Over the last several years, a number of viruses and worms have been directed at Windows. These attacks have cost our customers, both in the enterprise and home environment, significant amounts of money to remediate. Additionally, a variety of malicious software, especially SpyWare, is being installed or launched by unsuspecting users. Malicious software is even being built into otherwise useful and seemingly innocuous software.
In both cases, our consumers' faith in Windows as a secure platform has been shaken. This software can compromise the integrity of the operating system and permit unauthorized access to a user's private data. The perception is that users of Macintosh or Linux do not suffer from this vulnerability as applications run as a limited user by default and do not have sufficient privileges to infect the system. Applications only run with additional privileges if the administrator explicitly chooses to do so and provides the necessary authorization.
Seems like some of your wishes will never be granted at all but anyways...
You want ext2 on Windows? check Ext2 IFS for Windows
It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer. The "Ext2 Installable File System for Windows" software is freeware. It installs a pure kernel mode file system driver Ext2fs.sys, which actually extends the Windows NT/2000/XP operating system to include the Ext2 file system. Since it is executed on the same software layer at the Windows NT operating system core like all of the native file system drivers of Windows (for instance NTFS, FASTFAT, or CDFS for Joliet/ISO CD-ROMs), all applications can access directly to Ext2 volumes. Ext2 volumes get drive letters (for instance G:). Files, and directories of an Ext2 volume appear in file dialogs of all applications. There is no need to copy files from or to Ext2 volumes in order to work with them.
For me, it just works fine!
You do not like Windows Media Player? I beleive it's much better that crappy real player or damn Jetaudio or... but anyway! This wish is again granted in Windows XP N Edition (Formerly known as Windows XP Reduced Media Edition) and don't say it does not work because I have checked it out and nothing was broke!
Have you ever used XP? Device drivers are simply removable, you've also got other options like Rollback in case of a problem with new installation. In Vista the device driver model has changed a bit so that drivers are written in a way that theoretically they can NOT crash the whole system should they have some problem, MS says they will have limited access to the core of the OS.
Depricate DirectX?!! OMG! So many of pre-Vista stuff won't work, so many software/game developers will have to make a big big switch and the most important of all, I will lose NASA Worldwind. This is not only impossible but also unfair;)!
Do not put Windows Messenger in the system tray by default,
My father is exactly that average guy and he simply downloaded and installed firefox after I recommended him Firefox
Later, he set the default browser to be firefox and fortunately he never had any serious problem
More on Indoneia's open source efforts could be found here http://www.asiaosc.org/enwiki/page/Indonesia.html
They are one of the most active in ASIA but they usually do it on their own while others like Japan, Korea and China are workng together on nice things like Asianux
Have you noticed that Google finally merged Gmail and Orkut and started a login migration program? Orkut
Since a couple of days ago, instead of signing in with your Orkut user/pass you should do it with your Gmail's.
Actually instead of going to http://www.orkut.com/login.aspx from now on you are redirected to http://www.orkut.com/Glogin.aspx
Google is heavily investing on the name and If this legal issue would force Google get rid of the name Gmail, I beleive it would be a real blow to them.
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA, through the Classification and Rating Administration (CARA) issued an R rating to ESR's response! R - Restricted - Can contain mature themes (usually sex and/or violence). Children under 17 not admitted without an adult.
Q: Why does chopping an onion make you cry?
A: Onions produce the chemical irritant known as syn-propanethial-S-oxide. It stimulates the eyes' lachrymal glands so they release tears. Scientists used to blame the enzyme allinase for the instability of substances in a cut onion. Recent studies from Japan, however, proved that lachrymatory-factor synthase, (a previously undiscovered enzyme) is the culprit (Imani et al, 2002).
BUT the big unanswered question is how come reading an onion can make you cry?!!
March 5, 2001 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft® Office XP, the new version of the world's leading office software, has been released to manufacturing and will be available for retail purchase later this spring.
Then came SP1 and SP2 and...
One more thing : This is my first post on slashdot! After 4 years of wasting my time just reading/. I finally signed UP to waste more time reading AND commenting;):p
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The new "I'm feeling lucky" navigation button will get you to a random planet.
Just a few minutes ago CNN reported some UFO crashing somewhere around Redmond, could you guess where?
Now, by the help of NASA they can definitely do this
Does AOL produce chairs?!! maybe nuclear ones?
Not all users are idiots but at least 95% are STUPID!
Ever talked to a tech-support guide?! Take a look at this
Standard ECMA-334 C# Language Specification
For me, it just works fine!
You do not like Windows Media Player? I beleive it's much better that crappy real player or damn Jetaudio or
Have you ever used XP? Device drivers are simply removable, you've also got other options like Rollback in case of a problem with new installation. In Vista the device driver model has changed a bit so that drivers are written in a way that theoretically they can NOT crash the whole system should they have some problem, MS says they will have limited access to the core of the OS.
Depricate DirectX?!! OMG! So many of pre-Vista stuff won't work, so many software/game developers will have to make a big big switch and the most important of all, I will lose NASA Worldwind. This is not only impossible but also unfair
I definitely agree w/ this one
My father is exactly that average guy and he simply downloaded and installed firefox after I recommended him Firefox
Later, he set the default browser to be firefox and fortunately he never had any serious problem
More on Indoneia's open source efforts could be found here
http://www.asiaosc.org/enwiki/page/Indonesia.html
They are one of the most active in ASIA but they usually do it on their own while others like Japan, Korea and China are workng together on nice things like Asianux
Have you noticed that Google finally merged Gmail and Orkut and started a login migration program? Orkut
Since a couple of days ago, instead of signing in with your Orkut user/pass you should do it with your Gmail's.
Actually instead of going to http://www.orkut.com/login.aspx from now on you are redirected to http://www.orkut.com/Glogin.aspx
Google is heavily investing on the name and If this legal issue would force Google get rid of the name Gmail, I beleive it would be a real blow to them.
I believe I shall buy all of them together then!
So this is not suitable material for most people on slashdot ,the age I mean
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA, through the Classification and Rating Administration (CARA) issued an R rating to ESR's response!
R - Restricted - Can contain mature themes (usually sex and/or violence). Children under 17 not admitted without an adult.
BUT the big unanswered question is how come reading an onion can make you cry?!!
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/Mar
March 5, 2001 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that Microsoft® Office XP, the new version of the world's leading office software, has been released to manufacturing and will be available for retail purchase later this spring.
Then came SP1 and SP2 andOne more thing : This is my first post on slashdot! After 4 years of wasting my time just reading