This would've happened on Vista just the same, if it weren't for the fact that Vista uses a newer bootloader that no longer uses the boot.ini file. As such, Vista was unaffected, but UAC wouldn't have prevented this problem if Vista still were using the boot.ini file.
UAC was the only compromise that Microsoft could do without going the Apple way with Classic/Rosetta. (I don't know why they didn't go down that route, but that's another discussion).
UAC forces application vendors to fix their applications - Microsoft/Windows largely lives through the large number of ISVs that surround them, and most of them were really, really slow to start to take advantage of multi user capable system with advanced permissions that were Windows NT and upwards.
This was mostly due to it not being really needed - and that's why today almost everyone runs with full admin privileges, with the exception of fully managed IT infrastructure in larger companies.
Vista now offers a very reasonable migration part to least privileged user access. The most profit for this will probably be drawn by Small and Medium Businesses, without a fully managed IT infrastructure. For home users, the advantages are less obvious, but with long term it will help with security.
People calling UAC a nuisance have probably never worked much with Vista. Its 19:14 here, and throughout the entire day i didn't see a single UAC prompt. I was working the entire day, though, and not toying with my system. A developer might want to turn UAC off in order not to get buggered everytime he wants to debug a running program, but even that might not be necessary.
There are many more under-the-hood changes in Vista and WS2008 - none of them are that spectacular, and the current hardware requirements aren't funny. However, the machines one can purchase today come with a modern C2D and 2GB RAM - which is fine to run Vista.
I've now been using Windows Vista since over a year on my laptop (T60, 2GB, 120GB, C2D 1.83). It works perfectly, didn't have any crashes, though i wasn't impressed by the performance. But hey, it helps to sell more hardware;)
It's rather easy to learn to understand Swiss-German if you can speak German, but it's much more difficult to learn to speak Swiss-German.
Another problem is that as soon as someone in a group can't speak Swiss-German, everyone will start to talk "normal" German, thus making it harder for German-Speaking People to actually learn to language.
Many Germans that moved to Switzerland have been living here for years, can understand Swiss-German perfectly, but still don't speak Swiss-German themselves. This is usually not the case for people that moved here and couldn't speak German.
So, while Swiss-German isn't difficult to learn if you already speak German, it's hard to get practice on it.
And most kids in Europe grow up with a lot of English around them, and thus learn it easier than other languages (like.nl)
Btw:
In your sentence, "man" should only be spelled with a single n, because you're referring to people, not males specifically. Also, it's "so schwer wie". This is intended as constructive criticism, my English isn't perfect either.
Your sentence is perfect German, but not Swiss German.
The question in Swiss-German is "Wänn chann i zügle?" (Please note that there is no "official" spelling for Swiss-German, since it's not an official language).
Here in Switzerland, 2 months notice MINIMUM is required by law. Most companies write up 3 months for most regular jobs, and 6+ months for senior/executive positions.
And most of the time, you'll spend this time wrapping up your work. It's HIGHLY unusual to be suspended immediately - usually only if you stole company goods or something like that.
When i've switched jobs, i always spent the time productively, completing documentation, instructing my follow-up, etc. pp.
American working culture always looks very strange to me:)
Yeah, you have the management card which is always active, even with the main machine powered on. HP/Compaq calls them iLO.
The IBM servers have a seperate RSA card, which has a POWER CPU (don't know which incarnation). An RSA ROM is around 4 megabyte, compressed. So they run quite a lot of software.
Then you have power to the ethernet ports, for wake on lan, which will also draw power.
It is configurable on newer HP printers (and Lexmark, and maybe more, but i don't know that).
And yes, i think 1000 is a pretty good point for a warning. Remember, we're talking about company printers here. Getting a replacement cartridge can be pretty complicated depending on the company, and even then the supplier might not have stock of your specific cartridge type (Probably only with more exotic, older printers).
I write a mostly technical blog, and 75% of my hits come from Google, with people looking for solutions for problems that i've already solved in the past.
I don't have any advertising, and i'm not using some special SEO technics. I'm quite content with the traffic and my pagerank of 5.
Not a problem. All i need now is a few oil tankers (distributed along the route), and a few well trained monkeys (to jump towards the car with a petrol hose).
South Park had this as a reference to Alien 4. I don't know what the poster meant, but i would guess that he meant Alien 4 too.
It's the part were you see the Ripley/Alien crossovers that went wrong - most of them are in glasses/formaldehyd, but one is still (mostly) alive and says "Kill me". Then, everything gets torched with a flamethrower.
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This would've happened on Vista just the same, if it weren't for the fact that Vista uses a newer bootloader that no longer uses the boot.ini file. As such, Vista was unaffected, but UAC wouldn't have prevented this problem if Vista still were using the boot.ini file.
UAC was the only compromise that Microsoft could do without going the Apple way with Classic/Rosetta. (I don't know why they didn't go down that route, but that's another discussion).
;)
UAC forces application vendors to fix their applications - Microsoft/Windows largely lives through the large number of ISVs that surround them, and most of them were really, really slow to start to take advantage of multi user capable system with advanced permissions that were Windows NT and upwards.
This was mostly due to it not being really needed - and that's why today almost everyone runs with full admin privileges, with the exception of fully managed IT infrastructure in larger companies.
Vista now offers a very reasonable migration part to least privileged user access. The most profit for this will probably be drawn by Small and Medium Businesses, without a fully managed IT infrastructure. For home users, the advantages are less obvious, but with long term it will help with security.
People calling UAC a nuisance have probably never worked much with Vista. Its 19:14 here, and throughout the entire day i didn't see a single UAC prompt. I was working the entire day, though, and not toying with my system. A developer might want to turn UAC off in order not to get buggered everytime he wants to debug a running program, but even that might not be necessary.
There are many more under-the-hood changes in Vista and WS2008 - none of them are that spectacular, and the current hardware requirements aren't funny. However, the machines one can purchase today come with a modern C2D and 2GB RAM - which is fine to run Vista.
I've now been using Windows Vista since over a year on my laptop (T60, 2GB, 120GB, C2D 1.83). It works perfectly, didn't have any crashes, though i wasn't impressed by the performance. But hey, it helps to sell more hardware
You *really* need to watch more House MD.
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That's because America's emergency call system sucks.
Routing calls from cellphones works nicely here in Switzerland. The Mobile phone towers know where you are...
It doesn't really work like that.
You'd need the password for the local Admin account - if you reset that, you break the keys...
One word: Support
It's vital for big companies. But XP supports runs until 2014...
Sun Microsystems is located in Hegnau, which is near Hinwil (~10 Minutes tops).
You can look for jobs here: http://www.jobscout24.ch/
Greeting from Horgen, which is about 40 Minutes from Hinwil.
It's rather easy to learn to understand Swiss-German if you can speak German, but it's much more difficult to learn to speak Swiss-German.
.nl)
Another problem is that as soon as someone in a group can't speak Swiss-German, everyone will start to talk "normal" German, thus making it harder for German-Speaking People to actually learn to language.
Many Germans that moved to Switzerland have been living here for years, can understand Swiss-German perfectly, but still don't speak Swiss-German themselves. This is usually not the case for people that moved here and couldn't speak German.
So, while Swiss-German isn't difficult to learn if you already speak German, it's hard to get practice on it.
And most kids in Europe grow up with a lot of English around them, and thus learn it easier than other languages (like
Btw:
In your sentence, "man" should only be spelled with a single n, because you're referring to people, not males specifically. Also, it's "so schwer wie". This is intended as constructive criticism, my English isn't perfect either.
Your sentence is perfect German, but not Swiss German.
The question in Swiss-German is "Wänn chann i zügle?" (Please note that there is no "official" spelling for Swiss-German, since it's not an official language).
Never said it is perfect...
But the fact that many companies even EXTEND the notice time for higher paid workers tells me that it isn't a completely stupid idea...
Here in Switzerland, 2 months notice MINIMUM is required by law. Most companies write up 3 months for most regular jobs, and 6+ months for senior/executive positions.
:)
And most of the time, you'll spend this time wrapping up your work. It's HIGHLY unusual to be suspended immediately - usually only if you stole company goods or something like that.
When i've switched jobs, i always spent the time productively, completing documentation, instructing my follow-up, etc. pp.
American working culture always looks very strange to me
Yeah, you have the management card which is always active, even with the main machine powered on. HP/Compaq calls them iLO.
The IBM servers have a seperate RSA card, which has a POWER CPU (don't know which incarnation). An RSA ROM is around 4 megabyte, compressed. So they run quite a lot of software.
Then you have power to the ethernet ports, for wake on lan, which will also draw power.
It is configurable on newer HP printers (and Lexmark, and maybe more, but i don't know that).
And yes, i think 1000 is a pretty good point for a warning. Remember, we're talking about company printers here. Getting a replacement cartridge can be pretty complicated depending on the company, and even then the supplier might not have stock of your specific cartridge type (Probably only with more exotic, older printers).
Murder all people that are part of the company, destroy all data/knowledge the company has produced.
I write a mostly technical blog, and 75% of my hits come from Google, with people looking for solutions for problems that i've already solved in the past.
I don't have any advertising, and i'm not using some special SEO technics. I'm quite content with the traffic and my pagerank of 5.
Not a problem. All i need now is a few oil tankers (distributed along the route), and a few well trained monkeys (to jump towards the car with a petrol hose).
Well, at least i got the typo excuse ;)
I'm not going to watch b/w movies. We have the year 2008 now.
:)
Sorry if that makes me unintellectual
Sorry gramps, i'll get of your lawn now.
South Park had this as a reference to Alien 4. I don't know what the poster meant, but i would guess that he meant Alien 4 too.
It's the part were you see the Ripley/Alien crossovers that went wrong - most of them are in glasses/formaldehyd, but one is still (mostly) alive and says "Kill me". Then, everything gets torched with a flamethrower.
The only good scene in part IV.
Yeah, they should've used one of those OSS ERP systems that simply don't exist.
A mail order bride on russia with a 45 year old guy makes you creepy, not cool.