Just like most cults, Slashdot readers hear what they want to hear. If you utter anything positive about Microsoft you are deemed computer illiterate. It is ironic that Slashdot has a topic about cults. Have you ever tried having an intelligent conversation about religion to a cult member? It is just like talking to an OSS zealot about software that the developer has the audacity to charge money for. Just watch how this is rated. Well, gotta go, Mormons are at my door!
A good question would be "can they do it"? Microsoft is great at solidifying technology to catch up with its competitors, or even through assimilation. They don't ruin products nearly as bad as CA or Symantec. I don't see assimilating Firefox, so, as late to the game as they are, can they pull off reviving the base of users they still have (that's a lot of users)? Why wouldn't it be called IE 7.1? Has it changed enough to justify 7 revisions?
I am astonished, nay, embarrassed, that so many posts here don't seem to know what a T1 is. If you are ever getting less than 1.54 Mbps on your T1 (not burstable) you are getting ripped off. Try calling your DSL or Cable provider and complaining about that! Back on topic; I seem to remember cable always costing $36 and my T1 has gone from $850 down to $500, so I don't understand how anyone can think that T1s have not dropped in price.
Blue screens create a dump file. Microsoft's debugging tools are free. Analyze the dump file to determine the exact cause of the blue screen. If the results are interesting, then post them here. This post is trolling. You could have at least included the error code.
Yeah, it takes a while to change from HAVING the RAM to USING the RAM. I was helped cold turkey using MS SQL, which grabs almost all your RAM and relinquishes it as other programs need it. I do miss having 4 gigs of free RAM, but what good is that?
I have an IP that still receives spam even though the MX record was changes seven years ago. That's right. SEVEN YEARS. Every once in a while I monitor port 25 and sure enough after about five minutes a hit, then another and another. There has been no SMTP for seven fricken years and they are still trying. Anyone who thinks spammers abide by MX records and RFCs is smoking crack.
Actually, that is incorrect. The drivers in the OS specify what power state the NIC is in when the system is shut down. I have Intel NICs that need no drivers at all and the WOL packet works fine, even when they have not yet been installed in the OS. I have 3Com NICs that never wake until they latest drivers are installed in the OS so the OS can put them in the correct power state when hibernating or powering off. I've worked on thousands of systems. This is why the entire article is FUD, because hardware doesn't always play nice.
I wrote a simple batch to burn to DVD-RW (or +RW) because I don't want a proprietary format, but it does not span disks. I make sure the backup fits on a DVD. There are quite a few posts endorsing Linux. Is there nix software that can approximate DVD size and span the burn across multiple DVDs with a wrapper/file splitter?
Symantec knows Microsoft will soon release an antivirus package. The XP firewall has already cut into the Symantec bottom line. Symantec needs to start grabing for cash while they can. This is a golden moment to get cash so their shitty R&D can come up with some Norton snake oil.
I used to use accelerators like the old Voodoo Monster. They went away quickly because the evolution of GPUs is fast. Isn't SLI going to always be too late to market the same way? This has already happened with the SLI once. They skipped to the 7800 series right away. AGP is out. PCIe has become x16. I'm not going SLI because I'm happy with my DDR3 6800GT until Asus releases next NVIDIA chipset that maximizes the bandwidth of my board. Might be tomorrow. Shit. I'll need MaxUltraUberPCIe just to handle the one card. How big is the market for SLI anyway?
Her former lawyer said this? Ham sandwich comes to mind. Remember O.J.? They have her IP Address. She did it. They have experts and they cannot afford the bad PR. She needs a lawyer.
I respond to integrity. BB has never had any. The have always overcharged and when they needed to, they lied (false advertising). Netflicks at least tried to offer a service worth the money. BB would charge you more than the product is worth if they could and they did! If people would remember how companies lied and cheated, they wouldn't lie and cheat so much to begin with. Please don't use BB. Companies should be a little competitive even without competition. We should boycott more often. Am I a communist? What we need is for BB to die, Netflicks to open better B&M stores and an alternative to Netflicks to offer a download service. No, not iTunes.
The screenshots are misleading because they do not match. I purchase from Dell and I don't accurate pricing (web is sometimes higher than corporate discount). Has anyone tried to get their own quotes from Dell or should we all be lemmings?
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If it is anything like Maxtor drives, I figure about two weeks, tops.
Just like most cults, Slashdot readers hear what they want to hear. If you utter anything positive about Microsoft you are deemed computer illiterate. It is ironic that Slashdot has a topic about cults. Have you ever tried having an intelligent conversation about religion to a cult member? It is just like talking to an OSS zealot about software that the developer has the audacity to charge money for. Just watch how this is rated. Well, gotta go, Mormons are at my door!
Are you kidding? Let's send an iPod to Dick Cheney ASAP! Wait... am I posting anonymously?
It's a good thing he was already dead. On a more serious note, I totally knew this would happen.
A good question would be "can they do it"? Microsoft is great at solidifying technology to catch up with its competitors, or even through assimilation. They don't ruin products nearly as bad as CA or Symantec. I don't see assimilating Firefox, so, as late to the game as they are, can they pull off reviving the base of users they still have (that's a lot of users)? Why wouldn't it be called IE 7.1? Has it changed enough to justify 7 revisions?
I am astonished, nay, embarrassed, that so many posts here don't seem to know what a T1 is. If you are ever getting less than 1.54 Mbps on your T1 (not burstable) you are getting ripped off. Try calling your DSL or Cable provider and complaining about that! Back on topic; I seem to remember cable always costing $36 and my T1 has gone from $850 down to $500, so I don't understand how anyone can think that T1s have not dropped in price.
Blue screens create a dump file. Microsoft's debugging tools are free. Analyze the dump file to determine the exact cause of the blue screen. If the results are interesting, then post them here. This post is trolling. You could have at least included the error code.
I thought the new Futurama episodes were going straight to DVD?
Oooh, look. That looks like a watch. There must be a watchmaker.
Yeah, it takes a while to change from HAVING the RAM to USING the RAM. I was helped cold turkey using MS SQL, which grabs almost all your RAM and relinquishes it as other programs need it. I do miss having 4 gigs of free RAM, but what good is that?
I have an IP that still receives spam even though the MX record was changes seven years ago. That's right. SEVEN YEARS. Every once in a while I monitor port 25 and sure enough after about five minutes a hit, then another and another. There has been no SMTP for seven fricken years and they are still trying. Anyone who thinks spammers abide by MX records and RFCs is smoking crack.
Actually, that is incorrect. The drivers in the OS specify what power state the NIC is in when the system is shut down. I have Intel NICs that need no drivers at all and the WOL packet works fine, even when they have not yet been installed in the OS. I have 3Com NICs that never wake until they latest drivers are installed in the OS so the OS can put them in the correct power state when hibernating or powering off. I've worked on thousands of systems. This is why the entire article is FUD, because hardware doesn't always play nice.
Here is my batch (simplified):
xcopy /C /H /E /R /Y "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\*" D:\storage\backup /M /* /s /q D:\storage\backup
C:\bin\mkisofs.exe -v -J -R -l -o D:\storage\DVDRW.iso D:\storage\backup
C:\bin\DVDburn.exe f: D:\storage\DVDRW.iso
C:\bin\diruse f:\
rd
I use TrueCrypt. http://www.truecrypt.org/ I also removed U3. U3 took 3 seconds to load. Way too long to wait for Sneakernet.
Symantec knows Microsoft will soon release an antivirus package. The XP firewall has already cut into the Symantec bottom line. Symantec needs to start grabing for cash while they can. This is a golden moment to get cash so their shitty R&D can come up with some Norton snake oil.
This should help me find that winning slurm can.
I used to use accelerators like the old Voodoo Monster. They went away quickly because the evolution of GPUs is fast. Isn't SLI going to always be too late to market the same way? This has already happened with the SLI once. They skipped to the 7800 series right away. AGP is out. PCIe has become x16. I'm not going SLI because I'm happy with my DDR3 6800GT until Asus releases next NVIDIA chipset that maximizes the bandwidth of my board. Might be tomorrow. Shit. I'll need MaxUltraUberPCIe just to handle the one card. How big is the market for SLI anyway?
Her former lawyer said this? Ham sandwich comes to mind. Remember O.J.? They have her IP Address. She did it. They have experts and they cannot afford the bad PR. She needs a lawyer.
I respond to integrity. BB has never had any. The have always overcharged and when they needed to, they lied (false advertising). Netflicks at least tried to offer a service worth the money. BB would charge you more than the product is worth if they could and they did! If people would remember how companies lied and cheated, they wouldn't lie and cheat so much to begin with. Please don't use BB. Companies should be a little competitive even without competition. We should boycott more often. Am I a communist? What we need is for BB to die, Netflicks to open better B&M stores and an alternative to Netflicks to offer a download service. No, not iTunes.
The screenshots are misleading because they do not match. I purchase from Dell and I don't accurate pricing (web is sometimes higher than corporate discount). Has anyone tried to get their own quotes from Dell or should we all be lemmings?