In other news, we did a review and while we find the Bark River Pro Scalpel a great blade, but it just didn't compare to the less expensive Feather® Sterile Disposable Scalpels, #15 for event the basic incision. The Bark River constantly left infection in the patients.
Come on folks, these are different tools which do different jobs. I run more OS'es than I can count at the moment. Being able to make an informed choice in OSes is great. Why limit yourself to one? Ubuntu is nice for dropping on an old PC you don't want to purchase an XP license for. Or running in VMWare to have access to free software in *nix. Personally, I prefer OpenSuse. But I use both.
I love OS400. My favorite OS. Windows XP is excellent. What I am tired of is all the crappy hardware that causes BSOD's. And all the incompatible issues with drivers, lowerfilters, upperfilters, etc. So I just bought a Mac. I will still have PC's though. I still run Windows 9x (not networked) on a highway sign. It can run on a much smaller, cheaper industrial PC with DOC .
Fifth amendment; "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
Key here is "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." So if they take it they have to pay you. Auctioning off my computer would be "public use" as the public is using it to gain revenue.
Yea, that's the point. If you just want a decent laptop which plays WoW, and don't want to pay insane amount of money then that's your laptop. Throw some WoW stickers on it and viola.
I am aware of these CF to IDE adapters but I didn't think one could get a 32GB partition. Perhaps some of my machines would be ok with 2GB of drive space. Do you have first hand experience with this setup?
Select the smart buy unit and customize the video card & select the 8600GT with 256MB of RAM. Bare in mind this is the DDR2 and not the DDR3 version, so it's not a super quick 8600GT but it's plenty fast for WoW.
The normal site has it for $729 right now. Corporate customers can get a better deal.
Take it to a 2.0Ghz dual core, 2GB RAM standard, the 7200 120MB HD, BlueTooth and the webcam -- a better gaming build, and you are just under $1000.
That's one hell of a deal for decent casual (not extreme) gaming machine..
I agree. I have an external 160GB drive I carry with me which houses all my media, backups, and other files. It is very small and fits in my pocket just fine. I also have a large size USB thumbdrive with my critical files. You can get 32GB thumbdrives now for around $300US.
I run around 50 commodity PC's as pseudo servers for mundane tasks such as driving neon signs. Cases where a high end server doesn't make sense. These things will run for 4 or 5 years then have a PSU or hard drive fail. One's that run DOS are on Disk-On-Chip technology, but that is expensive for Windows builds. I imagine these solid state drives can eliminate the drive failure issue.
So as a geek, I'd love to see these in many of my pseudo servers. I don't need more than about 5GB for Windows and the application.
I'd also like to see this in my PC as my boot drive. I can handle restoring from backup my data drive. Getting the OS restored is always a half day endeavor. Where is my Acronis/Ghost boot disk anyway?
They state "When fuel costs become sufficiently high and/or governmental air and water quality regulations became sufficiently heinous, the commercial shipping industry will look to sail power as an assist to petroleum powered vessels. "
That right there implies it has a large cost associated with it. These kites have to be replaced so often. They wear out.
Slashdot.org is mostly speculation. You want to know for sure? Call them. They state they are currently selling these type of items "Our currently shipping products are an order of magnitude larger and more powerful than any on the planet; are several times as large as any even in serious planning stages. Who should you believe and trust with your business, planners or doers?"
So the next logical step is "Why water?" Why have all that drag that you have to over come? Why not ship by air. Perhaps an air boat? Maybe float it with hydrogen or helium? Surely that would require less energy? I'd imagine one could carry around 50 tons? So perhaps you'd need 1000 of them to equal one ocean freighter.. So perhaps make them into some sort of an air train?
Take a look at private boats -- sail VS diesel. Sure, sail power is free, right? No. The cost of the sail which wears out, the cost of the lines & riggings. Add it all up and get TCO. Depending on what you are doing, diesel may be cheaper. Especially in commercial applications.
The cost savings in fuel is offset by the cost in the kite, riggings, and management of the kite. The TCO will be interesting to see. I would be surprised if it was any better than a wash in savings.
What they were doing was a major change to their IT infrastructure. That's massive. Things happen. The fact that they were down at 17 of 128+3 (131) data centers because some IT staffer changed a port # at one of their hub data centers without following proper procedure -- that's minor.
Seems to me that things worked otherwise well is a major accomplishment. They are still on the old system and are entering in data back into that system and migrating into the new system. But it seems things went well otherwise.
Anytime you do a major shift like this, it's hard. The users hate it because they can do their job very quickly on the system they are use to, but now have to learn a new system and slow down.
>>The article asserts that logging onto someone's AP without their permission is "breaking the law", but is that really clear?
Depends on the state, or country.
>>I feel like cracking someone's WEP key to get on their net is pretty damn illegal. Typically this is the case. Of course, NSA and Home Land Security probably are authorized in certain cases - so it's not 100% true..
>>But I don't think hopping onto an open net is unsecured. In fact, the fact that it's open may be interpreted as a sign that the owner intends to allow open access!
That is great -- because we offer free WIFI on our campus for any of our associates who wants to hop on. It's a given that spending 8 hours at work playing Halo or WoW isn't allowed, or someone in a CAR doing P2P to 500 peers at 100% utilization for 3 hours isn't allowed. But you don't have to ask to hop onto our open network.
Now if you try to hop onto our hidden/secure networks - that's a completely different story. We have been known to disable (within the law) machines hacking onto our secure networks. Liquid Nail in an Ethernet port with an RJ45 tail is rather effective.
Google search for REGMON and FILEMON. Load these puppies up and close down every process/service you run except WOW.
Let WOW do a scan.
These show you exactly which registry and file locations/files they are looking at.
Unless they scan 100% of your hard drive and 100% of your registry, then you can tell what they are looking for. Nothing stops them from just dumping your entire registry into a zip file and sending it off, though.
There are tools out there to redirect a processes access. So if they look for a file, it won't exist - or a registry location - it will have some other value. Rootkit is one example, but there are other ways to hook into Windows to redirect this.
-------------- It's all fun until everyone's a bot.
Mine went bad yesterday. It still connects to the computer, but the image is a solid color. So what happens when the cheap camera goes bad and sends a solid color to your hardware RNG?
Even white noise isn't secure -- someone else could listen at the same location and pickup the same "random" signal.
I have the SDA which as Windows Mobile 5.0. I like the phone. This new unit looks like the logical next step. Sure, it takes several mores to get to through all the start menus - but I can assign shortcuts to them. And I have a nifty last accessed menu at the top, so things I use a lot are easier to get to.
I, too, would like someone to give this a better review.
My phone runs Windows Mobile, and so it takes a full minute to boot. I would be excellent to be able to bypass Windows and go right to my e-mail/web browser in my phone, saving me that minute.
The real solution is to trim down Windows into a small core (like what VMWare has done with ESX) and put that on a chip for immediate boot. I think they mentioned they are working on that at Microsoft. We went away from OS on chip due to costs. My C64/128 Timex et al had boot on Chip. Some DOS machines did (Tandy.) The costs are no longer an issue. Let us get back to that.
>>Music subscriptions aren't valuable? What a revelation. Gee, do you really want to pay a monthly fee for limited (DRMed) access to music files, access which goes away if you terminate your service. That value proposition is exceedingly poor, unless you take measures to copy the files into non-DRM form.
Well, yes, I do. XM Radio. I can listen in my vehicles or over the Internet. It is DRMed.
But I think the real problem here is there are too many players in a small market. The fish in this pond need to eat each other until there are a few good key players. iTunes, Amazon (spin that off) and maybe a few others.
Confusion in the market, especially one with competing DRM, is not a good thing for this market.
>>I am in shock. But seriously, people wonder why I disable all scripting in IE as soon as it loads and then use the NoScript extension in FireFox.
This really is the only way to be safe. For some sites I use Netscape 4.8. Why? Because I can turn everything off, including images. While by itself, 4.8 isn't secure - with everything turned off it becomes secure.
Take a look at document.unescape. We've had several viruses get onto our network due to document.unescape encoding which downloaded a javascript downloaded past our gateway/av defenses. Do a buffer overflow against Java (POS) and begin installing WinProxy and other junk. These machines get nuked and a fresh install.
There are so many ways to sneak code onto a PC. JavaScript methods, what about Shockwave Flash? 98% of Windows PC's have this. 90% of all PC's. What about that backdoor where they can create a reverse proxy using DNS?
It's just insane. I've said it many times -- the browser and e-mail need to run in a VM that is isolated from the real PC with sanity checks to prevent buffer underrun/overflow and what not so that the VM can't be broken out of. Those two apps need a sandbox from hell.
From what I here, Microsoft is working on such a thing.
Fact. I have WDS 2.x installed. It works with Kerio. 3.x doesn.t
Fact. Months ago I approved WDS 3.01 update in Automatic Updates WSUS (install.) For months, this update has only updated WDS 3.x to 3.01 update. It has not updated 2.x nor has it installed on machines without WDS.
Fact. Microsoft re-released this same update to WSUS. Re-released meaning it is the same patch in WSUS. Meaning that because I have WSUS set to retain approve/disapproved settings when patches are re-released, the new WDS 3.01 retained it's approved status. They also re-released Windows 2003 SP3, for example. Same patch, just a few minor changes.
Fact. When I came in yesterday, WDS 3.01 was automatically installed on 50+ of my machines, and I didn't want that. It was slated to install on all 500+.
This update to existing WDS 3.01 patch should have been released as a new patch in WSUS so that it adopted my default approval settings, not as a minor change & re-release to adopt existing approval settings.
>>Do you have any examples of software that works in XP and needs rewriting for Vista?
Novell Zenworks. 6.5 doesn't work on Vista..BAT files. I can't copy from the network into %windir%. GPO Silent Install scripts. Won't copy into %windir% changes, etc. Faxpress. Have to jump from 6 to 9 to get compatibility. bTrieve Pervasive SQL. The XP installer just hangs during the MSI's launch to modify things in %windir%. Have to upgrade to latest version of Pervasive SQL to get official support. Of course, Windows 2000 is no longer supported in that build so we have to use an unsupported build either way.
The list is huge. It's not a show stopper, but it is a lot of work.
This is a 10 year plan. Can you imagine 10 years ago the things we can do today with computers?
Citrix and others have something called web streaming applications. This means that I install Adobe Photoshop onto a Citrix server and my users connect to Citrix to work in it.
But unlike traditional Citrix, once the application is streamed to them it continues to run on their computer even if they move away from the Internet connection.
This works because the application is virtualized onto their computer. It's not installed in the traditional sense. That would require a license. It's only installed on Citrix. But it RUNS within the client PC in a virtual environment. I'm not positive about Citrix, but in Microsoft's solution this environment can be separate from the OS they are running. So I can run things that only work in XP on a Vista machine, for example.
Anyway, just because Adobe makes this web based doesn't mean you are tied to an Internet connection to continue working. And in 10 years, I'd hope that we would all have 1Gb/s wireless Internet connections covering the entire planet, with backup systems in place.
I welcome the change. This was the idea behind thin clients in the 1990's. An idea Microsoft worked very hard to kill with licensing, purchasing and destroying companies in this niche, and other attacks against it.
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Come on folks, these are different tools which do different jobs. I run more OS'es than I can count at the moment. Being able to make an informed choice in OSes is great. Why limit yourself to one? Ubuntu is nice for dropping on an old PC you don't want to purchase an XP license for. Or running in VMWare to have access to free software in *nix. Personally, I prefer OpenSuse. But I use both.
I love OS400. My favorite OS. Windows XP is excellent. What I am tired of is all the crappy hardware that causes BSOD's. And all the incompatible issues with drivers, lowerfilters, upperfilters, etc. So I just bought a Mac. I will still have PC's though. I still run Windows 9x (not networked) on a highway sign. It can run on a much smaller, cheaper industrial PC with DOC .
Whatever makes the most sense.
Fifth amendment;
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
Key here is "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." So if they take it they have to pay you. Auctioning off my computer would be "public use" as the public is using it to gain revenue.
Yea, that's the point. If you just want a decent laptop which plays WoW, and don't want to pay insane amount of money then that's your laptop. Throw some WoW stickers on it and viola.
Step #1) Copy (yG or control c)
Step #2) Paste (p or control v)
Step #3) Submit
Step #4) Profit!
I am aware of these CF to IDE adapters but I didn't think one could get a 32GB partition. Perhaps some of my machines would be ok with 2GB of drive space. Do you have first hand experience with this setup?
Dell has a Vostro for around $800 US right now which would play WoW very well.
Go here;
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/vostronb_1500?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&~tab=bundlestab
Select the smart buy unit and customize the video card & select the 8600GT with 256MB of RAM. Bare in mind this is the DDR2 and not the DDR3 version, so it's not a super quick 8600GT but it's plenty fast for WoW.
The normal site has it for $729 right now. Corporate customers can get a better deal.
Take it to a 2.0Ghz dual core, 2GB RAM standard, the 7200 120MB HD, BlueTooth and the webcam -- a better gaming build, and you are just under $1000.
That's one hell of a deal for decent casual (not extreme) gaming machine..
I agree. I have an external 160GB drive I carry with me which houses all my media, backups, and other files. It is very small and fits in my pocket just fine. I also have a large size USB thumbdrive with my critical files. You can get 32GB thumbdrives now for around $300US.
I run around 50 commodity PC's as pseudo servers for mundane tasks such as driving neon signs. Cases where a high end server doesn't make sense. These things will run for 4 or 5 years then have a PSU or hard drive fail. One's that run DOS are on Disk-On-Chip technology, but that is expensive for Windows builds. I imagine these solid state drives can eliminate the drive failure issue.
So as a geek, I'd love to see these in many of my pseudo servers. I don't need more than about 5GB for Windows and the application.
I'd also like to see this in my PC as my boot drive. I can handle restoring from backup my data drive. Getting the OS restored is always a half day endeavor. Where is my Acronis/Ghost boot disk anyway?
Considering on this page;
http://www.kiteship.com/marine.php
They state "When fuel costs become sufficiently high and/or governmental air and water quality regulations became sufficiently heinous, the commercial shipping industry will look to sail power as an assist to petroleum powered vessels. "
That right there implies it has a large cost associated with it. These kites have to be replaced so often. They wear out.
Slashdot.org is mostly speculation. You want to know for sure? Call them. They state they are currently selling these type of items "Our currently shipping products are an order of magnitude larger and more powerful than any on the planet; are several times as large as any even in serious planning stages. Who should you believe and trust with your business, planners or doers?"
So the next logical step is "Why water?" Why have all that drag that you have to over come? Why not ship by air. Perhaps an air boat? Maybe float it with hydrogen or helium? Surely that would require less energy? I'd imagine one could carry around 50 tons? So perhaps you'd need 1000 of them to equal one ocean freighter.. So perhaps make them into some sort of an air train?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin#Technological_progress
TCO is often overlooked.
Take a look at private boats -- sail VS diesel. Sure, sail power is free, right? No. The cost of the sail which wears out, the cost of the lines & riggings. Add it all up and get TCO. Depending on what you are doing, diesel may be cheaper. Especially in commercial applications.
The cost savings in fuel is offset by the cost in the kite, riggings, and management of the kite. The TCO will be interesting to see. I would be surprised if it was any better than a wash in savings.
http://www.thespeciousreport.com/2005/05050217paris_hilton.html
Isn't it amazing? Oh crap -- here comes my boss --- no, you can't say that -- Donald Trump owns that phrase!
What they were doing was a major change to their IT infrastructure. That's massive. Things happen. The fact that they were down at 17 of 128+3 (131) data centers because some IT staffer changed a port # at one of their hub data centers without following proper procedure -- that's minor.
Seems to me that things worked otherwise well is a major accomplishment. They are still on the old system and are entering in data back into that system and migrating into the new system. But it seems things went well otherwise.
Anytime you do a major shift like this, it's hard. The users hate it because they can do their job very quickly on the system they are use to, but now have to learn a new system and slow down.
Things happen.
>>The article asserts that logging onto someone's AP without their permission is "breaking the law", but is that really clear?
Depends on the state, or country.
>>I feel like cracking someone's WEP key to get on their net is pretty damn illegal.
Typically this is the case. Of course, NSA and Home Land Security probably are authorized in certain cases - so it's not 100% true..
>>But I don't think hopping onto an open net is unsecured. In fact, the fact that it's open may be interpreted as a sign that the owner intends to allow open access!
That is great -- because we offer free WIFI on our campus for any of our associates who wants to hop on. It's a given that spending 8 hours at work playing Halo or WoW isn't allowed, or someone in a CAR doing P2P to 500 peers at 100% utilization for 3 hours isn't allowed. But you don't have to ask to hop onto our open network.
Now if you try to hop onto our hidden/secure networks - that's a completely different story. We have been known to disable (within the law) machines hacking onto our secure networks. Liquid Nail in an Ethernet port with an RJ45 tail is rather effective.
Google search for REGMON and FILEMON. Load these puppies up and close down every process/service you run except WOW.
Let WOW do a scan.
These show you exactly which registry and file locations/files they are looking at.
Unless they scan 100% of your hard drive and 100% of your registry, then you can tell what they are looking for. Nothing stops them from just dumping your entire registry into a zip file and sending it off, though.
There are tools out there to redirect a processes access. So if they look for a file, it won't exist - or a registry location - it will have some other value. Rootkit is one example, but there are other ways to hook into Windows to redirect this.
--------------
It's all fun until everyone's a bot.
>>Buy one of those $25 toy digital cameras.
Mine went bad yesterday. It still connects to the computer, but the image is a solid color. So what happens when the cheap camera goes bad and sends a solid color to your hardware RNG?
Even white noise isn't secure -- someone else could listen at the same location and pickup the same "random" signal.
I have the SDA which as Windows Mobile 5.0. I like the phone. This new unit looks like the logical next step. Sure, it takes several mores to get to through all the start menus - but I can assign shortcuts to them. And I have a nifty last accessed menu at the top, so things I use a lot are easier to get to.
I, too, would like someone to give this a better review.
My phone runs Windows Mobile, and so it takes a full minute to boot. I would be excellent to be able to bypass Windows and go right to my e-mail/web browser in my phone, saving me that minute.
The real solution is to trim down Windows into a small core (like what VMWare has done with ESX) and put that on a chip for immediate boot. I think they mentioned they are working on that at Microsoft. We went away from OS on chip due to costs. My C64/128 Timex et al had boot on Chip. Some DOS machines did (Tandy.) The costs are no longer an issue. Let us get back to that.
>>Music subscriptions aren't valuable? What a revelation. Gee, do you really want to pay a monthly fee for limited (DRMed) access to music files, access which goes away if you terminate your service. That value proposition is exceedingly poor, unless you take measures to copy the files into non-DRM form.
Well, yes, I do. XM Radio. I can listen in my vehicles or over the Internet. It is DRMed.
But I think the real problem here is there are too many players in a small market. The fish in this pond need to eat each other until there are a few good key players. iTunes, Amazon (spin that off) and maybe a few others.
Confusion in the market, especially one with competing DRM, is not a good thing for this market.
>>As an ex-BestBuy employee I know a little about the fraud that goes on in that store.
That's not just at BB. I had a classmate go to jail for doing this exact same thing at Wal-mart about 18 years ago.
>>I am in shock. But seriously, people wonder why I disable all scripting in IE as soon as it loads and then use the NoScript extension in FireFox.
This really is the only way to be safe. For some sites I use Netscape 4.8. Why? Because I can turn everything off, including images. While by itself, 4.8 isn't secure - with everything turned off it becomes secure.
Take a look at document.unescape. We've had several viruses get onto our network due to document.unescape encoding which downloaded a javascript downloaded past our gateway/av defenses. Do a buffer overflow against Java (POS) and begin installing WinProxy and other junk. These machines get nuked and a fresh install.
There are so many ways to sneak code onto a PC. JavaScript methods, what about Shockwave Flash? 98% of Windows PC's have this. 90% of all PC's. What about that backdoor where they can create a reverse proxy using DNS?
It's just insane. I've said it many times -- the browser and e-mail need to run in a VM that is isolated from the real PC with sanity checks to prevent buffer underrun/overflow and what not so that the VM can't be broken out of. Those two apps need a sandbox from hell.
From what I here, Microsoft is working on such a thing.
Fact. I have WDS 2.x installed. It works with Kerio. 3.x doesn.t
/q /norestart
Fact. Months ago I approved WDS 3.01 update in Automatic Updates WSUS (install.) For months, this update has only updated WDS 3.x to 3.01 update. It has not updated 2.x nor has it installed on machines without WDS.
Fact. Microsoft re-released this same update to WSUS. Re-released meaning it is the same patch in WSUS. Meaning that because I have WSUS set to retain approve/disapproved settings when patches are re-released, the new WDS 3.01 retained it's approved status. They also re-released Windows 2003 SP3, for example. Same patch, just a few minor changes.
Fact. When I came in yesterday, WDS 3.01 was automatically installed on 50+ of my machines, and I didn't want that. It was slated to install on all 500+.
This update to existing WDS 3.01 patch should have been released as a new patch in WSUS so that it adopted my default approval settings, not as a minor change & re-release to adopt existing approval settings.
To uninstall WDS you run
C:\WINNT\$NtUninstallKB917013$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
>>Do you have any examples of software that works in XP and needs rewriting for Vista?
.BAT files. I can't copy from the network into %windir%.
Novell Zenworks. 6.5 doesn't work on Vista.
GPO Silent Install scripts. Won't copy into %windir% changes, etc.
Faxpress. Have to jump from 6 to 9 to get compatibility.
bTrieve Pervasive SQL. The XP installer just hangs during the MSI's launch to modify things in %windir%. Have to upgrade to latest version of Pervasive SQL to get official support. Of course, Windows 2000 is no longer supported in that build so we have to use an unsupported build either way.
The list is huge. It's not a show stopper, but it is a lot of work.
>>...or you could just not buy it.
This is why I didn't by EA's BF2142. In game ad's. Seems they learned that lesson, huh?
We have this. It is called Java. And the performance just screams.
http://www.java.com/en/games/
It is Java http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language) , so by design it will work on any modern console. My Wii w/Opera and Java, my Mac, my Vista box, or my Suse box.
Personally, I like the Flash ones better;
http://www.addictinggames.com/whackyourex.html
(Note, sarcasm implied)
This is a 10 year plan. Can you imagine 10 years ago the things we can do today with computers?
Citrix and others have something called web streaming applications. This means that I install Adobe Photoshop onto a Citrix server and my users connect to Citrix to work in it.
But unlike traditional Citrix, once the application is streamed to them it continues to run on their computer even if they move away from the Internet connection.
This works because the application is virtualized onto their computer. It's not installed in the traditional sense. That would require a license. It's only installed on Citrix. But it RUNS within the client PC in a virtual environment. I'm not positive about Citrix, but in Microsoft's solution this environment can be separate from the OS they are running. So I can run things that only work in XP on a Vista machine, for example.
Anyway, just because Adobe makes this web based doesn't mean you are tied to an Internet connection to continue working. And in 10 years, I'd hope that we would all have 1Gb/s wireless Internet connections covering the entire planet, with backup systems in place.
I welcome the change. This was the idea behind thin clients in the 1990's. An idea Microsoft worked very hard to kill with licensing, purchasing and destroying companies in this niche, and other attacks against it.
There is some sarcasm in that post. I find it odd someone would not know about the global flood. A sign of the times, perhaps?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah