If any organic matter, much less amino acids, could survive the ravages of cosmic rays and temperature changes of space, it would be more likely that any "seeds" spreading life probably came from earth. If earth were to dry up, it would be trivial for a rover to find signs of ancient life. We can't find shit (literally) on Mars, yet many some scientists believe life began there.
Try this: age of universe - age of earth / chances of amino acids surviving cosmic rays X when life began on earth = earth is probably the one spreading amino acids.
Windows is in its death throes? Another Slashdot reader in his mothers basement that has NO IDEA how powerful Active Directory is, much less Exchange, Sharepoint, and Windows Server 2008. Ask any modern developer what he is programming in..Net! I can only pray that I don't see another damn kernel panic ever again.
Recursive file copy is broken - it'll copy a few files then crap out without an error.
Robocopy is standard in Vista. All my Robocopy scripts work except with the Users folder. It hits a permissions error when recursively copying files from the users folder that has more than 20 characters. I changed the Deny All permissions to explicit and it works fine.
Network file copy is broken - it has a max transfer rate of 2k/sec on a gigabit network (XP on the same hardware can saturate it).
I copy 9 GB DVD (ISO and VOB) files to and from vista on GB Ethernet with no slowdowns.
Network settings worked for a couple of months then broke, giving 'permission denied' for every screen so you couldn't even tell if the cable was plugged in.
And nothing changed during those two months? I call this User Error. I haven't had any network permission errors that were not my fault.
It would just reboot, randomly, with no warning. On known good hardware with 100% WHQL drivers.
I've never had any of my Vista systems randomly reboot. Sounds like a hardware issue.
The base OS uses 700mb minimum. On a 1.5GB machine that leaves too little for a decent development environment, so the whole thing slowed to a crawl with both the prefetch *and* swapping to disk driving the hard disk to distraction.
I run quite a few systems with 512 MB RAM that run local databases. Oracle, Parodox, and C-side. They run great if I turn off the sidebar.
The DNS handling is utterly broken - if you try to connect to a local machine more often than not it'd pick something random on the internet and try to connect to that. You have to use FQDN all the time otherwise it's a major security problem (vista is currently banned at our company for precisely this reason).
I use home made certificates and non FQDNs (simple host name) on over twenty systems and I do not have any problems.
More often than not it'd pick something random...
sounds like a made up statistic. If I'd said that to my electrical engineer he'd think I was a dolt.
On a laptop it fails to impress. Because it's hitting the hard drive 24/7 the battery life is less than 1/3 of what XP can manage on the same hardware.
I have only seen this when the Google search toolbar crap is installed. Did you open the System Monitor to see what was hitting the drive? What was it? Also, I'm getting better battery life. All my deployed laptops are.
Sometimes it would just forget its users... literally forgot they existed. You had to boot into safe mode and recover.
Has anyone else ever seen anything like this? You would think that would be a major problem if it happened to more people than just you.
I'm sure you have 20 years of experience and you are Microsoft certified, but this really sound a bit far fetched considering that I know of hundreds of Vista deployments that have not seen any problems like these. Are you aware of how many businesses are actually using Vista without any problems?
I have deployed SP1 and have had no problems on over twenty computers. That's the good thing about Microsoft having a huge customer base; you don't have to wait very long to find out if a patch or service pack is going to cause problems. The only problems I had before the service pack were some annoyances on laptops, like slight (two seconds) hesitation before transferring files. The laptops seem very snappy after applying SP1, but like I said, Vista was working very well on all systems before. The systems are Dell 745s, 755s, D620s, D630s, and some home made P4s (2.8 GHz or higher, socket 478s) on Asus boards. I only use XP if I have to. Vista works much better than XP, especially the Ultimate version compared to MCE. Watching TV on a third DVI monitor to the left of your primary monitor is a pain in the ass to setup in Linux (I never could get it on the left and some forum users simply told me to watch TV on my right monitor - Debian and Fedora) and XP forgets settings between reboots. In Vista it takes a couple of seconds to setup and has always worked perfectly. It does everything I want to do in a couple of seconds. More Group Policy settings, egress filtering firewall, better power management, and better resource monitoring utilities built in. I can finally see what app or service is hammering the disk without installing a third party application. I find it troubling when users have trouble with Vista on one system yet I have had none on over twenty in a production environment (think HIPAA and YOUR medical info on my Vista systems). Hell, some companies have deployed thousands.
Here is your answer; if your computer is a piece of shit (Celeron), do not install Vista! If it has specs like a Mac (Duo or Quad), you will be fine.
Because 1and1.com hosting does not have a very good reputation and you have just associated yourself with them through an endorsement. Do a Google search for 1and1.com sucks. Most 5,330 results are not happy with 1and1.com and I also think they suck. I have gone with a different hosting service because I had problems with them. That is why. My new hosting service is great, but I will not prostitute myself for them in forums.
I have deployed Vista, but explaining to Linux fanatics what Active Directory can do is like mumbling to a brick on a busy street corner.
That said, once a few users had it, the news spread. Everyone wanted it. I only had one problem; a print server was handing out XP drivers for a Xerox 8400 which is incompatible. The Windows 2000 Server didn't know any better. On the client it would shut the spooler down. I manually installed the Vista drivers and that was that. My support for Vista compared to XP has dropped to zero. My best experience is remote users thousands of miles away. They love it. I use Linux for some purpose driven servers, but I would never give it to a user. It doesn't work with everything; it only works better with lots of things.
Sit through one or two advertisements so I can access my grocery list? If this project doesn't get derailed, it could be very helpful or Apple will re-invent it and make a gazillion because they make it look like a sleek silver dildo. I can't wait... the Apple iCart that only works if you register and update through iTunes.
I've scanned most of the posts and all the stores mention make me very uncomfortable. They seem like total rip-off centers. I maybe eccentric, but I only shop at New Egg and Trader Joe's. If they could join up and open a brick and mortar shop, I would feel right at home. Welcome to New Joe's, your retail Samsung Centre that actually sells Samsung devices. P.S. CompUSA sucked.
Isn't PostScript better if you simply need a container for printing and viewing? Forms are used by all large HR departments, non-profit orgs, the IRS, and grant organizations (like endowment for the arts). Adobe reader also has a corner on being able to fill the forms compared to other readers. Don't get me wrong, I dispise Acrobat. I would much rather use PS, but it doesn't have nearly the flexability.
How about Public Key Security, locking documents with DRM, cataloging and index collections, online and offline comments, database connectivity, digital signatures, PDF conformation verification, JavaScript capabilities, forms, highlight searches, Web capture, image extraction, legal warnings about digitally signing dynamic content, tagged PDF converter for screen readers, edit pictures within PDF files, save as XML and HTML or RTF, spell checking, save table as CSV, HTML, Text, Unicode Text, RTF, XML, or XML.
The big one is of course forms. Do any other PDF creators create PDFs with forms? Do they do it well?
I use cutePDFcreator, Foxit, and a few others but they are missing the ability to create forms. Some do it; none do it well, IMO. Without forms it's just a static document. PDF is overkill for just a portable static document. The full version of Adobe Acrobat is fantastic at creating forms. That is what makes it so special.
Rare? Okay. Too bad that the moon actually slowed the creation of life with its meddling gravitational pull. Without the moon interference amino acids would have formed earlier and we would have the holodeck and Duke Nukem Forever by now.
Unless they are protecting me from a collision with an asteroid I could care less what NASA does. I know their effective results are centuries away. They should be researching innovative computer and material technologies (think space suits and rocket fuel), not attempting space travel with our primitive tools and knowledge. If you can't stop a piece of foam from knocking out a few critical heat sheilding tiles, you have no business attempting flight of any kind. jetting to Alpha Centari using our current technology is a joke. NASA is wasting money by shutting out fringe engineers with inovative ideas. Maybe they should spend their time integrating ideas between other countries space programs so earthlings stop reinventing the wheel. Oh shit, that would be communism.
I will not claim either, but mostly because Seagate made decent products. I say -made- because they bought Maxtor and I'm waiting to see if their manufacturing changes. Now if this was Maxtor, I would be fighting for every penny I could get from those bastards.
So PowerPoint doesn't export as pdfs? Mine does. It also exports as xps files which is fine because I dislike flash and quicktime. Also, will Keynote run on my Vista, OpenSuse, or FreeBSD system?
Agreed. I grew up playing Star Raiders on an Atari 400. Since then I have also enjoyed Quake, along with Doom, Heretic, Wolf ET, Call of Duty, and way too many more to mention. I played Berzerk until my inner ear gave out and vertigo made me one with the filthy carpet at the Yellow Brick Road. I anxiously drool for the newer games with better AI and more realistic online game play. My only regret is that I will be dead when the Holodeck® becomes a realization. Article is bunk. Pong sucked.
He is describing Windows v6. Where are the details of Windows 7? I've played with the beta of 2008 Core, and it is fun and all, but that's exactly what he seems to be talking about. As a matter of fact he does talk about it, yet he gives no details of Windows v7 past the ASCII boot screen. Did I miss something? Is that the big change? They save HDD space by using ASCII graphics?
Wouldn't that be nice? The Black Sabbath 1996 Castle Remastered releases were amazing compared to the original releases. I hope Led Zeppelin does the same. We could finally hear what they are saying before the songs (not even yet?). If iTunes had their say I'm sure the quality would be reduced. Would Verizon be able to get reels or would they use CDex like everybody else? So... I guess I already have all the digital Zepp?
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Try this: age of universe - age of earth / chances of amino acids surviving cosmic rays X when life began on earth = earth is probably the one spreading amino acids.
Windows is in its death throes? Another Slashdot reader in his mothers basement that has NO IDEA how powerful Active Directory is, much less Exchange, Sharepoint, and Windows Server 2008. Ask any modern developer what he is programming in. .Net! I can only pray that I don't see another damn kernel panic ever again.
Robocopy is standard in Vista. All my Robocopy scripts work except with the Users folder. It hits a permissions error when recursively copying files from the users folder that has more than 20 characters. I changed the Deny All permissions to explicit and it works fine.Recursive file copy is broken - it'll copy a few files then crap out without an error.
I copy 9 GB DVD (ISO and VOB) files to and from vista on GB Ethernet with no slowdowns.Network file copy is broken - it has a max transfer rate of 2k/sec on a gigabit network (XP on the same hardware can saturate it).
And nothing changed during those two months? I call this User Error. I haven't had any network permission errors that were not my fault.Network settings worked for a couple of months then broke, giving 'permission denied' for every screen so you couldn't even tell if the cable was plugged in.
I've never had any of my Vista systems randomly reboot. Sounds like a hardware issue.It would just reboot, randomly, with no warning. On known good hardware with 100% WHQL drivers.
I run quite a few systems with 512 MB RAM that run local databases. Oracle, Parodox, and C-side. They run great if I turn off the sidebar.The base OS uses 700mb minimum. On a 1.5GB machine that leaves too little for a decent development environment, so the whole thing slowed to a crawl with both the prefetch *and* swapping to disk driving the hard disk to distraction.
I use home made certificates and non FQDNs (simple host name) on over twenty systems and I do not have any problems. More often than not it'd pick something random... sounds like a made up statistic. If I'd said that to my electrical engineer he'd think I was a dolt.The DNS handling is utterly broken - if you try to connect to a local machine more often than not it'd pick something random on the internet and try to connect to that. You have to use FQDN all the time otherwise it's a major security problem (vista is currently banned at our company for precisely this reason).
I have only seen this when the Google search toolbar crap is installed. Did you open the System Monitor to see what was hitting the drive? What was it? Also, I'm getting better battery life. All my deployed laptops are.On a laptop it fails to impress. Because it's hitting the hard drive 24/7 the battery life is less than 1/3 of what XP can manage on the same hardware.
Has anyone else ever seen anything like this? You would think that would be a major problem if it happened to more people than just you.Sometimes it would just forget its users... literally forgot they existed. You had to boot into safe mode and recover.
I'm sure you have 20 years of experience and you are Microsoft certified, but this really sound a bit far fetched considering that I know of hundreds of Vista deployments that have not seen any problems like these. Are you aware of how many businesses are actually using Vista without any problems?
Here is your answer; if your computer is a piece of shit (Celeron), do not install Vista! If it has specs like a Mac (Duo or Quad), you will be fine.
You got a +3 insightful for quoting Adam Sandler in the WaterBoy. It should be +5 funny. Something is seriously busted.
You belong in the category of people who spell Microsoft M$ because you do not have an objective opinion.
Because 1and1.com hosting does not have a very good reputation and you have just associated yourself with them through an endorsement. Do a Google search for 1and1.com sucks. Most 5,330 results are not happy with 1and1.com and I also think they suck. I have gone with a different hosting service because I had problems with them. That is why. My new hosting service is great, but I will not prostitute myself for them in forums.
Your sig is an advertisement. Do you know that it reflects poorly upon you and ruins the integrity of your posts?
I have deployed Vista, but explaining to Linux fanatics what Active Directory can do is like mumbling to a brick on a busy street corner. That said, once a few users had it, the news spread. Everyone wanted it. I only had one problem; a print server was handing out XP drivers for a Xerox 8400 which is incompatible. The Windows 2000 Server didn't know any better. On the client it would shut the spooler down. I manually installed the Vista drivers and that was that. My support for Vista compared to XP has dropped to zero. My best experience is remote users thousands of miles away. They love it. I use Linux for some purpose driven servers, but I would never give it to a user. It doesn't work with everything; it only works better with lots of things.
Correct. I am very surprised it took a team of Italian neurobiologists to almost get it right.
Sit through one or two advertisements so I can access my grocery list? If this project doesn't get derailed, it could be very helpful or Apple will re-invent it and make a gazillion because they make it look like a sleek silver dildo. I can't wait... the Apple iCart that only works if you register and update through iTunes.
What do you do to the ads while you surf the net? Put shopping bags over a quarter of your monitor?
I've scanned most of the posts and all the stores mention make me very uncomfortable. They seem like total rip-off centers. I maybe eccentric, but I only shop at New Egg and Trader Joe's. If they could join up and open a brick and mortar shop, I would feel right at home. Welcome to New Joe's, your retail Samsung Centre that actually sells Samsung devices. P.S. CompUSA sucked.
You should Google that. I really doubt it means what you think it means.
Isn't PostScript better if you simply need a container for printing and viewing? Forms are used by all large HR departments, non-profit orgs, the IRS, and grant organizations (like endowment for the arts). Adobe reader also has a corner on being able to fill the forms compared to other readers. Don't get me wrong, I dispise Acrobat. I would much rather use PS, but it doesn't have nearly the flexability.
The big one is of course forms. Do any other PDF creators create PDFs with forms? Do they do it well?
I use cutePDFcreator, Foxit, and a few others but they are missing the ability to create forms. Some do it; none do it well, IMO. Without forms it's just a static document. PDF is overkill for just a portable static document. The full version of Adobe Acrobat is fantastic at creating forms. That is what makes it so special.
What if this were never posted as a real news article?
Rare? Okay. Too bad that the moon actually slowed the creation of life with its meddling gravitational pull. Without the moon interference amino acids would have formed earlier and we would have the holodeck and Duke Nukem Forever by now.
Unless they are protecting me from a collision with an asteroid I could care less what NASA does. I know their effective results are centuries away. They should be researching innovative computer and material technologies (think space suits and rocket fuel), not attempting space travel with our primitive tools and knowledge. If you can't stop a piece of foam from knocking out a few critical heat sheilding tiles, you have no business attempting flight of any kind. jetting to Alpha Centari using our current technology is a joke. NASA is wasting money by shutting out fringe engineers with inovative ideas. Maybe they should spend their time integrating ideas between other countries space programs so earthlings stop reinventing the wheel. Oh shit, that would be communism.
I will not claim either, but mostly because Seagate made decent products. I say -made- because they bought Maxtor and I'm waiting to see if their manufacturing changes. Now if this was Maxtor, I would be fighting for every penny I could get from those bastards.
So PowerPoint doesn't export as pdfs? Mine does. It also exports as xps files which is fine because I dislike flash and quicktime. Also, will Keynote run on my Vista, OpenSuse, or FreeBSD system?
Agreed. I grew up playing Star Raiders on an Atari 400. Since then I have also enjoyed Quake, along with Doom, Heretic, Wolf ET, Call of Duty, and way too many more to mention. I played Berzerk until my inner ear gave out and vertigo made me one with the filthy carpet at the Yellow Brick Road. I anxiously drool for the newer games with better AI and more realistic online game play. My only regret is that I will be dead when the Holodeck® becomes a realization. Article is bunk. Pong sucked.
He is describing Windows v6. Where are the details of Windows 7? I've played with the beta of 2008 Core, and it is fun and all, but that's exactly what he seems to be talking about. As a matter of fact he does talk about it, yet he gives no details of Windows v7 past the ASCII boot screen. Did I miss something? Is that the big change? They save HDD space by using ASCII graphics?
Wouldn't that be nice? The Black Sabbath 1996 Castle Remastered releases were amazing compared to the original releases. I hope Led Zeppelin does the same. We could finally hear what they are saying before the songs (not even yet?). If iTunes had their say I'm sure the quality would be reduced. Would Verizon be able to get reels or would they use CDex like everybody else? So... I guess I already have all the digital Zepp?
Good morning. If you fine young gentlemen would like supportive, kind and courteous help with your Linux setup and install, we would gladly like to help. But, please, before we supply you with our kind, friendly and courteous support, please head on over to our comprehensive help center which has a friendly, intuitive, and easy to use text version of all the questions we are sick and tired of answering from all you stupid dumbass mutherfucking newbies who need the snot wiped off their faces, god-damn it. Why don't you just read the fucking manual?