Most Linux Distribution that were popular in 2001 don't even exist anymore. Are they still supported?
No, but the newest GNU/Linux distributions all support that old hardware gracefully. You can get a stripped-down Ubuntu 10.04 running on any system that was around back then, and you'll never encounter an "oh, support for that peripheral was dropped twelve versions ago" problem.
Somehow the open-source way of doing things has created almost perfect backward compatibility - and somehow Microsoft cannot ever refactor their codebase without leaving a bunch of legacy hardware owners and gamers out in the cold.
You might get better performance in the VM if you give it 2 virtual CPUs. Depending on the specifics of your hardware, even if you use CPU affinity settings to force it to only execute on one CPU, you may find that concurrent processes get handled a little more gracefully.
Sorta like 'hyperthreading', but implemented in software.
I personally, I wouldn't continue support some old software of mine just because some other guy's software relies on it.
Then you have no business selling anything marketed as a "platform".
Computers handling TV capture and embedded controllers have lots of reasons to be connected to the internet(encoding/uploading pirated episodes of Lost?), and even if they weren't, Windows is meant to be 'general purpose'. You're supposed to be able to have it all. People who use other OSes get to.
Imagine you could hack one company and control a large chunk of endpoint security software and the bulk of the Internet's public key infrastructure
Sure, that'd be a nightmare, if it was possible to "hack a company". If Symantec has any sense at all (and as a security company, they just might) they will keep the certificate authority separate from the antivirus update servers. There is no reason why rooting either one should be able to get you the other, whether they're controlled by the same company or not.
If the Chinese government is attempting this kind of extortion on a large scale, we have to assume that some of those attempts will be failures, and that some of those failures will be loud.
As far as I know, no Chinese immigrant has yet come forward with allegations that this happened to them. Which means either it's 100% effective, or else it's not happening.
It's evil to use your advertising clout to promote a version of 'family friendliness' which is couched in outmoded and sexist ideas about age differences in relationships.
Let's be real here. We're doing this so that anthropologists from other spacefaring civilizations will be able to read all the stories about us plowing ourselves to hell.
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Most Linux Distribution that were popular in 2001 don't even exist anymore. Are they still supported?
No, but the newest GNU/Linux distributions all support that old hardware gracefully. You can get a stripped-down Ubuntu 10.04 running on any system that was around back then, and you'll never encounter an "oh, support for that peripheral was dropped twelve versions ago" problem.
Somehow the open-source way of doing things has created almost perfect backward compatibility - and somehow Microsoft cannot ever refactor their codebase without leaving a bunch of legacy hardware owners and gamers out in the cold.
Also, the thing that will absorb all the proceeds of those efforts and then some. But let's not let that stop us from a good hearty laugh.
I'm not high, I just own some hardware manufactured before 2008 and I want to keep using it.
it can see with its nose.
Then how does it smell?
You might get better performance in the VM if you give it 2 virtual CPUs. Depending on the specifics of your hardware, even if you use CPU affinity settings to force it to only execute on one CPU, you may find that concurrent processes get handled a little more gracefully.
Sorta like 'hyperthreading', but implemented in software.
I personally, I wouldn't continue support some old software of mine just because some other guy's software relies on it.
Then you have no business selling anything marketed as a "platform".
Computers handling TV capture and embedded controllers have lots of reasons to be connected to the internet(encoding/uploading pirated episodes of Lost?), and even if they weren't, Windows is meant to be 'general purpose'. You're supposed to be able to have it all. People who use other OSes get to.
you forgot: 0. Design an OS which can viably replace XP. No, Vista doesn't count. 7 is getting there. Maybe.
They dropped the bomb.
I say we send them to boot camp.
Has anyone written a post-boot kernel loader for Windows CE along the lines of LOADLIN.EXE? That would save a lot of people a lot of agony.
Sure it's a kludge. Not the kludge we need, but the kludge we deserve.
I am a .pdf file, you insensitive clod!
Apparently kdawson knows how.
And what evidence is there of that?
The economy?
There's room in an MIT security course for plenty of both.
Imagine you could hack one company and control a large chunk of endpoint security software and the bulk of the Internet's public key infrastructure
Sure, that'd be a nightmare, if it was possible to "hack a company". If Symantec has any sense at all (and as a security company, they just might) they will keep the certificate authority separate from the antivirus update servers. There is no reason why rooting either one should be able to get you the other, whether they're controlled by the same company or not.
Isn't income tax also rationing and taxation? After all, earning more will put you into a higher bracket...
Yeah, the futures market already does this.
The trick is being certain that none of the other 99 will go to the cops - or worse, to the organization to be spied on.
If the Chinese government is attempting this kind of extortion on a large scale, we have to assume that some of those attempts will be failures, and that some of those failures will be loud.
As far as I know, no Chinese immigrant has yet come forward with allegations that this happened to them. Which means either it's 100% effective, or else it's not happening.
But that wouldn't afford us the luxury of seeing "POTENTIAL CHINESE SPY" in every single Asian face we encounter.
Yeah, I went there. Someone had to.
*taps sig thoughtfully*
Well, naturally we'll also archive a copy of all the Rosetta Stone(tm) language packages.
It's evil to use your advertising clout to promote a version of 'family friendliness' which is couched in outmoded and sexist ideas about age differences in relationships.
Blowing. What the hell are you trying to say, typo gnomes?
Let's be real here. We're doing this so that anthropologists from other spacefaring civilizations will be able to read all the stories about us plowing ourselves to hell.