1. Educate them on the recent nopir.b virus, that'll put the ***** up any student.
2. Educate them on Eset Nod32 antivirus, it's written in assembler and doesn't slow up your machine, fill it with bloat, it monitors internet traffic, and I've never yet seen it hang, unlike all other well known, free or comercial, AV apps.
The new 2.5 beta's also checks for spyware I've read. And it's cheep too.
(sorry to sound like an add but I've been working in IT for 10 years I've always actively hated having to run AV apps, and seen them as a necessary *EVIL* till now)
2. try to get the university to buy a license, or have an initial connection & checkup fee that just covers the AV cost maybe?
3. as many others have said allready you need an agreement they sign before connecting, to run AV (nod!) and keep system clean or accept that you can be disconnected without notice as you are the cancer preventing the productiveness of the other students.
The document must contain non windows clauses for suitable settups for *nix/mac.
as some news sites have allready covered, like most companies these days, ms retail was beaten to the release of their own product by several days.
this one does seem particulally stupid however, as plenty of people have been buying x86-64 chips now and they are all bright enough to know they want a 64bit os to go with it.
but many have been lumbered with XP home somehow, so can't upgrade free.
7.01 loads extreemly fast for me, and if it did put something in startup, I must have cleared it off when i installed it and forgotten about it, as it certainly isn't loading anything up there now (checking with mlin.net startup.cpl), and it didn't install a service.
I was actually STUNNED at the acroread improvements in speed going from version 7, to the 7.01 upgrade.
It loads pretty much instantly, and no splash screen in the way as it loads up all it's plugins, you don't even see it loading plugins in fact, the app just comes straight up.
The only thing that delays it when you click a PDF in a browser is I think it downloads the file before brining up the acroreader plugin. But again, it seems SO much faster than the orriginal version 7 (and all versions that preceded it).
Now if only they would take the genius that managed to pull this miracle off and set him to doing the same thing with photoshop...
Microsfot was asked to.
"The effort began when an exasperated Toronto police detective made a shot-in-the-dark e-mail plea to Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Last year, the Toronto Police Department seized more than two million child pornography images, according to Paula Knight, a spokeswoman for Microsoft Canada."
full article : http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0028602.cf m
yes, they have, read any of the forums or blog's about it and you'll see plenty.
it is definately pearPC , and it doesn't perform as well, tey've just changed the default pearPC config, if you match the config in pearPC pearPC runs much better.
the problem is manifold, but mostly centers arround advertising probably being the biggest reason TV runs.
. instant international distribution, they can't stagger releases, and can't *sell* show X to network Y in county Z (for as much).
. They can't monitor how many people are actually watching, this is needed for advertising purposes, as has been said before they don't actually give a damn about the programs for the most part, just that their advertisers know their ads are being seen.
. VCR's record bad quality copies that don't get MASS distribution, encodes don't really have that problem, something like 90% of the people downloading them wouldn't consider going DVD for quality improvements. yes DVD sets sell shitloads, BUT the world runs on greed and the companies are of course convinced they'd sell a lot more if it wasn't for online encode distribution.
. Your cable subscription I'd guess goes to your cable company alone, not the network/channel that gets most of it's money from advertising, and even if not , less is not the new more.
. The producers of the show will get their money from the network, based on how large an audience they think it will get TO SELL ADVERTISING.
. And no they don't like TIVO/PVR's either, so any 'how is it different' arguments wont stand, they've been trying to do something about them since day 1, as the first thing people do with them is skip the adverts, the next is hack them, take the eppisodes off with no loss of quality and distribute them.
. they've waited way to long to be doing something about this imo, but it won't stop them from trying now as they won't want to succumb to the radical changes in the industry such things hearald.
it's taken far longer, but it's basically going the way of the internet. banner ads no longer generate any real revenue, people are desperately trying to find alternatives to keep their sites off the ground. however the TV companies are in a much better position to try and force things round to a more convinenet settup for them.
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1. Educate them on the recent nopir.b virus, that'll put the ***** up any student.
2. Educate them on Eset Nod32 antivirus, it's written in assembler and doesn't slow up your machine, fill it with bloat, it monitors internet traffic, and I've never yet seen it hang, unlike all other well known, free or comercial, AV apps.
The new 2.5 beta's also checks for spyware I've read.
And it's cheep too.
(sorry to sound like an add but I've been working in IT for 10 years I've always actively hated having to run AV apps, and seen them as a necessary *EVIL* till now)
2. try to get the university to buy a license, or have an initial connection & checkup fee that just covers the AV cost maybe?
3. as many others have said allready you need an agreement they sign before connecting, to run AV (nod!) and keep system clean or accept that you can be disconnected without notice as you are the cancer preventing the productiveness of the other students.
The document must contain non windows clauses for suitable settups for *nix/mac.
TFA reads "With its 64-bit technology, Longhorn can support up to 128GB of main memory"
; EN-US;q294418
that should be 16TB, really quite a lot more...
source : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb
as some news sites have allready covered, like most companies these days, ms retail was beaten to the release of their own product by several days.
this one does seem particulally stupid however, as plenty of people have been buying x86-64 chips now and they are all bright enough to know they want a 64bit os to go with it.
but many have been lumbered with XP home somehow, so can't upgrade free.
7.01 loads extreemly fast for me, and if it did put something in startup, I must have cleared it off when i installed it and forgotten about it, as it certainly isn't loading anything up there now (checking with mlin.net startup.cpl), and it didn't install a service.
I was actually STUNNED at the acroread improvements in speed going from version 7, to the 7.01 upgrade.
It loads pretty much instantly, and no splash screen in the way as it loads up all it's plugins, you don't even see it loading plugins in fact, the app just comes straight up.
The only thing that delays it when you click a PDF in a browser is I think it downloads the file before brining up the acroreader plugin. But again, it seems SO much faster than the orriginal version 7 (and all versions that preceded it).
Now if only they would take the genius that managed to pull this miracle off and set him to doing the same thing with photoshop...
Microsfot was asked to. "The effort began when an exasperated Toronto police detective made a shot-in-the-dark e-mail plea to Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Last year, the Toronto Police Department seized more than two million child pornography images, according to Paula Knight, a spokeswoman for Microsoft Canada." full article : http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0028602.cf m
I'd rather watch Space Battleship Yamato
yes, they have, read any of the forums or blog's about it and you'll see plenty.
it is definately pearPC , and it doesn't perform as well, tey've just changed the default pearPC config, if you match the config in pearPC pearPC runs much better.
dammit, left it on html formatted and hadn't actually used any formatting, all my nice bullited points messed up :o(
the problem is manifold, but mostly centers arround advertising probably being the biggest reason TV runs. . instant international distribution, they can't stagger releases, and can't *sell* show X to network Y in county Z (for as much). . They can't monitor how many people are actually watching, this is needed for advertising purposes, as has been said before they don't actually give a damn about the programs for the most part, just that their advertisers know their ads are being seen. . VCR's record bad quality copies that don't get MASS distribution, encodes don't really have that problem, something like 90% of the people downloading them wouldn't consider going DVD for quality improvements. yes DVD sets sell shitloads, BUT the world runs on greed and the companies are of course convinced they'd sell a lot more if it wasn't for online encode distribution. . Your cable subscription I'd guess goes to your cable company alone, not the network/channel that gets most of it's money from advertising, and even if not , less is not the new more. . The producers of the show will get their money from the network, based on how large an audience they think it will get TO SELL ADVERTISING. . And no they don't like TIVO/PVR's either, so any 'how is it different' arguments wont stand, they've been trying to do something about them since day 1, as the first thing people do with them is skip the adverts, the next is hack them, take the eppisodes off with no loss of quality and distribute them. . they've waited way to long to be doing something about this imo, but it won't stop them from trying now as they won't want to succumb to the radical changes in the industry such things hearald. it's taken far longer, but it's basically going the way of the internet. banner ads no longer generate any real revenue, people are desperately trying to find alternatives to keep their sites off the ground. however the TV companies are in a much better position to try and force things round to a more convinenet settup for them.