Actually, the NT kernel can run just fine without the Windows GUI - look at the Recovery Console or the code that runs when you Install, or the chkdsk that runs if you don't dismount the disks cleanly.
You can even write Native application for the NT kernel, to do things like backups and so on.
In fact in NT before 4.0, all the Win32 stuff was run in _user_ mode, in the CSRSS native application, even graphics drivers. Even now, things like the start menu are in a user process, explorer.exe. You can replace it with whatever you want.
All this is someone moot admittedly, given that 99.999% of Windows applications are Win32 and need CSRSS running, but the architectural distinction between a kernel and a user interface is still very much present.
I don't believe that election was anywhere near free and fair - most candidates were banned from standing for example. If they had of been the outcome would have been very different.
And even if they were, they still don't give the government the right to take away the freedom of the people that didn't vote for them by forcing their religious beliefs on them.
Actually, they only entered the war because they got attacked, pre-emptive war not having been invented at the time.
Which is a pity really, because they had a slight military edge and perfect pretext for it in the Treaty of Versailles. When the Germans sent troops into the Rhineland in violation of the treaty, they were under orders to pull back if they were attacked by the French and English.
But places like Iran aren't less free because people have chosen, it's because they haven't been given a choice. Most of the people who rebelled against the Shah did so because they want a more freedom, not less. Khomeini hijacked the revolution and imposed whatever rules he wanted by force.
To some extent of course, it's possible for people to vote for more rules, but I don't think they can vote to abolish voting. E.g. the Germans voted for totalitarianism by making the Nazis the largest party in the Reichstag. Even if they had a majority of the votes cast, or even all of them, I don't think that gave them the right to abolish elections.
And the whole idea of saying that they *want* more rules is misleading, because they aren't one entity. If the all the Shia Muslims in Iran had voted in a fair election to ban the Bahai faith, it still doesn't give them the right to impose that ban on the Bahais.
Or more concisely, you have a right to do anything, except to take away other people rights, no matter how many people agree with you.
If a person were amoral and greedy, I'd describe them as evil.
In a capitalist country, company needs to be solely motivated by shareholder interests and hence profit - it's a legal requirement on the directors. And it's what makes them so concerned about keeping customers happy. And you could describe something with such simple goals to be amoral and greedy.
But the company is made of inviduals, they need to avoid breaking the law since they are indivually liable and may get sued or imprisoned for doing so. Also, amoral people are excruciatingly bad employees - companies tend to fire them, so the indviduals tend to be moral. They tend to have other goals than greed as well in my experience, even if with a few lost souls it's just a sense of liability.
So in practice, I think the company is trying to be evil, but the individuals that make it up aren't.
Actually, it reminds me a bit of Godel Escher Bach there was a bit in that about a conscious ant colony with a very different personality from the ants that she was made out of, but in reverse.
Processor wise, I think they're behind - the Athlon 64 is a really good chip and the P4 is a disappointment. Chipsets/systems are a different story. My Asus A7N was unstable for ages until I underclocked the Ram, and the firewire breaks completely with the XP SP2 drivers.
I've had a bunch of motherboards, mostly Asus with Intel chipsets/processor and they all worked flawlessly.
Admittedly they tend to be older systems with not much onboard stuff, and Ram then was better standardised, but I still think that the Intel test lab would have caught that the Ram needs to be underclocked, and would have got the fix into the chipset dependant part of the Bios. And they would have got a fix out for the firewire problems. Neither of which Nvidia managed.
So, I'd at least consider an Intel processor next time around. Hell, they only break the law because they want to crush their competitors utterly rather than just leaving them with a tiny market share. Aren't we all guilty of that occasionally?
We always seem to quickly forget their bad processors that seem to quitely fade away into non-existance.
Well, I don't hold a grudge against 'em. I prefer Athlon 64's to P4's, but upto the the P4 Intel seemed to make chips that were a bit faster, if a little expensive. And I would have bought an Itanium if it had decent performance, just because it seemed like an interesting bit of engineering.
If the the next generation of chips are any good, I'll buy one. It's certainly enouraging that they are making x64 chips now, even though Amd invented it. And moving towards shorter pipelines. I think they still have strengths compared to Amd, even if they are bit behind in fps per buck- their chipsets tend to be more polished than the Athlon ones from Via/Nvidia etc.
We also seem to ignore their attempts at privacy invasion...
You mean like the unique ID? Net cards have always had had a unique ID, and hence so do most PC's. Anyhow, like AMD they're a company - they just make what sells. I won't buy there stuff it violated my privacy, but I certainly wouldn't hold it against them if they produced something better in the future.
If you have a Windows server, you need to open the RPC port to other machines on an intranet, no matter whether the firewall is hardware or software.
The only way (apart from switching to Linux as a million people are going to post) to keep the server secure is if you patch it for this sort of exploit. Actually, if you can guarantee all the laptops that get connected to the server had the firewall enabled when they used dial up connections, that would help avoid the situation where someone connects their infected laptop and introduces the worm to the server.
Which I think is how the Blaster worm did so much damage.
Actually, given this is the internet we agree on quite a lot.
I still don't buy the Bush/Hitler comparisons though, because they ignore the fact that Bush is basically trying to make a few rogue states a bit more like America. Whereas Hitler was trying to turn the world into Nazi Germany. And you can always vote against Bush's foreign policy, which you couldn't do with Hitler. And Hitler believed in rule by an tiny elite, and Bush is still a democrat.
Fair enough, the Republicans have their faults - like the fact that they seem to be corrupt and economically incompetent, like the British Tories, but comparing them to Hitler is over the top.
Well if was your daughter getting blown to bits, then a lack of perspective is pretty forgiveable. On second thoughts, bugger that. My hometown in England got bombed by the IRA. It didn't change the way I felt about the IRA then, or the peace process when it happened.
Because once you lose track of the big picture and start making political decisons based on emotion, you'll turn into one of the dipshits who cheer on mass murder and absolute power for barking mad leaders. And that is a lot more dangerous for the people you care about.
And Bush != Hitler. Hitler was evil and he had a plan. I find it pretty hard to believe either about Bush. If you're lucky enough to end up chatting in a beergarden in the afterlife, I think you'll find there are few parallels between Hitler's Germany and Bush's America. Actually, you could probably figure it out now.
Whatever the effects of the Iraq war, the ideas behind it - liberating people from crypto Fascist dicator where more noble than the ideas behind Nazi or Imperial Japanese expansionism.
Not that I agree with area bombing like Dresden or Nagasaki, no matter how the people being bombed voted.
Interestingly enough, I worked in Germany for a while and I met a *German* guy who tried to defend what the Russians did in East Prussia to me when I worked there on the grounds that the people deserved it because they voted for Hitler. We actually had quite a serious argument about it. Pretty chilling experience.
How many people leave Iran and other theocracies to come to America each year? A fair few I'd expect. If the US let people in, and the countries they were in let them out, you'd see a lot more.
How many people leave America to go to a theocracy? John Walker Lindh and a few other nutcases.
Free societies are *better* than less free ones, not just different - if you don't believe that then you don't believe in anything.
So I think people are right to question what's so special about this phone. It almost seems like the article submitter hasn't even looked at phones in years, and like the editors accepted the submission simply because it mentions Linux.
Yeah, right. Next you'll be saying that Michael Moore quotes people he doesn't like selectively to make them look bad.
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Why I am really, really tempted to post this on an NVidia fansite with the caption
LOL NVidia suxxorz ATI ownz j00!
Actually, the NT kernel can run just fine without the Windows GUI - look at the Recovery Console or the code that runs when you Install, or the chkdsk that runs if you don't dismount the disks cleanly.
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You can even write Native application for the NT kernel, to do things like backups and so on.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Information/NativeApp
In fact in NT before 4.0, all the Win32 stuff was run in _user_ mode, in the CSRSS native application, even graphics drivers. Even now, things like the start menu are in a user process, explorer.exe. You can replace it with whatever you want.
All this is someone moot admittedly, given that 99.999% of Windows applications are Win32 and need CSRSS running, but the architectural distinction between a kernel and a user interface is still very much present.
True. But then there was a 'phoney war' and they didn't do any fighting until they were attacked in France.
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http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/phoney_war.h
Anyhow, I still think they left it dangerously late.
I don't believe that election was anywhere near free and fair - most candidates were banned from standing for example. If they had of been the outcome would have been very different.
And even if they were, they still don't give the government the right to take away the freedom of the people that didn't vote for them by forcing their religious beliefs on them.
Actually, they only entered the war because they got attacked, pre-emptive war not having been invented at the time.
Which is a pity really, because they had a slight military edge and perfect pretext for it in the Treaty of Versailles. When the Germans sent troops into the Rhineland in violation of the treaty, they were under orders to pull back if they were attacked by the French and English.
But places like Iran aren't less free because people have chosen, it's because they haven't been given a choice. Most of the people who rebelled against the Shah did so because they want a more freedom, not less. Khomeini hijacked the revolution and imposed whatever rules he wanted by force.
To some extent of course, it's possible for people to vote for more rules, but I don't think they can vote to abolish voting. E.g. the Germans voted for totalitarianism by making the Nazis the largest party in the Reichstag. Even if they had a majority of the votes cast, or even all of them, I don't think that gave them the right to abolish elections.
And the whole idea of saying that they *want* more rules is misleading, because they aren't one entity. If the all the Shia Muslims in Iran had voted in a fair election to ban the Bahai faith, it still doesn't give them the right to impose that ban on the Bahais.
Or more concisely, you have a right to do anything, except to take away other people rights, no matter how many people agree with you.
It's an interesting question really.
If a person were amoral and greedy, I'd describe them as evil.
In a capitalist country, company needs to be solely motivated by shareholder interests and hence profit - it's a legal requirement on the directors. And it's what makes them so concerned about keeping customers happy. And you could describe something with such simple goals to be amoral and greedy.
But the company is made of inviduals, they need to avoid breaking the law since they are indivually liable and may get sued or imprisoned for doing so. Also, amoral people are excruciatingly bad employees - companies tend to fire them, so the indviduals tend to be moral. They tend to have other goals than greed as well in my experience, even if with a few lost souls it's just a sense of liability.
So in practice, I think the company is trying to be evil, but the individuals that make it up aren't.
Actually, it reminds me a bit of Godel Escher Bach there was a bit in that about a conscious ant colony with a very different personality from the ants that she was made out of, but in reverse.
IIRC you could disable the process id in the Bios. And I think it was disabled by default in most motherboards
Actually, I really can't see the big deal is about unique Id's, even if you can't find a way to sabotage them on your machine.
Processor wise, I think they're behind - the Athlon 64 is a really good chip and the P4 is a disappointment. Chipsets/systems are a different story. My Asus A7N was unstable for ages until I underclocked the Ram, and the firewire breaks completely with the XP SP2 drivers.
I've had a bunch of motherboards, mostly Asus with Intel chipsets/processor and they all worked flawlessly.
Admittedly they tend to be older systems with not much onboard stuff, and Ram then was better standardised, but I still think that the Intel test lab would have caught that the Ram needs to be underclocked, and would have got the fix into the chipset dependant part of the Bios. And they would have got a fix out for the firewire problems. Neither of which Nvidia managed.
So, I'd at least consider an Intel processor next time around. Hell, they only break the law because they want to crush their competitors utterly rather than just leaving them with a tiny market share. Aren't we all guilty of that occasionally?
Wow, this Papa company sounds like it's paranoid enough to make great products! Does it have a website?
Well, I don't hold a grudge against 'em. I prefer Athlon 64's to P4's, but upto the the P4 Intel seemed to make chips that were a bit faster, if a little expensive. And I would have bought an Itanium if it had decent performance, just because it seemed like an interesting bit of engineering.
If the the next generation of chips are any good, I'll buy one. It's certainly enouraging that they are making x64 chips now, even though Amd invented it. And moving towards shorter pipelines. I think they still have strengths compared to Amd, even if they are bit behind in fps per buck- their chipsets tend to be more polished than the Athlon ones from Via/Nvidia etc.
You mean like the unique ID? Net cards have always had had a unique ID, and hence so do most PC's. Anyhow, like AMD they're a company - they just make what sells. I won't buy there stuff it violated my privacy, but I certainly wouldn't hold it against them if they produced something better in the future.
They're not evil, just amoral and greedy.
Yeah, he should take some soma and stop complaining. And stop worrying about obsolete media like websites too.
If those liberal arts types weren't so damn promiscuous, they wouldn't get infected.
Oh, you said machines.
If you have a Windows server, you need to open the RPC port to other machines on an intranet, no matter whether the firewall is hardware or software.
The only way (apart from switching to Linux as a million people are going to post) to keep the server secure is if you patch it for this sort of exploit. Actually, if you can guarantee all the laptops that get connected to the server had the firewall enabled when they used dial up connections, that would help avoid the situation where someone connects their infected laptop and introduces the worm to the server.
Which I think is how the Blaster worm did so much damage.
I say we take off and nuke the server from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
You've still got to buy the box.
I use the hardware firewall in my router and the Windows Firewall on my home machine. Either one should be ok actually.
Actually, given this is the internet we agree on quite a lot.
I still don't buy the Bush/Hitler comparisons though, because they ignore the fact that Bush is basically trying to make a few rogue states a bit more like America. Whereas Hitler was trying to turn the world into Nazi Germany. And you can always vote against Bush's foreign policy, which you couldn't do with Hitler. And Hitler believed in rule by an tiny elite, and Bush is still a democrat.
Fair enough, the Republicans have their faults - like the fact that they seem to be corrupt and economically incompetent, like the British Tories, but comparing them to Hitler is over the top.
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Geez, I work with people that can't manage all that.
Not perfect sounds like an understatement.
They can give you pump head
Clinically dead just means their heart and brain activity have stopped as far as I can see.
They can reverse it after the surgery.
I found this link,
http://www.stormingmedia.us/30/3027/A302724.html
Not the most readable thing but you can see what they do.
Well if was your daughter getting blown to bits, then a lack of perspective is pretty forgiveable. On second thoughts, bugger that. My hometown in England got bombed by the IRA. It didn't change the way I felt about the IRA then, or the peace process when it happened.
Because once you lose track of the big picture and start making political decisons based on emotion, you'll turn into one of the dipshits who cheer on mass murder and absolute power for barking mad leaders. And that is a lot more dangerous for the people you care about.
And Bush != Hitler. Hitler was evil and he had a plan. I find it pretty hard to believe either about Bush. If you're lucky enough to end up chatting in a beergarden in the afterlife, I think you'll find there are few parallels between Hitler's Germany and Bush's America. Actually, you could probably figure it out now.
It's not the same thing.
Whatever the effects of the Iraq war, the ideas behind it - liberating people from crypto Fascist dicator where more noble than the ideas behind Nazi or Imperial Japanese expansionism.
Not that I agree with area bombing like Dresden or Nagasaki, no matter how the people being bombed voted.
Interestingly enough, I worked in Germany for a while and I met a *German* guy who tried to defend what the Russians did in East Prussia to me when I worked there on the grounds that the people deserved it because they voted for Hitler. We actually had quite a serious argument about it. Pretty chilling experience.
How many people leave Iran and other theocracies to come to America each year? A fair few I'd expect. If the US let people in, and the countries they were in let them out, you'd see a lot more.
How many people leave America to go to a theocracy? John Walker Lindh and a few other nutcases.
Free societies are *better* than less free ones, not just different - if you don't believe that then you don't believe in anything.
Yeah, right. Next you'll be saying that Michael Moore quotes people he doesn't like selectively to make them look bad.
OSE for ever BTW.