In an article about XP, my take is that I can't afford to ditch it, and I need time to slowly learn Linux SandBox Style.
I will be building a DarkBox offline, with a Net screener machine in front of it. I want to pair a KentsField (arguably the best Intel hardware ever) with "one of the last copies of XP", then hang on tight. DarkBoxes can be stripped down more, because they run a fixed set of applications.
Vista is a disaster. All that remains to be seen if whether it is a Train Wreck, or a Tractor Trailer crash.
For Linux, I'm starting to see UBuntu and Linspire emerge as candidates to ease a moderately intelligent user into the Linux world.
I find programs start trying to save here too, so that I get to constantly navigate : "Up/Up/Up/C:/Docs/Username/Desktop/ProjectsFolder/ Project/DocGoesHere"
The entire point of the millenium is about supercharged information flows. These were the people who were previously trapped listening to Mrs. Z's story of her bad purchase at the corner store, and are now much happier on the net. Too bad for Mrs. Z. In the Survival of the Fittest Story, the Pumpkin Faire loses out.
Of COURSE everyone was "social" on the tumbleweed farms of Kansas in 1930. The only entertainment was playing checkers.
This pseudo-article is close to *the* most dangerous pseudo-psych I have ever seen. Who gets to arbitrate "treatment"? Mrs. Z?
-- This post has nothing to do with all the lovely Mrs. Z's out there. --
I think I heard that Q-Link first really got rolling on the Commodore 64/128. Would that be the dawn of internet guilty pleasures, with the lovely text files out there?
Well, I did it the "lazy" route, but I think I at least know how it's possible:
I discovered one year it's possible to take fewer shorter courses than more longer ones, and not only are the raw hours matched, but it saves wear & tear on the mind's picture of the weekly schedule. I had Monday and Wednesday 8:00-10:30, 10:35-12:00, 1:00-2:30, 3:00-5:50, and 6:00-9:00. Half of them spilled over onto Friday.
If this guy had some four-five days like that, then he might have collected his tremendous hours.
The Information Age is here, so Universities better figure it out, like they teach in Creative Probllem Solving.
The Web is all about data. Aren't we all saying no web surfer has any attention span? So let them pull data. Let us assume our Anonymous Professor makes a new test every semester, so there is no place to import live test answers from, and "show your work" means tests must be turned in with several scribbles.
Consider information atttribution. Notice that in conversations, virtually no one documents knowledge? Yet the minute that information becomes written, purists start looking for footnotes, or calling foul on plagarism. Spoken information rests on the credibility of the speaker's understanding.
I have a reasonably sized print library precisely because books remain the only in depth soure of knowledge, after being introduced by the Web.
I was 10 when Dad took a chance and got me a Commodore 64. I tried hard, but the '64 just lacked really powerful "kid-friendly" tools. I happened to glance at a friend's Commodore 128 the following year, and threw every ounce I had into begging for one.
I got Dad's money's worth out of it. The additions to the command set thundered along. If you wanted to draw lines, you... drew a line. It played simple notes in 3 track-voices, and why hasn't anyone mentioned *Sprites*?
My first big project was a maze program. Move your sprite character around a maze, avoid the walls. For the difficulty concept, I made the only legal directions up-down-left-right, and the mazes all kinds of ziggy shapes.
I think I learned a tremendous amount, though I declined to become a formal programmer. Today I make my living doing more beta-testing, or glitch-fixing on existing apps. I'm sorry Commodore went under for business reasons.
Does anyone actually value line numbers? I thought that was always a legacy driven compromise, and that "modern Basic's" went by routines or something.
I think I read a few times that half the problem was that BASIC, while being the jump language, did at least as much damage ingraining deplorable habits.
There was tremendous/"exciting" progress in the 70's - '90's, so that was thunderously true then. But then XP went into PermaStasis, and not counting "chapters on alternatives", that was pretty stable. (Add 1 sentence: "Service Pack 2: Update your drivers & devices.")
Vista is here, fine. Let them make a "New Edition". After that exhausting effort, Microsoft will be utterly tapped out for years while they rethink architectures *again*.
A few months ago I made this one of my MiniProjects: Where to find a fun variant of BASIC to goof off with, reliving some of my Commodore 128 days for a few weekends, mashing out some cheap algorithms just to solve some other random project calculations. I have zero desire to be any brand of Pro programmer... it's mostly an excuse to use modern crunch power on classic project calculations.
I didn't finish it, but there are candidates for BASIC out there. What I ended up looking for was one that was still extremely simple, but could use a modern window without a zillion code lines. (The problem with the Ebay trick, or emulators, is your program gets "stuck in time" and can't use your new Core 2 processing power.)
This looks to me like tying straws to the camel's legs so it won't break its back.
If it's going to be harder to develop for Vista than XP, will this finally be "enough is enough", to produce a critical mass surge to tip OSS over the top?
(Apple doesn't count. Replacing one lock-in vendor with another is silly.)
The preview word is Offenses. Has Microsoft committed enough?
I did indeed state the outer bounds of my conclusions, but then every time I open the newspaper I discover events taking over those bounds. There are also indeed differences in the scenarios.
I don't know the ratio, but there are far more websites than physical facilities. The access to them is also much easier.
At another level though, there really is a growing clash between anonymity and visibility on the net. We all know we frown on websites asking for personal information because of the risk of nasty results. Yet said prospective litigant wants to be known, and force costly results.
This is also a US law, so how does it affect multi-national companies?
A judge from New York might throw out a case by a plaintiff complaining about a library in Utah, but the same New York plaintiff would have a more relevant case against the Utah Library Website. He get to sit at home with a lawsuit Tommygun.
The web is meant as a free-for-all where everything exists, and only the worst illegal activities really draw fire.
If a business has a site which doesn't play nice with certain disability accessibility tools, they shouldn't be sued. I don't know what auxilliary benefit flows to the defendant besides "just buying my sweater", but I would be terrified if this spawned a Professional Disabled Litigator.
Wait, that makes my head spin. Isn't the definition of "disability" something that seriously impairs functioning with no clear upside? I can't BEGIN to calculate the consequences of law firms hiring every person ever tagged with a disability to begin testing sites with their accessibility tools. "Nope. This site is incoherent. Case # 1653265. Next!" We all know that Law firms have THE most abusive labor rate ever. Couple this with an unlimited caseload, and suddenly you become able to make a million dollars a year if you are disabled. "Hm. I can work at McDonalds, or I can visit Iraq, doing my Patriotic Duty, get something nasty in my eyes, and make a million a year suing companies for noncompliant websites. "
The two opposite sides of the scale appeared in consecutive posts.
The thorough discussions apparently remove the risk of mistakes associated with conformity, called "groupspeak" by some consulting firms.
However, when all is said and done, the code for a function needs to be stable. At what point does the free-for-all become a liability?
*nix projects a somewhat splintered image. There is a group of users who are unhappy with the other two closed OS vendors, and are surveying the state of affairs. I at least am baffled trying to objectively rate all the variants out there. Does anyone know of a comprehensive feature chart that allows prospective users to scrutinize the specs for their favorite purpose across most of the builds?
We all know what MS is about. Apple's entire existence has been positioned as "the Friendly Branded OS". I have remarked that I will ease into one of the OSS builds. But which one? Red Hat? Debian? uBuntu? Xandros? When I go reseaching, who is a neutral source?
I am quite satisfied that we don't need Every Last User on OSS. There are net jokes about AOL users, and the stereotype exists for a reason. But for the midline user who wants to promote OSS, what if ALL the variants remain incomplete because of the flamewars?
I see the remark that people are counting the chemical components of the reactions, but what if there is no "lost" factor?
We gain modest amounts of electricity, the hardened material becomes road filling,... and the quantities of gas remain. Let's presume it's CO2-plus-enrichers. For the people nervous about greenhouse gases, is it possible to capture the CO2 and and ship it to industries who use CO2?
That leaves the "weird stuff"... and what if there is a market for just this brand of weird stuff? (Pest Control?)
The results become: Wipe out landfills, electricity, road packing, CO2 vending, steam, Exotic Stuff, ending trash shipments across borders, and some new creative back end result I haven't thought of yet. Isn't that a slam dunk?
To paraphrase a well known line, "we won't have the same pains... we'll have whole new ones!"
XP may be moth ridden and aging, but it has developed into a midline OS, and *because* it has been around for a while, there was *time* for the much vaunted SP2 to develop.
Take one look at the breakneck "get it out the door* pace of Vista, and it will be immediately obvious that Vista will be completly unusable. Just because it's now possible to open a webpage without ducking the falling code, does not mean the OS is ready. The weird architecture will break hundreds of important software packages. (It's only a matter of time which ones.) MAYBE by the 1-year Vista SP1 it will subside from laughable to merely useless.
I will be buying an XP DarkBox (kept 75% offline) for major work, with junk prescreener to wander the web with.
Apparently, the MS security department is just big enough for members to create headlines when they leave. Far from "not having a security department", it seems MS had several people around, but I surely can't figure out the hierarchy! What's the relationship between a Senior Security Strategist, someone doing a Security Sign-Off, Microsoft Chief Security Officer, and the Vice President in charge of the Security Business Unit?
In reverse chronological order, here we go:
We are currently discussing this one: "Former Microsoft security strategist Window Snyder is joining Mozilla to lead the company's effort to protect its range of desktop applications from malicious hacker attacks. Snyder, who was responsible for security sign-off for Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003, will spearhead Mozilla's security strategy, eWEEK has learned." http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2012804,00.as p
Then there was: "Amid the major shake-ups in management at Microsoft, one of the company's more notable security guru's, Jesper Johansson, announced that he is leaving the company to work for the online retailer giant Amazon.com. Johansson said that as of September 5 he will become the Prinicipal Security Program Manager at Amazon. During his time at Microsoft Johansson served as a Senior Security Strategist in the company's security technology unit. Johansson also co-authored a book, "Protect Your Windows Network," with Steve Riley who also works in Microsoft's security technology unit. " http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/9303 9/93039.html
"Gordon Mangione, a 14-year Microsoft veteran who was most recently corporate vice president in the company's Security Products Group, has left the company. Reached at home, Mangione confirmed that his last day was a week ago Friday. "I'm taking some time off, looking to get into a startup. There's no rush. I'm going to parent-teacher meetings," he noted. Mangione, who had been vice president of SQL Server, moved into the high-profile security group in April 2004. There he assumed leadership of security products while Rich Kaplan led marketing. Both reported to Mike Nash, the corporate vice president in charge of the overall Security Business Unit." http://bink.nu/Article5408.bink
(Wikipedia) An alternative modern usage of the word:
Defenestration has become popular as a term for switching from MS Windows to Linux or another operating system [5]. It is claimed that this usage originated in the University of Helsinki in the mid-1990s.
Steve Ball, Group Program manager: "...Windows Vista should present a common, and beautiful, face to the world."
It's not just apartments. Willow Corners, Nebraska was no fun either. Ask Sibyl.
Relatively few places are "exciting and happening". Someone needs to map the quality of the local relationship potential. Many of us are aspirants to the future, and the local topics of conversation include Mrs. Greenberg's *splendid* herb garden, and someone painting the general store.
If it were possible to instantly transplant fifty Dotters into the same town, we'd all do just fine, and have lovely social groups to please the researchers.
Slashdot Mirror
Is Fingers McCrackit a Free Open Source character, so I can write stories of his continuing adventures terrorizing ATM vendors everywhere?
In an article about XP, my take is that I can't afford to ditch it, and I need time to slowly learn Linux SandBox Style.
I will be building a DarkBox offline, with a Net screener machine in front of it. I want to pair a KentsField (arguably the best Intel hardware ever) with "one of the last copies of XP", then hang on tight. DarkBoxes can be stripped down more, because they run a fixed set of applications.
Vista is a disaster. All that remains to be seen if whether it is a Train Wreck, or a Tractor Trailer crash.
For Linux, I'm starting to see UBuntu and Linspire emerge as candidates to ease a moderately intelligent user into the Linux world.
--TaoPhoenix
What exactly was the deal with this?
/ Project/DocGoesHere"
I find programs start trying to save here too, so that I get to constantly navigate :
"Up/Up/Up/C:/Docs/Username/Desktop/ProjectsFolder
That ends up being some 12+ clicks.
The entire point of the millenium is about supercharged information flows. These were the people who were previously trapped listening to Mrs. Z's story of her bad purchase at the corner store, and are now much happier on the net. Too bad for Mrs. Z. In the Survival of the Fittest Story, the Pumpkin Faire loses out.
Of COURSE everyone was "social" on the tumbleweed farms of Kansas in 1930. The only entertainment was playing checkers.
This pseudo-article is close to *the* most dangerous pseudo-psych I have ever seen. Who gets to arbitrate "treatment"? Mrs. Z?
-- This post has nothing to do with all the lovely Mrs. Z's out there. --
I think I heard that Q-Link first really got rolling on the Commodore 64/128. Would that be the dawn of internet guilty pleasures, with the lovely text files out there?
New
Ready.
Well, I did it the "lazy" route, but I think I at least know how it's possible:
I discovered one year it's possible to take fewer shorter courses than more longer ones, and not only are the raw hours matched, but it saves wear & tear on the mind's picture of the weekly schedule. I had Monday and Wednesday
8:00-10:30, 10:35-12:00, 1:00-2:30, 3:00-5:50, and 6:00-9:00. Half of them spilled over onto Friday.
If this guy had some four-five days like that, then he might have collected his tremendous hours.
The Information Age is here, so Universities better figure it out, like they teach in Creative Probllem Solving.
The Web is all about data. Aren't we all saying no web surfer has any attention span? So let them pull data. Let us assume our Anonymous Professor makes a new test every semester, so there is no place to import live test answers from, and "show your work" means tests must be turned in with several scribbles.
Consider information atttribution. Notice that in conversations, virtually no one documents knowledge? Yet the minute that information becomes written, purists start looking for footnotes, or calling foul on plagarism. Spoken information rests on the credibility of the speaker's understanding.
I have a reasonably sized print library precisely because books remain the only in depth soure of knowledge, after being introduced by the Web.
--TaoPhoenix
I was 10 when Dad took a chance and got me a Commodore 64. I tried hard, but the '64 just lacked really powerful "kid-friendly" tools. I happened to glance at a friend's Commodore 128 the following year, and threw every ounce I had into begging for one.
... drew a line. It played simple notes in 3 track-voices, and why hasn't anyone mentioned *Sprites*?
I got Dad's money's worth out of it. The additions to the command set thundered along. If you wanted to draw lines, you
My first big project was a maze program. Move your sprite character around a maze, avoid the walls. For the difficulty concept, I made the only legal directions up-down-left-right, and the mazes all kinds of ziggy shapes.
I think I learned a tremendous amount, though I declined to become a formal programmer. Today I make my living doing more beta-testing, or glitch-fixing on existing apps. I'm sorry Commodore went under for business reasons.
--TaoPhoenix
Does anyone actually value line numbers? I thought that was always a legacy driven compromise, and that "modern Basic's" went by routines or something.
I think I read a few times that half the problem was that BASIC, while being the jump language, did at least as much damage ingraining deplorable habits.
This may be better and worse in different years.
There was tremendous/"exciting" progress in the 70's - '90's, so that was thunderously true then. But then XP went into PermaStasis, and not counting "chapters on alternatives", that was pretty stable. (Add 1 sentence: "Service Pack 2: Update your drivers & devices.")
Vista is here, fine. Let them make a "New Edition". After that exhausting effort, Microsoft will be utterly tapped out for years while they rethink architectures *again*.
A few months ago I made this one of my MiniProjects: ... it's mostly an excuse to use modern crunch power on classic project calculations.
Where to find a fun variant of BASIC to goof off with, reliving some of my Commodore 128 days for a few weekends, mashing out some cheap algorithms just to solve some other random project calculations. I have zero desire to be any brand of Pro programmer
I didn't finish it, but there are candidates for BASIC out there. What I ended up looking for was one that was still extremely simple, but could use a modern window without a zillion code lines. (The problem with the Ebay trick, or emulators, is your program gets "stuck in time" and can't use your new Core 2 processing power.)
This looks to me like tying straws to the camel's legs so it won't break its back.
If it's going to be harder to develop for Vista than XP, will this finally be "enough is enough", to produce a critical mass surge to tip OSS over the top?
(Apple doesn't count. Replacing one lock-in vendor with another is silly.)
The preview word is Offenses. Has Microsoft committed enough?
I did indeed state the outer bounds of my conclusions, but then every time I open the newspaper I discover events taking over those bounds. There are also indeed differences in the scenarios.
I don't know the ratio, but there are far more websites than physical facilities. The access to them is also much easier.
At another level though, there really is a growing clash between anonymity and visibility on the net. We all know we frown on websites asking for personal information because of the risk of nasty results. Yet said prospective litigant wants to be known, and force costly results.
This is also a US law, so how does it affect multi-national companies?
A judge from New York might throw out a case by a plaintiff complaining about a library in Utah, but the same New York plaintiff would have a more relevant case against the Utah Library Website. He get to sit at home with a lawsuit Tommygun.
I see this as beside the point.
The web is meant as a free-for-all where everything exists, and only the worst illegal activities really draw fire.
If a business has a site which doesn't play nice with certain disability accessibility tools, they shouldn't be sued. I don't know what auxilliary benefit flows to the defendant besides "just buying my sweater", but I would be terrified if this spawned a Professional Disabled Litigator.
Wait, that makes my head spin. Isn't the definition of "disability" something that seriously impairs functioning with no clear upside? I can't BEGIN to calculate the consequences of law firms hiring every person ever tagged with a disability to begin testing sites with their accessibility tools. "Nope. This site is incoherent. Case # 1653265. Next!" We all know that Law firms have THE most abusive labor rate ever. Couple this with an unlimited caseload, and suddenly you become able to make a million dollars a year if you are disabled. "Hm. I can work at McDonalds, or I can visit Iraq, doing my Patriotic Duty, get something nasty in my eyes, and make a million a year suing companies for noncompliant websites. "
The two opposite sides of the scale appeared in consecutive posts.
The thorough discussions apparently remove the risk of mistakes associated with conformity, called "groupspeak" by some consulting firms.
However, when all is said and done, the code for a function needs to be stable. At what point does the free-for-all become a liability?
*nix projects a somewhat splintered image. There is a group of users who are unhappy with the other two closed OS vendors, and are surveying the state of affairs. I at least am baffled trying to objectively rate all the variants out there. Does anyone know of a comprehensive feature chart that allows prospective users to scrutinize the specs for their favorite purpose across most of the builds?
We all know what MS is about. Apple's entire existence has been positioned as "the Friendly Branded OS". I have remarked that I will ease into one of the OSS builds. But which one? Red Hat? Debian? uBuntu? Xandros? When I go reseaching, who is a neutral source?
I am quite satisfied that we don't need Every Last User on OSS. There are net jokes about AOL users, and the stereotype exists for a reason. But for the midline user who wants to promote OSS, what if ALL the variants remain incomplete because of the flamewars?
I see the remark that people are counting the chemical components of the reactions, but what if there is no "lost" factor?
... and the quantities of gas remain. Let's presume it's CO2-plus-enrichers. For the people nervous about greenhouse gases, is it possible to capture the CO2 and and ship it to industries who use CO2?
... and what if there is a market for just this brand of weird stuff? (Pest Control?)
We gain modest amounts of electricity, the hardened material becomes road filling,
That leaves the "weird stuff"
The results become:
Wipe out landfills, electricity, road packing, CO2 vending, steam, Exotic Stuff, ending trash shipments across borders, and some new creative back end result I haven't thought of yet. Isn't that a slam dunk?
To paraphrase a well known line, "we won't have the same pains... we'll have whole new ones!"
XP may be moth ridden and aging, but it has developed into a midline OS, and *because* it has been around for a while, there was *time* for the much vaunted SP2 to develop.
Take one look at the breakneck "get it out the door* pace of Vista, and it will be immediately obvious that Vista will be completly unusable. Just because it's now possible to open a webpage without ducking the falling code, does not mean the OS is ready. The weird architecture will break hundreds of important software packages. (It's only a matter of time which ones.) MAYBE by the 1-year Vista SP1 it will subside from laughable to merely useless.
I will be buying an XP DarkBox (kept 75% offline) for major work, with junk prescreener to wander the web with.
Apparently, the MS security department is just big enough for members to create headlines when they leave. Far from "not having a security department", it seems MS had several people around, but I surely can't figure out the hierarchy! What's the relationship between a Senior Security Strategist, someone doing a Security Sign-Off, Microsoft Chief Security Officer, and the Vice President in charge of the Security Business Unit?
s p
3 9/93039.html
o ft.security.reut/index.html
In reverse chronological order, here we go:
We are currently discussing this one:
"Former Microsoft security strategist Window Snyder is joining Mozilla to lead the company's effort to protect its range of desktop applications from malicious hacker attacks. Snyder, who was responsible for security sign-off for Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003, will spearhead Mozilla's security strategy, eWEEK has learned."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2012804,00.a
Then there was:
"Amid the major shake-ups in management at Microsoft, one of the company's more notable security guru's, Jesper Johansson, announced that he is leaving the company to work for the online retailer giant Amazon.com. Johansson said that as of September 5 he will become the Prinicipal Security Program Manager at Amazon. During his time at Microsoft Johansson served as a Senior Security Strategist in the company's security technology unit. Johansson also co-authored a book, "Protect Your Windows Network," with Steve Riley who also works in Microsoft's security technology unit. "
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/930
"Gordon Mangione, a 14-year Microsoft veteran who was most recently corporate vice president in the company's Security Products Group, has left the company. Reached at home, Mangione confirmed that his last day was a week ago Friday. "I'm taking some time off, looking to get into a startup. There's no rush. I'm going to parent-teacher meetings," he noted. Mangione, who had been vice president of SQL Server, moved into the high-profile security group in April 2004. There he assumed leadership of security products while Rich Kaplan led marketing. Both reported to Mike Nash, the corporate vice president in charge of the overall Security Business Unit."
http://bink.nu/Article5408.bink
At least as of 2003, this guy was also involved:
"The single largest message is: keep your system up to date with patches," Microsoft Chief Security Officer Scott Charney said.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/02/01/micros
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The Preview Word for this post is "distort".
I'm all for MS-Anything replacements ... but I don't understand what this means.
Can someone take a shell box, use this as a root OS, drop an equally front end on top of it, and come up with a Non-Linux OS variant?
If you have a linux box already, do you run this like a Free-Dos-in-the-box, to fudge portability for MS software?
It's brilliant. I'm not. Someone help me out.
Since I'm sure someone had the first one.
I'm lost, and I don't live next to the seeds of the Apple to sort it out.
A. There's no 17th Ave in Brooklyn
B. The address does exist, except its occupant is deemed not likely.
Which one?
I'm guessing the info is fake. (What are the penalties for faking WhoIs info?)
Yahoo turned up the following:
Amilcar Perez
7319 13th Ave
Brooklyn, NY (map)
Tel.: (718) 236-4275
Does that help anyone?
I have actually seen legitimate companies make spelling errors on pages. Sometimes, if I like the company, I email them a notice.
.... Therms of use
But what web coder would equally mis-spell the *filename* ??!
a class="link" href="therms.html"
THAT is what cues the alarms.
(Wikipedia) An alternative modern usage of the word:
Defenestration has become popular as a term for switching from MS Windows to Linux or another operating system [5]. It is claimed that this usage originated in the University of Helsinki in the mid-1990s.
Steve Ball, Group Program manager: "...Windows Vista should present a common, and beautiful, face to the world."
Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer: (Paraphrased) "...Defenestrate, Defenestrate, Defenestrate, Defenestrate, Defenestrate, Defenestrate, Defenestrate, Defenestrate."
It's not just apartments. Willow Corners, Nebraska was no fun either. Ask Sibyl.
Relatively few places are "exciting and happening". Someone needs to map the quality of the local relationship potential. Many of us are aspirants to the future, and the local topics of conversation include Mrs. Greenberg's *splendid* herb garden, and someone painting the general store.
If it were possible to instantly transplant fifty Dotters into the same town, we'd all do just fine, and have lovely social groups to please the researchers.
"IPO? Is that something about the Post Office?"
--TaoPhoenix