That's why you use Bitlocker to encrypt the drive so that a simple boot program can't mess with the passwords, best bit is that it is transparent to the user. Besides the BIOS should be be locked down to prevent booting from anything but the HD and the HD should be using drivelocker preventing another drive from being substituted.
Agreed, that 'one samba-provided registry file you need to import on every Windows Vista/7/8 host ' disables as much security as it can and winds Windows back to NT4/2000 levels of security. Not exactly the best thing to do in any environment.
I never touched the box once in the 3 years I was there and it ran reliably without issue. Even the main business's Exchange server I never touched. The helpdesk added and removed users and groups via AD but the server just ran fine all by itself without a single update, patch or reboot.
If you listen carefully you can hear security crying its eyes out in the corner. Just because you can does not mean you should. I know that many Windows products will work reliably for long periods of time but all software has holes. If its connected to the internet then updates are a good idea even if they can break things on occasion.
Totally agree, it did depend on the ROM and apps but there were problems. I loved the expandability and flexibility of the platform, had a WM2003, WM5, WM6.1-5 device. They had a use by date where you'd get 'issues', not ringing, refusing to answer a call, hanging up before making a connection, not ringing, not giving low power warnings etc. Didn't have many big crashes per say but problems. Feature wise they all eclipsed anything my friends had at the time and three years or so after. They needed tlc but were like having a Swiss army knife.
Have gone to a WP7 phone after holding out for quite a while and for usability it is great, quicker and more stable than their predecessors but disappointing feature wise. They keep making it better but now have abandoned it and everyone on it, again. Time will tell if they make 7.8 a really decent peace offering or not, if not their potential seed of users will turn into a poisonous blight that will make sure 8 has an even harder time. Who is to say that MS will stick with this platform any longer, if they just stuck with one long enough to do it well they could kill at it.
Good point but they did that whole big mess around with the 'Temporal Cold War' which reset a stack of stuff from before the beginning of S4 however those events still seemed referenced so the integrity of that timeline was a bit suspect too in relation to the primary timeline used in the original. There was a flashfoward in the last ep with Richer and Troy from TNG so that at least links it to a similar timeline.
It depends on how far down you want to go, most hoe routers are based on Linux and many websites. In a sense everyone 'uses' Linux but in another almost no-one does. Windows does not really have that recognition problem, it's either there or it's not.
Crap, when are you people from. We have been using 7 for two years already across several thousand machines. It is better with security, drivers, self repair, imaging and manageability. With GPO setup on a server you can tweak the newer UI to your liking without needing to roll back to Windows 95 mode.
Shifting is not that hard, letting the users stagnate just makes things sores when you are forced to switch because you can't get C64 keyboards anymore.
The same things happened when XP came out, pre SP1 GPO sucked and had all sorts of issues just like Vista and 7. Everyone has selective memories and just want to burry their heads and keep driving their Model Ts.
Yeap, try NZ its $20 for a 2D movie and more for a 3D thanks to discriminatory pricing practices by both the local vendors and the international suppliers.
A thousand users and you're worried about the cost of a certificate, you're doing it wrong. Also how hard is it to get a cert that matches the URL, especially if you are using self signed certs and can bash out a new one for free. If you start without a horrificly misconfigured system you may have better luck.
Windows Phone? Export certificate from site, email it to yahoo or gmail account FROM a yahoo or gmail account because outlook/exchange refuses to allow you to mail a cert, then import it, reboot the phone, and HOPE that it works. I just got finished dealing with one that didn't work. We renewed the cert, and now the thing is just shitboxed. Can't get it to accept the new cert at all.
How the fuck hard is it to add a "Accept this certificate anyways?" option...
How hard is that, yes and accept this cert option would be nice but I have setup around ten different WP7 phones with various self signed certs and got them all working fine without too much hassle.
Battery life is actually better on the right phone, the Nokia ones had issues but the HTC ones lasted longer for me than an iPhone or an Android, both of which had bigger batteries and were doing basicly the same stuff.
You're right, I like the phones and OS but there is a few messes and unanswered questions. I want to know if Apollo will work on launch hardware, I want higher screen res and support for certain Apps like skype running in the background that should not be to hard as the two companies are linked. I want the bugs I have reported fixed and I would like it in a reasonable timeframe.
The phones are great in general but there are a few massive holes and a bunch of uncertainty that could be ironed out with a little dev time and a press conference or two.
BES is a horrible pile of java shit which is so inefficient and backward in the way it handles things that they would be mad to integrate it. For everything but device lockdown and control ActiveSync is better which is why along with device UI RIM have lost most of their market other than the hardcore fans.
It's not the SIM card format that is to blame rather it is your choice of crappy phones. I have had lots of SIM based phones and have only seen the no SIM error once when the phone became damaged. This is over 7 phones and around 14 years of use. I have swapped SIMs plenty of times and it is way better for choice. You can buy a phone and use it rather than beg your carrier to accept it eventually on their network. It's called fredom of choice, something I understand you may not recognise being from the US and dealing with the carriers there. Try better phones.
What is this 'with an iPhone' junk again. How about with a smartphone/portable computer etc. Why must everything be Apple, is it just so the sheep understand stuff to or what. Just give them some crayons and let them sit in the corner if it is to complicated for them to parse the word smartphone to include their own little Jobsian idol.
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on a desktop, not a laptop, at least not a decent one, most need a new Mb or to go back to the manufacturer for unlocking with a hardware dongle.
That's why you use Bitlocker to encrypt the drive so that a simple boot program can't mess with the passwords, best bit is that it is transparent to the user. Besides the BIOS should be be locked down to prevent booting from anything but the HD and the HD should be using drivelocker preventing another drive from being substituted.
Surface with MMC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dkTWh-5QEeQ there are a whole set of other videos of an actual Surface in use.
Agreed, that 'one samba-provided registry file you need to import on every Windows Vista/7/8 host ' disables as much security as it can and winds Windows back to NT4/2000 levels of security. Not exactly the best thing to do in any environment.
I never touched the box once in the 3 years I was there and it ran reliably without issue. Even the main business's Exchange server I never touched. The helpdesk added and removed users and groups via AD but the server just ran fine all by itself without a single update, patch or reboot.
If you listen carefully you can hear security crying its eyes out in the corner. Just because you can does not mean you should. I know that many Windows products will work reliably for long periods of time but all software has holes. If its connected to the internet then updates are a good idea even if they can break things on occasion.
The sheep will queue at the wolfs doorway for the latest IPoo, sickening.
Totally agree, it did depend on the ROM and apps but there were problems. I loved the expandability and flexibility of the platform, had a WM2003, WM5, WM6.1-5 device. They had a use by date where you'd get 'issues', not ringing, refusing to answer a call, hanging up before making a connection, not ringing, not giving low power warnings etc. Didn't have many big crashes per say but problems. Feature wise they all eclipsed anything my friends had at the time and three years or so after. They needed tlc but were like having a Swiss army knife.
Have gone to a WP7 phone after holding out for quite a while and for usability it is great, quicker and more stable than their predecessors but disappointing feature wise. They keep making it better but now have abandoned it and everyone on it, again. Time will tell if they make 7.8 a really decent peace offering or not, if not their potential seed of users will turn into a poisonous blight that will make sure 8 has an even harder time. Who is to say that MS will stick with this platform any longer, if they just stuck with one long enough to do it well they could kill at it.
And Apple gets no scrutiny, the US should go to a little third world country to find out how to be less corrupt, justice, what a joke.
Good point but they did that whole big mess around with the 'Temporal Cold War' which reset a stack of stuff from before the beginning of S4 however those events still seemed referenced so the integrity of that timeline was a bit suspect too in relation to the primary timeline used in the original. There was a flashfoward in the last ep with Richer and Troy from TNG so that at least links it to a similar timeline.
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It depends on how far down you want to go, most hoe routers are based on Linux and many websites. In a sense everyone 'uses' Linux but in another almost no-one does. Windows does not really have that recognition problem, it's either there or it's not.
Agreed, parents who don't should be forced to wear dunce hats in public as they are usually to thick to even have a remotely reasonable reason why.
Crap, when are you people from. We have been using 7 for two years already across several thousand machines. It is better with security, drivers, self repair, imaging and manageability. With GPO setup on a server you can tweak the newer UI to your liking without needing to roll back to Windows 95 mode.
Shifting is not that hard, letting the users stagnate just makes things sores when you are forced to switch because you can't get C64 keyboards anymore.
The same things happened when XP came out, pre SP1 GPO sucked and had all sorts of issues just like Vista and 7. Everyone has selective memories and just want to burry their heads and keep driving their Model Ts.
We all love you really, now die in a fire!!!
Was just going to suggest this, works really well limiting apps, quotaing time and limiting content. It is actually a really well thought out tool: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29231
Needs a modern OS though so Vista or 7.
Alright, who has Oracle's big pile of nothing... :)
Yeap, try NZ its $20 for a 2D movie and more for a 3D thanks to discriminatory pricing practices by both the local vendors and the international suppliers.
A thousand users and you're worried about the cost of a certificate, you're doing it wrong. Also how hard is it to get a cert that matches the URL, especially if you are using self signed certs and can bash out a new one for free. If you start without a horrificly misconfigured system you may have better luck.
Windows Phone? Export certificate from site, email it to yahoo or gmail account FROM a yahoo or gmail account because outlook/exchange refuses to allow you to mail a cert, then import it, reboot the phone, and HOPE that it works. I just got finished dealing with one that didn't work. We renewed the cert, and now the thing is just shitboxed. Can't get it to accept the new cert at all.
How the fuck hard is it to add a "Accept this certificate anyways?" option...
How hard is that, yes and accept this cert option would be nice but I have setup around ten different WP7 phones with various self signed certs and got them all working fine without too much hassle.
Battery life is actually better on the right phone, the Nokia ones had issues but the HTC ones lasted longer for me than an iPhone or an Android, both of which had bigger batteries and were doing basicly the same stuff.
You're right, I like the phones and OS but there is a few messes and unanswered questions. I want to know if Apollo will work on launch hardware, I want higher screen res and support for certain Apps like skype running in the background that should not be to hard as the two companies are linked. I want the bugs I have reported fixed and I would like it in a reasonable timeframe.
The phones are great in general but there are a few massive holes and a bunch of uncertainty that could be ironed out with a little dev time and a press conference or two.
BES is a horrible pile of java shit which is so inefficient and backward in the way it handles things that they would be mad to integrate it. For everything but device lockdown and control ActiveSync is better which is why along with device UI RIM have lost most of their market other than the hardcore fans.
Mutually Assured Destruction:
This is like the nuclear deterant, but without the massive death toll to keep it at bay.
They should all sue each other out of the market and let companies who are not such tools have a shot at the market.
It's not the SIM card format that is to blame rather it is your choice of crappy phones. I have had lots of SIM based phones and have only seen the no SIM error once when the phone became damaged. This is over 7 phones and around 14 years of use. I have swapped SIMs plenty of times and it is way better for choice. You can buy a phone and use it rather than beg your carrier to accept it eventually on their network. It's called fredom of choice, something I understand you may not recognise being from the US and dealing with the carriers there. Try better phones.
What is this 'with an iPhone' junk again. How about with a smartphone/portable computer etc. Why must everything be Apple, is it just so the sheep understand stuff to or what. Just give them some crayons and let them sit in the corner if it is to complicated for them to parse the word smartphone to include their own little Jobsian idol.