Note that Windows is being forced to become a better product due to competition in the Server space from Linux, and the Desktop space from OSX. I can only hope the same will happen with flash/silverlight.
Point taken- just FYI, Adobe Flash is 1.4MB and installs in less than 5 seconds from clicking accept on the license. And it's no small secret that flash really, really, really sucks. It's just used so damn much because adobe managed to sneak it onto enough machines this side of the moon to count as a given as being on any arbitrary computer.
I'm sure a website full of Linux fanboys can understand my sentiment.
the numerous 'Get Administrator access without a password' hacks show this And I'd be willing to bet none of them works from a limited (e.g. "User") account.
If it involved booting the computer off of a Live CD or what have you, I humbly present BitLocker, or, for those who wish death upon Microsoft but continue using Windows anyway, TrueCrpyt.
Unauthorized admin access to a Windows machine is more often than not improperly implemented security or a lack of implementation in the first place.
Name me one network admin who will use XP Home on an ultra-portable. Find me a reason to provision an ultraportable to a user when he already has a standard laptop (running XP Pro or Vista Business) and a mobile phone running Windows Mobile?
Further, if the UMPC is for the admin himself, why not XP home? Who says you have to bind your machine to a domain?
...For as much MS hate as is deserved in this place, the same or larger portion is unjustified.
Please, forgive the OP for expecting the machine to be benchmarked against its ability to run current operating systems that aren't Linux. The thing probably wouldn't run Leopard very well either.
There are CF bulbs that work properly with dimmers. I was kind of half-truthing that, I know that dimmable CFL's exist, but from what I understand, they suck. A lot.:P
WOL is a hardware function, true, but it'd be much nicer to browse an AD OU, right click a computer, see if it is online, and if it isn't, see if it's at least plugged into the network, and then WOL it with a button in a contextual menu.
Currently, if you want to WOL a machine on a network, you have to look it up its MAC address in a DHCP console, and use a third party program to wake it.... Plus, I think it would need to be on the same subnet as the WOL broadcast... my point is that full scale WOL across a domain or multiple forests sounds like a real pain is the ass and doesn't really integrate well with Windows and AD DS.
Now if I could do something like "WOL.exe boxinacloset.domain.com," we'd have something quite useful indeed.
Unless you know something I don't, Wake-on-lan isn't a very well implemented feature of corporate networks. I don't know what exists in the linux world, but in the Microsoft world, if you could marry DHCP's MAC records and the appropriate DNS records *and* make WOL (and perhaps BIOS boot order) configurable through Group Policy *and* shove it all into an MMC with AD support, I could totally see that happening.
As it stands, you can't even do something as simple as right click an MS DHCP lease and convert it to a reservation on the spot... so my wish list isn't *that* crazy:P
I started shutting my machine(s) down whenever I'm not using them for more than an hour or so, and the savings on the power bill are enormous.
I also think the ban on incandescent bulbs is ridiculous, because TCO on incandescent vs. CFL is obvious to just about anyone, meaning simple economics could solve what congress decided we needed a bill to do instead. Furthermore, there are very, very simple things that incandescent bulbs can do that CFL's *never* will. Working properly with a dimmer is one very simple example.
Would just one tower lead to another blackout IANA Power Grid Engineer, but in most cases involving high tension lines, there are usually redundant links. Much in the same way the internet is a mesh network, if one of those power links were to go down, the others *should* be able to take over, assuming that the remaining lines aren't nearly overloaded in the first place (see frequent California rolling blackouts).
That said, with a large enough team and a big enough plot, you could probably strike specific weak points simultaneously to cause another incident like the blackout of 2003. Supposedly though, after that incident, the power company "learned their lesson" and has retooled their infrastructure to prevent another cascading event such as that from happening again, but I doubt that rules out something deliberate and *very* purposeful.
In the one single paragraph, they have explicitly shown the world the main difference between Linux and Windows - Linux Admins know what the fuck they're doing - Windows Admins don't need to.
I'm calling bullshit.
I am a user of Windows, OS X, and Linux. I make my living as a Windows admin--which I do *damn* well I might add--have found Xubuntu to be a great option for very low end machines (I converted my neighbor to Linux as a fun project) and find OS X to be my OS of choice on a laptop. I have experience working with each of the OS's, and have used both Windows and Ubuntu Server products and I can say, without a doubt, that your statement is not only elitist, but very, very stupid.
Tell me, oh mighty AC, why it is imperative that I know how to manually configure AD structure by hacking my way through a tool like ADSI Edit, when I can just use the standard Active Directory snap-ins? Why should I, as a Windows Admin, have to know precisely how to edit various INI files and the system registry to change settings, when I can just click something in a GUI? Why should I, as a Windows Admin, have to write an incredibly long and painfully meticulous netsh command to allow something past my firewall when I can just click my way to network settings?
I won't because I DON'T FUCKING HAVE TO!
Step back a second, and ask all of those questions with their Linux counterparts. The answer turns into "BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER RELIABLE AND UNIFORM WAY TO DO SO."
When it comes down to it, setting up a Linux server in a nice, secure fashion is a royal pain in the ass. You have to type MILES of command lines and edit scores of.conf files to accomplish the same best practices that takes a couple of clicks and 2 minutes on a Windows machine.
Furthermore, that lower learning curve to becoming a Windows admin has--you guessed it--created more Windows admins! If a Linux admin needs to worship at Torvalds' feet and perpetually keep an eye out for him on the street so he can give Torvalds the obligatory blowjob he deserves for creating such a wonderful kernel, that makes a good Linux admin harder to come by! Therefore, a competent Linux admin suddenly costs more money to hire because of his greater skill set and lower availability. If you can, however, hire a SINGLE Windows God in a medium to large business, who can delegate tasks to people who are lower on the food chain (like the ones who can click "Next..Next..Finish" but not use ADSI Edit), your maintenance costs go down...
Run a Linux server? No thank you. I'll take Windows---not because I'm an incompetent Network admin, but because I don't fucking hate myself.
these guys don't kill for profit (probably because it's not worth the hassle anyways), sell harmful products, torture people, etc.
No, they don't. RIAA is much less forgiving. Rather than shooting you in the back of the head for something you probably knew you had coming to you, they'd rather hit you with a life-destroying $222,000 settlement for something you were capable of doing, and watch your life fall apart around you.
Just what is the Windows equivalent of sudo that ships standard with Windows XP? I doubt that a Windows equivalent to sudo would ever come about, not because it isn't necessary, but because the model that drives useful work in Windows isn't command line based (even from an Administrator's point of view). That may be changing with MS switching over to Powershell, but as it stands, what you're asking for may not actually be necessary.
Vista, though, is supposed to have that magic little password prompt when you need admin privileges on a non-admin account, but if it comes up as often as UAC does (before you disable it because it annoys the shit out of you), I wouldn't use it. Of course, this necessitates that Vista doesn't set you up as an Admin out of the box, which it has each time I've installed it.
Interestingly enough, I'd be willing to bet that if the only time UAC came up was in the context of a web browser or email app requiring admin rights (Attention: Hardcore Porn Video.exe is requesting to install "Botnet client." Cancel or Allow?), it'd probably be heeded much more seriously by average Windows users.
Those crazy asians! I just checked, and the first Nomad Jukebox came out in 2000 with a 6GB hard drive. I had one of those! The interface on it was fantastic. Sound quality was too. It was completely button based, if I recall, and you would browse by artist or album and queue up songs to a playlist, which you could save if you so desired. It also used soft buttons, similar to many cell phones today.
That very playlist driven design is one of the reasons I don't have an iPod. Every iPod I've ever seen does allow you to create an "On-the-go" playlist, but it takes large amounts of time, and queuing up a song from a particular artist is impossible unless you worship at their feet and memorize what songs are on what album, and for the hell of it, the track order too (because that's the way the artist wants you to hear it!). [/rant]
Nonetheless, the hard drive from that Nomad eventually got salvaged and put in an even older laptop. It sure was a fantastic piece of hardware. That, I might add, ate batteries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I copied it to all 25+ computers... so it would beep in succession and then repeat.
I did a something similar in high school. My physics teacher had several multifunction stopwatches we used for labs, each had an alarm. Some had their alarms enabled, none were set to the right time, so I offered to "Turn off the alarms and set the clocks."
40 minutes later, I had set each alarm for the same time--during my class--and staggered the clocks on each watch to be six seconds apart from the next.
I ended up ruining a good 5 minutes of the next day's class due to the hilarity that ensued.
The prank did backfire a little bit though, because every time the alarms got turned back on by unwitting classmates, they went off during my class, and the teacher knew exactly where to direct his anger:P
However, when you do meet an intellectual match, it's pure joy to be with her. I am certainly ready to admit when someone is equal or better than me at something.
Juuuust when you think you've gotten over something... A perfect stranger reminds you why it took so long...
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Note that Windows is being forced to become a better product due to competition in the Server space from Linux, and the Desktop space from OSX. I can only hope the same will happen with flash/silverlight.
Yes, in fact it was. By Microsoft.
And it's no small secret that flash really, really, really sucks. It's just used so damn much because adobe managed to sneak it onto enough machines this side of the moon to count as a given as being on any arbitrary computer.
I'm sure a website full of Linux fanboys can understand my sentiment.
Hellooooooo Seeqpod.
Disable command line and batch files in the local security policy (unless that's redundant, I don't know).
There are more concrete ways to stop things like that... One involved an exploit of the task scheduler service, so disable it, and so on.
And I'd be willing to bet none of them works from a limited (e.g. "User") account.
If it involved booting the computer off of a Live CD or what have you, I humbly present BitLocker, or, for those who wish death upon Microsoft but continue using Windows anyway, TrueCrpyt.
Unauthorized admin access to a Windows machine is more often than not improperly implemented security or a lack of implementation in the first place.
Find me a reason to provision an ultraportable to a user when he already has a standard laptop (running XP Pro or Vista Business) and a mobile phone running Windows Mobile?
Further, if the UMPC is for the admin himself, why not XP home? Who says you have to bind your machine to a domain?
...For as much MS hate as is deserved in this place, the same or larger portion is unjustified.
I would expect UMPC's to be capable of running Vista at that point
Please, forgive the OP for expecting the machine to be benchmarked against its ability to run current operating systems that aren't Linux. The thing probably wouldn't run Leopard very well either.
I was kind of half-truthing that, I know that dimmable CFL's exist, but from what I understand, they suck. A lot.
WOL is a hardware function, true, but it'd be much nicer to browse an AD OU, right click a computer, see if it is online, and if it isn't, see if it's at least plugged into the network, and then WOL it with a button in a contextual menu. Currently, if you want to WOL a machine on a network, you have to look it up its MAC address in a DHCP console, and use a third party program to wake it.... Plus, I think it would need to be on the same subnet as the WOL broadcast... my point is that full scale WOL across a domain or multiple forests sounds like a real pain is the ass and doesn't really integrate well with Windows and AD DS.
Now if I could do something like "WOL.exe boxinacloset.domain.com," we'd have something quite useful indeed.
Unless you know something I don't, Wake-on-lan isn't a very well implemented feature of corporate networks. I don't know what exists in the linux world, but in the Microsoft world, if you could marry DHCP's MAC records and the appropriate DNS records *and* make WOL (and perhaps BIOS boot order) configurable through Group Policy *and* shove it all into an MMC with AD support, I could totally see that happening.
:P
As it stands, you can't even do something as simple as right click an MS DHCP lease and convert it to a reservation on the spot... so my wish list isn't *that* crazy
/agree
I started shutting my machine(s) down whenever I'm not using them for more than an hour or so, and the savings on the power bill are enormous.
I also think the ban on incandescent bulbs is ridiculous, because TCO on incandescent vs. CFL is obvious to just about anyone, meaning simple economics could solve what congress decided we needed a bill to do instead. Furthermore, there are very, very simple things that incandescent bulbs can do that CFL's *never* will. Working properly with a dimmer is one very simple example.
I'm a wiener using Windows. And I love that dollar sign.
In that Mythbusters episode, tracer rounds couldn't set off the propane tank, so they tried incendiary rounds. Those didn't work either.
Explosives did the trick though.
IANA Power Grid Engineer, but in most cases involving high tension lines, there are usually redundant links. Much in the same way the internet is a mesh network, if one of those power links were to go down, the others *should* be able to take over, assuming that the remaining lines aren't nearly overloaded in the first place (see frequent California rolling blackouts).
That said, with a large enough team and a big enough plot, you could probably strike specific weak points simultaneously to cause another incident like the blackout of 2003. Supposedly though, after that incident, the power company "learned their lesson" and has retooled their infrastructure to prevent another cascading event such as that from happening again, but I doubt that rules out something deliberate and *very* purposeful.
I'm calling bullshit.
I am a user of Windows, OS X, and Linux. I make my living as a Windows admin--which I do *damn* well I might add--have found Xubuntu to be a great option for very low end machines (I converted my neighbor to Linux as a fun project) and find OS X to be my OS of choice on a laptop. I have experience working with each of the OS's, and have used both Windows and Ubuntu Server products and I can say, without a doubt, that your statement is not only elitist, but very, very stupid.
Tell me, oh mighty AC, why it is imperative that I know how to manually configure AD structure by hacking my way through a tool like ADSI Edit, when I can just use the standard Active Directory snap-ins?
Why should I, as a Windows Admin, have to know precisely how to edit various INI files and the system registry to change settings, when I can just click something in a GUI?
Why should I, as a Windows Admin, have to write an incredibly long and painfully meticulous netsh command to allow something past my firewall when I can just click my way to network settings?
I won't because I DON'T FUCKING HAVE TO!
Step back a second, and ask all of those questions with their Linux counterparts. The answer turns into "BECAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER RELIABLE AND UNIFORM WAY TO DO SO."
When it comes down to it, setting up a Linux server in a nice, secure fashion is a royal pain in the ass. You have to type MILES of command lines and edit scores of
Furthermore, that lower learning curve to becoming a Windows admin has--you guessed it--created more Windows admins! If a Linux admin needs to worship at Torvalds' feet and perpetually keep an eye out for him on the street so he can give Torvalds the obligatory blowjob he deserves for creating such a wonderful kernel, that makes a good Linux admin harder to come by! Therefore, a competent Linux admin suddenly costs more money to hire because of his greater skill set and lower availability. If you can, however, hire a SINGLE Windows God in a medium to large business, who can delegate tasks to people who are lower on the food chain (like the ones who can click "Next..Next..Finish" but not use ADSI Edit), your maintenance costs go down...
Run a Linux server? No thank you. I'll take Windows---not because I'm an incompetent Network admin, but because I don't fucking hate myself.
Oh, that and Exchange.
I agree, but here I sit around 5 TN panels that I purchased all myself.
:(
The problem with those panels with the far superior technology is that they can't be had for a decent price, and I've never seen one on sale.
It's a shame, but TN panels will probably always be dominant in the market until something cheaper *and* better can replace TN technology.
That's an interesting point to make. When I think about it, I love Windows and hate Microsoft. Yet I love Apple and generally dislike their products.
I will forever be untrusting of Google.
No, they don't. RIAA is much less forgiving. Rather than shooting you in the back of the head for something you probably knew you had coming to you, they'd rather hit you with a life-destroying $222,000 settlement for something you were capable of doing, and watch your life fall apart around you.
At least the classic mafia deserves respect.
I doubt that a Windows equivalent to sudo would ever come about, not because it isn't necessary, but because the model that drives useful work in Windows isn't command line based (even from an Administrator's point of view). That may be changing with MS switching over to Powershell, but as it stands, what you're asking for may not actually be necessary.
Vista, though, is supposed to have that magic little password prompt when you need admin privileges on a non-admin account, but if it comes up as often as UAC does (before you disable it because it annoys the shit out of you), I wouldn't use it. Of course, this necessitates that Vista doesn't set you up as an Admin out of the box, which it has each time I've installed it.
Interestingly enough, I'd be willing to bet that if the only time UAC came up was in the context of a web browser or email app requiring admin rights (Attention: Hardcore Porn Video.exe is requesting to install "Botnet client." Cancel or Allow?), it'd probably be heeded much more seriously by average Windows users.
I had one of those! The interface on it was fantastic. Sound quality was too. It was completely button based, if I recall, and you would browse by artist or album and queue up songs to a playlist, which you could save if you so desired. It also used soft buttons, similar to many cell phones today.
That very playlist driven design is one of the reasons I don't have an iPod. Every iPod I've ever seen does allow you to create an "On-the-go" playlist, but it takes large amounts of time, and queuing up a song from a particular artist is impossible unless you worship at their feet and memorize what songs are on what album, and for the hell of it, the track order too (because that's the way the artist wants you to hear it!). [/rant]
Nonetheless, the hard drive from that Nomad eventually got salvaged and put in an even older laptop. It sure was a fantastic piece of hardware. That, I might add, ate batteries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I tend to loose I.Q. points every time I pay for something with lose change.
Loosening I.Q. points is usually very difficult, however, when your change is completely lost.
I did a something similar in high school. My physics teacher had several multifunction stopwatches we used for labs, each had an alarm. Some had their alarms enabled, none were set to the right time, so I offered to "Turn off the alarms and set the clocks."
40 minutes later, I had set each alarm for the same time--during my class--and staggered the clocks on each watch to be six seconds apart from the next.
I ended up ruining a good 5 minutes of the next day's class due to the hilarity that ensued.
The prank did backfire a little bit though, because every time the alarms got turned back on by unwitting classmates, they went off during my class, and the teacher knew exactly where to direct his anger
However, when you do meet an intellectual match, it's pure joy to be with her. I am certainly ready to admit when someone is equal or better than me at something.
:P
Juuuust when you think you've gotten over something... A perfect stranger reminds you why it took so long...
/agree