Mostly the new driver architecture. XP was built entirely upon 2k, and is at the core, practically the same OS with some features added on. Hardware vendors had to almost start from scratch with their drivers, much like they did with Vista.
For XP, they'd already been writing the same drivers for 3 years on 2k.
This is not correct. I gamed for years until 2k. The only realy reason for me to update was for OS level wireless support.
People keep comparing this to an XP release which is just a bad analog. This is more like a windows 2k release-- an entirely new platform that will take time for drivers and compatibility with old software to mature.
Of course, this is slashdot, so of course any story suggesting troubles for a windows version will get posted regardless of how true it is.
"It's like eating veg diet.When you consume something lowest in the food chain, you are most efficient per cal."
This is a very bad analogy. Solar power comes from a nuclear energy source (the sun). Our fission reactors are the same type of energy. Now you could get in to the whole fission/fusion argument, but it still all boils down to changes in mass producing energy.
For solar, you have fusion happening, which in turn produces heat, which causes the emission of EM radiation, which then travels for 8 minutes and is converted in to electricity via a photovoltaic cell.
For nuclear, you split atoms, use that to heat water, spin turbines with the water to create electricity via magnetism. Really the same number of steps from the "source" of the power.
Now i know the sun doesn't cost us anything, but technically speaking, solar is not closer to some mystical energy source.
Then again, one could argue that the elements we split are just byproducts of fusion in a star... so you may be able to add in, fusion before the fission process;)
"(Granted, this QoS doesn't guarantee anything, it just marks the packet in Windows and it is up to your network infrastructure to honor those tags.) "
Vista supports Diffserv tagging based on the user/application/whatever, enforced via group policy. It's up to your network hardware to actually do the shaping.
The handheld itself has no access. The email it receives is doled out by the BES. a compromised BES account yes. a compromised handheld? No.
A compromised handheld WILL give lan access and email access to the user of that handheld until the device is disconnected from the BES. But the device itself has no permissions.
Since there are no offline password attacks (yet) and you only get 10 tries before a BBerry disconnects itself from its BES, compromising a BBerry always comes down to a bad password/no password/password written on the blackberry type issue. The humans are the point of attack which is really the best we can hope for for any solution.
I laugh every time I have to make a new BlackBerry policy... There are tons of policy items... but a large portion of them don't even apply. There are policy items to enforce a certain SSID (no, blackberries don't even have wifi), etc.
depends on the situation... with physical access it's generally trivial to boot in to single user mode and wipe out a root password with no knowledge of the original.
Actually, the BES account needs Send As and Read/Write access to the mailboxes on Exchange. While it does have extensive access to the mailboxes, it needs no access to anything else. If you access secure internal websites, you must provide your domain credentials. If you use it for rdp, you must log in, etc.
Properly configured, that account gives you access to every mailbox on the system, but nothing else. No worse than a mail admin account, and generally with a lot stronger password.
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This is true as well. I was thinking only from the hardware standpoint (in relation to a home user).
Mostly the new driver architecture. XP was built entirely upon 2k, and is at the core, practically the same OS with some features added on. Hardware vendors had to almost start from scratch with their drivers, much like they did with Vista.
For XP, they'd already been writing the same drivers for 3 years on 2k.
gamed for years ON 2k, not until 2k. I didn't upgrade to Xp until last year.
This is not correct. I gamed for years until 2k. The only realy reason for me to update was for OS level wireless support.
People keep comparing this to an XP release which is just a bad analog. This is more like a windows 2k release-- an entirely new platform that will take time for drivers and compatibility with old software to mature.
Of course, this is slashdot, so of course any story suggesting troubles for a windows version will get posted regardless of how true it is.
Is there not an F8 boot option to load unsigned drivers?
l ing-unsigned-drivers-in-64-bit
a quick search says yes, and the flag can be set as the default behavior as well.
http://www.unofficialvista.com/article/204/instal
"hacker" uses a boot disk in linux and wipes the root password!!!
Why is this a story? Physical access (needed to boot from an alternate source) has always been root access.
incorrect.
besides, even when it was invite only, you had 100 invites... each account you made had 100 more....
No. you are way off.
he said 25 cubic centimeters (cm^3)
You are trying to claim he said 25^3 cubic centimeters (cm^3) which is just absurd. That would be 15,625 cm^3
"Alternately, the policy may extend to a group of computers and correspondingly to a common owner, for example, a business or school. "
Also, that is the only mention of "school" in the original.
accuracy is great in microsoft stories here!
"It's like eating veg diet.When you consume something lowest in the food chain, you are most efficient per cal."
;)
This is a very bad analogy. Solar power comes from a nuclear energy source (the sun). Our fission reactors are the same type of energy. Now you could get in to the whole fission/fusion argument, but it still all boils down to changes in mass producing energy.
For solar, you have fusion happening, which in turn produces heat, which causes the emission of EM radiation, which then travels for 8 minutes and is converted in to electricity via a photovoltaic cell.
For nuclear, you split atoms, use that to heat water, spin turbines with the water to create electricity via magnetism. Really the same number of steps from the "source" of the power.
Now i know the sun doesn't cost us anything, but technically speaking, solar is not closer to some mystical energy source.
Then again, one could argue that the elements we split are just byproducts of fusion in a star... so you may be able to add in, fusion before the fission process
but that's not coaxial cable....
coax?
do we really have problem with interference in fiber where we have to use coaxial cable???
Editors please!
btw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_cable
is this the place for people with uid's under 100,000?
where i come from, we have this thing called capital letters.
we use them in passwords, but no where else.
It's obvious that no one has RTFA....
"(Granted, this QoS doesn't guarantee anything, it just marks the packet in Windows and it is up to your network infrastructure to honor those tags.) "
Vista supports Diffserv tagging based on the user/application/whatever, enforced via group policy. It's up to your network hardware to actually do the shaping.
The handheld itself has no access. The email it receives is doled out by the BES. a compromised BES account yes. a compromised handheld? No.
A compromised handheld WILL give lan access and email access to the user of that handheld until the device is disconnected from the BES. But the device itself has no permissions.
Since there are no offline password attacks (yet) and you only get 10 tries before a BBerry disconnects itself from its BES, compromising a BBerry always comes down to a bad password/no password/password written on the blackberry type issue. The humans are the point of attack which is really the best we can hope for for any solution.
Wow, I've never seen one of those. How did I miss that....
bizarre.
I found it on RIM's site, but I can't seem to find a place to purchase one of these. RIM just has a "have someone contact you" link.
I laugh every time I have to make a new BlackBerry policy... There are tons of policy items... but a large portion of them don't even apply. There are policy items to enforce a certain SSID (no, blackberries don't even have wifi), etc.
it's true.
all non-wap blackberry data travels along the blackberry-cell provider-RIM-BES-wherever (and the reverse for data sent to a blackberry)
depends on the situation... with physical access it's generally trivial to boot in to single user mode and wipe out a root password with no knowledge of the original.
I've decided this news posting was just an elaborate ploy by Slashdot to identify the BES admins in the slashdot community :P
Actually, the BES account needs Send As and Read/Write access to the mailboxes on Exchange. While it does have extensive access to the mailboxes, it needs no access to anything else. If you access secure internal websites, you must provide your domain credentials. If you use it for rdp, you must log in, etc.
Properly configured, that account gives you access to every mailbox on the system, but nothing else. No worse than a mail admin account, and generally with a lot stronger password.
Only if they can crack 256-bit AES encryption.
mod parent -1:completely wrong
::fishes around his pocket::
Ok, this one says Wal-mart, this one says ACE, this one says Dexter....