Okay I apologize however apparently Visual Studio somewhat arbitrarily flags the 32-bit flag just as a "why not" measure. This is not actually a.NET thing, but was a choice of the Visual Studio team when building.NET apps. There are command line tools to neutralize truly neutral.NET apps (e.g. "pure" apps).
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No, wrong. Current.NET apps will run in the context of the 32-bit.NET runtime, meaning they won't benefit from the larger address space or the eight additional general purpose registers.
You have a reference for that? Every source I've seen indicate that neutral.NET apps will automatically run as a 64-bit app when copied over. However, on the flip side you can mark the app to only run in 32-bit, or 64-bit, but the default mode is neutral, with no specific bitness.
Re:Is there a list of softare ready for it?
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Windows XP X64 Goes Gold
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I should note that the 64-bit.NET Framework isn't actually out yet: I don't believe it was delivered with the 64-bit XP. That was more of a "future focused" comment about an upcoming variant of the.NET Framework 2.0 that will be 64-bit.
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Windows XP X64 Goes Gold
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With the.NET Framework as "64-bit native", all.NET apps will immediately benefit, and the JIT compiler can take advantage of all of the goodness of x64.
In the binary world, an upcoming version of SQL Server 2005 x86 is promised.
How do you feel when you have to call a plumber in to your home, knowing that every hour they sit there scratching their ass will cost you $125? Like most people you probably dread it, and you try to DIY as much as possible. You probably even try to maintain your manlihood by trying to demonstrate to him what you know once he comes.
People don't like depending upon other people, and the sad reality, and it's amazing how few techs realized this, was that people were patronizing you in the past when they'd fawn over you. That wasn't that they respected you, but rather that they thought that they could get as much out of you as possible by pushing your ego buttons.
I caught onto that very early in my career, and no longer did coworkers and family talking about how I'm the smartest person they've ever met and boy do I know computers, ad nauseum, fool me into providing pro bono work.
And i get a loads of comment spam that use keywords similar to the spam that the wordpress website was hosting.
This is actually a very interesting comment, and I hope it gets the attention it deserves.
To clarify, one of the reasons Wordpress is so highly ranked is that, by default, every wordpress install includes a link back to the "home base". Insta-PageRank. Of course, this wouldn't help Wordpress.org for oddball things like mesothelioma for any contextual search engine (I have no idea if Google actually does this, but I've oft dreamed of making a contextual search engine - each link has value only against certain topics/nouns, so for instance a blog about Star Trek would boost recipient links in the ranking of Star Trek links, but not for Britney Spears searches).
So to make a double pronged attack, comment spam is launched against all of the Wordpress sites to includes terms like mesothelioma. Google visits Joe's Blog, sees mesothelioma, and sees a link to wordpress.org and ranks Wordpress up for Cancer related searches. The subversive content goes up in the rankings not only for generic PageRank, but also for specialized topic PageRank.
Again, I have no idea if Google actually uses this sort of contextual rankings (they should), but it is something to contemplate.
Oh, and to clarify/refute something several other people have stated - asbestos was an accepted insulator/fire retardant for a while, but then we realized that it was dangerous and banned it. Unfortunately some dirtbags, such as Grace, decided to continue making products laced with cancerous asbestos for years after the dangers were common knowledge.
I just get irked at the implication that companies are being retroactively attacked for products that we all thought were great - most of the people who are being sued were guilty of the worst forms of negligence, fully knowing the risks of their products.
My father worked for a couple of decades for Grace in a processing plant in St. Thomas, ON., and of course in his mid-50s he developed, and passed away from, a quick spreading lung cancer caused by asbestos.
Of course the cause was the heavily laced vermiculite (I remember hopping in big bins full of the stuff when I was a kid. It was a really neat spongy stuff that looked really interesting) that Grace was processing at the St. Thomas plant, and they knew for many years that it was packed full of asbestos but decided that lawsuits due to death and injuries were less costly than cutting off the asbestos lined mine.
Anyways, a lot of executives at Grace should have gone to jail for gross negligence causing death, but of course they didn't. As it stands we never did sue Grace, as that sort of case is much less common here in Canada, but I'm sure my father wasn't the only victim.
A software firewall is more like a last line of defense.
That's exactly what it is, and it serves the role well. If you have 5 servers in a DMZ, all going through a common firewall, you still should limit access between those 5 servers (so if one is exploited it has limited access to the other servers). e.g. The SQL Server machine only allows subnet 1433 TCP connections, and so on.
You don't want something behind the real firewall causing havoc, but it's better to be prepared for that possibility.
First new and improved script-kiddie exploits available in 3...2..1...
Keep that argument going, but the reality is that Windows Server 2003 has been the most secure Microsoft offering to date (I know I know - that isn't saying much).
Through a minimalist initial setup, to a wide variety of security improvements in things like the way IIS 6 operates, Windows Server 2003 has fallen prey to very, very few exploits. I think the fact that the first service pack took two years to hit the market, and much of it is additional functionality or tweaking (rather than actual fixes), really says a lot for the quality of the product.
I guess my point, if I have one, is that while the anti-M$ hoardes continue the security mantra as if it was 1999, Windows Server 2003 is really an excellent, secure product. I think the mininions need to evolve their FUD.
"there is very little one can do to ensure they are being serviced properly in todays marketplace that,"
Sure you can, and it's where I see a tremendous logic gap in the article's primary contention. You can best assess the skills of a potential service person/organization by word of mouth, and the capitalist effect of doing a job well. I don't care if you have a wall covered with honours, if everyone says you do crap work then no thanks. Alternately maybe you're self-taught from "Computers for Dummy's", but everyone is raving. Come on in.
If you want someone to do something for you, talk to friends, neighbours, associates and see if they have braved the system, and who they had good luck with and who they didn't. Ultimately this is vastly superior to any paper credentials.
This technique works both at the individual level, and the organizational level - A firm like Nerds On Site has a serious motivation to ensure that top notch work is done under their banner, and they ensure that they have the right people, with the right knowledge networks, to make that so. They do followup surveys to ensure that customers are satisfied, and to deal with any disatisfaction/training issues. This is the beauty of the capitalist system, and customers have the power of internet communication to make their experiences known.
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ID Theft Made Easy
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I knew you must be talking about Citicorp - astounding how such a large financial group could use such borderline-fraudulent, racket type techniques. Basically here in Canada two banks merged, and they decided to dump the Mastercard business of one and keep the Visa of the other.
They sold the Mastercard business off to Citicorp, and thus began the introduction of Canadians to slime-ball banking. While our banks tend towards incompetence, and are often large money sucking pigs, I have never seen a Canadian bank do one of those scumbag "surprize cheque" techniques, or the various assorted other dirtball deals Citi stuffs in with every bill.
uh, source? or did you just pull this out of your ass?
I said something completely generic and basically unrefutable (because it's so vague), and your brilliant retort is that I pulled it out of my ass? Uh huh.
In any case, most motorcycles get between 25-55 mpg (go look it up yourself). Big deal - a Prius, an astronomically more practical and utilitarian vehicle, gets 50 mpg.
I once recieved an abusive letter (Pinned under the windsheild wiper of my car) from another tenant in the same building where had just moved in
Interesting. This wasn't in London, Ontario, was it? My wife and I had an experience several years back where someone moved in and immediately started parking in the spot that was numbered the same as their apartment. The problem was that the parking spot numbering had absolutely nothing to do with the apartment number (the number system was sequential for the parking spots, starting at 1, whereas the apartments started at 100, having only 12 or so instances in each 100. Not to mention the possibility of people having no car, or multiple cars).
My wife left the culprit a brief note indicating that spots were assigned, and they should speak with the super about getting an assigned spot. The next day we found some raving, several pages long diatribe that included threats of physical confrontation, claiming that they were backed up by the super.
Of course we kept parking in the spot, and the moron never said another thing. Apparently they eventually did take their case to the super and everything went quiet.
In theory you're right, in actual reality you're completely wrong. A massive portion of the.NET Framework is actual a thin veneer over Win32 calls (ildasm - this isn't rocket science). The.NET Framework pulled it into a much easier, and more organized structure, but the bulk of the code is actually Win32.
The post several generations before was actually talking the standard smoke and mirrors of distance "it's all gonna change!" bullshit. Longhorn is basically taking Windows XP, with largely the same kernel and underlying subsystems, and of course all of the Win32 API, and adding a new managed shell. Let's remember that explorer.exe is just an application. This new shell will have a first-class.NET interface, as will some of the new higher level services like Avalon and Indigo.
Wouldn't it be cool if instead of cooking the benchmarks AMD put the processors head to head and made them use the same Radeon Mobility 9600 card with 128M RAM? Why didn't they do this? Were they afraid of something?
Centrino is a serious piece of branding, and an integral part of Centrino is the Intel integrated graphics. When someone heads to Best Buy, that is what they're going to get.
If I go to get one of the AMD chips in laptop form, my options are much more open, and generally much more powerful.
There is nothing whatsoever bogus about this comparison. It's like complaining that a Honda Civic versus a Chrysler 300C reviewe didn't put the engine of the 300C in the Civic to "make it fair".
Why is that strange? nofollow is a controversial solution that uses an atomic bomb to fight the petty nuisance of discussion board spam, and I don't think it was an oversight that the Slashdot crew haven't added it.
Having said that I believe I heard once that Slashdot that Google indexes is Score:5 or something of that sort. I could be wrong.
On a tiny, relatively low resolution display. No thanks.
I bought a PDA based upon this premise, and quickly realized that it was completely unworkable (at least for me). The PDA sat in the box for a year until I Ebayed it.
Windows CE/Pocket PC is a completely separate codebase, and while it contains APIs that follow the same signature as their Win32 equivalents, and it marginally looks like the desktop equivalent, it was built from the ground-up for micro-devices.
Having said that, my experiences with a PocketPC PDA were less than savoury - I experienced lockups several times (just because it's specially targeted doesn't mean it's perfect). If my phone locked up once I'd toss it and get another one.
It's interesting how everyday devices are getting less and less stable. My new DVD drive has locked up on me several times. My PVR/cable box has unceremoniously virtual-BSOD and restarted several times, cars electronics are crashing, and soon cell phones. Progress?
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Okay I apologize however apparently Visual Studio somewhat arbitrarily flags the 32-bit flag just as a "why not" measure. This is not actually a .NET thing, but was a choice of the Visual Studio team when building .NET apps. There are command line tools to neutralize truly neutral .NET apps (e.g. "pure" apps).
No, wrong. Current .NET apps will run in the context of the 32-bit .NET runtime, meaning they won't benefit from the larger address space or the eight additional general purpose registers.
.NET apps will automatically run as a 64-bit app when copied over. However, on the flip side you can mark the app to only run in 32-bit, or 64-bit, but the default mode is neutral, with no specific bitness.
You have a reference for that? Every source I've seen indicate that neutral
I should note that the 64-bit .NET Framework isn't actually out yet: I don't believe it was delivered with the 64-bit XP. That was more of a "future focused" comment about an upcoming variant of the .NET Framework 2.0 that will be 64-bit.
With the .NET Framework as "64-bit native", all .NET apps will immediately benefit, and the JIT compiler can take advantage of all of the goodness of x64.
In the binary world, an upcoming version of SQL Server 2005 x86 is promised.
It was posted at 8:38am Slashdot time (i.e. where most of the Slashdot crew lives).
How do you feel when you have to call a plumber in to your home, knowing that every hour they sit there scratching their ass will cost you $125? Like most people you probably dread it, and you try to DIY as much as possible. You probably even try to maintain your manlihood by trying to demonstrate to him what you know once he comes.
People don't like depending upon other people, and the sad reality, and it's amazing how few techs realized this, was that people were patronizing you in the past when they'd fawn over you. That wasn't that they respected you, but rather that they thought that they could get as much out of you as possible by pushing your ego buttons.
I caught onto that very early in my career, and no longer did coworkers and family talking about how I'm the smartest person they've ever met and boy do I know computers, ad nauseum, fool me into providing pro bono work.
And i get a loads of comment spam that use keywords similar to the spam that the wordpress website was hosting.
This is actually a very interesting comment, and I hope it gets the attention it deserves.
To clarify, one of the reasons Wordpress is so highly ranked is that, by default, every wordpress install includes a link back to the "home base". Insta-PageRank. Of course, this wouldn't help Wordpress.org for oddball things like mesothelioma for any contextual search engine (I have no idea if Google actually does this, but I've oft dreamed of making a contextual search engine - each link has value only against certain topics/nouns, so for instance a blog about Star Trek would boost recipient links in the ranking of Star Trek links, but not for Britney Spears searches).
So to make a double pronged attack, comment spam is launched against all of the Wordpress sites to includes terms like mesothelioma. Google visits Joe's Blog, sees mesothelioma, and sees a link to wordpress.org and ranks Wordpress up for Cancer related searches. The subversive content goes up in the rankings not only for generic PageRank, but also for specialized topic PageRank.
Again, I have no idea if Google actually uses this sort of contextual rankings (they should), but it is something to contemplate.
Oh, and to clarify/refute something several other people have stated - asbestos was an accepted insulator/fire retardant for a while, but then we realized that it was dangerous and banned it. Unfortunately some dirtbags, such as Grace, decided to continue making products laced with cancerous asbestos for years after the dangers were common knowledge.
I just get irked at the implication that companies are being retroactively attacked for products that we all thought were great - most of the people who are being sued were guilty of the worst forms of negligence, fully knowing the risks of their products.
My father worked for a couple of decades for Grace in a processing plant in St. Thomas, ON., and of course in his mid-50s he developed, and passed away from, a quick spreading lung cancer caused by asbestos.
Of course the cause was the heavily laced vermiculite (I remember hopping in big bins full of the stuff when I was a kid. It was a really neat spongy stuff that looked really interesting) that Grace was processing at the St. Thomas plant, and they knew for many years that it was packed full of asbestos but decided that lawsuits due to death and injuries were less costly than cutting off the asbestos lined mine.
Anyways, a lot of executives at Grace should have gone to jail for gross negligence causing death, but of course they didn't. As it stands we never did sue Grace, as that sort of case is much less common here in Canada, but I'm sure my father wasn't the only victim.
A software firewall is more like a last line of defense.
That's exactly what it is, and it serves the role well. If you have 5 servers in a DMZ, all going through a common firewall, you still should limit access between those 5 servers (so if one is exploited it has limited access to the other servers). e.g. The SQL Server machine only allows subnet 1433 TCP connections, and so on.
You don't want something behind the real firewall causing havoc, but it's better to be prepared for that possibility.
First new and improved script-kiddie exploits available in 3...2..1...
Keep that argument going, but the reality is that Windows Server 2003 has been the most secure Microsoft offering to date (I know I know - that isn't saying much).
Through a minimalist initial setup, to a wide variety of security improvements in things like the way IIS 6 operates, Windows Server 2003 has fallen prey to very, very few exploits. I think the fact that the first service pack took two years to hit the market, and much of it is additional functionality or tweaking (rather than actual fixes), really says a lot for the quality of the product.
I guess my point, if I have one, is that while the anti-M$ hoardes continue the security mantra as if it was 1999, Windows Server 2003 is really an excellent, secure product. I think the mininions need to evolve their FUD.
"there is very little one can do to ensure they are being serviced properly in todays marketplace that,"
Sure you can, and it's where I see a tremendous logic gap in the article's primary contention. You can best assess the skills of a potential service person/organization by word of mouth, and the capitalist effect of doing a job well. I don't care if you have a wall covered with honours, if everyone says you do crap work then no thanks. Alternately maybe you're self-taught from "Computers for Dummy's", but everyone is raving. Come on in.
If you want someone to do something for you, talk to friends, neighbours, associates and see if they have braved the system, and who they had good luck with and who they didn't. Ultimately this is vastly superior to any paper credentials.
This technique works both at the individual level, and the organizational level - A firm like Nerds On Site has a serious motivation to ensure that top notch work is done under their banner, and they ensure that they have the right people, with the right knowledge networks, to make that so. They do followup surveys to ensure that customers are satisfied, and to deal with any disatisfaction/training issues. This is the beauty of the capitalist system, and customers have the power of internet communication to make their experiences known.
I knew you must be talking about Citicorp - astounding how such a large financial group could use such borderline-fraudulent, racket type techniques. Basically here in Canada two banks merged, and they decided to dump the Mastercard business of one and keep the Visa of the other.
They sold the Mastercard business off to Citicorp, and thus began the introduction of Canadians to slime-ball banking. While our banks tend towards incompetence, and are often large money sucking pigs, I have never seen a Canadian bank do one of those scumbag "surprize cheque" techniques, or the various assorted other dirtball deals Citi stuffs in with every bill.
Yet still it's the world's second largest economy - a point you seem to miss.
The Japanese economy isn't going anywhere
Exactly dillhole. The Japanese economy is an extremely strong second place, and it represents a massive, lucrative, affluent marketplace.
uh, source? or did you just pull this out of your ass?
I said something completely generic and basically unrefutable (because it's so vague), and your brilliant retort is that I pulled it out of my ass? Uh huh.
In any case, most motorcycles get between 25-55 mpg (go look it up yourself). Big deal - a Prius, an astronomically more practical and utilitarian vehicle, gets 50 mpg.
Actually most motorbikes get terrible fuel efficiency compared to what people probably imagine.
I once recieved an abusive letter (Pinned under the windsheild wiper of my car) from another tenant in the same building where had just moved in
Interesting. This wasn't in London, Ontario, was it? My wife and I had an experience several years back where someone moved in and immediately started parking in the spot that was numbered the same as their apartment. The problem was that the parking spot numbering had absolutely nothing to do with the apartment number (the number system was sequential for the parking spots, starting at 1, whereas the apartments started at 100, having only 12 or so instances in each 100. Not to mention the possibility of people having no car, or multiple cars).
My wife left the culprit a brief note indicating that spots were assigned, and they should speak with the super about getting an assigned spot. The next day we found some raving, several pages long diatribe that included threats of physical confrontation, claiming that they were backed up by the super.
Of course we kept parking in the spot, and the moron never said another thing. Apparently they eventually did take their case to the super and everything went quiet.
In theory you're right, in actual reality you're completely wrong. A massive portion of the .NET Framework is actual a thin veneer over Win32 calls (ildasm - this isn't rocket science). The .NET Framework pulled it into a much easier, and more organized structure, but the bulk of the code is actually Win32.
.NET interface, as will some of the new higher level services like Avalon and Indigo.
The post several generations before was actually talking the standard smoke and mirrors of distance "it's all gonna change!" bullshit. Longhorn is basically taking Windows XP, with largely the same kernel and underlying subsystems, and of course all of the Win32 API, and adding a new managed shell. Let's remember that explorer.exe is just an application. This new shell will have a first-class
Wouldn't it be cool if instead of cooking the benchmarks AMD put the processors head to head and made them use the same Radeon Mobility 9600 card with 128M RAM? Why didn't they do this? Were they afraid of something?
Centrino is a serious piece of branding, and an integral part of Centrino is the Intel integrated graphics. When someone heads to Best Buy, that is what they're going to get.
If I go to get one of the AMD chips in laptop form, my options are much more open, and generally much more powerful.
There is nothing whatsoever bogus about this comparison. It's like complaining that a Honda Civic versus a Chrysler 300C reviewe didn't put the engine of the 300C in the Civic to "make it fair".
Why is that strange? nofollow is a controversial solution that uses an atomic bomb to fight the petty nuisance of discussion board spam, and I don't think it was an oversight that the Slashdot crew haven't added it.
Having said that I believe I heard once that Slashdot that Google indexes is Score:5 or something of that sort. I could be wrong.
yafla - now with more zing!
On a tiny, relatively low resolution display. No thanks.
I bought a PDA based upon this premise, and quickly realized that it was completely unworkable (at least for me). The PDA sat in the box for a year until I Ebayed it.
Great idea! We can dedicate chips to graphics coprocessing, sound tasks, network relating things, input/output. I hope they build this soon!
Interesting. So how would your hash algorithm work for
LIKE 'Sun%'
?
Windows CE/Pocket PC is a completely separate codebase, and while it contains APIs that follow the same signature as their Win32 equivalents, and it marginally looks like the desktop equivalent, it was built from the ground-up for micro-devices.
Having said that, my experiences with a PocketPC PDA were less than savoury - I experienced lockups several times (just because it's specially targeted doesn't mean it's perfect). If my phone locked up once I'd toss it and get another one.
It's interesting how everyday devices are getting less and less stable. My new DVD drive has locked up on me several times. My PVR/cable box has unceremoniously virtual-BSOD and restarted several times, cars electronics are crashing, and soon cell phones. Progress?