If you search for ANYTHING on Google. Yes, I mean ANYTHING, you will see the most horrific of all monopolistic behavior. The first link at the top of the Google website is a link to GOOGLE!!! How can this be? They must be STOPPED! Think of the children!
Sadly, I remember many students who were able to defeast this in my high school. Dried epoxy just requires patience and a good screwdriver, and power cords are easy to come by.
Normally I'd agree, but this is happening a little too frequently with Microsoft.
I'm subscribed to the beta announcements list. I receive a handful of e-mails every week about online sessions to discuss [new feature] of Vista. I would say close to 25% of them have spelling errors (including one that misspelled "Windows") and I recall 3 or 4 times the incorrect link has been sent out. Incorrect links get a followup correction e-mail, the misspellings never get corrected.
Accidents happen, sure, and we get over it. What amazes me that in over a year of sending these type of e-mails, Microsoft is still making these kind of mistakes.
I read the FA 3 times, and the most I could come up with is out of this paragraph:
Microsoft said it was relinquishing all license claims on its Virtual Hard Disk Image Format - new software that will allow computers running on rival products like Apple's OS X or Linux, its chief competitors in operating systems, to simultaneously run Windows.
So it's giving away or opening up its disk format for some kind of Virtual PC-like product. There's no mention in the article of exactly what this means. Sounds like they're competing with Xen or VMware ACE possibly. Nowhere does it mention a free OS, so I'm assuming that part or all of the virtualization will be free (speech or beer, not sure which) but you still get to pay for the OS on top.
RC isn't a beta; it stands for Release Candidate, the stage after beta, meaning it's been released as a candidate for RTM to fish out any remaining unseen bugs.
Maybe according to the dictionary, but in practice "RC" doesn't mean anythign more than "Final beta". Until it ships, it's still in beta IMHO.
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So far my wife and I have been married for 21 years and I've been with the same girl for 23 years
I enjoy working with my Mindstorms set, but I've run into a serious limitation. The parts that come with the Mindstorms kit just aren't sufficient for building anything cool. The Technic sets are long gone. The best I could figure is that I'd have to buy a whole lot of Mindstorms to get enough gears, shafts, and standard bricks to build anything really nifty. Obviously cost prohibitive, but at least I'd have a lot of RCX bricks.
Not knowing how acurate the photo is in the article, it appears that they may have started moving even the Mindstorms from the standards of the Technics sets.
Anyone know of a way to get my hands on standard Technic parts or am I SOL?
The article doesn't specify details, but it sounds like what you can do with a Sharp Zaurus. You need to be selective, but you can get linux running with something like metasploit without too much effort. This unit's got more RAM and disk I'm sure, but it's hardly revolutionary.
Can you please explain to me why Doug Thompson is the only one reporting this story? If so many congressional leaders and presidential aides heard the same thing, why did they rush to Doug Thompson? His reporting career is shady at best, as is his current employer.
If this really happened, wouldn't you think it'd go to a LEGITIMATE media outlet? With all the liberal press out there, are you telling me that no one else was interested in running a story like this?
I call bull on this. Doug Thompson can't even name his source (which he claims to be multiple) and his alleged sources have the first instinct to run to tabloid media. Yeah, uh huh, sure......
how should I protect myself from malicious binaries?
Don't them as root.
How is a binary unsafe but somehow source code is? I have a hard time believing you audit the code for everything that Gentoo installs. Why is a mirror offering up source code somehow trusted, but binaries aren't?
I've been using what was described to me as a "very near Beta 2."
Is that by chance build 5342? That's not Beta 2. I thought this was about Beta 2.....
after four hours of churning away the laptop shut down and wouldn't reboot.
I'll give him that one. Vista takes several hours to install even on GOOD hardware, and the "wouldn't reboot" comment creates the possbility of a problem. That's the last statement that even makes sense.
I tried again on the ThinkPad as a clean install, which meant wiping out everything on the hard drive and starting from scratch.
Last I checked, there is no "upgrade" option in the beta, so how else would you have installed it?
That took about an hour to complete. It also removed every device driver that I needed to run the laptop.
Clicking "remove partition" in the Vista installer took an hour? My guess is you found some elaborate way to remove the OS, that may not have been successful. The comment about removing device drivers? Not sure how to parse that one. Last I checked, drivers are part of the OS, so removing the OS removes the drivers. This is normal behavior. Have you done this before?
Downloading the drivers from the Lenovo Web site took a long time
Lenovo has Vista drivers?
Unfortunately, not everything I downloaded is Vista-ready so rebooting had to occur after every 10 minutes of computer use.
That's what I thought. How did you install a driver that forced you to reboot every 10 minutes?
Also, the built-in audio and wireless connectivity devices don't work. I do have an 802.11b/g PC card that was recognized by the system.
What didn't work about it? I had a problem with the audio drivers on my bleeding edge Gateway M460, but that chipset is well documented in the Vista beta forums as being problematic. "Built in wireless" is probably an IPW-2200, flawless under Vista on my M460. Not sure what problem you had there.
I did try installing Vista on two other laptops. One, it turns out, needs a new Real Time Clock battery (a trip to the manufacturer is needed) and another which had a massive hard drive failure at the beginning of the installation process.
Well, that clinches it. Now not only is Vista the worst experience ever, it DETECTS BAD HARDWARE AND REFUSES TO INSTALL!! Are you LISTENING people????? Seriously, have you ever done this sort of thing before?
I did not try to install the Vista Beta on the computer I'm using to write this. I'll bet you can figure out why.
Either you're too dumb to figure it out, or that it would ruin your perfectly crafted article on why Vista sucks. Please advise.
After a weekend of frustration -- more than 30 hours of my time -- and some help from Microsoft -- I have Vista almost Beta 2 running (somewhat) on a laptop.
You got MS support on a pre-beta release?
I will admit that Vista has some issues. I wouldn't chalk those issues up to anything outside of a normal "beta" process. The worst I've had is hardware not being detected correctly. Since manufacturers aren't releasing Vista drivers, it's kind of expected that beta OS + bleeding edge hardware means that you may have to wait for good hardware support. In the case of my M460, I waited for the next build and what do you know, my driver was fixed. What I've found is that if you install the latest build, you need to run automatic updates. Microsoft is packaging drivers in thsoe updates, and for once Windows Update is actually making things run better. Since you mentioned that you have a somewhat working install, I would suggest running Windows Update for awhile. You may see those issues slowly disappear.
In the meantime, before writing a tech article, please have it proofread by someone other than a 3rd grader.
No one is making you upgrade, but there's no telling how long the backports will be supported. You might want to consider at least woody, so you can extend the life of available security patches.
Once Etch goes stable, you might try Sarge. Just make sure you upgrade your boot loader to grub as you may have some issues with LILO (so I've heard, haven't confirmed). Then you'll keep a fairly updated box for some time to come.
Support your local library. Membership is free, and usually you can borrow all the latest movies and music at no cost. There are late fees, but nothing near what Blockbuster et al charges.
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x/nullity == nullity.
Semi proof:
let nullity=0/0
so it would look like x/0/0
As we know, x/0/0 == (x/1) * (0/0)
Simplified:
(x * 0) / (1 x 0) == 0/0 == nullity
It's been awhile since I was in higher algebra, but I think this is correct thinking.
If you search for ANYTHING on Google. Yes, I mean ANYTHING, you will see the most horrific of all monopolistic behavior. The first link at the top of the Google website is a link to GOOGLE!!! How can this be? They must be STOPPED! Think of the children!
Arcserve was a nice piece of software. I think you're referring to BRIGHTSTOR, the bleeding pile of crap that used to be known as Arcserve.
Sadly, I remember many students who were able to defeast this in my high school. Dried epoxy just requires patience and a good screwdriver, and power cords are easy to come by.
I haven't tested this, but I've been told if you call Charter's main support number and drop the F-bomb you're immediately routed to tech support.
Normally I'd agree, but this is happening a little too frequently with Microsoft.
I'm subscribed to the beta announcements list. I receive a handful of e-mails every week about online sessions to discuss [new feature] of Vista. I would say close to 25% of them have spelling errors (including one that misspelled "Windows") and I recall 3 or 4 times the incorrect link has been sent out. Incorrect links get a followup correction e-mail, the misspellings never get corrected.
Accidents happen, sure, and we get over it. What amazes me that in over a year of sending these type of e-mails, Microsoft is still making these kind of mistakes.
I read the FA 3 times, and the most I could come up with is out of this paragraph:
Microsoft said it was relinquishing all license claims on its Virtual Hard Disk Image Format - new software that will allow computers running on rival products like Apple's OS X or Linux, its chief competitors in operating systems, to simultaneously run Windows.
So it's giving away or opening up its disk format for some kind of Virtual PC-like product. There's no mention in the article of exactly what this means. Sounds like they're competing with Xen or VMware ACE possibly. Nowhere does it mention a free OS, so I'm assuming that part or all of the virtualization will be free (speech or beer, not sure which) but you still get to pay for the OS on top.
RC isn't a beta; it stands for Release Candidate, the stage after beta, meaning it's been released as a candidate for RTM to fish out any remaining unseen bugs.
Maybe according to the dictionary, but in practice "RC" doesn't mean anythign more than "Final beta". Until it ships, it's still in beta IMHO.
So far my wife and I have been married for 21 years and I've been with the same girl for 23 years
That's odd, does your wife know about her?
What you're saying is that some guy running bittorent doesn't have a right to bandwidth, but you do? Do you know the definition of "public network"?
Grow up already.
All RCs are betas.
Not all betas are RCs.
I enjoy working with my Mindstorms set, but I've run into a serious limitation. The parts that come with the Mindstorms kit just aren't sufficient for building anything cool. The Technic sets are long gone. The best I could figure is that I'd have to buy a whole lot of Mindstorms to get enough gears, shafts, and standard bricks to build anything really nifty. Obviously cost prohibitive, but at least I'd have a lot of RCX bricks.
Not knowing how acurate the photo is in the article, it appears that they may have started moving even the Mindstorms from the standards of the Technics sets.
Anyone know of a way to get my hands on standard Technic parts or am I SOL?
The word is PLANE, as in those big metal things that fly.
If you want to see Snakes on a PLAIN then go to Nebraska. They have lots of them there.
The article doesn't specify details, but it sounds like what you can do with a Sharp Zaurus. You need to be selective, but you can get linux running with something like metasploit without too much effort. This unit's got more RAM and disk I'm sure, but it's hardly revolutionary.
Can you please explain to me why Doug Thompson is the only one reporting this story? If so many congressional leaders and presidential aides heard the same thing, why did they rush to Doug Thompson? His reporting career is shady at best, as is his current employer.
If this really happened, wouldn't you think it'd go to a LEGITIMATE media outlet? With all the liberal press out there, are you telling me that no one else was interested in running a story like this?
I call bull on this. Doug Thompson can't even name his source (which he claims to be multiple) and his alleged sources have the first instinct to run to tabloid media. Yeah, uh huh, sure......
how should I protect myself from malicious binaries?
Don't them as root.
How is a binary unsafe but somehow source code is? I have a hard time believing you audit the code for everything that Gentoo installs. Why is a mirror offering up source code somehow trusted, but binaries aren't?
Steve Ballmer has friends?
I've been using what was described to me as a "very near Beta 2."
Is that by chance build 5342? That's not Beta 2. I thought this was about Beta 2.....
after four hours of churning away the laptop shut down and wouldn't reboot.
I'll give him that one. Vista takes several hours to install even on GOOD hardware, and the "wouldn't reboot" comment creates the possbility of a problem. That's the last statement that even makes sense.
I tried again on the ThinkPad as a clean install, which meant wiping out everything on the hard drive and starting from scratch.
Last I checked, there is no "upgrade" option in the beta, so how else would you have installed it?
That took about an hour to complete. It also removed every device driver that I needed to run the laptop.
Clicking "remove partition" in the Vista installer took an hour? My guess is you found some elaborate way to remove the OS, that may not have been successful. The comment about removing device drivers? Not sure how to parse that one. Last I checked, drivers are part of the OS, so removing the OS removes the drivers. This is normal behavior. Have you done this before?
Downloading the drivers from the Lenovo Web site took a long time
Lenovo has Vista drivers?
Unfortunately, not everything I downloaded is Vista-ready so rebooting had to occur after every 10 minutes of computer use.
That's what I thought. How did you install a driver that forced you to reboot every 10 minutes?
Also, the built-in audio and wireless connectivity devices don't work. I do have an 802.11b/g PC card that was recognized by the system.
What didn't work about it? I had a problem with the audio drivers on my bleeding edge Gateway M460, but that chipset is well documented in the Vista beta forums as being problematic. "Built in wireless" is probably an IPW-2200, flawless under Vista on my M460. Not sure what problem you had there.
I did try installing Vista on two other laptops. One, it turns out, needs a new Real Time Clock battery (a trip to the manufacturer is needed) and another which had a massive hard drive failure at the beginning of the installation process.
Well, that clinches it. Now not only is Vista the worst experience ever, it DETECTS BAD HARDWARE AND REFUSES TO INSTALL!! Are you LISTENING people????? Seriously, have you ever done this sort of thing before?
I did not try to install the Vista Beta on the computer I'm using to write this. I'll bet you can figure out why.
Either you're too dumb to figure it out, or that it would ruin your perfectly crafted article on why Vista sucks. Please advise.
After a weekend of frustration -- more than 30 hours of my time -- and some help from Microsoft -- I have Vista almost Beta 2 running (somewhat) on a laptop.
You got MS support on a pre-beta release?
I will admit that Vista has some issues. I wouldn't chalk those issues up to anything outside of a normal "beta" process. The worst I've had is hardware not being detected correctly. Since manufacturers aren't releasing Vista drivers, it's kind of expected that beta OS + bleeding edge hardware means that you may have to wait for good hardware support. In the case of my M460, I waited for the next build and what do you know, my driver was fixed. What I've found is that if you install the latest build, you need to run automatic updates. Microsoft is packaging drivers in thsoe updates, and for once Windows Update is actually making things run better. Since you mentioned that you have a somewhat working install, I would suggest running Windows Update for awhile. You may see those issues slowly disappear.
In the meantime, before writing a tech article, please have it proofread by someone other than a 3rd grader.
Dig further (literally)....
/20 owned by Vonage.
/20, why would you outsource your web hosting? Definitely sounds phishy to me.
#dig vonage.com
#dig vonageipo.com
ARIN reports the vonage.com IP being hosted on a
ARIN reports the vonageipo.com IP being hosted by Savvis.
If you own a
Just remember that /dev/null filled up years ago. Yet, we seem to be doing just fine.
Here's a reason: security updates.
No one is making you upgrade, but there's no telling how long the backports will be supported. You might want to consider at least woody, so you can extend the life of available security patches.
Once Etch goes stable, you might try Sarge. Just make sure you upgrade your boot loader to grub as you may have some issues with LILO (so I've heard, haven't confirmed). Then you'll keep a fairly updated box for some time to come.
Remonds me of the time I was moving out of my old apartment. My roomate and I were cleaning about 2AM and preparing for a camping trip the next day.
You want some priceless looks, go to Walmart at 2AM to purchase 8 cans of carpet cleaner and a machete.
Support your local library. Membership is free, and usually you can borrow all the latest movies and music at no cost. There are late fees, but nothing near what Blockbuster et al charges.
Why not just use Debian, which is the base for Ubuntu? Then you get no corporate overhead.
"www.google.com"
Did you mean "search.msn.com"?