I will try it (that was my next step but wanted to see if there was anything else) I wouldn't have got this laptop except for the screen (1280x800) and the CPU combo plus it was only $1000 CDN as it is a refurb. The machine is in immaculate condition.
The big stinkers for this laptop though are: 1. battery time (maybe an hour and a half and the battery is definitely brand new) 2. need to use NDISWrapper for the wireless driver but it works 3. PCMCIA is giving me grief as it sees a card in the slot but no info comes back when queried 4. Setting up the video took a while due to it isn't a normal screen resolution but google and linuxquestions.org had a lot of info as did the R3000 mailing list archive.
To lock down (or increase) the cpu frequency in XP, I got clockgen at cpuid.com. You can adjust the voltage and frequency in there plus you can create shortcuts using command line options that will change accordingly. I go into cpu0 and the folder is empty. I suspect I have something wrong in the kernel but I have enabled Athlon/Duron powernow as well as cpufreq in the kernel and nothing seems to be working.
However I suspect that since the laptop chipset is NForce3 I may want to do the AMD Athlon64 Powernow as well. Some of the R3000 laptops are using the Athlon64 but mine has the Athlon XP-M in a 754 pin package Let me know if you can help me offline and I can get you my email address.
AMD's version called PowerNow is similar to Speedstep but I hate it. My laptop (Compaq R3000) There is no supported AMD app that allows me to set the CPU (AMD Athlon XP 2800+) to full. It always stays at 700MHz even if I try to crank it up. I have it dual booting XP and Gentoo. Even doing an emerge world doesn't see it go up. Doing a google on it seems to show others are having the same problem with the AMD64s as well.
The only way I was able to adjust it was a third party tool that adjusted the clock multiplier and that was only in XP. CPUFreq and powernowd don't seem to work with it.
Key thing in a windows environment is to have proper policies in place with necessary backing from higher ups: 1. AD with group policies can deploy necessary security configurations to as many machines as wanted as well as applications. 2. SUS server will ensure the patches needed and approved will get applied 3. Properly configured images using your favourite image software (update as needed). 4. Lock down the machine so the user can't save to the local workstation and redirect their folders to a network share as well as roaming profiles. 5. Antivirus is essential and needs to be updated
If machine does go wonky for any reason, reimage and user is back up and working. Anything that takes more than an hour is wasting the admin's time (unless it is happening to more than one machine and then it becomes a possible image quirk, new worm, etc)
With the slammer and code red, it wasn't MS that was really at fault that the servers were misbehaving it would be the admins who didn't have a procedure with regards to testing patches and implementing within a timely manner.
They probably figure it would affect their "family friendly" atmosphere plus with the whole moralism thing that is happening it wouldn't be considered prudent. There was a news article way back when where they said what I had originally posted (can't find it though)
Granted netflix and zip.ca are interesting ideas but so was the CD and DVD and you can still buy tapes. A lot of people are not going to order a movie to see in a couple of days. They want to go the day they want and pick out a movie off the shelf that day depending on their mood.
As long as people still go there, they will stay in business.
Um. Most movies try not to get the NC-17 rating. It is the kiss of death as it means when the movie is released to the theatres a large demographic is not supposed to see it (barring sneaking in to the theatre). Seems like the sweet spot in ratings is about PG-13; not too low in the ratings to look like a Disney film and not too high to block potential viewers from seeing it. If there is anyone who is being swayed in releasing an R rating rather than NC-17 it would be the Producer.
However, Blockbuster has said that they do not carry X rated films not for a moral reason but because they are making enough money without carrying them that the hassle isn't worth it (iow it probably wouldn't improve their revenue stream enough to redesign all their stores to include the movies and pissed off parents when little Johnny wanders in there because they weren't watching their brat.
In general I prefer Blockbuster over Rogers as they have a tendency now to carry more widescreen movies, and a lot of the movies are the Director's cut so they contain stuff that was cut for various reasons from the theatrical release (i.e time, raciness) although it may be different in the states.
I ended up getting called for a major Windows 2003 implementation project where there were 4 points they were looking for. I had worked somewhat with a group that had worked with this group in a prior contract. Would have been perfect for the job except that one of the points I was slightly lacking (hadn't directly worked on DNS servers in 3 years) but that was more than compensated in the other 3 points especially since the 3rd of the 4 points involved the group I worked with directly.
Anyways the recruiter who was responsible for the position refused to put my name in due to it had been a while since I had "officially (been paid for)" used DNS. The worst part was the recruiter had no idea what DNS or WINS was. God that still pisses me off.
Hell even a paper MCSE would know that:) The more I learn about 2003, the more I like it. 2003 AD like 2000 AD with all the stuff they promised but didn't deliver.
Slightly offtopic for the parent post but majorly offtopic for the whole thing. Course right now I am looking for a job in Ottawa Canada and would like to get in on something with 2003. Anything I am seeing they want "extensive" experience with 2003. Since it has been out less than 2 years and nobody running any decent network would have updated to 2003 the day after, anyone who says they have "extensive" experience is exagerating.
Back in the 80's there was something that was actually working like that. It was called Personics. You would pay between 40 cents to 3 dollars per song and select the songs you wanted and about 15 minutes later you would get a custom tape with the songs with pretty labels and tape case. Not sure how long it lasted but it was good when it did.
I have seen this guy before. If you look at the pictures, the big red and white suit was designed to protect people from bear attacks. He designed it for bear researchers
He also has developed some kind of material that resists heat and is really light that you can paint on and is really strong. He figures that if Columbia had been covered in this stuff, it would have survived. Not sure what his background is but you get the impression that what he makes he shouldn't be able to.
True. Prior to Windows 2003, when you set up a share, the share permissions were Everyone full control. The easiest way to set up permissions on a share is put Everyone Full Control for the Share and limit access on the file level.
However in Win2K3, the default permissions on a share now are Everyone Read, this way an admin can set up the share ahead of time but ensure that no one can modify the data until he specifically sets it.
There are a couple other things that have changed. They seem to be trying to change their mindset with regards to security as well as stability and they have made it much easier to deploy patches to workstations with SUS server
No, they figured 30,000 would cover 1 month which was December. By the end of January they only had around $44,000 which included December's total(last time I looked). So they didn't have enough to stay up.
Only if you give users admin priviledges and don't lock down the system to a certain degree. If the workstation was configured by your typical NT paper mcse then chances are the user has admin privileges. A properly locked down workstation will not allow the user to do a whole lot. All this can be done using GPOs through AD or by applying security templates prior to creating a sysprepped image.
To answer your first question, ever since Windows Scripting Host came out, a lot of the admin stuff for windows can be done remotely in a script.
Also with Windows 2003 server a lot of the AD functionality can be done using command line tools i.e netdom, netsh, etc.
They have dealt with a lot of the problems of remote access since Windows 2000. You can do most things remotely nowadays.
I have been going through for my Windows 2003 certification and there is a huge difference since Windows NT in the level of complexity and difficulty in the exams. It is a lot more difficult to pass the exams without having some experience outside of cracking the books open. Braindumps still exist but you would probably still fail if you relied on them. NT admins were a dime a dozen but getting a decent AD domain set up on a large basis would cost more salary-wise for a decent 2k3 admin than NT admins.
If I took a guess, earlier your typical linux geek was someone who had many years of experience and demanded a higher level in per diem, while with NT getting a domain up was childs play.
Linux is not that much more of a step in administering anymore than Windows (a bit of a different mindset but still not that difficult) unless you have some obscure hardware issues and even then googling or USENET will get you the answer.
During the huge power outage, I realized that a land line with a normal (not cordless phone can be very handy. We had two cordless phones but since there was no power smoke signals would have been just as effective. I assume VOIP would be the same.
Actually I agree with you and other than calling someone a whore I don't know why you were moderated down earlier. I have an Athlon XP 2600+ (1.9GHz) and XP runs fine. it is quite responsive.
I think the key thing is RAM. The more the better but if you follow MS minimum requirements it is going to seem it is in slow mode.
But wouldn't the foam be going somewhat near the same speed as the shuttle although it would be decelerating due to gravity or is 700 mph an estimate at the delta of the speed of the shuttle between the foam coming off the tank and hitting the wing during the shuttles acceleration curve?
how insecure would Windows be if you were able to remove IE and Outlook from the picture? If Firefox becomes the great white hope for secure browsing on the Internet and the other one where it incorporates calendaring into Thunderbird has as much success as Firefox is getting(can't remember the name for the life of me), could this in itself slow Linux adoption? Windows has improved stability-wise over the last couple of years by leaps and bounds and supposedly they are looking at making it more secure (but I am not holding my breath too much).
...or the user could just delete the file in the first place.
You obviously don't deal with typical users. They are the biggest pack rats. This is why disk quotas were created to force them to offload data elsewhere.
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I will try it (that was my next step but wanted to see if there was anything else)
I wouldn't have got this laptop except for the screen (1280x800) and the CPU combo plus it was only $1000 CDN as it is a refurb. The machine is in immaculate condition.
The big stinkers for this laptop though are:
1. battery time (maybe an hour and a half and the battery is definitely brand new)
2. need to use NDISWrapper for the wireless driver but it works
3. PCMCIA is giving me grief as it sees a card in the slot but no info comes back when queried
4. Setting up the video took a while due to it isn't a normal screen resolution but google and linuxquestions.org had a lot of info as did the R3000 mailing list archive.
To lock down (or increase) the cpu frequency in XP, I got clockgen at cpuid.com. You can adjust the voltage and frequency in there plus you can create shortcuts using command line options that will change accordingly.
I go into cpu0 and the folder is empty. I suspect I have something wrong in the kernel but I have enabled Athlon/Duron powernow as well as cpufreq in the kernel and nothing seems to be working.
However I suspect that since the laptop chipset is NForce3 I may want to do the AMD Athlon64 Powernow as well. Some of the R3000 laptops are using the Athlon64 but mine has the Athlon XP-M in a 754 pin
package
Let me know if you can help me offline and I can get you my email address.
AMD's version called PowerNow is similar to Speedstep but I hate it. My laptop (Compaq R3000) There is no supported AMD app that allows me to set the CPU (AMD Athlon XP 2800+) to full. It always stays at 700MHz even if I try to crank it up. I have it dual booting XP and Gentoo. Even doing an emerge world doesn't see it go up. Doing a google on it seems to show others are having the same problem with the AMD64s as well.
The only way I was able to adjust it was a third party tool that adjusted the clock multiplier and that was only in XP. CPUFreq and powernowd don't seem to work with it.
Key thing in a windows environment is to have proper policies in place with necessary backing from higher ups:
1. AD with group policies can deploy necessary security configurations to as many machines as wanted as well as applications.
2. SUS server will ensure the patches needed and approved will get applied
3. Properly configured images using your favourite image software (update as needed).
4. Lock down the machine so the user can't save to the local workstation and redirect their folders to a network share as well as roaming profiles.
5. Antivirus is essential and needs to be updated
If machine does go wonky for any reason, reimage and user is back up and working. Anything that takes more than an hour is wasting the admin's time (unless it is happening to more than one machine and then it becomes a possible image quirk, new worm, etc)
With the slammer and code red, it wasn't MS that was really at fault that the servers were misbehaving it would be the admins who didn't have a procedure with regards to testing patches and implementing within a timely manner.
You obviously have not dealt with government (especially DND in Canada)
They probably figure it would affect their "family friendly" atmosphere plus with the whole moralism thing that is happening it wouldn't be considered prudent. There was a news article way back when where they said what I had originally posted (can't find it though)
Do you have proof of that?
Granted netflix and zip.ca are interesting ideas but so was the CD and DVD and you can still buy tapes.
A lot of people are not going to order a movie to see in a couple of days. They want to go the day they want and pick out a movie off the shelf that day depending on their mood.
As long as people still go there, they will stay in business.
Um. Most movies try not to get the NC-17 rating. It is the kiss of death as it means when the movie is released to the theatres a large demographic is not supposed to see it (barring sneaking in to the theatre). Seems like the sweet spot in ratings is about PG-13; not too low in the ratings to look like a Disney film and not too high to block potential viewers from seeing it. If there is anyone who is being swayed in releasing an R rating rather than NC-17 it would be the Producer.
However, Blockbuster has said that they do not carry X rated films not for a moral reason but because they are making enough money without carrying them that the hassle isn't worth it (iow it probably wouldn't improve their revenue stream enough to redesign all their stores to include the movies and pissed off parents when little Johnny wanders in there because they weren't watching their brat.
In general I prefer Blockbuster over Rogers as they have a tendency now to carry more widescreen movies, and a lot of the movies are the Director's cut so they contain stuff that was cut for various reasons from the theatrical release (i.e time, raciness) although it may be different in the states.
I ended up getting called for a major Windows 2003 implementation project where there were 4 points they were looking for. I had worked somewhat with a group that had worked with this group in a prior contract. Would have been perfect for the job except that one of the points I was slightly lacking (hadn't directly worked on DNS servers in 3 years) but that was more than compensated in the other 3 points especially since the 3rd of the 4 points involved the group I worked with directly.
Anyways the recruiter who was responsible for the position refused to put my name in due to it had been a while since I had "officially (been paid for)" used DNS. The worst part was the recruiter had no idea what DNS or WINS was.
God that still pisses me off.
Hell even a paper MCSE would know that :)
The more I learn about 2003, the more I like it.
2003 AD like 2000 AD with all the stuff they promised but didn't deliver.
Slightly offtopic for the parent post but majorly offtopic for the whole thing.
Course right now I am looking for a job in Ottawa Canada and would like to get in on something with 2003. Anything I am seeing they want "extensive" experience with 2003. Since it has been out less than 2 years and nobody running any decent network would have updated to 2003 the day after, anyone who says they have "extensive" experience is exagerating.
Sorry the guy I was talking about was Troy who was linked to in the parent. Not the main subject of the thread.
Back in the 80's there was something that was actually working like that. It was called Personics. You would pay between 40 cents to 3 dollars per song and select the songs you wanted and about 15 minutes later you would get a custom tape with the songs with pretty labels and tape case. Not sure how long it lasted but it was good when it did.
I have seen this guy before. If you look at the pictures, the big red and white suit was designed to protect people from bear attacks. He designed it for bear researchers
He also has developed some kind of material that resists heat and is really light that you can paint on and is really strong. He figures that if Columbia had been covered in this stuff, it would have survived. Not sure what his background is but you get the impression that what he makes he shouldn't be able to.
Another example would be an XBox (assuming you aren't planning on modding it)
With the issues some people (including myself) with the DVDrom in it, it can be beneficial
True. Prior to Windows 2003, when you set up a share, the share permissions were Everyone full control. The easiest way to set up permissions on a share is put Everyone Full Control for the Share and limit access on the file level.
;)
However in Win2K3, the default permissions on a share now are Everyone Read, this way an admin can set up the share ahead of time but ensure that no one can modify the data until he specifically sets it.
There are a couple other things that have changed. They seem to be trying to change their mindset with regards to security as well as stability and they have made it much easier to deploy patches to workstations with SUS server
(but they are still evil
No, they figured 30,000 would cover 1 month which was December. By the end of January they only had around $44,000 which included December's total(last time I looked). So they didn't have enough to stay up.
Dude this isn't fark :)
Only if you give users admin priviledges and don't lock down the system to a certain degree.
If the workstation was configured by your typical NT paper mcse then chances are the user has admin privileges. A properly locked down workstation will not allow the user to do a whole lot. All this can be done using GPOs through AD or by applying security templates prior to creating a sysprepped image.
To answer your first question, ever since Windows Scripting Host came out, a lot of the admin stuff for windows can be done remotely in a script.
Also with Windows 2003 server a lot of the AD functionality can be done using command line tools i.e netdom, netsh, etc.
They have dealt with a lot of the problems of remote access since Windows 2000. You can do most things remotely nowadays.
I have been going through for my Windows 2003 certification and there is a huge difference since Windows NT in the level of complexity and difficulty in the exams. It is a lot more difficult to pass the exams without having some experience outside of cracking the books open.
Braindumps still exist but you would probably still fail if you relied on them.
NT admins were a dime a dozen but getting a decent AD domain set up on a large basis would cost more salary-wise for a decent 2k3 admin than NT admins.
If I took a guess, earlier your typical linux geek was someone who had many years of experience and demanded a higher level in per diem, while with NT getting a domain up was childs play.
Linux is not that much more of a step in administering anymore than Windows (a bit of a different mindset but still not that difficult) unless you have some obscure hardware issues and even then googling or USENET will get you the answer.
During the huge power outage, I realized that a land line with a normal (not cordless phone can be very handy. We had two cordless phones but since there was no power smoke signals would have been just as effective. I assume VOIP would be the same.
Actually I agree with you and other than calling someone a whore I don't know why you were moderated down earlier. I have an Athlon XP 2600+ (1.9GHz) and XP runs fine. it is quite responsive.
I think the key thing is RAM. The more the better but if you follow MS minimum requirements it is going to seem it is in slow mode.
Ontopic SphereXP is quite nifty.
But wouldn't the foam be going somewhat near the same speed as the shuttle although it would be decelerating due to gravity or is 700 mph an estimate at the delta of the speed of the shuttle between the foam coming off the tank and hitting the wing during the shuttles acceleration curve?
how insecure would Windows be if you were able to remove IE and Outlook from the picture?
If Firefox becomes the great white hope for secure browsing on the Internet and the other one where it incorporates calendaring into Thunderbird has as much success as Firefox is getting(can't remember the name for the life of me), could this in itself slow Linux adoption? Windows has improved stability-wise over the last couple of years by leaps and bounds and supposedly they are looking at making it more secure (but I am not holding my breath too much).
Just a thought.
What about us Canadians? I have two movies on the list?
You obviously don't deal with typical users. They are the biggest pack rats. This is why disk quotas were created to force them to offload data elsewhere.