You can manually copy a good DAT over and a good copy of svchost.exe into their proper directories. However our copy/paste wouldn't work so I wrote a batch file because the copy command still seemed to work ok. Because we had to do it on so many we didn't have time to type anything, just run a.bat file with those two copy commands and a reboot.
We've used Mcafee for years. It can take a brand new quad core computer with 4 gigs of ram and make it operate at half its specs. It's garbage. I've used a few antivirus products over the years and all its enterprise features have never worked properly. It's purely marketing and sending PHB's free swag. There are a lot of anti virus companies with the features you mentioned that do it far better than Mcafee. The only reason they are still in business is because of marketing.
For us, there was no possibility of anything automated, the machines lost all network access. svchost.exe was 0 bytes. At around 2pm when we realized what actually happened we hung up with them and their "rollback to last dat" bullshit (how can you push that out to a machine with no network access) and manually restored svchost.exe and the last dat to all our machines affected. Hundreds of them. It was quite a day. Fuckin mcafee....
Same here. I love that we spent 3 hours on hold with Mcafee w/ no automated message acknowledging the problem. In fact, they gave us a solution that didn't work once we got on the phone with them so we had to come up with a fix based on internet reports and manually do it on hundreds of machines. I also love how the EULA will probably mean we have no legal recourse for hundreds of people sitting around with their thumbs up their butts today with useless computers.
I'm not sure I agree with this. I go to FAU in Florida and they've pretty much standardized on C++. We have to learn microprocessor programming on the 68k. I've had a couple of my professors that graduated in the 80's note that a CS degree at FAU is more comprehensive than it was 25 years ago. They said back then they would essentially learn a bunch of programming languages and now we learn CS concepts once reserved for a masters degree. Our core courses are all in C and C++ (except for the assembly language exceptions). We are allowed 3 electives and many people use those to learn other languages (and honestly 3 electives isn't very much at all). From what I've heard this is more a request of their accrediting body (ABET) than a decision by the university but who knows. I guess it all depends the school because I know my friends at UCF learned their course content in Java.
Cash isn't perfect. I remember an incident where someone did a malicious prank call with a prepaid cell phone or calling card they bought with cash. They traced it back to the store and time it was sold. They pulled the surveillance videos and were able to link the suspect with the calls made. Cash is better than credit, but you'd be amazed at the ways the law catches up. It's just like on Office Space. Geeks assume because they are smart they can outsmart the law.
I don't think a lot of kids are outsiders because of video games, I think a lot of outsiders turn to video games for comfort and to get away from the world. If you shame them in their one place to escape, they'll turn to another place to escape such as reading sci-fi.
I'm surprised no one has written a small flash or java applet for downloading torrents. This way, they could use the power of bit torrent with the ease of a web browser for distribution. Even better, they should also make it available as an executable with a small open source cd burning program that is basically scripted to just say "place a blank CD in your cd burner" and burn the ISO. The biggest issue I've seen with beginners trying to install linux has been for them to actually download the iso and burn it!
If someone steals a car, and I bought that car from the person, the original owner is still the owner of the car. If it's discovered that I have the car, I can't say "taking this car from me is really going to cramp my style." If the ruling is MS doesn't have the right to sell office, that's the ruling. Whether you agree with it or not, it must be enforced at all levels. Just because the ruling inconveniences others beyond MS has no bearing. They bought an "illegal" product.
Many times at work I prototype with Python or Ruby. When working on weekend projects sometimes just proving something can be done is good enough for me. I write in Java and C++ when things need to be fast, deployable, bug tested, other people will need to work on it, etc, etc. I've noticed a lot of programmers and engineers just like to solve the problems and stop when it comes to their personal projects. It's a puzzle. However, in the commercial world you have to do all the mundane boring additionally that Java, C, C++ do well. If I'm writing facial recognition software at home, usually just getting matches for static images is good enough to prove out my algorithms. In the business world I'll probably have to do this with real time video. Python and Ruby wouldn't be able to handle that.
When you click "Accept" on many EULA's you give up rights to privacy of your data to that company. What's the difference if it's hosted or not. Microsoft can just as easily have Exchange phone home with data as Google employees can read your mail. There's no difference. You just have to decide which company you trust most.
Porting isn't THAT huge of a deal. Very low level libraries would need to be ported and compilers and the kernel, but everything above that usually isn't that huge of a deal. Modern OS's are pretty darn abstracted. Look at how quickly Apple ported Mac OS to Intel.
C++ is utter trash? If it's that bad they why is almost every game released today written in it? You have it backwards, most software isn't written in Java. Java software tends to be mostly written in the enterprise where you can tell the client "you need at least X version of Java." For consumer software, almost everything is written in C++. Not as much is written in C because lack of good error handling (no try-catch-throw) and features for managing growth (namespaces, objects, private/protected/public, etc, etc). Certain low level things could be written in C++, but the extra runtime memory management requirements makes it more practical to just write in C. Python is mostly used as a support language. While most games are written in C++, the levels and maps tend to be designed in XML and Python. Not a whole lot of commercial software is written in Python as the primary language.
Much of it comes down to distribution for the general public. It's really hard to distribute software for Java and keep it simple and small if you require a recent JVM. You could do like Oracle and basically include an entire JVM in your software install (really big), or force people to upgrade versions (which doesn't make for a good user experience). In C and C++ it's pretty easy to distribute a program once written. There's just a compiled binary and perhaps some shared libraries.
I hate managing memory. It's purely academic or for performance reasons, but for getting an idea or algorithm working, it just gets in the way. The first thing I wrote in C++ when I had enough experience understanding memory was a garbage collector.
The show was funny. However, having it shoved in your face CONSTANTLY with people rehashing jokes (usually ruining them entirely before you even saw the episode) had a lot to do with it. People hyped it like it was the best show ever, and after hearing that, you can only be disappointed.
Napoleon dynamite was the same way. I remember seeing it at the theater and finding it hilarious. However, I went in with no previous knowledge of the movie. People I know who saw it a year after release didn't find it that funny because they'd had "Tina come get your dinner" shoved in their face for a year.
After reading TFA, it sounds like google is LEAST to blame out of the many many automated systems involved. First of all, the damn story should have been dated. That's the tribune's fault. Google doesn't seem to have claimed it as today's news, only ranked it high up. No one should have ever reprinted the story without actually CHECKING WITH UNITED AIR FIRST. That's neither google nor the tribune's fault. That's every service that reprinted the story as new without verifying its fault. Google and tribune seem least at fault because neither ever gave any indication it was a new story.
heh Exactly. I don't see why someone always brings up the point of used computers. It happens on every XO and eee story as well. Used computers do NOT scale. They use a lot of power. They are going to be inconsistent hardware and software wise. The man hours going into locating this many computers would probably outweigh the actual cost of the machine. It just doesn't make sense. And that is why we've yet to see a large scale attempt at doing it. It simply doesn't make sense on the large scale.
I don't know if they see it as a replacement so much as IIS/Webservers aren't terribly important to their core business model. IIS is a pretty crappy web server in comparison to... ummm... almost everything else. I think it's more important to Microsoft that people are using.net and Windows servers. If they want to use another web server on Windows w/.net, so be it. They'll always offer IIS, but they don't fight IIS replacements tooth and nail like they fight Office replacements.
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Fuckin' McAfee...
You can manually copy a good DAT over and a good copy of svchost.exe into their proper directories. However our copy/paste wouldn't work so I wrote a batch file because the copy command still seemed to work ok. Because we had to do it on so many we didn't have time to type anything, just run a .bat file with those two copy commands and a reboot.
We've used Mcafee for years. It can take a brand new quad core computer with 4 gigs of ram and make it operate at half its specs. It's garbage. I've used a few antivirus products over the years and all its enterprise features have never worked properly. It's purely marketing and sending PHB's free swag. There are a lot of anti virus companies with the features you mentioned that do it far better than Mcafee. The only reason they are still in business is because of marketing.
For us, there was no possibility of anything automated, the machines lost all network access. svchost.exe was 0 bytes. At around 2pm when we realized what actually happened we hung up with them and their "rollback to last dat" bullshit (how can you push that out to a machine with no network access) and manually restored svchost.exe and the last dat to all our machines affected. Hundreds of them. It was quite a day. Fuckin mcafee....
Same here. I love that we spent 3 hours on hold with Mcafee w/ no automated message acknowledging the problem. In fact, they gave us a solution that didn't work once we got on the phone with them so we had to come up with a fix based on internet reports and manually do it on hundreds of machines. I also love how the EULA will probably mean we have no legal recourse for hundreds of people sitting around with their thumbs up their butts today with useless computers.
I'm not sure I agree with this. I go to FAU in Florida and they've pretty much standardized on C++. We have to learn microprocessor programming on the 68k. I've had a couple of my professors that graduated in the 80's note that a CS degree at FAU is more comprehensive than it was 25 years ago. They said back then they would essentially learn a bunch of programming languages and now we learn CS concepts once reserved for a masters degree. Our core courses are all in C and C++ (except for the assembly language exceptions). We are allowed 3 electives and many people use those to learn other languages (and honestly 3 electives isn't very much at all). From what I've heard this is more a request of their accrediting body (ABET) than a decision by the university but who knows. I guess it all depends the school because I know my friends at UCF learned their course content in Java.
Cash isn't perfect. I remember an incident where someone did a malicious prank call with a prepaid cell phone or calling card they bought with cash. They traced it back to the store and time it was sold. They pulled the surveillance videos and were able to link the suspect with the calls made. Cash is better than credit, but you'd be amazed at the ways the law catches up. It's just like on Office Space. Geeks assume because they are smart they can outsmart the law.
I don't think a lot of kids are outsiders because of video games, I think a lot of outsiders turn to video games for comfort and to get away from the world. If you shame them in their one place to escape, they'll turn to another place to escape such as reading sci-fi.
Blank check is a US movie from the 90's. It was a joke. Har har.
I thought to KaBoom something meant to build a park for it very quickly.
Didn't George has to get a death certificate?
I'm surprised no one has written a small flash or java applet for downloading torrents. This way, they could use the power of bit torrent with the ease of a web browser for distribution. Even better, they should also make it available as an executable with a small open source cd burning program that is basically scripted to just say "place a blank CD in your cd burner" and burn the ISO. The biggest issue I've seen with beginners trying to install linux has been for them to actually download the iso and burn it!
If someone steals a car, and I bought that car from the person, the original owner is still the owner of the car. If it's discovered that I have the car, I can't say "taking this car from me is really going to cramp my style." If the ruling is MS doesn't have the right to sell office, that's the ruling. Whether you agree with it or not, it must be enforced at all levels. Just because the ruling inconveniences others beyond MS has no bearing. They bought an "illegal" product.
My favorite quote... can't remember who said it...
"The types of problems you can solve is directly related to the quality of abstraction available"
Many times at work I prototype with Python or Ruby. When working on weekend projects sometimes just proving something can be done is good enough for me. I write in Java and C++ when things need to be fast, deployable, bug tested, other people will need to work on it, etc, etc. I've noticed a lot of programmers and engineers just like to solve the problems and stop when it comes to their personal projects. It's a puzzle. However, in the commercial world you have to do all the mundane boring additionally that Java, C, C++ do well. If I'm writing facial recognition software at home, usually just getting matches for static images is good enough to prove out my algorithms. In the business world I'll probably have to do this with real time video. Python and Ruby wouldn't be able to handle that.
When you click "Accept" on many EULA's you give up rights to privacy of your data to that company. What's the difference if it's hosted or not. Microsoft can just as easily have Exchange phone home with data as Google employees can read your mail. There's no difference. You just have to decide which company you trust most.
But there is one that opposes other people letting you text for free
Porting isn't THAT huge of a deal. Very low level libraries would need to be ported and compilers and the kernel, but everything above that usually isn't that huge of a deal. Modern OS's are pretty darn abstracted. Look at how quickly Apple ported Mac OS to Intel.
C++ is utter trash? If it's that bad they why is almost every game released today written in it? You have it backwards, most software isn't written in Java. Java software tends to be mostly written in the enterprise where you can tell the client "you need at least X version of Java." For consumer software, almost everything is written in C++. Not as much is written in C because lack of good error handling (no try-catch-throw) and features for managing growth (namespaces, objects, private/protected/public, etc, etc). Certain low level things could be written in C++, but the extra runtime memory management requirements makes it more practical to just write in C. Python is mostly used as a support language. While most games are written in C++, the levels and maps tend to be designed in XML and Python. Not a whole lot of commercial software is written in Python as the primary language. Much of it comes down to distribution for the general public. It's really hard to distribute software for Java and keep it simple and small if you require a recent JVM. You could do like Oracle and basically include an entire JVM in your software install (really big), or force people to upgrade versions (which doesn't make for a good user experience). In C and C++ it's pretty easy to distribute a program once written. There's just a compiled binary and perhaps some shared libraries.
I hate managing memory. It's purely academic or for performance reasons, but for getting an idea or algorithm working, it just gets in the way. The first thing I wrote in C++ when I had enough experience understanding memory was a garbage collector.
The show was funny. However, having it shoved in your face CONSTANTLY with people rehashing jokes (usually ruining them entirely before you even saw the episode) had a lot to do with it. People hyped it like it was the best show ever, and after hearing that, you can only be disappointed.
Napoleon dynamite was the same way. I remember seeing it at the theater and finding it hilarious. However, I went in with no previous knowledge of the movie. People I know who saw it a year after release didn't find it that funny because they'd had "Tina come get your dinner" shoved in their face for a year.
After reading TFA, it sounds like google is LEAST to blame out of the many many automated systems involved. First of all, the damn story should have been dated. That's the tribune's fault. Google doesn't seem to have claimed it as today's news, only ranked it high up. No one should have ever reprinted the story without actually CHECKING WITH UNITED AIR FIRST. That's neither google nor the tribune's fault. That's every service that reprinted the story as new without verifying its fault. Google and tribune seem least at fault because neither ever gave any indication it was a new story.
It's a jump to conclusions mat!
heh Exactly. I don't see why someone always brings up the point of used computers. It happens on every XO and eee story as well. Used computers do NOT scale. They use a lot of power. They are going to be inconsistent hardware and software wise. The man hours going into locating this many computers would probably outweigh the actual cost of the machine. It just doesn't make sense. And that is why we've yet to see a large scale attempt at doing it. It simply doesn't make sense on the large scale.
I don't know if they see it as a replacement so much as IIS/Webservers aren't terribly important to their core business model. IIS is a pretty crappy web server in comparison to... ummm... almost everything else. I think it's more important to Microsoft that people are using .net and Windows servers. If they want to use another web server on Windows w/ .net, so be it. They'll always offer IIS, but they don't fight IIS replacements tooth and nail like they fight Office replacements.