It boots from the CD but fails to detect the virtual hard disk. Do a Shift+F10 to load a command prompt, create a partition and format it using diskpart, reboot and it still doesn't see the virtual hard disk:( This is with both IDE and SCSI virtual hard disks.
If anyone get it work please let me know:)
Symantec should just do what I said yesteday (http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196996&cid =16141634). Replacing the Security Centre is easy and with the deals Symantec have with Dell, etc. they could easily get it installed on all OEM systems. As for Adobe, well tough luck, thats the game and you didn't play it well enough. They must have known for years MS would do this. They are stupid for not acting earlier.
Don't replace, disable!
Simply disable the Security Centre service, install your own and you're done. Infact this is exactly what we have done at work, the idea of a security centre is great however we wanted to add our own applications to the security centre. Sadly there is no way to do this with the default security centre in Windows XP SP2. So rather than try and extend it we simply disabled it and replaced it. Doing the job of the security centre is pretty simple as it is documented what applications have to do to be "seen" by the security centre so we just did the opposite to monitor them (Symantec is very difficult about this because it has anti-monitoring tech built in).
I don't see why this is a big problem for Symantec. AFAIK there is no reason they cannot disable the security centre service when they install their application.
Forgot paying $100 for it, request a free SBS 2003 trial from Microsoft and it comes with a fully licensed version of Outlook 2003. The disc is an actual retail copy. I don't know why it comes free but it does and it isn't restricted in anyway afaik.
Most of the people who downloaded it for free are not going to report any bugs to Microsoft anyway. The charge is to stop people who are really not interested from wasting their bandwidth. If you want to have a play with the new version of office just for fun than $1.50 isn't over the top (better than $10 for shipping a CD). You also have to remember most people who actually want the beta either have an MSDN subscription and got it from there or already downloaded it. This introduction of a charge is to cover (and perhaps recoup) some costs for the bandwidth. I know it sounds crazy but bandwidth is expensive, very expensive and when you are talking 1323000000MB of bandwidth (441MB x 3,000,000downloads) that is some serious cash and when 80-90% (probably highly actually) of those downloads were pointless downloads (as MS got not feedback) then it is throwing money down the drain.
In all fairness they never said "Virtual PC is free" they said "Virtual PC 2004 is free" as VPC2004 is Windows only one would hope they could work out only the Windows version is free. As soon as I saw the "2004" bit I realised this was a Windows only freebie. I wouldn't be surprised however if a) Microsoft buy Parallels, everyone talks about Apple doing it but seem blind to the fact MS already has a PPC emulation product and will most likely want to make an Intel based virtualization product, why start from scratch when you can buy a, small and therefore cheap, Russian company who has already done 100% of the work. They will then of course make Parallels free (the client application at least) and do a bundle of Parallels + a Windows license (perhaps even a preconfigured VM as it is possible) and then sell that, perhaps even as a deal with Apple so it comes preinstalled.
The way I understand FoS is that it protects your rights to say something against your government, etc. It doesn't mean you can say whatever the hell you want. Personally I think the kid is old enough to know better, what he didn't wasn't acceptable. Whether it was threatening I don't know however his FoS was not effected in any way.
Windows doesn't claim to support SPARC. It supports x86 (and AMD64 but I won't go there this post). And I bet I could give you a month of Sunday's and you wouldn't find a system that Windows couldn't get a GUI working on. If the Windows developers can why can't the Xorg developers? They have done some incredible things recently so I am sure they could get it working at 640x480x256.
The problem with all Linux distros is that it isn't always that easy to find out if your hardware is supported. Sometimes it is hit and miss. Sometimes you are not 100% what chipset your integrated NIC is using or similar.
If you want to be taken seriously you need to be serious about getting the system working on as much hardware as possible.
How about they wanted to keep their data on their servers and not your servers?
This is why we refuse to use any externally hosted systems where I work. If you didn't think ahead of design your system to work on anything else than your specific setup then I don't want to use your software.
Customising is a different issue, we don't expect the full source code however we do expect some kind of framework that we can extend. It is 2006 not 1996, if your web application can't be extended by third parties it won't survieve the next 10 years IMHO.
If all you are concerned with in your next operating system is the UI framework and it looking like Xzibit Pimp'd Your OS then I suggest you just buy a Mac now and not worry about Aero Glass or Xgl.
If it is done on demand over HTTP then isnt TPB server assisting in copyright infringment when it passes on that information on demand? Say the whole argument over torrent files has been resolved and torrent files are perfectly ok no matter what they are used for, isn't it illegal when TPB starts giving you info on who has each chunk of the file?
Ok so cut your file up into small chunks and SHA-1 each 256K-4M chunk.
The only real difference between an MD5 (SHA-1) hash and a torrent file is that the torrent file stores information on the server (Tracker) you can use to get a copy of the file(s) chunks that have been hashed in the torrent file yes?
I am a [very] long term Windows user and Windows Admin for a large corporation witl 100,000+ desktops. I love Windows. It is a superb operating system for a corporate environment. Sure it can be a pain in the arse because of updates but its ability to be centrally managed, etc is awesome. There is nothing else that can compete with it on an enterprise level, not even the stunning OS X 10.4.
However Ubuntu 6.06 is an incredible operating system. While I am a Windows user I have a lot of respect for a lot of other operating systems. Linux being one of them. Ubuntu is probably the most professional release I have ever used. It installed without a hitch on my 6 months old IBM test workstation. I am very very impressed and I take my hat off to the Ubuntu team. The delay was worth it. Easily.
They [the Ubuntu team] have done an incredible job and you have to respect that. I could easily give a Ubuntu system to a new computer user and they be able to learn how to use it for general tasks just as fast as a Windows system. You only have to go to the terminal as much as you need to go to the registry in Windows so it isn't really a battle on ease of use anymore. Ubuntu has brought Linux on par with Windows in that regard. Ubuntu just need to push on hardware support so that if it fails it fails gracfully. X server critical errors need to be replaced with a more graceful drop down to 800x600z256 colours similar to what Windows does. Also the most important thing to get working (other than the graphical interface) is the network. Once you have the network up and running you can get any other driver you need to. Ubuntu worked fine with my network card but I know that it isn't perfect from reports I have read online. I hope that this is fixed in the next release (7.01?).
In a nutshell. SUPERB.
I have NTL broadband through their cable modem service and currently pay for their 10Mbps service. I always hit 9.5Mbps or faster. I have always had great service from NTL which is why I have been with them since 1999 and never looked at another ISP. Sure there are cheaper ones but I like my service and for the sake for a few pounds a month, which will only get spent on other crap, I can't be bothered with changing.
There is no set in stone process but the general one tends to be...
Alpha = bleeding edge code which includes many new features/re-writes of existing features for performance, security, etc
Beta (1) = still very much in development but almost at total feature freeze, small new features get in but most are already planned, although perhaps to fully implemented.
Beta (2) = Features and framework are basically complete but lots of bugs remain! This is when third parties can seriously start to get drivers and software working as most of the OS is complete. For Microsoft the end of Beta 2 is when they do all the Ui polish so things should start to look better the closer we get to RC1.
RC (1) = Feature freeze, just bug fixing now. Normally every serious bug is off the list by now (unless one is found in the RC stage of course).
RC (2) = This should basically be the final software with a few minor bugs, it should really be production ready just with a little less polish, unless you plan a third RC stage (MS does for Server OSes I believe).
As I said its not a strict process but that is how, in my experience, most companies have followed the development process. Google just sticks Beta on everything for years. It has ruined the word which is a shame. I do not believe public beta's offer anything to the consumer in the long run. It, normally, prolongs development and the developers never get any *real* feedback from the average joe who tries the beta version. I would rather them have closed betas, this gets better quality code (IMHO) however it doesnt get them press hype like a public beta does:(
I would recommend NOD32 also. Eset are a nice company to do business with and their prices are pretty fair. Also there software is top notch. Excellent all round choice IMHO.
I have a 4 year old daughter and while I could arrange a babysitter going to the cinema is already expensive enough without having to pay £20-30 for a babysitter for 3-4 hours. I have done it a few times but my idea of a good night out is not queueing 10+ minutes for tickets that cost £8.25 each, then queueing another 10+ minutes for popcorn/drink (can't queue for food until you have tickets its a 'security' thing apparently). Then sit in uncomfortable seats which have not been clean properly and have chewing gum, popcorn or coke spilled on them. Not to mention the messy floors. I am not a clean freak but if I am pay £8.25 for my ticket I expect the damn place to be clean! I also have to put up with idiots who refuse to turn their phone off because they are expecting the most important call of their lives during the 2 hours of the film. Now if I am lucky that nobodys phone rings I still have to put up with them checking it every 5-10 minutes incase they missed a call/text. I mean wtf is wrong with these people. I wish I knew their number I would ring them and say "your car has been broken into" just so they get interrupted and have to leave the cinema. Assholes.
Also I have no control over the movie or where I sit. If I am lucky I will find a seat in a location I am happy with that is clean enough to sit in. However I still have the problem with not being able to pause it, rewind if I didn't catch the last conversation enough to understand it, etc.
And finally why can't my popcorn and coke be small. I know they do a small size but it is the size of a large coke from mcdonalds! I just want a small ½ litre of coke and 150-200g of popcorn. I dont want 3 litres of coke and a ton of popcorn. I want fairly priced food and drink in normal sizes. No one we are getting so fat in the UK with these stupid sizes. Ideally I would like to take my own food into the cinema. Or they should sell something other than popcorn, hotdogs, sweets, icecream and fizzy drinks. When I was a kid (in the 80s, yes im young) I remember having fruit and fruit juice in the cinema. I used to love an orange while I was watching Jurassic Park.
Now I will openly admit I have downloaded movies. I don't do it because its free, I do it because I seriously hate going to the cinema. If they released the movies on DVD when it was released in the cinema I would purchase it the day it was released. If I don't like the movie I can return it or sell it on, no biggie and not much (if any) money lost. I have a nice 36" CRT which is great. I would love to watch a top quality version of the movie of the movie, sadly I can't until the movie is released on DVD and I can buy it, unfortunately buy the time this happens a DVDRip has been available for a month or two and I have already seen the movie.
The world is different now to 20 years ago. 20 years ago people didn't have 50"+ 1080p DLP TVs with 7.1 surround. Going to the cinema was the only way to get such a great movie experience, now you can do it in your home and with everything going HD in the next 2 years more and more people will have systems that offer a better experience to a cinema. The movie companies need to realise these things and release the movie on DVD (or HDDVD/BDROM) at the same time of as the cinema. I am sure I am not alone in saying I would purchase it on DVD. iTunes has proved their is a market for new types of systems for media.
The problem is the companies are too scared to see that they need to adapt. Their business model needs to change and they are shitting themselves as they thought it would last forever. Everyone who has a successful business thinks it will last forever. Newsflash. It doesn't. Wise up and change before another company comes along and replaces you.
Of course it [w|sh]ould however if the choice is between a scruffy person and a smart person who are pretty much equal you are not helping yourself by not dressing smartly.
Excellent point. I try hard not to judge someone by their looks but sometimes you can't help it. I have done this recently with someone new at work (as well as everyone else in my department, perhaps I gave in to peer pressure). The guy needs to take a bath and clean his clothes. Not to mention sort out his attitude. God knows how he actually got the job as he isn't even that good (the manager who hired him moved jobs 2 weeks after hiring him, perhaps it was payback? heh).
It is very hard to stop your subconscience from prejudging someone when trying your hardest, I suspect most managers don't even try.
You would expect wrong. The first thing a successful businessman would probably think is "hmm, i wonder what my manager will think when he sees this guy, will he think 'omg the guy looks like shit'? Hmm, probably, lets go with the smart guy, if he isn't as good I can always say the this guy was worse"
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Beta 2 works fine but not build 5728 (this build). Has anyone got build 5728 working?
It boots from the CD but fails to detect the virtual hard disk. Do a Shift+F10 to load a command prompt, create a partition and format it using diskpart, reboot and it still doesn't see the virtual hard disk :( This is with both IDE and SCSI virtual hard disks.
If anyone get it work please let me know :)
Symantec should just do what I said yesteday (http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196996&cid =16141634). Replacing the Security Centre is easy and with the deals Symantec have with Dell, etc. they could easily get it installed on all OEM systems. As for Adobe, well tough luck, thats the game and you didn't play it well enough. They must have known for years MS would do this. They are stupid for not acting earlier.
Don't replace, disable! Simply disable the Security Centre service, install your own and you're done. Infact this is exactly what we have done at work, the idea of a security centre is great however we wanted to add our own applications to the security centre. Sadly there is no way to do this with the default security centre in Windows XP SP2. So rather than try and extend it we simply disabled it and replaced it. Doing the job of the security centre is pretty simple as it is documented what applications have to do to be "seen" by the security centre so we just did the opposite to monitor them (Symantec is very difficult about this because it has anti-monitoring tech built in). I don't see why this is a big problem for Symantec. AFAIK there is no reason they cannot disable the security centre service when they install their application.
Forgot paying $100 for it, request a free SBS 2003 trial from Microsoft and it comes with a fully licensed version of Outlook 2003. The disc is an actual retail copy. I don't know why it comes free but it does and it isn't restricted in anyway afaik.
Most of the people who downloaded it for free are not going to report any bugs to Microsoft anyway. The charge is to stop people who are really not interested from wasting their bandwidth. If you want to have a play with the new version of office just for fun than $1.50 isn't over the top (better than $10 for shipping a CD). You also have to remember most people who actually want the beta either have an MSDN subscription and got it from there or already downloaded it. This introduction of a charge is to cover (and perhaps recoup) some costs for the bandwidth. I know it sounds crazy but bandwidth is expensive, very expensive and when you are talking 1323000000MB of bandwidth (441MB x 3,000,000downloads) that is some serious cash and when 80-90% (probably highly actually) of those downloads were pointless downloads (as MS got not feedback) then it is throwing money down the drain.
In all fairness they never said "Virtual PC is free" they said "Virtual PC 2004 is free" as VPC2004 is Windows only one would hope they could work out only the Windows version is free. As soon as I saw the "2004" bit I realised this was a Windows only freebie. I wouldn't be surprised however if a) Microsoft buy Parallels, everyone talks about Apple doing it but seem blind to the fact MS already has a PPC emulation product and will most likely want to make an Intel based virtualization product, why start from scratch when you can buy a, small and therefore cheap, Russian company who has already done 100% of the work. They will then of course make Parallels free (the client application at least) and do a bundle of Parallels + a Windows license (perhaps even a preconfigured VM as it is possible) and then sell that, perhaps even as a deal with Apple so it comes preinstalled.
The way I understand FoS is that it protects your rights to say something against your government, etc. It doesn't mean you can say whatever the hell you want. Personally I think the kid is old enough to know better, what he didn't wasn't acceptable. Whether it was threatening I don't know however his FoS was not effected in any way.
Windows doesn't claim to support SPARC. It supports x86 (and AMD64 but I won't go there this post). And I bet I could give you a month of Sunday's and you wouldn't find a system that Windows couldn't get a GUI working on. If the Windows developers can why can't the Xorg developers? They have done some incredible things recently so I am sure they could get it working at 640x480x256. The problem with all Linux distros is that it isn't always that easy to find out if your hardware is supported. Sometimes it is hit and miss. Sometimes you are not 100% what chipset your integrated NIC is using or similar. If you want to be taken seriously you need to be serious about getting the system working on as much hardware as possible.
How about they wanted to keep their data on their servers and not your servers? This is why we refuse to use any externally hosted systems where I work. If you didn't think ahead of design your system to work on anything else than your specific setup then I don't want to use your software. Customising is a different issue, we don't expect the full source code however we do expect some kind of framework that we can extend. It is 2006 not 1996, if your web application can't be extended by third parties it won't survieve the next 10 years IMHO.
If all you are concerned with in your next operating system is the UI framework and it looking like Xzibit Pimp'd Your OS then I suggest you just buy a Mac now and not worry about Aero Glass or Xgl.
I was not talking about pubs, I was talking about consuming the alcohol on your own property, which, I assume, is still illegal in the US?
Yes but could you get a bunch of 18 year olds, take them to England, buy a load of alcohol and take it back to America and drink it there?
If it is done on demand over HTTP then isnt TPB server assisting in copyright infringment when it passes on that information on demand? Say the whole argument over torrent files has been resolved and torrent files are perfectly ok no matter what they are used for, isn't it illegal when TPB starts giving you info on who has each chunk of the file?
Ok so cut your file up into small chunks and SHA-1 each 256K-4M chunk. The only real difference between an MD5 (SHA-1) hash and a torrent file is that the torrent file stores information on the server (Tracker) you can use to get a copy of the file(s) chunks that have been hashed in the torrent file yes?
I am a [very] long term Windows user and Windows Admin for a large corporation witl 100,000+ desktops. I love Windows. It is a superb operating system for a corporate environment. Sure it can be a pain in the arse because of updates but its ability to be centrally managed, etc is awesome. There is nothing else that can compete with it on an enterprise level, not even the stunning OS X 10.4. However Ubuntu 6.06 is an incredible operating system. While I am a Windows user I have a lot of respect for a lot of other operating systems. Linux being one of them. Ubuntu is probably the most professional release I have ever used. It installed without a hitch on my 6 months old IBM test workstation. I am very very impressed and I take my hat off to the Ubuntu team. The delay was worth it. Easily. They [the Ubuntu team] have done an incredible job and you have to respect that. I could easily give a Ubuntu system to a new computer user and they be able to learn how to use it for general tasks just as fast as a Windows system. You only have to go to the terminal as much as you need to go to the registry in Windows so it isn't really a battle on ease of use anymore. Ubuntu has brought Linux on par with Windows in that regard. Ubuntu just need to push on hardware support so that if it fails it fails gracfully. X server critical errors need to be replaced with a more graceful drop down to 800x600z256 colours similar to what Windows does. Also the most important thing to get working (other than the graphical interface) is the network. Once you have the network up and running you can get any other driver you need to. Ubuntu worked fine with my network card but I know that it isn't perfect from reports I have read online. I hope that this is fixed in the next release (7.01?). In a nutshell. SUPERB.
They contain information about how to contact the computer[s] that have the files to request them. That seems worse to me :-/
So why not just use MD5? What does a torrent have that makes it better to use than an MD5 hash or a CRC hash?
I have NTL broadband through their cable modem service and currently pay for their 10Mbps service. I always hit 9.5Mbps or faster. I have always had great service from NTL which is why I have been with them since 1999 and never looked at another ISP. Sure there are cheaper ones but I like my service and for the sake for a few pounds a month, which will only get spent on other crap, I can't be bothered with changing.
There is no set in stone process but the general one tends to be... Alpha = bleeding edge code which includes many new features/re-writes of existing features for performance, security, etc Beta (1) = still very much in development but almost at total feature freeze, small new features get in but most are already planned, although perhaps to fully implemented. Beta (2) = Features and framework are basically complete but lots of bugs remain! This is when third parties can seriously start to get drivers and software working as most of the OS is complete. For Microsoft the end of Beta 2 is when they do all the Ui polish so things should start to look better the closer we get to RC1. RC (1) = Feature freeze, just bug fixing now. Normally every serious bug is off the list by now (unless one is found in the RC stage of course). RC (2) = This should basically be the final software with a few minor bugs, it should really be production ready just with a little less polish, unless you plan a third RC stage (MS does for Server OSes I believe). As I said its not a strict process but that is how, in my experience, most companies have followed the development process. Google just sticks Beta on everything for years. It has ruined the word which is a shame. I do not believe public beta's offer anything to the consumer in the long run. It, normally, prolongs development and the developers never get any *real* feedback from the average joe who tries the beta version. I would rather them have closed betas, this gets better quality code (IMHO) however it doesnt get them press hype like a public beta does :(
I would recommend NOD32 also. Eset are a nice company to do business with and their prices are pretty fair. Also there software is top notch. Excellent all round choice IMHO.
I have a 4 year old daughter and while I could arrange a babysitter going to the cinema is already expensive enough without having to pay £20-30 for a babysitter for 3-4 hours. I have done it a few times but my idea of a good night out is not queueing 10+ minutes for tickets that cost £8.25 each, then queueing another 10+ minutes for popcorn/drink (can't queue for food until you have tickets its a 'security' thing apparently). Then sit in uncomfortable seats which have not been clean properly and have chewing gum, popcorn or coke spilled on them. Not to mention the messy floors. I am not a clean freak but if I am pay £8.25 for my ticket I expect the damn place to be clean! I also have to put up with idiots who refuse to turn their phone off because they are expecting the most important call of their lives during the 2 hours of the film. Now if I am lucky that nobodys phone rings I still have to put up with them checking it every 5-10 minutes incase they missed a call/text. I mean wtf is wrong with these people. I wish I knew their number I would ring them and say "your car has been broken into" just so they get interrupted and have to leave the cinema. Assholes. Also I have no control over the movie or where I sit. If I am lucky I will find a seat in a location I am happy with that is clean enough to sit in. However I still have the problem with not being able to pause it, rewind if I didn't catch the last conversation enough to understand it, etc. And finally why can't my popcorn and coke be small. I know they do a small size but it is the size of a large coke from mcdonalds! I just want a small ½ litre of coke and 150-200g of popcorn. I dont want 3 litres of coke and a ton of popcorn. I want fairly priced food and drink in normal sizes. No one we are getting so fat in the UK with these stupid sizes. Ideally I would like to take my own food into the cinema. Or they should sell something other than popcorn, hotdogs, sweets, icecream and fizzy drinks. When I was a kid (in the 80s, yes im young) I remember having fruit and fruit juice in the cinema. I used to love an orange while I was watching Jurassic Park. Now I will openly admit I have downloaded movies. I don't do it because its free, I do it because I seriously hate going to the cinema. If they released the movies on DVD when it was released in the cinema I would purchase it the day it was released. If I don't like the movie I can return it or sell it on, no biggie and not much (if any) money lost. I have a nice 36" CRT which is great. I would love to watch a top quality version of the movie of the movie, sadly I can't until the movie is released on DVD and I can buy it, unfortunately buy the time this happens a DVDRip has been available for a month or two and I have already seen the movie. The world is different now to 20 years ago. 20 years ago people didn't have 50"+ 1080p DLP TVs with 7.1 surround. Going to the cinema was the only way to get such a great movie experience, now you can do it in your home and with everything going HD in the next 2 years more and more people will have systems that offer a better experience to a cinema. The movie companies need to realise these things and release the movie on DVD (or HDDVD/BDROM) at the same time of as the cinema. I am sure I am not alone in saying I would purchase it on DVD. iTunes has proved their is a market for new types of systems for media. The problem is the companies are too scared to see that they need to adapt. Their business model needs to change and they are shitting themselves as they thought it would last forever. Everyone who has a successful business thinks it will last forever. Newsflash. It doesn't. Wise up and change before another company comes along and replaces you.
Of course it [w|sh]ould however if the choice is between a scruffy person and a smart person who are pretty much equal you are not helping yourself by not dressing smartly.
Excellent point. I try hard not to judge someone by their looks but sometimes you can't help it. I have done this recently with someone new at work (as well as everyone else in my department, perhaps I gave in to peer pressure). The guy needs to take a bath and clean his clothes. Not to mention sort out his attitude. God knows how he actually got the job as he isn't even that good (the manager who hired him moved jobs 2 weeks after hiring him, perhaps it was payback? heh). It is very hard to stop your subconscience from prejudging someone when trying your hardest, I suspect most managers don't even try.
You would expect wrong. The first thing a successful businessman would probably think is "hmm, i wonder what my manager will think when he sees this guy, will he think 'omg the guy looks like shit'? Hmm, probably, lets go with the smart guy, if he isn't as good I can always say the this guy was worse"