Man, Time Warner must be living in the glory of the golden age of Internet.
I'm sitting here with more than 100Mb/s of Internet connectivity. 5GB/MO? Heck, that's one DVD ISO (OpenSUSE.) I'll download that in an hour. (Limited by bandwidth of the other end.)
Must suck to be you to be limited to 5GB. And since Microsoft SP2, Office SP up to SP3, and such can eat a huge percentage of that, you just know folks will be bitching to Microsoft about that.
I always wondered why folks didn't use other Internet technologies such as DNS to get around the "blocking" issue?
What's to prevent all the tracker information from being put into a master DNS server with a low TTL, and building up torrent search software which queries DNS?
You could store this into TXT records and query DNS to find the results;
"Thomas-Edison-The-Lost-Chord-1888" IN TXT a9cd93da939d9c9
The TXT being a unique code which again is looked up in DNS
a9cd93da939d9c9.subdomain.domain.toplevel
And the result is a list of IP's that are currently seeding the torrent, and thus BT can subscribe to. I can do a dynamic DNS update to add my client to the list of machines seeding the torrent.
So there is no HTTP traffic involved in this exchange. The DNS is typically provided by the ISP, so caching would be in effect. So you want TTLs to be low. The clients will be querying against the ISP's DNS server. Dynamic DNS would be to the parent DNS server. The ISP could blackhole the zone by putting in a dummy record, but that can be overcome by using the root DNS servers or using any of the many open DNS servers.
Anyway, my thoughts on the subject. ICMP would be another protocol one could potentially use to get around this too.
>>>So can they be sued for false advertising if they have a commercial that shows more than four people watching football together? If it is illegal to "use their product" in that way, are beer commercials that show large numbers of people over at a person's house enjoying the game together promoting copyright violation?
The church could license a public showing from the NFL for a fee. I'm sure the church could have paid enough money to offset the lost ratings if they'd of properly licensed this viewing ahead of time.
I would guess that the added cost of creating a standard for doing this, putting the connectors in for this (versus soldering everything in) would make it not cost effective.
A Dell laptop can be found for $400-$500 entry level. If They are going to add the ability to put in a better video card, then they also need to allow for upgradeable power circuits (or do that from the beginning) to carry the draw of whatever video card you may put in. This would include the brick and any circuits on the mobo that may not be designed to carry such a load.
Then you have to account for the additional heat. So you either need to allow the user to upgrade the fans, or have the ability to cool the laptop for the hottest video card from the get go.
So how much more will that Dell cost to allow for all that? Would it be worth it to be able to upgrade, when in 6 months you are likely better off just buying a new laptop to get faster/bigger HDD, better LCD, faster CPU/RAM too? Would you have been better off just buying a laptop with a decent video card to begin with (at 2X the cost?)
If anything, I'd like to see a standard output jack that would allow me to plug in an external video card. I'd like a multimedia laptop ($1000 range) with a power saving video card built in, but a jack to allow me to game when I am at home.
I use this to zero out drive space on virtual machines, which allows for their virtual drive to be shrunk.
sdelete -p 2 -z -c -s c:\
It's batch scriptable to run in %tasks% nightly.
"Delete implements the Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DOD 5220.22-M, to give you confidence that once deleted with SDelete, your file data is gone forever. Note that SDelete securely deletes file data, but not file names located in free disk space.
To overwrite file names of a file that you delete, SDelete renames the file 26 times, each time replacing each character of the file's name with a successive alphabetic character. For instance, the first rename of "foo.txt" would be to "AAA.AAA"."
So in other words, if you have a bunch of mp3's in a directory that is deleted - the mp3's data will be gone. But the filenames will be there, in the form of zzzzzzzz.zzz zzz.zzz zzzzzzzz.zzz
Now, if you trust Microsoft with this task, that's another story.
Multitasking makes you slow and stupid? So should I just sit here and focus on breathing, as anything I do beyond breathing means I am multitasking?
Generalizations suck! I understand I should not drive a car and talk on the phone. This is multitasking, but the problem here is with depriving my life critical activity (driving) of full focus. Even messing with the radio is a bad idea. Did you know there was a lot of thought when radio came out that they should be illegal in cars due to the same reason we are looking at baning cell phones?
But when I am working on a computer system (coding) and it comes to a stopping point as I await input from people, or what ever -- should I just stop and sit there? No, I go on to another project. As it stands, I am currently working about 20 projects. This is multitasking and as long as proper focus is maintained, it works very well.
Your right, I really don't understand. I have a 3Mb/s download pipe now and that's not enough to watch these videos on YouTube without skipping. So today I download those video's first, then watch them. I let NBC/ABC video sit paused & buffer before I begin to watch 'em today.
So I don't get it. Why don't I want Google to pay to get that video to me faster, if they so decide to?
BTW - I like the previous post's idea about a separate channel on the Coax for business users. Nice idea.
I watch Internet TV shows. YouTube, NBC/ABC Video, wwitv.com, etc. But I'm your average/. geek. I can't see anyone I know doing this over watching normal TV. Do I have the right Codec? The proper media player such as Flip4Mac? Ok, configure my bandwidth settings. Oh, yes, my Antivirus IMON makes it stutter, so disable that. WIFI's getting trampled on my neighbor, change AP channel. Now my videocard is overheating and generating artifacts...
Not until it's as easy as pushing "1" "2" on a remote and the channel working do I see this as replacing TV. The key word was replacing.
Didn't they disclose some of this info? Although a lay person may not put 2 and 2 together to grasp what they are saying, I thought every upgrade I've done of Quicktime's readme says PRO USERS can not upgrade to the latest Quicktime player without breaking PRO.
I've located the QuickTime Read Me.htm on my hard drive and it does say this. If an app calls for Quicktime 6.x and you install 7.x, realize your not in a supported config. Websites written for Java 2.0 (Cisco switches) don't work with Java 5.0 or 6.0. Some Citrix apps requires 4.0, lower builds and doesn't work with newer ones. Some older.NET 1x apps don't work once.NET 2.0 is installed without forcing the app to use 1.1.
Microsoft has a product called Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization, formally Softricity, which is aimed at fixing issues like this. http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=14C2BEC4-2146-4E4E-96FA-535223730713 You can run multiple versions of the same application, or even run it on OSes that the application doesn't natively support. Though I'm not positive it is capable of solving CODEC problems.
What's the problem? They have X amount of bandwidth they have, per PoP. They over subscribe so they have X*30 users. Everything is fine at first, but when they get close to saturation, problems occur. John is P2Ping DVD's, Joe is NTTPing DVD's, and Lisa is watching TV on NBC Video. Carol just wants to surf the web.
Paul, on the other hand, is working from home. It's his business.
Instead of artificial bandwidth limits to "cure" the problem, how about selling priority? Let me purchase a business class connection and give my packets higher priority through the ISP network. Obviously, this quits once it leaves the ISP - but usually that is where my problems are.
We ask our users to reboot their PC & not to shut them down for the patch reason. Unlike most, we keep up to date with patches. We watch Secunia and automatically roll out kill bits for insecure active x controls, automatically patch Windows via WSUS and all the other pieces of software such as Adobe's, Real, Apple, et al. That is a lot of software.
We do this automatically eg automated.. If we do it while the non-admin user is signed on, many of these packages fail to install. Flash and others require the logged on user to be an Admin, or to run while no-one is signed on.
a So what do we do? Have users turn off their PC & thus never get patched, but save money on power? We do have AMD Cool & Quiet enabled on 150 machines. These PC's go into a lower power use state. We do use WoL and some people do shut down, but it works on maybe 50% of the machines with WoL. Many do not have WoL.
Also, in the winter months such as now, the cost of those PCs being powered on is negated by the cost of heating the building otherwise. I guess this makes more sense in our environment, where we are staffed 24/7 365 -- just less staff at night.
Windows has an API to shut down the machine. One could easily write a program that checks for use (Mouse/keyboard) and prompts a user after x minutes of inactivity (60?) Perhaps also checking for system activity. If you detect no use, prompt the user that you are going to shutdown after 15 minutes. Then issue the API to shutdown. If no user is signed on, then just shut down. If the CEO is signed on then perhaps do nothing. This API works around 90%+ of the time in my experience.
You can always give the kid up for adoption. There are plenty of people, such as myself, who adopt. It always amazes me to see people killing their kids and then their self, or playing MMO's and letting their kids starve -- when they can very easily give them up for adoption.
My MacBook Pro has this same problem. When returning to my desk, I make sure I touch something else metal before I touch the Mac. It's shocked the heck out of me and my friends.
To be fare, the shock is coming from static electricity on me and out through the Mac. I'm starting to think a metal case on a computer isn't such a good idea. Time to get one of those plastic color changers they sell.
We run a medium sized network. We monitor our folks. We can also view their screen.
Something I've noticed happening a few times which I thought was interesting. I can see the screen & url that the person is looking at, and it has very questionable content.
I pull the URL from my logs and go to that page and it serves up an entirely different site.
Sort of like the webpage that has a breakout game that looks like you are working in Excel, escalation has many fronts. If you make it difficult for people to get the content one way, they find a different way. While we dis-allow e-mail for personal use while at work, and blocked webmail - people can now surf the Internet on their phones.
Why spend all this money on a war? Why not adjust the cost of a CD or DVD to be more in line with what the multitude will pay?
I have a MacBook pro 2.2Ghz. Booting into OSX to check movie times is extremely quick, especially if one doesn't enable user login (has autologin.) It's under 10 seconds.
It also can bootcamp into XP. If I make that the default OS, it takes much longer to boot, and that's with a slimmed down install. It's under 30 seconds with me keeping it tuned and slim.
My wife's on the other hand has iTunes with Quicktime and Apple Update (on XP), which slows down boot time as all the services and startup processes begin. It has Creative Zen services too, for her other MP3 player, which include YaHoo and Music Match -- those two add a minute to boot/login. It has Microsoft Defender which always takes 2 minutes to update and do a quick scan. Antivirus takes 1 minute to update upon boot. Java has to launch it's update process. Adobe launches quick launcher. Microsoft launches image capture. The printer applets for the Lexmark and the Canon have to load. Automatic updates/bits has to start up....
My god. It takes about 6 minutes to boot up and get logged on. She has enough RAM. It's less than a year old. Without this software, it booted quick. That's Windows problem. I can't disable this stuff. She has an iPod and a Zen, so that's got to be there. I can disable the speed launchers, but the next patch & they are back..
Perhaps Windows needs an option to boot up somewhere between Safe Mode and normal. A boot profile where you just get the basic OS.
Sure, that'd be great. Any time I've tried to automate this, it fails to update things on certain machines such as Java intigration, or users plugins, or certain keys in the registry. If you've got something that works, I'm interested. setup.exe -ms doesn't work.
We are rural, but there are a lot of trains around here. We had the largest switching yard in our area back 80 years ago.
It's not quite that big now, but I have noticed train junctions being changed by hand. Is there anything in place to prevent that? I didn't notice a key being required, but I wasn't really looking for it either.
While I agree, they should be using some basic rotating keys (RSA?) and encrypt their signal, there is a point where society only works if people are trying to make it work. Think about that while you are driving home. Any one of those cars could decide to take you out. Anyone can dump a box of nails on the road or clip your brake lines. Why don't they? Same reason this kid shouldn't have done what he did.
Agreed. In fact, my users do not have the rights needed to upgrade FireFox. That's the big reason why I don't deploy it.
Firefox needs to have an optional service which (since it has the proper rights) can upgrade the firefox software. It needs to be able to grab these updates from a central server. No need for 1000 machines to all download FF from across my WAN->Internet. Let me download it once and then the update service grab it from my central server.
If we are talking a Windows environment, this is achievable using BITS & WSUS 3.0. Zenworks, for example, integrates with BITS. WSUS 3.0 allows you to add your own patches.
In any event, I'm IE7 automatically updates itself for security patches. I'm not going to manually update 1000 Firefox machines.
They have quiet a problem here. I generate a lot of content which is copyrighted. I distribute various rights to people to my works. I upload and download these works, eg exchange them, with other people.
As someone they are trying to protect, how are they to know which rights I've assigned to which works, and to whom? Hell, they can't even figure out the whom part on the other end of the connection.
Without a major re-write of TCP/IP, the non FUDD description of this is that they just want to stop Bittorrent and the like -- or -- they have no idea how this all works.
To be honest, I thought Circuit City's Divx lower price would beat out DVD, but I was wrong. Now I have a player that can play both, though very few Divx titles. I waited until that was resolved before buying my first DVD player. It was $99.
I had been backing HD DVD, again due to it's lower device price. I'm still not buying high def until the price is around $99 for a cheap player. The rental stores still carry only a small amount of titles, and DVD looks good enough on my HDTV. My eye's aren't young & can't tell the difference from the distance of my couch. Heck, I still have Dolby 2.0 on my main system.
I don't know if BitMicro is among these, but there are manufactures that have figured out how to mass produce very large USB drives at a fraction of todays costs. There have been articles in Google news, and patents are pending on various methods.
I question how many of these were purchased with the intent of running Windows on them. $200 for a system's pretty cheap. My motherboard & RAM alone cost that much. Dell, you are looking at $450-500 bottom of the line.
I have a legal copy of all OSes I'm running. My laptop came with OS X, my home PC has Windows XP PRO tied to the motherboard (which just crapped out), and my wife's PC has XP Home which came with the laptop. But I am aware of many that come to me to try and fix their pirate windows system using hacked WGA executables. I don't touch those, but I see enough of them to suspect people are going to be pirating XP onto these system.
I just faced a similar question. I jumped into a laptop. Should I chose the Dell XPS 1530 or the Macbook Pro 15.4"?
The Dell; 2.2Ghz/800Mhz FSB. 4M L2 cache Core 2 Due 7500 2GB DDR2 667Mhz 2MP Camera 8600M GT 256MB DDR3 120GB 7200 RPM SATA Vista Home Premium 1 yr at home 24/7 support Wireless Bluetooth 2.0+EDR 56Whr 6 cell battery. About $1300
The Macbook specs can be seen on the website. It has the same video card, but 128MB less RAM. Has a better battery. Macbook Pro has LED screen, Dell doesn't. 90 day support, not 1 yr onsite.
Other than that, the specs are very similar. But The Mac is $2000.
I ended up going the refurb route and getting the 3 yr warranty on the Mac. I am tired of screwing with Windows. I do have bootcamp for those Windows only things (games) but have most my stuff working in OS X.
Leopard is not super stable right now. I've crashed 3 times. Bootcamp runs very hot as the fans don't kick in until it is very much needed - eg. not soon enough. This Mac needs my AP's to have frame bursting turned off. Can't write to NTFS.
Anyway, I made my choice. I'm not sure I made the right one at this moment, but so far it's ok.
The OS needs to be non blocking. I have multiple core servers running 2000/2003/XP in which I've wrote programs that can take advantage of the multiple cores. I'm not doing anything fancy, I have a parent job with multiple children jobs. The parent is responsible for giving the children work. The children all run independent of each other. Thus, the nature of Windows, the load is spread across the cores.
The problem I have is that I use some Windows API's to enumerate things such as all the machines in the network, shares on a remote machine, netbios info, etc. I've found that many of these calls are blocking. So when I attempt this call, the entire machine slows down to a crawl and API's in other programs will not complete until the API has finished doing it's thing. For example, one of these calls prevent you from unlocking the PC until it's complete.
I'm not an expert in this topic, that is empirical observations on my part. Perhaps Vista & 2008 server will resolve this.
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Man, Time Warner must be living in the glory of the golden age of Internet.
I'm sitting here with more than 100Mb/s of Internet connectivity. 5GB/MO? Heck, that's one DVD ISO (OpenSUSE.) I'll download that in an hour. (Limited by bandwidth of the other end.)
Must suck to be you to be limited to 5GB. And since Microsoft SP2, Office SP up to SP3, and such can eat a huge percentage of that, you just know folks will be bitching to Microsoft about that.
I always wondered why folks didn't use other Internet technologies such as DNS to get around the "blocking" issue?
What's to prevent all the tracker information from being put into a master DNS server with a low TTL, and building up torrent search software which queries DNS?
You could store this into TXT records and query DNS to find the results;
"Thomas-Edison-The-Lost-Chord-1888" IN TXT a9cd93da939d9c9
The TXT being a unique code which again is looked up in DNS
a9cd93da939d9c9.subdomain.domain.toplevel
And the result is a list of IP's that are currently seeding the torrent,
and thus BT can subscribe to. I can do a dynamic DNS update to
add my client to the list of machines seeding the torrent.
So there is no HTTP traffic involved in this exchange. The DNS is
typically provided by the ISP, so caching would be in effect. So
you want TTLs to be low. The clients will be querying against the ISP's
DNS server. Dynamic DNS would be to the parent DNS server. The ISP could
blackhole the zone by putting in a dummy record, but that can be overcome
by using the root DNS servers or using any of the many open DNS servers.
Anyway, my thoughts on the subject. ICMP would be another protocol one could
potentially use to get around this too.
>>>So can they be sued for false advertising if they have a commercial that shows more than four people watching football together? If it is illegal to "use their product" in that way, are beer commercials that show large numbers of people over at a person's house enjoying the game together promoting copyright violation?
The church could license a public showing from the NFL for a fee. I'm sure the church could have paid enough money to offset the lost ratings if they'd of properly licensed this viewing ahead of time.
It's not just churches that are being targeted;
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=NFL+tells+movie+theater+chain+not+to+show+game&articleId=363dca48-9d9d-40c0-b592-75f7b3f022c1
I'm don't watch the NFL games, just as I don't support RIAA artists.
I would guess that the added cost of creating a standard for doing this, putting the connectors in for this (versus soldering everything in) would make it not cost effective.
A Dell laptop can be found for $400-$500 entry level. If They are going to add the ability to put in a better video card, then they also need to allow for upgradeable power circuits (or do that from the beginning) to carry the draw of whatever video card you may put in. This would include the brick and any circuits on the mobo that may not be designed to carry such a load.
Then you have to account for the additional heat. So you either need to allow the user to upgrade the fans, or have the ability to cool the laptop for the hottest video card from the get go.
So how much more will that Dell cost to allow for all that? Would it be worth it to be able to upgrade, when in 6 months you are likely better off just buying a new laptop to get faster/bigger HDD, better LCD, faster CPU/RAM too? Would you have been better off just buying a laptop with a decent video card to begin with (at 2X the cost?)
If anything, I'd like to see a standard output jack that would allow me to plug in an external video card. I'd like a multimedia laptop ($1000 range) with a power saving video card built in, but a jack to allow me to game when I am at home.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/28/ati-to-release-power-hungry-external-video-card/
http://www.everythingusb.com/iogear_usb_2.0_external_video_card_12787.html
Secure Delete; http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Security/SDelete.mspx
I use this to zero out drive space on virtual machines, which allows for their virtual drive to be shrunk.
sdelete -p 2 -z -c -s c:\
It's batch scriptable to run in %tasks% nightly.
"Delete implements the Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DOD 5220.22-M, to give you confidence that once deleted with SDelete, your file data is gone forever. Note that SDelete securely deletes file data, but not file names located in free disk space.
To overwrite file names of a file that you delete, SDelete renames the file 26 times, each time replacing each character of the file's name with a successive alphabetic character. For instance, the first rename of "foo.txt" would be to "AAA.AAA"."
So in other words, if you have a bunch of mp3's in a directory that is deleted - the mp3's data will be gone. But the filenames will be there, in the form of zzzzzzzz.zzz zzz.zzz zzzzzzzz.zzz
Now, if you trust Microsoft with this task, that's another story.
Multitasking makes you slow and stupid? So should I just sit here and focus on breathing, as anything I do beyond breathing means I am multitasking?
Generalizations suck! I understand I should not drive a car and talk on the phone. This is multitasking, but the problem here is with depriving my life critical activity (driving) of full focus. Even messing with the radio is a bad idea. Did you know there was a lot of thought when radio came out that they should be illegal in cars due to the same reason we are looking at baning cell phones?
But when I am working on a computer system (coding) and it comes to a stopping point as I await input from people, or what ever -- should I just stop and sit there? No, I go on to another project. As it stands, I am currently working about 20 projects. This is multitasking and as long as proper focus is maintained, it works very well.
Your right, I really don't understand. I have a 3Mb/s download pipe now and that's not enough to watch these videos on YouTube without skipping. So today I download those video's first, then watch them. I let NBC/ABC video sit paused & buffer before I begin to watch 'em today.
So I don't get it. Why don't I want Google to pay to get that video to me faster, if they so decide to?
BTW - I like the previous post's idea about a separate channel on the Coax for business users. Nice idea.
I watch Internet TV shows. YouTube, NBC/ABC Video, wwitv.com, etc. But I'm your average /. geek. I can't see anyone I know doing this over watching normal TV. Do I have the right Codec? The proper media player such as Flip4Mac? Ok, configure my bandwidth settings. Oh, yes, my Antivirus IMON makes it stutter, so disable that. WIFI's getting trampled on my neighbor, change AP channel. Now my videocard is overheating and generating artifacts...
Not until it's as easy as pushing "1" "2" on a remote and the channel working do I see this as replacing TV. The key word was replacing.
Didn't they disclose some of this info? Although a lay person may not put 2 and 2 together to grasp what they are saying, I thought every upgrade I've done of Quicktime's readme says PRO USERS can not upgrade to the latest Quicktime player without breaking PRO.
.NET 1x apps don't work once .NET 2.0 is installed without forcing the app to use 1.1.
I've located the QuickTime Read Me.htm on my hard drive and it does say this. If an app calls for Quicktime 6.x and you install 7.x, realize your not in a supported config. Websites written for Java 2.0 (Cisco switches) don't work with Java 5.0 or 6.0. Some Citrix apps requires 4.0, lower builds and doesn't work with newer ones. Some older
Microsoft has a product called Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization, formally Softricity, which is aimed at fixing issues like this. http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=14C2BEC4-2146-4E4E-96FA-535223730713 You can run multiple versions of the same application, or even run it on OSes that the application doesn't natively support. Though I'm not positive it is capable of solving CODEC problems.
That's why I'm against net neutrality.
What's the problem? They have X amount of bandwidth they have, per PoP. They over subscribe so they have X*30 users. Everything is fine at first, but when they get close to saturation, problems occur. John is P2Ping DVD's, Joe is NTTPing DVD's, and Lisa is watching TV on NBC Video. Carol just wants to surf the web.
Paul, on the other hand, is working from home. It's his business.
Instead of artificial bandwidth limits to "cure" the problem, how about selling priority? Let me purchase a business class connection and give my packets higher priority through the ISP network. Obviously, this quits once it leaves the ISP - but usually that is where my problems are.
We ask our users to reboot their PC & not to shut them down for the patch reason. Unlike most, we keep up to date with patches. We watch Secunia and automatically roll out kill bits for insecure active x controls, automatically patch Windows via WSUS and all the other pieces of software such as Adobe's, Real, Apple, et al. That is a lot of software.
We do this automatically eg automated.. If we do it while the non-admin user is signed on, many of these packages fail to install. Flash and others require the logged on user to be an Admin, or to run while no-one is signed on.
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So what do we do? Have users turn off their PC & thus never get patched, but save money on power? We do have AMD Cool & Quiet enabled on 150 machines. These PC's go into a lower power use state. We do use WoL and some people do shut down, but it works on maybe 50% of the machines with WoL. Many do not have WoL.
Also, in the winter months such as now, the cost of those PCs being powered on is negated by the cost of heating the building otherwise. I guess this makes more sense in our environment, where we are staffed 24/7 365 -- just less staff at night.
Windows has an API to shut down the machine. One could easily write a program that checks for use (Mouse/keyboard) and prompts a user after x minutes of inactivity (60?) Perhaps also checking for system activity. If you detect no use, prompt the user that you are going to shutdown after 15 minutes. Then issue the API to shutdown. If no user is signed on, then just shut down. If the CEO is signed on then perhaps do nothing. This API works around 90%+ of the time in my experience.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376868(VS.85).aspx
Or perhaps hibernate if it is supported.
Someone could code this up in a few hours and release it on Sourceforge..
You can always give the kid up for adoption. There are plenty of people, such as myself, who adopt. It always amazes me to see people killing their kids and then their self, or playing MMO's and letting their kids starve -- when they can very easily give them up for adoption.
My MacBook Pro has this same problem. When returning to my desk, I make sure I touch something else metal before I touch the Mac. It's shocked the heck out of me and my friends.
To be fare, the shock is coming from static electricity on me and out through the Mac. I'm starting to think a metal case on a computer isn't such a good idea. Time to get one of those plastic color changers they sell.
We run a medium sized network. We monitor our folks. We can also view their screen.
Something I've noticed happening a few times which I thought was interesting. I can see the screen & url that the person is looking at, and it has very questionable content.
I pull the URL from my logs and go to that page and it serves up an entirely different site.
Sort of like the webpage that has a breakout game that looks like you are working in Excel, escalation has many fronts. If you make it difficult for people to get the content one way, they find a different way. While we dis-allow e-mail for personal use while at work, and blocked webmail - people can now surf the Internet on their phones.
Why spend all this money on a war? Why not adjust the cost of a CD or DVD to be more in line with what the multitude will pay?
How is it a DVD costs $12.99
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=31042&skuId=3776596&type=product&ref=06&loc=01&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=3776596
But the same CD costs $12.99?
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=124207&skuId=2830565&type=product&ref=06&loc=01&ci_src=17588969&ci_sku=2830565
Shouldn't the CD be cheaper? I know I'd go back to buying CD's if they price were $5.
Wow, that's one quick way to kill a company - put the lawyers in charge of the business. Amazing.
I have a MacBook pro 2.2Ghz. Booting into OSX to check movie times is extremely quick, especially if one doesn't enable user login (has autologin.) It's under 10 seconds.
It also can bootcamp into XP. If I make that the default OS, it takes much longer to boot, and that's with a slimmed down install. It's under 30 seconds with me keeping it tuned and slim.
My wife's on the other hand has iTunes with Quicktime and Apple Update (on XP), which slows down boot time as all the services and startup processes begin. It has Creative Zen services too, for her other MP3 player, which include YaHoo and Music Match -- those two add a minute to boot/login. It has Microsoft Defender which always takes 2 minutes to update and do a quick scan. Antivirus takes 1 minute to update upon boot. Java has to launch it's update process. Adobe launches quick launcher. Microsoft launches image capture. The printer applets for the Lexmark and the Canon have to load. Automatic updates/bits has to start up....
My god. It takes about 6 minutes to boot up and get logged on. She has enough RAM. It's less than a year old. Without this software, it booted quick. That's Windows problem. I can't disable this stuff. She has an iPod and a Zen, so that's got to be there. I can disable the speed launchers, but the next patch & they are back..
Perhaps Windows needs an option to boot up somewhere between Safe Mode and normal. A boot profile where you just get the basic OS.
Sure, that'd be great. Any time I've tried to automate this, it fails to update things on certain machines such as Java intigration, or users plugins, or certain keys in the registry. If you've got something that works, I'm interested. setup.exe -ms doesn't work.
We are rural, but there are a lot of trains around here. We had the largest switching yard in our area back 80 years ago.
It's not quite that big now, but I have noticed train junctions being changed by hand. Is there anything in place to prevent that? I didn't notice a key being required, but I wasn't really looking for it either.
While I agree, they should be using some basic rotating keys (RSA?) and encrypt their signal, there is a point where society only works if people are trying to make it work. Think about that while you are driving home. Any one of those cars could decide to take you out. Anyone can dump a box of nails on the road or clip your brake lines. Why don't they? Same reason this kid shouldn't have done what he did.
>>You don't want users doing their own updates
Agreed. In fact, my users do not have the rights needed to upgrade FireFox. That's the big reason why I don't deploy it.
Firefox needs to have an optional service which (since it has the proper rights) can upgrade the firefox software. It needs to be able to grab these updates from a central server. No need for 1000 machines to all download FF from across my WAN->Internet. Let me download it once and then the update service grab it from my central server.
If we are talking a Windows environment, this is achievable using BITS & WSUS 3.0. Zenworks, for example, integrates with BITS. WSUS 3.0 allows you to add your own patches.
In any event, I'm IE7 automatically updates itself for security patches. I'm not going to manually update 1000 Firefox machines.
They have quiet a problem here. I generate a lot of content which is copyrighted. I distribute various rights to people to my works. I upload and download these works, eg exchange them, with other people.
As someone they are trying to protect, how are they to know which rights I've assigned to which works, and to whom? Hell, they can't even figure out the whom part on the other end of the connection.
Without a major re-write of TCP/IP, the non FUDD description of this is that they just want to stop Bittorrent and the like -- or -- they have no idea how this all works.
To be honest, I thought Circuit City's Divx lower price would beat out DVD, but I was wrong. Now I have a player that can play both, though very few Divx titles. I waited until that was resolved before buying my first DVD player. It was $99.
I had been backing HD DVD, again due to it's lower device price. I'm still not buying high def until the price is around $99 for a cheap player. The rental stores still carry only a small amount of titles, and DVD looks good enough on my HDTV. My eye's aren't young & can't tell the difference from the distance of my couch. Heck, I still have Dolby 2.0 on my main system.
I don't know if BitMicro is among these, but there are manufactures that have figured out how to mass produce very large USB drives at a fraction of todays costs. There have been articles in Google news, and patents are pending on various methods.
/. not long ago?
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I question how many of these were purchased with the intent of running Windows on them. $200 for a system's pretty cheap. My motherboard & RAM alone cost that much. Dell, you are looking at $450-500 bottom of the line.
I have a legal copy of all OSes I'm running. My laptop came with OS X, my home PC has Windows XP PRO tied to the motherboard (which just crapped out), and my wife's PC has XP Home which came with the laptop. But I am aware of many that come to me to try and fix their pirate windows system using hacked WGA executables. I don't touch those, but I see enough of them to suspect people are going to be pirating XP onto these system.
Just my hunch.
I just faced a similar question. I jumped into a laptop. Should I chose the Dell XPS 1530 or the Macbook Pro 15.4"?
The Dell;
2.2Ghz/800Mhz FSB. 4M L2 cache Core 2 Due 7500
2GB DDR2 667Mhz
2MP Camera
8600M GT 256MB DDR3
120GB 7200 RPM SATA
Vista Home Premium
1 yr at home 24/7 support
Wireless
Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
56Whr 6 cell battery.
About $1300
The Macbook specs can be seen on the website.
It has the same video card, but 128MB less RAM.
Has a better battery. Macbook Pro has LED screen, Dell doesn't.
90 day support, not 1 yr onsite.
Other than that, the specs are very similar. But
The Mac is $2000.
I ended up going the refurb route and getting the 3 yr warranty
on the Mac. I am tired of screwing with Windows. I do have
bootcamp for those Windows only things (games) but have most my
stuff working in OS X.
Leopard is not super stable right now. I've crashed 3 times.
Bootcamp runs very hot as the fans don't kick in until it is
very much needed - eg. not soon enough. This Mac needs my
AP's to have frame bursting turned off. Can't write to NTFS.
Anyway, I made my choice. I'm not sure I made the right one
at this moment, but so far it's ok.
The OS needs to be non blocking. I have multiple core servers running 2000/2003/XP in which I've wrote programs that can take advantage of the multiple cores. I'm not doing anything fancy, I have a parent job with multiple children jobs. The parent is responsible for giving the children work. The children all run independent of each other. Thus, the nature of Windows, the load is spread across the cores.
The problem I have is that I use some Windows API's to enumerate things such as all the machines in the network, shares on a remote machine, netbios info, etc. I've found that many of these calls are blocking. So when I attempt this call, the entire machine slows down to a crawl and API's in other programs will not complete until the API has finished doing it's thing. For example, one of these calls prevent you from unlocking the PC until it's complete.
I'm not an expert in this topic, that is empirical observations on my part. Perhaps Vista & 2008 server will resolve this.