7 will be...
Actually, that's not quite true: my brother's website was abused like this, which resulted in Google referrals warning that "this site contains malicious software". His company ranking was Number 1 in every Google search for his type of service. It's proving very expensive for him.
It's entirely fair! The airport "security" is just silly "security theatre" and does nothing to improve safety. At the risk of a holiday in Cuba: it's trivially easy to knock an airliner out of the sky with ordinary, innocuous materials. No amount of "security" checks can prevent this!
You'd "rather spend two hours securing Windows" - you're wasting your time. Windows simply cannot be "secured. A Windows installation with drivers, endless reboots, updates and all the rest takes all day, an installation of a modern Linux distro takes about an hour when you download and install all the updates. For example - I just installed Fedora 8 on my Sony Vaio laptop. Installing the media codecs was trivial, and everything "Just Works". Total time was under an hour, and there was NO command-line tweaking required.
XP "secure"? Can I have some of whatever you're drinking? In the time it takes you to rad this reply, there will be at least one more piece of Windoze malware released...
Why was "starting with new code" wrong? MS are still using a kernel written (or rather, cobbled together) in 1991. MS are in deep trouble - the problems with the kernel first became apparent in NT4 and haven't been addressed yet. Nor will they be - MS no longer employ people capable of writing a kernel.
MS will have to buy a new kernel from somewhere (I've got something they could use, and it's much, much better than the Mach kernel!)
Turn off Aero? It's all that distinguishes Vista from XP. None of the features in Vista are worth paying money for. Vista brings MS to about 2002 in Linux terms, but without the security and stability. MS really need to wake up and employ some real programmers. Everybody else is leaving them way behind...
Actually Vista is selling like hotcakes. Er - actually, no. It's not. MS are having trouble giving Vista away. Even Dell are offering XP upgrades!
Game Over, Microsoft!
Ethics? That's just north-east of London!